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The Huron Expositor, 1978-03-23, Page 1to op on i ues a . , doubtful there would be a Vote committee to establish , pupil before March 28 since many of period contapts, which is• the the ' teachers used the March . number ,of students a teacher is Break to go on vacations planned required kesee in a day. The pupil 'prior to the lockout. :_contact is the. main —bone of The teachers are not required Contention in the dispute. The to remain in the county during the teachers want fhe board to agree /wheel break and Elliott said -he to a. specific number Of -students 'hoped the teacher negotiatin per teacher and the board wanted team would agree to the new the matter left to• its discretion terms and that the 274 members each school year. would accept that and return to The saw off suggested by the' the classes, board is a committee consisting ot Hill said' earlier he was one ' representative from the surprised. at 'teacher rerafons to' teachers, one school board board offers-and continual refusal 'trustee, one senior education by the teacher'S negothrtets- to- adniiniStrator and a principal send the Offers to the teachers for appointed by the principal's d vote.aSsOcidtion. , Hill said the move by the board was "logical" and while it didn't settle the dispute it guaranteed that the current school year willbe completed withotit interruption. He said it may allow both parties to. take advantage .of a "cooling off"' period before beginning negotiations in earnest of the next school year. The board's proposal hinges on the teacher's acceptance of a The board agreed to the committee system and passed a-- policy statement Monday ,night setting it up. Cayley Hill was appointed as the trustee, member of the committee and superinten- dent of education Don Kenwell as the senior administrator. It remains for the teachers to agree 'Jo the system and appoint a Member and the principals to select a representative. others. Are we up to giving the family farm a future chance, -the CFF head asked. "We should not let consumer associations browbeat us with words on efficiency," commented Mr. Van. Donkersgoed. "I have yet to see any member expand his enterprise in order to be efficient. '1 rhoe fi yts.always expand towards p Mr. Van Do goed said the profit margi ' has ropped on a good many items. When farmers expect they can weather through a slump in the market they may not realize that they will be in a loss position a lot quicker than five years ago, he said. or Easter Seaforth closed Friday Seaforth stores will be closed Good Friday in observance of the Easter weekend but will be open Saturday and Monday as usual., Banks will be closed both Friday and Easter Monday, Seaforth's Post Office lobby will be closed Good -Friday, March 24, open again Saturday morning and then closed from 1-2:30 noon until 7 a.m. Tuesday, according to Post Master Orville G. Oke. There_ will be regular mail service Saturday morning Inside this week • khe /luau' (fXPOSitOr Campbells wed -50 years . 7 Stove Bennett Is golf pro Pg. WOAA Trophy winners Pg. 11 Easter egg decorating Pg. 16 i 119th Year Whole No. 5741 $12.00 a Year in Advance Single copy 25 cents 4 SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, ,THURSDAY, MARCH 23, 1978 — 20 PAGES Vonostrajo'geffire help...frorti Clinton with Learn. The driver-of the third • car, Gordon Bleck of Stratford collided with the rear of the second vehicle. _ The driver of the second car drove out of the accident and kept" going., A passenger , in the • Bleck vehicle, Audrey Hatch of ''Stratfcird'"suffemed minor back - injuries, was taken to ',.teaforth , Community Hospital and, transferred 'to Stratford General` Hospital. Hospital. , DaMage to the Learn vehicle was about $30 and damage 'to the Bleck vehicle was about $2,000. Charges are pending. against Mr. Bleck and the driver who left' the scene.. by Wilma Qke , • In an attempt to reduce the high rates of fire insurance for commercial firms at Vanastra Tuckersmith Township council has arranged for fife protection• from the Clinton Fire Area Board.. Presently the Brucefield Fire Brigade provides that protection. The problem vyith the high rates results from the fact .that Brucefield is 33/4 miles from Vanastra and Clinton three' miles. . The Insurance Advisory Board in• Toronto has a formula that calls for certain rates if a fire department is within three. miles and Higher rates jf more than three miles for Metel41....R.r.tiperti The formula is five miles-ferresider , tial structures and Brucefield will .continue-provtding protection for •the- residential area at—V-anastra-. Tuckersmith will now pay the' Clinton Fire Area Board for a larger area given fire protection in the township. is covering some of the township at the present time. . Tuckersmith accepted the tenders. of Hodgins and Flayter, Ltd. of R. R. #3, Parkhill for the construction of, the 'Kippen Drain for $1,965, and the Elgie Drain for ,- $1,0'68 for the open work and $16,819:60 for the closed drain. The work is to be done in late summer. Nine tenders 'were received for the Elgie Drain and four for "the Kippem The-engineer's estimate cost of0e-open work for the Elgic, drain was $1,09(). and $13,700. for the closed work. His estimate of coSt for the Kippen drain was not available at the time of the meeting Tuesday night. .25 Acre. Parcel • David