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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1973-10-04, Page 38 1 former Goderlch men, now members "of the Royal Mounted Police, took part in a ceremony on Sep - What unveiled a plaque commemorating the serVice dogs to the police force. The unveiling was part of a Centennial Celebration for the R.C.M.P. at Ito, North West Territories. Left to right they are tford Deanery meets ay, September 26, tford Deanery meet ing Catholic .WoixterC,s was held in St, Joseph's Kingsbridge with ely 160 members in ntatives were present Council in the Strat- nery. The Councils are eel's, Blyth; St. ,aton; St. Patrick's., *Peter's, Goderich; of Perpetual Help, St. Joseph's, ridge; 8t. Patrick's, a; St. Joseph's,' St. Brigid's, Logan; Uucknow; Our Lady tearmel, Mount Car - St. Augustine, St. St, Columban, St. an; Holy Name 9f Marys; St. James', immaculate Concep- atford; St. Joseph's, rd; Sacred Heart, and St. Boniface, n priests present in - Rev. A.P. Spencer, Directoi, St. Martin's London; Rev. R. Ilan, St. Peter's, Rtv, J.G. Mooney, dy of Mount Carmel, Carmel; Rev. Msgr. L. Holy Name of Mary, Rev. Bensette, St. Church, St. Joseph's • E.J. Dentinger, C.R., Kingsbridge. U. Gardiner of Ilder- .. (RCMP photo) CtISs. John Williams, currently stationed it Melita, Manitoba; Insp. Hugh A. Feagan, stationed at Banff, Alberta; and Cst. Bryan Feagan, stationed at Banff, Alberta. Hugh and Bryan are sons of Mr. and Mrs. Chester Feagan, 128 Palmerston Street In Goderich and John, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Williams -of 230 Hincks Street in Goderich, is their nephew. t oberitb SIGNAL -STAR _ Page three Three leader candidates at Huron -Bruce event Three of the five candidates vying for the leadership of the Ontario Liberal Party slipped into Huron -Bruce riding last week and out again without most people even knowing they had been here. Present Liberal Leader 'Robert Nixon, fiery Grey -Bruce M.P.P. Eddie Sargent and Toronto school -teacher Ted Culp attended the •-•nnual. ,meeting of the Huron -Bruce Liberal Association in the Wingham Town Hall though most people outside the party circle didn't know they were around. But the 200 or more persons in attendance at the meeting knew they were there, especially Mr. Sargent. Mr. Sargent continued his criticism of Mr. Nixon who „is running to succeed himself as leader. The convention to choose a leader will be held later this month. The one major candidate who did not attend the meeting was Donald Deacon from Toronto. Mr. Sargent said he knew he was not a "nice guy" and that if there had been some good men running for the leadership he would have stayed out of the leadership race. He said he had paid for a poll that showed 80 per cent of the people Th the Liberal party wanted a leader- ship change. He claimed that 80 per cent of the delegates to the leadership convention would go to the convention un- committied to any candidate. He said he thought the people of Ontario wanted to be told the truth, even if the truth was very expensive these days (referring to the $250,000 defamation of character law suit brought against him by Vernon Singer, former deputy leader of the Liberal party over charges Mr. Sargent had made in connection with the Hydro inquiry). Mr. Sargent said the duty of the leader of a party is to make sure the party's candidates have enough money to fight a campaign. He claimed Liberal Party financial support has been very small while Conser- vative support /o its party's candidates has been bnormous. He said he would like to see paid fund raisers used who, could guarantee a million dollars a year to the party cof- fers. He said in many ridings in The group approach said best 1. ton, President of the Diocesan Executive opened the meeting with the, League Prayer followed by Mrs. Wm. Regier, Church Life Convener, with the Bible reading. Theme of the meeting was "to love is to serve." Members were welcomed by Fr. A.P. Spencer, Diocesan DirectorvfMra:-J.J. Gardiner, ,• Diocesan! Director; Fr. E.J. Dehtinger,' CIR., Pastor of St. 1Joseph's, Kingsbridge, and Mrs. John Howard, President of St.. filoseph's, Kingsbridge, who also chaired the meeting. Miss, Rita Ouellette, Diocesan Recording Secretary, showed a most interesting .and informative film strip entitled Getting, Work Done Through GI -clips. People grouped together do important things, she said, and leadership is a 'responsibility and an honor. Each member has something to contribute, — some talent -- something to enrich the grdup. All have