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The Huron Expositor, 1973-04-12, Page 1771110 $4,0R00 EXPOPTORtillEAFORTIlf °kit, AO/4110'1 1' Consumer is getting .stutic Milk increase .means little ,profit for fa ritert':pr Scanning the - Weeklies By Lee H.ee • In scanning the Exeter Times-Advocate, it reports that Mayor Jack Delbridge and centennial committee chairman Reeve Derry-Boyle hoisted the colorful banner Wednesday at noon, but because of "flack" received by the Mayor, he took it down Saturday. However, the flag will fly again. A pole has been ordered and It will be mounted on the town hall. The complaints at the time was because the flag was flying at the cenotaph beside the Canadian flag. - - - Constructi'on is now'underway on the new Kirkton Woodham community centre with completion set for May 31. - - - A plaque was dedicated at Tweedsmuir public school in London, Friday, in honour of the " late Clifford Heywood. He was formerly of Exeter and taught Industrial Arts at the school up to the time of his death. - - - The Exeter Kinettes celebrated their 21st 'birthday recently when 19 ladies attended the affair at Green Forest Lodge, Grand Bend. - - - An Exeter Soccer Club has been organized and will be known as the Exeter Centennial Club. The Mitchell Advocate relates that the Board of Directors of the Mitchell Co-Operative announced a patronage dividend of 7 1/2 pgr cent at their annual meeting. Business during 1972 reached an all-time high for the Mitchell Co-Op. - - - Mrs. W. B. Moore, Cromarty, quietly celebrated her ninety- first birthday on Tuesday, April 3rd. - - - Mitchell.Lions Club at their meeting donated $100 to the St. John Ambulance in support of their work. - - - Kenneth MeKellar, Cromarty, joined his wife at Hillside Rest Home, Seebach's Hill, recently, for a very special occasion, when the couple marked their 54th wedding anniversary. Mrs. MCkellar is the former Frances Scott and will be 87 years of age in June. - - - A former resident of Mitchell, Reuben Curtis, marked his 95th birthday on Friday. The family of Mr. Francis Clarke, according to the Zurich Citizens News, attended a birthday party in his honour at the Blue Water Rest Home. Mr. Clarke marked his 98th birthday. - - - Mary McFadden, a grade 12 student _ at `Preston High School, has been accepted by Ice Caria.des (West Division) and leaves for training in._ Dultith r-Minnesota in early summer. She was the Novige Ladies Champion in • The•-••••Vcrestern . Ontario Sectional co mpetition Mary is the eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank McFadden of•Bayfield. The Teeswater News reports that Betty Jane Hughes, daughter of MT. and Mrs. J. 0. Hughes of Teeswater, has commenced training as a stewardess with Wardair. The training with Wardair IS in Toronto and will last for one month. - - The Belmore Skateathon with proceeds for the Artificial Ice Fund was successful as some $2,000 was raised. - - - Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm Lane of the 14th, concession of Kinloss Township marked their 50th wedding anniversary on Wednesday, April 4th. Red'. Andrew Lane of Goderich and Malcolm Lane are the last surviving members of a family of seven boys and two girls. Mrt. Viola Nelson of Clinton, according to the4Clinton News Record, received.a long service appreciation award from the Clinton Citizen's Horticultural Society when she was presented with the award for giving 30 years,,service ' to the society. Mrs. Florence Pullen, past president of the society made the presentation. - - - Huron County has an interim Sports Council as a result of a meeting held in Clinton Wednesday night. More than 30 persons from across the county attended. There are presently four sports councils in Ontario, including' Lambton, Waterloo, Brant and now Huron. - - Ron McIntosh president of Blue Water Cable' T.V. Ltd. announced this week that there are about 150 homes hooked up at the present time in the Clinton area. It is anticipated that- then town anclVanastra will be entirely hooked up by the end of April. The Goderich Signal-Star reports , that Mrs. Maryn Pardy, editor .of Home and Country MagaZine, was guest speaker to area Women's Institutes at Auburn. - - - The 1973 season of Marine activity_from Goderich Harbor got off to a n early start due to a mild winter. and an earlier than usual spring-. Saturday will see the first club activity at a meeting at the Maitland Golf and Coubtry Club. - - - A ladies' team from Alberta and a men's team from Manitoba have become champions at the Canadian Order of Foresters' Dominion Curling Finals held in Goderich last Thursday, Fria Goderich last Thursday, Friday and Saturday. The Lucknow Sentinel relates that Mr. and Mrs. Harry Nixon of Lucknow quietly observed their 60th wedding anniversary. - - - Mrs. Jennie Ingles of whitechurch marked her 92nd birthday on Saturday. The Blyth Standard reports that after 10 years of faithful service to the Village of Blyth, Clerk-Treasurer Irvine Wallace tendered his resignation on Monday night to. Blyth Council. The