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36 The Windsor Star, Friday, April 27, 1973 Reaction to proposed welfare changes too to wait in pom long rty years 1 i Pension Plan through the death cf the father," she states. However, she applauds the proposed change to eliminate the current two per cent ceiling on yearly escalation. On the other hand, she's less than happy about Lalonde's statement that those refusing to work wouldn't be allowed to starve but "we. would pay them minimal benefits and counsel them to death." The government's own statistics, reveal that in Ontario, only 1.43 per cent of those on welfare won't In light of that statistic; "I think that (the minister's comment) is sort of a slap in the face." In summary, she adds, the program is a good beginning. Only the time involved is the disturbing factor.

"Why do they have to fool around for five years." People in Canada are living in poverty now." is at or above the poverty line and that changes every year," she says. Critics of the GAI say it would result in laziness, but Mrs. Gamble, who is also on the board of directors of the United Community Services and is on the executive of the Windsor Coalition for Development, doesn't agree. If the GAI was set at $5,000 for a mother with three children, she points out, the government would have to subsidize her with $1,500 if she had a job which paid $3,500 a year. As long as the GAI is at a realistic level, the mother would elect to keep her job and retain the "self-respect and pride" that goes with it, and would also be able to meet her economic needs.

An adequate GAI would also be of benefit to persons such as artists who have something valuable to contribute to society but who must often take any job in order to survive. "Why should he give up his talent just to work in a factory to exist?" asks Mrs. Gamble. According to the proposals, only families earning $40,000 and above will see their net baby bonus money decrease as a result of the taxation on family allowances. Mrs.

Gamble thinks that figure should be lowered. "Why does a person making $40,000 a year need a baby bonus? That seems too high for me" Mrs. Gamble adds she thinks the boost in the Canada Pension Plan for retirees is a sound idea, but she'd like to see other changes as well. She says that at present, those on Mother's Allowance have their Canada Pension Plan benefits deducted from MA if they are eligible for both. "It's no advantage to the children to gain the Canada long-term goals of minimum incomes for the working poor and guaranteed annual incomes for people who can't work.

Baby bonuses will be almost tripled with monthly payments going from the present average of $7.21 per child to $20. Because the federal proposals will let provincial governments vary the precise allowances depending on children's age or family size, the monthly payments may differ from coast to- coast. Parliament retains the power to set a national minimum. By boosting the maximum level of earnings covered by the pension plan from $5,600 now to $7,800 in 1975, the top would jump from $119 monthly to $162. Maximum disability payments, widow's benefits and a host of other pension plan payments will also increase as would the compulsory contributions by Canadians set at 1.8 per cent of pensionable earnings.

The other proposed change is to escalate the pension plan payments with the annual increase in the cost of living removing the two per cent ceiling currently enforced on yearly escalation. The proposed guaranteed annual income would take the form of an income supplement scheme to help the working poor and extra supplements for the welfare recipients who can't work. Mrs. Gamble, who is president of the Downtown Community Citizens Organization and is on the executive of the Ontario Anti-Poverty Coalition, stresses a guaranteed annual income has to be adequate if it is to be effective. "I don't think that the guaranteed annual income is going to be effective unless it By HARRY VON VUGT Proposed changes in Canada's welfare system are a step in the right direction, says a Windsor woman who has worked extensively with low-income groups, but she wonders why a government which can raise taxes on short order needs five years for the welfare overhaul.

"I think he's headed in the right direction but he has to do more concrete things," comments Mrs. Donna Gamble, on the minority Liberal governments proposals announced last week by Welfare Minister Marc Lalonde. "I don't see why he has to take five years to do it." The measures promised include bigger baby bonuses and higher payments under the Canada Pension Plan. Other important features are JOAN MURRAY Proposed gallery impresses curator Who, When Whatnot Jim Cornett Ottawa; Pat Glover in Winnipeg; Karen Wilkin in Edmonton; Patti O'Brien in London, Kay Woods in Oshawa and Frances Smith in Kingston. Mrs.

Murray said she thinks the job a very suitable one for women. "Women do walk into these nurturing roles which are administrative in essence," she said. shows When planning art she' is noted for being in her extremely discerning send tastes. "You can't jews I tm'w a I 5 Ts-r 'S The one-day visit to Windsor this week by Joan Murray, 29-year-old curator of Canadian art at Toronto's Art Gallery of Ontario, had a three-fold purpose: to evaluate the Art Gallery of Windsor's showing of "Ontario Society of Artists 100 to view paintings by W. H.

Clapp and Maurice Cullen for possible inclusion in a 1974 art show and to have a long-sought look at the Car ling Brewery warehouse. The tri-partite mission was accomplished and all of its aspects received praise from the exuberant art expert. She was particularly impressed with the warehouse slated to become the new Art Gallery of Windsor. "I think it's just fantastic. It's so imaginative and it's going to be a great hanging area," said Mrs.

