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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1968-03-14, Page 3Editors meet at convention Unlike Good Roads convention delegates, newspaper editors always have their pictures taken to vouch for their conduct and attendance at conventions. The gentleman pictured above with T-A editor Bill Batten and Mrs, Batten is above reproach as a character witness. He's William Lyon MacKenzie, the red-wigged, fiery tempered editor of the Colonial Advocate, first issue of which was published at Queenston in 1824. MacKenzie made a public appearance at the weekend OWNA convention courtesy of Louis Tussaud's famous English Wax Museum, whose only operation outside of England is now located at Niagara Fells. — Photo by Baltkalns Huron MP scolds Grits regarding farm theories INSPECTING SCHOOL WORK AT USBOHNE OPEN HOUSE 1 Find the people who are ill with TB and other Respiratory Diseases * OW) — so they can be treated. 2 See that dar0 and help are provided to those who suffer from TB Or RD, so that they can return to a normal life. Support education for doctors and nurses, as well as the general public, about these serious ailments. Support research that can lead to new, improved methods of treat- ment, Contribute to the improvement of your corninUnity's health, Huron County Tuberculosis Associattion 4. S. Readers write: Timies•Atevocat March 14 19011 • Promote opportunities. Ignore avenues service PARENTS WATCH 0LAS8ROOM. INStittIc TIOI1/41 ......Cpntinued from front page lc, official plan ter the regional deeeleelliont of the province Will be begen. In his Introductery remarks to the eeeetieg,. I, Q, Needles of the University Pr Waterloo Said the Oetario government was "quite serious"" about ePlanferregional development. fee Regional Development C017110.1 with strong local involve- meet snit support Part exert a Meer influence in gelding the fit- ture of the region's growth and development," explained Mr. Needles. "TO be effective in Hee role it must concern itself with development research and with either the ireplernentationpf pro,. grams of the co-ordinetionof exe fisting and future programs for the growth of agriculture, tourism and recreation, commerce and industry, and essential service development." Major concerns with agricul, hire are land use, planning, con- servation, increased productivity by farm units and their effect op the economy of a particular area of the region. Tourism would be studied in relation to the future recreation needs that will develop as a result of the increased pres- spree created by major urban centres and increased leisure time. Commerce and industry may be best designated into cer- tain areas of a region — that is one town assuming the role of a trading centre for surrounding communities where industry might flourish more readily. n du stry seeks flat land, reasonably priced, completely serviced with sewage, water, roads, zoning restrictions and housing for potential employ- ees," Mr. Needles advised. "Good schools and recreation' facilities are important, As in- dustries locate and grow these Thomas Carling dies in London The funeral of Isaac Thomas Carling, who passed away at Colborne Nursing Home, Lon- don, took place Saturday, March 9 from the Millard George Fun- eral Home. The committal ser- vice took place at the funeral home and the body brought to 'Exeter cemetery later. The deceased was born inExe- ter, the son of the late W. J. and Mrs. Carling. He had his school- ing In town and went to Queen's for two years. The family moved to Brighton in 1913 and came back in 1920. Tom Carling worked in Centralia. He had married the former Gladys May Essery of Centralia in April 1914. Mr, and Mrs. Tom Carling moved to London where Mrs. Carling died in 1959. Mr. Carling lived for nearly four years at Port Franks before being a pa- tient in the Nursing Home. Surviving are son, Harold of Halifax, son John and daughter Ruth of London, three grand- daughters, one grandson and one great grandson; also one sister, Mrs. Louise Craig, Exeter. Son Harold flew home from Halifax and grandson, Michael Carling from New Brunswick for the funeral, PrehleMs can becerne important financially both for Income and Pettey for fecilities." Mr. Needles explained the present organization of MODA ,and :regretted that Rest experi- ence hes made It difficult to meet Mere than about once :or' twice a. year. To rectify this problem* Mr. Needles suggested two alternatives A, which makes each of the four zones in MODA a small development Oen- oil with its own executive sep- retary and membership drawn from all quarters from, which four members would become rep- resentetivee at MODA council; or Plan B, which dispenses with zone identification and appoints representatives directly to MO- DA council from the entire area. In a wprk session men and women from the Huron zone rep- resented at the meeting select- ed Plan A as the most efficient. Local people expreseed their views that lack of co-ordination between MODA council and the "grassroots" had defeated the intended perpose of the liaison. County council members at the session noted that Huron has spent $5,000 on MODA and had been somewhat disappointed at the results. Opinion was that MODA's pur- pose in the area was to assist communities to provide theprep- er climate for business and ex- pansion, to introduce new busi- nesses