48 1 sb SR

sub contracts let te Inman the plant ts @ $17,000 emoke- Greck, was fined 910 end costs Feoting and’ Mecting, Gorey |hesee cata tne rove Illegall ‘tor person to dri |Elecere ‘and Curran and Briggs. \equipment which is . on 2 Drove Ys iho Gidu't bald en aperoier's Io

Was Fined $50

ONE OF THE many rooms ween in the Judson Packers "Plant, which will be offieialty {opened Saturday afternoon at

2 p.m. in Summerside is a cooling room where carcasses of hogs and beef, slaughtered during day, are placed over-

F4 *

ta

night. Plant superintendent Elmer Moore checks some of the carcasses in the room.

storage area, was finally ready for occupancey on June this year. | With the increased space and ithe addition of several meat pro- jducts, additional staff had to be jtaken on and at the moment the firm employs 18 persons, includ. jing two salesmen, Peter Green |of Summerside and Bob Shea of |\Kinkora, who sell the pany’s products from Souris to Tignish. With the new packing plant, Mr. Judson ¢ name from Isla jto Judson Packers “because we were no longer provisioners but packers.” ;

With the two’ salesmen work-

“Green Gables” products gaining fast in popularity.

Some of the products process- ed and handled by the firm are

are

'|bacon, bologna, sausages, fried

chicken, barbeque chicken, pic-

and “all fresh port cuts.

Judson Packers are also dis- tributors for Burns Foods Lid. which carries a complete line of

packing house products. . Plant superintendent is Elmer Moore wi Ken MacEwen is

' |new product development man-

ager. Office Set manager is Peter

FEATURE MACHINE One of the feature machines in

1 of

the firm's | Provisioners | rooms in the building as well as

* |nic hams (smoked), cottage ro + |(cooked hams), beef nn

700 square feet in the basement smoke. The smokeshouse {s also |

|used for steaming and showering ithe products and all this process is completely automatic.

The machine is capable of pro- cessing up to 500 smoked picnic , hams in a four hour period and inside the air is completely Changed ten times every minute.

Referring to the cleanliness as- pect of the.operation, Mr. Judson

touches the meat during the var- ious phases of production is made of stainless steel

There are

= Gcesccee= Advise Caretul Selling

five refrigerator

|a cooling room where slaughter.

jed hogs and beef are placed over

night. The animals are slaughtered at

ing across the Island the firm’s|Farm Enterprises Abattoir, situ-

jated in a building adjoining the | plant. Following this the car- jcasses are wheeled from the abattoir on an overhead rail into the plant where the meat is pro- cessed.

This. is an expanding bust- ness and Mr. Judson hopes to produce additional meat pro- ducts as time goes on.

FLOWERS REPLACE HORSE CHESHAM, England (CP)— The town council of this Buck- inghamshire community bowed to public pressure and agreed not to remove the old horse drinking-trough in the main street. Instead, it will be used

as a flower planter.

‘HeadOfSummersidePlant| Tomorrow Marks th

Island News Page

Mile Creek, was fined $30 and costs for driving while his l- { ‘cence was suspended by Justice | of the Peace Albert Dennis in Traffic Court yesterday

wna os s oe ricu tura ICla S Havelock J. Stewart, Park- | idale, was charged with driving - |without a licence and attempting

ito use another person's licence.

He was assessed $10 and costs jon each charge.

| William F. Currie, Nine Mile

keeping their better quality anl-

imals until the pressure on the

to produce an market eases and the demand

movement | improves.

to market. *| “The market outlook accord-

, eases potentiaily ing to reliable sources will like

: good cattle are being sacrificed.|Y continue te be strong with @

holding better quality at much less than their value in Possible strengthening in price

animals ‘intil market pressure three or four months time with jin early 1966,"

eases and demand improves. ‘additional growth and 1 —enneatnt

The following is a statement quality, SATURDAY

‘2 The Guardian, Charlottetown, Fri. Oct. 22- 1965.

Discussions among agricul- have combined tural officials in the province unusually have resulted in a suggestion by panes them that cattle breeders should | ro rayp ,

released by the group: “Even with Hmited roughage “Recent discussions essnsin fk should be possible to finish the P.E.I, Department of Agri- cattle profitably with culture, the Hon; A.B. MacRae, 'grains and mil! feeds. minister; the P.E.I. Beef Pro FARM CREDIT ' |ducer’s Association. Max “It is felt that most banks and | |Thompson, pre ; and the leading agencies will look with |\P.E.1. Federation of Agriculture, |favour on continuing or advanc- | 'J.A. Rodd, president on matters jing credit to farmers with cattle \related to cattle movement and |for the purchase of feeds. |feed supplies have produced the| ‘It is therefore recommended | |decision to draw the attention of that cattlemen, before forcing | \eattlemen to the following state- unfinished cattle on the market, |ment. \give serious consideration to the “Indifferent pastures and a | possible advantages of buying | tight situation for winter feed 'feed grains and mill feeds and

October 23.

