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Tg AM~AT?AW AM qr&"" AV MW7rrAl5AVOV % Foresters Play In Town League Hockey Playoffs Pictured above are the members of the Canadian Order of Foresters hockey team who are at present in the play-offs of the town hockey league. From left to right, they are, front row: Vince Vanstone, Ken King, Lowell MacDougal, Larry Iewell; middle row: Herb Craig, Keith Shackleton, Bob Craig and Ralph Kelly; back row: Coach Fred Butch and I have already bought our tickets for the big ice show to be staged Saturday, March 14, at the Bowmanville Aràena. 1 know a lot of folks out in the country read this column, so for your benefit, I'm putting you wîse to hop right down to Bow- ýrnanville and secure your ticket for the biggest and best whing dling of an ice spectacle ever pre- »nted to the people of Durham C4unty. Have ar±y of you husky farm- ers ever seen Suzanne Morrow? Just thinking of her makes me drool. If she happens to float around on skates, wearing an ab- breviated skirt, anywhere near mny s&at, my temperature will Iprobably go so high that people tour rows back will start fan- ning themselves. We will also see Dawn Steck- ley, one of Canada's younger skating stars. whose mother is a native of Orono, 1 think. There will be a cast of one hun- dred fromn Oshawa Skating Club, besides a chap named Handley. wbo can do unhelievable stunts on stilts. J've only mentioned tbe top attractions. Tbere's a chap named Dick Button performing in Toronto at this moment. Now, if the- boys who are running tbe shindig at tbe Ai-ena are smart, they will try to get Dick to come down. He earns enormous sums as the world's top male skating star; is a student at Harvard University, and vhat he and Susie Morrow can't do on skates nobody else need try. By attending you will be help- ing a worthy cause, besides boy- ing yourself tbe biggest dollars worth of entertainment possible. We were present at the Tom- linson benefit wben 1500 people attended. And I wouldn't be sur- prised to sec 2,000 squeeze in to sec the most ambitious ice pro- gram ever presented in this county. Take a ip fromn an old bayseed, you farmers, don't wait until Saturday night, on the off chance of securing a ticket, but - -"%A Ir 19A 1) e .. 1) w1O The History, Hopes and Aims of the Ganaraska Conservation Authority Ouilined hy One Who Knows the Story Griffin, Jim Potter, Gordon ýSellers, Jimi Levitt, George Stevens, John Rice and Frank Mohun. Absent at the time the picture xvas taken were: Harold Potter, Bert Snowden, Gerald Balson, Jimmy Sedman and Carl Schwartz. -Photo by Rehder beat lb down to Dave Higgin's store before the Bowmanville folks slip ahead of you. On February 26, President O. J. Henderson scored another bull's eye when he presented to the members of the Durham County Club in Toronto: Miss Donna Gail Richards, soprano; Miss Ada S. Louden, elocutionist; Mr. Dick Lovekin, "In Days of Yore"; Mr. P. G. Might, Toronto Board of Education; Mr. H. A. Mowat, guest speaker. Ahl of bbe afore- going had two characteristics in common; charming personaliticrs and beautiful diction. Most folks will agree that, it is very unusual to have five artists on one pro- gram possessing such a nice com- bination of pleasing talents. No use of me trying to add anything to Miss Aleen Aked's well writ- ten account, cxcept to say it was- an excellent program, much en- joyed A nice gesture and much appre- ciated was the distribution of a hamper of Northern Spy apples from the Durham County or- chards of Mr. Reg Lovekin. The final meeting of the season will be beld on March 26. If any of you non-members would care to attend, go rigbt ahead, you will be made very welcome. On Marcb 4. Butch and I at- tended "Open House" in the On- // CSH-3 tario Street School also the regu- lar meeting of the Home and Sehool Assbciation, Bowmanville, where we enjoyed an excellent program, besîdes having the fun of meeting "Gladdie'" Graham, an old Army side kick whom I hadn't seen sirfce the battie of the Somme (in France), during the autumn of 1916. We dîdn't get much of a chance to have a pow- wow, but that wvîll come later. Also met an ex-school teacher that Butch and I used to like very much. We knew ber as Ruby Lancaster; she is now Mrs. Ivison Munday. I had the good fortune to sit beside ?Mrs. Ross Richards, who, laughingly, reminded me of my bread pudding days, wben she kept bouse for her Dad, on their farm at Haydon, and when bread xvas delivered right to the.,dçàor tor seven cents a loaf. I didn't forget to remind ber that she was neyer cbarged extra for any horse