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the acton free press acton ontario thursday april 2nd ims shlpwrack in bottle slides of mexico shown to juniors the regular meeting of the acton junior farmers and junior insli tutc wastteld al ihe home or don matthews the bojs meeting was cecil a carr optometrist guelph i douglas si tel 1091 in chirgc of the president calvin sprov1 the business included the orgi ization at a farm machinery hub with the time ahd place left 1 1 hi committee to decide r n brown was guest speaker he suoki on the fiture in farming titer which i gencnl discussion followed ibout it the girls meeting wis hindled lln their business was selecting two dekgiles to the guelph con ference in april their gue t speaker wis miss eleanor cook rn who spoke on first aid at the joint meeting a euchre md dince was discussed this wis left to i committee to look after miss grmdley of the acton hirh school showed slides on her trip to mexico city a dainty lunch concluded the evening back in 1910 il took 35 mm houi to produce in icre of corn yield ing 26 bushels to day with mod crn machmerv the same acre pro ducing 36 bushels requires only 17 man hours uptmu at canada salada tea bags i i i the office of the acton public utilities will be closed from thursday april 2nd at 5 pm to monday april 6th at 9 am this closing is necessary to allow for redecorating of the office editors note roy shiver of finch ont past president of ontario plowmen b association accomp anfed douglas s reld of bramp ton ont and algie wallace of north cower ont canada 8 champion plowmen on their trip to the british isles eire and france this is the second of a series of five wekly articles he has written as team manager about their expeiltnces and pm press ions by roy shaver fame l uihcd us ikctinifly lale in november whin we were slay ing at the greshnm hotel in dublin and for a brief minute or so it looked as if canada s champion plowmen and their teim mimign were going to be called lo another md more glamorous careei registered with us at the gresh im was as the pluards around dublin cried the incendiary am crlcan blonde betty hutton and her party i must confess that the visit by doug reid of brampton ont champion trictor plowman algie wallace of north gower champion horhe plowmin and thilr team mamger ray shaver of finch on was rather ovrshad owed by this party th american group wis the reason for our new found fame if such it can be called iround the hotel ill day to catch glimpses of the glamorous miss hutton and one day as wl emerg ld onto th street in our tall whiti western hals we heard a shrill cry oh 1 ok there s miss hut tons cowboys though their legs werp not bowed in the trad itional lone stir stite manner doug md algic cirrlcd off their new roles with i fine air of non c balance however though we sat at the next table in the dining room we received no bids from miss hutton and so rccrossed the atlantic- a dairy farmers instead of cow pun chers soon after our return to canadi someone asked doug which pari of the trip he would choose if he were allowed it over again without hesitat ion he said the trip to ireland algie enthusiasti cally concurred their choice had nothing to do with miss hutton doug red it wasbecause as doug sud the irish really did us proud thil is not mcint to decry or belittle our re ccption elsewhere in the british isles far from it wherever we icnt we a ere algie wallace gencnl enthu johnny fixit n spang tha btrds 69n thstr hummtng about our famou firttcleu pftjmbarg you shouldnt call a plumber unless youre sure hes dependable youll find we are as de pendabte as any in town our work is guaranteed to satisfy our price moderate john calder plumbing heating evestroughing ek mod open arms i siv that the ith which we ere received speaks volumes the teams of camdnn plowmrn who made oil trip in previous vears the tcims that went before i us 1 ft wondirful impressions of canada ind canadian plowmen si 1 don t think it was because tht irlsh did an thing more j make us feel at home than anyone elt it wi just thil thej did it with gaelic zes thil l probably peculnr to irlhmen perhaps it was also that some of the hings we saw in ireland were uniqui ind idded i savor to th main diet of tht trip i without arguing the pros and cons or the ethics of gambling ind sweepstiki ill of us were verv m crested to see the headquarters of the famous irish hospitals sweepstakes it has been said thit more goes in prizes than is given to the hospitals but i know noth ing of that one thing i did not realise though was that the llvr h hoods of thousands of people are wrapped up in this gigantic entei prise in one vast room in the modern office building that house i the sw cepstakes w c saw 2 000 