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Saturday, October 9, 1971 Page 19 Bennett finally shows, and takes his lumps is I 1 P' v. I I IP A shots at each other any more." When reminded by a student that separate school students have to switch out of their schools after Grade 10, Mr. Bennett countered by insisting that nobody in Ottawa could go from kindergarten to Grade 13 in one building anyway. Mr. Francis took the debate further.

He said separate school students "grown used" to their school, tended to drop out at the end of Grade 10. "It's a sociological as well as educational problem." Religious issue Earlier in the meeting, the New Democrat had said some people hoped the separate school question wouldn't come to the fore and "arouse the electorate on a religious issue. I agree with that. It's the last thing we need in this society." Pollution raised it pungent head briefly during the session, with Mr. Bennett again left to defend the government.

A student pointed out that fines levied in the last year against polluters averaged $353. Mr. Bennett said amounts were the decision of the courts. Mr. Francis argued that "the judges' hands are tied" and that it is ed with open arms here this afternoon," he said, anticipating the inquisition.

He added that he fully supported Premier William Davis's deicision of last August not to extend aid. On the other hand, he noted how government legislation must have flexibility, but didn't say to what extent. He did promise, if elected, he would bring forth opinions from all groups in his area. A logistics-minded student got up to ask Mr. Bennett if he considered the separate school system to be divisive, therefore not worthy of aid.

Mr. Bennett said divisiveness was off the subject. "I don't intend to answer that question because it's not the point of issue at the moment." He said the provincial government's feeling is that separate Grades 11, 12 and 13 would not be legally constituted. The other candidates differed with this. "It would be like calling off Grades 11, 12 and 13 in the public school system," said Mr.

Kimmerly, arguing that both systems have equal rights under the British North America Act. Mr. Francis said the divisive days were over. "We're not taking pot By Sheila McCook Citizen staff writer It hasn't been easy to lure Conservative candidate Claude Bennett to all-candidate meetings for Ottawa South. His opponents, Liberal Ian Kimmer-ly and New Democrat Don Francis, had met him publicly only inside television studios.

This week, three meetings had been scheduled. Mr. Bennett's absence from two others were getting him dubbed the "absentee candidate" by his opponents. Friday at St. Pat's High School, it looked like the same story.

But after proceedings were well under way, the senior controller from city hall made an appearance. Prime target He had been visiting a senior citizens' home. He might have wished he had stayed. Most of the session's questions were directed at him, and most of those questions had to do with extension of aid to separate schools. And it had Mr.

Bennett squirming. "I know very well I won't be accept wit r. A'' i Ian Kimmerly Stresses 'class action' Rumors that the Conservatives were pouring $4.1 million into the election campaign irked one student who said he'd also heard the Liberals were spending a half million. Me. Bennett said he didn't know the figures.

"It's the responsibility of the candidate to know," Mr. Francis fired back. "The day has come for political parties to open their books." He said New Democrats were spending $300,000 on the campaign, while Mr. Kimmerly 's estimate of his party's provincial expenditures was $750,000. A Lewis places day care help high on list Davis promises to be tougher on opposition jf fi Mmtmmmimmt- I If ''jfi I TORONTO (CP) Premier Davis gave notice Friday he intends to sharpen his attacks on the opposition Liberals and New Democrats during the next week of the campaign for the Oct.

21 general election. He told a news conference he has organizers working on a cost analysis of the various programs proposed by the opposition during the campaign and he will release it next Wednesday with what Conservatives estimate will be the implications to the provincial taxpayers. Mr. Davis has said that Liberal Leader Robert Nixon has already proposed programs totalling $1 billion- I IK. I Plight of farmer blamed on 'chains' Don Francis 'Sociological problem' Two candidates expressed commit-ment to better roads: Mr.

Kimmerly to getting the highway to Quebec com-' pleted; Mr. Bennett all roads in and out of Ottawa, "particularly to the American border." He said he was not "entirely satis-, fied" with the highway system and, the man who touts his 11 years' experience on city council said he also wanted improvements in the regional government setup. "I realize the government has its shortcomings and I'm here to admit it." pays only 50 per cent of capital costs to build new centres and 80 per cent to renovate old buildings. Community-run or parent-operated centres are not eligible for subsidies. Only municipally-operated day nurseries 775 in Ontario with a total ca-( pacity of 27,150 receive government help.

The NDP leader, campaigning with' his wife Michele, made the announce-1 ment after a two-hour visit to a community-operated centre here. The centre, Northwest Communi-care, is not eligible for provincial sub-; sidies and is struggling to survive. Mothers' choices Mr. Lewis criticized the provincial government for what he called its inactivity in providing nursery facilities. The government had left Ontario's more than 300,000 working mothers "with a choice of expensive private facilities if they can find them or of the risk of leaving their children with unlicensed and untrained neighbors." He said it was obvious that the majority of municipal politicians in the province were hostile to government participation in day care programs.

