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by Din Remo"
6rhriX twa* Direct,.'
A Pod deal of time has passed since the milk producers
of this province heldltieir annual meeting, but some of the
diacission this year is Valid at this time:
It used to be, and still is to some extent, that milk was Te-
as almost sacred. You had to have it to be healthy and
t was that. Other assorted drinks were taboo and children k•-%
not taking milk was. virtually unheard of-
But as the mores of society changed, the consumption of
Milk declined through the 1960's. Figures indicate that con-
sumption was slightly below 100 quarts per person per year. ak.,
If you read or say it fast enough, one might be duped into ft.
thinking that is still a lot of mirk. But consider this for a mo-
ment. ."..,A
Our household of two adults, consumes six quarts of LA
milk per week—the equivalent of over 300 quarts per year. 4.
Readers can quickly calculate how much -they drink and no
'doubt results will show that many i of them discover a high 1:il
rate of consumption compared to the national average. In our
:•,,-...\. case, we drink enough milk to allow one adult to go scott-free
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of milk for a year. So 100 quarts of milk is not a great deal and *t•
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it ip.easy to see that milk no longer is a food that everyone
R post" have.
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One of the discouraging factors for consumers is the ti%
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....z.,.; price of the product. They may feel reluctant to put forward
the money for milk when soft drinks or liquor is more tempt-
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ing. The avual meting of the milk producers made it
i'l,:,`..\• abundantly cloar they do not regard their prices as too high.
',,•,-„,.. They have to grapple with building costs which have risen
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approximately more
per cent. Feed costs have spiralled by 50 k
•,,k, per cent or more for some components. Farm labor costs ..,
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........ more and there is less of it available. In short, the costs of •i*,,,.
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putting that milk into the transport truck are climbing at an m.
unusual rate:
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bo pounds of product, it really amanntslo a miniscule amount to
me as a consumer. As a consumer, the increase is pennies 1*
N. ' per week—$3 over the term of a Year. I don't think the farmer
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'4 has to be apologetic about charging more for his product.
ije's doing the same thing everyone else seems to do with '
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:x'lk\• 'little regard' to the economy. They may even do better by
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:0 taking a large increase and hold the line for an extended
%,•:. period of tittle 40 the issue of increases doesn't crop up once
••,,,,,, or twice 4 year.:NeithersconsuMers nor producers wish Ito
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hear begging like farmerss did in thd early '60s.
z..\ Another point. brought „up at the annual meeting was pro -
'notion of the product. A. turn -around in consumption rates
been achieved in the '70s. This can be attributed, *large
t, to the effective advertising campaigns funded by the
ilkProdocera- The cost was over a million dollars last year. '..k..\''.
'he figure may go higher this year. While it costs a great '-:::''i
deal for farmers to advertise a product which they do not sell ' -. '•'%
directlYto the consumer, It is in their interest to. keep con.
umPtiOn rate -0'0111e increase.
IN THIS
CORNER
Who**
Gabriel Gilbert; president of Press, recently laid
service CIO in Quebec City that today's newspaper should **it aid -
ZOOS to participate in their commuldly and society so *hang*/ is the
„. world do not occur without their participation.
• Mr. Gilbert, president, publisher sad general
French language daily Le Soleil in Quebec City, has our
approval in such comments.
People who are not satisfied with new social changes should Inter.
those who wish to change the world".
Every
themselves in the public field "with as much vigor end pass* so
Every-timo your PrinelPles, ideas or Way of Jiving are shocked by
what you read Ina newspaper, It might be doing some geed for you and
Your society—"it might be a far better thing *than you *glove or
understand," Says Mr. Gilbert,
The transformation toward a more informative newspaper* espe-
cially since the 'Second World War, la the result Of new Sven,* forces •
whichhave come into play,. •
Some of these pew forces—the VICIOUS Circle of Marketing, adver
Using and circulation—coupled with the lowering Of unit coots, are
pushing towards a natural monopoly of written information..
At the same time thereis a new desire for participation by the
readership and citizens demand more information. They baveenquir-
ing minds and feast on new and interesting information in order to de-
4p-Onellevisd Pat. wiwPtillththeint11$1145°IasiceswtsPhinchof social ;1111gesi'.4tjtihn'InatifP11 i()4"res.
The phenomenon. of Participation, is geared toward intarmative.
