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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1978 BLYTH, ONTARIO, PRICE: . 20 Cents Volume 88 - No.7
A SUNNY MARCH — Five classes from the Blyth
Public School took a brisk walk Friday afternoon over
to the Community Arena for an hour of skating.
Grade Kindergarten through to five participated.
(Staff Photo)
Centennial Committee
Standard
among
winners
The Ontario Weekly
Newspaper Association has
announced winners in its Better
Newspaper Competition for 1977
and the Blyth Standard was
' chosen as having . the best
editorial page for paper's of its
:circulation size :.
Award winners are chosen from
two compulsory issues and,.
premier awards are chosen from
entr s made by the paper in
various categories.
The compulsory issues were,
January 3, andMarch 28, 1977.
Keith Roulston was editor and
publisher at the time.
Awards will be presented at the
Convention March 3 and 4.
Thanks to all of you who have
taken time and thought to suggest
coverage and support your
newspaper, the Blyth Standard.
Boasts $3,500 prf/tMeetng to
be held
Few Centennial committees
can boast of a profit but that is the
case in Blyth when the Centennial
Committee has reported a
balance of $3,500 profit after a
successful year.
A decision as to the position of
the surplus came only aftyer,
much discussion at a‘, meeting on
February 7. The .funds will be
divided equally between the Blyth
and Area Community Centre and
The Blyth Memorial Hall. A
suggestion to purchase a
commemorative gift was
abandoned 'when no decision
could be reached as to where it
might be placed or what form it
might take.
The money is to be put towards
some capital expenditure such as
assisting in the purchasing of a
Board approves
expansion move
A major expansion of
facilities for Blyth Memorial Hall
was approved in principle by the
board of directors for the Blyth
Centre for the .Ar.ts Thursday
night.
The board agreed to go ahead
with the expansion program as
funds become available. The
three phase project would cost
between $150,000 and $200,000.
While the project has been
approved in principle by both the
board and the Blyth village
council which owns the building,
actual details of the plan will not
be settled until consultation with
all community groups using the
facility has been carried out.
The first phase of the plan
would see improvements to meet
new building requirements. The
second phase would see
installation of air conditioning,
lightingand audio equipment and
other new technical facilities. The
final phase would be the erection
of a new addition to the rear
corner of the building to provide
new dressing rooms and workshalp
facilities, offices, and storage
space for sets and props. The
building, designed by the
Goderich architectural firm of Hill
•
and Borgal, will also have a ramp
for easy access for the
handicapped.
Board Chairman Keith .
Roulston said that though it
seemed like a large project to
undertake, the board felt that
continued growth of the four year
old Blyth Summer Festival was
dependent on the improvement of
the technical quality of
productions.
The project is expected to be
completed over a two year period,
depending upon the availability of
funds.
sound system for the main floor of
the arena centre and equipment
for the kitchen in the Memorial
Hall. Final decision will rest with
the recreation committee,
Centennial souvenirs which
remained unsold when the
Centennial ended will be turned
over to Blyth council and any
proceeds from subsequent sale
will go to the recreation
committee.
Each student at the Blyth
Public School will receive a copy
of the Blyth History Booklet with
the balance of the books to be
handled by the Huron County
Museum in Goderich.
A financial statement will be
published in thelBlyth Standard at
a later date.
Bill Riehl who headed the
Centennial organization, thanked
each one on the committee for
their co-operation and work
during the past year and the
Centennial Committee books
were closed,
for 125th.
Auburn 125th Birthday
The next meeting to plan
Auburn'S . 5th birthday party to
take place in the summer of 1979
is on February 22nd at 8 p.m.
sharp in the Auburn Conmiunity
Memorial) Hall. Don't forget to
get the drawings of the ensigns
etc. to enter the contest in by
February 17th to the secretary,
Mrs. Eleanor Bradnock.
LEO CLUB DONATION •- Rick Elliott, treasurer of the Leo Club in Blyth stands
between Carman MacDonald (L) vice president of the Blyth arena board and Larry
Walsh, secretary of the arena board as he presents them' with a $1500 cheque. The
money is to go towards the sound system downstairs In the arena. The Leo Club
raised the money in a skate-a-thon last September. (Staff Photo)
2 -- THE BLYTH STANDARD, FEBRUARY 15, 1978
Good supply at Brussels Stockyards
A good supply of cattle and
pigs at Brussels Stockyuards
traded on a steady market. There
were 1055 cattle and 1685 pigs on
offer,
Choice Steers - 49.00 to 51,00.
Good Steers - 47.00 to 49.00
Four steers consigned by Bob
McDonald of Brussels averaging
1105 lbs, sold for 51.00 with his 25
steers averaging 992 lbs, selling
for 49.90.
A steer consigned by L. & B.
FArms of Wallenstein weighing
1220 lbs. sold for 51.00 with their
25 steers averaging 1141 lbs,
selling for the overall price of
50.00,
A steer consigned by Douglas
Eadie of Holyrood weighing 1220
lbs, sold' for 51.00 with his 17
steers averaging 1300 lbs. selling
for the overall price of 49.60. '
Ten steers consigned by K & L.
Beef haIrms of Ethel averaging
1136 lbs. sold for 50.80 with their
36 steers averaging 1093 lbs.
selling( for 50,05.
Three steers consigned by
Howard Martin of Brussels
averaging 1100 lbs. sold for 50.40
with his 30 steers averaging 1134
lbs, selling for an overall price of
49.60.
Eight steers consigned by
Jack Stewart of Molesworth
averaging 1192 lbs. sold for
50.10.
A steer consigned by Douglas
Wagg of R.R,5, Mitchell
weighing 1150 lbs, sold for 50.25
with his 6 steers averaging 1145
lbs, selling for the overall price of
49.70.
Seventeen steers consigned by
Jim Burt of Holyrood averaging
'1146 lbs, sold for the overall price
of 49,75.
Two steers consigned by
Wilhelm Bros , of Walkerton
averaging 1220 lbs. sold for
Blyth personals
A.C.W. of Trinity Church,
Blyth met at the home ofMrs,
Janis Henry when the president
opened the meeting reading from
the Living Message.
World Day of Prayer will be
hbld in Trintiy Anglican Church on
March 3 at 2 p.m. Everyone is
welcome.
Members decided on a hot beef
and hang supper the last week in
March.
Several of the ladies won a
prize.
Next meeting will be at the
home of Mrs. Margaret Nesbit on
March 9 at 2 p.m.'
Mr. and Mrs. Jim
• Stephenson of Woodstock and
Mrs. Elaine Nixon of Wingham
were visitors on Sunday with Mr.
and Mrs. Jini Scott Sr.
50.00.
ChoimHeifers - 45,00 to 47.00
with sales to 47.50.
Good Heifers - 43.00 to 45.00.
A heifer consigned by Wilhelm
Bros, of Walkerton weighing 1060
lbs, sold for 47.50.
Eleven heifers consigned by
Jack Cardiff of Brussels
averaging 1100 lbs. sold for 46.85
with his 29 heifers averaging 1031
lbs. selling for the overall price of
46.32.
Seventeen heifers consigned by
Carl Fitch and Sons of Wroxeter
averaging 1017 lbs, sold for 46.00
with their 50 heifers averaging
960 lbs. selling for the overall
price of 45., 75,
Choice Cows - 32,00 to 34.00
with sales to 36.00.
Good Cows - 29.00 to 32.00.
Bulls traded
30
lb. pigs traded
40 to 50 -Ib.
50.00.
50 to 60 lb.
56.50.
60 to 70 -Ib.
62.50.
to a high of 38.25.
to 40
to a high of 42.00.
pigs to a high of
pigs to a high of
pigs to a high of
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From me to you
THE BLYTH STANDARD, FEBRUARY 15, ,1978 —3
Think gardening now
By Rhea Hamilton
Now that the stormy weather is
almost past (touch wood) the
question changes from should 1 go
to work if it is stormy to should 1
go to work feeling like this?
FAST KNEE WORK These skates are really hard
to get used to Dionne Clark illustrated Friday.
Students from Kindergarten to Grade 5 from Blyth ,
Public School enjoyed an hour of skating at_ the
Community Arena. (Staff Photo)
At the library
DAVIS
By John Scanian
Davis is a novel about a man
whose profession is war. The
story traces this soldier from his
training days in military college,
through ' guerilla warfare in
Burma, to his tour as a general in
Korea. He finds inspiration in
exotic surroundings and
exhilaration in developing
strategy, always fired by his
desire to excel in his quest
STORM OVER INNISH
By Dorothy Clewes
The boy came from the sea,
battered, half dead, hisl memory
gone - he just lay there. That was
how Letty found him but with
great care she nursed him back to
health. As days passed, an'
uneasiness began to invade the
island. A helicopter hovered
'curiously over the cliffs of Innish.
It is a story of a nearly grownup
pair grappling with grownup
problems.
FAST BREAK
By Curtis Bishop
Coach Preston of Riverside
High had just named twelve
members of the basketball squad.
Then he turned to Sam Daley
who :h ad not been picked and said
with a grin, "I doubt that you'll
ever make a basketball player but
1 want you on thesquad too,"
Sam was teamed up with Rene
who had recently arrived from
Mexico. During the first part of
the season Sam and Rene became
very efficient, Then unexpectedly
news cane that Rene had to
return to Mexico. Could Sam and
the team go on without Rene is
the big question.
Next Junior Story Hour will be on
February 28, at 1:40 p.m.
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It's the season for flu bugs of
all varieties and intensities.
When all around are having their
own affairs with the nasty devils
called germs, unless you are
highly immune to their effect or
are as ihealthy as a horse the best
medicine is to avoid contact with
anyone who is spouting germs
and to remember if you do
succumb to the bug that if you go
out from your cosy nest you are
only spreading your misery to
others and most likely, making
yourself worse in the bargain.
Lastnight on the dear old
"tube" on a program called One
day at a Tinie, Romano got a
severe case of the flu and cold to
boot. When finally she took off
time to go home and rid herself
of the problem another problem
arose when a co-worker stepped
into her place and did quite nicely
on Ramano's talent and ideas.
Watching this made me
suddenly aware, that I had taken
the afternoon off to battle the flu
myself. Thank Heavens l could
leave the office in good hands and
not worry about what was
happening and concentrate on
getting well:
Now it is Tuesday, six a.m. and
I am merrily typing notes out to
you dear readers. But 1 have a
little tip for anyone not feeling too
perky. Half a day of rest and care
works quicker and better than
pushing yourself and breaking
down your defenses and corning
down with a bitter case of flu or
cold. •
I'm proof of that as I am going
to work today feeling chipper and
ready to tackle anything which
probably will be everything as it
is Tuesday and the Standard gets
laid out and run tonight.
Another note to you all. If you
order seeds and have not done so
it's time. Seed houses fill a great
many orders especially at this
time of the year. In order to get
your selection completed and
back in time for early seeding or
indoor planting, get your order off
now. It saves disappointment
later when you get back a little
note, "sorry out of stock".
Signs of spring are everywhere
when the sun shines for a whole
day as it has for a few days this
month. The sparrows are chirping
away and even those miserable
starlings are out in full
complement to voice approval of
the slowly melting snow. The
days are thankfullly, getting
longer and that to me is always a
sign that our imposed
hibernation will soon be lifted.
What with looking at seed books
and ordering trees and vines the
old fingers itch to be in the soil
digging up a storm.
Ever get that growing fever to
have tlfe snow gone and be done
with it for another year? But all in
good time. If we anxiously await
the coming of another season we
rush away the days we have and
shorten the days we are- here.
Sit in the sun and enjoy every
day of it. It will soon be March 1.
ROUNDUP
OF BARGAINS
Save $195 to $2,600 on new John
Deere Hay and Forage Equipment.
Get waiver of finance charge, too
Reward yourself two ways. Keep cash
in your pocket with the special
discounts shown below on new John
Deere machinery. Second, no finance
charge will be imposed until the first of
the month this type of equipment is
used in our area. Act now while these
preseason discounts are available.
Come on in and let's round up some
bargains for you!
MACHINES
25 and 34 Forage Harvesters; 15A and 16A Rotary Choppers;
336 and 346 Balers; 100 Stack Mover
1207, 1209, and 1214 Mower/Conditioners; 466 Baler;
35 and 3800 Forage Harvesters;
800 and 830 Windrowers
100 Stack Wagon
200 and 300 Stack Movers
2250, 2270, and 2280 Windrowers
200 Stack Wagon
300 Stack Wagon
230 Stack Shredder/Feeder
Discount is subject to equipment availability.
Discount through
April 30, 1978
$195
$325
$520
$650
$780
$1,040
$1,950
$2,600
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4—THE BLYTH STANDAR, FEBRUARY 15, 1978
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It's for you
Huron County appears to be looking a gift horse in
the mouth and much to everyone's dismay the gift
horse will not be with us for ever.
The Rural outreach program financed by the
Kellogg Foundation and run by the University of
Guelph is not being taken advantage of.
The outreach program was initially set up to help
rural people preserve their way of life and yet take
advantage of new changes going on in the
community. The same program also provides outlets
for new urban residents for knowledge and new
ideas.
The program is a free service and as of yet
program organizers say in this day of rising inflation
and the need for studies into so many things, the
service is being overlooked by many of the residents
of Huron County.
To date the university has helped set up , in
cooperation with local people, a county wide
planning project, • secondary plans for Turnberry
township; a child abuse program in connection with
Children's aid and a workshop program in nutrition
which would offer information on parenting and
financial counselling as well.
In the planning stages and upcoming are a series
of workshops for the professionals involved with
Children's Aid. By informing these people of new
information Outreach believes they in turn can apply
the knowledge and reach more lay people, you and
me.
, The University of Guelph is a co-ordinating unit
which is able to get the resources out to the groups
and individuals who ask.
