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Home My WebLink AboutClinton News-Record, 1980-01-10, Page 11980 JA ARt " ` 1 0 .01 6 2. . tel .", 4;4 3 .9 9; -12 'w"17 N . ., by Shelley McPhee It seems that ' Clirtc,,....is getting more than its fill of costs for use of the Goderich' Township Landfill .Site,' tf the problem continues,. Clintskn may- out of the joint garbage disposal --sd-developrone-o Not only, is We town against _the sudden increase in costs of garbage disposal, but council is also fighting the way in which the six minicipalities using the site share the costs. Costs of using the site have sud- denly doubled as a result of.a survey completed by the oWner and operator of the site, George Lavis. Mr..Lavis has determined that his prices are too low and the contract, which cost $70,000 in 1979, has been raised to $178,000. . Councillor Rosemary ,Armstrong, Clinton's mernber'on the landfill site cornmittee, said that in negotiations over the 1980 contract; Clinton' made a • Jim and Brenda De Jong of Seaforth are the proud new parents of a dark haired baby girl:. The family received s ecial attention at the `Clinton hospital since Denise Lynn, born on January as named the first baby of 1980 for Clinton. (News -Record photo) • • Council wants to negotiate salaries By Shelley McPhee • Ona request: from,Counct1ior Ron McKay fora less "haphazard" way of dealing with salary negotiation for town employees,'" Clinton council at their- January' 7 meeting formed a five member oegetiatin-g-committee, The _.group,_ Mayor Harold_ Lobb, . New Year's baby first of 80's;- At 8:40 am on January 4, 1980 Denise Lynn De Jong entered' the - world. Her first duty was to take the honor of being Clinton's first baby of 19801980,",ias well as the first newborn of the decade. Weighing in at '7 pounds, seven ounces the dark haired baby is. 'the daughter of Jim and Brenda De Jong of Seaforth. Denise 'is their second child. While in the Clinton hospital, mother and daughter received many gifts from various. merchants in Clinton for having the honor of -being the first baby of the year. The two, particularly Denise, also received particularly special attention from owe -nurse in the maternity ward, Mary De Jong of Brucefield,, who happens to be the little girl's gran- dmother. Councillor McKay, Reeve Royce Macaulay, Deputy Reeve Ernie Brown and Coune-illo:r.. Chester Archibald will rregottate; the salaries> ' _ for. town employees and will decide what their salaries"and raises should be. A "decision _ to' forrn a committee name after lengthy debate in which Mayor Lobb objected to Councillor McKay's opinion that negotiating in"' previous • years had • been "haphazard." - "If someone comes up with a better way, that's fine, but I don't think we should condemn a system that we've been using for years without -a‘ firm recommendation," Mayor Lobb told Councillor -McKay. ...` . ' "I .sf lay it's haphazard. That's my opin.:,�r and I've given you another idea' -'to--- try," 'C'ouncillor . McKay replied. . In the, past, separate committees have worked with various employees ,in the town to set their wages. The police committee have looked after the_town's police force and twoother committees of council have worked with the public works department and the town employees. Councillor McKay suggested that the system used in the past was confusing and contradictory and noted, "We don't know what one .• top offer of $90,0'l)0 but the other- Goderich, Bayfield, i knt ,- olborne and Goderich Township Who use th s><te, agileed to offer' Mr..J.avis. $140,000. Councillor Armstrong said.xhat .this oubling jections and she told council, "You either pool out or you pay it." •Mayor Harold Lobb 'agreed, "Eitheryou stay in or get a landfill -- site. of your own, but as, far as I'm concerned, someone's got an, awful greed for money." ' another are doing: One of us• offers .some employees a-5 per cent raise and . another group offers 7 percent." ..Coun+cill.or -Rob Parr agreed, "With a negotiating committees "you''lt have - an' equitable .settlement across'the town without one employee core-, - plaining that someone,,else •got :more' than he:did. If you give the policeand extra day .