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The Huron Expositor, 1949-06-10, Page 2e jean, editor, ed', al eafarth, °Atario, ev-. Ida afternoon by McLean Member of Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association. scription rates, $2.00 a year in Awe •, foreign $2.50 a year. Single ies, 5 cents each. advertising rates' on application. Authorized as Second Class Mail Post Office Department, Ottawa EAFORTH, Friday, June 10, 1949 salvaging Farm Waste A select group of men are hard at work devising methods of putting ]ore money in the farmer's pocket by salvaging farmwaste and sur- pluses. ses. Very little is heard of them' or the science they are engaged in is virtually unkown. It is called "chemurgy"—that branch of applied lemistry devoted to industrial util- ization of organic materials, espec- ially farm products. The accomplishments of chemurgic chemists are making history. Take straw, for example. Millions of tons are set afire annually by prairie farmers because they could ,find lit- tle use for it. Recently two sci- entists in Peoria, Illinois, developed a method of processing wheat straw into high grade paper and pulp board. This will place insulat- ing board from straw in a position to compete with similar material made -from wood. Another. chemist, Carl Miner, sought to find out how waste corn- cobs and oat hulls could contribute to better living. After years of experi- mental work, he discovered a chem- ical from these called "furfural" which has become an important in- gredient in the manufacture of petroleum, nylon, synthetic resins and antiseptics. In Idaho, a potato growing com- munity is richer by $5,000,000 each year because of a new industry which manufactures white starch firom culled potatoes. In Canada_the national chemurgic committee of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce is knee deep in chemurgic research with the National Research Council. A recent project involved the use of excess wheat in the manufacture of stared and dried gluten, While these are only a few exam - pies of chemurgic research, they are enough to indicate the continuing importance of farming to the na- tional economy. .Rebuilding of House of Commons Progresses The rebuilding of the United King- dom House of Commons, destroyed by German bombs on May 10, 1941, proceeds steadily throughout session and recess and is so well forward that Commons members of the new Parliament in the autumn of next year will be able to meet in the com- pleted Chamber. This is the opinion of Sir Giles Gil- bert Scott,. architect of the new Com- , mons, who has just described the 'whole work as "progressing satis- factorily4" Work began in May, 1947, and the foundation stone was laid last May. A start on the interior of the Chamber will probably be made next month. The wood -carving is well ahead, says Sir Giles, and in other respects the work is up to schedule. The contract for the shell of the building is due for completion next March. From many corners of the Com- monwealth has been sent, or is being sent, some valued product to be Moulded into the new Chamber's fabric or furnishing. Britain herself supplies the stone ne yellowish limestone from Clipshain and Hollywell in Rutland, her Smallest country, and Portland Stone froth. Dorset. As raw mater- ial 115,000 cubic feet of Clipsham ,stone will be used for the main fabric and 50,000 cubic feet of Portland Atone for the rebuilding of the dots- tlres�i and carving of the fs: i ;thy hands of skilled 'has- ons, two of whom, ih their q"ale acv- enties, have given a lifetime to their craft. The archway from the Cham- ber to the Lobby — named "The Chugehil .Arch" in honour of the wartime leader of Parliament -- is built partly of new stone and partly of stone from the bombed Commons.. From the. wooded English coun- ties of Shropshire, Hereford, Wor- cester and Stafford have come fine oak logs for the interior of the Com- mons. Trees, two and a half cen- turies old have been felled and sea- soned for the purpose. For economy reasons, however, the oak panelling in certain rooms will be omitted; the saving will be £ 137,000 ($548,000) . Wood has come from North Queensland, Australia -17 crates of black bean timber to make Mr. Speaker's Chair. (An exact copy of the Speaker's Chair is used in the Canadian Parliament). From the same State h,s come 30,000 square feet of walnut for the flooring of the Commons. Timber has come too from Canada, which has given a table in white oak. From the Knysna forest in South Africa has come stinkwood for chairs for the Clerk of the Ways and Means Committee and for two Clerks of the House. Four