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Clinton News-Record, 1972-02-17, Page 14Kay Hill and Vickey Merner proudly show off their masterpiece a giant snow worm coloured black and orange through the use of dyes. The winning sculpture in the contest among students of the St. Joseph's Separate School in Clinton was this giant turtle. The creators of the beast clown it up for the camera. They include: (left to right), Gordy Finney, Joe McMahon, Carl Boon and Kevin Finney. Have yoci got he information you need? Tax reform is now law. To explain how it affects you, we recently conducted a massive mail-out of information, it is possible, however, that you were not included in the mailing list. If so, there arc two basic booklets you need in order to have a general understanding of how tax reform affects you. They are: I "Highlights for Individuals" • "Valuation Day" To obtain these booklets, simply write to: Taxation Distribution Centre P.O. Box 8489, Ottawa K ICT 3L5 or pick them up at your local post office. Remember, it is in your own interest to read these booklets, Contact us if you have not received them. By preparing now, it will he easier to fife your income tax return in 1973. National Revenu Revenue, national, Taxation ImpOt E T VS .MAKE YOUR OLD' .14.411\IITUR E BETTER THAN NEW For a free estimate and p look at our newest .samples of materials CALL ' CLARK UPHOLSTERY' Phone 5234272 R, Cook, Prop. Blyth, Ont. WE HAVE A FREE PICK-VP AND DELIVERY SERVICE SERVING CLINTON Ahll) DISTRICT 'SINCE 1945. \`-' • G — 4 orlon Grigg Fuels NE 482-9411 Call Our Agent ROSS JEW1TT For FARM & HEATING PETROLEUM NEEDS CLINTON No Waiting on C)eanouts Pick Your Date Notiv! For your safety our delivery trucks carry fuel oil only FOR FREE BURNER SERVICE NIGHT OR I)AY CALL 482-9411 BUILD PART TIME ...business of your own to independence in six months with new International Company, manufacturing national consumer products. Will furnish names of independent associates who have done same investment. Experience in hiring, training or supervising helpful to rapid growth. Replies confidential. Call 366-2661 collect: Mr. Fritz. Or write: Mr. Tom Fritz, RR 1, Chepstow, Ont. ijoult FRIENDLY IWO SONO sA vs. IT SE ' TOME 4 1 / /VOX/CA/ED FELLOW &ma WANTS TO SONOW 4 Mao WINA Y06; OR LOVE YOO 7r. DE477/4 .. the introduction of consume protective legislation, and has fought against the indiscriminate use of pesticides, against pollution, and against margarine sales tax and limitation of sale. CAC has opposed the practise of wholesalers dictating retail prices, and has protested the continuing use of trading stamps 'and gimmiiks. In Ontario, CAC has demanded stricter inspection to prohibit the sale of meat from dead animals. CAC publishes the only Canadian magazine, supplying information in the Canadian Comparative testing field. Canadian Consumer, publishes brand names and.r e,p,or t s Abjectively on perfolitiard."e%nd, value as established in independent laboratory tests. The Association had its beginnings as a natural follow-up to the Wartime Prices and Trade Board, which encouraged Canadian women to'keep a close watch on prices, and to conserve supplies and equipment in short supply during the Second World War. The then newly formed group was defined as a voluntary, non-sectarian and non-political organization with membership open to everyone, and continues so to this day. The objective of the Association was to study consumer interest and economic problems, and to teach people to express their opinions in these matters. CAC was formed to give consumers a voice as strong and forceful as the trade associations give to labour, industry and agriculture, completing the representation of the various segments of our economy in which the chief purchasing agent, the consumer, had too long been silent. The major tasks of the Association are to educate the consumer, to represent the consumer in briefs to the government, and to protect the consumer by insisting on factual information on goods. The Association has concerned itself with many areas of consumer interest—the list goes on and on, through the shopping basket, the clothes closet and the pocketbook of Canadians. telte t'l .10 SALES & 'SERVICE r'21:YeIferpAce What Wo Sell" 267 VICTORIA ST. HWY. No, 4. S. CLINTON'-- 482.9167 the /3ayfield River showed excessive pollution. After the Egmondville delegation departed council received a delegation from Brueefield—Ross Scott, Robert Dalrymple, Robert Caldwell, Fred McGregor and Douglas Campbell—to discuss with the representative from OWRC the possibility of a municipal water system to serve the village of Brucefield. Two weeks previously a committee of four was appointed by village ratepayers to investigate water problems in Brucefield after water samples from several wells in the village were reported unsafe to use, On the committee are Fred McGregor, Robert Caldwell, Stewart Broadfoot and Douglas Campbell. Mr, Bray advised that a properly worded petition be circulated to every homeowner for his or her signature to get a true picture of just how many would use the system. At the present time each householder has his own well. Clerk James McIntosh is to obtain a petition form from the township solicitor for circulation. After the Brucefield delegation left, the members of council went into a committee of the whole with Mr. Bray and Neil McMullen of OWRC present In further business after the closed meeting Road Superintendent, Allan Nicholson, requested that a notice be put in the local papers prohibiting overnight parking on township roads. Council approved a resolution to the Department of Transportation and Communication requesting the Department to prepare a report on the state of roads and the requirements to be met in the event conditions are met by the developer prior to the township deciding to take over the roads on the former Canadian Forces Base in the township, Council approved granting a building permit to Merlin Bender of Hensall for a new- shed and renovations to the house and barn on the former Verlinde farm on the London Road for a total of $29,300. Councillor Ervin Sillery reported the Clinton Area Fire Board has purchased a water tanker truck for a total cost of $2,710, of which $500 is Tuckersm ith' s share. Council has received from the Department of Municipal Affairs a draft plan for a subdivision on the former CFB. It will be considered at a later date. The meeting adjourned 1:05 a.m. 4A--Clinton Neyvs,,Filcord,:Thur5dv,fet)ruory 17, 1972 'Tuckerunith 'Township Council Municipal tax rate approved Tuckersmith Township Council approved a municipal tax rate Wednesday night, Feb. 9 of 21.6 mills in 1972 for farm and residential. This represents