The Huron Expositor, 1981-02-26, Page 3- • .
ACCLAIM JACK, RIODELL—Jack Riddell wilt
be the Liberal candidate in the Huron-Middle-
sex riding for the fourth time inethe upCdming
March 19 provincial election. AbOe, Riddell is
being congratulated, by Tuckersrnith residents
Ruth and George Townsend and Jim and
Brenda McIntosh. ' (tiriles fuivocate Photo-)
CAMPAIGN DISCUSSION;--Larry Grossman,'
minister of industry and tourism chats with
Chris Little, chief financial officer of the PCs in
Huron-Middlesex, while outgoing riding presi-.
dent Bruce Shaw and , newly-chosen candidate , ,
Jim Britnell listen 'to a speaker at the party's
nomination meeting in Exeter Thursday. (Photo
by Shoveller)
BY ALICE GIBB
Niel'Whyte is convinced energy costs
for fuels like oil and propane are going to
increase more than labour costs M the next
few years. That's why Mr, Whyte, who
tuns a broiler operation at RR2. Seaforrh.
is heating, his barn With maple wood cut
.from his farm Woodlot. The extra labour
required in collecting the wood is still
costing him lesS than using oil to heat the
barn.
Mr. Whyte. one of the speakers at the
Alternate Energy Update held in Clinton
Feb. 12, "Put a large addition on his
broiler barn in 1978. He decided at the time
,to try and cut his heating costs by using
wood front his farm. so purchased a boiler
.from Robert Bell Industries in Seaford'',
Ilte'coinbination heifer in a toditi five feet'-
-Way front the barn can burn any solid fuel.
and some liquid fuels. •The boiler in, Mr.,
Whyte's barn switches to oil' when water
tettineratures in' the boiler drop below a
certain 1 cvel. ShoUldsomeone overtire the
boiler. vents en the furnace act, as a choke
and. cut ,off the fire before teitiperatures
rise to: a dangerous level.
Niel( Whyte told the audience a wood-
fuelled furnace works only ill an operation
where someone is around the farm anyway-
since the boiler must be• fired every three
or four hours during the day. This *inter.
the third on the system. Mr. Whyte is
burning fairly large pieces of wood cut
from his farm woodlot in the spring and
late fall, when labour on' the farm isn't in
peak demand:. Mr. Whyte cautions he's
learned by experience dead trees don't
THE-POTENTIAL OF FARM WASTE—Charlie Thomas (left), a Brussels
area farmer, shows Ross Kercher of RR2, Kippen, some of the odourless
pig manure Mr. Thomas produced on his farm by a separation process.
The Brussels area farmer told the Alternate. Energy Update in Clinton
last Thursday that there may be ways of using manure to produce ethanol
or butanol gas and earn more return on that than simply spreading, the
Manure (in their fieliiS. ” (Photo by'Gibb)
ME HURON EXPIIIKTOR*
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VICTORIA STREET TEMPORARILY BLgeK.-
,EW—VicOria Street was temporarily blocked off,
as the town work crew dug up a storm sewer on
Wednesday morning, near the Gouinlock
intersection. The sewer pipe had become
blocked by roots of trees in the area. (Photo•by
G.ibb)
I d op way past nay m I'm a romntic. And so,
stayed Soethi g to say i•
. .ri
- • bed.e last night to catch
the future King and Queen of
England On the national
news.
Romantic yes. but royalist.
I'm not. t.mean they seem for
the. most Part. in be' luvOY
people. • Britain's • (shill
MmUnally 011.0.:Royal .E antils.
h .„-ttt...t..,,ey'rehl.$Pry to inc. not
angers: or Pe0f0 °WO
to f v,prikv 1 o.1),0hrait;
• vaVt•4",*071iilti14-11 1r-livitlfitifirtleP
more,interekting., in
Sipy way, ithan
.surgeon . Jones -who
after ,:the royal horses4_,Not
bitt there it is.
Prin.ee C'harles and his
'betrothed Lady Diana- looked
warm and. informal on the
news. And very. yen happy .
