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The Olds Gazette and Mountain View News 1972-01-06 - 1972-12-21
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— Page 4 OLDS GAZETTE Thur., July 20, 1972 en Bi pest a hy mm. He ad ‘Yee ocr gi: ” OLDS GAZETTE @ha MOUNTAIN VIEW NEWS Editor and Publisher — N. K. LEATHERDALE . Box 820, Olds, Alberta, TOM 1PO , ail An independent weekly newspaper. : Circulating weekly under contract in County of Mt. View No. 17. mK Subscription Rates: $5.00 per year in Canada; $6.00 in U.S.A. oy Net Paid Weekly Circulation — 3,900 al Our Farm Review is a monthly publication with a circulation of Hor 6,000. o Hon. Don Getty, Alberta’s Min- ister for inter-governmental affairs may have concluded that he is pursuing a popular course regard- ing the townsites of Banff and Jasper. The Alberta Government wants these areas taken out of the national parks and brought under Provincial Government control. It’s’ our very humble opinon which seems to be shared by the man on the street that Banff and Jasper are better left as they are. The readings we get are that the provincial. government wants to \. lake over so that all sorts of weird : ‘: ‘ miffed because Hull is likely to be oe The inconvenience suffered by some residents of the town during construction of roads, is almost inconceivable. The complaints have been numreous and yet many have simply taken the matter as ated. We suspect that with two weeks of good weather, most of the in- convenience would disappear and | that paving of the streets could be well underway. What concerns us more is once the pavement is all down what steps are going to be taken to ewe ee eee When Bobby Hull, the super ‘. star of the Chicago Blackhawks, k jumped to the World Hockey As- sociation camp from the National Hockey League : . . he did so for a bundle of cash. He also knew ithe full ramifications of that . move. ~ Canadians, naturally, are a bit + : ‘ \ left off the team that will repre- sent Canada in a late summer hockey series against the Rus- sians. The uproar was well underway without Hull, himself, adding his “two bits worth” on Friday on na- Public hearings are to be held ' in Calgary and Red Deer among a » other places on the effects of sul- , phur extraction plants on the en- vironment. 2; Again the people of rural areas ’ are being put to the expense and « bother of additional travel to pre- 2 gent their case to a committee of government that is getting well paid to do its job. It was made a- bundantly clear in Olds at a re- cent hearing of the Oil and Gas ‘’ Conservation Board that there are something which has to be toler-' EDITORIAL Watch It! developments can take place. Ev- en the Alberta Government’s op- position to the huge Lake Louise development is suspect under these conditions. It also seems to us that there are many more pressing problems for Mr. Getty to be involved in than the Banff and Jasper townsites. To us they seem to be fairing quite well but will we be able to say the same thing next year or the year after in the federal sup- port now being received in Alber- ta in such fields as health and post-secondary education? Oo————— When it's done... clean-up behind the new curbs and gutters...We suggest that. the town proceed witfiall haste to, backfill those atdas ‘for which it: feels responsible..We also sugg- est that a vigorous tree planting program especially in the resid- ential areas be undertaken. With a little care over a few years these trees could provide a welcome relief to the acres of blacktop which will replace, hopefully, the acres of dust we’ve had to contend with for ever so long. Oo—-———— Wed like to see Hull play, but... tional television. He seemed to forget completely that to this mo- ment the World Hockey Associa- tion hasn’t even played a single game nor has it announced its 1972-73 schedule. It’s fine for Huil to. knock the National Hockey League and the club owners but he was fully a- ware of all the consequences of his move before he accepted those two fat cheques. Sure, we’d like to see Hull play on Hockey Canada against the Russians but we’d also like to see him “zip his lips’. Canadians like fair play — both ways! . Again we protest problems relative to the discharge of sulphur dioxide into the atmos- phere. The persons making those complaints were sincere in their belief that their way of life had been damaged. Now to move that complaint one step further and bring it to the attention of a legis- lative committee, these local res- idents will have to give up more of their time and money to travel to Red Deer or Calgary. We think its time the mountains started coming to the people. WHY [SIT THAT EVERYTIME OUR CAR GER RECALLED THEY MAKE US WAITINTHE SHOWROONE The Federal-Provincial Small Farm Development Agreement was signed Friday by Aberta Agriculture Minister, The Hon- ourable Dr. Hugh Horner, ‘and Federal Agriculure Minister Bud Olson. With the signing ince to enter into an agreement with the federal government to give special and particular at- tention to the family farm unit. This development’ program has aplication over the. total prov- ince with no emphasis on any one region or district. The core of the agreement negotiated between the Alberta department of Agriculture and the Canada Department of Ag- riculture officials centers a- round land purchase ahd trans- fer to - facilitate development of more economically viable family farms, to. assist owner- operators of uneconomic its to recover their equity in their holdings to prepare for. other pursuits, and to remove .low capability land from agriquit- ure by transferring it to other uses. Allied to land purehase arrangements are additional i puts in the area of special it farm siafiagement and development counselling , vices. The emphasis is 0! sistance to both the family jand the farm. This agreement mak- es it possible for Alberta fafm- ers to participate in all phases of the small farm program} Reorganizaion of the depart: ment of Agriculture last year was implemented to give. emp- hasis to two major areas of ag- ricultural .development. in , the province, namely‘! marketing and farm’ and rural resource development and the sighing of the federal-pFovincial Small Farm Development Agreement will give added impetus; to our plans for family farm \de- velopment, says Alberta’s | ag- riculture minister, Hon. Hugh Horner. © % ! 