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MURRAY CARDIFF
108th Year — Issue No. 5
If you need clothing we are told this is the
time to buy. It has been predicted that the
price of clothing will go up 50 per cent this
summer. Some of us may have to go barefoot
for the price of shoes is expected to rise
sharply. With the cost of food and practically
everything else steadily going up we wonder
how folks on a small fixed income will
survive. Others who have never denied
themselves not necessary luxuries may have
to practice restraint. They may well have to
be content with a more simple lifestyle than
they have been accustomed to. If one has
been used to getting what you want, but do
not need, when you want it, it will not be
easy. Those who survived the lean years of
the thirties will find it easier to adjust. They
know what it means. Do without what you do
not actually need!
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Indulge your taste for a delicious dessert,
the kind the ladies of the Rebekah Lodge are
known to provide. Morning Star Lodge will
hold a Valentine Dessert Euchre on Monday,
February 12th.. Arrange to tickle your taste
buds with a tasty dessert and enjoy an
afternoon of card playing. See next week's
Post for particulars.
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The Brussels Figure Skating Club are
going to have a busy time during the next
few weeks. They will be preparing to host
the annual "Interclub Competitions" at the
B.M.G. Arena on Sunday, February 25th.
The three top skaters from the 10 classes of
free skate and dance, from approximately 20
clubs in the Northern Interclub Group, will
be competing for trophys and medals. This
should be interesting to watch. It will be an
all day event to which the public will be
welcomed at no cost. Watch the Post for
more information. A Family Carnival will be
presented by the club on March 24th.
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Have you been to the B.M. & G. arena to
watch the hockey games? The quality of
hockey played by our Pee Wees, Atoms and
Bantams Might surprise you. It, no doubt,
has surprised teams they have played
against judging by the championship'
trophies they have brought home. The
hockey players are inspired by the support of
cheering fans to give their best effort when
the
they know it is appreciated.
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An interesting article by Leonard W.
Meyers, a Vancouver freelance writer, in the
latest edition of "Opinion", published in
Montreal, states his opinion of Canadians
with frank no-holds-barred writing. He
began by saying "Canadians are funny
people. They seem to enjoy being pushed
around, humiliated, insulted, lied to, taken
advantage of, cheated, intimidated, kicked
in the shins, teeth and posterior. They
tolerate having their noses tweaked, arms
twisted, and generally bullied, victimized and
ripped-off". We have to agree with him in
most of his statements. He said we grumble
but pay only by lip service instead of the
high price of doing something about it. He
charges that "some of our politicians are
proverbial charlatans, glib gladhanders,
plunderers and fa kers. But long-suffering
Canadians seem to forgive and forget. " He
said that Canadians are consistently and
methodically being victimized by certain
callous, unscrupulous labor bosses who are
adept at manipulating and exploiting the
working masses to gain their own ends. He
commented on the well known fact that there
are communist spies in almost every field of
Canadian endeavour and asks "What doe's
the government do when confronted with
R.C.M.P. evidence about Communist spies
in Canada?" Civil Liberties types scream
about Mounties "Breaking the law" in their
under-cover endeavour to apprehend
subversives and terrorists. The average
Canadian, he believes, thinks little about
what goes on for they feel sure that the
terrifying subjugation that has taken place in
country after country elsewhere can never
really happen here. Meyers said it is
happening here in a more subtle way. There
are those who are trying to break up the
country, destroy the Monarchy, publicly
discredit the R.C.M.P. Canadians he claims,
are afraid to act. As freedom fighters they
are washouts. They will deserve everything
they get on a not too far away day Unless
Canadians wake up. It is time easy-going.
Canadians get collectively angry and tell
elected politicians, bureaucrats and labor
bosses that the people are the ultimate and
final bosses ) or should be in a true
democracy.
BY DEBBIE RAN14EY
Morris Township Council set wages and
salaries for council members and township
employees on Monday.
At its lastme:ting council had offered the
road superintendent and the gradermen
$6.10 but the gradermen who were making
$5.75 wanted $6.25 an hour. After a
discussion at Monday's meeting, council
agreed to the $6.25 an hour but with the
gradermen's salaries to be negotiated at the
first of September from now on.
During some discussion with road
superintendent Bill McArter, council
The police have not been called in as the
recreation committtee is hoping that the
person who did the damage will come
forward and volunteer to pay for what
they've done.
Hank Exel, arena manager, said that the
person could talk confidentially to Wayne
Lowe, chairman of the recreation committee.
