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Page 2 fund up ** $357,v00 The Disaster Fund now standg at $357,000. Fol- lowing is a further list of contributors: Mrs. Bernice L. Stone, Olds; Mrs. Verna W. Smith, Port Moody, B.C.; Stoney Creek Minor Ho- ckey Association, Stoney Creek, Ontario; George Wallace, Stoney Creek, Ontario; Blue Label Bev- erages (1971) Ltd., Cal- gary; Crawford Manufac- tured Homes Ltd., Cal- gary; Shaw GMC Trucks Ltd., Calgary; White Ram Knitting Co., Calgary; Stampede City Sports Ltd., Calgary; J. W. Fow- ler, Penhold. Canadian Linen Supply, Calgary; Ned Corrigall, Calgary; Grand & Toy, Don Mills, Ontario; Mrs. George Arme, Red Deer; Kenneth Petersen, Olds; Mr. D. Pollack, Olds; E. R. F. & M. A. MacLean, Calgary; Don Wilson, Cal- gary; V. H. & E. Ste- vens, Calgary; R. G. Couch Professional Corp., Calgary. X L Beef Ltd., Calgary; Evan Munson, Olds; R. C. Woolliams, Didsbury; John and Lucille Tourn- quist, Olds; John and Khristin Mueller, Olds; Jacob and Theresa Raven, Grimshaw; C. M. & M. M. Edgerton, Leduc; 1.G.A. Olds, Olds; Weston Bakeries Ltd., Calgary; Later Chemical Ltd., Cal- gary. Anderson, Macar & La- dell, Red Deer; Canadian Propane Gas & Oil Ltd., Olds; Neils F. Nielsen, Sundre; Mesa Petroleum (NA) Co., Calgary; Carl L. Christensen, Red Deer; Boltz Holdings Ltd. (Olds Hotel), Olds; Hudsons Bay Oil & Gas Co. Ltd., Calgary; Lynn McDonald, Olds; Alpha Chi Chapter, Olds; H. A. McRae, Olds. J. A. Laing, Vulcan; Alix Minor Hockey, Alix; Seder Sportswear, Winni- peg, Manitoba; John Deere Limited, Grimsby, Ontario; Sande Fars, Bow- den; Warren Weisse, Olds; Foothills Curling Club, Bowden; Art San- ders Plumbing & Gas Fitting Ltd., Olds. Walter Linday, Olds; N. Douglas. Paton, Bowden; Gordon Johnson, Bowden; Jennie Johnson, Bowden; Lance R. Dickrow, Bow- den; Orval Paton, Bow- den; Larry Thronberg, Bowden. The Gazette 7 TORONTO -UN INTERESTING SITUATION IN BRITAIN... TGUESS \F ITHAPPENED HERE WE'D PROBABLY HAVE TO AX POSTPONE THE ELECTION! report calls for track desertion Additional improve- ments to prairie rail branch lines costing $106 million, plus another '$30 million in road and truck- ing compensation for western farmers are among the major recom- mendations in the final Prairie Rail Action Com- mittee (PRAC) report re- leased recently by Trans- port Minister Otto Lang. PRAC also rejected esta- blishment of a ‘‘Prairie Rail Authority’? (as sug- gested by the Hall Com- mission on Grain Handl- ing and Transportation) on the basis of negligible support for the concept in Western Canada and that it would unnecessarily de- lay decisions on the status student endowment fund established A cheque for $2,000 to begin a student endow- ment fund was presented to Olds College President : Glenn Crombie by Mel : Service, who is chairman : of the Progressive Farm- course successful The prediction that near- ly 200 people would attend an international bedding plant course at Olds Col- lege this month almost became prophecy January 22 and 23 as 150 people attended a two day sem- inar here. “It’s the largest number of people we've ever had for this course,’’ said Woody Cumbo, horticul- ture instructor and organ- izer of the program. ‘‘The speakers told me that the people seemed almost hungry for information.’’ The two day course, which was designed pri- marily for people in the bedding plant industry in Canada and the U.S., is the third such course to be given at the college. Cumbo said that the rapidly expanding bed- ding plant industry in- creased 23 per cent in volume between 1976 and 1977. ing Days program. Crom- bie received the cheque on behalf of the college. According. to Service, the $2,000 was an accum- ulation of funds derived from the last three Pro- gressive Farming Days. In a meeting afterwards, Service proposed that ex- cess funds from future Progressive Farming Days be given to the college in order to help students in financial need. Crombie accepted the idea and felt that it would be of great help to the students. Progressive Farming Days is supported by agri- business, he said, and is designed to introduce the latest in farm equipment, services and production methods to farm families. Everyone who works in the program is a volun- teer. “It would have been Impossible to come up with the show we had last time if it wasn’t for the help of the Olds College staff and others,’’ Service said. The last Progressive Farming Days, held in June of 1978, drew ap- proximately 5,000 people. The next event is scheduled for 1980. / ett of branch lines. The PRAC report is ano- ther major step in the continuing work on the recomendations of the Hall