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THE COLBORNE CHRONICLE, Thursday, December 14th, 1961 BY DOROTHY BARKER Get Together Almost Falls Customs and traditions are collected by families like pictures in an album, family heirlooms, old silver or a squeaky rosewood chair that belonged to great-grandmother so a n d so. They hold a place of affection in the hearts of most family connections. Our pet custom is the family get-together on the birthday each year of our senior member. She lies propped on her pillows beneath the cretonned canopy of her bed, a pert pink ribbon confining her white curls, her shoulders swathed in yards of hand woven mohair, receiving her guests including grandsons and their wives, great grand children and their pets, toys and books lovingly proffered by the very young as amusements for our matriarch of many sum- ] mers. Because this date falls close to the festive season of Christmas we have another custom. At this time we exchange lists of gifts we would cherish. The children, old enough to write or print their desires, jot down requests for things reasonable and totally unreasonable. The women folk with hardly an exception list personal wants -- perfume, lingerie, gloves, hose; the exception being the homemaker in the younger of the two families who is still enamoured with the desire for fry pans that need no grease for cooking and do-dads for her coffee table. When I read this year's requests on No. 2 son's list I chuckled. He wanted, above all things, a bell from a steam engine, the request being beamed directly at the CN's Vagabond! He promised in writing that it would have a place of honour at his summer ?etreat. Never Too Late! This request was so unusual it reminds me of an acquaintance of mine who once asked for a saw for Christmas. Nothing so hilarious about this really, except that my friend was 88 years old and a mite of a woman four feet tall who, soaking wet, wouldn't weigh in at more than 90 pounds. She got her request and until the last days of her active life, that stretched into her middle nineties, she found endless uses for her gift. These were the sort of rei iscences that travelled through my mind as T. cut up sandwiches, arranged the relish dishes and added the last candle to the birthday cake. In the excitement of first meeting I had forgotten Buffy, the orange kitten and certainly given no thought to the fact she had never seen a dog in " short lifetime. It was while I brewing the tea and mentally seeing Grandma Baycroft sawing suckers from her apple tree with her shiny new saw that all hell broke loose. Holly, the visiting children's dog was chasing Buffy over chesterfield and under tables, across beds and finally into the bathroom where the kitten took refuge in the toilet,1 choosing death by drowning! rather than he devoured by the jaws of a great bounding collie. Craving Satisfied The uproar subdued, dog tied j and cat dried, I returned to the! kitchen. There on the floor, sur-j rounded by half chewed birthday candles, smeared with icing | and looking as though she was J about to be horribly ill, was thei youngest member of the family group. Lori, just turned two, had | taken advantage of the confusion to satisfy her longing for sweets. | With grandmotherly secretive-ness I wiped her pudgy face and hands clean, scraped icing from her brand new pinafore, put my finger in her mouth and retriev-l ed the last stub of tallow and sat I her on the kitchen stool while 11 tried to figure out how I could j replace the cake and make it all; seem probable. In the cupboard was gold labeled and decorated with \ Christmas seals, a very special j gift from The Canadian National Railways to me because I would I not be vagabonding between De-! cember 18 and January 4 when | this now famous CN plum pud-] ding would be served aboard every passenger train to holiday travellers. There were recipes for both hard sauce and custard sauce printed on the label in French and English. While Lori watched, looking quite angelic but not the least repentant, I opened the can, whiffed the spicy aroma with an assured feeling, sliced it into servings for each member of the family, dabbed them with hard sauce, stuck a small candle in each rosette and announced supper. I triumphantly bore my lighted, fruit laden inspiration up the stairs accompanied by a retinue of four children singing, a little mixed up and completely out of tune, "Happy Birthday' the several requests on those family lists as easily as I did the crisis of a mutilated birthday cake intended to brighten the day of an 86-year-old invalid. Willing Workers The Misses Morrison, King St. E., opened their beautiful new home for the December meeting of the Willing Worker's of Old St. Andrew's Church, with a good attendance. * The 1st Vice President, Mrs. G. Hollingsworth opened the meeting and called on Mrs. F. Little to read the Scripture Revelations, 22nd chapter, this chapter being a prayer. Minutes of the last meeting were read by the Secretary, Mrs. E. Broomfield, who moved the adoption and was seconded by Ella I. Philp. Mrs. McManus, Treasurer, gave her financial report which was very gratifying. The Tea and Bazaar this year proved a big success and realized considerable over last year. Letters of thanks were read for cards and flowers and fruit sent to sick and shut-ins. Also a nice letter from the Calberry family for gift sent them on their Golden Wedding Anniversary. A letter was also read from Mr. Frank Little from Newtonbrook Convalescent Hospital thanking the Society for the cards, fruit, etc. sent him while he has been in three different hospitals. It was' moved that we send as usual Christmas boxes to the sick and shut-ins and the boxes to be filled Christmas week. Mrs. Hollingsworth then asked Mrs. Bruce Rutherford if she would act as chairlady for the election of officers for the coming year. The officers elected are as follows: Hon. Pres, Mrs. J. Bell; Pres., Mrs. G. Hollingsworth; 1st Vice-Pres., Mrs. A. C. McGlennon; 