As well for farmers who are interested in learning
more about anything, the services of one of the
countries finest agricultural communities are open
for the choosing.
The program was started initially in response to
community need and so far the need has not been
exhaustive, the RODP staff in Wingham says.
Everyone wants to maintain and improve their
quality of life. We all• have a sense of tradition and
wish to keep_ it as well as take advantage of any
change that is beneficial to use.
The Rural Development Outreach Program is
located in Wipg.ham, on 92 Victoria Street and it
only takes a phone call to see if your problem can be
solved with help from the University, either resource
information or professional help.
The four areas of most concern to the project are
human development, economic development,
environmental considerations and community
concerns.
This program is a gift to Huron County and is
offered in no other rural community. Will Huron take
advantage of it?
I'm not one of those people who think
socialism is the cure to all the ills of the world
but sometimes one has to wonder about some
of the priorities of our society.
One of those occasions cane on the
weekend when 1 picked up one of the
newspaper supplement magazines and saw
how E.P.'Taylor had bought a race horse for $9
million. Mr. Taylor, of course, didn't put up
the whole amount for The Minstrel even
though $9 million is just pocket change for
him. He syndicated the breeding rights for the
horse, selling some 36 shares at $250,000
each That's a lot of money to pay for a stallion
to bmares ayear.' actual) 40 since
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ec,d36 m► Y
Taylor kept four more shares for himself) and
there was worry that Taylor would have a
tough time scaling the shares. Within one day
after they were put on the market, all the
shares were sold and more people were
begging to a share.
Not that this is a foolish gamble. For the
past few years Taylor has been making about
2 million a year from his horse Northern
Dancer's -breeding of some 40 mares. The
Is it fair?
Dancer and The Minstrel live in a luxurious
accommodation at Taylor's 2000 -acre farm in
Maryland (Taylor also has a huge farm near
Oshawa, just for horses).
There's something exciting about
racehorses but I must . admit i find the whole
Minstrel story a little mind -numbing. Here we
are when a third of the world is unable to
obtain proper food, where farmers in our part
of the world find it hard to find enough money
to stay in business and this man can devote
thousands of acres and millions of dollars to
racehorses and actually make money at it. To
me it says something pretty sad about our
judgment of what
is really
important in life,
Taylor got his money through his holdings
in Argus Corp. One of the largest conglomer-
ates in Canada; A good deal of the money for
the corporation came from the breweries it
owns like 'Carlings and O'Keefe. One of the
surest ways of making money in Canada is to
provide such essc .ntials as beer, whiskey and
cigarettes. Producing food your farmer
neighbours will tell you is, (the consumer •
(Continued on Page 13)
Sugar and Spice
by Bill Smiley
This week, for a change, I'd like to write
a nice, warm, sunny column, after bleating
piteously in the last one about our dreadful
Canadian winters.
it's difficult. 'There's a raging blizzard
howling around the house. The wind
moans, then wails, then shrieks in
frustration as it can't quite knock clown the
sturdy brick strucurc.
If l'd been like the first two little pigs.
my dwelling would be flat by now, and I'd
be bowling across they fields like a tumbling
tumbleweed,
Couldn't make it to work this morning..
Managed to get the old '67 Dodge started,
barrelled through a drift on the road,
couldn't make the hill, backed clown, got
stuck while turning, was pushed out, went
the Tong way around, drove for a bit in pure
whiteouts, finally put my tail between my
legs, or canis to,my senses, crept home,
rammed the old buggy into a drift, and
dived into the house.
My crazy wife, booted and scarved and
helmeted, was just starting off for the. eye
doctor's, five blocks away. She thinks 1
make too much fuss about the Tat her,
mainly because she stays in when it's
dirty, and I'ni the one who digs the car out
`every morning.
1 told her to go ahead, but I wasn't
driving her down,She stepped out the back
door, in the lee of the house, and declared
it wasn't bad at all, that she'd walk,
implying by.tone and expression that I was
a big chicken, and that she, raised on a
farm, was of the i•eal pioneer stock who
didn't let a little 40 -milt wind bother them.
"Go ahead. Enjoy," I suggested. She
stuck her nose in the air, sailed out the
back walk, got to the corner, turned purple
and almost went flying off like'a seagull
caught in a squall;
When she crawled back in, panting, 1
said it might be a good idea to call the
doctgor. She did and learned that he,
sensible man, had started for town, turned
around and gone home for the day, and all
appointments were cancelled.
If she'd tried to make it to his office and
back, we'd have found her dead in a drift,
in about three days.
From my second -floor window, the only
one that isn't frosted over, I watch the
show. One bewildered bird, tail blown
inside out, goes by on the wind like an
arrow, slams into a tree, grasps a branch,
is caught again by the monster and tossed
out of sight into the spindrift. Must be
some sort of a miniature turkey, who didn't
know enough to go south with the rest of
the folks, and thinks he has it soft because
somebody is gorging him daily at a feeder,
Wham) Thunkl One of the shutters ha's
torn 'loose, swings open against the
window frame, then slams back against the
brick wall, This goes on at irregular
intervals all clay. My wife knows perfectly
well that when the wind dies, the shutter
will be in the half-closed position, a real
eye-spre, and that nobody is going to wade
through that snow with a ladder and fasten
it back.
1 gently remind her that the san►c
shutter blew off completely last winter,
and lay near the front steps until well into
September before being put back up..
"Rrrowrr/" There goes a snowmobile,
hell -for -leather, with someone who thinks
he's Captain Marvel at the wheel, if
somebody comes out of a sidestreet, that
embryonic Evel Knievel will go straight
into him at 40 miles an hour. Oh, well. One
less.
No cars ab out now, after a few idiots
tried to make the hill, and all wound up
backing ignominiously down,
There goes the oil truck, lumbering
through. Wish i owned about four of those
and I'd be sitting in my southern
condominium right now, chortling as I
waited for the mail to arrive so I could
count my cheques. •
Taxi. company has obviously taken the
phone off the hook. Don't blame them.
Send a driver out for a dollar and a half call
to sonic crazy old lady who wants to go
shopping, and wind up with a $15 towing
bill,
There goes another tow truck. 'They're
having a field day. And they can have it.
I'm happy, sitting snugly at home, waiting
for the soup to boil. Called the school.
Hardly anybody there. But we teachers are
like the Pony Express, We're supposed to
get through. I could walk. It's only a mile,
uphill, and l'd probably only get a heart
attack or pneumonia, They'll probably
dock me a day's pay for not trying to get
through in my car and going in the ditch or
running down a pedestrian.
There's that poor devil down the street,
shovelling. Every time I look out this
window, he's shovelling, tirelessly. Can
never be sure he's real. More like a ghost
who has been assigned this job for
eternity, instead of coal in the Other P lace.
This is worse.
Wife worries about sister-in-law, living
alone in the country. Worries about her
father, hoping he won't try to get around
the rural mail route today. Worries about
her daughter, who must bundle herself
and The Boys up and venture into the
storm to deliver them to day care, herself
to practice teaching assignment.
Tell her not to worry, There's nowt we
can do about it. In fact am rather enjoying
the storm, the cutoff feeling. The not going
to work feeling.
A good storm is rather like a purge.
Cleanses the spirit of that daily grumbling -
about the weather.
IT'S ALL A MATTER OF BALANCE — These girls were helping keep a smaller
classmate on her skates, Friday. The Blyth Public Schoolchildren were enjoying an
hour of skating Friday: There were many tumbles for some but for others there was
a lot of help in avoiding them. (Staff Photo)
County against
evening up
BY SHIRLEY J. KELLER
You've got to be kidding! That
seemed to be the attitude of
county councillors who voted last
Thursday at the February session
of council in Godcrich to a
recon menclation fro the
executive committee designed to
even up taxes ill Huron for county
Purposes.
Bill Clifford, reeve of Godcrich,
urged county councillors to "look
at what is fair and what is just"
when they perused figures that
showed what the various
municipal apportionments would
have been had the 1975 market
value assessment figures been
used in 1977, added to the
equivalent equalized assessment
for grants in lieu, together with
the population base for library,
social services, Htironview,
family and children's services and
health costs,
In general, the figures showed
that urban dwellers would have
paid substantially less into the
county coffers, while the rural
dwellers would have been
tagged with many more tax
dollars. A recorded vote tallied
28-19 opposed to a committee
recommendation that the final
1978 county apportionment be
raised on the system.
Those opposed were C. W.
Bray, Allan Campbell, Ken
Campbell, Tom Consitt, Frank
Cook, Murray Dawson, Cecil
Desjardine, Bill Elston, Gerry
Ginn, Sinion Hallahan, Bob
Lyons, J. F. MacDonald. Drano
McNeil,, Ralph McNichol,Tom
Miller, Bill Morley, Harold
Robinson, John Stafford, Paul
Steckle, Grant Stirling, Jack
Tinney, Roy Williamson and
Warren Zinn.
Those in favor were R. M. Bell,
Bill Clifford, Bill Dale, Norman
Durst, John Flannery, Fred
Haberer, Joe Kerr, Cal Krauter,
Roycc Macauley, D. J. Noble,
Eileen Palmer, Ervin Sillery and
Harold Wild. All other councillors
were absent from the meeting.
Warden Gcriv Ginn was a little
taxes
embarrassed about voting in
opposition to the recommen-
Continucd on Page 8)
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THE BLYTH STANDARD, FEBRUARY 15, 1978 —5
WEDDING INVITATIONS
THE HURON EXPOSITOR
PHONE 527-0240
SEAFORTH
ROYAL COMMISSION
OF INQUIRY INTO THE
Confidentiality
of Health Records
in Ontario
By Order -in -Council dated the 21st day of
December, 1977, The Honourable Mr. Justice
Horace Krever was appointed pursuant to The
Public Inquiries Ad, 1971, to:
1. review all legislation administered by the
Minister of Health (for example, The Public
Hospitals Act, The Health Disciplines Act,
The Health Insurance Act and The Mental
Health Act), together with any other relevant
legislation administered by other Ministers,
and any Regulations passed thereunder, to
determine whether proper protection is
given to the rights of persons who have
received, or who may receive, health
services, to preserve the confidentiality of
information respecting them collected under
that legislation;
2. to review the legality of the administrative
processes ,under the above Acts; and
3. to report thereon to the Minister of Health
with any recommendations for necessary
amendments to the legislation and the
Regulations passed thereunder.
NOTICE OF HEARING
The first session of the Commission will be
convened on Monday, the 20th day of February,
1978, at the hour of 10:00 o'clock in the forenoon,
at the Sutton Place Hotel, 955 Bay Street at
Wellesley, Toronto, Ontario, for the purpose of
establishing procedures and granting status to
interested individuals and organizations. Any-
one intending to participate in the Commission's
hearings is invited to attend and may make
submissions at the above noted time.
The dates, times and places of public hear-
ings will be announced at a later time.
The Commission is asking for opinions, com-
ments and information from all interested in-
dividuals and organizations. Anyone wishing
to make a written submission or deliver relevant
information to the Commission may do so,
addressing it to:
ROYAL COMMISSION OF INQUIRY INTO
THE CONFIDENTIALITY OF HEALTH RECORDS
IN ONTARIO,
22nd Floor, 180 Dundas Street West,
TORONTO, Ontario M5G 1Z8.
Telephone: 1416) 965-4003
The Hon. Mr. Justice Horace Krever,
Commissioner.
Harvey T. Strosberg,
Counsel to the Commission.
6—THE BLYLTH STANDARD, FEBRUARY 15, 1978
Cemetery board trustee resigns
Cemetery Board
The annual meeting of the
B. !l's cemetery Board was held,
last week at the honie of the
chairman of the Trustee Board
Frank Raithby.
The minutes were accepted as
read by the secretary Mrs. Robert
Slater.
The resignation of Robert
Turner was accepted with regret
after 18 years of service, All
trustees paid high tribute for Mr.
Turner's excellent work during
the past 18 years.
Mrs. Slater presented the
annual financial statement
showing total receipts to be
$1373.66 total expenditures
$1931.69 and a balanceM lith the
former year's balance is $1042,08
It was reported that there had
been two burials during the past
year and that repairs had been
made to the church.
Plans were made to hold the
annual memorial service on July
2nd,
Village Trustees
The February meeting of the
Auburn Village Trustee Board
was held in the Town, Hall last
Saturday evening with all trustees
present.
The village trustee Chairman
Warner Andrews presided. The
minutes were accepted as read by
the Village Clerk, Frank Raithby,
Thanks for the donation to the
Auburn Horticultural Society was
given by their treasurer, Mrs.
Eleanor Bradnock,
it was reported that there is
some progress on the new street
lights and a discussion took place
Ann St.Jean to speak
Mr, and Mrs. Lorne Peter of Personals
Bervie and Miss Connie Peter of Mr, and Mrs. Luther Morley of
Downsview were guests last Ailsa Craig visited last Thursday
Sunday with Mrs. Beth Lansing. with her brother, Mr. 13en
We are sorry to report that Hamilton and Mrs. Hamilton.
Pastor Alfred Fry of Goderich is a
patient in St. Joseph's Hospital, Mr. and Mrs. Stanley McNall
London. We wish hini a speedy of Welland spent last weekend
recovery. with Mr. and Mrs. Thomas
The Coffeetimers will hold their Johnston and Miss Laura Phillips.
next meeting at the home of Mrs.
Murray Nesbitt on February 20th The February meeting of the
at 8 p.m. Mrs. lan Clark will Auburn Women's Institute will be
speak on Yoga, Everyone is held on February 2l st at 2 p.m, in
welcome, the Auburn Community Memorial
Mr. and Mrs, Donald Hiall, The guest speaker will be
Stonehouse of Guelph visited last Mrs. Ann St, .lean who will speak
Wednesday afternoon with their on Day Kate and Alternative
aunt Mrs, Bert Taylor. Care for the elderly in Huron
County.
