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A deodorized skunk ap propriately named Scenthia 'DePew is one of the fea- tured pets in a grade six classroom cum zoo at Wex . Mar uis Wheat Research tris: scvesze ot canada ana), GrAsGow (cP) -- tt sounds in demonstration tacts." like some avante-garde compos-| Twenty-two engineering stu-| Whereas Lewis lived in aca o 7 | H ] d W In anadian West United States er. The noise from a construc-| ~ e pe Marquis is still grown on tion site disturbed the Scottish} By THE CANADIAN PRESS Centennial Year marks the 100th anniversary of. the birth of a man whose contribution to Canadian agriculture helped to win the West Marquis wheat, developed by Sir Charles Edward Saunders set a new standard of baking and milling quality for hard red spring wheat. In terms of value, the wheat worth hundreds of millions of follars to Canadian farmers Saunders, born in Tondon Ont., Feb. 2, 1867, was the son of William Saunders, a chemist variety was and a man of wide-ranging in terests Among other things the elder Saunde was anli authority on bird nsects, rocks, music, art and literature William Saunders was asked by the federal government in| 1886 to set up and head an ex perimental farm Canada, At about. the than the widely used on the Prairies, Red Fife He enlisted the aid of his five Percy and Fred--in the search. Percy was initially the most active in the quest for a better strain. of wheat Percy left to become a profes- sor at Hamilton College in New York state, Charles took his lace D TO RIPEN EARLY For years, father and son tested thousands of strains from hundreds of cross¢ Most did well in Ottawa but not on the Western experimental farms. The variety he to ripen five to 10 days ear and have a yield at least equal to that of Red Fife. It had to be Superior in quality to command the highest prices in Europe Announcement a OSA GABRIEL MARCHILDON has opened a shop under the name TELEVISION Sales & Service 786 Simcoe St. S. TELEPHONE 723-0402 Honest, telioble service to all makes ervice across same | time he set about the task of| finding a better kind of wheat variety then most | sons--William, Henry, Charles, /the new seed were distributed jto 400 selected farmers in the S0n|Prairies. In 1910 the D jyield from the 400 test acreages When was made available to all who zine Canadian Literature. 'It is,that it 1s its pioneers who built is tt in a squatter's shack i. seek ae and made it what § THE OSHAWA TIMES, Thursday, December 14, 1967 ; P " ; en siemeenciatiiiaaaian " | ana a S alm 0 ame: a beach near Vancouver. |in this almost rhapsodic iden. |ths country 2 | |He was evicted and returned toltitication with place that we/it was. Now it wants to be like mae "ged Ma ool He lind our best reason to claimjeveryone else and have auto- F ee a a |much of what Lowry wrote forjcamps instead of trees and | oun n a ura p en or re dis. the literature of Canada." Coca - Cola stands instead of Pango ~ re gids aay | But in 1950 Lowry wrote injhuman beings. In that way, for | 5 ai ane Pe ie jafter his death and publication |. letter. that being a writer injit has little culture at all, it By CY FOX lived in Windsor, Ont., and now|last winter in Britain of a vol >» di -|could destroy its soul." Canadian Press Staff Writer {found among his papers says: ume of his letters has aroused Canada was ae mei a ne 4 : A century after Confedera-| "Canada, artistically, offers fresh interest in his life--and an beng hailed by US| Lowry wu rr a a tion, Canada is a highly ur-|extraordinary opportunities... . his struggle to keep alive, de- aie ur "1947, "had sold Bete | ad Ps Peearatate' Awaed a banized society but recently-|These opportunities have on the|spite the natural beauty of/°T i ba Aina'? in Canada 962, But h wrote in the ¥ an unveiled writings by two British |whole been surprisingly ne- Burrard Inlet. ee inf ia 1962. : aa ' FY siete et writers say Canada's main|glected"--except by the Group! voy o , jbaa aia ap ng of oh a "ithe f : " a ; claim to fame is in its natural lof Seven, of which Lewis con- NOVEL SOLD POORLY | Eviction is the theme of a|shack and ie oe Ry to splendors. lsidered A. Y. Jackson the fore-. He found "a sense of redemp- yet-unpublished novel and he the spring'"'--the title of one of Wyndham Lewis and Malcolm |most. |tion"' in the green woods, com-|wrote from his Dollarton cabin|his short het the one Lowry both died 10 years ago| Lewis saw Canada as torn be-/mented Vancouver criticlin 1950: ; ra gett ie Wms rere this' year, Both settled in Cae. tween the wilderness and the|@¢orse Woodcock in his maga-' "Canada, alas, is forgetting|than my life. ada in 1940--Lewis for the dura-|city. But "the pull of nature tion of the Second World War, |probably will exceed that of the |Lowry for 14 years--and wrote |attraction exercised by the blast jextensively of their experiences. furnace and power house." Much of this has been published| Lewis particularly admired only lately and some still!