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HomeMy WebLinkAboutWingham Advance-Times, 1977-06-08, Page 211 The Wingham Advance-rl'imea, June 8, 1977 k ya. ::. J: The Hawick Grapevine Craig will represent Morris Township on the Blyth District Community Centre Board and -willreport, back 10_ eQW eIl-0. _ . -. The breakdown of costs for the Maitland Engineering Services on municipal drainage reports was sent to council. They are per hour as follows: engineer, $10; stenographer, $4; draftsmen, ,$3.40; survey technicians, ' ;1..110, $4.90, $4.68 and part-time survey assistants, usually students, at The township will receive $40 for the use of the town hall as a polling station on election day. General accounts were passed by council and road accounts of $41,500:23 were approved also. FRENCH SPEAKING CONTEST On Wednesday, June 1, the French Speaking Contest was held at Howick. There were twelve contestants in all. They were students from grade seven advanced, grade eight, and grade eight advanced. The judges were Mr. Campeau, head of the French Department in Wingham at F. E. Madill Secondary School and Mr. Babcock, head of the French De- partment in Listowel at Listowel 1 0 INGLIS FARM DRAINAGE Quality Installation Clay or Plastic Free Estimates PHONE: 392-6700 RR 3 Walkerton JQJJ SO.ZZO eSee ED 00 c 0 0 J District Secondary School. These judges had a very difficult time in choosing the top three winners but like always a decision had to be made. First prize was won by Tammy Brown, second prize by Marilyn Renwick and third prize was won by Agnes VOros. —Tammy Brown FIELD DAY Field Day was to be held at Howick Central on June 2 bus', due to weather conditions the event was postponed until Friday, June 3. We hope the weather will co- operate so it can be held that day. Field Day is a day where the 4 house teams and grade 4's participate, in certain sports events to get points for their team. At the end of the day, the points are calculated, and the winning team is announced. At the end of the year, the winning team members will get an arm - bar for participating. We hope this day is lots of fun and that good sportsmanship is shown by all participants. —Susan Mann TEESWATER CONCRETE For your ready mixed concrete needs. "Dry" Hard W. ARMSTRONG 392-6776 or 392-6536 HEARING TESTS VANCE'S DRUGS- WI GHAM FRIDAY, JUNE 10, 1-31? SIA. NO OBLIGATION Batteries, accessories, repairs to most makes BeClone• HEARING AIDS J. D. FAIR 91 Brunswick St. Stratford, Ont. 273-2118 A CONCERT BAND from Woodland Heights School in L•M •on entertained students Iat Wingham Public School it. J �' ENA. The band is composed mostly of grade eight students, though a few are from a high school and one each from grades six and seven. •Cool -Ray Polaroids are specially priced at Vance's, so that you &n be seen in Cool - Ray styling at a price that is affordable. 20% off n Cool -Rays over $10 10% off on Cool -Rays under $10 Aero Fertilizers 10-6-4 Lawn Food line tat me ra u: wtw esu. any 10.4.4 .a 6. for greener lawns $2.90 40 Ib. Bag 7-7-7 Lawn and Garden Fertilizer Get your garden growing with this excellent formula. $2.90 40 Ib. Bag HODGINS 11 North St, F, Wingham, Ont. Phone 357-3650 EtUIMAU ASSOCIATE STORE Szo 'e Hors 7:30 to 5:30 Mon. - Fri. It 00 to Noon Sate rain elevators in Morris to be in use by autumn Grain elevators are being built in Morris Township to be ready for use in the late fall. Fred How- son of Howson and Howson, Blyth, was present at the Morris Township Council meeting, June 6, to present one of the two pro- posed plans for the building. The elevators will be situated on Lot 1, Con. 9, near railroad tracks and a substation. The ele- vators initially will be handling the drying and storing of corn. Mr. Howson said other crops would be considered in the future. The four silos on the proposed plan will be 24 by 100 feet and pos- sibly two othersV' will be 30 or 36 feet by 100 feet. In other business, council heard from Andy McBride, Mait- land Engineering Services on the Blyth Creek drain. Mr. Mc - Bride's strongest recom- mendation was to clear beaver dams in the drain. After the dams are cleared away council will be able to see exactly what more work has to be dope.. It was also suggested that tree tops be removed but Mr. McBride said the tree tops are not as im- portant as the dams. It was felt that the removal of the dams would benefit the flow of drain - u, considerably. Mrs. Robert Bird; whose property is crossed by the drain, was present at the meeting to see if damages incurred when clear ing the land would be paid by the township. Mr. McBride advi4ed council that damages could not be paid when a drain is being re- paired. Reeve William Elston said the newspaper report of their May 9 meeting sounded as though the whole drain would be cleared and would cost $100,000. "It could cost $100,000, but we hope that it won't," he said. "We hope that 'we would just clean out theireally bad parts." FIRE CALLS A bill for fire calls made by the Brussels Fire Department was received by council for the amount of $1,800. Council 'dis- cussed an agreement it has with the Brussels department, which states they will cover fires in the Brussels area. Council felt that the agreementshould be clearer. It was decided to hold a special meeting with Brussels to deal with the agreement, The bill will be paid, but the meeting is being held to clear any further ques- tions. In connection with a traffic control report made by the Minis- try of 'Transportation and Com- munication, it was decided that all concession roads be made through roads. The ,report sug- gested placing "yield"' signs on the centre county