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name new officers
Eldon Heywood has been
elected president of the R.E.
Pooley Branch Legion, while
Elsie McDonald is the new-
head of the Exeter Ladies
Auxiliary.
The installation of the new
officers will be held on May
20, with Seaforth providing
the installation team. A
dance will follow.
Other members of the
Legion are: 1st vice Lee
Webber, 2nd vice Murray
Greene, sgt.-at-arms Gerald
Campbell and Garnet
Shipman, executive Norm
Ferguson, Clay Murray, Ray
Fairley, Bill Link and
Harvey Hillman.
The Legion Auxiliary
executive is comprised of 1st
vice Dawn Murray, 2nd vice
Janice Frayne,
Annie Lawson,
Barb Hern and
Linda Webber
Shipman, Peg
Duvar, Wilhelmina Jaques
and Dorothy Pfaff.
The Legion have several
special sporting events on
their schedule starting with
a bowlerama and breakfast
this Sunday. The branch will
host the zone C sports
meeting on May 28 and four
golf events are scheduled at
Ironwood, including two
mixed ball foursomes and
the annual men’s tour
nament and the zone com
petition.
Sports officer Norm
Ferguson also has a banquet
scheduled for the Exeter
Legion bantam hockey team.
The Auxiliary recently
hosted a 24-team bowling
tournament, with Kin-
cardine emerging as the
winners. The Number 6 team
nlaced third
One of the highlights of the
event was a special
presentation to one of the
Goderich teams for faithful
participation. The youngest
bowler on the team is 64 and
the oldest is 83. The average
age of the team members is
74.
The Auxiliary past of
ficers’ banquet is scheduled
for June 10.
Branch 167 recently
received a Wintario grant in
the amount of $27,831.03 for
the renovation to the local
hall, with $19,171 to be
received now and the
balance when the project is
completed.
Drainage said necessary
treasurer
secretary
Executive
Bernice
Hunter-
Pork event
scheduled
The Ontario Pork
Congress, now in its fifth
year, will be held at the
Stratford Coliseum June 20-
22. It is the largest event of
its kind on the continent and
has programs to interest
everyone, from producers of
breeding stock and com
mercial producers to
veterinarians and con
sumers.
Jack Underwood,
promotion chairman of the
Congress says he expects
more than 10,000 people to
attend the event.
The Congress will be
bigger than ever this year,
with more than 125
exhibitors displaying
products and services under
one roof.
Daily attractions include a
feature speaker program
from 10 a.m. to noon, and
consumer education
programs beginning at 2
p.m. One of this year’s
highlights will be a special
symposium on manure
management on June 21 at 2
p.m. The Ontario Pork
Hostess competition, held
annually to select a
representative for the pork
industry, scheduled June 22
from 2 to 3:30 p.m.
Of special interest to
producers is the All-Ontario
Show Day, June 20. About 120
purebred pigs will be judged.
Organizers expect to top last
year’s $63,000 sale total at
Sale Day, June 21. The sale
will include the top 10 car
casses from the Market Hog
Competition. Two hundred
and ten pigs have been on
test since March 9. They will
complete the test period
June 1.
* Feeder Pig Day will be
held June 22 with a morning
show of weaners between 40
and 60 pounds. An auction
will follow in the afternoon.
In conjunction with the
shows and sales, a junior
program for young people
aged 12 to 19 is planned.
Discussion
on sun light
Energy Minister Reuben
Baetz has released a
Ministry discussion paper on
“Perspectives on Access to
Sunlight”, to mark inter
national Sun Day
celebrations at Harbour
front’s week-long energy ex
position.
“Many people who con
sider using solar energy
wonder about their ‘right to
light,’ ” the Energy Minister
said. “Technological ad
vances notwithstanding,
even the best solar collector
is useless without sunlight.
“Since existing law in On
tario provides no automatic
Tight to light’, protection of
access to the sun could
become a matter of concern
as we increase our use of
solar energy. This discus
sion paper is, then, an im
portant step in developing
solar energy in Ontario."
The Minister said the
paper outlines existing law
on the subject and looks at a
number of possible legal
methods to protect solar
access in Ontario. These in
clude private agreements,
restrictive covenants, and
solar zoning.
“Our purpose in producing
this document is to
stimulate discussion about
solar access and its poten
tial impact on land use,”
Mr. Baetz said. “We have to
take into account the needs
of both the users of solar
energy and their neighbours.
