WHOLESALE FRUIT DEALERS MEET
Colorful Transportation
For Supplies To
By FORBES RHUDE
The shipment. when it has been
brought together in Edmonton. first goes 500 miles over Northern Dawson Creek. BC
The big trailer - 300 miles northwest over Alaska Highway to Fort Nelson.
There a self-pi pelled barge of
about 150-tons capacity is cially built and the loaded onto it.
About May l0-or when ice con- diiions permit-the barge sets out and, helped by the flow of the waters towards the Arctic Ocean. follows the Fort Nelson, Laird and Mackenzie rivers to Aklavik, a river route of about 1.000 miles.
That is how. in recent years. trading posts. trappers and other scattered population of the North- west Territories. get fresh fruits and vegetables about six weeks earlier than they used to. GROUPS ANNUAL MEET
The colorful and complex piece of transportation is but one incl- dent in the lives of a group of people whose job is to see that fresh fruits and vegetables reach the tables of all Canadian house- holds. wherever they may be.
Representatives of the group are meeting in Toronto this week
Monday to Wednesday-in the annual convention of the Cana- dian Fruit wholesalers' Associa- tion.
SP9 shipment
the Alberta Railways to
trucks haul it the
Lang Chapman, supervisor of northern activities for Scott Fruit Company oi Edmonton. told in an interview how the northern opera- tion is carried out by the Hud- son's Bay Company.
Along the river route the barge drops off supplies to trading posts. When the final load is taken off at Aklavik. however, the barge is not brought back. it is broken up and disposed of for its timber.
The shipment consists of about half pcrishables, such as oranges. grapefruit. lemons, new potatoes and new onions and the job of the wholesalers is to assemble it and see that it reaches its destination in good condition.
OLDER ROUTE LATER
Later in the season. shipments follow an older route-300 miles by rail from Edmonton to Water- ways. Alta.; by barge along the Athabasca River to Fort Fitzger- ald. Alta.; by I5-mile portage to Fort Smith, Alta.; then by barge again down the Slave River in Great Slave Lake in the North- west Territories and thence into the Mackenzie and on to Aklavik.
Ice conditions don't allow cross- ing of the Great Slave Lake until late June. however. and the route via Dawson Creek was worked out to advance the season.
Some fresh fruits and vegetables flown in during the winter months. but at high cost.
Fresh - fruit wholesalers have
Aklavik
their problems in the big cities. too.
There-as outlined by speakers at the convention - food chains have taken over about halt the food business, and househ ” u do 70 per cent of their shopping between 3 p.m. Thursday and noon Saturday.
The result has been bigger and more expensive supermarkets which. seeking returns on their in- vestment. have gone into such lines as hardware and drugs. TOO MUCH COMPETITION
Accordingly. fresh fruits and vegetables have to compete for space and the buyers' dollar. not
nails and cleansing tissues.
ciation first vice - president. said the fruit and vegetable people- made up largely of relatively small (inns - find difficulty in meeting the selling drive of on- tionally and internationally - ad- vertised items. He urged that growers, wholesalers and retail- ers get together on a common program.
W. D. Cuinings of Calgaiy. as- sociation president. said:
"The industry is in a mood. as never before. to batue for its share of the consumer's dollar.
only with other foods. but with i R. D. Wolfe of Toronto. asso- .
OTTAWA ICPI - Russian ex- perts have solved a problem that has attracted Canadian coal inter- ests for years--the underground ”gaslficaiiun" of coal to produce cheap povicr at the I'fliIlt' surface -according to the Soviet News Bulletin.
The publication put out by the Russian Embassy here says that gasification "is becoming an im- portant branch of the Soviet fuel -. industry."
For several years. the Nola Scotia government has been in- terested in this development as a means of improving the efficiency of fuel production from relatively- uncconoiiiic coal seams The ICfl- eral mines department also liasl ' bccn intcrestcd, but no WOI'l(dl)lCl - system has been obtained for Can-l ' ada. i
Gasifit-ation basically consists oil setting fire to the coal in thel . ground and piping off the l'PSllli-; tzint gases for use at the suriacei . as fuel and for thc drawing-off oil by-products.
g "In conscqiiencc of persistent: experimental effort, the intricate problem has been solved," the
lent methods of gzisification liavel
Major Isabel Doiiagliey of .ilon- i tion Army's Sunset Lodge in Char- treal. iai right in the above pic- lottetown. The announce turet has been recently appiiiiitcd the appniiitment was made by as assistant to Scnior Major Mil- Major Stevens ycsterday. Major dred Stevens ilcfti at tho Salva- Donatzlicy is appointed here from
We believe Canadians should be eating more fresh fruit and vege- tables. and health authorities back us up. The rest is up to us."