2nd Vice Pres., Mrs. H. Bailey; Secretary, Mrs. Ida Davidson; Treasurer,"Mrs. Nor-een McManus; Assist. Sec. and Press Reporter, Mrs. Ella I. Philp. The r-ew officers were then installed by Mrs. Sayers. Our new President then took the chair and spoke very encouraging words regarding this year's work and hoping that the year 1962 would bring us good suc< She then thanked the Misses Morrison for opening their lovely home and delicious lunch was served and a social hour spent. XMAS STORE HOURS FOX IGA MARKET and COOK'S GROCETERIA WILL REMAIN OPEN Thursday, Friday & Saturday Dec. 21, 22 and 23rd until 9 o'clock p.m. WILL BE CLOSED Monday and Tuesday Christmas Day and Boxing Day The Bell Telephone Company has worked out an auction teletype system that apparently meets all these requirements. Many details of the plan have to be worked out but the idea is to establish between ten and fourteen marketing board offices throughout the province so that grading stations could have close contact. These offices would have teletype machines for buying -- the selling machine would be located at the central office in Toronto. Any individual buyers whose purchases warranted it could have a machine. It's estimated that about 18 buyers might want their own machines, and the marketing board would bear the cost unless the buyer doesn't purchase enough eggs* to warrant the board assuming the entire cost. With the maximum number of board offices having machines for use by the smaller buyers 14 -- and 18 individual h chines, the electronic system devised would be able to expand because it is designed to handle a total of 48 machines. Auction selling would be held for a limited number of hours per day -- it is suggested from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. During the off hours the machines would used to relay offerings to the central selling office in Toronto. When sales begin in the morning lots of eggs will be offered with the minimum offering of 100 cases presently suggested. Each lot will bear the registration number of the grading station so the buyer knows whose he's bidding on, the number of eggs, location, date of sale and date of delivery. This would able a grading station to offer eggs for sale in the morninj even though they weren't com pletely ready for delivery but the operator knew he would have thsm. Producers estimate the cost of the entire operation including teletype would be covered by 1V2% of the total sale price of all eggs sold -- 100 to 110 thousand cases per week. The marketing board would also set maximum handling charges for eggs and would standardize egg cartons so that all Ontario eggs sold through the board would be easily recognized by the consumer. Summing up the objective of the plan, president Robson said this was the association's attempt to salvage the egg business for the producers. Without a plan he felt the egg business might eventually fall under the control of a limited number of large scale operators or integrators. To-day's Tidbit: Look for the introduction of some kind of Farm Machinery Act in the Ontario legislature at the present CCM AL'S HARDWARE Furrow and Fallow by Fairbairn There was quite a lively meeting of poultry producers in Toronto last week. This was called to decide the next step in developing an egg marketing pi; and while there was no coi plete agreement the meeting did authorize the executive to circulate petitions among producers want a vote on a marketing pi, before the end of February, 1962, to determine how many Suggestions for a teletype auction method of sale were outlined and the general principles for a plan were presented, plan based on these principles would be developed by the Farm Products Marketing Board, according to president Tom Rob-son if 15% or more of the producers indicate they want a vote The general principles suggested by the board of directors of the Ontario Poultry Producers are that any plan must provide equal opportunities for selling to all producers and equal op-j portunities to purchase to all buyers, that all eggs must be bought and sold under the same conditions and all eggs, whether | loose or cartons must be sold through the marketing board. These would appear to meet the basic requirements of the OFPMB (the government board) for any marketing plan, i.e. all of the commodity must be offered to all buyers and all must have an opportunity to bid, the highest bidder gets the offerings and all sales must be recorded. Week-end Specials THURS, FRI., SAT. December 14, 15, 16 Golden Hour Chocolates ............ 1 lb- box 89c. Supreme Peanuts, Blanched............12 oz. 39c Supreme Peanuts, Salted ................ 12 oz. 33c. Mixed Nuts............................................49c. lb. Lucky Dollar Coffee, Yellow Label .... 61c. lb. Lucky Dollar Coffee, White Label .... 69c lb-Supreme Shortbreads ........................ 37c. pkg. Foil Wrap ........................................2 rolls 59c. Margene ............................................2 lbs. 57c. Grapefruit Juice........................48 oz. tin 31c. Libby Fruit Cocktail, 15 oz.............2 tins 49c Saltines, Weston....................... 1 lb. pkg. 33c. Maple Leaf Lard................................2 lbs. 39c. Sultana Raisins ................................ 2 lbs. 53c. Sage or Poultry Seasoning ............ 2 rolls 25c. Almonds.................................... 3 oz. pkg. 25c Cherries, Marashino................ 6 oz. pkg. 27c. Saran Wrap................................................ 39c. Olives .......................................... 8 oz. jar 39c. Lucky Dollar Milk ........................ 7 tins $1.00 Garden Patch Kernel Corn............ 6 tins 99c Lucky Dollar Instant Coffee........8 oz. jar 99c- Tangerines............................................35c. doz Brown'n serve Baconettes 8oz, 39* Leg of Lamb lb. 49* Turkey Legs lb. 49* Order Swift Butterball Turkeys for Christmas WATCH FOR HANDBILLS Cook's Groceteria Phone 56, Colborne WE DELIVER