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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1976-10-07, Page 1Alkoo a year in Advatwf §14$1e0p,i5 Opts 0..024".." WY•S;11011000,14W.4*.:Y:,-7,61,..:,:jf ' 1•11 , SPRUCINO 'UP John Cardn0 wad ber'ely Visible, Main Street Kciridai ad' lie Melded a Olint ;obrii.laho, painting the tft: thebardiufdi hall diotk 'tewer. He had to ude very' long bolt) With bruSb attached. The building is nearlY 100' years old. LIBERAL LEADER WITH OFA — Stuart Smith, leader of the Liberal party, right, was speaker at a Federation of Agriculture meeting Tuesday night in Brussels. Here he listens to another speaker_with Bev Brown, Bluevale, left and Murray Gaunt(MPP for Huron Bruce. (Staff Photo) Liberal leader says Can't run Ont. from Toronto A group one (fluid) shipper in the audience, objected that quota would have to be $aken away from him to give it to industrial producers. "I paid $25 a pound for some of that quota and worked - ke hell for years to pay for it." Dr. Smith agreed but told the shipper that he'd probably done better than some other milk producers and said some compensation would have to be paid to group orie shippers. Both men agreed that pay should be on the basis of Milk qttality . Mrs. Burt wantd knoW why industrial milk shflapert were penalized for being oVer quota by 22 millien pounds last year on the preVineet ibtai ptoductioil, while fluid produeera weren't penallted for "27 fallen pounds of butter fat they duraped .on the market." One pool, one price is the answer for dairy, Smith says • • , • Whole No. 5668 117th Year Reported to be progressing on Wednesday, Clair McClure, R.R.2, Seaforth', continues in University Hospital , London, following a single car accident west of winthrop Sunday afternoon in which his right arm was severed. Also in University Hospital and also progressing is Ronald Blanchard , 17, R,RA, Walton who received severe facial lacerations. Also involved in the accident was Stanley McClure, 17, R.R.1, Walton, who received lacerations. Admitted to Seaforth Community Hospital after the accident, he was released Tuesday. The three are students at Seaforth District High SChool. The injuries resulted when a dune buggy driven by Stanley tte Mctlure, on which the youths 'were riding, went out of control and struck p, barbed wire fence do Concession 9, Hullett Township, near the intersection of County Road 17, two and a half miles west of Winthrop at 4:30 p.m. Sunday. A blown'tire is reported to` have contributed to the accident. ' Constable Robert Roberts of Goderich Detachment of OP P investigated the mishap. Board nominates Three injured in buggy , A pre-election ratepayers' meeting will be held bSr Tuckersmith Council on Monday, November 10, at 8 P.M. at Huron Centennial School, provided the school is available on•that date. Reeve Elgin Th ompson, who has announced he will not be seeking. re-election, ' said a ratepayers' meeting would help to stir up interest in the election to be held December 6. He said he thought if'wbuld be better to have the meeting prior to the filing cif nomination papers by the candidate for office November 11th to 15th. Court of Revision was held in on the Geary Creek Drain (a Township of Hibbert drain) which affects a small area of Tucker- smith. No appeals were heard and the drain report was accepted: Council voted to donate $500.00 to the "Save Our Hospital" committee to help pay for the legal fees incurred when the closure of the Clinton Public Hospital was ordered last spring . by the Minister of Health and the committee was formed to fight the order. Roy Wheeler, chairman of the committee in asking for the donation, reported the ToWn of Clinton and Hullett Township had te. rgatepayert mith to hos each given' $1,000 to help pay the taken to driving new backhoe? she's lawyers' fees which totalled more keeping an eye on the front wheel of her tractor than .$5000. mee area teachers - The Huron County Board of Education agreed to nominate two of its teachers as candidates for teaching positions with the Department ,of National Defence Dependants Schools Overseas at its meeting on Monday afternoon. (Continued on Page 17) CONCENTRATION Wm* 'Has Mayor Betty Cardno No, cluring plowing competitions at the International , Plowing Match in Walkerton on Saturday. The mayor didn't do too bad at all, placing sixth in a field of 10, ahead of -Clinton mayor, Don Simons, who was eighth. (Staff Photo) from .the Vanastra Day Care Board. He gave personal reasons for his resignation. Building permit applications were approved for: Lambert Lubbers, R.R.4, Seaforth, steel grain bin; Sander Van Dorp,. R.R.5, Clinton, Garage; Jaci McGregor, R.R.S, Clinton, Mobile.Home; Norman MacLean, Egmondville, log addition to log house, Passed for payment were the following accounts, general $27,503,59, Roads $24,372,49; Vanastra Recreation, $6,268.73; Variastra Day Care, $3,370.24, for a total of $61,515.05. Allan Guest of Vanastra and Don Perry, manager of Harold White Homes (London) Ltd. attended the meeting to enquire rabefut progress in obtaining title to the controversial four lots in Vanastra Ott which the White firm is constructing houses. ' A4r, Guest, spokesman, said the houses were about 75 per cent coMpleted, Mr. Guest bitterly criticized the newspaper article which brought to the attention of the public the information the houses were being constructed on prop&ity fot. which legal clearance had not been obtained until the township passed a by-law or a minor variance to. the plan that would allow building on the reduced sized lots. Seaforth' has heard from a Wintario projects officer that the arena