40,000 VOLUNTEERS
Living Eye Of Ca nada's Air Defence is Observer Corps
By DAVE McINTOSH Canadian Press Staff Writer OTTAWA (CP)-The real eyes. as distinct from radar's eyes. of Canada's air defence system be- long to the 40,000 civilian volun- teer members of the Ground Ob- server Corps. So efficient has the corps be- come. officials say. that RCAF jet fighters have been able to inter- cept and identify unknown planes on information supplied solely by the corps. without relying on rs- dar. In the last big Canada - United States air defence exercise it was a ground observer at Fort Rad- ium on Great Bear Lake in the Northwest Territories who flashed the first report of American bomb- ers flying south on a simulated raid. in this case. the warning signal took less than six minutes to reach RCAF air defence com- mand at St. Hubert, Que. Offl- clsls say that when the north- south communications systems linked with the Mid-Canada and DEW tDistant Early Warning) radar lines are in full operation. this time may be cut to less than a minute. PICKED OBSERVERB The Ground Observer Corps was established in Northern Can- sda--above the 55th par " ' in
are between 4.000 and 5.000 of them - are spotted about eight miles apart thi ughout the land. although in thinly-populated reg- Ions in the north there are greater distances between them.
The post may be ln a place of business in a small town. In rural areas. it is usually in a farm- house. In fact. a post is little else than a place with a telephone or radio-telephone.
The corps has gone to sea on both coasts. Fishermen on the Grand Banks. for instance. report aircraft by radio-telephone. WATCH 0N NORTH
The air force. naturally enough is most interested in what is fly- ing across the north. Ground olr servers report mainly on south- bound plancs or multl-engine sir- craft. In the south. the observers report to filter centres only dur- ing exercises.
In the north. the RCAF rellea for observers on missionaries. Es- kimos. tra pp ers. RCMP con- stables. weathermen and Hudson's Bay Company factors. in the south. persons of every occupation volunteer. In some towns, half the adult population has volunteered for observer duties.
Rated by officials as one of the best ground observer posts in Can- ada is the federal penitentiary at
(;e”rL!(.l0wlI1 iii-rc Sunday guests cnjoycd.
Dorcliestcr. N.B. it has guards on the walls around the clock and many of them take on ”birdwatch- lng"-a term used by the corps
of Mrs. Parker's parents. Mr. Mrs. I-lraiict-s Mat.-iiilyre. Mr. and Mrs. C.M. MacGrath on Feb- ,LIwooii Mat-lntyre and Miss Joan ruary 8. lliiaclntyre motored to Marie on
Mr, 1.-rand; Ma..l,m.,.(. small Siinilay to visit the formeris moth-
illf' first wct-kcnri of III(' month "- xiith friends in Nova Scotia.
the home of their daughter-in-law, Stanley Ferguson.
at the home of Mrs. Angus Nichol-
of ively engaged in Salvation Army.EIl'0 dI'0I!l)9-(I 30 I0 1”" 7091 illmrl.
v Soviet News Bulletin says. iUSE COMPRESSED AIR i It states that a number of diifr-i-l
lbeen worked out. At one seam 125 Toronto where she has been act. miles from Moscow. parallel holes
Social Service Work for some time. I ihc cool is ignllrtl and ('0ll'IDF0S-1 lSC(l air is ltirccd timvn for mini-
Guardian Photo bustitin tlirougli one hole Tliel
ggases i-scape through the other
son on Friday, February 1. Those lineetinos are ciitcrtainini: as well
lit: ciiin-atinnal. Fllllttwlllll a pcriodl
Mr and Mrs Fraiik Pzirkcr, of at-irtiii.:. sIni:im.: and games are!
holes. l ministers also have been warned The report says some 2..-300.-l not to patronize international tltltimtl cubic mc-trcs of higli-umde;
Scheme To Produce Cheap Power At Coalmine Surface
l
11-ie Guardian Page 5 Tuesday, Feb. 12, 1957
con tons of coal a year. asst the one In the Moscow Basin III b('iiIll.
in the llonhas area. another oP- .Nu.l 0' Inn” hm.
eraiion is stimulated by a mix-i 7'" 3"uEm' "V' '” wu '' lure of steam and oxygen instead vs l"Cu0lI M 930787 W1" 5' 550'” of by straight compressed air. oneqhird that of digging coal. and the Bulletin says this makes span (mm relievmi rmw”,
nortins
for a hctlcr lypc ofggas Ifmm nu, burden ,1 gun. It adds that experunental or in. ad.
dustrial stations are under con-- struction or have been i sioned for Angren in Central Asia. roars CORNER to provide iuel for a steam tur- . binc power station; for Kuznetsk Wordsworth. Southey. Codendge. Basin and for the Moscow Basin. Ruskin and other llterar figurf
The Angren station was ex- lived and wrote in England! pected to produce enough gas to famed lake district near the Soot- yield the power equivalent of 700.- llsll l30l'd0I'-
MOIITAGIIE THEATRE Mon. - Tues- Wed.
