535-03 Page 169Sell 100,000 Pounds
'Tobacco
First Price 65
Auction Praise
TM,LSONBURG, Dec. 10 —
Backward -moving hands of a
ticking price clock sold 100,000
pounds of flue cured tobacco
here today InNorthAmerica's
first "Dutch clock" tobacco
auction.
It was also the first sale
by auction of Ontario flue
cured crops. Until this year
processors visited growers'
farms under a "barn buying"
system.
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"No accurate statement of
"the day's activities will be
available until Wednesday
morning," said Jesse Cray,
chairman of the Ontario Flue
Cured Tbbacco Growers Mar-
keting Board. "Today was a
shakedown cruise and it went
off without a hitch. We'll be
selling. in earnest tomorrow."
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The new marketing board
warehouse here inaugurated
the clock auctions and will
open again Wednesday at 9
a.m. Two other massive ware-
houses built by the board in
Aylmer and Delhi are sched.
uled to begin auctions Thurs-
day or Friday, but the exact
day has not been determined.
First bundle sold under the
auction system today brought
65 cents a pound to Peter
Tillick, of RR 2, Innerklp, and
was purchased by R.othman's
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First bundle of tobacco sold yesterday under the newly -instituted "Dutch clock"
auction system in Southwestern Ontario brought a high price of 65 cents a
pound for Peter Tillick, left, of RR 2, Innerkip. Here, Mr. Tillick is congratu-
lated by Harry Walton, Tillsonburg warehouse superintendent for the Ontario
Flue Cured Tobacco Growers' Marketing Board. (Photo by Mawson).
ing big replica of a key which symbolized the
ing of the exchanges are, left to right, Dr.
Stinson, general manager, Ontario Flue -Cured
cco Growers' Marketing Board; Frank Perkin,
chairman of the Ontario Farm Products Maeket-
ing Board; Jesse F. Gray, chairman of the growers'
marketing board, and Harry Allen, MLA, Middle-
sex South, representing Premier Frost.
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Landmark Wrecked
As Aid to Traffic
�yf+�, A common y servant since
MT. ELGIN, Jan. 11 — A 40-year-old village landmark, 1819, the building was sold to
which left consecutive memories of a bank, public library, the Department of Highways
home, and more recently, a traffic hazard, bowed out last from the estate of Robert
week to modern road improvements. Mitchell, who lived there until
Old Bank Building his death. Huge cement vaults
The Royal Bank building at installed in the historic place
s the intersection of No. 19 high- when it was built as a bank
way and the fourth concession prevented workmen from mov-
ing the building.
e of Dercharn was demolished by Older residents remember It
r a, Hamilton construction firm to as a thriving place of business
make room for widening of the y-at the village's main corner.
Start of 'Tobacco Day" parade in Tillsonburg