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Retail' stores expecCthat the
government's tax cuts will boost
Christmas buying, rePorts
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Fell in The Finania1 Post.
the cuts until after Jan, 1and
the reduction in this ex t��
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will come as a tax
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refundwage-earners ^.
their 1971 returns. Yet retailers
of bigger_pay packets next year
will restore glitter to a Christmas
sales oudoo.k durieuod by
President Nixon's measures to
. invigorate the IS. economy.and
Canada's worsening jobless rate.
Indeed, two of the country's
JuqJeuL national retailers - T.
Eaton Co. and Simpsons Ltd, -
are expecting a 10 percent gain
with '"""' And Simpsons -Sears
second-largest combined
merchandiser in Canada, after
Eaton's, 'expects an
iniVrovement of "better than
.sevoopomeut."Cb,istmuo` 1978`
was not a disaster, but it was a
disappointment. Each year for
10 years, until last Christmas,
retailers had posted a 10 percent
sales . gain, year-to-year._ The
bloom' disappeared in 1970,
.whem most were hard put to
show a five -percent gain -io
many cases, in spite of major
store openings during the year -
and some did no better than
math the- ' 1968 ,sales'
Home curnmx\nQu, sporting
goods, men's .and women's
clothing and sniall, cOlored'
.. kitchen appliances are among
the hot lines retailers expect to
•move 'this Christmas.the And �
Iboom in bicycle sales shwRno
signs of abating as the weather
• cools„ Most popular bikes , are
expensive 10 -speed racers, and
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hands
getting their
sufficient
Iho ' d }lousing starts
'b expected' to be re[leCced in
good `ou�uoC
/umomnm8ut and. /unx/tume, •
predicts W. B. 8venni
catalogue merchandise manager'
for Simpsons -,Sears.. ln. both
men's and women's clothing,
Svenningson believes the lack of
Ung fashion trends has helped
sales: . "
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plans up off the drawing boards.
"The tax cut is helpful only
to companies making sizeable
Greb, president, Greb Industries
Ltd:- The _that
_look at its construction plans forthe corning year.
there atvii-
ew companies row -m
that position.
Those that areh't could be
expeeted to improve their
earnlIgs before considering
expansion plans. But for firms in
good ,shape, the reduction may
be . enough to reactivate.
expansion plans. British
Columbia:telephone Co., one of
the province's largest employers,
told FP the new cnts convinced
the company to take a fresh
People
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farmers try to Obtain
replacement parts for farm
machinery. However, \t„,iso[men
a "people"
problem rather than
a "parts" Problem, says Hal
Wright, secretary -manager of the
Ontario Farm ' Machinery
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Delays can occur because of
several reasons, says Mr. Wright.
The parts department may -not
be open when Elie," part is
make pickups on Saturdays and
.holidayS. Problems May arise if
, the dealer does not realize it is
an emergency and" orders the
part bymail rather than phoning
for immediate ceiivery.
In most cases, the required
parts are at the d
ordered by Telex 'another
province, uxstate and-shippedbY
,air. Since air express takes
emergency may make it
worthwhile to pay the extra
charges, says Mr. Wright. "
There are- certain. Steps the
farmer can take, "to en ure fast
delivery of a much -nee ed part.
First, make sure the d aler -is
given the correct model anti partnumber. One wrong figure in the
number means a different part.
ealer if it is an
Tell the
AlSotell him you're
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prepared' to pay for a telephone
call and premium
charges. The .more the dealer
knows about the problem the
better the service he can give
you personally and get, for yoti.
at the patts depot.
Some parts depots note that
30 to,35 per cent of their parts
orders during the production
season Tall in the emergency
bracket. All companies how have
tel e co mmunications between
branches and parent company.
a Dart order received from a
Toronto -bases parts -depot is not
in stoelt,'the dealer can findout
if it is available in other centers
' Winnipeg,
^' uy
Montreal,. or .Racine. • He can
then determine
has the fastest and/or cheapest
way of shipping it. -
In an emergency,
donq take
it for granted that the dealer
understands' the details says -Mr.
