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"I can assure you we are prepared, with the
assistance of the farm community, to take some
steps," added the premier. "But they have to be
logical, they have to work, and they have to assist
those in genuine need."
Lucky ones
Next, Mr. Ireland tat the audience he had lost
860,000 in 1980, which meant his family of six lived on
$13,000 last year. "I can't afford to be this generous
for another year," he said, "and I'm still one of the
lucky ones."
Along with government, Mr. Ireland also brought
lending institutions under fire, "If the banks are such
good corporate citizens," he asked, "why are they
running ads in the dailies -to upgrade their image?"
He emphasized Ontario farmers' anger over
equalization payments by the federal government.
Ontario pays $1.5 billion into the fund Quebec
receives $1.8 billion.
Mr. Van Trigt, a lifetime farmer, told the audience
he was contemplating. whether to quit farming
because he is being pinched by low markets and high
interest. He said ilie had taken a job as a crop in-
surance agent to cover his'clay to day costs."
He, too, urged that pork producers go for a supply
management agency. "1 fail to understand why the
hog industy has not been forced under supply
management,"be -v-vondered. "Most people I talk to
want farm management"
Mr. Van Trigt challenged consumer organizations
as well. "The consumer association wants input on
our boards," he said. "That's great. Maybe we should
have farmers on the consumer board, and the
machine manufacturer's board,and the food store
board, "
Son is farmer
Mr. Milleropened his remarks by telling farmers
his son has been farming for eight years and he has
yet to break even. The minister said he owned 49 per
cent of his son's operation, so was quite familiar with
the problems facing agriculture.
Mr. Miller pledged to work "hard in the next two to
three weeks" to find solutions.
Mr. Flaten, CFA preSident, acknowledged the
government and banks are not the sole \Culprits in the
current predicament. "In , fairness," he explained,
"some farmers have expanded beyond their range of
capabilities."
The president also stressed many sectors of the
industry would be more stable if they had a
marketing structure; "Farmers must remember that
to get a degrco of stability goes hand in hand with
giving, up Certain freedoms.
"All of us agree that the long term solution mist be
to get adequate return from the market," he con-
tinued. "In order to do that, we must design the best
marketing system available. •
"We need farmers to pull together, a united front
for what we want, because farmers are fragmented.
Mr. Whelan, noting there was no one villain in the
agricultural problem, added not all sectors of far-
ming are suffering. \ "I've had no letters from egg
producers, broilers or dairy," he said. "If these
people are having problems, they're not telling me."
The federal agriculture minister outlined some of
the financial support the province's farmers received
from his government last year, which included
Ontario's share of 28 per cent of the Farm Credit
Corporation loan and the national government's $13.4
minion contribution to the crop insurance program.
Minister says thanks for letter but...
BY JASON AINSLIE
The issue of corporal punishment surfaced once
again at this year's last regular meeting of the Huron
County Board of Education.on June 4, when the board
received a letter from Bette Stevenson, Ontario's
Minister of Education.
"I regret that The Huron County Board of
Education does not support the suggested amend-
ment to the Education Act," Dr. Stevepson's office
wrote, "since the rationale for abolishing corporai
punidiment.:.is quite comPeiling."
The letter continues; "The intention of the
amendment is to prevent the use of physical force as
punishment. The reason why the wording 'physical
force' was used rather than 'corporal punishment' is
that corporal punishment is generally thought to
mean the strap.'
"The amendment is intended not only to abolish the
strap, but to prevent such practices as hair pulling
and arm twisting as well. This does not mean,
however, that a teacher would not be able to restrain
a child physically to , prevent him from harming
himself or another person." •
Dr. Stevenson expressed that there is disagreement
with the Huron board's argument "that the use of
physical force in schools should be a matter for the
localboatd to decide".
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throughout town; a pancake breakfast in Court House
Park sponsored by the Lions Club; a cycling and
walking tour of the town; and a ciyic ceremony in
Court House Park prior to the Founder's Day parade
at 2:15 p.m. There will be a band concert in Court
House Park at 7:30 p.m.
Legion Branch 109 has also organized a pub night, a
forties dance, a friendship breakfast and levee for the
special weekend.
There will be many visitors here for the events
from sister city, Bay City, Michigan.
More detailed information about each event will
appear in next week's paper.