More power to them because
like any "celebrities t hey 'it be •
in for a • life of constant
observation. and because
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by Susan White ,-
-they're royal, ut obligation, the whole thing was plotted now either. There's a great
A treadmill of tea Ftrties. by British PM Margaret deal of eviden0 that Lady
parades. luncheons and Thatcher as a diversion. Diana comes from stock that
speeches, a life where they'll The Prince of Wales' 'in-
certainly need each other. gagmen and wedding and 'knows how to.tmigh.
I feel a bit•serry fur the girt first:horn. etc. 01z i rtairdy Collecting • • man itt-the-
in a way,t,' sliteS rears a Saga' tqor-Otade to take flue laterviews. outside
Volloggr than theo firintx and tWti--stv IWO tilt SiteknOtaitt ,PAIACO rester ~ nor nearly so 4cRIstoiticd tai ttlett eettherniC WOOS:, - day, who shnuldthe;loornak
thClinTi ATtreiY:PlnIr ss itl4pv gawking. yytith he rest. PitgataS'SIROY, 014 A-
- And, l'It' be tight there ist run up against but Las
I art now' it
c vnmi=''t °Z01'01t; '4 feel SeirrS::'''Ir.dterf,". ,,,,perkraiuts".4011*.antl°tght.t"Tp;ittitig:
' tarry>. Parket, fronlk,
Ontari9'March Of DintOs.
Paul „ Ce: DM% ling of the Ontario com,
manity Housing Council and .M.,P.P Jack
Riddell met with Hensall tow n ount.11 .and
United church Senior Citizen Housing
Committee February , 19 at the (.; toted
Church to clarify the need for SA,:nit)r mien
Housing in Hensall.
According to the goaernment. only tO
such units are needed and these needs
be met in Exeter or Zurich.
malt fights. for ,,,:apartmOits.
.
Orfigilas taking pictures",
.'Earl Spencer bioriect gut, P
See he's jest like tM nest
of us.
of Th e;
tl1e Victorian Order, of
Nurse $ :annual *OW% on
centre ill•• Sti.itfotit'S(
400- at 7 P-4-. WOO speaker -
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in for"warden
Former . Perth B of 'E chairman -dies suddenly , tee
vis
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into housing immediately. ,
Mr. ,Riddeltt 'poipted out all the MPOs on
the housing committee with him had urban
backgrounds and did not realize the close-
nesS of a rural' commit! like Hi:n.1811. -1-%,..
where people have spent ill their lives and ,
But according to a surve% done h.% Irene
Former Perth County
Board of Edutationehairman
S°' C: Edward Dearing, 67, of
UR2. Swift* died suddenly IM
• Sunday.
A son of the late-Fredrick
Dearing' and the former
Christena Stile.' be yvas• born
' .. . Brand
' Continued from page I
The candidate said the retirement of party
heavyweights' ike Harry Parrott and James
' Auld is not disturbing, "I think people are
looking for a fresh approach," he added.
Mr. Britnell, although has im previous
.experience in elected office. eXplaitied he
'knows his way ;round Queen's Park",
having dealt with ministers and ministry
officials while coati t y .engineer
He and his wife Mary' Beth have tour
children. all of whonrare either married or
. away attending school. That. he explained
prior to the meeting. was another 'factor in
his decision to seek' the nomination.
In introducing the nominee. Mr ,Donnelly
described the candidate .as,telitinity man who
had distringuished himSell in various ea.
reers,
Outgoing riding association president
Bruce Shaw. mayor of Eketer. exhorted
.,,party members' to make the election a goad
fight. and "with 'a 'good effort we'll have a
good campaign and..might just eke out a
vietory." ,
Pembirton
Continued from page I.
'We represent the working people:
farmers. . homemakers and business
peopte.:' he added. "The Liberals don't hold
a. single , government, and
wouldn't hold the federal government if it
weren't for their.stranglehold on Quebec."
