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SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, AUGUST 12, 1965
Seaforth Grain History May Repeat
The days when more grain was
marketed in Seaforth than in any other
centre in Ontario were recalled this
week as Topnotch Feeds, Limited
brought into production new automa-
tic grain -handling facilities.
While it is true a market for area
grain has existed here for some years,
the new facilities make it possible to
handle all , kinds of grain, including
corn and beans, and at a rate•that will
attract many hundreds of thousands of
additional bushels to the Seaforth
market.
There are few, if any, still alive who
remember the hey -day of the grain
trade here. But even inthe days of
later generations after the new rail-
ways to the north had resulted in the
creation of alternative markets . and
the market here had fallen off, it was
not uncommon to see long lines of
teams in the mill areas waiting to un-
load.
Authority for the grain market title
which Seaforth held a hundred years
ago is Belden's Atlas of 1879.
Aftei describing the town and its
development, the unknown author went
on to relate how the presence here of
grain merchants ". . . soon gave ,it
an enviable reputation as a grain mar -4
ket, which it continued to Sustain, Jill
-the amount of wheat handled at this
point was estimated as greater (from
first producers) than at any point in
Ontario, not excepting Toronto. There
were single firms in the place who
haye handled over a million_dollars
worth of 'wheat at this point in one
season, and it was an everyday, occur- •
rence to see the streets filled with
teams from all points to the north for
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A Macduff Ottawa Report
Canada. Finds New Wheat Markets
a distance of fifty miles and upwards
—Brussels, Wroxeter, Gorrie, Paisley,
Walkerton, etc., finding an outlet for
the _chief staple of the country throggli-
the Seaforth merchants."
So it is that as a result 'of the present
development, history may well be on
the way to repeating itself.
The new grain handling facilities at
TopnotCh were built at a cost of $125,-
000. The expansion pints up the con-
tributions which local industries -make
to a communj,ty.
4Too often, perhaps, we think only in
terms of seeking out and assisting new
industries and fail to recognize that
under our noses are established busi-
ness places quietly going abollt their
affair, paying their way, asking no
concessions, but looking with con-
fidence to the future. '
'Topnotch is typical of those in this
category. Seaforthis the location of
the company's head office organization,
which supervises fourteen branch
plants and mills across Ontario. 'Per-
haps we take for granted the .helpful
activity and publicity which this gen-
erates tor/the town. , Perhaps , we fail.
to appreciate the extent to which com-
pany personnel accept their responsi-
bility as citizens of the tpwn and the
contribution they make in so many
areas of the community.
While it is true the firm is. among -
the largest taxpayers in Seaforth, it
is as a market and service centre that
it creates its greatest impact. Sea -
forth is surrounded by a prosperous
.agricultural area.. and, , any irnprp:vet,
mei t in or enlargement of the services
available here inevitably results in in-
creased benefits to the community as a
whole.
OTTAWA --Canada is close to the Wheat Board is an agency ide •and pig • iron. Canada sells
niaking large new wheat deals that operates to the best advan- to the Russians :wheat, sulphur,
with several European countries tage of the Western farmer. But
' that will step up considerably
'its exports in 1955-1966 and give
` the already expanding economy
another boost. •
But on this bright horizon,
there rooms a dark cloud that
appears to be growing larger;
that is the Strike among grain
handlers that has slowed the
movement of grain through the
Vancouver Ports.
The Government is making
every effort to try and get the
strike settled as soon as possible
The Pacific Coast ports are
heading for the biggest grain
movement 'in their history in
the next 12 months. Shipments
through those ports ill well
exceed the record 220,000,000
bushel mark set in 1963-64, if
the strike is soon ehded.
Russia, Communist Ching,
Czechoslovakia, Poland and Bul=
garia are all showing an inter,
est in taking large new supplies
, of wheat from Canada. The Can
adian Wheat Board has- found a
greateriiiterest in buying Cana-
dian wheat among , European
countries than ever before.
