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The Wingham Advance-Times, 1973-02-15, Page 203 may delay on _Mint* Minister of the „ y delay Making 001Xeming the con - fill Site in Minto some time. Some the ministry feel he the newly -formed solid task force to make a re - effectively stalling the elect - Oa the Minto question for as /Pleb as six months. The task force was formed in November NA, given wide terms of reference, was not expected to report until ,next summer, The committee, headed by lamer • Deputy Minister' of Tourism, Alva S. Bray, has spent most of the time since. November setting Up the organization to handle the SPeeiiie questions to be answer- ed. In addition, Mr. Auld was con- sidering a special committee to look into waste disposal by muni- cipalities. It is now felt that he may name this committee to aid in the Minto decision. Minto Test Case While this committee would not be dealing with lianiston spe- cifically, it would certainly be able to consider the situation as an example of current problems. This would not only give the government more time to look at the political and economic rami- fications of the decision it has to make but will enhance the gov- ernnient's image regarding its concern for the environment. Even though the Ministry has the machinery to postpone any decision for a short period, it cannot hold off making a de- eision, indefinitely if Canadian Pacific asks for permission to go' ahead with its proposal: To date no application has been placed- in front of the minister. • If such an s application is re- ivedby the ministry, a hearing ii be held by the Environ- mental llearinglIodrd.where any .or individual opposing the - ination,. will have,an oppor- to make representation fmielpalifiPs ty owners, oaring ea a minimum three rtmost 'ea*, i complete eation ` of jaeeet prop,ementfo e- royes the iustiUnet'con een- 1 Iting can an determine the water table, flow, and use of groundwater in the area. The ministry has already given approval in principal to the Minto Site, based on soil compo- sition. This still leaves the basic prob- lem of what to do with the grow- ing accumulation of solid wastes unsolved. At best the land fill method of waste disposal is a temporary answer. The govern- ment's retognition of this is manifest in the formation of the task force. Land Waste Although the ministry states that land fill is an environmen- tally acceptable method of re- moval, it cannot be forgotten that it is a waste of productive land! Incineration spares the land but it spoils the air with smoke and odor pollution. Recycling is the. answer that many European cities have found. The City of Hamilton is re- cycling some wastes to produce road surfacing materials. There are still some serious technical and economic problems to be overcome before all wastes can be returned to usefulness. One of the largest problems is the separation of the • various products in the garbage. Volun- teers in some centres such as Kitchener -Waterloo and Ux- bridge have undertaken this job but it is very time consuming. It is difficult to get the general public to put garbage into separ- ate containers according to any reasonable 'classification. If glass, tin cans, paper and perish- ables were put in marked con- tainers; half of the job of recycl- ing would be done. There is also the problem of a change in the industrial basis of the, country as, fewer new prod - lids are needed and ,new are absorbed into a new recycling in- chistirys. The change is going to be upsetting to many and a blessing to ether!. Yet, the change must come ac- cording to the membersof the, Derail Dumps 'Today committee who are (*posing the land fill op- eratien,in Mink), and the rest of the province. The committee feels the country is just going to have to make the adjustment ,13e - fore more good agricultural isitsed for land, fill and the farm- er's.of the country 004 plieS of garbage. I • businessmen in never consultedal financepolicy Or revenuelegisla- tionn that. affects Ahem aid Irvin Reset, presided 'Of titute' of k Chartered coUntants of Ontario, recently., Big business, bankaand cerPOra- tiOns often act as behind -the - scenes' POlicOnalters in Ottawa: According to Mr: !Rosen, the small and medium-sized busi- nessman "has no meant' of bring- -lug his views to the attention of those who will make the deci- %ions." He suggested that only a small' portion of business was actually. helped by Ottawa and Said federal legislation purported . to be helpful "is often useless to 90 per cent of businessmen in Canada, if not downright harmful to their interests. . Tax incentives are aimed at big business, according to Mr. Rased., He said the two-year