It’s a complicated issue but
one that needs to be ad
dressed head on if we hope
to translate our aspirations
and plans for greater solar
energy use into concrete ac
tion.”
The Minister said that “by
initiating discussion of the
legal aspects of solar use, I
hope we can help push back
the frontiers of renewable
energy development.”
Mr. Baetz said his
Ministry is seeking com
ments from all concerned
parties — municipal land
use planners, academics,
solicitors, and individuals
interested in the future of
solar energy in Ontario.
These comments will be
analyzed to assist the
Ministry in gaining a better
appreciation of the ap
propriate ways to provide
access to solar energy.
BEST IN LUCAN MINOR —- Trophies were presented to the most improved and most valuable players in the Lucan Minor
Hockey Association, Friday. The novice, atom and pee wee winners are shown above. Back, left, Todd Hayter, Blaine Butchart,
' ............... ~ _ ‘ - ............ 1 T-A photoJeff Liley, Al Craig and Scott Finlayson. Front, Joe Haygarth, Les Arts, Donnie Hugill and Jeff Pollard.
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BEST IN UPPER DIVISIONS — The most improved and most valuable players in the bantam, midget and juvenile categories
of the Lucan Minor Hockey Association are shown above. Back, left, Kyle Pedersen, Bob Hodgins, Kevin Wood and John
Hodgins. Front, Mark Grove, Don Liley and Jamie Shipley. T-A photo
Investigate rape film
The Huron County Board
of Education intends to find
out if the advice offered in
the film .How to Say No to a
Rapist and Survive is sound
advice before it permits the
film to be shown in county
high schools.
The board decided to in
vestigate professional
opinions on the film before it
accepted a recommendation
from the Kinsmen Club of
Belgrave to show the film at
the five county secondary
schools.
The film recently became
a centre of controversy at
the London Board of
Education when advice
offered in the film was
sharply criticized and the
film subsequently banned by
the London board.
The banning by the London
board came about after a
University of Western
Ontario student, who had
seen the film and followed
the advice offered in it, was
brutally raped on the
campus of the university.
The woman said she had
used the advice in the hopes
of escaping and it didn’t
work.
The London board trustees
did not want to take
responsibility for showing
the film in its schools in case
students seeing it adopted
the attitude that if the board
advocated the film it must be
reliable.
Goderich board trustee
Cayley Hill raised the
suggestion at Monday’s
meeting that the Huron
board may be wise not to
promote use of the film
because of problems arising
from its viewing. He said he
was not sure what the
problems were about the
film not having seen it and
having only read newspaper
accounts of a group claiming
advice in the film is
misleading.
He said he has no qualms
about the visual aspects of
the film but was hesitant
about approving its use if the
advice is “contradictory” to
that offered by police or
other similar agencies. Hill
said the board should find
out if the film’s advice is
adequate and accurate.
Board chairman John
Elliott proposed the film be
investigated by the board’s
school programs committee.
He said the committee co.uld
the
in
en-
Board costs
are reduced
Huron County board of
education has an extra $29,-
448 because of Ontario
Treasurer Darcy
McKeough’s decision to
halve an announced 37.5-per-
cent increase in Ontario
Health Insurance Plan
(OHIP) premiums.
The board had budgeted
about $252,000 for OHIP
premiums for teaching and
support staff, including $58.-
896 for the increase
McKeough announced in the
provincial budget.
When McKeough reduced
the premium increase, that
meant the board had $29,448
leftover.
G.W. Lamb, chief accoun
tant for the board, said there
are no plans for using the ex
tra money. He said it should
Show up as an over-levy at
the end of the year.
AT USBORNE OPEN HOUSE — A large number of parents attended Open House Thursday
night at Usborne Central School. Above, Marilyn Taylor and son Larry chat with grade two
teacher Louise Keskinen. T-A photo
find out what professionals
feel about the film and
possibly set up a viewing for
board trustees.
The film was produced by
Frederick Storaska.
Storaska does not profess to
be a professional
psychologist or psychiatrist
but claims he does 'have
formal education at
university” level
psychology.
He claims he once
countered an 11 year old girl
being raped by a group of
boys and after coming to the
girl’s aid he devoted his life
to studying the motives,
habits, desires and needs of
rapists. He discovered that
little or nothing was being
done in the field of rape
prevention and consequently
began work on the film.
