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13314,11Ya Dan
Said a"Bjt * feel there* a demo- no incentive for the commitalion
sirtnerli cratIc..ayatenl
and tbefarinere to tto out and sell."
protest can have their say." rte tout IMAM* an attern tiye
al had invited WV' Marin" .w
to the Curre5lt 15 per cent cut
culture, and niuniclP4
backer would be to cut the dairy
ice t° direct" for the erebudain�m► s industry down to the market for
st! y to and Ken MeKinnon vire* aloin iniik, pQ -
�c Win. adman VrcrOnizaciaMilli Tfls�d sacrum at l+ct a 25puact paced Markerto speak at the per cents cutback for renew or three
yeta* . Latear, Mr, McKinnon told.
fad banluptcy.
.. Weed they
9 follow the "proper
laid down by the Om-
bild en's office.
They agreed to set up a com-
t aittee composed of lam. Alice
Burt, RR 5, Ethel, rally organizer
and representatives probably
cocked' the regional milk
comn4ttees lo meet with officials
Of the Ontetrio Milk Marketing
Beard before bringing in the Orm-
budaaanA
Dalairy producers also endorsed
*four -point plan put forward by a
Harriston area farmer Dirk
*oestenenk, recent organizer of
a milk giveaway. The plan calls
for:
1. A commitment from the pro-
vince to ease Anterest payments
and defer repayment of the
principal: on industrial milk in-
centive loans until the dairy
crisis has passed.
2. A -commitment from the pro-
vince to _pay the difference to
farmers between what their
dairy cattlejare worth and what
they would bring on the meat
market.
3. A commitment from the pro-
vince to purchase surplus skim
milk powder and either donate it
to the world food bank or make it
available to Ontario farmers for
use in animal feeds. •
4. A commitment from the pro-
vince to introduce a school milk
program in the schools where
w,uvrwxN!�p,;t
Mr. Morin told dairy farmers
he would not be able to help theca
unless they went through the
"proper channels". He said
farmers must first appeal to
Ontario Milk Marketing Board
and then the 'Canadian Dairy
Commission.
Then, if they were still unsatis-
fied, they could appeal to the
Ombudsman's office as.,a "last
resort."
Mr. Morin described the Om-
budsman's office as a "watchdog
holding government accountable
to the average citizen." He said
the ultimate sanction of the Om-
budsman's office was to take a
complaint to the legislature it-
self.
During his 45 -minute lecture on
the office of the Ombudsman, the
crowd listened politely. But when
Ken McKinnon, vice-chairman of
the .Ontario Milk Marketing
Board stood up to speak, he came
under heavy fire for the board's
policies.
At one polka he was asked to
disclose his salary. When he
replied it was a per diem rate of
$60 a day and he wasn't involved bag," said one of them. "Far -
in the Milk Marketing Board for mers got nothing out of the indus-
the money, he was applauded by trial milk incentive loans. It all
the audience. went to the builders and equip -
He told farmers the federal ment companies.
government was not considering The politicians didn't take a cut
changing its 15 per cent quota in salary, added another.
cutback. Changes regarding "Neither did 'members of the
monthly allocations did not come milk marketing board. Tonight
from the milk marketing board, you can go home in new cars.
Junk foods currently served in he said. "They came as a What a
cafeterias would be replaced with directive from the federal Starting this stammer, there's
milk and dairy products. government." going to be one' heck of an in-
At the same time the Qntario According to Mr. McKinnon, crease in the number of people on
Milk Marketing Board received the milk marketing board is welfare, one woman interjected.
an unofficial vote of confidence attempting to find a way - of "The provincial government
after one farmer suggested the getting quota into the hands of tens us to go to the federal
dairy industry would be better off those producers who need it... government. We don't have time
without various government most. die warned farmers not to for the Ombudsman's hearings
agencies who had "bungled" the"over react" to the current dairy because we won't be around for
milk supply issue. crisis. the answer."
Maybe we should do away with • "But who's going to go to the Farmers have been quiet too
the milk marketing board com- States and bring back our cows damn long, added someone else
pietely, the farmer said. "All when there's a shortage here?" from the audience. "The govern -
they've done is louse things UP." asked Mrs. Burt: ment has been cheating us."
Gordon Hili, president of the Mr. McKinnon replied that as At this point, Norman Founder,
Ontario Federation of Agri- far as he's concerned, farmers chairman threatened to close the
culture told farmers they would haven't gotten rid of enough cows meeting unless order was
have to consider this step "very yet. "But_ the question is, how restored.
carefully." A cheer from the as- many should go and when do we At the end of the evening far -
se n$y which followed his re- stop it? A lot of mistakes have mers agreed to ask Mrs. Burt to
marks indicated the majority of already been made." make an appointment with the
farmers wanted to see the milk Other inquiries fielded by Mr- Ontario Milk Marketing Board
marketingboard remain in oils- McKinnon included questions re- for a formal hearing•
tance. garding the hoarding of surplus Mrs. Burt urged farmers to
The meeting had been quota, lack of government quota submit proposals to her through
arranged by Mrs. Alice Burt, RR for cheese manufacturers and farm orgtions such as the
• 5, Ethel, Who two weeks ago led a surpluses of skim milk nowder. Ontario Federation of Agri-
delegation of 20 farmers to in reply to the questions aL„at culture, the National Fanners
Queen's Park where they surpluses of skim milk powder. Union and the Christian Farmers
dumped milk in front of the legis- Mr. McKinnon said the Canadian F•ation. It is expected 10
lature. Dairy Commission disposed of it people will be • appointed to re -
"My neighbors tell me you by taking bids. "This is not sales- present farmers at the formal
can't fight government," she manship," he said. "But there's hearing. •
the assembly the milk marketing
board wound like to phase , indus-
trial milk producers out of
existence within five years, in-
tegrating both industrial and
fluid producers in one pool.