Write-off for manufacturers and processors as contained in the May 8 budget was a good ex- ample of this. The write-off would give big business an advantage I CARE THIS IS THE WORLD OF CARE: Providing nutritious food for school chikken and pre-schoolers, health ser- vices for the sick and handicapped, facilities and equipment for basic schoolind and technical 'training, tools and equip- ment for community en- deavours. Your support of CARE makes such things possible for mil - Heins of individuals around the world. . One dollar per person each year would •do itl whereas small- businessmen -would not buy new equipment as a result, according to Mr. Rosen. ,,Said a tax reduction would .have been more helpful to small businessmen. .Commenting on the new in- come tax hip, Mr. Rosen said it would in fact cost the middle- class taxpayer a lot more, while parading as just the opposite. He said the Department of National Revenue was growing rigid and aggressive and pointed this out as a serious concern for Canadians. He claimed the DNRis tending toward issuing more assessments and leaving it up to taxpayers to file notices of objection. This was a residt of the obscurity of the new tax bill, he added. Not every- one assessed higher taxes will likely file objections, but those who do will be paying more for lawyers and accountants and in the long run, this would be a greater expense than ever, he said. But big money and vested in- terests continue to get their views heard in Ottawa. Money has the power. As many a sage has remarked; mauls a curious animal. }leis the only species that will kill others of his own type in either hot or cold blood. And he is the only ani- mal, including the 'much -malign- ed hog; that will eat anything and drink practically anything. Carnivores eat meat. Herbi- vores eat herbs. A few species like to vary the diet with some nice, ripe carrion. But MR will eat anything that grows, walks, swims or flies, including hiniself, if he's hungry enough. Thus we have a proliferation of such delicacies as seal flippers, cod's tongue, canned snake, fried grasshoppers, frogs' legs, bees and ants in chocolate. What other species could stomach birds' nest soup or year-old eggs? Not to mention haggis. Prince Hamlet said: "What a piece of work is man! how infinite in faculties! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel, in ap- prehension how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals!" What a piece of work indeed! Man will eat anything from guts to nuts. For many, there's nothing tier than fried liver, baked stuff- ed heart, kidney pie andl-lklMaat unbelievable—tripe, that agolk dish made from the lining' Of a cow's stomach. It's not hard to figare out where the envoi!** "That's a lot of tripe" came from. Thoseare just a few cateleriell in the guts department. At the other end of the scale, among the'. nuts, are such things astiekory, hazel, chest, wal, Pea and seat breads. No self-respecting goat wOuill eat and drink some of the -things the "paragon of animals" stun* into his quivering, reluctant stomach, Dill pickles, kippered herring. Old tongue, hot curry. Never mind the juice of ferment- ed grapes, and cheese crawling with maggots. No wonder we smell peculiar to other animals, Ever noticed how dogs and cats sniff us and walk away with a disgusted look? How cavalierly we treat those long-suffering stomachs, of which we are issued only one fof the duration. Breakfast. What a way to start adaY! A &WO followed by sco • some Cattail the rougher ter. Then a few slices Off a bum, accompanied by a hen's children. Toes in a couple of vitamin 'pills, with dear -only knows what poisons in them, and we're ready to face the world. NO wonder t1;i0 weed leektt pretty grim. When I was in prison vamp, there were .ritta 141)041t, The Ger- mans kept quite a few cat* aroonnu. Onedtoday control the ameeratppop s..- ticom- mander, who had .a sense at humor, .4iitnedraboTystAgetau" in n te,eh ba eat- ingVerelong-tailed hrair VeP. thet4twillbese' 1YPunboys were eating: t4 cats, The French have horseMeat butcher shot**. Some Asians con- sider there's nothing sweeter than boiled, baked or fried dog, Some Arabian* tribes cook a whole sheep, and the most Mel - lent part of the meal is Sucking out the eyes. An Eastern version of oysters on, the half -shell. Of course, Canadians would never touch such things. We con- fine ourselves to such treats .as shepherds e, consisting of ground -Op, used -up shepherds,, toe nails and all, At least they seem like toe nails, when you crunch down on one. This may all seem irrelevant to • the great issues of the day, and it I• s. But It's a lot deeper than, It seems at first glance, .I began thinking of man as guts When, somebody told ,me a chop had Spent 02 days or something in - a cabin up north and had wryly,' ed: by eating mice. It was lin I • trigning thought. Can't you See him sitting there, drooling, as he turned a mouse on a spit? :Can you understand, him , ',deciding to have a cold luch of haunch mouse, with a Salad of .piae, needles_ and cedar buds, served 'on Can yOu see him munchinga mouse -drumstick for a bed -time snack? Or worrying, like ,any perplex- ed honsiwife, about whether to have a rump; roast of mouse, or a " Standing' rib roast, or bot sliced mOuSe. tongue? ,.