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Port Perry Star, 4 Jul 1974, p. 18

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16 PORT PERRY STAR -- Thursday, July ath, 1974 New Deadlines Display Advertising: 3 PAL - MONDAY. Week of Publication Classified Advertising: Accounts of meetings, sports reports, ete. 6 P.M. - MONDAY, Week of Publication Watch for the Cereal Leaf Beetle - Repion farmers are ad- vised to check oat and barley fields for the presence of the cereal leaf beetle. Egg lay- ing in this area has probably peaked and larvae of various sizes are to be found. What to look for: Adult cereal leaf beetles are about 3-16 inch long and less than 3-32 inch wide. The wing covers and head are bluish black. The legs and arca just behind the head are reddish orange. Grown larvac are aboul the same length as the adults and look like slugs. On the Elect Joyce Bowerman Your Conservative Miember for Ontario Riding Joyce Bowerman is an active and en- thusiastic participant in community af- fairs. She now seeks your support at the polls on July 8th to be your representa- tive in a new Conservative government. Her recent election as the Oshawa area's Outstanding Young Canadian in a national Jaycee competition pays ade- quate testimony to her involvement with many community projects including her term as President of the Oshawa Wo- men's Welfare League and as area Chairman for Boy's Clubs of Canada. She has also held many responsible positions within political ranks and is presently serving as President of the Ontario Women's Progressive Conser- vative Association. Joyce, aformer schoolteacher, is a grad- uate of Ottawa Teachers' College and of McMaster University and is married to Dr. Derek Bowerman, an Oshawa prac- titioner. They live in the Whitby Town- ship area of Ontario Riding. - Good Government ' July 8 -- Vote to Restore Canada needs a new government -- a government with the dedication and de- cision to deal quickly and effectively with our many major problems. Today we face serious inflation, housing shortages, abuses of unemployment in- surance and runaway growth of govern- ment. Cost of living has gone out of control and there is a crushing burden of personal taxation on our people. The Trudeau government has proved it- self incapable of governing. There is a strong feeling in most of our country for a return to responsive and responsible government. Ontario Riding shares that concern. Canada needs a new look at Ottawa. Here in Ontario Riding we have the op- portunity to do something about it by electing Joyce Bowerman to a place in the Conservative government of Bob Stanfield. Qntario Riding Progressive Conservative Association leat they are brownish black and are covered with a moist mucus-like material. The epps can be found on the upper surface of cereal leaves near the mid vein. They are no bigger than the head of a pin, are yellow to black in colour, and are Wo usually laid singly or in rows of three or four. IFeeding damage appears as slits in or silvery lines on the cereal leaf, running from the tip to the base. Feeding at the economic level may kill plants, or so seriously damage the crop that har- vest is economically re- duced. : Damage reaches the econ- a | JA omic level when there are 2 g or 3 larvae per stem (6 to 9 per plant). Prompt control will help contain this pest. Alfalfa Weevil Larval feeding is at an advanced stage, with popu- lations varying through the county. Farmers are advised that cutting in infected fields should be commenced as soon as possible. Second growth should be inspected regularly for larval build up. Further. information and control of these two insects can be obtained from the Ministry of Agriculture and Food, Box 309, Uxbridge. "telephone 852-31 A Obituary Mrs. May Leask Mrs. May Leask passed away at the Community Memorial Hospital in Port Perry on June 17, 1974. She lived at 52 John Street, Port Perry. Born January 20, 1895, in" _the Claremont area, she was the younger daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Coultis. At an early' age she moved to Port Perry where she atten- ded both public and high schools. She received her teacher's training at Peter- borough Normal School and taught at Prince Albert,' Scugog Island, twice as welf as other places before marrying Harvey Real in 1925. when she resided on a farm east of Greenbank. After Mr. Real's death in 1941 she and her daughter Joan moved to the village of Greenbank and she went back teaching -at Bethel school (between Port Perry and Seagrave). She retired} - from the teaching profession when she married Edgar Lea-k in 1950 and moved to Port Perry almost next door to where she lived as a child. Next to her home and family. her greatest interest was church work, both in women's groups and teach- ing Sunday School. Mission Bank and Explorers etc. She - was a member of Port Perry United Church and a life member of Port Perry U.C.W. at the time of her death. Mrs. Leask is survived by her husband, Edgar Leask. daughter Joan (Mrs. Wes Lane) and three grandchild- ren Gerry, Carol and Jamie. She was predeceased by a ~ sister Gertrude (Mrs. W.F. Walker). The funeral service was held at MceDermott-Panaba- ker in Port Perry on June 20, 1974 at 2 p.m. with interment at Pine Grove Cemetry. Rev. Brawn conducted the service with the following relatives as pallbearers - Ray Me- Cully, David Brunton, Roy Jamieson, Geo. Stone. Charles Leask and Don Rorabeck. ny 3 STOR oss +.

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