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The Huron Expositor, 1976-05-06, Page 1vs.4411 411y,,t ,Atitp.,09 ot the pp.jorth . Lodge celebrated their 50th. 'bit Way 'vvIth a Party. MOnday night, Longttme members who received 25 and 50 year pins, left, Mrs.,AgInes McClinchey, 25 years, Mrs. Annie Oldfleld, 50 years, Mrs. Velma Miller, 25 years, Mrs. Irene Smith, 25 years and In front, Mrs. Liela Forbes, 25 years, Mrs. Elva Westoott, Toronto, 50 years and Mrs. Edith Dunlop, 25 years,were unable to attend. • (Staff Photo) Tuckersmith Township residents will' face • a • modest increase of eight mills in their tax levy this year. Tuckersmith Township Council decided Tuesday night. On a $3,000 assessment, •• • this means an increase of About $24. On top of this general tax levy:' , which covers Huron.: Tuckersmith Township and . Edtication taxes, the community' of Vanastra will be paying an extra 140 mills for their street lights, community centre and water and sewage. This mill rate is only up one from last year. Industrial residents of Vanastra will be paying an extra 51 mills for water and sewage, the same mill rate es 1975. • ' The. village of Brueelield will be • paying five mills for their street, lights this year, as compered to four mills for 1975. Egniondville will be paying nine mills for their street lights, up one •mill from last year. Harpurhey, which had no street lights in 1975, will be paying five mills for their lights this ye'ar,' Kipp,en's mill rate for then' street lights will . remain the same as last year, 10 mills. Total tax levies in Tuckersmith Township will 1)(75595,794.50 this year a's compared to $530,238' in 1975, This is broken down into $88,096.83 for Township purposes and $105;380.30 for County purposes. This county levy would have been an extra uota cut hits Hur ti al, 1,519.,00 aTePr IP Adva4ce Sin$le copy. ?..5 cents. S_EAFORTH, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, MAY 6, 1976 PAGES Whole No. 5646 117th Year • 500 ship industrial milk ,.,.11•1117467'Stee `but closer to a 66 percent", said Mr. Riddell. "The provincial government should have stopped encourage- ment and further borrowing by the farmers on the IMPIP so most of us will have to look at cutting back in production in some way," he added. While both federal and provincial governments are busy trying to eliminate a surplus, many farmers and others feel that we could very well be faced with a milk shortage in a short time. ForeedOnt "The cutback will force a lot of people out of business and down along the road two years from now there will be a shortage and these people won't be able to collie back into production", said Murray Gaunt. . Alice Burt, who acted as spokespersen for the dairy farmers protest in Toronto when milk was dumped at Queen's Park last week, is certain the shortage is much closer. "The government is creating Huron County Board of Education this year a levy of $60,104 for elementary public and $81,892 . secondary school. A levy of $27,219 will be paid to the While most municipalities are faced with having to levy a higher mill rate this year, Hullett Township residents are in the envious position of having their taxes drop. • Last year Hullett Township had an overlevy on the county portion, of the taxes, and for this reason the tax rate will drop by two mills, according to Clare Vincent, ' Township Clerk for Hullett. "We didn't take into account how the Proyincial. ,StabilizAtion • i,•oill`c14671i . We 'did ri _ fully understand the effect it would have and this resulted in th•C overlcvy." said Mr. Vincent. The. County Farm and Resident portion of the taxes is cut by 10.9 (By John Miner)/ Huron County will be one of the V hardest hit areas as a result of the. 15 percent cutback in industrial . milk quota. Some dairy farmers say' they are facing bankruptey becduse they tock the Ontarite • grogram earlier, but they didn t government's advle0e • stop until the end of last year. "Basically it ig; gong to be-a• 4 They indu_eed.fartnere to expand severe problem for. those who and a responsibility to went into the" dairy business and . protect theni now that they are expanded in the last year", said faced with this crisis", Mr. • Ian Kennedy, Huron County deity Riddell told the Expositor. "If inspector. "Huron will 'be one of farmers ,can't put faith in the hardest hit areas because of government, then I don't see who the large' amount of industrial they can put faithein" he added. quotas that the farmers have." "It isn't printable",'; was Huron County has 800 milk Huron-Bruce M.P.P. Murray producers with over 500 of them el ...Jaunt's reaction to the shipping industileterillk. announced 'cutback. Mr, Gaunt The federal government in tclt that the government should `their recently announced dairy declare an immediate moratorium policy demanded that provincial on repayment of the IMPIP loan marketing 'agencies bring their until farmers are over the hurdle industrial milk production in line 'and that the difference between withltarket requirements or have .what farmers received from milk action taken against 'them by the cheques in January, February Canadian Dairy Commission, and March and what' 'they Ontario had increaased its received in April and May should industrial quota shipments in, be made up by the government to ' January, February and March cushion the impact of the 15% this year by 30 percent ovedr the cutback. same period in 1975, and the' "You