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Home My WebLink AboutThe Brussels Post, 1976-03-10, Page 1igham Ethel, Entail; ussels; ns Ltd, is sels;) aforth onRei ted It :icots, other )road, been their irsery rnport ficate the fruit muts,, dried )oms, sugar rice,, eeds, most n der, bring shes, other'' ly to iport cave says. :hem not tting you me? HER 15th PANCAKE — Michelle McCutcheon, left, loves pancakes. She was in her glory last week at the St. John's Anglican Church annual Pancake Supper. When the photographer took this photo she was on her fifth plate and fifteenth pancake. (Photo byLanglois) ESTABLISHED 1172 russeis Post BPS PrizeSPEKEAS winning, public: speakers in „. BPS competitiOti On Friday' were—j left, 'Barb Johnston,. SUSati, •Cardiffi, 'Karen Johnston,.• .jahloe, Siimers,, Brenda ten Pas and Patri (Photo by Lahobig) FA head says Society has to share cost of keeping farm land he Ontario Federation of iculture will reverse its stand favour of preserving farm land, less the public is willing to • are the costs of keeping" good d in agriculture, OFA presi- nt Gordon Hill predicted Satur- y when Huron Federation embers presented briefs to local embers of parliament The reason some farmers are aying, the hell with it" is that e cost of protecting land is ailing entirely on the farmers ho own it." Society has heard farmers say at the land should be preserved t have paid no attention to the st of the message...that every- one should help pay the costs. armers on land that is zoned agricultural are "locked in, with e cards stacked, against them", r. Hill said, and the Federation s under a lot of pressure to verse its stand. Huron Bruce MPP Murray aunt said he was "startled" by r. Hill's comments. "But I can nderstand; society benefits, rmers pay the costs." Federa- on members presented briefs on nancing problems, finding a arket for number 4 beans, the Tanning act and on income rotection and other issues and sked the politicians for answers. ederation got questions in re- • rn, It is great to hear that at least me of the money in these ttery draws comes to our own ommunity, if not to ourselves. rs. Albina Gulutzen of Brussels eld the lucky number for a $25 rize in the last Wintario Draw. ******* The strong winds that blew on riday did not only hasten edestrians along at a precarious ace but were violent enought to weep trucks off the highways. urray Bray of Wroxeter, on his ay to Brussels had the unfortun- te excerience to hit a slushy tretch, north of Brussels, and the olence of the wind caught his uck and swept it sideways into uard rails doing extensive dam- ge to the side of his vehicle. OPP ailed to the scene of the mishap old him it was the third such ccident they had seen that afternoon. ******* We read recently in a London ree Press column that "Ontario pends less and provides fewer sports facilities per capita than any province in Canada with the exception of Prince Edward Is- land". What a shame that our province, a wealthy , province, does not give more, much needed support, to our talented -athletes. They did make some effort last year and almost doubled the contributions on sports but it is still far from enough. if We, expect our athletes to be able to compete with other countries, who give enormous amounts to sports, in international events: We hear the government does not know what to do with all the money from the Wintario lottery. Why not some of it to sports? *444:0* Rave you ever wondered, if you ,watch "Reach For the Top" program on. T.V. why the repre' sentatives from sore schools make such a poor showing; while those' front other sChobls tOtt811S, Jack Riddell, MPP for Huron- Middlesex asked how farmers felt about Ontario's minimum wage being about 35 cents an hour higher than in the US. Labour costs were cited as one reason that US canned fruit can be bought herecheaper than it costs Ontario farmers to produce it. "I don't think farmers like the idea of paying anybody sunstan- dard wages, "Mr. Hill said. The OFA president said he saw two ways to improve farm income, better. border protection with tariffs and quotas or an income protection plan. The first choice is most acceptable, he said. Federal MP Robert' McKinley agreed. "We've been sold down the drain (on tariffs) and I don't have to tell you who did it". He said the federal government had to negotiate the sort of protection for Canada's agricultural pro- ducts, that the European Com- mon Market offers its members. "We've got to get tough in negotiations, we've given up too much already," the MP for Huron Middlesex said. Running through Saturday afternoon's discussion was the theme that development should be channelled' north, away from Ontario's class one and two farm land. "What do we do with our increasing population?" Mr. Rid- (Continued on Page 14) tently make much better scores. Is it the fault of the schools? Is it that the best students are not picked as representatives on the program? Is it that some of the students do not really prepare themselves when they are chosen while others take it very seriously and do? Or is it that facing the cameras some get stage fright and freeze? ******* How fortunate we were to escape the disastrous effects of the recent storms that crippled so many communities in other parts of south western Ontario. Thou- sands of homes in some areas were still without electrical power for heat and light on Monday morning of this week. Others had to evacuate their homes because of extensive flooding. Millions of dollars of-damage was done and certain-communities were declar- ed disaster areas. Short Shots by Evelyn Kennedy WEDNESDAY, MARCH 10, 1976 BRUSSELS' 105th Year — Issue No. 10 ONTARIO Some object to metric, as expensive, useless A survey on the affects of metric conversion on small business firmi was undertaken Wednesday in the village of Brussels by freelance journalist Sandy McDonald, of Walton. (no relation to.. Ian McDonald's son, of the same name). At Jamieson's feed _mill, the woman bookkeeper, when asked how she regarded metric conversion, replied she had "no use for it." Mrs. John McCutcheon, who, along with her husband, runs a grocery store on the main street, said she was not in favor of metric weights and measurements. One of her main objections to the new system-was the cost of a set of metric scales they may be forced to buy; nearly five hundred dollars. "It would not be such a big investment if we were going td get a lot of use from them" said Mrs. McCutcheon, "but we don't even use our present set very much any more - because the former lines of bulk goods, such as flour and sugar and oatmeal, are now pre-packaged.." Mrs. McCutcheon pointed to a fresh shipment ,of toothpaste: "It's not going to make any difference to the customer what system of weight or measurement is on that tube; if the price doesn't look right, the consumer won't buy it." The McCutcheons receive literature from the Metric Commission providing instruc- tions and educational infor- mation. Like the majority of Ontario retailers, however, the McCutcheons still use Imperial weights and measures when advertising their products in a newspaper, because it is the system with which their customers are most familiar. A second businessman surveyed was plumbing and heating contractor, Calvin Krauter, who also stated some objections to metric weights and mea sures and Celsius temperatures. Mr. Krauter said he still used the fahrenheit scale for calcu- . lating thermostat settings when he made a furnace installation, even though the newer heating units come with Celsius thermostats. Thermometers in hospitals and medical clinics have been in Celsius degrees for several years, said Mrs. Krauter, who is employed at the Brussels nursing home. "We had to buy them ourselves then, and we didn't find them any better than our Fahrenheit ones" she said. "The Americans are not in any hurry to switch to m etric and Celsius so why should we be?" was a question posed by Mr. Krauter. "If you listen to their television and radio stations, you find they still give ,their temperatures in fahrenheit and their snowfall in inches." (Continued on Page 5)