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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1974-03-21, Page 180 "1"Thr"Ar( DASHWOOD HOTEL Entertainment Fri. evening Sat. evening Sat. matinee March 22, 23 Al Harvey & The Blueboys Tiffany Dining Lounge Hours Weekdays 12.2, 5.8 Fri, & Sat. 12.2, 5-9 Sundays 4-8 Daily Luncheon Specials Planning a special function we will be pleased to assist you Banquet facilities available BAVARIAN INN BAYFIELD Announces the RE-OPENING OF THEIR RESTAURANT on Saturday, March 30. Reservations appreciated phone 565-2843 For An Evening of Fun And Fellowship Thursday, Friday and Saturday Nights Odds 'n Ends Dining Room Special EVERY WEDNESDAY 12:00 Noon to 2:00 p.m. and 4:30 to 7:00 p.m. 6 oz. Ribeye Steak $250 Reg. $3.25 SECOND ONE FOR $1.00 Includes potatoes, vegetable, coffee or tea Huron industrial Park Phone 228-6733 Club Albatross • • V.:;::.:32:3BESE.,,. Page 1 8 Timel,Advaccite,. _March 21,. 1974 NOTICE Newspaper and Bottle ollectien HENSALL CURLING. CLUB. oic4'4 eee 9 ,tost 24eeald Paed nce Kirkton Bay Scouts will be visiting homes in the Kirkton area including Russeldole and Fullarton on Sat., March 23 Dancing 10.1 HENSALL ARENA Sat, Mar. 23 Music by The Wildwoads Your co-operation will be appreciated $4.00 per couple Everyone Welcome 35th Wedding Anniversary Dance South Huron District High School EVENING CLASSES 1. GOLF INSTRUCTION to begin the week of March 25. The Nights of instruction will be determined after registration, 2. SEWING. I Mens Pants) Class to start Monday, April 1. Please register by telephoning the school 235-0880 or Mr. Wooden 235-2472 for NORVAL AND mapReo JONES Reception and Dance for ANNETTE ZIMMER and RAY WEIDO (Bridal. Couple) Sat., March 23 EXETER LEGION Sat., March 23 9 - 1 ZURICH COMMUNITY CENTRE Music by Bluewater Playboys Hugh Tom FILSON and ROBSON AUCTIONEERS Music by MOZART'S MELODY MAKERS Lunch Provided Everyone Welcome Lunch provided Everyone Welcome No gifts please 20 years' experience of complete sale service Provincially licensed. Conduct sales of any kind, any place. We guarantee you more. To insure success of your sale or appraisal Phone Collect 666-0833 666-1967 NORM WHITING LICENSED AUCTIONEER & APPRAISER Prompt, Courteous, Efficient ANY TYPE, ANY SIZE, ANYWHERE We give complete sale service. PROFIT BY EXPERIENCE Phone Collect 235-19M EXETER GEORGE EIZENGA LTD. INCOME TAX - ACCOUNTING for FARM & BUSINESS 107 MAIN ST., LUCAN Telephone 227-4851 D & J• RIDDELL AUCTION SERVICES ' Licensed Auctioneers and Appraisers * Complete Auction Service * Sales large or small, any type, anywhere * Reasonable - Two for the price of one Let our experience be your reward. Phone Collect 'Doug' 'Jack' 237-3576 237-3431 MT. CARMEL INCOME TAX CENTRE INCOME TAX - ACCOUNTING for Farmers and Businessmen INDIVIDUAL TAX RETURNS o J,913 Too Small PHONE-, 237-3469 PERCY WRIGHT LICENSED AUCTIONEER Kippen, Ont. Auction Sale Service that is most efficient and courteous. CALL THE WRIGHT AUCTIONEER Telephone Hensall (519)262-5515 C. HARRY RODER, D.C. DOCTOR OF CHIROPRACTIC 84 Panne' Lane, STRATHROY Telephone 245-1272 By appointment please. Failing this the Liberal Party believed that by establishing a Trusteeship in York county the Minister of Education could bring the contract negotiation to a prompt conclusion in a much more equitable manner. A report tabled in the Legislature this week contained 170 recommendations that would work extensive changes in the course of policing for the future. A drastic reduction in the number of police forces in Ontario has been recommended by a Task Force as a means of averting cost crisis, The Task Force on policing found two potential threats to the quality of police work and one of its suggested solutions is eliminating more than 100 forces to make more efficient use of blue uniformed manpower. The report recommends that the number of operating forces be cut from the present level of 179 to between 30 and 40, It would leave 21 city and 10 regional police forces. In addition there would be 29 agreement areas in the south and 10 in the north areas, where through agreement policing would be handled by the OPP or large neighbouring force. The policing bill in Ontario in 1972 was $229.3 million and had average an annual rate of in- crease better than 16 percent. The cost is outstripping the Municipality's ability to pay to the point where in six years spending demands would be $55 million more than the cash available, the report said. Ontario is willing to see the price of Western Canadian crude oil rise to $6.00 a barrel but only if it is going to stay there for at least two years. Energy Minister Darcy McKeough said he does not want a price rise on April 1, the date the current Federal freeze is scheduled to expire to be just the first step up the ladder to $7.00 then $8,00 and on up to whatever the world's monopoly price might