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28 'Deaths`
EPPES* Margaret Isabelle
(Close) Eppes on February
12th, 1979 at ,Mount Sinai.
Toronto, Loving and: beloved
wife of the late John•Beverly
Riou:Eppes, Devoted,. mother
of Douglas; Susanne, Mrs.
Willis Smith: Elizabeth, Mrs'.
Brian Berry; and Ricky, all of
Toronto. Predeceased by a
dean son, Robin. Grand-
mother to+ seven and: great
gra1141110ther to one; Loved.
sister Of J3etty, Mrs. Norman
MacLean of Egmondville and;
the late Henry Jackson Close
and, :the late William Stevens.
The late Margaret . Eppes.
rested at the R. S, Box Furter-
al Home, 47 High. ' Street,
Seaforth where service was
held'. Wednesday at 2. p.m -
with Reverend Jaynes $road-
foot' officiating. 'Temporary
entombmentin the Pioneer
Memorial Mausoleum. Sea-
forth with interment in
Egmondville Cemetery, As.
expressions of sympathy.
donations to the . Canadian
Cancer Society would, be
appreciated. Dear Isabelle,
you placed your• hands in
• Christ years ago and noW
after family sorrows and a
cruel illness, all; courage-
ously borne, you have gone
home to Him. 28-88-1
appreciated. 28-88.1.
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28 Deaths. . .
MURK Yt, At his residence
Thursday, February'8, 19791
Leo Murray of St Columban;
Beloved husband of i-illie
(-Staples) Murray, in lila 81st;
year. 'Dear father of Joseph,
Stratford; Mrs Gerard
(Doreenl Marchand. and Mrs;
Thomas (Ann) Dawe both; of
Windsor. Dear brother • of
Matthew and Stephen both
of McKillop, Mrs, Frank
(Camilla) Evans and Mrs,
Wilfred (Helen) O'Rourke,
boxh of Dublin,Mrs. Jos.
eph
(Marie) Melady, Hibbert;.
Also, survived by seven
grandchildren and three
great grandchildren, Pre'.
deceased by a daughter,
Mrs, Gerald (Mary) Porter,
and by b.rotbers Thomas,
,John, Joseph and Michael
and 'sisters Mary and Mrs,
Wilfred (Elizabeth) Maloney.
The late Mr. Murray rested
at the Whitney-Ribey Funer-
al Home, Funeral Mass was
held at St. Columban Roman.
Catholic Church on February
10th with Rev. P.A. Oost-
veen officiating: Temporary
entombment Pioneer Mems
orial ,Mausoleum, Seaforth:
with interment to follow at
St. Columban Cemetery. As
expressions of sympathy
donations • to the Ontario
Heart Foundation would' be
Counc.iI
Seaforth"s Local.: • planning board mehiber::
Architectural- • Conserwatioit•
Advisory C'ommittee needs
more members to share its
workload., 'ch,tirntap; .• Winn
McLean and member Betty
•Cardno told eotintil Monday
night: • `
They asked council to
appoint Paul •Carroll to the
group, to name a member•of
council• to it and perhaps a
ANNQUMCEMENT
Dr. Vltant'Ragnla,
''of London;- Ontario will be.
taking over Dr.. Charles.
Moyo's practice in Seaforth
for the next month while Dr.
Moyo is ` absent through
illness. Dr, • IRagula is a
graduate in medicine from
McMaster University,
Hamilton.
"We'd like fit•haws•
business 'people : Who are
interested in• preser+'ing ottr
valuable Main St., too .Mrs.
McLeary said. The - LAC AC
hats'six members now. and
they all donate 'thein per
meeting pay back to the
grottp. This money was used
to :. buyplaques which
designated a number of
'Seaforth buildings last tall.,
The members told council
that while they are working
towards getting loeal people
interested in designating the.
Main• Sr.it's premature to
decide how• designation
would' :affect this, ' or that
building,
Kippenc'
Correspondent
mrs. rena caldwell'
262-5935
Mr. & Mrs. Harold Cald-
well and : Mr. & MrS. R.
Consist are. holidaying. ul"
Florida.
Mr. • & ''Mrs: Art Gibson
and .Louise,' Wroxeter. were
the guests of Mr. S. Mrs.
L. Mellis. Saturday,..
' A number of ladies. Crum,
the -1.0 1'.'of St. Andrew 's
(lurch" entertained some of
the residents Of the Queens-
way ` Nursing Home last
wedne,day.
