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The Goderich Signal-Star, 1977-01-27, Page 5'age iK rc, the' Peal 'dale; White with. a}rseS, trate r:�and. khose in a Sr hit' tis of Oder- itned, flhile !king` the', le'. sal bei: sable ih of in; bet: st a rgreoodgm5pesIa�itol 1pu1b!r, counfl coid:artcoptble Laawrtm lalr` ;oesid+dp ol �ri eugea11n ArnericaFa ;Is a can. i to f :pc� ''t.ma w the" refugees. rdr rwron sidye in the poi'ittaa1 1 , thosrp-;:StateS has.ii en makingxth y -U s dales aj'� less ace stable, `!new hom lr►an? rtr Needless .ta sa ►.It'a iao goy somewhere ,like Libya or: political p wers ,relltia. slve!,aa those'.the soft e;sJwly`in life ecttrtpmicxsX %a on 'there is ire e a+bright new future ° iUgb aprocess oielimination, #f by ter ^system :olt, choice," more - and ,of the Chilean, Argentine and guayanpolitical refugees-areopting telt treeceevntsiprosgerraierms•snowt,theed, "Fjiuftsht de ,, }snrb all that. easy to, get a visa and he -pip t<d immigrant status in Cadada. frigthat you are a political refugee to easiest thing in the world. lermore, whenth,e time^.comes to doesn'ttusttally. Piave _'six to 18 in ,which.ta'go . through• all the, lesof applyingfor immigration through the. - nearest . Canadian enou, A gh refcugeash-'s for#strianply scrapes air, , R. 1AFhat belongings-: will weigh • in 4,/he 22 kilo baggage limit, and. e�tesult is, a fair nuof .suh 1lees'•-who ttirni uta Canamberda havinc Tithe the present of P ' rn F !� ?enegri, a ilean..whO Chchit' a to be a14 = politicgl.refugee,,He came toCanaitds► on Yp; a rtisitor• visa :allegedly to vis -.family bt`n uoW that.the permit�had been expired :for, nearly a year he claims to ,be a political refugee. He tells of being har#asc rind later„z tortured. after the. overthrow'of S iv tar.'` �„ ad Allende. `Denegrl also feels his life wan'! be .worth -a great'deall if .he . is ,indeed deported back:,tohis native la'rid. For most of us the•- stories . of liarrassrnent, torture and execution ;en masse Chile, Chile, today have been; satisfactorily documented.`There is little doubt ..that the present regime in that country is guil ,9 of the worst excesses in politicarGl repression. Denegri is,probably telling the truth. l3tit there are two other con- .siderations.Firstly, as .I have already e iti ---maint�h d a(hfat'ii i political Canada% ; id►log si that sort o{f� �;]efxac the:.4 p u� r Y TY1 ri "Lh �T a ealst ;11ia1,.1Qes Ill! �?,� � c .,l• T q�;n,!'' For that matter'whatofftle tlgpe� upon thousands of othear. Chile�ans,'wbt must' be suffering idejrk � k itt regime. Don't we have an:obligatiorl a them: as well? But how manic refugee. can we employ and thereby Pea ;clo i and house: - t Ohit's adilemina'alrfeht. INFORMATION, BA.CKROUND AND .OPINION ent rn is Pping ;did 45d .lf . by th nowt staut ea ;.good anadi -tion` ers ing ental a- CI maid eancii ley ning is is know! g for riP lash ter Reeve,:; Simmons has ,termed. community!'s $500 impost fee for uildinggots* .thetowna "rip°off”. said the'fee was another example w town councils and the provincial ment were _pushing the price of ing lots to '`point where people n't afford them ormer developer fiimself::Siin eons that anyone who buysi-<a lot • is dy paying for the services required installed by a subdiv der 'an in ion they have to: pay taxe- to help debenture ..debts for > services herein the communit :4,d on top thatthe SQO-.impost;f 'I've maintained for years it's a rip- off" he told Exeter town council at' a recent meeting. - In answering Simmons' request for an explanation of the fee, -Mayor Bruce Shaw said the impost was charged so the town 'could recoup some of the costs involved kt extending sewers and other services'to new sulidivisiens. He said that:council estimated it would cost the town $30,000 to provide services 'to a new subdivision now planned for the community. "It means letting the rest of the people escape the penalty of a new sub- division,".the'Mayor added. • Councillor Ted Wright said the recent expenditure of $150,000 on a street drain was... an example of expenditures which had to be made due to development in, the community. Wright suggested the expenditure was created by develop- ment in the eastern portion of Exeter. However Simmons ` refuted that - argument, saying there had been a problem with the sewer in question for the past 25 years, although he did not agree the problem had been aggravated by other developments. The Reeve noted that people in new. subdivisions help pay for such things as watermains in older sections of the town even though they have paid for their own mains themselves through the purchase of completely serviced lots. "You're penalizing the young fellow wanting to get his family into a house," he told council. "He's paid for hiss own services and now has to pay 'fai services in other areas!' The matter was finally dropped when Mayor Shaw suggested :that Simmons serve notice of motion to have the impost dropped and council could deal with the matter then. The Reeve did not indicatewhether he would pursue the matter further though. Meanwhile in Goderich, the local town council has just passed a bylaw en- forcing the collection