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Ruste surprised at call before Commons committee SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1971 PAGE 31 The Herald John SCHMIDT Agricultural Alberta cent of the broiler allotment in Alberta and 81 per cent of the poultry processing facilities in that province. He said if negotiations are successful the co-op "would control 81 per cent of the poultry industry in Alberta, 65 per cent of the industry in Mantobia and 80 per cent in Saskatchewan as well as having control of a major poultry company in B.C." He said the major concern is that the potential western stranglehold on the poultry industry by the Co-op comes when the Commons Committee is considering national marketing legislation that would enable stabilization and orderly marketing of agricultural products. EDMONTON (CP) Henry Ruste, Alberta agriculture minister, expressed surprise Friday at a recommendation that he be called before the House of Commons agriculture committee in Ottawa. The recommendation was made Thursday at a committee meeting here, called to discuss the proposed Marketing Board Bill, which Mr. Ruste did not attend.

Mr. Ruste said he had been in touch with federal Agriculture Minister Bud Olson and also informed Bruce Beer, committee chairman, that he would not be present at the Edmonton meeting. The minister said he had made it clear he would make his own presentation in Ottawa. Mr. Ruste said Alberta had accepted the legislation in principle.

Mr. Beer, Liberal chairman of the committee, said during hearings in Vancouver Friday that if Mr. Ruste, was subpoenaed "it would be the first time a provincial minister has been called before a Commons Committee, to my knowledge." The motion to call Mr. Ruste was made by Cliff Downey (PC-Battle River) during the committee's hearings in Edmonton. Mr.

Downey said some of the committee members want to question the Alberta minister about the Alberta government's loan of approximately $6 million to the Alberta Poultry Marketing Co-operative. Mr. Downey said the co-op now controls William Scott Ltd. of Vancouver, which controls about 35 per cent of the B.C. broiler slaughter and has been negotiating to take over major poultry companies in Saskatchewan and Manitoba.

It already controls 79 per cent of the Alberta poultry hatchery business, 37 per Three things the majority of members of the Western Stock Growers Association don't like are rampaging snowmobilers, restrictions on the inter-provincial movement of feed grain and compulsory warble fly campaigns. At the 75th annual meeting in Banff earlier this week, cattle men said hikers, picknickers, trespassers and sportsmen are giving them enough trouble as it is. But those snowmobilers! They are riding the range like mavericks. They asked the attorney-general's department to provide stronger deterrjnts for the problem by increasing the fines for trespassing or stricter PADOS VOLKSWAGEN NO DOWN PAYMENT ON NEW AND USED VW't 7004 Macleod Trail 255-6681 Alberta's Great Moments Ill im 1 W'j r'iii i- iin flj i mm are E. A.

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C. Dixon, centre, of RR 8, Edmonton, was elected president of the Alberta Dairymen's Association earlier this week. With him entorcemeni oi existing laws. The perennial call for removal of feed grain from the pricing and control of the Canadian Wheat Board again went out. However, Jim Lore of Carstairs added a new twist to the debate.

He suggested that since the grain growers asked for the wheat board set-up and the government was unlikely to change the act without consulting them, the stock growers should consult them, too. Mr. Lore suggested many grain growers have come to the realization some of these restrictions aren't in the interests of the grain growers and they would be glad to see some of them go. Riel revolt veteran farmers paid AT M-HOOL dies in bed aged 104 JIM LORE seek grower support Return to Banff asked While many of those at the WSGA meeting were in sympathy with cutting the incidence of warble flies which damage meat and hides of cattle, the majority wanted to have nothing to do with the compulsory spraying campaigns initiated by the government at the present time. Their attitude was if the majority in a municipality want it and wish to initiate a campaign, we'll support it but not till men.

Although there were some trepidations at first about holding the convention mere, one thing the cattle men and their wives do like is the Banff Springs Hotel. The wives got a resolution onto the floor to come back to the big old hotel in 1972. slept on straw in railway flat cars. He said sleighs were used to haul soldiers across the gaps of the yet uncompleted railway to Western Canada. His regiment was part of the force which met Riel and the Metis at Lake Batoche and Fish Creek near Winnipeg in May, 1885.

"Fish Creek was a peculiar place," Mr. Mills recalled. "There were 35-foot banks on either side of the river and the rebels had trenches along the water's edge. Our troops had to shoot downwards and all of our wounded were hit above the waist." He recalled seeing Riel after his capture. "He had piercing dark eyes and a mop of black hair.

