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The Huron Expositor, 1979-04-19, Page 3NOP CANO1ATE ACCLAIMED — Mrs. Moira Couper a Bayfield mother of, four was acclaimed as the New Democratic Party's candidate' in the riding of Huron -Bruce for the may 22 federal election Tuesday. WatChing Mrs, Couper give her nominating address are Helen Tench and guest speaker Brantford MPP Mac Makarchuk. (Zurich Citizens Photo) • S by 44.0.0 ).Athite, • 'How do you fee 0001 the safety of nuclear power? That Was the question. More or less. that we asked people in the Expositor Asks eelumet hist week- Sinc6 rni at work un TeleStlay, afternoons when reporter Debbie Ranncy does, her calling. Debbie haSn't called me on this or any other fi.A. question. Ohne to Debbie: Maybe I could take the odd Tuesday afternoon Off if you want to talk someone who won't say this Ping to be printed in :•he newspaper?") But last week's question was an impertant one, 1 think especially since the near NDP nornlnates Matra BY ALICE (IBB: the farm pepulation and werkers in Neter:ICS Moira Couper of Bayfield, A freelance around the riding. adult community educator, Was acclaimed as Mrs, Ceitpers ,campaign is being co: the N.D.P. candiate for the „Huroe-Bruce ordinated by Paid Carroll of Seaforth, riding in a nontinatioe ;meeting in Clinton campaign committee co-ordinator; 'Helen Tuesday night, Tench of Clinton, officipl agentd Gwen The candidate said One of her Ohs in the Pemberton of Hayfield, acting as the candidate's advisor, The party also plans a series Of informal COffee parties held in homes around the county to introduce voters to Mrs. Couper and to discuss the party platforms. On :May 9, Jane Bigelow, former mayor of London ' will be the guest at an event in support of Mrs. Couper's eandidicy•whiell will be held In the south of the riding. • In declaring Mrs. Couper the official candidate, Paul Carroll told the audience, we have a persoh with Vision, creativity. icrgination ,and lots and lots of drive „ upcoming eleetion would. tie to "dispel smite of the myths about the N.D.P. party." Mrs. COuper, the nother .of four children, now holds diplomas from Fanshawe College and lona College, University of Windsor and is now working .• On a degree from the University of Watertoo.. in the pest, Mrs.: .Couper has been employed by the ministry of culture and reereatien in operating a series, of .eampground programs. In accepting the nomination. Mr. Couper tald. the audience one of her major concerns' is equal rights and opportunities for wonien, which she will, make altlatform• in. her Campaign. • In an interview following her fornieation, Mrs. •Couperthaid she plans to ren -grass roots" campaign Around the edunty, For eitamele, instead Of having ope carripaige • officeth,e party . Mr. Makarehuk. emphasized, the issue of . , . plans' to. operate mobile information centers ,whichwill tour the .foreign ownership Of. Canadian industrie,s, . and said it isextremely important for us as riding. Also, Mrs. Couper plans to aim her. Capedialts- to control what goes on m thIS campaignat three Main groups in the county ' : the small businesemen onHegave the international Nickel' the main streets, , No Ore104; 1,664 .ownership BY WILMA Faleener suggested that would come'Wet , DrainageProbletUe. in Fgnitindville and when council • decided whether to meet' ether parts of the township, of Teekersinith: government 'standaeds.Or close it. itick up A large part of the Council ,sessior • ' Council expecte toineet with the Minister . Tuesday night. A numeter Of items on the • of eultere and recreation. Reuben -Bates,' in • agenda were postponed for actin At the next Tornface, on Apia 27to seek provincial coned meeting on May 8. „ ' , . 'gt-,ents•eteehele..-withihe eeets of -etructural • Insurance ageneDonald Eaton: Egmond- • work tobe done on the curling rink. Ville and an official from the :Frank Cowan ((nitwit will; 'appoint B M Ross and --hisureetreCompany atten-dedilie meeting to TAssociaties ot.Codeilef f.Frbringin two storm discuss the inSuratice coverage for the drain reports„ The first one is; on Water township, Setieral of the ,polieies . Were, Street in 'Egniondville where Aborting °peer - increased', includingdoublitigthe anioueeof red . during the weekend because of the . the policy coveting death. or injuries re, heavy rains and the 'melting of the snow froth sulting:from an accident to the five,members the severe snowstorms the previetis week., of ceuneil :with the $10.00 "death .policy The .other -area 'requiring a .study is in coverivg a 24•,hour period 'each day and net north Eernondville due to a petition from 13 just when a member is on councilbusiness; residents in that :draft of the hamlet' calling . denthlifig the insurance on the contents and on council to "investigate and ' make ' ;equipment of toWnship garage; doithlieg the apprOpriate, alterations to the existing habllty insurance on the true* owner by the: inadequate drainage Pattern in north township. The total 1979 insurance plemitim Egnioedyille.", .