just can't turn cows on Ontario Milk Marketing Board ,and off like a tap", said Mr. felt it had to make an immediate Gaunt. "Farmers need a chance cut' of 15 percent to bring to. adjust to the situation. The Ontario's, production in li ne with problem didn't appear overnight. its national allotment. and the provincial government of Buffalo;channel 6 Many farmers are up in arms' should have done something station from, because the Ontario government about it." 7 and 8 will be encouraged Ahem to increase , Gordon Hill; president of 'in London production and induced others to the Ontario Federation of Agriculture. doesn't feel the fsaituultation the government's "There were danger signals last summer 'that the. situation would be like this and farmers should have seen that. Farmers and 13 from Kitchener: enter the industry . under the Channels 5 and '9 from Toronto Industrial , Milk, Incentive are not available yet, but- Mr. Program 7 Wilt). •" . The Ward says that he should have government guaranteed loans for the perniit to carry. them 'by the farmers who built or expanded' end of May. , and forgave a portion of it if a "We are applying for it from farmer increased his production the Canadian Radio, and by a set amount, lelevi/ there is ree whce•inereased, production were Television '" #-':COMmission surplus and farmers rave to cut "efet 'et1.Y wise, ' said Hijl. (C.R.T.C.) , now," said Mr, back 15% in their production and "The government was wrong, Ward. "I can't see any problem according to Huron-Middlesex but that doesn't exempt farmers in getting it as, it, is Canadian M.P.P., lack Riddell, the cut will from not looking at the future," (C'entinued on Page 3) really be a lot more., he said. "tA lot of farmers borrowed on Kenneth M eKinnon. vice- the IMPIP prOgram and 'now are president of the Ontario.' Milk in serious trouble because they Marketing Board disagrees did. Many have expanded in the however. DOWN THE last year, but the quota cut will be "Nobody had •eny idea that we dairy, operation based on the entire year's quota were going to have this kind of a Passmore (above) an Osborne won't take into account their stir kis The board certainly recent increase. The farmers haven't taken a 15 percent cut, Down the drain because of ToWnship will be $1 ,843.68. In .other business, Tuckersmith Township Council passed a bylaw concerning the ••• demolition of buildings. From now on, anyone demolishing a building in Tuckersmith. must obtain a permit from the Council. Council hopes that this bylaW Will 'prevent . further unsightly Messes from demolished buildings: Council also decided that they would make payments on tile drain loans as soon as completion tickets are filed and the money conies in. - !Any other applications will be "filed w ith the_ Township in the- order that they are received and If everything runs according to schedule, Seaforth residents will be ?tile to have cable TV in their homes by the end of July, according to John Ward, a Listowel accountant who is holder., of the cable licence for Seaforth. "We hope eeehave everything ready for hookup by the end of July. Right now we are just stringing 'the main lines," sat d Mr. Ward. The charge for cable TV which will also be available to people living in ' Egmondville and. Harpurhey , will be six dolars a month. with' an installation charge "I\ ONE BIKE LICENCE, PLEASE — Greg Bennewies could hardly see over the counter at the Seaforth police station last week but he had his money ready when it was, his turn to buy a bike licence. Town police and the Optimist club co-operated to sell about 145 licences to Seaforth kids. All bikes in town must have a licence, according to a Seaforth bylaw and the tags cost 75 cents. (Staff Photo) )By Shirley J. Keller) Melabers of Huron County Council are considering - the cissibility of reducing its C 'r mbers from 45 to 29, but 'it isn't likely they will come to a decision until June at the earliest:, A report of the local government study committee was tabled until the May session but council probably won't be ready to vote oh the matter until the following meeting at the end of June. It was agreed at the April session, Thursday, April 29, to send. a letter to all municipal councils in Huron asking for opinions concerning the feasi- bility of adopting Section 27 (a) of Uni.•.•„.„ night. Start Levy The federal government has told provincial marketing boards to institute an $8.00 per cwt. levy on any milk a farmer produces that is over his quota. Producers now are only being paid approxi- mately $8.27 per cwt. and the levy would amount to a loss of 33c to the farmer for shipping milk over quota. It would be more profitable for a farmer to dump any of his surplus milk than to ship it. Mr. Ml Kinnon says that the board is not prepared to collect the $8.60 levy. "We don't think it can be collected legally or any other way", he said. "But no matter what the levy is set at. surplus shipments will not bring any return. It is clOubtful that there will be any quota available to buy DRAIN may 540.000 if the Township hadn't got a general support grant from the province. The Hurmeperth RCSS Board gets $16,9'6.68 and primary schools get $109,082.40 secondary school levy is 5122.663.74. • • Di-ainage charges will be a levy el $38.651.93 and street lighting in the Township will cost $9.451.94. • Vanastra sewage and e titer will cost $79,905,93 and their garbage collection key will he $7, 161., while