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Two COLBOHNE CHRONICLE ■ Thursday, January 1st, 1968 JOTS & THOUGHTS by A. N. Watson Agricultural Representative (intended for last week) SLOGAN -- A genius is a icackpot who gets a screwibal idea and makes it work. ARMCHAIR EDUCATION -- Education (by TV will ebe available Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, January 9th, 10th and 11th, between 10.30 and 11.30 a.im., when the Ontario Department of Agriculture & IFood, in Co-operation with the CIBC presents three special TV programs. Tuesday the 9th will feature Dairy, entitled the Fences are Coming Down. On Wednesday, the Beef Cow-Calf Operation wil be discussed under the title No Sacred Cows. On Thursday there will be a Swine program entitled A Beats C. This is the third year for these special bour-ong pro- I'ARM HELP -- Mr. John Krauter, Agricul-iture Manpower Development Officer with the Ontario Department of Agriculture and (Food, left on December 31st for the United Kingdom, where he wil interview prospective farm helpp who wis hto emigrate Ito Canada, because of the limited space at home and the lack of tope for expansion of their own operations. Most of the farm help whiohave come in the past years under this program have proved very sat- YEAR END REVIEW -- The end of the year seems to be the time to look back on events during that year and make New Year's resolutions for the next. This Centennial Year has been cn3 'of many activities, but from the agricultural standpoint we icould single out a few which have affected Norihn ..osrland County. Ln Janu-.. 169 farmers from the four Q^inte counties, including 4« fr^m Northumberland, started on an agricultural upgrading c u\se at BelevMe, for which they received an attendance alowanice. 166 finished the course in April and it was started again in the fall of '67 for a new group, this time expanded to include a course ait Peterborough. On April 1st, a Capital Grants program for structures and drainage came into effect and farmers have used this widely already this year. The program continues for another 11 years. The spring was cold, the early summer was wet, and farm operations were considerably (Relayed. The end of July saw a freak hailstorm south of Rice Lake which destroyed considerable crops in the county. In August, Miss Maria Battaglini of Warkkworth: won the Ontario Dairy Princess Competition, Thus summer a 44H exchange was (held with (Perth County for six 4-H members and this Ml each 4-JH member in the county received a special Centennial Plaque in releogni'tfan of their participation, in 4-H work during the year. HAPPY NEW YEAR -- This week's column completes two full years of the Jots and Thoughts for Northumberland Farmers as they come from the Agricultural Service Centre in (Brighton Our hope in 1968 is to keep bringing you ithese short items of news and information which may be of help to you. Our hope is for a happy and prosperous 1968 for all the farming community in Northumberland and the surrounding area. DIARY OF A VAGABOND by Dorothy Barker Happiness Is A Thing Called Home There are those Who might itJhiinlk J. Aiurel Rioux has everything a 'man could wish for. They Would probably be right, but Rioux deserves all the 'material things he is enjoying because of his own diligence and ingenuity. He Was born in BathurSt. New Brunswick, one of a large FrenChCanadian family. Even as a youngster he remembers his ambition to get somewhere. As he worked his way through to a civil engineering degree he became an expert bricklayer. This knowledge and the education he worked hard to obtain proved to foe the foundation for his Construction business now situated in Frederic-ton. This man is a doer, motivated by ideas, with a natural ability in the field of design, and he is an excellent builder. But this week's column is not so much about Rioux, as it is about the dream house he built for his wife, Marguerite. I have chosen to write about it because it is a natural human instinct for all of us to foe interested to another's abode. There have been homes before in the Rioux family history, but they were more or less standard in design and equipment. They hadn't presented the challenge of (creating something out of practically nothing. Not until a nursery and a small greenhouse with a brick packing house came on the 'market had Aurel satisfied his creative urge. Marguerite, an Irish lass who apppreciates her husband's visionary ability, was a lilttle, dismaye dat the prospects of giving up a practically new home to live with her children in the confusion of remodeling the gardener's cottage. Her reward was to see her lovely home emerge from rubble and piles of brick salvaged .from (the wrecking of St. Dun-stin's Rectory and Newman Hal in Fredericton. There were three greenhouses on the property of Golf Road, and Rioux's first act was to tear down -two of them and make a playroom of the third for his growing familyy. This is heated by the same installation which provides heat for an all-year-round swimming pool created in the wel-fouilt packing house. The entire design of tfils home has been to eliminate household1 drudgery. (Marguerite is a career woman, who has been with the New Brunswick government as a valued secretary for al of /their married life, with the exception of leave of absence to have her family. She has domestic help, Ibult she is a dedicated homebody. Perfect Planning The heart of this home is the kitchen and family room. Only an engineer with the in-spiratio nto make work easy for his wife could have created anything so lovely and at the same time completely ffiunotion-al. Marguerite loves to cook and in her new kitchen she has every concievalble convenience to inspire her gourmet talents. Though this may be a dream home for Ms wife, it is also a family tome for their own three children and an adopted niece. 