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Port Perry Star, 8 Mar 1972, p. 15

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© That's Pop and his daughter Ethel in a scene from the Robertson Davies play: ! Overlaid". Jim Baird and Beryl! Pearce have the lead roles in drama about life in rural Ontario. (more pictures and story on page 14) Churches co-ordinate efforts for development and education "Ten days for develop- ment," March 9 - 19, has been set aside as a time for special concentration on de- veloping countries by Angli- can, Lutheran, Presbyter- ian, Roman Catholic and United Churches. Last year insurance innovator from - Great-West Life Wm. Laurence Evans 15 Bell St., Box 550 Uxbridge, Ont. Telephone 852-3184 Life, Health, Group, Annuities these five churches raised $4,603.509 and the hope is that during this Lenten period, the total amount will exceed five million dollars. Church officials stress that the appeal is 'coordinated but not unified'. In other words, while materials with "a common theme are used by each participating denom- ination, thus saving on production costs, the monies contributed are allocated by the responsible bodies of each church. Last = year's emergency relief included $831,000 for Pakistani refugees and anot- her $841,800 for those who suffered from floods, fam- ines, earthquakes, fires and wars. : Funds spent on agricul- tural, educational, medical, economic and social devel- opment amounted to $2,930,709 in 1971. The 1972 theme picks up from last year in- empha- siziiig development but fo- cuses on people -'devel- opment is people seeking justice... creating change. . . discovering education . . . sharing relief." Printed materials carry- ing out this theme include posters, brochures, Sunday church bulletins, envelopes for contributions and guides for congregational leaders. Although some projects are Churches . channel most of the money from.their mem- bers through the * World Council of Churches, whose total budget for relief and development work around the world is nearly twenty- million dollars. The Luthe- ran Church also works 'through Canadian Lutheran World Action and the Roman Catholic Church through the Canadian Catholic Organi- zation for Development and Peace. "x . The National Farmers' Union has cautioned the Ontario government not to use its resources to develop beef production incentive programs which would have the effect of driving prices down, in light -of reported ~ increased cattle numbers. Walter Miller, Vice Pres- 3,000 visit Open House at Durham Durham College's fourth annual Open House held on February 21 - 22 attracted nearly 5,000 visitors. Mr. Blair Haviland, an instructor in the Applied Arts Division called the event a 'very definite suc- cess." He added that some visitors came back to Col- lege more than once in order to have a look at the numerous and varied dis- plays and demonstrations. -Some of these included a live television production, radio programming, photo- graphic exhibits, use of plastics injections moulding machine, demonstrations of equipment used in chemistry and physics labs, and a fashion show staged com- pletely by the students. There are plans to stage the fashion show again in the near future at the Simpson's store in Oshawa. This was_ the first. Open... House held in the College's new permanent building. This new building, which cost more than $3 million was opened for classes last September. ga 3 VFA IARIIAL 88. PRT TEX BINT RAPE VCIRN ETA RNA LY IRR I IS Br MASON AAA PORT PERRY STAR -- Wednesday, March 1, 1972 -- 11 ident of the NFU, in a recent letter to the Hon. Wm. A. Stewart, Minister of Agri- culture and Food, called on 'the Minister to use his "influence to get other gov- ernments of Canada to help establish a totally co-ordin- ated program to develop the livestock industry, and help establish an overall national meat authority. The letter said the NFU is unable to support any pro- duction incentive program for beef without first having established an overall nat- ional meat authority to avoid placing beef producers in a comparable position-to that experienced by hog pro- ducers over the past few years or shifting production "treat Farmers' Union cautions government from one commodity to another. The letter suggested low interest partially forgiveable loans could serve a useful purpose if applied on a general basis to establish young farmers in the bus- iness of farming, but not on a commodity basis. The union Vice President called for a program com- parable to the Veteran's Land Act used following World War 2 to get young farmers established. Mr. Miller said the NFU will continue to pursue the policies established py its members in convention and will ask governments to the cause of the problem - not the symptoms, Keeping it clean funded by all five denomin- ations, the Anglicans, Pres- Great-West Life ASSURANCE COMPANY byterian and - United [alt Load Regulations are in force on Ontario County and Suburban Roads Effective March 1st to April 30th, vehicle loads may not exceed the allowable loads given under Section 54, Subsections 4 and 5 of the Highway Traffic Act. W.A. Twelvetrees, P. Eng: County Engineer. with Bill Dodds The beautiful people . . . Sometimes I get discouraged. There's a picture in our office of an outhouse. Do you realize there is a man in Ontario who is idiot enough to build an outhouse on the end of his dock? I wonder if he swims there. I'm sure the people in the cottages around him don't. And I just read a statement by a British Columbia mining executive. He said open pit mines are beautiful -- they '"'offer relief to the constant green of the landscape, have interesting rock formations exposed to view and form a potential tourist attraction." What really bothers me is that he could be right. I love northern Ontario and the "constant green of the landscape" -- especially around Lake Superior. , But I'm beginning to think that a lot of the tourists sgare my summers with just aren't comfortable wif unspoiled natural beauty. There's a spot north of Marathon -- a view of Lake Superior with rock outcrops and islands that takes your breath away. A.Y. Jackson sketched it in his travels through Superior country. I saw it first in 1969. Last summer I went out of my way on a holiday trip to stop and take a picture -- something to bring it all back when winter in the city gets too depressing. ' : - The first time I projected those color slides, something caught my eye -- a flash from the bottom left hand corner of the screen. . It was the sun, reflecting off the end of a soft drink can. There was a little pile of cans and broken bottles, caught by a ridge as they rolled down the sloping rock- of the outlook. : That little heap of garbage is in every slide I took there. And it's getting to the point where. I can't see anything else in that scene but that damned garbage. It's geeting hard to remember how beautiful that place is.. Now I'm noticing things in my other vacation pictures. The setting sun gives a halo to backlit birches at my favourite campside near Sioux Lookout. But in my pictures it also etches in the outline of every cigarette butt and dances off all the little aluminum pop can pull-tabs. » And that was one of the cleanest camps. Yes, sometimes I get discouraged. - Donna Gale Anton and Robert James Richardson were united in marriage on January 18, 1972 in Kitchener. The bride is the youngest daughter of Mrs. Tena Anton, Port Perry and the groom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Ted Richardson, Angus, Ontario. The happy couple will make their home in Kitchener. YEAR END CLEARANCE Most models available in limited quantity including GP433, GP292, some with Hi - Low gear. All have oil injection. Warrany good to December 31, 1972. Up to $200. OFF ASSELSTINE'S YAMAHA BLACKSTOCK i BG aA Mek

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