Charlottetown Curling Club |

Lunch — Entertainment

The building, which was a/made of stainless steel. Hard- cance. total of 5,400. square feet of| wood sawdust purchased in Que- Wendell S Noonan, Kelly's my (space on the main floor and 2,-|hec is burned to provide the Blair D. MacDonald, Nine Cross, appeared on two charges

- one of failing to transfer re- gistration of a car, and speed- ing. He was fined $10 and costs on each charge. t

Similar fines of $10 and coste were imposed on Leith Carter, Winsloe, charged, charged with operating a combination vehicle with no light on the back of the second vehicle, and Lawrence R. Thompson, New London, ar- reigned for passing om @ stolid white line

RAUL aT

NITE DANCE

9.30 =-12.00

‘MakesOwnBusinessBoom| gm»

was involved in four accidents, , He operated out of this build- | went through two axles and more |ing for the next four years but by the summer of 1964 the busi- ness had increased to the point

: SUMMERSIDE — Time and time again a person hears the | age-ld complaint ‘‘there are | tires than he could count. Final-

©

y

he opportunities on Prince Ed- ward:Island. Young people have | to leave the province to be a) “guccess”’. |

Don't believe it! You can en- | joy as much success on the Is- land as anywhere in Canada ff | you have the ambition, desire | and drive. | ‘This has been demonstrated many. times by Islanders in their native province and most re- cently by. a Charlottetown-born | man. Ken Judson, who, at 31, ts | president and general manager | af the local firm of Judson Pack- |

ers :This Saturday Mr Judson’s $160,000 meat packing plant

-4gh the Green Road here will be |

officially opened by Hon. Leo | Rossiter, provincial minister of | fisheries. /

‘ Ken, as he is popularily known to all his friends as well as | thost of his customers. ts quick to emphasize that it hasn't all teen easy and that there have | teen some tough times and: pit- | falls climbing the ladder of euiccess.

7A son of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Judson of Pownal. he once had aspirations of becoming an en- gineer but a turn in the road found him working at a pack- {ag plant in Charlottetown for $30 a week following two years

at Prince of Wales College. at the s d Ww “Tam not sorry’. Mr. Judson p.m. on Saturday. e seid yesterday. ‘I love this kind | ;

work”, ; HORSE and SULKY would like you to also

+He began his career as a clerk

# the provisions department of | e plant and within five years ROOM s

: Gables .Meat Products. Was manager of the department. Kent St. Charlottetown

iT made it a point to. learn

eherything about the business," !

he said. ‘T took different cours- e§ and even went as far as to take a public speaking course.”

TRIED ON HIS OWN

tHe said that during his years with the firm ‘he had heard so many people claim that there. was much money to be made in the business that in 1960, after seven years with the firm, he decided to branch out on his olvn. Not even a promsied lucra- tWe salary somewhere in the five-tigure bracket, could change his mind. ~

il started off by purchasing

a:refrigerated truck and buying |

mjeat from anywhere I could get it — New Brunswick, Nova Stotia, Quebec and this pro- vince which I then sold to stores, mainly in the country.” The business didn’t go over as well as planned and after the first winter in business ‘I had Igst a lot of -oney and things got so bad that when the truck broke down I couldn't even af- ford to have it, fixed.”

tDuring that winter his truck

—— —

44 , Progressive Conservative Candidate, 14 3 In Queens a : Inserted by Queens County L- > —~- ~ ae ~~ ‘ ‘ eee —_-- - eee a -

he

7.20 to 7.25 Angus MacLean

ily, when a third axle broke he

had to lay the vehicle up for lack of funds. He then opened a small. shop

on Great George Street, Char- |

lottetown, with the front part of the building being used as an office and the rear as a cooler room. Without the truck he had to make deliveries with his own car. ;

MOVES TO SUMMERSIDE

Finally, in 1961, to move to Summerside and upon his arrival here he rented a building on Water Street from Lorne Driscoll which he later

sed.

Onty half the building was in use in the beginning and for the first while he just ;went from day to day and then things be-

| gan to look brighter. Within a |

year his firm was processing

some meat products under the |

name of Island Provisioners. His three main lines were sausages, sliced bacon and smoked picnic hams

Dance

--There will -be- an

light Saving Time. This interruption is

fanning, Annandale, St.

he decided |

where it was no longer ito operate out of the ol

DECIDE ON NEW PLANT

lcided to build a new one. | Construction of the new iwith assistance of the \trial Development

\P.E.1., began in November

last year and continued slowly

throughout the winter.

@ Economical @ Easy and speedy

S&M

DANCING TONIGHT and

SATURDAY

to the music of the

._ Smoothies and Les Alexander

GRANADA STEAK

INTERRUPTION NOTICE

EASTERN KINGS COUNTY

—

interruption —of electric

wer on Sunday, October 24, weather permitting, botnet the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m., Day-

necessary to interconnect

our eastern transmission line ‘with the new trans- mission line to Georgetown and to commission the Lorne Valley Switching Station.

|The area affected will be from St. Peters to Souris and East Point, Dingwell

Mills to Glen- Georges and Launching

and including adjacent north shore areas.

MARITIME. ELECTRIC —— Gu pary Limitedea

~CFCY Television

TONIGHT

ble plant.

“Rather than try to fix up this old building,” he said, ‘we de-

The general contract on the 90 by 60 foot building was done by M. F. Schurman’s while

Laundry & Drycleaning }

@ Visit our Car Wash alse |

A

KEN- JUDSON

I would like to at

that our new plant is

guarantees you the

tomer a better product... --

|

Re ‘ /

OF JUDSON PACK

time to extend a cordial ‘Invitation to everyone to attend our Grand-Open- ing to take place at 2

buy and try our Green

We think you will agree

finest of its size on P.E.I. Ultra modern equipment

SUMMERSIDE

"A MESSAGE FROM THE OWNER ee i saeorsus - KEN JUDSON Siaedi\

this

the

cus-

“GREEN: GABLE MEAT PRODUCTS EVERY DA