the community centre in Vanstra will cost $16.580,04. Miscellaneous expenses for the Residerite 'of. McKillop Town- ship face a tax increase this year of 10.8 mills, farm residential, for a public school supporter and 12.3 mills for .a separate school supporter. With increases in municipal and board of education tax levies the township's tax rate is going up 10.8 mills to 98.2. meaning a farm assessed at $6,000 will cost a residential public school supporter an extra $64.80. The same farm for 'a separate school supporter will cost an extra $73.80. At a meeting of council Monday afternoon the total municipal budget was set for the year at $228,083 of which $76,000 has to be raised through taxation. • The county levy has been set at 19.8 mills down 3,4 to raise $74,485 for the county of Huron 'requisition. The decrease ;, due because certain services ..of the county this year. are "'to be provided on a population basis, namely, Chidren's Aid Society, HUNortvieW Social Services, Health, Library. -The township will pay to the an unnecessary panic situatiOn. There will be a shortage by next year and the government should know this. Can shippeee eteeeee close down by October 17ranti many will be going out of business before. It is ebsolutely ridiculous! This should hot be happenieg!" Albert Whiting, another Ethel area Dairy farmer, says the government should simply "leave it as it is". "They can 'see as well as anybody' else that by the end of the year the surplus will be reduced, With the number of farmers leaving the business and the natural increase in milk consumption due to pop ulation growth, we might have the reverse situation," said Whiting. Gordon Hill, however, (Continued on Page 3) will only be accepted as money is available., The Council had protested to the province that they didn't have enough money to' cover amount they had already promised to tile drain loan applicants. • . Council received a letter from MPP Jack Riddell who said that . he thinks the province will dig up some extra funds to help Townships out of their embarassing situation. Reeve E_ loin Thompson wanted to knov'v'-how the province was gOing to do this. "Will they give us some money -they saved by closing the hospitals?", he asked, Huron-Perth County Roman Catholic Separate School Board. Other major expenditures include $169,035 for 'roads, (Continued on Page 3) mills from 24.5 mills in 1975 to 13,6 in 1976 while the County Business and C6mmercial portion drops from 29 mills in 1975 to 16 mills in 1976. Supporters of the Huron-Perth R.C.S.S.Board will have an 8.02 mill increase in that part of their ••taxes. The Huron County School Board Elementary taxes are up 3.5 mills and the Secondary up 6.4. The two mill decrease in the total 1976 tax rate was passed at e regular „maim ef,enullett ownshirt other business council Issued eight building permits and accepted the Tender of Polard Bros. to supply chloride for Township roads at $82.50 per ton. 41 FIGHTING A CHIMNEY FIRE — Several Seaforth area firemen put a hose down the chimney which caught on fire about 9 a.m. Monday at the Carter Kerslake home, a mile west of Staffa. Firemen egot,,the blaze out ,with water and chemicals and Mrs. Kerslake said there was no danger of losing the house once they arrived: Damage was Ii mited to the chimney and was covered by insurance. (Staff Photo) CableTV coming in July of $15. A year's subscription paid in advance will cost, $66., a discount of one month's charge. People on cable will be able to receive ten channels with two more possible the time: installation takes place. Channel 2 will be the Buffalo station, but its- reception is poor. You can't depend on it. Sometimes it will come in good, and ethers itevon'ecome in at all. we are ""'still working on the. problem and hope we can get it cleared' up, " said Mre Ward. Channel 3 will be the educational channel; channel 4 will be out will be the Global Toronto; chann'els from Buffalo; 10 Not sure about cutting county council size What's more, .11m Mair, of Morris Township hopes that there will be tune for the Huron County people to express then' opioion on the matter - either by delegations to councils or by speaking directly to elected officials in their municipalities. In the report of the committee chaired by Warden Jack McCutcheon, it was noted that in 1975, the population in Huron was 54,671. Based on that figure, council. has at the present time a member of council for each 1,437 people. If Section 27 (a) was adopted, . there would be one member of council for each 1,885 people., The ' Municipal. ,Aet which Presently, there are 56 votes in reiiiirerterqvager,lorilirteiNe "aliffelliehtecNettrefentevetefor 2,000 electors; a reeve arid a each 976 people,.or 2.15 votes per deputy-reeve over 5,50O electors; •municipality, or 1.24 votes per the reeve with a second vote over member. Under the system 5,0(00:lectors; and the reeve and proposed, there would be 30 votes the deputy reeve with a second in council, an average of one vote vote over 7,500 electors. (Continued on Page 4) is where Paul Passmore's.m ilk and entire go the cutback in industrial milk quota. Paul dairy farmer, works in his new milking parlor didn't." he told a meeting of realizing that he must either find more industrial quota or ship about half of his dairy Farmers' in' Blyth Thursday' herd in order to eliminate overshipping. Tuckersrmath taxes up 8-mills McKillop taxes up 10.8 mills Hullett taxes drop!