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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1977-08-18, Page 4s&. • PAGE 2- 'ODERICI SIGNAL•STAR, r1 AA'`; At,IGUS' #s,` 1977 'rculture . 0111 . , - .. --',.'.. . w-itM..i'+Y' .r,I.tMx;i'gi.aw. v:1:•:4arY industry • Drive-in church services have become very popular in many ontarlo•towns in recent years. For the' past several Sunday evenings 'Bethel Pentecostal Tabernacle on the corner of Elgin and Waterloo Streets, have been spon- soring a drive-in service on -the parking lot of.Suncoast Mali' on Bayfield The Huron County Federation of Agriculture, protection given to many agricultural inputs and in a brief prepared -for presentation to the Royal the higher prices that farmers must pay for Commission 'on Electric Power Planning, says these inputs eats up most of the 2.05 per cent that to a large extent, the agricultural industry is protection given to farm products." supporting the manufacturing industries of this The food and beverages industry, for instance, has a nominal protection rate of 7.96 per cent and county.T The Huron F of A also believes that increases effective protection of 19.04 per cent. This means in hydro production will encourage more Onthed t valuthee they add to riff rate on their goods process is very low ris small in relation to the total value of the final product. As a result the 7.96 per cent protection given to their raw products represents 19.04 per cent of the value they add to the fished product. "As a result the returns to i vestment and labor in agriculture are lower tha the returns in the food and beverages industry," the Huron F of A says. . During the election earlier this year, one of the points most often expressed by all the\andidates in the Huron -Middlesex Riding was the fact that tariff inequities were burdening the farmers of Huron, of Ontario, in fact all of Canada. The Huron F of A brief substantiates this fact, saying that while the farmer gets little border protec- tion from imports, the food processors in the country are well protected. "Food processors in this country can price their products well above. world prices, even though they buy their raw materials at near competitive world prices," -the brief says.. "Such protection gets built into ,the processing costs, with the result ,that our processed foods are not competitive in world markets. This indirectly robs the Canadian farmer of potential exports. The high price of some processed fgods may have a depressing influence on consumption." manufacturing industries, and further bur the economic position of the farmer. "We are trying to point out that the economy of our country cannot afford to operate any more unprofitable industry," says Huron F of A President Alan Walper. Walper feels industry should "try to become more competitive with the world market". The seven -page brief points out that over the past 20 years, the -price of energy has declined in comparison to the prices of labor or borrowing money. It further reasons that for this reason, it was more profitable for business and manufacturing to -use more energy than to employ more workers or buy energy-efficient machinery. However as the energy prices increase, the brief states, the cost of energy begins to overtake wage increases and the increase in capital prices. It also becomes more profitable` to substitute workers or machinery for expensive energy. According to the brief, it has been concluded that the United States could have zero energy growth through to the year 2,000 and at the same time increase employment between 1.5 per cent and three percent. "There would be no decline in production of goods and services or overall U.S. economic _gwth"elle An interesting comparison chart in the report shows that the Gross National Product per capital in Canada is $5,372. Energy consumption per capita is equivalent 1') 8.5 tons of oil. Unemployment stands at 5.4 per cent in this country. In Sweden on the other hand, the ;Gross National Product per capita is $6,975; oil con- sumption per capita is equivalent to 5.o tons; ana. unemployment is reported at two per cent. There's a similar situation in Germany. where the Gross National. Product per capita is $5,618; oil consumption per capita is equivalent to 4.25 tons; and unemployment is only 2.1 per cent. "These comparisons demonstrate that Ontario could move toward zero -energy growth, and obtain more employment than continuing with energy growth," the brief states. The brief also presents a comparison of various energy sources - conservation, mathanol, solar and nuclear - giving in each case a capital investment of one billion dollars. It shows that over a period of 30 years, the energy return for conservation measures is about three times as much as for nuclear production. It also demonstrates that nearly three times as many man-years of employment are provided through conservation as in the production of nuclear energy. Methanol production yields four times the jobs but slightly less energy, solar energy yields slightly more energy and more jobs. "It is clear that conservation and solar programs are not only more beneficial on en- vironmental grounds', but also on an employment generating basis," says the brief. "Indeed this is supported by Ontario Hydro's own figures which show that of 49 Ontario industries studied, the number of jobs and other economic benefits from investment in electricity production were amongst the lowest." AGRICULTURE MOST EFFICIENT The brief goes on to claim that the agricultural industry is the most efficient industry in Canada and receives the least tariff protection. It was pointed out that all productive activity; consists in trahsforming raw materials into a higher stage product. "The final product to the farmer is a raw material to the food processor," says the brief. " On the other hand' the final product to the fer- tilizer manufacturer is a raw material to the farmer." "We believe that any increase in the production of hydro will only further burden the financial 'tr' and thereby financial- J. ort, of. ag ,,",,,,� sucturericulture of our country," says the brief.... The brief presents a chart which shows the nominal and effective tariff rates for the protection of Canadian Industries. It shows that agriculture has the lowest nominal protection (2.05 per cent) as well as the lowest effective protection, .52 percent. "When we say that the nominal protection to agriculture is 2.05 per cent, we mean that the average of all the tariffs applied to agriculture products is 2.05 per cent," the brief stated. "When we say that effective protection to agriculture is .52 per cent, we 'mean that the 1 