Storaska’s advice is
submission to the will of a .
rapist. He claims that by
appearing submissive the
victim may cause the rapist
to relax enough to allow the
victim to escape. He claims
that by staying calm the
victim lessens the chance of
assault, bodily harm and
possibly death and increases
the chances of physical
defence.
Storaska’s entire approach
is to prevent physical injury
rather than rape. He ad
vocates certain defence
mechanisms that may be
possible if the victim is
relaxed, calm, and not
fighting the rapist. In the
film he shows two methods
the victim can use to ward
off the rapist, gouging his
eyes or crushing a testicle.
The Women’s Resource
Centres in Canada,
operators of a Rape Crisis
Centre, condemn Storaska’s
approach claiming the ad
vice is completely wrong.
They claim a victim stands a
chance of escaping if she
screams, fights and makes
as much of a disturbance as
possible. They feel that by
screaming “fire” rather
than “rape” the victim has a
better chance of getting help.
By taking that approach the
Rape Crisis people feel that
the rapist may panic and run
to avoid being seen. The
crisis centre also conducts
classes teaching women
basic self defence designed
to fend off attack long
enough to allow escape.
Storaska claims that the
only reliable method of rape
prevention is martial arts
but points out that few
women take the time or
make the effort to learn
martial arts.
He is careful to explain
that by taking the advice he
offers there is no guarantee
that the victim will not be
raped but a chance she will
escape bodily injury. His
attitude seems to be that a
woman who knows.that she
is going to be raped anyway,
may as well make it as
painless as possible.
The Rape Crisis Centre
cringes at that attitude. They
feel that the only way a
woman can survive the
mental torture of being a
rape victim is to do
everything possible to
prevent it.
The most serious problems
in a rape incident are the
mental ones according to
many experts who claim that
if a woman feels she did not
do everything possible to
avoid being raped she will
have severe emotional
problems personally and
socially.
Rape and other sex related
crimes have recently been
examined by the federal
government with the in
tention
sweeping
Criminal
rape.
The changes suggested
would make rape an act of
indecent assault causing
bodily harm which may
carry a maximum sentence
of 14 years. The most im
portant change is that no
longer would penetration
have to be proved to lay a
rape charge.
Women may not have to go
through the ordeal of court
proceedings in a rape case,
something that keeps a lot of
rape victims away from the
legal system.
Statistics concerning rape
and other sex crimes show
an alarming number of in
cidents that go either
unreported or result in no
official charges. Police
claim that 80 percent of sex
crimes in the country are
unreported and of the 20
percent in which legal action
is taken only 1.6 percent
result in a conviction, a
statistic that prompted law
writers to take a long, hard
look at the Criminal Code of
Canada.
of proposing
changes in the
Code to deal with
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Detail costs of park work
The committee studying
the redevelopment of the
community park provided
the South Huron rec centre
board of management with
more detailed cost
estimates, Monday.
Spokesman Ron Helm said
the committee members
were recommending that
four portions of the project
be undertaken this year.
These include the draining
of the area north of the
grandstand and east of the
rec centre, the addition of
parking space south-east of
the rec centre, levelling of
the remaining portion of the
race track, and moving the
ball diamond to the east.
The estimated cost of these
four projects was listed at
around $25,000.
Helm said the committee
had not finalized study on the
grants and donations
available to assist in these
projects, but that the in-
formation would hoepfully
be ready for the board’s next
meeting in two weeks.
Jack Underwood, who
prepared the drainage study
for the committee, was
asked if the draining of the
entire field was required.
The question was asked by
Bruce Shaw, following a
comment last week by
Councillor Derry Boyle that
drainage was not a necessity
as rains delayed ball games
at the park by only one day.
Underwood said that the
surface of the park can
appear to be dry, but if the
sub-surface is saturated, it
would be’compacted by any
activity at the park (such as
cutting the grass with a
tractor or even playing on it)
and this would result in
furthei’ compaction and
make drainage even more of
a problem.
He said if there were areas
where the board could
Claims seat belts
reducing fatalities
Traffic-related deaths on
Ontario’s roads dropped to
the lowest level since 1962,
according to statistics
released today by Minister
of Transportation and Com
munications James Snow.
A total of 1,418 persons, in
cluding 251 pedestrians, died
in motor vehicle-related ac
cidents in 1977 — a reduction
of 6.2 per cent over the 1976
total of 1,511.
