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“Covers Prince Edward Island Like The Dew”

~~ SENGALESE PRESIDENT VISITS OTTAWA

Charlottetown, Tues., Sept. 20, 1966.

“Genzalese President Leopold Ottawa Monday aftertioon for two days, then will go to Que- Senghor chats with Governor- -a~state visit. ‘The 60-year-old “bec before leaving for the Un- General Vanier on arrival at president will be in Ottawa for ited States Sept. 27.

THIS AGRICULTURAL INDUSTRY

(This column will not appear Livestock Sales.”’ mext week. J] am_going away in!

definitely will appear — in

will be

Reason. the. department here in| search of rest. I am not sure |backing this auction sale idea is r gives the names of the’ about the following week. But it! something like this: As it is now ecettars two farmers, for the most part, have weeks’ time, if not before that.../to sell their cattle to profession- |

of jal buyers, men who are buying A series of weekly cattle sales cattle practically every day of

established here next the year. The farmer may sell

week which will offer an oppor-'some animals perhaps two or

tunity for livestockmen

any- |three times where. in the province to bring|doesn’t have the exerience to,

a year. He just

their animals to be sold at pub- ‘compete on an equal basis with |the' man whose experience in

lic auction

The first sale will:

next Tuesday,-September 27. It 'the

be held hem up animals, and buying |

is so much more exten-

starts at 1 p.m. The-sales ring |sive'

and accommodation for the liv

e-

This way, the department

stock is now being provided in|spokesmen suggest, the farmer

Cattle barn No. 10 at

the Pro-'should have a good chance of

vincial Exhibition Grounds on getting what the animal ts Kensington Road, just outside of worth. -

DARRACH STILL WINNING

Charlottetown.

Managing the sales is George |

Lacey, a former

George Darrach who is farm

Tracadie,/manager for the Oak Ridge P.E.I. man and Frank -Berkel-|Farm outside Toronto, won the |

aar is the auctioneer. Frank is premier Exhibitor's prize for

the man who auctions the live-|his boss as the Canadian Nation- | weekly livestock | a} Exhibition a few weeks ago.

stock at. the

sales in Truro, N.S. Mr. Lacey |

also lives in that area now. Like jthat the Oak Ridge herd held a |

He did that despite the fact

our Glen Cotton, the popular and large dispersal sale earlier this

efficient beef fieldman

here,

packinghouse for some years,

This sales idea has the

blessing of the provincial department.- of - agriculture, and Agriculture Minister

Daniel MacDonald is going ©

to officially open fhe series of sales by auctioning off the first animal to be ‘sold.

I talked a few days a£0/won with at the CNE. Quite a| Darrach who came | from Milo in Prince County or- |

with. Messrs. Lacey and Berkelaar and they mean business in this venture. “What will happen’’ I ask- ed:them “if the first few sales are flops, if enough cattle are not offered by Is- land farmers to make the same worthwhile?”

The answer was straight- forward. They mean to de-

velop the sale idea here and *

are prepared to stick--with it, until it does become a success.

BUYERS ARE COMING

Of special interest to livestock

men here is the statement thev | be bringing four or five

will

buyers with them. One is from "Alco Packers” in Maine and he

fs a large buyer, Burkelaar pair tell. me.

the Lacey- |

Another man who buys in vol-

sume is William Gorber of Monz- |

|

: lyear at which 40 or more. of | George was a buyer for a large ‘their very best Holstein cattle |

iwere sold.

The cattle were put up ‘| |pairs. When the lot was sold the |

isuccessful bidder had ‘the privi-

Hlege of taking home his. choite | of the two cows offered. So the |} \farm kept the rest, what the |

ibuyers did not want, in other

\w

|man_ this

1. ig

|cently that George received. a |

ords. And this is what George

inally. A mutual friend told me_te-

really large bonus'from his boss,

IR lw ja

had been expected.

.R. Dennis, when the sale to

hich I have referred, brought } than |

great deal more money

That sale — it was. held

May — brought‘a-world’s record

price lamount was $42,000 for Glenaf- | |ton Nettie Bonheur than the pre- |

lw vi

ton. He'll be here, so there will | be competitive bidding they feel | ¢ 1

sure. Mr: Lacey tells

me that the

tharge to put an animal through | the sale is three and one-half | per cent of the gross sales. If an} animal sold for $100, for exam- | ple, the charge would be $3.50.

[f it brought $200, the fee wou be seven dollars.