But to be informative, freedom of the press ii an essential thing to
newspaper. It is •
necessary fOr the press to be free pog0,after news witnout, ob-
struction or intervention from anyont,alsoto. be free to publishlhe
news and comment ,on it,.• - - •
Information is the property of the public.' • -
Crossroads Isa new irentare, bearing** basic philosophy similar to
,that of Gilbert,Mr.aord0 our WI/lobe's), Mount Forest end Listowel
newspap- •
meaningful Information for and' about People *the.' "heart" of the
It is our illtentiontelaVestigate,-ivritei:edit and
five -counties• as We poSsibly,can„ * • - •
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With iceirculation of More. than, 0000 In Midwestern Ontario, we
will concentrate our efforts on the people'and issues of our area;c
We 'believe 'Crossroads Can add identity to the communities and
districts lt serves. We intend:to. speak for and about the people in these,
areas and hope Our message is read and respected on community,
provincial and 'federal levels. . „ - •
CitssroadSia a totally new community newspaper, it is new in the
sense that it has never been published'before..But more than that, it
was conceived and designed specifically to serve a need of, readers Ati.
with a single uniform imessage' at the .same time for the first
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It is a comMUnitynewspaperin that it will e net one; but many.
Communities, In addition to all theipcatandirets,news and informa-
tion.publiahed regularly in The Listowel Banner, Mount Forest Con-
federate and .Wingham Advance-TiMeat Crossroads isan action -
packed third section teattiring additional, in-depth cross country
pinrtioirtnfla: order
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• your participation. ; • : .
We will welcome 4110 Value readers' opinions and hnpressions of
this new, community publication, • , ... •
Itis Mit riovi never will be, ou4ittention40 heegMe'aliAllings10all pebpj ii cIcular4.
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• We invite your participation.
O' THE HAT—Donna 'Gamble, 14 -year-old daughter of *. and
Mrs. Bill Gamble of Teeswater, who recently returned hOme' after
three months in Victoria Hospital to correct a curvature lof
her tipper spine. Despite eight weeks on 'a:striker bed, a month in a
bed jacket and learning to walk again, perky Donna maintained her
'grade nine studies by correspondence and returned to Wingharn's F.
E. Madill Secondary School in January. • •
—PICKED UP IN PASSING—From .the pages of a.1919 Department of
Public information puhlication,'"Canada's*Part In The Great War",
come these gems from the then, Canada Food Board: Early in 1918
over 1,100 farm tractors were bought and resold to farmers at cost
price. Manitoba received the most, 382, while New Brunswick fanners
bought five. Ontario farmer's purchased•283.
Under a plan called "Soldiers of the Soil"; 14,685 boys between the
ages of 15- and 19 were enrolled and 11,952 of Mein were placed on
Canadian farms in 1918.
QUOTE or THE WEEK—It is really a sad State of affairs when
farmers are shoved off to the side with their problems While politicians
bicker over whose program is going to be adopted." —Federal Agri-
cultural Minister Eugene Whelen. • * . .
The milk board has set animportant precedent. While
other commodity OW* do advertising, the milk people are
'certainly the moat
This raises the question of whose responsibility it is to
advertise. DO producers bear the costs of advertising an end
product se that processing firms and retail outlets can accrue
even bigger profits/ Or do they simply sell their product and
let the Other industries advertise (or not advertise) the end
product? Milk producers have made the 'decision that pro-
etiOnthr.be4dOne 1$4,;,'`ocoalulg'andigli440116kt6411,
enrienoiiiiitto'smEY their interests. The have tikes
The Milk Marketing: Board is taking the initiative in
several important fields. No doubt they Will get their wings'
,CliPped at times since this can only be natural. But their ef-
forts, with capable leadership, *should be studied by other
commodities groups and even by the consumer. 'Basic
'iilbsophies could well be applied elsewhere.
ONE OF THE YOUNGEST delegates to the recent Ontario Milk Marketing Board annual
meeting is given a helping hand by Cathy McRae, 1972pairy Princess for Lanark County,
left, and Valerie Bradford, 1972 Haldimatid County Dairy Princess. As &grassroots dele-
gate, the calf had first-hand knowledge*** current dairy farm situation, but declined to
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3 deaths in 15 days
Thereivere 13 fatalsnowmobile thoroughfares
accidents in OntariO ,as of mid-
January, *1973, known and au-
thentcated by the Ontario Safety
League. Nine of the snowmohil-
.ers died when they collided with
motor vehicles or Were struck by
molar vehicles on public thor-
oughfares. .
