WHOM NEWSLETTER

,V‘Greetings lo Farmer, Reade“,

' Meeting Slated For January

8:1 J. LINCOLN DEWAR

A: the schedule provides for appear to be the appropriate holidny‘ the appearance of this news- time to extend greetings and '

letter on Thursday this would good wishes in keeping with the seaso

ACROSS THE ISLAND

First. of all on behalf of thel President and Federation Dir-. 3ectors we would like to remem-i ber all the farm people who:

Mani Stories Heard Are Unexplainable

By NEIL A. MATHESON e Provincial-Farm Editor

I talked with lust about everyone on the second floor of the P.E.l. hospital while I was there—-1 did a lot of visiting after the first ten days. as I wasn't really sick anymore—and it was in- |witable that i should run into at least one unusual tale. Dorothy Porter. Charlottetown told me that she was one night—it was about two and one- 1alf years ago —\\hen the floor lamp beside her started to rock and shake. She was frightened at the time. she explained. then she tvhouzht that her young grandson had attached a string to

Mrs sitting in her living room

it. and was playing tricks on

e .

When she checked with the boy later though. she found

on the lamp, it was doing the rocking 1

and shaking all by itself. it sounds like a forerunner story and I Mrs. Porter if anyone belonging to her di

ward. Nothing happened like that. but she did take a heart at-

tack two days afterwards. she recalled. And that could be what

there had been no strint

sake

the forerunner was all about.

Spike In Grave Held Him Down

IT WAS l“.. S. (Tedi Chandler of Charlottetown who told me

have directly supported and en-i .couraged the Federation by. their membership. interest, andL attendance at meetings. Thesel

the people who keep the Fe-. deration operating and make itl possible to have a measure of farm influence exerted on pub-

in '1 0

hr policy. in a very real sense these. upporters represent a very spe.

I . cial group of farm people. They? represent vision. long term. planning and willingness for work with other farmers to- wards'the long term goals of a more. rewarding agriculture and a better farm life.

Another group that gives us. pleasure to remember are those‘I in Government, those in public life. those in the business com-. munity. the great many officialsl lboth Provincial and Federal j land finally the people of the} mass media. press. radio. tele—i ivision and farm press who interest. encouragement and re-l

i cognition have all contributed tol

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ed shortly after-

improve the image of farm or-l ganization. Finally we remember. nd

[this is an indefinite group those‘

,who have been readers of this: ,column even though their inter-j

about the bunch of Prince of Wales College boys who were tests are um basically agriwiturn‘

boarding in the Longworhh Avenue area some years ago. Several :‘ of them challenged or dared one of the group to go to the old i cemetery nearby and drive a spike into the ground over a cer- tain grave. When they reached the cemetery fence. the challenged

al. Their interset is appreciated; and so to all a very M erry lChristmas full of joy and glad-

hoy proceeded in the direction of the grave, while the others iness' May it be the be“ ever' i

waited outside.

After a long time—at least it seemed long to the anxious chaps waiting for their pal to return—they decided that they had better investigate. and learn what had happened to the chap who was driving the spike. When they found him he. was lying on the. grave in a dead faint. And here's what happen. .

' e bm' drove the spike into the ground. then found that something was holding him down as the spot If you remember that he was in in old cemetery at midnight. the time that legends say is the sponlciest. of all. you will understand the‘shock he received. Wlhen they investigated they found that he had driven the spike ' '

gown —the

tried to rise.

boys were in night attire—and t'hiat's wthy he felt I someone was holding him to the surface of the grave when he .

NUFFIELD

Announcement has been lmade of the two winners for Canada of the Nuffield Scholar-i ship in agriculture. While Prince E d w a r d island had a very lstrong contender in one of its jprominent young farmers the ‘prize. for Eastern Canada went lto Donald M. Vicary who open. I

he. tried to rise. and leave

ates an 150 acre dairy farm! 1 near London in southwestern On-l tario. He is president of the El-. gin Jersey Cattle Club and a.

through his dressmg

It week the Federation di-I

uora in this province will be: coming together to make planl‘

meeting. Similarly the director: Association to

for their own provincial annual"

of the Dairymen's will be meeting next week

m3 and setting a date tenta-l tively for their own annual meet-. ing later in the winter.

DAIRY POWER PLAY Retroactive to October and for the balance of the winter the province of Quebec is undertak. ing to subsidize milk producers in that province lexcluding fluid milk producers) to the extent of 10 cents per pound butterfat. This means roughly 35 cents per hundred on milk and is a step towards what appears to be a very good prospect next sum- mer for manufacturing milk be- ing in the $3.50 range. This move by Quebec has some rather in

tei‘esting aspects from the stand-' ‘point of exerting pressure not. only on the Federal Government.

but also indirectly on Ontario as well. We can foresee the Feder- al Government being expected to pick up the tab at the begin- ning of the new dairy year on May 1.