• And deciding the hell with he was going to splurge tonight and . have filet of mouse! It boggles the mind. That mu* bc0;10( mhohas b0 .:0a ,s owitnew roughtimeel it eve- - hockey fan. He knows the gross of all the greet players, 'whore they play, hosiv many goo* they've scored 40 far, even the numbers on their sweaters. And he's got hockey cards with ,their pictrires--* whole drawer full of them, courtesy of the bubble gum eoply big Were** NT disturbs themAnd wocbetlde ! But it wasn't his knowledge of hockey which got him into trouble tonight. It was the fact that be WthtaitPitchlaY4inigtiloort, sta.ndlhebilsjarrioutativas goal was between,the two. end legs of the kitchen table. The goal belonging to the Canadiens 'Was theoo spacethbesegoals 1' theautomaticaUtiOtsinoa:: • Each washer and ttejelepho* Stand: sundryb ang °4 141k1 e 11 loliclea:sh'il4P:nabhe!ibatIlhst:Pa'044 tP7d111.2:20,Pne and adhesive tape', and the young lad himself was Somehow managing to -be both teams at one • and' the same time. Pretty rugged game it watt too, it seems, because somewhere in the struggle he seems* to have , boardedhimself se,saVii'oly,that a Picture 'Came tOmbling down from the wall above ffie board*: near the blue line, nail and all. torn fromPSeits0fthelotge near orlienumtiles"eaWlS cen- tre,le -ice. Well mother can stand only s-0 much of that kind of energy, Par. tictdarly if she's no hockey fan to begin With, and when the young- ster, acting on behalf of Yvan Cournoyer, let loose a slap shot standsvh theteend thezone,"puck into the - into a bowl of some untouchable delicacy mother was mixing to cover up the flaws in the lemon pie she had just baked, the only thing which prevented a riot was that there, were only two people to take part. I never was much or a success at 'refereeing, but I hid to leave my rocker then and come out to ,restore the Peace, But you know, in spite of the fact that I know very well that I'd be the, one 'who twoulat idoitireittlaillile-:fititutiicek4•6:oriViterno _tenet!: tre line, and I'd also be the one to hang that picture back up over the blue line ,,again, my sym- pathies, were all with the 'boy. - Why? Because not so old yet but what I can still remember where it took* neither' a miracle that wonderful, wonderful 'world, Environment Minister James Auld was noncommittal recently when members of the Derail Dumps Today \ committee re- quested he veto any Plan to AluinP garbage near the Town of Harris - ton. He refused to make any deci- sion on the case before an appli- cation is received ,from CP ' Rail, which is said to be considering at least four rural Ontario locations for sanitary landfill sites. • Minta Reeve Matthew Seifrid said he ,was,disappointed the delegation failed to, win assur- ances, from the ministerthatthe rural "Garden. of Eden" would not be spoiled. , . He said the DDT delegation still fears CP Rail will be per- mitted to use township land as a dump despite objections from total residents.. ; "It's the mind* the fact that they, can Just ceme-in and dump their garbage gets my goat," said the reeve. "We have a clean township, clean air, goodagricultural land. It's just a Garden of Eden up here and it's just pitiful to think that we have to raise money to fight this." Minto Not Alone Reeve Seifrid feels Minto is not alone in the issue and he is cer- tain if CP get "their foot in our township they'll be after more dump sites in Kitchener, Wind- sor, Guelph and London". Cl' has offered to rail haul To-, ronto's garbage to a rural landfill site for $6.45 a ton and a mini- mum of 400,000 tans a year. That would result in a 32 -car garbage train arriving every day at the site five days a week. The company has esthnated 400 acres Would accommodate such volume for 15 years. Mr. Auld dodged questions about the fate of the project, but rejected outright appeals by the DDT delegation for legislation to prevent urban Municipalities from dumping their garbage in another municipality without the prior consent of the people and council of that municipality. Some urban municipalities simply have no location for dis- posal