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The Brussels Post, 1980-01-30, Page 3THE .BRUSSELS. POST', JANUARY :30 The development of clean industry; He said he would like to encourage clean , industry . to locate in the 'riding and to enc!wage existing• small business to eXPand in the'hope-that it would create an employment' ppportuntiy for young people thisl,area. "We would like to see- industry that's compatible with agriculture, one that blends in with the area it's coming into," Mr. Cardiff said. Although he sees no really major issues in this campaign he said one thing a lot of people seemed to be asking him about WAS ing nee nietrificatien. ..says there's, a strong dislike of it, and he said a lot of People. had talked to him about the election not being necessary. As for Finance Minister John Crosbie'S budget he said there is very, very little complaint with it. "It looks like everyone, thought it was a Liv.ourable budget -'not what everyone • wanted, but What we had to have for the times., I've had erienr two people say i f the 'excise tax wasn't, there, it would be a great .'budget. Well, it. would be a great budget, because it was all giveaways then,," Mr. Cardiff said, • He said he-felt there were sortie good items in the budget, that it would: cost Canadians more,but that there were some cost benefits in it. He said families earning. less than $21,380 would getirebates ef $80 'per adult, $30 per child to offset cost of gaSoline increases. As for the farmer, he said the increase is actually 15 cents when he gets the 10 cents a gallon rebate and added how the increase would affect the farmer depends on the size of his farming operation. , Another good ° thing in the budget, according to Mr. Cardiff is the deduction for family spouses working in companies and that would allow farmers to pay their spouses., He said that recognizes that women play an important role in business and farMs. • As for recent, polls which show a Liberal win, Mr. Cardiff says he . his no idea whether this is valid or not, but says, "I'm concentrating on winning this riding, that's my priority and certainly if I do, that's ardiff helping the Conservative government" He said that a lot of people feel the election was very unnecessary and that the government didn't have a chance to prove itself and act on, very many of-the issues. Mr. Cardiff's campaign manager Ken Campbell points out statistics on. a Conservative newssheet that out, of 48 days that parliament sat,, only 16 days were left 'for government business They passed seven bills which received Royal Assent, another five bills received second reading • and were sent tb committee and four motions were passed by the houSe. The throne speech, the" address in reply to the Throne .speechlopposition days and budget days took 15 days and 17 days were spent cleaning up left over Liberal business according to the neWssheet. that is compatible with the agricultural area is one of the' things, Huron-Bruce Progressive 'conservative can, date ` Murray Cardiff would like to see ithis Energy, high interest rates concern Craig • , . • •" ' . ' • Energy, farming, small business and interest rates are what Huron-Bruce Liberal eandidate Graeme Craig sees as the major issues, in thii election campaign, but he places,,; energy as the top priority, especially as to how it affects small business and farming. s "I think it has to be realiied that the 18 cents. a ,gallon was strictly, tax and had nothing to do with the price of a barrel of oil," he says. He said the tax would cost farmers hundreds of dollars to put in his crop and harvest it and that it was actually 'a tax on food.which is passed fin all the way through the System. He also mentioned that the gasoline tax would have an effect on the Huron. County bus system. 'There would be a tremendous in-crease in transportation costs, costs which we pay on our school taxes,!'' he said., "We all realize energy costs, have 'to go up, but the Liberal party has stated excise taxes will not go up, but oil prices will." He said that out of the extra $90 billion -that would raised from the increase-$35 billion ;went to" oil producing 'provinces, mainly Albera, $32 :billion to the multi- national oil cOmpanies with the rest going to the federal treasury to pay off the mortgage scheme, with very, very little going into energy bank dollar- wise. Mr. Craig also said the proposed budget would cost the average, Ontario house- holder another $575 a year even with the energy credit. He said the increases a cost ' would be devastating for Ontario. When talking about ,the budget he said, "they (the C onservatives) guaranteed us double digit inflation and an increase .in unemployment:" He said he will agree that somethng should be(Codonnteinaubeod on utthepadgeefic8it), but in an • We were unable to talk to NDP candidate Tony McQuail before our Thesday afternoon deadline. An interview with him will appear next week.`: Sugar and spice BY,qq15"10ey ord from another Hockey expert Like every other red-blooded male in this reason'I didn't mike it to the big leagues. - enough to make the so-called NHL today, country over the age of four, I am an expert b As a kid, I played shinny on the river but not then, when there were so few As a player, I didn't exactly make it to skates.' To my great shame, I had to make it to pro or semi-pro ranks. When I There were only eight teams then : the NHL., Or Senior A. Or OrA Junior „. indulge in the sport of wearing an old pair' was in high school, some of my best friends Toronto, Montreal Canadiens, Montreal Junior B., Or Juvenile C. - of my, mother's "lady's skates" (pro • were playing Junior A. Maroons, Ottawa Senators, Boston, New But you don't have to make it-all the way nounced with utter scorn by the kids with I was brought up in a rabid hockey and York Rangers, New York. Americans, in. Canada to become a connoisseur of the tube skates.) Mine went almost to the knee lacrosse town. When I was a little bOy, we Chicago and Detroit.' .. game. All you have to, do is to have been and supported your ankles like a bag of had a Senior hockey team. It was made up There were probably just as many exposed to the game since you were about on 'hockey. I.. • with some guys who actually, later, did teams and so many aspirants. three, and it's in, your blood for life. As a kid, I felt culturally- deprived because I didn't have' a pair of "tube" (Continued from Page 2) but the Russians