Closeito thesame proportion of
non-fatal snowmobile -accidents
have rquited from the same
causes. It is also fair and truthful
to state that in most collisions be-
tween Snowmobiles,and motor
vehicles, poor judgment and in-
ability to control his machine on
the part of the snowmobiler was
the cause of the accident.
The Ontario Safety League
does not believe tnowmobiles
should be operated on public
1
where there is a
heavy or even moderate use by
motor vehicles. However, if a
snowmobiler is determined to
face these hazards, he should be
prepared to obey all laws and
regulations of the Highway Traf-
fic Act and keep his, snowmobile
under control at all times. This
means being, able to stop and
steer with sufficient effectiveness
to avoid trouble.
Ontario Safety League experts,
with many years' experience op-
erating snowmobiles, say that
mi the snow-covered and often icy
surface of a heavily travelled
public thoroughfare, it is im-
possible to control a snowmobile
within a - reasonable degree of
safety.
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H. G(:)11DON
Partnerships GREEN
A partnership is a combinatio
of two' or More persons for
the own capital gains and losses, cal-'
purpose of jointly carrying on
businessand of sharing profits o
losses. A partnership is created
'the
A simple e e might tielp to
by an agreement (either written
e illustrate nature of this
fundamental change., Assume
or oral) and by conduct; If ther
is a ."conimon fund'', asharin
of profits and losses, a partner
ship may be recognized -wiles
clear proof to the-contrary4
demonstrated.
Some 1the other characteris
tics that indicate a partnetshi
exists are the pint ownership o
assets, a joint bank account,
single set of records and join
participation in management. A
specific agreement - might pro-
vide for any one of these charac
teristics but still not necessarily
imply that \,.L legal partnership
exists:
In a general partnership,
where all members take part in
the control and management of
the business, each member is
jointlyliable to creditors for all of
the firm's debts, regardless of
any private agreement between
the partners.
In a limited partnership, where
only some of the members are
general partners„ there are other
limited partners who only contri-
bute to the firm's capital, who are
subject to a limited,, liability pro-
vision. The unlimited liability
clause between general partners
is the key to a partnership ar-
rangement.
What is the status of the part-
nership under the new Income
'1%x Act?
Generally speaking, "the treat-
ment of partnerships is funda-
mentally unchanged under the
amended act." Partnership in-
come will continue to be taxed in
the hands of the partners; a part-
nership is not taxed as a separate
entity. Nevertheless, there are a
number of important changes
which now make operatinga
partnership increasingly com-
plex and burdensome.
Partnership Separate Entity
Basically, the amended Income
Tax Act has . simply moved to
make a partnership a more rigid
organizational structure'. The
tax -man now regards a partner\.
ship as a separate legal entity
until taxes are paid. When taxes
are paid, the income from the
partnership is allocated to the
partners. This implies, however,
that as a separate.entity the part-
nership must actually own the
g that two partners (80-50) make
- $30,000 while 'expensesv• total
s '$15,000. Also assume that they
s _claim a $5,000 capital cost allow-
ance (re: depreciation) on de-
- preciable partnership property._
p We then have the following ac -
f counting entries:
a' For the Partnership
t Expenses incurred
operations $15,000
Capital Cost
Allowance
For a Total of
Income froth
operations
Income Allocated to
Partners $10,000 certainly
For Each of the Partners teacher "a'i
Income from the partner-
. $5,000
$20,000
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school miaow "Why, I'm almost
t b up; one shocked
for the senior grades at least,
even the quiet kids are pairing off
they can think of nothing
but the poetry of love. And the
rinetaollay acgligrnoehssaiavyewsthuedreenatsawid allagyo.
afraid to 'dr the'curtains to
the other day to discuss the prob-
time there isn't a teacher around
and being late for algebra class
because
The teaChep?rvis in our high school
in the corners and holding hands
prob-
lem of smoothing. Seems that,
vere called into solemn meeting
$30,000 saahwowanaithilio nymore!ikeit I never
bably quite true.
that venerable
ent to school the
eciat one end of
boys at the oth
bserver would ha
$200 'thought t • hat
there was some sort
of
Width*
ship (1/2 of $10,000) $5,000 a,
girlsheon
Income from other
sourcesd ca 41'
Net Income (neglecting
other personal deduc-
tions $7,000
A partnership is now recog-
nized by the tax authorities. It is
now very similar in many ways to
a corporation. Instead of shares,
the owners hold a partnership in-
terest. Capital gains and losses
occur on the partnership interest.
