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THE WINDSOR DAILY STAR, SATURDAY, JANUARY 10, 19597 lighway 39 Route in Belle River lUnchanged "JTiM jr si I County of Essex By ERNIE BEZAIRE Since the war, agriculture has increased its output per man by 75 percent, J. B. Nelson, associate director of the farm economics and statistics branch of the Ontario Department of Agriculture, told a Leamington meeting this week. Mr. Nelson said it was largely accomplished by machinery and industry would love to match this record.

He might have made another observation too, which is that if industry had managed to do it, the farmer, along with everyone else, wouldn't have been caught in the inflationary spiral. As it is the farmer certainly has had a poor reward for efficiency. With the possible exception of for at home, that's where most prefer to be. MUNICIPAL AID Approximately $152,000 of the required money for the construction of the hospital has bepn subscribed by municipalities. Municipal councils and the counties of Essex and Kent have indicated that they would support the building program to that extent.

Unfortunately, the hospital can't be built with the $152,000, which may be paid over during the next 10 years. Some way will have to be found to convert pledges into collateral at the bank. This problem was encountered by Leamington and Mer-sea Twp. when the arena was built and the two municipalities assisted financially in the building. Some similar method, though not necessarily the same one, will be worked out left, J.

H. Chasley, clerk, who administered the oath, Mr. St Pierre, Rev. A. P.

Maren-tette, parish priest, and Mr. George. (Star Staff Photo) SWORN TO OFFICE Reeve John George and the new member of Belle River Council, Wilfred St Pierre, take the declaration of office at the inaugural council meeting. From Reeve Says No Change Intended Widening of Road To Require Work On Village Street BELLE RIVER Present plan call for widened Highway 39 to retain its route along the village's main street, Reeve John George said at the inaugural meeting of council. It was originally proposed that the highway enter the village on the main street and then turn south along the Belle River Rd.

to Highway 2. This was opposed by village council. Reeve George said he understood the highway would bypass Tecumseh and St. Clair Beach and join its present route at the new bridge at Puce. It would then continue along the existing route through Belle River and then swing south to Highway 2.

He said the widening of the highway would require a lot of work along the village street. Other points mentioned by Reeve George in his address included reorganization of the Chamber of Commerce the fourth attempt since he has been on council and revitaliza-tion of the village planning board. He said council must give consideration to the employment of a young married man to assist the clerk and treasurer. A woman is working as a part time assistant. The reeve indicated the man chosen should be capable of taking over one of the positions in a few years.

Another proposal, brought on by the comparatively heavy snowfall this winter, was the purchase of a larger tractor by the village. It would be equipped with a blade and loader. SERVING IN NAVY Lt. (S) Arnold L. Steed, son of Mr.

and Mrs. Charles Steed, Essex, is serving in the headquarters of the Atlantic Command of the Royal Canadian Navy at Halifax. He attended Essex High School before joining the navy in July, 1941. He is in charge of the NATO Registry and is shown as he checks documentation with Wren Elizabeth Anne O'Sullivan, of Hamilton, his secretary. (National Defence Photo) Council Bogs Down On New Committees Defer Decision at Belle River; Name Officials for 1959 BELLE RIVER Numerous appointments were made by Belle River Council at its inaugural meeting, with the major problem attempts to set up committees.

Annual Meeting of Shareholders The Royal Bank of Canada Members failed to agree on the makeup of the two commit tees of council and appointments were delayed for two weeks. Suspect Released No Charge Laid In Bond Case A man held for investigation of obtaining money under false pretences in connection with the multi-million-dollar robbery of a Brockville bank was released Friday when police did not bring a charge against him. Ivan Batten, 45, of Birmingham, was picked up Thursday by Michigan State Police on information from Ontario Provincial Police that he had cashed two $1,000 bearer bonds Dec. 20 in Essex. Detective Ralph Smith said the bonds were part of the loot taken in May last year from the Brockville bank.

Batten said he did not know the bonds were part of the Brockville bank loot Det Smith said some of the $11,000,000 in stocks and securities taken from the bank have since been recovered. He said about $2,000,000 in loot James Muir urges more flexible tax system, with wider control of money and credit to curb chronic inflation West can set an example of t(free economy in action" by keeping markets open to underdeveloped countries To Replace Cut Trees Societv Plans For Kingsville KINGSVILLE The Kingsville Horticultural Society will replace trees which have been cut on Kingsville streets during the past few years, it was decided at the initial meeting of the society st the public library hall. Friday evening. Dr. E.