Commission aimed at eliminating uncertainty in the prairie rail network and bringing it up to first class condition. Of the 4,068.2 kilometres (2,542.6 miles) . of rail branch lines it examined the committee recom- mended that 1,670.7 kilo- metres (1,044.2 miles) be added to the basic rail retwork. and 1,670.7 kilo- metres (1,044.2 miles) be added to the basic rail network and 2,265.8 kilo- metres (1,416.1 miles) be abandoned. Following the example of Hall, it has set out dates by which aban- donment and upgrading would be practical. The final report also. reprints PRAC’s 14 recommenda- tions. about specific branch lines released ear- lier by the Minister of Transport. Lines recommended by PRAC for retention have already been transferred to the basic permanent network and now will be rebuilt to first class stan- dard at the cost of $106 million as part of an eight- year $800 million federally farmers buy newgrain cars The Canadian Wheat Board has placed orders for the manufacture of 2,000 steel hopper cars. All of the cars will have a carrying capacity of 100 tons. Cost of the cars, at current price levels, would be just under $41,000 per’ car for a total of nearly $82 million for the entire pur- chase. However, the final cost may rise to an aver- age of $44,800 per car or an estimated $89.6 million by the time construction is completed. With the current cycle time of 19 trips per car per year, the additional 2,000 hopper cars will be cap- able of transporting over 3 million tonnes of grain into export position annu- ally. At current price ic- vels for grain, this would nw t financed program already under way. Of the original 1974 prairie rail network of 30,756 kilometres (19,220 miles), more than 24,000 kilometres (15,270 miles) have now been trans- ferred to the basic per- manent network - that is about 80 per cent of all the trackage existing on the prairies. The lines recommended to be dropped from the basic network will now be examined again by the Canadian Transport Com- mission, the only author- ity capable of making a final decision concerning retention abandonment. The CTC will evaluate all the information available to It from the Hall Com- mission, PRAC and the many interested groups. In the case of several lines, PRAC recom- mended abandonment on- ly if the federal govern- ment instituted a roadbed and trucking compensa- tion program. A trucking subsidy of about $6 million was sug- gested for farmers who would be required’ in the future to haul grain more than 32 kilometres (20 miles) to adjacent delivery points as a result of aban- result in additional sales earnings of over $450 million for western grain farmers each year. The Wheat Board stated that the potential loss in sales compared to the annual cost for the cars strongly favoured the Board’s decision to pro- ceed with the purchase. At the Board’s current borrowing rate of 11% per cent interest and depreci- ation costs, based on a write-off period of 30 years, costs to producers would amount to approxi- mately $13.5 million in the first year and reducing thereafter. Based on pro- ducer deliveries to the Board in the last five crop years, this works out to an average of 1.75 cents per bushel. Three manufacturing donment. With rail aban- donment, secondary raods would be affected and as a result, PRAC also recom- mended a road assistance program costing about $26 million, with details to be worked out between the federal and provincial governments. No decision has yet been made on PRAC’s trucking and road assistance proposals. ‘Between the work of the Hall Commission, PRAC and the CTC, we should, in the very near future, have complete cer- tainty in regard to the prairie branch lines re- building program. The government of Canada is investing some $800 mil- lion to,,put the whole permanent system into first class shape. The ele- vator companies have also responded with improved services and definite plans on the lines designated for the basic permanent net- work,’’ Lang said. PRAC was set up by the federal government in 1977 to look into the status of rail lines left in doubt by the findings of the Hall’ Commission and com- pleted its assignment within 18 months. companies in eastern Can- ada will share in the con- struction of the 2,000 cars. Contracts for 1,000 cars were awarded to National Steel Car Corporation Ltd. in Hamilton, Ontario; 800 cars will be built by Hawk- er Siddeley Canada Ltd. In Trenton, Nova Scotia; and 200 cars will be built by Marine Industries Ltd. in Sorel, Quebec. Delivery of the cars will begin in September, 1979, and be completed in Feb- ruary, 1980. Coming Event Flea Market on Satur- day, February 17 from 10:00 to 4:00 p.m. in the Provincial Building, Olds. Free admission. Seller re- servations and informa- tion. Phone 226-8634 or 226-2298. 