Mr, and Mrs. George Robb and
fancily of London visited on
Sunday with her parents Mr. and
Mrs. Wilfred Sanderson.
Mr, and Mrs. Keith Rodger,
Gary Rodger, , Eddie Frankent
and Glenda Wood took part in the
Whipper • Billy Watson
Snowerama for Timmy held
recently at Hulley Gulley. All
completed the 100 mile route.
Don't forget your entry for the
quilt design for the Ploughing
Match this fall which should be in
to the Auburn Women's Institute
for the Febraury 21st meeting.
on the changing of some of the
road signs at the edge of the
village as they are confusing
tourists and travellers,
Sandy Andrews represents the
village on the Blyth arca Fire
department and he reported on
the set up for this year.
The Town Hall is being used
every afternoon for playing cards
and it is often filled to capacity
and everyone enjoys themselves.
The following is the expense
statement given by Clerk Frank
Raithby.
Sidewalks $496.00, Hort.
Society $25.00, Town Hall $67,22,
Town hydro $ 138.44, Streets
$833.76, snow removal $455.50,
street lights $1061.88, fire' area
$1250.00, garbage collection
$1510.00, administration $144.26,
Total $6032,06,
The trustees had set an
estimate of 5735,00 and they must
be congratulated on being able to
conduct the business with only
794.92 over their estimates for the
1977 year.
Auburn WMS
The Auburn Presbyterian
Women's Missionary Society met
for it's February meeting at the
home of Misses Ella, Laura and
Minnie Wagner,
The president Mrs. Wilfred
Sanderson was in charge and
opened with the call to r orship.
worship, She welcomed the
members and all read in unison
the hymn.
The devotional period was taken
by Mrs, Lillian Leatherland, The
scripture lesson, Genesis 33rd
chapter was read alternately and
the meditation was based on the
14th verse. He is There, followed
by prayer,
The roll call was answered by
the paying of fees. The minutes
were accepted as read by the
secretary Mrs. Lillian
Leatherland. A short report of the
Presbyterial was given by Mrs.
Eleanor Bradnock, Plans were
de for tl)e Day of Prayer
service which will be held on
March 3rd at 2 p.m. in St. Mark's
Anglican church.
The financial statement was
given by the treasurer, Mrs.
Frances Clark. The offering was
received by Minnie Wagner and
dedicated with prayer by Mrs.
Sanderson. The Mission study
was given by Mrs. Frank Raithby
who told about the work in
Northern . niwik's
Spectrun) and Canada"The Northlis
Calling",
The hymn - '0 Love that cast
out fear" was read and the
meeting closed with Mrs
Sanderson pronouncing the
benediction.
A dclicouslunch was served by
Misses Ella, Minnie and Laura
Wagner and a social half hour
enjoyed.
More Auburn news
on page 8
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THE BLYTH STANDARD FEBRUARY 15, 1978 _7
Trustees want doors. open
Sonic trustees on the Ilin•on which he said was three times
County Board of Education feel longer than the board normally
that loo much business k being spends at its monthly sessions,
clone by the board behind closed The committee of the whole
doors and that the policy is sessions allow thc board to deal
clouding the board's public with specific matters and the
image, The board asked its policy excludes members of the
executive committee to check into media and the public from the
items handled in committee of the meeting room. Normally
whole to sec if more can be personnel matters or legal
brought into the public forum, situations which could be
Herb Turkheim, Zurich trustee, adversely affected by public
said he was concerned that the attention are handled in
board was dealing with too many committee of the whole.
items in committee of the whole. The board changed its
1 -Ie said the last private session meeting policy in 1977 and now
the board had took three hours sets aside a special night to
Diviners criticized
at board meeting
'i'he Diviners is back
haunting trustees of the Huron
County Board of Education. The
board learned Monday that
several complaints over the
Canadian novel by Margaret
Laurence have been made by
parents of senior students in the
Huron County system.
Clinton trustee Dorothy
Wallace asked the board 'lien
trustees %yould have an
opportunity to decide if the novel
is acceptable for English
literature instruction in county
secondary schools. She said she
had received a complaint from a
parent who found the book
stuffed under her child's mattress
along with copies of Penthouse
and Playboy,
Education director John'
Cochrane told the board that he
had received similar complaints
about novels being used in
English programs. 1 -Ie said the
controversy last summer about
the novels used in classes w,is
still a topic of concern to some
parents. Mr Cochrane said the
novel is a board approved book
for use in senior secondary school
English classes.
Superintendent of education
Jim Coulter told the board that
the novel had been approved by
the board in August and that the
board would get an opportunity to
review the situation this summer.
He said a list of instructional
books will be brought to the board
in August of 1978 for approval for
use in the new school year.
Mrs. Williams said the student
who had the book hidden under
McKillop UCW
holds meeting
The McKillop Unit of the
U.C.W. held their Feb. ntecting
al the home of Mrs. McCutcheon
with 11 members and 2 visitors
present.
Mrs. N. Schade was in charge
of devotions. The meeting opened
with hymn "'fake my Life and Let
it be", Mrs. N. McGavin as
pianist. Mrs. Schade read a poem
"The 'Pone of Voice", 'i'lie
Scripture was taken from Exodus
20 "The Ten Commandments"
followed with prayer given by
Mrs. G. Love.
Mrs. N. Schade gave the
meditation "The Commandment
We All Overlooked'', Offering
was taken by Mrs. M. 1-lackwcll
and dedicated by Mrs. N. Schade.
'l'he topic a Bilbe Study from
John 41.30 was given by Mrs. N.
McGavin. This part of meeting
was closed by everyone repeating
the Lord's Prayer.
Mrs. M. Hackwcll presided for
the business opening with a
poem "Dirty Dishes". Minutes of
last meeting were read by Mrs.
G. McNichol, Roll call was
answered by everyone paying
their membership fees, Mrs,
Hackwell gave treas. report.
the mattress was a grade 12 male.
She said she advised (he parent to
take the matter to the director of
education and was niereley
brining the matter t0 the board to
find out when and how the board
could act on the subject of novels
imposed by parents,
handle committee of the whole because committee 01 the whole is
matters. In the past the board met misconstrued. He said certain He members
that four trustees,c
on its regular meeting date and sectors of the community feel that co m committee,
of the execution
set aside one hour to handle the board is dealing with a lot of committee, drive of Clinton for
committee of the whole affairs, items behind the curtain of the committee the wholes
Under the new system it meets on committee of the whole and is session that and d thehaee boardno business
a specified night and after the really operating the education ctes and pays the
committee of the whole meeting system in that manner. Mr, Hill costgfloe thathem to be there. He
the trustees hold board said that is not the case, pointing suggested that by revertjingto the
old system of meeting in private
committee meetings, out that in most cases sensitive
odcrich Trustee Cayley Hill issues arc handled in private lto. before the regular board meeting
said he shared some fo the the benefit of trustees who want the board may save money.
Board chairman R. J. Eliott
suggested that the executive to ask certain questions or
committee could meet as well as provide conversation they feel been made public.
the other board committees which would be difficult to do in public. Mr. Elliott reminded the board
would permit the board to take "it might be advisable for the that a motion had been passed
full advantage of the time of the board to identify the subjects that committee of the whole
executive committee members, being dealt With in committee of session begin at 7:00 p.m. sharp
Shirley Hazlitt, trustee for the whole before the board goes and not go longer than an hour
Colborne, reminded the board into committee," said Mr. Hill. and a half. He said combined with
that the new system of He added that to permit the executive committee's
committees and meetings was committees meeting after the screening of committee of the
adopted by the board on a private session of thc board to whole agenda this may solve the
one-year trial basis, Shc said that plan their agendas the board may problem,
il'the board only tries the system endeav i' t li
once It Ism t Beinglair to the sa to board
-done in the committee of the may have to start on the
system", whole and keep subjects as committee of the whole agenda
She added that already some "confined as possible". and handle what business it can
things are being taken out of Mr. Turkheim said the lengthy within that time frame. What
committee of tite whole referring committee of the whole sessions business isn't taken care of will
to one item on the agenda that were not giving board committees have to be done in public at the
last year she felt would not have enough time to handle their regular board meeting that
concerns of Mr. Turkheim business after the board session, month.
Countyapportionment
sameas '77
13Y SHIRLEY J. KELLER $52,92( for family planning and expenditure of $587,250 with province and $117,450 raised in
.expenditure
9,800 coming from the Huron County.
Gerry r Ginn called the $50,000 for the hospital reserve
'1978 budget for 1-luron County a fund. ��-
"stand pat budget". Costs are Lip All these segments of tlic
the Warden told country budget, however, are heavily
The Huron Perth County Roman
councillors at the Februury supported by the provincial
session of council in Goderich government Home care and
Thursday, but the county family planning are subsidized '' Catholic Separate School Board
apportionment will 1101 increase, 100 ,per cent by the province. rl
""That's good in these days ROAD BUDGET
with the inflationary trend," he A surplus of $252,558,55 or
added, about $62,000 higher than
County administrator Bill expected, was brought over from .i
Haply advised in his pi•cambl'. to the 1977 road budget into the
the budget presentation that the 1978 road budget. According to
total expenditure in Huron in Chairman ,Ken Campbell of h
1978 will be an estimated Stephen 'Township, the
$8,822,650. That represents an committee Intends this year to
overall increase of $322,267 or "keep the surplus down and do a
3.79 per cent over the 1977 little more work." '• at
Midget, Also, the Huron allocation from 1
But the county apportionment-- the Ministry of 'Transportation
the amount of money raised in and Communications was $41,000
Huron County --will remain the higher than expected in 1977,
same, $2.630,000, • , Chairman Canipbcl1 said in his 1
This will be achieved by rePort these extra funds
bringing into the 1978 budget an ($103,000 more than expected
accumulated surplus of $407,579 totalling surplus and MTC
from 1977, and by the strict watch allocalion) wero distributed
all county committees kept on throughout the road budget and
their 1978 budget requests, used to reduce the county rate
All county committeesincrease from 9.8 per cent to 1.34
attempted to keep their budget Per cent.
D ERGARTEN
Increases to within four per cent ''The additional funds also
for this year, With increased allowed US to budget for the
assessment in Huron, some construction of a structural plate I
corrugated steel culvert on Road
25 east of Walton one year ahead
of tate road construction in 1979,"
said Reeve Campbell in his
report.
taxpayers in the county should
actually experience a slight
decrease in taxes for county
purposes --approximately two per
cent on the average across Huron.
Reserve funding will not suffer,
either, A total of $150,000 was
added to the ,reserve I'oi• working
capital; $50,000 to the hospital
reserve fund; and $60,000 to the
capital works building reserve
fund.
Warden *Ginn said iii his
opinion, it was important to keep
the reserve funds healthy. 1 -le
explained that it might have been
possible to achieve an even lower
budget to al by deleting the
reserve funds for 1978, but said 1
was not considered good business
to lower a county still rate for one
year and then, perhaps, find in
the next year that a sharp
increase is necessary.
Transportation services,
highways at $3,249,000 and the
Sky Harbor Airport at $16,000,
accounts 'for by far the largest
portion of the budget, a total of
$3,265,000, Next is Huronview
where the 1978 budget is an
estimated $2,587,326 in total.
Health is third at $889,260
including $566,340 for the health
unit, $220,000 for Home Care,
• "Tac new machinery ant. salt .
dome budget was also increased
10 $15,000 which will permit the
salt dome at the Wroxeter Patrol
Yard to be completed prior to the
fall of 1978, the Reeve noted.
The road chairman went on to
explain that the road budget is .
"highly dependent" on hciw
severe the rest of this winter and
the start of next winter will be as
regards snow removal costs, and
what prices come in as a result of
paving and gravel tenders fol•
1978.
Reeve Campbell said if such
expenditures are higher than
estimated in the budget, the
committee will reduce the total
cost by reducing tine length of i'
sonic of the county construction
programs or by dropping some
budgeted items for 1978,-
The 'Fancily and Children's
SErvicc (formerly Children's Aid
Society) budget was also
approved by council at this
sitting. It calls for a total
St. Joseph's School, Kingsbridge
Thursday , March 30th 1:30 - 3:30
Our Lady of Mount Carmel School
Tuesday, March 28th 9 - 4
St. Joseph's School, Clinton
Wednesday, March 15th 9:30 - 12:00
St. Mary's School, Goderich
Wednesday, March 1 - p.m.
Thursday,March 2 p.m.
St. Boniface School, Zurich
Monday, April 17th 9 - 12
Precious Blood School, Exeter
Monday, February 20th 1 - 3:30
St. James School, Seaforth
Thursday, February 23rd 1 - 3:30
Sacred Heart School, Wingham
Thursday, February 16th 1 - 3:30
St. trick's School, Dublin
Wednesday, February 15 9 - 12
St. Marys School, Hesson
Wednesday, March 1st
9:00 - 11:00 and 1:00 - 3:00
St. Patrick's School, Kinkora
Thursday, February 23, 9:30 - 3:30
.Holy Name of Mary School, St. Marys'
Monday, February 27th 1 - 3:30
Children eligible for registration will need to be
five years of age on or before December 31, 1978.
Please bring birth certificate, social insurance
number (if available), OHIP number,
Immunization cards and any other pertinent health
records at the time of registration.
