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The Wingham Advance-Times, 1973-04-05, Page 15n The Listowel nor, The Warn Adv c T es Forest Confederate .by Mingo". :Bos: Limbed. ik Don Pullen chaired the Huron r County Case Study presenta- tion. Gary Davidson, county planner, presented, theP lan- ning program for Huron County to date. Elmer Hayter, 197; warden of Huron Co ° nt Spoke � Y� Pp a -011- Huron uo n CouritYoe.d, ns s 'r tr a . portation and markets.. Minister sees Arabs victims af aggression By Rev- Barry Passmore,. } Minister Wingham United Church On February 12, along with 45 clergymen of the United Church of .Canada, representing all areas of the country, I started on an 1..8-, ! day seminar tour of the Middle East: The purpose of this tour was to study the religious, cul- tural and social problems of that particular area. - We stopped first in Rome, Italy, for two, days and then went on to Cairo, Egypt; to Amman, Jordan; then bussed from Am- man, through Damascus, visiting 'three;refilgee camps, we carried on over/ .into , Beirut,> . ''1ebann a .moo .vie ,amu.. ,�,: e*^c�+,:x.,.ycx a pi -ne to f 'ieosra, sus spent a' day with the. anadi troops on the peace-keepi operation there. Then we fl into Tel Aviv and spent four an half days in the so.called "H Land" visiting.. the historic si P as well as talking to religious a political leaders. On our way home we stopped Geneva, Switzerland! visiting offices of the World Council Churches and gaining some sight into its operation. arrived home on March 1st. 0-0--0 My main interest on this was to find out, first-hand, -mo about the Arab-Israeli confl' the genesis of it, its present situ tion and its future hopes. 'While Egypt we talked with the Ar league, the men who plan Arab strategy in the conflict wi Israel, We spent two and a h hours. in dialogue with them well as meeting the head of Egyptian ,church and also th leader of the Moslem communi of the Middle East: We went on to Jordan end the met with the Minister of\Forel Affairs of the Jordanian gover and had an opportunity listen to the former mayor East Jerusalem tell his story how he was evicted from Jerus lem in March of 1968 because h would not co-operate with Israeli government. In Syria we listened to the go ernor of Kunaitra, a, province i Syria which formerly incorpora ed the Golan Heights, now unde Israeli occupation. And in Beiru we listened on two. occasions the leader of the Palestinia Liberation Organization as we as again, in all these countrie the religious leaders expressin their feelings about the problem which emerged with the creatio Israel. While in Israel we listened t two government officials rela their viewpoints of the situatio and also a leader of the Huma Rights Committee of Israel wh complained of injustices in Israe against Arabs. 0 0 0 As a result of what I saw an heard and what I have read, have come back extremely sym pathetic toward the Arab' caus within the Middle East. In 1967 I cheered when I heard that the Israeli armies had de feated Egypt and Jordan and had pushed the Egyptian army back to the Suez and had, indeed, won the six-day war. I felt, as one who read the western press, that Israel was certainly the underdog in this battle; two and a half mil- lion Israelis battling against the whole Arab world, possibly 50 million or so in the surrounding area, How could two or three mil- lion survive w ; these, odds? I felt the og had to be cheered on. At that time, in •1967, wehadDr. Abbu Sitta, who was a professor at , the University . Of Western Ontario, corfle :to speak to my "men's club at Richards Memorial United Church, Londan,'where I was ` minister at that tike. He spoke of Zionism and its desire to push back the borders of Israel, open it up and re-create Israel from the Euphrates to the Nile. I laughed at him; I thought he was a rather foolish, arrogant and stupid Arab and ; that all these ,,people wanted was freedom and a ,0,4411,0 and 6 ed '"` p li'et� syn►`d an by western= civilizatidt for '18il0, ng • years. ew, After now having; been t the d a Middle East, I realize that Israel a oly is a creation of western imperia- tes lism, that it is a western incur- nd sion into the Arab community. It is, indeed, the Arab who is perse-' c at cuted, having been shoved off his the land. Let us be honest, the land. of that Israel took in '48 and .the in- parts which they took in '67, are We the best arable lands in the Arab world with the exception of a ' Lebanon. ni trip I now realize that the war of re 1967 was not a war of survival but n ict, a war of expansion on the part of a a- Israel, depriving more Arabs of m in that land which is rightfully be ab theirs.. the ` 0-0-0 th What astounds me most is the all fact that the western press, radio as and television coverage of the the Middle East is extremely biased e and inaccurate, pro -Israel and ty extremely anti -Arab. This I can- not understand. ' re • •I can give you two illustrations gn of my point. While we were in rn- Beirut we heard on the BBC a to report of an attack by Israeli of marines on a terrorist camp in of North Lebanon where, it stated, a- 50 terrorists