M & Mrs. Wayne Mc
Bride hate returned front a
stiowvntobilc holiday in the
Hunts. We :area.
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At Seaforth. council.'$
Fk aruar.v meeting the
.tollow ing :matters were dis-
cussed; No one frOrn council
will be able to attend the
:Good Roads Convention.
Last .month Seaforth joined
the
organization a.t a, cost .of
SbS,
The Ministry of the En-
s ironment will be asked. to
start a preliminary stud) of a
future land fill site. Ex.,
tending Side St. 'east- to.
Alexander. s,as referred, to
Y
the Planning Boardfor coin•
meat.
brines for overnight
parking on ;town streets were
set at $5 by by-law,
The police contniittee wwit.l
meet with the Crown
Attotney to discuss court.
delays which lead tai Seaforth
police overtime.
Dispatchers for the county
police eonimunieations
system have been hired and,
the system should be in
operation. April 1, councillor
Bob Dinsmore said. The
board of county towns w•hicl'
runs the system is a first,
,according .to deputy reeve,
Bill Dale,
Seaforth Optimists will pay
reduced rates of S14 rather
than $24 an hour for ice
• rental during their recent
carnival hockey tournament,
Shutoff valves will be .in -
,stalled. between the arena,
floors. Two 8' x 4': x 4' steel
garbage :b.ins wwill'i:.he pur•
chased from.Luke Janmaat at
about 5300 each. •for the
arena.
Purchase of a -desk, steno
chair' and calculator for the
t office from Huron
Business Machines was
authorizetrat a cost 'of 5483 „
plus tax. Atpresent a stright
backed chair' and: borrowed
desk is being Used by one
secretary. '
Requests for grants' from
that Blyth Centre for the Arts,
Boron- County Historical
Society, Mait•landbank
Cemetery and Mental Health
Ontario were denied. The
Huron Plowmen's
Associaton was given a grant:
Of SSO.
Rents paid for the firehall'
and -PUC office 'should
+remain the same, 8100 a
month and $150:. a 'month
respectively, for 1919. council
decided.
There are now 41 Seafort h
applicants on the waiting list
for senior citizen apartments:
Building .inspector
Herman Van Wieren will 'be.
paid 52,1.60 a year, plus
mileage, rather than on the
Old per inspection basis. •
• . The town's new industrial.
comrntittee, at -its first
meeting decided to coinpile•a
current data sheet •,on
Seaforth. and invite members
ofthe development.
•committee to itis' next.
meeting •. .
A request from Ken
Relates and Jim Palin for a
meeting and storage room in
the :town hall for "Seaforth St.'
John's Ambulance brigade
was `approved. •. '
The Council on: Canadian
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February .Bonus offers in our
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SEAFORTH 521-0120
.1:nit4 petition inviting
Quebec0ts'to stay in Cattlida•
was. available for eootteil
members, to sign.
An epti.en On Oe' Ifortnet
egg, grading station is 'bold:
by Gay Lea Foods Mayor
John Sinnanlon told eouneii,.
"L.I-1 Grey. who closed •the
industry last tall says the
building's not for sale;
they'll look at nit offer Mid
there's.' no price
established," said Councillor
Henry Mero.
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VALENTINES CELEBRATION' -- A Valentines Dance sponsored by
• ' club SaturdayNight crowded the Legion Hall and raised
Seaforth Lions Cly.. ,
over ill; be shared by Lions;'' • Leader Dog. school St. Joseph's
. r $600 that w
CN‘B B Cam , �e r
tng
ConserYation and Lion's International Founda o
who
is
giftto Tom
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During, the evening the Club• presented _,.
vi Windsor and, who during his years in the club had headed the
mo log, to Wlnd
, ar '' .... i ' edi Children's Committees. Shown are MarlenE Vincent,
P is and Crlppl
Zone Chairman, Mrs. Young, Tom Young, Bill McLaughlin who headed,
:Committeethe Dance and Club ' Presidbnt Gordon
:._the. �that arranged
Rimmer who• made the presentation:. (Photo by Coke)
Jcick, Jottings
Education a problem
•
BY JACK'RIDDRLL, MPP
As you know, We are faced
with a critical problem with
respect to our educational
system in Ontario; namely
rising costs .combined with
declining enrolment. Pro-
vincial figures predict that
total enrolment: in the ele-
mentary and • secondary'
a 1978 level of almost 2
million to 1.7 million by 1990
• a reduction of 11%. This;
trend combined with rising
costs due to inflation means
that Ontario's school system
is, will .con(inue to be, under
severe pressure ' We must
plan for ai period when we
simply 'won't, need as many
schools or teachers. .
