HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1975-05-29, Page 16Jock Riddell, Huron MPP•
establish such a , position,
Ombudsman for Ontario. The .
Premier said that as society
and ,government increase.. in
complexity; it came ap-
parent that a number of
complaints with regard to
administrative matters are not
within the ambit of the earlier
legislation. Therefore, to en-
sure the rights of the individual
in this area, the office of
Ombudsman will be a
necessary additional tool to the
already extensive programme
for the protection of Civil rights
which exists under the law of
this province. AS proposed by
the Government, as in all other
parliamentary systems, the
Ombudsman will not have
supervisory power over the
administration of justice. The
principal role of Ontario's
Ombudsman will be to in-
vestigate decisions, recom-
mendations 'and acts com-
mitted or omitted in the ad-
ministration of the work of the
Ontario Government. This he
may do either in response to
complaints from an individual
or organization, or on his own
initiative. He will recommend
appropriate action to meet
each situation and advise the
complainant of the recom-
mendations. He will also be
required to make an annual
report to the Speaker of the
Legislative Assembly.
For Ontario's first
Ombudsman, the Government
is proposing Mr. Arthur
Maloney, Q.C.
Mr. Davis said that Mr.
Maloney, who was born in
Eganville, Ontario, is from a
family renowed for its con-
tribution to the political life of
Canada and Ontario. His father
was a federal member of
parliament, his brother and
grandfather were both
members of the Ontario
Legislature. From 1957 to 1962
Mr. Maloney served as a
member of -the Parliament of
Canada, from the Toronto-
Parkdale . riding He has been
elected five times as a Bencher
of the Law Society of Upper
Canada and is Chairman of the
Society's Profession Conduct
Committee. He is also a former
director of the Harold King
Foundation. He served on the
advisory committee • on the
treatment of offenders to the
Provincial Minister of
Correctional Services, and was
a member of the Province's
Task Force on policing two
years ago. In recent months,
Mr. Maloney, undertook a
review of' police complaint
procedures for the
Metropolitan Toronto Police
Commission. The report was
published last week.
• Mr. Maloney was a guest in
the Gallery when Premier
Davis made the announcement
in the Legislature.
"Lew and; the WOtnan iii for the vehicles. Revenues
Ontario an authoritative should eventually reduce or
question -and -answer 'guide to eliminate the provincial sub -
women's rights and respon- sidy for the programme. In
sibilities under Qatario Law
was publishedby the Ministry
of Labour's Women's Bureau.
This 47 page guide is. a revised
and widely expanded version of
the booklet "Law and the
Woman in Ontario", and covers
aspects of law of concern to
women, such as the law and the
consumer, sex, political rights,
labour law, welfare, property,
marriage, legal aid and law
reform. This booklet presents a
more comprehensive outline of
the law than any previousProvince, and charges that the
publication of the Bureau and Government's Ministry of
includes •a list of other useful Housing has produced more
sources of inforrhation. announcements and publicity
Howevert it is no substitute for hand-outs than houses over the
professional counsel. past year.
This revised booklet through The . brief blames "land
the question and answer format speculation, usury in terms of
covers the important aspects of high interest rates, political
birth control, sterilization, buck passing, lack of planning
abortion, artificial in; and ages of neglect by all levels
semination and rape. of government." The
Another section in the booklet federation also urges the
covers welfare. Under this Government to remove the tax
general heading, there is in- on homes owned by pensioners
formation on family benefits, and provide them with sup -
general welfare assistance, plemental shelter allowances.
special aid and supplementary People on fixed incomes,
aid. The sections on property pensions, disability allowances
rights and labour law have and welfere, have had their
been considerably expanded. incomes so eroded by rising
The position of married women prices that even doubling their
and ownership of property are present income will barely
covered. The section on permit them to live suitably,
pregnancy leave ` has been said the brief.
widely revised, and income tax "Equal pay for work of equal
considerations have been in- value" was also called for by
cluded for the first time. Under the Federation's brief, and this
labour law wide coverage is should be legislated and en -
also given to such subjects as forced. The vast majority of the
discrimination, minimum wage 1,300,000 working women in
laws, hours of work, ter- Ontario are • "subsidizing the
urination of employment and economy with their underpaid
child care. labour", the Federation stated.
