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x the tribune stomfvllie ont thursday december 0 1953 the stouffville tribune established 1sss member of the canadian weekly newspaper association and the ontarioquebec newspapers association member of the audit bureau of circulations authorized as obdelasg naai potoffice dept ottawa printed and issued every thursday at stouffville ont in canada 250 elsewhere 300 c h nolan editor jas thomas sports i assist a v nolan son publishers notes and comments rubber on rubber a great many experimental rubber roads are be ing built throughout the world and tests to which these roads are being subjected are being watched with interest by engineers one of these roads is a stretch on no 7 highway near unionville ontario was one of the pioneers in the experi ments hi the western hemisphere although the dutch can probably lay claim to being the first with rubber roads a rubber road built in the years preceding the sec ond world war survived all the pounding of the sec ond world war traffic in holland other roads crumb led under the pressure in newfoundland the city fathers at st johns have laid a number of streets in rubber and municipal observers are keeping an eye on this type of municipal street to see if worthwhile savings are effected in maintenance hurryin and prolongin theres been a lot written and said of late concern ing the weather in this section of the country many people claim that the seasons are changing that fall is no longer as cold as it used to be that winters are becoming warmer and so forth but are they really or are we simply trying to hurry the changeover from fall to winter too much and prolong the winter too long there was a time when we accepted fall as it un folded if it was an open fall and there were many of them that was fine because it really made little difference other than to prolong the fine weather and conserve fuel bills if it was a cold fall and winter set in early it was equally agreeable as long as the late crops were successfully harvested and an ample supply of fuel on hand if winter ended early that was fine too because it meant an earlier start on spring and summer activities but that time has apparently passed now when the last of the ball games are over and sometimes even before there are those among us who would at once be done with summer they want no more of it begone they say we want winter now or at least winterlike conditions so that we can get on with the hockey and skating season no sooner are their protests registered than the voice of christmas is heard and a public already frustrated by attempts to get in a hockey or skating mood in balmy weather is further confused with pleas to get your christmas shopping done early then still later with christmas over and the hockey season underway with modern protracted schedules a break in the winter weather which long before had set in in earnest brings a further hue and cry concerning the shortening of the winter seasons yes theres a heap of hurryin and prolongin going on these days while the seasons are following their usual independent pattern governed by laws un affected by hockey schedules skating christmas trade and other seasonal activities indulged by man shop at home this christmas one trip to torontos big stores the headache of trying to find a place to park the family jalopy the pushing shoving and waiting while uninterested clerks powder their noses should be enough to suggest to even the most ardent bargain hunters that they should shop at home this christmas stouffville has an excellent shopping district with an adequate number of wellequipped and wellstocked stores as a town it has almost everything to offer that a bigger centre has and it is a whole lot more accessible the people who operate the shops are just as anxious and even more so to serve and please the public as those in larger centres and their merchan dise is equally as good the real pleasure of shopping at home is of course the fact that it is a friendly dependable ar rangement most people in the community are ac quainted with the merchants who serve them and this naturally engenders a relationship which is impossible to duplicate in the city editors mail toronto ont december 2 1953 editor the tk1bixk stoufwitle ontario dear sir mav i be privileged to bring the following meat scene front tlte columns of your dai ly contemporary guelph mer cury to the notice of the price conscious readers in town and country a healthy young steer well- fed and sleekly fattened will bring its farm owner about 20 cents for each of it- 1100 1k of live weight when he sells it to the meat packer for slaughter with that figure of 20 cents a pound fresh in his miuil perhaps the farmer goes to a butchers store to buy himself a round steak when he charged ih cents per pound he hits the roof and wonders who is making the killing that 1100 lb steer tost hide hoofs offal intestln- s moisture and some bone before becoming a 00o lb dres sed carcass which the pack ing hoae sold for about 38 cents a pound this shows a profit of ics- than s10 for the packer hut it adds to this by selling the byproducts the butcher loses about 20 per cent as sirloin and round steak at from 55 to 00 cents per pound 20 per cent as chuck or shoulder at oo cents 21 per cent as shank or plate at 25 cents and the rest at other prices he probably mar kes a profit of around s10 on the animal but out of this he must pay his overheads his net profit is lower than the net of the packing house which on all livestock aver ages about 1 cents per pound handled but both enjoy a net profit which per hour of lab or devoted on elsies offspring is far far higher than the re wards of the farmer who rais ed the steer ottawa report p nicholson a 15 c another fog you cant see through is the pessimis it would be just like a perf ect nuisance to get a big kick out of being perfect honesty is the best jjolicv but the premium is very high when one ha to deal with dis honest people as far as pedestriars are concerned spring will be in the air all winter ontarios christmas tree harvest in full swing christmas visits started in 1540 in 154u when a plague was aging in switzerland 12 pious men of rheinfemen formed a brotherhood to pray for st sebastians aid and to nurse the sick and bury the dead pestilence in medieval tim es was ascriled to evil spirits in water so the brotherhood of st sabastian visited each of the towns seven fountains praying and singing hymns at each stop they still continue this