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XPOSIT0e,• Se/WORTH, ONT., MAY 17, 1973 Qg • . L cm c is
. rcite but
schools up
widowk and children will receive
the mAjOr--laenetil“roM the in-
creases, as well,as those work-
men who are temporarilY de-
prived of their usual income from
employment. The minimum rate
for temporary total disability will,
also be raised from $40 to jp55.
The amendments will raise the
dependent widows' pension mini-
mum from $175 a month to $250
and the minimum monthly benefit
to orphan children will be raised
from $70 to $80. Allowances for
funerals will tie raised from $400
to $500.
Premier William Davis an-
nounced a major reduction in
freight rates ,for Northern On-
tario. The freight rate struc-
ture in Northern Ontario is most
inequitable and in many cases the
freight rates are, plainly unrea-
sonable, thereby restricting the
domestic and export markets for
Northern Ontario goods. The
proposed reduction on selected
rates will average about 18 per
cent into and ,out, of the area
served by the Northland Trans-
portation Commission. These
reductions will apply to selected
inbound consumer goods and ma-
nufacturing components and out-
bound manufactured products, but
will not be applied to shipments of
resource material.
Towards the end of the week
Natural Resources Minister, le eb
Bernier, faced stiff questioning in
the Legislature about the mer-
cury pollution in the Wabigoon
and English River systems inthe
northwest. A governmental task
force has found that mercury le-
vels in the deers' fish represent
a-serious health hazard. in addi-
tion, tine pollution which has wiped
out the commercial fishery, and
damaged tourist operations, has
had a sIgnificant role in the so-
cial deterioration of the ,Indian
bands. Mr. Beterer's advisory
committee will not be dealing with
mercury pollution, but will dis-
cuss such things as tile use . of
Crown land. timber limits, hunt-
ing seasons and the management
of wildlife, forest and mineral
resources. Mr. Bernier was
asked if the Angol-Canadian
Company which caused the pollu-
`tion shouldn't be pursued legally
to make some payment. Mr. Ber-
e..--Trier-r-opeatc.d the-Goverarmeogs -
position that the test case is its
Suit' against Dow Chemical of
Canada Limited. responsible for
Mercury polltition iii the St.elair
River system.
Claude Bennett, Minister of
Industry and Tourism told oppo-
sition leader, Robert Nixon, that
he will soon be raising substan-
tially the current $75.000 limit on
Government loans to tourist camp
operators. Operators hurt by the
mercury pollution in the Eng-
lish Wabigoon system, could( use
the loans to relocate. Currently
their clients can only fish for
fun on the polluted waters. Mr.'
Bernier's, department is discuss-
ing with the Indians affected ways
-to put c them in touch with new
sources of fish. The Natural
Resourqes Ministry will cut
roads to nearby unpolluted lakes
so the Indian bands can fish them.
While Logan Council general
rate has been cut by nearly,
mills, the saving won't mean
much to ratepayers since It will'
go to offset an increase in pub-
lic school rates of an almost
similar amount.
' Rates adopted by council at a
meeting on May 7 are as follows
with the 19'72 rates in brackets:
County -14.72 (13.73) Township -
Res. 11,78, Corn, 14.78 (1927,
23.27) Elementary schools -Pub-
lic 22.77, 25.3 (14,00, 15.56) Sep
arate 24.19; 26.88 (27.19, 30.21)
Secondary School 15.8, 17.56
(16.6,5. 18.49).
The 1972 Auditors report ac-
cepted by Council showed a 1972
surplus of $3187.00 and a total
surplus of $20,691.00.
G. Mogk and C. Vock were
appointed Logan Township repre-
sentatives to the Task force to
look into the conditions of the
Mitchell arena and the possibi-
lity of building a new arena.
Council approved the action of
the Monkton >r ire Area Board in
calling tenders for a nev' fire
truck and signed an agreement
With Elma Township to provide
that in the(intare all monies need-
ed for maintenance and capital
expenditure be collected on land
and building assessment instead
of on buildings only.
An application for a permit
to,..operate a scrap yard by Larry
Maadhc on west half lot 31, 'con-
cession 16, was approved.
The public is. sufficiently 'a-
roused at the tax increase, 'and
recent action' against one of the
retailers demonstrates the folly
of the Government in 'persisting
in the application of the 7% sales
tax retroactively.
Provincial,, Treasurer John
White had intended that 'a bill
formalizing 'the 2% increase in
the sales tax would be passed by
May 1, but the legislation was
stalled in second reading by long
opposition debates. The bill is
now receiving third reading with
lengthy discussions and proposed
amendments by opposition mem-
bers, all of which is futile as
the Goyernment feels it has lost
all the creditability it can af-
ford to lose by withdrawing the
energy tax.
