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bben thinking about for a long,
long time. I. had a genetics
teacher in college who pleaded
with us to -learn about the
'revolutionary,. sometimes sc.arey •
thingt her science was
developing. 'Scientists don't
want the tespongibility of making
these ' 'decisions themselves'',
she'd say.
Will you a( "our 'bit to learn
about how the human race maybe
changed? Why not read the
steady trickle of articles that are
starting to appear in our
magazines?
.Coln-of current information tdo
is available on Dr. Suzukrs two
VISITOR LEARNS THE ROPES — Mahmou'd Abdel Kader, an Egyptian police
detective visiting friends .in Seaforth learns the ropes of newpaper layout from
Barbara Caldwell on a visit to the Huron Expositor. (Expositor Photo)
ti:cuh,deirecitiv
visits friends here
reeve siad, "If we don't support it
well--have to-pay- for it in the.
end."
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March exams been cancelled, but
the direct& of education for, the
county has promised the re won't
be a lot of extra work put on the
students, since "the students
were not responsible" for classes
being cancelled.
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theme of "Water Treatment
Technology. Are we Realistic?"
'1978 salaries for PUC staff are
up for negotiations.. Manager
Phillips was asked to find out if
his staff wanted him for a
spokesman to negotiate salaries
or if his staff _would prefer to
name one of themselves.
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oritohirtg to say li r
by Susan, White
.1,
and flats and only about 3,000 February. .. ' —-- .-7"--- He was also impressed with-our compared to IT6`. art Y97.
people in. the city own separate' Political parties' are a' fairly highways, the , Toronto ...subway Commercial and business rates Chief Clarence Neilans says it.
-his . men • homes. ' recent phenomenon in Egypt. The - system and the fact it's easy for were set at 127.5, mills for a public is important that he and1 .
know the buildings .whete • they . ..
The -detective said he hadn't. parties arc right-wing. left-wing:- Canadians to pay for goods with school supporter, a drop of 2.5
thought of visiting North America or • sodatist, middle-of-the-road cheques, rather than cash. . mills and 131.2 for a separate may have to flight a fire at some
before meeting his• Canadian 'and the new party, whose politics school supporter, a drop Of 2.8 time.
Brucefield Water system's
When he decided to visit he The,Prime Minister of Egypt is . . ,.
. Clerk Jack McLachlan said a decision that water connections • started paving ' particular Mamdoh Salen, and he and the '
township with an assessment of ' 'resident beyond the village liMits
the newspapers and picked up elected every five years, $5,000 will pay $550.64 this yeat at Brucetield. .
brochures from the Canadian . Mr. Kader said Egypt is Compared. to-$560 last year and a
embassy in Cairo.
Some, of the Canadian sights - district has representation
divided into 25 district. and a separate school supporter in the granted to William -Brown on the
A scrap car ya .,.permit was
.Egypt. is -elected ,in a separate
election.
lby Alice Gibbl • .-
Mahn-mud Abdel Kader, a -
•detectiVe from Aleiandria, Egypt
who's been visiting in .Seaforth
for the past two weeks, isn't hot
on the trail of a mysterious ,
stranger. •-
The detective has temporarily
abandoned his work to visit Anne
and Howard James and Liz and
Bob Watson of Seaforth,
Canadian friends he met when
they ,were holidaying in Egypt last
summer.
Kader,. who is the chief
detective/in one of Alexandria's
13 districts, investigates a variety.
Of: ' erlineS from • minor household
thefts to murder. '
The city of Alexandria with a
.poptilation of 3'/: million people,
is considered Egypt's first harbor
due to its position on the
Mediterranean Sea.
Mr. Kader said the city lacks
'subways or expressways, and
suffprS, from a constant traffic
problem dtie to • the narrow
streets.
The detective :Said traffic is
becoming such a problem that
students , in primary and.,
preparatory. schools 'are - being
given special instruction in the
rules of the road. •
Since the streets are
so narrow, small cars and bicycles
arc the main methods of transpor-
tation. •
My. Kader said most
Alexandrians live in apartments
Niagara Falls and our Canadian
department stores.