and service existing ones, bring about orderly development in the zones, work to keep young folks in their home regions so that persons living there could capitalize on their education ex- penditures and generate enthusi- asm for the district, It was felt that through Plan A, more local involvement would increase the likelihood of far- reaching benefits for all. There would be more direct representa- tion, better co-ordination and proper continuity if the execu- tive-secretary and the president of each Zone were functioning at top interest. Main objection to the plan was the cost of hiring an executive- secretary. Although the meeting was undecided about who would finance the added expenditure, it was generally assumed that the Zones would be responsible for selecting and paying any person- nel added at the local level. As one man observed, It was a means to eincreased taxation and ex- penditure". One group suggested a "float- ing secretary" who would over- see all four Zones. This idea was scorned by William Urquhart of MODA who said the physical and economic differences of the four counties would make this im- practical. Other thoughts expressed were that the job could be done ',vol- untarily" by some interested cit- izen or achieved as an "added duty" for some prominent sec- retary-treasurer of a municipal- ity, board or even the county. Hume Clutton of Goderich mo- tioned that the meeting go on rec- ord as favoring Plan A but that discussion of finances be left to a later meeting. This met with the approval of the gathering. As a parting word, one ob- server muttered, "It's no damn good the way it is . . . we might as well change it." is held by some people in the government, and it is that all farmers are well off. This is not very true, and it is the wrong way in which to consider the problems of agriculture. The fact of the matter is that farmers who make a go of it are obliged to work very hard indeed. They have to be well up in the latest meth- ods, they have to be extremely fortunate with regard to market- ing conditions and they have to enjoy a lot of luck. I think luck comes into it as much as any- thing, and maybe it is the most important factor. Farming is no bowl of cherries even for fruit farmers, and if anyone in the government thinks it is his ideas ought certainly to have been changed when the farmers came down here last summer to see the Minister of Agriculture and the other min- isters, out here on the lawn. The Prime Minister was afreid to face them. Mr. McKinley: They even got shut out when they wanted to come inside. That is something I never thought we would see in the House of Commons. I guess that is when the farmers learned pretty well where they stand with these fel- lows across the aisle. Later on they did get some adjustment in the dairy farm situation. Returns for milk improved to a certain extent, but just enough to cover extra costs of production. With every single thing he produces, the cost situation as it affects the farmer grows worse, I think the minister knows this. He lives in a part of the cautery where costs have risen just as quickly as anywhere else, and where prices reeeived by farmers have failed to keep pace. The market is not organized -as it Might be. One province tries to orgaeize a little, then it runs into inverts front other provinces and says: What the heek, We might as well forget about It, More assistance might be provided for a national Mark- etleg scheme if the government were interested its doing any- thing like that. I cannot see how this minister, knowing what he knows, can stand tip In hie place and say le effect that the farm- er has never had it so good. It it sthiply hot true. Farenere are taught In e tre- mendous eosteptice 8 qel e t More so than they were even back in the 1ee0 0s. The little changes in the price of wheat that the minister has mentioned have 4:to A not kept pace with farmers' costs. It does not matter what farmers produce, be it livestock or wheat, their costs have increased, while the prices of their products have either remained stationary or in some cases have gone down. How- ever everything they have to buy has soared in price. Hog prices, cattle, farm prices in general have gone down, including the prices of eggs and poultry. But the price of prepared feed, of farm implements, gasoline and all the other necessities has al- .most doubled within the last few years. On top of this the retail price of farm products to the consumer has gone up something fabulously. The consumer price index has increased by about 50 percent since 1951, but the farm- er is still selling his produce at the same price. It should be remembered that the farmer is also one of the consumers. The farmer, along with the miner, fisherman, lumber man and labourer is one of the basic producers of the country, and as a food producer he is probably the most important economic unit in the nation. Yet when a situation arises in which he should be in a position to show a profit after the lean years, what happens? The implement manufacturers raise their prices. The food retailers raise their prices. But theydon't give the farmer anything More for what he produces. They do how- ever charge him more for what he consumes. The feed manufactur- ers raise their prices, but what the farmer gets stays the same. How can anybody honestly say that the farmer never had it