were killed, poten- e • tial terrorists of Israel. We then, the that very morning, went to the. United Nations Relief and Works v- Agency headquarters in n Lebanon, and the UNRWA leader t- told us that he was extremely ✓ perplexed because he had just re- t ceived word that two of the to refugee camps in Northern n Lebanon had been attacked . by 11 Israeli marines the night before; s, that approximately .50 people of g the refugee camps, men, women s and children, had been killed; on and that all the food supplies for this refugee camp for the coming ly month had been destroyed. Rus As I say, it is rather astounding ar that this is the actual event that pro took place but the way the press w covered it from Tel Aviv through tra Reuters was that it was a terro- que world. We did hear and get some • news about the reprisal attacks made by Israel, incursions into South Lebanon where about 65 Lebanese civilians were killed by Israeli army personnel. Now, I would take it. that this terrorist activity on the part of Israel, con- doned by a government, which would make it 'much °` worse, and yet there was no editorializing, as I • recall, about'this. ; What we did not hear back in Canada was'that Israeli jets flew over heavily-popted areas in Lebanon, dropped napalm and kill more than 200 civilians. This story was never reported, as recollect, in the western press. t� in • } as y.' 1. Jour tn8eeatt awhO rol the terrorists' .Aire' they, a bunch of desperate, Palestiru who have been misrepresent nd maltreated over 25 ye who carry on desperate acts killing of foreign diplomats of United States? Certainly, annot condone this. But inst of condemning them, we ough be looking into the situation exists that drives people to th extrreme.measures. I suggest really it is Israel and her terrors ctivities ' against the Pales ans, that have caused- a deal of this, and yet Israel ever condemned end the Ara re always painted as dagg knife=in-the-back, dir arde4, filthy dogs. 0-0-0 At one of our embassies in Middle East, there is a mili expert attached to the embas whose job it is to keep assessi the strength of the Arab milita power in relation to the streng of Israel. I asked him if thought the Arab world was in position to launch" ' an atta against Israel to regain' its to tory, lost in '67: His reply to'm was that there is no possible that the Arab community coul even think of starting any form military` action against Israel the present time. Israel has th seventh largest air force in th world, made up of superson jets, and the Arab world h nothing to compete with these. long as Israel is able to control the air, which she does now an does very handily, there is n possible way that the Arab wort can even think of launching mil tau action to regain its territory I asked him how long it woul be before the Arabs could engag in an armed conflict with Israel He said it would take an extren long period of time. Even sia at this pont decided t m Egypt and la, with th per equiprnen t do the job, i ould take three to four years t in men and then it would be stionable. 4,e best use of Huron C_ landwas the thio Under sion at theuren band USe ference held u' at the Cen School, • Much. of a Huron Crop Improvement Mimeh sponaared presentation dent, around the current situation land development pi h Huron. - Those speaking ons facets of planni ; Mlister, t chaff Land Div sion. 'Coln Oddleifson, 1chaa planning and delii mittee;•Elmer Ha den of Huron any, Davidson,` the 'county planne The presentation,began slide showing of the ';nil Huron County trach ,+ velopment,firom the pier, early explorers through meat by William "Tiger" 1 and John Galt to its ',peri being "one of the Most e communities in the prong_ and its subsequent droppi: when the .pioneer systemen shortly after Confederation. The showing, which Was psi dominantly , slides of native tists' • skketches andlm� otos, narrated by :Earl Heywood. EducatIonalServices Mr. McAllister outlined the educational services and institu- y, ' tions in Huron, `The . chools are, uron t for the most part, orecent t con - Sts struction," he, added, There is � a Huron 1 ample- school' space in Huron due to the current decrease in the elementary school enrollment. He also said that the capital i. t$1 > outlad..wn for Y is o schools because of the newness of the atoll buildings, s � is f ,an agrlcul-. n, Mc- ,'tural nature like -the one at Con- 'tralia, he said, were seeing "be- tween 40 and 50 per cent of their graduates return to the farm".. He believed this to be important for "if theyy have a work ng •knowledge of farming they'll le able to take a leading position in planning." • Switching to medical institu- f, tions, Mr. McAllister added that • '";each of the . main towns in the 'county has its own hospital, in ad- dition to the one psychiatric hos pital located near Goderich. • Population; Industry, Recreation ' Mr. Oddleifson spoke on popu- lation, industry and commerce sand recreation and open space aspect of Huron's situation. He. said that the present situation of 'rural areas requiring less' labor now than in past years to produce per . �,Y ans