Murray. As curator of the Canadian department of the Art Gallery of Ontario, it is her job to organize Canadian art shows, write catalogues and raisonnes about the artists, research Canadian art and negotiate for art gifts. She travels extensively as it is necessary for her to be constantly aware of what other Canadian art galleries are acquiring. Her educational background in modern art is substantial a B.A. from the University of Toronto and an M.A.

from Columbia University. She also has completed part of the requirements for the Ph.D. degree in art from University of Toronto. She is married to Toronto lawyer, Ross Murray and is the mother of two daughters aged two and one years. In 1968 she was hired by the Art Gallery of Ontario to train docents and became curator of the Canadian collection a year later.

Mrs. Murray is one of seven female art gallery curators in the country. The others are: Mimi Taylor in Customers view liorsemeat sold by butcher in store owned by Frank D'EIla in Toronto Demand for horsemeat increasing telegrams about paintings and when you're putting a show together you can't work with slides," she said. The next show on her agenda will be called "Impressionism in Canada." It is scheduled to open in Vancouver in January, 1974 and wind up in Toronto in the fall of the same year. She booked it backwards, she explained, to overcome the problem of temporary lack of facilities which will occur next year at the Toronto gallery when massive renovations are being undertaken.

The gallery was founded in 1910 when the land and an historic house called the Grange were given to Toronto. The last addition to the facilities was made in 1936 and the collection has since quadrupled. The 1974 art show will include paintings from the fruitful years (1895-1925) of Impressionism in Canada. Mrs. Murray defined Impressionism as a French intellectual movement which interlocked with an emotional aspect in Canada.

The Impressionists explored color and light and in Canada this was effected through snow as a prism and a mythical entity, she explained. Mrs. Murray's other project is a compilation of the work of Canadian artist Tom Thomson who was the inspiration of the Group of Seven. of the side effects of Sound. He said he has to make in this country many end up in the slaughter houses, said Dr.

Rae Bonin, of the department of agriculture. He said the demand for live horses in Europe has increased sharply during the last two years. Raising horses for the sole purpose of selling them on the meat market wouldn't be profitable, said Dr. Bonin. However consumers in Europe are paying the same for horse meat as they are for beef.

If prices continue to rise then such an industry may be possible on the 100 pregnant mares' urine farms in Ontario. The urine is used to produce estrogen in making birth control pills and for treatment KITCHENER, Ont. (CP) An official in the federal department of agriculture says that more than 80,000 hcrses have been slaughtered in Canada and shipped to Europe for human consumption during the last three years. Dr. John Sproule, associate director of the meat inspection branch of the department, said in a telephone interview from Ottawa that this represents about 50 million pounds of meat.

In addition, about 2.000 live horses were shipped from Canada, probably for the same purpose. Although many horses are certified for breeding purposes trips to the United States to find enough horses. The number of horses in Canada has declined rapidly during the last 30 years. Mr. Picov said he felt some horse meat finds its way onto the tables of Quebec "disguised as beef.

Quebec is the only province in Canada that buys large amounts of horse meat. Dr. Kenneth Craig of Toronto, head of the ministry's meat inspection department, said there are no provincial or federal regulations controlling the sale of horse meat on the market beyond those pertaining to inspection. menopause. The 3,000 foals produced on these farms used to be killed at birth but now the European market is buying them once they become 90 days old.

The Pregnant Mare's Urine Act passed in June, J970, now protects the foals until they are 90 days old. Lloyd Coleman of Toronto, in charge of the ministry of agriculture's farm "licensing program, said horse meat is good for heart patients. It's just as good as beef, he said, but has a low cholesterol count. Horse brokers like Norman Picov, Pickering, sells horses to a plant in Owen Have you ever noticed the unusual lighting arrangements at various spots along some of Windsor's main arteries that tend to be confusing? If not, here are three cases confronting drivers wending their way along two of the thoroughfares after darkness has arrived. When a motorist northbound on Huron Church Road gets near College Avenue at a particular moment in the traffic signal cycle, the three caution lights shining in a row across the intersection blend in almost perfectly with the several yellow lights on the patio of McDonald's hamburger stand at that corner.

When the green light is shining at Bruce Avenue for people driving west on Riverside Drive West, it's not always easily noticed because a short distance behind it are several lights with a greenish hue outside the Caron Avenue Pumping Station. And last, but not least, on Riverside Drive East, just past the CNR freight sheds, four bright, white lights, at eye level beneath a billboard advertising a collision repair service, shine out into the eyes of eastbound motorists. They're not exactly conducive to collision-free driving. In earlier days, Cleary Auditorium Manager J.J. Lefave (or Joe Lefave, if you will) was often called Jo Jo Lefave.

