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to ease their own pains of
portion of these low income
credit' and the poor. In the
By
inflation, the traditional diet of
The Vaina U.C.W., met in .the
smorgasbor4- again this
Mrs. Edgar Stoll and Mrs. Bert
the poor skyrocketed.
who hud bought their homes
should be given to credit unions
Walters were in charge of devo-
'the
The report says that when food
'
to increase the availability of
F Jack Riddell, M.P.P.
Huron
still low.
basement of the ehu"reb -on
year on October 2. A Bakeless
Irving generally, the impace is
Additionally, whole neighbour-
government or government
"The pathway of life"',' followed
tu,a
hoods in almost every major
Y:
by the singing of Hymn 152 with
incomes below $3,000 as it is on
Canadian city are being trans-
Thursday evening with 19
Bake Sale was also agreed on.
those above $15,000 because the
formed from low-income housing
low-income consumers should be
piano. Mrs. Stoll read the
food component isAwice as large
to more profitable uses -
initiated. All consumer -credit,
' scripture in unison with Hymn
in the budget of the poor. -in other
profitable that is to the owners,
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members present. The meeting
The Regional Rally for this area is
words, the 'lower a . family's
but disastrous to the low-income'
disclose their true annual inWrest
.. • The meditation was;'taken by
• income, tfic greater the
renters° I
s'
Mrs. Walters. The offering was
proportion of this income it
opened with the worship service
being neld at Egmondville United
received by :Mrs. Walters and
spends on-' food:• Families with
recommendations made by .the
recommendations included in the
dedicated with Hymn 181.
incomes of less than $3,090 spent
National Council of Welfare in
Report by the National Council of
Mrs. Stoll gave a report on.her
conducted by Mrs..Ge. orge Wilson
Church on October 8.
Welfare entitled 'tPrices and the
visit to Westminster College,
income on food while families
Poor":
Last week 1 was dfsedssln& the
chains: encdugagement of
�•
reflected in changes in the cost of
which began with the singing of
"We lough the flelds and
, There were 43 calls made to the
sick and shut-in during the
,-
R a ;
�! J
security programs . should be
rattier bleak outlook for food
food co=operatives and
living.
scatter 1'he scripture reaoutg
summer. Mrs. Ida McClinehey
Mickle,
A
which takes into account the real
I would be very interested in
was answered by 15 members.
consumer
a
hearing your comments and
A committee was appointed to
bottom of the income scal'etnot
return,
suggestions.
look into buying a new piano for
prices over the next year. 1
a more comprehensive add '
Z. An immediate analysis must
was given by Mrs. Harvey Hayter
read the correspondence
mentioned the idea of
concerted attack on marketing
be undertaken of.the nutritional
Mrs. Grant Webster led in
received. *.
'•' ,> ' • '
substitution for low-income
and dales malpractices.
status of Canada's poor.
prayer. The theme of the worship
Lunch 'was served by host
Unit IV of Hertsatl United
on Sunday morning and p'reae,hed and Moiney, 400 a bouquet .104
famiiies� and those on fixed
For' 'low-income Canadians,
3. A thorough and comprehen-
was "Working with God" and a
esses, Mrs. Bob Stirling and Mrs.
Church held their annual Pot Luck
on the sermon topic "God. `the: rosesfr9m.11eKrlSter4rA�stuu�"��4.
mcgrnes•, that the constant spiral
housing is ,one of the mist
sive' study of practices in the
poem on "True Friendship", The
Louis Tavlor•
dinner on Thursday with 36
LZisturber". The choir sang the Hilda Rawntr,ce of Fenet�ln urr
K,
of food prices has prompted
expensive items in the family
marketing of food, clothing and
offering was taken•by Mrs. Ro}�A
shower was held in Goshen
present.
anthem "Come, Spirit.' Come. shene, Word of the exettt''vs�as
people to substitute poultry for
budget, surpassed only slightly .
other non -durables as well as
Elliott and dedicated by Mrs.
United Church on a week. ago
After dinner. Hymn J48 was
Next Sunday the pins and certifi- receivied'in a letfe to Mr$ <Veta
beef and hamburger for steak
b the amount spent on food,
household durables must be
Mervyn Hayter.
Tuesday to honour Anne Hayter,
sung and Mrs, McAllister opened
cafes are going to be handed out Twitchell of Hensail,
But even substitution i,� not much
rices and the Poor" states that
undertaken, Price discrimination
The meeting was turned over to
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer
the meeting with a reading "Help
to some members of the Sunday Perwsgtp>iIs .... w
help any more as. the costs of the
in 1969 Canadians in the bottom
in low-income neighbourhoods
our president for this month,
Hayter, on her forthcrr, ting
us to be overflowing Christians."
