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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1969-06-29, Page 1Huron farmers reflect& the trend' across Ontario and reject- ed the GFO proposal in a light vote. • The rural community refused to back a province wide general farm organizatkin financed by compulsory deductions from sales of farm produce.. The vote in Huron resulted in 2,698 for the proposal and 2,511 against. There were 65 spoiled ballots. Under the en- abling legislation to gain ap- proval the prop'bsal must re- ceive 60% of the votes cast. This occurred in only a small number of the 37 Huron polls — particularly in the Wawanosh's area. In many of the polls the GFO proposal failed to gain even a simple majority. Interest in the voting appeared light' since less than half the more than 10,000 farmer people Huron Liberals 'Welcome Minister Huron Liberals crowded the Legion Hall Thursday evening for the annual association meeting and dance. Hon, Donald MacDonald. government leader in the Commons and president of the Privy Council, who spoke is shown with (left) Mr.a Mrs, Douglas Rowcliffe and Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Chesney. Mrs. Rowcliffe and Mrs. Chesney w charge of registration for the affair. In the (lower picture),' Allan Nicholson, Egmondvi recalls visit of Prime Minister Trudeau to Seaforth a little over a year ago. From the (left)Jack Eisler, Seaforth, Mrs. Nicholson. Mr. Nichol- son, George Ingles, Belmont and Mrs Don Kunder, Seaforth. (Staff Photo). Huron School Board Seeks Building Disposal Policy Determine Capital Outlays In response to a directive from Ontario Department, of Ed- ucation requiring Huron County Board of Education to submit a forcast of capital expendlt- * ures for the next five years, the Board, at a special meeting in Victor Lauriston Public School, Goderich, Monday evening, de- cided that a' capital ependiture of $450,000 for the calendar year of 1971 be submitted to Ontario Municipal Board. This amount is earmarked to provide addtional facilitieS in the public school system, an ad- dition of nine classrooms' to' re- place several rural schools. "One of, the problems we face is that we "must project our building needs' for five years," D. J, _Cochrane, director of ed- ucation explained to the Board. "The thing that concerns me is that. we be not premature in stat- ing what we want to do. We should ask for $450,000 to pro- vide additional facilities." Chairman John B. Lavis, Clin- O ton,, pointed out that this fore- cast will be an annual require- ment,' The Ontario Education Capital Aid Corporation pur- chases school board debentures to finance such school board under-takings as are approved by Ontario Municipal Board and PePartinerg. of Education. The • greatest accuracy is requested, to relate to,monies available, he said. Tf—Will Carry Lots of Water Work on a new storm sewer to serve Seaforth got under way last week on Crombie Street. Ron Dalton, 15. gives an indication of. the size of the sewer pipe that is going into the big trench being dug along the Street when he stands upright in one of the pipes that line the street. (Staff Photos . Work 'Out Details Of Clinton Move ,1' SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, JUNE 29, 1969 Whole No. 5285 110th Year Firif section -- Pages 4-8 14 PAGES • , 4 A new borrowing bylaw, to raise the Board's credit from $5,000,000 to $9.000,000, was pas- • sed by the Huron Count) Board of Education at a special meet- ing in Victor Lauriston Public School, Goderich. Monday even- ing. Current fate of interest is nine per cent, up one per cent from earlier in the gear. D. J. Cochrane, director of ed- ucation stated that the Bank of Miantreal, Goderich, . Board's bankers, had suggested the in- • crease as an advantage , Roy B. Dunlop, business ad- ranistrator, submitted a letter from W M. Wardley, bank man. age'', enclosing facts on the Board's deposit and , loans ac- count. At June 16, 1969, total notes processed amounted to $4,318,075, with total re-pay- ments of $3,252,000: outstanding balance at June 17, $1,166,075. Interest paid on loans for the period January 1, 1969, to May 19, 1969, was as follows: 1969 current loans (commenced Jan- uary 13), $30,527 or $6,105 per- month; 1969 special loan (com• menced April 2, 1969), $357 or $178 per month; grand total in- terest paid: $30,884 or $6,284 per month. Interest is on a float- ing basis at the bank's prime rate. Average credit balance in cur- rent acounts totalled $94,810 at June 15, 1969, comprising: