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ticipate in the Parade. We
. would of courop. like to
contact other women pilots in
the Goderich area, and hope
that any who saw us "flying"
by during the pbrade will
make themselves known to
us.
Thank you for the
portunity to explain our
identity!
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million .dollars lagoon
system that would not
operate, And would destroy
hundreds of acres of prime
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The working of minds
centred 'ut'/Quoen'o Park
op -
seem quite strange, in fact,
trueh oiNc
comp(oto��ncumpre on
t~ residents of small
Yours Countless' thousands- of
ily Anne Judd dollars are opento»`nr»«cm
Vice -Chairman, that ^. seem borderline
R R 1, Port Elgin, Ontario. ridiculous.
We read .of the vast sums
spent to p
Dear Editor, �~^~^'Escarpment.Yet we
are �
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seeingsmall hospitals b��n8
d(�a Note: -' Theo
~~hecouoc costs.of
wrbnruCthe ��howing\euor' ~i^na u,auUeAe8|y too
Arthur' Carr., has been
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high,and
the small hospital
associated with,or ubUohar
' inefficient.. To re'sidents of
of The Palmerston Observer
small towns this is absolute
for the past forty years. Be utter and -- nonsense.
has served ki-i ht years as a . Few of 'us, (or let us be
municipal"' councillor in' his kind) very few of us, will ever
home town, and held various use ,the "nature trail- and
ofDoeo, being at one time on walk from Owen Sound to St.
the Board oCDirocto,s'oythe ,Catharines. Yet oVc,y one of
Police Go"ern|ng Asoociadon us, and
every one near and
of Ontario.In 1967 the .
dear to us, will some day use
Palmerston Lions Club a hospital. If that hospital is
honoured him with a broyze 40 to 90 miles away, what
p|aqUe inscribed to testify f»
opportunity will we haVe to
hiadpvouooandservicntohiu
opehd a few hours each day
community. lnthe fiscal -year with a friend or loved one?
spanning 'July 1974 - 1975' the How happy will thutloved one
Canadian Co6orn«n|ty
be, miles and miles from
Newspaper,Aa000iati»n
home- uotoJ|y surrounded by
selected him for the‘ dietbn
' unknown and, seemingly
cUvnhonour of''Cidzenuythe
uncaring �atrungcr&? What.
l/onr.'.1.|mo has lived in close
added expense will families
contact with Ontario
already tragedy smitten have
Government created fiascos with car mileage,and work
�eluding the desire,. of the
hours lost? What additional add\donu\
City of Toronto and the
hazards will there be on our
C.P.R. to bury millions of
highways when minctk,
" New idea
tens of garbage in Minto
Township, adjacent to
Fal
Be has experienced the
.
frustrations of havng a home
town equipped with a sewage
treatment plant of the
aerated sludge vuriety,
seeing it unconditionally
condemned by Queens Park,
andiins|otenco that ,his small
town spend a quortor,pf a�
preoccupied by
^y wnrry.
. start
to guide a speeding auto a
half a hundred miles or
more?
There are so many pointsin
favor of the small hospital
that to me their closing is
absolutely unthinkable. It has
been' .proven beyond all
doubt that big
cities are bad
places to live.
To all, wishes for your own kind of peace
and happiness at Christmas and throughout
the days of the New Year,
81ua'Haydmm�
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In these large citles, v|obnco,
air and water and evey type
of pollution, including moru\,
seems to flourish. The very
milk of human kindness
curdles. '^
Conversely the small town,
with its intimately co-
ordinated town councU, with
the butchor, the buker, and
the small town loans maker
sharing the. responsibility of
maintaining, and improving
the life style, has become the
ideal home -site. The perfect
place to raise your family.
The very best pldee foy the
young to pattern their sets of
yalues after those they see
displayed aroundthem. Why
an elected g vernment
centralized in Toronto is
seeking small
town is absolutely beyond the
comprehension of any
thinking person.