/Jackson's snow scenes of '"'the| awaits publication. hard puritanical land' and} An essay written when Lewis likened him to Captain Ahab, " on hunting his leviathan in "the long, white contours of the Laurentian Mountains." INFLUENCED McLUHAN Lewis's books include fiction, jphilosophy and social com- mentary and he was an early influence on Marshall, McLuhan, |Toronto's "pop philosopher" of communication. One of Lewis's novels, Self Condemned, is set in Canada. It is a bitter denunciation of small-town minds in the big city of "Momaco."" He wrote in the essay on Canadian nature and art that Canadian society was STAN STARR SUGGESTS.. YONICE Cbs THE WHOLE FAMILY WiLL ENJOY, | Recruiting Completed TORONTO (CP) -- Dow I\Chemical Co. of Canada |completed its recruiting of Uni- versity of Toronto engineering students Wednesday despite a demonstration outside the place- ment office on the campus. About 100 demonstrators, in- cluding five faculty members, s g vA fure of napaim by Dow's pareni|extremely unfavorable for all firm in the U.S. for use in Viet. | that, is not business and poli- nam. About 200 U of T. engi- "Cs neering students heckled the| This was a betrayal of na demonstrators. tional heritage, he thought, but Three weeks ago company Painters like Jackson were representative William Whitejopening Canadians' eyes and CP Wirephoto suspended interviews with stu-|"you will never, at least, be PI _|dents after he became trapped|able to remove from the Cana |for three hours inside the place-|dian that birthright, Nature, |ment building because of a sit-and all. its penetrating con Look At These Example Buys! WILDLIFE GOES TO SCHOOL fish a Scenthia are, from left, 10- year-olds John _ Stephens, Lawrence Harvey and Mark stuffed named. Mor timer, miscellaneous turtles and rare birds and at last Bossi 225 count four rabbits. Bathing tropical moose head ford Public School in neigh- boring Scarboro. The class- room-zoo boasts a boa con- strictor, six guinea pigs, six mice, a racing pigeon pied 90 per cent of the wheat-- NOT MUSIC TO THE EARS more than 12,000,000 acres was bei er's latest masterpiece--con-| dents were interviewed by Dow demic worlds in Toronto and sown to Marquis in the certo for orchestra and pile-driv-| despite the protest Windsor, Lowry spent most of National Orchestra's rehearsals in a city hall, so the company areas of western Saskatchewan | asreed not to operate the pile and Alberta driver during practice about 100,000 acres in rust-free In his testing, Charles Saun ders in 1993 became interested n a cross of Red Fife and ASHERS & DRYER Fully Automatic early-maturing Hard Red Ca cutta, from India Careful selection and the use of his famous chewing test led jhim to the isolation of a supe lrior strain with outstanding A message from PING-PONG baking and milling qualities your neighbourhood jCharles built his own miniature e bake ovens. He chewed a few il TABLES grains, festing for that gummy Brewers Retai Sturdy legs, 4 bots, net,, glutinous texture Ww he steel posts |knew made the best bread and bolls 715 "It chewed wonderfully," he : said later Because of an increase 30" Gaara aoe iy Haas : . Gold Finished Nee Pcs adie in the number of orders during Manet Tone KITCHEN Pome juis 48" juminum ee eg the holiday season MIRRORS | EXHAUST STEP For Hallways, HOODS Single Speed 21.95 \seed that could be spared, 22 \pounds, was sent to the expe rimental farm at Indian Head Sask., for further tests and for propagation. While Moarauis was under test . there 5 occurred that seriousiy dam- jaged Red Fife. But the Mar- | quis eame through unscathed RULING VARIETY In the spring of 1909 bags of and the possibility of inclement weather, oly ordering will avoid delays and late deliveries. 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