Anwar Sadat, president of ment will pay $576.71 this year. ville. Kader: . are, the .CN Tower. A number of grants were
approved at the meeting and most
will be kept to the same amount
as last year--Federation of
Agriculture, $600; Seaforth Lions
Club, $300; Seaforth Ctimmunity
Hospital., $150; ..Seaforth, Clinton
and Hensall 'Agricultural
1977-78 Societies, •$100 -each; • and $4.60
per member for each 4-H member
in the township which last year
amounted to .a total of, $208.
A first time grant was approved
for $600 to the Vanastra Recreat-
ion Association because as the
the -VTR, That means that the
now. Both agreed to settle the'
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detract and 'sent wages
an cave gratuity clause in
the 1978-79 •ontract •to- an arbitra-
tion hearing. `"\
, The workload clause that was
the centre of the seven iteek
diSpute involves the number of
students a teacher is required to„,,,.
teach in a. subject - area, -theft
average class size and the
number of periods a teacher is
required to teach a day. The
clause was in the 1976-77 teacher
contact as a guideline the board of
education aimed to meet. The
teachers wanted it re-written to
make it firmer and the board felt
that if it agreed to those terms its
rights' to manage would be
seriously eroded.
The board' argued..that if it was
bound by the terms of the
workload clause theimpil-teacher
raio also in the contract would be'
meaningless and the board may
be required to hire more teachers.
It felt that it' must reserve the
right to determine hove many
teachers •were, needed in the
education system and could only
do that through the PT R clause.
Both parties managed to,agree
on the workload clause by placing
a stipulation in it that meant that
the board would attempt to meet
Here's what settled
-stores are more specialized' and
shopper must .go to a number ,o. f
shbps before they ;complete their
purchases.
In tike past year, with the
re-opening of the Suez Canal after
six years, thestandard of living in
Egypt has risen drastically. Today
most people own black and white
televisions and skilled workers
receive Nood, wage.
Although many European
newspapers are notable for their
lackof news about Canada, this
isn't the• case with Egypt's five
daily papers. In• the past few
months. Mr. Rader has read a
number of articles on the Quebec
crisis as well as a series of articles
'on the Russian satellite- which
disintegrated over northern
Canada.
Then thete are, the storieS
" about Margaret who's
"quite famous , • in Egypt,
according to. Mr. Kader.
Although most Egyptian's own
televisions, the detective said the
people still ' depend on news-
papers as their main source of
new s.
the guidelines of 'the clause as
long as they didn't conflict with'
board will make every effort to
Meet the guidelines the teachers .
requested but will not be forced
into hiring teachers to do so.
. The teachers agreed to the PTR.
clause being the deciding factor
-.in the workload clause and got
added. protection 'for their: case
through a workload committee.
The committee wa;; set up
through board policy in March
and consists 'of one senior
.education administrator, one
board trustee. one representative
of the teachers and one principal.
The committee will monitor the
board's__ efforts., to meet the
guidelines in the workload clause
and will also work to determine
how many 'teachers the boat&
needs and where they should be
placed. That will be sent to the
director of education for his
approval and will be put to the
board of education as a
recommendation. The teachers
feel that ' through the workload
committee the terms of the
wOrkload clause will be given
added insurance.
Wages in the 1918-79 pact are
still unsettled but both parties
agreed that it would be
unreasonable try eerMit a dismite
Weekly Papers •
In addition to the country's five
large dailies, all' published in
Cairo, there are also. weekly' or
monthly newspapers published in
' the country's 25 smaller districts.
today, there are four _main
political . parties' in Egypt.
includ•ing one fotmed this
fhe P detectiVe said in akin eace m g
in that Contract to affect education
1977-78 contract and continue.
negotiations for the coming year.
If a settlement cannot be reached
in the next 60 days wages for next
'ear will be set by. an arbitration
hearing. '
Monetary items in' the 1977-78
pact were -not-a stumbling--block -
and
-
a nd were agreed on months ago.
The teachers accepted a 7.5
percent increase including
`increments, which. brought the
average salary for a teacher to
$23,200. .•
The sick leave gratuity will be
unfiltered in the 1977-78,sontract
and. will also be settled through
arbitration if negotiations prove
fruitless. The clause provides
teachers with financial security in
case of sickness and can mean up
to half a year's salary after the
teacher completes seven years of
service. The money is paid in a
cash settlement when the teacher
retires if he has not had need for
the sick leave.
