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us
thorough tire check BEFORE you start planting. It will save you
costly down time,
• WE'RE AS CLOSE AS YOUR PHONE
McARTHUR TIRE SERVICE LTD.
790 10th St., Hanover
Phone 364-2661
LOCKIE ELECTRIC
*Residential
*Commercial
*Farms
**Electric Heat
R.R. #2, Garde, Ontario
CALL 335-3149
3, 5& 10 SPEED
BIKES OF VARIOUS MAKES
Golfing,
Hunting and
Fishing
quipment
Hobbies
CENTRAL
BICYCLE SHOP
48 Arthur St. S.
Elmira A 669-2706
acinion FACTORY
OUTLET
In Their Original
OLD MILL
of •h, reilwe, track
IN BLYTH
WOOL and ODER
PROOl1CTS
MID WESTERN
PAVING
ASPHALT PAVING
DRIVE WAYS
PARKING LOTS
Listowel
291-4794
Wingham
528-2626
Mount Forest
Harriston, Palmerston
TOLL FREE
338-2210
qpnimmomariow
YOUR AUTHORIZED
IfAMAHA DEALER
P & F Lawn and
Sports Equipment
LISTOWEL 291.2441
Licensed Mechanic
"We Service What We Sell"
_e of the 1g! a _ *0
.1
a'
: sty that t t .herlx11.4el"f0 mouthy
minorities attempting to p
their wishes on silent .moloritios.
Another is the attemptby.e
who profess a profound belief in a
vague ,concept called 'Wegr ;"
to find the°common dea it for
. in everything, and try to, lie
the rest of us in that'directl'on
Sometimes I have a nightmare
about the' future. In it; flee the
entire earth populated .byn,bens,
no ,, longer humans, who :leek
alike, talk alike, thunk .alike,; and
even smell alike.
Everyone will ,be aisorb ;of
creamy yellow brown In ..co-
plexion. We'll all be the ,#tile
height.and weight. All individual
anomalies such as hooked n!,
buck teeth and jutting ears ` will
have been eliminated.
I wake up from this dream
screaming, at the point where •I
am just about to be told that We
are all of the same sex.
In the dream, everyone will
speak the same language, some
type of bastard . Speech; like
Esperanto. p nto. Literates Will be ex
tioct, except for a few .;Cholac$
studying its fossiliXed remnants.
Shades of meaning Will b$ lost. "I
love you," "Je t'adore," and "Eu
to amo;" will all come out as
"Yochamo" or something of the,
sort.
In the dream, there are no
decisions to be made, because
there will no longer be' any differ-
ence between right and wrong,
black and white, good and evil.
Television will tell us what to
think, painlessly, and why.
We will all smell alike -•-a sub-
tle essence with traces of Chinese
elm, Russian borscht, Congo
musk and American b.s.
We will all arise when the uni-
versal siren sounds. In unison, at
the appointed moment, we will
take our breakfast pill, our pep
pill to get us going, our tranquiliz-
er to slow us down for our lunch
pill, another pep pill, a dinner
Service pirec
GUNS, AMMQ,
REPAIRS AND
ACCESSORIES
ABC
SPORTING GOODS
350 Minnie St.
WINGHAM, ONT.
TRAILER
. � I L LRENTAI.B
R.R. r 3HWY.16 E LISTOMEL
. Starcraft
. J ayco
. Prowler
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Open 6 days, closed Wed.
Satisfaction
ales
ervice
3 miles east of Listowel on
Hwy. 86 Ph. 291.1158
MORGAN'S MOBILE
HOMES AND
MODULAR HOUSING
PARK SALES SERVICE
Victoria St., Clinton
Ph..482-7066
Your Dealer For
PYRAMID • BENDIX
NORTHLANDER
gupei€z
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24 ,r~, • TO �! E11k� T ,1
(Z pC 'JP.'" ;a.ES f. SEuv CE
323.1560 323-2043
258 mA N STQEE T • t.10,,der CCUST ONTAP,,.
and
Xf/aik ✓ �IffI.A♦
' TIRE CENTRE lir
Josephine St. WINGHAM
Ph. 357-3733
Are your best bet
Box 709, Durham
PHONE 369-3203
Located on No, 6 Highway
'/2 Mile South of Varney
BUY USED MATERIALS
BATHROOM FIXTURES
DOORS - WINDOWS
LUMBER, ETC.