be, The Federal Government has frozen the price of Western crude at $4,00 a barrel until March 31st. Mr. McKeough strongly attacked the desire of the producing Provinces, Alberta and Saskatchewan to raise the price to the world level of about $10.50 a barrel. The Energy Minister said an increase to $6.00 would add ap- ppoxiMately76-- cents- a gallon to • the 'cost of heating oil and gasoline in Ontario. A jump to $10.50 a barrel would add almost 20 cents a gallon. This "flies in the face of national interest," McKeough said. The net impact on Ontario of a move to $6.00 crude would be to add cost of $350 million a year to people of the Province. Alberta's net benefit would be $750 million. Bang art, TCelly, °Doig and Co. Chartered Accountants 268 Main St., Exeter ARTHUR W. READ Resident Partner 235.0120 Marriage should be viewed in law as an economic partnership in which both husband and wife have equal shares, This is a radical departure from existing principles as recommended by the Law Reform Commission in the massive report that was tabled in the Legislature this week. The proposal, if acted upon by the Legislature, would allow Ontario wives to share in family assets acquired during a marriage, upon termination of the marriage. The marital home as well as joint bank accounts would be considered joint property of both spouses. Some 299 Legislative recom- mendations are designed to move Ontario Law regarding illegitimate children, family property and family courts out of the 18th and 19th centuries and into the 20th century. The report urges the abolition of all legislative discrimination bet- ween children born in and outside marriage. It suggests a new Court Official called a Law Guardian, be ap- pointed to each Family Court to act only in the interest of the child in any proceeding affecting his upbringing. The Commission also suggests that an unified Family Court should be established to deal with all family law matters. The Commission suggests that the separate Family Court be manned by two groups of judges, one appointed by the Federal Government and the other by the Provincial Government. Attached to the Court should be the assurance of adequate family court support services, such as family counselling, conciliation and assessment branches and specialized probation services. The main theme of ND? Leader Stephen Lewis' reply in the Legislature to the Speech from the Throne was inflation, Mr. Lewis produced some startling figures to back up his claim that there has been an unbelievable increase in the cost of housing in Ontario. Housing costs in Toronto alone have risen 56 percent since 1971 and .similar., increases were also seen in other. centres such as Hamilton, London and Kitchener. Mr. Lewis also charged that an average price rise of 55 percent has been experienced since 1971 on such items as milk, butter, eggs, bacon, steak, bread, vegetable soup, canned corn and potatoes. Food Company profits are well up and Mr. Lewis con- demned the Government for letting the Corporations of Ontario get away with murder. Although the Ontario Govern-'. ment contends that Ottawa bears prime responsibility for restraining inflation, Mr. Lewis maintains that it is first and foremost a Provincial respon- sibility. To cut housing costs Mr. Lewis proposed a massive public acquisition of land for housing adjacent to the. 20 major urban centres in Ontario, The Tax Credit system should be used to hold mortgage interest rate to 6 percent and a Capital Gains Tax of 75 percent levied on speculative profits from land and housing. The Leader of the Liberal Party, Robert Nixon, also at- tacked the Government for having no policy to control IMIII EMI PIM NMI NON MB NM MIMI EOM 11•11111111111111 MEI NMI BIM spiralling land and housing costs. He indiciated that the average price of all houses sold in Ontario rose by 26 percent between 1970 and 1973, The problem is most acute in Metropolitan Toronto where the cost of shelter rose by approximately $1,000 per month on the average house. The Housing cost increase was about four times as much as the rise in the cost of living and almost twice as much as food price increases in 1973. As a result of the influence that housing prices in Toronto is having throughout Ontario prospective land buyers and land speculators are searching farther and farther afield. Land prices all over Ontario started to rise about 18 months ago because of pressures in the Toronto Real Estate market, The primary cause as the Ontario Economic Council reported last year is the scarcity of developed land. The demand for land far exceeds the supply and the shortages have been heightened by competition for available sites between foreign and domestic capital. The result is artificially high land cost which is eventually passed on to land buyers, Ger- man, Swiss, American, Japanese and British investors have all been attracted