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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1973-03-01, Page 1Goderich Signal -Star e winner of four awards recent newspaper corn - n sponsored by the On Weekly Newspaper ation. Three first place s and one second place ate were collected at the `OWNA convention in owntown HolidayInn, n, bv Signal -Star staff • rs. local newspaper placed or general excellenc0for apers with a circulation 10 to 4500. Runnersup. the Fort Erie —Review and the rov Age -Dispatch, ging is completed by a' :system in seven different ries. The.Signal-Star ear - 0 out of 100 for front 55 out of 75 for editorial 71 out of 75 for graphy; 5t) out of 75 for C•45 out of 75 for sports; t of 50 for women's hews; 8 out of 50 for local ad- ing. Total points were e Fort Erie —Review tallied 366 and rathrey Age -Dispatch had Signal -Star also won awards in special ories open to all apers, regardless of size irculation, in the province tario. • special CFRB award by Arthur Cole was for st news story. The topic the controversial Sully his comments about the Cole wrote, 'A series of articles, all well written, e(Ithe offer of a new park local Foundation to the Council and carried gh to conclusion the story the idea foundered. This bviously of great interest paper's circulation area, ngles were well covered, he stories were well writ- e special editorial award, for what is in the -opinion - judges the hest editorial' weekly newspapers in the. nce, also went 'to the ',Star. Thesubjectof the rial was the plea 'for gamation of the retarded hoolers into Tinkertown, re were only first and se - place 'winners in the •graphy competition. First went to another area paper, The Listowel Ban - Second prize was awarded e Goderich Signal -Star.„ e farmers of this Riding the support of the New ocratic Party Riding iation and its official can- te in the upcoming Marc y -election, Paul Carroll. a statement to the' press, d last Friday, Carroll said at the meeting of the NDP incial Conference to be in Goderich this weekend; hiding Association will in- ce a resolution asking im- ed financial support for Iture related processing ta where required. e actual text of the motion read: "Whereas the On - Development Corporation riming a policy of not gran - funds to_. a gricultura easing; wd whereas Itural, processing is a le and sensible way to ? the economy of rural munities: therefore be it lved that the Co-op Loans rd be restructured and n adequate financing to farmers t� capitalize OW n Planta; that the ODC gnite agriculturia int for both domestic *sport use' as.* viable thry industry and change licies aceordisili" Motion, Carroll said, PraMPt44-* s statement Despite' considerable debate concerning the real necessity of _an increase Huron County jtrti COunci s voted themselves a pay ra . 1.10 at the'monthly session of council last Friday. The raise will increase their per diem rate for tegular meetings and . committee sessions to $32 from $28.50. In addition to the rates will give councillors $25 fihr any half day meeting, a session ending before noon or beginning after 1:00 p.m.' Reeve of Hayfield Ed Od- dleifson led the argument against the increase terming it "an. increase for the sake of an increase." He said he did not think the councillors came to the meetings for the money, "hut for. the good of the municipalities. We should he With the by-election campaigning for all parties in high gear throughout the riding, Liberal 'candidate Jack Riddell and Ontario Liberal Bob Nixon took time out on Tuesday to visit the garage -of Alfred Hebei where posters and pictures attest to many election campaigns of former years. Nixon here points to a photo of William Lyon McKenzie King a famous Liberal , once Prime Minister of Canada. (staff' photo) • M.eeting_the people in Huron -,County and 'in Goderich is becoming old -hat now for Liberal by-election candidate .Jack Riddell but on Tuesday' morning in, the„.county, town.„. Riddell's campaign took on a new ..burst • of importance as Robert Nixon, Provin, ial Liberal Leader, joined hin. in this municipality. Liberal headquarters on The Square spilled over about 11 a.m. for the arrival of the Nixon party. As Nixon cir- culated among the well7wishers shaking-hrindsand exchanging• greetings, he was met: by a special delegation of Save The .Jail supporters. Also in town for the occasion was Liberal member of provin- cial parliament for Huron - Bruce Murray Gaunt. In a brief address- to the workers at the campaign rooms, Nixon spoke of the caucus meeting scheduled for March 12 in Goderich. But he promised to be back in the area The Liberal leader saidthat. family -man ' and farmer - businessman Riddell would give Huron a "strong, modern representative the Legislature". He said there is no reason to suppose now that ' Ontario Premier William Davis needs additional PC membership to bolster the already "massive majority". he enjoys at Queen's Park. Candidate Riddell told the audience his day began at Tues -day when he finished his farm chores in time to arrive at Dearborn Steel Tubing by 6:45 to talk with the workers there for a few minutes before their work day began. Then, Riddell said, it was back to Has Township where he was , canvassing - among "goad farm folk". Riddell reported a favorable response throughout the.county and said he was optimistic