8 -THE BLYTH STANDARD, FEBRUARY 15, 1978
Auburn- 4-H club elects new officers
The Auburn 2, 441 club held
their second meeting at the home
of Mrs, Tom Cunningham on
February 9th at 7 p,m, Debbie ,
Cunningham opened with the 4-H
pledge. Linda Cunningham was
appointed secretary for the
meeting. The roll call was
answered by naming a quilted
article in the home and explaining
how . it was made.,
The minutes were accepted and
plans were made to have a field
trip on Saturday, February 18th at
1:30 p.m. at Mrs, Tom
Cunningham's depending on the ,
weather. Don't forget to bring
your quilt sample.
Pictures of different quilts as
well as real quilts and how they
are made was explained. The
leader, Mrs, Cunningham had the
girls work on their quilt sample.
The meeting was adjourned with
the 4-H motto.
Auburn 1 - 4-H
Auburn 1, 4-H Club held their
first meeting at the home of Mrs.
County against
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dation, especially when he was
acting chairman of the executive
committee when it conceived the
recommendation.
"I believe there should be tax
reform," he said, "but I believe
grant reform should come in with
it. But this does point up the fact
there are inequities.
"I don't believe we can enter
into this before we see grant
reform," agreed Reeve Paul
Stecklc of ,Stanley Township.
"We need to know where the
grants are coming from ane
where they're directed."
The results were surprising for
some council members. It showed
that in every rural municipality
but one, Tuckersmith, there
would have been an increase in
the apportionment, while every
town and village in Huron would
have realized a reduction.
Goderich Township would have
been hit the hardest in the rural
municipalities --$23,276 more,
Running neck and neck for second
spot were Sanley Township with
$17,193 more and Ashfield
Township with $17,153 more. In
fourth spot was Hay Township
with $14,787 more and in fifth
spot was McKillop Township with
$14,437 more.
Other rural municipalities
would have paid additional
taxes as follows: Usborne,
$13,770; West Wawanosh,
$11,746; Stephen, $10,621;
Howick, $9,934; Grey, $9,322;
Hpllett, $9,263; Turnbcrry,
$8,271; Morris, $7,735; East
Wawanosh, $6,502; Colborne,
$6,159.
Tuckersmith would have paid a
total of $23 less than they actually
did pay in 1977. This was
attributed to a very accurate
assessment in 1970 and a very
even rate of real estate inflation
through the years.
The Town of Goderich would
have paid $72,452 less in 1977
had the new formula been
applied. Wingham would have
paid $30,217 less Exeter.
$26,029 less; Clinton, $21,151
less; and Seaforth $11,478 less.
Among the villages, Hensall
would have paid $5,892 less;
Zurich, $5,448 less; Brussels,
$4,238 less; Blyth, $2,718 less;
and Bayfield, $543 less.
Reeve Bill Elston of Morris
argued that according to the
figures, the people of Morris who
total about half the people of
Wingham would be "putting up"
almost as much money as the
people in Wingham. The Morris
share of the expenses based on
market value assessment would
have been $55,094; the Wingham
share $62,472.
"I can see this is going to cost
McKillop a lot more money,"
observed Reeve Allan Campbell.
"That's two or three more mills!
on top of what we're paying
now."
Simon Hallahan, the East
Wawanosh reeve who can always
be counted on to inject humour
into any situation, said that if his
ratepayers had to raise much
more money each year the costs
for welfare in Huron County
would go up considerably.
Not to be outdone, the reeve of
West Wawanosh, Bob Lyons'said,
Reeve Hallahan shouldn't quibble
since ratepayers in East
Wawanosh would have to come
up with just about half of the
increase that would be attached to
West Wawanosh.
Reeve Bill Clifford of the Town 1
of Goderich asked that councillors
not be as concerned with how much
more the rural municipalities
would have to pay as with what
reduction would be applied to
Goderich. Reeve Clifford said it
was clear that Godcrich had been
paying more than its share' for
years and years.
"Thesei arc not arbitrary
figures," he reminded council.
"These figures are based on
facts, on work done by our
municipal assessors."
"1 will it could be made
retroactive," said Reeve Clifford,
'but I'll be quite happy to have it
made fair from this point on."
Donald Cartwright, for the spring
project - Focus on Living.
Mrs. Cartwright presided for
the election of officers, They are
President - Sherry Verbeek,
vice-president - Kim McDowell, '
secretary for good book - Carol
Seers, press reporter, Sheron
St'adelmann,
Mrs. Cartwright outlined the
requirements for each club
member and plans were made for
the next meeting to be held at the
home of the other leader, Mrs.
John Hildebrand.
Mrs. Cartwright led in the
discussion on 'It's your life and
what the 4-H symbols mean',
Points to remember for good
emotional health were told. They
were 1.Face Reality, 2. Adapt to
change, 3. Control anxieties, 4.
Give of yourself, 5'. Consider
others and 6. Learn to .care,
Mrs. Hildebrand explained the
record books and what should be
included in them, Each member
is to bring material to make the
quilt sample or pin cushion.
Members are Shelley Powell,
Carol S ers, Brenda Bos, Sharon
Glousher, Jennifer Johns, Joanne
Slater, Monica Hebert, Lisa
Rodger, Vickcy Rodger, Nancy
Vcrbeek, Sherry Vcrbcek, Kim
McDowell, Patti McDowell and
Sharon Stadclmann.
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Lady, Kathy Rody, Low Lady -
Mrs, Donald Haines, High Man -
' William J. Craig; Low man -
Emmerson Rodger. There were 8
tables in play. Everyone
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By Rev. Earl St. Jean
There is a distortion of music in
this century more_ pronounced
than before. The reason for
singing was because your heart
spilled over with joy. Joy and
singing were linked firmly
together. Music now is used in
many if not all moods. In the past
one didn't sing the blues. If you
were blue you couldn't sing about
it. Sadness and melancholy were
not a threat and had their own
meaning. Life was a mixture of
moods and life's occasional joy
suggested song. Life was seldom
a song from beginning to end.
It is boredom, frustration and
restlessness which plague life
now. Sadness and melancholy
have their depth and purpose_ in
the overall view of life, Music is
not a vehicle for the deeper
wellsprings of philosophy and
poetic imagination. The mere
superficial moods may be
dismissed by a song which may
change the mood. -Music, it would
scene, has no assigned task and is
not captive and bound to chores.
it is an eruption in joy much like a
volcano to pressures deep down
in the earth. The explosive
eruption cannot be contrived,
Song has been harnessed and
enslaved all the same, A caged
canary is asked to sing as if in the
wild free outdoors, In this servant
role music has helped armies over
weary marches, saved thrones
from tumbling by a focus on
patriotic ideals and won battles by
a suitable battle hymn. Songs
often are used to launch
movements and revolutions. How
revolting!
To be tricked .into joy seems
demeaning. By pushing a button
for turning on a radio or television
set we put ourselves under a form
of emotional tutelage like saying
cheese for a picture. We cannot
say we are master of our destiny
or captain of our soul to any real
degree. Joy, to be true, needs to
be one's own initiative. If we prop
up our health with a ton of pills is
our health real? If we depend on a
constant propping up of our mood
from outside is there any
difference?
Turning to hymns as sacred
Song We may see things I11 a
slightly dif'f'erent light. When a
person professes to like a certain
THE BLYTH STANDARD,\ FEBRUARY 15, 1978 —9
In praise of song
hymn it is based on some mood
which had a perfect fit in a given
hymn, The pointis'thatthat fit may
mean a great deallastimc goes on
but we should get more and more
hymns to fit a mood or need as we
go along. Hymnbook _compilers
set out to meet the needs of a
given kind of users or public and
they fit the hymns to the needs
and the circumstances within that
group. The potential for as many
tits to take place is the hope of the
compilation. All hymn books new
or old, have the ability to fit
occasionally.
Father and mother images
cannot have equal impact. A
hymn in vogue many years ago
was:
"Tell mother I'll be there in
answer to her prayer". Any
experience other than that of an
ideal mother until adulthood
would not fit in the slightest. It
could only work properly i1' the
ideal mother. really existed or
that all womanhood a11(1
motherhood arc seen as the intent
of the author. Fatherhood is even
more weighted by bad freight
these clays. Desertion is 'common
and how can a small child get
WI sees films
Bureau editor:
MRS. BERT
SH0BBROOK
The W.f.'s Cultural affairs
meeting was held on Wednesday,
February 8 when President Dora
Shobbrook welcomed all with a
thought"Freedom is not the right
to do as you please, but the
liberty to do as you ought''. Roll
call was answered by 22 members
telling "A musical instrument I
enjoy the most."
Romana Jamieson explained
the films shown by Jim Jamieson.
"The Life of Mozart and his
music" and ''A day in the life of
Bonnie Consolo" who was born
without arms. He was thanked
and presented with a gift by Alice
Buchanan. As there was no
January meeting, the December
minutes were read by secretary -
treasurer Marjorie ' Anderson.
Correspondence included thank
you for Christmas gifts from Ed
and Bctty Salverda, Alf and Dora
Buchanan, Margaret Taylor for
her mother Mrs. Cudnlore, Eileen
Clarke for her father, Alec Dark,
Jim Scott Sr., Pearl Hamilton,
Edyth Beacons Anne and Tri
Duizer, Nelson Lear, Joe
Shaddick, Jim McEwing,. Gladys
Armstrong and Norman
Cartwright.
Attending the training school
for the course in Clinton,
"Personalizing Your Pattern"
will be Marjorie Anderson and
Ramona Jamieson. A donation of
$300, to Recreation Committee
Service at
Blyth United
Service was held in Blyth
United Church on Sunday
morning. Greeting into the
Narthex were Earl Caldwell and
Bert Fear, Ushers were Ferne
McDowell, James Walsh and
Evertt Hessels.
The senior choir sang an
anthem, "Behold the Stranger at
the Door."
Rev, Wittich chose for his
sermon, "Love Reaches Outs",
Text: Luke 15.
for use of hall was voted and fees
of $70, sent to Waterloo
Conference May 2 to 4.
Nominating committee arc
Alice Buchanan and Jessie
Tebbutt. Sunshine sister
committee Doreen Carter and
Hattie Wood. Members will cater-
to the 30th wedding anniversary
of Pete and Kay Salverda on'
March 25. A motto on "Friend-
ship" was given by Beth Knox. A
gift was presented to Nora Pipe in
appreciation of her work on
compiling the Hullett Township
History book. Lunch was served
by Addie flunking, Vi Burns and
Margaret Anderson,
W. I. Card Party
There were 11 tables in `play at
W.I. card party on Friday night.
Winners were: Ladies High --
Delores Howatt; Lone Hands:
Elsie Shaddick; Low --Ruth
Vincent; Men's High --.11111
Jamieson; Lone 1-1ands•-Wilfred
Shortreed; Low --Harry Snell.
There will be another in two
weeks February 24, In charge will
be Hattie Wood, Trudy Pollard
and Dorothy nimbly!).
Personals
Wednesday visitors with Mr,
and Mrs. Bob Burns were
grandson, Jack Smith, grand-
daughter Vicki and Ken Dahncr
and baby Kerrie of Kincardine.
Mr. Bob Thompson spent the
weekend in Kitchener, Audrey
returned home with him after
spending the past week with
Robbie and Jennifer Lawrie while
their parents were on holiday.
Tons Pollard returned hone on
Wednesday from spending 10
days in Florida with Rev.
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"Our Father in heaven" to fit if
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Song in its best form is life's
highest moment. The hymns
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that hymns can be canned piety or
second-hand religion. Almost
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added to slake it our own,A hynn
of thanksgiving for a safe air trip
does not exist to my knowledge
yet travel by air has made trips
common that not so long ago were
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Rev. Daniel Sargent
Trinity Church, Blyth, - 9:45 A.M.
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12—THE BLYTH STANDARD, FEBRUARY 15, 1978
County
council
briefs
Ashfield Reeve Warren Zinn
asked Bob Dempsey, Huron
• County engineer, about the
amount of salt put on county
roads. He asked if there was any
formula for the applications, or if
it Was more hit and miss.
"It is really a judgement call,'' •
explained Mr. Dempsey. The
weather—the wind factor and the
temperature—determine the
amount of salt applied to roads in
the winter months, he said.
In general, the rule is salt to
asphalt roads and sand to gravel
roads. Salt does not work in all
situations, said the engineer, the
mix of sand to gravel is ICR to the
roads foreman based on his
previous years of experience.
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Warren Zinn, Reeve of
Ashfield 'Township and chairman
of FIuronvicw's committee of
management, said that wh}lc
prices usually go up_, it was
interesting to note that the price
of bread for Huronview has gone
down slightly from '1977.
The quotation of Lewis Bakery
was accepted at 33 cents per loaf
of bread, with pastry, rolls, etc..
to be ciharged at retail cost less 20
per cent.
The committee also authorized
the purchase of a small safe for
the vault which will result in the
insurance premiunns being
lowered.
Two Clinton firms were
successful bidders for Home
supplies. Petc's TV will supply a
television to the Home for $529
plus tax and Huron Business
Machines will provide a calculator
at $192.55,
Paul Stccklc, S1'.anley
Township deputy -reeve,
expressed his disappointment
that Huron County had missed an
opportunity to advertise the 1978
International Plowing Match al
the recent convention of rural
municipalities. H(suggested
e5l
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something be planned to promote
the plowing match in Huron at the
Good Roads Convention.
Bill Elston, reeve of Morris and
a member of the IPM committee.
said he'd gone at his own expense
to the Farm Show 'in Toronto for
two days to promote the match,
"i'nm afraid it isn't .being
advertised properly outside the
county," he added.
He pleaded for anyone with
,ideas for advertising to get in
touch with the committee,
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Huron County doesn't have an
assistant tree commissioner any
more, With the resignation o1•
Murray Scott from that position.
the county has agreed not to
replace llim at this time.
According to Adhministrator Bili
Hanly, a new Trees Act is to be
developed, and it has been
considered best to wait until the
terms of the Act are clear before
replacing Scott.
