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Newspaper
Orono Weekly Times
Location
Orono, Ontario, Canada
Date
Apr 07, 1955
Page
7
The Ontario Farmers Union lauds producer controlled orderly marketing and cooperative marketing. It calls for abolition of government appointed boards and direct legislative establishment of marketing schemes elected by producers and supervised by the Agriculture Minister. It criticizes current boards for lacking marketing power and urges consumer representation through producer elected boards.
The Ontario Farmers Organization urges government to extend market powers to include marketing, processing, and price fixing. It proposes consumer representation on marketing boards and larger farm owned processing plants with government loans. The brief calls for an Ontario investigation into producer and consumer meat prices and potential grading abuses.
An old society contest forecasts radical shifts by A D 2000 across food, transport, housing, industry and medicine. It envisions a compulsory vegetarian diet, extinct land animals, ultra fast mail, auto pedestrian speed walks, elevated pavements, top deck bus boarding, plastic domes over cities, fluorescent walls for light, airlocked houses, sky advertisements, space property, hypnotism as pain relief, and clear medical wrappings for wounds.
A small dog named Benito waited for his master outside a Cesana di Campli classroom near Naples. When students and the teacher fainted from gas, Benito alerted the caretaker, who opened windows and saved the occupants. The doctor credited the dog with saving lives.
The article recounts Ray Chapman, Cleveland Indians shortstop, famed for the number two. On August 16, 1929, Chapman hit two doubles and was twice hit by a pitch, completing a cycle of twos. He died soon after from the pitched-ball injury.
Classified section lists baby chicks from Tweddle Hatcheries with many breeds and immediate delivery in Fergus Ontario. Also ads for Lincoln White Leghorns and Vespro Turkey Farms, plus farm machinery, seed grain, and a Beaver Valley real estate listing with land for sale near Lindsay Ontario.
In Cape Town dockyards two tugs towed the 82 year old Elsie Cam four miles offshore to be sunk by Vampire aircraft. Seven rats crawled aboard a neighboring trawler while workers rigged the tow and hours later the Elsie Cam sank, leaving puzzled sailors about the rats’ apparent omen.
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