J. Dupuis was appointed acting medical officer of health and will serve on the board of health with Reeve John George, Arnold Lalonde and J. H. Chasley as secretary. Dave Ouellette is sanitary and weed inspector and Charles Gauthier building inspector.

Appointed to the public lib beef, milk and pro-Mr. Bezaire ducts which contain a high input of hand labor, foodstuff prices at the farm level are as low as they were before the war. It was at the same meeting that Frank Archibald of Chatham, vice-president of St Clair Grain and Feeds touched on another aspect of farm production, pointing out that in 1820 a farmer produced enough food to feed 4.12 persons, and that by 1920, this figure had increased to 8.27 persons. In 1947, the one farmer produced enough food to feed 14.13 persons and by 1957, production had reached a level where one farmer's production fed 23.55. Where there was a gradual increase in production in the first 100 years, the jump in the last 10 was greater than it had been in the whole previous century.

From these observations, it follows that if the trend continues, fewer farmer will produce more food in the years to come. Mr. Archibald forsees bulk delivery of feedstuffs to the farmer in another five years. The feed will be dumped into self feeders as required, eliminating handling and enabling the farmer to watch the birds and animals eat more effectively and further boost production per man unit This fantastic progress has been brought about without any appreciable changes in the methods and ways of financing a farm operation. This has had to be renewed every generation.

Unlike companies, farms aren't financed by the sale of stock and their financing is still limited to the ability of the individual. This is still true despite the fact that financial requirements are possibly 10 times greater today than they were at the turn of the century when a good 100-acre farm seldom cost more than $12,000 for land and buildings. The farm with buildings then represented two-thirds of the capital outlay, where today, despite the higher prices for good land, it represents only one half. Farm investments in Essex County run as high as rary board were Reeve George, Dr. T.

F. Wiese, Councillor George Rittenhouse, L. H. De "Chronic inflation is the great la Frenier and O. C.

Gervais. est single threat to Canada economic development," declared James Muir, Chairman Councillors Henry Lambert and Gilbert Lanoue will serve on the Tree with suitable characteristics for street planting and of more than one variety will parks board. and President of The Royal Bank of Canada, at the bank's Annual Meeting in Montreal on Thursday, January 8th. Review be selected, Mrs. Douglas Layman, president of the society, explained.

"In selecting RISK-TAKER MERITS REWARD "Adequate reward for productive effort and risk is an important condition for eco. nomic development," said Mr. Muir. "Government, with the aid of tax experts, should make a thorough study of our complex tax structure with a view to improvement both in the distribution of the burdens and in the allocation of the net rewards for productive activity. "I would like now to move ing the conditions which must be met to ensure continuing economic growth, high level more than one variety, you're still is in circulation.

The Brockville Trust and Savings Company was robbed last May 3 by burglars who cleaned out two large vaults and a number of safety deposit boxes. not as likely to have all your employment and a stable currency, Mr. Muir said, "Regard trees wiped out by disease. "At the moment, it's the elm disease which is causing its ravages, but in 15 years from now, it may be some other to more specific cases. If less of the skill and energy of the monetary authorities, an effective monetary policy is impossible so long as consumer credit is free to move in the opposite direction.

The Central Bank contracts credit in booms and expands in recession. Unregulated consumer credit expands in booms, contracts in recession. Those dependent on trees which will be preyed upon," Mrs. Layman added. Other officers elected were: Harry McKee, first vice-president.

Miss Beth Valentine; second vice-president and secretary; Miss Eleanor Bowes, treasurer. Royal Bank Assets over $4 Billion K. M. Sedgewick, General Manager, reported that Royal Bank assets had passed the $4 billion mark, and that capital funds now totalled nearly "Deposit figures in Canada have, of course, in-creased markedly," said Mr. Sedgewick, "and we are particularly pleased to see substantial growth during the year in our personal savings deposits where the figures are larger by $148 million odd than those of a year ago.

As at date of the Balance Sheet, our depositors numbered 2,927,121, indeed a source of much satisfaction" to us." Mortgage loans arranged by the Royal Bank had increased by 22 to nearly $265,000,000, and shareholders now numbered 22,156, an increase of 2,200 in the year. Referring to the bank's continuing programme of new construction and the improvement of existing premises, Mr. Sedgewick noted that important new offices, now under construction, would be opened in 1959 at Charlottetown, Montreal and Vancouver and that within a few months work would commence on new main offices in Ottawa and Windsor and on an important branch office in Edmonton. BUILDING PROGRAMME "During 1958 we opened 33 new branches in Canada and four outside Canada three of which were in Cuba and one in Puerto Rico. We have completed major additions to our branches in Bridgetown, Barbados, Nassau, Bahamas and at a number of other points.