The problems of many, young
dairy farmers facing financial
ruin within the next two months,
were dramatized by one young
farmer who described the pro-
vincial industrial incentive pro-
gram as a "fraud."
He said he had applied for an
input loan of $30,000 to produce
industrial milk but was told he'd
need at least $50,000.
"I produce about 360,000
pounds of milk per year. And I
only have quota for 220,000 and
can't find anyone with any to sell.
My gross income has been cut
from $50,000 to $25,000 and 1 have
to make payments of $14,000
interest. How can I feed a family
of four, pay for machinery, hydro
and feed on what's left?"
At this point the frustration of
many farmers became evident.
"We've been left holding the
1,.
bout .e„
Uthe gOOdold
�
Sav'' 'me"
FIGHTING SPIRIT -Mrs. Alice Burt of RR 5. Ethel demonstrates a bit of the fighting
spirit that led her to organize a rally of over'600 dairy farmers .ast week in Atwood. Above
she,calts on industrial milk producers to co-operate with the Ombudsman's office by pro-
testing' formally to the Ontario Milk Marketing Board. (Staff Photo)
Board announces tax levies
All municipalities in the
County of Huron have
received their 1976 tax levy
requisitions from the Huron
board of education.
While individual tax rate
increases will vary because
of increased assessments and'
over or under requisitions
from previous years, the
average rise is expected to be
about 28.7 percent. '
Following are 'the net
municipal requisitions for
1976 for the elementary panel
with the 1975 figures in
brackets: Clinton
$102.888086,550); Exeter
$147,730 ($119.328); Goderich
$356,607 (1280,108); Seaforth
$59,749 ($50,835) ; Wingham
$120,978 0102,460); Bayfield
$33,598 (527.574); Blyth
522,576 (518,232); Brussels
527,695 (522,581): Hensall
546,388 (539.468); Zurich
517.334 (514,2411; Ashfield
5102.331 (579,542) : Colborne
$74,112 (558,031) Goderich
township 599,657 (583.227);
Grey 587,974 (570.972);
Hay 5118,780 ($97,339):
Howick 5114,539 (593,542):
Hullett 577,706 (563,990) :.
McKillop 560,104 (550.696) :
Morris 564,539 ' (553,493) :
Stanley 595,382 (578,091) ;
Stephen 5156,476 (5129,719)
Tuckersmith 5112,375
(591.467); Usborne 583,371
(567,462) ; Turnberry 550,532
(542,219) ; East Wawanosh
552.803 (543,739); West
Wawanosh 539,253 (535.207)
Requisitions for secondary
school purposes: Clinton
$102,665 (570,960) : Exeter
$147,859 (597387); Goderich
$373,104 (5249.977) : Seaforth
466.306 (546.677) : Wingham
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of flab c nducte d
R:mer in Lake Huron
Corgian klay showed
species exhibited
'eury levels approaching
har#rd level set by the
overnment.
Nicholas Herzog, a
research scientist with the
water reseucrces branch of the
provincial environment
Ministry, told a conference in
Guelph on Thursday species
Of rainbow trout and walleye
and northern pike were found
to contain .3 parts per million
(ppm) of the metal.
The government level for
safe eating of .5 ppm was set
in. 1970 after extensive levels
of mercury were found in fish
in Lake St. CIair and the
western basin of Lake Erie.
The study also extended to
Lake Superior where some
large species of lake trout had
levels exceeding the limit,
primarily near Thunder Bay
and the Marathon area of
Peninsula Bay where chior-
atkaii pulp mills are located.
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fthe Internetloflal=,
Asscoelation on. Great
Research. said the hi ' I
were found, in larger -sized
fish not normally used by the
commercial fishermen on the
lake_
John Kinkead, another
researcher involved with the
project, said inan interview
later as far as he is aware no
ban has been imposed by the
province on fish in the lake
with mercury levels ex-
ceeding the limit. •
He said mercury levels in
fish, on the upper lakes have
been diminishing in the past
two years and are expected to
drop even further this year
when the study is resumed.
The Thunder Bay pulp mill
has since closed and mercury
discharge levels from the
Marathon mill are being
checked by the province to
ensure they are not ex-
cessive, he said.
Thphon' sicilchorNr takes
place this weekend Iiire
Bell Canada has spent
5273.000 to provide an ad-
ditional 100 telephone
numbers in the Clinton ex-
change and Automatic
Number Identification (ANI),
effective May 15. Jim Scott,
local Bell Canada manager,
said today.
Customers with individual
or two-party service in the
Clinton exchange will no
longer be required to give
their number to the operator
on direct dialed long distance
calls (DDD), as of May 15;
Mr. Scott said.
New ' equipment will
automatically register the
caller's number for billing
purposes in the ANI system
which will speed up DDD
calls.
Rural customers on multi-
party lines will continue to be
served by Operator Number
Identification (ONI) .
Addition of 100 more
directory numbers will bring
to 3.000 the total numbers
served by the Clinton ex-
change. Mr. Scott said this
was necessitated to keep pace
with population growth in the
area.
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