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OPEN HOUSE AT NEW MANSE — Saturday and Sunday, the congregation of Exeter United Church
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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
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with Mrs. Ila Kayes, Usborne; Mrs. Mary Ellison, Stephen; Larry Weido, Zurich and Peter Snell, Exeter.
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Chefurka and former leader Donald C. MacDonald spoke in the
North Middlesex riding this week. T-A photo
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Page 16 Times.Advocate„ May 13, 1971
The Huron County Board of
Education has approved a
recommendation to send selected
teachers on summer courses
determined by the Director of
Education to be beneficial to the
Huron County school system.
The move was made to aid in
the search for speech therapists,
teachers of children with special
learning disabilities and
remedial reading teachers.
"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.
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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