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The Lucknow Sentinel, 1969-07-23, Page 18PAGE EIGHTEEN. *THE ,LUCKNOW SENTINEL LUCKNOW, ONTARIO, WEDNESDAY, JULY:23rd, 1969 DELINE . CHOICE, HOME KILLED BEEF AND PORK GOVERNMENT. INSPECTED MEATS SEPOY DAYS lserai'Murray-Caunt , Huron -Bruce• favours, the phasing out of the use of. DDT and has made the following statements. "I have been impressed, by the overwhelming amount and quality of evidence laid ,before the pestic- ides; inquiry at City Hall. ` • Naturally., as, agricultural critic of the••Ontario Liberal Caucus and a", IS* cianaid-farmer I cannot ignore the economic aspects.of the proposals made by; Dean Si..r:u'ck, pi.. Marshall Mc- Lilian' and? Dr .', McLure ,; At: the same time ,. l_te_cogttize that economics are secondary to our survival on this planet:. DDT -is a long-lasting poison. It has: a • "half-life" of fifteen years before; breakdown_. It does not disappear when •it'has done its immediate job as a pesticide. In, the thirty years it his been used, it. has been ` . carried everywhere.. by. wind? rain and ocean currents; SG that •today there is not a single square inch. of the, earth's surfaceon whichID.T carngt_be 'detected - There seems little doubt• that the entire balance of nature is. now _being_ups_et_by_ the 'presence of DDT. -particularly-the productiony on the sea's•surface of the oxygen on which our survival depends The total' available amount of • oxygen is..decreasing and we ate slowly beginning to suffocate be-, cause we have stopped one. part of the life process: The consensus of informed seems to be that unless- we take immediate'•action• to change. this' pattern , we 'have only about twenty years.,supply of breathable air left :' • ..DD'l is also: a` nerve poison •Since` it. "multiplies"' through concenira-' "tion by, the •food -chain , we have each of us about ::twelve .parts per; • !'million of DDT in out bodies - i enough; to make us more' irritable 'than before .1 note that'Sweden lasdeclared' a SMOKED PICNICS . BOLOGNA ( - Sliced �or Piece)r _ 49c LB. _ 69c LB WIENERS ,_' : 57c LB. rose T BONE SIRLOIN •ROUND SUNNY ,LEMONADE FOR $1.00. MORTON CREAM PIES ,W 49c OR SEPOY DAY' nd Try Your ,.,;,: Favourite Meats� Bar-B-QueI Before Your Own Eyes OPEN FRIDAY NITES— 10 P.M. PHONE -528-3009 Firm io Check•School Insurance BY RICH IO\D A PK Huron. County Board of Education took an mportant. step ".o'nday ei'ening at.its Meetin4 in CHSS. •Board•Room, Clinton', when, on motion of Gordon.Moir, Gorrie, and Mrs.. 3•. W. Wallace., Goderich , it assed the following motion after • ,consid,erable .discussion:• That the firm of H.E. Hartley Consultants Limited, '3049 Kingston Road, Scarborough., Ontario, be hired to make an appraisal of the shelved for the 'tiniq being •Roy B. Dunlop, Business Adminis-. I trator of the Board, on -whose rec' oirmendation the above resolution '+ was adopted pointed Out that the �'1 Hartley ance as consultants, but not as a . • broker or agent. It sets u s The guide' lines for bidding by insurance firms. • "It introduces competition into the 'placing 'of insurance," he de- clared:. .: e-clared:..: , :' There are 31 elernentany schools and five secondary schools•under. Huron County Board of Education, and all 38 buildings must' be invest, igated thoroughly in the $2,000 appraisal ; 'according to Mr. IIh.