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The Brussels Post, 1972-11-29, Page 9FA head ',urges zoning for area livestock farmers Having served as TRUSTEE on the 14 HURON COUNTY BOARD of EDUCATION ff for the pagt two years, as a representative of Brussels, Grey and Morris, I again solicit your support. WILFRED SHORTREED TO THE ELECTORS OF BRUSSELS: Like many other Tax payers in the Village I am not totally satisfied with the way our money has been spent in the past so I am seeking a seat in the Local Council so that. I may try to alter this. I have no previous knowledge of Local Politics but with your help it shouldn't take long to get the necessary experience that is required. Now as far as the cigars and coffee that I Con- tributed this week, this was not to get votes but was to mark the arrival in our home of our new daughter on November 20. Please on December 4th vote as you like but VOTE. Sincerely yours, Harold Bridge For Transportation Phone 887-6249 or 887-6003. To the Electors of Brussels As I have always been keenly interested in the betterment and promotion of my home town, I am asking for your support at the polls on December 4th. If -elected for councillor I will endeavour to do my best to serve to the best of-my ability. WAYNE LOWE For a ride, Call 887-6971 To the- Electors of Brussels As a candidate for election to the Public Utilities Commission, I ask for your sup- port on December 4th. DAVID HASTINGS JR. .ergAltARMANIAMMOVPMERMSWAWMPPX To the Electors of Huron County School Board Having served you as a member of the y Huron County School Board for the past four years, I ask, as an expression of your influence 6 confi h dence, your and support in the. December 4th election. Vote DONALD McDONALD 6: Brussels, Morris, and Grey Electorate LET'S HAVE A STRONGER VOICE Elect a representative from the Centre of the SchOol Area. VOTE TED MacLEAN For Board of Education For a ride call 887-9272 The advertisement on behalf of MR. WILFRED SHORTREED which appears above was ordered for insertion in last week's issue of the Post. The publishers regret that due `to an error the ad inadvertantly was omitted. NOTICE to the EJECTORS of the VILLAGE of BRUSSELS Take notice that polls will be opened as follows for the election of One Reeve for the Village of Brussels. Four Councillors for the Village of Brussels. Two Public Utility Commissioners. Two representatives to the Huron County Board of Education. ADVANCE POLLS: Monday, Nov. 27, 1972 Saturday, Dec. 2, 1972 at the Clerk's Office from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. POLLING DAY: December 4th, 1972 from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. No. 1 and No. 2 polls in the Old Legion Hall Wm. H. King, Returning Officer "Parts of each Minty must be zoned for livestock farming and quickly," says Gordon Hill President, Ontario Federation of Agriculture. Mr. Hill asked, the 400 farm- ers gathered at the OFA's Annual Meeting in Hamilton this week, "How can farmers be expected to invest in modern livestock facilities when they could face Recently, a by-law was pass- ed by the Niagara district pro- hibiting the expansion of live- stock buildings. Area farmers • with, the support of the Federa- tion and other commodity groups are appealing the by-law before the Ontario Municipal Board. "This hangs like a guillotine over the heads of farmers," he said. "If the by-law is ap- proved, the farmers affected must he compensated for their loss. Anything less would mean confiscation of their rights." Mr Hill said farmers, to not want to pollute, but cannot af- ford to invest in costly pollu- tion abatement equipment when their lands are threatened. Canada's welfare system re- ceived ridicule at the meeting. "There was a desperate short- age of apple-pickers, tobacco workers, and fruit and vegetable harvest help," Mr. Hill told the meeting. ' Meanwhile he said unemployment insurance pays up to $100 a week, and. lures able-bodie d men from doing farm ' work. "The purpOSO of Unemploy- ment insurance should be to feed and house a person Who? is, out of work through no fault of his own. It should be survival in- surance, not an incentive to leave the work force. "Welfare laws, too, have been stretched. Welfare must be re- modelled to give a decent stand- ard of living only to those who are unable to find work. Wel- fare Bums, corporate or indivi- dual, will not be tolerated py Canadian tax