Consumer rights are outlined "Last year women lost close to
under law and the consumer, $1 billion in income
with sections on contracts, discrepancies" - a staggering
credit and bankruptcies and figure.
debts. There is also a more Mr. James Breithaupt,
detailed section on support, Liberal Member for Kitchener,
which includes use of credit, questioned the Minister of
debts and duty to support. Education on the matter , of
Annulment, separation and , pensions for retired teachers.
divorce are covered under He asked whether any changes
dissolution of marriage. will be made to the benefits
The four major sections of received by those teachers who
the booklet,- labour law, sup- retired some years ago to catch
port, property and dissolution up with thecost of living. Mr.
of marriage will be available Wells, the Minister ° of
separately later in leaflet form. Education replied that for -the
When the Guaranteed Annual past number of months there
Income System was introduced has been a committee meeting
in Ontario last .year; disabled, with the Ontario Teachers'
aged and blind citizens began
receiving much higher
altowances than their Per-
manently Unemployable
counterparts (prior to the in-
troduction of GAINS the
allowances were equal).
Consequently the Ministry of
Community and Social Services
was deluged with requests to
reassess permanently
unemployable benefit
recipients as disabled.
The Ministry sent out a form
letter to recipients of benefits in
the Permanently Unem-
ployable category, informing
them that cases were being
reviewed and that "in order to
complete the, review our
Medical Advisory Board
requires up to date reports. We
have enclosed a medical form
to be completed by your doctor
and return to us." As a result of
the review, some 50 percent of
'the 10,000 people in the Per-
manently Unemployable
category have been reclassiffed
as disabled. However, the
Ministry is refusing to pay the
doctors for the medical
examinations which were
carried out as part of the
government review. OHM has
"the 'Minister fus„ nsterthe orbilltie"-
Environment has announced
that the government is moving
ahead with the programme to
rid the countryside of some
400,000 abandoned and rusting
vehicles. It is hoped that the
programme will eventually pay
for itself in 16 areas of the
Province, because
municipalities are to collect the
abandoned vehicles, tow them
to existing recycling plants or
new ones to be built, and keep
whatever money they are paid
cases where the municipalities
concerned are reluctant to
participate in the programme,
the Ministry will buy land, ,
collect the hulks and sell them.
In a brief to the Government
of Ontario, the Ontario
Federation of Labour is
demanding an immediate start
to a massive provincial housing
programme. The Federation
states that housing is now out of
reach for "thousands upon
thousands" of citizens in the
Federation working . on this
problem. They have come to
some conclusions which are
now being --studied and there
will be some determination on
them very shortly.
For the past 10 years Liberal
Member for Downsview, Vern
Singer has proposed a Private
Members Bill, Establishment
of the position of Provincial
Ombudsman. Premier Davis
announced this week the
Government's intention to
Farmers don't want teens
Ontario's agriculture
ministry is unable to expand its
program to send city teenagers
to farms . for summer visits
because there are not enough
farme,s' willing to take them,
Agriculture Minister William
Stewart said.
Two of every three young
persons applying for the
program this summer will be
refused admission to the
ministry's junior agriculturist
program, he said.
There were more than 600
applicants but only 200 farmers
were willing to participate.
Mr. Stewart was responding
to a question from Murray
Gaunt (L—Huron-Bruce)
during debate on 1975-76 budget
estimates of the ministry.
The junior agriculturalist
program accepts applications
from teenagers aged 16 and 17
years. Once accepted, the city
dwellers spend nine weeks
from the third week of June to
the end of August on farms
throughout Ontario.
MacDonald
Goderich
Clinton, the "klub" of Huron,
famous as "the home of
radar", and now celebrating its
cetltennial year, has had a
weekly 'paper since before
confederation.
Ten years older than the town
and two years older than
Canada, the Clinton New Era
kept central Huron's Victorian
era readers informed of
community events until 1924,
when it -merged with the
"upstart" Huron News -Record,
first published in 1881.
A member of the Canadian
Community Newspapers and
the Ontario Weekly
Newspapers associations, the
Clinton News Record has won
awards from " both
organizations. Twenty years
ago, while still under the
editorship of Laurie Colquhoun,
it was awarded one second and
two third prizes in the CWNA
1955 competition. ,Two years
later, in 1957, while still
published by Laurie Colquhoun,
the Ontario Weekly
Newspapers association
awarded second prize to the
News Record for its "front
a e'
p Though the Clinton News
Record underwent a change of
ownership a few years later, it
still kept winning awards.
Acquired in 1967 by Goderich
Signal Star publisher, Robert
G. Ski ier, the new owner -
continued printing the News -
Record in a manner similar to
that of its previous publishers.
As a result, the Clinton weekly,
under the editorship of its
present editor, Jim Fitzgerald,
has won eight national and
provincial prizes in the com-
petitions.
These certificates are
framed and now hang on the
wall of the News Record's front
office, along with another
certificate stating that the
News Record is a Centennial
weekly paper. Presented by the
Ontario Weekly Newspapers
association, the centennial
certificate recognized, in 1967,
that the Clinton News -Record
had provided over a century of
community service to central
Huron county.
