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is not anguished screams when individual Mr. Heine was chairman of the church‘s economic takeovers occur, but carefullyâ€" division of communication at the time the prepared legislation which will mark out. decision on the Ryerson sale was made. He those areas of our national life where Canâ€" resigned at that time because he said he adiaps feel we cannot tolerate economic felt the decision would muzzle the chulfch donimation â€" broadcasting, newspapers, in speaking out on the issue of Canadian basic communications systems, publishing, economic nationalism. "The money. though magazines, oil and gas, hydroâ€"electric powâ€" great, was less important than the prinâ€" er. water and many others â€" and where ciple," he says. The U.S. offer, he reports, we demand that economic development be was $1 million higher than the best Canaâ€" under the majority control of Canadians. _ dian offer. Mr. Heine writes: "What Canada needs is not anguished screams when individual economic takeovers occur, but carefullyâ€" prepared legislation which will mark out those areas of our national life where Canâ€" adians feel we cannot tolerate economic donimation â€" _ broadcasting, newspapers, basic communications systems, publishing, magazines, oil and gas, hydroâ€"electric powâ€" er. water and many others â€" and where Canada will survive the sale of The Ryerson Press to McGrawâ€"Hill, writes W. C. Heine, editor of The London Free Press, in the current issue of The United Church Observer. Today, Tuesday, Feb. 2nd is Groundâ€"hog Day and it appears that he will see his shadow, which means six more weeks of winter. The storm this past week has really upset the life of the community.. We now find ourâ€" selves at the mercy of the eleâ€" ments. The roads are impasâ€" sable for cars and the weather will have to change before things are better. It has caused a lot of anxious moments for both young and old. School chilâ€" dren in the country were housed at the school and high school students were billeted at difâ€" ferent homes in St. Marys for several days We have one snowmobile in this community that is busy hauling food for people and feed for the stock, oil for the furnace, also brought mail which was delivered at the north end of the 11th about one mile down. The Ryerson Press Sale #*»>3,‘""/ The work of St. Marys police during the storm has come in for considerable praise. â€" Police (A few notes gathered, by Journalâ€"Argus writers.) Fortunately, ‘as of this Wedâ€" nesday~. morning,the only. serâ€" ious accident reported has been one which took place around noon Tuesday when five cars were involved in a pileâ€"up along James St. North. Randy Forâ€" man is reported to have had both legs broken and Jay Mcâ€" Cauley a bad forehead gash as a result of the mishap, but deâ€" tails are sketchy. Worst Winter Storm On Record "If we can do that, and we must if we are to survive as an independent nation, The Ryerson Press sale will be a mere inâ€" cident in a great country‘s development. "If we don‘t act, Ryerson‘s fate won‘t matâ€" ter." f $T. MARYS, ONTARIO, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1971 Peter Newton, among the busâ€" iest men in town during the ‘storm as was every service operâ€" ator with towing equipment, told the Journalâ€"Argus Wednesday morning that a snowmobile trip to the 7th Concession of Nisâ€" souri, taking Eric Richardson home, gave an indication of just how seriously this storm has affected the area. Pete believed a snowplow would never clear the seventh, it would take a bulldozer. assisted in every way possible including a bus transport, led by. a. snowplow, to get youngâ€" sters _ home from local elemenâ€" tary schools Tuesday afternoon. A snowmobile service was orâ€" ganized with a number of local citizens, _ including downtown merchants Eleanor Albert, Mr. andâ€" Mrs. Gordon Smith and Percy Becker getting home via this transportation. The cruisâ€" er was kept on the road as much as possible, checking trouble spots, giving lifts home and generally making every. effort to assist the situation. Wednesâ€" day morning, . police reported that no persons had been reâ€" ported missing and things in general were better than. they had expected they would be. A tree, or large limb,.is_reâ€" ported to have fallenâ€"across the front of the home of Mr. Bert Douglas, Jones St. East, causing considerable damage. The P.U.C. line crew