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Fe _ BEAUTIFUL Bt wd wa a Soe a TR GON IESE ig phone heed aS ¥ PORT PERRY, ONT, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21st, 1952 ~ 55s Fa ant SREY ot RPS TI | 3 eat Shan BE aa ed REIT HF 5 a 4 ony) AF at CD FEA PA UIE ew do pe 3 3 * $F ir AEF 3 » sZt > 4 DAE LFS a LB OE - p » - " g eo ¥ HECTARE CTF EA Bs STH EAT ES 4-3 JHE FLA EE A a rs 4 v en - abate Wl hid pe Sn ji James Glen MacMaster, aged 2; years, son of Dr. and Mrs. D. C. MacMaster, of Port Perry, an entry in the Beautiful Chjld Contest . r CHILD CONTEST There: will be a beautiful child contest for girls and boys ages ranging from infants to 9 years under the convenership of Mrs. Paul Chitel, to be held Tuesday, February 26th at the Armoiries, in Oshawa. : . Winning child will not only be judged on beauty, but also charm, health and expression. All pic- tures are being displayed at Osha- wa's downtown store windows and the prizes are five Loving Cups with name of child engraved. Second, third and honourable men- tion ribbons will be given. There will be a beautiful display the night of the bazaar at the Arm- ourieS. All children cannot win, but it is nice to have your child's picture up there with the others. © OSHAWA -- BEAUTIFUL CHILD CONTEST -- OSHAWA Vicki Francis Davison, aged 2 years daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Trevor Davison, of Oshawa--an entry. Tr Everyone will come and admire them on February 26th. Mothers of the winning children will re- ceive prizes, and have their pic- tures taken for the Newspapers. All pictures will he returned after the bazaar, sponsored by Hadas- sah, Mothers who are interest, please contact Mrs. I. Stein at 132M Port Perry. Judges will be Dr. King, i Pediatrician, Mayor Starr, of Oshawa, and Miss Dorothy Van Luven, head of the Art Class at Oshawa Collegiate. Doors will be open from 2.80 to 12 pm. There will be booths con- sisting of Pure Foods, Home Bak- ing, Manufacturing, Dolls, Re- freshments, White Elephant, and a Mammoth Bingo. Kveryone is welcome to attend. YOU CAN STILL GET IN MANY GRADES AND VARIETIES... ' I still have a few bushels of DeKalb 'Old Standby" variaties in some grades. They won't last long, so don't delay. See me today. R. N. HOGG, R.R.2, Uxbridge ROBERT SISSON, R.R.l, Bethany Blackstock Blackatock W. I. was held at the home of Mrs. T. Smith on Feb. -6th. A silence was observed res- pecting the death of King George VI and a prayer read by the Pre- pident, Mrs. Rahm, for the Queen and Royal family. Th roll eall was answered with a favorite .._ plece of poetry. The programme and lunch were in charge of Mrs. Murray Byers and her group. Mrs, Wm. Hooey gave an .interesting talk on "If you were First Lady" and Mrs. L. Byers conducted a quiz. Mrs. H. Hooey read a let- ter of thanks from the adopted "W. IL in England for the parcel sent for Christmas. The March meeting will be at the home 'of Mrs. Roy Taylor. 'Miss Catharine Hutton visited . her uncle and aunt at the parson- 'age over the week-end. A Bonspiel was held in the Arena on Tuesday afternoon and evening--a play off for the Cart- wright Curling Club members, with 48 taking part. Prizes were awarded. : Mr. and Mrs. BE. Dorrell went * on Friday to look after the home and property of Mr, and Mrs. Col- ETAT lacut, Bowmanville; who are tak- ing a short vacation in Florida. Mr. and Mrs. Collacut made the trip by air. Mrs. Fitze's sister Mrs. Mayes, Minnising with her daughter and her husband Mr. and Mrs. Cox; also Mr. and Mrs. Marshall Mayes, Burlington visited Mr. and Murs. Fitze on Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Fitze went on Sunday to Oshawa with Mr. and Mrs. G. Trewin who visited their son Ronald. Mr. and Mrs. Fitze vigited his brother Wilmer and his wife. Mr. and Mrs. A.' 3ailey left last week for Florida, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Marlow and Bill accom- panied them. : We were sorry to hear that Mr. Nelson Marlow spent several days last week in Bowmanville hospital for observations. . We hope that his condition is not serious. Congratulations to Gladys Em- erson, Nestleton, on receiving her cap, in Oshawa hospital where she is a nurse Mm training. We are glad to learn that Mrs. Wm. Steele is home again after a lengthy sojourn at Oshawa clinic. Mr. and Mrs. Art Ruston, Ham- ilton, visited her. parents Mr. and Eater ae area LL nae: Mrs. R. Ford over the week-end. Belfast, N. Ireland.