Feb. ll-12-I3 V Adm. 30 - 46
"BLACK WIDOW"
(:.,.g4-r lingo:-s - Van lletlin - Gene Tierney - GENE! R33 '”l'uiiiulit this girl is to be killed."
COMING FRI. - SAT. "HIGH NOON"
Communist organizations. .gas have been izciicraled at lhis'
Mrs. .zin(i lilrs. Mr. Wilbur MacDonald was is? recent visitor to Montague where he was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. 1
Reuben Mc('anncll.
llomcr Jaincs also Mr. Ciiylcr Dingwcll. A
STOP MIXING WITH REDS
Mr. and Mrs. William For-i NEW DELHI (Routers) - The guson. Montague. vicrc visitors to lTinies of India says the govern- Lorne Valley during the wock. at lmciit has forbidden federal and son zind slate ministers to patronize pro- and Mrs. lC0mmunisi cultural and social or-
lganizations. A government spokes- The Jolly Eight scwiiitz clnli met man declined to confirm or deny the report. The newspaper says
Mr.
-as an added duly.
Aircraft flashes from the north now take an average of 20 min- utes compared with four hours when the corps started operations six years ago. Messages from northern observers get top prior- ity on telephone and radio - tele- phone at all times.
Though ground observers do not report on all aircraft traffic, they keep a log with full information. This has often proved valuable in the case of missing planes when the RCAF has been able to check back on where the plane was last seen.
Asked Why the corps is able to
r This simple vaccine, taken by mouth, has brought amazing i niiei to thousands ol svNoven Iron the choking agony and . constant distress of Sinus. Lontigen B is diluent become I works item within to attack the cause of the compioivat. Adi your dtuggitt for tree Lootigen boolrlet and start treatment todoy.
keep its large volunteer staff up to strength with apparent case, one official said many poo seem interested in their safety and the safety of others. Many regarded it as a patriotic duty. The posts are designed primar- lly to report on low-flying aircraft which can sneak under radar beams. But observers report on all planes. giving the type. direc- tion. number and altitude. In some cases the observers cannot see a plane but only its vapor trail.
1950 and in Southern Canada a year later. So many have volun- teered--the figure reached 80,000 at one time-that there has been a weeding process. However. the corps still needs volunteers In many areas. especially remote parts of the country.
The RCA has some 88 officers and 00 airmen assigned to corps duty. All the rest of the corps
h a are v t s who serve without pay. They may get
The regular monthly meeting of the Montague Town Council was held in the council chambers last nightmwith Mayor Bruce H. Yeo pl
Mayor Yea welcomed two new
New Committees Are Named At Montague Council Meeting
sandwiches and coffee free dur- lnlz I long hitch at one of the 11 filter centres across Canada but that is all.
Ground observer posts - there
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nasi-znva Wednesday. l'ebns- try 270: for Trinity Minstrels. Yen's Theatre. Montague.
SIIUR-GAIN Amateur Cavalcade Montague High School Auditor-
couitcillors. Charles Fraser and -103"! Hi-ISIWB. and congratulated four re-elected councillors. Gil- bert Clements, Claude Nicholson, Arnold Vanlderstlne and Frank Greene. Mayor Yeo also ex- pressed his regret at losing Doug- las McGowan and Marshall Rey- nolds. who served the town and council so faithfully for the post number of years.
Mayor Yeo outlined briefly Whit ll Ixvected of a new conu- cillor.
All councillors were present with the exception of Councillor Vsnlderstlne. who has been ill since his re-election.
ium tonight at s.oo p.n1. Hear 1: " . - your school boys and girls in mnfmliu: h:"195-,t.h' Mlyon song and music. Proceeds fix 55.... .nd lmmg I.-I...”
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PERSONALS
. diaries Fraser. John Hughes.
Finances and licenses:-Gilbert ClelI!'l;:Ll, John Hughes and Char-
Mrs. Cecil Rice d Vers's '9; "I" ulling and sanitation:-John n--. mu -
Claude Nicholson. Police:-- Arnold Vsnlderdlne. C."lLicImlcsonmG. Clements. : . cholson. F. Greene. derntiae.
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done an outstanding job with the town's books and records. was retained as town clerk and Gil- bert A. Gaudet was appointed '0 act as magistrate for the town.
A discussion was held with re- gard to the sanding of streets and it was decided that 3 WI! of salt will be ordered. Further b)" laws were also adopted and given first and second readings.
Mr. John White. town police- man. reported 816.00 collected for parking violations for the month of January.
on request from the Mayor. Councillor Clements and the town clerk gave a report on the pro- gress of the farm museum. after which the council unanimousl! voted 3150.00 towards this worth- while project.
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