tables and chairs in the division lobbies are being made from specially chosen Nigerian timber. The Colonial Secretary will dip his pen into a massive inkpot made from 50 ounces of silver sent by Fiji in far Oceania. British Guiana has sent cigarette boxes and ash trays made of bauxite, oxydized in an mid gold color. This has added Common- wealth significance in that British Guiana exports much bauxite to Canada for 'the aluminum industry. Practical gifts which will be con- stantly within the sight of Members, should any debate prove tedious, are two small wall clocks from Northern Ireland, built to the design of Sir Giles. Mr. Speaker recently accept- ed these on behalf of the House, and also a small timing clock for the Clerk's table, the latter specially de- signed to mark off the different per- iods of Parliamentary divisions. "Almost a replica of the old" is how Sir Giles} describes the rising Chamber. A useful difference, how- ever, will be the enlarged galleries at the north and south ends. • sioXiMINallenek WHAT OTHER PAPERS SAY: HEALTH. SCIIEMES (Winnipeg Free Press) For over a decade now 'Norway and Denmark have had in operation a nation wide medical insurance plan which seems to work without .too much governmental solicitude. In Denmark every family is re- quired to take out a policy with one of the five or six officially recogniz- ed health -insurance companies, these companies being privately owned and operated. If a family has not a policy its members cannot qualify for an old age pension or for unem- ployment insurance. The doctor is given the number of the insurance policy and his bill goes straight to the insurance company. Likewise, when a person goes to hospital, that institution collects from the insur- ance company. As for the medical fees, these are fixed by a national commission on which are represented the doctors, the insurance companies and the Government. Then the patient must pay 25 per cent of the cost of medi- cine and 25 per cent of the cost of glasses, dentures and other medical supplies. The 75 per cent is made up by the insurance companies and the Government. In Norway the cover -all is a Gov- ernment operated insurance com- pany. The patient pays the doctor's fee, and then with the receipted bill collects from the insurance company. He himself pays 10 per cent of the bill, and the entire cost of medicine and supplies. Dental service, ex- cept for dentures and expensive bridge work, is covered by the insur- ance. The insurance fee in both coun- tries is small, and for families with income less than $2,000 a year, is less than. $20 a year, A By Harry, J. Boyle "CHINA TEA POT" There must be a china teat pot in your home. If net, then you will remember your mothers. • It was a •fancy china one, than. ten chances to one she received as, a shower gift. It was perched on the sideboard in the diningslexem, to serve both a decorative .and a useful purpose. It was the family bank. When mother sold her chickens or the geese, or when thereelely cream and egg money Came,' she donned her spectacles and counted it. Then with a stub of a Pencil fished from among the contents of the top drawer in the sideboard, she figured it up just to see that the man hadn't made any mistakes. For a few minutes there would, be some laborious .figuring, and then satisfied that all was web the pen- cil would be replaced from where it was taken. The silver would be carefully wrapped up in the hills, and all would be placed in .the china tea pot. That -tea pot certainly occupied a prominent place in our Iives. It was the cleating house Ifor mother'se currency. When we want- ed pennies for those big buns -eye candies on our infrequent trips to the village, mother would dole out one apiece from her bank. Then, while father was hitching up eche hoose she would make out a list of what to get at the store . tea, sugar, spices, laces. - and so on, and all would Abe neatly totalled up with the correct amount of money and an extra ten cents in casethe ahead of the household didn't have change for a plug of tobacco. Along about tax time the china tea pot was often dumped out on the kitchen table at night when we were doing our homework. Father kept adding a few dollars from here and there . for the jags of wood that he sold in the village, and the potatoes and ap- ples . . . and it was carefully tot- alled up. Tax time was coming mighty close and they were still short, and we in our childish way would begin to worry, as to What might happen if we couldn't pay our taxes. ,But somehow, mother and the china tea pot always managed it, There was a Bert of a triumphant smile on her