so good? It seems that everybody in this country goes all out to gouge the man whose production is the very basis of economic prosperity. This is the classicpetteen, The government pays no attention 10 what is happening to the farmer, because it feels that with the drop in farm population it cati get along without the farmers' votes. Mr. Chairman, l suggest this government is going to find out how wrong it IS in that theory at the next election. The government has taken very little action to help the farmers. It even locked them outweenthey cattle to parliament hill. These farmers are not going to put up With that kind of treatment toe long froze a bunch of people who are eleeted. The farinere are not going to sit around and put up with the importation Of $6 mile lion Worth of eggs, as happened last year. We had 9 Million doze TOWER INSTALLATIONS ROTORS BOOSTERS ANTENNAE MAX'S TV 2384498 -GRAND tEND 'YOUR GE-MOTOROLA DEALER en eggs imported from the United States of America and 50,000 dozen from Australia. That is how the government treats the Cana- dian egg producer. We had the importation of over $'700,000 worth of dried eggs and $1 mil- lion worth of egg products, in- cluding egg yolks, from other countries. We imported 112,000 pounds of dried eggs from Po- land. What does this do to help our Canadian producers? In the first ten months of 196'7 we had over 4,000 pounds of butter imported from East Germany, 58,000 pounds from Belgium, and 22,000 poundsfrom Nevt Zealand. Last year more than $7 million worth of cheese was imported. What does this do for the Canadian dairy farm- er? In the first ten months of 196'7 we had a lot of turkeys imported from the United States, yet we can raise all the turkeys in this country that Canadians can eat. They don't have to come from any other place. I think we will have to make up our minds as a nation Whether farming is to become strictly a business or whether it can continue as a way of life for a great many Canadians who knew no other way to live, and who do not want to join the Unemployed in the big cities. That is what we will have to decide in working out farm policies, and that is the decision the government has re- /need to face. It's hard to get dollars by de- positing your quarters on an easy chair. of his experience in pee Francis, that the .C anadian p I I S PO Y s. co (see page of Feb. ,ee Tee) abied tirgefitly requires, and pf him 'beiee the Only black Ore Where the .service. club "could son there and that he teld the ;Pally serve," service clubs tie get the black 1. Treeepprtatipn, (pot ill et dlee leYelVed in service clubs, to and from clinics but short be was similarly talking ahont trips 'lee frorullere to Toronto, Canadian oohs, What he did not once every two months, or etc,) mention was that, e Canada, bee 2, ,Comradeship frfelidligg cause you either 944110 afford eeee. to joing or bec au se you are 3. Recreation and social physically abnormal, you are ige iege t like fel, to snake Ilfe worth oore4 and are not asked to join. lieine, Service eieee should adopt the 4. Assistant typists or writ- elogan "we eelp people to help ers apd cppiers, I for pee cape therepelYee" pe "we specialize .ept get ,many thiege reeepice* ie. humane illimart needs". When I need them for eistelbu, page 19e of the "MARC lion so that I call cemmenieete READER'S DIGEST, 1968" reads, my ideas with others with ,any. "Some ggeome two miliipri Canadians, ideas, by writing there. ten percent of the population are What will yoti de? Will you re- physically disabled." The ser- main in the ""social elite'booze vice clubs must wake up to this club," or, will yeti beginto really fact and commence to help these serve mankind like the young people to start to live instead.of physically disabled and aged7 Just existing. THANK YOU. The items below are thethings JOHN KELLERMAN Recommend demise of police villages Police villages should be abol- best be handled on a municipal ished and their administration basis elpewhere. should revert to the townships in Powers of the new regional six area counties were told Mon- governments should include all which they are located, officials of those now allocated to county councils, plus many of those now day. belonging to individual municip- Reeve Donald Rodgers of Stirl- alities, he said. ing made the statement at a work- Other panelists included as- shop sponsored by the Associa- sociation director Michael John-tion of Ontario Counties, in God- son, clerk-treasurer of Renfrew erich. He was agreeing with a County; ex-warden Wilfred Gould similar statement in ablue-print of Ontario County; association for local government reorganiza- second vice-president Ralph tion, adopted by the association Hunter of Alliston; Reeve Ar- Oct. 25. The workshop's purpose chie Cecceini, an association was to discuss the blueprint. director; and James R. Thom- Mr. Rodgers' call for aboli- son, assistant superintendent for tion of police villages met no the department of education. opposition among the 180 dele- gates who attended from Huron, Perth, Middlesex, Bruce, Grey and Wellington counties. There were, however, no police village trustees among the invited dele- gates — officials of the six county By MRS, .1. H. PATON councils and representatives of Mrs. Minnie Lewis, 88, of Mc- the separated municipalities of Gillivray Township was taken to London, Stratford, St. Marys, Green