about the future. Turning to —Murray Gaunt, Riddell recalled that when the popular Huron -Bruce member, was elected he won by less than :30 votes. "It only takes one point to win a ballgame," said Riddell, "or. to upset -the -applecart and get into Queen's Park.'' The Nixon -Riddell 'entourage moved to the southern edge of Goderich where they went door-to-door through the Sun - coast Estates area. kf.? Then it whs on to the home of -Mr. and Mrs. Alfred-Habel 165-Picton Street West, where the group viewed the em- pressive collection of election posters and political pictures from years hack. After lunch at the Bedford Hotel, the group moved into the Zurich area, - to- Liberal headquarters in Hensall, to Wingham for TV interviews and finally to Seaforth and a door-to-door canvass of homes in that town between 5 and 7 p.m. Huron bv-election cam- r paign leadinglo March I5 -war- med .up this week as all three parties. contesting the seat left by the retirement of Charles MitcNaughton shifted their campaigns into high gear The Pragressive Conser- vativeS' have het.oi vaging an act ive- (-a m pa go on behalf oif their candidiite Don Southcott. Over - the weeks sincehis nomination Mr. Southrott been making an effort to meet a, many of the voters as possible, campaign workers ex, plained. Conservative leader —Bill Drivis will also he lending his "w.upport . with -a \n‘itheake break - .fast planned for this morning at the Goderich arena between 7:00 a.m. and I.)!00 a.m. Davis will he hack in the riding again on \larch 7 'when the have a rall'k, planned in Seaforth, Mr. Southrott has made many of the rounds to local in- dustries and further aneetings are planned with workers over the next ‘veek..- He has already toured - the Dominion Road Machinery Plant and kvill he .visiting Goderich Manufac- turing in the -near future. Mr. Southcatt will get rid- ditional support March 9 when a number of cahmet ministers will ..be in the •riding and Goderich for some main - streeting. •Just Which cabinet ministers will he on hand has not yet been announCed. . The Conservatives now have six campaign "Action Centres" in- operation, one in each Goderich, Clinton, Exeter, Seaforth, Hensall, and ri(Pe Campaign workers for New ...Democrat candidate Paul rroll said Tuesday they were item completing the first of three canvasses in the municipalities of .the -ridings and he undertaking a blitz, this weekend to cover the rural areas an behalf of Mr. Carroll. They r'ilso said that Mr. Carroll had personally covered many of the polls. Donald MacDonald., crime into the riding on Wednesda evening to lend his support ;it a meeting in Brurefield .111(1 " party _leader Stephen Lewis is expected back in the riding a number of times during the campaign. He. will he in Go(1erich_oyer the first weekend in March for the Provincial NI -)P conference and wll he hack to help with campaigning later that month. The workers also rioted that several wine and cheese parties have been organized to give voters an opportunity to meet Mr. Carroll and that final dates (11c1 places would he an- nounced later. The New Democrats have three campaign offices now in (Continued on page 46) An engineering survey of erosion along the Lake Huron shoreline in Goderich was authorized last Friday by the Maitland Valley.Conservation. Aut horny. The authority approved a proposal by .G`oderich represen- tative Frank"Walkorn,-8 former mayor, to commission a survey of the: -area just south of. the ' Maitland River mouth. Provincial subsidies will pay up to 75 percent of the cost, with Goderich paying 20 per- cent 80(1 the authority the remainder. Mr. Walkom termed recent landslips along the shoreline as "serious." He said the lawns'of several homes along the bluff, as high -as 120 feet in some places, have been extensively eroded by waves. The authority also endorsed a proposal by Colborne Town- - ship for a hiking trail along the Maitland River between Salt - ford and Benmiller, :and . pledged. personnel to help township officinl thv mut—the trail. Auth4rity resources manager Andrew McBride said summer students employed by the authority' could help clear the trail if the program is im- plemented as expected this year. Cost of materials would he borne by the township.. Mr. McBride said it has been suggested that 'the trail be ex- tended eventually to Wingham, a distance of about 40 miles. prepared to make sacrifices." Harold Lobb, Clinton Reeve, sided with Mr. Oddleifson's remarks and went so far as to say he was willing to go without pay for the work he did on council. The portion of .the rate in- crease which brought the most criticism from councillors was the new $25 half day 'rate which many felt was excessive and should be dropped or at least reduced. Goderich Reeve -Deb Shewfelt, in supporting the in- crease, said that mahy felt county Council was a closed shop and that the average working person could not af- ford to run for office. "The ontc ws:a1;,;(1 overcome this is to keep the pay scale up to. date," he He also said that the raise was justified because of the "heavy year long demands of the job." Reeve - of Grey Township, Charles Thomas. said that ac- cording to his calculations a county councillor could earn about $8,600 but that the money made up for income lost while serving,. Many of kt he councillors agreed that they could no longer replace