Mr. Exel also said that if the person Who
did the, damage didn't come forward, no
more teen dances would be held in the
arena.
Hydro up here
Brussels hydro rates are going up as of
February 1, but not nearly as much as they
could have if Ontairo Hydro hadn't passed
on a surplus payment to the PUC. Brussels
PUC says they have passed the savings on to
Brussels customers.
Last year Brussels hydro users got a break
in the form of an anti-inflation discount on
bulk power purchased from Ontario Hydro.
Because of better than expected
operations of Ontario Hydro in 1977,
Brussels PUC received a discount estimated
at 5.1 per cent which meant they could defer
a retail rate increase until 1979.
Hy idro rates for commercial service for
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Brussels man
heads bean board
Murray Cardiff or RR 1, Ethel has been
elected chairman of the Ontario White Bean
Producers Marketing Board (OOPMB).
He replaces W.L. Sherman of Kent
County.
Last year, Mr. Cardiff was vice-chairman
of the board and has been a committee man
for Huron County.
In his new position as chairman, Mr.
Cardiff will attend meetings such as those
dealing with World Food Aid programs
involving bean crops and he will deal with
different government bodies that are in-
volved in marketing.
His job also, involved learning how
problems in other countries can affect the
Ontario market. As an example of this, Mr.
Cardiff says that strikes in Britain could
create a problem to the movement of Ontario
beans and could have an effect on the
delivery of beans to that country.
The OBPMB office in London is in charge
of marketing all the white and yellow-eye
beans produced in Ontario. This year they
took in 1 million, 600 thousand hundred-
weights of beans and sold 850,000 hundred-
weights, 80 per cent of those mainly to the
United Kingdom and Europe.
(STAIILISHEO
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member Ross Procter expressed some
concern about the atmosphere in which
wages for the gradermen were solved.
He said he didn't want to hold out and
have bad feelings over what they were
asking for, but, "you can't run a business
always giving in."
Councillor Bob Grasby said, "Every year
it's six or seven per cent more. One of these
years you're going to have to take six per
cent less."
Ross Procter said, "When it gets to the
place where I don't know anymore (what's
fair) I'd call tenders for the job."
The reeve's salary was raised from $925
last year to $1000 this year, the deputy
reeve's from $800 to $870. Councillor's
salaries go from $750 to 820.
For attending special meetings last year
the reeve received $15, the deputy reeve $12
and councillors $10. This amount was
increased to $20 for the reeve and $15 for the
rest of the councillors.
The wage of fenceviewers remained at
$10. Labour wages which were $4 were
increased to $4.35 an hour. The tile drain
inspector's salary remained at $12 per hour.
Waste disposal site inspector Adam Smith
received a raise from $4 to 4.35. Livestock
evaluator Glen Casemore will now receive
$6.25 an hour and 21 cents per mile, up from
last year's $5.30 an hour and 21 cents per
mile. Clerk Nancy Michie's wage went from
$4 to $4.35 an hour and treasurer George
Michie's went from $125 to $135 a month.
In other business, council decided to ha,..e
another meeting regarding the street lights
in Belgrave since t hey weren't sure about
being able to stay within the restriction, par.
of a motion to go ahead with a revised plan
for the street lights, provided the cost didn't
exceed any more than $3 of the original cost
The original cost was $26 per lot. Cound
also was uncertain about going aheac
because of the cost of putting in the lights
and the placement of the lights. Clerk Nancy
Michie was to send a letter to lot owners
telling them a meeting was to be set up
March 1 at 8 p.m. in the Belgrave Institute
Hall.
Council decided to accept the
application of 'Carl McLellan as dog counter
for the township at $1.65 per dog and advise
him that the job is to be completed by the
first of April.
Council received a letter from the auditor
for the Maitland Valley Conservation
Autority saying they owed the Authority
$1118 for some fill line mapping they had
done in the township but council decided to
sent a letter back to the auditor stating that
they hadn't asked for the mapping to be
done in the first place.
SMASHED-IN — Arena manager Hank Exel discovered this hole in
wall of the men's washroom in the Brussels, Morris and Grey
Community Centre after the teen dance on Friday night.
Approximately $125 damage resulted Centre was smashed in, Friday night.
when a wall in the men's room of the The damage was discovered Friday night
Brussels, Morris and Grey Community after the teen dance.
Short Shots
by Evelyn Kennedy
Hole smashed in wall at new arena
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 31, 1979
Morris council,
staff get raises
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