The dispute over that clause
arose when the board altered• the
clause to stipulate that a teacher
not be eligible for the gratuity
until he has completed 12 years of
service or reached 50 years of
the strike
Mr. Kadar said most-Egyptians
support President Sadat's peace-
making efforts, since the people
don't want to suffer any more
wars.
An offshoot .of the Arab-Israeli
conflict has been terrorism, but
the detectiye said it isn't the
problem it once was in his
country; since ' the Palestine
Liberation Organization (PLO) is
now operating mainly in occupied
Arab countries. However, Mr.
Kader and other members of the
police force spent feet •months
training in tactics' to combat
terrorism. • .
Mr. .Kader said there are still
terrorists in the country, mainly
within the universities. He added
the terrorists live as Egyptian
citizens, with Egyptian passports
but the police force keeps lists of
names and a wary eye on anyone
suspected of terrorist sympathies',
The major differences Mr.
Kader discovered between Egypt
and 'Canada was the matter of
climate and the fact "you're very
modern here."
Although Egypt 'has a .cool,
damp winter, the detective said it
isn't cold enough to require
central heating in the homes. But
the major difference of course is
the fact Egypt doesn't have snow.
Mr. Kader was delighted to see
the remaining patches of snow
left from our winter.
friends. • aren't easily defined to date. •• Mills. . , . Council re-affirmed the .
attention to Canadian stories' in other members of parliament arc public school supporter in the will not be extended to• any
Mr. Kader also noted
Canadians can order almost all
their goods by telephone, some-
thing which just cant be done in
Egypt.
a C
which have roost impressed Mr according to their population.- township with the same assess- westerly boundaryat Egniond-
But one', of Mr. Kader's
favourite sights in Canada was
Scaforth, and he added, "I hope
to live here someday.'' •
Whether he becomes a resident
or not. "I'll do my best to be back
again," he said.
"Nobody's 'Perfect" is an
expression that- kid's used to
excess not many... years ago; .
don't know if it's still big but
have a cousin who drove his'
mother to diStraetion with his
."Nobody's perfect",' every time
anyone eeprimanded him or made
a mild suggestion for his
improvement. -
Some day not too far away we
may not be able to spout out
"Nobody's perfeet". We may
have clones.
Now.cloncs may- not be perfect.'
except in the eyes of their,
identical twins, but they are .•
perfect copies. Science has
figured out how to take the
guesswork. the random choice, in
fact the naturalness out of human
• __reproti uct ion. •
That's what cloning is all about
and while it hasn't been done in
humans yet (so most responSibte,k
scientists say, despite a rumour to
:the contrary), science-knows how
to make perfect 'copies of just
about any of us. ,
._The potential is stag etg±_gin•
• Anyone who'S especially .
enamoured of himself may in a
few years he able to-have a baby
who's his physical---carbon copy.
An identical twin,, se tospeak , but
born 30 or 50years• later than it's
. , . . '
The threat has been raised of
topnotch • football players beifig
cloned in order to get •a • super
m. tea • made up. 'entirely of- Joe
Naniaths or 0..1.Simpsons. Or-
what if every ,NHL team could get
a goalie' who was Ken Dryden's
clone?
Al though 'clones are
physical ,copies of who ' or
whatever provides the original
cell, there's 'no way the whole
• environment, including the time
frame of the original can be ,
experienced by the clone.
Tharg7--Why we don't • .
by Wilma Olio
Reeve Ervin Sillery said Tues.
"night at a Tuckersmith•T.ownship
Council meeting, "The tax rate is
pretty well held to par as last
year," following presentation of
the 1978 township budget.
Tfie farm and residential rate
for public school supporters was
set at 11-1.9. mills for 1978, almost
the same as last year's 112 mills, .
while the farm and residential
rate for 'separate school support-
ers was act at 115.3. mills
uckersmrth holds
line on 78 taxes
down from $580 last year.