School during Sunday sessions. .Dr, and Mrs. Robert Mi kle,
substitutes have risen so
fifth ftf the igcome scale, and
must be eliminated by
Mrs. Charles Kalbfleisch, Mrs.
marriage,
Mrs. Pearl Shaddick read scrip-
Former Resident Celebrates London, spent Sunday with the
drastically,
living in cities and towns with a
governmenk promoting a more
Harvey Hayter read the
4-H 'Clubs are organizing for
ture from Corinthians and gave a
80th Birthday formers mother, I►�i;s, LAird
The latest report of the
population over 1,000 paid over
vigorous competition policy, the
Secretary 's Report and took the
Fall projects, If any girls 12 years
devotional on common life.
Mrs. Basel• Long of Owen Miekle, Dr. Miekle returned'
National Council of Welfare
twice the proportion of their
encouragement of food coops
roll. Mrs. Doug McAsh read the
of age or older are interested, call
followed by prayer. Mrs. McAllis-
Sound formerly of Kippen, enter- recently from Dakar, Africa,
published early this summer was
income for housing that families
and a more comprehensive and
Treasurer's report.
Mrs. Bill Dowson or Mrs. ,Jim-
ter gave a reading "God's gifts."
tained 15 of her friends at a _along with his wife who tnt;t :>�im
entitled "Prices and the• Poor - a
in the highest fifth paid, in 1969,
concerted attack on marketing
It was decided to have the
Keys,
Mrs. Laird Mickle favoured with a
' dinner party in the Lee Manor on his return home in, .Zurich,
-report on the low income
according to, Statistics Canada,
and sales malpractices.
piano solo "Falling Waters", and
Home in Owen Sound, on the Switzerland, They spent d' week "
consumer in the Canadian
53%n of all Canadian families
4. With respect. to housin&
r
led a singsong of familiar hymns
occasion of her 80th birthday. She together ' touringq Switzerland
market -place".
living in cities and towns with a
funds and technical support
NEWS OF d
with• Mrs. Sherritt accompanying
received a number of.lovel-y gifts before returning tp� tCppadt.
The thrust of the repoft is that
population over 1000 owned their
provided to the non-profit sector
on the piano. Mrs. Sherritt .gave
the poor have their own particular
own"homes. But among families
of the housing market must be
Br'
QQ¢¢�
the Treasurers report, Mrs. Ron
consumption patterns and
,in the bottom fifth of the income
in'&eased greatly and there must
cG.,
eld
Mock, the President,,outlined the
-
inflation has ballooned most
scale, only 37.6%, owned their
be rapid implementation of a
Correspondent
coming events on the fall
exorbitantly in the areas of
own homes. In the 11 largest
program of rent subsidation
'sector,
Mrs. Hugh Berry
calendar.
..
a
expenditure of the poor.
For example when the rich and
cities in Canada, home ownership
among this lowest income group
within this
5. There should be a public
United Church Notes
Rev. Don Beck occupied the
.. Buyers o
,
those on mriddic incomes turned
was down to 23.6%.• And
enquiry to explore the
The UCW of Brucefeld United
in Bruc field United Church in
pulpit`ih' l•1'erisall United Church
from steak. to hamburger recendv
unquestionably ' a very large
relationship between consumer
Church met in the school room on
NovemVer.
to ease their own pains of
portion of these low income
credit' and the poor. In the
Tuesday afternoon of last week,
inflation, the traditional diet of
home -owners were senior citizens
meantime, special - incentives
Mrs. Edgar Stoll and Mrs. Bert
the poor skyrocketed.
who hud bought their homes
should be given to credit unions
Walters were in charge of devo-
'the
The report says that when food
many years ago when prices were
to increase the availability of
'tion'- Mrs. Stoll opened
prices !rise faster than the cost of
still low.
low-cost credit to the poor and a
meeting and took as her theme
Irving generally, the impace is
Additionally, whole neighbour-
government or government
"The pathway of life"',' followed
twice as great , on those with
hoods in almost every major
industry program of subsidized or
by the singing of Hymn 152 with
incomes below $3,000 as it is on
Canadian city are being trans-
guaranteed low interest loans for
Mrs. ,g..1sie Henderson at the
those above $15,000 because the
formed from low-income housing
low-income consumers should be
piano. Mrs. Stoll read the
food component isAwice as large
to more profitable uses -
initiated. All consumer -credit,
' scripture in unison with Hymn
in the budget of the poor. -in other
profitable that is to the owners,
lenders should be required to
173.
words, the 'lower a . family's
but disastrous to the low-income'
disclose their true annual inWrest
.. • The meditation was;'taken by
• income, tfic greater the
renters° I
rattes in all advertising.