To date, 34 municipalities have established 42 full-time day nurseries serving 2,155 children and 23 half-day nurseries serving 1,050 children. Half of these were in Toronto. Thirteen centres with populations of more than 50,000, including Hamilton, Brantford, London and Kitchener, have no municipal day care centres. Mr. Lewis and his wife also visited a senior citizens home and spent nearly one hour at a rear gate of the Steel! Company of Canada Limited, shaking hands with workers, who generally, were friendly.

New Democrat to compete as Democrat Rene Benoit, defeated New Democratic Party candidate in the 1967 provincial election, has entered the Grenville-Dundas campaign again as a Democrat. Mr. Benoit. 66, a South Mountain market gardener, claims he was nomi-' nated as the official NDP candidate for the riding last April. But in May the Waffle wing of the party stepped in and nominated Frank Stocker, he" said.

Mr. Benoit, who polled 475 votes of the 13.276 ballots cast in the last election, said he could not label himself an independent because he was running on the National Farmers Union-agriculture policy. He said he stepped down as president of the local branch of the NFL" last week because it was a non-political group. Nonetheless, platform was based on its policies. "I never was a socialist," he said, re-' ferring to his connection with the NDP, "but I supported their other Claude Bennett Expected heat up to the politicians to determine the law.

"A one thousand dollar fine to a large, multi-national corporation is like fining you five cents for breaking the speed limit," he told the students. The Liberal party, said Mr. Kimmerly, is more concerend with giving loans to buy anti-pollution devices to needy conpanies, "beefing up" the Ontario Water Resources Commission and the air management board, and allowing "class action," whereby a private citizen can bring action against polluters. 1 Sl WiJ Vai if CP photo carnival Sound fun symbol Friday "In my opinion, he's the furthest thing from a Communist and I can hardly believe he would resort to filthy muckraking tactics such as these. "I would be an idiot to do these things he alleges.

These sort of accusations victimize both of us and the people who live in the riding as well. I am emotionally broken by these charges." In detailing his accusations. Dr. Shulman outlined a tangled web of political intrigue, inter-party infiltration, rutnor-mongering and the mysterious appearance of an unsigned leaflet that he said attempted to link him with the NDP's radical Waffle wing. Infiltrators Dr.

Shulman said two of his canvassers infiltrated a meeting of Tory canvassers at Mr. Shymko's headquarters a few days ago. They submitted a written report to him. which he used as the basis for his complaint to Premier Davis. The NDP candidate declined to release details of what his infiltrators told him.

He would only say that the report dealt with a Tory organizer's instructions to Conservtive workers on what tactics to use against the New Democrats. A few days later, said Dr. Shulman, the Conservatives got one of their people into a meeting of NDP canvassers, but the Tory interloper was spotted immediately. No action was taken against the Tory "because we have nothing to hide and because our people are pretty hot under the collar about the way the Conservatives have been campaigning in this riding." Mr. Shymko said he knows nothing about any infiltration and was HAMILTON (CP) Help for day care nurseries operated by a community or parent co-operatives was promised Friday by New Democratic Party Leader Stephen Lewis.

Mr. Lewis said at a news conference aboard his bus travelling through the Hamilton-Burlington area that an NDP government also would set up a network of day care centres in the same way as hospitals and schools. The party, if elected, also would insist that suitable day care facilities be mandatory in housing developments financed with public funds. Efforts also would be made to encourage industry to build such facilities in new industrial plants. The program also would be set up to provide more training facilities for supervisory staff, and grants would be available for research and experimental day care programs.

90-per-cent aid Mr. Lewis said the province would fund 90 per cent of operating costs of these centres. Currently, the province "shocked to learn" that Dr. Shulman had resorted to spying on his campaign organization. "If I had any evidence at all that any of my people were involved in activities of this type, I'd fire them on the spot.

If one of my workers was caught stealing signs, I'd be the first to call the police and the first to testify in court agaiast him." Mr. Shymko said Dr. Shulman has been going around the riding telling people "that I've imported 5,000 Ukrainian-Canadians from all over Ontario to canvass for me. "The truth is that I have 56 people working for me. I've purposely stayed away from the provincial organization, from machine politics and the little cliques.

I run a local campaign with local people whom I trust implicitly." Mr. Shymko added that he grew up in German-occupied Poland, lived through the destruction of Dresden and the post-war DP camps, and thereby earned an appreciation of fair play and the democratic process. Dirty trick "I've never been in politics before. This is my first campaign and I'm being hit with every dirty trick in the book. If this is politics, I don't want it." The High Park riding, with about 40,000 eligible voters, is about 50 per cent Anglo-Saxon and 50 per cent ethnic minorities, mainly of Eastern European extraction.