Work is underway now on new main office buildings for Kingston, Jamaica, and Cuidad Trujillo, Dominican Republic. Also our Bogota, Columbia main office is being expanded and completely modernized." The recent appointment of a Far Eastern Representative, with headquarters in Hong Kong, said Mr. Sedgewick, had placed The Royal Bank, of Canada in a position to provide on-the-spot assistance to foreign traders who wished to take advantage of what Mr. Sedgewick felt to be "opportunities for further important expansion of trade between Canada and Far Eastern countries." Reeve Geoorge also stressed the necessity of a larger intake for the village water supply. "The present intake is too small and we may have to extend it further out into the lake," he said.

The treasurer, Charles Gauth-ier, who is also waterworks superintendent, agreed. Truck Firm Pays $600 On 3 Coimts CHATHAM Three more charges of offences against the Motor Vehicle Act and the P.C.V. were registered against A and Express Lines Ltd. of 618 St Clair Point Edward, Friday bringing their total in the past two years to 40. The company was charged with hauling fish and produce from Winnipeg to Detroit without having licence to do so and also charged with operating un-licenced semi-trailers.

In the past two years they bank credit have to bear the full brunt of credit restriction while others enjoy a spending spree. To break up this unholy alliance of injustice and futility I have repeatedly urged that Board Names Committees Start Near KTNGSVILLE With the reopening of tobacco sales warehouses on Monday at Delhi, Aylmer and Tillsonburg, leaf processing plants will go back into operation. The Hodge Tobacco Company, which employs several hundred persons at Kingsville, expects to call back its employees Thursday morning. Some of the leaf processors have made use of the period in which they couldn't get bright leaf tobacco to process the bur-ley crop. It was able to move into processing plants while Cue cured leaf hasnt been available.

The last flue tobacco sold in the warehouse-was on Dec. 23. monetary and credit control should embrace a wider area of our financial world than they labour becomes more productive, higher wages can be paid without inflation. The increase is both an incentive and a deserved reward. If risks are taken to expand production in some direction, the opportunity for a correspondingly large reward is not only prerequisite but justified to the extent of the risk-taker's contribution to general welfare.

"I would like to join those who are urging the Government in considering the report of the Borden Commission of Energy not to move hastily to put a public-utility strait-jacket on one of the most important contributors to Canada's risk-capital investment: The oil and gas industry a risk industry that has been responsible in large measure for Canada's LEAMINGTON There were now do. few changes in the striking of committees of the Leamington FORMIDABLE TASK District High School Board at "Until fundamental budget $250,000. OTHER CHANGES changes can be made the Gov. ernment must finance its defi It was Mr. Nelson who remarked that in the early years of this century when a young its initial organization meeting.

The committees are as follows, with the first person named being the committee chairman and the second named, vice-chairman: Property, J. R. Dean, Robert Hewitt, Joe Laforet William Trussetter and Evan Bowman; farmer looked about the country Private Bill Seeks Wider Pelee Power PELEE ISLAND Pelee Island's township council, already one of the most ambitious in Southwestern Ontario, is seeking to extend its activities. Latest proposal is a private bill in the Ontario Legislature which would allow the township to operate the car and passenger ferry. The contract for the ship's construction has been awarded to Erieau Shipbuilding for $448,000.

This comes on the heels of an announcement that the township has offered $5,000 toward the cost of reopening Leamington Airport. Council would have a voice in the control of such an airport. In addition to normal services, the township operates a pumping system to keep marshes drained, owns the island telephone system, and operates the municipal airport here. Under the proposed private bill, Pelee would be in a position to compete with a private contractor in a bid to operate the new vessel. If successful, the township would have control of a transportation system on' land, on the sea and in the air.

The township is financially sound, partly due to receipts from the annual pleasant hunt, which makes Pelee the envy of-many other municipalities in the province. Flyers, Riverside Clash in Ice Tilt LEAMINGTON Leamington Flyers, sorely needing a win to get back into contention in their O.HJL Junior Border Grouping play host to Riverside Regents at Leamington Arena tonight at 8:30. Riverside, with a victory, could move into a tie with Windsor Mic Macs for first place in the four-team loop. for a 1 hard working girl, her lather usually gave her two brilliant economic showing. cows and a sow, and the young husband, after going to a farm cafeteria, William Trussetter, River Rink Scheme Set sale or two, had a team of horses and a few bushels of Forest Hyatt, Harold Baker and Robert Hewitt; school manage since the second world war.