may be eligible for increased arena grants. If the entire project costs $200,000, a possible $90,000 would come from Wintario, about twice as much as was promised before, clerk Jim Crocker said Tuesday. About $42,000 has been raised by the public for arena renovations, now, Mr. Crocker said. On top of that the renovations will get a 25 percent • tlerk James McIntosh informed Mr. Guest and Mr. Perry that proposed by-law will be advertised this week and if there at€'nd objections, it will be passed at council meeting on November 2. If any objections are received a hearing-by the Ontario Municipal Board will be necessary Mr. McIntosh said. Amending by-laws were passed grant under the Community Centres Act and another 25 per cent grant from the town. The clerk says the total cost of the arena renovations may be $225,000 - $235,000. If 25% of that, or something over $50,000 could be raised locally-, the whole , cost of the work would be covered without a debenture being issued. "The easiest solu,tion would 'be to raise another $10,000 - $12,000." He said the cost of a $100,000 debenture over 10 years • on the Shepherd Drain whiCh. when completed, cost $13,497.51 instead of the estimated $14,300 and on the Nott Drain whieh,,eoSt $.6(1,37/.41 instead ot 4tt estimated '$50,000. The next ,couneil meeting will be held October 19 at 8:00 p.m. at Van Egmond "House in Egmondville On invitation from the Van Egmond foundation. would be $180,000.""Maybe people would dig a little deeper to keep this off their,taxes," he said. Although Seaforth service clubs didn't show too much interest in the idea of a big arena weekend November 20 and 21 (only one club sent a rep to the, meeting oh the subject last week), the arena fund raising committee isn't giving up. Recreation director Clive Buist is going to approach all the clubs in person A letter was received from Tuckersmith Federation of Agriculture thanking council for the 1976 grant of $600. Council accepted the resigna- tion of Art Forler of Vanastra the PUC's Arena may get more dpilari • 'SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7, 476 — 22 PAGES -'POreot-asks':botirdifdt..specitil- , own schools?" she asked." Mrs. Van den Broeck 'asked if remedial teachers were not being flooded with students who require upgrading of basic skills because they are not being stressed enough in the regular classroom. She went on to suggest that the skills of special education teachers were being used as a substitute for re-inforcing basic skills in the primary grades. She asked if "special education and remedial teachers are being faced with having to make the eh oice of offering a little bit of help to a fairly large number of students to supplement what should e done in the' classroom instead ' of expending their energies on the specialized needs of the smaller group of percep- tionally, hearing or sight handicapped children in their charge?" "Unless you are able to show me studies which have been done to dispute this," she said, "we believe that this is one reason why the needs of the children with learning disabilities though certainly not ignored, can not be met." In presenting her brief Mrs. Van den Broeck suggested that innovative and highly specialized programs and follow through (Continued on Page 3) 13n Morday af ternoon ,the Huron County Board of Education was asked to initiate an independent study into special education needs in the County. Joan Van den Broeck of Goderich, who told the board she had a son in grade four who "could not read", said she was speaking for herself and many other parents in the county whose children were not getting the special help they needed to cope with learning disablities. rs. Van den broeck told the board that such a study should be done independently by someone outside the system, that the stu-dy should evaluate not only what is being done in Huron but also what is being done with similar problems elsewhere and that the study provide recommendations based on its findings. "As parents," she told the meeting, "'my husband and I have watched with growing alarm the effects that an apparent lack of policy in this area has had on our child over the ' past four years." "We believe that until such time as the Board acknowledges the need for Special Education Policy and is. willing to establish guidelines and programs geared to the need ; the education rights drift-rt)y children in HuronCounty to reallze their potential will be denied," she said. In presenting her plea, Mrs. Van den Broeck- said she recognized the national scope of some of the 'problems which the board faced. She said she had been told that there are students, even at the secondary school level, who are unable to`read. She noted concern being expressed by universities who acknowledge that they are receiving students from the system lacking in basic language skills and who need to upgrade themselves in order to, cope With university. "But," she added, "may I ask you, because the problem appears to be so complex and widespread, does that excuse you (the board) from taking any course of responsible action?" "Is it hot time for you, as our representat ,ives, to take a close look at what is happening in our r4uests to attend confuences and workshops or to initiate my projects felt 11'e:e beneficial to niy students or myself. M. immediate atiministratbr. and an. from the Board Office have onl. been encouraging in their consideration of my concerns. The demands in return have not been undue,' ' "BAsing my opinion on my contacts with other teachers." she said, "the condition's under 'which they claim to work do not seem conducive to a good educational process, I