Loading...
HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes-Advocate, 1981-09-02, Page 16INCOME TAX COURSE Page 16 Times -Advocate, September 2, 1981 CEMETERY SERVICE -- The annual Decoration service was held at the Ex are shown in the above picture while a portion of the crowd is shown be er_cemetery, Sunday. legion and Oddfellows ow. T -A photo axle s LIBRARY ART CLASS Stratford artist Mona Mulhern gives pointers to Sue Anne Soldon at on afternoon course run by the Exeter branch of the Huron County Library. To Boyle buildin 9 Dashwood library to The Dashwood branch of Dashwood librarian Mrs. the Huron County Library Ray Rader had expressed will be relocated later in concern that the library September. branch may be lost if the Librarian Bill Partridge new location had not heen said the library board met found. last week and decided to She said that the school move the branch down the children used the en - street to a building owned by cyclopedia and older people the Boyle family. This seemed to like the books building now houses the new made available. post office and the Skills and But Mrs. Rader lamented Quills shop. most did not seem interested in helping to find a new loca- tion. The present building is an addition to a main street house which once housed Koehler Variety. Mrs. Alda Koehler said she was not sure what use the building would be put too. it may be torn down or fixed up. but she said the library had "been here a long time" and she wants TO EXETER BLOCK PARENTS FOR YOUR CONTINUED SUPPORT IN PROTECTING OUR CHILDREN If you wish to participate Phone 235-2481 1 1 Exeter lady wins $1,000 Henny Parker of Exeter was the winner of $1.000 in the Knights of Columbus draw held Saturday at the Zurich Bean Festival. Second prize of $200 goes to Jim Van Bakel, RR 2, Dublin and Gary Koehler, RR 2, Kippen wins $100. Motocross at Hully Gully on Sunday Bully Gully presents an excellent lineup of Motocross action this Sun- day, September 6 featuring all classes from schoolboy to expert competing for trophies, points. cash prizes. This is the second last chance riders have to ac- cumulate points for the overall standings in the 1981 race season. Junior and schoolboy race action starts at 10:30 a.m. with seniors and experts beginning at 1:30 p.m. So come out and cheer your local riders to a win. • , - guard against fire 3 NV IKE ILIUM move the use of the space. "I'd hate not to have a library in Dashwood," she added. "It's a long winter if you haven't got a book to read," Mrs. Rader said. Bernice Boyle, who runs the Skills and Quills shop said the library would be located in the original cooler of what was once a Dashwood grocery store. The new post office is in the store area and the craft shop is in the locker. Partridge said the area was actually smaller than that presently occupied, but added circulation has been delcining in the village. "It's hard to find another location in a place that small." he said of Dashwood. Mrs. Boyle said she was glad to be of service, adding that she likes to keep ser- vices in the area. Mrs. Boyle may also be taking over the librarian's duties. The existing building is un - insulated and cold during the winter. The library was located in the Koehler shop for at least 25 years; the men's club met there before that. It was taken over by the Huron County Library in 1967. To run September 13 Handicap not stopping Verne By Shelley McPhee Although he's confined to a wheelchair. Verne Mero of Seaforthis not going to let his handicap restrict his ac- tivities.. Mero of Seaforth, who works at Ex -Cello 1Vildex in Clinton, is preparing to take part in the Terry Fox Run in Clinton on Sunday, September 13 Ile hopes to raise over $:(.01) in the 10 km. run. Elaine Townshend of Clin- ton. who is organizing the run in this area, says the 10 km (six mile) route is plann- ed so people can run, walk, jog, crawl or even complete it in a wheelchair. The Terry Fox Run, she stressed, is an event that everyone can take part in, and it is not a race but a fund raising effort to help the Marathon of Hope cancer research project. People all across Canada will be supporting this cause. started by the late Terry Fox, the one -legged runner who raised over 124 