A Russian trade delegation ar-
rived in Canada the weekend of
August 1. Purpose of that mis-
sion is to explore the possibility
of developing increaseed trade
between Canada and the USSR.
Under the Canada -Russia trade
agreement, signed in April, 1963,
the Russians have only one year
left to complete that deal. In
the final year, April, 1985, to
Aril, 1966, the Russians are
committed to take 18,700,000
bushels of- wheat. But indica,
tions are that they will want
much more than that amount.
A difficulty however that
Canada has in making trade
deals with the Russians is that
the Russians 'cannot understand
the free - enterprise system un-
der which Canadian businesamen
operate. The USSR Government
is naturally annoyed that in the
Canada -Russian trade deals the
Russians always buy Much more
from Canada than Canadians buy
from the Russians, They fail to
SOS why the Canadian Govern-
ment cermet simply, ordet Cana-
dian businessmen to buy from
the USSR.
The Canadian' officials have
to try and explain the "freedom
of &Often to ,buy Where and
*hen, and what, the Canadian
Iitiabiearitiden *ante to buy. The
alanaltbrOglyetate control,
i direct elittOtO be made
•iada43Thoy ttliderattitid
jtt
they cannot comprehend our sys-
tem whereby a businessman
wanting furs for 'example can-
not be ordered to buy his furs
from Russia.
Major„exparts from Canada to
the USSR in 1963 amounted to
,$150,122,000. In 1964 because of
the huge wheat sales made to
iThssia the exports by Canada
soared to the record high of
$315,943,000. Major imports to
Canada from Russia have. total-
led $2,313,000 in 1963 and rose
to 'only 2,807,000 in 1964.
The Russian Government,
quite naturally, does not like
the tremendous imbalance there
is in the above figures. They
would like to see Canadian -Rus-
sian trade brought- closely into
balance.. '
Even though Canada and Rus-
sia are competitors in many ex-
port commedities , the Soviet
trade' officials believe there is
room. for the two countries to
work towards expanding mutual
trade.
Recently Prof. Ipolit I. Dymu-
len, writing in an issue of the
"Soviet Union Today" published
by the Russian Embassy in Can-
ada, said Canadian buyers and
business circles have an inade-
quate idea of Russian goods avail
able and the activities of Soviet
Foreign Trade associations. He
said it was a task for both sides
to extend such information.
He contended that many coun-
tries' With similar,. .economic
structures maintained brisk and
fast growing mutual trade. He
noted that the USSR exports
mining and drilling equipment,
metal and wood -Working mach-
ine tools, welding equipment and
hoisting mechanisms,'which Can-
ada buys from other countries.
In turn the Soviet would read-
ily buy many machines and items
of , equipment, manufactured in
Canada, such as equipment for
the mining,. paper and, pulp,
food and other industries. The
Rutsian professor forecast more
than a ,four -fold increase in Rus-
sian foreign trade in the next
two decades.
Soviet foreign trade. organiza-
tions spending.foreign currency
on the purchase of Canadian
goods, are interested in getting
it blick by sellingmore goods in
Canada. Ile urged' that the range
of goods purchased by Canadian
firms in the 'USSR be eXpand-
ed4artada imports Mira Russia
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In the Years Agone
From The Huron Expositor
August 13, 1915
Mr. ctarnet Wanless, Varna,
had the misfortune to have
three of his fingers badly bruis-
ed while working the slings
unloading hay. .
Hugh Gilmour, of Bruce -
field, had a bee to draw dirt to
fill the approach to his new
barn
A
wave of patriotism has
been sweeping over McKillop
during the past few days. A
canvass of . the various conces-
sions has been made and -near-
ly $150 collected for patriotic
werk:' The collectors were Mrs.
Alex Kerr, Mrs. Stephen God -
kin, J. J.. Irvine, Walter(David-
son, David Crawford and Eger -
tone Roe.
