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The Wingham Advance-Times, 1985-05-29, Page 19A UCTION SALES NATO's 'showcase' CLEARING AUCTION Sale of antiques, household effects, shop tools, & misc. 'Items to be held at 9 Wilfred Street in the village of Milverton on: Sat.June 1 at 9:00 a.m. ANTIQUES: Oak table, buffet with 6 press back chairs; 3 piece bedroom suite; washstand and dresser; cedar chest; blanket box; 4 piece com- mode set; irons and stands; cheese box; mirror; Singer sewing machine; drop leaf table; corner table; hall lamps; rocking chair;- 4 pendulum clocks; all ,working. with wind up keys; gingerbread. clocks; hall mirror; .piano stool; bedside stand; lamps with colored shades; coffee grinder; Westinghouse radio, working; 2 library tables; oil lamps; dry sink; crocks of all sizes; apple peeler; telephones; Briggs.2 h.p. air cooled engine; yard- sticks and a host, of small items. HOUSEHOLD EFFECTS: Filter Queen vacuum cleaner with all attachments; 2 corner cabinets; iron bed; 2 electric baseboard heaters; card table and 4 chairs; tv tables; sewing box; clothes hamper; lamps; odd chairs; Hoover spin washer; Simplicity spin washer; chesterfield and chair; 26" Roger Majestic TV, good; G.E. frostfree refrigerator; humidifier; normal kitchen utensils;' bedding; linens; china dishes; knick knacks. SHOP TOOLS:. Atlas metal lathe with all at- tachments; Walker Turner drill press; B&D. drill.; grinder; 'table saw and planer; anvil; hydraulic jacks; jackall jacks; 3 vises; saw stand for sharpening saws; emery; jig saws; Stihl chainsaw, like new; c -clamps; torch; 1/2 h.p. motors; Delta drill press; pressure pump; drills; sdOket sets; hammers and a supply of wrenches and hand tools. MISC. ITEMS: 38' aluminum extension ladder; step ladder; lawn mowers and parts; lawn ,mower engines; bicycle tires and parts; 100 red brick, new; sump pump; shovels; hoes; and other garden tools. NOTE: This is an interesting auction -with something for everyone. This is a very clean offer- ing and items are in good shape. Lunch booth will be available. TERMS: Cash or cheque will be accepted with proper I.D. 7% sales tax in effect. Pjoprietor/auc- tioneer not responsible for accidents. Proprietor: Nick Kipfer 595-8882'_ Auctioneer: JOHN NICHOLSON Milverton, Ont. 595-8596 AUCTION SALE Of Farm Machinery, Tools, Camper, Farm Misc. & Some Household Effects For: JOHN. & ARADITH HARTUNG Lot 4, Con. 2 Wallace ' Twp. located 1 mile north of Listowel on Hwy. 23, & go 4 miles east, or go 1' 'Con. north of Hwy. 86 on Perth -Wellington County Road & turn west 1/2 mile on: Mon., June 3 11:00 a.m. MACHINERY: Ford Super Dexta 3000 diesel tractor, select -o -speed, 3 cyl., 3000 hrs., good; Int. 231 s.p. 10' swather with hay cond. attach., both reels; New Holland 268 baler, super sweep • pickup; New Holland 510 power spreadeif; New Holland 450 hay mower; 3 p.h. with conditioner hitch & p.t.o.; Hydrien 3 p.h. 3 furrow plow 14" bottoms, auto reset; Int. 10 16 disc seed drill, grain, fert. & 2 grass seed (good); Int. 45 vibra shank 13' wheel cultivator; Int. 370 wheel disc 13'; 'M.F. 36 6 bar side rake; New Holland 404 hay conditioner; McKee 8' wheel chisel plow; McKee model S grassland harvester with pickup & cutting head; pipes; 24' forage box & wagon; J.D. . hay fluffer; G. White 10' wheel cultivator; Mayrath .3 p.h. weed sprayer, 30' boom; 2 farm wagons • with 18' hay racks; 1 wagon h.d. ,with 24' flat rack; 3 p.h. 8' scraper blade; Allied 32' pipe elevator with electric motor;, 225. bu. gravity grain box on wagon; Bissel 8' land packer; M.H. 4 sec- tion drag cultivator with stretcher; 5 section har- rows & stretcher; 20'5" grain auger; 20'4" grain auger with motor; belt drive grain blower & pipe; 3 p.h. buzz saw; 3 p.h: post hole digger; bale • stooker & fork; single furrow walking plow; 3 p.h. garden scuffler; Kongskilde 14' 3 p.h. cultivator frame; Spreadmaster spreader for parts; .18' hay rack; cattle mineral feeder. TOOLS: Hyd. wood splitter; Onan 25 kw p.t.o. generator; Lincoln 225 amp electric welder & ac- cess.; 3 h.p. electric grain grinder; % h.p. electric motor; wooden de -horning crate; de -horning clip- pers; Stewart cattle clippers; pinchers; farrowing crate; 32' hydro pole & stack (new); 9 treated square pine timbers 8"x8"x16' (new); three 25' treated poles; three 22' treated poles.; quantity of .used lumber; some 1" & 2" oak lumber (new); some new steel sheets; eleven 7'x4" steel posts; one 8'x4" steel 'post; steel fence post & electric fence stakes; cedar posts; grass seed.; approx. 