had. a cold hour or two. At 1:30 a.m. Wednesday they were called to repair a blown transformer fuse that had left a section of Jones St. East without power and thus largely without heat for over an hour. The town snowplow crew assisted P.U.C. equipment reaching the seene and then reâ€" in inll inel n onl s nsl Mins iink aTink 1y mained on the job, clearing as many streets as possible or at least ‘putting a track through the snow. Out at the 40 Winks Motel, Highway 19, all motel accommoâ€" dation was taken and some fifty or more stranded travellers were staying in the home and office by late afternoon of Tuesday. At Elginfield some seventyâ€"five travellers were said. to have spent the night in a service station. : Area central schools kept students â€"~overnight <while rural Collegiate students were billetâ€" ed in St. Marys. Bus travel was impossible from noon on. In numerous instances, . we know of the Bank of Montreal and Stonetowne Chevâ€"Olds at least, staff members were unâ€" able to get home and made the best of the situation by remainâ€" ing in the business premises overnight. Mr. Murray Jones, Principal of Wildwood School kept 170 pupils overnight at the school. The storm was so bad at 1.30 Tuesday he knew plans would have to be made to "stay put." So they had plenty of food sent Mr. Ern Carter, Campbell Soup plant manager, told us that the whole plant (110) spent the night there. The employees were all in good spirits, even played cards, with cards they made themselves.. Food was no problem what with chicken, eggs, tomato and mushroom soup etc., on hand and a good warm place to sleep â€" even if it was on the floor. They carried on until this morning when the snow plough got through, and all but 35 were able to get to St. Marys behind the plough this (Wednesday) morning. Mr. Carâ€" ter said plans were being made to get the balance of employees whose homes are in Mitchell and other places, to St. Marys via skiâ€"doos where they would have more comfortable accomâ€" modation. He said there was no production in the plant Wed. or on Thursday. Storm condiâ€" tions were still bad at this time Wednesday afternoon. First word came to the Jourâ€" nalâ€"Argus about how bad the weather was on Tuesday mornâ€" ing about ten o‘clock when Hugh Munro drove in from Uniondale. Hugh said the storm and bad visibility were then the worst he had séeen them in many years. â€" From noon Tuesday onâ€" >»wards, things gradually worsenâ€" â€"ed> until by three p.m. a trip across the street in downtown St. Marys was an uncomfortable adventure. in, all the neighbors rushed to their aid before things got too bad. Then Mr. Mac Robson, a member. of the East Nissouri Council organized arrangements and with the help of the county snow plough and the Hutton Transport Ltd. got everyone out with the exception of thirty who made it this morning (Wednesâ€" day). Mr. Jones desribed the weather conditions as terrible both yesterday and still as bad today. The men at ‘Baird Lumber and the office staff had problems in trying to get home. Some made itâ€"to the Curling Club and had to "stay put", while three of the men braved the elements and walked into town â€" halfâ€" frozen upon arrival. Then one of our local taxi drivers had a call from a motherâ€" toâ€"be who just had to get to our hospital. The driver could not make it, but called for polâ€" ice assistance and everything was under control in short orâ€" der. | Worst storm in fifty years ? Don‘t let them kid you â€" this was the worst winter storm‘ on record according to the weather man. So don‘t let anyone tell you about something they reâ€" membered away back when â€" ‘cause this was the big storm, period. / 5 St. Marys District Collegiate pupils were accommodated exâ€" cellently for Tuesday night. When we phoned Viceâ€"Principal Eldon Alderson about four p.m. he said that everyone was lookâ€" ed after and "people had been really great" in offering their homes to rural students and others who could not get home. Out at the Golden Yolk Egg Limited plant the staff of seven women and three men, includâ€" ing manager Clarence Giesbrâ€" echt were stuck for the night and had three or four visiting outâ€"ofâ€"towners to put up for the night also. _ These included a truck driver from Moorefield, a Union Gas man, and a governâ€" ment inspector from Exeter. Food was sufficient to start with since they are not more than several hundred yards from Adrian‘s Esso Service on Queen