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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Citizens News, 1964-05-21, Page 6PAGE SIX 2his Weeh Gad Nit By RAY ARGYLE The next 18 months will be decisive ones for Canada's for- eign trade picture, and thus de- cisive for the prosperity of Ca- nadians generally. • This is the real meaning of the trade con- ference at Geneva which began recently. Trade negotiators of 70 coun- tries. met at Geneva to open the "Kennedy Round" of tariff talks aimed 'at cutting tariff rates by as much as 50 per cent. The meetings, held under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, better known as GATT. were dubber •the Ken- nedy Round because it was President Kennedy who pushed through the Congress the most liberal trade act in its history, authorizing the U.S. to cut tar- iffs by up to 50 per cent. The talks themselves got off to a slow start, but it was almost immediately recognized that certain countries—Canada in- cluded — could not afford to plunge immediately into pro- gram that would bring down tariff walls by one-half in the five years after 1966, EXCITING NEW Canada's case, as presented by Trade Minister Mitchel Sharp, was that while Canada is anxious to move toward freer international trade( it would lose more than it would gain on the 50 per cent cut rule. This is because only 20 per cent of our exports are in manufactured goods, while two - third of our imports are in this category. A major disappointment from Canada's point of view was that no agreement was reached to cut agricultural tariff's. There was only an understanding that the GATT nations should start talking about this soon. Major reason for the hang - back in this area was the de- termination of the Common Market countries of Europe to protect their high-cost farm op- erators—especially in France. 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' E!TZ and SON ZURICH .s®weoo® Huron ARDA Committee Will Likely Be Formed It is expected that when the Huron County Council meets in June for its regular session, the agricultural conunittee, headed by its chairman, Stewart Proc. tor, RR 5, Brussels, reeve of Morris Township will recom- mend the setting up of a com- mittee on ARDA. Thursday night, at a special meeting in Clinton sponsored by the Huron County Federa- tion of Agriculture, over 50 people favored the forming of a Rural Development Associa- tion, which would be a part of ARDA. The Federation com- mittee is headed by Charles H. Thomas, Brussels, with Elmer Hunter, RR 3, Goderich, as sec- retary. The Clinton meeting was highlighted by a panel, which discussed the possibilities of ARDA and rural development within Huron County. D. H. Miles, Clinton, agricultural rep- resentative for the county, was moderator. Principal Aim The principal aim of rural development was defined as "to broaden the economic base for full employment of local people within the local area". Over elections in Britain and the U.S. No country in the world has more to gain from freer trade than Canada. Exports account for 20 per cent of Canada's na- tional product, compared with only five per cent in the case of the U.S. Canada's general trade pic- ture was greatly improved in 1963, thanks to large-scale grain exports. Exports worth $9.2 billion came very close to catch- ing up to the year's import figure of $9.7 billion. World markets are Canada's only hope of maintaining high employment. The productivity of our farms and industries far exceeds the ability of our small population to consume our •out- put. We need greater exports to overcome the disadvantage of a small domestic market. Our technical skills compare with the world's best, and produc- tion costs have risen much less in Canada in the past decade than in Europe and Asia. But tariff reductions encour- age imports as well as exports, providing a secondary benefit to Canadian consumers. Lower prices on imported goods would ensure that no Canadian manu- facturer would any longer be able to Dawn off shoddy goods at high tariff walls. tt an's Best Friend" an Make Enemies For You! Keep You Pedigreed Pet In — Keep Your Neighbours Mutt Out! DECORATIVE FENCING MAY PREVENT A "BORDER WAR" the long term, human, land. forest, and other resources can be developed using the local community as far as possible as the stethoscope to show where development funds and assistance are needed. Mr. Hunter said that it is nec- essary to educate the people to the need of rural development, "The community itself is losing its importance to people, through several methods—such as transportation and televis- ion," he said. Norman Alexander, Londes- boro second vice-president of the Huron County Soil and Crop Improvement Association, in re- ferring to natural resources claimed that there is not a farrier in Western Ontario who is not concerned with the prob- lem of water; "either ,he has no water, or a shortage of it, or else there is water pollution," he remarked. The clerk of Hallett Town- ship, Harry Tebbutt, Londes- boro, who is a member of the Maitland Valley Conservation Authority, said that in the past year the Authority has received 40-50 applications for farm ponds, compared with one or two in a previous 10 -year peri- od. "The demands must come from the people for these serv- ices, and people resent change," Mrs. Thomas Govenlock, Sea - forth, woman director on the Huron Local of the Farmers' Union, said that her chief con- cern with rural development is in the county's boys and girls. A member of the committee that requested the establish- ment of a vocational school in Huron County, Mrs. Govenlock remarked that she felt that it is a must that industry be brought into Huron County to offer positions to the large number of graduates that will come out of the Central Huron Secondary School here in two or three years. Real Need Howard Aitken, Goderich, chairman of zone one (Huron County), Mid -Western Ontario Development Association, said there's a real need for planning in the rural area, and cited :the case of Stephen Township, which is fundamentally a farm- ing area, but has an airforce strip, and some commercial de- velopment along Lake Huron, with cottagers building through- out the area. The progress of reforestation in Huron County was reviewed by Mr. Proctor. One of the chief concerns of the panel was how to make the people of the AN UAL MEETING Huron County Tuberculosis Association LEGION HALL, CLINTON Wednesd y, June 3, at 7 p.m. GUEST SPEAKER — DR. A. J. WATT Beck Memorial Sanatorium, London, Ontario D. I. STEWART, SEAFORTH — PRESIDENT county interested in rural de- velopment. Mr. Miles pointed out that in Huron County, which is one of t h e foremost, top -producing agricultural counties in Ontario, only six grade 11 students at the Central Huron Secondary THURSDAY, MAY 21, 1964 School, which has an enrolment of 1,200, are taking the agricul- tural course. Rev, C, Britton, minister of Northide United Church, Sea - forth, who attended the meet- ing as an interested citizen, said (Continued on Page 7) Save TIME and MONEY HEATING • Oil Burner Service Electrical Work GIVE US A CALL FOR SERVICE! TIEMAN'S HARDWARE, FURNITURE, COAL, CEMENT PHONE 8 — DASHWOOD 1 Gardening Time Time is ;here for planting your garden — buy all your garden seeds now — from us — where the selection is best. 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