face when she dump- ed the ,contents- out on -the table on tax day and the amount was counted out in everything from ten -dollar bills to pennies. "Well, Paw, we made it!" she would exclaim, and he would ruf- fle up her hair, the way , she pre- tended she didn't like, and he would kiss heron the cheek, and we would all go to school feeling quite Important because there was enough to pay the taxes. There were lean times for the china tea pot too. Times when Mother would have to scrape mighty hard to snake up enough for the groceries, and when father would say: "Shucks, Maw! Never mind the plug of tobacco; I can do without it!" But she would chase him along and smile and say that a hard working man was en- titled ntitled tb 'one bad habit. The china tea pot became scar- red carred from handling, too. d never knew a cup of tea to be made -in it, but the corner chipped off the lid and the Bolters on the aide became just a wee bit tarnished, but it still occupied a prominent. place on the sideboard. But there was a wise philosophy' about 't'he old tea pot. One thing that Mgthnr told Me that .1 always remember was one night When T was an awkward young man, get- ting ready for a "date" to take a girl to as church social. Mother sort of knew that • there wasn't very much money in my pocket, and ache slipped the a dollar bill from the tea pot, with the admon- ition to have a good time. 1 men- tioned something about the tea - pct then, and she smiled and said: "Yes, I got that tea pot at the si•ower the night before your father and I were married. One thing, Phil, that it told me that first day when I set it on the side- board and slipped the egg money into it was, don't buy anything un- til I can pay for it." sed if people nowadays had china tea pots to caution them in the same way, there'd be a heap more happiness in this world of ours. Just A Smile Or Two By one of those strange chances, most of the lady passengers inside the motor bus seemed to be car- rying infants, one or two of whom were fractious. At one stopping -place the har- assed conductor wag faced by two mare ladies, each of whom carried the inevitable baby. But patie.ice, though a virtue, has, its ]amts. "Room on top, mum," he said sternly, as he held out a detaining arm. "The incubator's full!" P ears Agone Interesting Items Picked ;From The ;Huron Expositor of Twen- ty -flue and iftty Years Apo. From The Huron Expositor June 20, 1924 Mr. Charles Holmes has purchas- ed the frame cottage on North Main St., owned by the late Post- master Williams. Mrs. W. Amaral and Miss Hazel Winter were in Detroit last Fri- day attending the graduation ex- eruises of the University of De- troit, where Mr. Warren Ament received his degree of Bachelor of Commercial Science. Muses M. Bullard, formerly super- visor of the operating room of the General Hospital, Stratford, spent Sunday with her- father, Mr. John Bullard, Winthrop, before leaving for New York, where she has ac- cepted a position as night super- visor of the Tarrytown Hospital. Mr. Trewartha, Winthrop, had a very successful barn raising last Wednesday, about '140 men ebeing present. Mr. J. C. Greig, of town, was one of "the unfortunate passengers on the C.N.R. train which was wreck- ed at Cambray on Thursday eve- ning. He suffered rattler serious injury to 'his head and back and was taken to •hospital at Lindsay. Russell Hays and Thomas and Kenneth Totten, of Detroit, are 5tieefe at the home of Mrs. John The local angling club had ar- ranged an all-night fishing contest and went to the village inn until it was time to start. At closing time, they took up .their tackle and moved off with dignity through the darkness to the bridge selected. Seating themselves in comfort, they cast their lines over the para- pet and fished until dawn was breaking. Then, with a roar, the eastbound flyer passed under the bridge. Huron Federation of o Agriculture Farm News Single Hedges Best buckwheat and some others --and The question is sometimes rais- cleaning up hiberinating quarters -ed as to whether hedge planta will aid in reducing this pest, .should be set out in a single row, 4= rF 3E or in a double one with the plants Grass Seeds staggered. Surplus quantities of Canadiali This :'atter iiiethod use more pasture and ttli•f grasses, produced plants and more space, is carder from the 1948 crop, have found a to trim into good shape and leaves a poor end at a gate or path where any unevenness is noticed. Under normal conditions, horticultu:•a1 officials of the Dominion Depart- ment of Agriculture say that sin- gle plantings of hedges are advis- able. i DDT Will Control Flea Beetles Flea