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Cleason Martin to the Ashfield
Recreation Committee:
Council agreed to pay delegates
who attend the Ontario Good Roads
Convention $100 each.
Road accounts of $47,507.77 and
general accounts of $22,887.10
were approved for payment.
Council met , again on January
21st with all members present.
By-law #1, 1975 was' read .a
second and third time and passed
setting the following salaries:
Reeve $800; Deputy Reeve $725;
Councillors $650 and $15.00 each
for special meetings; Clerk Treas-
urer, $WO. plus $500 car allow-
anc$ and Q.H.I.P.; Road Superin-.
tendent, $3.90 per hour; John
Nicholson $3.90 per hour; Gordon
Saunders, $3.75 per, hour; Ken
Bowden, $3.65 per hour; these four
road employees to work a 50 hour
week, receive, two 'weeks holidays
with pay, 0.H.1.P., one, and one
half days per month sick leave
allowance and one half premium of
a Disability Insurance plan if
accepted; part time operator, '$3.50
per hour; casual. labour, $2.90 per
hour; Fenceviewers, $2.50 per
hour, minimum' $10.00; Livestock
valuers, $10.00 per call; A.M,
Harper and Co., auditors; Donnelly
and Murphy, solicitors.
A , grant of $25.00' each was
awarded to the Salvation Army and
the St. Johns Ambulance.
An application for severance by
Ernest Gibson was approved.
The Road Superintendent was
instructed to advertise for tenders
for crushing and hauling apProx•
imately 25,000 cubic yards of
gravel.
Council discussed the possibility
of a licence fee for mobile homes in
the Township which can not be
assessed and the clerk was instruc..
ted to prepare a by-laW.
The. meeting adjourned until.
Tuesday, February 4th at 1.30 p.m.
DONALD SIMPSON, Clerk.
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THE LUCKNOW SENTINEL, LUCKNOW, ONTARIO WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 29, 1975
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Any hopes that may still have been
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• lirigering in some minds, that a few benefits
might come to the Grey-Bruce area as a
result of a Provincial Cabinet meeting being
held,in Hanover last August, disappeared
, into, thin air recently, when the Hon. Eric
Winkler told a gathering of approximately
200 farmers front the area, held in Hanover,
that there would be no four-lane access
highway to connect the "poorest counties" in
Ontario with the "highly favoured" area to
the south.
Mr Winkler said that any plan for such a
highway has been scrapped by the Proirince
"because it would attract a tremendous
amount of development to` this area that
would be incompatible with agriculture."
Municipal Councils in every municipality
in the area are endeavouring to attract
industry to their towns and villages in order
to provide employment that would keep their
sons and daughters in the area. Apparently
the Provincial Government is not only
discouraging industrial development in this
area, but is • openly and defiantly
discriminating against the residents, farm-
ers, and the small business people of the
area.
"Incompatible with 'agriculture" it's
said. How stupid do the Queen's Park
_beaurocratS believe the people of Grey and
Bruce are? Certainly we're not 'stupid enough
to swallow a statement like that, fed to us
from a government that is buying millions'of
acres of, choice farm land to turn into more
and bigger concrete jungles; ' from a ,
government that sanctions the acquisition by
Ontario Hydro of thousands of acres of the
best agricultural land, even in the
Grey-Bruce area, for Hydro corriders to
supply the "favoured" south and these rights
through the centre of prime land, in some
cases cutting farms in two.
The right of way on most Highways,
already is wide enough to 'accommodate four
lanes, particularly if provision were made
for • underground drainage.
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The County of Bruce is approximately
100 miles long. For more than fifty of those
miles and for the entire width of the County
the land ( or rock) is more suitable for. tourist
industrial development than for farming, and
the same is true in much of the remaining
fifty miles as well as in much of Grey County.
Therefore, to use agricultural 'interests as an •
excuse fir discriminating against the
Grey-Bruce area is simply adding insult, to -
injury. We suggest it's high time the
Government of Ontario began to practise
their' own anti-discrimination laws
particularly in their dealings with Grey-
Bruce area.
During the past couple of years, millions
of dollars of Federal and Provincial tax
money has been spent in dock improvement
and ferry service 'at Tobermory, and South ,
Bay . Mouth. The new service ie'capable of
carrying any type of traffic, and every
vehicle that uses the ferry must travel
through at least part of Grey or Bruce
Counties. This in itself, could be a big boom to
the area except that with out existing
highways 'it will never come even close to its
potential:, We wonder how many of the
Queen's Park beaurocrats are aware of the
fact that in fifty miles the only highway
providing access to or from the ferry, some
. ten miles are not even permantly surfaced;
another eight miles has not had 'a second coat
of asphalt, and another twenty miles has had
no improvements since it was built more
than twenty-five years ago.