20 bags 8-32-16 fert.; baler twine; barb & woven wire; grease pump & cart; 1 ton chain hoist; elec- tric drills 1/2 h.p. & '/4 h.p.; motor & emery; 2 door tool cupboard; oil furnace for shop; 2 wooden wagon wheels; hen cages section; wooden hen crates; heat lamps; 220 electric square heater; pile of scrap iron; steel wire pig pen sections; 1 7' pipe; feeder gate; 1000 gal. gas tank; 500 gal. water tank; steel water tanks; wooden feed cart. CAR: 1954 Buick car not running; Honda S.T. 90 motor bike running. CAMPER: Sun Kamper, hard top camper trailer, fold down with propane fridge & stove, sink. HOUSEHOLD: Gold & green chesterfield & chair; RCA portable B&W TV; vinyl Lazy -Boy chair; 4 Bronze kitchen chairs; utility table; card table & chairs; end tables; table & pole lamp; old child's cradle; cream can; cistern pump; sump pump; lawn swing set; plus misc. items. NOTE: This sale consists of well kept farm -machinery. The farm has been sold. Owners or auctioneer not responsible for accidents, loss of property or deletions sale day. Terms cash or cheque with proper I.D. sale day. Lunch Booth. Sale Order: starting with household items at 11:00 a.m. followed with wagon load & misc. machinery at 2:00 p.m. Proprietor: John Hartung 291-1468 Auctioneer: BOB GILMORE 291-3489 DOUG GILMORE 291-3421' the table says. "If you are a vegetarian like you, food can be a problem." I'm not a vegetarian, but I'm not about to interrupt this man who proceeds to tell me, some off the hardships off a European posting, es- pecially for families. "Everybody thinks this is wonderful," he said. "People like you journalists come= - over here for a few days and all you can say is how lucky we are. Well, we are lucky, but it isn't all great." The language barrier and culture shock, he says, are the obvious things to over- come 7. "It -isn'tso bad for the men.i They spend' most of their time' on base. But the women can feel very iso- lated. "They have trouble being understood when they try to buy something in a store. It isn't '4illways easy to find a good place to live. And this base doesn't -even have a school for Canadians. "The children either have to be bused out, or attend the American school and the standards there aren't up to -lour standards. There's no- thing here for kids from Que- bec." He nods at my .plate of food. "You'd have trouble here as far as food is concer- ned if you stayed much lon- ger than a couple of weeks." The officer beside me doesn't exactly agree. "Oh, 1 don't thinks it's as bad as what he's said it is," he grins. • Probably not. But I recall the conversations I've had with Cpl. Landry's wife, Shirley, and I think a Cana dian Forces posting in Eu-' rope could pose some very real problems, especially for families with school -aged children. Certainly the school situation here doesn't sound all that satisfactory. I tell the man at the end of the table, I don't think a posting in Germany would be without its difficulties and he nods. The conversation turns to more general topics and all too soon our 40 minutes or so COMPLETE SIMMENTAL HERD DISPERSAL For: GLEASON LAKE FARMS SIMMENTALS on Saturday, June.1, 1985 at Carson's Sales Arena Approximately 100 head of Simmental cattle in- cluding cow -calf pairs, bred and open heifers, senior herdsire "Singletree Ambassador" and younger bulls - purebred, three-quarters and half. Also joining the sale will be Purple Hill Stock Farms' .Simmental Bull Sale. 15 performance tested bulls from the bull station of George Taylor & Sons. 