-holiday, you should also give it to the.fronT- Office employees. You'll -have a better employee relationship." Some questions were then asked -on how. raises or increase of pay should be given. Mayor Lobb suggested that no one should get more than the cost of living. _increase. Councillor Chester -Archibald said he didn't agree with a straight dollar figure of a strai ht,, Pg percentage price and Councillor George Rumball said'he didn't agree with straight per-centages. Councillor Parr suggested that -the committee decide' on how increases be made', "Let them see- what the employees want." Council agreed that the recreation committee' would cgntinue to negotiate salaries with the arena staff with the -negatiating committee setting some guidelines for the recreation board. It's not often that a world situation "in a far off spot like Afghanistan can affect us here in • Huron County, but world events in the past'few days have been felt right here at home. When U.S. President Jimmy Carter announced the banning of grain shipments to Russia`because of the th-e Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, he 'directly affected our corn and grain .farmers right here at home, because we are tied to the Chicago price. As of presstime on Wednesday, the grain futures had fallen _the limit, and area cash ,croppers are upset, to say the least. Many are fearful that a 'Third World War will start over the whole episode, but we certainly hope not. `War. has been declared by Clinton town council, as dog license fees hate been jumped 21/2 times this year from $4 for a male or spayed to $10. This follows on -the heels of an announcemnt last month the the fines for letting ciao run loose were up to $10 a shot. Now if we 'could get a dog- catcher to enforce these fines, things would realy look up, and we could -put our garbage out the night before. -1- -l- Welk.thanks to a warm DecenTher, •1979 will go into the record books a a normal year after all. • Ac"ording to Graham Campbell of the Goderich weather station, December past saw, a ' mean teniperatute't..v7-4-0.1 degree C (31,.8-2 F), compared to -the long term average of -3:0 (26.6 F) and there was only 75.2.mm of rain (3 inches) when we usually get 100.3. mm (4 inches): ' As well ,as being dryer and warmer than norrnal 'December Was one of the sunniest since -1963, -with, some 47 more hours of Sun- shine unwhine ' in the shortest Month than n; rnaal, and we only had 25.1 CM - 0,0 ,A inches) of snow,cornpared.,,tte, > r"e normal 55 cm (22 ittehes) That° warm December helped boost the average mean- tem- perature for 1979, to 7.0 degrees C (44.6 F) exactly normal, while the yearly precipitation totalled 904.8 • m'm- (3.5.62 inches) just a -hair below the 40 year average of 921.7 mm (36.28 inches]. Looking : at the decade, ,the '70s showed a wide variance in tem- perature, with 1978 being the , coldest at 6.3,C and 197'3 being the... warmest with 8.3 C. .Meanwhile, a thunderstorm early Monday morping is supposed to mean an open' winter, the old- • timer sten us. - ' For those of you poor readers still tied to the demon weed, next ' week is National Non -Smokers week, and .the Huron -Perth Respiratory Assgciation is offering free clinics, for those still puffing. From my own personal - ex- . periences, cold turkey is' the only way to give up the habit: Enough said. • One place you can see a ltt-f sr.'oke,_.-and legally too, is this FriCay night at 8 pm at Varna as the friendly hamlet has th' n al Christmas tree burn, and winter carnival; that is if old man. winter co-operates and 'doesn't °- • throw.a;spring day,4at them. Here's a tip fbr drinking drivers gleaned from the monthly publication 'Safety - Canada. It seems that police in Dunedin, New Zealand, seeing six obviously in- toxicated a car along. a city' street late one Saturday night, `thought they were trying -to start it, "Not so," said one. "We're all to drunk to drive, so we're `pushing the car homy."' • - Clinton firemen were called out Sunday night to the Angus Brown home in Tttckersmitfr Township, near Turner's Church. Firetfien said they could smell srrioke, but I -didn't find at y fire; r.5. 4-14 -.0, ,"•14 7 -2 $ Snow :2.5 cm Snow 17 .crn slump char, Cotincilter Arrr tr:ong agreed and said, "'don't see any, jusrtfioation for such arncrease." Along with -the rise in .price, Clinton fs also concerned. over `.the way in which the costs are she ' between the six municipalities. "It looks :like Clinton's picking up the lion's share," Councillor Arr`h- strong explained. Presently, Clinton pays 26 per cent of the total cost to use the site, but if based on a per capita basis, -would 'only pay 1,8.9 per cent. This would mean, at a' total cost of $140,000, Clinton would pay .