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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1973-12-06, Page 22-6A,CLINTON .NEWS-agooRpt THURSDAY, 'pKcm‘3gft 6, 1970 Si ,far * Ridiff ,II, 11furor; MIT Brownies prepare for enrolment The regular meeting of the Clinton Brownie Pack was held at Clinton Public School on Tuesday, November 27, The Brownies played the game, "My Ship Sailed from China." One group went downstairs to practise Semaphore; another group practised knitting; another group worked towards their Golden Bar; and the . Tweenies were working hard on the enrolment requirements. They hope to be ready for the enrolment ceremony on Decem- ber 11. The meeting closed with Pow Wow and the Brownie Prayer. Lynne Cochrane The Holmesville Public School Student's Council this week kicked off a chocolate bar campaign in an effort to raise funds to finance special school activities. The council also explain that some of the proceeds will be going to charity as well. The bars are now on sale for $1.00 each and the cam. paign is set to close on December 21. Left to right, Barb Hesk and Teri Van Dongen, show off the oversized bar which will be presented to the student selling the most during the next three weeks. Scott Feagan begins the job of unpacking cartons delivered to the school last Friday. (staff photo) Your contribution to Christmas Seals is gratefully acknowledged and will be directed towards the fight against tuberculosis and other respiratory deseases. ENERGY IF WE EACH SAVE A LITTLE, WE'LL ALL SAVE A LOT. TODAY'S CHILD BY HELEN ALLEN THE TORONTO .1-1111jh SYNDICATE David, 4 years old, is a healthy, slim, active boy with blonde hair (even blonder in summer), blue eyes and fair skin. He attends nursery school with other children his age and loves, it, but is not expected to be able to go on in the academic stream as he gets older. He will need special education. Though David is below average in many ways, he does well in daily living. He speaks clearly in sentences, He dresses himself (he's very neat, objecting even to a shoelace being untied). He eats well, accepting anything he is offered, He's a good sleeper. A sociable child, David is not in the least shy, having a friendly "Ili!" for everyone he meets, He gets on well with other children and likes playing outdoors with them on his tricycle, in the sandbox or preferably in med.! David needs a family where he will be loved, where his limitations will be accepted and where he will have the op- portunity to develop to the extent of his potential. It will be best if he can have brothers and sisters, older by at least four years, To inquire about adopting David, please write to Today's Child, Ministry of Community & Social Services,' Box 888, Station K, Toronto YAP 2112. For general adoption information, please contact your local Children's Aid Society. With supplies of crude oil in. Eastern Canada barely sufficient to meet demand, real shortages of gasoline and heating oil could occur here in Ontario if we can't maintain our imports. Alten.ate, more dependable forms of energy are being developed, but that will take time. What is important today is that each one of us makes the best possible use of existing energy supplies. Little ways in which you can save energy may seem insignificant, but in fact they are not. For example, it has been estimated that if each person in Ontario saved just a penny's worth of energy each day, we'd save enough energy in a week to heat up to 2,500 homes for an entire year. Nobody has the right to waste any form of power. The time has come for every person to do everything possible to ensure the wisest use of energy. Good energy habits learned now, especially by our young people, will help bring us through this winter, and pay off even more in years to come. Let's get to work. 47ways you can conserve energy. A program for voluntary action! Your heating system. Clean forced-air filters once a month q Bleed air from hot water radiators, fix leaks 0 Empty the flue clean-out O Have the system checked by an expert 0 Insulate ducts and pipes in areas that don't need heat 0 Don't use rrietallic paint on radiators 0 A gravity air system with a single return works best with interior doors open. 8-15 Keep the heat in! Insulation, especially in attics, pays off in the long run 0 Fit storm windows, weather-strip outside doors O Keep fireplace damper closed O Use range hood ventilators only when necessary 0 If you sleep with the window open, close the door O Close drapes at night. thermostat down at night 0 If you use a humidifier, you'll stay comfortable with less heat 0 If there's a Shivery Sam in the family, ask him to wear a sweater. 