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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1975-09-18, Page 19All. CANDIDATES DEBATE — The three candidates in the Huron-Middlesex riding in today's election par, ticipated in a debate at SHDHS, Thursday night. From the left are PC Jim Hayter, Liberal Jack Riddell, NDP Paul Carroll and Huron Federation of Agriculture president Doug Fortune. T-A photo Candidates field questions as 300 attend federation meet SKILLY'S DELICATESSEN AND CHEESE HOUSE GRAND BEND Add a note of continental elegance to any meal with orange, pineapple, nut or kirsch cheeses, English teas or conserves. INTERESTING GOURMET GIFT HINTS Include snails, real turtle soup, cockles and mussels, curried chutneys, sauce, Bearnaise and more Meat or cheese trays prepared to order. OPEN DAILY 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. $5.00 NITE EVERY THURSDAY STEAK DINNER FOR TWO ONLY $5.00 Includes Soup, Salad and RetreAment ENTERTAINMENT This Week Lesperance Trio Next Week YOU AND ME Don't Miss It RED GABLES OCTOBER GRAND BEND Wed, to Sat. OCT. 1-4 Six Piece German Band Ottoberfest Sausage - Sauerkraut - Spare Ribs - Cabbage Rolls • • oft • • „ . t. BEST DECORATED BICYCLES — Competition was keen among the youngsters riding tricycles in Saturday's Fall Fair at Kirkton. The winners are from the left, Leanne Bickel', Carol Willis, Michael Fletcher and Lisa filch. T:A photo, Ilf The Beehive is overflowing!! We're clearing stock for queens, drones and workers ONG ScirotNi‘es vciase rNi•aski‘oos Ve Sags Teacher's Pet •`b Jort77 eee..LD. en rmee v Shoes i 0 -- PI'S Camper Coats Hush P — • UPPleS Hickock • 20Y OFF 0 EVERYTHING IN THE STORE C $ cAsi4 HILDREN IONS & ADUL CASUAL WEAK '4‘ 0.44,4,34,1,4.05 ,0ettft.S.WW ,6404ViagAVOSPZMPON4ii•ith;:r.V.77...' -"'a Ralph and Marie Mckinnon Main GRAND BEND Phone 288-2154 Use Your "CHARGEX" or "MASIIRCHARGE" •••1•••••••••i• 0..Kindergarten ciao up at Centennial The school is alive again after two months of solitude! Bells are ringing, the periods end, children in the halls are hurrying to a new class. Teachers are busy with lessons in the classrooms, and the yard is filled at recess and noon hour with colour, movement and laughter, Everyone seems glad to be back, anticipating a happy busy year ahead, Kindergarten has a high enrollment of 65. Mrs, Gemmel', the kindergarten teacher, has been assisted by Mrs. Scroggs, Brucefield, and Mrs. Shaw, Exeter in introducing the little ones to schoel routines, Our total enrollment is 580, which represents a decrease of about five pupils since last June. We welcome nine new families to our school: The Teathers to Tuckersmith township from London; LeFalves to Stanley township from Keswick; the Beddows to Egmondville from Toronto; the Kioss family to Brucefield from Lucan; the Andersons to Hayfield from Holmesville, the Eastons to Hayfield from Holmesville; the Brocklebanks to Tuckersmith S township from London; the Marla tts toTuckersmith township from Manitoba and the Irwins to Ailsa Craig Take A Break The first meeting of its new season for the Take A Break group proved a good beginning. It met for the first time in the former Ailsa Craig Public School which added far more area for the children. As three additional rooms are available apart from the area where the mothers gather, the children were divided into three groups according to age for more ideal situations for play. A number of volUnteer baby sitters were on hand to care for the needs of the children. The mothers quickly took advantage of the situation to get acquainted with new members and to chat with each other. A full program of crafts, and discussions has been planned for the coming months, The next meeting, scheduled for Sep- tember 23 will find Joanne Dinney demonstrating flower arranging, New mothers are always welcome, and invited to join the group at any meeting. Mary Verbeek of Ailsa Craig will be happy to arrange transportation for anyone without, Ad in a farm paper: Wanted — dairy farm employee. Must not have any bad habits such as drinking, cussing or eating margarine. Tuckersmith township from Harristori. Two new teachers have joined the staff, Mrs. Joan Allan of Tuckersmith township is here half-time and is teaching Geography and Reading to grade 7. Mrs. Allan has worked as a supply teacher in our school in past years. She is a graduate of Stratford Teacher's College, and has taught previously at Hensall and Tavistock, Mrs. Allan is working toward her degree and when time permits enjoys travelling or sewing. Miss Wilhelmina Vossen is our new Oral Freneh teacher, teaching French from grades three to eight. Miss Vossen graduated from Althouse College in June 1975. She received her BA degree from Laurentian University in Sudbury, a bilingual university, Miss Vossen is a native of St. Marys, Ontario