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questions amswbre6 ay trust tax officials mr k morris and mr f coop er trust and tax officers respec tively of toronto general trusts corporation conducted a question and answer session for the bramp ton life underwriters association at their- march 12th monthly meet ing the luncheon meeting was held in the banquet room oiifhe junction diner brampton the speakers introduced by ha rold long brampton expertly handled a wide variety of ques tions pertaining mainly to the new canadian estate tax act mr cooper advised the under writers of needed changes in the ontario succession duty act for desirable uniformity with the can adian tax act colin anderson oakvillc than ked the speakers we5crvice television all makes radios record players car radios appliances iixmf lomra ate will street ernies radio 24 years servicing triangto 71701 concrete foundations brick block work sidewalks new homes floors garages bill hamilton commercial industrial residential institutional hamilton construction every building need 8 reid court georgetown phone triangle 73480 farm n1ws weed control equipment displayed at trafalgar j a f farmers weed sprayer opera tors municipal sprayer operators and weed inspectors from hakdir wusmg 2 4d and other chemical wcnlworth and peel counties at tended a weed control day on wednesday march 25th at trafal gar thtrprogramme centred ar ound the use of chemical weed control the morning programme started oft with a demonstration by j orr of weed control equip ment used by trafalgar township included in this machinery was a multi purpose sprayer and a new reel type mower for cutting weeds along roadsides and waste areas the programme was sponsored by the halton soil and crop im provement association in cooper ation with the ontario vdept of agriculture halton county weed inspector vernon mcarthur acted as chairman for the day mr ken fallis of the crops branch of the ontario dept of agriculture was tht speaker fox the morning ses sion mr fallis outlined methods of weed control for roadsides and gave the recommended spray rec ommendations for 1959 two members of the staff of the ontario agricultural college headlined the afternoon session prof d clark of the agncultu ral engineering department de monstrated the use of sprayers and methods of sprayer calibra tion one of the biggest problems the farm sprayer operator has is printing service we are equipped to give you the finest in printing service at a price you will want to pay for the quality and attractiveness of a job well done you may be judged by your customers by the quality of your printed stationery we are at your service to plan your printing requirements letterheads envelopes invoices statements ruled forms posters dodgers business cards wedding invitations brochures catalogues folders ledger sheets sale catalogues admission tickets the georgetown herald a century of printing service 22 main street south tr 72201 to properly calibrate the amount of material applied per acre since chemical weed control must be handled in an exact manner the operator must find out the rate of application for his machine in order to apply accurate amounts of chumeal dr c d kelly of the dept of botany outlined the risks involved weed killers since these chcmi cals are harmful to cultivated crops care must be taken in spray ing dr kelly showed slides illu strating tht various types of crop damage that can be encountered several wetd sprayer and che mical companies were represented with displays of various types of equipment and spray material the programme concluded with a panel discussion on general pro blems in chemical wted control barbara maxwell wins in halton county weed control essay contest barbara maxwell of solders school trafalgar township was the winner in the 1938 halton county weed control essay can test the very successful contest which drew a total of ninety es says was judged first by teachers from the county s seven high schools to determine the top ten entries and these were judged by the field husbandry department of the oac guclph and barbara maxwell s essay given first prize carroll famell and ginny le of howard wngglcsworth school georgetown submitted the best local entries while in esquesing karen korzack of glen williams and susan brown of no 10 bs- quesing had their essays chosen ttrry hamilton of no 3 nasa gaweja had the top essay in his jiwnship the were all among the top ten a grade eight student barbara maxwell and her teacher mr canttlon receded their prizes at ihe wardens dinner at oakille she amazed the judges with this will written cntr my part in weed control in halton county have ou ever th usht about announce promotions at charters publishing sr charters r m charters president of charters publishing company lim itcd brampton and toronto has announced two executive appoint raents within the company sam uel r charters has been named assistant to the general manager man h charters is to be assistant to the sales manager s r charters first joined the company in 1939 following the outbreak of war he served over eas with the lome scots regi ment and was commanding offi cer of the regiment militia from ah charters 1954 