Why are they trying. to
enlarge something that has
beep 'proven bad, and destroy
something that has been
proven priceless? ;
The only possible.' ex-
planation can be that our
elected representatives have
through utter lethargy
abandoned their duty of
decision making, preferring
to set up commissihns, and
listen to career civilyervonts
and other'such u"oamera,
allowing d`pno to make the
So let's get with it. Form a
committee in each of our
towns, whether our hospitil /~
threatened or not. Let's cut
Queen's Park *gettax
revenues to an extent that
will surprise them. Let us
show them that we want our
hospitals. That w, prefer
them to A,eenbo\ts, nature
trails, research into our
lavatory hub|ta, or sub-
sidizing someone to publish a
ub'sidizinnsvmenneu/pubhshu
book of b\unk pages. Let's get w
the car dea|or, the corner
druggist, the host at our hotel,
the service station operator,
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the printer and the The{odori^ch, housing
photographer all writing __^"" ,"~~"`^u^ had a
c.h7sques to their hospitalsglimpse at the prosund cons
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chairman Don Wheeler said
„committee
U-n-turio� of�ho Treasurer of
. of a mobile park Thuruduy
whentheyheard .a presen-
he had had limited ex-
perience
with mobile parks
By golly! It has to work! tation by Douglas Barker, the
,,AudnidnXthdu`nisk.y for your time in K p"^—p`
—a""—='s'. ~'« of u,�
and was not
\rnpnuayod'
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cited Grand Cove saying- that
� YoureYu|thCuUy, Mr,Barker,a oonsu\dnmonce past the uurucbvomain
.ute.ho. thought the park, did
• .a,thurtur,. ".a.=~. with Kleinfeldt,
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uDE RICH SIGNAL 'STAR, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 0.18?�PAGE 5
Af��-~d�m�� �o� 0��_o_� `\
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ousing includ
mobile _o e ___s
BY JEFF SEDDON
developing mobile park in
Grand Bend, children were
not allowed usresidents.
gave the committee o hots, resemble a community
Futile hope . seminar about mobile pork* park. He addedthat he
•mnro\y a mobile home
citing facts, figures und^wo~\dnuvermoveintounc^
DearEditor, • statistics indicating that muyThochu'rmuneu'N that tne
A recent Signa) -Star con- are ,rapidly becoming a roads and their steep
tains a letter commenting on popular entity in the national grade to the road's
centre line
the inadequacy of some and international housing
awards utO.D.Cl market. f~r drainage barely per -
The writer apparently does
o,'Thowritcrappa,ent|xdoeo The seminar was presented "it{ed"'^~~neouo passage
of vehicles on the road and
nokrouUxo that school prizes, to the c»?mituaethro« h the
Uk� door prizes and lottery initiative' of the K\«i»f»Iu/ was not attractive.
',`Grand- Cove is not a fair
p�zey, may differ greatly |n p�nn»r«' Acting on a re~^'ar|yon.' said Mr.
-value. One may be intended for information byo»nmiuee
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u sub»tund,a\ oubsidx. member B»n
Allen
the
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hc park is still
',""mnine and like any
,subdivition in the midst of
construction it appears to be
unattractive, When .theroadways are finished and
...^.~ and the lots land -
been set up by wills made mobile parks and thoir on�
`
capd you won't know its the
same place."
xeuddodtbuutheroodwoy
in Grand Cove does not have
to apply to all mobi/oporx�
When the park is being
v)unneo, the municipality and
the otor of the .park can.got u`A,mr, and come up
with anything they wish to
rules e-f"rc^m"n. While another may lust be planners asked �r an »p'
All of 'must m»n'and we t as a little'ut on the portunity to meet with them
must stop it right now. Not h-cx' to explain the .operation,
t~^~^^`'' or next week, not There is the further point financing, planning,con-
next
'' some -'' ` have
ttmn and maintenance of
must devise some system
other chunthe overthrow of
the gnyernnoht by force.