Wright. Instead, give him the
necessary information and be
prepared to pay the extra
'charges. He will then be able to
give you'better service.
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Execut0ves
whelmed
Many exetutives acrossthe
country are underwhelmed
Finance Minibte, Benson'spomp'p,imin8 economic
package, reports StephenDuncun|nTheFip*ooiuf9out.
They concede the cut in
'pluscorporate taxes - by seven
percent the earlier
at' the three percent Stficharge -
will ease their hard -squeezed
profit margins. They allow that*
in • some- industries the 'job'
retraining scheme .will lead to
hiring of some new employees..
They hope that the thred
percent cut iv`pe�o�dincome .
tax will mean the current
in conauma,,apepd�g
will continue.
But there is a lack of
consensus over whether ''.the
economic package�goes far.enough 'or run long'
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' The big tree behind the town offices hdead. Death occurred Tues• day -"nm|n*6sphothooffortm
. ofCouncillor Elsa Haydon to save it. Behinitthwnbin tree is.dmonntroversial shed which some
members of council feel should also be dommfhShedrather--than- '
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suggestions that once -the tree and the shed are down, the ideal xo|u8on would be to pave the
entire area. At the back right of th� photo iS the _new office bui|dinn`houyino the county library
dxwnotaim and dental offices upboim. The present parking lot behind the municipal building
serves only municipalmmff' the police station and the business college perounhn|. <thafY Photo)
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Marketing Board has cut the
Pine River Cheese and. Butter
Oo'np`squotuby 32 per t in
the pastyear,no danger itiuiu
of closingdown - at least
theioaoediatefutmm. .
Glen Martiand
cheesemaker, added ,that if the
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The first year, the plant use
100 per cent of its Aubtu
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May, 1970, the quotawa
Thatreduced to 86 per cent of th
_ base - about 15 million pounds
the plant used
...,1,21/0,000 pounds more milk
than the quota allowed. This wa
taken ,�Ythe 1071 uotab.
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The overwhelming ..support
Liberal Murray Gaunt received
at the Huron -Bruce polls was
similarthe support
r~~ More hdouble the votes
were cast,for Gauntthan forthe
NDP andOonservmdxemuudiduto
'together. He had more votes
than either of• the' other two
cOntenders at alt tile polls.
Oh election night, a grinning,
happy Murray Gaunt told the
`News' that he was surprised at
the support People had given
him but very pleased and very
grateful,
Dr. Donald Milne, the NDP
candidate, came in third at the
Polls with 2,144 votes. He
congratulated Mr. Gaunt and_
said he was not disappointed
since he had not really expected
to win. He added that he was
quite Pleased be -cause the
support for the New Democrats,
had more than doubled over the
1967 -provincial election. ,
Due 'to health and financial
reasons, the NDP campaign was
low-key but personalized with
supporters going door-to-door.
-This partially explains- why the
NDP had most, of its support in
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that -Dr. Milne is not really well
known throughout_ the large
riding except- flround town.
--candidate,- Lou Boytee,adrnitted
he was a little disappointed that
his party. had not received more
Support, He -said he had�
riot'axpo ted uwin the election buhad no regrets for the way he
had conducted his campaign. Mr.
.Boyce felt he and his supporters
had -fought cleanly, honestly and
straight from the shoulder
This description really fits the
whole campaign in Huron-Aruce.
There were no,' abuses, no
name-calling or mudslinging. The
candidates stuck to the issues
ands their pol icies.
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and what he has 'done
Huron -Bruce in that time: They.
and their hImM,
at the polls.
on Thursday
victoiY: he
In his landslidexeuwved one of, the;
largest majority of votes in the
province: He 'comrhented that it
was a far cry from when he •
originally camp to office in a
byelection when he scraped
through with 28 -vote lead after
a recount. of how the
vote went, see .the 'News' tally
How Huron -Bruce voted
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Following is a breakdown of
the election polls throughout
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Colborne I98
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Kincardine '421
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d them first. 'then cheddar cheese larger plants to buy out sinaller
n began xo8o scarce..ones thereby acquiring their
The floor price for cheddar quota. -
e .used to be 51 centsa pound but .'l[ the Pine River plant c�sod
. recently was raised to 71 cents. down, the Ontario government
(The floor p,me�the n,�othe would pay $50,000 to • the
, dairy commission pays to the . owners for having phased out.
y pro ssors for the surplus cheese 'Mr.Martin gave an example of a
th �nt cannot sell), cheeseD�n1_-n-'----'--o
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another ,ten per cent then the
plantwill have financialb� B t
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basically,„the Pine
„River plant,' although not large,
has a healthy financial buneand
hsio pouhinothan mad
utho,p|unxoi��xo.
