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The Wingham Advance-Times, 1975-07-10, Page 21i9 • P • • Beware dieffenbachl. .0/410 °e;lilne) 404 elephant ear both popuhat Plants all parts aro tOzie,are Tsiey cause en Illltenie burning of tongue, mouth, and, throat What chewed, end tip rennet the back.ofthtongue can swell, blocking breathing and causing death' by strangulation. W�� In pow year's the world* poPtilation eat. Its WAY threugh enough grain to • build IA 4440 feet wide and 00 feet deep around theentire eobe . s►ccurding tO Nobel Prizeminnilpg Pe,. Norman Boy en official, at the In- ternational l Mize and Wheat Improvement Center in Mexico. pool, roast i Blend sticks ` be` elders, leav end branches of the oleander are all highly toxic, mid it ane of the deadliest of otu7 vow. mop ortiamental dubs, People have been fstaally poisoned roasting food on oleander stiff. flflflij BONANZA of USED FARM EQUIPMENT * 14 TRUCKLOADS OF MACHINERY HAVE BEEN .RECEIVED' . * HARVESTING 2 • Ford 612 Harvesters with pickup and cornheads 1 - New Holland Haybine 469 1 - New Holland Hay Baler 276 with • thrower 1 - New Holland Hay Bober 273 with thrower 1 - Ford 508 Hayrake 1 - Ford Mower 2 - John Deere 38 Forage Harvesters with 2 heads each 2 - 717 New Holland Forage Harvesters with cornheads and hayheads Several Flail Harvesters 5 ft. CLIFFORD COMBINES 1 : 51.0 Massey Quick -Tach with cab 2.410 Masseys with platforms 1 - Allis Chalmers E-3 with platform and cab 1 w 203 International with platform 1 - 303 International with platform and cab 1 - 403 International with platform and cab 1 -,5,03 International with platform, cab and cornhead TRACTORS & EQUIPMENT: 1 - Allis Chalmers 190XT 1- Oliver 1900 1 - Oliver 1850 Bale. Racks and Feed Racks Several Blowers and Post Hole Diggers FOR YEAR-ROUND SAVINGS VISIT VAN EYL BROS. TEL. 327-8045 0 GUNS, AMMO, REPAIRS AND ACCESSORIES ABC SPORTING GOODS 350 Minnie St. WINGHAM, ONT. 3, 5 & 10 SPEED BIKES OF VARIOUS MAKES • TENNIS Golfing- Fishing and Hunting o Equipment BASEBALL TEAM SUPPLIES CENTRAL BICYCLE SHOP 48 Arthur Street S. ELMIRA 669-2706 • ainf`on FACTORY OUTLET In Their Original OLD MILL IN.1 lk. BLYTH BAIPITON LTD. Blyth 523-9666 MID WESTERN PAVING ASPHALT PAVING DRIVE WAYS PARKING LOTS Listowel 291-4794 Wingham 528-2626 Mount Forest Harriston, Palmerston TOLL FREE 338-2210 YOUR AUTHORIZED YAMAHA DEALER P & F Lawn and Sports Equipment LISTOWEL 291-2441 Licensed Mechanic "W. Service What We kr * SPREADERS in stock * DION Forage Boxes * FOX Forage Harves- tors. * PAPEC Forage Boxes and Blowers W. A. ROBINS & SONS HARRISTON, ONT. Tel. 338-2438 R. E. SHANTZ FARM EQUIPMENT Large Variety `LLAO,1OtAGE & HARVESTING EQUIP. DUETZ - BELARUS TRACTORS R.R. #1 PHONE ALMA 638-3146 DURO CONCRETE CONCRETE FORMING SPECIALISTS Residential -Commercial FOUNDATIONS, WALLS FLOOR FINISHING CaII Anytime 357-1822 Bix 575, Wingham, FREE ESTIMATES Largo Stock of New and Used Machinery and Parts pride`in ser`Vlai'ng the equipment we sell. McGAVIN'S FARM EQUIP. LTD SALES (Est. in 1936) SERVICE WALTON Tel. 887-6365 BRUSSELS ONTARIO 527-0245 SEAFORTH Recently, I listed some of things I disliked in our soviet , When I'd finished, I thought to myself, "Boy, you are a nasty old: piece of work. Do you realii you've barely scratched the ours face?" For a) week or two, I gent around thinking, in 10 . or 20 second spurts, every three or four days, that I was a Curmudgeon. Some of my younger readers will not know what a curmudgeon is. Well, it comes from the root, HAY SPECIALS - 273 New Holland Baler and Thrower $2 , - 268 New Holland Baler and Thrower 62300. - Massey Ferguson #10 .. $1900. - Case 220 $500. - 66 New Holland - New Idea 9 ft. Mowditioner $2000. - New Idea Cutditioner 21200. - Various Mowers and Rakes McGAVIN'S FARM EQUIP. LTD Walton Tel 887-.6365 Sam wt - Bill Smile} Much about nothing word "mud." We all know what mud is,� It is dirty. It is cool under th toes, unless it is in the form of a mud pack, which is good for the wrinkles. If your name is Mudd, you are either in the doghouse, or you are a loser. I hope that is clear. To the root word "mud" (unless we want to root around in the mud a bit longer), we attach the prefix "cur." A cur, as everyone knows, is a cad with