Some system weaUounwork
at to convince thoS" Toronto
based administrators that we
want, and must. have, our
hoep|to|a, all of them
presentlybxist|ng, and more
bui|'and 'on\orgad. All that
have been closed re --Opened,
re-
One way would be to hit the
Government in ,its most
sensitive spot. We have in
mind, not the seat .ny the
MemberS' trousers, but very
close to that spot. The wallet|nhJshippockot.LotusuU\et
our Government know that
we, want our taxes opont
_where they will do the nmat
good for the Most people.
Here is a suggestion,
In every Small town there
are at least several dozen
merchants who are cuj)ocdng
hundreds of dollars in sales
taxes. In most small towns
there are manufacturers who
are collecting, and Paying,
che 12 percent tax to the
ReceiverGeneral of Canada.
Let these folks file their
no demanded, on the
date specified. Instead of
attaching a chcVue, they
append a note stating that the
chequehas been made
payable to the hospital of
their choice.
The administrator of the
hospitalcanbnathosechequns
and deposits them in a special
account, so that the merchant
has a cancelled cheque, proof
positiiie that he has not
diverted the tax money for his
personal betterment, but had
indeed put his • tax money
where he wants it to be spent.
Possibly he has broken some
legal technicality.
Bu't hp has certainly not
.~.___ -.,
bore false
witness nor coveted hia
neighbour's ox, nor broken
any of those ten marvellous
of this game of life that
old Moses received and
passed onto ua. It is hard, to
picture ax"[two|wuuChm
pcers finding that man guilty
of any moral misconduct.
' More probable, the jury
might strike a medal com-
mending him for his actionyears and .
Kome in and order your
Christmas Fowl
NOW!
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WE HAVE A
L A RkG E
SELECTION
OF
''CHNCmENS
TURKEYS
GEESE
DUCKS'.
MEAT AT BEST BUY PRICES
TOP TENDER
ROUND SIN(
BONELEtS RUMPS
SHORT RIB
ROASTS on
LB.
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$1.49
STEAKS LB. 88c
AINSLIE MARKET.
1.LIMITED ~a#CALL 524 8551
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Home res InmpeKtedN0eaVs at Whm4'$aYe Prices
when no vantages to the housing
one could foresee that $80 market. ..miQht shrink to the value n/o - The timing oythe Kleinfeldt
few cents, In such case's it is presentation coincides with
i4d\e to hope for any .in- unotbor proposal the Huron
crease. County planning department
, . Yours very truly, made to the Goderich.,
JJv.Williams planningiBounzroccnuy.
Toronto,
[h_a'hsport to the board the
n'annury warned that unless huvnn,nmh��c\»�hePurk
��K��UiKK��'8"V�00�� � something is done by the town The comments sparked a
t' expedite housing matters, ..~�",,a"a,""mp,�mom/o'
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rky have for the
parks
rnun|cinu|ity in which they
are located, The Kleinfeldt
planners tuN the committee;
that the municipality bears
little costsin � establishing a
park but reap- an excellent.
eturn in taxation •
The. parks are usually
owned ,by one person and
although the homes are
bought outright by the
.residents, the., land thsit .ori-
is
cepts full responsibility for
maintenance of the parks and
its. facilities , while the
municipality provides police,
fire ,proteetion and depending
on the parks', location
sanitary and storm sewers
and water.
The sewer and water lines.
are provided only whereo`,y~
are in existence near the
'Dear
Frionds.
Niamey, Nig
or land availability for huuoinA
will be brought to a severe
crisis in the next one to three
There are �" many Of you voury. The planners offered
and we are pressed for time several alternatives .to the
mi
so please excuse the carbon planning board to avoid the
' c-'-- you are alt receiving! • crisis and one suggested
has been a using u.purcn| of land in the
--' project cornc,u[thc town
standstill, for ht least three south east
''for20 acre, oo our project a o0 to 70 unit
director was ]uot hero and mobile park.