limitations. Hidden factors influence everyone such, as turmoil with teenagers, lack of money, sickness, etc. Some falsely think that com- promise and a difference of opinion are signs of weakness and should be avoided. Creative compromise is more than goodwill. It takes knowledge, skill and people. There are two types to be found in a group (1) spon- taneous - „these people are free wheeling and give freedom to explore; (2) evalutive - these people use ideas that are analyzed and tested before being presented. People react differently in these climates. Both kinds are welcome in a group. The group is enhanced by the knowledge, skills and values of all mem- bers. Fr. Spencer in his talk to the members emphasized the im- portance of each member in each Council. All are really needed to help to work for God and country. True Christian'' womanhood is promoted in home and family life by w‘innen at the local, national and inter- national level. CWL theme throughout, the year is "to love is to serve." Each member is needed and should attempt to capture the feeling and realization of,what it is to love and serve. St. Paul said, "I am foolish for Chrisi." A single strand of string is easily broken but it can be woven into a cable. So also there is strength to be found in the membership of 100,000 ladies across Canada. The national organization is as strong as each individual member. Fr. Spencer expressed the need not only for more members but for enthusiasm and hard work. The C.W.L. can do much to promote worth- while projects for Church and community. WE SELL ONLY "FRESH" 1 3 - 1 5 Ib. HEN,,TURKEYS 20 to 25 Ib. TOM TURKEYS 87 Ib. ROASTING CHICKENS. "FRESH AT AINSLIE'S" ,E. thal cam set ler thi pais 0 who -1 Ainslie Market Molted always ready fo serve you. "FRESHNESS COUNTS" individuai groups were for- med to discuss questions of in- terest. These included such questions as how to interest young people to become more actively involved. At noon a buffet style lunch - was served by the catering com- mittee of the Kingsbridge C.W.L. After lunch a member from each discussion group reported to the -group as a whole. on what transpired in their individual discussions. In this way many excellent suggestions and ideas were put forth. A report was given by each convener of a standing commit- tee. These included Approximately 150 members and six Parish Directors atten- ded the. Annual Deanery Meeting, Stratford Division, of the Catholic Women's League held in St..Joseph's Parish Hall in Kingsbridge on Wednesday, September' 26. Every parish in this deanery was represented. Sympathy of the community is extended to Mr. and Mrs. John VanRooy and family on the death of his father, John VanRooy Senior. In Holland o,n Friday, September 28. Funeral services were held on Monday .in Holland. Sympathy is also extneded to Mrs. Henry McKenzie and family on the death of Mr. McKenzie. The funeral service was held at the Ashfield Presbyterian Church on Tuesday, October 2 with iterment in Lochalsh cemetery'. Mrs. Bill Hogan was admit- • ted on Monday, October 1 to St. Joseph's Hospital in London and surgery was performed the following day, Mr. Joe VanRooy, son of Mr. and .Mrs. John VanRooy is home again after spending some time at the Alexandra Marine and General Hospital, Goderich and at Victoria Hospital, London. Several residents from this community attended the Inter- national Plowing Match and farm machinery show held on /September 25, 26, 27, 28', and 29 in'Alvinston. The Goderich District Collegiate Institute Annual Commencement and Graduation Exercises were held on Friday, September 28. The following, students from this area received Secondary School Graduation Diplomas, having obtained 27 credits in four years: Lynn Austin, Wayne Courtney, Denise Caza, Ann Dalton, Janice Foran, John Hickey, Sandra Maize, Joe O'Keefe, Harry Franken, Gerald .Knoop, Judy Moran, Leo Redmond Mary VanRooy. Honour Graduation Diplomas were presented to: Ralph Austin, Michael Boyle, Ken Iletherty, Cathy Foran, Terry Foran, Peter Frayne. The William Cutt Memorial Scholarship was presented to Peter Frayne by Kim Ainslie. This scholarship is awarded annually to the student achieving the highest standing in two languages other than English in Years 4 and 5. Peter also received an Ontario Scholarship award and a cheque amounting to $100. It was announced that Ann ,Dalton and' Janice Foran would receive Proficiency Scholarships amounting to $250 each. Each graduate was presented with a Sheaffer pen by the President of ,Student Council, Joe O'Keefe. Grades 