teeth, and sometimes a moustache, who plays the villain" in old-fashioned melodrama. In new -fashioned melodrama, he also has teeth, but in addition he has a big belly or a bald head, and he has become the hero, as in Cannon or Kojak. Still with me? We now have "curmud", signifying a mean guy who is cool under the toes, has wrinkles, or is a loser. Some- times all three. Now we come to the suffix, "geon", which is of more obscure vintage. S ervuce Director CROSSROADS ADVERTISING DEADLINE Tuesday Noon Week Before Publication WINPOWER TRACTOR DRIVEN (P.T.0.) ALTERNATORS from 7 KW to 100 KW The money you save dur- ing one crippling power loss can buy your alterna- tor. SOMMERS MOTOR` GENERATOR SALES LTD. Tavistock, Ont. 519-655-2396 Sales and SERVICE since 1937 'For a good home .. . oragooddeal' - DURHAM MOBILE HOMES &PARK LTD. Durham Tel 369-3264 Your Authorized Dealer For GLENDALE COMMODORE NORTHLANDER • RELAX AND LEAVE THE Check our Printing Prices. You'll like them too. BOWEN PRINTING LIMITED 128 Inkerman St. E. Listowel Phone 291-3901 Mount Forest and Wingham Phone ZENITH 26500 Box 709, Durham PHONE 369-3203 Located on No. 6 Highway '/, Mile So th of Varney BUY USED MATERIALS BATHROOM FIXTURES DOORS - WINDOWS LUMBER, ETC. HOURS — Mon. to Fri., 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sat., 8 a.m. to 12 Noon Hydraulic Cranes 24 hr. service WINGHAM 357-3721 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 EVIfRUDE first in outboards * Outboarlotors * Springbok Aluminum Boats * Fiberglass Canoes * Fiberglass Runabouts * EZ loader Trailers * Rentals LEYLAND'S MARINE & SPORTS Palmerston, Ont. 343-2316 or 343-3112 HARRISTON PACKING CO. Give us a cell 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 FOR COMPLETE ItASDTALLATIONS SERVICE CAII 291-4721 elawitipie P."O. Box 162, Listowel, Ont. f ATTENTION FARMERS - Now In Stock - 6-7-8-9- 10 TON WAGON GEARS *Heavy duty box -frame true trail construction. with new hubsand spindles. *Hubs are fitted with SKF tapered roller bearings. *Full range of uses - Feed Racks, Forage Boxes and biggest Gravity Bins. *10 ton fitted with 8 bolt hub to take 12.5 x 16.x 14 ply '" }tree of 20"4rbck tires. *9 ton available with same tire combination. ELMIRA WAGONS LTD R.R. 4, Elmira Tel. 669-8500 County Road #20 Listowel Cutoff Near Airport 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 LE TIRE ut• rs Ltd. olesle and Retail PASSENGER FARM . TRUCK On the farm service Phone 291 2521 LISTOWEL TAAILEA a- • 1 LLs��EA O RENTAL R.R. 13 HMY,16 E LISTOMEL . Sta rc raft . Jayco . Prowler • Glendale • Open 6 days, closed Wed. atisfaction Sales ervice 3 miles east of Listowel on Hwy. 86 Ph. 291.1158 It is of Hungarian antecedent, and it seems to have meant, ori- ginally, something we might call colloquially dummy that makes a to of silly and un- necessary n e without getting anywhere," hich is rather a contradiction in terms, come to think of it. There ar any perversions of the origi , of course. We find the sufff x in such words as "Injun, "engine" and "John." But a original meaning is in somewhere.. An Injun, for example, is one of the original "In" people, who rides around in ever -diminishing circles, emitt- ing war-shoops, until he is shot off his horse. Think of your car. The engine makes a lot of noise, at least mine does, and gets nowhere. Occa- sionally, the car gets somewhere, but the engine remains exactly where it started, in the car. And, of course, there . is the coloquial word "john," meaning a toilet. Or water closer or back - house, if toilet offends you. This item of hardware indulges in a great deal of unnecessary noise, whether receiving or transmit- ting, and is usually going nowhere, except on trains, buses or airplanes, when it is so active it has to put up a "busy" sign most of the time. On ships, of course, with their innate sense of superiority, the "john" is called a "head." This came about when one of the head men in the British Navy, • Admiral Sir Dudley Pound, affec- tionately known to his jolly tars as "dud," once went looking for the "john" and discovered a lot of Commons Seamen, and a very common lot they were, lined up with one of the symptoms of scurvy known as "dire rear." In the interests of clarity, this has nothing