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NO 13 FIRST WITH THE LOCAL NEWS
THURSDAY, APRIL 3, 1975
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TAKE PART. IN CRUSADE - The annual Crusade for Christ is taking place this week in the
Zurich Community Centre, with various churches throughout the area participating. The guest
speaker, Rev. John Smucker, of Bronx, N.Y. is shown here in the centre of this photo prior to the
Monday evening service, with Neil Gingerich, left, general chairman of the crusade, and Rev.
Clayton Keupfer, right, who chaired the Monday evening program.
ASSISTS AT CRUSADE - A special feature at the Crusade for
Christ service Monday evening at the Zurich Community Centre
was the thrilling tunes coming from the marimba, played by
Mrs. Doris McKinley.
Plan marketing board
Huron County beef producers
endorsed in principle Wednesday
the creation of a beef market-
ing board to bring supply mana-
gement into beef production and
modify price fluctuations.
In a close vote, a majority
of the 40 beef producers at the
meeting decided a marketing
board might help eliminate
current periods when prices
fanners are receiving for beef
drop below the cost of product-
ion.
The decision was one of sev-
eral alined at improving low
beef prices, which will be
forwarded to the April meeting
of the Ontario Federation of
Agriculture in Toronto.
Other proposals from the
producers of Ontario's second
largest beef producing county
--Huron has more than '700 beef
producers and is second only to
Bruce county-:
*The federal beef stabilizat-
ion price program should be
modified so farmers can receive
assistance every three months
when prices fall below 90 per
cent of the agerage price over
the past five years of $45 CWT.
At present, farmers are reiunbur•
sed at one-year intervals.
*Grants should be sought from
the federal and provincial
governments to improve public
relations to tell consumers about
the problems facing the beef
producer.
*Importation of beef from
the United States should be
controlled by a 10-1 formula
based on the relative total pop-
ulations of Canada and the U. S.
Another proposal, that super-
markets and other chain food
stores have gross profits restrict-
ed to "reasonable" levels on
beef products, failed for lack
of support.
Doug Fortune, Wingham,
president of the Huron County
Federation of Agriculture, said
he was disappointed more prod-
ucers failed to attend the meet-
ing which was called to seek
solutions to current low prices.
"This is a working meeting
to find answers, " he said, not-
ing current top prices for finish-
ed steers have dropped to about
$38 cwt, from a high more than
a year ago og nearly $65 cwt.
The beef producers had no
trouble asking questions --rang -
ing from concern over the effect
on the industryof hobby farmers
not motivated by profit, the
possibility of a farm income
stabilization program, quotas,
on beef imports and the reliabil
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Annual
meeting
Tuckersmith Municipal Tele-
phone System named two add-
itional commissioners at their
annual meeting. The strength
of the commission was increased
fromthree to five nembers.
Named to three-year terms
were W.D. Wilson, R.R.1,
Brucefield and Perce Johnston
of Bayfield.
Elsner Hayter was reappointed
to a two-year term. The other
commissioners are Bill Row-
cliffe and Vern Alderdice.
The five commissioners are
elected at large from the area
served by the system. Formerly,
one commissioner was from
Tuckersrnith, one from Stanley
and one from any other munic-
ipality.
unic-
ipality.
Revenue in the Telephone
System was up in 1974 from
1973 from $129,.923 to $156, 611
but expenses were also up, from
$118, 711 to $155, 800. In 1973
the company had a surplus of
$11,212. In 1974 this was reduc-
ed to $811.
Tuckersmith Telephone sec-
retary -treasurer, Mel Graham
attributed the decline in surplus
to inflation and greatly increas-
ed wage and material costs.
The number of phones in the
system was increased from 1878
to 2002. Mr. Graham said that
the largest number of new phone
were installed in Bayfield, both
in the village and along the
lake front.
Tuckersmith is one of 40
independent phone companies
left in the province and operate;
with a staff of four.
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Change date of
council meeting
The regular monthly meeting
of the council of the Village of
Zurich will be held next Thurs-
day night, April 10, at 7 p.m.
instead of next Wednesday
afternoon, April 9.
Any persons or delegations
who had planned on attending
the rneeting are asked to take
note of the change of date and
time.
New system in effect
for temperatures
On April Fool's Day Canad-
ians took their first big step in
converting to the metric system
from the old British imperial
weights and measures. Part of
it is the Celsius temperature
scale. The entire metric conv-
ersion job will take until 1980.
From April 1 onward a warm
spring day will be about 20 deg-
rees above zero, not because
March went out like a lion,
but because the weather office
will no longer use the familiar
fahrenheit temperature figures.
Anders Celsius, a Swedish
astronomer, who lived from
1701 to 1744 decided that the
logical way to measure temp-
erature was with a scale of 100
equal units or degrees between
the freezing and boiling points
of water.
First called the centigrade
scale, it now carries the Cel-
sius name, after its inventor.
Freezing, which is 32 degrees
fahrenheit, becomes zero
Celsius. The boiling point,
212 degrees is 100 degrees Cel-
sius.
The federal metric commis-
sion, responsible for the convey,-
sion program, says public usage
is voluntary and it can only
"encourage" radio and telev-
ision stations to give Celsius
readings. However, beginning
April 1 all public weather fore-
casts were to be ussued with
Celsius temperatures only.
Reporting temperature in both
Celsius and fahrenheit readings
is frowned upon by the metric
commission, which sees it crea-
ting unnecessary confusion.
The commissioners have set
out some benchmarks to help
Canadians with their adjustment
They point out that 35 degrees
Celsius, for example, is one
of those hot, sticky, uncomfort-
able days when the air-conditiot
ing tends to break down from .
over -work. In fact, 45 degrees
Celsius is thehighest temperat-
ure ever recorded in Canada.
Twenty-five degrees, on the
other hand, could be a warm,
lazy summer day. Twenty
degrees is normal room temper-
ature, minus 10 is good skating
weather and at minus -20 you
tend to walk rather briskly. At
40 below the two temperature
scales cross, minus 40 Celsius
being the same as minus 40
fahrenheit.
Over the next two years the
weather office will change all
its measurement units to metric.
Ken Park, metric information
director, says rain and snowfall
will be given in millimetres
and centimetres starting next
September.
Atmospheric pressure will be
switched to metric in April, 197
and wind velocity will be given
in Kilometres from April, 1977.
But changes at the weather
office are only part of the mass-
ive
assive conversion that will affect
everyone as Canada joins the
90 per cent of the world already
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The Change
to Celsius
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PROVIDE MUSIC AT CRUSADE- Two area musicians, Mrs.
Norm Tait, left, and Mrs. Louise Bigelow, right, provide
the music for the Crusade services being held each evening this
week at the Zurich Community Centre.
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