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IIfl. Mabon
illed in crash
of of Hensall
former resident of
ich, Brian Samuel
was fatally injured
y morning when the car
driving collided, with
vehicle, near Hensall.
Mabon was in the area
w Westminster, British
bis,,visiting visiting his parents
'erich. He'was on his way
from London when the
,t occurred. lace on
mishap took _;,p
ay 4, north of Hensall,
6:00 a,m. Tuesday.
.Mabon's car collided
pother vehicle driven by
elen Brown of Clinton.
Brown and a passenger
i,reen Overboe, also. of
n, were admitted to
,!where they are still un-
tment. The ladies were
it way to work at the
,f the accident.
barges were laid and the
nt is still under in -
tion by Corporal Ray,
and Constable Ed
of the Exeter Detach -
of the Ontario Provincial
,releaving-for New West -
r, B;C., Mr. Mabon had
completed his appren-
'p as a carpenter with the
Hayman Construction,
jured
rl still
'tical
o -car collision one mile
Stratford on Highway
Thursday night critically
a Stratford girl.
Hassen, 14 -year-old
r of Don and Audrey
of Stratford, was a
ger in a car driven by
IA Dickson. Another
,gerin the vehicle„Mrs.
,n's daughter, escaped
g injury.
ny Hassen is the grand -
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Mel
on of Goderich.
:accident took place at
imately 9:00 p.m. Thur
ight._.on._th e_..L i t tie k es
just on the outskirts of
ord.
en J. Thorn pso n, 21, of
ront St., Apt. 2 Stratford,
e driver of the second
,e involved in the mishap.
was taken to the Strat-
eneral Hospital where he
'eated and released.
e accident was in -
'ted by Constable W.K.
gong, of the Stratford On -
Provincial Police Detach-
Hassen is in London
is Hospital, where it is
she is in critical con -
suffering from head in-
accident is still under in-
ation by the Stratford
ly two
cidents
holiday..
o minor traffic accidents
'ed the Goderich Police
over the Thanksgiving
d,
•
October 2 they were
to investigate an ac -
ton Kingston St. A carr
by Gayle L. Jones, of RR
'clench collided with
vehicle driven by Mary
re of 225 Picton St.,
'ch,
ge to the Jones' vehicle
estimated at $250 while
Malhotra car was
ted at $500 damage.
accident was reported at
pm.
' her minor accident was
on Saturday at 9:35
et the -corner of Blake St.
Rayfield Rd.
of the care involved, that
nThomas Adams, of RR
cknow received
Ps while the $800
vehicle
hY Austin Puller of 134
St. in Goderich was
to an extent of $600,
h police Chief Pat
ed that during the
miM on pole $
Ltd., in London, five months
ago.
Brian was the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Samuel Mabon, of RR 6,
Goderich. Mrs. Mabon is the
former Helen Joyce Goldringj,
Besides his parents, Mr.
Mabon is survived by four
brothers, Bud, Lyall, 'Ian, of
Goderich, and Scott, at home.
He is also survived by one
sister, Lynda, 'of New Westmin-
ster, B.C., and his paternal
grandparents, Mr. and Mrs.
J.H. Reed, of Goderich.
Mr. Mahon will be resting at
the McCallum Funeral Home
where service will be held
Friday, at,2 p.m. with Rev. G.L.
Royal officiating.
Following the service,
cremation will take place at the
Woodland Crematorium in
London.
126 YEAR - 41
Whelan speaks to farmers
bericjj
IGN
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1
Says prices
top concern
Federal. Agricultural
Minister Eugene Whelan told
about 400 Huron County far-
mers and their wives last '`Thur-
sday night that the government
is attempting to find new„ways
of giving them security through
price and income stablization.
Mr. Whelan, speaking to the
Huron County Federation of
Bailey says farmers
need organization
Mason Bailey, retiring
president of the Huron County
--Federation of Agriculture, war-
ned members of ' the
organization Thursday night at
its annual meeting held in Salt -
ford Valley Hall that farmers
need more organization if they
are to get a fair break.
He said farmers are going to
have to compete with the
United States on world markets
more and more in the future
and said at present Canadian
farmers just aren't well enough
organized for such competition.
He told the 400 persons in at-
tendance that they must en-
courage their leaders; that they
should get the best leaders they
could get and then support
them.
-Mr.-Bailey, `a Blyth -area far-
mer and real estate broker,
retired after two years as
president of the organization.
Elected the new president by
acclamation was Doug Fortune
of Wingham. Elected first vice-
president by acclamation was
Adrian_ _Vos• of _.. Blyth _.anal,
second vice-president is Vince
Austin of Dungannon.
Elected directors ' at large
Were Orrie Gingerich of
Dungannon,. Jack Stafford of
Wroxeter and Gordon Blan-
chard of Walton.