hairs that might be stock on the bons, raisin bread, or fancy pastry. March 5, we ambled over to the Married Couples' Club meeting in Ebenezer Cburch. Now there is a group of people wbo know how to enjoy tbemselves. Herb Os- borne gave us a fine lesson in diction, delivery and expression, when he rendered a racing, ro- mantic poem, and followed it with Rudyard Kipling's story of the faitbful native servant "Gunga Dmn". About forty years ago, every "Gunga Dmn" on every conceiv- able occasion, and most of tbem should have left the poor guy1 alone. instead of murdering him But Mr Osborne brought outJa the beautiful, poignant qualities of this story of the simple heart- cd, black skinned, dutifol regi- mental slavery. Everyone tho- roughly enjoyed the unusually good singing of the mixed quar- tette. We often heara lot about Man- vers hospitality, but we've got nothing on the benezer crowd wben it comes to cats, and friend- liness. One of tbe maie members, Normn Hannan, recently picked up a prize of $747 for sbowing Gen- eral Motors bigh priced help how to save on damnaged axle assem- bles, whîcb proves that some Ebenezans bave brains. I cao tbink of lots of ideas alrigbt, but thcy cost me moncy, instead of making me some. T1C RE T S TO EVERYWHERE Air. Rail or Steamnship Consult, JURY & LOVELL Bowm an ville 15 King 5t. W. - Phone 778 Square Dancinc9 To Play Part At Spring Show Square dance sets of Junior Farmers and their feminine part- ners of seven counties will head- line tbc variety entertainment of the Thursday nigbt (March 19) program of the Central Ontario Spring Show at Peterborough. .Only Frontenac and Lennox- Addington bave signified they are passing up the music and the ho- deebo. The competing dancers are from: Ontario, Durham, Victoria, Peterborough, Hastings, North- umberland and Prince Edward. In some of tbe counties, as in Hastings, preliminary rounds de- cided the representative finalists. Peterborough. Junior Farm- ers' Choir will make their first public appearance on tbis pro- gram, and the other numbers are being providcd by Durham and Victoria. Master of ceremonjes will be Bill Weir of Omemec. Commercial exhibits will be judgcd Tuesday. Hon. F. S. Thom- as, Ontario's new Minister of Agriculture, will open the Show Wedncsday at 2 p.m., foilowed by talks by Dr. W. E. Tossel and Prof. D. R. Campbell of OAC, and a panel discussion on The Business of Farming with Dr. H. L. Patterson of the Depactment of Agriculture, Toronto, chair- man. OAC Speakers Prof. R. G. Knox and Prof. N. R. Richards of OAC will be the speakers Thursdav aflernoon pre- ceding the panel discussion at 2:30 p.m. on "Land Use", with Watson H. Porter of London, C hairmaii. With himn on the panel wilI be: Prof. Knox, James R. Henderson of Kingston. Prof. Richards, Doug Parks of Kempt- ville Agricultural School, and Tom Dickinson of Ottawa. Sale of ail seed in the Show will begin Friday at 1:30 p.m. President Robert Armstrong of Cavan is boping for the support of a large number of farmers from the area of the former Quinte District Seed Fair. Only their intcrest and presence can maintain it and*ensure it.s per- mancnce, lho said. When Help Is Most Needed Red Cross Is Right On The lob No one knows for sure what fate may bave in store. Disaster miay strike anywhcre; tragedy enter any home. But it is certain that when belp is needed, the Canadian Red Cross xiii always be on the job. Red Cross is a good neigbbour. In time of disaster, it provides shelter. food and clothing... blood to save lives . .. transporta- tion for veterans in bospital... comforts and training in useful crafts for hospitalized veterans hospital care in remote parts of the couintr -v. . . edutat ional pro- grammes sucb as swîmmning and water safetY, first aid, home nurs- ing, to help Canadians towards self -protection. These and other vital services of Red Cross bave .-'e lives and mnado other ives brighter in the past. The' work inust he contin- ued in 19,53. Sc, x,,hain the Red Cross eanvasser raIls . . vuare belping your1FSelf and your fam- ily wben you help the Red Cross. The history, hopes and aims of the Ganaraska River Conserva- tion Authority, in and for the wel- fare of this community, were impressively outlined in a brief address last week to the Port Hope Rotary Club by Mr.Stur Ryan, Q.C., well knon Pr Hope barrister. .One of the founders of the org- anization, for several years its secretary, and at present its vice- chairman, Mr. Ryan began his historical outline of district con- ditions away back in the glacial period of 15,000 years ago. The talk was made more