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Campbell wanted to know why
the county had not leased lancl in
East Wawanosh to Fraser Land
Services Limited, on behalf of
Shell Canada Resources Limited.
Development committee
chairman Bill Elston said it is
county policy not to lease county -
.owned land for oil and gas
snecnlation,
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Behind the scenes by Keith Roulston
(Continued from Page 4)
advocates will insist, should be ) a non-profit
venture,
He bought his first race horse back in 1936
at a cost of $4000, Racing was a rich man's
hobby back then. You weren't supposed to
make a lot of money at it and indeed Taylor
put in a lot of money before his horses began
to make money. To be fair, he has done a lot
for the racing business in Canada through his
efforts. He had a policy, for instance, that all
his yearling horses were for sale. Anyone
could have bought Northern Dancer, for
instance, for a mere $25,000 back in 1962, but
everyone overlooked him in the effort to buy
other Taylor horses. That horse went on to
earn $580,806 in racing purses before
becoming the most successful and expensive
stud horse in history. In the meantime, he also
helped Canadian pride by winning the
Kentucky Derby and The Preakness, the first
two legs of the American Triple Crown, the
first time a Canadian horse had ever done
that.
So one shouldn't paint Taylor .
all black for his efforts in
horse racing, Yet the fact
remains that Taylor has managed
to turn even a rich plan's hobby!
into a good business. H e has
had a huge control on the Canadiai
racing business not only througl
his leadership in breeding of
horses, but his efforts with the
Ontario Jockey Club which owns
all the big race tracks and throw!
its shadow over all the small tracks
in the province.
Once again, Taylor's success
has been built on the pleasures
(some might say weaknesses) of
the ordinary citizen. If racing was
really just a rich man's hobby,
no one would be paying $9 million)
for a horse. But through the betting
of ordinary people willing to
line,* at the
The key to good dental
health is an early start to
proper dental habits. Be
sure a dental care routine
becomes second nature, for
the whole family - a part of
their Lifestyle.
Pari-mutuel window to lay down money on the
off -chance their horse plight win, racing has
become big business. The Minstrel, a
Northern Dancer colt, was sold by Taylor to a
British owner, earned $650,000 in just nine
races before Taylor decided he wanted him
(back, That works out to more than $70,000
every time the horse raced.
There are other examples of course of the
cock-eyed priorities of our society. The richest
hotels in the world are those in Los Vegas
where they cater to the gambling urge of their
patrons, with a slot machine everywhere there
isn't a roulette wheel. We see that actors can
get paid more for a 30 second perfume
commercial on television than they're likely to
earn in two! months at any of the theatres in
Canada which struggle to stay alive. We see
that city people, not just millionaires like
Taylor, but ordinary doctors, lawyers,
teachers and factory workers, can afford to
come out to the country, buy a farm and keep
it just as a weekend retreat, while the farmer
next door couldn't afford to pay the sanlcprice
and make the farm pay for itself through what
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it would produce. We see land worth more as
a golf course or a trailer park than as a farm.
At 77 years of age E,P,Taylor is one of that
small group of people that have more money
than you and 1 could ever imagine. One would
think he'd be satisfied, One would think that
he'd be just a little thankful to the country that
i gave him that kind of riches, to a country
whose drinkers, gamblers and other pleasure -
seekers had made him one of the richest men
lin the world.
! Such is not the case. A couple of years back
Taylor renounced his Canadian citizenship
Iand moved to the Bahamas. His goal was to
get away from Canadian taxes, to retreat to
the tax haven of the Carribean Islands while
his money still earns big dividends in Canada,
1 Just his little way of saying thanks to the
system that made hint what he is today,
Our February
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14—THE BLYTH STANDARD, FEBRUARY 15, 1978
Belgrave young people. dance
Correspondent
Mrs. L. Stonehouse
Congratulations to the Young
People of Belgrave and
surrounding area who attended
the dance held in Belgrave W.I.
Hall on Friday evening.
The purpose of this dance was
to buy a record player for the
Belgrave arena,The dance was
very successful. Special thanks to
Danny McCool and Travis
Koehler and the ones who
chaperoned the dance,
Personals
Mr. and Mrs, Robert Coultes
visited on Thursday with Mrs.
Russel Walker of Goderich.
Joanne Edgar, Donna Dawson
and Trudy Taylor spent last
Tuesday evening with their girl
friend Karol Galbraith of R,R.2,
Wingham who was celebrating
her birthday.
A.C.W.
The February meeting of the
Belgrave A.C,W, was held at the
home of Mrs. Robert Procter with
10 members in attendance..
The meeting opened with
prayer by the President, Miss
Mary Isobel Nethery, the Lord's
prayer was repeated in unison
and the Bible reading of Psalm
10.3 was given by Mrs. Harold
Jardin. Minutes of the last
meeting 11'cre read by the
secretary Mrs. Clara Van Camp
and the tr'easurer's report was
gilvcn by Mrs. Alex Nethery.
The roll call was answered by a
Bible verse containing the word
hearts. The dues were collected
and the apron and birthday box
passed.
'I'lhc president announced that
the World's Day of Prayer service
will be held in the Presbyterian
Church this :year on M arch 3 at 3
p.111.
Miss Lillian Potter reviewed an
article from the Living Message
magazine telling of 12 Canadian
Anglicans serving in • churches
overseas. These Men and women
arc doing Christian work in Asia,
Africa, South America, Japan,
and the Caribbean Islands. They
are involved in religious
education, social work,
agriculture preventive medicine
and building construction.
01' special interest is the
Reverend Kenneth Anderson who
served in the diocese of Huron at
London and was also director of
the Htn•on Church camp at
Bayfield before leaving for
Barbados last year.
Mrs. Robert Higgins read a
poem entitled "Spring Promise",
The meeting closed with prayer in
unison, grace was sung and lunch
was served by the hostess.
LW -W. '
The Evening Unit of the
U.C.W. of Knox United Church,
Belgrave held its regular
r.:nting at the honk of Mrs. Cliff
Logan on Tuesday, February 7.
Prior to the nlceting members
and friends entertained al
Bookhavcn Nursing Hoene
Wingham.
Alison Roberts Ice members of
the Junior Choir and they opened
the program followed by
Katherine Procter playing a piano
solo. Sheila and Ross
Anderson delighted the audience
b1' playing old favourites on the
piano and harmnica, Mrs. Leslie
Bolt favoured with 0 humorous
reading by Harry .1. Boyle. Mrs.
George Procter played the
accordion. On behalf of all the
residents M iss Margaret Curtis
thanked everyone for' conning.
W.M.S
The February sleeting of the
W.M.S. met at the home of Mrs.
.Ice Dunbar last Monday
afternoon. Mrs, Jack Mcl3urnev
presided and opened the meeting
1\ it h the call to worship. Scripture
and meditations \\'eI'e taken by
Nit's. Mac Scott, Mrs, Kenneth
•
Scott led in prayer,
The topic "Searching for
Identity was given by Mrs.
Victor Youngblut. The secretary's
report was given by Mrs.
McBurney and the treasurer's
report by Mrs. Victor Youngblut.
The roll call was answered with
a verse pretaining to the word
'Prayer', Plans were made for the
World's Day of Prayer on March
3 to be held in Knox Prebytrerian
Church,' Belgrave. The speaker
will be the Rev. Kenneth Innes of
Brussels.
Mrs. JackMcBurney closed the
meeting with prayer and lunch
was served by the hostess.
2nd. of Morris
The second line of Morris held
their weekly euchre at the honk
of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Miller
The first meeting of the
Belgrave 1 4-H Club met on
February 6 in the arena room, We
began with the election of
Officers: President - Karen
Coultcs; Vice President - 'Dianne
Scott; Secretary - Kim McIntosh;
Press Reporter - Sheila
Anderson.
Each member answered the roll
call, 'how (10 you try to keep
physically lit?''. A game was'
played on physical fitness and the
meeting closed with taps.
Calvin Brick United Church
annual sleeting was held January
3I at the home of Mr. and Mr.
Norman Coultcs with a good
attendance.
Rev. John G, Roberts opened
the meeting with prayer. Ivan
Dow was appointed secretary for
the meeting. The financial reports
showed a satisfactory year
for the congregation.
Officers elected: :?icicrs rc;tire
with 4 iablesin play.
High lady • Mrs, William
Elston; Low lady - Mrs, Glen
Sellers; Most lone hands for lady -
Mrs, Larry Elston; High Man •
Larry Elston; Low Man - Mary
Ellen Elston (playing as a man);
Most lone hands for man - Joanne
Edgar (Playing as a man,)
W,I,Euchre
Eight tables of euchre were
played in the Women's Institute
Hall last Wednesdy evening at 8
p.m. at the weekly euchre.
High Lady Mrs. Clifton
Walsh; High Man - Albert Bacon;
Low Lady - Mrs, Edgar
Wightman; Low Man -
Willianl Gow; Most lone hands
lady Mrs. Kenneth Wheeler;
Most lone hands, man - Andrew
Walsh.
1982. Norman Coultes, Alex
Robertson, Stewards retire 1980.
Wilfred Walker, Jack Shiell,
Ronald McBurney, Trustee, retire
1980. Giblert Beecroft. Ushers:
Jinn Beecroft, Ronald McBurney.
Jinn McGee, Jim Robertson,
Dennis Thompson, Doug shiell,
Alan Walkcr,Barry Mason, Chris
Palmer:Manse Committee - Mr.
and Mrs. Norman Coultes,
Auditors - Mrs. Donald Dow and
Mrs. George McGee.
Observer rcprsentative -
Gordon McBurney. It was agreed
to carry on with the Every Family
Plan. Music Committee Mrs.
Gordon McBurney, Mrs. Norman
coupes, Mrs. Sydney 'Thompson,
Organist - Mrs. George McGee,
Mrs. Norman Coupes, Mrs.
Sydney Thompson,
Sunday School Superintendent
• Donald Dow.
Rev. John Roberts closed the
meeting with prayer followed by a
social Hour.
Mr. and Mrs, Johns Evans of
Belgrave plans
ice carnival
The Belgrave Hi -C are
sponsoring an Ice Carnival on
Saturday evening on February 18
at 7:30 p.111. in the Belgrave
arena. The program for the
evening will bc, Tricycle Races,
'I'.V.Character, Cartoon
Characters, Nursery Rvthnlc,
Holiday Costume, Science
Fiction, Best Dressed Couple,
National Costume,
Miscellaneous Costumes, Largest
Family, Youngest Person, Oldest
Person, Skating Races
ANNUAL MEETING
Howick Farmer's Mutual
Fire Insurance Company,
Wroxeter, Ontario
The 105th annual Meeting of the Company will be held
al the Company l -lead Office, Wroxeter, Ontario.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24
1978; at 1:30 p.m.,to:
1. To receive the Annual Statement and Auditor's Report.
2. To elect two directors to replace Clare Hutchison and Ron
• McMichael whose term of office expires, both of whore are
eligible for re-election.
3. To appoint an Auditor for 1978.
4 4. To amend the following by-laws: No. 33 Remuneration.
5. To transact any other business which may rightly conte
before the erecting.
R. R. McMICHAEL R. C. HUTCHINSON
Pr csidcnt
Manager
a/Aillitlititlrralt10.1117W4ann:t'.rrWIIM e.M=.SVA ^.m'r[Y...Yloaea a'ataomiestamas,rb.., tXYtIJrrls
Sarnia visited on Sunday with
Miss Nora Van Camp who is a
resident of the Brookhaven
Nursing Home, Wingham,
The Public Relations meeting
of the Belgrave Women's
Institute will be held Tuesday,
February 21 at 2 p.n1, i►1 theW,I.
Hall, Constable R.W,Wilson OPP
will show a film on Home
Protection. This should be of
interest to every resident in the
community, A good attendance is
requested. The lunch committee
is Mrs. Stanley Black, Mrs.
Gordon Higgins and Mrs, Cora
McGill,
Mr. and Mrs, Lewis
Stonehouse visited on Thursday
with their cousins Mr. and Mrs.
Andrew Gaunt of R.R.1,
Lucknow.
Mrs. Robert Grasby, Mrs. Earl
Anderson, Mrs William Coultcs,
Mrs. George Michie, Mrs, Cliff
Logan and Mrs. Ross Anderson
attended a preview showing of a
film "The Hiding Place in the
Park Theatre, Goderich, last
Monday morning, This tilnl is 0
true story written by Conic ten
Boom of her experiences during
the last war.
Mr. and Mrs Ralph Logan,
Kevin and Trevor of Wyoming
spent the weekend with their
parents Mr. and .Mrs, George
McGee and Mrs, Cliff Logan.
Mr, and Mrs, Robert Cook .
Jennifer and Kathy of Shelbourne
visited on Saturday with his
parents Mr, andMrs. Lewis Cook,
Mr. and Mrs. Brian Stoner of
Kitchener spent the weekend
with her parents Mr, and Mrs.
Clarence I-Ianna,
Mrs. Nelson Higgins is visiting
this week with :Mr. and Mrs.
Carman Farrier, Brian and Miss
Winnifred Farrier of Long
Branch and Mr. and Mrs. Rod
McLeod and family of Etobicoke,
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MRS, ALLAN McCALL.
The 8 and- 16th unit of the
U.C.W. met Wednesday after-
noon, February 8, at the home of
Mrs. Don McDonald.
The devotions were opend with
Mrs, Alvin McDonald reading an
article, "The Blessing of Work"
from the book, Please Give a
Devotion, "Will your anchor hold
in the storms of life?" was sung
with Mrs. Jim Fritz as pianist.
Scripture reading was taken from
Thessalonians.
An interesting story
"Immigration here and there was
the topic and was the story of a
Jamaican, Winston Brown, who
came to Canada in 1968 to study
for the ministry.