In the two-year period
since the introduction of the
seat belt legislation in
January 1976, there have
been 313 fewer driver and
passenger deaths. In 1975,1,-
314 drivers and passengers
were killed. In 1976, 1,109 —
or 205 fewer. In 1977, 1,001
drivers and passengers were
killed — a further reduction
of 108.
“I am disappointed to
report that personal traffic-
related injuries went up by
14.2 per cent, from 83,736 in
1976 to 95,652 in 1977,” said
Snow, “even though this is
the second lowest injury
total since 1972.”
The total number of ac
cidents increased 3.1 per
cent, from 211,865 in 1976 to
218,428 in 1977.
“It should be taken into
consideration that even
‘fender-benders’ without
personal injuries are includ
ed in that total. And the
worse-than-usual snowfalls
in 1977 certainly brought
about a lot of those,” Snow
commented.
In December ‘77 alone,
there was a decrease of 24.2
per cent in motor vehicle ac
cident deaths — 117 com
pared to 153 the same month
in ‘76.
“I share the belief of
many police and safety of
ficials that the seat-belt
legislation, plus the lower
speed limits, are having a
noticeable effect on the
death statistics.
“Even so, far too many
drivers ignore these life
giving laws, as the growing
number of charges in
dicates,” said Snow. “I trust
they will ‘get the message’
when they see the continuing
reduction in deaths on the
highways since these laws
came into effect.
“Where seat-belt use and
non seat-belt use statistics
were available, indications
were that in an accident the
belt wearer’s survival
chances were 16 times
higher,” said Snow.
“Let’s look at the figures:
In accidents where drivers
were not wearing seat belts,
377 were killed, 11,090 in
jured and 46,243 escaped in
jury.
“In comparison, in ac
cidents where the seat belts
were installed and in use,
114 drivers were killed, 32,-
683 injured and 254,499 es
caped injury.
“In the case of
passengers, 264 were killed
in cars where seat belts
were not in use; 57 were kill
ed while wearing seat
belts.”
Snow expressed concern
'about the upsurge in motor-
cycle driver and passenger
deaths and injuries. Eighty-
nine motorcycle drivers
were killed, 3,590 injured in
1977, increases of 14.1 and
27.4 per cent, respectively.
Sixteen motorcycle
passengers — four more
than in 1976 — were killed;
814 — an increase of 25.6 per
cent — were injured.
“We had hoped that the
legislation requiring motor
cyclists to operate with their
front and rear lights on at all
times would make them
more conspicuous to
motorists and truckers.
These are among the
smallest units on the road,
but they’re entitled to their
full share of the road. It will
be up to the motorcyclists to
be doubly alert; and drivers
of other larger vehicles
must in turn be more aware
of motorcyclists.”
t Bicycle fatalities were
shown to be the same as last
year’s — 48, although there
were 195 fewer bicycle
accident injuries.
“While it’s encouraging
that there were fewer
deaths on Ontario roads dur
ing 1977, it doesn’t change
the reality and tragedy of
the total accident picture.
guarantee there would be no
activity until the sub-surface
was dry, it would be possible
to eliminate drainage in
those areas.
However, he said it was
hard to stop and start a
drainage project and it
would probably be just as
costly as undertaking a
complete and systematic
program.
Chairman Bob Down said
he agreed with that con
tention.
Shaw said later in the
meeting he was convinced of
the need for the drainage
program.
Members were advised
that the drainage project
would interfere with the
baseball program for a few
days and also that repair of
the trenches would have to
be undertaken as the soil
settled following any rain
fall.
Don Bray noted that this
problem would exist
regardless of when the
drainage was undertaken.
After the discussion, the
grounds committee agreed
to continue their in
vestigation of grants and
donations and would present
a written report at the next
meeting.
Theft trial
is moved
Michael C. McKenzie,
aged 19 and formerly of
Exeter appeared in
Provincial Court in Goderich
Monday to face four charges
of break, enter and theft and
the same number of
possession of stolen goods
charges. The occurrences
took place in Exeter during
March and April.
McKenzie requested that
the charges be forwarded to
Metro Toronto for
disposition where he is to
appear May 24 for sen
tencing on other criminal
charges outstanding in
Toronto courts.
He was returned to the
Stratford jail Monday
waiting transportation to
Toronto for sentencing.
Constable Kevin Short was in
charge of the local in
vestigations.
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