to 1957 he has had a wide variety trf experience in all phas es of the printing trade on the practical side selling and in man agenal positions a h charters now rejoins the firm following his resignation as supervisor or public relations for the anglican church of canada he was formerly managing editor of a leading trade magazineand brings to his new position aiho rough knowledge of newspaper magazine and commercial print- ing planning and production saturday the 21st of march was the first day of spring would an j one care to join me in emit ting a bhort sardonic bark of lau aliur jiut try not to let it get awaj from ou and turn into a peal of maniacal mirth spring is birds and bunnies eas ter and daffodils babycarriages on bar sidewalks little girls skipping little boys getting wet to the tail the smell of mud the kcking off of overshoes the feel of warm wind and sun it is not the growling of an overworked secondhand stoker in its lair below stairs it is not the howling of a blizzard about the houii it is not the scowl in of a housewife just about at the ind of her tether nor is it four fiut of snow and ice piled since lulton county and its weed prob- against our from door km probahu not 1 know thai n year 1 simplv took wttdi fur granted i until approxinuul a wetk ago something went haywire this nhm our u at her hian to ta k var at least it did in this pari to us on this matter when one country we v had more larts to think abuut it one not th 12 onlj clearlj understands that wetds take away the beauty of the counrsidt but also ruin tht crops b sealing the moisture and minerals from more aluable plants and at the same timt b causing much suffering through ha fever ond asthma as their pol len is shed what a loil sight if one could go for a dne and sic nothing but trees flowers and lrten gras instead of fields of lock dandelions burdock u lid carrot and chicurv anont having seen parks must reiltzc that it is not impossihle to have wetdless areas of land the other da upon thinking senousl 1 btcame determined that i could do smulhmt about those aeerts no more must i gather a handful of the brown dock seed impl to scatur il thouthtkxsl to the f ur winds as i walk alwaj i must collect rj carefully the bui r thit 1 c tnili from m ct ini thai tho art burned nor is u a too idea to blow the old raj head of a velenn dandelion as i rojm the firm looking for ba b calves born on the range i must check for beginnings of poi ion ivy patches and an other un utual weeds so that my father can eradicate these before they become a menace to humanity and agricul lure it has never been work for me to pull weeeis from anumg the dowers and vegetables on dcw mornings because somehow i got a thrill in eliminating anything that destroys beauty or prosperity on our farm throughout my life i shall al ways lend support to my father s idea that land speculators must be forced to keep clear of weeds the farms that they are buying and leaving to lie idle all over hal ton county nexit summer i shall make the sweeping and burning of weed seeds from the barn floor and under the thresher part of my general farm work if i be come a little more proficient in tractor woik perhaps my father will allow me to do the summer fallowing so necessary in the kill ing of weeds on any welltilled farm also by next summer 1 should be able toiandle one of the smaller types of hand spray crs which would exterminate ma ny noxious weeds which appear on our lawn and in the corners under the shrubbery although weeds often have beautiful flowers we must rem ember that they arc still plants growing out of place and thus we must not sacrifice otherwise use ful space to them don t you think that if every school child did this much towards the eradication of weeds that a noticeable difference would soon become apparent in halton county i than 12 feet of snow and four months of solid winter without break even the old pioneers have ceased their claptrap about the big winter of ought twelve or what ever and admit ruefully that this one sure has been a corker fvervone is shabbv disgruntled and completely brassed off eld erl folk are holding their breaths fearful they won t make it this time until the sun warms their hones again fven the kids are surfeited with skating and horsing around in snowbanks and are ytt ting owher every da as for the average householder he s a wan shadow of his normal self he walks with a perpetual snow shovel stoop a perpetual cough racks his enfeebled frame he has nothing to show for the winter but the loss of his health and good nature ahead lie the scylla and chary bd is of a mon strous fuel bill and a poisonous income tax return the onl thing that kept some of us going through march was watching the cowards who spent the winter in florida arriving home all tanned and rested and busting to tell us what a grand winter they bad they got back to tind roofs caved in windows bro ken b icicles water pipes burst and a raging blizzard in progress vt cspeasants who had held the fort could scarce forbear to smile canadians should have differ ent calendar from other people one with 13 months on it that would give us chance to stay even with the rest of the world it would take that extra