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Whole No. 5903 11...r1 4000 SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29, 1981 — 24 PAGES
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Vallastra water, system ',frqrn the 'Pluton
water*.• ItickeRmith TownShip- council
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approved a leakage. lest on the system at a
special meeting Titesda.y.
COtnieil wilt retain an operator and his
machine to do the tests at a cost of $1,000. It
is expected this will be done in May. The
operator has agreed to instruct Manager
Don McLean so that he will be able to do
future tests himself.
Mark Bell and Dick Brown, officials from
EnYttP0.0.t.it. illY!rate4 the ,
Vaegstra waiv;rpol ;Attelitt, ,
ett the session TO ,answer•-.A number
• nucStionS aS requested in a letter from
Manager McLean attended as v, ell. '
The problem of the leaking sV.,acni 4,as
discussed--
where the leaks might be. him
best to decide what system to use to locate
them and how to mend them. The decision
was made to hire an operator and his special
equipment to test the six miles of w ater
mains.
Government retesting
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lewd ,on farms: S
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residents): ,
Sohn .4rnwnridge,Sgsge.Sted
compromitse end retluse the budget to whAt
tt was last year--Si .'750: • "
Dick Brown said h was reasonable to cot it
in half aS he could see no reason for the
workload to be heavier this year. -
Another increase in the budget was• for
travel expenses for staff, and council asked
the need for flying staff to a convention. as
far away as Thunder .Bay where this year's
will be held." Mark Hell eiPtained that
conventions are held in different regions and
that managers like to go to conventions to
learn.
Reeve Bell agreed conventions are good
and that a person- learns something new at a
convention, but that it was unreasonble to fly
manager Don McLean all the way to
Thimder Bay. He said he could attend
conferericessouthern in the area of Ontario.
' Dick Brown agreed that regional seminars
and conferences.- in the area were very
worthwhile for learning new things.
Following the meeting with ministry
officials. council went into comrnittee,of-the-
whole to discuss the township budget and
the Vanastra water and sewage budget.
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N14':00:'41;14004 :tA;clgo. iv'
wa:,i,oktge. Spoil $l4 000 tte....said -it
that had to he.spent and wt4s, not
vi.4$*(1, • . . .
IteeVe Robert BO remarked,. that the
oser•spending , oser-spendnig has been happening ewry
v-ear and said council should bat,e been kept
informed. The reeve asked that infuture
the budget should be looked at half-way
through the year and if on par. alright. but if
it looks like overspending then he asked that
ministry officials'sit down with council and
explain. them. "we can bye with, it • • .
Mr. Brow n remarked that they should
schedule two meetings' a year with council,
possibly a third or even more if needed.
CASUAL HELP
Another 'question that the ministry
-attempted to deal with was the question of
hiring- c. sual helpers to ayt during the
summer. Previously in 1980 , 1750 had been
paid out for thg summer help but in 1981,,
S.:1400. was budge ted.
Mark Bell said that. the casual staff cut the
lawns, did painting. additional meter read
Mg...which would put a real strain on the
two regular staff members, especially , as
each will be off on a three week vacation` in
the summer.
Reeve Bell remarked that a decision would
Nielsen Classic
....tet for. Saturday
The thrust of the article was that the
government was allowing close to 40
chemicals being retested to remain on the
market• although, it has not vet been shown
they are safe, a comment which troubles one
area farmer.
"My personal feeling is-the less chemicals
we use, the better it is," said John Van
Beers. vice-president of the Huron Federa-
tion of Agriettit and a Blyth area pork
producer.
"Farmers have to really smarten up on the
way they handle chemicals. I don't want to
use anything that could be harmful to the
.%d
Simplest thing to do, it was a line they were
dropping."
Mr. Lynch said he did see Cobex being
used last year hut added "in general farmers
were not satisfied with it."
"Alf corn root
deadly. and they
usage." said Mr.,
appeared -the
>Ir. Van Beers added• he didn't think a
problem such as the one caused by IBT could
occur as readily in Canada as in the States.'
• "I feel a lot of this is caused by vertical
agricultural integration with muliinationals
in the States and there's no responsibility
there as there is here with small ,family
farms and marketing boards."
. RESPONSIBLE
"Individuals are more responsible. but
when industry gets so big. they're , not
responsible, they're not very conscientious. I
think the ,research and testing should be
done separate from anyone with a conflict of
interest."
- Mr. Lynch said a Situation like that created
by IBT can be traced to a common practice
used in high school chemistry, Cook's
ConStant. "You keep conking the .experi-
nient until you get the results you want," -he
explained. In effect, make your test suit
Please turn to ,page 3
jump with two i5;10" jumpers set to go head
to head.
Local spectators will have an opportunity
teAvatch area long and triple jumper -Mark
Underwood •perform. He currently holds
several Huron-Perth records.