million when he attempted his coast to coast run last year. • "I wanted to do something in honor of Terry Fox," Miss Townshend explained, "This Expect deadly disease to continue in swine The deadly swine disease hemophilus pneumonia which devastated many farms two years ago is ex- pected "to get real bad this fall and winter" says Dr. Ernest Sanford, veternarian pathologist at the Huron Park veternarian services diagnostic lab. "I saw three swine today (August 31) from two far- mers and each farm had half a dozen dead. One farm is in Middlesex county and the other is in Huron near Lambton. About 80 percent of all cases (Of hemophilus pneumonia) will be in grower or fattening farms because pigs are more susceptible to stress and need more space," he said. "I expect renewed out- breaks of swine influenza (hemophilus pneumonia) in fall through winter." Huron has the most pigs of any county in Ontario, he says, "and last fall, winter and spring I received 100 different submissions (all had died of hemophilus pneumonia). In the winter and spring of 1979 it was rampant and terrible. Summer and fall was alright." "There's not too much you can do about swine in- fluenza. When certain stress is on an animal it (hemophilus pneumonia) spreads like wildfire through the barn. The stress that is bad for hemophilus pneumonia is : poor ven- tilation, sudden changes in weather (usually fall or winter) overcrowding and transportation (of pig)." He advises "finishing operators not to vaccinate (the pig) because vaccine doesn't work too well. If the animal already has the disease (but doesn't look as if it has the disease) then disease gets worse." "If you see the disease it will kill. If you don't see it then its probably a carrier. From January 1978 to December 1979 over 200 farms were affected with the disease and that was -just the tip of the iceburg." "I don't expect it will spread more than last year or more than the year before. About 15 percent of Ontario farms might come into contact with hemophilus pneumonia. The swine in- fluenza is similar to human influenza: high fever, don't or won't eat, terrible cough and three to five days later everything is okay," he said. When a farm is first hit with the disease it may be very severe and costly, says Dr. M.R. Wilson, of the University of Guelph, in the January, 1980 issue of Hog Farm Management. Mor- tality rates of up to 40 per- cent are not unusual although an average of 5 to 10 percent is more common: an equally expensive aspect of hemophilus pneumonia is the number of "poor doers" which persist after the initial outbreak of the disease. "I have just come fro:n a farm that on August 8 1979 had 867 pigs. Now, November 2, it has 111, "said Dr. Wilson. Other diseases have af- fected Huron County recently, says Dr. Sanford. "In the spring a few cattle and a horse or two had rabies. There's nothing now. In the fall we always get shipping fever when cattle are shipped from out west to be fattened then meningo encephalitis happens. Prices still reasonable Even with inflation, Cana- dian food prices are still reasonable compared to other countries. according to a pamphlet published by the Grocery Products Manufac- turers of Canada. (GPMC), "Foos Prises and Profits: What's Happening in 1981." Using data from Statistics Canada and the U.S. Depart- ment of Agriculture. the pamphlet shows that food prices are lower in Canada than any country except the United 'States. The pamphlet also provides a breakdown of before -tax industry profits revealing that 50 cents of every dollar of pre-tax profit is paid to government in tax- es, 35 cents is reinvested in industry and just 15 cents is paid in dividends to shareholders, "Canada is a relatively in- expensive place to live," says the pamphlet. It reports that the World Food Basket survey of the U.S. Depart- ment of Agriculture, which examined 15 capital cities around the world, "showed Ottawa to hay the least costly food of all." The world food basket in- cludes meat, poultry, eggs, butter. margarine, cheese, cooking oil, fruits and vegetables, bread, rice, sugar and coffee. In Cana- dian dollars, the median price for all 15 cities was $86.71. In Ottawa, the basket cost $72 20, in Washington $75.27. in