appreciate then the system I am working for and would like to say so." In other matters the • Board referred appointment of four of its members to the Staff Improvement Plan committee to the Chairman's Advisofy CoMmittee, The Staff Improvement Committee hag been set up under terms of • the Collective Agroontent for 07641' between .the' BOO aed District' 45 of the Ofittrio Secondary School Teacher's Federation.' Ontario has a provincial government that thinks everything can be run from Toronto "and it'.,s' just not true". provincial Liberal leader Stuart Smith told farmers at a regional meeting of the Ontario Federation of Agriculture in BrUssels Tuesday night. Referring _to the ' 'assessment jungle" that.;,s grown up since the province took over property assessment he said "Things that are bigger aren't always, better-or cheaper.' ""r He said the property tax reform proposal which would have the province pay 100 percent of the tax on farm land is a toial misunderstanding of the thinking Of rural people. "it is such a complete misunderstanding of the mentality of farmers that it could only have come 'from Ontario' Treasurer) Darcy MeKeough." • "People don't/want hand,outs, Tax people at a fair rate'," let them make a deeent living and they'll be delighted to pay• their taxes," the Liberal leader said. The tax reform idea betrays that the province doesn't understand responsible govern- me.nt. Local people would loFe control of local government if taxes were paid bv the province Dr. Smith said. Keeping all farm land in production sounds good to those in the centre of the city but it can be Accomplished, not by locking farmers onto the land, but by fair prices for farm products and by spreading development , to areas theprovioce where there is to prOductive farm land, -Tile provincial treasurer says oeoplc want to live in the cities," but Dr. Smith disputed this: Rural kids 'won't want to go to cities when farm prices are stable and their parents can say to them "go into farming; it's a good way of he sai'd. "We can open up this province like weopened up Canada in the old days." 'he said, calling for incentives to people and industry to move out of the southern Ontario golden horsesh6e. " A farm income stabilization bill that involves all agricultural commodities. has producer Milk production quotas came up at the regional meeting of the Fed,eration of Agriculture where provincial Liberal leader Stuart Smith was guest speaker in Brussels Tuesday night. Ontario's agriculture minister William Newman will have to act now that Quebec has announced a $22 million subsid,y,4or hard hit dairy 'farmers in that province, the Liberal leader predicted. Dr. Smith told farmers in his audience that the province should suspend the milk quota program "until this difficult period is over." Production quotas averaged over a year, not applied to each reptith, would 1•161p dairy producers somewhat, he suggested. Penalties against : farmers who are over producing industrial milk should be relaxd in provinces that have ret the participation and is voluntary, with farms paying some of the costs would have the support of thg Liberals in the legislature, Dr. Smith said. He called for an enabling bill that could be applied commodity. by commodity, not as an incentive to over produCC but to "prevent disasterous losses." The leader said the Liberals support the idea of income stabilization ..,:zeluctantly" because farmers are the only members of society who don't have sothe form -of ( teuerat cutbachs, including Ontario, he said. Dr.Smith says he doesn't blame local producers for planning to sue the province and the Ontario Milk Marketing Board. "They might not win but why shouldn't they sue?" Even if the OMMB isn't at fault, and he said they probably couldn't have predicted the milk surpluses, they can still be sued, he said. Dr, Smith said a time limit should be set on the OMIVIB's aim of pooling industrial and fluid milk and basing paytnent to producers on quality . "It's been an aim for a long time and not much has happened." Milk producer Alice Burt of Ethel said feels the marketing- board and agricultiatal tninister Newman harve "no Intention" of instittiting the one pool, One price system. , The Huron County Board of Education received a pat on the back at its meeting on Monday afternoon in the form of a letter from one of its staff members, Maryanne Weiler, head of the Physical Education and Health Department at , Settforth and District High School. In a letter to Board Chair a an Herb' Turkheini Ms. Weiler noted "I would like to express my gratitude to the Huron County Board of Education for the opportunities this Board has presented to me and to convey my pleasure teaching for Huron 1Cou nty. " "In the past few months," the letter noted, "I have been involved with a number of teacher groUps and many of my associates are naturally teachers, Through • meeting with these teachers, I \ have grown to appreciate working in Huron County. There seems to' be a great deal of aninuisity and 'criticism , evident from other tea0614S And their BoardSi Which have teat ektierieneedolidre." ' MS, Weiler weet ro say, "I have seldom been denied Seaforth teacher pats board on the back protection. "You can be sure 9,114:- wouldn't sell their cars below cost, not matter what kind otover supply was en the market," he said. With a proper farm income bill, not the halfway measure introduced earlier this year which covered only a few commodities, the government will get Liberal support, • Dr. Smith said. • The Liberal Party would tell city dwellers that they might have to pay a little more for food and (Continued on Page 31