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By JACK ItIDDELL
MPP Huron -Middlesex •
The Ontario Egg
Producers' Marketing Board
informed the Minister , of
Agriculture and Food, pri
to the summer recess of the
request of the Board to ob-
tain legislative authority. to
allow the Board to make a
maximum payment of
$250,000 to the producer
creditors of C.B. Whyte and
Son Foods Ltd, which went
into receivership. ••
The Board did not give the
Minister adequate lead time
before introduction of
special legislation, as the
Legislature . adjourned for
the summer recess about the
time the Minister received
the request. However, the
Minister has assured the
Board that he will introduce
the 'special . legislation
required early in the fall
session.
The Ministry of Tran-
sportation and Cbm-
munications official are
conducting the Ontario -
Bruce Railway Branch Line
Rationalization Study
together with CN Rail and
CP Rail in consulation with
the. Canadian Transport
Commission.
The objective of the study
is to ensure that an
economically viable rail and
inter -modal network is place
to serve the present and
anticipated future freight
transportation needs of the
%communities and industries
in the midwestern Ontario -
Bruce Peninsula area.
This work is being un-
dertaken in response to
applications by CN and CP to
abandon the trackage and
freight service along the
Walkerton Subdivision and
Durham Spur and an-
ticipated application by both
railways for the aban-
donment of additional lines
in the area.
The study will make a
comprehensive evaluation of
those rail lines which serve
the area including the CNR
branch lines from High Park
to Clinton Junction and from
Stratford to Goderich and
the CP Rail Branch Line
from Guelph to Goderich.
frhe Ministry is taking a
prominent role in the study
to ensure . that a viable
network is in place to best
suit the transportation needs
of this area of the Province,
once the factiinding stage of
The study is complete. The
Ministry officials intend to
hold several informal public
meetings in the area. This
will enable the Ministry to
preltent the findings of the
study and receive comments
from local interested parties
and municipal councils.
Members of the Bruce
Study team welcome
comments, views and
recommendations from all
interested parties and
municipal councils.
Members of the Bruce
Study team welcome com-
ments views and . recom-
mendations from all in-
terested citizens,
municipalities and in-
dustries in the area. Com-
ments should be directed to
Mr. George Gera
Economic Policy Office,
Ministry of Transportation
and Communications,
1201 Wilson Avenue,
Downsview, Ontario
MSM 1J8.
assist members of the study
• group in determining the
future freight rail needs of
midwestern Ontario.
An Ontario Task Force on
or Provincial Rail Policy has
also been established to
examine in depth the future
role of rail in the Province's
integrated transportation'
system. Its goal is to provide
a provincial prospective on
rail transportation in the
Province and tq examine the
existing system identifying
changes required for the
effective movement of
people and goods as a means
of enhancing the social and
economic development of
Ontario. The global per-
spective of this undertaking
-is in contrast to the specific
perspective of the Bruce
study.
These comments should
reach Mr. Gera prior to July
31, 1980.
I hope that individual
citizens groups and govern-
ment representatives of the
Huron Middlesex Riding will
take this opportunity to
•
According to a publication
of the Grocery Products
Manufactures of Canada,.
Canadians are spending no
more of their income on food
in 1980 than hey did 10 years
ago despite inflation.
Incomes over the decade
have risen faster than food
prices. Canadians still spent
less of their disposable in-
come on food than the-
citizens
hecitizens of any country ex-
cept the United States.
Canadians spent just over.
;13 per cent of their income on
food at home in 1979. When
you count in money spent on
food away from home (and
Canadians are now eating,
one out of every three meals
outside the home) the
average . total expenditure
was 17.3 per cent of
disposable income. Only in
the United States do con-
sumers' spend less of their
income on food - about 121/4
percent at home ip 1979 and
16.1 per cent altogether.