Mrs. Walters. The offering was
proportion of this income it
The following are some of the
'There are some of . the
received by :Mrs. Walters and
spends on-' food:• Families with
recommendations made by .the
recommendations included in the
dedicated with Hymn 181.
incomes of less than $3,090 spent
National Council of Welfare in
Report by the National Council of
Mrs. Stoll gave a report on.her
approximately 27.9°%, of their
their report "Prices and the
Welfare entitled 'tPrices and the
visit to Westminster College,
income on food while families
Poor":
Poor". Copies may be obtained
Business was chaired by the
with incomes over $15,000 spent
- 1. Benefit levels of social
from the National Council
president, Mrs. Triebner. Mrs,
only about 13.4"/6 of their budgets
security programs . should be
Welfare, Brooke Claxton
Clifford Henderson;: gave the
�n tbod. Thu -,;•,any change in the
escalated according to an index
Building, Ottawa. K1A Ok9,
secretary's report and the roll call
p?ice of food will have more than
which takes into account the real
I would be very interested in
was answered by 15 members.
double the impact on thou, at the
growth in the national income and
hearing your comments and
A committee was appointed to
bottom of the income scal'etnot
just the inflation. factor
suggestions.
look into buying a new piano for
will have on those at the to���
the church.
• conclusion spelled in this
report is that tho oor pay more to
get
Phis 'our oin w.u"t';.h a '
he price ovaru�u ® products
iscs, most families will begin to
substi(utc' less expensive
products for more expensive .
ones. ,
However, the price of the
• The Thankoffering will be
October 1st with the Bradly
Family as the entertainme&
Timothy,
,
'Red ' Clover and
Bi rdsfoot. Tref oil
eed
MAPLE .LEAF MILLS LTD.
(SEED DIVISION)
EXETER, ONT, PHONE 235-0363
(Jones, MacNaughtoin)
October 8th is the Re ional
g
"meeting' in "Egmond'ville Uinittid"
Church and a bazaar will be held
WANT ADS
product which is being
,The Agriculture meeting of
Mr. Ray Bell has erected anew
substituted will rise bccattsc
demand- has risen. Families will
be forced to buy less of It and
Kippen East W.I. will be held -on
September 18 at the home of Mrs.
E. Whitehouse. Mrs. Campbell
shed for his trucks.
Mrs. Edna Caldwell, Exeter
and ' Mrs. Harry -�-t Caldwell
-
make their own substitution to
Eyre will give the motto, Mrs,
attended a tour reunion. at
something further down the price '
StTwart Pepper, a poem and Mrs.
Hanover, Sunday.
scale. E. Whitehouse, a contest. Mr,
.. The substituticnt process James Scott will speak on India.
lessens file impact of price Personals
increases " for many fanlifies• Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Mellis. Mr.
-Perhaps they might not like what and Mrs. Dean Gibson visit ed in
they cat as much as before, but Walkerton with Dean's sister,
this is more a matter of (ante.. But Mrs. Mary McGillivarv.
what haphe(is to those families
who are already buying the least
What •nn rile '
items? I tt � �
expensive t
The answer.
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the- altertaativcs of eit4ter
spending a great deal more qet
to
know
proportionally on food (a
non-existent alternative where a
limited budgcf' is already fulf��'r l ' • • •FOOD
committed) or simply eating less.
This •• is precisely the situation
which, the poor are having to FRESH
confront. ...
For low income families t1t4 PORK SHOULDER ROASTS ... ' ........ Ib• c
Report says that staples are foods
such as hamburger, 'weincrs. -
But ipotatoes. pasta and bread. BUTT PORK CHOPS
` But n the 12 months covered by Ib. �89cthe Report, from December 1972
to December 1973, the cost, of
these commodities rose much,
faster than the cost of food in
general,' hamburger jumped SCHNEiDE.R'S WIENERS ............ . ........... Ib. 79c. •
35%, weiners went up 37";,, liver
35%, potatoes 25'0 and pasta' SCHNEIDER'S
.22% during the year.
There is substantial. well
documented evidence 'that rile SLICED MINCED HAM ........................ lb. 85C
poor are charged more for the
same goods and services than are
the non -poor. The fact of the
LEAN MEATY BACK RIBS
•limited resources of the poor a
results in the low-income market Ib. C
being characterized by factors
such as lower sales volumes and
slower turnovers of inventory.
BLADE or SHOULDER STEAK
j This makes it relatively less lb. 98C
attractive for merchandisers and
leads to the charging of higher iflrA R�
unit prices by retail outlets in FREEZER SPECIAL: --
E these areas. What neighbourhood
stores often do offer in low- FULLY PROCESSED
income areas is credit. The result
P` is that once the low-income LOIN. of BEEF • , , , , . �•
customer is in debt for one (b 19
1 month's groceries there 'is no-
choice
o-choice where he buys the next.
He is 'locked into the same
neighbourhood store, using this .,
month's cash to pay last month's - p
' bill and sustain credit for this . t�►
month's purchases. f
To remedy this situation, the „ -
government'r(tust st art looking at tt t MARIMS
a more vigorous competition qty
polio, ~'• the banning of
discriminatory pricing within food