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ORONO WEEKLY TIMES Vol. 2. No, 29. ORONO. ONT., THURSDAY, AUG. 11. 1938. Subscription, $1.25 Per Year Competition Is A Success In Its First Year Orono Well Represented In Prize Winners For Field Crop Competition # ---â€"---------â€" Hydro-Electric Power Commission Take Out $2,279.05 Profit For 1937 Judge Compliments Farmers On The Cleanliness Of Their Fields (Many farmers, no doubt, are anx- ious to hear the results of the Field Oop Competition held for the first time this year under the Durham 'Central • Agricultural (Society, and which was considered a success in ^every way by the Society. The com- petition, this year was for early oats, â- â€œAlaska.” The judge remarked when in the neighborhood that he had seldom ever seen such clean fields, and his only «criticism was, that in some cases the «competition plots were not sufficiently well divided from other crops. The results are in the following or- der, the first eight being in the money in the order shown : 1. Alfred H. All in, Bowmanville. 2. Oh as. E. Osborne, Bowmanville It.-R. Ho; 2. S. Fred Brimaco-mbe, Orono R, R. North. 4. A. J. Tamblyn, Orono B. R. North. 5. Arthur N. A unis, Tyrone. 6. Garnett. Rickard, Bowmanville. 7. Milton W. (Staples, Orono. S. Carl Billings, Orono R. R. North, f. Russell Osborne, Newcastle. 10. ’Maurice J. Raker, Enniskillen. - Hi Gordon Brent, Bowmanville, R. It. No. 5. 12. 0. Cowan, Orono K. R. No. 1. 13. J .1). Brown, Orono R. R. North. 44. C. A. Blanchard & iSon, Hamp- ton. 15. A. E. Morton, Kendal. 16. W. D. Oarruthers, Bowmanville. Congratulations: are due the win- ners and all who tried, for their ef- forts to improve varieties grown in this area. , NATIONAL REVENUE UP $15,000,000 For a fiscal year in which the Min- ister of Finance estimated a deficit of $35,000,000 the national balance sheet so far is showing up favorably.! To -the end of July the financial statement will show revenues about $15,000,000! iup in four months of the fiscal year compare with the corres- ponding period last year. The total is well over $200,000,000. 'hicoiib- 'taxes contributed about $106,000,009 and the bulk -of them is, now paid, August 1st being the time limit. There • are always- some delin- quent payments, ho-wover. Expenditures, around $175,000,000 in the four months, -are under the corresponding period, but this is no criterion of the year since the lar- ger -public works authorized by Par- liament, had hardly been -started in July. Gee il G. Barnes, Toronto car parts salesman, whose truck upset at Dean’s Gofrner early Thursday morning, July 22nd, -about two miles south of Orono, and who disappeared af ter -the accident and thought to have met with foul play, but later turned up at home in Toronto, appeared in Bow- numville police court on Friday of last week charged with reckless driv- ing -and failing to report an accident. IL. -Mason, counsel for defense, told the court he had not had sufficient time to prepare the case, but accused was ready to plead guilty to one Insects Oust Family From Home Southwest Section Oshawa Threatened By Tawny Horde -Driven from his -little house on Thomas street, Oshawa, Fred Mar- shall. his wife and two sons are en- trenched in a -sheetiron lean-to at the rear of the garden- a-s thousands of in- sects resembling albino crickets have taken possession of the building and threaten the district, The plague w-as first noticed about a month ago when- the -strange insects appeared around the Marshall h-o-use. They are believed to have spread from the city dump on Thomas St where they -abound in thousands-. Mr. Marshall -complained to the city offi- ces of the nuisance. Now the -plague threatens to envelop the entire south- west section of the icity. “They have driven us into the yard,” Mr. Marshall -stated. “There isn’t -a thing in the house that isn't touched by them. Our -clothing is ruined -and our furnishings are de- stroyed. The insects will eat any- thing they -come across and we have not a stitch between us that doesn’t bear the marks of their appetite.” The insects are tan, in color and range from -the size of a common house fly -to over an inch long. The bigger ones have transparent wings and can fly. The theory has been ad- vanced that the pests are -grasshop- pers, but -they have al-1 the .'character- istics of a -cricket. Hiding away in the daylight, they -came,out at dusk and continue their ravishing until da-wn. It is believed that the insects -are -earning from the city