Zurich Citizens News, 1977-08-24, Page 27Mark several firsts
at upcoming match
The International Plowing
Match still has over two months
to go before the gates open on the
Greenlees Bros. farm not far
from Kingston, but already,
several firsts have been arranged
to make the show more in-
teresting and convenient.
For the first time since sod was
turned at the original event in
1913, the show will be opened by a
woman. Miss Flora MacDonald,
MP for Kingston and the Islands
has accepted the invitation to
officiate at ceremonies on
Tuesday, September 27. The five
day event runs to Saturday,
October 1.
Another innovation is a six
street plan for the amazing
tented city. The popularity of the
plowing match over the past few
years among rural and urban
people alike, has led to demands
for a more spacious plan for the
fully -serviced "community"
which rises on the site. It is felt
Dairymen
to get hike
Ontario dairy farmers are to
receive a price increase of just
over three per cent or 42 cents per
hundredweight for the milk they
produce for table use, effective
September 16.
In announcing the increase, the
Chairman of the Ontario Milk
Marketing Board, Kenneth G.
McKinnon, stated that for several
years the Board has determined
the price to its producers for raw
milk by using an economic for-
mula as a guide.
"Recent available in-
formation," he said, " indicates
that milk producers' incomes are
lagging and they require an
immediate but modest increase
to help offset their cost in-
creases."
Mr. McKinnon noted certain
increases in the cost of producing
milk since the last increase to
dairy farmers on April 1 of this
year.
"Since April," he said,
"significant increases have
occurred in the cost of electricity
and fuel, both commodities used
extensively on dairy farms. In
addition, equipment and repairs,
labor, feed costs and property
taxes have been increasing,"
The increase in the producer
price is in compliance with the
Anti -Inflation Board guidelines.
Mr. McKinnon also pointed out
that the Board is always con-
cerned with the maintenance of
an adequate supply of milk for,
the consuming public.
"The new price levels," he
said, "should guarantee con-
sumers adequate milk supplies
for the months ahead and the low
level of the increase was only
possible because of the good job
that producers are doing in
managing their farms."
, As there is no government
regulation controlling the level of
the consumer price for milk, the
• amount of the increase at retail
outlets is dependent on the forces
of competition.
"For this reason," Mr,
McKinnon concluded, "we do not
know what the final consumer
price increase will be,"
The 42 cents increase per
hundredweight raises the farm
price for raw milk in Southern
Ontario from $12.61 per hun-
dredweight to $13.03 per hun-
dredweight and in Northern
Ontario from $13,18 to $13.60 per
hundredweight,
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that six slightly shorter streets,
rather than five longer ones, will
improve convenience for
everyone concerned from
utilities, exhibitors and caterers,
to the general public attending
the show.
A third first is the introduction
of a special traffic committee.
Representatives of the Ontario
Provincial Police, the Ministry of
Transportation and Com-
munications, the county engineer
and township road superin-
tendent are meeting with
members of the Ontario
Plowman's Association and the
Frontenac County local com-
mittee to survey the road
situation in the vicinity of the
site. The committee is preparing
routings, road closings,
emergency routes and con-
tingency plans to ensure that the
expected crowds get to and from
the site near Joyceville with
minimal traffic problems. Once
'at the site, the gate and parking
committees will organize ad-
mission„ parking and tran-
sportation to tented city from the
lots.
Citizens News Au . ust 24 1977
WINNERS OF THE CONSOLATION TROPHY — The Lieury fastball team emerged as Consolation Cham-
pions at the all -day fastball tournament in Zurich Saturday. Ken Clark, left, presents the Shaw Dairy Store
trophy to team captain George Robinson. The team also received $75. Members shown here are: Les Drury
(front, right, next to George Robinson); second,row, left to right: Paul Hodgins, Jack Tweedle, Jim Thomp-
son, Glen Thompson, Gary Leger, pitcher Bob Robinson, Ed Brown and Lloyd Mothers. Missing are Earl
Allison, Steve Hemming and a second Jim Thompson, who also played. Staff photo
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