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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1981-09-02, Page 11 • 122nd Year Whole No.5821 * year *advance 40 cents sleek eopy SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1981 — 20 PAGES BY GREGOR CAMPBELL High interest .rates, not the marketing System, is the biggest woe besetting beef producers in this country at this time says the manager of the Canadian Cattlemen's Association (CCA).Charlie Gracey. who Good news for Nick Nick Emery doesn't have to go home again. The 20-year-old artist from Canterbury in England. who was visiting friends in Egmondville and profiled in last week's The • Huron Expositor. has found a job in-Ontario. He didn't want to work in England any more because he thinks prospects are bleak for young people with ambition in that country. Mr. Emery has found a job with a London firm that's right up his alley, working with stained glass. He had been working with stained glass. among other things, for the past three years at the famed .Canterbury Cathedral. Closed for holiday The Expositor office will be closed Monday for the Labour Day holiday. In order to meet publication schedules we ask that those with' news and.advertising for next week's issue have it ready Tuesday morning. Correspondents are asked to mail their news in early or Call the Expositor and we'll arrange to have it picked up. Thank you ancia safe holiday weekend to all. 14 tat the mid Western Ontario library ,system. ' GRE9OR CAMPIIM Four Area teenagers are .4ta0, another is in lair condition at PniveiSitY 13°4144/ London, in the' wake of two. separate Meter vehicle accidents on the weekend. Both accidents were single-vehicle. and involved pickup trucks. pead ate: Brian S. Flanagan, 17. of 1, Dublin; Joseph G. Flanagan, 17, of R.R. 5, Mitchell; Warren B. Elligsen, 18, of Main , Street in, Brodhagen and JoSeph MiChel David' I of Main.*met' in Se091In.. Eighteettlear-old Prian Moore of EstnondYine Was, -Aged in fair condition at LiniverOtY Hospital in London early , this aff‘frmaa (Wednesday), Two other teen-, agers injOred in the same triple-fatality accident have sine been released from area hospitals. They are: Brian McGavin, 18, of R.R. 4. Walton and Thomas Duffy. 18. of R.R. 1, Dublin. Ontario Provincial Police detachments at Sebringvilie and. Goderich investigatieg,,the ineidentS say charges are 00414. in e0i, aeident. The 4Fgifient" that killed both Flanit8ini4 and Mt. V41141104 Mr. MeGaVin, Moore' and Mr. -ichiffy;" itaPPerigd Sunday evening at about 7:15 lit Logan Township about II kilometers north of Dublin. All six were in a picktip truck driven by Mr . McGavin. 'Sebrifigville .OPP' say it appears fent. of the youths were riding in the w • of the vehicleottjtb %nip tie 40- Piekiip truck Was% sttnthbP10 '51? Perth CtaintY when wentintwa ditch on the east sidle of -the road and rolled= ' G.otlertch ORB:W.0* Beeidept 114_110000 Mr.. Hoard haPpened at **an 14:39' P.,10•••• enday. 'northwest Seafkii•ti; in Hullett township abOut 1.6leilometers east of Huron'. County Road 15. • Police say the pickup truck, driven by 16-year-old Dooglas Cur of SeitfOrth, frinclur9 and tvii,Huard', .were 'the only went out control and hit 'a bydro pole- Mr- oc011040,.% the Yesktdr ikt the time: BLUGSFA ember of ,the ' Artilt*B9r#, off clot EgiVen4ProfPkgelt 1011 vlionmity. lii,t1iefAtket*1,se,04ca4 t. sita.,1hQra Seaforth on Aug, SUrviYing besides his par- Peter's tptfiprein Church in 12, 1903. He was son ,of ems are his brother Terry, at l3rodhagen We4nesday.Bur- Kenneth Elligsen and Abe home; and his grandparents. ial was' in the church cemet- former Margaret (Peggy) Mrs. Mabel Higgerson of ery. Friends Were received at Higgerson. He was a member Logan Township and Mr . the Lock-NIA Funeral Home in of St. Peter's Lutheran and Mrs. Harold Elligsen of Mitchell. Church in Brodhagen, and a Mitchell. Please turn to page 3 Four Area barn burns A steel-roofed barn owned by D'Arcy Rathwell, about a mile and a quarter west of Brucefield on the 2nd conces- sion of Stanley Township was completely destroyed by fire. Department chief Stewart Broadfoot says the cause of the blaze and the total dam- age it caused are unknown at this time. He says it was a large barn full of hay and straw,. Three fire departments responded to the alarm which was sounded at about 1:10 p.m. Eight firefighters from Bru cefield, and another eight from Clinton fought the blaze. The tank truck from Hensall was u sed, as were a tanker and pumper from Clinton. Mr. Broadfoot ways the rain that fell about 3 :30 p.m. helped firefighters control the blaze, they left shortly thereafter. "We were lucky the wind waslheway it was," says Mr. Broadfoot, or we might not have been able to prevent the fire from spread- ing to adjacent buildings. 