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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1973-10-11, Page 1LThe Vovem our Nighk auto% at gra. Wear ie Md fer on Nho ie 'residers, ell y g' acti rye en' ch with course tother bedroo IL, of 24.6 is. on 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 Continued on page 8 .L—STS 1973 SINGLE COPY 20c 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.