4 The Province is commited to the concept of. ecombmically, vi- able family» farm": units and self-determination of a ryral life style and we now have an additional tool to assist family farm ‘units in coping with the technological and economic changes that have affected ag- riculture in the past and will contince to do so in the years ahead, adds Dr. Horner. Alberta became the first Prov- | There are a host of reasons causing farm families to find themselves on non-viable units, says Dr. Horner, Whether due to age, health, management, capital, or other factors, the fact is that non-viable units do exist. in. the agriculture indus- try, Some of these farm oper- ators do wish to: develop econ- omically viable units while ot- hers wish to leave agriculture. Under the program signed, the ‘federal government will purchase uneconomic farm un- its from farmers wishing to leave agriculture. Agricultural land affected will then ‘be av- ailable for resale by direct purchase or through special credit facilities to other farm- ers wishing to become viable commercial-farm operators. Ar- rangements may be made for the seller to retain the farm home and a small area of sur- rounding land. To assist sellers of unecon- omic farms, under the federal/ provincial Small farm Develop- ment Program, the federal government will provide a on- ce-in-a-lifetime assistance grant ofa minimum of $1,500 to a maximum’ grant of $3,500 on |. farms that sell’ up! to $30,000. Both the grant ard the pro- ceeds from the sale of the farm unit may be taken by the seller in cash or in the form of an interest-bearing annuity payable on a monhly basis. The agreement signed enabl- ing Alberta to participate with the federal government in the Small Farm Development Pro- gram’ is. truly.a joint agree- ment, says Dr. Horner. While some projects . and activities will be‘ operated, managed and administered by the federal government, other aspects of the program will be administ- ered by the province.’ Much. of the provincial de- partment of agriculture's input will come under the direction of C. J. McAndrews, assistant Deputy Minister in charge of farm and rural resource deve- lopment with both the exten- sion division, under John Cal- pas, and the family farm deve- lopment division under Walter McNary, being particularly act- ive in planning. and implement- ation. Farmers already have daily relationship with provincial Cattlemen’s Assoc. welcomes new beef carcass grading system The Canadian . Cattlemen’s Association ’ welcomes the re- cent announcement of Federal Agriculture Minister Hon. Hi A. (Bud) Olson that a new beef carcass grading system will’ be introduced on September 5th, 1972. Our long sought goal of a more accurate and modern grading system is about to be realized, said Mr. George Mor- ris of Merlin, Ontario, the vice- president of the Canadian Cat- tlemen’s Association and a long time advocate of an improyed grading system. “This is a tremendous accom- plishment for the C.C.A.”, said Eion Chisholm of Okotoks, Al- berta, “for revised grading standards have been one-of the most important projects yet undertaken by the C.C.A.” The new grade standards are primarily the. regult of efforts of the C.C.A. and ‘the Canadian Federation of Agriculture that began in September of 1966 with a jointly sponsored beef industry conference held in Winnipeg. Since that time, a ’ joint committee of the C.C.A./ C.F.A. has held innumerable meetings with various industry groups with the result that in October 1971, a joint proposal supported as well by the meat packers council of Canada was presented to the Canada De- partment of Agriculture for im- plementation. “This is the producers’ grade standard” said C. Gracey, man- ager of C.C.A. “but more than that it represents what can be accomplished when producers, packers, retailers, consumers, research scienists, and the Fed- eral Grading Service work to- gether to devise a grading sys- tem which will be of benefit to all.” At the present time, the C.C.- A., the C.F.A., and the meat packers council of Canada are co-operating with the Canada Department of Agriculture to prepare a” booklet which de- scribes the new grade stand- ards in, some detail. Such book- lets should soon be available and may be obtained from any of the above-mentioned organi- zations, Small Farm Development Agreement Signed Friday department of agriculture staff, particularly. through the dist- rict “exension offices. .through- out the province, explains Dr. Horner. So the first point of contact for information relat- ing to this program will be at the local level. Information will also be available from of- fices of the Farm Credit Corp- oration. It will naturally take some time for operational details to be worked out but most aspects of the program should be un- derway by September, says the Minister. In addition to regular and special long - term mortgage credit: to be available through the Farm Credit Corporation, the Agriculture