A weekly newspaper, to be
appreciated, needs not only
full-time members but also a
host of reliable and dedicated
mare than a century of servic
The News -Record, News -Record, because of
its central location in Huron,
has a greater responsibility in
this phase of news coverage
than most weeklies since it
includes correspondence from
nearly a dozen satellite com-
munities.
The content of the Clinton
News -Record is practically the
same as .that of any other
weekly paper. Its editorials,
rightly or wrongly, deal mainly
with topics of concern to Huron
county citizens. Bill Smiley's
syndicated column, through his
witty obsSrvations, supplies a
lighter mood to the reader who
may have become too serious
after digesting the editorials.
Columnist Jack Scott gives the
reader a penetrating look at
affairs of state beyond the
boundaries of Huron.
Letters to the editor appear
as frequently on the pages of
the News -Record as they would
in any other weekly of equal
circulation. And letters are
important because through
letters, editors got "feedback" ;
some of it is derogatory, some
complimentary, but without
letters of any kind, publishers
would not have any idea
whether or not their paper was
being read. More importantly,
"the letter to the editor" is
becoming ever increasingly
popular as a means to protest
injustice or wrongs, as people
see them. As long as the News
Record, and other weeklies
continue to publish these let-
ters, keeping in mind the rules
for writing letters to the editor,
Canadians will continue to have
one of their basic civil rights,
the right to freedom of ex-
pression.
Another important feature in
the News -Record is the weekly
column by Huron's elected
representative in the Ontario
Legislature, Jack Riddell.
Jack's weekly column of in-
formation gives News -Record
subscribers the latest views on
events taking place at Queens
Park.
No community newspaper
would be complete without the
sad but necessary record of
deaths in its area. Even though
there may not be much jour-
nalism required to write an
obituary, the exercise teaches
the reporter the importance of
,kccuracy and - -honesty-' whevi'
giving an account of a death
be.cause there should be no,
sensationalism coloring the
sober facts of a fellow being's
demise.
On the lighter side births,
marriages, engagements,
anniversaries, presentations,
.10-1tee15. tile- gas pf the i'ter'sphotograph, he was
weekly y paper, Clinton News -
Record no exception, filled with
community activity.
Advertising ,.is an integral
part df the publishing business.
Without it, the weekly, nor any
other publication, could not
survive since subscriptions pay
only a fraction of the cost of
production. Citizens of Clinton
and area are fortunate to find a
wide variety of goods and
services offered by local
merchants attractively
displayed in News -Record
advertisements.
Readers may wonder what
business a Goderich resident
has in entering a competition
extolling the merits of a Clinton
weekly paper. The explanation,
if you will accept it, is as
follows.
Several years ago, 1967 to be
exact, the writer was on the
reporting staff of the Goderich
Signal Star. While employed
there, the opportunity occurred
to visit the Expo site at Mon-
treal.
Signal Star publisher, R.G.
"Bob" Shrier, after hearing of
his employee's intentions,
authorized a letter to be written
giving the writer the status of
reporter for the Clinton News -
Record, which had recently
come under his ownership.
When the letter was presented
at the Press bureau on the Expo
site at Montreal a few days
later, it was accepted as a
credential for a press card.
With the press pass, bearing
cvi�i�mudT3Tty �
able to enter an Expo pavillion
without the delay of waiting in a
lineup that sometimes stret-
ched for three or more city
blocks.
For the next few months, the
News -Record Will be playing an
even greater role in the affairs
of Clinton as the, town
celebrates its 100th. an-
niversary. Parades, en-
tertainment and special,, eventis.+mrry
planned by the centennial
committee will keep the News-
Record staff working around
the clock.
It will be an eventful year for
citizens of central Huron
county and the Clinton weekly
paper, with its editorials,
columns and pictures, will help
make a lastingA"news-record"
of the town's centennial year.
NOTICE
Township of Stanley
Beginning Saturday, May 31, 1975 - Township of Stanley
dumping grounds will be open on Saturday and Monday only,
from 9 a.m. to 3 p.`m.; and will be open to Stanley Township
ratepayers only.
Council,
Township of Stanley
"'Ren Slaile, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Lawrie Slade Of Clinton
graduated May 24 from the
University of Waterloo with a
Bachelor of Applied Science
degree. Mr. Slade has accepted
a position with Sheldons
Engineering Ltd., , in Cam-
bridge. -
Harry Arts will receive his
diploma in agricultural
production and management
from the Ridgetown College of
lgricultural Technology at
tomorrow's May 23 graduation
exercises. Mr. Arts is the son of
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Arts of RR
l: Seaforth. (Mike Martin
photo)
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