The following pupils' of Sea -
forth Collegiate Institute have
passed their Middle School ex-
axinations of entrance- into
normal school: Marjorie An:'
drews, Anne Archibald; Helen
Carswell (hon.), J. H. Chesney,
A. Crich, 11 Cumming, Erma
Freeman, A. Fisher, Archie
Hays, William Cleary, E. L
Harn, Harry Hinchley, Robert
G. Laird, Beatrice J. Larkin
(hon.), Marion H. Larkin, M.
Calista Malone, Edith McMich-.
ael, H. Clarissa Scott, M: -Snell
'(hon.), Ella Turnbull, Mabel
Turnbull, 'Margaret '
During an electrical storm,
the chimney on the residence
of Mr. William Edmunds, Gode-
rich St:, was struck by light-
ning and shattered.
The Bell Telephone Co. have
planted a -row of new poles on
the north side of John St. If
they would now, paint 'them,
their appearance would be
greatly improved.
Mr. Dougald Fotheringliam,
of Tuckersmith, has replaced
• the building burned last spring
sooacco, pure breo cattle, abra-
sive wheels and stones and min-
ing, oil and gas machinery parts.
The Communist Chinese Gov-
ernment is also known to be in-
terested in obtaining additional
supplies of wheat from Canada.
Arid it too would like to step
Up its sales of Chinese products
in Canada.
The Chinese just recently'con-
eluded a three year deal with
Canada under which it took. the
maximum quantity of wheat
.totalling 187,000,000 bushels.
The three year deal began on
August 1, 1963 and is not sched-
uled to be completed until the
end of July next year. The Chin-
ese are expected to 'soon enter
the market again to make wheat
purchases. The wheat sold to
China is shipped via the Pacific
Coast ports. Similarly much of
'the wheat going to Russia moves
out through the Pacific Coast.
That is why it is essential for
the farmers and the Govern-
ment, that strikes do not tie up
those ports.
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CAPITAL HILL CAPSULE
The Federal _aovetnment has
had to try and apply the brakes
to Canada's kidding boom to
slow it down before it pnehes
construction costs And-pi*es
sky high and brings on runaway
inflation. Prime Minister Pear-
son announce over the August
1-, Civic Holiday weekend that
his Government will defer fed-
eral construction projects in
Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa arid
Vancouver. Also in the category
of needing brakes applied are
Hamilton and Windsor, Winni-
peg, Calgary and EdniOnton.
Areas where no braking action
is required are located East of
Three Itiyers,-*Quebec and in
parts of the Prairie Provinces.
The Prime' Minister has appeal-
ed W other governments and
private business to cut back on
construction.
I
"My husband was' born on
the second hour of the second
day of the sedond month of,
the second year of this century,
the . second , child of a second
daughte; and a second son,"
the wife said.
"Has IN/umber Two been lucky
for hint?" his friend aske'd.
say this. Ue's come
out Seeond best • in everything
he' Oyer dM
by a new steel and metal struc-
ture, .which .is now completed
and ready for the crop. •
Mr. Robert McLaren, of Hen -
sail, recently sold a fine driv-
ing horse to Mr. Alex Sinclair,
of Kippen, at a good price.
Mr. T. G. Scott and his staff
are . busy painting the...Public
School building.
The 'local branch of the Red
Cross 'has shipped 168 towels,
78 pairs socks, .132 ,suits pyja-
mas, 126 hospital night shirts,
96, pocket handkerchiefs, . be-
sies a large number of sur-
gical supplies.
froni his horse while riding,
hut escaped with minor injur-
ies.
The opening chapter of "The
Canada Company and Anthony
Van Egmond," the story of 1837
in Huron, written by Wilfred
Brenton Kerr, 1VI.A., Ph.D., of
the University of Buffalo, ap-
pears,
Local swimmers will compete
'in a series of events at the
Lions pool. During the past
week nine more -beginners were
graduated to the .deeP pool.