" He said 'provincial NDI governments have
been good for the lieiatte, explaining that
Saskatchewan pays the' Imes' provincial
taxes. while Ontario's are the second
highest.-
Mr. McQuail attacked the Ontario cos ern..
nient for their farmland policies. "Since the
1950s. Ontario has lost one 'quarter of its'
'agricultural land. that is 93.000 acres for
every Tory MPP. In the last decade. nearly
6,000 jobs, have been Inst in our food
processing sector and over half our food
processing facilities have been shut down
Liberal MPP Jack Riddell and Progressive
C6nkervati,ve candidate Jim Britnell.
Riddell
Continued from page 1
dropped to• ltr,st. place of all the provinces in
economic Petl'ormanee?" This is a sad, sad
commentary. when you consider thall.no
province in Canada is. .• more blessed- with
natural resources, technological ittiow-how
and wed educated people. Yet Our people are
haying to leave this province because there
arc no. job opportunities here. • • •
The meeting attended by about 100 at the
Exeter Legion hall was chaired by riding'
president Bernard Benn of Lucan and
Howard Aitken of Goderich handled the
election procedures.
The gathering was a eleomed by Exeter
MayortatruceShaw.AnwManendancewere
Perth MPP Hugh Edighoffer. Heron warden
Fred Haberer and Murray Et..,ton. the.
Liberal candidate. in Huron-Bruce who is
repfdeing the retiring Murray Gaunt.
on Boards of Education in
Perth-and Huron counties for
chairman of the Perth board
more than 30 years. He was
for two terms 197S. and 1916.
He had been elected tope
atqo Pidilie School Trust-
er~' Association in 197'7 and
this yearhe Was a member of
the exec c comic that • Li f h •
_grotty eltairMan of the •
policy committee.
As a director of the Ontario
Beau Conwers Co-Op Mr.
Dearing was among 'those ,
• 'Ar*. Goderich; three brothers
Nelsen-. Dearing of Essex .
Marshall Dettribr-rtf-,Exeter
- and Gerald Fitzgerald of
Stratford. and two sisters,
• Mrs. Jeanette Carlson ' of
Minnisota, • Mrs. Dr.
Geoffery (Margaret) Bonbon
of Pickering and eight grand-
children.' Friends were re:
ceived at the Lockhart Fon:
era! Home, in Mitchell where
'the funeral service and com-
mittal service were held on
Wednesday. Temporary en-
tombment wilt he in the
Elisabeth , Ritr • Memorial.
Chapel with buiial later in
EDWARD DEARING Staffa Cemetery.
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have-family and friends around them,.
Moving to Exeter. or 'Zurich retnoves.-theni,
front that and council , and the committee
urged a review of the situation be' under-
taken. to change' the statistical altitude ut
Queen's Park, to. a more humanitarian %lea.
Mr. Dow libg, promised such a t-es jest would
take place on his return -to Toronto.
It w as also decided to contact surrounding
municipalities to see if a survey had been
dime regarding seniors moving to Hensall
when, and if. senior citizen apartments are
available.
Mr. howling will be contacting Premier
Daeis and the council after his review and•
"consultation with the manager of the Market
Survey. irthei'esponse is not favourable, it
is proposed that a deputation gii to Toronto
after the election to -put Hens:ars case
before the Minister of Housing. ,
at Dashwood on • September
12, 1913.
Following his marriage •rto
the former Janet. Viola Chap.
pet, the couple resided in
Exeter for five years before
moying,to Hibbert where he
has farmed since 1942.
A keen student of edu-
cational trends and active in
farm Movements. Mc. Dear-
ing had served as a trustee
since 1961. Since 1972. our food iptOort ,
NDP CANDIDATE GWEN PEMBERTON deficit' has risen by 340 per cent."
Mrs. Pemberton will face incumbent
• 4. • ,
who were instrumental sev•
oral years ago. in the deci-
sion to establish the, Co-Op
depot on No. 8 highway, east
of Seaforth. ,He was active in
, the Perth County Federation
.of Agriculture. He was a
Member of Hibbert United
Church at Staffa.