$36,000 based on the 26 per cent share, or $26,000 per went based on the per capita cost. - If costs were based on a per capita percentage, the town of Goderich„'s share, would -Atop from. 48 -per dent -t-o--LL 44.2 per cent and . Bayfield's share would drop to 4.5 per cent from 5 per cent. However, the three remaining Turn to page 3 • Cardiff grabs Tory nomination BY JEFF EDDON Huron -Bruce Progressive Con- servatives selected, a 45 year old Brussels area farmer to replace the retiring Bob°McKinley Tuesday.night in -a crowded nomination meeting in Brussels.. Cardiff, a 45 year old farmer from R.R. 1 Ethel, was chosen on the first ballot over Bruce Shaw, Barry Jahns-ton and Mason Bailey. _ Cardiff won an e-as.yy , _ vic4.ry grabbing -over half of the 610 eligible ' votes from PC association members in Huron-Bruc , more than doubling the votes castor runner up 'Bruce Shaw. Cardiff received 331 votes while Shaw received 142, Johnston 75 and Bailey 17. ' ' More than '.- 0 par-ty,,,suP:Porrers,,.n.,...:.. crowded into -le Brussels -Morris Grey Tc:Qmmunity centre for the nominatioli more than half of them spectators. The Cardiff name is not new to old guard Conservatives in the riding. His distant cousin, Elston Cardiff', won the riding in 1940 and held it until 1965 when McKinley v his first election. Other. candle. .es seeking the nomination were Bruce Shaw, 37, principal of the Seaforth District High School•: and formeir mayor Qf Exeter, Barry Johnston, 25, --of Holyrood, a farmer and reeve of Kinloss township, and Mason Bailey, a 54 year old real es tate' salesman from Blyth. .. The nomination meeting was the first in a long time that the Con- servatives have had to select a candidate. Bob McKinley, the 50 year old Zurich area chicken farmer that had a stranglehold on the riding since 1965,.'surprised party, faithful . an- nouncing -his_ retirement. McKirrleey cited personal reasons for leaving politics. He did not attend the nomination meeting. ,Cardiff had by far the shortest nomination speech telling supporters this riding needed government at- tention in its main industries, tourism, farthing and making use of shipping facilities, primarily Lake council raises dog tags rant $4. to X10. a year In an attempt to control the stray dog pollution in Clinton, council agreed to raise the price in dog tags, for 1980. ).t their January 7 meeting, the fees for licensing dogs Were set a $10 for owning a male and $20 for a temale. The 1979 dog tage prices were $4 for a male and $6 for a female. . Councillor Ron McKay said that he doubted that increase in price would Alleviate the problem of dogs running loose, but noted that only fewer People would purchase tags. Clerk Cam Proctor also noted tha -most people say their dogs are male or a spayed female. "If the police don't have time to control these dogs, we may have to go to a different,system, like getting a 'dog catcher," Mayer Harold Lobb suggested. In- other business, council has agreed to -study the policy of issuing parking permits to main street business people, > The issuing, which has been done for years,_allows particular people'the rightto.park on Clinton's main streets Without putting putting money in the meter. The price of a:permit is $15 for a year. ' In the past, those issued permits were people who were corning and going from their places of em- ployment arid using their car several times a day. Council is now concerned that perhaps too many permits are being issued without. careful thought. "Pd''like to find out the criteria for issuing permits,"Councillor Rosemary Armstrong said. "I'd like a rule rather than give the permits out haphazardly." She went on, "I agree than :some should be issued, but last year we got so many and we just approved, each one that was requested. There must be sbme place to stop.'You' can't issue a permit to everyone. We meed some rules." It was decided that council com- mittee ' would discuss the issue and prepare a written Criteria on who and why • parking petin)ts should be • Duron ports: Shaw told the meeting the can- didate for the riding would have to be someone aware of` the interests of both,rural and- urban comms pities. He said Huron -Bruce was unique in that it was almost half urban and half rural and that Ottawa would have-to be made aware of the special needs of this area. He said the area would have to be safeguarded from the affects of big'. business which swallowed up small enterprises, • big government which ' affected everyone's daily life and big labour which leaned toward socialism. -- Shaw said be felt the `80s would see -the resolutionof energyproblems • • facing Canada and the world' adding country would• have to resist temptation to gobble up its greatest resource, rich agricultural land. -Johnston admonished the gover- nment opposition for bringing about this election claiming . it ,was un- necessary. He said the Conservative budget was realistic and was needed for Canada. He said fuel consumption and pricing were necessary to guarantee supply pointing out that money spent on foreign aid may be better spent at home working on alternative energy sources. He also ` said more money was. needed for farm credit