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Tiobacco acreage Orono Weekly Times, Wednesday, Ocolber 2, 1985- Museum drops in local area, Report The 1985 tobacco crop in the quota grown throughout 1 (Continued fri Durham and Nor- the province of 170 million September 27, thumberland has been pounds. Orono Arena.1 harvested, being one of the best crops in years. The John Finlay, the ministry Stapleton and Mi growers have been saved any of agriculture representative Coulson did af damage from hail or frost in Bowmanville has said the of aï gitýizatioiî this year. problem wth the tobacco i- crw 10f Butas he ro isin torge dustry is reflected by a steady and. eý,:arsTo But s te cop i instoàge decline in the number of acres 10(,:reTw at local farms within the two planted in Durham and Nor- enjoyed thems counties the price of the crop thumberîand. hîghlight was as bas flot been settled ta this the school, writi date. Usually this bas been There were 2000 acres Md Hloe agreed upon piior ta the planted this year and that and read by Mr. conipletion of harvest. compares with 3,61)0 in 1973. who added some The main portion of the )He said there were 200 dam erch foxnc tobacco market for area grawers in the area twenty- Chrismas reefo grawers rests with the five years ago. Today there Conritma.ref domestic market as the ex- are thirty. Mncr.Stpeo port arkeuto as rducvr Fnlay has said area tabac- Coulson asked t. the ear du ta w rod c C farmers have little choice ta put up a smal] tion casts in such cou ntries as in changing crops as the san- the occasion, Brazil and Zimbabwe. dy soil will flot sustain many photographs in p The domestic market has other plants. He also pointed teres-ted alI guest also decreased due ta anti- out that there seenis ta be a chance ýta bonr smoking campaigns and surplus of everything and this photos for copyir threats ta health. In fact one even includes potataes. the Museum's col tobacco campany recently Goeswn taat Mrs. Doreen LaN stated it may flot need any Gaeswn taat us her autagraph tabacco this er give them power ta, set up a coyn auas , is ear.national' marketing agency, toyingsufrlo Some estimate campanies which would contral produc- .tosynsfo wiil possibly require sartie tian and set prices, Several "Roses are Red 130 million pounds this fail heaings have already been Violets Blue which is a lower amount that field. When I peel oni< The town of Meaford i8 smack in the mWiddle of ap- pie country. Sheltered by the hulis of the Blue Moun- tains and the moderating waters of Georgian Bay, acres end acres of apples are grown in the ýsandy salI sur- rounding the area. And Meaford makes the most of its apple connec- tien. The "Big Apple" on'the main street has become a Iandmark. It's a red building about eight feet high shaped like an apple, and acts as a tourist information centre. In the Fait, there are fruit stands ail aiong the high- way which borders Georgian Bay, and there's an apple harvest festival complete with cider and apple pie. Meaford makes it clear ta visitors that the people are poetty proud of their apples. Apple country starts around nearby Thornbury about 10 miles west of Colirigwood. That's when you begin to see the orchards with their rows upon rows of ap- pie trees. 1 iearned quite a bit about Georgian Bay appies f romi a surprising source - a 15-year-old boy. Brent Almond is a high schooi student who is com- piling a history of the appie industry in and around Meaford. He went right ta the horse's mouth ta get his infor- mation - talking ta several families who have been life- long apple growers. In the 30's Georgian Bay apples were shîpped mostly ta Europe. But after Worid War Il, Europeans began ta grow their own apples and the bottom feIl oui of the export mrarket. Today, Meaford and Thornbury ship almost exclusively ta Canadian centres. There used ta be more than 40 varieties grown, now it's down ta just a few - mostiy Macintosh. Nevertheless, the Georgian Bay apple industry is stili a whopper of a business. Brent took me ouitet the Lambe farm on the high- way~ They have ail sorts of modem equipment for spray- ing, pruning and grading and -employ about 30 seasonai pickers from Jamaica. Usually they get the same pick- ers every year.. The off-shore workers have very comfortabîe quart- ers, and every dollar they make in this country doubles in value back home. 1 Ieft the Lambe farm chomping on one of the big red appies Mrs. Lambe gave me. As 1 drove back along the highway toward Collingwood, 1 began ta count ail the fruit stand signs. There was even a real estate de- veiopment called