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Home My WebLink AboutClinton News-Record, 1972-10-29, Page 15Shirley Weary, New Democratic Party. Clinton, Ontario Second Section Thursday, October 29, 1972 , 1Q7 Year ,.No. 43 A look at the Federal candidates Who will you send to Ottawa on Oct. 30 leineemenunttniemennitniatinetinneuttlitentittittettitototantiolionitititiouitimitouitiiiiig E--. E_-- r-_- ii111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111f1111111111F.4 The Huron riding is considered by the three major Et political parties to be the home of Progressive Conser- vatism. Traditionally, the riding has gone PC and for it to Ei go any other way would, spell disaster for the PC's nationally as well as locally. The PC's are running incumbent ILL. (Bob) McKinley, Ez.. the Liberals are offering Charlie Thomas as their can- didate, #. Shirley Weary has got the New Democratic ticket and Ed Bain is running as an Independent Socialist, N Huron riding has 36,620 voters, up from 30,820 in the FE 1968 election, ft includes all of Huron County plus the townships of of Biddulph and McGillivray in Middlesex County. In the 1968 election, Conservative McKinley received El" 14,652 votes to the Liberals' 10,960, The NDP received E--.. 1,212. WOO Edward Bain, 44, who lives in Goderich and works at Dominion Road Machinery, is running under his own banner as an Independent Socialist. Bain is running by himself after being thrown out of the NDP for his extremist views and he was also ousted from his post as president of the Goderich and District Labor Council in. April for using his position to further his political career. He publicly apologized for the move. Bain's campaign consists mostly of distributing leaflets attacking the other parties and speaking at meet-the-candidates Ed Bain, Independent Socialist gatherings at the various secon- 'dary schools in Huron. Bain is calling for a planned socialist economy where the farmer will have complete say over what he produces with no middle man making huge profits. He said there will be equality for men and women in jobs, wages, education, etc. "There will be no unemployment, no welfare but adequate state aid for all who require it," "All education and medicare will be free," he said, Under a socialist government there would be no foreign ownership, Bain said and no ex- porting of large sums of money for investment abroad for private profit. He said also that there could be a Shorter work week and working day and earlier pen- sions. Bain said a socialist economy would eliminate the vast disparity in salaries, wages and pensions. Observers of the political scene in Huron give Bain little chance of winning more than a handful of votes. Bain expects to spend around $400 for his campaign. Most political pundits admit that the only challenge the Tories have in Huron riding is frain Grey Township farmer Charlie Thomas, who is running on the Liberal ticket, Thomas, 44, is a Brussels area farmer and father of four. He is the reeve for Grey Township and a member of the Huron County Council where he served on the social services committee. Besides being a former jet pilot with the RCAF, he is also a past president of the Brussels Lions Club and the Huron Federation of Agriculture, Thomas has had the dubious distinction of defending the Charlie Thomas, Liberal Liberal government's policies during the last four years without even being in the gover- nment. He has been working hard trying to wrest control of the riding from the Conservatives but freely admits it's an uphill battle. Thomas agrees with McKinley in saying that agriculture is the fundamental issue in Huron. He says he can see no reason the sugar beet in- dustry cannot be revived in Huron but says the main Am- bling block is finding a plant to process the beets. "Planned economic and in- dustrial growth is needed in Huron", he said. This could be achieved, he said, by a connecting link with Highway 401; container facilities at Goderich harbor and better rail services linking the industrial complexes of Kitchener and Waterloo directly to the seaway. He said he would also fight to have Sky Harbor airport at Goderich remain open. Thomas figures he will be spending about $10,000 on his campaign but the final amount depends on how the donations come in. He admits he may not win but at least the fight will be interesting. Bob McKinley, Progressive Conservative Photos & Stories by James Fitzgerald R. E. (Bob) McKinley, 42, is the sitting Member of Parliament for the Huron riding. McKinley, a father of five, and a farmer-businessman from Zurich, has had the federal seat since Elston Cardiff retired in 1965. He was returned in 1968, with a bigger majority than in 1965 and is well known throughout the riding. Progressive Conser- vatives see little chance of their candidate getting beaten but riorie-the-less, McKinley has been out hustling for all he is worth. He openly admits to having the big, blue Tory Machine of Charlie MacNaughton working for him. Recause Huron riding depends primarily on agricultnrer McKinley has said that the government has to give a fairer shake to the farmers. 'During his seven years as Huron's member, McKinley has travelled to a NATO conference and is currently deputy- agricultural critic for the Con- servatives arid chairman of the PC's agriculture caucus, McKinley doesn't know the cost of his campaign but said he would outdo anything that the Liberals tried. He says that the Liberals have been wasting money for the last seven years. "In the past seven years the income of the federal government through taxation has almost doubled. I suggest that none of us feel we are twice as well off today as we were seven 'years Ago," he said, McKinley said that the sugar, beet industry could be 'revived in Huron and all that's needed is the government to set a quota on Canadian sugar, making sure about 20 per cent of it would be made from Canadian beets. He said the goal of a Conser- vative government would be to give everyone an equal oppor- tunity to get a job by creating More job opportunities, Shirley Weary, 38, is carrying the New Democratic Party's banner into the October 30th election and most political ob- servers see her as running a distant third behind the Conser- vatives and Liberals. Weary, a teacher at Central Huron Secondary School in, Clinton, was the NDP's choice in 1966 when she lost her deposit for polling only 1,212 votes. She says, however, that the NDP has the best agricultural policy of the three parties and says that that is the most impor- tant thing to Huron riding residents, She says an NDP government would stop erosion of the family farm and make the rural communities a better place to live. She cites recent statistics that show the farmer composes a mere seven per cent of the population in Canada and nearly 24 per cent of all farms are now owned by absentee lan- dlords. Weary says that a farm im- plement board should be established to standardize and test farm machinery. "There should also be a government land bank which would .lease farms to farm families who do not have the Mittel to. pur. chase," The tenants would have the option to buy. She said that the farmer is getting blamed for the high cost of food When really "nearly half the cost comes from fancy packaging." Cost of the Weary campaign in Huron will be about $1,000, most of which comes from in- dividual donations, She freely admits that the campaign in Huron has been very quiet except for a few political signs, Most of the Weary campaign has been door- to-door. She Said that Huron County needs More industry and More housing facilities for older people and day-care centres. • J J