to Ontario's bland property market and their demand for real estate has resulted in inflated housing prices for Canadians, Mr. Nixon indicated that foreign firms have made sub- stantial purchases of land in various parts of the Province. The Swiss owned firm of Fidinam Limited, for example controls a large tract of land in Norfolk County near the Nanticoke generating project. Mr. Nixon charged that the amount of foreign owned land in central Toronto alone is staggering and he went on to give several examples. Such extensive foreign par- ticipation in the Ontario land market not only infringes on our natural heritage but also con- tributes to higher shelter costs for the residents of this Province. This type of foreign investment does not create jobs or advance technology. It benefits only the investors. According to Mr. Nixon, the Provincial Government must act properly to restrict luturevland purchases to residents of Canada and Canadian owned cor- porations or an even greater influx of foreign money, will further inflate Ontario's land prices. Newly enriched Middle Eastern Countries are already rumoured to be buying land in Ontario. Relaxed Japanese regulations for investors in foreign land have been in effect for only ,a few years. The recent devaluation of the Canadian dollar in relation to European and Japanese currencies is also attracting foreign investment to Ontario's real estate market which because its value is rising so fast is a better investment than gold. Mr. Nixon went on to say that restrictions on foreign land ownership will ease the upward pressure on land prices somewhat but tough measures are also required to stop land speculation by Canadians. Just recently the newly elected President of the Ontario Real Estate Association estimated that 30 percent of all land tran- sactions in Ontario involve speculators. Mr. Nixon implied that there By JACK RIDDELL., HURON MPP isn't a community in southern Ontario that does not have land speculation going on around it. Until the Province makes an announcement about where the development will go, the speculation will continue. In the past weeks it's gotten worse, There has never been as much speculation. Every little town is be ent must act nhge bought r un pm. immediately says Mr. Nixon to bring this intolerable situation under control, He suggested that a steep rate of tax to windfall gains should be applied to remove the incentive to speculate in land, This tax should apply to profits from most sales of raw land and houses which are not occupied by the owner but should not apply to profits from the sale of a principal residence, or to profits from the sale of an owner- occupied family farm. In other words, the tax should be structured in such a way as to apply to speculators only without penalizing other land owners. Although steps to control Ontario's land costs are the most urgent priority according to Mr. Nixon, action is also required to reduce residential construction costs in Ontario. The 7 percent sales tax on building materials should be removed or offset by equivalent grants to purchases of new homes. The Federal Government should be urged to remove or provide similar offsetting grants for its 12 percent sales tax. Inexpensive housing forms in- cluding mobile and factory produced homes must be en- couraged, said Mr. Nixon. Mr. Nixon summarized his remarks by saying that strong action including restrictions on foreign ownership of land, steep taxes on speculative land profits, a government run land servicing program and steps to reduce residential construction costs are urgently required in order to avoid further house price in- creases. Education Minister Thomas Wells introduced a Bill to force the teachers of York County back to work and send pupil-teacher ratios and all other items in dispute to compulsory ar- bitration. Prior to the ,in- troduction of the Bill a majority of York County school trustees ail amantly refused to negotiate the ratio ,,,o4aitningg asitiKt management right. Education Minister Wells told the Legislature that he was ready to withdrap, the Bill at a moment's notice if an agreement was reached and ratified by both parties and that they approach him while the Bill was being debated in the Legislature. The Bill received third and final reading in the Legislature about two hours after the teachers had made their decision to return to the classrooms ob- jecting to arbitration or any kind of legislative settlement as a satisfactory solution of the problems in the Education system but voting in favour of returning to the class as responsible people who respect the laws of the land. Opposition Members debated the Bill at some length stressing the fact that Mr. Wells could have ended the strike weeks ago by insisting that both parties get back to the table and bargain in good faith. 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