line south of County Road 16 and on con- cession roads north of the county road. Council wants these con- cession roads made through roads. It . was also suggested by council that two stop signs pro- posed by the report on Con. 2 at one bridge be changed to yield signs. Reeve Elston said if a car had to make a full stop on the hills there in the winter, the ice build- up might prevent it from continu- ing any further. He reminded council of the time a school bus could not make it up the hill be- cause of ice this winter. Ministry to help protection funds BLYTH — Agriculture and Food Minister Bill Newman said his ministry will.encourage the establishment of funds under the Farm Products Payment Act to protect agricultural producers in cases where buyers go bankrupt before payment is made. In accepting one of the major recommendations of the re- cently -released Financial. Pro- tection rotection Task Force, Mr. Newman told a meeting of beef farmers: "It is our intention to make the necessary regulatory or 'legisla- tive amendments required to establish such funds'. We believe such funds will protect .individual producers from devastd'ting losses when buyers cannot pay for what they purchased." Mr. Newman said the govern- ment will encourage commodity groups to establish funds by con- tributing $25,000 to each group wishing to set up such a fund, and by providing up to $250,000 in interest-free- loans, subject to certain specified conditions, to funds that become insolvent, As is the case with the fund for milk and cream producers, which has been in operation since 1967, the Ministry of Agriculture and Food will administer th& funds. Funds would operate under the following terms and conditions: Producers and buyers of a parti- cular commodity would contri- bute 40 and 60 per cent, respec- tively, in annual fees. Fees would be suspended when a satisfattory level of funding had been built up; Pay outs would be limited per bankruptcy and per farmer; The Ministry would bolster insolvent funds with interest-free loans up to $250,000, provided the fee structure was altered to repay the loan within a 10 -year period. The Financial Protection Task Force, chaired'by Morris Huff of the Ontario Ministry of Agricul- ture and Food and released in April, estimated that in the past 10 years agricultural producers in Ontario have lost $1.35 million PROTEST JUNK YARD Council moved that Ross Procter and Bob Grasby ap- proach Mel Jermyn about his wrecking yard on Highway 4 on the south half Lot 1 on Con. 3. Council said Mr. Jermyn has not lived up to his end of the contract passed Nov, 7, 1972 by council. The motion made at that time stipulated Mr. Jermyn could have a wrecking yard if it was kept. 210 feet from the centre off the highway and 210 feet from the Third Con., and be fenced so that junk was not visible from the road. Council 'said there is no fencing around the junk and it is not 210 feet from the roads. James Barnes received $262 from council when six of his sheep were .killed by dogs on his farm: The 'amount of payment was set by Livestock Valuator Glen Casemore, who received $18.84 for his duties. Under the Livestock Act, any livestock killed by dogs must be paid for by the township council. Council is not sure what dogs are responsible, bat said the dogs went right into the barn. It was moved by council to hire B. M. Ross and Associates to in- •spect all necessary projects in the Pletch subdivision, Befgrave, as the township's engineer and send the bills to Sam Pletch. through buyer bankruptcies. Consideringcash sales by far- mers exceeded $19 billion during the same period, the losses attri- buted to bankruptcies amounted to 0.007 per cent or $70 for every million dollars of farm sales. "This has not been a majort" problem to Ontario agriculture in general," Mr. Newman said. „ "But tit has been a major finan- cial setback to those individuals who have suffered loss. We be- lieve this new government initia- tive will go a long way in protect- ing producers in cases where buyers default." BANCROFT PRACTICE Brian Douglas Bishop DDS, son of Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Bishop, Winghartl, receives his DDS degree -at the convo- cation of the University of Western Ontario on Friday, June 10. Dr. Bishop, a grad- -cstx uate of F. E. Madill Second- ary School, will practise in Bancroft, commencing June 20. w • Bill Pullen of the Federation of Agriculture was present at the meeting to tell council results of a survey being conducted by the federation. One-third of the town- ship has .been covered in the survey so far and the rest is hoped to be covered by fall, Sixty per cent of the residents voted against changing the Line Fence Act to suit farmers who don't own livestock. Twelve per cent said it should be changed. Forty-three per cent were not in favor of the warble fly spray pro- grani in the township and 33 per cent were in favor. DRAIN REPAIRS Council moved that repairs be looked after on the following drains by the councillors men- 'tioned..The.Coultes Drain by Bob Grasby; the Robb Drain by Thomas Miller • and the Kirkby Drain by Bill Elston. Septic tanks were approved by the Huron County Health Unit for the following: Murray MacFar: lane, Thomas Irwin and Judith Morton. - A certificate of compliance was awarded to M'r. and Mrs. William Garniss, RR 4, Wingham to build a barn:' A severence was ap- proved for Albert and Dianne Wasson, Con. 9, Lot 18 to build a house. Bruce Richmond and Carman Rexall - Superdry - Regular $1 .25 Deodorant NOW 95a Wilkinson Sword - 5's - Regular 89' Razor Blades NOW 69¢ Lee Vance Ltd. 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