where she received her elementary and secondary education, Miss Vossen's special interests, besides teaching French, are swimming and sewing. Mr. H. Pulsifer of Seaforth, has been setting up classes for guitar lessons. The school year of 75-'76 promises to be one full of exciting challenge and interesting variety ! Postal employee receives transfer Glenn Northcott, an employee of the Exeter post office for the past 18 years has been tran- sferred to the Southwestern district office in London. Northcott who began his duties at the local post office on March 18, 1957 was loaned to the London office in February of this year. His official appointment to the district customer service section was made on September 1. He will be involved in processing claims and inquiries. More than 300 persons attended an all candidates meeting at South Huron District High School in Exeter Thursday night when the three Huron-Middlesex riding candidates fielded a wide range of questions. Queries from the' audience included education nuclear plants, regional government, civil servants, fertilizer prices, energy costs, dead stock removal, etc. Each candidate was allowed a ten minute opening address and two minutes of rebuttal before questions from the floor were accepted by Doug Fortune, president of the Huron Federation of Agriculture, sponsors of the meeting. In his opening • remarks, Conservative candidate Jim Hayter said he felt people of the riding wanted productive and responsible government and listed some accomplishments of the present Davis government. He listed a reduction in civil servant staff of 2.5 percent, the farm tax reduction program, 135 day freeze on oil and gas, changes in farm succession duties, guarantees of reasonable prices for cow-calf operators and the availability of 223 housing units in the area. NDP candidate Paul Carroll listed housing, energy, land and people the biggest issues in the upcoming election. He said "most of the calls I get concern housing, Now you need an income of over $18,000 to enable purchase of a house." Carroll suggested a judicious rent review rationalization of energy costs. On the subject of farm support he continued, "I hear Middlesex Conservative candidate Bob Eaton say today that Ontario has the best support in the world. If that's right God bless the rest of the world." The NDP candidate said British Columbia was a working model of farm stabilization programs with 90 percent of the farmers taking part in 20 com- modity groups. Liberal candidate Jack Riddell reiteratede previous statements that regional government is very much an issue. He commented, "look at the county grant structure. They are forcing the hands of areas like Huron to regionalize." On the subject of government spending, Riddell said, "This nonsense advertising should be cut down. It's nothing more than an insult to the intelligence of our people," He suggested the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food offices be moved out of Bay street in Toronto, that 80 percent grants be made available for education and the money turned over directly to county school boards. In answer to a question from Adrian Vos of Blyth regarding the proposed nuclear plant near Goderich, Riddell said these plants should be moved into the Canadian Shield and Georgian Bay areas where more industries could be developed. Hayter said he would ask for a full scale investigation of the benefits and hardships involved in such construction. To Riddell's suggestion he said "Industries won't go north, it would be too expensive. Paul Carroll's answer was short, "I'm opposed to nuclear plants. Northern areas wouldn't want them either.” All three candidates agreed that dead stock should be tran- sported directly to a con- centration or rendering plant, Riddell added "dead animals should be sent to the plants with a bill of lading to make sure they end up at the right place." Questioner John Hazlett on the subject of the oil and gas freeze suggested that gas prices would reach one dollar per gallon within eight months, Jack Riddell charged that extension of the oil freeze was a political plum. Hayter replied, "The costs of oil companies will certainly be reviewed. Maybe it's an election plum but they are working to stimulate the economy. Ontario unemployment has dropped by one percent." Lloyd Willert of Dashwood suggested to the candidates that farmers were being "gouged" by high fertilizer prices despite a "world glut" of fertilizer. Riddell said he believed in free enterprise but fertilizer prices need to be justified before a price review board. Hayter's comment was "We certainly can't stand for a 25 to 30 percent increase. About five percent should be suf- ficient." Paul Carroll's answer was short, "Who first mentioned this problem? The NDP." On a restructuring question from Gerry