resignation takes effect on April 30th. -I ARNOLD STINNISSEN Life -- Health and Accident — Registered Retirement Pensions — Income Tax Deductable Registered Retirement Annuities Representing Sun Life Assurance Company • of Canada TELEPHONE 527-0410 117 GODERICH ST. EAST — SEAFORTH .4i4glselk.131.94tUn $0,afOrt4feit subsidies were not the 40.0Weii.. to the tRriti labour prOblenh need prices ,thet,give 0.900 ninnieratlen so we canpaylabour If we PlOn't get :tbeni'..We mrty be in for a real': Shortage.it food," • ' Mr. McKinley noted that today takes up onlY./q .n9F. of the wage dollar cenValvd .0 23 per Cedt 10 yea.1.8 'lack Bidden wondered far=- mers rewarded their;employees, with bonuses duringperloda when they were getting .good. ,pricee for their goodso SeYeralfarMern ..at the meeting replied. that 41lelf did:"' 4,• Make money work for you The'sure road to financial independence is to pay yourself' first -- to set aside for .your own future ten per cent of all income as you get it. Regular savings at V and.G - in special savings paying generous interest or in high, high interest . Guaranteed Investment Certificates --- earn money for you quickly. Start your fortune today at Victoria and Grey. (Blyth Standard) A brief calling for compre- hensive land-use planning on a province-wide-basis and compen- sation for farmers affected was presented to local Members of Parliament when they met- for their annual meeting with Huron county farm organizations in Clinton. The dinner and conference, sponsored by the Huron Federa- tion of Agriculture brought together representatives of various commodity groups to meet Robert McKinley, M.P., Murray Gaunt, M. p, p, for Huron- Bruce and Jack Riddell, M.P.P. for Huron. The brief, presented by Doug Fortune, second vice-president of the Federation of Agriculture said 43 acres of good farm- land is being lost every hour to urban development. Between 1961 and 1966 the rate, had been only three acres per hour. But while something must be done to stop this trend, the brief said, something must also be.done to help the farmers in areas of high growth who have been forced to pay hight taxes for years because of the potential worth of his property for de- velopment. If the farmer can not count on receiving a high price for his land when he sells it he should have some kind of compensation for the taxes, the brief said. "British Columbia has al- ready promised this compen- sation, and land use planning will not get the full support of Ontario farmers without it," the brief said. Mr. Gaunt said the govern- ment has taken the first step in its speech from the throne, promising land-use controls to protect farmland. He agreed that the second step should now be taken to protect farmers. He urged farm organizations such as the Federation to really start pushing for compensatibn and said it would become a really big issue in the years to come. "There has got to be some form of compensation," he said. "Otherwise the farmer will be sacrificed on the altar of land- use planning." Mr. McKinley noted that plan- ning people aren't very pOpular these'clayS', but too often they are right. He' said it is easy to talk about planning but hard to implement it because if elected people do it, they won't be elec- ted very long. Don Pulle,n, Agricultural Representative for Huron from the Ministry of Agriculture and. Food noted that after the recent prices ,and offering Wane that made it. IMPQnsible for farmers tokeep labourers. In other .words, Mr, 1/1010if, ley said,',.,the long term benefits are not equal to the hardships. The difficulty of getting and keeping farm labour was dealt with in a brief presented by' Allan Turriblill of Grand Bend, vice-president of the Federation of Agriculture. The brief called ' for subsidization of labour for for farms. Mr. Gaunt wondere,d if an extension of the government's Manpower training program, which allows 75 per cent .sub- Sidteatton of people while being- trained would help: He was told that this would be fine while the training went on, but once the training period was completed, It would be hard for farmers to be able to pay enough to keep the help. Mr. McKinley said high un- employment insurance payments made it hard for farmers to draw labour to the farm. While 'the payments may be needed in some areas of the ' country to help the unemployed exist, they are too high in rural areas. "If the way of life of farm ing is attractive enough young people will stay on the farm," he said. WC7VRIA. an GREYd VG TRUST COMPANY SINCE 1889 T. Pryde & SON LTD. MAIN Sly. Exeter 235-0620 Over 250 Monuments on Sale With A Variety of Colors, Styles and Shapes To Choose Fro M any Are Priced Well Below SAVINGS TO UP $ 00 Current 1973 Prices . -q land-use conference held1nClin- ton it appeared the people of Huron were "tuned in' on land- use planning. The brief also called for uti- lity corridors. "We all recognize," is said "the need for more services as our population continues to rise. These services must be placed in well-planned, multiple-use corridors to consume as