'Viewing of cattle. and light lunch from 10:00 a.m. until 12:00 noon. Sale to commence with George Taylor's tested bulls at 12:00 noox„ . Gleason Lake cattle sell at 1:00 p.m. John and Vida Reynolds and George Taylor and family invite you to attend this excellent Simmental sale. For further information or catalogues, contact: John Reynolds ,(51.9) 534-2854 George Taylor (519) 416-0538 Auctioneer: DAVID CARSON (519) 291-2049 Sale to be held at Carson's Sales Arena, 1 mile east of Listowel on Highway .86. MACHINERY CONSIGNMENT SALE at Carson's Sales Arena (519) 291-2049 1 mile, east of Listowel on Hwy. 86 on: Wed., June 5 10:00 a.m. Selling all types of machinery, vehicles and equip- ment. Some early consignments include: John Deere 2320 12' swather, self propelled, like new; Gehl 600 harvester, excellent condition, electric controls w/hay head, new style two row corn head; Ford 5000 diesel selecto speed, 5000 hrs.; Dion self unloading wagon and rack; Martin zero grazer wagon and rack; 6" Allied 36' grain auger; International C32 7' cut mower w/hydraulic lift; chain harrow; 3 h.p. Briggs & Stratton portable engine Terry waterpump; 2tmor- tar mixers, clean, perfect working condition; 1 Joy air compressor 125 CFM; 1 hydrovane air com- pressor;, 1 Grayco airless spray painter; 10 calf stalls, 18" intervals; set of 1/2 .ton truck racks; quantity of new tarps 10'x12' to 20'x30'; number of gates; and much more. If you are planning to purchase machinery .or have some to sell, please contact us. DAVID CARSON (519) 291-2049 JIM McKAGUE (519) 392-6736 AUCTION SALE Of Sows & Pigs, Combine, Tractors & Farm Equipment For: JACK HOTCHKISS at Lot 103, Con. D Minto Twp., midway between Harriston and Teviotdale on No. 9 Hwy. on: Sat., June 1 1:00 p.m., TRACTORS: MF 180 diesel, good condition; Case 430 w/power steering & JD 36A loader, good condition. COMBINE: IH 82 pull type withstraight cut and pickup head. This machine is in excellent condi- tion: EQUIPMENT: NH No. 273 baler with thr' ? year old thrower, excellent; NH No. 56 Roll -A 3a- rake, very good; .MF No. 82 4x14 3 pt. plow; .vH vlo. 516 p.t.o. manure spreader, very good condition; NH No. 451 7' 3 pt. mower; 100 gallon 3 pt, sprayer with pump and 28' boom; George White 30' bale elevator w/motor and undercarriage; riu, chison 35'6" grain auger w/ transport and electric motor; IH C44 trail disc; 5 section harrows with steel stretcher; 2 Turnco gravity boxes on wagons; IH 3 pt. 101/2' Vibra-Shank cultivator; 20' bale thrower rack, on JD wagon; 3 pt. blade; bale stooker and fork; 15 run seed drill on steel; McKee 620 snowblower, MISC.: 22 cu. ft. fold freezer, good oondition; 2 -4"x12' grain augers; -2 -Delaval milker units; 500 hen cages with waterers; 6 farrowing crates; con- ditioner for Case or Hesston swather. SOWS & PIGS: 6 sows with Utters at side; 11 sows in various stages of gestation; 1 purebred Landrace boar; approx. 90 feeder pigs of various sizes. Owner or auctioneer not responsible for accidents or Io"ss of property day of sale. Proprietor: Jack Hotchkiss 338-3648 Auctioneer: DON REA 291-2600 Photographs accompanying this article were supplied by the Public Information Of- fice, Nato Air Base Geilen- kirchen, West Germany. are over. We're all on a tight sehedule here, it seems. The men in turn shake my hand and say they hope I've enjoyed by visit with the Ca- nadian Forces. I assure them I've not only enjoyed it, but have learned a lot. They also tell me I'll get a big kick out of the flight simulator. I reply that I know I will, because I've already been in one. I then have to explain that during one Ontario newspaper convention in To- ronto, Air Canada kindly ar- ranged a visit to its three flight simulators at Pearson International. And I agree with them I'm very lucky to have had such an experience not once, but twice. Before he leaves, the man who was seated at the end of the table glances at my tray. It hasn't escaped his notice that I've had my soup and my tea and a couple of fork- fuls of vegetables and that is all. Well, the