• • • amounts:to 59.937 which is up $1.655 front : •Keithetli Getnmell hada drainage petitionf lam -year ge :a result Of the various', increases in to council and Robert eleGtesor, who hiroverage. Township buildings areinsured attended the council session on 'other for $950,000. lecluding increases in, business, said the dr ain on the McGregor's. coverage, Township. buildings are. • insured ' farm was not Working satisfactority. ' • for' $950,000, including township, Shed. Mr; McGregor suggested that drainage township office and Vartastre. 'recreation , tile 'or pipes of. a:larger size shOuld be . • • oritplex. • considered by council because of ' plowed' " A number of persons wrote council fields with no .fenees, no pastureland to help . ceneetned-about the poesible closing' of the' slow down run-off or rain waters that the Vanastra Ceding Rink due to the structural, smaller tiles: could not handle it. Council. inadeqUaelesof the •buildieg. 4 was noted by meet 'betS agreed , the mattersiOuld be • :1Ctitlecillor';,Williain 'grown mine offered considered when each new 44141 is pet in. • finatteialaSsistance and he suggested they Mr. McGregor asked who wesrespooSible should be aked. Hewever, Councillor Frank for inaking Sitte municipal drainage 'work The guest Speaker at the rientination meeting was mac Makareltuk, MPO fot the Brantford riding, Who was once stationed at, the. Vanastra air base. . Lloyd says thanks On behalf Of my facility and Myself I would like to expresS My appreeiation to the mayor, einthdl,citizens of Seaforth, Canadian Legion Ladies' Auxiliary, Lions Club and Country Singles, for.their fantastic support shown to Lorri and me on our 'recent return from Germatiy. Without this many Of out' :endevours would not be accomplished, , We will always remember the ones Who helped us up the ladder" to suecess. Lloyd Eisler Jr. Ban nee s mernuppers DOYOti PLAY, BARITONEt TiteMPET ORTUBA? It does not.matter, as long as you are a musitian; that can read mates (ricisie) We • wotild like to -see some of the many nutsicians living in Seaforth join out band thiS Saintlier. The Seaforth Dashwood . Hand is in its 4th year of existanee, and we need more members, otherwise it will happen to us, as has happened ifi so many other places, to fold up, r choose a different name for our hand, since there are More outsiders in our band than people from Seaforth itself. Two years ago When we had athristhitte party fOr all band members and their' wives, We had a special guest Speaker Who has Said and I (motet.' get Wetiderfull te have a hand a marching band in a- -small: plaee like Settfottli, thettld be proud of it and he called: Seaforth a lucky Town" on a lot of other places, hands have.. been folding up', A is a results, yOuttg people are not interested in bands any. more, aod the older ones are linditig exeuses. they are getting too old. , it's too bad if the Seaforth. Dashwood Hand, will be just another Memory. in- Seaforth'S history, like the famous. -- Highlanders where! As you all know. our band members etome front 4 vvide-spread area, such aS., Dashwood, Exeter, London, Grand Bend, Mitchell. Dublin, Brodhagen and so ort,tO Make up a 24 iece band, while We all know tete that Seaforth has se Many mesiciens, If they Only had the courage to get out, pickhp that old instrument and start playing again, it is a good exercise fer the elderly ones too. Se if you are interested 'please get in contact with Harry Hoffrean, Dathwried, Feed JenSen, Ot/John Vangefferti Seaford) and eome out to ot-ir practise on Sunday, April 22nd at the Seafetth TOwti Hall at 2 p.m, Ste pall all there! John VanGtt effe Sec.