Dr. Shulman first won the seat in the 1967 election with a plurality of 6.275 votes, one of the strongest NDP finishes in the province. In addition to Mr. Shymko, Dr. Shulman is opposed by Liberal Laima Svegzda.

a vivacious 23-year-old student given little chance of upsetting him on Oct. 21. free medical and hospital insurance and an increase in the provincial share of education costs to 80 per cent from 60 per cent. The premier said he intends before election day to restate his position on extended aid to secondary schools. He said this is necessary "in view of the persistent misrepresentations of the matter made by the opposition which cannot help but create misunderstanding and confusion among the general public." Mr.

Davis has been greeted frequently during his campaign by students protesting the decision not to extend aid beyond Grade 10 in the secondary system. uct sold by a store at a loss to attract customers. Mr. Innes said there is a "small fringe of surplus" in some agriculture commodities. He said supermarket chains use this surplus to control pricing.

Kenneth Bolton, the NDP critic, said an NDP government would attempt to find out "who really is in control of marketing" agriculture produce. He specifically mentioned "big food chains." The two men appeared with Agriculture Minister William Stewart on a panel discussion taped Friday by CBC Radio. Mr. Stewart said it is up to farmers to decide how they want their produce marketed. He said Ontario now has "the most extensive and effective" marketing structure of any province in Canada.

Mr. Stewart said the price of hogs, broiler chickens and eggs now is too low, because of overproduction. Mr. Innes said steps should be taken to control the amount of business that one company "can do in one commodity in one year." He said farming is in the "most serious" difficulty it has been for some time. Hog prices, he said, are down to the lowest level "in modern times" and eggs are selling at 50 per cent of their cost of production.

"If we do not take steps," he said, "a very few people will control agriculture." Mr. Bolton said there is "no magical formula" for the solution to agriculture problems. He said an NDP government would actively seek markets for agriculture produce. He said an NDP government would refuse to import goods or food from countries where farmers were heavily subsidized. Mr.

Bolton said some form of quota system is necessary for eggs, beef and pork. "If we don't have some sort of control, we're not doing justice to the farmer." Ready for Premier Davis dons Owen By Dennis Bell Canadian Press staff writer TORONTO Dr. Morton Shulman says he has complained personally to Premier William Davis about the "vicious campaign of hatred" the Progressive Conservatives are waging against him in Toronto High Park riding. The controversial New Democratic Party incumbent in the west-end constituency blamed the Ton- campaign organization of Candidate Yuri Shymko and said Friday he telephoned Premier Davis with details earlier this week. "It's been an awful campaign in this riding," Dr.

Shulman said in an interview. "My canvassers have had their lives threatened, I've had a brick tossed through my car window and hundreds of my election signs have been torn down and stolen. "We've been getting ugly telephone calls at the office. I've had to hire a team of detectives to catch the sign thieves. The Conservatives are going around telling everybody I'm a Communist.

It's been a nasty, dirty business." Dr. Shulman said he is satisfied that Premier Davis "knows nothing about what's going on here because he isn't that kind of man" and the problem lies at the riding level rather than with the provincial Tory' organization. Shymko shocked A shocked and visibly disturbed Mr. Shymko flatly denied all of Dr. Shul-man's allegations.

He claimed the New Democrat's charges were motivated by "fear and panic" over the possibility of losing High Park in the Oct. 21 Ontario general election. "I have nothing but the highest respect for Dr. Shulman as a man," said the 31-year-old Ukrainian-Canadian high school teacher. 1 TORONTO (CP) The agriculture critics for the Ontario Liberal and New Democratic parties said Friday that large supermarket chains influence marketing and pricing of farm produce.

Gordon Innes, the liberal critic, said supermarket chains use some agriculture products as "ioss leaders" to convince farmers their produce is of little value. A loss leader is a prod- Fuller lias plan for Spadina TORONTO (CP) Designer Buck-minster Fuller who created the geodesic dome pavilion for the United States at Expo 67 in Montreal, has made recommendations to the Ontario government on the use of the uncompleted part of the Spadina expressway in Toronto. Premier William Davis said Friday the recommendations are "visionary, exciting and realistic." He will unveil them at a news conference at Queen's Park Tuesday, At the same time, Mr. Davis said, he will make known what the Ontario government plans to to do with the site. Last June the Ontario government overruled an Ontario Municipal Board decision that the expressway should be completed from the north of the city south into its centre.

The government indicated at the time that rapid transit would be the alternative along the route. I The New Democratic Party supported the decision with the proviso that fiie province should outline a rapid transit policy for the entire province. The Liberal party was divided on the issue with some members extolling the decision, others against it, and Liberal Leader Robert Nixon suggesting it be extended part way..