The Lucknow Sentinel, 1980-02-27, Page 1tanley Township reeve tom Camila, left; with, Huron County warden, Bill Morley,
.newly.eiected ...MP. Murray '.Cardiff and ..Merlo Gunby, •:president of the Huron . County
• Federation .0tAgriculturel. before -the members of parliament dinner in Clinton •on -Saturday.
The dinner :Sponsored by the Huron :Federation provides federation committees and other
county producers' organizations with a chance to :preSent briefs to the three politicians.
• [Seitforth Huron Expositor 'Photo] representing the area. '
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In further business the board passed, a
motion saying questions that memberi Of the
000-j--board_ivish to place before-the-hbard-at
regular meeting, are to be, written. out and
sent to the board chairman, 1-3.0v4 MilaseVie,
one, week prior to the:regular monthly beard
meeting. The. questions can then be given a
proper response at .the regular board
meeting. Mr. MilbseVic said they would be,
referred :to . the proper committee, the
executive director, hospital treasurer or
board chairman so research may be done, to
give adequate answers to these questions.
Board' chairman Milosevic said it would
permit whoever is called upon to answer the
question to have the necessary information
available. Ijiider the -present procedure;
statistics must be taken from memory' to
'answer a question.
Milosevie....so4d,, it would not preclude,
'Members asking questions during the {nisi.:
ness Oa regular beard meeting. He said the
board has active committees working well
and many qUestiena can be referred rather
than being`dealt With at regular meetings of
the board.' . •
He. said this would permit the board more
time during general meetings for education
speakers, film presentatiens', and the ,most
important subject, patient care.
-:•Mary--Vairir.4i,ospitaL p resident,
reported that3the auxiliary has received
donations from area Women's Institutes and
the auxiliary is :now~ only $125 short of
providing ,the equipment for the hospital's
new stroke unit.
ers win
• LucknoW Central Public School came
the winner at the Royal Canadian Legion
Lucknow Branch 309 public speaking contest
on Friday night. Lucknow speakers:captured .
the senior and junior division trophies.
Craig Kaufman, grade 4, took the junior
title with his speech, TV Violence and Helen
Maclntyre, a grade eight student, wen the
Eselenpiohrataittle With a.• speech entitled, Jumbo the
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Winghain and District Hospital board
learned at their February meeting.the
hospital hatsrecovered`the defielt_of $46,
accumulated in'September„ 1979. -
The deficit had resulted when the hospital
board decided to keep open 14 beds ordered ••
closed by the Ministry of Health. The costs
of operating those 14 beds were not inclu
in the hosfirart global budget received from
the ministry and a deficit situation resulted.
Hospital treasurer Gordon B.axter told the
board, the deficit has been mainly recovered
as of Jannary 31, 1980. The deficit, was
recovered through the closure of the 14 beds
in September, 1979 and the layoff of fulltime
staff who worked on a partthrne basis to make
schedules more flexible. ,
Hospital .executive administrator Norman
Hayes •told the board inembers, the addition
.Of one laboratory „technician will start..a
ptocess of bringing staff back on staff on a
fulltime basis and by April 1 all, who wish to
return will be back on staff,
Board'member Mary--Vain:president of
the hospital auxiliary; said it felt "nice to be
back on an, even: keel": now that the hospital
no longer faces-'a deficit situation.
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32 PAGES . . FtigRtAitY 27, 1980
Raise p1;496
To date $1496.56 has been donated
for the 1980 Ontario March of Dimes
campaign in Lucknow, Dungannon
and rural'. areas,. Replies from rural
residents are still most welcome.
- In the villages thirty-nine canvas
sets' made calls: in Dungannon, Penny
Hodges; ' Mary. Ann Brindley, Kathy
.Olson, Sandy MeWhinney and Bev
Storey; in Luckriow, Vi• Ainold, Joanne
Pentland, Vernon Hunter; Lillian Ab-
bott, Greta Johnston, Helen Hall,
Darla Allan, GlOtia Ritchie,. Marguer-
ite SancierSon, Lorna Boyle, William
• Schmid, Jane tauchi, Beth 'Ritchie,
Gloria Murray, Norma Weatherhead,
Cora MacDonald, Margaret Wilson,
Betty McInnes, Sara Ritchie, George
and Jessie ..loynt, Mildred Loree, Kay
Crawford, Roberta Whytock, Tena
Gardner,'Mary McMurray, kay Col..
lyer, Sandra Collyet, Jarie Treleaven,
Art and Rita Gilmore, Alene Clark,
Hennie Hilverda and Bernice Davies.