18- 22 Hot water. Insulate exposed hot water pipes O If your water heater has a dial, try setting it lower 0 A dripping tap wastes up to 175 gallons of hot water a month 0 Don't use dishwashers till they're full 0 Generally, a shower uses less hot water than a bath, 23 - 32 Around the house. Are the door seals on your oven, refrigerator and freezer good? q Don't use the oven if a toaster or fry-pan will do the job 0 If you buy an electric heater, make sure it has a thermostat 0 Use lower wattage bulbs if you can 0 Use Christmas lights from 6 pm till bedtime 0 Use pots that cover stove elements O Thaw frozen food before cooking O Defrost freezers regularly 0 A pressure cooker saves energy as well as time 0 Don't use the dryer till it's full, 33- 59 On the road. A well-maintained car is an economi- cal car 0 Check tires and alignment O Prolonged idling wastes gas 0 Can you use the bus? Or ride with some- one else? 0 Does your size of car really fit your needs? O Over 50 mph, economy decreases O Jack-rabbit starts waste gas 4044 Around the farm. A well-tuned tractor burns 10% less fuel 0 Underground or pressurized storage tanks reduce vapourization loss 0 Reduce tractor wheel slip and you save fuel 0 Prolonged idling of engines wastes gas 0 Can you turn yard lights off earlier? 45 -47 At work. Can the thermostat be turned down? O Can you turn off any lights? 0 Has your company got an Energy Conservation Suggestion Scheme? We're taking our own advice, All Ministries and Agencies of the Ontario Government are doing their bit to conserve energy. Lighting and heating levels are being reduced in government buildings; a new emphasis is being given to economi- cal operation of vehicles; Ontario Hydro and the Ministry of Education are encouraging consumers and schoolchildren to learn good habits in the use of energy. And that's just a beginning) oil no nu me vim an am so am NI MI MN MN Ell NU NI UM MN 111111 IIIIII alai. In I 14 -17 Use your thermostat. Each degree you lower the thermo- stat cuts fuel consumption about 3% I 0 It's possible to save by turning the IIMNI NM MIN IMO MN1 NMI NM NMI MN MIN MN NMI NM NM MN NMI NM NMI MN MN NMI NMI MN Save this check list,„and save energy( Ontario will play its part in resolving the Canadian energy situation. Carrying out these suggestions will help achieve the national energy conservation goals. Government of Ontario FROM QUEEN'S PARK In debating the Bill which would provide assistance to Ontario pensioners both Op- position parties in the Ontario Legislature pushed vigorously for $200 guaranteed monthly incomes for the elderly rather than an insulting $50,00 Christ., mas bonus to pensioners. They said their proposal would cost $50 million a year which On- tario could afford, Premier William Davis said in response to questions that the Province has the money and is assessing possible increases. Pensioners receive $105.30 from the Federal Government and up to $73.86 as a supplement. If the Federal Government paid half the costs of increased benefits under the Canada Assistance Plan, $24 million would provide a monthly $209.00 pen- sion for 340,000 pensioners un- til March 31 and retroactive to October 1st. Treasurer John White and Mr. Brunelle were left with little Government sup- port to face the barrage of criticism when the debate began. Attendance on the Government side varied bet- ween 9 and 20. Mr, Brunelle, Minigter of Community and Social Services made no statement. Mr. White who must, answer for Government spen- ding priorities in the House had trouble getting through a fif- teen minute statement because of interruptions. The House sat until 1:30 a.m. Thursday debating this Bill. Government Grants which only serve to put more money into the pockets of publishers at the expense of the school system are not the solution to the troubles the Canadian text- book industry faces, Premier William Davis intimated in the Legislature Answering questions from the Opposition and criticism as voiced by the Independent Publishers Association, the Premier defen- ded his response to the Royal Commission on book publishing and his recommendation that 92% of the approved school textbooks.be• writtekby .0 ntario or Canadian authors, The Canadian publishers who depend on school books as their main profit line are feeling the pinch of changing trends in policies and cannot compete with stronger United States owned subsidiary firms in On- tario. Mr. Davis said the Royal Feagan named horseman of year Ron Feagan, formerly of Goderich and now a resident of the Dundas area, was named horseman of the year last Friday by the Ontario Jockey Club's Golden Horseshoe cir- cuit, Feagan has been one of the most consistent harness racing drivers in Canada, Mr. Feagan dominated the driving