The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

i - gt A A SNE rn £72 woo ; TS ¥ I Hr =o Sa v oN AR SH ACA HIP CRRA LS LDR TO) Ear AN i= RIA EY. it Lyi 1964 4 -- PORT PERRY STAR, THURSDAY, JUNE 11th, Editorial Viewpoint June Is Dairy Month The Canadian dairy industry is a big industry. It is an important industry. More money goes into the pockets of Canadian farmers from the sale of products from their dairy herds than from any other farm com- modity, including wheat, in a normal crop year. farm cash income from milk and meat animals sold from dairy herds amounts to $800,000,000 annually, and repre- sents 25 per cent of the farm cash income from the sale of farm products. The total value of the products of the dairy industry at the retail level totals around one and one-half billion dollars annually. This vast industry has an effect on our whole Canadian economy. The impact of the pur- chases which the dairy farmer makes in the course of his normal farm operations are left in many other industries --the steel industry, the farm machinery industry, the fertilizer industry, the automobile industry and the feeds industry. His tax money gaes to education, to build and maintain better roads, to conservation projects. The farmer buys consumer goods much the same as does his city cousins. In addition, in his role as a businessman, he purchases millions of dollars worth of capital goods. The Canadian dairy industry is efficient. Continu- ing development of new technology makes it so. Some of the most notable examples of these new developments have been bulk handling of milk, new types of milking arrangements, improved breeding techniques and mech- anization of feeding and manure handling. All these changes have made it possible for the dairy farmer to make rapid strides in lowering the cost of producing milk. At the same time, large investments of capital, in- creased herd size and substantial re-organization on the farm have been necessary to take advantage of the bene- fits from these new developments. Milk production in Canada increased in 1963 for the eleventh consecutive year to reach a record 19.4 billion pounds. This represented a 16 per cent increase since 1943, when production was 16.7 billion pounds. The size of the national dairy herd has declined from 3,623 head in 1948 to 2,915 head in 1963, a decrease of 20 per cent. Only in the Province of Quebec did the size of the 1963 dairy herd exceed that of 1943. Canada's exports of dairy products, particularly cheese; have helped to balance our trade payments for more than a century. Back in 1875 we were exporting more cheese than we are today. Farm cheese was made in small quantities by the very early settlers and as early as 1764 Nova Scotia reported cheese exports. - By the 1880's cheese production was firmly estab- lished in Ontario and Quebec. In 1904 our cheese exports reached an all-time high of 234 million pounds, which has never been attained since. Our ports of dairy products last year amounted to more than $24.4 million in value. Over $8.8 million was in the form of Cheddar cheese to the United King- dom, and $7.4 million was attributed to whole milk powder to Venezuela." Skim milk powder shipments amounted to over $5 million and went to 53 different countries, in- cluding Cuba, the Far East, the Middle East and the Caribbean area. : Many authorities believe that we are reaching another milestone in the history of the Canadian dairy industry. It may be that our present pricing systems may have to be overhauled and that more emphasis must be placed on the solids-not-fat portion. of our milk, and less on the butterfat content. If such is the case, we may expect great changes in our selection of breeding stock, paying for milk, milk testing and milk pricing to the consumer. These changes like all changes in nature, may evolve ~ gradually or they may come very suddenly. Much will -9p JOWINSUOD 'uopjonpoard Altw Jo 1043] ay) uodn puadop mands, and forward thinking in the dairy industry itself. The Port Perry Star Co. Lid. Serving Port Perry, Brooklin and Surrounding Areas WM. T. HARRISON Editor P. HVIDSTEN, Publisher Member of the Ontario Weekly Newspaper Assoc. Member of the Canadian Weekly Newspaper Assoc. Published every Thursday by The Port Perry Star Co. Ltd., Port Perry, Ontario. Authorized as second class mail by the Post Office Department, Ottawa, and for payment of postage in cash, Subscription Rates: In Canada $2.50 per yr., 'Elsewhere, $8.00 per big Single Copy 7¢ Sth, iat TTF Vs ry TT ST TH Hl A RR Remember When?