beetles are. an annoying peat of vegetables, attacking many of the commercially grown kinds, and most of those grown by the "backyard" gardener. As their name implies•, they are very active insects, jumping easily from plant to plant. Most of them are shiny black, onesix- teenth to one -eight of an inch long but some are striped with cream colored markings. They often appear suddenly in large numbers and make pitted feeding marks on the_ leaves, giving them a shot -holed appear- ance. In severe attacks the whine leaf surface of mature plants may be destroyed as well as the outer surface of the stem's. Fortunately Plea beetles may be controlled with DDT either as a spray or dust, say officials of the Science Service, Dominion Dspart- ment of Agriculture. As a spray, one pound of 50 per cent wettable DDT to 50 gallons of water, applied at the rate of 100 gallons per acre, should prove satisfactory. Proprietary ready mixed dusts con- taining 2 -or 3 per cent DDT may be secured at most., seed stores. They should be applied at the rate of about 35 pounds per acre. The amateur gardener who does not require such large quanceies' can obtain sprays or dusts con- taining DDT at most hardware or garden supply stores. They should be used according to instructions on the label. It is important that the treat- ment is continued every 10 days if flea beetles are present. A derris preparation should she substit.+t-.i for DDT on cauliflower when th a crop begins to bead, as the resi- due of DDT might prove danger- ous, Infestations of ilea beetles may be reduced by planting vegseab'eg on new lend at a considerable distance from previous crops, of susceptible vegetables. Destruction Of Weed 'hosts --- 'wild mustard%, hoary cress, larab'e quarters, wild Ili. Hays, Dr. Charles Mackay Was in Ot- tawa this week attending a medi- cal convention. What might have been a serious accident happened at W. Willer'a brickyard at St. Joseph last week. A large load of tile was moving out of the kiln when it 'struck one of the wires that supported the smokestack.' The wire broke. and the smokestack fell across a team of horses. Mr. Louis I. Denomy, of St. Jos- eph', met ewith a painful accident on Thursday of -last week. He was attending the bricklayers who are building the new addition to the Roman Catholic Church, when a brick fell from the scaffold, strik- ing him on the head and neck, knocking him senseless and inflict- ing a wound. Dr. Buchanan was, called, and at the time of writing is progressing favorably. Messrs. John and Thomas Hog- garth and Mr. and Mrs. John Mc- Laren and several others from Cromarty, took . advantage of the Ontario Agricultural College dem- onstration at Guelph on Tuesday. Rollins and Stewart, of Exeter, ready market in the United States and some Western European count tries. Exports of brome, crested wheat, Canada and Kentucky blue grasses, creeping and meadow fes - cues have amounted to eight mil- lion pounds. The farm value of these exports is placed at $1,200,- 0410. With the exception of Can- ada blue grass, all of the seed ex- ported was produced in Western Canada. Canadian *mac Purbred• Cattle For Italy In November, 7948, four Holstein Friesian bulls, valued at $15,000, were flown to Italy via New York, marking the first shipment of Canadian purebred cattle to that country. In Match of this year, an additional eleven head of cattle were flown from Milton to Italy, the first such air shipment direct from Canada to Europe. These small shipments proved to be the forerunner of a large ship- ment of I25 purebred Canadian Holstein -Friesian heifers which are now on their way to Italy by steamer. Italian breeders have expressed great satisfaction with Canadian purebred Holstein -Friesian cattle, and it is expected that further orders will. be placed in this country. Fertilizer Trade As 'Canada, is one of the main, export countries of nitrogen fer- tilizer, very little is imported ex- cept xcept some nitrate of soda and nitrogen solutions. All the phos- phates and potash requirements are imported. Exports consist mostly of nitrogen materials, phos- phates and mixed fertilizers. The imports and exports of fertilizers from July 1 to december 31, 1948, in tons are: Imports --Animal manures, 450; basic slag, 30,680; bone meal, tankage and flah offal, 2,563; pot- ash manure salts, 3,205; sulphate of potash, 3,978; muriate of pot- ash, 65,255; phosphate rock, 294,- 204; superphosphate, 79,324; nit- rate of soda, 11,315; other fertiliz- ers and Materials 4,282. Exports -- Ammonium sulphate, 72,359; p'hoaphates 69,680; bone meal, tankage and fish offat, 6,890; amiiiouiuni nitrate and Cyanamid, Stott 110,0011; 'mined i.