Gables Nursing Home, Guelph and Owen. Sound. Parkhill. She has been in a wheel- Mr. Rodgers said the associa- chair for 22 years. tion's committee on regional gov- Mrs. Arnold Blake returned ernment, which originally pro- posed the abolition, had difficulty home last Wednesday from St. Joseph's Hospital where she in justifying the continuation of spent six weeks. so many small municipalities. Mrs. Clarence Millson is im- In Hastings County for ex- proving in St,. Joseph's Hospital. ample, he said, 25 of the 29 Mr. & Mrs. Lewis Reycrait municipalities had populations in returned home Sunday from a trip 1966 of less than 2,500. In Grey to Texas. They left two weeks County, 24 of 2'7 municipalities before Christmas. had fewer than 2,500 residents. Miss Joyce Dorm an, Ailsa Mr.. Rodgers, one of several Craig received Grade 2 Theory members of a panel discussing and Grade 8 piano at Talbot Col- the blueprint, also commended lege, UWO. Her teacher is Miss the proposal that boundaries of Margaret Crawford, Ailsa Craig. both counties and their municip- She is at theOwenSoundRegional alities be reviewed every 10 School of Nursing. years by the provincial minister Mr. & Mrs. Joe Cunningham of municipal affairs. He said In- and children Kimberly, Tracey dividual counties pr municipali- and Jill left this week for Florida. ties should also have the right to Mr. & Mrs. Wilfred Cunning- request such reviews between ham visited Sunday with the lat-10-year intervals when neces- ter's brother, Mr. & Mrs. Will sary. Ritchie at Parkhill. Warden Theodore Isley of Mr. & Mrs. W. Toulsen from Waterloo County, another panel- Kingston, Mr. & Mrs. MaxBloye, ist supported the association's Cheryl and Susan, and Mr. Wil- stand on regional government. liam Campbell, London and Mr. He said every field of jurisdic- & Mrs. Jerry Edginton and Mark tion which could best be handled were visitors'Sunday with Mr. & on a regional basis should be Mrs, Harry Murless. turned over to regional authori- ties, He felt situations might vary SEE THE 1968 from county to county and juris- dictional fields which were ob- Mb. CHRYSLER viously best handled on a re- gional baste in ohe county might *Aft&I Outboard BOATS & MOTORS AT MID-HURON MARINE GRAND BEND AT--11-15—BRIDGE Huron MP Robert McKinley suggested in the House of Com- mons last week that when "the farmer finally decides it is nec- essary to be organized he, the farmer, may be a lot tougher than many labor unions". Speaking during the debate on the department of agriculture ex- penditures, McKinley took ex- ception to agriculture minister J. J. Greene's contention that the Canadian farm situation is a "rosy picture". Some of the comments in his speech are as follows; There is a theory going around that there are just too many farmers altogether, and that the only way to cure the problems of agriculture is to starve them off the farms. This is a theory which I cannot accept. We have seen the elimination of the qual- ity subsidies on hogs, lambs and cheese. This is another indication of the belief in this theory that is going around. There is another theory which 'pashwood, Ontario. peer Sire; Mr Mr, Bill Whites speech at the W000190 Ig..Pet1g. el the James St. et. AOTS. '.Men's .0.10. February 76 has epened the door for me, I. hope, to discuss this matter openly and publicly, I dare to say that even in leer- on •Ceeetyg service clubs are elther deliberately, or accidently, igeerine greeter .aveneep of .epre. Wee than theyAre now developing.. Most service clubs lieve 1?e, ewe clineecial materialist sup- ply 4epots" .0 which people go if they cannot .effprd a necessity of life such as glasses, ereceS or shoes. As some people have so bluntly put it, who are service clubs eerie themselves? Isn't it a fact that the monthly or weekly club meeting is .a social night out for the .elite middle class, or rich society, who can efferd to join? It is just too. bad for the fellow who might want to join, but who caenet .efford to jpin. The irony of it is that it is the poor fellow who the club is "supposed to help." I believe service clubs are missing the boat by failing to eee the human needs such as love:, kindness and other hemen ties in the overall Canadian pere- one. By permitting the poor fellow to participate in the weekly or monthly club meetings they might boost his morale, rid his loneli- ness and help him help hielself.. This type of service would not be a strain on anyone's wallet, would it? I particularly want to mention the physically disabled young person between the ages of 18 to 30 the persons that, per- haps, you help buy braces and glasses, etc. Did it ever occur to you that by allowing them to participate in your club meeting you might learn something from him, and he might learn from you the qualities of brotherly love? He might have more things and ideas. to give to your club executive to boost your whole club, You know, just because a per- son is physically incapacitated does not mean that he is ment- ally incapacitated. Or is it easier "TO PUT" the physically dis- abled away in mental and other institutions because he is not normal or because he "bugs" the society? Which is it? I suggest that all sery tee clubs in Canada change their policies. When Bill White told Ready Mix CONCRETE PI tgnt 235.0833 Residence 228-6961 THANKS FOR YOUR HELP! When You Support Christmas Seals You. Are Helping to .