cool benefit plus
� all the The suggestion of a mobile
private donations to the park within .the an limits
Cuqod\on]HongorPnundudon brought a mixed� reaction
not justify keeping us in from both the planning board
^tho 'field. However many and the housing action
other contributing factors too committee. Bo/h groups saw
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detailed to go into ,now have several -�d,untogoy to the
led,to the~ruUu,o and ter- parks but were leery to
mination of our work here. .,e»n*idorthem,
Everything happened so A lack ofknowledge on the
•�xt-n a matter of days—so 'end result of a mobile park
W6 have buon buoypuokimg. project and the stignia
getting viSusetc. etc for our mobile homes have as'.' u
long journey home. u/e have a "cheap method of transient
1956, Renault bus and we are houoing" are the major
Don our way home via mumbUngblocks that u`nbUo
Nigeria.,»m
k ohuUdoryundpronontrrs
Dona
Cameroons, Central African have to oovn,, according to
,Repub\io. Sudan, Saudi
`W'. Barker.
,Arabia, Iraq and Iran, The Kleinfeldt
Planner told \d
Turkey,[rneCe Yugonkavia, the bouyi committee that
Italy, ~^~".^~"a" France, as an', u\temndvt,' to the
Germany THEN even- lengthyprocess of building.
tually to England,and �tht stick houses in a planned
old beast is odUtn0cthor l nuhdi,iuion, mobile homes
think we will be glad to caIl it were permanent, economic
• quits and take a boot home and, provided a good quality
fr�lnn
Jm�nond.'cxhu«oted of housing in a shortperiod of
• u*{o
just thmkinAabout itall. e.time. rc*id thatoe�od .tho homes
This hopefully brings us u'«�m /um' year round
site
'home for the summer of 1978 and can be |nmtaxo�on a o
so will not be able \o,|eavo~a and ready to live in in about a
forwarding address ilong the week's time with no seasonal
way. Y�u will hear from us by 'delay.
postcards,(if you people ever The acceptance of ,mobile
A«t that -atu| strike h9mo parks in Conad� has
straightened '~ '' been slow according to the
Tillthe new year our love to Kleinfeldt' statistics. Mr. Ron & Peg Shaw 'Barker told the committee
that the trend tomohUe'purxo you all and God Bless!
Editor's Note: Bon is a for -in the DnitodStute�\o greater
than this country but added
mer reporterp�o�»Q'�n»er
with the Signal -Star who is that about one half, millionkx`d|y,rememhuredbymuny 'Cu»^_"" now ",,,",
"'"Bom~~^�� tod out that Ontario
was also slow in acccpting the
homes compared to the rest
of the cnuntry. While this
province has - ,-' of the
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country's popu\otKm only 21
percent of the mobile parks in
Canada areifl Ontario •
Spence Mcochpm the park
and development consultant
with 8 di Home Systems,
the companydevelops.
the mobiles that exist in the
parks designed by' K|gnhdt.
referred to them as ' af-
fordable, not low cost
homes",
MrMeecham said that his
' m nx'* spring model of
mobiles was aimed • at the
°.$16.000 to $)n.000 wage
category wiU` an u,''ugn
monthly cur,n \ 8 charge Of
$314 compared to $477 paid fer
conventional housing.
The Bendix representative
told the committee that mi”.t.
of the well developed, ,park
npw in existence were ,aimed,
hit youllg couples or 'fte,tirec
Cettiples,., He said that famil•,,
parks are proposed but that to
date cnly childless couples
had been houseet in '4.he
developed parks adlling that
in Grand Cove Estates, a
readers.
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parkMr. Bunkor'eui.d that
the parks can be ,,isolated
from a municipality and
handle their o\k'n water and
sewer services leaving only
fire. and police protection to
the municipality.
Mr. B8000»en pointed out
that in Moore Township
where a large park is already
\oouted, the township would
need an industry of about one
million square feet to provide
an equal amount of fax
/evenuo. He saiti that with the
no children ,equiroment, no
school tax
The
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applies
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added that the stigma of
cheap housing that is at-
tached to mobile parks is not
evident in their market value
once established.
Be said that the housing
units go ip irt alue once they
are installed and referred to
one park that had units sell
for $10,000 more than they
cost after being installed
about uyear and uh4Y.
He added that the units are
mobile 'in the sense that tbey
are, transported to the site
they are installed on, but very
seldom are they disnanded
and moved to another park. .
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