Much of this information is
from 'a publication called "Farm /
Tax Management Today—chart-
ing a new course." It is available
for $3.00 by writing to: Agricul-
tural Economics Research Coun- h
cit of Canada, 55 Parkdale
Avenue, Ottawa, Ontario, Can- a
ada.
race prejudice keeping them
apart. Any boy who had fallen in-
curably lovesick in those das
and who was unable to keep his
weakness secret, would have suf-
fered all the torments of the
damned. The heckling of
schoolmates and their, jokes and
their dirty little ditties would
have been harder for him toen-
dure than the agony of love itself.
t simply wasn't in the tradition
of youth then to admit that the
great passion afflicted you.
Why the change? Are the sex
ormones beginning to bobble up
little sooner? Maybe. I see that
recent issue 9f the "Atlantic
Monthly" says our girls are
caching puberty a whole year
()linger than our grandmas did.
It seems to me, however, that
uch 'biological change- can pro
Our mistake
In the January 25 issue of
rossroads, an advertisement
placed by Harvey Krotz Limited t
congratulating several Listowel
Transport Lil)es' drivers for their a
excellent safe driving records, a
accidently reversed the areas Pa
serviced by two of the drivers. a
Our apologies to Howard Dip- t
,pel and Gordon Hall.
Howard Dippel has served the
Wingham area for approximately Pr
20 years and Gordon Hall, the tS
Mount Forest area for approxiOf
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',lately 14 years.
ide only a part of the answer. I
hink this unprecedented fami-
arity between the sexes in teen-
gers simply a logical rstilt of s
change in the attitude of their t
rents toward sex. Forty years d
go it was a rare privilege for a
eenager to be allowed to go to a a
snot, and you didn't expect such
wOrldry liberty until you were
etty well come to a man's s
te. Mir would you have thought e
asking for the'old man's Model w
for night out unless you were t
t least able to buy your own gas. h
You didn't mind promising to be .t
back by, midnight either.
The whole attitude of our par,
ents in those days was, I think, to
discourage the Jpve-bug as long
as possible on the assumption
that it would probably bite far too
soon anyhow. Today, however, it
seems not only permissible but
proper to actually encourage the
mingling of the sexes as soon as
possible. 1 don't know how it is in
your town but in our school kids
of 12 or less are going to dances—
'dances sometimes sponsored by
the school, sometimes sponsored
by some mother who is worrying
about the fact that her daughter
seems to be rather uncomfor-
table when boys are around. Or,
worse still, disinterested,
So it hasbecome the accepted
thing'now to exptct kids of 12 or
13 to learn to dance,and to take an
interest in the opposite sex and to
many parents this isas important
as the Ciddls IQ or his innocula-
tions or his report card. After all,
who wants to be guilty of a kid
that's anti -social?
Does it work? Sure it does. As
one miss of 14 or so was reported-
ly heard telling a bosom pal, "No,
he hasn't kissed me yet. Not
quite. But he's fogged my glasses
a couple of times."
• And mind you, today's way of
life isn't content to merely get
this boy -girl thing started as soon
as possible. We keep right on en-
couraging it, particularly when
there's a buck or two lo be made
from it. Have you seen any of the
new movies lately? Noticing the
kind of records they're aiming at
the young set now?
One of the biggest, richest -
looking magazines on the market
right now seems dedicated to the
business of selling the young miss
of 17 or less every conceivable
kind of cosmetic, perfume, bras-
iere, swimsuit, jewelry or dress
hat will serve as a snare and a
elusion for a young male, Young
ove is far more than a song hit or
pieo of poetry today. It is
mighty big business.
Now I'm no rnoralitit for the
irnple reason I'm so broadmiod-
d that I can't tell right from
rong. And admit that maybe
he end result of all this will be a
dalthier, better -balanced young
nan or young woman.
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