6-2tp Wednesday, February 7, 1979 viewpoint the battleground The battle for votes in the Olds - Didsbury constituency will boil down to a two-way contest bet- ween the Conservatives and Social Credit. Bill Edgar, Tory standardbearer is seeking to upset Social Credit leader Bob Clark who has been safely entrenched as the provin- cial MLA for so many years. The real battle for votes has yet to begin but already the two contestants and their supporters are girding themselves with the weapons and armor of an elec- tion campaign. : The major battleground will be right here in Olds. With Edgar’s campaign office on the east side of 51. avenue and Clarks’ im- mediately to the west, it may be the town will have to erect some fortification between the two. Clark was in fine fittle as he aroused his troops in Sundre last Friday. Edgar has been moving his people around in a direct on- slaught on the Social Credit stronghold. This all before Premier Lougheed has trumpeted the election call. The moves on the part of the two major combatants indicate that Olds - Didsbury will ex- perience a lively election cam- paign. there are limits The main highway between Calgary and Red Deer was not that great to be on at the weekend. It is fortunate that there were no serious injuries as a result of cars leaving the road and hitting the ditch. Despite the poor visibility, signs that cautioned drivers to slow to 75 KMH and the obvious wet and icy spots, many motorists kept their foot on the gas and zoomed down the road at 110 - 120 KMH. Often they disappeared in a bliz- zard of snow in the centre median or in the ditch. We fail to understand why a motorist would jeopardize his own life or that of his passengers for the sake of a few extra minutes on the road. Especially when conditions were as bad as they were Sunday. & be a booster We've had little to cheer about in Olds this winter with one or two exceptions. The weather has been great and the Olds Disaster Fund is an obvious success. A small group of hard working people have been trying to give us a lift from our winter doldrums made all the more dreary by lack of local curling and hockey. They have organized a Winter Carnival that will run February 19 - 25. Junior and senior queen con- testants have been chosen and Winter Carnival buttons are now being sold. one way A system of one way streets to serve downtown Olds was presented to a dinner meeting of the Olds Board of Trade recently. That body appears to have endorsed the scheme and has asked that the proposal be now, considered by Council. Before wasting Council’s time with the proposal we suggest the A cabaret has been organized, outdoor jam can curling will be sanctioned and there will be numerous displays. Co-ordinating all of the ac- tivities is a major undertaking. That's been done - what is needed now is a whole lot of en- thusiasm fromthe community. Shake off the winter blues - buy a button and become a Winter Carnival booster. Do those things, by all means, but more than that, become an active participant. streets scheme be submitted to a public meeting. There it will die a quick death and the Board of Trade, the Council and the Police Com- mission (where the idea was hat- ched) can get along with some more useful ideas to make Olds a better place in which to live and shop. the task force report The report of the Task Force on national unity was released in Ot- tawa recently. Co-chaired by a couple of ex-politicians Pepin and Robarts, the report is being praised and damned. Unfortunately we are not able to comment very intelligently on the report. Usually, our mail is innun- dated by paper reports flowing out of Ottawa. However, in this case, the Ottawa gristmills were silent and all we’ve studied is “what you read in_ the newspapers.” However, coming as it did in an national election year, the report may well establish at least some of the scenario on which the politicians will campaign. For Prime Minister Trudeau, the report may well be a useful “red herring.” Published Weekly at Olds Alberta SS Subscription - $7.00 per year in Canada Printed and Published by Leatherdale Publishing Ltd. P.O. Box 820, Olds, Alberta Member Canadian Community Newspaper Association and Alberta Weekly Newspaper Association Represented for National Sales by Western Regional Newspapers and Ad Reps, Vancouver, B.C. Entered as Second Class Matter at Olds, Alberta under permit number 0370 Phone 226-3351 i
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