5 and 6 pupils of St. Joseph's School in Kingsbridge, accompanied by teachers Clem Steffler and Mrs. Rose Frayne. visited the Goderich Public Library on Friday,afternoon. A large crowd attended the Dungannon Fall Fair last Thursday afternoon. Congratulations to all those who helped make the fair so successful by entering in the different classes and exhibits. The second game of baseball between the Ashfield All Star Intermediate boys, ages 12 to 15, and Lucknow was played on - Sunday afternoon at the Lucknow Ball Diamond. The score was Ashfield 15, Luanow 11. The series is tied one game each with the third and final game to be played on Sunday afternoon, October 7 at 4 p.m. Don't miss it at the Lucknow Ball Diamond. Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Macpher- son and family from Brooklyn, Ontario; Mr. and Mrs. Bill Robinson and family from St. Catharines; and Mr. and Mrs. Mike Drennan and family from Goderich were weekend visitors with Mr. and Mrs. Earl Dren- nan. Mr. and Mrs. Nick Perry returned to their home in Detroit on Thursday after spen- ding the week with her brother, Earl Drennan and Mrs. Dren- nan. GIRL GUIDES On Saturday, Svptember 29 the let Kinsbridge Company of Girl. Guides went on fi hike to Rosinke's beach at" Amberley. The. morning went quickly while the girls collected sea shells, pebbles...and leaves. At twelve thirty, the girls enjoyed lunch in one of Mr. and Mrs. Organization, Mrs.2P.J. Belanger, Windsor; C'hurch Life, Mrs. Wm. Regier, Dash- wood; ChriStian Family Life, Mrs. R.M. Bingham, Amherst - burg; Communications and Public Relations, Mrs. T.A. Gorski, Harrow; Social, Economic and Civic Life, Mrs. Frank Lohuis, Mount Elgin; Ontario the party organization is poor. Attendance at some riding meetings where the leadership hopefuls had debated had been shocking, he said. He said he had never questioned Mr. Nixon's in- tegrity, but he did question his judgement and his leadership. Mr. Nixon spent little time in his speech rebutting Mr. Sargent. Instead, he struck out at Premier Davis and his On- tario government. He claimed Mr. Davis has been losing the confidence of the people ever since 1971 when he won a land- slide victory. He listed such government embarrassments as the Fidinam affair, the Hydro inquiry, and land _transaction and conflict of interest charges against cabinet ministers. "It's up to us," he told his ",----fellow Liberals, '"to offer a responsible alternative." He praised Murray Gaunt for his work on the Hydro inquiry and other committees and he said Jack Riddel, M.P.P. for Huron who also attended the meeting, was "destined for great things in this province." ' Mr. ' Nixon criticized the present education system in the, province,_particularly the loose option system now used. He said 'as premier he -would see that a core curriculum was put back int education rather than the present "cafeteria style education" _which was not ser- ving the students well. During a question period he was asked about his stand on regional government and came out strongly against the present system of regionalizing govern- ment. He said the time to ob- ject in Huron and Bruce was now, before, the government planned ..-legis-lation. He criticized the high cost of the new set up, noting that in Niagara region the cost had ,in- creased about 80 per cent and in Waterloo in the first year the increase was 37 per cent. , Not only was the cost- high, he said, but the government hasn't allowed the regions to make their own decisions. He cited ft case in Niagara where the regional director was, waiting for a decision from Toronto as to where a shopping centre would be allowed to locate. Mr. Nixon called for a scrap- ping of the present systerii and ,a strengthening instead of the county system and more money to the municipalities with no strings attached. He noted that 40 per cent of provincial fnian- ces come from the federal government with no stringi,151it only 15 per cent of municipal needs are met with money from the province with no strings. Ted Culp, the third can- didate present came out in favour of wage and price con- trols in his speech. He also called for more careful land use planning noting the tremen- dous destruction of agricultural land in the province for urban build-up. He pointed out that between 1961 and 1971 a total of 1.6 million acres of Ontario farmland had been swallowed up for urban growth. He called for establishment of new cities on poor farmland and limiting the.,. -growth qf present cities in good farming areas. During the question,,period Dan