of impost charges on all new residential building beginning immediately. The new charge will be applicable to all single family, semi-detached and row housing projects at the rate of $1,000 per unit, and for apartment developments at the rate of $650 per unit. The rate is considerably higher than the disputed Exeter charge of $500 per new house. Cau Councillor Stan .Profit did suggest that the change was a hit high. He was told that impost charges throughout the province ranged from anywhere from $500 for a single family dwelling to an estimated $8,000. Mayor Deb Shewfeltpointecl out, however, that in some cases the impost charges include the cost of all other municipal hookups (water, sewage, etc.) and cannot be compared -iamany respects to the impost charges approved . for Goderich. Sample impost bylaws from Perth, Kincardine, Fergus, Strathroy and Kitchener were examined by the finance committee prior' to drawing up the Goderich bylaw. The impost charge in Kincardine, committee chairman Bill Clifford noted, was $1,000. y civilservant knows, each year usiness of government produces eds of tons of 'piper „as a by ct. The newspapers; are; aware of erhaps more than::most as each ons-of-press-releasesback ground ial . and _ government. - an ements cross reporter.s'desk's. ew report "Paper. Recycling - in io" outlines the, options open to ment, and,,,indostry to increase recycling, :suggests.:ways to im- both the Atfpply:and demand of paper and :describes the market s in relation:to the pulp end paper. y who are the Major consumers to paper. Some of-thections recommended in the report are -already under way. A joint- study, . in co-operation with the Ontario Ministry of Government Ser- vices and the 'Federal :G�yernrnent, is being -undertaken- on the collectksn of marketable waste paperfrom gover- nment buildings in the Toronto area. ° In addition . a pilot project on the desktop separation of fine papers is being` carried out ..at the .offices of Environment Ontario's Resource Recovery Branch and the Ontario Waste Management Advisory Board. Each staff member will sort outhis recyclable paper daily. k. - "Waste;paper` is a major component of our, volume of garbage," according tc Environment Minister George., Kerr. "Government 'leadership can help in the development of efficient methods for the recovery of valuable paper before it enters the municipal waste system." "Projects such as these will encourage private waste paper generators tc examine how their own businesses can be modified to accommodate recycled paper, and how high value grades can be revovered and marketed," _says Dr. Jack Donnan, an Environment Ontaric economic analyst who complied the report on paper recycling. • . Dr. Donnan reports that 20 paper mills in Ontario which use waste paper con- sume more than 425,000 tons of waste paper annually, representing 20 percent of the potentially recoverable supply. That figure represents a maximum level under present economic conditions, according to the report, a figure unlikely to increase significantly without market intervention. Of the waste paper now used in Canada, 90 percent is bulk rather than premium grade and is used primarily by boxboard and container board industry. However, the report says no waste paper is used in the manufacture of newsprint, the industry's -most important product in terms of tonnage. Nine out of 16 mills in Ontario which use little or no waste paper are newsprint mills, some producing up tc 1,000 tons each day. Though 80 percent of that production is exported, most of what's left finds it: way to the Toronto market area. The distances between these urban centres and northern Ontario newsprint mills in the past has meant prohibitive tran- sportation costs ' for recovered newsprint, the report found. One remedy considered is the in- vestigation of integrated facilities in the Torontoarea which could de -ink waste newspaper and follow through with pulp - and paper making stages. The report recommends the continued development of other ,uses for waste paper. It is already used extensively in the manufacture of a fire and vermin resistant insulation' material. Other possible uses include the production of mulch and bedding for cattle and as a conditioner for dewatering sewage sludge:` "Attaining the objects of our resource recovery program will require action on all the approaches possible," Mr. Kerr says. "Not only on the development of full scale A recycling plants for mixed - municipal waste, but on the separation and ,marketing of some materials such as paper at the source." • tre .a Janu On i has rticul tot di tents teat d en a r• e.. sr • gas,! 05 page: original 'opening' of Canada to pean settlement and development, great deal of its progress in the since, can Yoe credited to a ready transportation system. This ry has been; blessed with perhaps eatest natural Inland waterway an in the world system .,;had only` two major eetions---- The lito was a Con able number:; of falis and rapids were in circumvented by the ng of. canal apd lock system knoWn e St..,Lawrence Seaway., The second winter W i f,it:i Cha'annel ,clogging, amusing iee.:. -.. Seaway. officials in Canada and the United States are now proposing an all embracing study of winter shipping on the seaway including the economic ,'impact en the East Coast ports. This is part of a growing wave of in- \terest in winter : navigation on the`. seaway system, an issue that one federal environment, department 'official says :You'd • lead . to an "international rhubarb" • Already un is a $17;million, six -- year .study of the environmental impact of a: Whiter shipping season onthe•Great Lakes -" St.