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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1971-05-13, Page 16We Sell Weekend Freedom! Weekend freedom starts with a John Deere Lawn and Garden Tractor or Riding Mower. You just hop on one and cut your grass any Monday- through-Friday evening. And then it happens! Your weekend is free. For fishing. Golfing. Traveling. Entertain- ing. Loafing. You name it. John Deere Lawn and Garden Tractors come in five horsepower sizes and several colors. There are two sizes of riding mowers. Come on in and look over our line of John Deere Weekend Freedom Machines. You'll like 'em! 5-HORSEPOWER $ 44500 RIDING MOWERS AS LOW AS ... Fit C11 1111 1111 IC lr FI & EQUIPMENT LIMITED, EXETER. 235-1115 OPEN HOUSE AT NEW MANSE — Saturday and Sunday, the congregation of Exeter United Church viewed the new manse into which their minister, the Rev. Glen Wright and his family moved this week, Chairman of the Presbytery, Rev, Harold Currie, conducted a dedication service, Sunday evening. Above, Mrs. Robert Chaffe and Mrs. Walter McBride, members of the property committee, watch contractor Paul Ducharme turn over the key to chairman of the committee, Harry Dougall, who in turn passed it on to Mr, Wright (centre). Below, is an outside view of the new home. T-A photo TEACHERS REGISTERING — The annual Professional Development Day for district elementary school teachers was held Friday at Exeter public school. Above, Stephen teacher Howard Lawrence registers with Mrs. Ila Kayes, Usborne; Mrs. Mary Ellison, Stephen; Larry Weido, Zurich and Peter Snell, Exeter. T-A photo ON HUSTINGS — The Ontario NDP Party is gearing for an anticipated fall election and have most candidates named. Pat Chefurka and former leader Donald C. MacDonald spoke in the North Middlesex riding this week. T-A photo SALES and Rentals • Sunset and Sandpiper Trailers • Truck Campers = = We Have 2 Complete Truck And = = = Camper Units For Rent = = -= BOOK EARLY — DON'T BE DISAPPOINTED = = = -i. 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"We are finding the market rather thin," said D. J. Cochrane, director of education, "and, in our opinion, we have people within our own system who could assume these positions if they had either a refresher course or an additional course that, in our opinion, would make them more effective, We need some en- ticement for one or two teachers to forsake their classroom and take these courses." The board will pay, upon successful completion of such courses, the $100 course allowance and the lesser of $100 and one. half the sum of proven expenses for registration, board and lodging and transportation at the beginning and conclusion of the course. It was announced that a winter course in elementary social studies, Grade 1 to 6, will be conducted in Clinton on 20 Tuesdays and eight Saturdays beginning this fall, J. L, Johnson of the staff at Stratford Teachers' College, will be principal of the course. A review of education week showed that the experiments in most schools to interest the parents were highly successful. It was found however, that too many activities were crowded into one week and parents with children in more than one school were not able to take in everything expected of them. The self-evaluation program report showed the need to organize teachers into many program studies. Detailed unit planning as initiated last year in mathematics, science and recent years that investment in new machinery often results in greater automation and fewer jobs. "This government is simply out of touch with the people and their problems. Their basic economic policies are as disastrous as those of the federal Liberals," he claimed. He said that under the leadership of Stephen Lewis, the NDP are ready, willing and able to grapple with the basic Problems, and said the party's alternatives to the Throne and budget debates "lend credibility to the NDP challenge in the forth- coming provincial election", The NDP have suggested a one percent decrease in the sales tax so everybody will benefit and corporation taxes should be in- creased so as to halt the per- sistent decline of the corporate share of revenue which has dropped from 20 to 11 percent in the past decade and which the Davis government now proposes to reduce to eight percent. In addition, he said the NDP would take at least 80 percent of the cost of education, and would provide a rebate to those in the lower income groups, in the same way the government has already provided rebates for farmers, pensioners and home-owners. However, the former leader said tax reform was badly needed to bring a halt to the endless succession of tax rebates. He pointed out the government was presently paying to collect taxes and then paying to return the rebates and this was most inefficient. He also promised the NDP would initiate a positive job- creating program at the municipal and provincial levels, including a 150,000 housing program to meet another desperate need in addition to creating jobs "instead of leaving so many of our work force to the soul-destroying experience of living on unemployment in- surance or welfare". Busy Woman Mrs. Chefurka indicated she had already visited 1200 homes in the riding, indicating that is the best method to learn how governmental policies affect people's lives. She said she would continue visiting homes up till election day — "and also after I'm elected". The riding candidate too spoke on the unemployment problem and said the NDP policy on health is the best one: that one plan should cover medical and hospital care, and that it should be rapidly extended to cover dental care and drugs, that the premium should be low so that it doesn't bear too heavily on low income people. Mrs. Chefurka, who will oppose Agriculture Minister William Stewart in the riding, took a crack at him in announcing the agricultural policy of the present geography will be