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The Goderich Signal-Star, 1977-05-26, Page 1s 5'k e -p Ia nt i n g .. of the Third Goderich Girl Guides, aided the Committee with a little grooming on The Square in on for the upcoming celebrations. The girls flowers included LaVern Burnett, Linda Reid, cock, Karen Bushell, Shelley Burnett, Diane Ross Gower. (staff photo) rge teacher d man has been ith murder and murder after an as killed and his s wounded early c Village, Lloyd Bullen, 45, ded in custody to rovincial court in day. saves for niers ada' has spent o expand the f its Goderich centre by 600 terminals and to tomatic number n (ANI) on self - distance calls, ay 28, Jim Scott, anada manager, ek. date the operator er cut in to get the efore a direct aled call is com- quipment will ly register the billing purposes. omers on multi - will continue to be Operator number ni(ONI) equipment will lephone directory 5,300 numbers. presently more numbers in the 24" exchange. , Bullen is a teacher with the. Huron -Perth Separate School Board, and teaches French to Grades 7 and 8 at St. Mary's Separate School in Goderich and St. Joseph's Separate School at Kingsbridge. He also teaches at Clinton and Wingham Separate Schools in Huron. Dead is Ronald DeJong 25, of RR 2, Bayfield. Leroy DeJong, 22, of RR 2 Bayfield was released from Alexandra Marine and General Hospital, Goderich on Monday after treatment for bullet wounds to his arm and shoulder. The shooting followed a row at the Bavarian Tavern just r Report caterpillars to town employees Goderich was not left off the itinerary of forest caterpillars that descended on Ontario over the past few weeksand the leaf eating pests have already struck at several locations in town. The caterpillars eat the leaves of deciduous trees and have xisen .to alarming numbers this year in the province. Marvin Smith of the ministry of natural resources in Wingham said this part of the province was not suf- fering the same fate as the central portion where experts claim the caterpillars will strip 10 percent of the trees in a three week period. The ministry spokesman.said the early heat this year combined with the 20 year cycle the pests seem to peak in caused the huge influx this year. The natural cycle of the forest caterpillar builds to a peak every 20 years and this is the peak. . Smith said he was aware of a considerable number of caterpillar infestations around Mildmay but had not heard of any as far south as Goderich. He said the forest caterpillar has a first cousin, the eastern tent caterpillar, which lives in a webby mass and is found most often in fruit trees, He said the eastern type is also more of a problem this year than in the recent past. Smith explained that the caterpillar defoliates the tree and then will move en masse to a new site. He said the insect will not kill the tree pointing out that by mid July the tree should be bark to some semblance of normal and will suffer only a smaller growth ring and in the case of maple trees less maple sugar next year. He said a healthy tree can be defoliated every year for three or four years and still live. In Goderich a few sightings have been reported and the worst of hese was at Harold Jefferyi dli Bennett Street according to parks chairman Elsa Haydon. Haydon said the caterpillars infested the trees on the lot and swarmed over the house and the garage and seemed alot like a "horror movie". She said she and Jeffery worked spraying the caterpillar with spray recommended by the ministry of the natural resources. The ministry advocates use of non oil base sprays such as Malathion, Isotox, Diazinon, Sevin, yMethosychlor and Cabaryl. The sprays will halt the caterpillars advance and will prevent it from forming a cocoon and turning to a Moth. The problems should be ' over in about two weeks when the cocoon cycle begins but by that time it is going to be too late for many trees. Haydon said her parks crew is willing to spray any tree in town but adds that it would be far better if the nearest property owner sprayed them. She said the crew is small and busy planting flowers but will spray the trees if no one else will. She added that any person who sees a tree infested with caterpillar should call the public works garage at 524- 7222 or the town hall at 524- 8344, 4, 4.� 130 YEAR -21 oberirlj NAL -STAR THURSDAY, MAY 26, 1977 SINGLE COPY 25c Local citizen prepares petition Charges PUC sends too many to USA Jim Searls is angry at the Goderich Public Utilities Commission and intends to circulate a petition to try to get the PUC to answer some questions in a public forum. outside of. Bayfield on 'High,,-. ,Searls feels that the com- way 21, an inspector from the mission's recent"excur'sion to provincial police criminal 4 Anaheim, California to attend investigation branch said Monday. Det.-Insp M.K. McMaster of Toronto told a press con- ference in Goderich on Monday that Bullens son, Terrance Jr., 20, and four friends from 18-20 years of age were involved in a squabble with the Dejong brothers at the tavern. The brothers followed the younger Sullen to his home on a secluded lot beside the Bayfield harbour, McMaster said that the brothers were each shot at twice in front of the Bullen home. A 22 -calibre pistol was recovered from the scene of the shooting, The Bullen boys father appeared before a justice of the peace on Sunday, and will appear in court today, Thursday, fora hearing, the American Water Works Association is nothing but a "rip off" and hopes to stop the annual practice of attending the convention. ' The commission attends the convention each year, sending its members, one representative from the utility office and the wives of the men: This year 12 people including wives went to California for the five day convention and the PUC water department paid the bill for transportation, food and lodging for the five days. Some members stayed longer _at their own expense but had their return ticket paid. PUC Officer Manager Don MacMillan, one of those who attended this year, said he did not know now what ,the convention cost the utility because not all the expense, forms had been turned in, but did say that last year's convention in New Orleans cost about $6,000. He guessed that this year's would cost about between $1,000 to $1,200 per member. MacMillan— was ac- companied this year by commissioners -Jim Peters, Harry Worsell, Leonard Sheardown, Herb Murphy and Deb Shewfelt and the wives of all six men. Searls describes himself as getting more "up tight" each year for the past five years, but said that this year