He looked about 45 and was always twitching." Riel, captured May 15, 1885, was hanged at Regina. Mr. Mills, on returning to public life, ran a book store in London and later joined the accounting staff of Victoria Hospital. He retired at the age of 70. In recent years, he had suffered some loss of sight and hearing.

LONDON, Ont. (CP) William (Billy) Mills, last surviving participant in the 1885 Riel Rebellion, died in hospital Thursday night. He would have celebrated his 105th birthday Feb. 24. A spokesman at Westminster Veterans Hospital said Mr.

Mills died following a two-month struggle with pneumonia. He joined the 7th Regiment of Fusilliers of London, in 1884 as a corporal and later became a sergeant. He and other members of his regiment answered one of the most curious calls to arms in history at midnight, April, 1, 1885. Buglers mounted on bicycles rode through London, alerting the regiment which quickly gathered in a drill hall to prepare for action in the Northwest insurrection by Louis Riel and his band of Metis Indians. "I was no drummer boy," Mr.

Mills recalled in a recent interview. "I was a front-line soldier." It took the regiment, part of a force, many days to reach their destination. Mr. Mills recalled that the men Herald Staff Writer) HIGH RIVER -It was pay day Friday for 20 High River area farmers who completed a four-week management training course organized by the Canada Manpower Centre. J.

C. Larson, farm counsellor from the Calgary office, handed out cheques in compensation for their leaving farms for five hours a day, five days a week. Single men were paid on the basis of $43 a week. Men with a wife and three children received top payment of $87 a week. Similar courses were held in some 17 other Southern Alberta farming centres, some of them on a more intensive 12-week curriculum which included production management.

For Alberta it was a pilot project. Similar training has been offered in Saskatchewan and Manitoba. Farm and Ranch Management Consultants Ltd. of Calgary, headed by D. J.

Mc-Kinnon, had a contract for providing the course at High River, Vulcan, Olds, Rimbey Eckville. Jim Lore of Car-stairs, a principal in Farm and Ranch Management Con-ultants, was instructor at Olds and course co-ordinator. Instructor here was Gary Sargent. good old-fashioned flavour for nearly half a century. So call for Lethbridge Enjoy your own Great Moments with Alberta's original Pilsner.

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No reduction in rates was granted. This resulted in the national transportation committee being revitalized and attached to the Canadian Cattlemen's Association. The committee may be needed to tackle a general 6-per-cent freight increase scheduled for March 1. CP Rail continues to upgrade and streamline its stockyard facilities at Toronto and St. Boniface, Man.

It is attempting to move livestock from St. Boniface to Toronto in less than 36 hours to eliminate a feed and water stop-over required by law at White River. Bob Porter of Irvine, chairman of the health committee, wondered if it paid ranchers to pre-condition calves for shipment to Eastern markets. The buyers in Eastern Canada feel it does but they aren't willing to pay a premium for such calves. This, he said, has caused Western producers to be reluctant to spend much money on this treatment.

However, Mr. Porter said, there will probably emerge a standard practice in future but until producers and buyers agree on a specific standard, "it will no doubt continue on a hit-and-miss basis." Feedlot pollution worrisome Pollution by feedlots is becoming a concern of the fish and game groups and public at large, Frank Marr of Twin Butte, chairman of the fish and game committee, reported. Many feedlots are located in valley bottoms with streams running through them. He said some of the feedlots may have to be redesigned in the near future a real headache. As far as Glen Armitage of Red Deer is concerned, there are a few too many "spivs" in the business.

He is chairman of the feeder committee. These spivs get a commission of the old cow without putting on a pound of beef, he alleges. "Cattle feeders would like to see curtailment of a situation in which livestock dealers buy and package lots of cattle containing sick animals, and run them from one market to another," he said. "I think it should be mandatory the name of the consignor is on the sale ticket with no pen names added. The place for sick animals is to an inspected slaughter house rather than chasing them around the country." He told the story of one cow which started out in Medicine Hat and 14 sales later ended up in Grande Prairie.

Beef carcass defined now Rustling is still a big problem. At a meeting with Attorney General Edgar Gerhart, the WSGA rustling committee under Jack Butler extracted a promise from the minister he would bring to the attention of judges the fact the stock men were complaining about the leniency with which rustling cases is being handled. Mr. Gerhart said he could not tell a judge what he could do in his court. One of the most active committees was that on marketing headed by Eoin Chisholm of Strathmore.

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