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The Wingham Advance-Times, 1974-02-28, Page 4ti':•'�.'••'• �-�..1 �.1'. hae�.' iti•.Y y,� ••'\�t Y1�a'Ey.4.�1Y.�,1}.� :;.•ti? ::: • • cif editorial opinc► Thursday, Fek .44 Reason must prevc.il The—Current series of meetings on they preSSirtg question of powertine corridors in this area cit Western Ontario reflects a growing awareness on the part of ',the Pub- lic—and farmers in particular—that the rights. of the individual cannot be ignored. . Landowners whose property will or tray be expropriated for the corridors, re insistent , that their rights be recognized*The obvious problem is that their rights are not very Clearly defined. • Farmers," and society in general,. are. absolutely right to question in minute detail any program which endangers the producti- vity of food -producing land, The shortages Which have emerged so dramatically- in the past few months are a startling reminder . that some of the good things our life has af- forded may be lost to us forever if we are • careless of their source. G,eod and abundant food supplies certainly rank at the. top of the endangered list, so the land which produces this bounty is of paramount importance. On the other hand, the electrical energy which is generated, by Ontario Hydro's pro- perties in this area is vital not only to town' 'and city dwellersbut to farmers as Well. The production of food would be very seriously curtailed if supplies of electricity became. unavailable or were even reduced.'' Hydro officials are charged with a res.ponsibility-- to supply that energy. • There is no point in going into all the pros and cons of the arguments Which can be put forth on both sides. It is but another exercise in the developing choice of ,priorities which. ,faces us today. We must have both -food and hydro. Hopefully the which is going on at the present time will eventually be re- . solved in the best interests of all concerned --with the least possible disrpp- tion to farmers on the one hand and the general public on the other. Ontario Hydro's admission °to' Huron County Council last week that another nuc- lear power. plant will be erected, somewhere in the Goderich area, poses a new set of problems because new power corridors will be needed. Since the proposed plant will feed • the cities of London and Kitchener, the power lines will, of necessity, pass over some of the finest farm lands in Western Ontario. There is no denying -that fact. if, however, Hydro continues its present policy of allowing full opportunity for dis- cussion of the problems which arise --and if farmers continue to approach these same problems in a spirit of intelligent responsibi- lity for the service they must perform in a food -hungry world, the important tasks of both may be carried out with a minimum of loss. Shortages-r-eal or contrived The .most astonishing aspect of the pres- • ent crisis created- by shortages of so many commodities all over the world is . that ,'everything became scarce at once. Natu- rally the scarcity of oil, which has been man- made by the action of <the.Middle East coun- tries, ' has led fog. shortages ,in many other areas Of human'needs.. All those, things we want Which ere ,dependent upon energy for their manufacture' have been affected. Most consumers, nevertheless, simply' i't',believe that all the high prices which are hln'ied on'shortage of supply are neces- sary.='ir► tact, only a few days ago an execu- tive of One Of the big oil companies admitted publicly tha#'`the, price; of gasoline and heat-. fuel is based not on the cost of produc= tion; but rather upon what the market will bear. ”We 'suspect that the same formula is being, applied ,.an manyother fields. Fo,r~example, take one food item—table ash. For years we "have.;. been able t' purchase these "vegetables, inth_ a small, two serving' sizes, for about 15 or 20 cents apiece. This"winter, When youu'can find them at all; -they, are abou •:�0 cen t, is obvious s. thatmerclal rarkeet=F �'dener: has been forccee"d e`pay' higher wagesoand'that the cost of getting the produce to the store has increased. But it is°doubtful that the land ,on which the vegetables were grown has cost. `him anything more than it did a year pre- viously. Nor were squashes a poor crop last A GOOD NUMBER of parents turned out to 'view the.displays put on by the Wingham Girl Guides at .an Open House on Feb. 15k, The dlaplays varied` from collections of Scouting- -Guiding literature todisplays constructed by the girls themselves. The Open •Douse, which is part of the Scout -Guide Week observances, was held in St. Paul's Anglican Church. (Staff Photo) Items from Our Old Files fall. Wegrew enough of them ourselves 'to.. During the absence of T. Ile ' FEBRUARY, 1949 Winnifred Munro, Shirleynni Reidt, Donna MacLean, • know that,they were as prolific as ever and A. McGill, a first-class harnesssl Rev. A. Nimmo,-Wingliam, was that they required the same minimal amount' maker, Will have charge of re- nominated. by the. Presbytery ,of Edgar and Grace Paulin were of labour after they were planted. pairs. `. Huron -Maitland, at a meeting in elected officers of the Wroxeter Secret Service agents and State Clinton, 4 for the Moderatorsh�',p of Mission . Band. Here's another. Ona recent stay in police searched the underbyusf' the Synod Of Hamilton -London. 