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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1976-01-15, Page 7the cila?ugare, taxi ofut " of education lrtn ±rl Tur'1heim said ably godown in ■�history j�.■j �aY t s on any ME. '4'' F rN T -. 7•I r faL Turhl Text coraled, "We are looking st incr s+i d !c; is operation with less ►vincial. funds available and this can l ea creased, costs, to local ta ayers, whether wee xike i4 or ogt," e ontilne �a fi w of the highlights of the new grant structure announced recently by. Ontario's Education inister, Thomas Wells as folly ceilings on ordinary >? p or'pupil. expenditu'r'e eligible for provincial MIAs will b increased br eight per cent for elearx'la eat and s :ondary ; students with an additional $ao,pe . upil to he added at *he elementary level. 1976, 'the maximum ordinary e penditures per pupil which will be recognized for grant. purposes are $1,050 for each elementary school student and 1,5$6 for each secondary school pupil. Any per - i, spelidin thast evee+� a 0— - 41 444 d �±�illn wi not eligible "There ,. oe• o a `` chairman added, ° ha . this at 5 th;- u n', really meas is that any, endi '+ yond this HOMO'Ec, facilities at grantceilings isu direct, refs As iilttyal and the n'luelt disc the lc)cal schot�l bold and; additional project wil suffer f> 4µl! bi 1n : ►i is no doubt, of wever, ,chats so lar grantO capital. pr1 j is",. such as provinelaAl si lstan i lie ehet 'Science l ���• regulations, the .arca t t �uroa�t � � �.�._�.�.. funds can. Qnl)7 he raised by increasing tpr rr kh n urged his fellow trustees to o S , ,the local mill rate« • � r+ ".Believe me, local taxeain Huron will strive for equality of oppoat� Y � C pools. , in.all . increase sharply in l9�'�0F sir we•ntust be Huron . ��ounty se ., r wa tis beset( willingto do our part iu.:trylng � to avoid. tics we must co>Prside �! r :any unjust spending. commitments. pe gthe entire county and dot only' for our made in 1975 will already use up more individual areas. This is„ the basic, than our increase in grants, so we must principle of a county system, • In to in the neva chairman Sold, '"We examine any further expenditures very carefully before' approving them.,, have in our teachers and administrators T r e m sato id des ,ite the cut in people who have dedicated themselves v c i n p to educate our children and their work p>~ovincial monies, he was. h.�apeful that must. be made kxiov+�n to give parents a the l�urldrng project � at Exeter Publicunde st _din of what is being School will be. allowed to go ahead better r an 8 sometime in 1976. - - accomplished for their families." added, "The regional' office ,in Also speaking briefly was. )wren's n tells us they propose to approve ' retiring Warden, Anson McKinley of 'ect-which is in the sketch plan Stanley township. A large number of Huron reeves Were also in attendance. Arts onn yoralcati5� computer I) , I *.tr nt Lon this pr Winner,of 'the'i anastra ,Curling, Cf ub meult 'fl are, from left to right: vice, H a►rry Merriman a aYIN Edward Broadfoot, Kneeling, from left to right are; lead, Percy Drown and second, Vic Evans. (News -Record photo) (continued front page 1-) "Let me tell yea :those Torie beggars can be an insensitive lot and • once they .have their mind. a made up on something, its pretty hard to get them to 'change them,' said Mr. Lewis. He criticized the, ministry decision as being made in bad faith "right down the line"'. He said that if the ministry was as assured of their facts and figures as they claim, they would not tell a delegation of Concerned citizens they would recon - Sider their decision. Lewis added that he faith _ told the by the ministry delegation they would reconsider because at that 'precise moment plans were , being put into action to dismantle GPH: The opposition leader lashed.out atthe ministry for their apparent lack of concern fpr the, implications the closing would ,have on the lives of the people the hospital served. He said that the closing was an "unforgivable destruction of human resources dealing a potential devastating blow to people to whom the hospital is the "only stabilizing influ+e"nce in their lives". "I'll never understand this govern- ment that feels it is easier to cut out a hospital rather than a highway to save money," sighed Mr. Lewis. "When politicians cut back, ' = always seem expendable are He cited a recent debate in ment over the proposed externs Highway 400 in Toronto. The highwa said is unwanted, destroys prim recreational land. upsets community transportation and is costing $24 million. "They have $24 million for a superhighway and .none for GPH and retardatia people talk to me about human much hokum priorities," he said. He said the The reasoning behind • this type of Community Servic decision is evidence of them fact that a .Co wouldn't S know government is decaying, according to was nor what to do with Mr. Lewis. He explained • that there comes a time in the life of a government when arbitrary acts like the hospital closings become matter of fact and it is obvious that the civil service is running the government. He said the Tories have reached that point. "This is a serious disease for which the only cure is defeat," he said. In attempting to reason with the ministry decision,, the opposition leader saidthat the geographic isolation of GPH makes the closing a safe decision for cabinet ministers in Toronto. He said the decision makes only three lines in major newspapers, the ministers receive no calls about the move and have no nightmares over their actions. "This is a symbolic act by the government to show the province that they are trying to cut back expenses," he said. "There comes a time, however, when the serious human consequences of uch a move should be looked at before th : overnment attempts to curry public favo nder the guise of austerity." The t : nsfer of the GPH to a mental resource centre is just "so ' according to Mr. Lewis, -nistry of Social and is in total shambles at such a centre Of it felt in their laps. Bolstering the hopes of the com- m.unity, Mr. Lewis told the R dry he was confident the two opposition p sties were united in their efforts to save e hospitals cut off by the ministry. He sal that he felt the closing was '`bitterly almost