There are several reasons why
the Pine Riverch plant is
less ...~., to be forced into
closiui over the reduced quota
umnuthe,umux ohe8du,oUea�
factories. Fbst�raU`Pine River
has no cnojnubnenuu to meet,
and the plant is in a strong�positiunmu,ket,ioe.
A| business\ d right
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the plant outlet, Ingersoll Cheese
Mr, Martin "Said he would not
cOnderrin the 'quota -systern,,
since it is, one means of keeping
the flow of 'milk under control.
:If there were no plant,quotas,
holeo�What is not sold ever,
had, getting cheese ni|b.•
where to get milk. •
Not that "Pine River has
The plant was started in,1885uu
a co-operative ento ,iso by the
local dairy farmers.- Befake the
quota -system began, Mr. Martin
often had to' turn -.milk away.
But for Pine River there iS no
real trouble *itb6the quota.
'' The base plant quota was set
Co, the year 1968-69. Whatever
the plant used in that year was
taken as their base quota. Pine
R|ver'obme.quotu was set at 17
million' pounds. •
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Home Dressed Select Meat
had already' been reduced by 68
The08 allowed -them about 12,500,000pounds of milk. After the extrapoundage the plant used in 0
Was taken off the 1971 qdota
the plant was left witbtu
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uvz9�l� / of 10,700,000 ~
The 'i nt could V�''
moreused
m but the OMMB
directed milk avtay from Pine
River. Mr. Martin estimated that'
the -q River factory used
., Mr. Martin..explains- that the
about 600,000 poun,dS of cheese
milk each of July and August.
board was needed in the fiat
,place because plants wete
overpro•8uoinQ and
overe,xtending
The milk producers werthe
first to demand some form of
regulation., The, fluid _milk
market is. the highest priced but
u rmy farmers_ had that field
sewed up and the small
producer., far away from
metropolitan area, ---could 'not
break, into this better„ tlaying
market. These /tarrrieri
the ITOW 'of milk . go everyone
'would have an equal
opportunity -to get into the
better paying markets. In
response to;these .demands, the
federal. government net up the
Canadian Dairy' COmmission. ,
The Ontario Milk Marketing
Board was set up a•' few years
later to peTform the same
function for the processors ux
the Dairy Commission doeS' for
the
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designed to complement one •
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The OMMB gears delivery of
milk to knw*n markets.
preyento • suzp|uxe; while
market security --for
the prod umg.
Agriculture MiniSter Witham
Stewart explained in a speech *|
Brockville that without imposing'
quotas and penalties the OMMB
could .not control and finance
distidSal of Surplus milk.,
The pltmupp|ym.n,
added,. tries to rationalize milksupply with available markets
unu ensure that all processors get
their share of the. available milkin both times of surplus and
shortage.
Mr. pointed out that
the fluid jerket always comes
first sinc,It pays the highest
price. After the fluid market has
been suPplied,- the -industrial
plants divide up the reindeng.
milk. The industrial Ants
include those that process
powdered Milk,
cheNses and 6heddar cheese.