and that the country's rail lines needed upgrading over the "Mickey Mouse system" in use now. Bailey teld the meeting tax in- centives were ` needed to encourage • Turn. the pat; -e 3:• issued. Council agreed tnat until trine report is made, no permits would be issued. Y . No committee pay In other business, council recon- sidered the problem that tame up last month when they learned some' boards in town are paying members for attending meetings,• while others remain volunte,er committees. It. was agreed by "ouncil that starting with the'upcor, budget, all payments to boards whin council controls will be discontinued. Murray Cardiff The Huron -Bruce .NDP Association may have'as many as four candidates seeking the riding nomination at the January 14 meeting in Clinton. Philip Walker, a 45 year-old Stephen township farmer announced Wednesday morning that he would seek the NDP nomination at next week's meting. Walker also contested the riding nomination in the 1975 provincial election, losing out to Paul Carroll, then of Goderich: Also, Toriy McQuail, ' a Lpcknow area farmer, announced Wednesday he would seek the NDP nomination for the riding. McQi,lail said he carefully con- sidered his decision for several weeks before declaring his candidacy. He said there are important decisions to OA be made with regards to energy security and developing alternatives and he believes the NDP offers a good alternative in energy policy. "The Conservative budget was all stick„ and no carrot, penalizing lower and middle income earners and farmers," McQuail.sai.dM_"The NDP - offers the best long range op- portunities for a secure energy base and therefore a secure economy base.." •- There are also two others vyho have . expressed an interest in seeking the NDP nomination, Bernie Fansb of Bayfield and Carl Hemrningw, of the Brussels area, but neither has made any official declaration. The NDP nomination meeting will he held in Clinton Public School, Monday, January 14 at 8 p.m. raiggets Grit nomination BY RHEA HAMILTON ▪ Graeme Craig was acclaimed to the. Liberal nomination in Huron-i3ruce for the February 18 federal election in a meeting .attended by, .about 360 people at'Blyth's Memorial Hall. Craig, who was enthusiastic about the election, said Tory promises, like the shifting of the Canadian embassy in Israel, had affected the residents of Huron, He pointed out,that because of the threatened,move, Champion Road Machinery in Goderich lost a large order and had to lay off workers. This will' be Craig's second federal election 'campaign. The 31 -year-old farmer and United Breeders' technician was defeated by long-time PC MP Bob McKinley last May.,'ith, McKinley not 'seeking the nomination this time, party faithful are confident of a Liberal upset in Huron -Bruce,. A life-long resident of the riding, Craig has farmed near Walton ,since graduating. from Ridgetown -College of Agricultural Tecfinology. He is a director of the 1-luron Cattlemen's ' s Association, ecretary-treasurer Nof the Huron Plowmen; past president of county Junior ,:Farmers and of the Brussels Agricultural Society..He.has been a 4-H swine club leader for the past 12 years. , Cram; said high interest•°•rates .had erbde4 the confidence of people altd that .pre -Christmas sales indicated a ksxa b a.d .. an.°M.,sr+Si.dwxw,nM x.-Y=1�;s4s . cutback in consumer spending reflecting that lost confidence. "The refundable tax credit the Conservative government' was promising would only cover 20 per- cent of the low income families," said Craig. Eugene Whelan, M.P. Essex Windsor, was guest speaker,,a_ nd came down hard on . the budget. and th_e minorify Conservative government. "We (the, Liberals) know about. minority governments," said Mr. Whelan. "We .had a minority.gover- nment under Lester Pearson and Pierre Trudeau, And when you are a minority you take some of the other parties' views and consult them.'•' Mr. Whelan .said the Conservative government only represented 38 percent of the country, Everyone would have been affected --by the budget commented"'Whelan, The Conservatives` tried to sell the excise.,tax on fuel�Nas' a conservative measure but this tax, said Kar, Whelan 'would a ls,o- _ aU-ee-t -public tran- sportation as .aweil as fuel for- food production.---;: • "The budget meant slow growth and double digit Ft -illation," he said. "The. campaign should be an in- teresting one and will take°a lot of work." '" .. Also cit the convention, Hurdn- Bruee Liberal association treasurer .�,i,:..1•i�ri}f.1f.4�iS::4�.1sa:..iXi.L:y�.°..il�...4LL•kS.�tllViYGW.,W..,..n�:lNu....%Y>±•,a.I'i`i:'11,:irl•`. �.Uu'.,i�ia'1u��l.��i'.��.^• i:�i'.It.1':k 7:.. .us1 :W+. 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