Aurviving besides his wife
• Janet are three sons. Donald
at home. -John ' of RR#2.
.Staffa and Elgin of Egmond-
rifle; one rlaughtel—Mrs.2..
James (Mary) Forrest • of
Logan Township Reeve
Carl Vock will assume duties
as. yVarden of Perth. County
during the absence'of Wald-
en Wilfred Tuer,
attat/k late in January.' hi a
letter- tocounty council Titer „
said he expects to resume his
duties by late March.
.`-.• County council agreed
Feb,, 18 td provide session
pa} to Titer during his t:
absence. r.
' Voek served as Warden in
1980.
Tuer suffered a heart t4
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produce much heat value when burned.
The Seaforth area ,farmer said a well-
managed woodlot should produce one; cord
per acre per year of wood for the-farmer.
The second year Nick Whyte used wood .
to, fuel the boiler, he asked Ministry of
Natural 'Resources staff' to inspect his
SO-acre woodlot, and mark the trees that
didn't have saw les potential. Het. said
conservation authority staff will the
trees so they eie slowly, which starts the
drying out process before they're cut. Mr.
,Whyte has found it takes the maple trees
he' burns eight months before they're dry
enough to burn well in the boiler.
The farmer, who cuts 50 cord; per year
from the woodlot, warned "safety is an
important factor" in. working in the
woodlot. He Said there's always a risk of
falling trees toppling on someone and a
danger of injuries When using a chain saw.
The farmer said due to, these 'hazards he
never sends anyone to the woodlot alone,
Mr. Whyte has found it takes two men
four hours to cut a cord. of wood, in the
four-root lengths he burns in'tlte barn. Nick
,Whyte estimates labour 'Costs at approxi-
mately $28 per cord. The wood -is always
cut and transported back to be stored near
the barn:So it's only handled once, which
saves 'on labour costs.
The broiler operator told othei farmers
at the energy update the boiler cost hint
$6,500,• but he spent approximately .52,000
more.lo' have it altered so it could' burn
wood as well as oil. He also constructed
two small woodsheds to store the cords, so
that additional,cost must be corkidered.
manure
'Nick Whyte said he's found a dual boiler, audience a box of Manure. now almost
when fired on oil. works at a slighly lower, odourless. which had been separated into a
between five to 10 per cent, efficiency rate solid state only the day before.
than, a straight oil-burning boiler. That —"Fle said he's also studying whether he
'means he uses five per cent More oil in the• can make feed. from the manure produced
furance; when' he burns oil, on the farm, by putting it through a
hydrokisis process and refceding the
product back to his hogs.
Mr. Thotrnas told the audien e he
believes manure is "rather .att important
product" and perhaps using it as a fuel or
feed would provide the farmer more-return
than simply spreading the farm wastes 'on
his land.
Co-u 110isays no .t6
capital punishment
Seaforth courted didn't support a call for- should be ad appeal." , - I capital punishment for murderers of police- "The problem I've always had with the
men last week, but for technical reasons. death penalty is ,that it's very final". said
"I agree'in principle Mit Mit With the councillor Paul Ross. and "people who
wording" said councillor hob Dinsmore after' 'weren't guilty have been known to sWing,"
discussing the resolution front Hamilton- Councillor Ross, added his real °bleeder' to -
Wentworth, He said he favoured capital the resolution was a clause calling for a
punishment for Murdering anyone, not just ' mandatory term of 20 years for anyone
police, carrying a firearm and cotnntiting a criminal
Another section of the resolution said .act. The Seaforth lawyer said-that Could'
there should be no appeal to cabinet. and include a 16 year-old carrying an unleaded
coune.illor. Geraid.Oroothuis objected-toihar—lint ---"---- ''''' '' ' '
"No matter what the circumstanees4 there The resolution was defeated.
ETHANOL EXPERIMENTS
Charlie Thomas. a BrusselS area hog
farmer, discussed his experiments in
producing ethanol from hog manure on his
farm. Mr. Thomas said he has already
discovered how to take volatile solid's out of
the manure. The farmer showed the
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