| Sugar 50 YEARS AGO June 10th, 1914 MANCHESTER -- A large number of delegates from Reach Township attended the Conser- vative Convention in Whitby last-Saturday. PORT PERRY--On Monday, June 8, 1914 a special meeting of the Town Council was held with all members present. A By-Law was passed forbidding children under 16 from loitering . on the street after the hour of 9 o'colck. Mr. Arthur Thomp- son was appointed Special Con- stable to enforce the provisions of the By-Law which goes into effect immediately, Cox ox # 25 YEARS AGO June 8th, 1939 "Improvement at the Water- front to begin .soon." Work to be done by Day Labor. Nego- tiations are completed for the making of improvements at the waterfront. Estimates have passed the House and it is ex- pected that work will begin within 2 or 3 weeks. A Gov- ernment project will be a land- ing slip built north of the wharf in front of the park, east of the power house. A re- taining wall and fill-in will run south from the main wharf. Filling material is to be sup- plied by the town but all load- 'ing, hauling and unloading is to be done by the Government, as much as possible by day labor. x x» 10 YEARS AGO June 10th, 1954 Oldest Native Born in Green- bank dies. On May 28 after a long illness, Robert Tyson Lee passed quietly away at his re- sidence. He was born in 1867 the year of Confederation and was in his 87th year. He was the youngest son of the late Roxina Harring- ton and Joseph Lee. His father was a well-known local circuit rider preacher of the early pioneer days. £ i > nd Spice | By BILL SMILEY . | ~ THE IMAGE HAS CHANGED As the school year draws towards its close, I can't help looking back on the past 10 months, my first hitch as head of the English department in our factory, with a mingling of amazement and amusement. I am amazed that I have not gone down for the third time in a sea of paper. There were times when I rose to the surface only long enough to gulp a breath of ink, before being swept under by another wave of essays, or book report forms, or memos. My amusement stems rom another source--the old-fash- ioned image of the English teacher. There just ain't no such thing as a modern image of same. For many years the image of the English teacher was fairly concrete. It was that of a wispy, gentle spinster of either sex, wholly dedicated to the written word. The only person in town who actually read poetry. Some kind of a nut who actually believed Shakespeare was thrilling theatre. When I hold up that image beside the galléry of characters who taught English in my department this year, I chortle. There isn't even the most remote resemblance. -Let's see; now. There's Jack, a vast young man of great good nature and courtly manner, who is a dead ringer for Henry VIII on one of the latter's good days. He's a beer drinker, a collector of antiques and a former advertising sales- man. There's Mac, a former golf pro. He's also an ex-bus driver, ex-house painter, ex-airman, He's an inveterate punster who writes some pretty funny stuff, 'As witness our production this year of his master-piece, "Julius Seize 'er", in which the principal character was Dr. Bladder from Gaul. 'There's Jeanette, five-foot-nothing, 98 pounds of doe-eyed French-Canadian, who spent the first six mofiths trying to convince the other teachers she was not one of the students, who can pin a six-foot 200-pound lout into 'paralyzed, petrified panic with one flash of those eyes. x There's Geoff, the young Englishman who came here after a year of teaching in a good English grammar school. He planned to spend a year in Canada, as a lark. He was horrified at the free-and-easy attitude of our teen-agers. He was ap- palled at our materialism and love of comfort. Now he has a car on the never-never plan, and is beefing about his salary. - In short, he's become a typical Canadian. We also have a gal who graduated in music, a former ambulance driver, an ex-chartered accountant, a dream-shat- tered social worker, and a lady who got sick of housekeeping. Not only do these birds not fit the old image of the English teacher; they don't fit the new one, either. There's not a beard in the bunch, an esthete in the ensemble, a pansy in the patch, And not one, thank goodness, is "dedicated" to the teach- ing of English. None shivers in ecstasy over a sonnet, bursts into tears over the beauty of an ode. But I daresay my poly- glot, hardworking erew has taught the kids more about English and about life than many an old gal whose idea of heaven was to make a journey to England and stand in reverence 'before the graves of the poets. ¥ FH We J AN ¥ dor Sx pak Sh #57 3 § ; ¥ 5 : EE TR LN RUD Si Sho LL CAEL EUS Ln ha irl . --- eT oe TONERS EEE EN