MACK ELECTRIC
MOTOR REPAIR
"WE REPAIR ANYTHING
ELECTRICAL"
291-4213
295 Inkerman st., Listowel
NEW IDEA
FARM EQUIPMENT
* SPREADERS in stock
* DION Forage Boxes
* FOX Forage Harves-
tors.
* P•APEC Forage Boxes
M*1-#11
W. A. ROBINS
& SONS
HARRISTON, ONT.
Tel. 338-2438
MAGNETIC.
SIGNS
For Cars, Trucks,
Offices, Mailboxes
Eliminates costly Ieftering
Removable when trading
or painting
LISTOWEL BANNER
MOUNT FOREST
CONFEDERATE
WINGHAM
ADVANCE -TIMES
POWER LAWN
MOWER CENTRE
*Stockists of STIHL
Chain Saws
*Sales and Expert Repairs to
all Small Engines
STEVE MEW
HARRISTON
Bus. 338-3616
Res. 338-2717
ALADDIN
OIL LAMP PARTS
CHIMNEYS, SHADES,
WICKS, BURNERS,
MANTLES, ALSO
ELECTRIFYING
KITS
Bring your
Lamp to
TI4E.TREASURE
SHOP
Clifford, Ont.
327-8091
CROSSROADS
ADVERTISING
DEADLINE
Tuesday Noon
Week Before
Publication
EVIIMUDE
first in outtoamis
* Outboard Motors
* Springbok Aluininum Boats'
x-irlriicohdlt.�ot; ► u.-:,�.
;+ Fiberglass Runabouts - -
* EZ Loader Trailers
* Rentals
LEYLAND'S MARINE
& SPORTS
Palmerston, Ont.
343-2316 or 343-3112
For All
Your
Travel
Needs
*AIR •
*SEA
*LAND.
ED SEMPF
291-4100
LISTOWEL TRAVEL EUREAU
163 Main St. West
HARRISTON
PACKING CO.
Give us a call
for
MEAT FOR YOUR FREEZER
-hogs by the half and whole
-beef by the side and quarter
CUSTOM KILLING TO
YOUR NEEDS
hogs • Tues.
beef - Thurs.
338-3330
YAMAHA
*Honda Dealer
LARRY'S CYCLE
WORLD
*Large Stock of Used Bikes
*Sales and Service
WALKERTON
8$1-0984
Across from the
BREWERS,RETAIL OUTLET
WINPOWER
TRACTOR DRIVEN
(P.T.O.) ALTERNATORS
from 7 KW to 100 KW
The money yousave dur-
ing one crippling power
INS'eIih boy r' 't lterfio'-
tor.
SOMMERS MOTOR
GENERATOR SALES LTD.
Tavistock, Ont. 519-655-2396
Sales and SERVICE since 1937
A WELL A DAY THE HADCO WAY
Rotary Drilled Wells
Machine Dug Shallow Wells
Caissons-Earthboring
HADCO
Well Drilling &
Digging ` Ltd.
Elmira - 669-3761
TOLL FREE
1-800-265-8916
TRIAN i LE TIRE
Distr'.ut•rs Ltd.
W olesle
and
Retail.
PASSENGER - FARM
TRUCK
On the -farm service
Phone 291.2521
LISTOWEL
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41111lik
DATSUN'
mew
Sales and Service
CUNNINGHAM
MOTORS INC.
131 Kincardine Rd.
WALKERTON
881-0740
Oil, and' at Moors, we
smou tan ously . swallow our
sleeping �'
w
sl the
p lg 1t af►d.o,.... �1etNn
sclous ;for 'sib heMS and forty.
eight second.
Boit each evening,, before ,rets.
ing, we will have our ulivetsal
culture and recreation period.
Something like counting our teed..
If's only a nightmare, but each
year that 1 live, thepipture seems
closer and clearer,, One of these
days I'm afraid 1 won't wake. up.
Two of the most recent steps by
inotithy minorities and the people
who cherish common denomina-
tors are the attempts at the
forc+dd application of Celsius tem-
peratures and the metria system.
Did anyone ask you if • you
wanted to switch from Fahren-
heit to Celsius? No. Did anyone
ask me? No. Did anyone ask
either of us if we wanted to "think
metric"? Same' answer. .
I am used to attempts 'to brain-
wash me by politicians, news-
papers, , experts, and my wife.