developed under the leadership of James Coulter, superintendent of education. qa4411Adeat geatel The pupils of Robertson Memorial Public School of Goderich entertained the residents on Monday afternoon. The musical program which involved sixty students opened with a sing-a-long and included instrumentals, a vocal solo and selections by the school band, square dancing and a play, "The Ginger Bread Boy." • The Mercy Brothers, well known radio-television and recording artists, who were entertaining in this area were guests at Huronview Wednesday afternoon and provided the en- tertainment for the Clinton Kinettes monthly program and tea. The residents appreciated seeing and hearing Larry and Ray Mercy who they remem- bered from the Circle 8 program on C.K.N.X. Wingham. The family night program Thursday was provided by en- tertainers from Blyth,•Seaforth, and Clinton. Sorority to aid at blood clinic Mrs. Kevin Delbridge was hostess for the meeting of Xi Gamma Nu, Tuesday evening. This was the last regular meeting until fall. P were made to help with the Blood Donor s Clinic, June I4, and for a June Social for friers- begs and saonediaihuesvbeannindgs followed the business during which a baby picture contest was conducted. The executive was in charge of the program and refreshments, government is bankrupt. She made this claim after telling of a visit to a farm where the family was being pushed towards bankruptcy beCause their hundreds of pigs were sold for $2 less each than it had cost to raise them. "In the budget last week they didn't even have the wit to steal our plank taking the burden of education tax off farm land," she admonished. She urged her fellow party workers to help reverse the growing cynicism evidenced when people say the NDP can't be any worse than what we've got, "We have to reverse it so that instead people say 'together we can improve things a great deal'." Some of the points raised by Mr. MacDonald in his press conference at the T-A were as follows : Farming — It is difficult to find a solution because farmers can't agree on what they want. However, the basic problem is to increase the net income and farmers should be given collective bargaining through market boards. If they can't get a fair return from the market place, they should receive assistance "through the back door". The present inter- provincial war is folly for Ontario because five to 10 times as much farm produce goes to Quebec from Ontario. To invite retaliatory action is folly on the government's part because you can't win in that kind of a situation, notwithstanding what it will do for the nation as a whole. Waffle groups — Keep it in perspective. He's not unhappy about the Waffle and any party is better for having a "ginger group". They represent only 10 to 12 percent of the party and their policies were repudiated over- whelmingly at the recent national convention. Education — While the NDP would take over 80 percent of the cost, there would also be a ruthless analysis of the operation and costs. Education has grown in an unplanned fashion and has produced high-paid bureaucracies. Money — Where would the increased revenue come from for NDP programs? A resource tax, capital gains tax and increased corporation taxes. Issues for the election — The "gut" issues of taxes, housing and pollution, "superceded by the feeling the jokers have been in too long and it's time for a change". Outlines party's alternatives Former NDP head says govt can't cope The Davis government is so much captive of out-of-date Tory concepts that they cannot cope effectively with the problems of the '70's, claims former NDP leader Donald C. MacDonald, He made the comment during a tour of the North Middlesex riding Friday with the NDP candidate Pat Chefurka, They both spoke at a meeting in Komoka and had press con- ferences with several area newspapers, including The Times-Advocate. "The Davis government acknowledges that the economic slowdown and resulting unem- ployment represent Ontario's major problem today," Mr. MacDonald, said, "but their handling of the problem indicates that they have lost the capacity to govern". He claims they have instead deliberately escalated their political confrontation with Ottawa in order to distract public attention from their own failures. While the recent comments by two federal Liberal cabinet ministers indicated there were problems in Ottawa, the York South MPP said the Ontario government realized the problems of unemployment a year ago, but "did virtually nothing to deal with the developing problem". Noting the "holdovers" in the Davis cabinet from that of John Robarts, he said the regimes cannot be separated. He told his audience that Mr. Robarts announced jobs for 1800 men to cut down dead elms, and later raised the figure to 3800 when the original assistance was embarrassing. Davis later promised 12,000 jobs. He said this was a six percent reaction to the unemployment of 200,000 in Ontario, and he com- pared this to a 40 percent reaction by the the NDP government in Manitoba in finding 10,000 jobs for the 25,000 unemployed in that province. Pointing out that the unem- ployment debate in the Legislature had never been completed, Mr. MacDonald said the main purpose was to create the public impression of concern on the part of a government which had been unconcerned, and done little about it. He reported the massive housing program in the Throne speech was a propaganda fraud and he said the budget was also the same thing, in view of the fact • that after all the build-up, the government gave no tax reductions for the people of Ontario except rescinding the $3 fishing licence and equalizing the price of beer, The former NDP leader in Ontario said the five percent rebate on corporate taxes for investment in machinery was relief of some$125,000, 000"to their corporate friends", but he argued that everyone has learned in Board okay sending teachers to school