--Tomorrow the youngest plowing team ever to repre- sent Canada in an international com- petition will match its skills against those of 125 of Europe's best, . The large entry here for the North- ern Ireland International Match is, I think, indicative of the increasing in- terest in plowing matches that we have met all through our trip. En- land, Norway, Holland, Eire, Wales, Scotland, England, Isle of Man, Ulster and of course, ourselves, Less than an hour ago I left the boys (Eugene Timbers and Norman Tyndall, practising on a nearby farm. They are both very confident, and I think their confidence increased when we found out that they were to be permitted to use Canadian type plows, instead of the English high-cut type. Through the death of King George VI has cast a heavy blanket of sorrow over the British Isles, it was decided not to cancel the match, but rather honour the wishes of Queen Elizabeth and pause only for the requested two minutes to mark the loss of a be- loved monarch, ' I only wish that I could hold this letter until late tomorrow night so that I could tell you the results of the mateh, but I am afraid that will have to wait until my next letter, which incidentally will be my last. The boys will be flying back to Can- ada on Saturday--and, [I hope, re- turning with another notch in their plowmen's shafts, 1 shall not return until a week later, due to government business, ) We arrived here yesterday morning, flying from Glasgow, where we spent an interesting five days. It was in Glasgow that I closed my last letter go I'll bring you up-to-date on the pleasant time we spent among the Scots. : + Early in our Scottish trip we drove to Perth for the Perth Aberdeen An- gus Sales. Nearly 700 shorthorn bulls were sold during the day, and it was with some measure of pride that we watched the second highest priced bull sold to Col. W. E. Phillips, of 'Oriole, Ont,, the well-known Toronto industrialist. He paid 6,100 guineas, something over $18,000 for a calf bred by J. E. Kerr, of Harristown Farm, CANADIAN PLOWMEN ABROAD by J. A. CARROLL Formerly Secretary Manager ) PLOWMEN'S ASSOCIATION tries have been received from Switzer- | ONTARIO Dollar, Scotland- = Another Toronto businessman, E. P. Taylor, paid 1700 guineas for a calf, and also bought two good females. For Mr. Kerr this year's was his 52nd' show and sale, | and it was a great pleasure for me to meet him and remind him of his fam- ily's kindness to me, when as a young soldier on furlough in 1917, I visited his home and herd. A breezy, "What are you doing hereé" in an unmistakably western Canada accent brought us face to face with Charlie Yule, of Calgary and Stampede fame, Up to this year, Charlie had been the only Canadian to judge shorthorns at the Perth show, and is well-known among Scots breed- ers. Another surprise was meeting Tom Amos of Guelph, Ont., in Cum- berland. He was visiting stock farms in the U.K. with an eye to bringing some of the best back to Canada. The high cost of living in the Brit- ish Isles haunts one like an unfriendly spectre wherever you go. At the Abérdeen sales I turned and asked a policeman if it was safe to smoke. He dourly answered: "Smoke on--if ye ean afford it!" And this point was well taken for smoking is a luxury under the heavy taxes of the "British. An ounce of tobacco coss about 60 cents, almost double what the same tobacco would Ia farm to rent, it was almost impos- a the British with a fortitude that is amazing to a stranger. We have heard no grumbling or firm com- plaints, though of course, the English still reserve the right-to occasionally; "blow their tops". When they have finished, however, they grin, and you Know they are ready for the .next round of eternal ration books and con- trols. ; : Making allowances. for rationing and other restrictions, it would seem from the quick glancé we have been able to.give the scene, that labour in general, and farmers- have seldom beenin a better position. : Farmers' costs are going up; feed concentrates are in sliort supply, and there are other problems, but a fair test is- whether farms are being sold at sacrifice prices. And they mest definitely are not. Land in Great Britain is expensive, running, 1 would judge, to about three times land cost in Ontario. " It is difficult' to find homesteads for rent. This has been true of all the countries we have visited, . In Den- mark, it was not only difficult to find sible to find one offered for sale-- at any price. In England, even the farmers agree that landlords are being squeezed by present controls. In Surrey, a county bordering London to the southeast, rents are not: paying more than one- half to one-third of one per cent. on capital. In Cornwall, rents are re- turning about one per cent. on invest- ment, Ld 7 of real estate on city men. They say