€..nc Ripley FIREPLACES A SPECIALTY • BRICK F BLOCK STONE-: shortly ;fo .low suit. Maine and . Massachusetts have banned'DDT in Dutch•'Elm Disease 'programs. Arizona hasimposed a..one-year moratorium on all agricultural use. California is banning its usein householdsand home gardensand restricting its use on farms. Six other States have anti-DDT''legis- lation pending;. The U.S. National! Audobon Society has launched a campaign to ban .the use of DDT '. across.. the United States':' I am advised that an alternative elxists today for, each and.every use. to which DDT -is put -arid, that -the °---- economics of the employment of the alternatives are not . signifrcautlyziifferent--if-they ar-e---. used properly; i.e, if, as and w hen required. The. only ,possible exception to this is.the use of • DDT eli urinate cutworm in tobacco. In the•light Of this evidence, I would propose that the Government of Ontario (1) Immediately give wide publici- ty-to the alternatives: to DDT ,.: through pamphlets, broadcasts,and advertisements in the farm .and 'garden press, (2) Commencing 1970, bati DDT in. Ontario for home, and.' garden' use • (3) Commencing 1971,.ban; DDT in Ontario for all uses other than the control of cutworms in'tobacco: . (4) Immediately a -satisfactory alternative isproduced, ban DDT for •any use in Ontario: ' • We are. now learning that we • , bave.•to-co-operate with nature ; rather ,than fight it,: or our days on earth,are numbered% The hard less on.w e.:are being taught is that' we ..are here on sufferance and that our • • 'very survival is now: at stake. The phasing -out of DDT. is only the first. •of many such decisions that will face Governments in the • .future. We must` be'prepared for them.. " • two year moratorium on^the use o3 DDT arid a •co:mplete'ban on its home use; and that France, may., .ucknow Listed n Encyclopedia: Roy.Er Berlin of l uckriow , while: visiting with his brother-in-law':.; recently' noticed reference to, Luirhnow in the, Encyclopedia . 'Canadiana ,. Volume u While., . much of the •informationis'com'rn onplace to local residents', it is int-eF�st-into-,nate...whar is std... aboutus in print . The article read:. `LuckrtovY, Ontario, village in Bruce County •on Highway 86 and.. the CNR,' 17"miles South -East of •card1ne It'got its start in 1856 when Eli Stauffer;, a German ;from ' Waterloo County , accepted a government offerof`200 acres to • ,anyone.who would erect a mill on the nine mile river, now the Luck firm is a specialist m.insur- i now Wet-- thick empties' into • .THIS. SUMMER • ♦ ttMMww- •. • • 4iieGt..... 4 Huron at Port Albert:. ' -• • 'The actual founder was James 8Cotland who laid C1,14 the village lots in.1858. It tOok its name from the Indian City that Was Much in. • 'VI 185'7 58. Flax, saw and , planing mills are located here. • Butter, cream and pork'are the ,major products. A high school, public 'library and a weekly news- ; paper , The,Sentinel, serve this Dunlop. area. • •EA'RN ,MORE SAFE MORE The top-dressi;ng• of • estabiished, CO CUP Buil. Spreading •.r':t•� hay. immediately' •after first ettttine Gime. and,c•nort zinc; zs an•aeeepted practice sith protu cry lit:cic 1'c e1-r-14rt-il z�r tCsrre�,iJ. 'conscious farmers. Here's .µhi : a ,at appriT\tinatel� b i . pra���•.' \kith '• :5.10.00 'application,. per aero ++ill CO-OP', tnoderti .'on the average, gi; e . at lea t ,a, arca fissured' cit `untt'c�rni 5:20.00 geraere returri.'`T`he use cit' tion ot•the tart li cr, fertilizer• on pa'st,un at mid seascm. • As equally',proatable. •1,..,:;•1, • a,t`1 Tractor -drawn spreader see your o .and arrange for .the• most. ' `ractical, most • p . economical spreading method 'for, your farm: r ti to thc•Ontarit� Farmer' Bu1kTEecttlper Spreadtmtt is Another ?CO-OP Ser ce. .,. • organized ,. and the tiatter Was • Phone -2125