The budget of $1,118, 747,61,
sown $44,184.02 from last year
calls for $130,801 to be paid to the
County. oc Huron while
$133:191.77 was paid last year;
education costs will amount to
$283.199 this, year, down from
$295:356.18 in 1977; $547,603.89
for general . municipal purposes
for 1978; Roads, $275,040 this
year, than from $345,661 last
year; Vanastra Recreation.
Centre, $98,345 up $5,169 from
last year; Vanastra Day Care
Centre. $52.007, up from $48,427
- doning to produce . a whole army
of Idi AriiinSOFCharles Manson5.
Better we should worry about the
stunted environments messing up ,
children who are the products of
natural reproductions.
ho VV
But I think we do have to
inform ourselves and be aware of
the potential, • for good or evil
(now there's an old fashioned
vtot d) that exists in cloning and
in other techniques that genetics
is researching.
Who decides what research is
to be done and ovt , be
applied is the issue and it's too
important to be left to scientists
alone. Malty scientists, including
Canada's Dr. David Suzuki who's
done more to let ordinary people
know what's possible now in
genetics than anyone. agree.
Once science can develop test
tube babies, and artificially
implant them in the womb of very
early foster mothers, or produce
offspring front only one parent. •
through cloning or recombine
DNA into lethal forms that have
never been on earth before rand
all these things are very close) it's
time for some ethical decisions.
""Iffe'tfestion iagenetic and
many other kinds of research then
-becomes not "Can it be done?"
but "what are we goingto do with
it?" t h is- poi a t Ithink seic ittigts
have a duty to let us know what
their research, involves so that we
can debate, ahead of time,
' possible consequences.
Human reproduc tion. without
sex, though I know atm 9.1 people
will be sorry to hear it. is pretty
close now and it raises' all sorts Of
questions that _meld radically
change the family as we know it.
If genetic research goeS" • from
this...time last year for. building
worth $146,563. •
The Clinton fire chief has •
informed council he and his
officers will be inspecting the
commercial buildings. at
Vanastra. These buildings, all in
plan 23, will receive fire protect-
ion froM the town- of Clinton..
'rather than Brucefield in order.
-that the businesses, may receive
lower. fire insurance rates because
the fire hall is within. the
three-mile limit,
theory ,into practise • we have to
think about prenatal iidluente of
mothers-on -their offspring, about
correction of genetic defects in
the womb, . about ' genetic
screening to. prevent children
with defective genes from being
born ...about these and, other
moral questions.
The technology to do many.
things ‘‘..ith our gene pool or the
collection of inherited charact eris-
ties that Makes- up 'our society,'
exists now. If and how it's going
to be used should depend on how
we all feel about it.-
FirSt that means information.
This column is something I've
nts to be cloned'?
-Amen
by Karl: Schuessler
prograMs, Quirks and Quarks on
CBC Radio Saturay mornings and
on TV, I think it's called Science
Magazine, on Wednesday nights.
leg not boring dry old stuff,
you'll learn as you get into the
burning issues in genetics. It's'.
our future that scientists are, and
all of us should, be talking about.
I haven't always said the kindest things
about Ronald McDonald and his hamburgers.
I usually manage to rate, them somewhere in
the middle.
Of course that doesn't mean I'm not eating
them. Far from it. I'm getting, my share.
And McDonald's make it so easy fot me.
The other time I did write about their
hamburgs-- and, mind you, not' in the
glowingest of terms-- the management from
Toronto sent me 10 complimentary tickets for
Big Macs.
Either they were trying to beap'coals of fire •
on my lukewarm attitude, or they figured I
- could get hooked on hamburgerss. Try one.
You'll like it. The second time around, even
more.
They may be right. I did have to tight td
keep my ten free lunches. When my daughter
got sight of those free passes, she had a
something-to'be-kind-to-father_abcatt-LeXtett_s .,
it as some sort of moral victory that I cashed in
most of them myself.
• Now, don't get me wrong. My daughter's
not off McDonald's hamburgs. She's still
eating them, and I'm paying for them. It
seems as if every teenager. in the country is'
switchedinto Ronald McDonald's place: That
- is the place'to eat-out-
Here I am--ready to take my wife and
daughter Out to eat at some exotic French
restaurant or let them taste some Japanese
delicacy--and where do you think the young
lady wants to go? Not to some sophisticated
palace for refined plates, but to McDonald's.