"Uncertainty bred of fear, fear of crippling regulation, can cut off risk investment and destroy all hope in the free world for sustained and healthy economic growth." seed. The young couple could start then out farming. BELLE RIVER Weather have paid fines from $10 to $50 which in the opinion of Magistrate Ivan B. Craig was "cheaper than buying a licence." "These people have got to conform to the laws regulating their business just the same as anybody else. They are hurting the honest truckers who are very much in the majority." The offences carry punishment of up to $1,000 fine or one year in jail.

On each of the three charges The hard working gal is still ahead of the running today, particularly if she has a good two recent events of special interest concern the French job. But the price of the two ment, Rev. L. F. O'Neil, Evan Bowman, Jos Laforet, Robert Sanderson and Bruce Cowan.

Transportation, Harold Baker, Robert Sanderson, Bruce Cowan, J. R. Dean and Forest Hyatt; finance, John Adamson, Rev. L. F.

O'Neil, J. R. Dean, William Trussetter and Harold Baker. Mr. Baker is also vice-chairman.

Morgan Brown is chairman of the board. franc and the pound sterling. cits by selling bonds to the general public, the chartered banks, or the Bank of Canada. The shift from bonds to equities, in spite of the relative attractiveness of bond yields, rules out the general public. The need for liquidity inhibits sales to the banks, except for the shorter maturities.

Purchases of securities by the Bank of Canada, whether from the general public, the chartered banks, or in this case the Government finances government debt through an increase in the money supply. Thus at a time when inflationary pressure is growing, the indicated policy for the Bank of Canada, monetary restraint may run directly counter to the financial needs of the Government It is this formidable task of steering between Scylla and Charybdis, between failure of monetary policy and failure of fiscal policy which, in the months ahead, will try to the limit the imagination and resourcefulness of those charged with the problem of government finance. "But surely it is not beyond the wit of our fiscal experts in government and elsewhere to devise a system that will minimize the role of the business cycle in determining the size and nature of government spon permitting, Village Council will assist with an ice sheet for skating and hockey on the river. Work already has been done at a spot on the river but the problem of flooding existed. Lighting had been installed privately and the ice scraped.

The 'suggestion was broached to council by the fire chief, Clifford George. Council agreed when he opposed the use of cows and the sow can barely buy a good mechanical refrigerator at today's prices. Dr. E. K.

Lyon, of Leamington, who guided the building of "Devaluation of the rrencn franc was inevitable. Now it remains to be seen how stable the new rate will be. Naturally the company was fined $200 and $15.50 costs for a total of $600 in fines and $46.50 costs. this will depend upon how the present Leamington District firmly the internal economy of Memorial Hospital wasn't ap The charges were laid by inspectors at the weigh scales on palled by the $770,000 price tag the country can oe ouut up ana upon how faithfully the people will accept the new restrictions they must endure to come for the proposed addition to the Charge Dismissed SARNIA An impaired driv Highway 2 west of Chatham. enterprise is sufficiently stron to achieve what we might call "escape velocity" independent of the temporary rocket-thrust of economic aid.

Without fundamental changes, greatly expanded aid fanned by over-enthusiasm, if not emotional compulsion, may have perverse effects, not only in the inflation-ridden West, but in the under ing charge against a Point Ed the fire truck to flood the ice surface. The small waterworks pump will be used instead so as to keep the fire truck ready to carry out its primary role. through successfully. "The Immediate significance of Britain's move toward con Club Announces ward man was dismissed following trial in magistrate's court here Friday. The charge was laid against vertibility must not be exag Draw Winners gerated.

All she has done is to make formal what has informally been more or less the LEAMINGTON Officials of George W. Million, 38, of 502J developed countries themselves. Barn ire Loss SL Clair St, after he had been case, viz, put Canadian and the Leamington Police Athletic Club announced that Clifford Wickwire, 24 Wilkinson Leamington, is winner of the checked by Point Edward police, Dec. 29. U.S.

sterling, so-caneo, and Transferable sterling in the Placed at $8,000 "I think we must raise the question whether earmarking more aid is best for East Asians or the West until much more same bracket This means that sored economic activity. Surely WALLACEBURG Fire de all non-sterling area holders of hospital nor the financing of it He said that with an investment of $550,000, the original cost of the hospital, plus this addition, the board could raise a few thousand through a mortgage to complete the addition if it had to do so. He also referred to the need for increased facilities and recalled that in December, the hospital in Leamington had as many as 15 empty beds but that as soon as the general hospital insurance plan went into effect at the first of the year, the beds were filled and patients had to be put in the hall again. Undoubtedly some of the patients who, filled the empty beds and the ones in the hall has been done both in educa a more flexible tax system stroyed a large wooden barn pounds are now in the same tion and in the careful prepara could be devised which would and contents on the property of V. adjust tax rates to counter William Kerr, R.