These include Ronnie Knight,
Harold Knight, Joe Lauden-
bach,. Dave Muir, Maxine- Dun-
lop, Bill Trapnell, Jean Brown,
Ann Dupee and Ivan Beacom.
season.
Mr. Charles Mackay left last
,week for Toronto, where . he
takes his old place as assistant
secretary of the Industrial Com-
mittee, at the termination of
which he will again pursue his
studies at Trinity Medical
Col-
lege.
Mr. David Hay, of the %Sea -
forth and Bayfield stage line,
is having a busy time convey-
ing passengers and baggage to
,and from Bayfield, which is
rapidly , becoming a fashionable
and popular summer resort.
bast Saturday evening he' had
nine full-grown passengers, be-
sides five or six trunks and
other baggage from Brucefield
to Bayfield.
There was a flax pulling bee
From The Huron Expositor and -dance in the evening at
August 15, 1890 Lacklow McNeil's in the after -
The bridge over -the river at noon on Tuesday.
Bayfield is in a very poor On- 'Robert Thompson, 3rd con-
dition. While a'ntimber of cat- cession of Hay, shot within the
tle were going over it a few last few days two enormous
days ago, some of them broke cranes, which 'measured six
through and might have been feet from tip to tip.
severely injured, David Donovan, Seaforth, lost
One day last week when Mas- two valuable fat , steers this
ter Charlie Ferguson, of Bay- week on his farm in Tucker -
field, was playing around the smjth. In order to get away
river, he found and caught a• from the flies, four of them
large turtle. He noticed that burrowed their way . in be -
there was printing on the •shell fween a hay stack and the barn.
and it was found that the: date They couldn't return again and
1872 could readily be-seerr on -had to be - drawn- out 'with a
it. chain and a team, of , horses.
•
George Stanbury and E. Lo- Two of them .were dead, but
gan have opened a photograph the other two recovered.'
gallery next T. Cameron's and Mr. Andrew Govenlock, Win-.
"are busy taking tintypes. throp, had 50 acres of all
Mr. Peter Hawthorne, of the wheat this season which aver;
Hullett and McKillop boundary, aged ,40 bushels per acre. He
has shown- us a sample of two- purchased the seed last fall
rowed barley grown from and from Crich &Scott, seedsmen
processed from the Dominion of this town, at $1.50 per bush -
Department of 'Agriculture last el. •
spring, and which' was import- Mr. S. Barton has erected a
ed from the- Old Country. handsome and substantial iron
Mr. Robert Charters, of the fence in front of the residences
Mill Road, recently ,19 of Mr. C. Clarkson and Mr. W.
steers to Mr .R. Winter for $55 -D. Bright.
per head. Mr. Winter also pur- A gentleman travelling on
chased 18. steers from Mr. Robt. the Huron Road from Clinton
Beattie, iif McKillop; for $70 to Dublin counted no fewer
pet head. He has been ship- than 110 hay stacks within
ping t carload of cattle to the 'range of the eye in that dis-
Old Country .every week this tance.
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From The Huron Expositor
August 16, 1940
Mr. Alex McNab has been
awarded the contract for con-
veying the mail from Seaforth
post office to the CNR station.
The contract runs ,for four
years.
Louis Purcell, son ef Mr.
Thomas Purcell, Seaforth, will
singhis first solemn High
Mass in St. James' Church on
Sunday. He was ordained at St.
Basil's Church, Toronto.
A pleasant. evening was spent
at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Wright on North Main
St., when a number of their
friends presented them with a
welltfilled purse. Carman Row-
cliffe made the presentation and
Clifford Trott read* an address.
The Seaforth Red Cross is
richer by $14 as a result of
two events by local children
during° the past „week. A tea
was held on the lawn of J. M.
McMillan, netting $8.35. The
girls in charge were Pauline.