'More pros than cons but' PUC not yet involved in. Hydro's free survey A REALLY GOOD STORY — Children sat outside St. Patrick's school in DubliP last week and listened entranced as a story-teller entertained. The story teller, and the costumed clown driving, her bus were sponsored by Mr. Phillips, who attended a Hydro meeting on REAP in London Aug. 24, says there would be no use gettiproinvelved_ if customers aren't interested-hr don't, think they would benefit from the survey or energy conservation program. The utilities manager says the Seaforth Commission will be concerning itself with questions like this in future:meetings. Jens Andersen at the Clinton area office of Ontario Hydro says it plans to start sending out letters early. in September informing people aboUt REAP and the survey. He says the program is about "anythipg to conserve :energy". Mr. Andersen. sayaiREArlorms, $2,000 for a term of five years will be at "a favourable ipterest rate" which has yet to be determined. A down payment of 3200 would be required: A recent- press release from Ontario Hydro's western region says REAP will initially be available to °Hydro's direct rural customers currently on Oil-heating systems, though customers with other heating systems can participate. Trainek Staff will do the survey and show ways the homeoWners can increase energy efficiency. The wide-ranging survey involves everything from insulation, weatherstripping, energy use, and fuel eost$' to heating system alternatives and upgrading of wiring. ' • Work that will qualify for Vydro's REAP loan must be done after the energy survey is perfornied. It started as.a jam session but led. to bigger things. See pg. 11. A lehool kids love It's a summer school at Dublin that was sponsored by the Huron Perth Separate School Board. Pg. 5 Huron's own Strings your own decisions," the CCM manager said. "And some decisions have to be made." Mr. Gracey urged the many ,producers in attendance to procure, read and understand the implications of the recent report on mark- eting in the 'beef industry published by the Senate standing committee on agriculture. It's free. The price tag for accepting some of the recommendations of this report "is more or less giving up'" total control, of your industry," he says. "It may be your last free choice....we can improve our current market-. ing system without throwing it out." Mr. Gracey expresses a quiet optimism things will improve for beef producers in this country, but nut until the economy itself improves which will start in the United How to treat it Many cases ahead lice are being reported in Seaforth and throughout the county. ' "We don't know the extent of the problem but will monitor it as soon as children go back to school next week," says Catharine Walsh, director of nursing with the Huron County Health Unit at Goderich. Miss Walsh says head Ace have been a severe problem in Bruce, ,Vaterloo and Perth counties for the last three years. TheyWere a First class baseball Rain delayed the game for a couple of hours Sunday, but spectators who weathered the wetness watched a good baseball game as Seaforth's midgets beat Pori, Lambton 10.7 in the-first game of their OBA playoff. See page 13. Champs at Kippen There was gunplay at Kippen on the weekend, but not' the kind associated with the OK Corral. It Vas the annual shoot at the local gun club, Pictures on pg. 12. (Photo by Rimmer) States. Bill Gunn of Price Waterhouse chartered accountants in London, who has also worked in a bank, told producers at the information night he didn't "Know where you can get an oil well". Among other things, he cautioned producers to not "trust your banker , to translate what you're doing, into a financial statement". Dr. Wayne Martin of the Ontario Veterinary College in Guelph discussed further findings in the Bruce County Health study, and:Al Scott of the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food in Perth County also spoke. The beef information night was jointly sponsored by the CCAs of Huron. Perth and Middlesex CoUnties in association with OMAF. severe problem in Huron County two years ago. - Head lice cause few health problems, don't carry disease and are not associated with din. The parasites are generally revolting to public and parents thought. This revulsion and misconceptions surrounding head lice are the biggest problems in combating 'the parasite. Children wit head lice will be excluded from school until the problem is cleared up so they won't affect others, says Huron's nursing director. Head lice generally surface as a problem in the summer months when Children mingle. -They don't come from animals, says Miss Walsh. but lie dormant with certain individ- uals until they later pass them on. Nothing is achieved by just treating the head of the individual affected by head lice. The director of nursing says if one individual in a family is infected with head lice, the whole family must be treated, including the parents. Treatment involves buying one of two products available at local pharmacies; Kwellada, which comes in lotion, spray or shampoo form; or Para Lice which is spray. Miss Walsh advises that the instructions that come with these products should be read and followed. She says it is a big job that is tedious, but there is no easier way. After shampooing the hair of an infected individual, his or her hair should be rinsed with vinegar then combed with a steel comb. The Huron County Health Unit has these combs available fOr the public. , MisiWalsh