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COSTS ZONOLITE 1 bag covers 24 sq. ft. 2" thick 2 " 4 x 8 50 I bag covers 40 sq. ft 2• 2" thick BUY 9 GET 1 FREE PAL-O-PAK ROOM 20 R.7 7164 R-12-121/2 11-10.11t R-20.22c FIBRE GLASS INSULATION FRICTION. FIT WINDOWS House lots of Mason quality Windows with the exclusive Thermo Pane, 20-year guarantee. LESS % GLOSS WHITE No. 2245 5 It all b~O~ns ae homy Courts may be only pare of problem In all .fairness to the judges, Chief King thinks it necessary to point out they work under systpm too RP tnnintnineri that a judge .cannot crack down on An offender because of a per- sonal thing, nor can he the police to dictate to the courts and interfere with his Job. • • SY ,JEFF SEDDON The demands by Huron's MPP's, Jack Riddell and Murray Gaunt, that the county's judicial system be in- vestigated may prove that there is a problem here but it is not our courts. The' inquiry demands came in the wake of a recent out- break of violence directed at the Municipal Police Force in. Clinton. Several incidents of vandalism there in the past few weeks prompted the request for government action, but the problem is over 'five years old. "I've heard complaints from police chiefs, provincial and municipal police officers and the general public for the past six years and anything before that I am not aware or', said Huron-Bruce MPP Murray Gaunt, The Wingham native does not know where the problem, lies but he intends to find out. 'Mr. Gaunt feels that the num- ber and consistency of the com- plaints brought to him merits advising the Attorney General's office. .The problem as Mr, Gaunt understands it, is not a general disregard for law and order by the public but repeated offences by the same people. "I believe in giving a person a chance but these repeaters that constantly get off light concern me. That sort of thing doesn't do anything for the police, the courts or the public and I think that the system needs a little tightening up. The Crown Attorny and the judges have to get i a bit tougher", Mr. Gaunt stated. Huron County does not stand alone with these judical problems but the reasons for them here may be unique. Lack of activity in Huron County could be part of the problem. There may not be enough for people to do here, according to Mr. Gaunt. Mr. Gaunt describes the situation in Clinton as unfor- tunate and he is frightened at the prospect of this condition worsening. He said that , the recent outbreak of violence in- dicated a lack of respect for low and order, , , • a;tp "When, vigilantes„:, do. „their own policing and bring people to justice themselves, then we are in trouble", he said. He was referring to the threat made by some people in Clinton that they were going to handle the suspected offenders themselves if the police and courts wouldn't. Huron MPP Jack Riddell was in total agreement with the inquiry by the Attorney ' General and has also received a great many complaints concer- ning court leniency. Mr. Riddell does not think that a lack of activity in Huron County is the cause of the problem. "I can't buy the suggestion that there is a lack of things to do here any more than there is Due to crop failures in several major producing coun- tries in 1972, farm, and consequently food prices, soared in 1973. This year of 1974, it isn't a crop failure yet 'n all of North America, but all ndications point to a greatly educed crop in all major com- odities, even to the extent hat the president of the USA as curtailed grain exports. A kind can figure that this again ill mean increases in food rices. There are several reasons for he reduced crop, the ,main ones ing spring floods and sum., er droughts. Another factor as the increase in fertilizer rices, in some cases 300 per- ent higher. It stands to reason hat many farmers put less of is stuff on their fields, with sultant lower yields, Since one of the most impor, nt fertilizers is nitrogen, hich for a great deal is ode out of natural gas, one an readily see why this costs ore. Countries like India Am, ly didn't have the money to uy, and together with similar nimer drought as we had ere, it'made their almost suf. ciency in food grains, collapse, In Canada and the USA the ortage of grain caused the rite of feed grains to uadruple from twO years ago, s result, pork and beef rodUcers' coots'rose so much at they operated at a loss, any perk Men sold Or are :!ling their sows and beef men anywhere else", said Mr. Rid- dell. The age group that concerns the MPP from the Dashwood area is those citizens from 14 to 20 year old He feels that the problem of lack of respect can start at home, ""Maybe parents are not strict enough at home and if the kids can get away with something at home