custom but only on christ mas eve for this ritual the 12 broth ers are dressed in black with black silk top hats at every fountain they gather around the lantern bearer and sing a medieval song the march begins at the froschweide fountain where the plague is supposed to have started three centuries ago when they have passed the seventh they enter the church for midnight mass and cere moniously place their lantern on the altar of st sebastian ste- 3p jm m ml i rtf wlvv ji slf stouffville area feeds christmas tree market 32k3k2 fihst christmas card was created ix 1812 over 250 years ago english school children wrote christ- mas expressions of good will called christmas pieces from this school chore came the gracious custom of send ing christmas cards the first known christinas card was created in 1812 in london by a young etcher na med william egley original of the first card is now on dis play in the british museum in the united states iouis prang published the first christmas cards during the kstos and sos prang introduc ed thousands of beautiful cards and has become known as the grandfather of the bus iness tis two weeks before christ mas and the christmas tree harvest is in full swing that is the more business like op erators such as members of the ontario christmas tree growers cooperative associa tion etd are cutting and ba ling scotch and austrian pine for the us market in spite of its rather weighty title the association has only 40 mem bers and will be very happy not to have any more thank you so says the globe and mail the said 10 members are chiefly well to do or even wealthy people who are gro wing christmas trees on marg inal or abandoned land their operations are on a scientific basis the land is under con tinual cover as quickly as one tree is cut another is planted in the spring to take its place according to robert jones general manager of the assoc iation and a christmas tree grower in his own right the land so used is protected from erosion furthermore scotch and austrian pine in canada are ornamental rather than useful trees their use as christmas trees says mr jon es relieves the demand on more useful canadian ever greens and the two pines in question he insists smell bet ter are more symmetrically shaped and wont shed their needles for four months after they have been cut because of the gallant way they hang onto their needles the scotch and austrian pines can lie cut as early as the be ginning of october and stored in shaded woods to await de livery to the us mr jones says that ontario sold 1000- 000 worth of christmas trees across the border last year uid may be able to promote a 2000000 market with proper management ontario he fur ther claims lfeads all canadian provinces in its exports to the us and members oohis as sociation irrespective of other christmas tree farmers have 5000000 in their plantations nowadays the christmas tree business goes on the year around orders are obtained in the us in january and feb ruary and planting schemes are laid out planting is done is soon as the ground is work able and in late june and ju ly the trees are pruned to in crease their symmetrical de velopment cutting begins in october with the two varieties of pine other evergreens the spruc es firs and so forth can onlv be cut a few weeks before christmas otherwise they are dry and brittle when they reach the market baling keeps the pine branches from becoming brittle the trees are run through a conical pipe that compresses the branches which are tied in place with twine when the twine is cut the branches spring out again and the tree is ready for mounting and decorating lands and forests disposes of most of the trees removed from growing plantations through christmas tree deal ers mr jones association has obtained toy open lender a number of contracts with the department for trees from the municipal forests it manages within 100 miles of toronto a considerable stock of austrian pine has been taken from the vivian forest plantation man aged for york county toy de partment officers the christ mas trees are thinnings from stands where they have been rown in association with red pine in support of his contention that reputable christmas tree growers are increasing ontar ios wealth rather than de spoiling it mr jones quotes a tbooklet on the industry pub lished by the federal depart ment of resources from time to time attacks are made on the christmas tree industry and those who profit from the industry ac tually there are only two kinds of christmas tree cut ters whose actions are harm ful those who cut greatly in excess of demand with resul ting waste of trees and those who destroy older trees in or der to sell the tops these op erators very small in number are rapidly disappearing with the advent of christmas tree plantations and orderly mark eting systems to which mr jones adds that many of the association members grow their own seed lings from their own seed and that those who get seedlings from the department of lands and forests pay for those seedlings the department no longer provides free settings for men in the christmas tree business when theres a big rush a bargain sale counter is a place where a woman can ruin one dress and buy another women are the only people besides men who dress in front of a mirror to see whats going on w theatre uxbridge phone 252 policy b shows nitely 700 000 matinee snt 2 pm the dog and the bone a dog was crossing a plank bridge over a stream with a piece of meat in his mouth when he happened to see his own reflection in the water he thought it was another dog with a piece of meat twice as big so he let go his own and flew at the other dog to get the larger piece but of course all that happened was that he got neither for one was only a shadow and the other was carried away by the current moral make it your first aim to iiold on to what is already yours open a savings account with the canadian bank of commerce add to it steadily soon you will find that your money has grown and without any risk visit our nearest branch today last showing tonite thursday dec 10th girls in the night plus on the loose adult entertainment the canadian bank of commerce illustration by arthur rtwkhnm from ow hrimnumn edition of arsop fables i fri sat dec 11 12 man from the alamo technicolor starring glen ford and julie adams monday tuesday december 14 15 the desert rats the great sequel to the desert fox starring james mason wed thur dec 16 17 war of the wildcats starring john wayne and martha scott plus battle zone