cruelly" wrong, with con- sequences that could not be measured on p er. He said he felt GPH was a very human place. immensely relaxing, and that the excellent service it provides the . com- munity in mental health services was very hard to achieve and could not be destroyed with the'''stroke of a pen". The year, 1976, may be an anxious year for Ontario dairymen. Unless the current trend of significantly in- creased m f ik production is slowed, the„ supply management aspect of the Canadian milk marketing system will be tested. In essence, this means the in- dividual dairymen's managementskills will be tested, says Bill Broadworth, associate .agriculture representative of Huron County. • One factor contributing to our increased production has been the retention of dairy cows the last couple of years on our 'dairy farms. These cows in many instances. were rune cull cows. Given the b market the last year or so, mese so-called cull cowl, probably provided more money la. the milking herd than at the ckyards. Now that th milk supply is quite liberal, dairymen should take anoth look at these cull cows. Dairy building facilities may have been expanded to ac- commodate more milking cattle. A dairyman might feel he must keep enough cattle to fill the milking line. He might also feel he should cut back a little on feeding as economics might not dictate full production. w " Such an approach, in Mr. Broadworth's view, would be (continued on page 8) The newest addition to our fashions line up of frame moulding, offering design to complement every picture. The relationship between farmers and bankers has,„ changed for the better In tie -past few years. Iver Smith. manager ' of the Exeter branch of the Royal Bank of Canada told members of the Huron County Federation of Agriculture meeting at the Exeter High School last Thursday night. .Mr. ' Smith said that the attitude of banks had to change since when he was a boy growing up in Saskat- chewan when entering a bank was a little like entering a church: it was a sacred in- stitution. There were many com- plaints in those days, he said, that bankers weren't human and he recalled even in his early years in the bank that he heard bankers treat farm customers in la way he couldn't abide. Still. he said, the bank and the farm customer share an equal responsibility in the financing of the farm. He said •that new farm plans with most chartered banks help meet the needs of the farm community much more than in the past, but that the farmer must still act and plan 'responsibly. It used to be, he said. that a banker judged whether or not a loan should be made simply on the basis of the assets of the t o.,rrower. If the borrov, er Iirtts "MM`able to pay. did he have enough assets to recover the debt. was the question the banker asked himself. Now the banker judges the profitability of the purchase. If a machine can't pay for itself, he said. then it is a luxury. "We don't say you can't have a life of luxury," he said, but the bank tries to fit' its financial help to the needs of the farm operation. Today purchases must be backed by "reasonable" security rather than total security as in the old days, he said. He said it makes life much harder for bankers, because now they must use much more judgment. But to make reasonable judgments. he said, the bank , must have much more 'n - formation on the state of e farm and future plans Than n the past. The farm plan of- fered by his bank'. he said has four portions to be filled out: 1. a statement of affairs giving a picture of what is owned and what is owed; 2. an operating statement, giving a moving picture of the finances of the farm; 3. a cash flow projection; and 4. a debt servicing work sheet to see if the operation will be 01 4,..0,1'C,1^'s/r itM°4 A]ry:*1^S.0,0*1,1,41111!;OWd able to pay its debts. Banks, he said, are not in the repossession game. He said that if this document is completed right thriugh, "I have yet to•say no to a farmer." If the loan should not begranted he said, the farmer can usually see this for himself after com- pleting the form. Falsifying forms to try to get a loan despite the figures, he said, hurts the farmer more than the bank. ' Once the forms are com- pleted and the plan tailored to the needs of the individual borrower, he said. the plan should be reviewed .frequently to see if everything is going according tooplan. If a farmer is having trouble repaying his loan he should go to the bank and explain the problem before the loan is due, Mr. Smith said, and probably something can be worked out. If he doesn't go before the payment is due, both he and the branch manager will be in trouble with head office, and that helps no one. The lender, Mr. Smith says. likes to see his client get ahead, but sometimes an expansionary program can get out of hand. Perhaps, he said, you should try to get better before you get bigger. Has your productivity im- proved; he asked Mr. Smith was asked how he judges a younger farmer who may need money to get started without having much security to offer. He admitted that it is hard for a young farmer to get started and that he is going to have to come up with some capital of his own whether from a parent or some other source. As an individual banker, he said, he tries to look at the character of the borrower when considering a loan. He tries to look at the credit history of the borrower and at how he communicates. He also looks at the reasonableness of the request. at the capital behind the borrower, • at the borrowers net worth, at his t apacity to raise money, and at,the health of the borrower and how well he is looking after the land and equipment he already has. He was asked how high land prices might go and pointed out that in the Dakotas of the U S. land is selling at $4,500 an acre and people have the philosophy that it will never .. be -paid—for in their own lifetime. His own feeling, he said, was that you- have to recognize the productivity of the land and that land •should pay for itself in one generation. There were fewer than a dozen people present at the meeting because of stormy weather. The rest of the meeting was rather brief but did see the tabling of the budget for 1976 which showed the Federation with a deficit of $1,336. 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