Although-earlier-this-year as-plans :for-the-
second classic got—underway organizers
--expected—a—large—leap—iu—the—numir of
performers,, the actual increase was less
than anticiRated. SOIL the. entries to dote ,
total dose to 85, up substantially from last
year's 55. and Mr. Johnston said the
quality which , made the 1980 a success has
' been maintained.
Donations to the meet may be dropped off
at the Toronto' Dominion Bank in Seaforth.
The meet will be held at the high school in
Seaforth where-the finishing touches were
put on the facilities last week. , A new
jumping pit, is in place along with new
throwing areas for the discus and shot put;
the throwing Afeas have a crushed gravel ,
surface.
Competition gets underway at 10 and runs
through to about 4 p.m. There will be a
athletiescholarship. •concession booth at the school for spectators
A close fight is expec'ted in the boys high and athletes.
As was the case with last -year's first
annual Nielsen Field Classic, the 1981 event
will again feature some of the top high
school .athletes in the province. ,
Included among the performers who
-participate in the meet in Seaforth Saturday
art.--three-members-of-the•Canactian-Jurtior
--Pan-American team. Two of the competitors.
hr a Hart orninn_atut nenise Hobert of
Windsor. • . . will square off yin of the day's
critical battles, the girls' javelin. '
Another Pan American, member. -Mike
Brennan of Kingsville. will also attend. .
Along with the' three Pan-American team
members, five former champions in the
Ontario Federation of Secondary Schools
ASsociation (OF-SSA) will be present: includ-
ing discus thrower Liz Polyak of Brantford.
She is one of Canada's outstanding, young
throwers, according to meet organizer Terry
Johnston_, if Seaforth District High School,
and he predicts she may break' the record
held by' Cindy Crapper. -Miss Crapper
competed at the Field Classic last year and
went on to study and train in the States on an
I GOT ONE — Ronny Stewart was one of the lucky few who could boaSt a
catch, howbeit small, in-Saturdayl trout derby, Although Silver Creek
had been stocked for-the event, typicalOold weather discouraged the fish
from biting once again. See more photos page 3. (Photo by Ellis)
later
_......Steep
increase in
board budget
Vietnamese are taught.
Starting out in a new country, in a new
climate, with a new language and with I
few resources i"When we left all my
father's fortune was robbed by the
communists." notes Yen) certainly means
sacrifice. For- a time that has meant
separating the family, though they'll soon
be reunited and give every indication
settlement in their new country will be a
s-tiece'ss.
major hurdles i.virich must be crossed. • At
first to learn English we foiled it very
hard," notes Yen. "but 'the teacher helps
us a lot and we're finding it easier all the
time."
Ycn, unlike her brothers and sisters in
.Seaforth, had a head start after studying..
English in,Vietnam for three years. All the
Lam children 'attended private schools-in
their homeland where Chinese (the lang-
uage of their parents), French, English and
The._Huron Csiuhty_Board of Education
announced a 13.2 per cent in its new budget
'over that of 1980 at ,its regular meeting
Tuesday night.
The 1981 budget totals $28.630.287. The
figure for last year was $25,296.061.
Details of the budget will be included in
next week's Expositor. •
.BY HERB SHOVELLER
The chemical disulfoton (trade name
Di-'Syston), reported earlier this week to
have been judged unsafe by Canada's
Health Department.,can' still legally be used
by farmers and is in fact prohibited for home
use only.,
A report in the Globe and Mail, which
listed dinitramine (Cobex) as a second
chemical determined unsafe by health ,
officials, failed to note the conditions under
which Di-Syston was judged unsafe.
I 'According to Pat Lynch, a soil and crops
expert with the Ministry of Agriculture and
Food in Stratford. the decision on Di-Syston.'
used mainly as a corn root worm insecticide.
is similar for all corn root worm chemicals.
worm insecticides are
reqiiire great care in
Lynch after, the story
of the
paper, "None are registered for home use. -
Their vapors are too volatile. But farmers,
can still legally use Di-Syston."
"NO Chemagro (the distributor) disulfoton
productt have been cancelled," said comp-
any spokesman Bob Misener in a phone
interview yesterday, "and no agricultural
uses of disulfoton have been cancelled."
Mr.,Misener. said the ruling to ban home
and garden usage of products containing
'disulfoton originated in Ottawa in Decem;
her'. A statement at that time from minister
of agriculture Eugene Whelan said home
and garden use constitutes .a human health
hazard.
The Globe story centres on retesting being
done by both the Canadian and U:S.
geVernments On chemicals which had origi-
nally been tested by an American, Company.
Industrial Biotest Laboratories (IBT). The
re testing results froM the discovery in 1977
that IBT had faked , the results of at least
some of its tests.
Of the 205 chemicals for which IBT had
done some of the testing, Canada was given
to study, They have passed 25 of the
chemicals while another seven are not used
in Canada ' and s'it-others have been
"-withdrawn by the manufacturer,
One Of those withdrawn was the second'
chemical determined unsafe, according to
the Globe Story, dinitramine (tobex). ,which
the distributer. Chipman Inc., removed from
stores two months ago. The company
stopped ",manufacturing the chemical two
years ago, said local sales representative
Ted McCullough Tuesday.