`ertilixers,. ali8ttt 26,000. I ERE'S HZAIiTH 411 Tim is trim to the tip Of his fingernails. Far looks, for health, He ought to clip Those character tell -tales. OTfAI TAINT Of NATIONAL MTALTM ANO WLLVAAI recently purchased a flouring mill at Cataract Falls and left for there a short time ago. • From The Huron Expositor • June 16, 1899 The old Bell residence at the Kippen Mills, built in 1835. just 65 years ago, is receiving a thorough overhauling at the hands of Pat- erson Bros., of Hensall. This house is a two-storey frame on stone foundation, and was built when this section was a forest, and Sea - tertbl l*t04 ai>d (ler" Were',,un- . l uown• ,. C.`• Greig is haling the foundatioli eatoavated for snejr reliidence Which he purposes' er. actin, on Gederich .St, 11Qr. P. Keating is doing an tine mense beeitiess in his lumber Yardi in town this season. It is expected that a special ea- cursion train will .be run from Ber- lin on Friday, bringing about 2.001 football eut'husiasts to witness the match between the Rangers a4 the Hurons at Seaforth. The 3,3rdi Battalion Band will be present. The sawmill,, Of M"nnn Bros.., ail the 13th, concession of McKillop.. was completely destroyed' by ere on Sunday morning. There was no• insurance on the property destroYe ed. There were 117 tickets solid ,tit Brucefield station for Guelph en Tuesday for the excursion to the Experimental Farm. Charles McKenna returned to Dublin from Toronto on Saturday el ening last, having completed a. brilliant course at the University of Toronto, where he graduated with first-class honors and can now s}gn his name with an M.D. Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Robb, Sea - forth, spent a pleasant visit at •the home of Mr. and Mrs. Robt. Higley Tuckersmith. The sawmill at Brucefield nar- rowly escaped destruction by file Saturday evening of fast week. The men had finished their work and as John Kaiser wee driving past noticed the place to' be on fire. He summoned help and at once the fire was put out. Seen in the County Papers. Auxiliary Honors Two Members A special gathering of the Lad- ies' Auxiliary of the Legion was convened on Monday evening to honor two members who are mov- ing from town. They are Mrs. Lyle Brothers who is to live in Wrox- eter, and Mrs. Oliver Doll, who is moving to Hamilton. They were presented with parting gifts'and good wishes for success.' Lunch was served and a social time spent—Brussels Post. Principal Appointed The Public School Board has en- gaged Mervin H. Stephen, of Thorndale, as principal of Central School, to begin his duties here at the beginning of the fail term. --Goderlch Signal -Star, Donald Diehl, 9, believes he can show a lot of the seasoned fisher- men shermen .how to pull out big catches, no matter where he goes. For in- stance, nstance, this week he tried his luck in a two -foot hole in anotherwise very shallow drain on his father's. John Diehl's, farm on concession 4, Logan, hauling out a 13 -pound monster carp, 28 inches long The drain, known as Ahrens Drain, rims into the Bayfield river and that carp must have wandered up- stream during spring freshets when the ditches were deeper.— Mitchell Advocate. Exeter Theatre Sold The Exeter Theatre, known as the Leavitt's, Theatre, and which was built and operated by the Leavitt family, in recent years bby Mr. and Mrs. G. Cochrane, the lat- er being a member of this family. They have establisdhed and con- ducted a very fine and clean busi- ness, and have received a ^cod patronage as a conabequence. Their Mends ends willindeed miss them. The new proprietor is G. D. Thomson, of St. 'Marys, whom we wish much success. — Zurich Herald. • andPeter and Joan PARDON our pointing .. , with pride. But it's an event when the number of bank workers- passes orkerspasses the 40,000 mark—as it did last year. That's 65% more than before the war. It's an event, first, because it shows the increased use. of Canadian bank services .. More deposit accounts: now over seven million. More funds: customers' deposits now reach nearly seven - billion dollars. More services: to farmers; to personal and_ small-business borrowers; to war pensioners; to people receiving Family Allowances. a�• It's an event, too, because of the kind of men and women who have joined our ranks. Eager to get ahead,. they are finding in banking an interesting job, a challenging career. They can tell you how important privacy in banking is to the Canadian way of doing things. Going to your bank is not like having to deal with a state bureau --but that's how it would be under state monopoly. SPONSORED ,BY YOUR BANK_ •