he complained because he felt let down by two com- missioners. He said two of the men who ran for the office did so claiming they were con- cerned about the expense of the convention. He said. both were elected and not only did nothing about the cost of the convention but went to it themselves with their wives. Searls does not readily accept the reasoning given to him by some PUC members and some office staff. He said he is led to believe that the information learned at the 0 acres of greenhouses rio, government he first step to oject started by which could ad to 700 acres of being located in ownship that are arm water from rating Station A oint. ect proceeds as the first s could be the fall of 1978. f a stlIdy are due public this Sep - s conference in nday, Premier vis and three isters unveiled started by the e industrial for the news were Mayor mateer , Reeve , clerk treasurer itt, Kincardine Reeve Alvin d Bruce County Cormack. inister James that a study will lately that will economic and details of the all regulatory anmental ap- ould anticipate that construction could begin in the spring of the next year," he said. He explained that warm water which is used in the Bruce GS cooling system is now dumped . into Lake Huron. This water has the equivalent energy of three million barrels of oil a year. "I am particularly pleased to acknowledge the in- novative ' and imaginative role played by the town of Kincardine in promoting this project," Mr. Taylor said. The project will involve the town, township, Ontario Hydro, and the ministries of energy, agriculture and food and natural resources. The warm water from Bruce GS would be piped to the greenhouse operation in Kincardine township, Once it is used there, it would be used again to heat fish ponds. Conventional greenhouse heating now costs between 430,000 and $50,000 a year for each acre. It is anticipated that warm water from the Bruce GS could be a cheaper or at least a competitive 'form of heating especially because of increasing costs of oil and natural gas. The possibility of fish farthing also exists. Once used in greenhouses, warm water could make year round fish growing operations possible. The natural resources ministry could also use heated fish ponds to raise stock for the province's lakes. Agriculture Minister William Newman said greenhouses offer great potential for developing new food production methods that could cut back the province's need to import fresh vegetables in winter. "I can see us getting into production in a big way with all kinds of familiar vegetables we don't normally grow in greenhouses right now - lettuce, radishes, peppers, eggplant, melons, cauliflower," he said. Other, • more exotic vegtables, such as artichokes and avocados might also be raised. "While we might never become self-sufficient in many of these items, we could go a long way toward replacing imports, to the benefit of both our farmers and our consumers," he said. Natural Resources Minister Frank Miller said that his ministry will review the possibility of using the project to raise fish for Great Lakes restocking.• '. "We are also interested in exploring the feasibility of a facility designed to produce fish for direct use as food," he said. "It may be feasible to build a pilot ,plant operation at Kincardine to develop the necessary technology and to learn what the problems of marketing a specialty project might be." Premier William Davis termed the proposal for Kincardine as "an exciting project and forward -thinking step in planning for Ontario's energy future." "In particular, a significant amount of time and money has been con- tributed *by the town of Kincardine through its in- dustrial committee in the development of the concept for the benefit of the com- munity," he said, Preliminary cost estimates of the pipeline to Kincardine Township is $1 million per mile. Changes to Bruce Generating Station would cost about $1.2 million. Private industry would pay for construction of the greenhouses and the pipeline while Hydro would pay for changes at Bruce GS. The greenhouse operation would pay Hydro for use of the warrhy water convention is valuable, but points out that it should also be available to any com- mission requesting it. MacMillan said from his standpoint the convention was worthwhil He said he attended sessibYhat were pertinent to his job as a bookkeeper at the utility and that he met and, listened to other men in the same profession to try to gain some insight into what other utilities were doing and hoW they were handling problems. He said the commissioners would have to pick and choose what sessions, they attended to try to gather as much in- formation as possible. He said the representatives split up to try to catch as much of the convention as possible. The office manager said he met only one other area person at the convention and. that was a representative of the Exeter PUC. He said the size of the convention restricts the odds of meeting someone you know, but did say that he saw the Exeter rep once or twice. Searls said he didn't know of any other utility that sent anyone to the convention. He said he phoned St, Thomas to see if the PUC in that small city, sent anyone to California. He said the manager there said the commissioners couldn't afford the time away from work to go to the convention and ji�ssed it up. Se i'fls added that the PUC manager made a similar point in a conversation when he said a former com- missioner, the late -Bill Mills, lost money when he attended the convention. He said the car dealer had claimed he was losing sales when he was at the convention and it cost him money. "I'd say stay home," said Searls, "I didn't ask him to run for office or go to, he convention and wouldn't expect anyone to go to a convention or anywhere for the town if it was going to cost him money." Searls said he "Can't buy" the importance of the con- vention. He said he was told the commission benefits a great deal from the at- tendance but added that he can't find where the benefit is passed along to the town. "If it is of such importance why isn't each member (continued on page 18) Pointing up for citizenship The Grade 7 and 8 classes at Holniesville Public School celebrated Citizenship Day, Friday by being good citizens and cleaning up their school yard. The students split ilnro two groups and shared the duties of f ' ,� a painting, half dr class scraping old, paint off and the-other'half putting a fresh, coat on. Here some of the students make a social happening oat of the chore and chat while doing their painting. (staf_ photo)