HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1980-06-25, Page 7. • . •
The !-'Who,. Where, When" picture .which appeared, on
last week's editorial page was taken about 1893 at the „
Kinloss Schooi. We have most of the studentS identified. 7:
Top row, from the left, are .Sadie Kaake, Vine, GOest,
Sadie Cowell, IVIirrel Smith, Bell ROwe;, Elilabeth
McIVIann, Annie Cowell, Lizzie Geddes, Hattie Burgs,
Jack Burns, Wes Smith, Bob Geddes,WaTter—Kaake;
Sam Colwell, Milton Anderson; second row, Ada Smith,
Minnie Winterstein, Nettie Guest, May Black, Abby
Hodgins, Bertha .Harrison, Annie McDonald, Sarah
Kaake, Marty Armstrong, Maggie MontgOmery, Duncan
McGregor, • Walter .' Powell; ' Tom Pridgeon, Wilson
Coillson, Jack Bonnet, Jack 'Bushell; third :row, `Maud
Cornell, Maud Miller, Belle Pridgeon, Minnie McMann,
Coinuth Kaake, Belle Xaake; Maggie McDonald, Jim
Cowell, Robert Yates, Rebecca Montgomery, Frank
Burns, Perry Black; Harry Armatize, Tom Miller,
William Yates, Frank Waddule; fourth row, Charles
Bonnett, Dorthea Kaake, Dora Kaake, Bill McMann, Bill
Bushell, Walter Armstrong, Sam Geddes, Herb Miller,
Lillie Blaek,-FrOlinit UrvielkAddine Collson;Ida Portice,
Elmo Cornell, Edgar Harrison, Minnie Rowe, "Hannah
Montgomery; fifth row, Ida Waddell, Colison, Eva
Portico, Colison, Bert Miller, Vine Miller, George
Miller, Allan Kaake, Lorne Hodgins, Tom Armstrong,
Lorrey RoWe, Nellie :Portice,. Nelson Bushell, George
Cowell, William Guest and teacher, Ed Merrit.
Br MURRAY GAUNT. they will be ready and will be
mailed to producers within a
Minister. of Agriculture 'matter of weeks;
LOrne Henderson has all. Attorney General. Roy Mc
nouneed the establishment a
an income:stahiligation plan
fur itOr prrititicerS:—High in-
terest rates and falling hog,
prices have been largely re-
sponsible for financial' diffi-
culties.whicb.the hog indust-
ry has. been experiencing' in
recent months, Mr. Hender-
son said;
This Sow-Weaner Stabili-
zation plan established under 12,90 derailments in North
-the Farm 'Income Stabiliza- America last year • could
tion legislation, and ;is the, have been prevented by
..first livestock plan. proper inspections.
The plan will .be baSed on
two six-Month: perieds, per
year,, beginning on April .1
and October 1„ and will run.
for five years; It will be retro-
The 12,000 accidents were
caused by overheated axle
bearings known as hotboxes,
the same problembelleved to
have caused the first of 23
tank cars to leaVe the track in
the. Mississauga .derailment
last November,
Industry and Tourisam
Minister Larry Grossman has
indicated that he has asked
for .the return of> the $15,000
which was given to Maurice
Carter, but that it has not
been returned as yet., Mr.
Carter's car failed- to qualify
for the race in; Le Mans,
France last week.
The session has recessed
for the • su m er, Since it
began in March, the Legisla-
'ture has passed forty-0x
government. bills, has spent
144 hours on estimates of
various ministries, and has
approved expenditures of.
api:.roximately $11 billion so
Murtry feels, that- an appal-
ling lack of concern for public
safety-Is—shown-
officials and the Canadian
Transport Commission; Dur-
Mg an address to' an annual
industrial waste conference °
in Toronto, Mr. McMurtry
said that defects haVe been
found 27 'per cent of rail•
cars in Canada • and that
. active ..,to April 1st of this
year:.
The enrolment fees will be
paid one-third by theprocluc-
' er and two-thirds by the
Government.
Lucknow, June 21, 1980.
'To the Editor:
Having found this article, in a farm
paper recently, I wondered if it could be
of any use to you. While we are now
beginning to feel the financial strain the
metric system has caused, the full impact
will become more evident when many
small businesses have to terminate..
1-loping you can make some use of it as
I am aware others share my feelings
about the metric. system.
Dorothy Hamilton.
METRIC BOYCOTT URGED BY FOES
BY PAUL FROMM
Sally Hayes, founder of Operation
Humbug, has .called for a Canada-wide
citizen boycott of the metric 'system.
"Ignore all metric orders until this
issue is brought into the House of
Commons for a •full Parliamentary
debate," Mrs, Hayes urged at an Ottawa
press conference.
Last fall; Mrs. Hayes, a Peterborough
businesswoman, founded her cross-Can-
ada antimetric movement.. Operation
Humbug means Help Undo Metrication:
Bug Your MP.
Her call for resistance followed "the
latest announcement a few weeks ago
that 25 more cities would be forced to
convert their food scales next January,"
she said.
"The present government is deaf to all
pleas, protests, and petitions. They seem
bound and determined to press on re-
gardless of the consequences," Mrs.
Hayes charged._
The whole metrication process is high-
handed and undemocratic, she explained.
When the government announced the
switch_to metric-in-1970, it was billed as a
voluntary program.
• . METRIC 'IMPOSED?
Since then, metrication, which has
never been passed by Parliament, has
been imposed by a series of Orders-in-
Council which "`bypass Parliament, and
therefore our representative system,"
she said. Orders-in-Council are Cabinet
regulations which ha.ve the 'force of law.
"We cannot allow this further erosion
of our libertieS which, is leading Us 'closer
and Closer to becoming slaves of the
bureaucratic state," the diminutive but
feisty Peterborough businesswoman in-
sisted.
Mrs. Hayes formed Operation Humbug
after Seeing the results of forced metrica-
tion in Peterborough. It was One pf three
pilot cities Whose retail stores were forced
to go metric last year.
Operation Humbug tries to unite rural
and urban opposition to complulsory
metrication. "Farmers are complaining
bitterly," she told Farm and Country.
Recent changes to metric weights in
seeds and fertilizers have caused havoc,
she explained.
Canada can't afford the cost of
converting to Metric, Mrs. Hayes main-
tained. Metrication is a "multi-billion
dollar expense at a time when people can
least afford to pay for any more govern-
ment whimsies."
PROVEN WRONG
Government justifications for Compel-
ling Canadians to go metric have proven
wrong, Hayes argued.
There are several "metric" systems,
she explained. Canada is converting to
the s,i. metric system. "Less than 5 per
cent of.the world uses this system," she
said. —
Our major trading partners, the U.S,
Japan, and Britain are not forcing their
people to go metric.
The antimetric campaign got a boost
The Sow-Weaner Plan is
based on eight -market hogs
per sow in each six-month
period,
Producers will receive the
differenCe between 90 per
cent and 9S per cent of the
average price for Market
hogs over the preceding,
five-year period,.. with an
adjUstMent_mate_ to _reflect
cash costs,
Although payments .are
determined by . market hog
prices, they will be `made on,
the number of sows register-
The. Farm Income Stabili-
zation Commission staff is
presently drawing upyegula-•
tions and registration forms.
The Minister, expects -that
'This will be the last report
until the House resumes: in
the fall - currently scheduled
for October 6.
from a recent policy statement by
Loblaivs. The food retailer demandedthat
the cost of metrication be justified "prior
to the implementation of the system."
Loblaws warned that the present rate
of implementation of metric "could place
severe inflationary pressures on the
purchasing power of the. Canadian
consumer."
-Farm and Country
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