little prime farm land as possible." A government-appointed board to investigate all odour and pollution complaints in- volving farms was also recom- mended. Another request was , for government action. to Wee. recycling urban garbage rather than using land-fill sites in rural areas. ,,T,Vban people must assume the cost of disposing of the gaitage they create, rather than defiling and polluting farm lend with it", the brief said. Complaints about a long form used by Ontario Hydro at public meetings called to discuss the future sites of power corridors were also laid before the mem- bers. Mr. Fortune told of leng- thy forms which people were given only 12-15 minutes to fill in. The answers, he said, re- flected more emotion than reason on the part of those answering the questionna're. The problem of declining membership was dealt with when Faye Ribey of R.R. 6, Goderich, president of the Huron County Junior Farmers presented a brief. She stated that though membership this year was about even with last year in Huron it was nearly a third lower than in 1971. She said there are now only two clubs in Huron where once there had been five. She cited lack of interest of young people in returning to the farm as a major reason for the decline. Higher salaries and shorter work weeks 'were too inviting to most people to be bothered staying on the farm, she said. Although membership is down in Huron, it is up in Ontario with over 7,000 mem- bers. The increase is partly due to growing interest in Nor- thern Ontario and in several ur- ban clubs. Mr. Pullen noted that junior Farmers make so, Many oppor- tunitlei available to the members that it is a shame more people don't join. Despite the latest increase in the price of fluid milk, tamers are still only, about where they were a year ago, Huron County members of parliament were told Saturday. Ross Trewartha of Hullett township told the members gathered for the annual Mem- bers of parliament dinner and conference sponsored. by, the Federation of Agricultere, that the increases have been almost entirely eaten up by feed cost increases, especially for high- protein feeds. Jack Armstrong of Auburn, chairman of the Huron County Milk Committee said he thought the consumer was getting stuck in the increases. He noted that the two increases to the farmer in the past year have amounted to about two cents a quart. The price had increased to the con- sumer up to five cents. He said he did not think that the other costs involved in pro- cessing the milk for consump- tion had risen enough to war- rant such an increase. "We're getting a fair price," he said, "but the consumer is getting stuck." In the milk committee's brief, Mr: `.Armstrong noted that dairy farming in Huron is a major industry with 930 farmers deriving their living from it. The brief said the recent in- crease to industrial milk pro- ducers (those producing milk for the manufacture of butter, cheese and skim milk) was too low. The increase was 60 cents a hundredweight of which 20 'cents is to be held back for export, leaving farmers with a net in- crease of 40 cents. He said the Milk Marketing Noard had requested an increase of $1.00 per cwt. and he said if some- thing is not done to increase return to the industrial milk pro- ducer there will be fewer dairy farmers in Huron. Several briefs, including one delivered by Jim Williamson of Walton, president of the Huron County Pork Producers celled to re-examination of the govern- ment's decision to drop capital gains tax on transfer of the fami- ly farm to a son at death of the father.. It was pointed out that this could mean a son would have'-fo work for years for his father until the owner died. BY this time, the son could be an oldman too. Mr. McKinley said he had made representation to, John Turner, minister of finance several times on this subject. He said he thought it was a token gesture by Mr. Turner. He said Eugene Whalen, Minister of Aeri- , culture is also concerned over the present set up and had asked that the capital gains be waived whenever a farm is transferred from father to son. "I've been watching over my shoulder ever since I heard about the change," Mason Bailey, chairman of the meeting quipped. "I don't take a chance on my sons being behind my back." The Pork Producers also lashed out at the removal of the tariff on import of meats saying it puts farmers at a disadvantage because other countries have not lowered their barriers too: The Huron County Soil and Crop Improvement Association presented a brief that opposed the possible location of a nu- - clear power station in Huron' along Lake Huron. MurrayGaunt, M.P.P. for Huron-Bruce said that he understood that Huron was just one of a number of possible sites for the plant, but Mr. Bai- ley said that negotiators for On- tario Hydro dealing with the pre- sent power corridor planned for north Huron felt Huron seertied• certain to be chosen. "Do you think people in agri- culture are really against the power station?" Mr. McKinley asked. 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