food here on this day is the least of my con- cerns. I've had a good break- fast and will no doubt get a, good dinner. But before that happens, there's a whole lot to see and learn. ? Back outside we park our bus, and board another bus with a German civilian driver. Maj. Guess informs us that approximately 70 per cent of the personnel work, ing on this base is civilian. The information surprises me. There's a lot more to Geilenkirchen, I think, than AEW aircraft. There are a lot of song- writers in the world. Some of them' write songs that be- come hits. But there's a songwriter who lives in the secluded Hockley Valley near Orangeville, who has achieved international re- cognition because of the sheer number of songs he's written. He's 67 year old George Cook, and he's the World's Champion Songwriter. He's written thousands of songs. When he reached the 20,000 mark he was. in Ripley's Be- lieve It Or Not and became eligible for the Guinness Book of World Records. That was 10 years ago. It's history now. But early this month George passed another mile- stone, he hit the 50,000 mark! I'd done a story, about him earlier in his career, and went back to his cottage in the Valley to find out how he'd accomplished the as- tounding feat. "By not keeping my big mouth shut," said George. "I was being interviewed on a TV station in Tampa last year, and the interviewer challenged me to hit fifty thousand songs in 1985. I said I would." George wrote 1,500 songs in March alone, The most he's ever written in one day is 126 songs. The songs are mostly of the country and western var- iety; but some are ballads, and there's the odd polka. They're kept in a huge trunk in his den. George is a. big, jovial man with a wonderful sense of humor. The day I was there his wife Betty was mad at him because he'd started banging out a song on his guitar at 6 that morning. ing. "You can't stay mad at him long," she told me. "He'll start cracking some of his crazy jokes and you'll laugh despite yourself." George is on the road much of the time, travelling to concerts and TV appear- ances, mostly in the United States. He's made several records and a recent cassette sold over 2,000 copies in a few days. And how does George do it? The songs seem to flow out. He thinks in rhymes, maybe even dreams in rhymes. And no matter what the occasion, the World's Champion Songwriter al- ways seems to have a song in his heart! Crossroads—May 29, 1985—Page 5A NAIIONAL MUSEUM science + technology STARGAZING JUNE Discovering the stars (NC) — 'It takes hours of leisurely perusal spread over the entire year to be-- come e-come familiar with the night sky. Yet it's a fasci- nating study: learning how to appreciate star patterns and how they move in the sky from dusk to dawn (the result of the daily rotation of the earth on its axis)', and how different stars and con- stellations highlight the skies of different seasons (the result of the earth's yearly orbit about the sun). Once the rythm of thesky is known, however, it is pos= sible to appreciate why an- cient people were able to use the stars — for navigation, for example, and for regu- lating the planting of crops. It is also fascinating to con- sider why they commemo- rated events and honored • their gods by designating groups of stars to represent them. Today stars are seldom used for navigation, and ca- lendars keep us in tune with the seasons.. Huta true lover of the night sky greets a fa- miliar configuration, when it reappears after being too close to the sun to be seen, as a friend returned after a long absence. It gives a feel- ing of constancy to follow, year after year, the sea- sonal changes in the sky. It becomes automatic to look for the Summer Triangle above the eastern horizon in the spring, to search for it -high overhead in Sep- tember and to know that it will be above the western horizon at the beginning of winter. The stars of the Big Dipper nightly trace a huge circle above the northern horizon, yet they assume a' characteristic seasonal