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It seems 'im impossible find thevillain' e e calation of ; oit..:an even.ke el,when they are rnakinig;.'as many of then!;
po .,. _, trtth..s .... ,.
food prices'. in this country,must, less than l am? •
Farmers ate out to prove that they art: dean. At the We have a .brilliant daughter with an honors degree in
Canadian Federation ,of Agriculture's annual meeting a psychology, She is eager to find work. She had her honors
Year ago, members; decided to ask the government thesis published in a pr'estigteus magazine, She is
g in
statisticians to change the format of the monthly consumer attractive and friendly and •Willing . to do almost an yth g
price 'index, to make the effects of teed handling and. She has spent eight months writing applications; for all:
imports more evident, Janda of jobs froma cocktail waitress to a psychology
'kickbacks �o.bigd' su .lies s sear her, But she has. not been able togeta ermanent
Ontario's probe into kr kb cks t , foo pp r �. re..... cP
turning up some interesting facts'about what it costs to get job..
food chains tohandle certain products. No matter who
Ms What to. Whom, you can't tell me that these kickbacis
or premiums or whatever you want to eon them, are not
reflected in the price the consumer pays,
The food chains are saying they have to have more.
money ,because shipping costs and labor costs and store
costs are increasing.
The
... interme
diaries--the
ocessors,
the
packing
acking plants,
the packagers—say mu rtesa e thing.,
The consumer becomes the fall guy, the .patsy.
Consumer organizations are finding it tough to get enough
money to keep ,them solvent and difficult to fight; battles
with an empty treasury,
The poor consumer. is caught in the heat of the battle,
The housewife knows, the wage-earner knows, that it is
it seems oto me, sitting, here in the back forty, that
something is drastically wrong.
t wish 1 could put li=ly ,,linger on it.
"1.1_ Wh
y can't a young:,pygrson with a, good education who is:
willin •�-mii awd,' des Grate for—work get a job in this
�cou Sig She
p
�: ntry � has written more than 200 letters of
application. ,
'' The unemployment rate is, highest in her age ,gro.tp.
For those unaffected by it; the statistics are just figures.
When -you're part of ;It, the figures strike home.
[.•don't know bow I'm going to vote -yet. Traditionally; 1`
ve been as .Conservative beet have voted; for all three of
i the eajiliriiarties at various, times, Never more than once
at each election, mind you,
BY LIENBY HESS INTfi
WIriGHAM ADVANCE
TIMES
Members of the Poi er
Commission on"' :electric
power planning heard
.differing points 'of meas on
the desirability, of additional
facilitie,a in s uthwestern
Ontario as e; -hes in s:
continued lag Week in Wing._
tam.
At the Tuesday evening
session Dr. J. K. McGregor,
a Wing ham doctor who des-
cribed himself as a con-
eerned aitiaen , and father,.
told the commission in an
flis`cheduledbrief that
electricity is cheap at any
price, tie urged the members'
not -te lav down principles
etched in granite which`
might restrict future choices,
Calling electricity "the;oil
of the future". Dr, McGregor
argued ' that technological
advancements wilt' xeuuire
ever-increasing consumption.
of energy and he said society
has not yet irtived at the
stage of using ~•renewable
t. Every • wee I'tn one :of the many undecided voters. Somebody is resources.
impossible to set a food budget and keep i y k,. Our life: depends on.
something else goes pp in price. going to have to convince me that they will find gainful electricity, he said, but when
"And not just a cent or
two. The increases are as much employment for: the thousands of young :people in this; sked b Elbert Xan
as •25 and 30 cents;" said a neighbor of mine just country 'who • want :to work.• Dotikersgoed of the ' Foad
yesterday: we used to buy a ,lar of honey for 51,79..Nt The party ,that convinces me that it 'is working to Land, Steering Committee.
went to 51.89, Now, it has jumped to. 52,39.. I try to use convince consumers that the farmer is not the ultimate '-which he,'considered more
1 P Y _ n ns
honey as a sweetener because it as, a natural' product. lain' in. the food chain will e,.m vote. Only 40, cents of vital; to supporting life, elect-
White
lect
i e -i t o be villain f get y y • • Po a refused to
g sugar is, supposed t the every dollar spent on .food. gets. to the farmer and ncity or food, h
w rst sweetener'a Qu scan use. C nadians till spend less.onfood than ran : other countrymake the comparison, saying
o� a s t sp na y' _ __, P
,.