Development Corporation of the Provincial Department of Agriculure will provide operating credit for such things as land improve- ment and development, live- stock, equipment, storage and merchandising - facilities plus farmstead improvement and housing. The Agriculture Deve- lopment Corporation will also be involved in land transfer. The Federal government will be adding an input to- the Province’s farm management and rurgfdévelopment services with the -adniinistrating . and day-to-day direction of rural development and farm man- agement consultants and tech- nicians the responsibiliy of re- gional directors of the depart- ment of agriculture’s extension service. The emphasis will be on fam- ily farm development, conclud- es Dr. Horner. For example, the agreement states that those eligible for special purchase assistance and credit arrange: ments under the program must be farmers whose assets do not exceed $60,000: and who is pre- pared to purchase additional land in order that his consolid- ated farm unit will have suffi- cient land, labor, capital and management to become a viable commercial farm. And in addi- tion, the son of an eligible seller who meets the require- ments established for special credit assistance will have pre- ference in acquiring his fath- er’s farm. Meet the Minister HONOURABLE WILLIAM J. YURKO Minister of The Environment William Yurko, the son of Mr. and Mrs. John Yurko, was born in Hairy Hill, Alberta on February 11, 1926. He attended Haity Hill High School then the . University of where he graduated as a Chem- ical Engineer with distinction in 1950. ; . Mr. Yurko’s business ‘back- ground includes: six years with Atomic Energy of Canada on Nuclear Reactor Operation and Design; four years as Head of Process Engineering at Sherritt Gordon Mines in Fort Saskat- chewan, Alberta; one year with General Electric in Peterbor- ough, ‘Ontario; four years in New York as’ Director of En- Alberta | 54 gineering and Development of Chemetals Corporation; also on the Board of Directors; two years as Manager of a new re- finery with Bagdad Copper Corporation in Arizona; W. J. Yurko Engineering Consulting practice in Edmonton, Alberta, one man operation, now inact- ive. Very active in community affairs, Mr. Yurko is a member of McLaurin Church, Lions Club, Norwood Legion, Engin- eering Association, Little Lea- gue Baseball and various Eng- ineering societies. William Yurko’s military. ser- vice includes two years in the Royal Canadian Air Force dur- ing World War If as an air gunner. Politically, Mr. Yurko has served as the Strathcona West Progressive Conservative Dir- ector; Nominated for Edmon- ton Centre in 1968 and in 1969 was elected in Strathcona East constituency. as a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Al- rta. Mr. W. J. Yurko and his wife Mary have one son James, and three daughters, Carol, Janet and Shelly. The family resides in Edmonton. Re-elected to the 'Alberta Legislature for Edmonton Gold Bar constituency in the August 30, 1871 Provincial Election, he was appointed to the Prov- incial. Cabinet by. Premier Lougheed ' on September 10, 1971, as Minister of The Envir- onment. D.A. Notes by Neville O. Wohlberg, | District Agriculturist, Box 250, Phone Amendments. to Dairymen’s Act: A recent amendment to re- gulations under the Alberta Dairymen’s Act makes it man- datory for building and milk handing equipment installa- tion plans to be submitted to the dairy branch for approval before any work is commenced. A dairyman who ‘is planning to build, remodel or renovate a dairy building must. submit his plans and also a plan show- ing the proposed site of the new building. The idea be- hind the amendment is to pro- tect dairy producers against the necessity of making costly al- terations because the comple- ted. work does not meet the building standards outlined in the: Dairymen’s Act. All building plans and pro- posals for purchasing and in- stalling milk handling equip- ment should be submitted to the Dairy Branch Regional Of- fice, Alberta Department of Ag- riculture, 620. - 7th Ave. S.W,, Calgary. Hail and Crop Insurance and Weather Modification ‘A special Legislative commit- |tee has been set. up to investi- Igate all aspects of hail insur- ance, crop insurance and hail © suppression in Alberta. The committee held a meeting at Three Hills on June. 22 and at Olds on June 23 to inform the general public about these mat- ters. = — Hurricane Season Olds, Alta. 226-3331 This: committee will hold hearings sometime in August in preparation of a report for the Legislative Assembly fall hitting. The meeting which was originally scheduled for August 1st will be postponed to a later date. Any farm organizations, lo- cal government bodies, Uni- farm’ groups, Chambers / of Commerce, etc. are invited to make submissions to this com- mittee. . Anyone wishing to make an oral or written bub- mission should write Mr. Gor- don Sterling, Secretary of the Committee, 6905 - 116 Street, Edmonton, on or before Aug- ust 1, 1972 stating their intent to make a submission. This will help the committee de- cide when and where to hold the hearings in August. Control of Insects On. Shelterbelts A publication entitled “Con trol of Insects on~Shelterbelts Ornamental and Shade Trees’ contains a table showing a pic ture of some of the . common insects that attack trees in Al- berta or a picture of typical damage. It gives a brief resume of the life history of the in- sect, a description of the dam- , age and recommended. control measures. i. Copies of this pamphlet can be obtained free of charge from. your District Agriculur- \ ist’s office.
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