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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
May 27, 1948
Page
9
Dehorning calves is unpleasant but can be done efficiently with caustic potassium within days of birth. A small amount applied to the horn button, with vaseline to guard surrounding skin, works for farms small and large alike. The rider on ranches with many calves uses paste or stick on each calf located during calving.
Oakville prepares a nomination for mayor to fill the vacancy created by the death of Mayor Alfred Whitaker. Gorion Perdue of the Oakville Rotary Club, former district governor, was elected Canadian Director of Rotary International at the 1948 Rio convention. Frederick Bethley of Toronto died after a fall from a 185-foot chimney at Ferro Enamels on Davia Street. Memorial services were held for the late Rev Herbert Lovering, former Trafalgar Circuit minister.
Milton arena prepares for new artificial ice installations as workers tear out sand covering the surface. In All Saints Anglican Church Milton Heights, Helen Larena McMullen and Robert John Coates wed in a ceremony led by Rev. G Hodder. Ronald A Galbraith, a Milton native, graduated with a Bachelor of Applied Science in Mechanical Engineering at Queen’s University Kingston. Charles Clubine, 18, escaped serious injury after slipping into a hopper at Milton Brick Co and being dug free with torches.
Gwendoline P Clarke writes of a mixed spring on Ginger Farm Ontario with patchy seeding but promising calf prospects. A blue calf died, five others thrive, while chickens flood markets. farmers seek profitable, low-cost poultry options amid high feed prices and low egg costs.
Ontario and Quebec communities mourn CBC radio figure Andrew David Clarke born 1882 in Grimsby who led Neighborly News for over eight years. He died May 19 in York Mills after a heart attack leaving widow Viola Dickens daughter Marie Theresa Clarke and son Frederick with granddaughter Diane in Toronto.
British Columbia fishers warn frozen salmon exports to the United States could drain local catches and cause a shortage. Ottawa struggles to fix tariff impacts on raw fish as U S duties raise prices for BC canners. Some salmon can still be sent south when frozen, but wider access may hurt supply.
Since fall 1947 Canadian dressed poultry exports to Belgium and Switzerland exceed a quarter million pounds. In early 1918 two carloads went to Switzerland and one to Belgium, about one hundred thousand pounds total. Dominion Agriculture reports an exporting plant has orders larger than it can fill, with shipments mostly eviscerated and wrapped, arriving in attractive condition.
Public auction conducted by W Coles at Acton on May 29 at 1 30 pm sells household items from E B Warrop including Chesterfield suite piano radio furniture bedding lamps kitchenware and small items cash terms no reserve Roy Hindley as auctioneer.
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