She actually prefers catsup in tin foil packs,
brown trays, a wait line, and hamburgs in
plastic boxes to tableclothes, candlelight and
waiters who dote.
So you can see. My defenses are all up. I'm
not that . ready to carry the banner for
McDonald's. But 'a strange thing happened to
me when I was riding in my car last week and
listening to the radio.
A food consumer reporter came on the air.
She was doing battle with McDonald's over
their menu. Didn't that company have any'
sense of corporate responsibility? Didn't.they
have a conscience and a mind to serve a more
balanced diet? Weren't they doing' the
Canadian consumer in, When they go so heavy
If you were broke and out of a job, and
deeply in debt, and your' family was
squabbling bitterly„ and ,,your house was
falling apart, and you !Tad a fairly meaningless
birthday coming up, what would you do?
Somehow, I rather doubt that you'd „plan a
birthday .party, to be financed on/borrowed
money, and invite everybody-.
That may be a little shaky in spots, but it's a .
fair analogy to the goVernment's plan to spend
4.5 million dollars on Canada's birthday this
coming July 1st.
The late C.D. Howe's famous bit of
arrogance in Parliament,. "What's ,a mil-
lion?", almost brought down the geverrinient
of the day. But at least. he was talking about
something ,solid, a trans-Canada pipeline.
But this present outfit in Ottawa is all set to
fork out four and a half million green-backs for
a Birthday Party. It fair boggles' the mind.
- Talk about Nero Fiddling while Rome burned!.
Unemployment, is the highest since the
Depression. The Canadian dollar is the lowest
since the Depression. Inflation merely stop-
ped to take a deep breath before zooming off
again. overnment expenditures and the
national-' debt' increase simultaneously and
ominou sly.
• Quebec has cut out from the rest of Canada
in every way except constitutionally. The
Maritime provinces are a disaster area,
economically. The prairie provinces hate the
East, and with reason. Ontario can't under-
stand why those greedy Albertans want a fair
price for their gas and oil. B,C, looks with an
alien eye at the 'whole country east of 'the
Rockies, and with a flirtatious eye south of the
border.
By all means, then, let tit have birthday
party. And why not make it a decent one?
Why not spend 4.5 million, which was
probably the gross national -debt about 40
years ago? •
After all, you can't take it with you, and at
the rate we're gbing, we're not long for this
world, as er know it, so why not blow 4.5 of the
taxpayer's 'money? There's no question about
it:'a birthday party may be just the ticket to
, solve all the problems I've mentioned.
It's a sure of becoming ancient, tot I can't•
help remembering the July 1st celebrations,of
my boyhood.
That, of course, was When the occasion was
knowti as Dominion Day, rather than the July
First Weekend, as it is now usually called.
Man, they were simple times, lookin'g back.
It wasn't the occasion for a mad exodus to the
beaches, with hundreds of thousands of
perspiring motorists jamming the
highways and polluting the atmosphere. It
Might surprise you to know that in those days
on the starch, grease and fats. Where are the
vegetables? Where are 'the fruits?
I found myself defending McDonald's.
What's this woman up to? Is she all dried up
and thirsting for a subject to talk about?
I kdow it's current tb criticize industry for
foul air and polluted waters. To press them for
corporate responsibility toward the coin-
' munity. To make them clean up• and clear up:
But wasn't this reporter pushing a little too
hard? Stretching the "matter to limits?
"McDonald's aren't trying to get away with,
anything. Everyone knows when he walks into
the platie,what he's going to get. If he doesn't
like the menu, he doesn't have to go in. Or if
he's' that concerned about his diet, he can
stick a 'carrot and an apple in his 'pocket 'aid-7
eat that with' his hamburg and fries.
Why knock.a fast order, quick service place
for' what they don't serve? It's not their
function to bethe end-all and be-all. of, variety
and balance; Do. ..you _fault a cow for mat
produeilig spinach, ,when: her, speciality ' is.
milk'?
But the McDonald's ptiblic telationS.man on'
the •radio progr'a'm that day came through
okay: He said all the right things,. He didn't
criticise the reporter for her queStion either
which, of 'course', is -where. I'd begin. And
that's reason enough why Sm..inat in public
relations.