had the. evidence. The Americans were seen by all the world as spies and, as liars as well The hope of peace was gene. The Soviets walked out of • the summit conference. But the crisis went away just as other crisis; were to fade• in the next few years. Despite the, American involvement' in Vietnam or the Cuban Miscle crisis or the invasion of Chzechoslovakia we have had more peace in our world in the last two decades than any time since the dose of World War I. • And now We have a new crisis. We had just begun to think that the peOple of the Soviet Union were human beings like the rest of us and now we see them as Red devils again, plotting to take over the world. More than the actual event itself it is the timing of the invasion of Afghanistan that has brought I doubt the Soviet's fully realized the forcebr they were going to .face in the VVestern 'world When they approved the invasion. What is so dangerous about this latest move the mood of .the people of the WeSt, in particular the United 'States. The seVenties in the U.S.;Were years"of misery' for people used to world prominence and• clear. economic sailing. There , was the tumult and hurnilitation of the war in Vietnam • Then came the years when politicians told the people that yes, the economy was in rough shape but next year it Would improve. But it didn't: So now there are yearS of frustration built up in the U.S. The Russians, (and'the Iranians_before then') have given marshmallows. Obviously, that' is the sole Amercians a 'handy object to take their frustrationS out on. It's easier to hate, an enemy , outside the country than go on forever blaming the politicians in charge of your own country'. The effect of these external threats to the U.S. has had on the ordinary people can be easily seen. Four months a ago commentators were confidently predicting the days. of Jimmy Cat:ter's presidency were numbered: Some had all but in- augurated Ted Kennedy the next president of the U.S. But last week Ted Kennedy was almoSt buried in the IoWa primary' by Carter and experts are now looking to more of the same even in New England, 'Kennedy's home base. • . Taking heed of those results Joe ,,Clark here in Canada has been taking a tougher and tougher stand againSt the Soviet Union in the hopes it will build the,kind of support 'here that he needs to overtake the huge lead the Liberal party holds just a month before' the election. His .campaign is beginning to, bring back bad merndries from•the past as he accuses Pierre Trudeau of being "Soft" on Communism during his years as Prime Minisfer. 'In Canada and in the U.S. we seen' to be- into a political game of Who can be toughest on communism as elections approach. Ronald Regan is „suggesting 'a blockade of Cuba to teach the Soviet's a lesson. Twenty years from now- we may, as in the U2' crisis, have' forgotten all About this. It may be one 'more false alarm or it could be a sign post oh the way to war. Let's hope it's a false alarm. -of local factory hands, blacksmiths (yes, I go back that • far), and generally good athletes, of no particular rank or station in life.. They played for fun. They bought their Own equipment.: There was tremendouS rivalry with the other towns in the country.' The rink was jammed for every game. We kids sneaked into the gaines through the place where they threw out the snow after clearing the ice, squirtned our way down behind the players' bench, and fought each other to the bone when a senior broke a stick, and with a lordly gesture, handed 'it back toward us. If you 'were lucky, you got two pieces of hockey stick, took it home and had your old man splint it, taped it up, and played the rest of the season with a six-foot man's hockey stick practically tearing the armpit out of your five-foot frame. When I was a teenager, the home town went ape over hockey, began' importing players, and iced a Junior A club. We local high School guys were devastated by jealousy when the imports, from such exotic towns as Ottawa, Montreal, Brock- , virile, came to town and stole our girls away. 'We locals didn't have a chance. It was Depression times. We were lucky if we had the money to. go to the Saturday night movie (two bits), let alone take along a girl and feed her afterwards. But the hockey imports had everything. Flashy uniforms: Great physiques. The roar of the crowd. And money. They get about fifteen dollars a week for room and board' and spending money. They often had . two or three dollars to throw around, so, naturally, they got the girls. (Some of them still stuck with them, ha, ha.) ironically, about a third' of -those guys who made us green with envy would be knocking off eighty-five to a hundred thousand a year if they hadn't been born forty years too seen. They were good hopeful players. Today there are 21 or 23 or 28 teams in the NHL. Nobody seems able to count them any more. Well, figure it out. Take qUart of whiskey and add a similar amount of water. Split the' remains in two and add a half of water to each. What do ytm get? Not a whiskey with water. A water with a touch of whiskey. , And -that's why so many once-ardent hockey experts like me just don't bother going to games, or even watching them on TV, unless the Russians are playing, when you see a few flashes of the old-time hockey, instead of a group of high-school dropouts high sticking, slamming each other into the boards, pretending to fight by dancing ring-a-round while carefully clutching each others' sweaters so they won't be hurt, tripping, clutching, hooking and .doing everything but play hockey. It's O.K. I don't necessarily want to go back 'to the days when players had some dignity, and didn't have to pat each others' bums all the time. Nor do I want them reduced to the sort of, wage slavery they endured years ago.. But please spare me", on the sports pages, from their constant whining, tant- rums, hurt feelings, and neverending interest in the big buck. Grey production (Continued from Page -1) people who had been, in previous prOduc- tions and asking them to take part again. Mr. Garland said they thought maybe some people didn't come out for chorus line, thinking, only the major actors were being cast. The directors of the play have been picked. Donald Dunbar will direct the musical parts of the production and Marie McGa.vin will be directing the actors. This will be the Grey Central flaw sad School Association's fourth majoi produc- tion, Behind the scenes by Keith Roulston