gen- eral account, $40,440; capital ac- Last :Classes For Swiniming Swimming instruction classes get underway at Lions park pool on Tuesday of next 'week when nearly 400 area kids -will be on hand for the. daily lessons throughout July. A list of those who are taking lessons and the classes ,to which they have been assinged is on page 11, considered eligible to vote both- ered casting ballots. Don Pullen, Clinton, Huron agricultural representative who was returning officer said final results were available by 10:30 p.m. More than 75% of the polls had reported by shortly after nine o'clock. He said, voting throughout the day had been steady and only in early evening at a few pf the polls had there been any wait. ing. Polls were open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.ni. In a statement following the count, Malcolm Davidson, Bruce- field area farmer who headed the Employees of Huron County., Board of Education ,involved in the office moving process ,from Huron County Court House. Goderich, to Nurses' Residence. Clinton, will take Monday, June 30, off, but will retiort, for work on; Dominion Day, July 1, to get the job done. ' D. Cochrane, director of cd. ucation, reported these plans to the Board at a special meeting in Victor , Lauriston Public School, Monday evening After providing a progress re, port on alterations. he averred that the building would not be ready for occupancy before GFO campaign said results of the ballot indicated the major- ity of those voting wanted the automatic membership whether or not they voted for or against the main question, "I do not think this is a valid reason — farmers must be will- ing to pax for, an organization," he said. The main question on •the bal- lot asked farmers whether they wanted a GFO financed by a compulsory cheek-off, but a sup- plementary question asked if membership should be automatic with the check-off or based on an additional fee. Elect Officers Huron Liberals crowded Sea.. forth Legion. Hall Thursday evening to hear Hon. Donald S. Macdonald• president of the Queens Privy Council and gov- ernment leader in the Common*. The meeting was preceded by a reception and dinner attended by 180 members from across the Mr. Macdonald discussed act- ivities of the government in the year which had elapsed since the election. The keynote of the government's plan and its performance in the past year had been preparation in terms of modifying the structure and procedures of government and preparation •in studying the un- derlying policies that those structures have to deal with. Among changes that have tak- en place,"have been in the Cab- Inet • manner of carrying on business, in the organization of governmental departments and in the procedures and facilities of the House of Commons. "Most painful of all," he said, "has been in the govern'ment's budget through which expendit- ures planned by departments in the past have had to be reduced or redirected in order to give freedom of action for the' fut- ure." Mr. Macdonald went on to explain that-what this means is that a number of heavy expend-. iture programs of long stand- ing, such as the MuniciparWint- go en with those programs. The government's purpose in trimming those expenditures has been two-fold. Firstly, to try and cut down the level of gov- ernment expenditures generally So as to act as a check' on inflat- ion and., secondly, to give the government more financial elbow room to engage in• the future in some of the, new programs Such as the program for region- al development which it was felt would be more effective in getting at the root causes of Canadian problems. Pointing out that another area of particular concern to the government were the problems of the agricultural community. Mr. Macdonald said some people Who live in the city are inclined to think of agricUlture as being a static activity, as an area in which there is very little change. But the fact of the matter is that there hos been enormous am- ount of agriculture since the War. Changes n markets, chang- es in methods of operation and changes in the circumstances of agricultural population have all been dramatic. Canadian farmers are faced with the paradox that they have, almost to the exclus- ion of any other part of the com- munity, been effective in im- proving the efficiency and prod- uctivity of their methods, while at the same time w,,11en seeing a serious drop in their real in- come. and,at a time when there are serious challenges 'to tradit- Officers elected are: Presid- ent, Gordon