ARDA POLICY

At. the Outlook Conference in November the. major part of the CFA brief was devoted to presenting views on the Agricul- tural Rehabilitation and Devel- opment Program in view of the fact that the Federal and pro- vincial governments are cur- rently negotiating new five-year agreements under the ARDA le- gislation.

The ARDA program is design- ed to speed up the process of resource adjustment and to as-

tsist disadvantaged farmers and rural people to obtain a higher. standard of living. The Federa~]

tion stated that in order to give the ARDA program more real- ity. two basic requirements must be met. First. a more effectiVe way must be developed to

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the program to individual farm» ers. and. secondly. there must‘

be in each province a package of policies developed that are “concrete. definite. constructive and generous in relation to the need."

The Federation suggested that the way to get the program to the people is to create a special work force which would be re- cruited from the ranks of the ol. der experienced farmers who have the aptitude. the education and the freedom to take on the

Crippled Tailor Beat Him Home

JOHN MACLEOD. South Granville. told me an interesting tale of the long ago that also concerns a graveyard. Tailors went. from house to house in the old days and the fashioned mt‘n's suits and other clothing fimn the homespun cloth that the unmen wove in the o d ooms.

This particular tailor was crippled. He hadn‘t walked for many years. indeed be to be carried from one. place to an- other One nith a group of neighbors Were visiting his host for that nerind. and the talk got around to cemeteries and their Spooky. ghostly effect at the midnight hour. The. ttavi-lotr was laughing at their lea-rs. and suggesting there was nothing more ghostly or scary about a cemetery at midnight. than there was in broad daylight.

Finally the men challenged him to go bo the cemetery at midnight. He had the excuse that he couldn't. go because he couldn‘t walk. But, one of the men who was big and powerful said "Hi carry you there" and that's exactly what happened.

THE CEMETERY was well fenced. as many cemeteries “ere. and a couple of thieves were stealing sheep f'TOﬂ'I a healthy pasture field corner and putting them in the old cemetery until they had them all rounded itp. en they would divide them evcnlv and take them away. the old story relates.

when the. man carrying the. tailor reached the cemetery fnnr'f‘ he lifted him over it and said “here you go" as be lowered him to the ground on the other side. Thinking it was his com- wnic-i thie-r bringing another sheep. the man on the inside of the 'cnm said “is it fat?" l't startled the man so much that he dimmed the tailor to the ground and put for home—it was about one-half mile away—as fast as is legs would carry ' ,

But here's the best part of the old yarn. When the man reached his house the tailor. who hadn't walked for years. was home ahead o him. He. had suddenly regained his ability to run. indeed he must have ran mighty fast. for the man who had been carrying him was moving fairly rapidly himself

Syringe Fills Cartridge Pens

THIS STORY concerns my daughter Betty Carol. and her

pal lrene 'viar-imd with whom she shares a room at Kingston They are. students at Queen University. Tit-one. in a daughter M John \iacLeod who told me the story of the. tailor.

.6 girls are taking an honors cotiirse. in history and they have an unusually large amount of writing to do. with term ~. essays and the. like. ' '

V as . ng

about 10 cents—lasted only one day. sometimes less. when they were doing an imam-ally lange amount of writing.

Looking at the tiny hole in the end of the cartridge though which the ink was released to the pen. Betty Carol suggested it would be. just fine. if there was some way of refilling the cartridge with ink. through that tiny hole."

lrene. a ium'or officer in the Navy. went to a pamde next know? She came back with a hypodermic

it cuts down cos . e izhe two Scotch lassns A bottle of ink will fill many cartridges. they explain.

But the MatcLeod lass is not a Scot for nothing. The synlnge she procured in Kingston is made of gas. and a little bit of the ink sticks to it. so some is wasted. Since she came 11 she has procured some plastic syringes Ink won't stick to (thorn.

cartridge pens when they return

Boy Sees Vision At Foot Of Bed

GAnFan ROBERTS. inn: Bank told me an unionist story about a brother who saw a girl at the foot pf his bed one phht. w .

hile he was still a young led in his oar-iv eons. The gltrl cam around the end of the. . panned tip almgalde of him and pace- Iessl-y through a win the head of his bed.

11 more unusual is first young Roberts— i out» not recall his that name as I write this—went to Baton when he was a young man. where he met the and inept. m

for a time ey were never , though. 'nlo girl died while she was still a young Mir. Roberta ed a hahelor. Wlheher that had anything to do with hi

One letter Came From Austria

idirector of the Aylmer District gConcentrated Milk Prodiicei‘s'

. v _ i vidiials Assocmtion.