Id

t \

The weekly. sales at Truro will |

» fandle 12,000 head of cattle

this includes calves — this year,

the two men told me

There

were 272 aninials sold last week |

at Truro, they added They'll ffandle any “type

of

livestock, they told me, though |

they do prefer cattle.

So_ that

Means sales action is available

also for pigs and sheep, for e ample. Don’t suppose be offering horses

left inthe province.

X-

anyone now. There are darn few farm horses

“We'll Operate a year, so the | nf < {der will have“a chance for~a ISLAND PLOWING "MATCH >

tee try."’ is how the Lacey Berkelaar pair: put it.

has been in Rince 1959, they told me.

for a dairy cow. Maud. It as $9,000 more ous record the sale story stat-

But how about this story? Bob Snazelle, Bunbury, tells me that a young bull, Carna- tion Sylvia King Segis brought $106,000 from Car- nation Farms, Wisconsin, U.S.A. away back in 1930.

,The bull was out of May |

Eche Sylvia a cow that pro- duced 100 pounds of milk in one day, and produced 1,005 pounds in one week. And that’s away back in the “dirty thirties” as. those po- verty - ridden depression years were called :

Another son of May Echo Sylvia sold for $46,000, Bob tells me.

Mr. Snazelle, . incidentally, is the man who built u» the

fine nursery at Bunbury, which was made possible originally by -the generous

grant of $109,009 from Ro- bert Cotton, Brighton Road. . Bob was the inspector who weighed and tested the milk of Sylvia, the dam of the bull that brought the - big, price, so he was weil ac- quainted ‘with the , develop- ment. ‘é

This is the week of the Pro-

x vincial’ Plowing Match, also tne The series of weekly sales at |Queens County match. Both are

operationito be held at Alexandra, on the Offa The-.cattle. or other livestock, | son.

of my fiftend, Jim Robert-

should bésin Barn 10 at the Exhi- |will decide“the County champion

bifion Grounds-in the ‘morning of |jand the runnersup It’s on Wed- .

the day of the sale, they advise.|nesday. Then on “Fhursday the

~The name of the sales organ- Island title will be decided, with

~

last :

The |

Queens County match |

| Livestock Sales Seen Assistance To Farmers —

By NEIL A. .MATHESON _ ization, incidentally, is ‘‘Islandjthe three top men from Queens ‘Prince and Kings competing. © story elsewhere in today’s |

from Kings

and Prince. We'll not know the”

PAGE 13 }Queens chaps until sometime ‘Wednesday evening b

There'll. be a new- {sland _Champion.. this .. year. Car}-Wul- jlis, PhD will not be competing this year.

Carl won the Canadian tile at |Chilliwack, B.C. last April when

|his score of 166.2 points was two | points better than his nearest ri- |

val.

I've written many stories jabout this young man, and ‘his \father, Stanley Willis, who is a plowing champion in his own

jtitle at Caledon, Ontario back in 11963

I ‘cannot recall the: exact

| sgeore was so far ahead of | any other contestant in 1963

that there was simply ne

comparison. Again rm

trusting to-memory, but the | recollection is that Stanley | Willis was ‘approximately 10 | points ahead of the man who | second.

placed When I asked Stanley about it jdone an unusually good job that

-—_day--*‘Iguess—t-just—felt—like

plowing that day, and every- (thing was breaking ight - for jme,” the Cornwall market gar- 'dener told me. Things were pro- |bably not breaking so good for ithe other lads, he added. . | For Stanley it was his final | appearance on the cofpetitive jplowing scene. His ‘gardening operation

of his time now.

| I've said" different times that ithe performance of this father-

uires: all

ison--combination—is~unique,- that

iit” never happened before. 1 don't know that for sure. but no- body has ever. challenged my statement and these columns are sent to, and are read many places. ES : am

I'm referring, of course to the fact that both father and son have each won the. Canadian championship once, and both of them have twice represented

deed Car] finished

several years ago.

: So very many of you keep asking me about Mrs. Matheson, I feel 1 should tell you that she is’ definitely making _ progress. It’s a very, very slew pro- cedure, and it will take a very long time — I ly

“|Jooker.

Canada in world competition. In- |than another five years. deed 1 fin third. in the | world match in Northern Ireland.

Big Payina Job Is Giveh Up

By ROSEMARY SPEIRS MONTREAL (CP)—“All life jis."’ Maurice Strong. says ‘he thinks it’s in, Ottawa.