city residents .are-buying all available rural real estate for four reasons: the first as a hedge against inflation; the second "as an income manoeuvre; the third as a move to evade succession duties, and fourth from a straight de- sire to live in the country. What we have seen would lead us to believed that this is ¢orrect. There seems to be little "desire on the part of British farmers to chimnge the present range of returns received for their products. It could be that their apparent indifference is because they feel they can do nothing about them and might just as well accept the situation. On the other hand it could be an indication that the British farmer is pleased with his present returned. i The situation is similar to that of the farmers in Sweden. © We gained the impression that dairy product prices were higher in Sweden than in Denmark and that the farmers were content with their returns. The in- fluence of the socialist Swedish state has spread to agriculture. IFory ex- ample in Sweden the price of milk is equalized so there is little difference in price of milk no matter for what purpose it is used. Farm labour in Sweden is unionized, with about 50,000 members and we were told wages were comparable to those paid industrial workers; aver- age about 40 cents an hour for cow- men and 3b5c. an hour for field work- ers. This, of course, did not include Farmers are blaming the high cost or health benefits. "concealed pay", such as free housing - I seemed to have wandered a little this 'week, sbut it is hard to discuss furming in one country in Europe without associating. or.comparing-it- with a neighbouring country. : It is time for ine to get back and see how Gene and Norman are making out with their borrowed equipment. By the time- you read this they will cither have added further laurels to their crowns Or given. better men a rood run for their money EE A a IMPERTAL ORDER DAUGHTERS OF THE EMPIRE PROVINCIAL CHAPTER OF ONTARIO Mrs. ©. M, Martin, Educational Secretary, Provincial Chapter of Ontario, Imperial Order. Daugh- ters of the Empire, has announced that in order to stimulate the art of short story writing, the Provin- cial Chapter is again offering two awards of $150.00 and $75.00 res- pectively for the best short stories submitted in competition. The contest, which is open -to writers, citizens of Canada, resi- dent in Ontario, closes April 30th,' 1952. Stories must be original and must .gqiot have been previously published. Manuseripts will be Judged by an LO.D.E. committee and Mr. B. K. Sandwell, former editor-in-chief, "Saturday Night". Contestants are advised not to submit any material without first obtaining printed conditions from the Provincial Chapter of Ontario, 1.LO.D.E., 168 Jackson: Street West, Hamilton, Ontario. OBSERVERS cost to buy in Canada, after an im- port duty has been paid. The attitude of many Englishmen towards the cost of tobacco was sum- med up in a comment one of thém|- made to me: "I can't cut down, so I cut it out." It is difficult to compare prices inl other fields without giving a false im- pression, for subsidies have a very marked impression on them. We asked a shopkeeper the price of Eng- lish cured bacon. He replied, '"Shock- ing." But it was less than 50 cents a pound, Hardly shocking to Cana- dians who "have paid considerably more than that for bacon. Controls and rationing are still se- vere particularly on pensioners and others who cannot get to restaurants for an additisnal meal, or who cannot afford to buy luxuries to bolster their | diet. . At home, we eat in one meal mote meat than an Englishman gets in a week. But through it all walk Ce Fb A Re a SSS women can release men for other dutice, CLERK-ACCOUNTANTS There's a service career for women... or Gi ve Women may be accepted for enrolment in any of the {oll DENT BE a ' Limited nunibers of women are being accepted now in the reaular service of the expanding Royal Canadian Air Force™ln the RCAF. there are many jobs especially-suited to the ability of women -- jobs from which valuable assistance. wing trades? FIGHTER CONTROL OPERATORS ¢ COMMUNICATIONS OPERATORS MEDICAL ASSISTANTS: TECHNICIANS + ARMAMENT TECHNICIANS + METEOROLOGICAL SUPPLY TECHNICIANS + SAFETY EQUIPMENT TECHNICIANS RADAR AL ASSISTANTS The women who are accepted into the R.C.AF., receive the same pay, rank and trade groupings as for airmen. To qualify, you must be single... "be between 18 and 29 . .. and have Grade. | 0 education or the equivalent, Veterans up to 40 years of age are eligible. See the Career Counsellor at your Nearest RC.AF. 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