1 Donald Staduated' and 093’ group!

. ‘ ouainting them with con- ‘ with honors from the two Year i crete things that can be done un- [ vocational agricultural ‘ course : der ARDA to assist them.

at the Kempmne Agr'cuum'al‘ in addition. the Federation

.S- . i do f'r.tina la . .0942“ San ' g H c 55 stressed the need under ARDA

in addition. to being a pro- gressive farmer. Vicary posses-f ses a strong sense of responsi- tbility towards his communion; lserving as an elder of his} ichurch. as a school trustee. and as a director of local fair board: ' e is 35 vears of age. married

0 Flexible special credit which

isting government programs.

lH . lwith four children.

Gs vincial undertaking.

The establishment of a rural development study and training institute.

The publication and systema- tic examination of ARDA re« search ﬁndings.

January is now the month of Imeetings for a great number of: ifarm organizations. This year. lboth the Dairy Farmers of Can-: lada and the Federation of Agrto :cultu-re are meeting in Regina.‘ i'l‘lie Dairy Farmers opens on.

job. They Would work with Indi-

can be tailor-made to the. ob- .iects and criteria of rural de. velopment programs. and which cannot be obtained on 'a regular commercial basis or through ex-

A well developed information .program as a joint Federal-prov

. MOSCOW (CPI—Members of .ever, New Year‘s is observed plan for ’ rem-“entail” i“ Re'tthe Canadian embassy ataffland Russians put evergreen.

Canadian Moscow Embassy Plans Traditional Christmas in children.

no, even have I‘ no .0! Santa Claus — called Father Frost—who dresses in a nod suit

nd brings present to good So

The Russian Orthodox church celebrates Christmas in early January.

'13 m omit. moonstone nun. Doc. :4, 1m.

formation of his cabinet. out

here will celebrate Christmas in.trees in their homes the“ just comm: CABINET. . the “me “or” mime" m being Christian peoples do at

The festive occasion W . ‘Christmas. GEORGETOWN (Am—Prime marked by turkey dinners—With turkeys flown in from es m

Europe—in residences decorated by lig h t ed Christmas trees. Those having dinner at home have invited other members of the staff as their guests. All the Canadians have thus been pro-

v1ded for.

Some staff members will be away from Moscow on leave. At least four will spend the holi- day season in Western Europe while two girls have gone to Canada for their vacations.

Ambassador Robert Ford and ‘his wife plan to spend Christ- mas quietly at home in the em- bassy residence. going to a per- formance of the Bolshoi Bellet in the evening.

HAD CHILDREN'S PARTY Before Christmas. the. Fords entertained embassy personnel at a Christmas party and also gave a party for children of em- ‘ bassy personnel. 1‘ A number of embassy person-l .nel plan to attend Christmasi Eve church services. Roman I ; Catholic and Protestant services . ‘l are scheduled at different West- l ern embassies. I l Christm s is not observed by lthe atheistic Soviet state. How.

U3. AIDS E. GERMANY

BONN (AP) The United States has approved the use of American know-how to build a synthetic fibre plant in East Germany. Karl Guenther Von Base, the West German govern- ment spokesman. said that if the United States is not giving the Communist East Germanl government any credits andg that if no government guaran-l tee is involved the whole thing‘ could be regarded as a private transaction.

Christmas

Tis the season

when we pause to say “Thanks” to you, our friends. for our pleasant association during this past year. Merry Christmas! ‘ Management and Stuff MEN'S and BOYS' WEAR

Great George St. Charlottetown

members: and Robert Jordan, lands. forests and Man} portfolio The five mini-ten. or; aponeibility Da' ‘uiar. finance: an P . Chet-8b, local government. andi BIG-HEan dummed‘ . works andl The grey whale has a heart hydraulics—all United Force that weighs up to 250 pounds,

mania Forbel nut-awn mi Bridal! Gui-III bu completedi

with special re for foreign affairs.

Wm! greetings

C. Keith Pickard

Charlottetown. P.E.|.

jJan.19 and a week later the .CFA meeting gets underway.

On Jan. 21 the Eastern branch .of the CFA known as the East-i tern Conference meets in Toron-l ;to on the twenty-host. '. i To get back to more local ac- ttivities the Maritime Federation. :of Agriculture meets in Monc- ;ton on Jan. 8 and the Policy 1Committee of the CFA in 0t.-

tawa on the fourth. '

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Lightfoot said Tuesday. He said the new arrangement will pre- vent. repetitions of a large num-

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