The donations received frOM Our
communities will help enrich the lives
of physically disabled in so many ways
- by providing etriplOyment and job
training; camping holidays; wheel-
'Chairs —ainr-other aids iiiiprOVing -
transportation, services and housing
and helping disabled people re-dis-•
cover their potential and get on with
the business of living. •
• Lucknow Figure Skaters performed
•
a truly -ClaSSshow when. they present-
ed their ;club carnival; liblidays—Con
Ice, at the -Lucknow arena`en Sonday
to a standing- room only crowd.
'Highlights of the carnival apear in
today's centrespread, pages lo and
1.7:' '
HighInterest rates are getting a strangle-
hold on many farin businesses and making, it
increasingly difficult for young farmers to
enter agriculture; according: te---Jim7Mcln-
tosh, a member of the eicecutive of the
Huron Federation of Agriculture.
, . Mr. • McIntosh presented a brief on,
problems: created by the current high int-
erest rates to MPPs Jack Riddell (Lib. -
HUronMiddlesex) and Murray Gaunt (Lib. -•
Huren-Bruce) and • newly, elected MP
Murray Cardiff (tons. Huron-Br-4e) at the
federation's annual members of parliament
dinner in Clinton on, Saturday.—
Mr, McIntosh. told dinner guests the._
increase in interest rates from 10 to 15 per
cent has "added` six cents to the cost of • milk,
• 39 cents per .pound of beef at the retail level
and 27 cents per bushel of corn, to cite only
Ttliree examples." *—
He said established farm operations can
withstand the high interest rates for a longer
period than the younger farmer just starting
He said many Canadian provinces offer
either a farm loan program or an interest
subsidy on specified existing loan programs
to qualifying farmers but added, "Ontario
may be the only province which does not
offer • any incentive to yoig farmers
borrowing the large sums of money neces-
sary to get established in agriculture." •
r McIntosh told the members of
Parliament that the province of Quebec .for.
example, Offers term loans to farmers at an
interest rate 'of only eight per cent per
annum. The federation director said the
province of Ontario should either consider
reintroducing the Junior Farmer Loan
Program or' else establishing a program in
which the interest rate,to qualifying farmers
"is redueed to a manageable level".
Mr, McIntosh :said a $100,000 loan,,
-anicirtized- over 20.:years'r Witlf"41$'15er Cent
interest rate, ends up costing the farmer
$381,455,"' •
• "For the survival of agriculture, the
government of Canada should do everything •
within its power to reduce the Bank of
Canada interest rate. For Ontario agriculture
to be truly competitive in the future, the
province of- Ontario should operate. a 'loan
program with a preferred interest rate or
offer an interest rate subsidy to existing loan
programs," Mr. McIntosh, told the politic-
ians. •
The federation director said Ontario must
initiate loan programs "to keep us compe-
titive with sister provinces". He said while
farmers in the European Common Market
countries can bortow money, at, three per
cent interest rates, and many: established
farmers in Ontario have outstanding loans at
five per cent interest, "we are asking our
young people to get into agriculture and pay
. 12 - 15 per cent interest rates." •
John Van Beers, second vice president of,
the county federation, delivered a plea to the
politicians to keep Saturday rural Mail
delivery in effect.
RURAL MAIL DELIVERY
Mr. Van Beers said there are again
rumours that the Saturday delivery is going
to, be curtailed. He told the members of
parliament that a farmer often receives
important business mail on a Saturday
"which gives him the weekend to deal with
it: time which would not be available on.
Mondays." •
"The government has removed passenger
tinin_services from tural..communities •and
bus service is practically useless. Now our
rural mail service is being diminished, It
Would apicar that the federal government is
trying to increase the 'isolation 'of rural
Canada. Maybe the, government is hoping
that if they just dose their eyes, the rural
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