standings at Green- wood, Mohawk and Garden city through most of the past season and has logged a total of 171 wins and purse earnings of $404,070 with 14 programs still remaining in the 1973 cam- paign. This is the second straight year that Mr. Feagan, who comes from a noted harness racing family, has been voted the award and the third time he has held the honor since it was inaugurated in 1966. Independent Shipper to United Co-operative of Ontario Livestock Dept Toronto Ship Your Lbw*,loch with Roy Stotchmer Monday It Shipping Day Ft Varna Stockyard I ron PCALL BAYFISLOI 545-24144 ly 7:* ctn. OM** Oat Pile* Bowl* Ms Chaco. is 1441641, tf Commission had recommended a special grant structure for text book development, but he said if all that did was put more funds in the publishers hands with lesser economies to the school system then a better solution has to be found. Schools no longer rely as heavily on textbooks and the Ministry of Education has moved away from conditional grants. Students are also taking greater care of their books and selling them to following classes. Attorney General Dalton Bales introduced legislation this week to abolish Grand Juries and shorten the list of exempted occupations on jurors' lists. He told the Legislature that the Bills will not be proceeded with until next year. Mr. Bales said he wanted to give Members of the Legislature and the Public the opportunity to discuss the legislation. , One Bill also provides for modernizing selec- tion procedures and another provides for inspection of public institutions by a panel selected from the Jury roll to replace the public inspection function of the abolished Grand Juries. Energy Minister Darcy McKeough, feels Ontario will get through this winter without any dislocations in fuel oil sup- plies due to the enthusiastic public response to the Provin- cial Government's energy. con- servation campaign. Mr. McKeough believes that man- datory allocations at the wholesale level will have to remain. He said the unrestric- ted driving habits of individual car owners as they affect energy conservation are coming under the scrutiny of Governments, He hinted there could be gover- nment intervention that could make it more practicable to leave cars at home and use public transit services. Margaret Birch, the Ontario Minister in charge of Youth Secretariat said this week, there was a need for a Tri-level advisory committee on grants to youth. Previously Mrs, Birch recalculation of the cost of the Ontario Government's Western Parkway Belt and the Niagara Escarpment Land Acquisition programs, The Province unveiled its plans for the Parkway Belt and escarpement on June 4th, followed up with planning and development control legislation, Part of the plan was to buy about 20% of the 200 mile long escarpment's 1.3 million acres at a cost when formerly introduced between $250 to $500 million. Latest figures put the price at a firm half a billion dollars. The Honourable John White moved first reading of a bill en- titled an Act to amend the Gift Tax Act, The purpose of the Gift Tax Amendment Act is to bring in legislation the 1973 budget proposal for a once in a life time tax free gift for farm property of $50,000. The objec- tive of the proposal is to en- courage and facilitate the con- tinued operation of family farms which form an important part of the social and economic fabric of the Province. Under existing legislation any person may make in- dividual gifts of up to $2,000.00 each, tax free, in any one year with the yearly total not to ex- ceed $10,000. As designed the proposed amendments will allow a gift of up to $50,000 tax free once in a lifetime of farm property to a child. For 'purposes of the amend- ment the farm property is defined to include land, buildings and machinery necessary for the operation of the farm. In addition the term "once in a life time" has been defined as any one taxation year. This means that the gift may be made in stages over a taxation year but any exemption claimed under this section may apply only in respect of the amount given in a taxation yew'. In addition succession duty legislation has been modified to prevent recapture of the gift in an estate where the donor has not survived the gift by more and the session is rapidly drawing to a close. It appears as though the house will recess next week for the Christmas break. The budget this year for the Province was the highest in history, over 7 billion dollars. had ,been .exiticakot pend • tunitiea for youth and LIP' estimates are almost completed programs. She said that these programs had created numerous "non-jobs" by post- poning the employment problem and not providing any work experience. There has been a $360 million