Ginn of Goderich township, Riddell said, "It should be within county lines. Huron has led all the way with the first of- ficial plan. Assessment should be back at the county level." Hayter who was a member of Huron county council during the laIMIPM•11••••6 Fascinating statistics 'department: motor travel in the US averaged 2.4 million miles a minute, according to an estimate of the Highway Users Federation. That's 1.26 TRILLION miles a year. If your engine warms up too slowly, the problem may be a faulty manifold heat valve. It's an easy adjustment. Tire companies and automakers are talking about a self-sealing, long-wearing radial tire that would eliminate the need for a spare. Biggest problem they expect is driver's psychological dependence on d spare. To Ovoid oil-filter problems, replace the filter when you have the oil changed. Will keep old dirt from getting into new oil, too. * What's new? The first car to offer retractable headlamps was the 1936 Cord, * Whatever the special features, we'll keep ALL of your car in goad shape at Lorry Snider Motors. Our first•class Mechanics know what they're doing, Larry Snider MatORS LIMITED EXETER 235.1640 LONDON 227.4191 Huron Cdunly's Largest lord Dealer health unit issue indicated he was in favour of restructuring within the county. He added, "But we don't need 46 members on council. That's far too many." Roger Martin of Exeter asked Riddell about his stand on the Crown Employees Bargaining Act. He answered "They should have the right to negotiate salaries and working conditions and be able to strike except those providing essential services except firemen, policemen and hospital workers." Carroll replied, "Let's eliminate all these con- frontations." Eric Heywood of Exeter asked Riddell and Carroll for their opinions on the closure of beds in many Ontario hospitals. "It's ridiculous to put up hospital additions and then close rooms, Government priorities on curtailing expenditures are all mixed up," commented Riddell. Carroll replied, "It was just a stop gap measure." A South Huron District High School student, Blake Palmer suggested that the Ontario education system was as good as it can be and said students should be part of Ministry Advisory board. Hayter said, "There is already student participation on this type of board." On education grants Paul Carroll said, "the province should pay 100 percent and get education out of the tax picture," Ontario Wheat producers will soon receive their final payment on the 1974 wheat crop. This is wheat that was sold, prior to June 30, 1975. Producers have received $3.00 per bushel to date, made up from $2.00 received from agents of the board, on delivery of their wheat and a $1,00 per bushel interim payment made direct from the Board to Producer in April of this year. The final payment is $1,35 making a total return to wheat producers of $4.35 which is 9 cents more than a year ago. Part of the payment is the federal two price wheat payment on 8,790,000 bushels sold in the domestic market. Interest on funds received from the federal government since date of receipt has been added to the payment, Fergus Young, chairman of the board, said that the $1,35 will be made up of 91,88 cents of federal funds and 43.12 cents residue from wheat sales by the board. Mr, Young stated that the total volume of sales were 17,568,000 bushels, In making the announcement, the chairman of the Ontario Wheat Board noted that world- markets for wheat had been more favourable to producers in the last two years and the pooling system of marketing introduced first to the 1973 crop, had come at an appropriate time to enable Craig seniors enjoy cards Wednesday found a good number of senior citizens at the Town Hall for the monthly euchre. Sufficient persons turned out to complete nine tables of players. This month Mrs. Walker was the winner of the ladies' high, and Mrs. Davidson took home the prize for the ladies' low, J. Rose achieved high score for the men's high, and E, Allison was men's low. Sybil Stevenson was winner of the lone hand this month. .producers to take. votAgo of world market opportunities., Await easement for cable start "We're hoping, by all hope, to get _something by the first of December!" Those were the comments of Ron McIntosh of Bluewater Cable TV when contacted by the T-A this week regarding plans for the local cable system. He said his company is awaiting severance on property they are acquiring from ARDA for their antennae near Dash- wood. He noted that the firm had a considerable amount of money invested in the area already and were anxious to get the system operational so some return could be generated. All the cable has been installed locally, with the exception of the trunk line. TirroeS,Acilf0mte,. September 1B, 1975 Page Final wheat payment coming Steer This Way BY LARRY SNIDER ,