The Goderich Signal-Star, 1978-05-11, Page 34PAGE 12A—GODERICH SIGNAL -STAR, THURSDAY, MAY 11, 1978
Potash plasters
A shortage of railway cars
suitable for moving potash', a
basic requirement for farm
fertilizers, prompted United
Co -Operatives of Ontario to
dump tons of raw potash on
the Goderich pier adjacent to
Domtar last week.
In a letter to the town of
Goderich F. W. Loftin,
transportation manager for
UCO, said the shipment was
required to meet fertilizer
deadlines for the farming
community in southern
Ontario and that the bulk of
the potash should be moved
within three weeks.
The mineral was moved
from Thunder Bay aboard the
E. B. Barber and dumped on
the coal pier on the north side
of the harbour channel. From
there it will be loaded on
trucks and taken to fertilizer
mixing mills throughout
southern Ontario.
Loftin said in the letter that
UCO considered ports in
Sarnia, Windsor, Port
Stanley, Port Colborne and
Hamilton but selected
Goderich because of co-
operation received from the
town. The potash will be used
in the counties qof Grey,
Bruce, Huron, Perth,
Wellington, Middlesex,
Oxford and Kent.
Loftin said the lake route
was chosen for the potash
because of a "critical railway
hopper car shortage in
North America. He said it
was virtually impossible for
UCO to secure any rail
transportation from Western
Canada to Ontario. He ex-
plained that ` thousands ' of
Canadian railway cars are
sitting in the United States
loaded with potash and in
Vancouver and the Maritimes
loaded with grain. He said
Russian shipping has not
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Tons of raw potash were dumped on the Goderlch pier
adjacent to Domtar last week in an effort to stave off "a
fertilizer shortage for the southern Ontario farming com-
munity. The raw mineral will be trucked to fertilizer mixing
plants across southern Ontario to meet fertilizer deadlines
arrived to load the grain and
poor weather has permitted
unloading the cars in the U.S.
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Loftin said there may be a
shortage of fertilizer in
Ontario this spring due to the
fast approaching. United Co-Operat
potash shipped to Goderlch to get
railway hopper ears normally used
The mounds should be gone by the
Dave Sykes)
transportation problem. UCO
executives are hopeful the
use of lake shipping will stave
off that crisis.
Ives of Ontario had the
around a shortage of
to move the mineral.
end of May. (photo by
Summerhouse One....
Group looking for places to play
• from page lA
be gaining valuable knowledge and .
enjoying their summer. It'll help them
realize that there is more to a job than
simply the pay, says McMillan. Also,
there are students at G.D,C.I. who want
to go on to study and work in theatre,
design or radio and• television arts and
having worked on such "' a project as
Summerhouse One will give them in-
creased eligibility for such programs
and increased hiring power later on too.
McMillan and Hogan have a list of
about 35 students from Canada Man-
power who have somehow shown an
interest in theatre. These students will
be asked to come to interviews and
auditions and will be selected on that
basis. It's going' to be very difficult to
pare the group down to seven, says
McMillan.
• Once the students are picked, they
must use their own initiative to get and
keep the project going, says McMillan.
He may be helping out a bit himself if
asked but he stresses it is a student
program. Leslie Hogan has already
worked very hard, he says, and kept his
interest in the program going up to this
point so far. Leslie is planning to go on.
from Grade 13 to study professional
theatre and has been working hard
toward that goal. Leslie's father is Jack
McLaren of Benmiller, one of the
original Dumbells, a famous World War
I touring group who invaded Broadway
successfully and staged one of the most
successful variety shows Canadians
have ever staged. They toured at least a
dozen times, coast to coast in Canada
with their last circuit being in 1932.
The $8,000 Canada Works grant has to
be spent within the summer. What is not
spent must be returned. The project is
not a profit making one. Besides
salaries, the grant money goes towards
employee benefits, travelling expenses,
publicity, materials and supplies needed
and royalty fees depending. on the plays
selected. The students will have to ac-
cumulate some money of their own to
supplement the grant and this might be
done by charging admission for the final
production to be staged at G.D.C.I.
McMillan fells it is very com-
mendable of the' Board of Education to
allow the school to be used for the,
project in the summer. School facilities
should be used more often for such
things, he says. He also feels that the
community should recognize the need
for a good performing auditorium for
theatre groups along with their other'
civic projects.
While project- Summerhouse One is
"still• taking shape, anyone interested in
having the group perform for their group
or in• their area, should record their
interest with Mr. McMillan who can be
reached at his home or at G.D.C.I. Some
spots may even be toured twice
depending on the group's popularity.
Summerhouse One is a relatively fresh
and new idea which if properly
developed, could turn' into something
significant for those with theatre in-
terests in Goderich. Let's give it any
community support we can!
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