That is what they are for, and at
least I can fight back.' •
But I deeply resent simply
being told by some Ottawa
ostriches and their stooges in the
media that I must, willy-nilly,
switch to Celsius thermometer
and metric weights- and mea-
sures.
I am a reasonable man, t hope.
If someone convinces me - that
something is for the common
good, even though it inconveni-
ences me, I'll go along with it.
Example: at this very moment,
the government is removing
money' from me, who has never
been unemployed, and giving it to
some lazy bum who wants not to
work. This is known as unemploy-
ment insurance. In the same way
I' am helping subsidize other
people's food, medical care,
housing. Not a word of complaint.
But . what gets `me is the arro-
gant attitude that typifies those
who espouse Celsius and metric.
They do not present one valid (to
me) reason for the changes. They
say vaguely that everyone else is
doing it.
So what? "If the latest fad is
joining the 'Flit Earth Society,
must I become a member? If
everyone else is picking his nose
in public{ does that mean that I
should, too?
Metria maniacs insist that
metri'd4s . more sceUtate. More
accurate than what? Is a
thousandth of a centimeter more
accurate than a thousandth of an
inch? Of course not. It .is merely
'shorter. Or longer. I'm not sure
which, • and I don't give a diddle.
Canadians, with their wild ex--.
tremes of climate and vast ex-
panse of geography, should battle
with this so-called "progress"
with every ounce of their
strength. Yes, the word was
"ounce". Do you realize that will
soon be a dirty word, if the metric
marauders have their way? -
Canada would lose its very
flavor as a nation should we allow
this metric -Celsius pap\ to flow
over us and flatten us into a'dull
facsimile ,of all those other dull
nations.
For one thing, it would cripple
our conversation, -60 per cent of
which begins iwith. a pseudo -
complaint aboui the heat or the
cold.
It would destroy our idioms.
Can you imagine our hero "centi-
metering" his way along the
narrow ledge, rather than "inch-
ing"?
"He's allwool and a meter
wide doesn't exactly stir me.
Nor does, "Third down and a
meter, 40 centimeters' to go for
Winnipeg."
Well, the varmints haven't
heard the last of me. This is only
a skirmish. But I need reinforce-
ments. Come on, all you thou-
sandswho deplore the change.
Let's hear from you. Fire off a
letter to your editor, for a start.
Then we'll roll up the big guns.
Asparagus first
used as medicine
Nobody is sure of the ori-
gins of asparagus but it is
known that it was cultivated
in the eastern Mediterranean
It
area for over 2,000 years.
The Romans and Greeks
prized the vegetable for what
they believed were its
medicinal qualities — they
thought it would prevent bee
stings and cure toothaches
long before they used it for
food.
Soda cures
battery `acid'
You can wash away corro-
sion from your car's battery
terminals with a baking soda
and water solution.
Dry and wipe with petrole-
um jelly to help prevent re-
currence.
e-
currence.
The warm Spring bre earrY
the prom of bot suilorler daya,
sunbathing and a .cool di►p In. the
swimming pool,
As You PrePare • the for
anotlier season, whether your
pial pool in the backyard or
a Pablic ,Peel in: n neliOborhood
park,. Agrii t 1tpre 'Canada is
working with you. •
. Why Agriculture Canada?
Be-
cause under the broadened Mu-
Jatiom of the federal Pest' Control
Products Act administereaby the
department, "pest control pro-
ducts" now include anitiflierebiat
agents such as swimming .pont
disinfectants and algaecides,
The Act states that no perrson.
shall "manufactkire, store, dis-
play, distribute or use any control
product under unsafe condi-
tions." The regulations are di-
rected towards avoiding unsafe
conditions.
For manufacturers of chemi-
cals used in swimming pools, that
means providing the Plant Pro-
ducts Division of Agriculture
Canada with complete data on
the efficacy and safety of their
products. The next step is proper
labelling and thethird,is classify-
ing the product for either domes-
tic or commercial use. ,
Many chemicals used :in pools
are well known and little 'sup-
porting datais needed for their
labelling and classification.
When a manufacturer `brings out
a new products, however, the de-
partment requires full informa-
tion on toxicity and eye irritation
and an evaluation of its effective-
ness against the specific bacteria'
or algae it is to control.
The information considered in
evaluating a control product is
heavily orientedtowards the
safety of humans, plants, ani-
mals . and the environment.