0-0-0 Toronto the little woman found that. the pelt beside President Roosevelt's The Synod is to meet In Ridge- FEBRUARY, 1960 special train at Florida City, The regular meeting of the which she wore on a particular dress had town. 1 popped its buckle. She replaced it by. the ,Florida, for a man seen moving: • This week the members of the ' Wingham .Kinsmen Club was purchase of a new one from a city store. •mysteriously just before the.. local Curling Club begin their held, during which the 'Kiinsm nn nearby—at a cost of X8.50. for a three=eighth president left, for Key West by campaign•to raise funds to install welcomed a new member, Do i with a mass-produced motor. _ artificial ice. This is not a small ald J. Raper, teacher of English inch strip of , Mastic P ., at the Wingham District High pair of simple metal hooks for a buckle. • undertaking, in a -town of 2300,-a g i The Chalmers Shield, the curling club of 150 members. School. as reached plastic is in shortage. Apparentlyos t. trophy of the Harriston Bonspie'1, Members of the titanic Legis- heel. ill comlimentary parish has reached the' shortage proportions of 14 P Y will rest in Wingham for a year: �lature will join' the government dinner at the .Wingham District carat gold. It was won by a rink comprising' a oil the day they are elected, High School for members of Sa- If you believe there is no rip-off of the R. S. Hetherington, J. 'Carr Jr:, J:' P be interested in the fact that rather than when they. formally cred Heart. Church, Wingham buyer you might ieA. Wilson and Ed Small , take their seats in the House, and St. Ambrose Church, Brus- the same. ladies' 'wear shop had a dress, en � under the terms of a government • sels, launched the combined display which was exactly the same pattern Palmerston's ratepayersoted: parish Sacrificial Offertory and • materia_l as the one our frau was wear- in favor of the school board's pro+a bill given first reading. One year � ago Saturday the campaign. Goal of the campaign ing. She had purchased itt`in a local store for posal to build a new $25,000 high $40,000 Memorial Arena in Pais. is $50,000 pledged over - a three - the under $30. The Toronto price tag'on. school:year period. The funds will be 9Prime Minister Chainbcilain'rs ley was totally destroyed by fire, l same garment was $100. five days after: it bad been com- `for parish needs, admini- ,9, aro an= �a asement .polic�l yr� stratioty �enovation-b>^the rec. Pe ppe � at'�d aln t rdaay. theya of _ s . H i h r� Prices: fur.. sori�t cprn�maditi are t P1 a ,;_ ; alit sitttiggetb to the e.ol . eS w $swot h;� otierrterts g 4 beg�� td.;take;°rte. , f tart' anti �fmpr � .0 it VY -E7 r @Slt9 a ar.+e�ttt'�",�inevj#e�bt��l��#H�e,te�ptatigor#q� nnouncement that Great Britanit� 1 t�sl°ych�sehesc� � • /� �� • pF�,x. , a. a andlet arena, eostlng$6 door lm cost, s the bandwagon,lltoreadily accepted. basun is seeking closer trade irelati0n= cost, is being all too accepted._ It will ships with Russia, Finland and: Outdoor skating rinks are.iii- Miss Karen Groskorth, daugh- f eluded. in the list of community ter of Mr.' and Mrs. E. Gl•oskorth Cease only when enough shoppers refuse to Poland.•;' projects.yeligible for provincial of Whitechurch, was chosen pony up exhorbitant prices for things they Queen of Wingham District . � � government assistance.under the Qu High • don't actually need. r- On Monday, Lucknow s new gov_ - en Poet Office was opened to serve Communityy,,.Centres, Act given School. Keith Woods, son of Mr. the public. It has been almost 11 final reading: in the Ontario. and Mrs. Walter Woods, was months since excavation ‘ com- • Legislature. The bin provides a chosen School Leader. menced on March 28, 1938, as the grant of up to $10,000 for com- Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Lynn and first step in the erection of the mumty centres which include in- family, who formerly lived in building. door skating arenas. Fordwich, moved their household Three men died on the scaffold g Oleomar arine. has arrived in belongings to their new home in � in Winnipeg, Manitoba, for