Brock of R. R. #2, Kippen, Allan and Gerry Reid of Hensall and George Penfold, _Goderich, of the Huron County Planning Board • attended the session to discuss the sale of a 25-acre parcel "of land by 'Mr. Brock to the Reids. Cle the parcel of land there is an area of 71/2 acres of bush'and 17% acres on which is located a large sandhill. The Reids will extract sand from this area. Mr. Penfold, Who was spOkes- getting a building permit to- rebuild or construct a new chimney; He -Point&I. out that green wood burning in a stove or a fireplace Can "plug a chimeny iii..two months." New Window Mr. Va n • Wieren pointed out too that a permit must be-secured to cut in a new door or a new window in an established house, ' (Continued on Pag 3,) WHAT ARE . STUDENTS DOING WHILE THE STRIKE IS ON? JOanne Rimmer is working longer hours at her part time •fob as well as working at home. For more picturespnd student comments see page 16. (Expbsitor Photo) Police want car left accident scene ' Seaforth police are, looking, for the driver of what they believe is a brown Crysler with possible out of province licence plates who drove away 'from the scene of an- accident Saturday night ""'on Goderich St. East. , Three cars were travelling west on No 8 highway cooling into Seaforth -at about 6 p,m.' The roads became treacherous ,at about that time because of freezing road conditions, police report. The first vehicle a '72 Dodge driven by Beverly ,Learn ofi Hensall -slowed dOwn because of the road conditions. The car behind him •was travelling too close and too fast and, collided' , Huron County's five secondary schools;will -be openMarch28 but whether or not there will be any formal classeS that day, is- up to the county's-274 secondary school teachers. The county hoard of education lifted, the leibk6ut of its secondary school teachers 'Monday night-iri a special board meeting meaning that the' striking teachers can go • - back to the-classrooms to teach if they choose 'to.. The lockout was 'unposed by th'e board February 23 • after the, teachers - began a series.of•rotating strikes February __15 _pretesting two ii-risettled- clauses in the 1977-78 board- teacher contract, - -Board negotiating team chairman Cayley Hill said Monday night that the next move is up to the teachers, . The last, teacher response to the board's proposal Was • a suggestion that the , two sides consider negotiating a contract for the 1978-79-term as well as the ' „pact in dispute. Weary .said the teachers felt that the move may -.Permit negotiations to become more' fruitful and- if- successful would guarantee uninterupted delivery of educatiOn until at least September "of 1979. The board's negotiating team reacted positively to that suggestion but placed some stipu- lations,-on its proposal before agreeing to it. In letter to District 45 Ontario Secondary School Teacher Federation President' Rim -Lane, • the board said it would be (1v11ling -to negotiate the 1978-79 contract if • the teachers agreed not to take any strike actions or work to rule ----until September of 1978, In •return the. board-.-offered to pay the teachers according to the salary scheduleagreed to-im,the 1977-78 contract. ' Salaries are not in' dispute in the current contract. Pay rates were O greed to early in riegoti- ati s h the teachers accepting a 7 /2 percent increase including cost Of living. The new rate sets the average secondary school salary at $23,200 a year. Board chairinan John Elliott said he didn't think the ,issue required a teacher vote.; He pointed out that it as very marrfor the group, explained that a,Zoning by-law is needed-to zone the bush area as natural property on which no permanent building Or structure is to be constructed and the remainder is W be zoned for removal extraction only. He. stated aS the material is sa there will be no washing crushing operation at the site. This by-law will be subject to the, Ontario Municipal • Board's approval; It, as pointed out to councilthat Whilerthe.Pits and Quarries Act dOes not Coven HUron at this time it is expected that it will in a short ' time. This will require among other things, the rehabilitation of • the-area-when the-sand operation is completed _Because, of this it was-' deemed wise for' the -- township-and the-property owner to have a development agreement for. the property -involved. Mr. Penfold will investigate what some of the terms of such an agreement should be and have them ready for the April 4 meeting. Building Tucker-smith's building inspector, Herman. Van Wieren attended the meeting to answer " courted questions about home building -construction and the requirements of the owner. - He pointed out the necessity,of securing a building permit before Starting .construction and of having an architect or a build'ing engineer sign the building plans as both of these are requirements- under the building act. . He said, "It's the law. You can't build a house any more the way you like. It must meet the , regulations Undef"the Act." • Another requirement he mentioned was the' necessity 'of TRAY PRESENTED—Retiring Seaforth' 'Fire Area Board Chief Don Hul ley was hOhoured last week at a- dinner. Around the table at the Commercial Hotel are Left Mr. Hulley, Joe Gibson of Hullett. Township; - Robert Fotheringham of Tuckersmith Township; Fire ;Cheif Harry Hak; Irwin Johnstovqf Seaforth; Allan Campbell of. McKillop Township, Gerald