R. 4, Wallace- tion of programmes that achieve a proper balance between agricultural and industrial develop, ment" burg, early Friday. boat, which is to say they can freely dispose of their sterling for dollars or any other currency at the going rate within the support points established by the British authorities, viz cyclical disturbances, not only quickly and effectively, but without arbitrarily changing the relative importance of the gov. Damage has been estimated at $8,000. The big question, said Mr.

Muir, was whether the "uncom Lost in the blaze were eight ernment sector in our economic mitted" underdeveloped coun life. Such a system, combined head of cattle, 10 pigs, a land i 1 1 y. Vy ra- $2.78 to 2.82 U. S. "One important outcome is that London can deal freely and with a more comprehensive tries would try to develop a private enterprise economy as an instrument of growth.

This coverage by our monetary auth iiiiuvaiui, a uuiuuer vi small hand tools, between 10 and 12 jtons of hay, and about 1,000 bushels of grain. first prize high fidelity set in their recent fund raising draw. Second prize, a $50 gift certificate, was won by Harold Dun-more, R.R. 2, Wheatley. Club officials voiced appreciation to all who contributed toward the support of the club's work among junior boys of the community.

They sponsor the PeeWee Baseball Club, and the Police Hockey Club, for boys in the 10-12 year age group. Court Gives Remand CHATHAM Jerry Sovie, 17, of 16 Erie St, Leamington, appeared briefly in Magistrate's Court here Friday on a charge of breaking and entering and directly with all currencies and again get back to where she was before the war as the most were persons who had waited for Jan. 1. The reasoning that orities in the regulation of credit could, I think, provide an economic climate for high-level employment and economic growth and at the same time protect the value of our currency from the ravages of hospitals will be bulging at the seams because of the new hos pital plan is predicated on the chronic inflation." idea that with coverage being more widespread, utilization of CONVERTIBILITY Referring to the recent de hospital facilities will increase. depended, he said, "not merely on expanded economic aid but on the example set by the West, and by a good example I mean not merely that we set our own house in order but that we keep the economies of the West open to the goods produced by the underdeveloped countries.

Otherwise we can only expect these countries to adopt a policy of self-sufficiency with its inevitable counterpart, centralized control of the economic system. In other words, if we would have underdeveloped countries abroad develop along private-enterprise lines, we must set them an example of the free economy in action." 3Ian Gets Probation In Assault Case SARNIA John R. Scott, 37, of 118 Alfred St, was placed on six months probation on a charge of assaulting his wife, when he appeared in magistrate's Court for sentence Friday. Scott was charged Dec. 6 when his wife complained to police that he had by "act or important foreign exchange market in the world.

"The great hope is that these latest developments will hasten the day when the U.K. can throw all shackles overboard and make the pound free and fully convertible for everybody inside, as well as outside the sterling area." FOREIGN AID "Aid to underdeveloped countries," said Mr. Muir, "is useless unless it leads to sustained, and self-sustaining development; and fundamental social changes in the underdeveloped country are required before tbe spirit of That may only be partly true. People, generally speaking, valuation of the franc, and Britain's move toward convertibility, Mr. Muir said, "One of the most important devices for theft and was remanded in cus don't usually find anything won derful about being in a hospital.

ensuring the mobility of invest tody until Jan. 14 for trial. Sovie was charged with entering the premises of the There are exceptions, of course, ment funds, capital goods, con PASTOR WELCOMED Rev. John Vandemeer, formerly of Barrie was inducted as pastor of the Christian Reformed Church at a special service at Essex. The congregation comprising 70 Dutch immigrant families has built an $18,000 manse near the new church which opened a year ago.

From left, Elder Teumis Schinkel greets Mr. and Mrs. Vandemeer. sumer goods and services among but invariably they have to be sick before they go and require care which they cannot get at gesture" threatened to use vio the nations of the world is a freely operating foreign ex Powell Lumber Blenheim, on Jan. 8.

He pleaded not guilty to the charge. lence toward her. home. If they could be cared change market. In this context.