‘

- ‘| To Direct Foreign Aid Plan

He gives up his control of the my interlocking directorates I've gone where the action companies in his October move Now to Ottawa to replace Herbert Moran, -who' will become Can-

of

At the age of 37 he will take ada’s ambassador to Japan.

‘a pay cut to $27,000 from $200.-

(000 this October when he ives pin-stripe suits -Mr.-Strong,—a| up the presidency of Montreal's father of three daughters and

With his small moustache and

‘billion-dollar Power Corporation two sons, looks more like an

lof Canada to become director ynassuming clerk than a man

gram. _ “T don’t look on my move as a personal sacrifice.’’ he said in an interview. “It’s never a

jof Canada’s foreign aid: oro-|with large and restless .ener- igies. ; :

\STOWAWAY AT 13

But Mr. Strong has moved up

‘sacrifice to do what you want.” |in the business world with giant

And what. he has

really Strides ever since he ran away

\P #2 wanted for the last few years, {from his Oak Lake, Man., fam- \right. Stanley won the Canadian pe says, is to take a responsible ily home at age 13 and he has

|part in foreign: affairs.

never yet been satisfied. He has

A two-year trip with his wife higher hopes for his new job:

ito trouble spots in 30 Asian and |African ' countries. . during

mental to our times.

‘cause he

could not lose his hankering for overseas aid.

main interest is his hobby.”

QUICKLY INVOLVED | The ‘hobby’ began

turn from Africa. when he asked the local YMCA whether it had | anything he could do.

He shortly found himself pres- jident of the National Council of ‘YMCAs, a member of the Cana- | ‘dian Institute of International | Affairs and adviser to the Cana- | dian. University Service . Over- seas and the Company of Young Canadians. ~Ajong--the—way.-he—developed | informal connections with the external affairs department by | doing a government survey of | the natural gas potential in

But all this wasn’t enough | land when Mr. Strong joined Power Corporation in 1964—it has tripled in value since then— he told the directors he would | mot stay in business for more |

don’t know how long — but the people who know tell me. the progress is definite. Once again the thanks of all

idegree. But through succeeding |stow years of business success‘ ‘.e Steamships Lines’ Noronic.

ways just loved “I was sick of being an on- much. Of course, I was caught When vores heoke I|but by stretching my age five c wanted to be directly involved. years I managed to talk myself __Jater__he admitted that he had iy was one—of—those—men.whose—into:a_job_as_a—galley_swab- for. ithe summer.”

“For the first time the chal-

the jlenge’ is going to be big enough: |: learly ‘50s convinced Mr. Strong |I think I’ve finally found some- the problems of the under- thing I can deeto em toil.”"fyv developed countries are funda-'thing I. can devote. my life to.””

Sitting in his comfortable

Returning to Canada he ap- Place Ville Marie office high plied to the foreign service and jabove Montreal's skyline,’ he lironically was turned down be- jcan smile now at the impulses lacked a_ university that made him leave home and

away on the Canada “T couldn’t help it. I have al-

adventure too

He— returned to Oak--Lake-to

incon- ‘finish high school ‘and then was spicuously on Mr. Strong's re- Off again—this time to a job

geen {ear byl

Ste

wrh the Endeon'y Uy. the Arctic. _ * After that it was a quick suc- cession of steps from- a junior b with the UN secretariat at lew York to. statistical work ‘analysing oil- and mining secur- ities to, at age. 23. the vice- presidency of Dome Petroleum

“T've always been lucky,” he jsaid. ‘And I've worked hard.”

|WARY OF BUREAUCRACY

The. skills he will bring to the |foreign aid department are -the jadministrative and. organiza- tional abilities that have made him a man to whom companies look when they need a “top mariagement expert who is both efficient and imaginative. ‘ The first businessman ever td head foreign aid, the new di- rector says he feels his appoint- ment symbolizes the Liberal government's hope of involving the private sectors of society

lems.

“T am terrified. -of: just. help- ing to ate another huge bu- reaucratic structure. But I have hopes Canadians are not as apathetic to foreign aid as they sometimes seem. | think this country is now—-looking for something to do to give it a sense of national purpose and maybe -‘my department will be able to give them some direc- tion in that~search.’’ , His budget. rises to $311,000,- 000 from $266,000,000 this year and should shorty reach the half billion mark if the Pearson government-realizes its -inten- tion of raising aid to the one per -cent-of-gross- national * prod- uct the UN suggests favored nations should spend.

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