We need a creative par-
tners:tip• between teachers,
government and "local com-
munities' to plan for the;
modification. , of our
educational system.' The
notion of working .together
has become almost a -cliche, a
common call issued by-
politicians'.when faced- with
difficult problems. However;.
in this .,ease it is absolutely
essential'.' . Confrontation • is
The declining enrolment
trend has focused attention
upon. a number of concerns
about our school system. In a
recent speech in Ottawa,' the
Minister of Education re-
ported on public reactionto
the situation, She said: "The
general theme running
through the comments on the',
quality of education is that
the present standards. are too
low. Parents, teachers, tax-
payers' and students. all re -
'veal a sense of frustration and
disappointment: in their.claim
that this perceived deter -
certainly not the answer.
ioration in quality is re-
sponsible for apathy in the
attitude of those teaching;
and mediocrity in the
achievement of those being
taught. Apprehension is ex-
pressed by• opponents of our
o -ca: emissio
that pllederpmissivenesvess inciety,
schools will'r'further per=
petuate a decline in social
values. Collectively, the let-
ters disclose the feelings of
people who are seriously
concerned about the future,"
We, in the Liberal Party,
made the same point almost
three years ago, These.
people are.tellrng•'us "we're
turned off", Our challenge is
to. turn , the school 'system
:back on!
Let's look at 'some of the
specific issues which must
receive attention. •
1. A basie..issue to be
resolved is the level of•pro-
vincial.• support. A Major
recommendation of the Jack-
son Report Was for the
Province to assume- an
average60% share of the
cost , of .'school board'
operations. This would mean
that the Ontario Government
would spend roughly',8120
million` more on ` education
each. year in •order to relieve
the burden on municipal
taxpayers. • t_
1 here isalso. of course, the
question of how much money
in total should" be spent ,on
education, as- Well•' as.:'the,•
overriding difficulty of -re. -
conciling rising costs' :and
declining enrolment. lf•:the
idea is to add S1:20'million to
education spending, ' oar
Party would not be in favour
of (his
The question 'of tax. dis
'School system will drop frort
tributian, however, is worthy
of study. A substantial
number of taxpayers resent
the fact that property tax is
such a major source of
education revenue. While,
in theory, our school system
benefits everyone in the com-
munity, those taxpayers
without children in school -
and their numbers are
growing '= do not perceive the
benefits received. Since it is
inflation which is the major,
cause of rising costs in the
school system, and since
income, tax is more directly
related toability to pay than
is property tax,' it may make
moresense to- increase::the
portion of education • costs to
be borne by the income tax.
Our Caucus will be giving
serious con idera
t
io
n to
t changes of s kind.
2. AseCdndimportant is-
sue
is class size,, We have
reservations about the Jack -
'son ' Report's recom-
mendation that '.teacher •,as-
sociations make elimination
of large class sizes a priority
in their negotiations that
teachers : insist that a
maximum size of eclass . be
set. Many people will view
this approach, rightly , • or
wrongly,'. as an attempt by .
teachers to protect their jobs
, regardless of lower enrol-
ment.
3. The third issue is
"merit criteria for teachers"..
One of the : more con-
troversial recommendations'
' advanced,' by the Jackson
Report and one which un-
boubtedly will not find favour
withteacher organizations is
"the proposal thatpermanent
teaching` certificates >l a -re-
placed by five year re-
t,•ewable certificates. _ :The
Cattlemei` want MP's, support
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better market information to the producers
in order to stabilid production and price
cycles 'He added. • that mentioning quotas
was the "quickest • Way to get yourself out of
a eattlemen's meeting that;l know."
Lloyd Stewart, •secretary of the Huron
County 'Pork' Producers. called for an
expansion _ of the processing andpacking
industry in. the brief he presented to the
three 'politicians.
Jack Riddell said he understood pork
consumption will increase in the future due
tohigher beef prices ' and that good pork
prices are 'predicted for the next two Years.