The McDonald man said lots of "yes" to
her. Yes. McDonald's do have a sense of menu
reponsibility. Yes, 'serving salads. may be a
good idea. The company is piloting it in.the
States. Yes, it's true. The menu is starthy. But
then, they don't expect people- to eat there
three times a day-every day.. Customers can
balance their menu elsewhere. And yes, they
do serve orange juice all day now and not just
at .brew kfast.
That man did alright. He won the airwaves.
He wen for McDonalds. And *I found Myself
rooting for his side. • •
That's something I didn't tell' my wife and
daughterahat night, Two McDonald fans in
one house are enough. 1 wont admit to being
a third. ' •
Som,e. one's got to lead the opposition. ,
But just you wait until an attaclecomes from
the Outside. An attack on the Mac' from the
outside! Now, that's something else •again.
the.. a verage worker didn't have • a, „car.•
There. were no rock concerts, no clashes of
-1AQI9bere-CrYacignd• liquor.gallgs Sto'llr9e s Th ae dayssivasaults on
before.
it 'was just a nice summer day that
happened to be a. holiday, Foe-an adult, it
might be the beginning of his one or two week
vacation, For a kid;'-it-was•-•sehool out and a
feeling that the holidays were tbrever.
In the mOrning,•you got up early, yearning
to be out in that boundless, golden day.
Maybe' you went fishing. If you caught a
sucker, there was a• certain party Who didn't
give a diddle that sewage • flowed into the
river, and would pay a nickel, good for a bottle
• of pop or an ice cream cone. If you caught a
pike. you had Struck gold. It was good for a
dime, which translated into a movie, • a
hamburger, or ten tailor-made Turrets, if you
were one of the delinquents who smoked.
About 11 a.m., there was usually some kind
of ceremony down at the park, and half the
town was there. Town band with a couple of
musing marches, , windy speech from the
mayor extolling our fair' land; e-Fremonial
planting of a. tree or some such exotic
symbolism, God Save the King, and home for
dinner.
hi thoSe clays, we didn't have lunch at noon,
we had dinner. Meat and tat ies and the works.
In the afternoon, everyone went to the ball
game, ofwent swimming, or went fora. picnic,
or went for a drive, or, among the elderly,
went to sleep for a couple of hours on the old
divan in the screened-in porch.
Suddenly it was supper-time, Peas soup,
green onions galore, home-made -bread and-
flagons of cold milk to wash down the
'chocolate cake or rhubarb pie. Bingo! After
nine hours on the trail, yOu were bore again
and ready for another five or six exciting
hours.
In the eveningtherewould be a street dance-
or a tombola with gambling games, or at the
very least. a band concert. Many a life of
married misery was begun strolling around
the park. arms around, while the band played
Strauss waltzes. 4
Bed time, Exhausted but too excited to
sleep. Clop-clop of hooves as farmer heads
'home after the big day. Low voices drifting up
from the street as late-nighters ambled home.
Peace, Sleep. •
That was how much it cost and how^ we
Celebrated our national birthday day way-
back-when. Couldn't Tilt deau and company
be satisfied to plant a tree, or even a thousand
trees?
Better still, how about planting Mr.
Trudeau? And/or Rene Levesque?
Sugar and Spice
by Bill Smiley
A .birthday party??
The total assessment in the
township ' is $4.914,320, down
:.$370,355 from last year, Council
has budgeted $68.000 for a
reserve fund for the year.
Requests for building permits
were approved for:. Allan Carter,
lot 30. Concession 1. Huron Road
Survey, Shed: Fred Gale. lot
plan 22 at Vanastra, porches:
William Pepper, part lot, 49.
concession 1. London road
survey. barn: Cynamid of
Canada, part lot 31, concession 1,
H.R.S. holding tanks; Cornelius
Dorgsers. lot 8. concession 7
.H-.R.ST-Porch; Benny Bjerg. lot
170 plan 22 Vanastra, addition to
house; William Fraser, part lot 1,
concession 2. Egmoridville, a
shed..
Clerk Jack McLachlan reported
that to date this year 21 building
perinits.have been granted for an
eXpenditure of $325,100,. a large
increase over the 11 permit', at
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