Murphy, the Goderich at- torney who was (with his wife) chairman of the Jack Riddel campaign committee, asked Mr. Sargent whether or not he felt Mr. Sargent's fight with Mr. Singer was helping the Liberal Party. Mr.' Murphy indicated he thought it was hurting the party. Mr. Sargent said he did not think the/fight was hurting the party and, said he felt+what he had said needed to be said. Eight delegates were elected to attend the leadership con- vention. They were: Alex Corrigan; George Inles, Frank Mullen, John McKenzie, Mrs. John McKenzie, Bill Keil, Ver- non Inglis and Bob McGee. Bill Elston of Morris town- ship retired as president after a lengthy term. He was succeeded oy Alex Corrigan. Social Action, Mrs. Lyle Kirby, Ridgetown and Cultural Life, Mrs. Laurence Howard, Lon- don. The informative and worth- while day came to a close when Fr. Spencer, led the group in prayer. New assessment system is best Ontario's new approach to assessing farms for local tax purposes on the basis .of the land's productivity has been well-received by the farmers of Bruce County, the first -to be reassessed by the Provincial Government.fr Traditionally, all properties, including farms, were supposed, to be assessed on the basis of the property's probable sales price - a sore point with far- mers who found speculators, developers, city hobby farmers and spreading urbanization penetrating farm country and pushing land values up. , The new farm assessment ap- proach,however, involves valuing farm land on the basis of its productivity. This means that, in most parts of Ontario, farm assessments will be lower than the property's actual market value. -The new assessment policy recognizes the unique land use requirements of farming and 'protects genuine farmers from rising property taxes. What happened to farm _assessments in Bruce County? "-Most df them increased, but not to the prohable•sales price of market value level of the property," explained Harold Hill, of the Ontario Govern- ment's Bruce -Grey Regional Assessment Office. In rural townships with little or no residential 'and commer- cial properties, some taxes went up, some went down, and the rest remained much the same, Leo Rosinke's cottages. Later the girls went down to the beach to toast marshmallows. They walked through Mr. and Mrs. Rosinke's park and tried/ to identify the different types trees. 4-H OF THE KINGSBRIDGE , KITCHEN KUTJES The last meeting was held on Saturday, September 29 at the home of Mrs, Karla Hogan with nine members present. Ann Drennan, Jo Artne Van Osch and Janette Hogan made pizza and Mrs. Karla Hogan made a salad. The next two meetings will be held at the home of Mrs. Betty Frayne on Saturday, Oct. 6 at 1.30 p.m. as the tax burden was redistributed more fairly among farm properties. In other municipalities, where residential, commercial or resort properties formed a significant portion of the taxable base, most farm tax bills declined with reassessment because the farms had been previously overassessed relative to other properties. This kind of favourable tax redistribution for farmers oc- curred, for example, in Kincar-- dine Township, where the municipality held its revenue needs relatively stable. Orland Avery, who owns 200 acres in Kincardine Township, believes "with this reassessment, things are fairer." His 1973 taxes decreased by$182 to $400. As will happen to all farmers in, Ontario, his taxes will be rediiced.by a further estimated 50% when he receives his farm property tax credit cheque directly from ,the Ontario Government later this year. Mr. Avery, who supports the method of assessing farm land• accordingto its productivity, laughed when he recalled the assessor's visit last year. "This fella came to the house and said he wanted to assess my land. I said go right ahead. I mentioned a streak of light land in the back field. He said "I know, I've got it marked on my map." I was surprised at that. I've got a lot more respect for the assessor now. They seem to know -what they're George McKee had much the sartie reaction. "I was drawing manure at the time the assessor came. He said he wanted to know what I thought of the land, whether it was stony, what the drainage was like." Mr. McKee farms 100 acres assessed at $20,400 with a wood lot exemption of $150. Don , Maus, a beef farmer, who saw his taxes drop -from $2,300 to $1,590 on his proper- ties, said he couldn't be critical of the new method of farm assessment "with results like that." "It just shook me when I first saw my assessment notice. It Continued on page 12 €` • r •