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Zurich Citizens News, 1971-04-22, Page 1MiBcr[l(Dh de,te No. 16—ALWAYS FIRST WITH THE LOCAL NEWS ZURICH, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, APRIL 22, 1971 10 CENrs PER �PY ONTARIO PRESIDENT VISITS ZURICH - Marl g D. S, Kellow, of Peterborough, the president of the Ontario Chamber of Commerce, was guest of honour at the 20th anniversary celebration of the Zurich organization last Thursday night, Shown here are Glen Thiel, president of the Zurich group; Mr. Kellow, Clare Shaver, manager of the Ontario Chamber of Commerce, and Gerald Gingerich, a director of the Ontario Chamber of Commerce and a past president of the Zurich organization.. Zurich Area Farmer Heads Liberal Group Faced with keen contests for every office, Huron Liberals at a dinner meeting in Hensall Wed- nesday, elected John Laporte, R, R, 2, Zurich, president. In all, 16 candidates contested eight offices. In a race for executive vice- president„ Mrs. Don Adams, Brucefield, won out over three men, Dr. Morgan Smith, Bay- field, Paul Steckle, Zurich and Rob Brady, Seaforth. Nine candidates stood for the five positions of area vice-pres- ident. Successful candidates were, Peter Stinnissen, Seafortli, Paul Steckle, Stanley Township, New Minister For Hensall Church Rev. Donald Beck, of Bayfield has been named minister of the Hensall and Chiselhurst United churches, the two congregations were told Sunday. He replaces Rev. Harold Cur- rie, who will become minister at Sebringville United Church, on July 1. Married with five children, Mr. Beck has served at Bayfield United Church for five years. The induction service into his new charge at Hensall will be announced in the future. Dr. Morgan Smith, Bayfield, Neil McGavin, McKillop Town- ship and Mrs. Muriel Murphy, Goderich, Mrs, Murphy was tied in the voting with Ken Hunter of Goderich who withdrew in her favour. - Howard Aitken, of Goderich, was acclaimed to a further term as secretary of the Association and Mrs. Ian (Shirley) McAllister of R. R,1, Zurich, was elected by acclamation as treasurer. Most Vote For Ausable 'River Representatives of 12 municip- alities located in the Bayfield River watershed area, voted eight to four last Thursday to join the Ausable River Conserv- ation Authority. A meeting will now be sought with the conservation branch of , the department of energy and resources management, where an official vote will be polled. Last October the munigpalit- les turned down a Seaforth 'prop- osal to join the Maitland Valley Conservation Authority by failing by one vote to reach the requir- ed two-thirds majority. Thursday's vote took only one hour with the villages of Bayfield and Zurich, the town of Clinton and Hay, Hibbert, McKillop, Stanley and Tuckersmith Town- ships voting in favor of the Ausable resolution, proposed last fall by Hay Township. Voting against the resolution and for joining the Maitland Valley authority were; the town of Seaforth, and the townships of Goderich, Hullett, and Logan. Clinton and McKillop Town- ship had voted against joining the Ausable authority in October. Goderich, which had supported the Maitland authority resolution; is not in the Bayfield watershed area that includes all land south of the northern boundary of Bay- field and all land draining into the BayfieldRiver. Guest speaker for the banquet which preceded the meeting was Mrs. Jan Steele, of London, ex- ecutive vice-president of the Liberal Party in Ontario. Mrs. Steele, who was introd- uced by Paul Steckle, was born on a farm in the State of Ver- mont and received her Canadian Citizenship in 1961. She has a Master of Arts degree in Political Science and is currently serving her second term as vice-presid- ent of the Ontario Liberal Party. She was recently appointed by Prime Minister Trudeau to chair a Liberal Party Committee ass- essing the recommendations of the Royal Commission on the Status of Women. Pointing out that the sitting member in Huron, Hon. Charles MacNaughton, could be defeated (continued on page 9) Ontario Chamber President Urges More Responsibility Mark D. S. Kellow, president of the Ontario Chamber of Com- merce, speaking at the 20th anniversary celebration of the Zurich Chamber of Commerce last Thursday night, challenged business and industry to volunt- arily assume more responsibility for resolving the social issues of the day. A method has already been proposed. I refer to the strategy proposed by Ernest C. Manning and Preston Manning in their two documents "Requests for Proposals and Social Contracts, " Mr. Kellow explained. "In the first of these document; "A strategy to advance the role of Private Enterprise in Canada" the authors propose a strategy for establishing a new set of rel- ations between govenrnent and private enterprise in Canada. Pursuit of this strategy would vastly expand the responsibilities and opportunities of Canadian business and industry and enable Canada to attain important nat- ional goals, " he added. Mr. Kellow said, "In the sec- ond document, "A Strategy for Organizing Resources to Achieve Social Goals, " the authors out- lined a new strategy for 'organiz- ing resources to achieve social goals. Examples of how the Strategy could be applied in such areas as the housing crisis, reg- ional development, health care, educational services, research, development and innovation are provided." "I would hope in the days ahea the Ontario Chamber will under- take a serious review of these proposals and enter into discus- sions with the Ontario Govern- ment regarding their application in the Provincial Business scene, " the speaker added. "I would hope a similar, task would be undertaken by the Chamber of Canada with the Federal Govern- ment, and by local Chambers with their local government." The speaker explained that labour is part of business, and also has a responsibility to show social awareness in respect to their actions. This social aware- ness has appeared to be lacking in recent years. "In my simplistic reasoning, in any undertaking you have three costs - the cost of mater- ials, the cost of men, and the cost of money, " Mr. Kellow went on to say. The cost of mat- erials includes, in my reasoning, buildings and machinery which also have high labour content." "So unconcerned is labour about voluntarily restricting their coptribution to inflation, that one can conclude only that they favour state intervention leading to total government control of the economy, a cont- rol which ultimately w ill mean wage and price controls, " he said. "Only by making the pres- ent system of free collective bargaining work in a socially responsible manner, can labour (continued on page 13) 0 Plan New Church At Brucefield The congregation of Brucefield United Church Sunday approved plans to build a $118, 000 church to replace the one destroyed by fire last fall. The new red -brick church, which will seat 250, will include a church hall at the back of the main building. Plans for the new building were shown to the congregation by the architectural firm of Kyles, Kyles and Garrett of Stratford.• The project must get final approval from the Huron -Perth Presbyterian which will be meeting later this month. The congregation hopes to have the church built by the end of the year. Since their church burned down, they have been attending Kippen United Church, about three miles south of here. Mrs. Jan Steele, executive vice president of the Liberal Party in Ontario congratulates John Laporte, Zurich, who was elected president at a well attended and enthusiastic dinner meeting in Hensall, Wednesday. Mrs. Laporte beams her pleasure at her husband's election.