payers, and must be eliminated." Mr. Hill, a Varna hog and white bean producer, spoke at the end of his third year as Fed- eration president. He told the farmers present that a larger membership would enable the • Federation to serve farmers bet-ter. Now the. OFA has 12,227 members. He set the member-- ship target at 18,000 by next convention. He pointed to vertical inte- gration as another prime concern of farmers and placed part of the blame for growing integration on banks for not providing enough short and intermediate-term credit to farmers. "The Pro- vincial Government should amend the charter of the "Province of Ontario Saving's Office" so banks can lend short-term money to farmers, he said.• Licensing or registering of farmers, he added is one way of slowing future integration. "who can Produce food Penuneroially, and participate in government Programs for farmers, must be Settled soon!" "Farmers make tremendous contributions to Canada. In 1971, Canadian farmers bought 3 billion dollars worth of goods and ser- vices. The farm Machinery in- dustry employs 15,000 workers-- to feed industry, 9,000. About one-third of the freight moved through the Seaway, and nearly 20% of the goods moved by rail- ways, comes from farmers. This means Jobs and wages." What faces the consumer, Mr. Hill claimed, is the cost of high living not the high cost of living. "Wages continue to rise much faster than food prices, so that an hour's work buys more food today than ever before. That includes fancy packages, partial preparation and all the promotion that's included." He told, the farmers delegates from across Ontario, that their largest future increase in farm income will come from the market place. "Farmers must 'become experts in marketing." The National Marketing Le- gislation gives farmers from all provinces the opportunity to get together and explore the market, said Mr. Hill. He called the recent forming of a National Egg Agency, a forward step. "Canada badly needs a feed grains policy. There must be balance of regional respon- sibility." He told the meeting, grain producers must get decent prices for their crops, while livestock producers must have adequate supplies of reasonably- priced grains. "The Canadian Federation of Agriculture a- dopted such a policy. Hopefully, this proposal will be implemented right away." They Still Speak Aramaic, The Language of Jesus In the village of Ma'lula in Syria, where the houses of heavy native stone are tinted blue, one would hard- ly notice the passage of time since the birth of Christ, over 2000 years ago. The people have changed little, in dress and habits, and more importantly in their speech. For it is here in Ma'lula, as well as in two other villages in Syria, Jeb- 'adeen and Bakhaa, that one can hear the Aramaic language Christ used dur- ing His life on earth. Aramaic was spoken throughout ancient Pales- tine, and the lands that are now Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, southern Turkey, and north- ern Iraq. But after the Arab conquest of these lands in the seventh century, Ara= maic was gradually replaced by Arabic. In Syria, only those three villages, all in the Qalamon valley not far from Damascus, have pre- served the ancient language of Christ to the present day. The population numbers only a few thousand, two- fifths of them Greek Or- thodox, anbther two-fifths Greek, and the rest Moslem. Philologists of the Uni- versity of Beirut tell us that while the Aramaic dialect of these three villages has been intermixed with Ara- bic, the villagers would have understood, and been un- derstood by, Christ and the people of His time. Naturally, the people of Ma'lula are very proud of their Aramaic language and take pains to keep it alive and flourishing, Many fam- ilies speak only Aramaic to their children until the youngsters are five years old and must go to school, where they learn Arabic, the national language. Outside Syria, Aramaic is spoken at Urrnia, in Turkey . by the Chaldean Catho- lics of Bartelle in norther:: Iraq . and by the village :.s of Malabar in southwester:. India. And Aramaic is used in the liturgy of taro churches which %.,%`!::: • in the Middle East. ---• • the threat of closure next week- •. -.,",,,,,,,--„,,,,-,----•••••,,,,,,,,•••••••••••,-nVi,..W.,,,,,,l.wri414.41:•:•KYiv.1/44c."%,it:N.:11.4.:14.:•NItW4,:i::.:,Niii next month-next year?" THE BRUSSELS POST, NOVEMBER 20 "V", tl. ........... . • •