the Wroxeter and the butcher reports Orillia: murder of an 8i -year-old woman. stock was sold out in short order. Delegates from the .32 pastoral It was the first triple hanging in Farmers and town, 'folk' alike charges of the United Church of Manitoba's history. availed themselves of the oppor- Canada in Huron met for the reg- . A quiet .wedding took place in tunity of 'trying alar meeting of Huron Presby - London this product and - London when Miss . Winnifred ' all agree it is most pleasing to the tery: Statistics showed 652 mem- Estella Carr and Frank Moore, taste. bers received during the year for both of Wingham, were united in George Cook has purchased the a net gain in Membership of 115. Ferguson farm near Belgrave, Moneyur raised. by the churches for marriage. � all ses showed an increase F. G. Moffatt, James McIntosh from Ab Nethery. P po and Walter Ferguson were elect- Wroxeter welcomes to the com- of almost ten per cent for a total ed trustees of Langside Presby= munity Mr. and Mrs. Frank Mit- of $513,798. tertian Church as that congrega- chell of Brussells, who have pur- Miss Gladys McDonald of St. tion held its annual meeting. chased the farm of :Frank Green Helens, a Grade 10 student in the and portunity for understanding Teachers throughout the province are still Struggling with the implications of "Bill 275 and the existing law which says that they del not have the right to strike. Many school .trustees have expressed agreement with the teachers' tontention that they should have the same rights as other labor organizations in Ontario and the rest of the nation. There is a salient difference between teachers and many other groups within the labor force: they are people with higher - than -average education and, presumably,', minds which are capable of seeking intelli- gent solutions to their problems. At least that is why we employ them to pass on knowledge to our children. • What an excellent opportunity this would be for teachers to concentrate their rea- soning capacity,oria better means of settling ., wage and work disputes, not only in their own field, but in ati areas of labor-manage- ment' relations. Obviously teachers should have some means at their disposal to force considera- tion of their requests for higher wages or better working iconditions—fust as such` means must be, open to all other labor or� ganizations. Equally obvious to anyone who is concerned about our economic future is the incalculable Waste created by work stop- pages, during which - neither employees, employers nor the general public experience anything -but loss. We have said it before • °and we re• peat— strikes are as obsolete as. wart . They are simply the employment of -force where rea- son should prevail. , Labor courts -or. tribunals Must be de- veloped. The systems of arbitration which have been employed up to thepresent are not satisfactory. There has been too much room for the complaint that such bodies are not impartial. Surely, however, that system could be revised to provide for totally un- biased personnel who would be capable, of Considering ail the arguments in a labor dis- pute and making a fair decision. Society has long since agreed that a citi- zen's life can be'entrustedto the decision- of his peers: surely some similar plan could be employed to save the enormous waste of re- current strikes. What more logical sector of the work force to tackle the problem than school teachers? If there is any doubt about the need for new approaches to the labor problem one has only to witness the plight of Great Britain, where unresolved union ''troubles 'and a growing cynioism in the work force has • brought 'one of the great nations of the World to the brink of economic and social bank- ruptcy. ' s Wherewill it end? There is one consolation aboyt being the editor of a rural weekly, newspaper who has never managed even the first faltering steps toward the millionnaire class: no one is going to kidnap us with a demand for $700,000 ransom. Our company would just say, "So long, buster. We can get along without you and anyway you aren't worth that kind of dough." ` Reg Murphy, editor of the Atlanta Con- stitution, was so valuable to his newspaper, his friends and his family that the publishers of the paper paid the ransom demand. Another publisher's daughter, Patricia Hearst, is still in the hands of terrorists who are holding her while an effort is being made to raise 5600 million for free food to the poor in California. Somewhere along the line the kidnap- pers and highjackers have to be stopped, and the price may be high. Civilization has in- deed failed if, with all the sophisticated means at our disposal, we must continue to be victimized by any crackpot who decides it's time to change the world. vNingAdvance-Times To the tor: Before the readers of this SW the "Voice of the Unborn" petition for the rescinding of the abortion reforms; a few issues should be considered. 