,
' priceslike competing
w hik
Ghealthy t i se
can feed familya at with would b
How a ce in Ontario '1 producers, throughit ul C a
y yhY .;aY P , . 'in the world. Why, Ont to mt k pro c r , t g thea o nip 8
I m th
like -that?. My weekly shopping trip for a family of six is milk board; decided to take a smaller increase next month apples to oranges.
flown/100. We just can't get by, on fess,"than.. allowed by their price formula, from three cents a 'The other side of the coin
Now that an election has •been called, it seems to me the u quart to two 'cents, Not much but it s a sign of good " was turned up by re re-
question is this: Can the economybe controlled? Are we in intentions:, sentatives of. the Turnberry-
a price spiral that cannot be stopped? 1'm' usually a decisive guy when it tomes to voting but
I keep comparing my wages with others and wonder how this time around, somebody will . have to promise
in hell some people can possibly existl flow can they keep something better.
'SWINE HERD .HEALTH DAY -These: were
some of the .people who attended the second
r 1
t Water Well
'DRILLING
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RIGS-
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� Duri 527-0828 ;
Jim . 527.0775
Howick Hydric Corridor, Com-
mittee and: the' National
Farmers' Union who 're-
iterated the argument made
by all farm groups that have
appeared before the commis
sion: the use of spnme
foodland. for non-agricultural'
activities must` be carefully
weighed against the need for
food, both now and in the
future,
Hilda Ecklund, of_the.
National Farmers Union told
the commission the NFU
recognizes' the need for
generating. 'stations and
power lines, but it , , want
to see them built with a
minimum of distrupiton to
agriculture; r: a "
She questioned whether
_,power complexes, such as
the Bruce nuclear power
development, have to be
built in agricultural areas,
This power' doesn't serve
swine herd health' session held at the Seaforth ,. our area; she pointed `out.
Vet Clinic last week. ,(Photo' by Bev Brown)' The Lines cross .our -land, on
•: their way to the cities. •
She • also asked whether.
"such, installations are being,
N D t` o rn e e f Ap r i'. built to fill -a domestic need
Mrs. Moira Couper or for export of power. How
The'. N.D. P. are holding a' Accounts committee. He was' much power .does Ontario
nomination meeting to elect born . in Saskatchewan and Bayfield is the only candidate , need?
a candiate for Huron Bruce Was educated there and in so far to express her willing- The NFU is calling for zero.'
Riding
in the the Maymeeting2 F de al Manitoba before moving ness to stand for nomination.
,
held Tuesday, April' 17 at . He was first elected to. the
8i0t p.m,at the Clinton Provincial House in 1967,,
Town Hall will be.ohaired by After his defeat in 1971, he
Paul Carroll of Seaforth The ran successfully for aldertnan
guest speaker MacMakar hi the city of Brantford' and
chuk, M.P.P. for Brantford is field that position fronYPT7Z
the 'small independent 75, when he was re-elected to
business critic in the Ontario represent that Ontario riding
Legislature, as well as a in Toronto; a seat he has eon-
member of the public 'tinned to hold since then.
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r� a3.•LAr:i�pu4':n
THE HURON' Ji
Qebafed R -h
growth, of cities
,a&rrcultural' land, -such
Toronto, Hamilton, London!;
St. Catharines and Niagara
Falls. At one time .net Scs
very long ago almost a'ift the
land between Toronto and
Hamilton was farmland and,
supplied Toronto with, all its
dairy products, she bted.