realistic by the use of colour maps of the ter- ritoiýy locating the locally well known population centres and municipalities, also the course of the Ganaraska River and its tributaries. But the vividness of the story was vastly increased by the useof a plaster scale model in relief, displaying the rough char- acter of the terrain of the entire watershed. This model clearly disclosed the general slope of the land along the escarpment extendng from west of Lake Scugog to the Trent River, which indicatcd a southerly drop in altitude of ovcr a thous- and feet. The fact that the glacial deposit along the height of this great ridge bas been sand, said Mr, Ryan, explained wby soul erosion had been sýo serious, as swollcn river and rains had car- ried away the top soul into val- icys and lake, and left a scarred and wasted land surface behind. Thus, with settiers decimating the forests and erosion denuding 'the hilîs and fields, came the collapse of agriculture in large areas, and the removal of population. The inereasing interest in and study of conservation, said the speaker, bas shown the rehabil- itating value of forestation, also its ability to control flooding.1 Governments began to be inter- ested and to make recommenda- tions and, because the depreda- tions of the Ganaraska River were widely publicized at the time, tlic ground was laid for the organiz- ing of the Authority in 1946. The Authority, said Mr. Ryan, was a joint enterprise in which the partncrs are the Provincial Government and the municipal- ities chiefly concerned, namely, the Town of Port Hope and the Townships of Hope, Clarke, Cav- an, Manvers and Hamilton. The original idea was to create the Ganaraska River Forest of ap- proximately 20,000 acres of erod- ed land on the watershed, to stop the abnormal run-off, and to con- struct dams at strategic points to control flooding. In the estimation of the ex- perts, based on more recent ob- servation. Mr. Ryan thought the value and effectiveness of dams had been over-rated. And so, as they are terrifically expensive to build, and as the municipalities involved had no such big money to spend, the dams had been omit- ted, in favour of dependence upon the slowor but more constructive rnethod of forestation. Mr. Ryan told of the legal mechanism set up b3i which the Ganaraska River Authority be- came the buying agent of the province in acquiring sub-marg- mnal land for planting to trees; also of the five-year agreements for operation by which the Au- thority, the Department of Lands and Forests and the six munici- palities became partners in this community enterprise. He explained that according to the agreements, Port Hope, Hope and Clarke are assessed $1,400 annually; Manvers and Cavan $300 each, and Hamilton $200, to raise the Authority's yearly budget of $5,000; that thEb De- partment of Lands and Forests does the planting and managing, and the Province pays for it; also that the Provice pays haîf the cost of buying the land, as well as the full value of any timber ai- ready on the properties. He described how thîs buying and planting programme was go- ing on from year to year, with a growing young forest gradually increasing in extent.* By te end of 1952 the Authority had pur- chased 1,000 acres in Cavan, 2,493 in Clarke, 2,354 iii Hope and 500 in Manvers, a total of 6,347 acres, of which 2,433 acres now is in plantation. 2,630 acres in wood- lot,' and 1,284 acres remained to be planted. This ineant the planting during the six years of the Authority's existence of 2,- 251,000 trees. He remarked that the Ganar- aska River Forest adjoins the .Durham County Forest of 1,409 acres, wbich is entirely in trees, the whole making one immense forest of approximately 7,756 acres. Mr. Ryan stated thîs pro- gramme was expected to be con- tinued for somne years, until the forest. now about 10 square miles in extent, would be tw,ýe that sîze. He spoke of some' of hl diffi- culties encounitercd, siyç~ illeg: al tree-cutting and conti ing de- structive soil erosion. For ins- tance, one great gully that had destroyed many acres was begun in a heavy thunderstorm only 50 yiýars ago. Now its sides were so steep it defied correction. Mr. Ryan erriphasized thé high hopes enterta1hcd of the rehabil- itating value of the great forest of trees, its effectiveness in proteet- ing Port Hope from flooding, and its importance in the economy of the district. He hoped steps could be taken to increase the wildlife of the forest, also the bet- ter protection of the streams and their valued trout. 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