1. The abortion reforms are still inadequate, Too many wo- men feel compelled to seek illegal abortions -and stiffer grievous consequences. Although 50,000 legal abortions (approx.) were performed last year, it is con- servatively estimated that 50,000 illegal abortions were obtained in Canada last year. Thousands of those who undergo back -street abortion procedures suffer serious complications requiring hospitalization. Estimates in- dicate that 150-1500 of these wo- men die. Legs! abortions performed in hospital, Qr. in good clinics (Dr. Morgentaler's in Montreal) rare- ly result in serious complications or maternal death. • 2. _ Experts, too countless to enumerate, maintain that the earth is overpopulated and un- able.to feed its people. We must institute education projects and establish birth control clinics to eliminate the incidence of un planned and uncontrolled preg- nancy... Abortion is a stop -gap measure until birth . control measures make it unnecessary. If we do anything more than re - THE WINGHAM ADVANCE.TIMES ° Published at Wingham, Ontario, by illi.nger Bros. Limited Barry Wenger, President Robert O. Wenger, Seeretary Treasurer Member Audit Bureau of Cireulatiofis 1Vternber - - Canadian Community Newspapers Assoc. Ontario Weekly Newspapers Ass+oe. Subset itytion $10.00 per year. Six months 025 a To United States $12.50 1 Second Class Mail Registration No. 0821 Return postage guaranteed Treasurer is. Gordon Wall; or- ganists are Murdean Simpson and Grace Richardson. have taken up there. Mr. Green has purchased home in Wingham. residence Lucknow and District High a School, was runner-up in the junior girls' competition in the Central Western Ontario Secon- dary Schools Association public speaking contest held in Luck - now. BRUCE CAMPBELL posed for our camera with a butter dish he brought for the Turnberry Central School's,Antique Show on Feb. 20. The show, in which 58 students exhibited more than 300 historic objects, was held to raise money for an overnight outing for some of Thrnberry's students. (Staff. photo ) County will raise 'fee for land severance place ourselves,We sible and mThe starvation. kr the Ad. vancexnent 01 is the Right Old* 1 inga flak that 'es tior moue human awl motional re- saltrceL 'it is OA Oblititation that confronts and challenges the wo- man's capacity to care night and day. When this task is carried out in the spiritof loVeand fUlfill- ment, it is. hard tot rewording work. But when the child is un- wanted, the task may become on- erous .and.the.obligatfons may be- come a lifetime. sentence, an ordeal emotionally delittitctive to the mother and (Positions for ithe child." (underlinim is mine). There are many. studies up- holding this statement,. ' Unwanted pregnancies Should not be Carried to- term when the result can, be so C10511100140 to the well-being of mother and child. 4. No one is forced to have an abortion. No doctor is required to perform an abortion, although a doctor is ethically bound to refer a patient who requests a service the doctor has morallznpunc- tions about. • In view` of these issues, think . before signing apetition which would withdraw .the right to abortion. • Judith McKibbon, Wingham. t Record budget for Maitland Authority The Maitland Valley Conserva- tion Authority at its annual meet- ing in Wroxeter last week ap- proved a record budget for 1974 of $376,600. Of this total $68,000 will be raised by a general levy on the 29 municipalities and $253,325 will come in the form of provincial government grants. ,The re- mainder is made up of $15,000 People applying for land severances in Huron County after June 1 this year will pay more. In the past, land severances have cost the applicant $40; now it will cost $50. This charge is made upon application and has no bear- ing on whether or not the severance is granted. Revenue for the year was esti- mated at $14,000 based on $40 each for 350 applications. The county share is estimated at $25,000. Reeve Charles Thomas, Grey, said that Wince the county is subsidizing the program by "more than half" it may be a good idea to increase the charges to theindividuals who are using the se vices of the land division committee. Cal Kreuter, a former county warden, is chairman of the land division coMmittee. A child learns through play. It helps him to develop muscular coordination and skill. St. John Ambulance reminds us that exer- cise and play must be kept in bal- ance with sleep and rest if a child is to be healthy and happy. administration $78,000;: dam maintenance $1,100; general maintenance $17,000; conserva- tion -areas,,. which includes aequistion of \ lands, $150,000; water control, engineering, con- struction and property acquis- tiop,• $104,000; conservation services $26,000, expected gate receipts at ` the The $150,000 budget for con - Falls Reserve Conservation Area servation area programs and S,e,�11 al. levies to, several �_ provides for ma r� :► + dituures alt .th F l res e 'nniuu�].