HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1976-12-02, Page 1Judge F.G.Carter welcomed 11 new Canadians at
Citizenship Court ceremonies last Wednesday. The new
.citizens include (back row from bottom)' Pieter DeGraaf,
Hendrik Pardijs, Mr. and Mrs, Gerhardus Ten Hag, and
Johannes Miltenburg. The trent row includes Nee'tie
Versteeg, Doetje DeGraaf, ,Johanna Pardijs, Hegdrika
Raidt and Jan Raidt. (staff photo),
Hannam.. president
as Hill replaced
At the annualconvention of
the 'Ontario Federation of
Agriculture- in Hamilton on
Tuesday afternoon Peter
Hannam, a Guelph area-
farmer, was elected the new "
-O•FA president.
• He takes over. from Gordon
Hill, a Huron County hog.
producer, whohas been
president for the past seven
years.
Lanark County. dairyman
Ralph Barrie was elected
first vice-president and. Bill
Wolfe, a Bruce County beef
producer was elected second
vice-president.
Peter Hannam, is a
graduate of the :University of
Guelph and owns and
operates a 600 acre cash crop
farm near Guelph in
Wellington County.
In his acceptance speach
Mr. Hannam. said that the
_Federa ion must . find and
concen rate •on Issues which
will unite farmers and form
strong 'effective' lobbies. One
issue, he said, could be the ,
inequality ,in, the trading
restriction and tariffs on
agricultural products. `I_
Hannam said. the
Federation should- acquaint
farmers on the situation and,
then aquaint the public. He
said that years ago when
tariffs were first set, Canada
went for straight "cents"
where other' countries wesit
for percentage values. As a
result Canada now has'-"
inequities such as Canadian
peaches which face an
'American tarrif of $1.90per
case where Australian
peaches enter Canada for 12•
cents per. case. Processed or
pre-cut... beef faces 'a "I0' per
cent American tariff,(about
30 cent per pound), e'said,
but the Candian tariff on pre-
cut beef entering this country
is only three cents per pound.
The Federation must do
"everything possible to
-maintain the . efficient
-
production of food in Ontario
for two reasons, Hannam
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V.
Bayfield Reeve strongly oppo
Ipset by 'filth" in library bo.
Bayfield Reeve Ed Oddleifson
vigorously protested the endorsement of
d„ 'Statement on Intellectual Freedom'
which was attached to the report of the
Library. Board presented to Huron
County 'Coiincil:at its November rheeting
last Thursday.
By .endorsing. the statement, Mr.
Oddlelfson said, it indicate:, "we agree
with the new morality." '
"Today vie pick up•a book and find it
contains nine •tenths foul language," he
told the council. "I do not believe in
'censorship butthere must be some way
We can control this sort of thing.''
"I am'not a crusader," he said, "but I
want to express my d'i tas-te with the
recent direction Canada is taking in this
field."
County Librarian W. Partridge told
Mr. Oddleifson that "just because a book
has some foul language should not -mean
that we refuse to buy it." He said it was
important to look at the book in its
complete context.
"I feel a sense of revulsion," •the
Bayfield Reeve. said, "In many cases it
makes me feel sick that our children
should be exposed to this."
Tuckersmith Reeve .Elgin Thompson'
indicated that he felt much the same as
did Mr. Oddleifson.
Stan Profit, :Reeve of fioderich,'said
that „to argue with Mr. Thompson and
Mr. Oddieifsnn would he like trying to
Candidates �n' TV
71f you missed the' first portion, of the
Rotary Club televised candidate nights
you.still have an opportunity to hear and
question half of this year's slate on
Bluewater Cable TV's channel 12.
• Divided this year into two portions, the
Rotary Club •ithrough the services of
Blyewater Cable) presented evening one
on Wednesday with candidates Ren
Graham, Joan Vanden Broeck,. Bob
Allen, John Doherty and Stan Profit for
town council and candidates for the
Public Utilities Commission.
This evening the program will feature
candidates for deputy -reeve Leroy -
Harrison and Eileen Palmer, candidates
for council Don Wheeler, Dave Gower
argue with the "senior citizens ,•arta
monarchy of County Council,"
"It's up to you, he told the coun-
cillors. "Don't pick the book up and darn
read
read it."
"I'm glad my children are older
because the filth and dirt that children
today, can obtain is just not up my alley,"
Seaforth Reeve John Flannery noted.