McGavin, Walton: Executive Vice President, Cohn Campbell, Wingham; Vice Pres• idents, Jack Willets, RR Wing. ham; Cat, lirauter;.Brussels; Jack 'Westbrook, RR Clinton; Ian Mc- Allister, RR Hensall; Roy West- cott, RR '--„Exeter;. John Broad- foot, Brucef ie I d ; Jack Rosser, Ailsa Craig; Howard Aitken Secretary, Harold Shore, GOd- erich; Treasurer, Ivan Kalbflei- sch, Zurich; Women's represent. atives, Mrs, A.. M, Harper, God- erich; Mrs. G. W. Tiffin, Wing- ham: Young Liberal represent- atives, Paul Steckle, RR Hensall Consider Increase In Rates A proposal by the MC to implement the first stage of a recent report on the town's wa- ter system was discussed by thb commission at a special meet- ing of oouncll Thursday eve- ning, Inherent in the immediate proposal is introduction of a new water' rate schedule that will double existing.. rates. This will provide sufficient funds with which to complete and pay for necesssary work during this year and next year, PUC chair- man R. S. Box 'said. Since the town sewer rates, set by council, are geared to water rates, the result of the increased water rates will mean that sewer rates wilt autoniatic- ally increase, a like amount. the century-old structure. Returning from their tour of in- spection, Board members heard J W. Coulter, superintendent of schools.' bring them up to date. He said that seven rooms had been used as classrooms this academic year, and also the art class, judo club, and Brownies met in it regularly. Originally built in 1875, there had been at least three additions (Continued on Page 6) KEN DEVEREAUX Son of Mr. and Mrs Art Dev- ereaux graduated from St. Mich- ael's College, University of Tor- onto, wi a Bachelor of Arts Degree. The land was purchased in 1874 for a high school for 56 pupils The next year a school was erected. and' in 1878 it was enlarged by a two- storey ad- dition. So began the Victor Lauriston School in Goderich, named-after a Canadian poet and writer who' 'once attended it. It has been used continuously as a public school since 1956 when it Was given its present name Now its future hangs in the balance. Huron County Board of Education. which , owns the structure. is uncertain what 'to' do with it, Atost of the members of the, Board had 'never been in the school until a special meeting of the Board was held in the school library Monday evening Mrs. J. W Wallace, Goderich' representative. on the Board, however, was the only member who had attended the school as a girl. Naturally enough. she was nostalgic in urging the Board,to give it, sell it, or other- wisZ turn it over to the Town'of Goderich, Letters to this effect had been received from both the Town Council and the Recreat- ion and Community Centre Board. But the Board decided, after making a thorough inspection of the building, from^ top to ,bottom to follow up the.suggest- ion of D. .1 Murphy, Goderich lawyer who represents Huron County Separate Schools on the Board. that D. J. Cochrane, dir- ector of educatiOn ascertain cer- tain fatts such as the value of the land and the cost of razing Couple Mark 56 Anniversary . Mr. arrd Mrs. M McKellar celebrated their 56th wedding an tiiversary on Wednesday. They marked the occassior, by visit-. ing Cromarty where Mr, Mc- Kellar was .,born and grew 'up and attended the annual Cro- marty strawberry supper Board Clears New Borrowing Bylaw next week, In connection with the hiring of office employees -- payroll supervisor, accounting assistant, accounting clerk, secretaries anti clerk-typist the Board decided to meet as a committee of the whole in the Board Room, Cent- ral Huron Secondary School,: Clinton. • at 8 p.m., Wednesday. June 25 • Roy B. Dunlop. business ad- ministrator, reported that he al- ready , had preliminary inter- views. wth a number of the ap- plicants and that a selected gromp in each. category would be' asked to present t,hemselves - to the 'Board. Rainy Weather Slows Work Wet weather during the past ' week and slower progress on the Crombie Street storm sewer has , delayed- a start on Main Street construction by a few days, Huron County engineer J. W. Britnell said Wednesday. Work now is scheduled for Ju- ly 2 or at the latest the follow- ing Monday. The reconstruction peogram along Main Street and through Egmondville, • including some storm sewer construction, is be- ing• carried out by the County. Mr. Britnell said contractors Yunt and McCann got under way on Crombie Street on Wed- nesday of" last Week as sched• uled. On the first day on the job, a shovel .dug,„,into an eight