[��*r ii des forks i D� it , �, p a � 1S � P- J .:�_,� � .j t �� �Bl the r t �- •� tt J. ,t �u v 1 `Y k tivaw�nrds�i :a , rrie, The budget summary includes: .. `�-�:� �' Galbraith, "Harriston, Brussels, Bluevale and several others. An allotment of $21,000 is, made for acquistion of ''property' in Grey Township and $20,000 for more property in the Saratoga Swamp and $54,000 for ; property pur- chases at Brussels, Wroxeter, Fordwich, Goderich and Lakelet. New books in public library Bambra, Audrey, "TEACH- ING FOLK DANCING" Teaching Folk Dancing pro- vides a most valuable contribu- tion to dance education. It in- cludes dances from Austria, Greece, Israel and France. Em- phasis is given to•the subtle dif- ferences in style and movement which makes dance unique, and also part of a national culture. Brister, Robert, "MOSS, MAL- LARDS & MULES" By any standard, the twenty- seven short stories in this collec- tion are remarkable. They are first-rate 'fiction with the ele- ments of conflict, humor ,and feeling and the well-developed plot and three-dimensional cha- racters that distinguish good writing. A wildly beautiful area; the Gulf Coast, from Louisiana's Mississippi Delta, along the Texas coastline, to the jungle - draped coast of Mexico - unbe- lievably rich in wildlife and in history. Mosley, Leonard, "POWER PL" PoweAYr Play; the tumultuous world of Middle East oil, 1894- 1973. Today oil is the largest in- ternational industry in the world; its finances dwarf the national budgets of most countries, and the actual amount of money made by the oil companies and the Arab and Iranian govern- ments which have granted the concessions is so huge it would have financed Britain's total out- lay in World War I. What are the prospects for the ftiture? Berto, Hazel, "COOKING WITH HONEY" Today's emphasis on natural foods has brought honey, nature's pure and unpreserved sweet, back intoorthe kitchens of the most creative and conscientious cooks. For vegetables with a honey of a difference, the author recom- mends such irresistible treats as loney-aimond carrots, baked beans, Spanish style orange and lemon beets, honeyed acorn - squash, and onions en casserole. Gavett, Bruce, "SKIING FOR BEGINNERS" Skiing for beginners is an ef- fective self -teacher for someone who is on their own. it is an indis- pensable textbook for anyone who is attending ski school, enab- ling a student to understand what he is in the process of learning - step by step. The water control program is alloted 125,000 for floodplain mapping, fill, construction and stream diversion regulations; engineering of $6,000 at Bluevale and the upstream channel of the Middle Maitland; $15,500 for con- struction of the upstream channel on the Middle Maitland and another $60,000 for acquisition of lands for the propo§ed dam and reservoir on the Middle Maitland. Planning and renovati'ohs of the administrative headquarters at Wroxeter are estimated at. $26,000. The auditor's statement listed an expenditure ',last year of $165,000 on capital projects by the Authority. The same statement showed the accumulated capital expenditures, made on all Authority projects since the 'formation of the. original Middle Maitland Authority in 1951, came to a grand total of $775,380. The Falls Reserve project led the list with an accumulated total of $197,000. Listowel cbannel improvements total $105,419; Lower Wingham dam and pond $112,566; Howson dam, Wing - ham, $86;000; Wawanosh Valley Conservation Area, $63,221 as well as sizeable expenditures at Gorrie, Galbraith, Harriston, Saratoga, Bluevale, and Brus- sels. Bill Kennedy heads Ontario weeklies Former Listowel resident, Wil- liam Kennedy of Durham; was elected 24th president of the On- tario Weekly Newspapers As- sociation at the Association's an- nual convention in Toronto at the Hyatt Regency Hotel. Formerly with the staff of The Listowel Banner, Mr. Kennedy is publisher of The Durham Chron- icle, The Markdale Standard and The Herald Grey Bruce Buyers' Guide. In addition to his publishing, Mr. Kennedy is a director of the Canadian Community News- papers A cation, ad Is presi- dent e of Rayweb Ltd. of of and secretary,tteasurer Norweb in 'idyl mini. 130th plants are commercial p*ilttera. • • i.