-Treas, S.D. Band Chaster at :the flltee Mile Island nuclear plant near Harrisburg Pa. . Our family's been, thinking And talking for a tong time about the safety ancl the need for nuclear power, Din it wasn't mud Friday 'night that the whole question t:ame veryvery clearly into feces. The better half and I. visiting, the grandparents in the big eity, went to see the China Syndrome. the movie that documents an imaginary nuclear accident, and subsequent problems. at an imagieary nuclear , power plant in California.' It if.i• grippee'of a movie. that'hao us both on the edge of our (311 Seats. it S very good theatre, has tetrille aelOrS• and *. ro$oarghgd, plauSilalp 'SOO The China Syndttones imaginary accidentv also exaCtly the--4SAme Ona that actually occured at the Pennsylvania plant. a4nOrie that has such a great emetional impeet that find myself shaking, just bit. as 1 try to write abate it Theres no room for' emotion, 1 know, as we as society debate the need for— nuclear power • .111e possibility Of an energy sliort future dua could see a very :Mich lewered standard of . living and the loss of thonsands of jobs, . Rt Thetle4 S".41° in f'hina SyUdrOme at a hearing on. power plant safety being held for :a new plant, planned by the SaMe company which rens the one where the aCeident occurs. hpPi:le°0ntPoll Qbsoitelittdi n.tgi /hit hhoe1;0,1:1,1111i: cir hildren as a spokesmen rhymes off the names of du. kids who will' have to lise with iteh consequences if nuclear power turns out not That's an iMplication, 1 think that all •of us who care about Our children*s fetures have to consider and it'S an implication that*S :heavy skith emotion. Emotion aside, The China •Syndrome. presents in a. very believable \Nay some very rational reasons why all of us, owe it to ourselves and Our children to sttidy the nuclear power qtiestion and then urge our leaders to listen to our conclusions,. Becanse of the profit Motive, once the wheels of big husirtessS get moving. there is a tendeney. to overlook or sweep ander the r.1.10 smait problems or even wholesale unsafe 'practises and graft in an effort' to get things into produetiott. A' sort, of damn the torpedoes and full speed•ahead mentality: It's an- end. justifies the mea.ns philosophy, an urea- lingness to: look at tin, npiloe4riskctay"twrfeancteshetShaiinttt_ihrt°h%e_v work, that exists in all hesiness, (I know it happenS Company siteatiee in Sudbury as an in response to a question from the example of what happens when an indsutry audience abOut people's fear of nationalize - is controlled by endther country and said the lion, Mr. fvfakarehuk said there wasn'tany strike situation there hasn't been resolved reason taxpayers couldn't get a return on because "the decision not to increase, wages their investments in new industries. He said was made in New York.- He added. "No the Syncrude project was one of the' few other 'country but some banana republic in..., .s as appened in Canada. South America %vould allow this situation to • "There's no reason taxpa.yers shouldn't . exist." He told the audience to look at the .benefit front the infusion of publice funds." oil, pulp and paper and nianufaeturing he added. He said as it is now, when industries in the county and asked,' "Who' Canadian industries make a profit, these controls thein?- • t .profits often go to the United States. Mr. Makarchuk said voters shoold look at The same audience member said he felt the choiee8 other than Prime minister the farmers of Huron County have less to Trudeeu facing them in .the upcoming worry about if the potash industry is partly. election. controlled bY the Saskatchewan government Calling PC leadet' Jbe .aark "'the. oldest . than if is is controlled by New York City. young man fee ever s-ceri7N1r. Makarchuk In an interview following the Meeting. asked. Can you imagine him being campaign committee' co.ordinator Paul concerned about the price of gas and oil?" Carroll said while it isn't realistic to expect when he has friends in his home province thatthe party can ceinpete on the same level like "Ayatollah LiiEieed Mr . altareh uk 'Said the NDP e P party, a county. the N.D.P. supporters do hope to social demeeratie party, founded on the base eeiteatethe voters about the party's aims' ic • of the CCF party, had provided the Canadian the (,,8011):4ign, with the other two political parties in the. here when the panel's .off , . schedule and everyone's nerves are frazzled. -Just people w tt t e im etus for social measures • epureeghraams shnonspditaotidlizaatgioen,pesnoseiioanls..usasieStastalcide partv's finaricial campaign. told the audiertee the N.D.P. party in Nlanitoba . a A • 1 j B n fieT a i u • l'k th had. t d ' . • . - - P John Woad, the co-ordinator of the local THE HURON XPOS)TOR, ARM. 19:t get the bloody paper ota." I've been .known to exclaim: aroond here tti times