inch water main which was not shown on town plans. Copp. led with this was the almost continuous rain and the diffi- culty of disposing of water. En- try into Silver 'Creek at a prop- er level is prevented' since the CNR has yet to complete its portion of the Silver Creek drain project of last. year at the point where the river meets the. CNR bridge.. Kindergarten Class Has Graduation Parents of Seaforth Public School Kindergarten pupils were present Tuesday as members of the class graduated into grade one in a ceremony sin the school auditorium.. Class valedictorian was Rhonda McCowan. Shown following the ceremony with their teacher, Mrs. R. J. Boussey are: • (Left front:) Lyhn McLaughlin, Elizabeth Scott, Lynn Mender- Son, Rhonda McCowan, Sheila Eyre, Richard Neil, Clendon Coombs. (Middle:) Michael Maxwell, Bobbie Dale, Susan Pullman, Cath- arine Ribey, Karen Laverty, Douglas Jew, Greg McPherson, Marty Flannigan. (Back) Troy O'Dell, Brian Watson, Jane Morton, Arabeya. Shousher, Mary Lynn Glew, Nell. Johnston, Jimmy Scott, Jammie Ritchie, (absent, Stephen Ungarlan), (Photo by Phillips). Huron Area Farmers Huron Liberals Reject GFO Proposal Hear House Leader er Waits program, were cut out tonal. Canadians markets, partly because it was felt that the'same 0as a result of foreign subsidized funds could be used more effect-' programs. ively in other ways. Also high- Mr, Maccionald•said Canadians cost capital programs such as have been going on the cheap the Queen Elizabeth Telescope in the use of our resources. in British Columbia, or the 'There is legitimate concern, both Prince Edward Island Causeway, in the city and in the, country, had to be cut out simply because about the prdblems of enviro- the governMent did not feel 'it 'pike*. about the pollution of ' had the capital at this time ,to our waters, our soil and our, air, We have been careless about making waste the resources we need for our survival, a careless- ness which has resulted from the very abundance which we have enjoyed. And' we are now faced with the problem of having to pay for the cost of enjoying clean water and of 'alleviating air pollution. The solution of „ these problems is going to involve very heavy ex- penses and in some areas some very painful dislocation, But in the long run these are not prob- lems for 'which solutions are optional. Unless we. take action, and soon, we, are going to' very seriously impair the manner of our living he warned. Mr. Macdonald was introduced by A. Y. McLean of Seaforth and appreciation was expressed by Mrs. A. M. Harper of Goderich. Gordon McGavin was chair- man for the dinner and meeting. Others who took part were. Elliott, Blyth; William Elston, Morris; Harold Shore, Goderich; Ivan Ealbfleisch. Zurich and Dr. Morgan Smith. Bayfield. Reeve John F. Flannery brought greetings from Seaforth council and ctizens in the ab- sence of MaVor. F. C. Sills. Changes in the association constitution which the meeting appeoved 'prtwded" for the elect- ion of anexecutive vice presid- ent and 'of representatives of the women and young Liberals to the riding executive. count, $06; Goderich District Collegiate Institute, $40,065: Goderich Public School, $12,963: Goderich Retarded Education Authority, $716 Interest is paid on "the above accounts at two per cent per annum, cal- culated on the minimum mon- thly balance. Interest paid on all accounts to April 30, 1969, totalled $130. ' "It would appear that net ex- penses (expenses less grants' in- come) are running approximately $400,000 per month which gives rise to a like increase in the level of hank borrowing," the letter to Mr. Dunlop pointed out. "It might be expected therefore to see bank loans rising from the present $1,166,000 by about $400,000 monthly to a peak of approximately $3,600,000 by Dec- ember 1969. "On the basis of present in- dications, rifajor revenues com- ing available in December 1969' for liquidation of' bank loans, would be: tax, levies, $3,155,00; tuition fees from other counties. $500,00; total $3,655,000. There „also would probably be grant and sundry revenues accruing in December. On this basis and "-----4.4RS. SANDRA CONNELL barring' unforeseen major van'- (Merril) who graduated from ances between estimated and London Teachers College: She actual figures, the Board should received her secondary sehoo' experience minimal difficulty in education at Central Huron Sec liquidating bank loans at the ondaty School, Clinton, In thr close of the current year," the fall she will be teaching i, summary concluded. London.