In a statement made to the
Legislature, Revenue Minister
Allan Grossman said the opposi,
tion parties were quite accurate
in saying that the present retail
sales tax is basically 5% rather
than the 7% which .Ontario re-
tailers have been collecting since
May '1, but he suggested that
the collection of the retail sales
tax at . keeping, with a
precedent whIch recognizes the
practice of collecting taxes prior
'to the enactment of enabling le-
gislation. Mr.' Grossman has
been accused by opposition mem-
. bets of intimidating retailers by
'telling them to take down the
names and addresses of people
refusing to pay the tax, so that
it can be collected later. N.D.P.
leader, Stelphen Lewis, has said
'the tax increase is a disgusting
tax illegally imposed. oln his
statement Mr. Grossman said re-
tailers themselves should collect
the tax now because it is ill their
own interest.
Debate on the tax bill is sche-
duled. to conthare in the Legisla-
ture next' week although the
.of , collectiN:s a , tax until
-legislation is passed -is now being
elialleng,ed and further debate
might be considered improper
while actioh• against the collecL-
tiol, of ti e 7".(, tax was before
the courts. Such action was in-
Icy Caitieria. smith ',titer
official in the T. Eaton co,
Ltd. store refusod to sell him.
merchandise im1(:i.isZ.he 1.aid
sJILaticl.
err case. Tut 1100~1
traditionally toes mit deli,ite .t-
ters that are before the courts.1,
AltOrney •Gimera1:2 '.1).iltot.1-
Hales. has introduced amend-
ments to tin Law SoGit.,Ltv •
which will set up a Law routida-
tiou to roceiv,,, tin li.terest nn
,la‘•,yer's mixed trust .iccoubts.
The rot:Li:Won a ill use tilt
Money for le al aid. legal ellIr-
Calit11., legal research. and 1.1\\
lil ,raries. 'rho Lill proposesth.it
at It 75 per cent of the money
go to legal aid. Thetik: monies
cal, Houk he .use .I for public' pur_
pos,;s instead of going ehtindi
to private hanks. anti trust com-
panies.
A statement by Health Millis-
ter. Rice and Potter re\ fi-
gures iiloc i , slit his
prediction that the ncontl ly ost
of the ()Mario Health ,ImsuriniCc•
Plan would stabilize in:the• $40
to $45 million range. The plan
cost Ontario taxpayers $39.12
million' last August and $42.08
million in September. Dr. Pot-
ter said the overall cost of OHIP
for the 1972-73 fiscal year would
be about $540.85 million. His
figures also showed that 379 doc-
tors made more than $10,000
during August, and 402 made in
excess of this amount in Sep-
tember. •
premier Davis refused to an
swer questions, about his asso-
ciations with Gerhard Moog when
asked by liberal member Eddie
Saranit whether he was a guest
of Mr. Moog in Florida' in 1971
'or any other time, and whether
any .of Mr. Moog's eompanies
luid built or repaired the Davis
cottage. Premier Davis-told the
legislature that his private life
was Ids •own...114siness but Sargent
retaliated by- 'saying that when
hundreds of millions of dollars of
contracts are involved. (Moog's
Canada Square Corporation is
presently building a new head
office for Ontario Hydro haVing
beeb awarded a $44 million con-
tract on a proposal basis) Mr.
Davis' association' with Mr. Moog
did matter to the people of On-
tario. Mr. Davis intimated that
he never let personal friendships
interfere with his judgments as a
public servant.
The Ontario Legislature's se-
lect committee, instructed to look
into cirilimstances surrounding
ti e granting of a contract to
Canada Square Corporation Li-
coiled to build new head offices
for ontario. Hydro, held its first
meeting headed by'John Mac-Beth
(P.C., York wresq. The commit-
tot quickly agreed on its counsel
'and decided to seek permission
to meet while the full House is
sitting, ,.The counsel will be Ri-
chard E. Shibley. senior partner
in the Toronto law firm of Shib-
ley. Rightotr and McCutchoon.
'Proposals by James Renwick (N.
1).P., Riverdale) andJamesBull-
ruoh (1,.. Sarnia) to have all
w'itnesses called -oh Speaker's
arrants were granted.. However,
tleir requests to have TX, cam-
eras and tape recorders permit-
led at the committee hearings
\,el? .denied by the Conservative
tl e basis that the normal Han-
s tauir(tle.reporting system was ade- ci
O`ntitrio .Labour Minister,
Fern ,Guindoh. made the State-
ment th the House that he 'Mends
to increase benefits
!ured workers by the Workmen's
Compensatioi, Board. Fie plans to
arn,ndments to the
Workmen's Compensation Act'''.
i Lice, \1 ill increase tla'mininfbm
monthly-payment for permanent
total and partial disability and
for widoA's' pensions from $175
to $250, Ttic ceiling on earnings
on Oeiiefits are based will
he (run $9,000 a year to
$10.000. The increases will cost
about '$12.4 'million a year or
aholit -per .cent, over 4Ie pre-7
sent c..osts. Money to pay com-
pensation benefits is levied from
employers. The totally disabled.