When it stopped producing the chemical
the company sold off 'remaining stock to
'dealers. Cobex is used onwhite beans,
soybeans and some vegetables.
MORE ,INFORMATION
"The government had asked for more
information to update the data." explained
Mr. 'McCullough. "but they had stopped
manufacturing Cobex. So .rather than that
(supply the data) they'decided the best thing'
to do was take it off the Market. That was the
this week
BY HERB SHOVELLER
Though she and her—family have sur-
vived their first winter in Canada. and
„although' she has learned English swiftly
and has performed remarkably at .school.
14-year-old Lam Thieu Yen of, Sea forth std!
tangs ter her Vietnamese home in -Saigon
Fond memories of a war-torn homeland
linger.
Yen and her family escaped Vietnam
May. 14 74 in a boat thk Reit by a relatis
After transferring to a German-ow tied boa;
they Made • their way to 'Indonesia- w keel
they Spent a Year in a refugee camp bjlort
oliming to Canada under the sponsorship of
St. James' parish here.
.in spite of the peace and calm offered to
Canada, Yen says she can see horsy
returning to her country. "Maybe Vietnan
will be at peace. We hope the United Statfr,
will back the south of Vietnam and tfit
tonimunist will iiime back north. It -
Play poker
While it May be more
familiar as a winter attract
ion , the poker rally doesn't
have to be restricted to days
of cold weather. Sunday a
spring poker rally on horse
back was held at the [(illicit
-Consct vation Areal. See MY'
tures
up front the remains of
winter hibernation. And that
means lots of second hand
clothes, furniture and numr
efous otliatems available at
area rummage, sales, as
Darlene Ryan found out
Saturday at • St. Thomas
church. See pictures, pg... 11
Spring celebration
After hours of preparation
the students of Huron Cen-
tennial School in. Brucefield
put on a Spring performance
of Alice in Wonderland on
,twrr separate occasions last
week. Expositor photograph-
er David Hoek has pictures of
.the players going through
the float rehetsal before the
performance. See,pg 17
Honoured veteran
At age 8.6. and after 55 sears
nt, seyyjce to the local branch,
Lieutenant Colonel S. Wal-
lace Archibald was honoured
by the Seaforth Royal Canad
ian Legion Saturday. For
photo-and a story about the
man Who served in both
world wars. see pg 2
NEARLY A YEAR HERE NOW — it is almost ayear now since the Lam
family arrived in Canada. Five of the Children at* still in Seaforth while
an older sister and.the parents are workinain Toronto, From left are Thu,
15, Ouyen, 16, Vinh, 16, and Year 19. Absent .is Sum, 18.
(Photo by Shoveller)
a long time,- she explained.
The Lam family's settlement in thier new
country has meant a separation. Their
lather, lam. Long, 62, and mother. Truong
l'irHuong. 'SO and the oldest sister. Lam Le
Ngog, 26, left Seaforth at Christmas to
work in 'Toronto. Long works in a plastics
factory, Huotig in a waterbed factory and
Ngog is t seamstress in a 'sewing factOry.
• With the exception tit' a brother, Chi, 17..
who escaped before . the rest of the family
and is now sponsored in the United States,
the 1-emainder of the family lives in
Sedlorth under Yen's charge.] hey include
sisters Oilycn. lb. and Thu, 15. -and
brothers Sum, 18, and.Vinii: lb. All attend
high school -in Clinton except Thu. who, is a
Grade 8 student at St. James' Separate
School in'Seafort h.
- Both Yewand Qtf yen.recorded averages
Of close to 80 per cent on recent report
• cards; although the boys arc encountering
some difficulties. "'they're buys." .says
Yen. >"They-dtufd work.':
"They 'rer ail smart kids, they study all
the time,•• • said Harry Hak, a member of
the St,. James' committee y% hich has
worked w ith the Lam family ',Mee they
arrit ed last May. "I think that's one of the
reasons they (the children who stayed in
Seaforth) wanted to. be on their own."
Other members of the St. James
committee are Mr. flak'swife' Catherine.
Pat Rodney. Mr. and Mrs „toe Van Dooren
and Mr. and Mrs. Le art Wilson.
Though sponsors of refugee families are
responsible for a year after arrival. St.
James•.parish priest Father J.C. Cartia na
says he expects support to continue until
school is finished in June. Once the school
year is complete thelamily will be reunited
in Toronto.
"We are looking forward to the y acation
and then going bat-k to school."' Says Yen
on behalf of her brothers and sisters. She
added they had been to 'Toronto several
times and are looking forward to inns tug
there, thainly because of ,the Food, One
thing Seaforth does not have is a higfitilitilY
of Vietnattiese cuisine. -
Like Most new Canadians, the Lams
found learning the language • one of the
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