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dance every saturday night stouffville veterans hall modern old time w w bates orchestra admission 50c ane you fttuuf lap priced favi yaui poultry arnold farms pay top prices for live or dressed poultry plant grading station on no 7 highway at don mills road for information call agincourt 5r2 day or night collect custom picking todays couplet the frost is on the pumpkin and the corn has all been shocked again the time has come to get the overcoat unhocked even though money may not buy happiness it will at least pay your car fare while you ride around looking for it at hundredone shes a birthday guest at 101 mrs matthew elliot doesnt get around much any more yet this week she went all the way into toronto from her home in agincourt just to get a new hat but it was for a special occasion and mrs elliot had been asked to take a special part and she felt the excursion was justified so last week in her new black bonnet with its demure velvet ribbons and jaunty plume mrs elliot cut the cake that marked the golden anniversary of the agincourt womens institute the regular meeting of the wl had a reminiscent atmosphere as members reviewed 50 years of endeavour it is not certain where the institute was first organized be cause the original records have been lost but it is generally be lieved to have been in wexford it was considered rather an unusual thing when miss blanche maddoek of the ontario agrl cultural college at guelph organ ized the east york wi on the first rolls were 22 members and membership has not grown great ly for as population increased individual institutes broke oil from the parent organization there are about 40 members now in the original wi six of them are charter members who were present at the meeting last week they are mrs matthew elliot mrs w a young mrs david marshall mrs j c hunter mrs william doherty and mrs t a paterson through the years the country women have tried to live up to their motto for home and country since food is such a main farm concern it has figured largely in discussions it was noted that the attitude has changed where form- erly hearty meals were the main strathroy farmers potatg kings at royal two brothers archie and william mcdougall rr2 strath roy ont were crowned ontarios potato kings following completion of judging at torontos royal winter fair it was the first time in history of the fair that brothers had won the title in a competition conducted by canadian industries limited in cooperalion with the ontario crop improvement association the brothers gained a total of 548 points highest total possible is 650 points for their outstanding eltorts the mcdougall brothers were awarded the cil trophy and 250 in cash their potatoes yielded 720 bushels to the acre considered exceptional considering the poor summer weather experienced this past year it was close for second place with only a point separating second and third place winners milton weatherilt son hethany ont nosed out joseph gattie wal- ford station ont with 530 points to 52 for gattie archie mcdougall took his championship award in his stride just shrugging his shoulders as if it were an every day happening when informed that he and his brother had placed first we just planted the seed and the weather was excellent in oar district for producing a good potato crop he said concern the emphasis now is on food values calories and more technical details home nursing and child care have been included with other programs aimed at lightening the country womans work and problems the women also sew layettes and provide toys for needy child ren as well as contributing to the save the children fund the sal vation army the mothercraft soc iety and the institute for the blind i r feabodv vv and the err or tne rainbow id the end you could have knocked mr peabody over with a feather for there rijrht through the window of his own room came a rainbow and at the end of it was a huge pot of gold as he approached it to see if it was real he heard the sound of bells the whole countryside has heard of this thought mr peabody thats why the bells are ringing and the sound of the bells grew louder louder louder mr peabody awoke with a start the alarm clock beside his bed was ringing ringing ringing shutting it off he sighed sadly got up and dressed listening to the radio as he ate his breakfast mr peabody heard somebody say that oldage benefits should provide every body with enough to retire on hmmph snorted mr peabody to himself more rain bows i like the idea of additional help for older people but to build the kind of comfortable oldage income want i fully expect to need all my life insurance and maybe more it gives my family protection now and it covers my own special needs in a way no mass programme could possibly do arriving at his store mr peabody like millions of other canadians began another day of working earning and saving for his future security with life insurance even without pots of gold its a pretty good world he said to himself and as he worked he began to whistle softly the life insurance companies in canada cmd their representatives working for national progress building personal security 1750d engineers call if torque call it torque or call it pull what we mean is power to turn wheels to keep trucks rolling and loads moving on schedule you get highest sustained torque at normal operat ing speeds in a gmc valveinhead engine every part of a gmc is truckbuilt designed for long life in trucking service under full loads high torque is just one gmc feature youll find gmcs packed with added quality extravalue in every part of the truck that is the reason gmcs give the lowestcost transportation you can buy come in and let us prove that d vw vrte oo vie 1 1 lllwfsl mmxa s w w hoe piaf lower speeds ik i w ik s m h iju nl 8gt 300 m800 2300 280o engine speed rpm this chart shows how gmc en- gines develop maximum torque at speeds as low as 800 revo- i lutions per minute check the speeds in other engines before j is reached mmm m uss 1 ytwtsrehjyitisvira 335i illiilill gg jam llsillltsi general motors value s mole motor sales stouffville ontario steady prices will prevail for christmas santa claus and the business of christmas giving promise to be bigger business in canada this year than ever before retailers say the new regula- tions will have little if any effect on the nations giftstrings at least not for christmas with only six weeks until the big day buying was riding the boom that saw june store sales across canada increase 3 over those for the same month in 1949 july sales this year were a full 10 higher than last august registered a 64 increase from 572 million in 1949 to 608 mil lion in 1950 as always santas professional helpers in the retail trade had two prime points to consider the first was supply and de mandwhat they thought the public wanted and in what quantr ities the second was the santa story legend or fact a lot of people long out of knee pants and shoe- button class would howl loud and long if santa were shelved consequently in a onenight world fraught with santabattering psychologists stark disbelief some shortages and plain and simple have and have not yuletides perennial man of distinction has always had an ace in the hole that ace is sales promotion hand in hand with perhaps tha greatest array of gift goods ever offered christmasconscious can adians stores across the land have lined up an alltime allout there certainly is a santa campaign squarely facing the premature realism jetatomics have instilled in todays youngsters christmas gifts for junior miss and mister this year are a curious blend of fact and fancy drive to ensure pupils safety concerned over the danger to children who have to cross no 11 highway to reach oak ridges public school residents of that area have formed a committee t6 arrange a mass meeting and de mand provincial action there will be a housetohouse canvass to gain support for the plan leaflets will be distributed and a petition circulated it was announced according to g o gamble secretary of the school board there are 37s pupils attending the school and more than 70 per cent of them have to cross the highway going to and from school at a divorce hearing the other day there was a bit of testimony reflecting the misapplication of a name the husband testified that his wife threw a loving cup at him y