Times-Advocate, 1985-01-02, Page 2•termS takin toll in Mie dlesex
Three ear ,council
ed three-year terms in 1982 Employment transfers can
and.there is not much heard interrupt shorter terms of
about the length of terms any council as well as the three -
more. year term, he said.
Provincially imposed three-
year terms for municipal
council members are taking
their toll in Middlesex Coun-
ty, with some members retir-
ing at the two-year mark.
Lobo 'Township council
made an appointment to
replace one of its members
Monday, Biddulph Township
has selected a condidate to
succeed a member who is
retiring Dec. 31, and Metcalfe
Township is to name a new
member Jan. 3.
Three years is too long for
a council term, Lobo Reeve
Earl Doan said Tuesday.
Previously, if someone drop-
ped out a few months before
the end of a two-year term,
the remaining council
members could carry on
without naming a
replacement.
N, Lobo appointed former
councillor Terry Ferris to
complete the final year •of
councillor Patricia Carroll,
who resigned for health
reasons. Ferris, runner-up in
the November, 1982, election,
served as a Lobo councillor
for the previous two years
and earlier as a London
alderman.
Parkhill had to make two
deputy reeve appointments
this year. Gay Stewart resign-
ed as deputy reeve in June
when he moved to St. Thomas
and his replacement, Marsha
Allen, resigned in September.
The deputy reeve post has
been filled by former town
mayor William Waters.
"I would rather have two
years myself," said Biddulph
Reeve Wilson Hodgins. The
two-year election terms work-
ed out better, he said, with
members serving two terms
in a position and attempting
to move up after gaining ex-
perience. "It takes longer to
get through the chairs if they
want to move up."
Former Biddulph coun-
cillor Wayne Gibson has ac-
cepted a council invitation to
succeed Councillor Ken
Lyons. who is resigning effec-
tive Dec. 31 to move to the
Dutton area for employment.
Metcalfe clerk Raymond
Wilson said council is accep-
ting names of individuals in-
terested in completing the
final 11 months of the term of
Councillor Jim Lyons. He said
Lyons, not related to Ken
Lyons, is retiring at the end of
the year because of a conflict
in the times of council
meetings and his work. The
new Metcalfe councillor is to
be selected on Jan. 3.
Middlesex County
Conditional discharges
Two Canadian Farmers'
Survival Association leaders
were given conditional
discharges recently after
pleading guilty- to theft over .
$200 in a Depression -style
"penny auction" nearly two
years ago at a Gowanstown
farm.
The third survivalist - past
president Allen Wilford of
Allenford - pleaded not guilty
to the same charge laid after
the auction run by the
association at the farm of
John Otto on Feb. 9, 1983.
Perth County Judge James
Mullen told Tom Shoebottom
of Denfield and Joe Fischer of
Rodney the only condition of
their discharge is that they
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"keep the peace" for six
months.
Mullen proceeded with the
trial, without a jury, against
Wilford. -- - - -- --
No more than seven
witnesses are to be called
because Wilford and pro-
secutor Douglas Page agreed
to a 10 -page summary of
testimony by 43 other
witnesses given at a
preliminary hearing last
year.
In granting the conditional
discharge to Shoebottom and
Fischer, Mullen described the
auction as an isolated incident
in which they hadn't anything
to gain personally but only
hoped to help Otto.
"But the two did take the
law into their own hands," he
French immersion
at Separate Schools
Although the numbers
aren't official, it looks like the
Huron -Perth Roman Catholic
Separate School Board will be
going ahead with French Im-
mersion programs in both
Goderich and Stratford.
Kindergarten registration
in the two communities was
held December 10, earlier
than is usual, to prepare for
the possibility of kindergaren
to grade 2 French immersion
classes in the two
communities.
There were 44 Catholic
children registering for the
program in Goderich and six
non-Catholic children. The
French immersion class in
Goderich will be held at St.
Mary's Separate School.
In Stratford, there were 35
Catholic children and,16 non-
Catholic children. St.
Michael's Separate School is
expected, although it's not of-
ficially confirmed, to house
the French immersion pro-
gram in Stratford.
The enrolment of the non-
Catholic children in the
French immersion program
is not definite until approved
by the board sometime next
year.
If non-Catholics wish to at-
tend a Catholic school, they
pay a fee of $225 a year per
family starting September 1,
1985. The rate will increase to
$300 a year per family in
September of 1986. The rate is
currently $150 a year per
family.
However, education taxes
from non-Catholics continue
to go to public school boards.
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said, by taking over a bank
receiver auction of Otto's
equipment to settle some of
his debts.
"A penny auction is no auc-
tion at all," he said, pointing
out the aim is to save
machinery of financially
pressed farmers by selling
equipment for pennies to
sympathetic farmers who
then return it to the farmer.
"Their motives were
altruistic in attempting to
help a fellow farmer and as it
turned out they did."
A few months after the auc-
tion the Toronto Dominion
Bank negotiated a settlement
of $225,000 with Otto on
$436,526.55 in outstanding
debts.
"But the court can't con-
done their actions. If this type
of conduct were to increase in
society, the court would have
to take a very serious view,"
Mullen warned. "But this is
an isolated incident ... and I
hope other methods are
found to carry out the pur-
poses of the survival
association."
London lawyer Joseph
Belecky, speaking for
Shoebottom and Fischer, and
prosecutor Douglas Page
recommended conditional
discharges.
Page said Shoebottom
acted as auctioneer after tak-
ing over from the bank -
appointed auctioneer Murray
Gerber and Fischer acted as
clerk. On equipment valued
at $50,000 by the bank,
Fischer collected $19.81 from
19 people who bought trac-
tors, wagons and other
machinery.
Shoebottom, now associa-
tion president, said outside
the court his guilty pleas
"was a tough decision to
take." But, he said, after ex-
amining the length and cost of
the legal proceedings, he and
Fischer, association vice-
president, decided they
"couldn't afford to go any
farther."
But Shoebottom added the
trial had brought attention to
the plight of the Canadian
farmer, which was the
association's goal.
"Technically I'm guilty.
Morally, I don't think i am."
PUC ponders
machine lease
Members of the Exeter
Public Utilities Commission
are still shaking their heads
over an unusual situation in-
volving their mailing
machine.
The PUC currently leases a
postage -meter and mailing
machine from Pitney Bowes
at the rate of $173.85 annual-
ly. The five-year lease term
expires on January 31.
When a representative
from the firm arrived at the
PUC recently, he advised that
the existing mailing machine
could not be continued on a
lease basis, nor could it be
purchased.
The machine had to be
destroyed and the firm's
representative said he would
have to watch ,it being
demolished with a sledge
hammer, despite the fact it
was still in excellent
operating condition.
The replacement machine --
identical to the one being
destroyed -- was offered
under a new five-year lease
for an annual charge of
448.20 or a out -right purchase
of $1,245.
PUC manager Hugh Davis
said he and the staff checked
out other firms, but found
none offered a machine as
good as that from Pitney
Bowes, so the purchase was
approved after discussion
with chairman Murray
Greene.
"They had us," Davis
lamented, indicating his con-
cern that a machine in good
operating condition would
have to he destroyed and that
the new lease arrangement
would he so much more cost-
ly than the previous one
administrator -clerk Ron Ed-
d.. president of the Associa-
tion of Municipalities of On-
tario, said he is not aware of
any suggestions to return to
two-year terms. He said rural
municipalities were not hap-
py when the province impos-
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