says treatment shouldn't stop with thelhampooing. All -an infected child's clothing or bedding shOuld be dry cleaned or tetheti BY GREGOR CAMPBELL Many questions remain to be answered before Seaforth Public Utilities Commission gets involved with the free energy surveys of rural !tomes recently announced by Ontario, Hydro. The elaborate survey is part of a Residential Energy Advisory Program (REAP),., unveiled by the provincial energy minister in June, The program offers a home energy survey and loans of up to 52,000 to improve energy efficiency and/or convert an oil heating system to electricity if there is at least a 50 per cent -reduction in oil . consumption. Ontario Hydro plans to assist smaller utilities carry out' the survey by training municipal personnel,' among other things. "I expect we will become involved, them seem to be more pros than cons to . the program, but we're not involved enough yet to be able to look at all the aspects,". says Seaforth's PUC manager Tom Phillips. "We don't kni4 how involved we might become, or on what scale our customers will respond to the survey." He says the local utility is already stretched thin when it comes to manpower, and wonders if it would be stretched even thinner if there is a big demand ,for the free, but technically involved surveys. The severCpage survey form might take up to half a day to fill , out correctly. BY STEPHANIE LEVESQUE ' Most people agree the six-week postal strike was an inconvenience, but there were some . businesses in Huron and Perth Counties that were affected more strongly . At Agri-Book Publishing Co. Ltd., of Exeter. while business was not affected directly. editor Peter Darbishire said the company lcist its_goodwill with both readers and advertisers. The company publishes 35 magazines a year.i 20 being their own publitations. The 'editor said if the strike had gone on for another two weeks, it would have had more effect on the company,' The editor said there are 130.000 individual recipients of the, company's publications, causing the company to rely heavily on the mail 'sery ice. One magazine has its readers in Western Canada. Serious consideration, Mr. Darbishire said, would be given to some other form of spoke at a beef information night at the Kirkton Woodham Community Centre Mon- day night, says he disagreeS with federal agriculture minister Eugene Whelan's analy- sis the beef produ cers' biggest :headache in these depressed times in , a "basic marketing problem." Mr. Gracey says the cprent marketing system has worked well, 41 perfectly and it needs improvement. but high interest rates hurt producers in more ways. He says they Mean producers have to pay more for money and purchases while consumer demand for beef falls. Like it or not, Mr. Gracey says, the„ consumer sees beef as a , discretionary product which he or she is likely to do without When money is tight and interest rates are high. The CCA manager says all western governments now have a cynical attitude and approach to controlling the money supply which expresses itself in high interest, rates; rates which are really closer to 26 per cent for beef producers now than the 24 per cent bankers say it is. Mr. Gracey says his figures show the cost of production• for cattlemen has doubled since 1977,' a' large portion .9f this increase directly attributable to high interest. Mr. Gracey says cattlemen in Ate United States are producing under interest rates Closer to 17 per cent because of credit associations which the CCA is looking at to see if the same principle,: can 'be applied here. He says the CCA is also pushing for the re-institution of fixed-term interest loans. Mr. Gracey says until recently bankers have seemed reluctant to apply small,. business development bonds to beef producers. "If there are to be good years down the road for beef producers they will be made by ei---Inside this week Interest pla ues cattlemen WO lice in kids is a probleril here_ getting the magazines to the readers. The editor said he sent a letter to the Postmaster General Andre Oullette and Huron Bruce. MP Murray Cardiff and Huron Middlesex MPP Jack Riddell in regard: to the remark made that small businesses should not rely on the postal service. Brenda Donner, publicity director for the Blyth Summer Festivaksaid the Festival did not notice any difference in ticket sates, noting that audiences were' up this year. She said there were more tickets purchased over the phone and reserved by credit card. • Ms. Donner added that there was more strain on the box office prior to the performance with many more people picking their tickets up at that time. She said from the publicity end, there was less on the national scale. Normally. Ms. Donner said she mails out 200300 press releases and other mail per week and it was either dropped or delivered in person. -Strike hurt area firm CAROBAND BOWLING — Aimprig local lawn bowlers attftferth'S 52nd Anniversary tournament Wednesday -were, left Ernie and Olga Chipchtqc of Exeter and Perce end Ernma Campbelkof Hensall. .Top winners were George and VeraiRobbiris of London: Photo on the entertainment page. (Photo by Rimmer)