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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1973-02-22, Page 14BUS DONATED TO REST HOME - Residents of the Blue Water Rest Home at Zurich now have bus transpor- tation available thanks to the co-operation of the Rest Home's Ladies Auxiliary and the Lions clubs of Zurich, Exeter, Grand Bend, Bayfield and Goderich. Shown above with the bus are Zurich Lions president Robert Westlake, Bob Dinney and Ross Dobson of the Exeter Lions club and Mrs. Arthur Brisson, president of the Rest Home Ladies Auxiliary. Citizens News photo. Family farms get exemption from capital gains taxes Rent A SNIDER WEEKEND SPECIAL From Noon Friday To Noon Monday Pintos: Only 5 22.95 Mavericks; Only 5 25.95 Fords: Only 5 29.95 FIRST 100 MILES FREE Insurance Included LARRY SNIDER MOTORS LTD. EXETER 235.1640 COMBINES PRICED TO SELL IHC 403 with 2 heads IHC 303 with 2 heads Case 600 with 2 heads Massey 90 with grain head Massey 60 with grain head Oliver 18 with grain head John Deere 42 with grain head IHC No. 80 with bean equipment N. T. MONTEITH EXETER LTD. 235-2121 "The best in service when you need it most/" Ontario A study of the organization and administration of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Notice of Public Meeting The Minister of Agriculture and Food, Honourable Wm. A. Stewart, has directed that a study be made of the organization and ad- ministration of the Ministry, with special emphasis on the suitability of its existing programs, policies and services to meet the needs of Ontario's agricultural and food in- d ustry. In order that individuals and organizations might be able to express their opinions or make suggestions in this regard, a series of public meetings have been arranged. They will be held at central points throughout the province. This is an invitation to interested parties to comment on the quality and relevance of Ministry programs, and their suitability to serve the industry at a time of rapid change. You are invited to present written briefs, or to make oral representation at one of these public meetings. Place Date 1973 Clinton Thursday Town Hall (Hwy. 4) March 1 St. Jacobs Woolwich Town Hall Friday (County Rd. 13) March 2 Time 2.4:30 p.m. 7 - 9:30 p.m. 2 - 4:80 p.m. 7 - 9;30 p.m. Chairman — Prof. N. R, Richards °MOHO Ministry of Agriculture and Food Queen's Park, Taranto, Ontario For more information call 416/9652240, or contact your Agricultural Representative, Ready Mix CONCRETE Plant 23,-0833 Residence 228.6961 C.A. McDOWELL Centralia Farmers Supply Ltd. Grain • Feed • Cement Building Supplie s Coal 228-6638 George Eizenga Income Tax — Accounting For Farm For expert, low-cost preparation of Financial Statements and Income Tax Returns: Contact: Farmers' Income Tax Service • Box 35, Lucan, Ont. Telephone 227-4851 Help Huron lead the way! Here's how you can . . assist in stopping constant increase in Ontario govern- ment expenditure -- Check the ever increasing and wasteful bur- den of provincial debt which this year alone will amount to 800 million dollars. Interest on our provincial debt costs us 1 1/4 million dollars a day, every day of the year. Elect a an who will speak his mind and yours! Jack Riddell Liberal Jack Riddell is Successful farmer — graduate of the UniveD• ity of Guelph — partner in Hensall Livestock Sales — Jack has taught high school in Clin- ton and Exeter — been a government livestock specialist — he is a trustee of Huron Board of Education — Married — active in church and community work. Jack Riddell says .... "We in Huron can either send one more Tory to Queen's Park to add to an already over- weighted majority or we can send a Liberal to help bring accountability back to govern- mexit." Help Huron....heip Ontario....help yourself vote Riddell Tax changes announced in Monday night's budget will make family farms wholly exempt from the capital gains tax so long as the farms remain in the family. Definition of family is to be spelled out in regulations. if the land is not being used as a farm at the time of death, or if it is not left to the family." Private board meeting for free discussion Page 14 February 22, Local man at Arabian meet An Exeter horse breeding enthusiaSt attended a three-day conference in London, England last week. Dalton Finkbeiner was one of two Canadian delegates to the World Arabian Horse Organization. The other was Warren Fertig of Red Deer, Alberta, Finkbeiner was appointed a director when the organization was formed in May, 1972 and at that time he attended a con- ference in Seville, Spain. The group will meet in Sweden in 1974. The local director said, "the aims and views of the organization are simple. We want to get the record