ernTcH See How They BY SHIRLEY J: KELLER If you haven't seen - anything thisseason at Huron Country Payhouse near. Grand Bend, and have been planning to get down there sometime, this week is the time to go. The offering right now at the Playhouse is See How They Run and it is served up in great style well spiced with one-liners and generously laced with fun and frolic. The audience at Tuesday evening's opening per- formance 'start to laugh early in the three -act performance, and by the end of the play showed their appreciation through thunderous applause which only subsided after it was clear the, cast would be making no more appearances that evening. Usually in any play, there's at least one weak link for critics to pan, but in See How They Run even the most exacting critic would be hard- pressed to find a member of the cast who didn't come Itswet When the rains came to Goderich on Tuesday they carne in record proportions. Goderich weather station spokesman Tony Chir reported Wednesday morning that a 40 year old rainfall record for the town had beet shattered during the storm when 92.9 millimetres -3.66 inches -fell on the town. The previous record set in 1948 was 83.8 mm. -3.3"- which was also established during the month of August. Chir said that the weather office breaks down rainfall into categories of 24 hours, 12 hours, two hours and even five minutes. He said that not only did the storm bring about'a record but it did it in an almost unbelievable short period of time. He said that he had been working as a meteorological technician for eight years and had "never seen so much rain in such a short time". He said the station is equipped with a recording rain guage that simply couldn't keep up with the rainfall Tuesday. During a 12 period, from 8:00 a.m. Tuesday morning to 8:00 p.m. Tuesday evening, Goderich had 92.6 mm. -3.49"- and from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.rn. during the day, when the storm peaked, 69.1 mm. -2.72" -of rain fell. In one five minute span during those two hours 5.6 mm. -.22 fell. Chir said that the figures given in millimetres were dead accurate adding that the guage that measures inches of rainfall tended -to be out slightly. He said . he bad used a conversion method to compute the millimetres to inches. He added that not only did the town experience a record rainfall but the area is also far exceeding the average mean rainfall for the month of August. He said that in the 16 days of August 195.5 nim. of rain had fallen which is 7.70 inches. He added that,"believe it or not we're supposed to get 67.3 mm. or 2.65 inches." Works and engineering foreman Stan Meriam saidthat his office wasflooded with calls Tuesday because most of the town was flooded. He said the town's storm sewer system was working at its capacity and was unable to'move the rainfall fast enough. He said the storm sewers were full and the excess water was backing into basements throughout the town. He addedthat there was nothing crew could do • about the situation and that trying to pump water away with portable pumping units was useless because there was no place to pump it. Meriam said he went to one section of town that suffered from the storm and the sewers were full, the drainage ditches were full and the road was nearly covered making it impossible to do anything but wait. He said an hour after the rain stopped most of the water was drainedoff adding that in his 24 yearsin works and engineering he has never seen as much water in such a shorttinie. Chir offered some encouragement to the vaterlogged residents of Goderich with the of- ficial forecast for Goderich for Wednesday. Showers? A-BUCK.AT ta5hi �' hl""E :'N�IINIpIItINI111EUIINIfII mmli p nno e S. ' x10► with this ad! .rears Right!... Save UM_ on any regulorly'prked..: DENIM ,or -CORD JJ JEANS and SHIRT. COMBINATION or OVERALLS (NITA 0000 XT ANT SANDY'S LOCATION dfrdl3 ;UflIelsi l it through with flying colors. From the lead characters to those on stage only a short time, all were excellent. As one observer - put it, "It couldn't have been better played. It was cast per- fectly." The story revolves around a vicarage in Merton-Cum- Middlewick. Where? In England, of course. ' Young Vicar Lionel Toop played by Stanley Coles is married to the vivacious and out -spoken Penelope Toop (Mary Charlotte Wilcox). Unfor- tunately, the vicar's pretty and out=going wife is causing Road. These services, the first of their kind for God�arlch,�have attended each evening. The last of these one„hourservices for:,this,s was held on Sunday evening and conducted by Pastor Fred Day. The in services will be held again next summer. (staff:photo)" Run will deli; some eyebrows to be raised throughout the parish. At least one parishoner, Miss Skillon (Joan Hanna) makes daily reports to the vicar concerning his wife's shor- tcomings. The action really gets rolling when Miss Skillon walks in whilst Penelope Toop and an old friend, Corporal Clive Winton (Tom Butler) whom she knew when they were both on the stage, were reliving a scene from a play they had done together. Miss Skillon's horror is complicated by the early and unexpected arrival of The Goderich man gets scholarship Mike Palmer, a third year student in the five-year Engineering and Management Faculty at McMaster University in Hamilton, has been awarded the Simon McNally Scholarship for the coming year. Tse_- steal fy - "for :- the_ scholarship, the candidate must be a Canadian and have the highest mark in the second year Civil Engineering Program, management included. Mike's mark in the course was 99 percent. On the Dean's Honor List -for the past two years, Mike's overall average as 87.5 percent. He is the son of Mrs. Eileen Palmer, Goderich, and Walter Palmer, Clinton. Bishop of Lax (Jay MacDonald) and The Reverend Arthur Humphrey • (Norman Broomfield) who is to be the special speaker at Sunday's service. A further dimension is added by -an escaped spy (Brian_ Parker) who chooses the vicar's house as a place to hide out until he can exchange his prisoner's garb for a less conspicuous suit of clothes. Much of the merriment Jesuits _from the fact that practically every gentleman on stage is dressed as a parson, and nobody knowing Turn to page 20 • Goderich Manufacturi (Sales) Limited Announces that the Goderich Buildall Store will the Larkin Lumber Company .Limited and Cashw -- -.-_ hairy a1►d wilf y= Building -Sup commencing Sept. 12. The Baechlers - Ted, Clare and Con will continue operate Goderich Manufacturing (Sales) Limited .3 Goderich Manufacturing Co. Limited who are w known for their hardwood and manufactur facilities. 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