While food costs are a
erontinuing concern
Canadian consumers are in
a much better position; than
consumers in most other
countries and we should be
made more aware of the
very positive position in
which we find ourselves. The
Grocery Products
Manufacturing Industry in
concert with producers and
distributors haves done an
outstanding job in delivering
an abundant and highly
nutritious food supply to
Canadians at reasonable
cost under 'difficult con-
ditions.
Amendments to the Farm
C.S.A. e pmprovement Loans Act had
speedy passage through.
t.fycon
ru'
tr�act
on the prince lending rate -of
the Chartered Bank plus one
per cent.
In the first quarter of 1980
loans totalling $41.2' million
were made under the Farm
Improvement Loans Act.
Since the Legislation was
introduced in 1945, the
Government has guaranteed
more than $4.2 billion in
loans to help farmers expand operations.
andimprove
Employees. of Huron Coun-
ty Family - and Children's
Services ratified -a new one-
year agreement Wednesday
calling for a nine per cent
across the board increase.
The 13 members of Local
1427 of the Canadian Union
of Public Employees
(LUPE) agreed to a new
one-year settlement offering
an, eight per' cent increase
effective January I; 1980 and
an additional one per- cent,
July 1.
Gord MacDonald of the
London CUPE office said the
agreement also contained
changes in contract
language with reference to
mileage and reclassifica-
tion.. •
"There is a new mileage
clause that operates on a for-
mula now instead of the old
11 cents per kilometre,"
MacDonald said. "Now if
the gas prices increase so
does the rate."
Originally the
membership was seeking a
15 per cent acr6ss the board
increase as well as the
mileage. reclassification
and holiday concessions.
Management had offered
nine per cent but was unwill-
ing to negotiate mileage and.
reclassification. ,The
reclassification issue was
also handled in the new con-
tract and upgraded one FCS
employee.
MacDonald said there
never was a real problem in
the wage department but the
workers were prepared to
strike -over other contract
language.
The new contract will ex-
pire December 31. 1980 and
MacDonald said the two
sides will likely be back -at-
the bargaining table by Oc-
tober to hammer out another
agreement.
Cancer
can be
beaten
CANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY
Golden Glimpses
July seems to be speeding
by, even the day -light hours
are noticeably shorter.
However, it looks as though
we may have some of the
southern heat waves drifting
this way: Hopefully not quite
as extreme.
At the time of our family
dinner in June, some ,gen-
tleman left a biege suit
jacket, with a/Sears label in
it but no -other, identification
in any of the pockets.
Perhaps someone will have
missed it by now and wonder
where it was left. We would
be happy to have them pick it
up here at the Home.
Last Wednesday morning
some of the Junior Bible
School childreq from Zurich
visited the Home and en-
tertained the residents with
several songs and also made
'treats for our residents.
They always thoroughly
enjoy the small children.
We are grateful to Mrs.
Carl Oesch for'her generous
donation of jam to the Home,
also to those who have
brought in fruit, vegetables
and flowers. They are real
treats for the residents.
Residents who were out
visiting during the week
were Mrs. Beatrice
Overholt, Mrs. Nancy
Koehler, Mrs. Margaret
Pfaff, Mrs. Inez Mcewen,
Mrs.Florence Jaques and
Mrs.Florence Gould.
Bongo was played on
Friday evening followed by
refreshments.
The Sunday evening
chapel service was con-
ducted by Mr. Merlin
Bender of the Conservative
Mennonite Church of Blake.•
to expire June 30th. It hal
now received Royal Assent
for a three year renewal with
the amount any' borrower
may have outstanding at any '
one time, raised from $75,p00
to $100,000.
• Under the Act the Federal
Government guarantees
loans to farmers by Char-
tered Banks and "other
designated lending in-
stitutions for a wide range of
farm improvements. These
include purchase of ad-
ditional farm land, fencing
and drainage, construction
of new buildings, buying of
machinery and livestock and
major repairs to barns and
equipment.
Most loans are repayable
over a ten year period but a
fifteen year term is per-
mitted for purchases • of
additional land.
The maximum rate of
interest on Farm
Improvement Loans is based
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