Matthews, Theresa O'Neill, Mar-
garet, JOan Hall, Mary Margar-
et
Cleary, Anne Eckert, Marie
Hiamell and Joanne McMillan.
The value of apple pies reach-
ed an all-time high when Louise
Case, Alice _lyiefver and Bud
SMith sold $5.65 worth of tick-
ets on a pie which had been
made by Mrs. P. IVIcIver. Geo.
Sills drew the ticket and the
pie was wen by Vera Mele. •
Principal G. A. Ballantyne
annotinced this week that all
Middle School certificates have
been mailed to the pupils. 'Win:
nifred Russell eecured the -high-
est standing on the year's work
in Grade XI, While Teresa Mc-
Iver headed' the students MI
rade X.
Dr. Vioulkes, of Dublin, met
141, tI eeldent when he fell
' ,"I bought him airisent for g-r-a-d-u-a-t•i-opnl"
Sugar and Spice
— By Bill Smiley — •
° NOW, BACK TO WORK
Some people say to me, "It
trust be quite a chore writin'
that there column every veek."
-The only difficulty is getting
started. • Tonight is column
night. Midnight is the deadline.
I sat down at the typewriter at
6.30, so I'd have lots of time to
watch TV after I wrote the col-
umn. I worked quietly until 8.30
Very •quietly. No noisy typewrit-
er.
Peeled mit pristine sheet with
interesting "Sugar ,.and
Spice, by Bjj1 Smiley", at the
top. Threw it in wastebasket.
Decided to mow lawn to relieve
mental constipation, Then had a
beer. Bundling magazines for
tomorrow's garbage, came
across - fascinating article on
Procrastination in the Middle-
aged Male. Helped Kim get
valves unstuck in French horn.
Moved water sprinkler on lawn.
Whipped up tea and grub for
television room gang. The Fugi-
tive is still running. Or re -run-
ning.
It's now 10.30. Time to get
cracking. But maybe I'll just
answer a few letter, to get in
the writing mood. There's noth-
ing that cheers .me up and in-
spires me like reading the
warm and friendly notes from
column readers.
Here's a nice fat one. Six
pages, .small writing. From
Miss Edna Wegman, "Dear Mr.
Smiley: Oh, you. poor little pyg-
my! My heart bleeds for you."
Woops, Let's try, the next para-
graph. "Now, after feeling sorry
for yourself and your fellow
males, for males they are and
not MEN, wake up and face
reality." Uh, maybe we'll leave
that one till tomorrow.
Here's one that looks friend-
lier. From a lady who says it's
not for publication. Just a
quote: "There's not a woman in
the world who doesn't consider
that her old man is the dope of
the earth." Well! Really! •
This one sounds better, "Dear
Bill: I'll call you Bill instead of
Mr. Smiley, seeing I always
thought of you as'a friend, that
is until your recent column in
which you were lambasting
women."
By George, a bad week.
Here's Linda Alton taking me
down a few pegs for knocking
the Beatles. She has me all
wrong. I love the Beatles. I
have to, in self-preservation, or
I'd go slavering mad every time
I drive the car with my kids in.
it.
Let's see. Here's a letter ad-
dressed to me, by Gwen Sar-
etsky. Good -old Gwen, She must
really like my column. She's
written about 1,000 'Words.
Hey, this is pretty good. She's
commenting on a recent column
in which I suggested that mod-
ern women had gone to pot,
while men, are the same stead-
fast, gallant chaps they were in
Julius Caesar's day. Gwen says:
"r1 wonder if Cleopatra ever had
to drive a chariot after one of
those Roman parties. There
would be an advantage to - a
chariot. The over -zealous party-
goer would get more air while
sprawled in an open ''chariot
than the modern male does
when his wife is driving home
from ft party and he has to re-
lax with his head out the win-
dow" Hmmm.