themselves at home for - the -- amount they could two years ago. Reeve -John Flannery told council that inflation had to he stopped and suggested that tur- ning down the wage increase would he a good place to start. In' other matters arising from the Executive CoMmittee report council ratified thecom- mittee.w recommended com- position r.;')I the Tax Review Committee. Anson McKinley was replaced by Deb Shewfelt, Goderich Reeve, with the Other committee members being Charles Thomas, chairman, Gerry Ginn Ceci1 Desjardine, Joseph Kerr, Frank Cook and Warden Rov Pattison, ex officio. member. In their budget' re -port the committee brought down in- creases across the board. The budget for members of council was increased from $41,450 in 1972 to $53,700 in -1973. It was explained that much of this in- crease resulted from the ad- ditional members of council. made in "London last week by Provincial Agricultural Minister William Stewart who said he would like to see more Canadian content in the food processing industry and more supply management efforts from the farmers. "In terms of recent events surrounding a proposal by the Ontario Bean Grower's Co-op to establish a half million dollar bean processing plant in the Seaforth area," said Carroll, "the Hon. Mr., Stewart has some distance to go before the Davis government pays more thah lip service to his statements. Mr. Stewart should put his words into action." A meeting between the Bean Growers' Co-op from London tiered ODC officials to discuss the possibility of financial , assistance to establish a processing plant in Seaforth was held January 23, with negative results The proposed plant was to meet the marketing of bean growers in Huron and Perth Counties AS both 'acreage and productiOn increases in this area, Carroll said. He added that its services were to provide cleaning, grading, polishing and bagging—faiilities for direct retail sales and sales to can - neries directly from the far- mers' group. Carroll said the bean growers were advised by ODC and Con- servative MPs that Develop- ment Cortiorattan guidelines would not permit -financial assistance for two main reasons: the plant would he agricultural rather than in- dustrial -manufacturing and the plant would he administered under a co-op structure. "In addition to the ODC refusal, further consultation with the Co-op Loans Board ,1wasear nDC guidelinehat wGh Government Agency required 200 percept collateral with a, $100,000 ceiling on loans," continued Carroll. "The ODC guidelines are ob- viously geared to industrial needs in urban areas and need to be revised to.include such secondary agricultural in- dustry," said Carroll. "As a New Democrat, I deplore the fact that the guidelines do not recognize the needs of rural Ontario where agriculture is the prime in- dustry," said Carroll. "As a New Democrat, I. support this type of aid to secondary in- dustries." If such grants are available to small recreational interests such as the Pineridge Chalet near Hensall, then priorities need major adjustment to per- mit the same financial assistance to those industries which are both supportive and secondary to agriculture,— Carroll insisted. "If Mr. Stewart has genuine concern for increasing Canadian content of food processing," Carron. concluded, "then he will act immediately to provide the same cash incen- tive to agricultural concerns as are available to other in- dustrial concerns. The present policy is but one more example of legislation geared for the.in- dustrial corridor of Ontario.", Carroll said the Bean Growers' have presented a strong case and, that their record of management is ad- mirable. "They are -rer:tain this ven- ture is sound," said Carroll. "The most deplorable aspect of the government response is that the growipg market for processed beank is an export market with 65 percent available for export sale," Carroll charged. - There are other resolutions, to be presented at this weekend's seminars • In4uslries throughout the years have boasted about their faithful dedicated emjSloyees but seldom can they claim the type of worker that Bud Lea has been for 46 years to the salt industry. He was_born 'in Point Edward Ontario in Octokir of 1908 and married his wife, the former Alice Christi&in 1926. They now have a family of three girls and one boy. In 1927 Bud went to work for The Dominion Salt Com- pany for only 27 cents an hour. While he was there, the' company was purchased by Century Salt Limited, In 1940, Century Salt was bought out by Sift O Salt and Bud then became a foreman in the sifter room. While with Sifto, Bud travelled quite a lot and spent about eight months at a time at such depots as Burlington, Parry Sound and Montreal. In his spare time, he Worked in the Stores Department of the Sifto Salt Company in Sarnia. In 1960, Bud came to the Goderich mine to work in the shipping department and has been here until his retirement Monday, February • 26. It is quite an achievement to spend 46 years of one life in one profession but to Bud Lea the opportunity to watch this salt industry grow and develop has made it all wor;• thwhile. At the moment Bud has no real plans for his retirement other than a trip to 'Vancouver, possibly next. month. Gordon Muir and Bill Coglin presented him with a beautiful set of golf clubs and a travelling bag. Both gifts were on behalf of the company.