London the basket's price was 193.38, while it totalled 1104.10 in Paris. The pamphlet cites a sur- vey by a business research company that puts Toronto well down on the list on an index of living costs for various cities. The prices of 150 items. including food, were checked in 83 cities. New York was the base city at 100 Toronto weighed in at 87.5. London at 133.6, Washington D.C. at 96.6, Vienna at 120.2 and Tokyo at 160. READY • ' A — Bruce Cann preporpc to p ay t e trumpet at Sunday's Decoration service at the Exeter Cemetery.T-A photo V The pamphlet quotes Statistics Canada figures showing that since 1971 "ris- ing incomes have more than made up for rising food prices...1 though) food prices have risen a little faster than incomes in the past years." According to the Con- sumer Price Index, wages, salaries and supplementary incomes rose 247.6 percent from 1970 to 1980. Meanwhile, food consumed at home rose in price 165.8 percent and food consumed away from home rose 155 percent. As a percentage of dis- posable income, Canadians spent less on food - "about 17 percent - than any other country in the world, except the U.S.," says the GPMC pamphlet' is one way his memory will live on." In this area, London and Goderich will also be hosting runs on September 13, and In the Clinton, Seaforth-Exeter area, Miss Townshend hopes that people from throughout Huron County will take part. Sponsor sheets for the Clin- ton run are available at municipal offices throughout the county. •On September 13. registration will take place from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. at Central Huron Secondary School on Princess Street in Clinton. "It's not a competitve run" Miss Townshed noted, "Peo- ple can take all day -to com- plete the run." She also noted that the 10 km. route along the Base Line. north of Clinton, is lin- ed with large shade trees and would make a cool, relaxing sport for a family picnic. People of all ages are invited to take part in the Terry Fox Run, but children under the age of 10 are to be accompanied by an adult. Each participant who finished the run will receive a personalized certificate of Terry Fox, thanking them Mero for their support. This cer- tificate is a four-color reproduction of an artist's portrait of 'ferry, signed by Terry. Organizers of the Terry Fox Run in Clinton hope that local businesses and • in- dustries will become) in- volved. perhaps by challeng- ing one another. Already the Clinton Kinsmen and Kinette members have put out a challenge to other Kin clubs in the area. Many service clubs organizations and private in- dividuals are also lending their support to the Run and 'Miss Townshend noted, "It's all self support* and peo- ple are working hard to make this go. They are donating everything, their time, their equipment and monetary support." Across the country, the Run is honoring Terry Fox Day on September 13th and it is hoped that the Run will become an annual event. The national sponsors for the Run are the Canadian Track and Field Association, Four Seasons Hotels, the Canadian Cancer Society and Fitness and Amateur Sport. Canada. Classes Begin Sept 16 H&R Block will teach you to prepare income tax returns in a special 13-1/2 week tuition course. • Courses cover current tax laws • Enrolment open to all ages • No previous training or experience required • Full or part time employment with us available to qualified graduates For details and class schedules, please write or phone: H&R BLOCK 15 King St. Forest, Ont. Phone 786-2191 Collect for information WHO COULD BE A BETTER INCOME TAX TEACHER? ITS BACK T0 SCHOOL , savings Time Hilroy 400 Sheet REFILLS Our Reg. Price $4.95 SPECIAL 2.99 DUOTANGS (Assorted Colours) Our Reg. Price,40c ea. SP ECI4AL /9 1"Vinyl BINDER Our Reg. Price $3.40 SPECIAL 11 .99 Value Pack BIC PEN Reg. 1,95 SPECIAL 9.29 % Press Board BINDER Reg. $2.25 SPECIAL 1 .35 1" Press Board BINDER Reg. $2,35 ;SPECIAL 1 .45 1" Vinyl BINDER $3.40 SPECIAL 1.99 PENCIL CASES (with two pencils) Reg. $1.69 SPECIAL TYPING PAPER Reg. $2.20 SPECIAL 144's TYPING PAD 60 Reg, $1.35 9 94 SPECIAL STENO PAD 112 Reg. $1.00 SPECIAL 79( 9.29 PENCIL CRAYONS Reg. $3.69 SPECIAL 121.99 GORD'S VARIETY and STATIONERY 403 Main St. 235-1341 -i