'Rioux not only thinks big, he builds big. Nothing in the design of this home has been forgotten. There is even a circular stairway suspended between floors which is visible both from the 'foyer and the living room. Here, a Spanish THE BITE The restaurant trade, as anyone Urn it wil tell you at the drop of a crepe suzette, has sulffered agonies during 1967's economic squeezenand-freeze. In general, restaurateurs prefer to suffer in silence as far as the customer lis concerned. But one French eating house in London, Genevieve, favours the honest approach. On its menu alt offers this note to diners NJB. You are mow participating in helping to pay for 'the following: 'Company Wax, Corporation Tax, Customs and Excise Tax, income Tax /IPAYE Graduated Pension Contribution, Licence Duty, Import Duty, National Health Contribution, Purchase Tax, Profits Tax, Rates, Reduction in Investment Alowance, Selective Employment Tax, Surtax Surcharge, Water Rates, Wine and Spirits Tax, National Training Board Levy. From the remainder we pay our suppliers and somehow we manage to make a living. Last week, before the devalu-a, t £i lo n announcement, new menus were printed to add to the list: Short Fall'Tax, Distribution Tax (Schedule F), Short Term Gains Tax, Capital Gains Tax, Betterment Levy, Redundancy Fund 'Contribution, etc. . . ." •theme has been chosen. The Riouxs are divided at times in their furnishing tastes. Aurel is a nantique buff and Marguerite likes modern furniture. The Spanish idea was rather likek a Icompromise. They are both enjoying 'collecting" items for this room. Yesterday, an executive of the firm said, "We started with just a few items and we've kept on adding to them as the years have 'gone by. Now, with the devaluation announcement, it looks like we have to add even imiore." (From .the Daily Mirror of November 21, 1967.) AND IN CRAMAHE, 1864 'Of Course, there is really no comparison between the value of a dolar of more than 100 years ago and 'that of today, but it is interesting to look back at municipal finances as they were. Through the courtesy of Mr. Delbent Peebles, we are able to give figures direct from the Financial Statement of the Township of Cramahe from December 16th, 1893, to Deecmber 15th 1894. With (cash on hand $2761.27 at December 15th, 1893, the total receipts for the whole year amounted to $12,555.82, and expenditures $10, 686.04. Assets were: cash on hand $2,230.65, Taxes owing 6,008.95, Town Hal and fixtures $4,700.; totalling $12,939.60. 'Liabilities included: County Rate $1,304.00, School Grant 345.00, School Sections 4,386.60, S.S. No. 17 Debenture and Interest $1,326.00; a total of $7,301.60. Snow shovelling was not a costly affair, as no noe listed received more than $5.00 for his efforts; gravel for roads and lumber for bridges seems to have been the most frequent item of expenditure, with 100 loads of gravel costing $5.00 and 600 ft. of plank at $8.40. In the 'list of payyments for the keep of indigents appears an expenditure of $11.00 for keep and burial of one such charge. A coat for an indigent cost $2.50. Sheep damages for the year totalled $106.00. A new furnace for the Town Hall set the municipality back $190.00, and 50 cents was paid to have a horse removed. A Mke sum was spent for burying sheep. Reeve of the Township at that time was M. J. Doyle, and the treasurer was A. W. Drink-waiter. LEAD US NOT ... 'In mi'iM)ecember, 1967, a neat story about a parking tag was carried by a wire service, dateline Longview, Texas. The Ontario Safety League recognized it as an anecdote circulated in an OSL "Good Driver" press release, on October 19th, 1961. The League had quoted it from a report from England, and the origination may yhave been further back still. It1 is encouraging to know that a good story has so much vitality. Here is the story as circulated by OSL in 1961: A delegate to a convention in England left his car in a no-parking zone with this note on the windshield: "I have circled this block 20 times. I have an appointment to keep. Forgive us our trespasses." When he returned he found a reply from a courteous London policeman. "I've circled this block for 20 years. If I donU give you a ticket, I lose my job. Lead us not into temp-tationi." CUSTOM PRINTING LETTERHEADS ENVELOPES STATEMENTS BUSINESS CARDS CHEQUES TICKETS etc. Fast, Efficient Service at Competitive Prices Colborne Chronicle KING STREET, COLBORNE PHONE 355-2107