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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1972-09-07, Page 14iii q am AdvancOrimes,'i furs y, Sep17, 1972 ping it clean with Bill Dodds ED'R'S NOTE: This column, written by Bill Dodds, purposes to in- fprm. the public about what the Government of Ontario is doing re- Ording pollution problems. Readers having questions, comments or fniggestions are invited to send them along to the following address: *Obert J. Keir, manager, information Services, 880 Bay St., TORONTO 5, Ontario. AT WHAT COST In the past six • years, an esti- mated 800 people in Japan have been affected by Yokkaichi asth- ma, a serious bronchial ailment resulting, from emissions from. thdustries in a petro -chemical complex in central Japan. In an unprecedented district court decision, six major Jap- anese firms have been ordered to pay nearly $300,000 in damages to victims of this ailment and the families of seVe al , Yokkaichi residents whq sued. The case took nearly five years to decide and the ruling prompted the national environmental agen- t cy to pledge greater effort to pre- vent pollution before -it starts. In another Japanese court case,, a leading chemical com- pany was ordered to pay $10,000 to 77 people suffering as a result of mercury discharges to a river. In Tokyo, officials are seriously considering banning automobiles during peak pollution periods. The City governor, Ryokichi Min- obe asked to ban private autos during the 7. a.m. to 9 a.m. com- muter traffic peak, forcing drivers to use public transit. But police rejected the scheme be- cause it was impossible to man barricades on the thousands of approach roads to the city. Since autos cause an estimated 99.7 percent of Tokyo's carbon • monoxide and 97.9 percent of 'hydrocarbon emissions, city officials are still looking for solu- tions. The latest estimates indicate that Japanese* ,government spending on pollution control will double to $552 million in the next fiscal year and industrial spend- ing on pollution abatement will rise to $7.2 billion. Japan is paying a heavy price for its. rush to become a major industrial power. But the .Japa- nese are putting their experience to,good use developing a major pollution control program. In a way, we're lucky. We're living}in a big province in a big country,;vu ith a tremendous • Aamm91•nt Striate. !�Play a� nd air space; *M " ath is 'al+ that; l heavily populated nation. -.• We could see the danger of environmental abuse before it was upon us. It won't happen here, because we're paying the price in dollars before we have to pay it in lives and health. Pollution control is becoming part of our lives—where we work, where we sleep and where we play. It has to_ Thealternative is too high a price to pay. Ladies' softball Bettys' Bombers defeated Gloria's Stompers in the bottom of the ninth inning to stop their winning streak at five games. C. Greenaway and V. Steffler shared the pitching duties with G. Thomas catching. Battery for the Stompers were M. Machan and E. Reid. This game completed the sche- dule but there are still two rain-. ed -out games to play so there will be ladies' action at the ball park for at least two more Wednesday nights with possibly a- couple of exhibition games. Bluevale Mr. and Mrs. Bill Hall of Chat- ham and Mr. and Mrs. - Gordon Hall visited a few days with Mr. and Mrs. Jack Orvis and family of Sudbury. Mr. and Mrs. Bill Rainey of Ak- ron, Ohio, returned home Mon- day after spending the weekend with Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Hall and other members of the family. Mr. and Mrs. Ken' Murch f Clinton and Mr. and Mrs. Percy Vincent of Bluevale were visitors Friday evening with Mrs. Lorne McAllister and Mrs. McAllister Sr. of Teeswater. ,Mr. and Mrs. James Annis of Ct(it' rver'e visitors Tuesday with Mr. aid Mrs. Percy Vincent. by ANGUS SHORTT Ducks Unlimited COLORFUL WADER — The Avocet isa large black and white wading bird, with cinnamon -brown head and neck, pale blue legs and a long, slender up -curved bill. Found in the central prairies of Canada and U.S.'in summer, it favors shallow, alkaline marshes, where it will• nest small colonies. Nests 'are on the grotind in dr areas with little or .no -cover. Four eggs are usually laid, but sometimes two females use the sam nest when b to 8 eggs may be laid. 76-72 4011� 4V- SPECIAL PURCHASE ONE, TWO, THREE HEAVE -These SWEEP workers weren't laughing because they had an easy job cleaning up a bush lot on the 10th of Elma Township which was struck a year ago by a tornado, but because their summer labor was almost over. Above Sue Bren- zil of •Wingham, Bruce McDonald of RR 2, Brussels, Bill Deans of Wingham and John (Butch) Galbraith of RR 1, Atwood, carry a large limb to a pile ready to be set ablaze. (Staff Photo) READY FOR THE FIRE—About the only piece of machinery SWEEP workers had to help them clean ,up the bush lot on the 14th of Elma Township, struck by a tornado a, year ago, was a chain saw. The rest was manual labor. The job was the last one for two SWE EP crews working in the area this summer. Above, from left, Les Tervit of Wingham,. Joan Elliott of Brussels, Larry Ament of Listowel and Laura Inglis of. RR 1, Clifford, carry tree Limbs to a bush pile which had just been set on fire. (,Staff Photo) Belgrave "Personal Notes Mr. and Mrs. Lorne. Jamieson • ►a_ndJYI ., _ �,and.::l .s: �.,Clarcnctt�i;: Hanna spent the holiday weekend visiting in Michigan. On the way home they called on Mr. Hanna's nephew, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hanna of Lapeer, Michigan. Mr. and Mrs. Cameron Robin- son and family of Sarnia visited on Sunday with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Mason Robinson. • Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Cameron of Lucknow accompanied _Mr. and Mrs. Mason Robinson to Belle- ville where they attended the Cameron -Motley wedding on Sat- urday. On 'Sunday they visited with Mr. Cameron's • sister, Mrs. Walter: Forbes 'of Kingston. Joanne and Jennifer Rock re- turned to their home near Monk - ton -after two months' holidays with their grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Rinn. Mr. and Mrs. Herman Mitchell of Rothsay visited Saturday night with Mr. and Mrs. Robert Coul- tes. They attended°the 50th wed- ding anniversary celebration of Mr. and Mrs. William Van Camp. Rev. John and Mrs. Roberts, Howard and' Alison returned home last week after visiting elatives in California. Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Rinn and John were Sunday visitors with relatives in Mitchell, Seaforth, Monkton and Walton. omrommiw. . . 4R10.:17A, (A.:5P.) ili GM EXECUTIVE DRIVEN 111 1972PONTIACPARISIENNE BROUGHAM Ill Four-door hardtop, gold with beige top, ipterior. Features 400-2 cu. in. 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Tracey and Steven MacKay of Wingham spent a few days holi- daying with their grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Harry McGuire. Miss Verna Johnston of Sarnia spent the weekend, with Miss Nora Van Camp. lVI'rs. Norma Davidson of Glen- coe spent the weekend with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Van Camp. Miss Mary Anne .Wheeler is entering Fanshawe College, Lon- don, and' commences studies on behavioral sciences." Mr. and -Mrs. Wilmer Taylor and Mr. and Mrs. Bill Inrig of Hamilton visited on Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Taylor. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Thompson of New Brunswick, New Jersey, visited this past week 'with Mrs. Jesse Wheeler. Miss Janey Beecroft returned' to her teaching position in London on Monday. "M�':' artd'Mrs. `Williarh"Kelly of Seaforth visited on Wednesday with Mr. and Mrs. Albert Vin- cent. Mrs. George Rodger of Strat- ford and Mrs. Cora Ballantyne. of St. Pauls visited on Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Albert Vincent. Saturday evening visitors with Mr. and Mrs. Albert Vincent were Mr. and Mrs. Victor Erring- ton of : Auburn. threat to *Nr environment Herbicide use in Canadian agriculture has never odiously threatened the environment. That's the opinion of Dr. Jinn Hay, director of the Agriculture Canada Research Station in Re- gina. Dr. Hay is also chairman of the Canada Weed Committee. "A major reason is that re- search has pretty well managed to be ahead in the game," he says. The work at the research sta- tion here supports his claim. Since the early 1960s, its team of herhieide*specifilists has pre- tested countless chemicals before they were released, and tackled would-be problems before they became causes for complaint. Take the drift of 2,4-D as an example.' Dr. Hay and his co-workers noticed blemishes en foliage of shelterbelt trees about a decade ago: At that time no one knew the cause for certain; some thought it was a virus blight. "It didn't harm the trees, but it didn't look good either," says Dr. Hay. So Dr. Raj Grover went to work with Dr. Hay and"Tound the cause before the situation became worse. "We were working on this long before public interest was even aroused," Dr. Hay says. It turned out that 2,4-D was drifting slightly during spring applications. Dr. Grover devised a method to measure the extent and uncover the reasons. "We have a system of sampling air at various heights from the ground at different distances from the site of spraying," he says. "Two factors affect drifting— spray droplet sizes and vapor losses. "Loss from droplet drifting .is less than five per cent if the ma- terials'are applied as we recom- mend; however, .we aim to re duce this even more bykeeping small droplets at a minimum. "As for vapor__ drift, _the ester forms of 2,4-D are volatile with the butyl ester the highest. Amine forms of the herbicide are vir- tually non-volatile and cause little or no vapor drift." Research such 'as that of. Dr. Grover and others at the Regina Research Station provides guide- lines that not only preserve aes- thetic values, but also. offer pro- tection for susceptible crops such as tomatoes, sunflowers", rape- seed.and sweet °lover which may be growing near target areas. aelgrave. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Campbell *and Pamela visited with Mr. and .• Mrs. Robert Hibberd on Thurs- day evening: Sandra and Lisa Campbell returned home with their parents. Mr. and Mrs. Warren Zurbrigg of RR 2, Clifford, visited on Sun- day with Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hibberd. Miss Margaret Kemp of Toron- to spent the holiday weekend with Mr. and Mrs. George Michie. Mr. ;and Mrs. Harold Procter attended - the funeral of their cousin, Mrs. Cecil' Ralph of Mit- chell, on Sunday. Completion of installing storm sewers and the re -surfacing of No. 4 Highway, has added a new touch to the main street in the vil- lage. David Beecroft of St. Jacobs spent Sunday with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Beecroft. Mr. and Mrs. 'David Wilson. of New Westminster, B.C., spent last week with their cousin, Mrs. Jesse Wheeler. Miss Lauretta McBurney of Calgary, returned home last Sun- day after spending a month's holidays with her brother, Alex McBurney. SEVEN YEARS' experience driving tractors on her fam- ily's farm at RR 5, Wingham, helped 17 -year-old Marilyn Robertson win the "Queen of the Furrow" crown at Huron County Plowing Match last week. A daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alex Robertson, Maartlyn has completed 10 projects with the Belgrave II homemakers' dub In the 4-H organiza- tion. She will compete for the -Ontario crown at the interna- tional match later this fall. (Staff Photo) Vary Important People People of all ages and all walks of life do important and essential jobs as Red Cross volunteers. YOU CAN HELP TOO. . 11111111 ahrofSayhaw B oOr at sear ?acrd :' the bridge of you MR? 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