Zurich Citizens News, 1974-05-02, Page 7THURSDAY, MAY 2, 1974
ZURICH CITIZENS NEWS
Name directors for p ayhouse
Huron Country Playhouse
has acquired four new memb-
ers to its board of trustees.
Benson Tuckey, chairman,
announced recently the addition
of Don Southcott, Mrs. Albert
Vosler, of Grand Bend; Ed Pro-
cunier, London, and Mrs.
Jack Boyd, Forest,
Continuing members of the
playhouse board are Bill Coch-
rane, Miss Betty Etue, and
Bruce Sully, of Goderich;
S.P. Englert, of Kitchener;
Howard Fleming, Mrs. Peter
Ivey, Bill Heinsohn, of London,
James Love, Mrs, Bill Waters,
of Parkhill; E, Beecher Menz-
ies, of Clinton; Mrs, 13i11
Schlegel, Mrs. Griffin Thomas,
of Grand Bend, and from Exet-
er, Airs. Mel Gaiser and Mr.
Tuckey. Mr. Southcott has
Defends
bean board
Mrs. Beryl Plumptre's sug-
gestion in Toronto last Tuesday
that white bean growers should
be subsidizing Canadian consum
ers drew the wrath of the chair-
man of the Ontario White Bean
Producers Marketing Board
Thursday,
Mrs. Plumptre, chairman of
the Food Prices Review Board,
quoted as saying that white
beans were an example of a
produce where export demand
pushed prices up ro levels far
above that needed to keep
Canadian farmers happy.
She advocated a two -price
system, high for export and low
for Canadians as a measure of
restricting the effects of export
demand to protect Canadian
consumers from skyrocketing
world prices.
Philip Durand, of Zurich,
bean board chairman, said the
finances trade missions in many
parts of the world ro market
white beans. Ile said producers
have never been subsidized by
rhe government for the form of
marketing system.
Mr. Durand added he was
not aware of any other comm-
odity organization subsidizing
consumers, including auto-
mobile manufacturers, but
added some farmers do receive
subsidies to produce their prod-
uct.
"It would be interesting to
me to see the reaction of a prop'
osal to Mrs. Plumptre asking
the federal government to curt-
ail her committee's spending
which I believe would be an
excellent way to subsidize the
consumers of Canada, " added
Mr. Durand.
Mrs. Plumptre had noted
that white beans sold for $11 per
hundred weight in 1972 but soar-
ed to more than $40 a hundred
weight last year due to a world
shortage of protein, bringing
on bids from foreign buyers
for Canadian supplies.
"The more I look at the fact-
ors influencing the international
food market, the more I am
personally tending toward the
view that for Canadians to cont-
inue to enjoy the privilege of
what in world terms, are relat-
ively low food prices, it may
be necessary to consider tatting
steps to insulate some domest-
ic markets from international
demand forces, " she said.
While a two -price system
creates political and economic
problems domestically and with
Canada's trading partners, her
board is now studying the idea
and may have more to say about
it in due course, she said.
been appointed to head the
1974 season ticket drive which
will open on May 18.
Bill Heinsohn has been re-
appointed to head up the second.
annual Huron Country Fair
which will be held on the Play-
house grounds on Sunday, June
2.
Mr. Tuckey, also announced
that the Playhouse has accepted
an invitation from the newly
formed Kincardine Theatre
Guild to bring its 1974 season
there. This new arrangement
will mean that the company
will perfor at the Playhouse in
Grand Bend on Wednesday
through Saturday nights, and
wil move its Sunday night perf-
ormance to Kincardine Town
Hall.
Board approval was given for
the 1974 operation. The sum-
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mer season is due to get under-
way on June 26, and details
will be announced shortly by
James Murphy, Playhouse
Managing director, but the
opening play of the season is
definitely " I Do, I Do;" the
Broadway musical, which starr-
ed Mary Martin and Robert
Preston.
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