1lYDUSTRY
Pat Daunt of Wallace
Township, a member efThe
Concerned Farmers. , of ''the
United Tdwnships, declared'
that a anizations ned
_tf farm organizations
to get through topeople that
the countryside isn't just 'a
beautiful,scenic area; it's.
where a . big industry,
Canada'sbiggest, is.en-
gaged
n-
a ed in producingfood.
$ 8 .
someone; must answer the
uestion how much flY dre-
electrical power we can pro-
duce and use satisfactorily
and still have enough farm-
land left to feed. our people,
at or er
o ;,fir
Blake SanTord, an fiFt,i re-
source person from, Essex
County, added. More and '
more land is being taken
;u out of production and
used for :generating stations,
ipower cor'rtdor and
industries to consume the
power. ,.
George Adam$, chairman.
of the Turnber' ' H'owick; car-
' tiidorcommittee. also told the
commission the question, of
bulk power facilities in south
- western .Ontario cannot be
considered ;without also
looking at ,
for foodlands. ;`'>•t ,
e.
i tw ^ a:
cs e
fl b .e �.
Can t .. • n ydc
and farmers could: beiavoid'ed
by placing `generating,
Stations on site t which are
not good foodlan,. or •miles
c
aalad from
across good food n ,
the load, centres, he said,
pointing ,out' that if good
foodland• is; avoided entirely
there are still 208 million
0.1
i
acres ie llntario on •which to
place electrical lines`r ,
generators Ontario covers
220 million acres, of which
only 12 million, 5Vi per'Ont.
are considered fooldands.
Surely there' is room for
both food production and
gnfacilities in
province that large withouta
titre.. encroaching
upon the other..
NET IMPORTS
The committee's brief also
pointed out• ghat while thea
province currently
has a. tinge surplus of
electrical energy for export it
still imports • lar$e
q
:uantities of" -food. Net
imports to ;Ontario in 1977
included 1.2 million dozen
eggs, 13 Million pounds 'of
poultry, 841 •million pounds
of fresh fruit and 350,00tons
of feed, grains,
The brief called for
establishment .of' a per-
m anent monng il
Hydro policiesitoriand 'deodyclaredof
that no more foodland should
be sacrificed for the
generation of surplus
energy.
The. commis$
ion also heard
a brief from a Bruce County,
delegation including Warden•.
Arthur Speer, Gary Harron,
Chairman of the Bruce
Economic Development.
Committee, Port Elgin
Mayor Ian Jamieson and
oo a d
ou iUors Kath C k
c nc y n
Peggy Knowlton„
': Mr. Harron urged the
commission to recommend
that Ontario Hydro expand,
tho Bo nuc( ¢i�
'ice tripierar salt
:uses ,can be feu foo
;energy while the, lila, l
and steam will athtaet :fly
d
in ustres to the area,:
He said he feels nuclear
power is the answer to fiarg
ener : needs.and; a MO—
tinu tI n of etc anion at i :
at .... P.
Bruce ' site is' needed tn
stabilize- the.economy :af'the
county,
Mr, Jantieson added that
cuttin8 back the growth .of'
the power station will, place
severe strains on the town of
Port-EIgin, which has gone
into debt for services tp;
accomodate the influx of
workers. He said it isn't
his position that Hydro
,should build at all costs, but
he pleaded for a final
:decision on the future of the
plant so the town. can,
proceed on that baiss.
o. eve Porter
However Dr,Arthur E r
noted that frost • of the
delegation'srecommenda-
tions fall outside the man.
date of they commission,
which 'is to consider load
growth in south-
western Ontario up to the
end of 1987 and from 1987 to
2000' and the ability, of
-existing and commit
ted bulk power facilities to
supply, the toad.. Considera-
tion of the specific nautre of
additional bulk power,
facilitie
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