Grey and. Bruce Counties with miles of
shoreline and literally huhdreds of inland
lakes and streams probably have the
greatest potential for tourist deNielopment of
any area in Ontario. Yet these two counties,
for , years, as a result of government
discrimination, have been rated among the
three or four, poorest counties in Ontario.
Where have the promises of the last
Provincial election of "Great Plans for this
area" disappared to?
On previous occasions we have
suggested in this column, that the future
plans of the present Provincial Government
have been to make the Grey-Bruce area a
huge garbage disposal dump for Metropoli-
tan Ontario. The governments continued
discrimination against any development in
the area, only serves to strengthen that
suggestion.
Lucknow Man
Died At Age 55
LEO E. BEAUCHAMP /
The Bruce . Baboon has been
captured.
Brief sightings of an animal
described as .a baboon have been
reported in widely separated areas
of Bruce County from Huron
Township to the Bruce Peninsula
over the past two months. ,
Last week Dan McLay of R. R. 2
Lions Head saw the animal eating
from a feed rack in his field. He
told his son Larry and the two
began combing the area on a
snowmobile.
Two days later they, again
spotted him. The animal raced
across a field ,but the !men caught
up in their machine. • • ,
Larry took the animal to his home
where his two children, Sandra, 5,
and Shawna, 2, are determined
they' will keep the pet.
' Ownership of the baboon is un-
known, but the McLays believe he
must have been a house pet as he is
friendly, particularly with the child-
ren, who already have named him
Sam.
What the animal ate during the
two months he was spotted roam-
ing the countryside is unknown,
but he did eat well because he is
fat. -
Oranges, peanuts, grain, apples
and bananas are the foods the
McLays have tried on him so far.
They also offered meat, but he
Bruce Baboon
Is Captured Near
Lions Head'
refused it.
The McLays will try to find the
owner, but the girls hope the
search is unsuccessful.
- Mr. and Mrs. Farish Moffat of
Wingham entertained a number of
relatives and friends at the Log
Cabin, Restaurant in Lucknow,
Saturday night, January 25th in ,
honour of her father, 'Alex Mac-
Kenzie of Lucknow who was
celebrating .his 90th birthday.
Those attending from a distance
Were his grandson Gordon Moffat
of Oakville, Mrs. Muriel Sparks of
London, Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Miller
of Strathroy and Allen Robb of
Stratford. Mrs. Gordon Moffat and
Mr. MacKenzie's great grandchild-
ten Julie Ann, -Kendra and Alex-
ander of Oakville were unable to
attend.
-Prior to, moving to LucknoW 'Mr.
MacKenzie farmed in Kinloss.
Township.
Murray Gaunt, M:P.P., on be-
half of the Government Of Ontario,
presented Mr. MacKenzie with a
Commemorative plaque on Satur-
day afternoon. Greetings were also
received from Crawford Douglas;
Federal Member of Parliament.
On Sunday' morning on the CBC
Radio "Fresh Air over 90 Birth-
day" program, greetings were
expressed on behalf of the Moffat
Alex MacKenzie
Has 90th Birthday
The death of Leo Elbert Beau-
champ of Napier Street, Lucknow,
occurred at Wingham and District
Hospitalcon Monday, January 20th
following a lengthy illness. He was
55.
Leo was born at Thunder Bay on
May 8, 1919, a son of George
Beauchamp and Eugenie Hamlin.
He had been a resident of
Lucknow for some 22 years, where
he first worked in the carpenter
trade, but of later years was
employed in auto-body repair at
Montgomery Motors, retiring Jan-
uary 1973.
Leo is survived by three sisters,
Mrs, lkie Oikawa of Delta, British
'Columbia; Mrs. Les (Georgina)
Reed and Mrs. Jim (Maudie)
Mighton, both of Thunder Bay.
He was predeceased by his
pareths and five brothers.
The funeral' service was held at
MacKenzie Memorial Chapel,
Lucknow on Tuesday, January 21st
at -1.30 p.m.
Mr. Beauchamp was a member
of Jehovah's Witnesses. Mr. Grant
Gollan of Lucknow officiated at the
funeral service. • e
Pallbearers were Ralph Brodie,
R. R. 6 Goderich; Karl Lohse, R. R.
1 Dungannon; Walter Pawloski, R.
R, 4 Kincardine; Len Geddes,
Wingham; Bill Payne, R. R. 5
Wingham; Dave Moore, it R. 3
Wingham.
Temporary entombment was at
South Kinloss Mausoleum.
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