This year's annual meeting
was a stream -lined affair
because of the presence of
Eugene Whelan, Federal
Agriculture Minister and
because the combined meeting
of the -Individual -Service -Mem-
bership regions of the Ontario
Federation of Agriculture was
....held.at the end of the county
meeting.
Gordon Hill, of Varna,
president or the Ontario
Federation was present for the
regional meeting as guest
speaker. He said the tides tur-
ning. Farmers, looked down
upon for many years, he said,
are going to be recognized like
anyone else. Mr. Hill said he
was proud to be from Huron
because it has more members in
the OFA than any other county
in the province and because the
representatives the Huron
members send to OFA are
respected and set a good exam-
ple.
Mr. Hill expressed the need
for proper land -use planning so
that all the industry wouldn't
continue to locate in the golden
horseshoe area on the best far-
mland. Industry must be
spread out, he said Atthe
same- time there must be some
protection given to the farmer
so he knows he can set up a
livestock operation somewhere
and not have it closed down
soon afterward by urban
sprawl. At present, he said,
there was no such place in On-
tario.
Mr. Hill also called for a
more realistic credit system°for
farmers with increased aid
,'from the Farm -Credit Cor-
poration. He said the province
needs a taxation system that is
more fair, one that judges the
worth of farmland by its ability
to produce not its real estate
value.
Farmers must be able to get
good farm employees, he said.
"We can get good help if we can,.
pay,” he said "but we can only
• pay if we get good prices".
Mr. Hill also expressed con-
cern about the energy situation
including gas, oil and propane
and wondered if farmers would
be able to'get enough propane
this year to dry their corn
because of a strike at one
production facility.
Fertilizev too, he said, may
be in short supply, especially by
next spring. The OFA is ad-
vising farmers to get as much
fertilizer on this fall as
possible, he said, because sup-
ply will be limited and prices
higher in the spring.
Earlier in the evening, Mr.
"Hill - -had introduced Mr.
___Whelan._,as guest_...speaj er. He
called him a young farmer "in
other words, a farmer on the
right side of 50". He said Mr.
Whelan had done what so
many of his predecessors had
not done: prevented one farm
group or another from being
mad at him all the time.
The regional meeting which
Continued on page. 8
Draw fir the afghan made and derated to the Canadian Arthrltls and tihssmiatlent, Society
by Chairman Margaret Craig of Goderich, took phos. Friday afternoon at the hrie•Mary
Shoppe on the Square. Tickets for the raffle were on sale at the shoppe and from remembers
of the Arthritis society. Pictured above, left to right, Mary Miners, proprietor of the 1vie-Mary
Shoppe, CARS local Chairman Margaret Craig, and, pulling the winning ticket is Nle Shy,
also proprietor of the lvis-Mary Shoop*. Winner of the afghan shown above is Mrs. Sylvia
Freohitte, Of St. Jean, Quebec:
(staff photo)
Agriculture's annual meeting
at a packed house in the Salt -
ford Valley Hall near Goderieh,
said something must be done' to
take the "yo-yo effect" out of
farm prices. He said the
problem of alternating high
prices and low prices bothered
not only him, but agricultural
leaders everywhere, including
those from Japan who he had
met with that day.
The minister said he had met
with ministers of agriculture
from the provinces and
proposed various ways to bring
stability into the farm markets.
The proposals, he said, .are
designed to give farmers more
support and to let them' know
before they go into production
that the federal government
will not let the bottom fall out
of the market for the product
they we producing. -'
Mr. Whelan said he told the
provinces the government is'
prepared to make changes in
the Agricultural Stabilization
act under which the govern-
ment must support the price of
cattle, hogs, sfieep, eggs„_butter,
cheese, and wheat, `barley and'
oats outside the prairies at 80
per cent of the ten year
average. He said the level of
support could be increased
above 80 per cent or the
average could be taken over a
:, shorter or longer period than
10 years. He proposed that sup-
port prices could be announced
in advance so farmers would
know what the floor price was
to be before going into. produc-
tion.
Mr. Whelan also proposed a
cash advance payment system
for air crops' that -can be stored.
and marketed-------later------in--the
season such as the' system now
in effect for wheat, oats and
barley grown on the prairies.
The system, he said, gives the
farmer money he needs at har-
vest time so he can pay his bills
without having to put his
product on the/market and glut
the market. He illustrated the
problem with .the situation this
year in the peach growing areas
where the dry weather brought
Canadian crops along earlyso
they were on the market at, the
same time as peaches from the
U.S. If the distress prices had
lasted a' couple of days' longer,
he said, the federal government
would have been forced to act
by imposing a surtax on U.S.
peaches to protect the
Canadian growers.