dump -and it is- expected that special w-ork -gangs from the city will begin a systematic clean- up of the dump with special poiston insecticide. While .at present it is restricted to on-ly the Marshall prop- erty it is- feared it will spread to sev- eral small farm's nearby. NEWT0NVILLE°12; ORONO 10 Orono girls journeyed to Newton- ville on Monday night and went down to defeat by the -close store of 12 to 10. Lillian Fowler and Alice Me Isaac handled Tie m-ound duties: for Orono while E. Bellamy and Audrey Brown hurled for the Nbwto-nlville girls. Home runs were made, by Lillian Fowler. Olive Brown- and Helen -Case. Orono are at last showing improve- ment ini their play and in the last two games have held N ewc-astle and Newt-onville to close stores,- and in these two games probably an extra hit would have meant two wins in- stead -of loses. Watch these girls: -perform next year, they should by then be able to hold tlieir own with any team in the league. , court. Otherwise he asked for an ad- journment. Mason explained Barnes had suffer- ed loss o-f -memory from the shock of the - accident, and also some $130 had been stolen from the. cab of the truck. Provincial Officer John Willtty, Bowmswvfl-le, said his instructions were to proceed with both charges, and that the Crown was ready to go on. ,V - /• i / Magistrate C. F. -Rick granted an -adjournment of one wéekr'6' 12th OF JULY REPORT The following is the Statement of the committee on -the Twelfth of July -Celebration at Orono, 1938 : Receipts From Concession .... $ 12.00 From Concert $47.15, 2-3 share 31.45 From Dan-ce $ 91.62 Less 2 Orchestras.., , 82.50 59.12 From Peanut Vendor. .39 From Booths, receipts. $290.09 Cost of goods sold... 222.29 67.77 Contribution .... .. • 1.00 $171.73 Expenses Parade Prizes S 19.00 'Sports Prizes .... . . 22.73 Midland Regimental Band ... 40.00 Audition System 15.00 Advertising 31.00 Hydro Street; Light- ing 4.26 Decorations 21.221 Grounds 6.90 Incidentals 4.50- ------ 164.61 Balance on hand $ 7.12 KEITH BEALES DROWNS Keith Beales, five year old son of Mr, and Mrs. E. C. Beales, Toronto, lost his life in Lake Ontario on Tuesday afternoon at Symons Beach, Bo-w-rtian ville. According to police the child stepped into a boat and pushed off in an onshore breeze while his mother was bathing. Not until the boat had drifted a -considerable distance did Mrs. Beales see wha-t had happened. Her screams for help ah traeted Robert Robb of Centre Island, Toronto, who dashed into the water and: started to swim- toward the drift- ing craft. F. E. Case, also o-f Tor- onto, secured a boat but the heavy sea forced the men to return to shore and it is thought the child attempted to ùse the oars and fell out of the boat. Patrol Officer Pond and Seaman Hooper, .of the Toronto lifeguards, were forced to return home shortly after midnight after dra-gging opera- tions for several hours. Dragging operations were - suspended Tuesday night when a heavy wind -blew up forcing the searchers to abandon the quest. On the arrival of Provincial Con- stables Morris and Whitty of Bow- manville, diving was begun in 35 feet of water, but a heavy sea forced the searchers to retire. The boy’s father rushed to the scene in a ear with members of the Toronto: Fire Department, bringing with them a Banting inhaator. Durham Apple ' Growers’ Association was held in Newcastle Community Hall on Tuesday evening, July 26 th, to decide whether the three way trade agreement now underway between,Gt. Britain, the TJ.lS.A. -and: Canada, would effect in any way the interests of the apple growers of the United Counties. Mr. Findlay, President of the As- sociation, presided over the meeting and the matter for; consideration was introduced by Mr. Russell Osborne, vice-president of 1 the Association. L. H. Burrows, -Secretary of the Canadian Horticultural Council, re- viewed the history of trade’ agree- ments, preferential tariffs and cus- toms duties as affecting the interests of Canadian fruit and vegetable grow- ers. ; After considerable discussion it was decided that the apple producers of Eastern. Ontario earnestly request that no material change be made in the tariffs at present in. effect. The United (States are seeking for a re- duction. in present duties on -apples entering Canada, and also want to en- CREAMERY SPECIAL (Since this article was published in July 21st issue of the Orono Times, the Orono^ Creamery. has raised the prize money from $5.00 to $10.00, so a-s to a-void confusion, we reprint the special