of waste within their boundaries, the environment minister said. Seek Other Metheds. Landfill disposal will cantina to be practised in the future, be said, but the protest from Minto has shown larger municipalities .that' the handwriting is on the wall;that they are going to have tolook at other methods of Ms,: posal other than landfill. *. Auld mentioned the re- cycling of glass, metals and paper, and the burning of gar- bage for use as energy and pro- duction of steam. , He said he was encouraged by a CP proposal to consider a' re- cycling research plant on' its • Chiefs claim apat landfill„ site, when selected and assured the delegation that* all; provincial requirements AvOldd have to be met before a permit would be panted to the company regardless of the site location. CP has proposed rehabilitating the dump for later use as a public park or golf course. But residents doubt this proposal, , "CPHannam 1hCais" 'ICV7anyt I nshowedt contempt for the local people," said Peter Hannam, federation of agriculture president, for. Wel- lington County. "The municipalities have been ublic TORON1,0 (TIPS) --The Cana- dian Association ot Chiefs Of.Po- lice recently released a position paper On drugs. They say that any Permissive legislation or at- titude toward drugs on the part of any goVernment should' be con- demned. .• The drug problem in Canada is compounded by the fact that most Canadians feel apathetic about it. 'Before the police in Canada can really take the bull by the horns' they must receive -the suPport of the people they try to serve. They must have agree- ment that the problem exists. Earlier this year a Metropoli- tan Teronto policeman was shot by a drug addict after ptirsuing the young man and -two com- panions in their car for a minor traffic offence. The policeman died a while later in a•nearby hos- pital. Headlines screamed, "Police- man Shot!" But the fact that the murderer and his companions were drug addicts was only men- tioned in passing. Interviews with several re- formed drug addiets belonging to Toronto drug rehabilitation group indicate that crime among "heavy" drug users and addicts is commonplace. Petty thievery constitutes part of the daily routine of many addicts, while some rely on outright robbery, rutio breaking and entering, aria dem- o* of drugs to others to support their habits. Said one ex -addict; "I knew one guy who held up private stores and restaurants -late at night two, three times a week. He carded a gun and Would have used it if he were pushed, but most of the store owners , just handed over the money without getting smart about it." Prostitution is another way by ifehicW some addicts procure 'honey to pay for their drugs. According to another of the ex- addictS interviewed, "I lived in a house occupied by both male and fen* junkies. The guys 'often had straight old ladies (girl friends) who would go , out at nights and sell their bodies and come home in the early morning hours with enough junk to get their Men through ,another day." The Canadian Association «of Chiefs of .Police calls for stiffer laws andjail terms for those Who resist treabnent.. Their position paper, prepared by executive di- rector Bernard. Poirier, states, "Those who live with it (drug usa have much more faith in colt hard facts of life than hard scle tific evidence." Canadians have to get off the fence, and into the field, and start fighting. CARE -CANADA 63Sparks OTTAWA (Ont.) KIP 6A6 MARY AND -THE ANCHORMAN—Mary Tyler Moore encounters the big *Os Ted Baxter (played by Ted Knight)—news anchorman on the TV station where Mary works—each week on The Mary Tyler were Show, Tuesdays at 8 p.m. on CBC.TV. Baxter's regular ego trips make up part of the fun on one of the most popular tvitifunflori.c,orrindies on the TV Scene. ty' after them for:15 years to cut the weeds gong their 'tracks.' They've been after them for 15» years to improve the bridge * at ifarriston. And now they won't 'answer questions or tell usAny- thing about the Site. So we don't belieus." The that MO ov The delegation told *. Auld that current policy simply re- quiring a private corporation like cP Rail to gain approval frOM an environmental hearing board be- fore opening a vast landfill site is "unacceptable". Law is needed to require con- sent of the residents.of the affect- ed municipalities. "This is necessary immediate- ly to give:protection to small rural., municipalities where opposition to such dump sites is almost as- tounding," thellelegation said in i its Poti#0,111,404:01140 -It calisSielesokil°4for :::'ir'neranninent re- search efforts to reduce volumes of garbage placed in landfill sites. 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