to do with the term "rear admiral." Understandably, Sir Dud flew into a high rage, the only type allowed to senior officers, and uttered a good deal of silly and unnecessary noise, or "geon," when he had to wait for his turn for the "john." As naval tradition has it, this - led to the wedding of "dud" and "geon", meaning a john that isn't working, or a senior officer wits a'r red face, or a towering rage, whichever you choose. That's one of the beauties of the English language. You can take your pick. And you know what you can do with it. If you have followed me care- fully through this brief but en- lightening explorations into semantics, I am sure you have come to the conclusion, as I have, that I am not a curmudgeon at all. I am not a mean guy. I haven't hit a little kid since mine grew up. I am not cool under the toes. My feet heat something terrible in this weather. I am not a loser. How can you know you're a loser when you don't know what it is to be a winner? I do not go ar and making silly and unnecess y noises, except when it is a utely necessary. And finall I feel that I am de- finitely getting somewhere. Older? I'd like to end with a little poem, dedicated to those keen students of the vagaries of our vocabulary who have followed me down this pit -fallen trail. That Smiley While he Is often in high dudgeon Is no curmudgeon, But wily. YOUR HANDWRITING 171I,S Let tolents gain interest at bank By DOROTHY ST. ' JOHN JACKSON Certified Master Graphoanalyst Dear Dorothy: I am 24 and working in a bank. I like' it very much aind the people 1 work with are very complimentary and pleased with my work. The nice thing about it is, they tell me when f do something well. I think I would like to cont tine in banking but I wonder if it's just because t like the people. What do you think about banking as a profession and do I belong in the Held? P.T. Dear P. T.: A banker is prestigious and trustworthy in his com- munity. In many cases, too, his, position extends beyond financial matters. Some- times, he's a "you-name4t" go-between than, because of ' his dependability. It's the finest of profes- sions, if your aptitudes point in that direction. You are, right now, receiv- ing much satisfaction from those nice people who work with you. With their bits of praise, they are satisfying your crying need for approval appreciation, seen in larg and d loops. They a wounded ego whic had fora long time. . You'll have to admit that, more than the banking busi- ness, you are enjoying your relationship with those who are so kind. Your handwrit- ing says that you have other aptitudes which cannot be de- veloped while you're working -in a bank, and could, in time, cause you some dissatisfac- SWEET HOPE About 900,000 tons of sugar' is expected to be produced from British sugar beets this year, 50 per cent more than in 1974, with a record 480,000 acres planted. tion and fli`ue.... tion, Wen you find some active o11t. for them vats* of your work. You belong in the field of communications, It sem** more for you than aCCOUntet ing. The figure, A g' x the printed s's, the reversed on f, all evaluated With the rest of your writing, are throbbing to be uta, YOU could. be a fluent sI°,: seen in the open tops on a's and o'8, if only you shake off the few' of,being criticized and embarrassed. Think hard. Somehow, there's a way you can devehap this area of your per!nality. In the meantime, stay at the bank, at least until you are satiated with approval and your -confidence takes a turn upward. Just let your talents be known. Who knows?r ey ,. just, might gain "interest." at the bank. - D. 3. ,444 • CROSSWORD By A. C. 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Call us when you need emergency tire servicel We'll bring our 'shop on 4e wheels' right out to your field to get you bock to work fast. Better still, call us for a 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 It...:RU 9 1 iii 44 . iil��. s . iii 1,; a ill 15 GG■GIo .... .1 . Zo .G I ZZ . 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Call us when you need emergency tire servicel We'll bring our 'shop on 4e wheels' right out to your field to get you bock to work fast. Better still, call us for a 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