clcrk busily sorting and checking counterfoils names and addresses doug unmediatclv bought six tickets one for each members of his immediate famil including his two voung children he bought them even after mr sheen on ihe roan ager told us that each ticket has one chance in ten million of being drawn from the huge barrel in which the counterfoils are placed doug refused to be squashed by these odds and as he placed his counterfoils in the drum he grtn ned and said here comes numbe ten million i hope he s right he seemed so sure of his chanre that i began to wonder whether he and algie bad picked up some special information straight frorr ihe horses mouths earlier that dav we had visited the national stud of ireland and watched some of the finest horse flesh in th world put through its paces one horse roval charger was sih by the stud at oer 120000 which as algie remarked is a mightv lot of horse we saw many other famous horses the names of which am ashamed to say i have for gotten but then i am not a racing man touring in the british tales and eire is like stepping back into the pages of history i know we have our own history but apart from montreal and quebec it has al ways seemed to mo that we have never paid much attention to prws irvlng historical sites and places doug made a similar observation th day we vlslted a castle in ulster where once william of change hid lived we felt much ihe sime the night we attended i play in thit famous old playhouse ihe abbey theatre in fact one gels so imbued wilh this idci of living in the past that it is often quite a shock to come across mod rn hydro cleetnc phnts in ill we spent six d lys in north ind south ireland ind wc were sirry when the time cime far us to board the packet boat for liver pool however england soon pr duced its compensations for leaving the friendly irish and one of the first wis i visit to the shakespeare country at stntford on avon wc browsed iround the cqtlage of ann ilithawiy ind leined out of the casement window in mueh the minner thil filr ann wis sup posed to h ive done wh n she wis eourted by william shikespeire from ihe bard s country we slipped by cir through warwick shire and had ten in an old abbey castle we would liked to have hid time to have looked over his 700 year old structure but un fortumtely our schedule would no let us that night we had supper with the john camerons mrs cameron s father had lived in on id i for many ycirs and went over seis with the princess pats in the first world war the camerons lived in a 400 year old house with the delightful nime of tinkers hitch they had just had some restorition and rcdecoration tar md ml md the ancient oak beams gleamed w irmly in the electric light and i might add it was one f the few warm things about the h usi for u wis exceptionally difficult to heat however to an englishman that is nothing not hiving been bred on central heat ing perhips our more modern buildings have some compensations jiest outside cambridge we met mr e j shropshire an elderly firmer who 50 years ago had homcsteided at carmanmanitobi even yet he talks nostalgically o the prairie country though to day he his a very successful farm on which he raises fat caitle and large white hogs while visiting him w siw our first flint stone hous for that was what mr shropshire s firmhouse was bu it of some 400 jeirs igo h story igun ind i visi to the nnns of tht old ibboy al bury st edmunds where the fnglish birons guh red in 1214 t draft the maam chirti and then on t niwmirkel race track the oldest registered nop course in britain where hund reds of thoroughbreds are trained nd chirks i w if red iils reilm iwiy if there ls ever a competition fir ihi strangest firm on earth divid alston who lived nearby could legitimate expect to place within the first 10 for he shares his frun farm with i disu ed w dr me ongimlh he had 7 800 icr s but during the war the am encan airforce took over his firm and built an airdrome across 250 icres of his land still stretch the concrete runways the americans laid down and several other acres are taken up by hwgers one of which he uses as a store house and ranary the government won i release the land so mr alston is still farming between the ruwis transform village into thriving city alkitlmalbc a tliiv village on an inlet of the pacific ocean con structlon of ihe world a greatest aluminum smelting plant is under way hailing this project the header s digest reports that kltl mats 1030000 horsepower is ex ceeded by no other dam except the grand coulee and the striking dlf ference is that grand coulee was paid for by the us government whereas kttlmal is a private under taking aluminum is the sole pur pose of this hydroelectric titan many people may wonder why the worlds