• It was clause four of the seven clause
statement around which the controversy .•.
was centred; That clause noted that
"freedom of the press requires freedom
of thel writer to depict what is ugly,
shocking and unedifying in life when
such depiction is made with serious
intent."
tonight
and Elsa Haydon . and Huron Perth
Roman Catholic Separate School• Board
trustee hopefuls :Gordon 'Crabb and
Vince Young. The program will go on air
at 7:30 p.m.
Viewers are Invited .to phone in any
questions they' would like presented to
the candidates.
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The Goderich Recreation
and Community . Centre
•Board has delayed decisions
on pledges from two service
clubs for 'the arena, building
-fund to'iron oat difficulties ix}
concessions ; sought for the'
pledges.
The .'Goderich `', Lions - and
Kinsmen Clubs pledged
donations to • the arena
building fund over a three
year period and also asked
for certain_coneession for the
pledge: :The Lions club, who
originally pledged $20,000 for
the fund, pledged an ad-
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to consider Kinsmen club p
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ditional $12,000 over three
years with a clause granting
the club 100 per cent gate
receipts from Young Canada
Week and other concessions.
Following - requests from
the: fund raising committee
the Kinsmen Club . offered a
• three year pledge of $6,000 in
return • for free use of . the
arena for .� New Years Eve
dances, two stags 'per year
.; and a benefit hockey game.
Last Thursday, while the
Lions Clutrwas-dist;us's'ing-its
proposal to pledge $12,000 in
return for the Young Canada
Council divided on Borg-Warner issue
Suggest�n meetin with Mistr
Week gate forthree years,
the .recreation board, tabled
the Kinsmen request until
chairman, Pete McCauley
110 :an -opportunity to ap-
preach the group on an
alternate offer:
kMcCauley added that the
lub, although 'it has donated
to the arena fund, has put a
lot of money into the coin-
munty and is willing to
back a pledge for three years
under the stipulated terms.
-Recreation • member Lynn
Meyers said that there was
little choice in -the matter and
the fu ld raising committee
needed monetary com-
mitments almost im-
•mediately.
"We have no choice and our
backs are to the
Meyers said. "We need
someone saying that they will
or will not back the project:"
The board estimated that,
the concessions sought by the
Kinsmen 'would amount to
approximately $1,500 over the.
three years in• exchange for
the $6,000 backing.
Member Jim .. Peters said
4,the club was asking. 'the
Goderich Town . Council
rejected an offer -to purchase•
from Borg-Warner Thursday
afternoon and asked the firm
to meet with council and the
Ministry of Environment
representatives totry to close
the deal once and for all. The
rejection was based on a
letter from town engineer
Barns Ross advising council
-not to sign the agreement
without a legal' opinion on its
terms.
Council opened the meeting
with two motions on the floor,
one to accept the offer to
purchase and • tie to reject it
and request a meeeting
between the ministry and
town and Borg-Warner.
Councillors Leroy Harrison
and Bob Allen urged council
to accept the, -.Borg-Warner
offer and councillors Elsa
Haydon and Jim Peters opted
to reject the offer and meat
with the firm and . the
ministry. •
Mayor Deb' Shewfelt asked
council to consider the motion
to accept the offer, claiming
council should decide first if it
'wanted to sell the land to the
company. He said if council
decided to sell, it could advise
the firm of the conditions'
according to the legal and
engineering opinions and the
ministry of • environment
demands.
Councillor Haydon
protested the move. pointing
Tout that the motion to reject
the offer and set up the
'meeting was submitted
before the Motion to accept.
She said she felt the mayor
was exercising, undue . in-
fluence 'onthe meeting. •-
Mayor Shewfelt said it was
the mayor's prerogative to
decide the order the motions
were voted on. He said he was
not trying to influence the
decisions of council but was
merely asking if council was
favor of having Borg-
Warner locateihere. He•added
council could request further
alterations to' the agreement
if it saw fit.
TOWN OBLIGATED
Councillor Leroy Harrison
told council he felt members
were' obligated .to accept the
' offer. He said -the firm had
agreed to all council's
stipulations and to • all
ministry of environment.
demands and that council had
beenaccused in the past of
being anti industry • by
rejecting similar proposals.
He .added that in Goderieh in
the .post .month over 110
people had„been laic] off :and
the•town needed the j obs.
Councillor. Dave, Gower
said he didn't care how the
situation was analyzed he felt
he would be selling the town
to •accommodate. Borg-
Warner. .
orgWarner.. He said the firm
offered 30 •jobs and to get
those the town would•have to
spend about '$340,000 on roads
arid' services and faced' an
additional $L5 million ex-
panding the sewage -treat-
ment plant to handle
hydraulic overload the plant
may,cause due to water usage
and disposal.