then they will also think they can with the •law. If the parents can't bring them into line the law should", he said, The fines imposed .by the courts are ridiculous according to Mr, Riddell. He said that a nominally small fine paid by the parents usually does not discourage an offender into obeying the law, The defense tactics used by lawyers cannot be blamed for the lack of action by the courts, according to Mr, Riddell. He fedi that to use the law to his client's full advantage , is a defense lawyer's job - but he also feels that a Crown Attor- ney's job is to demand a severe enough fine , as to teach the of- fender a lesson. The depth of the inquiry will not stop at the courts if the an- swer is not found there, and the Huron MPP wants no stone left unturned in the investigation. "To be fair to the police we have to investigate the courts", he said, "but to be fair to the kids we also have to look at the police. There is a possibility that the police are throwing these kids a bone to see if they will bite." The situation could worsen according to Mr. Riddell and the possible turn of events frightens him. "When you get a threat to break windows if an arrest is made, and the threat is carried out, it is obvious there is no respect for law and order", he said. "If the situation is allowed to continue we could find ourselves back in the' days when justice was dealt by the man who was fastest with his gun." Goderich Police Chief P.D. King does not think that the courts should be blamed for the difficulty in Clinton. He feels that the judicial system has been used as a whipping boy for pro6lems not related to the end r6striti charges made by the police department. "If I were the chief and I were having those problems I would look at a lot more things than the courts", he said, "and I would be asking myself a lot of questions." The head of the Goderich force cited the concentration of the' problem as reason to believe the courts could not be blamed. He said that the problem was isolated to Clin- ton and that to his" knowledge, no other county department had experienced similar dif- ficulties. "I would probe for the an- swer to why the problem is only manifested in Clinton", said Chief King. their cows. 'Phis in turn will bring less pork on the market next year and less beef the year after. When there is a shortage the price will go up and thus we cah expect to pay more for our meat the next couple of years. We, as farmers, don't like today's prices and we, as con- sumers, won't like next year's prices. Orderly marketing through strong marketing' boards is the only answer. They can stabilize prices for farmer. 'and consumer alike. Look at the Egg Board! When the price was low in the USA they brought 30 million eggs into Canada. Subsequently 28 million of them are spoiled,. Now US eggs are going up in price and Whelan has to put limits to what the 'graders can export or it would pull our price sky-high. If the Egg Board was strong enough it could say how many eggs to reserve for Canadian needs at a reasonable price, for both producer and consumer and sell any surplus on the world market. Now the graders have to be stopped by Federal order. Is it any wonder that graders try to destroy marketing boards? It prevents them to rip- off the public. ) mum t 11', "If .a judge allowed the polio • to do his job, we would have police state And nobody wants that:', said Mr. King.. Leniency in the court room has been evident in some cases,- Mr. King agreed, but he feels this 'was only a sign of the times. lie said that society today gives more thought to the offender of a crime rather than CLINTON .EISWS, RECORD, THURSDAY, wall be frustration by someone", said the chief, The defense lAryer, the crown attorney, the judge or the policeman never agree on the, final outcome of .a case, Mr. King said. He suggested that computerized courtrooms may be the answer. Evidence would be fed. into the computer and a verdict and sentence handed out. There would be no room to Q0''PORE.R 17, 1974--PAOK A argue and no person- to blame, A hanging type judge is not the answer to court leniency, according to Chief King. "If a judge. handed down harsh sentence that one of the parties • thought was unfair, there is always the appeal courts, And if the sentence was • out of line it .will usually he reduced by Another judge", he said.. Agricultural Tidbits the person who was offended, He pointed out, however, that in the' past two weeks there have been hersher.senten- cos handed down from the bench, He -said this could ap- pear as though the court is cooperating with the police, .but he fears neither side will ever be completely satisfied, "As long as there is human feelings in the courtrooms there