with the raised prize money. iSee (Section 646 of the Prize List. 25 libs. Churning Cream, $5.00, $3.00, iand $2.00, prizes awarded by the Orono Creamery. (To be judged by Departmental cream graders, cans will be supplied by Orono Creamery, who will pur- chase cream at market price on Fair Day, September 20th, and lift the cream from the Fair Grounds). .......oâ€"------ NEWCASTLE GETS REAL DRUBBING (By I Seymour Wyns) Newcastle’s entry in the Lakhs-hore League bowed gracefully out of the ’38 season last Wednesday, taking a 13â€"0 reverse at the hands of Bow- manville Rbyals in the rubber town. Bill Brunt, who handled the visitors pitching chore, was completely off color. Brunt gwe up eleven hits, five -being o-f the extra base variety, dur- ing his term of office. In thé 4th stanza, Shinny Moise releiv-od the big fellow and pitched excellent ball, allowing only three hits- and- three walks which were good for only,a sin- gle tally. Geo. Phillips, cocky port. sider for the homesters, -turned in a good chore, limiting the cellar occu- pants to but four safe blows, while sending eleven batsmen- back to the dugout with the strikeout tag at- tached. The Oordernnen had tlieir biggest outburst in the second frame, send- ing home no less than seven runs. Tallies to the total of two in the first, three in the third, and one in the fourth were added. Newcastle had runners as far as second in the first, sixth and seventh, but they got no further as. the Lefty was in complete control of the situa- tion. Tex Rickard kept up his splendid hitting record by garnering exactly half of his squad’s hits-, a double and a single. (Shin Moise and Sandy Graham obtained the other two. P Colville, likeable centre gardener for the Rubber boys, had a perfect day at hat, getting a double, triple and two walks. Cameron, 'Kent, and Bates were the only others to get more than one hit, each having two. Newcastle .0 0 0 0 0 9 0â€" 0 4 3 B-owmanv’e 2 7 3 1 0 0 xâ€"13 14 1 Brunt, Moise and Rickard; Phil- lips and Bates. Umpires â€" Trott and Tyson, Osh- ers now have on apples entering Great Britain, and the meeting instructed the officers of the Association to send a copy of this resolution to Prime Minister W, L. Mackenzie King, to each of the cabinet ministers, and to â- every federal* member of parliament representing fruit growing districts. It was also decided- that the Associa- tion Executive allot territories and organize a campaign to -secure signa- tures to the resolution arid; collect funds. Those addressing (he meeting were, W. F. Rickard, M.P.; Harry Sirett, Brighton ; Hr. Stanley, P. E-. County ; Irwin Oolwill, and M. H. iSta-ples, Orono, who reminded the meeting not to expect too much help from tariffs, and duties and that all business had -a ha-hit of -adapting itself to changes that were made. Mr, Fred Bowen, ex-M.P., brought to the attention of the meeting the part he along wi|h a committee of other farmer M.P.’s had had in se- curing present trade advantages now enjoyed, -by Canadian fruit growers-. Wheat Board Sets Price West Is Disappointed That The Price Is Not Higher The 1938-39 wheat crop of Western Canada will bring a minimum price of 80 cents per bush-el at Fort Wil- liam it was -announced on Friday last by Premier Mackenzie King. This price will he paid for No. 1 Northern (wheat. (Other -grades of wheat will have t’heir price determined on the basis of the above price as this has been fixed by the Federal Cabinet under the authority of the -Canadian Wheat Board Act. The minimum price of 80 -cents -was accepted by the Cabinet on advice of the- Wheat Board. “The policy o:f the Canadian Wheat Board will -not be to hoard wheat, nor to speculate upon it, nor to -seek to establish a monopoly,” the Prime Minister declared at a -press confer- ence. “-Canadian wheat will be mov- ed promptly to market.” It wiae evident from the Prime Minister’s remarks ’that fixing of the 80-cen-t price, which is slightly higher than the -current price, is a form, of compensating -adjustment for the Western farmer, whio has suffered greatly- in recent years be- cause of drought and Crop failures. This year, -however, there will be a -crop yield in the neighborhood of 300,000,000 bushels, -and it means at least $200,000,000 or -more to the West, depending upon the grading of the wheat. “All -circumstances were taken in- to -account in- fixing the price,” said Mr. King.