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Cheap food for too long tells Liberals The Acton Free Press Nov 300 guests mingle with VIPs at Tory fundraising night Canadians should quit quibbling about the price of beef and food Federal Minister of Agriculture Eugene Whaten told Liberal at a fundraising dinner In the Pine Room of Arena Friday Whalen said Canadians have bad cheap food too long and should be prepared to pay for good food He said the country must attempt to preserve family farms but If society insists on treating farmers and farm families as peasantry family farms will soon be a thing of the past New trend The minister offered some encouragement about the trend swinging back In favor of family farms He said his department was In the process of bringing legis lation before the House of Commons that would provide better financing from the federal government During the past four months about per cent or those farmers making ap plication for farm loans were stop the flood of young from the farms to the cities and good paying factory jobs He continually referred to the farmer as the forgotten man Therelsnootherplaee In society where the mother the children and the father work and only one gets paid Theres nothing on the ledger for the children and the wife said that with the coming of district schools and closing of small rural schools have come problems for the farmer Many farm children Museum spend four hours a day on school buses Society pay Questioned following his speech Whalen said that often the four hours would have been put to good use In doing chores on the farm But now the farmer has to hire someone to fill the role played earlier by his children In after school hours FARMERS DESERVE a better break from soc iety than they are receiving now Eugene Minister of Agriculture told Liberals at a fundraising dinner in Oakvillc Elizabeth and Rud Whiting were among head tabic guests at the dinner Society has done hi and socleiy should be prepared to pay lor It not the far mer T Farm children have abandoned countryside family farms of Canada by the tens of the past two They have taken ba In cities but If you ask them how like living In tho city most will tell you It They would lovo to move back to the country and to tho farm Hut Canadians concentrated their and thnlr thinking on cities In duMry and have forgotten tho formers ho said tho farmer Is forgotten person when It comes to and development In our mimic polities Urban planner it grab off the best farm land and turn into industrial parks shopping centres and Cities hand out Incentives by bushel to Industries but give nothing to farmers drive out Into countryside buying up farm land to hold for future profits And tho profits must come from Home other than farming lllghrr price Tho farmrrs who wont to remain In business or en wind are forced pay higher price for land a price that farming a non profit operation There are thousands of farmers across Canada today who are counting on selling their land to realize the profit they have been denied In ho actual business of producing food Their farm Is their pension ments are bringing leal to keep farm land In agriculture he noted Columbia- the strongest legislation we have overseen In North America lo preserve farm land One unfortunate side effect In that the legislation has at snmo lime sharply reduced Iho of the pennon many formers were counting in Newfoundland they are going to a law to lock entire Peninsula In agriculture Hero In Ontario the In moving lo green belts and the Niagara fruit belt out of not being mode for the Tar They are made for the rent of society Too often tho farmer Is for gotten oven though It Is his farm his pension and his future I hot is most affected by the new policies wholon concluded New name Milton Community Credit Union Is thonging lis nnmutn Community Credit Union Members their lMh anniversary assets at a dinner dunce at the Social club Milton Tories crowded into the ballroom at the Holiday Inn In Irldny to take part In a fund raising dinner for PC Association crowded room was sprinkled with prominent on the VIP list Included provincial cabinet minister Welch Jim Snow Kerr Margaret Kirch Winkler and John Clement Conservative members attending ho function Included llennls Jim Duncan llealllo Don and MP Terry OConnor dinner broke away from the political program where guest siHuker Is Invited anil nd gtiestH after tho dinner lories lie function mingling with the guests prior to tho dinner an some niter the dinner were to a federal member or provincial member sit at each table during the dinner Association president Hob Junes termed tho a sin cess Party workers noted the tickets were sold out and more could have been sold If a larger hall had been booked Tour for councillors but only four came By Bob Built Several largetrays of fancy sandwiches dozens of cups large containers of tea and coffee were on one tabic Another table was covered In neatly prepared brochures about the County Museum Museum staffers and some board members were on hand ready to greet councillors open house was to have run from mid afternoon to sis oclock Thursday and museum staffers explained the purpose of the tour and open house was to show regional councillors what facilities were on hand what had been done and what the staff and board hoped would be done In the near future Four went But even at all but tour of the brochures remained on the table Coffee cups remained on their saucers untouched and for the better part the big con tatnera remained nearly full Pretty young girls who double as hostesses and guides for the museum wandered about offering coffee and sandwiches to the four councillors and few board members who at tended In other years county councillors were ited to an open house near Christmas time The visit was tradition ally highlighted by a tour and a social gathering in the museum In other years makeshift bar was set up And the event traditionally successful In luring county officials to the museum Staff and board members were disappointed at the poor turnout at their open house Thursday councillor Gordon Brown of of Milton and Pot Me- and Coxc of Hilts attended the function Museum Hoard Chairman Frank was asked after the whether another attempt would be made to familiarise the regional councillors with museum facilities No We them a chqnco to learn about a sea of the region and this will be a function of the region that they will hac to know he said Chairman absent Yes were disappointed and no wont provide another chance for them to learn Im disappointed the regional chairman Allan appear The open house was booked around his date a month time Yes were dis the hoard had hoped all the councillors would nave come A tour had been planned to prov first hand knowledge When they look at the budget they might wonder why If they were here they would know why wanted to put them In the picture and show them things behind the scenes that wouldnt be seen she said SEVERAL PROVINCIAL cabinet members and federal Tories attended the Conservative fundraising dinner In Oakvllle Friday night Halton East Jim Snow chats with Bob Welch provincial secretary for social development and Allan Lawrence who left his Secretary of Justice post with the province to take a seat with the federal Tories PhotobyBBurtt Tour again Teen lour hand will compete in i band lest In Philadelphia Nov The competition In known as the Parade of The band number over hours and marched thousands tulles collectively for the ARTHUR A JOHNSON OPTOMETRIST IS Main St Milton 8783673 and Saturday 3k our ftp Ion In If each mil jot idol in making nun Toff rTknifei nW rfnnnii mil In any BARBARA SNOW CHATS with provincial cabinet minister Margaret Birch during a Tory fundrais ing dinner In Friday night Mrs Birch was among several cabinet ministers and federal members attending the function Photo by B Burtt HALTON HILLS COUNCILLORS Pat McKenzle and Len Coxe are amused by the Halton Flame Noreen Loos assistant curator ex 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