Canadians who need flnaneia1 ed support for projects • concerned with the preservation. of the and environment are invited to write the the White Owl Conservation one Awards Committee in Montreal, cad Again this year, the committee t to will distribute grants of $1,000 to that 52,500 to people and organizations me with deserving projects. In ad- that ration, the committee will accept st nominations for the two annual ti- WhiteOwl Conservation Awards. great Ten thousand dollars will be is . given to the group and $2,000 to bs the individual who will be judged r- t�► have made outstanding con- tributions to the ecology of ty' '' Canada in 1973. The White Owl Conservation the • Awards program was established tau y in 1968. Its purpose is to provide s financial assistance and to obtain y public support for those who are n8 working for environmental hpreservation in Canada. An he • Awards Committee of eleven a people from across the country ek selects the recipients of ', the ter grants, as well as the winners of • the White Owl Awards. e In January, rt', a 52,500 grant was wad given to the James Bay Com - of mittee, a Montreal-based at citizens' action group. The money e is being used to organize public hearings into the hydro -electric e development proposed for the is p 4 Qi 0 y n 0 1 a: Doctors may be o placed on fee, 1: salary -basis d TORONTO (TIPS) — Ontario Minister of Health Dr. Richard Potter says • that "several" doctors have 'had their licences if suspended by the Ontario College ° of Physicians and Surgeons for e abuse of the Ontario Hospital Insurance Plan (OHIP). ° The doctors have been in- vestigated by the College, OHIP lawyers and the Ontario Provincial Police under the direction of the Attorney General's department. Three or r four of these doctors, says Potter, ` will be charged with fraud under ° the Criminal Code and taken to court. To eliminate such abuses in the future D'r.• Potter says he is planning to bring in legislation that .will put doctors on a com- bined salary axd.°fee basis. A Straight salary, he says, will not solve the problem as some doctors might decrease the number of patients they now Areal Under the present system doctors are paid on a fee-for- service bad.. rist camp. Now this is extremely I misleading. In order to confirm tica d the story in our own minds, one of tha I our own party left us for three the - days and went to these two . onl e refugee camps. ing 0 0 0 wes The second illustration of how just the news can be slanted was Eas during last summer when the It Munich massacre took place. We . tha were all given a blow-by-blow de- Isra scription of it; it was. extremely Mei well=covered by radio, press and plea television, and we were all ap- me palled and many editorials were lsre written about the terrorist activi- air ties of Palestinians Which could com ;not be condoned in the tnodcrn discovered, in talking to poli 1 leaders in the Arab world t they realize that, militarily y are a defeated people. Thei y hope is to get an understand in the West to put pressure o tern powers to bring about a settlement in the Middle t. seems rather strange to me t the day after we entered el Prime Minister Golda r came to the United States to d with the American govern- tnto provide mare jets to el so she could maintain her domination over the Arab rntrnity. She does not need Please turn. to Page it IIable James Bay region of Quebec: Last year the Canadian Wildlife Federation won the $10,000 group award and the $2,000 individual award went to Dr. Fred Knelman ° of Montreal. Former Lock now teacher heads youth division TORONTO (TIPS) — The On- tario Youth Secretariat is a newly -created government or- ganization aimed at reaching On- tario's youth. • • Wally Coulthard, who taught at ••Lucknow District High School and Woodstock's Huron Park Secondary School before joining the Ministry of Education in 1964, has been appointed director of the, secretariat. He described the future of the new organization. "We will be acting as a co-ordinating body with every ministry in the gov- ernment that has programs in- volving youth. In order to find the best types of programs available we will need to identify and assign priorities to all youth -re- lated projects in the provincial government, as well as keep tabs on Ottawa's Opportunities for Youth programs," he said. The Youth Secretariat will also be an information source for both agencies and individuals working. with young people, and will act as a monitoring body over a vast number of youth projects, pro- grams and groups. °} higher yields is.`creati ng a sit tion where . %� towns are .beln%, developed more , rapdily.: added:, that, with the tendency- toward endencytoward larger, farms, the popula- tion of inland dips is declin- ing but the lakefront areas are growing. i Mr. Oddleifson believestthat villages,in the present situation, with little ono economic opportunity,'' are 0"more or bet .Gess, r • e tirement homes" whereas the towns are where the main con- centration of the labor force is found. He added that, at present, the industry Of Huron. County (speak ing of manufacturing, pra*'' ceasing, and warebouses) is Con.