when the ethical thing ,might have been to Stnad: hack and consider earefullY what we're doing and why./ ' Out the lives of millions of people are at Steke in ItUelear plant accidents. unlike, thank God+ little mishaps at this newspaper, and eoverups• there can have almost unspealfabie resolts. •In the movie a Man who's spent his life in the nuclear indastry. a control room supervisor at the power, plant. played by jack Lem - moo. finds out that some t'onstruetion ' errors at the plant, probably covered Up - by a safety inspevtor who's on the take. coeld eauSe a •purnp that cools the planes reactor to explode. , His efforts to convince his superiors, of that fart are •ignored in a big rash to get • the Plant "back on the line," Although he's a firm believer ie .the potential and need for nuclear power, Jack Lefienon finally decides he must Make his findings public et safety hearings- being held into the 'tympany's secortd nuclear •power plant. The whole awesome energy of a massive power . tYmpaey and its coliStruet ion companies swings inte action against him, They'll stop at nothing, not even 'murder. to keep his information from the publie hearings. Not bloody likely, you say, and anyway. it -could never happen here, hi quiet- law • abiding Ontario? I'm sorry. but such a deyelopmear is very be- lievable in 'The China • SYndrome. AO cOtatl coneelVehly Iteppert bete'. Co4Sidee all the poivrfa interests who: have hog Stakes in tnielear POWer-,' A .rtant..'ntunt exists ihneS ver !herd to control. That's my big eoneern. Nuclear power plants have 4nCh eapeeity tee herrn. (and AS:1, admit the power they prodeee has enormoeS capeeity for good too) that they must be subject to rigid public eentrel, That means we must have leformation about them. -.How safe are they? What evacuation and ernergeecy plans exist? Are •°markt KYdre'S eeetgy needs fore- casts outdated and based cm the booming sixties or the eonserving seventies? Do they juStify more and bigger plants irt Canada and around the world? What is the worst damage that a reactor accident, at Kincardine or • Pickering say, do to the communities that surround them? Will we spend as much money researching alternate sources of energy as has been spent on the ralelear source? There are decisions in our lives that are too important to be left to the experts, I remember those power plant protestorS with the photos of their children, arid I conclude that every one of us has to dentand;. ntore. information from Our „utility pomparees and our governments. Then Av#' leaet to take a stand, for or against the building of nuclear power plants. ,And then we have to take action that will let us live with ourselves, •programs t e ese erpa e a soctety tn started with small beginiangs and e t ance p artne Canada that is "basically reasonable; ,. • 'Sensible and sane." n Tuc rsni • •can,' do it here ,setnedav- e ith council hear was stopped when weather unsuitable for construction work in the fall. He said work • Federation at Provincial and county levels is concerned about foreign ownership of Agri. waS done on Ins )dram when ground was cultural land in the province. He said he did frozen and huge lumps of frozen earth, not think it a problem in the township of denuiechin drain. ' Tuckersmith at this time as it was in other Councillor • Robert Fotheringharn noted areas of Huron County. He asked council if Seitforth was having,flooding problems toothe clerk could inform the Federation of the He said the fire truck pumper was used sale of farmland to foreign ownership, with .Sundax.fer-the_sectufd-ti me -to -.pump- tInrownuratratieat-ed"TaTardih. raw sewage in the town, He said this was Reeve Ervin Sillery said there was more 'done it spite ',of earlier complaints by the than one way to look at foreign ownership. township representatives tm the Seaforth "While that, land is owned by an outsider, he Fire Area Board, He said iewas pointed out makes it available to a local Person to. rent • to the fire chief after the first esuage that it,- Mr. Sillety said sometimes a man can " there was a motion in the fire area board . rent land but cannot afford to buy it or does A benefit dance will be held later this month for Linda and Afvin Jones of Goderich Township wholost their home in a,. fire at the heigt tot The blirtard on April 6 Mrs, .lonc..s is the former Linda 'Papple, daughter of Mr. :•Ind Mrs. Gordan Papple , of McKillop Township. The benefit dance for the couple will be held at the Pineridge Chalet, Fiensall on April 27 at 9:30 p.m, ' • The Jones family are staying with neighbours until a trader home arrives" to Fire` house they lost in the fire. The family credits a smoke detector for . saving three • lives during the fire. •Mr.S. • • jOttes-Andber two children were sleeping upstairs- in their , home at about 1100 p.m. ThursclaY night when they were . awakened by the howl of the smoke Mrs. Jones went outside to summon her • husband who was working ott a generator, : 'aed the two rescued the children and fled the. house .