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The Minister of Education said, "Although there
are many issues in education which can and should be
varied according to the unique needs and concerns of
local jurisdictions, there are serious doubts whether
the nature of disciplinary , action to be used on
children should be one of them."
In another piece of correspondence to the board,
W.J. Phillips, the executive assistant ofth-Ontario
Public School Trustees' Association, wrote to inform.
theboard of the association's s_upport of the board's
view regarding corporal punishment. • •
The letter read \, in part, "We wish to inform you
that the OPSTA Board of Directors, at their April 4,
1981 meeting, decided not to support the recom-
mendations of the Minister of Education re corporal
punishment, and that this matter should be left to the
decision of the local school board."
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with the corrununity."
Board Chairman Don McDonald reasoned that
where the public elects t‘vo people to sit on the
and rational.
Trustee Marion Zinn added some perspective on
.the discussion, saying that in the past decade only one
school was closed and it was dosed by the 'parents
who wished their children to go to schools that had
more to offer.
At the end of the discussion, the board voted to
change the wording of the committee membership
requirements to read that all of the trustees serving
the area of a proposed school closing will sit on the
committee (be it one trustee or three) as.well as one
other trustee not serving that area.
The county's secondary schools were not included
in the discussions because with only five schools
serving the county, chances of a high school closure
are minimal.
GODERICH SIGNAL -STAR, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 10, 1981—PAGE 3
Math student places
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Each year the University
of Waterloo sponsors three
mathematics contests which
are written by several
students at GDCI. Although
the contests are written by
students all across Canada,
competition is primarily by
zones. Goderich is part of
zone 78 which consists of all
secondary schools within the
Goderich, Owen Sound,
Orangeville and Stratford
districts.
The junior math contest,
for students in Grades 9, 10
and 11, was written by, over
29,000 students from 1,200
schools across Canada, Ger-
many and USA. It is
estimated that only four per
cent of all secondary school
students even try this con-
test, let alone succeed at it.
GDCI can be proud of its
iunior math students. Cer-
tificates of Merit were
awarded by the University of
Waterloo to the folloWing
students: Teresa Canon,
Darryl Wilson, Melody
Solman, Cindy Hayward,
Scott Wilson, Scott Stoll, Ken
Taylor, Colin Snyder and
Scott Bell. -
In addition, Teresa Canon
was awarded a Certificate of
Distinction for placing in the
top 10 per cent of all students.
in Canada. Teresa was also
awarded a gold medallion at
the GDCI Awards Assembly
n per cent
for placing first among all
Grade 9 students in zone 78.
The Euclid math contest,
for students in Grade 12, was
written by students in more
than 500 schools. The top
three students at GDCI in
this competition, were Grif
Murphy, Min Machias and
Dean Doherty. Grif also
placed on the zone 78 Honour
Roll.
The Descartes math con-
test, for students in Grade
13. saw GDCI place 16th out
of 513 schools in Ontario. The
Zone Honour Roll contained
only 17 students, seven of
which came from our GDCI.
They were: Ken Wood,
Grant Culbert, Rob Trebish,
Jim Gower, Paul Mansz, Ed
Tinton and Wayne Dam. In
addition Ken Wood, Grant
Culbert and Rob Trebish -all
placed in the top five per
cent of all competitors.
GDCI will be presented
with a plaque from. the
University of Waterloo for
placing first in zone -78-. -This- -
is the second plaque in two
years for the school.
The mathematic S depart-
ment at GDCI would like to
congratulate all competitors
for a strong showing. Special
thanks to. math teachers Lin-
da Garland and Tom .Allen
for their efforts in organizing
a Very suCcessfill year in the
University of Waterloo
mathematics contests.
Official plan ready
for local scrutiny
On Monday, all the households in Goderich
received a copy of the 32 -page Draft Official Plan for
the Port .of Goderich.
All Goderich residents and businessmen are en-
couraged to read the draft and bring their concerns
and opinions to a public meeting to be held June 23 at
7 : 30 p.m:at MacKay Centre.
This draft is part of a lengthy schedule, which
began in 1979, in preparing a new Official Plan for the
town. After the public has provided input into the
draft plan, another draft will be prepared and ap-
proved by Planning Board before going to council.
After council amends that draft, a final draft
will be prepared and approved, hopefully this fall.
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