Mrs. Rae Houston presided for
the business opening with a
thought, "Because we are
human". Minutes were approved
as read by Mrs. Don McDonald.
The congregation pancake and
ham breakfast was announced for
March 5. The annual ham supper
date was set for June 16.
Boundary and 17th Unit Meet
Mrs. Harold McCallum was
hostess for the unit meeting in
her home on Wednesday after-
noon February 8, with 12 ladies
present. The meeting was opened
with a though by Mrs, H.
McCallum. The first two verses of
"Come let us sing of a Wonderful
Love" was sung. Scripture was
read from John 3:1-16 followed by
prayer by Mrs. H. McCallum.
Mrs. Cliff Ritchie spoke on "Day
in Day out" written by Dale
Evans, a story of her home life,
Poems, "How will you pray" and
"It is difficult to pray" were read.
The President, Mrs. Graeme
Walton couple
back from trip
Miss Judy Thamer who was a
patient in Wingham Hospital
where she underwent an
appendix operation has returned
home.
Mr., and Mrs. Paul
Ponomairenko have arrived home
from their vacation in Florida
where they spent the past few
months.
Mrs. Rose Campbell remains in
Huronview following a stroke.
Her daughter, Mrs. Bill Thamer,
reports she ,is holding her own
and resting comfortable.
,THE BLYTH STANDARD, FEBRUARY 15, 1978 -15
UCW reads about immigrant
Craig was in charge of business,
Minutes were read by Mrs. Helen
Williamson. The World Day of
Prayer is on March 3 and the
thankoffering service in April
when Rev, and Mrs, Bolger will
be guests. Mrs. Barry Hoegy
gave the treasurer's report. It was
decided to give a donation to the
March of Dimes. Members
signed a card for Mrs. Joyce
Colyer in hospital.
The next meeting is to be held
at the home of Mrs. Cliff Ritchie
with Mrs. B. Hoegy and Mrs,
Ross Bennett in charge of
devotions. A social half hour
followed when lunch was served
by Mrs. C. Ritchie and the
hostess.
4-H Meetings
The first meeting of the 4-H
Walton I was held Wednesday
evening February 8, at the home
of Margaret Shortreed, There
were 11 girls and 3 mothers
present along with their leaders,
Margaret Shortreed and Lin
Staffler,
Officers elected were:
President --Julie Blake; Vice -
President --Mary Alice Ryan;
Secretary--Nanci Bennett; Press
Reporter --Jeanne McDonald,
The leaders explained the club
called "Focus on Living" with the
meeting focusing on the
individual girl
A club name is to be chosen at
the next meeting, February 12.
Margaret Shortreed served lunch.
Mission Band
The Call to Worship was given
by John Huether at the meeting
of the Mission Band Sunday,
morning with 30 present. Hymn
"Jesus bids us shine" was sung
with John Huether at the piano.
Scripture was read by Donna
Godkin followed by prayer by
Greg Hackwell, Treasurer's
report was given by Cathy
McGavin, who took up the
offering which was dedicated by
John Huether.
In' the business the World Day
of Prayer pamphlets were given
out and the teachers made
preparations for the service the
second Sunday in March.
Mrs. Neil McGavin told a story
about the Caribbean. "I am so
glad that our Father in Heaven"
was sung prior to going to their
classes. Teachers this month
were Mrs. Merton Hackwell,
Mrs. Mack Sholdice, Mrs, Neil
McGavin and Mrs. Nelson Marks,
Walton and Arca Personals
Leslie and Vince Colyer
returned to their home in
Winnipeg, Manitoba on Monday
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after over a week's stay with their
grandparents, Mr, and Mrs,
Hugh Johnston also visiting their
mother, Mrs, Joyce Colyer, who
is a patient in Victoria Hospital,
London,
Mrs. Torrance Dundas spent a
few days over the weekend at the
home of her daughter, Mrs.
Olene Stutz in Waterloo.
Graeme Craig and W J.
Leeming motored to Toronto on
Sunday where they will attend the
Plowmen's Association meeting
for a couple of days the first of
this week,
Mr, and Mrs. Rollie A chilles
received word on Friday that his
brother, Jerry Achilles, had
passed away at Ithaca New York
State. Mr. and Mrs, Ted Achilles
of Hearst cane this far Sunday
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and accompanied them and Mrs.
Jim Sills, Seaforth where they will
attend the funeral on Monday.
• Misses Gladys and Ida Leiper
and Ross Leiper of Clinton visited
with Mr. and Mrs. Dave 1Watson
on Wednesday afternoon,
The Walton Public School
children enjoyed skating at the
Brussels ;Arena on Friday
afternoon, They included the
Kindergarten class and Grades 1,
2 and 3 along with their teachers,
Mrs. Roy Alcock, Mrs. Don
Pletsch, Miss Mary Ellen Walsh,
and Mrs. Aubrey Toll.
John Leeming of Elliott Lake
visited his grandmother, Mrs.
Maud Leeming on the weekend
on his return trip to Europe.
Mr. and Mrs, Herb Traviss
attended the funeral service for
SCHNEIDER
Jack McGavin in London on
Saturday. Mr, McGavin was born
and raised in this district and
attended the Walton Public
School.
Mr, and Mrs, Robert
Humphries and family of London
visited the Humphries families in
the village over the weekend,
Mrs. Ken McDonald left for
Montreal on Sunday where she
will stay with Mr. and Mrs.
Robert Warwick and Michael.
Congratulations to Karen and
Rob on their new daughter last
Friday.
The Walton ladies are quilting
again this week at the Bolger
home. This is being done by tha
Walton Unit for a member, They
also did a crib quilt last week at
the Mark's home.
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16—THE BLYTH STANDARD, FEBRUARY 15, 1978
Pee Wees in finals
The Blyth ' Pee Wees
advanced to the W.0.A.A. semi
finals by eliminating Ripley and
Paisley during the past week,
Juveniles
play in
Drayton
Un Sunday Feb. 12th,
spectators accompanied the Blyth
Juveniles by bus to Drayton.
Dray n opened the scoring at
8:51, but Blyth came back and
held them off in the first .period,
ending with a 3-2 lead.
Blyth upped the score one goal
in the second period, leading 4-2.
The third period saw Drayton
tie up the game 6.6. With 15
seconds of play remaining,
Drayton scored, winning 7-6 over
Blyth.
Goal scorers for Blyth were:
Sandy Fitzgerald, unassisted,
Lyle Bridge from Brian Bomley,
Terry Pierce from Steve Howson,
Steve Howson from arvin Cook,
Brad Bromley from Sandy
Fitzgerald and Terry Pierce
assisted by Brian Bromley.
County briefs
(Continued from Page 12
Social Services Committee, said
Thursday in ' Goderich that
Huron's Social Services depart-
ment is "still among the low ten
of the provincial counties as far as
Social Service costs are
concerned,"
At present there are 110 cases
being handled by the local Social
Services department, for a total of
.410 beneficiaries.
"Although the caseload is
down considerably from a year
ago " said Reeve Flannery, "the
number of beneficiaries has not
decreased that much,"
He predicted that if unemploy-
ment remains at its present level
or increases in 1978. the Social
Services department could have a
„very difficult year"
;n; ;n; t t ,n; ;n:
At the December meeting of
county council, it was reported b.,
the Social Services committee
that the live-in rate for the
honicntakers involved with the
new FAntily Care Agency would
be $50.40 per day.
"The agency has now advised
that this figure was in error and
the corrected live-in rate is $311
per day," reported Chairman
John Flannery.
Enquiries have been nnadc.for a
co-ordinator for the Home
Support Program, but nothing
definite will be decided until it is
known whether the Ministry of
Community and Social Services
tivlli be extending the program
after March 31, 1978.
* * * * *
County representatives to local
hospital boards have been
appointed for 1978. They are
Kenneth Saxton to Winghant and
District Hospital board; Beecher
Menzies to Clinton Public
Hospital board; Gordon Rimmer
to Seaforth Community Hospital
board; Mrs. John Berry 'to
Goderich Alexandra Marine and
General Hospital board; and
Derry Boyle to South Huron
Hospital Board, Exeter.
Other county appointments
included: W. J, Elston, Victoria
Order of Nurses; Warden Gerry
Ginn, Ervin Sillery and Ed
Oddleifson to the Huron H toric
Jail board; Warden Gerry Ginn
and Ervin Sillery to the Goderich
Airport Committee; John
Flannerti, Warden Gerry Ginn,
Harold Wild and Harold Elliott to
the Family and Children's
Services of Huron County Board;
Warden Gerry Ginn to the Huron
Centre for Children and Youth
On Monday Feb. 6 Blyth
defeated Ripley by the score of 5
to 4 to win their best 2 out oI' .3
series 2'games to 1.
13lyllt goals were scored by
Darryl Chalmers 3, Kurt
Whittled 1, • ent Mowatt 1,
Assists went to Blaine Coultes 2.
Kurt Whitfield 2.
On Wed. Feb. 8 Blyth travelled
to Paisley to begin their hest 2 out
01'3 series. Paisley defeated Blyth
5 to 3.
Blyth goals were scored by
Kent Howatt 1, Darryl Chalmers
1, Ron Howson I. Assists went to
Ron Howson 1, Darryl.Chalmers
1.
Blyth evened the series on Fri.
Feb. IO with a 6 to 3 overtime
win. Blyth goals were scored by
Ron Howson 3, Darryl Chalmers
1.
Darryl Chalmers 2, Blaine
Coultes 1. Assists went to Blaine
Coupes 3, Drryl Chalmers 2
Kurt Whitfield 1, Ron Howson 1.
On Sun. Feb, 12 Blyth defeated
Paisley 5 to 1 to win the series,
Blyth goal scorers were Darryl
Chalmers 3, Kent Howatt 2,
Assists went to Blaine Coultes 3,
Brent Andrews 1, Kurt Whitfield
1, Kent Howatt 1. Darryl
Chalmers 1. Pat Cronin turned in
a strong game in the Blyth goal.
Blyth now advances to the
W.0.A.A. •semi finals in a series
against Drayton. Second game in
the series will he played in Blyth
on Fri. Feb. 17 at 7:00.
Baintoneers play
in broomball
Blyth Baintoneers and the
Dumperettes faced off in the
Seaforth Broomball league on
February 1 when Blyth opened the
scoring with an unassisted goal
by Joyce CArter. _ Joyce Carter
scored again assisted by
Maryanne Cook and Marj Jansen
scored for the itnntperctles
assisted by Joanne Groothuis.
Blyth scored once more when
Linda Hamm from Marg
Anderson. Blyth 3 and the
Dunnperetics 1.
Blyth played C Ca in a
tournament in Seaforth on
February 4. .1une machan scored
assisted by Joyce Carter. This
was the only score in the game
which ended Blyth 1 C Cats 0.
In the second ,g:anne of the
tournament Blyth played
Bclgrave. Diane Anderson scored
unassisted and this tied the gannc
which went into overtime. Ma.iy
Anne Cook scored twice to give
Blyth the •win. 'Blyth. 3 and
Bclgrave 1.
Blyth lost the next game in the
tournament to Chisclhurst. Blyth
0 Chisclhurst 1.
Blyth beats Dublin
broomball 5-0'
Blyth and Dublin played in the
Scaforth Broomball league when
Maryanne Cook opened the
scoring for Blyth assisted by
Marg. Anderson. Anita Hansen
scored again from .Joyce CArter.
giving Blyth a two in nothing lead
in the first half. Blyth scored
three more times in the second
half. June Machan from
Maryanne Cook. June Machan
from Marg Anderson and Sue
Kolkman unassisted. Blyth 5 and
Dublin no score. Joni Schoemaker
played goal and did a fine job.
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5:00 - 6:15 - Bantam Pr.
6:30 • 7:45 - Novice
7:45 - 9:00 - Tri County PeeWce practice game
9:00 - 10:00 - Juveniles [I
10:30 - 12:00 - Christian Reformed
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16
1:30 3:00 - Bert Siertsema
5:30 - 6:30 - Available
7:00 - 8:00 - Baintoneer's Broomball
8:00 - 9:30 - McCli nchey's Hockey
9:00 - 10:30 Industrial League
11:00 - 12:00 - Local Boys
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17
2:00 - 3:00 - Blyth Public School
5:30 - 6:45 Atom Practice
7:00 - 8:30 • PceWee A game with Drayton
10:00 - 11:00 - Local Boys
11:00 12:00 • Available
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18
1:00 Minor Sports
2:00 - \ 4:00Public Skating
4:30 - 6:00 Juvenile Practice
6:00 - 7:00 -.Tri-County Pee Wee game with
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SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 19
1:00 - 2:00 - Auburn Broomball
2:00 - 4:00 - Pttblic Skating'
7:30 - 10:30 - Industrial League
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20
7:00 • 8:30 - Atom Game
8:30 - 10:30 - Cli nton Intermediate Hockey
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2:00 - 3:00 - Pre •Schoolers
4:00 - 5:00 - Available
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College offers ag. courses
Since 1972, more than 3500
people have taken novice farmer
courses offered by the Ontario
Agricultural College, University
of Guelph, says Paul Hendriks of
the Office of Continuing
Education.
The courses offered are
designed to meet the needs of
people who want a better
understanding of agriculture or
who anticipate farming on their
own.
Beginning January 26, 15
evening courses will be offered in
Toronto and Guelph. The weekly
courses vary in length from 3 to
10 sessions from 7:30 - 9:30 p,m.
Course fees range from$130 to
$165, with• special rates for
couples, There are no entrance
requirements other than a keen
interestto learn more about
agriculture.
Crop
course.
is on
Making money from cash Crops
over the next three years may
depend more on a better educa-
tional package than a better
machinery package, says
Professor Gary Hutchison of the
Office of Continuing Education,
University of Guelph.