• . The Oiniton 'Fire Depatthient responded quickly: to the alarm and managed to 'save • 'the house from being levelled, 'despite gale force winds blowing at the minutes that said the fire truck was not to go • no need -to tie his money up in the purchase. detector. , , out to do any outside work except in - ;rouncil authorized clerk Jack McLadhlen emergencies,where loss of life was involved.r to hotify the Federation of the sale of land to, OU ,,S or e The house was gutted inside and the Jones lost most of their. belongings. Damage in the _sleaze could_eure_asitigh..as„ -550,000 but no final estimate has. been reached. , "We're so thankful to the firemen who fought the fire under such terrible conditions, and to all the neighbours who helped us,- Mrs. Jones said, The fire broke out following the severe . light ning storm On d‘kil He said the truck should not be used on ` foreign investors. The clerk said at the ort ers ot a town comic llor and the fire chief • , present Ono there is no !anti in thetownship He said the Fire Area board.Was in charge ef ynder foreign ownership. ' the fire truck. He said the next Fife Area Bridge No. 13 - the Flee:4es bridge Board meetingAie April 24 ,would deal with be repaired with expansion joints at both. theMPrr.McGregor ends tWo three-inch holes will be drilled to Lregor and Stanley Johns, re- allow water to get away after a rain it lays . presenting Tuckersmith Federation of Agri- on the bridgeand other minor work for a culture., attended council meeting to aSk for .-total of $2,586 and cementing the top for an increase in grant money this year. from $2,590 for a final cost of 55,176.Looby cotmcie They requested 5700.. Conktruction of Dublin will do the work, • Council did not discuss the request or Bridge No. 14, the Crich bridge, is • , 4, . come to any decision at the meeting. considered a hazardous bridge, Council will Mr. McGregor told council that the ask the engineers to bring in a report on it. B of E buciget ups faxes , (Continued from Page 9 'be looking at an eight per cent increase. But the budget made one faet dear, The Major expense in any one area in the entire edecation system is salaries. Payroll eats up a total of 76 per cent Of the $23 Millien the board spends in a year. Dunlep said the bulk Of the motley spent in" the bedget is peyofici the eentrol of the , 'board, Hesaid ealarieS have to be treated as' fixed casts AS well as, debentures. loans ahcf• Operating costs. He said he had not a et e ow much o t udget the board had to work- with. but estimated that the makinittne amount 'Would be 10 per cent.. The operimeoeot 'tom* the beard the • • majority et concerns department heads had for the tenting year had been handled. Hc said one area net adequately funded was aesthetic maintenance. He told the board there was "no 'way in the world the schools can be kept they were five years ago. We just .haven't ' the money to do it." R.M. MeVeart, plantt sitherintendent, explained that aesthetic 'maintenance in- volves things like stripping floors and rewaxing them and Major housecleaning projects, He said there is too much work Io he done by caretakers to permit time to be Set aside for those projects. He added that .the beard owned -buildings Were net suffer-, ing because the. jobs could not be done. • • • Amen, by Kari Schuessler (Centinued front Page .2) -- Measures eut reagelfiCA English ih controlled caderice - that voice that shapes the -language of the Ring jamas Version. into a perfect word treasure. And beSides that voicethere's his face - that face that angers. winces, disgusts and warms. , Two hours :Of Watetting and listening to this Matt Made Sestis conte alive that Easter Sunday. It was resurrection.enough, , it was better than hundreds Of :piecemeal readiogs Sunday after Sunday (rem the lectertt. Better thatt thousands and thous. ands of vvord comittentarios on that original stoty, And of course, it brought far More than any Easter bunny totildeVer bring, ileSidea, when you're fifty,you're too