largest aluminum fnc tory is to be located in a remote canyon so navigable muee abve vaneuuver the answer is avail ability of hydroelectric power the thief nud nf aluminum making ig low cost electricity the electric powe r consumed to n duce the bauxite ore for one ton of alumlnui would inn thi average humi fur ikht yt nrs th kitlnint piojcct hns tl prion ni easily for cluap power falling water grand ci lei s html or drop of water is 350 f t kitimats will in 2 r ftt 10 urn s hlhhir thin nhkii til this s nsntimial drop was not produced bv nature nndv to be utih7td by mnn it is an adiuvi imnl endiud to frederick w kiuwstubb in limimir in british olumbi i s li pi of uinds and forests kmwslubl recogni7d the powir pou nt in 1 in a chain of five british columbia likts tin flow ft om tin i iki s was eastward but km wstubb saw that a small inrth en dim could nvirst the flow to tin west lln n in proposi d drllunj a tunnel ihrwifih th coast linage for ten miles from tahlsn the westerm sl lake ind pitching the w stern i nd of tin lunm 1 in a sharp i tio fnit di p to a puwerhoust en closid in uie mountain ilself this cavtrn ns long as five city blocks is now being hewn out of solid nlstlnvu merathe o ii ri i i tack purple dye rare was royal color win is purple not one of the colors chosen for this coronation nr the inswir is that purple is most frequentk used ceremonially as i mourning color black denotes mourning as well when used in a simihr wiv iwpver this allocation or purple and black as mourning colors is onl given by common usage there is nothing inherent m the colors themselves nor is the visual effect to limit them except when used with a design or occasion which suggests this restriction in china and some other parts of the east white is the color for mourning purple came to be known as a roval color many cen turies ago the dvc was so rare and so expensiv c that no one but a prince could afford to use it to- dav that situation has all been changed b modern chemistry the autos that clog our highwars the planes that cross our continents make finer transporaiion than could be foreseen bv ancient kings our textile adv ances and color range permit us to dress in finer garments than anc ent kings ever wore tradithmaltv purple suggests great richness silver and gold still suggest wealth but the colors gray and golden mar be used in manv other wajs without anv implication of wealth it i not so important what colors vou use as how vou use them color is modified bv design and applies tioh from tht powi rhouse will be tiansmitted via alui cabhs 411 miks nvi rl ind to the smtlur nt kitimnl kmwstuhbs plan long languish in j in govitnimnt fihs apjnaled to thi aluminum company of cana di alcins engineers checked and confirnnd knewstubbs calculations also they found that dep draught ocian freighters bringing ore from jimiica could safely navigate the channels hading to kitimnl the town of kltimat itself is b mi i ud nut with streets and stores hospitals schools and home siks the artick sas by 1954 when the first ingot is smelted the town will b in industri il community of 7 w0 people when the plant is optnl in j it capacity kilimat will have i populition of w0o0 and will be uie thud 1 irjesl city in b c no tubpentine sud the arlisl i ii give you five kllirs if youll let me punt you tin old mountainetr shifted h t h leco f r irrt c ne cheek 1 1 the otln r an i b ick inn us easy monev said th irtist thar hun t no question bout thit the mounlainccr npliid i wis jubt i w ndenn how id get th punt iff ifterwird actow moms and school association theatre night thursday apftlt 16 roxy theatre acton it grows on trees starring irene dunn tickets available through home and school association members poblic school children and al theatre box off adults 50c children isc acton taxi and snack bar masseyharris builds worlds first test track for power farming machines anolhar milestona in implement engineering progreu in 1962 manyhanfe took one of the longs forward atepi r taken by fairn moohinn mann- factmer toward the de of uum hvod battarparfornfing tronblefne madnnm far power farming maaasbanb boflt the workta fint ud acafe rm r ivat track when mh tractora oombmea and other farm machmea are be ing tested accurately and scwntmcally far vibration fatigdb ranstansa to shock n to water and dust stability on slopes cbmbmg power traction m mod steering torque weight chstribubon combined with practical field tests these scientific track tests coaduetad under controlled comparable conditiods are providing m harris engineers with the neceasaiy knowledge to i desqm m- crease durability and nnprove the performance of every mh i that rune on wheels masseyharris company limited makers of highquality aim implements since 1847