keeping systems on a standardized basis and encourage the purity of breed and promotion of the Arabian horse." He continued, "In no way do we want to get into internal affairs of individual clubs or registries but to put the 19 member countries on the same footing for record purposes," Twenty-nine out of thirty mentally retarded children can be helped to grow into useful, happy members of the com- munity with a considerable degree of self-sufficiency. When the capital gains tax was presented to Parliament in 1971, opposition critics and farm spokesmen complained that it would kill the family farm. Under the capital gains tax provisions effective Jan. 1, 1972, the tax was levied on the value of a farm when its owner died, even if he left the farm to his children. The change announced Monday night, however, is retroactive to Jan, 1, 1972, and thus in effect means those provisions were never in existence. In his budget speech, Finance Minister John Turner said that the question of preserving the family farm is of great im- portance. "Under the present rules, when a farmer dies and leaves his farm to his children, he is treated as if he has sold his farm at its fair market value. "In the result, there may be a capital gains tax liability. For many of our farmers this poses a serious problem. "First, the value of a farmer's land is often subject to fluc- tuations which have little bearing on the real value of that land as a farm. "Secondly, most small farmers have little available cash and have already exhausted their credit. Therefore, a tax liability at a time when there has been no real sale may leave the family of the deceased farmer with no alternative but to sell out, "To remedy this problem, I propose that . . . when a farmer dies and leaves his farm to his children, there will be no deemed sale of his farm land. "In the result, capital gains tax will apply only if the farm is sold, Snow vehicle in Pinery mishap The only accident of the week investigated by the Ontario Provincial Police Pinery Park detachment involved a snowmobile. Constable P.M. Clushman reported minor damages to the snow machine being operated by Wayne Stubbs, RR 1, Thedford. The mishap occurred on Lamb- ton County Road 3, just west of Highway 21 on Sunday, February 18. Saturday, Constable Clushman investigated a break and enter incident at a cottage in ,the Port Franks area. Goods valued at $249 were taken. Officers of the detachment laid 12 charges this week under the Motorized Snow Vehicle Act, six charges for violation of the High- way Traffic Act and two other charges for liquor offences. Middlesex. County Board of Education this week turned down a request to open its February 26 special meeting to the public and news media. The special meeting has been called to discuss the controversial proposal to bus grade 7 and h pupils in the north part of the County to North Middlesex District High School in Parkhill. The high school would be enlarged to contain improved facilities for use by elementary and secondary school students, The request to abandon the busing proposal and open the special meeting came from a delegation of 35 ratepayers who presented a brief to the board, The brief repeated an earlier request for improved facilities in area schools without integration of grade 7 and 8 students in the North Middlesex District High School building, Meeting in closed session at the end of this week's regular meeting, the Board confirmed its previous decision to hold the special meeting in private "to promote full and free discussion by trustees," In open session, the Board decided to close the four-room Crumlin School at the end of the current school year because it lacks many educational facilities which can be provided to its 125 pupils through moving them to Northdale and Leesboro schools. In other open business, because its 1973 budget cannot be struck until revenue from the provincial government is determined, the Board authorized the requisitioning of an interim tax levy to each municipality. The levy will amount to 25 percent of last year's educational levy. Among new secondary school courses approved by the Board and subject to Ministry of Education approval is a world religions study at Glencoe District High School. The course aims to develop an understanding of the meaning of different religions and their effect on the life and thought of their adherents. Medway High School plans to offer a "bachelor's survival course" in its Home Economics Department em- phasizing the importance of food and nutrition. And North Mid- dlesex District High School will present a course in con- nunica tions media that will cover propaganda, newspapers, magazines, radio, TV, and film- making.