Groothuis of Seaforth,mm " M E Williams, Secretary Treasurer, William Leeming• of McKillop. Township- and Roy Swart, Hibbert Township. (Photo by Oke) Farmer he'ad says amity farms threatened IT'S -BEGINNING TQ LOOK 'A LOT • LIKE SPRING—That's what these young people must have thought as they got out on North Main Street on their skateboards.. Three of them skated in from Winthrop to Seaforth. A fifth skateboarder is missing from the photo. Keith McClure, Dennis Laughnane, and Kevin Laughnane came in from •Winthrop; Suzanne Jetsome and Michelle Sinnarpon were from Seaforth. (Expositor Photo) ,At closed meeting Councilrdecides to let dwelling stay [by Rhea Hamilton] "The trend today is to turn away from the family farm enterprise' and swing towardg industrialization of agriculture,- . said Albert Van Donkej4goed, executive director of the Christian Farmers Federation, at a meeting Tuesday night in Blytlr. Society today t ends not to recognize the family farm and few are interested in protecting the quality of "products, let alpne concerned for future generations, said Mr. Van -Donkersgoed. "I see us moving %own the road to corporate enterprise with an elite managing, and not knowing the Soil or the climate." . Mr. Van Donkersgoed pointed out to the 20 at the CFF meeting that industry is very different from agriculture. "Agriculutfe is and has been, primary to life and industry has been secondary. We have existed without industry. The ideal of. industry is to eliminate the living factor including the human factor." Farming consists of four ..-factors that determine its nmieanket,ure ; manpower, manage- sources, and finances, he said.. The manpower is drawn from the family as opposed to unions for industries. Where- industries suffer from walkouts, lockouts, confrontation and lack of produc- tivity, farmers enjoy working for themselves. TAG ALONG—Keith McClure wasn't quite fast enough' to get ''in, the picture with the other four Skateboarders 4o a photo was taken of him all by his lonesome. (Expositor photo) At a special closed meeting Tuesday night, Seaforth council agreed to let a dwelling erected) by Peter Van Meekeran remain on its present-Aottridatkiii ofa- Railway St. The dwelling, a mobile home With an addition, contravenes Seaforth's zoning by faws ' because it is set too far out in front of the houses on either side of it. Council heard at last week's regular meeting that it has no authOrity ;to prohibit mobile' homes in town and that Mr. Van Meekeran's home doesn't contravene the Building Code Act. Acting Mayor Bill Dale presided at the meeting in the ab ;Mice of Mayor Cardno who is on holiday. Councillor Ken Roth was also absent. Building Inspector Herman. V-an . Wieren and Mr. Van -Meekeran attended the meeting. Reeve Jiihn Plannety left before council Made a decision saying he felt council couldn't make a motion in a closed meeting., After the reeve left clerk Jim Crocker read the relevant portion of thk Ontario Municipal "Act, Which says that any motions made in closed session must be reported in public council session. • Minutes and motions from the closed session were made available to ,the expositor Wednesday morning. Council heard report from clerk Crocker that footings had been poured for Mr. Van Meekeran's house before the clerk got his building permit application and noticed that the dwelling didn't line up with neighbouring houses. Neither Mr. Van Meekeran of. or the building inspector, who had verbally agreed to issue a building permit, knew then that Seaforth's toning by law required uniform set backs. It's the clerk's responsibility to enforce zoning ,regulations. Clerk Crocker told council that (Continued on il,age 3) 'Management on a family farm - is knowing where you fit, as opposed to having unknowing outsiders calling the shots. In industry tesonrces- are input costs front' another source but in farming "you need land, rain, sun, and technology," Financing of the family farm is done on the assets and integrity. of the family as opposed -to shareholders for, an industry where their chief concern is profitability. To the 'Christian Farmers 'Federation the family way is a sounde r working arrangement. "Years ago with a piece of land and a strong back you could make a go of it," said Mr. ' Van' Donkersgoed. '`The financial situation now is crucial as to whether a young faimer can start up or even stay going." "In the CFF there is a strong concern that the marketing boards are slow to recognize the trends. The higher, the quotasthe more control the financial institu- tions have over our farms," Mr. Van Donkersgoed 'pointed out. The CFF is outspoken against high quotas. "There are many individual things structured into society that set our regulations and goals so that we encourage the develop- Ment of corporations. Thus our control is turned over to' the enterprise structure and reduces the family role again." "Will the next generatiOn be able to reclaim that control?" .questioned Mr. Van Dofikersgoed. "Remember if you don't have, the finances, you don't have the resources." Mr. Van Donkersgoed,left the group with a challenge. It is oo tempting, once '*ece. the loss of family control, to argue-why doesn't the government -do something, or the credit agencies, Or e univer- sities professors * keep telling us to do that thiS# or the general farm leadership? We know what is going on better than