Talk about lambasting. A few
others, picked at random. "I
agree that man hasn't_ changed
much since Caesar's day; I
really don't believe that it's pos-
ible . . . It's against their mor-
al code to nick up, or hang up, a
piece of clothing . . . This spe-
cies of haman manages to con-
tradict itself more than any oth-
er of God's creatures . . . No-
body, is, was or ever could be,
as sick as a man with a cold." .
There!s a lot more .in the
same vein, so well written it's
like listening to my own wife.
But I haven't time to sympa-
thize with Mr. Saretsky right
now. I have a column to write.
THIS WEEK and NEXT
Classless Society?
By RAY ARGYLE
• One of the Popular myths of
Canadian Life — that this coun-
try is a classless society — has
taken quite a knocking about
lately. This is just as well, be-
cause it should be recognized by
everyone that Canada does have
sharp class -divisions.
A virtual class warfare has
been waged in Toronto this sum-
mer over subsidized public
housing. The episode has point-
ed up again the fact that while
we are prone to pay lip service
to the ideal of a classless socie-
ty, we really don't practise it.
The' Ontario Housing .Corp.,
which is. an agency of the pro-
vincial gqyernment, ',set the
stage for roud outbursts from
respectable, middle-class citie
zens by purchasing row housing
set amid the prosperous •suburbs
of Etobicoke and Scarboro.
The OHC then served notice
on present tenants that their
rents would be . boosted from
$150 to $250 to encourage them
to hastily move out. 'The OHC
plans to rent the developments
— and one happens to include
'Honey,
candy or
flyer for
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wouldn't "a box of
O. potted plant be
mother's birthday?"
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that holiest of status symbols, a
swimming pool .to lower in-
come families.
• Rents will range from '$50 a
month for families earning $189
a month or less, to $111' for
those making the maximum al-
lowed
salary of $375 monthly.
. (Five million Canadians. are . in
fainiliel earning less than this).
It could reasonably be argued
that the OHC -should be building
new".units instead of disturbing
settled residents, although the
agency claims it was able to
buy them at $1,000 per unit less
than it would cost to build new
ones.
But the blunt fact of the case
has been that owners of nearby
homes don't want subsidized
public housing in their, districts
under any circumstances.
They've .complained this will
lower property values . (a line
started by real estate agents to
soften up the market); that it
will overtax pchool and other
public facilities (although there
won't be any more people living
in the area than before); and
that the development will be
filled with welfare families (al -
through the OHC is very -careful
about achieving a social balance
among the families it ,puts in
any one project.)
It has been clearly evident .
throughout the controversey that
most middle-class suburbanites
would prefer lower income fam-
ilies to be confined to the slum
and semi -slum areas of down-.
town Toronto.
The "tradedy of such' an atti-
tude is that it effectively blocks
ethieety.ch
one hope whi'Canada has
of upgrading all levels of our so -
Canada and the United States
are the 'werld's outstanding ex -
staples of a materialistic chits
sooiety — where income and
possessions determine pile's ate-
tus in life. This is in contrast
with the traditional class society
of Britian whereby parentage
and background 4s,,more impor-
tant than ineorne Wan individ-
ual's class position.
If our society is .tobe vibrant
and expanding, howeVer, there
_must be room for upward mobil-
ity. Children must be able to as-
pire andto achieve a better sta-
tus in life than their parents.
Public (housing can play an
important role here by giving
the children of lower-income
families a b'etter environment
during their formative years.
•Purther hard evidence of Can-
ada's
still -rigid class lines has
come in the publication by the
University of Toronto' of a book (.*
entitled The Vertical Mosaic.
This beak, by sociology
pro-
fesso'r Jiihn Porter, 'proves what
we've always suspected — that
there'd not 'much room at the
t6p unless you happen to be
belt there. •
The Vertical Mosaic reveals
that Canada is "run" by an eco- °
nomad elite of 760 businessmen.
Of ' these, only silt are Jewish
and' 51 French Canadian. The
rest are Protestant, of British
descent, fiein well-to-do taint -
lies who put their sans through .
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