Specialty' cheeses used to pay
.er hundr15 cents more
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weight than cheddar cheese
plants so milk suppliers sold to
e OMMB ,sets an average The mw'" |'
price per month that the grant six industrial plantshave to ~~, for government to build the
milk butant does not pay ' This'they received'^u
.Vm sn�offce. Specialty 'cheese $50,000 grant for dumncdown.
plantsused to pay morfor their He' added [hu+• both ���
quota -free and could' gel milk in ,�uoz they Wem`�Avonbunk plant and the
vuuut��S of to Stcoy\� a large concern. The
areNow 'the pheddar plants f � plant'---
,paying more 'Chan the specie* $ououu government grant m,
cheese factories but they have selling
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not had ucormupond|n&ioc ^ small plantsstarted up
'}n quota. The specialty chee�s about 15 ago and put in
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MADE FRESH Ofk|LY
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GROUND -CHUCKIb� ,
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BONELESS - OVEN READY
DRESSED” ROAST PORK 11~ 59'
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261
381
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316
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184
108
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W. Wawanosh 103
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GRAND -TOTAL: 3,706
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are still able to get unlimited hum tanks' so they could buy
amounts of milk even though mo,�_n|hat a time. Each plant '
theypay �a ' tried to induce shippers„ Oa to start `on -
This is where the rigidity and from o»no,'pmn�.' Now. tue .
county
horneevident. If one type of plant L� from. Toronto and the, i/����o[the nuo��t��OMMB directs allthe shipping
���ingrtho financial load ,for �uo�umnmb���� just any
the others, that type Of munt -shipper.'
should receive some.concessions . board the producer
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the OMMB has not -seen fit and ch the for the
to ' milk. Themust ^b6
even they are now p�• the shipping 'charges but
-paying mn,ethan .the specialty ,a|0 �m board directs
:.,..cheese processors; farmers tu oh�p to the nearest«'. Martin suggested that if plants.
the D�nCommission would Now Many of' these small
|ooa*n up its quotas and allow plants are being forced. of
_farmers to produce more milk business. Their base quotas were
'vwtunut penalizing them then not ,high enough and they ,just
the milk supply could average cannot survive. The OMMB
itself out and rise. to the |ewdo[ seems to be .encouraging large
supply and demand of 1969 , plants and discouraging themnaU
The 0��8 plant u�t plants. „..-
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system has helped some plants Hdwever, Mr. Martin u,nduto
-larger but it has uiso hurt some. Thc .. agree with AgricultureMinister
such mS the one in Stewart when he said, �Y|th all
Mitchell which can handle one its imperfections -- and no
million pounds of milk a -day, policy ,iu perfect - this plant
have had ` their ,putenual supply quotu nd|/cy has
production ,odufed. The maintained. in businessmany
. ''reduced
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ity, and much of the
equipment :sits unused. ' The
plant system actuai-ly encourages
. the large multi-purpose plants in
a period of short supply (in open
market bidding)." ,
The $500,000 addition to
Brucelea 8uveh` the County
Home at -Walkertcin, wjll be
cornmenced soon, in accordance
with -word received last Week
from Queen's Park. The addition -
'will increase the HoTheg-present
accommodation for.92 residents,
by another 66.
The following is a letter
received by Thqmau B. Alton,
Gec 'T,easure, of Bruce
Courty Homes, and dated
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October 13. 1971.
Dear Mr. Alton:
I am writing to inform you
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that -the Government is prepared
to move forWard immediately
with the construction of the
proposed addition -to the Bruod
County Home for the Aged in
vvalkort�n'
- and Tour committee
wUL l know, want to continue
lose eo'opemtion with my
officials in the planning, design
'and ultimate operation of the
Home in accordance,the
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Bhmoo for the Aged and Rest
Homes Act, which is •
udmin|ute-tud-by-
'Department, .
In this regard, you may be
. assured of chq full- support of•
Mr. Lawrence Crawford,-
Director
Aged „B,uneh and his staff. Mr. ,,
C, ro,dm}Ube'Cnntacdogynu
anomy, and l do hope that
construction will beable tostart
in the near future.
' On behalf of the
Government, l would like to
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congratulate your
Committee of ManagementThe
County Council and the Citizens
of Bruce County for _the •
excellent o*opemu�n |n the
Tanning of this -
1.$^nues regards, Cordially,
Thomas L. Wells, Queen's Park.
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Th'e Morning after at the Clinton Public Works Department and smaller, equipment
werehmst in the. ,~°
warghousesaw onlookers ��m����i������ and contents —'
equipment lost in the mmzm A streetsweeper, dunmp^trumh,
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