John Van .Beers, of R,R.1, Blyth, said
Ontario hog producers need another•
slaughtering plant in the province to keep up
with production. •
Bill ' Scott of Seaforth, Huron County
director on the 'Ontario Egg Producers
Marketing Board, 'said in his brief that both
Ontario. and Quebec requirean increase in
their egg quotas. He said under the federal
marketing; plan, until a • more realistic
agreement can be reached, egg quotas can't
be stabilized and wilt continue to fluctuate,
: The director told the members of parlia-
ment the major problem facing producers
now 'is the .development of an on going
transfer policy, He saidthere are currently
two trains of thoughts• ,among: producers•.
about the issue. '
Some producers want the quota to be
purchased' bythe'marketing ard, put intoJ
a tido) and redistributed pro.rata to all the
producers wanting it, at the same price. •
Mr. Scott said, "This is the fairest, easiest
and least controversial plan to implement.'•
However, other °producers favor, an open,
face to fade buy -sell program with
limitations, such as limiting purchases to
five per cent of basic quota, Mr. Scott said
the' marketing board directors are now
Working on a rkinprogram for quotas to be put
forward at their annual meeting in March..
Jack- Riddell, the Liberal party'S
agriculture critic in the Ontario legislature,
said be is concerned how a young persotf
gets into the egg. business today, He asked;
"Have we closed the door to the young
farmer who wants to go into the business?
Jim'Melntosh, of R.R,S, Seaforth, said a
young 'farmer could 'probably still justify
•
buying a successful poultry operation With
quota rather than buying expcnstve land and
going into cash cropping,:
Murray Gaunt said he had heard concern.
expressed abouta corporate concentration- in .'
the egg business. Mr. Scott said at this point ,
he • didn't see the industry getting, into
corporate ;hands 'since_ individual farmers
and not industries are, leasing available <egg
quotas.
"'The . family farmer is' right out there
competing;" Mr, Scott added.
Bert Elliott, chairman, of the Huron
County Cream Producers,, reported: his
organization is still fighting a drop in the
consumption; of cream •in the market place
and suggests a percentage .of the price
increase .for • producers be ' paid, through
higher subsidies. He • also told' the 'three
'p'ol'iticians that his group is opposed to any:.
changes being made in the Line Fence Act,
• and feelseach landowner should maintain his
own hail of the line fences where livestock..
are pasturing on neighbouring farms,
Melvin Knox of the Huron County,; Milk
Committee said his industry•as•a whole has:;
few major problems.
Mr. -'Knox told the audience Ontario has'
lost toog reat an amount of their share of the
quota, 'since they didn't produce enough of
`the provincial •aliottment, Now, "we'd just
love to produce more milk in this province"
u...rit. to he stuck with_-a...btg
surplus."
He said ptoducers4renowv _living with a
Bite per cent sleeve on -excess quota, but this
is "awful'. tight.`" M.
'Mr, Knox said milk producers suffered.
when the .United Kingdom joined the
EuropeanCommon Market, since Canada
lost a major cheddar cheese market.
He said there is now no such thing :as an
export market for dairy products' since there
is 'such' a glut on the world 'market from
countries like Australia, New Zealand and:
the Common Market countries,. •
success ul convict on , o
academic courses and the
demonstration, of satisfactory
performance on the job
would be the criteria for
renewal.
bttr,. Mrs. John ,Anderson
a,id Mx, & Mrs. John Cooper
Jae returoed from it hoirdaY'•
in Arizona
.Kippen East Women's 'In-
s itijtewill meet at the home
of -Mrs. Robert 'Kinsman next
Wednesday oo :February 21+.
Pastor Ivor Bodenham will be
• the sneaker .and Mrs. Jim
Chalmers•wili have a curliest.
On Wednesday night the
Parsons: family honoured:+
Sharon.' with a shower
gifts..Gail Parsons: road .the
,address, and, two onte5tg,
',were conducted.
Mr. ilk Mrs. Hank Binnen-
dyk have returned from a;
holiday iin the 'Barbadoes,
HIRING
Take a o ,• at OI , ,to
Last year, more than . 90 per cent of
Conestoga College graduates who were
available for work found _. iobs.
In April, 1979, more than 700, qualified`
graduates will be available 'from' 39 Diploma
Programs at Conestoga College.
Employers are on campus now, interviewing
prospective graduates' for permanent em-
ployment. .
Take a look at Conestoga. College. Our grads
wily be available this spring...
For' more details, contact our Career
Planning and Placement Office by calling, our
toll-free number
1-800-265-8104. Ext. 29,7 .'
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Bev ;Brown, an ORA director front
Bluevale, said a resolution is coming up at
the Canadian•Federationof / •iculture
conference in Ottawa this "week to dis-
Courage the initatien of natural dairy
nrtrducts by products like coffee creamers
w tit', artificial whipped creams,
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