- “A study was made of conditions in the West in recent years, and of world -conditions, and a survey was made of the Canadian tariff and the position -of Western Canada in relation- to Eastern Can- ada.” If the harvest weather remains reasonably good-, and if the farmers are spared1 more drought, hail, rust or grasshoppers, -they -should h-ave a more prosperous year this year than in the past five or -seven. Las-t year the pegged price of wheat was 87 1-2 cents, but it was a poorer -crop year. BENEFIT DANCE SUCCESSFUL EVENT :Jn every way, shape and form the -benefit dance held in. the Armouries on Friday night of last week for Harry Dav-ey, was a decided success. Tin the earlier part of the evening if l-oo-ked as if a very small turnout was going to he present, but as the night wore on cars kept coming into town and soon the Ball was- taxed to its capacity, being around t-wo hun- dred present. Galloway’s six-piece orchestra supplied the music for the ECon, R. J. Manion, new Federal Conservative Chieftain, will be op- posed in the South Waterloo by-elec- tion. by the South Waterloo Liberal Association, if he accents the proffer- ed Conservative nomination at Pres- ton, which the executive decided at a meeting on' Monday night. The Lib- eral Association felt that the riding -should be contested, irrespective, of who the Conservatives place in., the field. Karl K. Homouth, President of the South Waterloo Conservative Asso- ciation, unanimously tendered the e _____ To Lay NeW Sidewalk On Park Street To Fair Grounds Orono Police Trustee Board met on Wednesday, August 3rd in -the Era hall. All- th-e members were presen t, Gibson, Mercer and Riddell. The minutes of the last meeting were read and on motion of Mercer and Gibson, were approved as read. A communication was received from W. E. Davey, fire captain, re- questing that 100 feet of 2 1-2- inch hose ; and -also one from the Ontario Hydro Electric Power Commission, with a statement of the valuation- of the Orono system and ithe operation- of the Oron-o system for the year 1937, showing -a surplus over total cost of maintenance of $2,279.0-5. Mercer â€" Gibson â€" That the re- quest for hose be received and that all hose be tested in the presence of the Trustee Board at a time and date bo be set.â€"-Carried. Mercer â€"- Gib-son â€" That a copy of the letter received from the Hydro- Electric Power Commission of On- tario be given to the Orono -Chamber of Commerce.â€"Carried. Gibson â€" Mercer â€" That the in- specting trustee write to the Depart- - ment of Highways, Port Hope, re- questing that a representative meet the Police Trustee Board regarding certain improvements to he under- taken by the Board along the Provin- cial Highway.â€"Carried. Gibson â€" Mercer â€" That a side- walk be extended to the Flair Grounds on Park -Street and- also resurface the walk from the town hall, to Arm- strong’s stor-e on Main street.â€"Car- ried. Gibson â€" Mercer â€" That a repre- sentative from the -Ontario Hydro Electric Power Commission meet the Board of Police Trustees on a con- .vendent date to be arranged.-â€"Car- ried. Gibson â€" Riddell â€" That, the roof of the fire hall be given a coat of roofing material.â€"- Carried. The following accounts were order- ed paid : Smith and. Porter, policy on fire engine and equipment, $2,- 700.00, premium, $13.50. The meeting then adjourned. evening, which consisted of round and square dancing. The proceeds amounts to $142.-65 up to date -with all. expenses- paid, and it is certain more money will be turn- ed. in later. The public have responded nobly to this worthy cause and the commit- tee â-  in charge are deeply grateful for the -splendid response that was- shown. We all know that at this- time of the year all farmers- are busy with their harvest, but they also came through nobly to help along the good work that the committee undertook to- make a success. nomination to Dr. Manion on behalf of the Association, and hie reply is expected a,t any time whether he will accept or not. The Liberal, Association failed to nominate a candidate on Monday evening, but preparations -are placed in the Hands of Hon. N. O. Hipel and P. J. Flynn, Preston ; E-. D1, Hallman,, New Dundee ; C. K. Jansen, Galt; J. Courtney, lies pel er, and John Tay- lor, North Dumfries. The recent death of Hon. A. M, Edwards, Galt, necessitated the by- election. _. Cecil G. Barnes To Face Two Charges In Court charge if it was acceptable to the United Counties’ Growers Oppose Tariff Changes A meeting of the Northumberland- joy the preference the Ontario grow- Hon. R. J. Manion Offered South Waterloo By-Election