Lately, he told me that he goes jogging for a few miles every morning around 6 o'clock. So how about another name with alliteration and using Js? Why not Jog Jog Lefave? Herewith an apology to any non-smokers I have ever offended with cigarette smoke. Since developing a cold in recent days, I've pretty well abstained from the use of cigarettes because they taste and smell horrible while the senses of taste and smell are off kilter. It was while sitting at a lunch counter yesterday between two smokers who apparently cared not where the smoke went that I realized how non-smokers can be offended via the nostrils. Sorry.

The social sendoff for Clare MacLeod, director of education for the Windsor Board of Education, who is retiring at the end of June, is open to all of his friends, acquaintances and associates. The retirement party set for May 10 at the Cleary Auditorium begins with cocktails in the Dieppe Room at 6 p.m. followed by dinner in the Skyline Room at 7 and a program in the auditorium at 8:30. Tickets at $7.50 per person will be available until May 4 from Doran McTaggart, principal of Glenwood Public School, 1601 Norfolk whose school phone number is 969-3990. The event should top the standard retirement tea.

Quite a variety of music for a variety of reasons will be presented in four spots in two days. The Essex County Flood Relief Fund is to derive the proceeds from a country music dance session Monday starting at 7:30 p.m. at the Windsor Arena under sponsorship of The Trailblazers and featuring nine bands, all of which are donating their services. The arena management is throwing in the arena free, too. Also on Monday night, the Windsor Federation of Musicians will present Bandstand '73 at the Teutonia Club, with 30 groups playing between 7:30 p.m.

and 1 a.m. in five rooms. Purpose is to promote local talent and live music, giving the public and potential employers an opportunity to hear and see a great variety of local groups in one evening, says a note from Carm Adams, president of Local 566 of the federation. The other two, both on Sunday, are strictly for your entertainment. The Windsor Board of Education will present the third program in its Music Festival 1973 Series at 3 p.m.

at Walkerville Secondary School with bands from six schools participating. And the LaSalle Community Choir has its spring concert ready to go at 7:30 p.m. in the Sacred Heart Separate School gymnasium in LaSalle. The public is invited to take in the hobby and craft show displaying work done by brownies, girl guides, rangers and their leaders in the Wyandotte Division of the Girl Guides Association. The show runs Saturday from 10 a.m.

until 5 p.m. and on Sunday from 1 to 5 p.m. at Girl Guide headquarters, 5760 Maiden Rd. Awards will be presented Sunday at 4 o'clock. Asparagus is easy TORONTO Do you know of a plant that may grow 4 to 6 inches in one day? That's right: asparagus.

This fast growth makes asparagus tender but it also means it has a short growing season, say food specialists of the Ontario Food Council, Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food. Fresh Ontario asparagus is available only from mid-May to mid-June. Choose straight, firm, green stalks with compact tips. Store fresh asparagus in the refrigerator in a moisture-proof bag or covered container if you cannot serve it the same day. Wilted stalks may be freshened by placing the butt ends in cold water for a few minutes before cooking.

To prepare the vegetable for cooking snap or cut off the tough bottom butt of the stalks, (there should be very little), and wash the stalks well in cold running water. There is no need to remove the scales. Probably the best way to cook and serve asparagus in the simplest. Steam in a small amount of lightly salted water (uncovered) until just firm-tender, then serve with melted butter, or homemade mayonnaise, a little salt and fresh ground pepper, and a little fresh lemon juice. Poultry remains economical buy 1 juZZTT -z-Zt roasting timetables may be out of date, Mrs.

Slusar says. Oven times in older cookbooks applied to good old, tasty free-ranging turkeys, those which ran free in the barnyard and grew naturally. Nowadays, most turkeys in supermarket' freezers have been bred and raised by factory methods, strictly confined and force-fed to get to market fast. Further, they have been injected in breast or legs or both with butter or vegetable oil to make them more plump, succulent and marketable. After a long series of experiments, Mrs.

Slusar has come up with a new list of roasting times for turkey the big one, at least. Traditionally oven times for an eight-poundrr are okay today, but modem 16-pounders need 15 minutes less than traditionally, 20-pounders almost two hours less. She proposes, at an oven temperature of 325 degrees, 3 to 4V2 hours for an eight-pound bird, 5V4 to 6 hours for a 16-pounder, 5 to 6 hours for a 20-pounder. OTTAWA (CP) At a time when the price of protein from four-legged animals is busting the budgets of many shoppers, penny-wise consumers are looking to two-legged meat poultry. Not that the birds have been immune to the general rise of food prices.

Poultry prices have climbed by 18.5 per cent in a year a smaller increase than pork, but a higher rate of advance than beef. In the last decade, however, poultry prices have advanced by a smaller percentage than other meats just two per cent compared with 3.6 per cent for all meats, the consumer price index shows. But in that same period, poultry sold in the shop has altered so it needs different treatment, says Marie Slusar, home economist with the food advisory services of the federal agriculture department. Take turkey, now that it's not the high-priced Christmas or Thanksgiving seasons. Your Tbis Toronto store one of two licensed to sell horsemeat finds buyers for about 1,000 pounds a week..