'I'hc honk study course, Corn
Production. has been updated by
Dr. W. S. Young of the Ontario
Agricultural College. 11 is based
on the text Modern Corn
Production and several Canadian
and American publications, and
includes specially prepared
material on harvesting and
storage.
Although the material in the
course is extensive, it is easy to
follow. Professor Hutchison says
it is so practical you can take it to
the field with, you.
He estimates about 100 hours
of study are,requircd to complete
the assignments. Dr. Rob
McLaiighlin, extension
coordinator for the Department of
Crop Science, ' will evaluate
assignments and make
comments.
"Costs are rising and the
squeeze is on in cash cropping,"
says Professor Hutchison. "The
Corn Producti~on course could
help answermost of these
problems. A ' better under-
standing of how the corn plant
reacts to heat, fertilizer, and
water may trigger crucial cost
reductions."
For more information about the
course, sponsored by the Ontario
Ministry of Agriculture and Food,
write Independent Study, Office
of Continuing Education, Univer-
sity of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario
N I G 2W1 or call '(519) 824-4120
ext. 3401. Cost of the course,
including all study material, is
$70 for Ontario residents, $90 for
out -of -province residents.
NEXT MEETING
and Steak Feed
of the
Blyth
Snow Travellers
will be held on
February 18
at 8:30 p.m.
Courses available this winter
include; Introductory Agriculture;
Farm Income Tax; Landscaping
the Country Estate; Vegetable
Production; Tractors and
Machinery; Tree Fruits.. Small
Fruits; Fish FarmingWoodlot
Management; Field Operations;
Soil Management; The Meat We
Produce; Forages; CeealGrains,
Corn and other crops,
Climatic Changes in
Agriculture will be offered for the
first time this year,
For more information write:
Applied , Agriculture Program,
Office of Contiuing Education,
University of Guelph, Guelph,
Ontario, NIG 2W1, or telephone
(519) 824-4120, extension 3956,
OPTIMIST
POKER RALLY
Sun., February 19
Registration 12-2 p.m.
BRUSSELS SALES BARN
$3.00 .per entry
TROPHIES — LUNCH BAR CASH PRIZES
Run Approx 30 miles
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STARTS FRIDAY: FEB, 17th - 23rd
ONE SHOWING 8 P.M.
FRI. B SAT. 7:00 and 9:00
CONTAINS STUFF YOU WON'T SEE ON TV
WARNING
Some language May be Offensive - Theatres Br. Ont.
SAT. MATINEE 1:30 P.M.
• FEB RTI hG 'SEMI -TOUGH" •
• 30 1111: SQIJAI�f_ Program •
.PARK PHONE 524 1$1 l subject t.
to change
• GODERICH AIRCONDITIONED ..
THE BLYTH STANDARD, FEBRUARY 15, 1978 •-17 '
clheVeritr8avers
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by Richard Charles 4
Catch up with a retrofit
A word that you'll be hearing often is "retrofit", In case
you haven't met it, it goes like this: while a house is being
built you can fit it with all the insulation you like, but
when the house is already built and the insulation is not
good enough, you bring it up to scratch with a retrofit.'
But why bother when you have a good-looking home
and Life's not all that bad as long as there's a thermostat to
push higher as the weather grows icier? The triple retrofit
answer to that is: with proper insulation your fuel bills are
much lower (by 25 to 55% depending on the age of the
home and the type of construction), you feel a lot better
indoors without drafts and cold walls, and you are helping
to save valuable energy resources instead of pouring them
like water through a sieve, As a bonus, your home is more
comfortable winter and summer.
If you need a retrofit, and most homes do, your choice
of insulating materials will depend on how you will use
them, on their R -value (resistance to heat passing through
them) and how well they stand up to moisture, fire, bac-
teria and vermin, and also on their cost, ease of handling
and, depending on the use, their rigidity or flexibility. The
main types you may choose from are called batt or blanket,
loose fill, rigid board and foamed -in-place,
Batt or blanket insulation contains glass fibre or mineral
fibre (rock or slag) and has a woolly texture. It comes in
slabs (batts) or rolls (blankets) with or without a vapour
barrier, and is generally the easiest insulation to handle and
apply. It fits snugly between regularly spaced joists, studs
or strapping.
Because it is rolled up like a carpet, the blanket is
sometimes the more awkward to install. Since batt and
blanket are equally effective, your choice should depend
solely on where they fit best. Mineral fibre has a slightly
higher R value than glass fibre.
Loose fill consists of glass, cellulose or mineral fibres; or
vermiculite, polystyrene, wood shavings or wood wool. It is
sold by the bag and usually costs less than batts or blankets
per unit of R value. Loose fill is especially handy for
irregular spaces between joists or other odd -shaped areas. It
is also a simple way to insulate a wall space if you can just
pour it in. The vapour barrier must be applied separately.
Rigid board insulation may be made of polystyrene,,
phenolic foam or polyurethane. It offers exceptional insula-
tion for its thickness and weight, averaging R5 (per inch
thick) compared with an average of 3.5 for batt or blanket,
and 3 for loose fill. Other features are its rigidity and a
degree of sound -proofing,
Polystyrene is usually the best buy, but it and poly-
urethane are flammable and need to be covered with a
fire -proof material for safe use indoors. Phenolic foam is
more fire-resistant, Rigid insulation can also be applied
outside on walls, basements or roofs.
Foamed -in-place insulation is injected as a semi-liquid in
wall cavities — a professional job needing special equip-
ment. The material is urea -formaldehyde (average R2.5 per
inch) but make sure it meets Canadian Government
Specifications Board quality standards.
Where you can't insulate, you caulk or apply weather-
strips in cracks and joints, especially around doors and
windows. You can find these spots by testing for drafts
with a piece of plastic or tissue (hung from a coat -hanger)
or by watching the drift of tobacco smoke,
You can find out a lot more about insulation from
Keeping the heat in, a publication of the Office of Energy
Conservation, Department of Energy, Mines and Resources.
Write to Box 3500, Station C, Ottawa, Ontario, K l Y.4G 1,
For information on government grants for re -insulation,
write to: Canadian Home Insulation Program, P.O, Box
700, St. Laurent, Quebec, H4L 5A8; or phone collect (514)
341-1511,
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It's the freezing' season........
but hot want ads thaw sales out
1 Coming Events
POKER RALLY, February 26,
Registration and starting time 11
a.m. to 1:30. Auburn Community
Hall, Prizes for best poker hand
and door prizes, Prices $3,00 for
one hand, $5,00 for 2 hands,
Approximately 35 miles,
Proceeds to Auburn 125th cele-
bration. 1-7-2
You are invited to attend the
World Day of Prayer being held in
Trinity Anglican Church, Blyth,
on Friday, March 3, at 2:00 p.m,
The theme is "Community Spirit
in Modern Living Babysitting
service available. 1-7-3
The Senior Citizens afternoon of
fun and games will be held in
Memorial Hall, Wednesday,
February 22 at 2.p.m. Everyone
welcome and bring a friend.
1-7-1.
DANCE at Vanastra Community
Centre, Saturday, February 25.
Sponsored by Huron Central
Agricultural Society. Music by
the Silvertones, Dancing 9-1,
Lunch provided. $6.00 per couple.
Tickets available from any
director. S.O.P, 1-7-1
BLYTH Calorie Counters, do you
want to change your shape before
bikini season? Why wait for
summer. Join us now, Tuesday
evenings at 8 p.m. at Blyth
School, 1-05-3
CLINTON LEGION BINGO
every Thursday, 8:00 p.m. First
regular card $1, restricted to 16
years or over, 15 regular games of
$15., $5 leased on split. Many
other specials. Jackpot $200.
must go each week, 1-49-tf
Blyth lions.
Bingo
Saturday
Night
8:00 P.M.
Blyth
Memorial
Hall
JACKPOT $150 IN 60 CALLS
SHARE -THE -WEALTH
AND REGULAR GAMES
1.49-tf
5 Bus. Opportunity
INTERNATIONAL
CHEMICAL COMPANY
Excellent income, plus cash
and car bonuses, field
training, schooling at
company "expense.
Territory available to
service protected industrial
accounts. Write
confidential letter to V, A,
Crawford, President, Box
247, Sta. U. Toronto, Ont.
M8Z 5P1, for personal
interview. Please give
phone ntimber,.
5-7.1
EXPANDING CANADIAN
OIL COMPANY
needs dependable person
who can work without
supervision. Earn $14,000
per year plus bonus,
5 Bus Opportunity
Contact customers around
Blyth. We train. Write B.
D. Dick, Pres,, South-
western Petroleum,
Brampton, Ont. L6T 2J6,
5-7-1
7 Situations Wanted
EMPLOYMENT wanted part-
time on a farm. Am experienced
in feeder pigs, some experience
in sows, would be willing to learn
to operate .in dairy, If possible,
close to the 8th line of Morris,
Call 887-6991. 7.7-tf
8 .Farm Stock For Sale
TWO holstein calves for sale.
Fred Hellinga, 8-7-1
7 york landrace guiltsbred hamp„
due February 24, phone 887.6938,
8-7-1
11 Articles For Sale
ROASTERS, 6 to 7 pounds, oven
ready, 79 cents a pound. Don
Plant, 523-4285, 11-6-3
CURRENT Magazines available
at the Blyth Standard. A good
selection of magazines arrives
weekly. These include Woman's
Day, Chatelaine, National
Enquirer. TV Guides, Coniics,
Crosswords and many more.
11-01 xtf
BROADLOOM
CANTON'S
CARPET CENTRE
• -wall to wall installations or area
carpets.
- Samples shown in your home
• Free estimates
▪ Guaranteed Installations
There's a Celanese carpet for
every room in the home.
"Quality you can trust"
From
BALL & MUTCH FURNITURE
LIMITED
Phone 482-9505, Clinton
11 -49 -ti
Big Savings
on Snowmobile Suits, Vests,
Pants, Jackets, Boots and
Helmets,
E7LLZ7LELW
FARM EQUIPMENT LTD,
III SEAFORTN • AYR - CAMBRIDGE ill
527.0120
12 Wanted To Buy
WANTED—Used furniture,
appliances and antiques. Call
Jack's Place, Lucknow. 528-2625,
12-7-tf
15 Property For Rent
HEATED apartment, ground
floor, large livingroom and
kitchen, bedroom and bath.
About three blocks from down-
town, quiet surroundings,
preferably retired person. Apply
to .Box 66,6 The Blyth Standard,
Blyth, Ontario. 15-7-1
17 Wanted To Rent
WANTED to rent, market sharing
quota. Will take in small lots,
Phone 523-9229. 17-7-1
14 Property For Sale 14 Property For Sale
CLINTON OFFICE
Phone 482.3821
Harold Workman 482.7658
Larry Plumeteel 527.0052
Harry Mero 527-1764
BLYTH AND AREA HOMES
$25,900.00 for this 2 storey brick hone with 3 bedrooms
3 bedroom, 1' storey hone, attached garage
Near Kingsbridge -3 bedroom brick house on 11/2 acres
2 bedroom, one floor home, lower priced on large lot in Blyth.
FARMS
Near Hillsgreen, 4 acres, 260 Feeder Pig barn, 5 bedroom house
Near Auburn, 50 acres, good' 3 bedroom home, good barn,
price reduced.
Near Londesboro-250 acres, good house, another house, 2
barns, 2 sheds, 220 workable
RETREAT -124 acres on the Bayfield River near Varna
COUNTRY ESTATE—Ranch style home, modern barn, 5'
acres near Seaforth
INVESTMENT PROPERTIES
Londesboro-31/2 acres, a nice spot for a sub -division
Auto wrecking yard on 41/2 acres in Egmondville, includes stock
and equipment
Seaforth Duplex -1 2 -bedroom and 1 3 -bedroom apt. $19,000.00
Clinton Duplex -2 2 -bedroom apts., close to downtown
$24,900.00
Goderich Duplex -2 3 -bedroom nice apts. $52,000 or buy 1 •side
of this duplex $27,500.00
Seaforth Apt. Bldg, -7 apts., priced at $60,000,00
Clinton Apt. Bldg. -7 apts., priced at $63,900.00
Clinton Store on Main St.—apt. above, price $25,000.00
Clinton Commercial lot on Main St., 2 buildings $50,000,00
Harpurhey—Auto Body Shop on 7 Residential lots
Holmesville-117 acres of Residential and Gravel designated
land
Clinton—Large duplex, Coach house, Vacant lot, Zoned
industrial
Ask to see our MLS Book
14-7-1
REAL ESTATE LTD.
482.9371
Clinton
133 acre dairy farm •near Walton,
122 acres workable, fully
equipped. Good 11/2 storey brick
home.
******
1' storey frame home in
Brussels, 5 rooms, 3 bedrooms,
carpeted, oil heated.
******
2 acres at Blyth, town water,
hydro, no buildings.
******
1 storey brick home in Blyth, 12
rooms, 4 bedrooms, 11/2 baths,
•-dining and living room. Extra
large lot.
******
231/2 acres land; 2 miles from
Bluevale, mostly workable.
******
We have several hog farms listed
in the area.
******
Nearly completed, 1 floorbrick
home in Blyth, 5 rooms, 3
bedrooms, all carpeted, fireplace,
full basement, electric heat.
* * * * * *
We have several nice hones in
Clinton.
* * * * * *
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
People call it take-home pay
because there is no place you can
afford to go with it,
14-7-1
19 Notices
COLD Enterprises. Prompt
refrigeration and appliance
repair. Phone 887-9062, 10-01-tf.
SEPTIC TANKS CLEANED
New modern equipment, over 20
'years experience, Phone Louis
Blake, 887-6800, R. R, 112,
Brussels. • 19-044
19 Notices
CONCRETE WORK
Expert chimney and roofing
repairs; • specializing in stabling.