an increase of three mills over the 1971 rate of 18,6 mills. The commercial rate for the township will increase to 25 mills, an increase of three mills as well. The total levy will raise approximately $424,980. , The tax increase was necessary to help recover some of the deficit of $5,092 caused by the high snowplowing costs in 1971 and because of the levy of $3,800 for the Ausable River Conservation Authority, Clerk James McIntosh reported there was nothing in the budget to cover anything that the township may be involved with at the former Canadian Forces Base in the township. He said it may be necessary to prepare a mini- budget later, Mr. McIntosh said township residents will not know the total amount of property tax they will have to pay until after Huron County council and the school boards have settled their rates. Taxes will be collected in twc payments, on June 15 and Dec. 15. The school boards agreed to accept the school levies twice yearly. Total assessment in the township is $3,113,515. In the budget is $7,000 for fire protection in the township— Seaforth Fire Area Board, Clinton Fire Area Board, Hensall Fire Area Board and Brucefield Fire Department; street lighting, $2,500; roadways, $117,400 (as opposed to subsidy of $64,100). A delegation of Egmondville ratepayers—Kenneth and Rod Doig, Charles Eyre, Andrew For a period of one week, trom Houston, Melvin Cooper, Norman March 1-7, the consumer looks MacLean and 'William Brown— at himself and the quality of goods attended the council meeting for a and services he buys. Consumer discussion on a sewage system in Week in Canada is sponsored by Egmondville. Two Consumers' Association of representatives from the Ontario Canada. It reminds consumers Water Resources Commission that they have a voice in the were at the meeting to answer marketplace, And equally, that questions. John Bray, London, the many of them play a part in 'acting district engineer for producing and supplying the goods OWRC said it would take six and services they use. Society is months to prepare a report on the an interdependent unit, from the construction of a system of business acumen , of the bank sanitary sewers and treatment president, to the smile on the face works for Egmondville. This will of the elevator operator. include a rate on a usuage, and, or, a frontage basis to meet all Everyone is a consumer. costs and an appropriate form of Consumer Week in Canada! A contract. reminder to demand the best, and Mr. Bray said with the subsidy to produce the best. from OWRC the yearly rate might Many consumers who feel be $120 up to a possible $180. confident of shopping wisely and Ken and Rod Doig who are in the well can thank the Consumers' process of establishing a Association of Canada—a 65,000 subdivision on the eastern member volunteer organization outskirts of Egmondville were working to help the consumer in especially interested in the areas ranging from package sewage system and asked labelling to better credit numerous questions. legislation. Mr. Bray said that if the plan is CAC is the only organization accepted by council in six months representing the consumer at the very earliest date for the government and industry level. service would be two years. Since it was formed in 1947, the The need for sewage in Association has been responsible Egmondville was revealed when for changes in the labelling of samplings taken over seven drugs, houshold chemicals, months ago from several children's clothing, fabrics and Egmondville drains emptying into food. It has been instrumental in A nuttier of principle liiMannianEMENSan BY J. CARL HEMINGWAX Here come the Seventies! For farmers there will be some changes made. Even though the seventies have barely begun there have been two very significant happenings. The first was the final passing of the highly controversial Bill C-176. This Bill gives the producers of any farm product the right to vote in a Marketing Agency with full power to market all of that product across Canada along with powers of "supply management". To put it bluntly, farmers are in a position to regulate production to the amount that would give maximum profits to the producer, This Bill wasapparently passed by Government with full confidence that it had the support of a substantial majority of farmers. It indicates a reversal of farmer thinking. In mid-fifties farmers realized that their income was not keeping pace with that of others in our economy but they refused to adopt "production control" while others starve. After 10 or 12 years farmers find that their incomes have dropped drastically and their surplus production is stored in huge quantities while millions still go hungry. Others have used production control to their advantage, why not farmers ? The second "happening" was the surprise announcement of the "two-price policy" for wheat. This, too, will result in a voluntary production control since farmers will go as far as passim in regulating their production so that their domestic sales and export sales will average a satisfactory price. On the surface it seems that farmers may yet have major control of their destiny. I wonder! Under Bill C-176 marketing power and "supply management'' ' can be designated to the farmer Marketing Board. It can also be withdrawn at any time that the Government deems it necessary as was proven a few years ago when the Ont, Government saw fit to take over the oprations of the Ont. Bean Marketing Board. In the matter of the"two-priceprogram on wheat it is entirely in the hands of Government, I'm not a wheat producer so I have no idea what is needed in increased wheat prices but I wonder why the Government is paying the farmer rather than letting the price of the manufactured product increase to cover the increase in price to the farmer. With a Variation of 10 c or more in the current retail price of a loaf of white bread an increase of 1/2 c seems trivial and the increase to the family grocery bill to cover the increase on pastries and breakfast cereals which use Ontario wheat would be much less it would seem that the Government is being extremely careful lest it offend the consumer, However farmers seem to be accepting the program and a Marketing Agency with supply management seems close at hand for egg producers. If the reports I have been hearing about a build up in hog- farrowing are true we will have hog production on 'quota-production shortly. With the present Massive promotion for expansion of the 'cow. calf herd when tattle numbers in both United States and Canada are reportedatan all-time highbeefproducers will be forded in the same direction, It had better happen quick! There may not be an imminent election at hand when the flood breaks.