old fOr the ounnies, Attu' too Stoat toi chocolate S and jelly beans. And not all that stout-hearted te tilt kites in the high Easter winds. Yes, you heard the right. I heard it for the first time tnyself this year, When I stood at the Moor St. �d Yonge subway gate in Toronto, and asked people what Easter means to diens, one man told me Faster was the time to fly kites, TO send -kites high into the air. Just as .1e8tts rad and later arose into the 'heavens, Fly kites at Easter time. itt. memory of Jesus who rose: But thanks to Mee MeCiowrin 1dititet have to go fly a- kite, 1 -le did It magnificently for me right there at the Hart Heitee Stage in Toronto. ' , , , • Two local yaiitbs, have been charged with lOitering under Die'. town bylaw, passed by Seaforth council last year. Police Chief John Cairn* said the first charges under the bylaw were laid when the town youths were found • . Smashing beer hottles,....tq front of a real estate offite on Main Street. • • Althotigh there were no accidents repelled in Sea - forth in the past 'week, Seaforth police investigated three thefts and three inci- dents Of, wilful damage On Friday Morning, a" Seaforth resident reported a.' car had been stolen over. night fronLiohn Street. The vehlete was recovered later that morning in a vaeaot field near .Vineent's Earth .1Vlaell-* inerv. O'n Friday night. police investigated a ease of wilful damage to a vellielelarked on Main Street SOuth in front of Mae `S. Hair, Styling, LA_ beer bottle Was thrown at the vehicle, resulting iri approx.. imately $SO in damage. A bicyele, belonging to Jeff ,Boyle of Centre Stteet. Seaforth, was also reported stolen the same day. The theft is Still under inveSti- gatiOn arid the bicycle' hastet been recovered. On Sunday motning, a local youth was discovered darhaging a parking sign in . front of the Pizza Express building oh Goderielt. Street West by a patrolling Officer. When the youth replaced the Sign. he eharges were laid On Sunday afterhoon, Police Chief John Cairns discovered 'four youths in a ear tearing up the fawn, beltiod Seaforth District Ititti. Stitch* The elder said he estimate Of the darttage to the lawn is /Wadable at press • • • • • Chief Cairns said the and repairing all the' youths involved will work On; darnages done and no the weekend replacing sodcharges will be laid. Firemen. ou re host meet , The Seaforth Fire Depart-.. • . d merit hosted the monthly meeting of the various fire departrifents - in • Hetet]. Cotthty Monday ,night. The meetings are for educational purposes. There were 65 firemen in attendance at the meeting MoridaY. Don Daly of Hiekey Fire Equipment Services from Hamilton was the guest Speaker. , His topic You and Your Fire Trucks included information on maintenance 'of fire pumps. Plans were Made for a 'day -long pumpers* Sentinar to be held in Clintoh at the fireball on May 16. . A representative from..the.- Fire Marshall's office will be in attendance to discuss water availability and water. invite The "Happy Citizens' invite all senior Citizens to a pot luck supper and euchre on Thursday,.. April 26 at 6 p.m. Please bring food , dishes and silverware.' The bowlieg prizes will be given out at this,tneeting, Correc At McKillop Township council meeting last week McKillop Councillor Wik fiam Leeming said in re- potting on a recent Seaforth Fir Area Board meeting he had stated that a committee Was appointed "tO go to Oederieh to hire Dontiolly & Murphy to represent the Fire Board in court" in the law- SUit threatened by the Town of Seaforth over' thedispute twmta.intenance paYniehts of fire hydraots located io the o Itt addition McKillop ie Allan Campbell said he wanted it known that he Was "very ' upset that the low 47. 41. :All persons interested in ,the early heritage of Huron County are invited to attend a meeting of the Architectural Conservancy 'of Ontario at 8 p.m. on Thursday, April 26th at the , .• . Hayfield: - Members will Shown slides and pictures et resteratitet projects. tions Towit of Seaforth used the fire truck to pump mW sewage in thetown at reported by the tOwnship'S representatives on the Fire , Board." The reeve said a request from him Wat re- fused for the fire truck pump to be Used in the tevettship a few years ago to bib* out a plugged tile at Dublin, to Cldall up a flooding problent ih Ronald Ferguson's house, In last week's flonsall .eouncil hews story the name Of ettuneillor Richard Pack. harn was incotrectly repOtted as Paul Campbell. The gxpositor apologize* tot the error.