- fined. on-fined. ;to some :238 acres in the county. • "The official county pian," ajd r. Qddlesen►, r ` '� Win•. that 925 acr,be designated over 10 towns. for Putt vlopment," He $sed. at sereage'does not Jude ar ' to' be 'left for .pias , aeries. Speaking of',the., rt the,Malt- land Valleyand" ►u ble`B;ATI : d� Conservation; Authorities pia ,in the ' � re,p�tatr� ;r�. ,Caten said, that,; ; present, ':moat their authoritaty l int of ` water • ►,ttage prope4r�" w ►ece ate' was .+ r l ' limit and where was Publicly Outlining the ';a Huron !ounty, terdes01 sitnatioi haying Om from the:oe �..p l • rural pfd'' to market* for fad to pr+teiy. STUDYING FILAN--Assistant Deputy Minister David S. Caverly ,of Water Management, Ministry of the Environ- ment, studies official county plan offered by Chairman Don Pullen. (Staff Photo) Throne speech promises more land use control TORONTO (TIPS) — The main emphasis of Ontario's March 20 Speech from the Throne fell on the need to preserve Ontario's physical and natural resources. Quoting from the Throne Speech: "It is clear that the preservation of our physical re- sources is one of the most urgent requirements facing all govern- ments today. The most important of these resources is land. My government will place before you proposals for major new pro- grams designed to ensur sound -planning and to preserve this re- source for the use and a vantage of future generations." The government will ensure proper land use controls "where agricultural lands are concerned so that good farm land may be re- tained for agricultural pur-- poses." This would include pro- tection from land speculators. More than one million acres along the Niagara Escarpment will come under the control of a new commission to preserve prime land from Queenston to the tip of the Bruce Peninsula. This would in some cases involve acquisition of land, althoug,h mixed uses would be allowed in some areas. Legislation to implement rec- ommendations of the Select Com- mittee on Land Drainage tvill be A program for better forest management has been designed, to include the,regeneration of cut- over lands, establishing new forests on private land, and im- proving growth conditions in existing forests. Idle land will be prepared for planting and seed- ing. There will be more control on the sale of pesticides and their use by farmers and foresters. Ontario will host a conference sponsored by the Canadian Coun- cil of Resource and Environment MiniSters this November. Roy Pattison, warden of Huron County, congratulated Don Pullen, chairman of the land use conference and Huron County agriculture repreSentative, and his staff fow their contributions. Ian McAllister, 1972 Land Division Chairman, spoke on the educational, services and institutions within Huron County. Ed Oddleifson, 1972 Plan- ning and Development Com- mittee chairman, spoke on the population, industry a-nd commerce, and recreation and open space aspetts of Huron County; from the one-timeoat cr nequilso'winPni9tbreeen'ZP:andel:TeldaelititerY'neeadd :growing quality pr. ‘ihingghanetdamairtnevert°41irtva toward bulk-han and feed. ur. McAllister saw the fa „ as being an extension of the last tO years' changes. Ile \said there will be a greater shift\ to hirgier income crops such • as tiniOnS, cucumbers and beans and the capacity to . triple present *live- ' stock produCtion will be reached. This speaker said that there are "few problems between mat and urban people now that most farmers support anti -residential zoning. Ile cited instances in which the farmers couldn't win when they ,were trying to please the urban people. If they spread their manure every day so it won't build up in their yards then it% the fields that smell continuously, and if while then their barn smells. they let it sipt linanthniteligr yards for a Gary Davidson finished the Huron County case study verbal presentation by stating that "planning is not an instant Cure for land use conflicts but it does try to form plans and implement them." He said that changes should be madethrough first determining a frame of reference. The frame of reference was established when the entire county was designated as a single planning area in Sep- tember, 1968, by the Minister of Municipal Affairs. Mr. Davidson described this as a first in Ontario. The idea of the county being one planning area was to solve the problems which would have arisen through frag- mented efforts. After the plan- ning area had been established, a planning board was formed and met for the first time in Decem- order to stress public account - majority of elected citizens in The planning board, with the aid of a firm of platming consult- ants, prepared a draft plan which was reviewed publicly, at the lo- cal level. three times; changed, approved by County Council, re- viewed, amended and approved at the provincial level; approved once again by County Council; and lastly approved by the Minis- ter of Municipal Affairs. When it was completol it was a plan to offer guidelines and gen- eral policies to guide municipal plans and zoning by-laws, said_. Mr. Davidson.