Colin; Gower said : he
realized the entire costs
couldn't be put against the
development of the plant but
added It creates a high 'ex-
penditure now for the tax
baseof the town to handle. He.
said the town couldn't afford
to subsidize the project.
Mayor Deb Shewfelt flew
off the handle at Councillor
Gower claiming he felt there
was . some "hanky panky"
going on somewhere. fie told
the councillor the rules
seemed to have been changed
since the last • industries.
expanded, , citing Gearco,
Dearborn and other
Industrial Park firms as an
example.
• The mayor said the land
had been sold to the firms at
less than land was selling for,
and that the town knew about
the expense .it would have to
incur to provide services, for
the -industries . locating in
Industrial Park.
He said the town now faced
the installation of • the
Industrial Park Storm Sewer
and that it would drain quite a
bit of land at no cost to the
,firms. He suggested it was
Late news
There will be no Borg Warner plant at Goderi'ch.
The latest offer to purchase filed with the town of
Goderich expired at midnight on November 30 and no
further response from the company has been. received by
the town.
Mayor Deb Shewfelt said-iri an Interview with the Signal
Star on Wednesday morning that it appeared that
"Goderich'.s loss would be some other community's gain."
• He said Borg Warner had been col sidering 18 other
possible sites in Ontario and 'assumed'that one of those
communities` would not be providing a home for the•new
Borg Warner plant.
Attendance at museum down -
According to a report by Huron County
Museum Curator Raymond Scotchmer
to the County Council last week, at,
tendance over the past year was down
slightly (19,60 last year to 18,000 this
year) but because of higher admission
fees the income actually increased.
somewhat.
The highest, rate of attendance was in
1972 when 25,000 visitors passed through
the museum at Goder(ch.
Early this year Vhe Museum virired a
Registrar to do cataloguing as well as
helping in making ,of new labels.
Registrar Nancy Beaver also worked
some weekends to -lighten the load on
ether staff. 1
unfair to assess those costs to
one company,'
Councillor . Gower said he
was not involved in any.
"hanky panky" and resented -
,the inference, He said he did
not feel the rules were being
changed but that the in-
dustrial storm sewer would
buy the town time, something
it did not have with this deal.
He , added he knew the
water supply- system would
have to be expanded with ar
without the firm but claimed
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taxpayer for money with the
scheme and he could-notback
the proposal. •
"What they're doing is
asking the taxpayer to cough
up an extra f." :900 for their
pledge,', he saiu. "I can't buy
it." .. , •
Board member Mary
Donnelly said that the Kin-
srnen proposal really didn't
give the fund raising effort
anything, She added -that the
club had, not pledged • any
money to the fund awhile the
Lions had already • given
$20,000 ' which would be
matched two to one by
Wintario dollars.
Peters, claimed the board
would be safe to ask the club
for a straight donation of
$4,500 with no conditions and
members could . take it or
'leave it. He . added that the
club members had to live
with the people of Goderich.'
Meyers again cautioned the
board'bn theurgency of funds
to sign the construction
contract and that therwas
little choice on the pledge
offer.
McCauley said that con-
cessions were granted to the
Lions Club for'its pledge and
concessions: would have to be
granted'to the Kinsmen Club
if its pledge was accepted.. He
hoped that the fund raising
committee would be able to
raise the necessary funds so•
that club pledges would not be. •
needed.
.Donnelly claimed it was
- bad: business,' to give .con
cessions if clubs -hadn't'
originally contribuxed to the
building fund and would not
support a motion to accept
the proposal.
Al Sinclair a consultant •
with the -Ministry of Culture
and Recreation, dealing with'
• Wintario and; • Community-,. _.
Centre Board grants said -that
if the Kinsmen 'were granted
their concessions,. then the
Lions may want extra con --
sideration and would have the
right to ask.
He said it would be a dill
ferent matter if the Kinsmen
Club members donated $4,50.0
and then said they would
pledge an additional $6,000
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WINTARIO WINNERS
The five tickets worth
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sday night's Wintario
lottery draw are95108 in
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•1; 25419 in series 15.;
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Huron Count Warden ,lark McCtrtchetrti"resents the Gold recipients of the citizenship award embteirintic of an out.
County p standing erformanee b
Citizenship badge to Griff Murphy of the Fourth Goderich g p y a scout who adheres to the
troop. Paul King (left) and Andrew l i+ss ('right) were'also . qualifications set out by the boy scout council. (staff photo),
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