.,By John D. Baker
Public Relations Officer
Branch 156
. TIMES OF EXCITEMENT
Thirty4hree years ago this
month, the people of Great Bri-
tain were threatened with inva-
sion by Hitler's mighty war ma-
chine.
, One would have expected that
the British • people would have
been frightened, knowing that any
hour the invading forces would
strike, but this was not the case,
in fact the very air seemed to
be charged with excitement and
anticipation.
It was well known to all the
people that Britain was prepared;
at least this is what they believed
and probably it was a good thing,.
that they did.
The British army vas back
from Dunkirk, the Home Guard
was • well organized and there
was a division of Canadians ready
and waiting, what many of 'tile
people did not realize, was that
the British army had not yet been
re-equipped, and that the Home
Guard had never fired a round of
live ammunition and had access
to a very limited amount. The
only fully equipped forces were
the Navy, the 1st -Canadian Divi-
sion and the', Air Force, these
forces were 'all too small to hold
off an invasion for any length of
time.
There is no doubt that if Hit-
ler had attacked, his forces would
have met with stubborn and de-
terniined'resistance from every
LOBA holds
dessert
euchre
man, woman and child. However
without arms and ammunition
Britain would have eventually
suffered an awful defeat. His-
tory tas shown that Hitler last
his goal of world domination when
he made the error of attacking
Russia instead of the British
Isles. If Russia had not had the
olio that Germany needed, the his-
tory books would have had a dif-
ferent story to tell. Call it an
act of God, or fate, no matter
what .you call it, we have a lot
to be thankful for.
PAST EVENTS .
The Bingo last Friday attrac-
ted eighty-seven players and pri-
zes to the value of $320 were
won.
The Generalmeeting waste's].
last Monday MO 14th. The el-
ection of `Offic-ers was conducted
and as 'a result the proposed
slate as appeared in this column
last week was adopted.
COMING EVENTS
' Thursday May 17th an instal:-
lation team from Branch 156 will
be installing the officers at the
Exeter Branch.
Friday May 18th Branch 156
will provide an installation team
to install the officers at the Wing-
ham Branch.
Friday May 18th Bingo at the
Legion Hall seaforth.
Saturday May 19th Dance at the
Legion Hall. Admission by tic-
ket only,' so get your ticket now -
while they are 'still available.
Comrade Gordon kott and his
wife Barbara will be attending the
Provincial Legion Convention in
Sault Ste. Marie from the20If ---e
to the 24th of May.
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"THE FORGE"
Afternoon winners for euchre
were:
-:Ladies Ephrlurii
Clarke, Ladies low-Mrs. E.
Close, Ladies Lone Hands-Mrs.
Art Ruthledge, Lucky Tally-Mrs.
Clarence Walden, Lucky chair-
Mrs. Edith Beurman, Nearest
Birthday-Mrs. Ruth , McGrow,
..mperware-Tennie Dennis.
• The evening euchre winners
were:
Ladies high-Mabel Higgerson,
Ladies low-Mrs. Drover, Ladies
Lone-Mrs. -Anna Kennedy, Men's
High-Billy Kerr, Men's Low-
Doug Ennis, Men's Lone-Bob
Smith. Lucky Tally-Mrs.'Drover
and for Men-John Taylor, Lucky
Chair-John Tremeer, Nearest
Anniversary-Mrs. Wilfrid Col-
ciough, Tupperware-Leona Old-
field.
The L.O.B. A. Lodge held their
annual dessert euchre with a good
attendance both afternoon and
evening. The tables were decor-
ated with coloured table clothes Special Mother's Day Service
ated with c,el.enral tkit Unite Church
"Ifiritirrirflowers. on Sunday wits tge pastor, Re
Murdock Morrison in charge wh
'spoke oni(Living together as a
Chriftlah family". -The choir
under the leadership of the
organist, Mrs. Doug. Mc Ash,
sang a Mother's Day anthem.
The offering went to the associa-
tion for retarded children.
Mr. and Mrs. Bob McClymont,
Michael and Shannon of Guelph
spent the weekend visiting rela-
tives here and at Clinton.
. Misses Edith, May and
Eleanor Davidson of Hamilton
called-on friends during the past
week.
It is hoped that all who have
a- vote will do so on Wednesday
May 23rd. '
Mr. and Mrs. Dave Roy and
family attended the wedding of
Mr. Roy's brother Don in water-
loo on Saturday last.
News of
Varna
Correspondent
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