Labelling, as well as clearly
describing how the product
should be used and stored,must
include the appropriate precau-
tionary symbols identifying the
Robot home is
self-sufficient
CAMBRIDGE, England —
A house that will generate its
own electricity, collect rain-
water for household use and,
operate its own heating. sys-
tem is being built hereby the
Science Research Council.
The house will have.a wind
rotor on the" roof to generate
electricity' with surplus ener-
gy diverted to heat water and
a waste -digest system will
produce methane for cooking
purposes.
Is boob tube the
eye of the devil?
NIEUW BIEJERLAND,
Holland — The Old Reformed
Church here, a rigidly.
Calvinist sect, has expelled 22
members for harboring "the
eye of the devil" in their
homes.
The "evil eye" objected to
by church elders is television
and the members were ex-
pelled for defying the
church's ruling that such en-
tertainment is forbidden. —
BERLIN FALLS
On May 2, 1945, Berlin fell
to Russian armies, and hos-
tilities in Italy ended official-
ly at noon.
nature and
How a PrOftt 101,1
the .primary
whe jt `cl
or'l o r mereial.Safety .
,gudows
terat$,e .as ti
f pir�od +clue
by the ' 1ho1!eir
yard p l and meets, safe
terra, then t proms
class ed 66 omestic;
satnie product is ,. pa ed "„.
large quantities with the Vuhlic
pool 'r ofly m Imoit 'l
classied ” m,m, , .,
Copy .for Crossroads
Beds must br':receiv1t.
Wednesday of week prior
lication.
Misceitan+e
GROW -Mei
. UMBERS.
''.1 -OR mots,
Prices have increased over t4:,
cent this year, For. jnfo'tna
and contracts call Mit
Cronin, RR 3, Teeswater
6290.
DURO CONCRETE. SpecialliAni,
in poured concrete brasem+en
quality, High
g q y, guaranteed woirl
and free estimates. Call wink.
ham 519-357-2606. (A divisio } -d
Royal Homes Ltd.)
�a
Corning `:Eii'eilts
SPECIAL TOURS AT
SPECIAL PRICES
For Senior Citizens with pickup
ser )ice provided inWingham and
many surrounding towns. Unit-
ed
r it -ed 'space `remains:
Canadian West Coast: Leaves
June 20th, 22 days with Calgary
Stampede, Canadian Rockies,.
Vancouver,Yellowstone Park.
and much more. From• only
• 89.00.
•- (Eastern Canada Tour: Laves,'
June 15th, 13 days with Quebec
City, P.E.I., Cabot Trail, Halifax,
Maine, Lake Placid and , much
more. From only $319.00.
Also: Polar Bear Tour and
Manitoulin Island leaves Aug.
26th, 5 days from only $139.00:
Smokey Mountain Colour Tour
leaves Oct. 14th, 5 days from only
$130.00.
For brochures and more infor-
mation on these special tours or
any of our other tours contact
only the following agents:
Listowel Travel
Listowel, Ontario
519-291-4100,
Jim Courtney Travel
Listowel, Ontario
519-291-2111.
ALL STAR TOURS LIMITED.
15-22-29
VAN EYL BROS.
CLIFFORD, ONT., 327-8045
VALUE S. • SAVINGS
on FARM EQUIPMENT
VIB-RO TING CULTIVATORS from
6' to 13' SPECIAL per ft. $45.
PACKERS from 10' to 14' with or
without transport. Kit included
from $550 to $900.
BOG BALLE FERTILIZER SPREADER
Interior Ring Included
Reg. 5370. $298.
DISC 54 UNITS available in various
makes, 9'2" to 21'6"
Painted, Repaired, New, or Used
Blades from $600 to $1800
BALE RACKS
Reg. 5530. NOW $375.
FEED RACKS
Reg. 1495. NOW $375.
PLOWS from 3 - 7 FURROW
3 Pt. or Semi -Mounted
COMBINES, various makes
and sizes
CORN PLANTERS, various makes
4 and 2 row
GRAIN BOXES AND WAGONS
BARFOOT'S EAVESTROUGHING
*Coloured Aluminum
*Galvanized
*Residential Roofing
(Steel and Asphalt Shingles)
*Renovating
FREE ESTIMATES
D. M. BARFOOT
TEL. 335-3918 GORRIE, ONTARIO