month to earn enough to pay our fuel bill if we cut all the months down to to 28 days like february w have enough left over to make that extra month it would also make november january and march three days shorter each which would put new heart into us but we d still have one da left over out of the 365 i would des ignate it under the new calcn ilar svstem as a national holida about the end of january it would be known as all flu s dav i would be a day for all canadian lo lake that full dav in bed which thev are supposed to do when the catch the flu and never have the t me to however don t sell a winter like this one short it is not a com plete loss for one thing it is a great moulder of rugged canad lamsm it makes us tough re- sourcefuljnd mean like new eng- landers anbod who hasn i had a heart attack has got tougher than a sitvctnt steak wielding that snow shov el resourcef ul i duln t know that i had it in me some of the things 1 ve done lake m broken cellar window lots of soft cas living people would have put a new glass in smartlj not me not this winter i ve got the opening blocked up as neat as ou please with an empty beer case held in place b one of those mas sive boulders left in my cellar by the excavators mean i can sit there at the kitchen window and watch my mo ther inlaw struggle over a four foot snow bank wade through foot of loose snow and nearly murder herself on the icy steps trying to get to the house with out stirring a finger or feeling a qualm well one of us has to give and i hope winter cracks before 1 do the kids eye me wanly these dajs the dog cowers when i approach but i didn t know how mean i was getting until i went out to chop some ice off the steps the other da went to come in and found my wufc had locked the door she wouldn t open it until i threw the axe into a snowdrift the georgetown herald wednesday april 1st 19sv farm news palermo juniors are winners halton county drama festival j a f the palermo junior farmers club entry bird on the wing by james reach was the winner of the three awards in this years halton junior fanners drama fes tival the palermo club was awar ded the w i dick trophy for the best play barbara pickard of pat ermo was the winner of the marga ret alice elliott trophy lor the best actress the j e whrtelock award for best actor was awarded to pal ermos bill kelly other members of the cast were phyllis murray barbara biggar mane marshall and bill marshall th play was under the direction of mrs evelyn oates in addition to the palermo entry the acton and norval junior far mers each had an entry the ac ton entry bobbie pulls up her socks was directed by beartha watson members of the cast in cluded mars early joy haywartc pat hitchon neil moffat jim mo- rosedale floral flowers for all occasions wedding work corsages a specialty cut flowers and funeral designs 32 albert st tr 72952 we wire flowers extra heat cat coats at oom by gemlnc more beat from the mm fuel wiih m smarts tbcraetbbe oil fired ahr conditioning unit the tocneotnbe actually crajw the beat f ream the oh and pat il into yoar kmne mowime lower coat see yeear smarts dealer for the loll atory and tart saving now on home heating rhthompson hardware oil gas heating hardware plumbing phone tr 72971 was under the direction of how son ruddell the cast included marilyn wrigglesworth barbara cunningham garth thomas ralph cunningham and douglas watson the drama festival is an annual event sponsored by the halton junior farmers association and ranks as one of the oldest estab lished county projects this year th festival was held in the nelson high school in burlington on fn day march 20th the adjudicator for the evening was mr don mckay of the guelph daily mercury at the conclusion of the plays mr mckay announ ced the results and gave an ap praisal of the performances mr george elliott presented the margaret alice elliott trophy to barbara pickard and the j e whitclock trophy to bill kelly chairman for the evenings pro gramme was sandy buchanan the newly appointed president of the halton junior partners associa tion au of the one act plays pre- monuments designs submitted cemetery lettering corner posts and markers a good display in stock brampton monument works wm c allan prop 68 queen st west brampton shop phones res gl 10445 gi 1 1613 rep tom nicol i phone brampton gl 13063 long hard highspeed driving ttotte 500 allnylon tubeless tire its 91 stronger avaiwife at harley motors 31 john it tr 72591 donald and george robinson w r have yon mailed your income i little fowl play was taw li- 1 seated this year wen comedies tax returns yet tie of the norval production and the palermo entry will compete in the zone semi finals to be held at the acton public school on fri day evening april lotfiv the win ner of the various zone finals will compete at the finals to be held m april at the ontario agricultu ral college guelphv interest in drama as junior farmer project has increased during the past few years previously a one evening programme was held as an inter- count festival last year the interceanty festival was increased to two evenings this yeara large entry made u nacamary to bold several aone feattvalt warn the winner competing la the finals