ApplejackHomes. They make sure you get the message. And ifs a good idea ta remember that when you're in apple country a Big Mac aîways means an apple - lust thatl 1 cry for you" "They stood oi porch Two lips were t ig] The father gavet And the bull-d rest.' One of the ar the Starkville Sel in the Museum cc the STRAP; one said he remembe ing longer. Well just the fact ever: bigger when y( childf, or, Miss S some inches offi rm page 3) held at the Mrs. Phyllis rs. Josephine first-rate job n, and the frmer pupils -mS.S. No. nship, really elves. The speech about ten by Mrs. 1) Stapleton, Dan Shutka, iof his awn iding an ail- ira perfect 'r the school )n and Mrs. the Museum dl display for ,and the particular in- ts. We got a .-rw several rig to add to Alection, and )wery loaned' à album for ;o Here are n i: ins, n the back ghtly pressed; the signal, Jog did the trtifacts from hool we had -ollection was ýof the men ýred it as be- 1, either it's rything Iooks ou were a Stewart wore 't. New Beer outiets (Cantinued frorn page 6) outiets ta corner stores would undermine current efforts be- ing made by gavernment agencies and community organizatians ta stemi the prabieni of alcoholi-nm which exists in today's society. He turther stated 'in his preamble ta the motion that many schools would be close ta the new outlets and this could cause abuses amongst senior students. Willsher said there now ex- ists adequate and reasonably controlled autlets in the pro- vince and that an expanded, network with increased open hours would again lead ta abuse. He alsa said it could lead ta increased cantrols being re- quired. Although most trustees agre ed ta the intent af Willsher's motion sanie said it wauid flot salve prablenis of alcohol abuse. Trustee John Carter of Coiborne said extended outlets would nat mean an in- crease in abuse. Bill Carman, Ward Three trustee questianed whether the school board could rightfully become involved in something that is reaiiy a social -issue. Stamps NiÀ by Larry Mclnnis Cape Triangular Stamp Is Root of Dealer's Success A single stamup design issued between 1853 and 1863 is credited with being the success story behind one of the largest stamp dealers in the warld -Stanley Gibbons. lt's the Cape Triangular. As 'the name would imply, it's a triangular stamp, the world's first, issued in 1853 for the British colony of Cape of Good Hope, which is now part of South Africa. (For the trivia-minded, the first stamp in the world picturing the founder of the Boy Scout movemnent, Robert Baden-Powell, was issued there April 9, 1900,. although he was a millitary officer at 'the tume.) Back ta the Cape Trian- gular, and back to a Young man who was one of the earliest ta be so bitten by the stamp bug that he wanted to make it his life's work. Stanley Edward Gibbons was bon in 1840, the year of the world's first adhesive postage stamp, now k nown as the Penny Black. By the age of 14, lie had a stamnp collection. Gibbons was the son of a chemist, which we naw cal a druggist. Between 1854 and 1859, he was deaing in stamps from a small por- tion of his father's store in Plymouth, and in 18,59 business had expanded sa much he had a roomn above the store, and had hired an employee. This was Iess than two decades after the first stamp, but still a few yvears away fromi his windfall. Between 18ý59 and 1863, fallowing his father's death, Gibbon's Stamlp business became greater than the drug store business, so hie sold the latter ta becomie a fuiltimie stamp dealer. The magie happened in 1863, as legend has it. One day tA sailors entered his 1Treville St. store in Plymouth and dumped a duffle bag of stamps anto a table. They said they had been on shore leave in Cape Town when they went toaa party. T hey wý,on the bag of stamps in a raffle. It boggies the mmid ta picture twa British sailors ashore in Cape -1owýn being, at an event that offered postage, stamnps as a raffle prize, but that's the story. lt's even more mmid- boggling ta consider these sailars taking their prize aboard ship, pratecting it carefully ail the way back ta the British seapant of Plymouth- but they did. Gibbons offered themn the equivalent of $25, a bout $10 today, but no doubt a princely sumn at the time. The stamps that wýere so cheap then --and Gibbons was selling thern by the grass (that's 144, folks) for pennies- are not sa cheap n ow. A one-penny red issued in 1861 -catalogues at $2 1,000 unused and S3,250 used (Scatt No. 7). There's even an errar, in a' four- penny red (Scott No. 9b) that catalogues at $ 100,000. 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