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Home My WebLink AboutThe 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 Op6neoU,:ttrge.''bOyc6tt..oftnotric. sygtOnt