Later in his speech, he rei
terated this need for quick ac-
tion saying: "This is' an
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Federal Minister of Agriculture Eugene Whelan, left, chats with Huron County Federation of
Agriculture President Mason Bailey shortly before the Federation's annual meeting held last
Thursday ,,at Saltford Valley Hall. Mr. Whelan, who was guest speaker at the meeting, told
the gathering negotiations were underway between -his office end the Japanese Minister of
Agriculture on a possible contract with Canadian farmers to supply needed food stuffs for
Japan. (staff photo)
£tI-Iaii suppor
s for ad change
f
'The Huron County Branch of mistaken, that the Goderich
Town Council, on behalf of the
Huron County Council who
own the building, would be
receiving suggestions for future
use frorr}yinterested groups and
individuals under general
terms and not strictly with a
view that these proposals
would be put into effect
.through a leasing agreement',”
was receiving "suggestions, ' wrote Mrs. Wallace.
regarding`'the future use of the "The Conservancy is in-
former Huron County Jail from terested in seeing the Jail find
all interested parties in terms a useful purpose but believe
of the property being on a lease there may be an alternative to
basis." this new life other than leasing
"It had been our understan- to private or corporate in -
ding, and I trust we were not terests," the letter continued.
the Architectural Conservancy
of Ontario was critical of the
wording. of ,fie advertisement
published last ' week in The
Goderich Signal -Star by the
Town of Goderich.'
Mrs. Dorothy Wallace,
secretary for the. local group
said the members were distur-
bed the Town had indicated it
Consultants would curb
development until report
A letter from David Barber
of Municipal Planning Con-
.,sultants of Toronto has pointed
up the problems which exist in
Goderich where development• -is
coming fast and furious.
Barber has advised Goderich
Town Council that final con-
sideration of residential
development projects should be
made only after a study of
future residential development
in Goderich has been com-
pleted by his firm.
In the meantime the local
planning board anrlown coun-
cil are bombarded with
requests for all kinds of
development throughout
Goderich and, as Councillor
Leroy Harrison pointed out,
"The decisions must be made
now, not a year from now".
Councillor Dave Gower,
chairman of the Goderich Plan-
ning Board, told council that in
his opinion, each new proposed
development must be judged on
its own merit un(jl such tame as
the Planning Consultants'
report is available. He said to
curtail all development at this
stage in Goderich's growth
would be "a step backward".
Gower said that while
decisions on development
should not be made quickly by
local planners, they must be
made after cautious and careful
deliberation. He felt Barber
should be asked to indicate
when his secondary plan for the
municipality would be
available.
Barber also repdrt'd in his
letter that work on the Official
Plan and Zoning changes regar-
ding the proposed shopping
plaza by Suncoast Estates is
progressing.
"In view of the fact that this
matter will undoubtedly climax
in a hearing of the Ontario
Municipal Board, it will be
necessary to . have planning
evidence to support the Official
Plan and Zoning ' changes,"
"We trust the advertisement
,published in The Goderich
Signal -Star was merely an
error in wording and that it
will be corrected."
Decision was reached by
council to:reword the ad in this
week's edition of the Signal -
Star.
"Will the jail committee
make application for the LIP
grant?" askednCouncillor Elsa
Haydon.
She was told by Reeve Deb
Shewfelt it was doubtful if the
town was interested in running
the jail, but, he added, in-
terested citizens could form a
board. He described the jail
issue as a "complex deal in-
volving three parties" and,said
the decision was "controver-
sial" and "political".
Deputy -reeve Stan Profit
asked, the 'Administrator if
there had been much responses
tothe 'advertisement. He was
told there was none although it
was well known the local
branch of the Architectural
Barber wrote. "In this regard Conservancy had some
we are having an evaluation suggestions.
made of both retail studies. "So the mailman isn't
The results of this evaluation/ breaking his back carrying the
will also provide the supporting mail in eh?" stated Profit to
information required by the the delight of council and its
Ministry for.the Official Plan spectators.
Amendment."
Town Administrator Harold
Walls reported to council that
the Official Plan Amendment
No. 1 has been approved by the
Minister. According to Barber,
the necessary changes will now
be made to the 1' ew Zoning
Bylaw which may be passed by
the town and printed for cir-
culation.
In the same vein, council
received a report from the
Ministry of Transportation and
Cominunications regarding the
proposed five-year connecting
link reconstruction forecast.
This matter was referred to the
Public Works Committee and
to the Administrative Commit-
tee. 4'
ommit=tee.'
In other business, the matter
of the Waterloo Street outfall
which is presently, dumping
onto the Maitland Country
Club property and causing
some problems, was discussed,
briefly.
V
Suggestion was made by
Councillor Frank W\alkom to
draw the Maitland Valley Con-
servation Authority into this
matter and into the problem of
sand clogging the mouth of the
river.
A letter will be sent to th.
Depa�,tment of National
Resources with a_csrbon to the
MVCA stating . the
municipality's position.