Don Ives, Phone Brussels,
887-9024. 19-01-tf
Hank's Small
Engine Service
Henry Reinink
1 Mile North of
Londesboro
523-9202
Snowmobile, Snowblower, etc.,
Repair
19-01-tf
HOME INSULATION
SERVICE
Homes and all types of buildings.
Specializing in
BLOWN
CELLULOSE
INSULATION
Free Estimates -No obligation
LOUIS BLAKE
R.R.#2,BRUSSELS Ontario
887.6800.
Serving the people of Western
Ontario for over a quarter of a
century. - 19-04-tf
BERG
Sales Service
.Installation
- Barn Cleaners
- Bunk Feeders
-Stabling
-Silo Unloaders
FREE ESTIMATES
Donald G. Ives
R. R. 2, Blyth
Phone Brussels 887-9024
19.01-tf
19 Notices
Notice
Pictures at the ,lack Stewart
Banquet are available for
ordering at the Blyth Standard.
All orders must be in by Feb. 25,
19-5-3
U.C.W Garage Sale Spring '78.
We'll pick up donations anytime.
Contact C. Hessels 523-4337.
19-7x1
Huron
Dead Stock
Removal
CLINTON ONTARIO
Attention farmers. For depend-
able, efficient service on all farm
stock.
CaII collect 482-9811
24 hours a day. 7 days a week,
"Call us first you won't have to
call anyone else."
19-01-tf
Painting
and
Decorating
Don't wait. Do it Now --While Hien
and time are available --Reason-
able rates for off season. Free
estimates.
Bob Cyr
Certified Painter
Auburn 526-7739
19-6-2
20 Auction Sales
O••ill ••••• ••••••••••�
•
• R.G. Gethke
• GENERAL AUCTIONEER •
• Serving Huron and Perth
• counties with many years of •
experience, For reliable
• service at reasonable rates. „•
• CALL 347.2465 COLLECT •
••
23-05-tf •
!•••••••••••••••••••,
21 Tenders Wanted
Tender
Will be received in writing for a
Caretaker
for Londesboro United Church
Lowest or any tender not
necessarily accepted. Closing
date for tender.
MARCH 60978 -
at 6 p.m.
For particulars contact
AllAn Bosman, Londesboro
523-4286 or Robert Trick
Londesboro 523.4387
21-7-2
Additional
classified
on next
page
CLASSIFIED
21 Tenders Wanted
Township of Hullett
Gravel
Tenders
Tenders wanted for the supplying
crushing and delivering of
approximately 18,000 cubic yards
of5/8" granular "A" gravel for
the township of Hullett and must
be capable of 1,000 cubic yards or
more a day. Work to be done to
the satisfaction of the Road
Superintendent and be_delivered
in the month of June 1978, Apply
to the Road Superintendent for
contract forms, The tenders must
be submitted to Township Clerk,
Clare Vincent, Lotldesboro, by
Friday March 3, 1978 by 5 p.m.
and accompanied with a certified
cheque of 10% of enclosed bid.
Lowest or any tender not
necessarily accepted and must be
approved by the M.T.C.
GEORGE HOGGART
Road Superintendent
Londesboro, Ontario,
NOM 2H0
21-7-2
Ministry of
Housing
Ontario Housing
Corporation .
Several Contractors required for
general maintenance repair work
on plumbing, heating and
drainage systems at various
projects, on a rotational basis, in
the Bruce, Huron and Perth
County areas.
Tenders requested on any or all
County areas
Tender Reference Number:
SFT B05 78-19
Tenders will be received for the
above until 11:00 a.m., local time,
MARCH 1, 1978
by the Ontario Housing
Corporation, c/o Courthouse &
Registry Building, 80 Dundas
Street, Suite 1-010, P.O.Box
5600, Station "A", London,
Ontario, N6A 2P3, attention
Maintenance Manager, from
whom details and specifications
may be obtained or telephone
(519) 679-7110 iluoting tender
reference number as above.
THE LOWEST OR ANY TENDER
NOT NECESSARILY ACCEPTED
21-7-1
21 Tenders Wanted
Ministry of
Housing
Ontario Housing
Corporation
Several Contractors required for,
general electrical maintenance
work at various projects, on/ a
rotational basis, in the Bruce,
Huron and Perth County... areas,
Tenders requested on any or all
County areas
Tender Reference Number:
SFTIB 05 78-20
Tenders will be received for the
above until 11:00 a.m., local time
MARCH 1, 1978
by the Ontario Housing
Corporation, c/o Courthouse &
Registry Building, 80 Dundas
Street, Suite 1-010, P.O.Box
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24 Cards of Thanks
Blyth Minor Sports wishes to
thank all Blyth and District
merchants for donating money
toward hockey sweaters for
atoms, peewees and midgets
teams. All sweaters are in now, so
people come to the Arena and
see what sweaters look like.
—Blyth Minor Sports Committee.
24-7.1
I wish to thank the Auburn
Women's Institute, Knox U.C.W.
Walkerburn Ladies Club, friends
and neighbours for cards, letters
and flowers sent to me during my
stay in hospital and since coming
home. A special "thank you" to
the nurses first floor Clinton
Public Hospital, Dr, Street and
V.O.N.—Mrs, Jas. Jackson,
Auburn. 24-7x1
Every week more and more
people discover what mighty -jobs
are accomplished by low cost
Want Ads.
Can get hardwoods
started inside now
It is not too early to begin
planning for your hardwood
nursery, says R.A.Fleming,
Ontario Ministry of Agriculture
and Food horticulturist.
Cuttings from hardwoods taken
in February and March can be
forced to bloom and root indoors,
"We have all forced forsythia
shoots to blooni indoors during
the late winter. Often these sante
shoots can be rooted from
hardwood cuttings."
The cuttings should be six to
eight inches long and about 1/4"
to 3/8 inches in diameter, Mr.
Fleming says a shoot of good
sound wood, several feet long,
'an be split up into cuttings. He
advises making the cutting just
below a bud for optimum rooting.
Place the cuttings in a box of
peat and sand mixture to about
two-thirds the length of the
cutting.
Thoroughly water the soil
• mixture and cover with a sheet of
glass or plastic to keep the tops of
the cuttings from drying out.
Water them from time to time
from the top.
The cuttings should be well
rooted by late spring and ready
for planting in a nursery row to
grow into garden -size plants.
Hardwoods which may be
rooted in this manner are shrubs
such as forsythia, the willows, the
shrubby dogwoods, philadelphus,
and some types of viburnum.
THE BLYTH STANDARD, FEBRUARY 15, 1978 —19
OFA supported on tax reform
position by local Federation
• • •
Assessment of farm land in the municipality an unconditional proposal because a farm house is
Ontario, based strictly on market grant, equal to what the taxes an integral part of the farm and
1 values, could have far reaching would have been on the total does not bear a similar value to a
implications for the farming agricultural assessment of the house on a severed lot,
industry in this province. Nearly I municipality. It should be noted O.F.A. President Peter
all land in Southern Ontario is that this is quite different than Hannam will be the guest speaker
affected,by real estate values not the government paying the taxes at the annual banquet of Hay and
related ib -,,,the productive !on individual farms. Stanley Townships on Friday,
agricultural value, (c) The balance of the farm April 7th. Any O.F.A. member
The Huron County Federation , assessment that was applied to who would like further
of Agriculture feels that taxation I the residence should become the ' information about the above
based on market value, under assessed value of the farm home policy is welcome to attend this
these circumstances, would not and the farmer would pay taxes meeting. Tickets are available at
reflect a farmer's "ability to based on this value, the Federation Office, Vanastra.
pay", which is supposedly the The governmen has proposed Every week more and more
basic principle of taxation. that the farm house and a deemed people discover what mighty jobs
Thethe Ontario Federation lot be assessed separate from the arc accomplished by low cost
supportsI farm, O.F.A. is opposed to this Want Ads.
of Agriculture's position on
property tax reform, which is
outlined below:
(1) O.F.A. has a long standing
policy that property taxes should
only be used to pay for services to
property. Education and other
people -oriented services should
be supported by some other form
of taxition. The government
recognized this principle when it
! agreed to the 50% rebate of their
property tax, which farmers can
apply for.But apparently, this.
rebate system will not be
incorporated in the proposed tan
, reform.
(2) O.F.A. believes that
assessment of farm land must be
based on productive value, not on
market value. The government
refuses to accept this principle in
the proposed property tax reform.
(3) Since the provincial
government is not prepared, at
this time, to recognize the above
two basic points, and since
market value assessment
appears to be a "sacred cow"
that must not be violated, O.F.A.
has proposed that if farmers are
to be assessed at market value
then
(a) They be assessed a one unit:
house,..farm buildings, farm land,
woodlot, etc.
(b) The agricultural portion
farm buildings, farm land',
woodlot, etc.) be considered
non -tax bearing 'assessment and
legislation passed to make such a
declaration permanent, The
provincial government would pay
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by Bill Smiley
After the last couple of columns, you
probably think I'm a mean, shrivelled,
shrunken, toothless old man who hates
winter becausie he's so mean, shrivelled,
etc. etc,
You're right. But not entirely right. It's
not winter itself that I. hate. How can you
hate an abstract thing like winter? You
can't punch it on the nose or spit in its face
(unless you are rich and can go south).
No, No, After all, I was an ardent curler
for a dozen or so years, working my way up
through the tortuous passages of the
curling hierarchy until I was a Vice -Skip (a
Skip in nixed doubles, already) until my
disintegrating discs suggested that 'there
were better ways of achieving comfort
than hoisting a 40 -pound rock around and
beating the ice with a broom, bent double.
And for a few years there, I was known
as the Terror of the Trails, Ski trails, tha' '
is. When people heard behind them a
whooping "Scheiss!" they got off the trail
pretty quickly, 1 can tell you. They were
well aware that Smiley had ust roared
down a three -feet slope and was about to
rum right over them. Mainly because he
didn't know how to stop.
In fact, for about three years, I was
forced to undergo the torture of the trails,
puffingly trying to keep up with an agile
young wife who does yoga exercises, until I
smartened up.
About last year, 1 discovered that, with
judicious planning, pleading the 'flu, my
arthritic foot, my bad back, and my bursitic
shoulder, I could stall the skiing until`about
March,
Then, with any luck, there'd be some
freezing rain, a thaw, a blizzard, and
another thaw, so that skiing was
impossible. And I'd go around smacking
my right fist into my left palm, outwardly
furious that I'd missed all the best of the
winter skiing, inwardly chortling, And
people would sympathize with nye, and I'd
respond "Yeah! Darn it to heck anyway.
No; No. Winter is ally a wonderland
to me. I wonder how anybody in the land in
his right mind doesn't go out of it. .
Again, it's not winter 1 hate. It's putting
on niy rubber boots. It's ice on the roof. It's
driving in snow. It's nay fuel bill. it's
moving mountains of snow from here to
there, and having I some zealous civic
employee, whose wages are paid out of my
taxes, move it back to here.
Aside from these minor and constant
irritations, winter can be a joy, an esthetic
treat of the first niagnitude..I discovered
this on a recent bus trip to the city.
We took off just as day was breaking.
And we rolled through a winter landscape
that was stunning in its stark beauty. It
was like a trip to another planet in the
warm,safe cocoon of our space ship, the
bus.
That's the only way to travel in winter -
by bus, It's a little bit like low-flying,
except that you don't have to handle the
controls and keep an eye on the altimeter,
Once you've adjusted to the hum of the
bus, there you are, morning paper on your
knee, flask of hot coffee on your. lap, snug
and safe while the terrifying and magnifi-
cent white and blue and green and black
countryside peels by like a film on a
screen.
After 40 days and 40 nights of snow and
wind, the land was not exactly pastoral,
unless you were breeding a herd of polar
bears,
But the Great Sculptor had been at work,
and the result was a surrealist's dream.
Vast sweeps of undulating white, •
undercarved here and there, chiselled to a
cutting point elsewhere.
All this loveliness was overpowering,
:and I began to drift off into a day dream in
which 1 was a Russian count flying across
the snowy steppes in niy troika, toward my
baronial manor in which the countess was
waiting with steaming vodka and a hot
shepherd's pie, made of a couple of
ground -up peasants who had got out of
line.
1t was too good to be true. A hoarse voice
from across the aisle shattered the vision.
"Hey, you're Mr. Smiley, the teacher,
aintcha?" It was some young turkey who
was on his way to Halifax, having just
accepted the Queen's shilling, and for the
next hour he held me spellbound with a
garbled account of how he had got his
Grade 10 after only four years in high
school, the teachers he liked and didn't
like, the tremendous future he had in the
armed forces, all of it interspersed with
bad grammar and monotonous profanity.
By the time 1 got to the city, niy mood
was sufficiently depressed for it; the filthy
slush, the bleak, biting wind, the total
absence of any of winter's beauty, the
hunched and watery -eyed pedestrians.
• It was back,to the ugliness of winter. But
for one brief hour there, I lived in an
enchanted world, frightening but
magnificent, where the salt -rusted
fenders, . the leaking rubbers, the
'escalating oil bill, and the bloody snow
shovel could be temporarily banished to
the bottom of my bile sac.
And the city was so windy and dirty l
was glad to get hone, walk into niy own
backyard and cast a judicious, almost fond
glance at the picnic table under four feet of
white stuff, and the splendid array of
sparkling, five-foot icicles hanging directly
over niy back door.
There was no countess, but theOld Lady •
was there, and she was glad to see Inc
home, so I had a steaming vodka and
believe it or not, she had prepared a hot ,
shepherd's pie. What more could a man
want, even if he isn't a count, on a winter's
eve in Canada?
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