^ Lawrence seaway;systetri.: This ia.ateArnericith,g0Oefrithentaffott but Canadian agencies have agreed to assist Where they can. igVrapped up in the question of a year Found' shipping season are problems such as spring flooding, hydro power generation, the economic need for such a long. season and the effect on shipping 'business at East Coast.ports like Saint John, New Brunswick and Halifax:-' - Federal officials -say -there seems to be more enthusiasm,: in the United States Chan-in"Canada for ayear round shipping season; ;:....At4ie moment the seaway generally opens about April 1 and closes arpundbecember 15. Paul Normandeau, president of the St. Lawrence. Seaway ;Authority oasis that the seaway authority and its American counterpart, the St. Lawrence'Seaway D elopment Corporation, are"seeking oto establish a joint approach to ex- tending the shipping season. He hoped final agreement would be reached in four to six weeks. • Allan Luce, senior adviser . to Mr. Normandeau, said that as Bart of this arrangement, the two seaway agencies - would look at ,all aspects of a -longer shipping season in a step-by-step examination. , Mr, Normandeau said the first aim is to ensure that shipping can continue unimpeded and without harmful side effects in the normal April 1 - December 15 shipping season. The second stage would be to extend the season by 15 days and there would be a later extension of about the same length. Mr. Luce said the shipping season could be extended by four weeks within a 10 year period. - Before that happens, manyskeptics app skep acs must be convinced, Environmentalists,` power companies, and. cottage owners along the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River are major opponents to a longer season. Derek Foulds, the environment department's regional director of inland waters in Ontario, said that the com- bination of cold winters and ice -breaking efforts on the Great Lakes affects the. flow of water. ' This may lead to unusually high lake levels in the spring and reduce water power generation in winter. Mr. Foulds said Canadian government authorities seem to think that the longest the shipping season is likely to be is March 15 to December 31, about four weeks longer than the current official season. However, some . American government officials ere talking about a 12 month seaway season. There was a "distinct- difference in international feelings." 600 :4t041., his.t!thanks to pi�eside!~orfor r oil Ione -to heal a a1d' ottr,,ltittd,'" perhaps 'a i$ h ti !'#tt#hjg,tribute ptisli#tsle te" ��Ay.�vernal ent l ewilt "be `eVer Vigilant, never 'vulnerable, and we will fight our wars. against _ poverty, ignorance. and in- justice, ..for, , those are';the enemies against ; wh`ii h our ��foxrces can be honorably marshalled' , he said,, carter:t\c'e. t tej _ rowd , estlrrtated•at i ;000 that -fit± hid given him .,,a great i sptiiteibiliiy `r` d ,to ata erose tlo you, to be:�tidrthy Fifty u a cl to exetiijpilfy:What 'mistakes." "Let us learn together and laugh together and work together and pray together, confident that in the end we Will triumph together in the eight." ,f riauguration . day for' . the new president began with prayer. Then he crossed" Pennsylvania Avenue to the tl�tiile, Clouse for coffee with- the Fords. 'Y'tie ,new and ' old presidents; rode together JiierAdlliecta,pital for the transfertof po Yes ceremony. ". President'YWalter Mondale'':was atainr t" ing firs,,. ,by House Speaker: ,,*r 3inasd: O'Neill., Then it wasCark x's turn to take the oath administered by Supreme Court Chief Justice, Warren Burger. • Following his speech, Carter, shun- ning the bullet proof presidential car, began his mile long ,walk to the White House.. Nine year old daughter Amy went by .car. but left it to skip ,,along parents" as hand-in=hand between her p they neared their destinations. Carter made only one, oblique reference to the last elected American president when he saki, "Let out riseoilt mistakes bring a resurgent, commitment oto ihebask principles of ,our nal! ,nr Pot` we know that if we desj kle otic oveh government, we have no future." Speaking of foreign policy he said, "We are, a proudly idealistic nation. but `let no `oiie confuse our ideal!§m with weakness. Because we are free;' We can4` never be indifferent to fate of freedom is elsewhere. Our moral sense dictates a clear-cut preference for. thesec,soeleties.!til : Which share With u$analildr}ikng ctx: for individual human.rigghts.: turning to the horn e,ai<tit, "'We can :neither sibs dor solve all-proi51ta?ii"g`�lif iw rri"Patti totldo everything, t oI ca #' a al lack botdnesc,. as e . f .wem istsimplydd irlbes i{ 11.