po- sition when viewed at the same time of night at differ- ent times of the year. Late on a June evening the Dipper is high in the ,northwest; six months later it is low in the northeast at the same time of night. Nothing surpasses the unaided eye for learning the general layout of the sky. Once ,the naked eye stars are known, it gives added pleasure to search for features that are re- vealed only - with optical aid. Many people will never own a telescope, butbinocu- lars are often available and they can be a great asset .when studying the sky. They may, in fact, be super- ior to a small inexpensive telescope. Binoculars are easy to carry and to look through (both eyes are used), they are relatively easy to point and may have better optics than a poorly made telescope. When using binoculars it is important to hold them steady. It is always difficult when standing with the head angled back, to scan overhead. Lean against something solid, if possible, with the elbows braced, per- haps against the chest. Or lie back in a lawn chair, the elbows firmly supported by the arm rests. Look toward the object, then raise the bi- noculars to your eyes and slowly sweep the area until it comes into view. If neces- sary, orient yourself by judging the distance from nearby bright stars. Use a flashlight with red film over the lens when consult- ing a map, and try to ob- serve from the darkest pos- sible location. The moon is lovely through binoculars and is a good object for the novice. The crescent phases, when shadows highlight the re- lief, are best. It is always a thrill to see how many more stars can be seen using bi- noculars, and how their color and sparkle are enhanced. Start with bright objects first, double stars or galac- tic star clusters, for exam- ple, then proceed to faint nebulous objects like dis- tant globular clusters and galaxies. The latter are faint hazy patches in binoc- ulars. It takes a telescope to resolve the stars in globular clusters, and galaxies .are much too far away to show anything more than their form and structure. Don't neglect the Milky Way. A moonless night and a clear dark sky are a must when scanning our Galaxy. A . leisurely search of the faint. swarms of countless stars spotted with dark areas, seemingly void of stars, gives hours of pleasure. On the map, arrows point to a few easy double stars, and crosses locate galactic star clusters which binocu- lars reveal to be lovely swarms of stars. Globular clusters can also be seen, but because of their great distance telescopes are needed to resolve them into stars. Two fine examples of globulars are in Hercules — M13 and smaller, fainter M92 are tiny, round cloud- like patches in binoculars. PLANETS: Saturn is low in the southeast at sunset and swings across the southern sky to set in the west about 2-1/2 before sunrise. Jupiter rises in the east about midnight (too late to be shown on the map) and is low in the south at sunrise. Venus, once again the "morning star," is low in the east before sun- rise. Look for it 1.9° south of a thin crescent moon on the 14th. Calendar d h (Universal Time) 1 22 Saturn 3° N. of Moon 3 04 Full Moon 7 16 Jupiter 5° N. of Moon 10 08 Last Quarter Moon 14 11 Venus 1.9° N. of Moon 18 12 New Moon 21 11 Summer solstice (Summer begins) 25 19 FirstQuarterMoon 29 05 Saturn 3° N. of Moon To convert from Univer- sal time to Canadian Time Zones (Standard Time) — subtract the number of hours indicated below: NST 3h 30m AST 4h EST 5h CST 6h' MST 7h PST 8h In June,, many centres are on daylight saving time. Curator, Astronomy For more information, write: SKYSHEETS, National Museum of Science & Tech- nology, 1867 St. Laurent Blvd., Ottawa K1A 0M8. POE DIES Author Edgar Allen Poe died on Oct. 7, 1849, at Balti- more, Md. DO IT YOURSELF EQUIPMENT FOR RENT • Cut Off Saw • Concrete Saw • Hammer Drill • Metal Band Saw • Power Screw Driver • 5/8" Electric Drill AVAILABLE' BY THE HOUR, DA OR WEEK FOR THE TOOLS OP THE TRADE VISIT 1 100 Wallace Ave. N. Listowel 291-2280 an J/..eal ,X9 T company