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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1974-02-28, Page 3M. e r •If }" / l" . N 1 • iY. rl r A u 4 IS 1. 1 ,wry � * 1�6unty Co no. '4 I. s Budgkit CPts P i '• "fits' Some of the year's budgets b dget can b ntxibuted to the''. dg ' have been presented to Huron note se In general assistance County Council and according tp , bene£tts effective January l,,said ` Administrator John Bertry, there, chairman Reeve Charles Thomas, 1. may,•• have to be extra dollars Indigent funerals will cost more " • t 4 y raised to finance the 1974• in .1974, The basic fee to funeral r commitments. directors has been increaf ed from r Half in jest and half In •copinty $300 to ` 425 and the maxim"in sincerity, Berry told allowable for a funeral, has been ' councillors that when all the increased fro $.500 to $750. budgets are totalled together this Library services in the county x year the outcome may r equire will cost $218,050 with a county some changes in the county, mill contribution of $133,050. In 1973, rate. the county share was $95,357, ` During, 1974, general "As in all budgets for 1974, the ' government will ,cost $65,400 main increase is due to the ,including the Warden's salary necessary salary adjustments and expenses at $3,500; county which also reflect the increase in council sessions at $25x000; employee benefits," said - at committees at $15,000 and Charman John F. Flannery. conventions and delegations at For the third time in the past $3 500.._ - General_ administration will . year, council was forced to re -organize committees because 41}• i{� {� I' = f , take another $118,200 with of a death among. county'ul $80,000 required' far salariesin councillors, Roy Allin, the clerk -treasurer's department deputy -reeve of Colborne Town- along with $5,000 for telephone ship 1 died suddenly recently. bills; $1,500 for postage; $300 for Reeve Everett Mcllwain, reeve , advertising; $7,500 for legal, of the Township of Goderich, was " x audit and insurance fees; $4,500 named to complete Mr. Allin's for travel and conventions; $700 two-year term on the Planning Farmers to the, north of Seaforth are organizing to protest against Ontario Nfor workmen's compensation; and Board and the new,deputy-reeve Hydro's alternative rights of way for the planned Bradley Georgetown transmission $8,000 in employee benefits. of Colborne, not yet appointed, line. At aMeeting last week in Wallace Township above, from left, MPP Hugh No change was reported in the , will become a member of the Edighoffer (Pefth), Nick Whyte 6f Seaforth., a piember of the Bruce -Huron Hydro grants to patriotic and library board. ' Negotiating Committee, and Lloyd Moore of R.R.1, Listowel, chairman of the educational funds. These total $11,040. The steering committee for the UDIRA (Urban Development in Wallace Township Hydro Corridor Committee, get together o look over the map -The budget for the Emer ncy Rural Areas) study- will be received by Wallace residents last week. ( i towel Banner Photo) Measures department' was set at Warden Bill Elston; James A. $800 with the province paying Mair, chairman of the planning Letter to. J.M. Scott $720• board; Cecil Desjardine, planning The Social Services Committee budget was brought in and board member; Roy Westcort and Elmer Hayter, both of the land Head of clan di n Scotland 0 accepted by, council at•$453,250 division committee. with a county share of $94,130. The study team will be Warden James M. Scott, a member of with several pages describing the Abbey, with autumn tinted trees Last year's county share was Elston, Mr. Mair and Planning the Committee that planned last late Duke's funeral. The .funeral around, and the Eildon hills in the $72,551. The increase in the Director Gary Davidson. summer's Scott -Dickson Reunion, was held at Melrose Abbe y• background. piper played a 4} {A marking 140 years since Robert According to the newspaper, .the lament, which sounded the silent Huron -Perch board Scott settled at Roxborough has late Walter John Montagu -Doug- feelings of 3,000 sincere mour- received word from Scotland that las-Scott was the eighth Duke of ners, all friends of his, from all the Duke of Buccleuch, hereditary .Buccleuch, walks of fire. (Continued from Page 1) Sepayat a School Association will head of the Scotr' clan, died in The Duke's Secretary wrote: Near his grave is the heart of, Board of Education --Len Feeney send out its own memorandum October. The Scott -Dickson Re- I ,Robert the` Bruce, and it is,a andjohn Butler. The meeting is setting out its position which the union committee had wPitten to "Dear Mr. Scott: fitting finale to the life of Walter, t-cheduled to be -held at -7:30 p.m. Board will vote on when it is the Duke last year, inviting him to Thank you very much for puke of Buccleuch, that, while in St. James Separate School in received. attend the 140th anniversary sending the newspapers with humble shepherds watched, he Seaforth and will be preceded by Jim Rowat festivities, interesting articles about t1/sh`ould be buried beside Kings. 14Qth .dinner with the above invited as The Duke was unable to attend anniversary of the arrival of Yours sincerely, guests. speaks WI because of ill health. Mr. Scott the Scotts and Dieksons in Huron. Lorna MacEchern,. Expositor I touched to A liaison committee was named at sent copies of the which was particularly Private Secretary. to meet with a similar committee -kuron=Perth James 'Rowat of theAusable- cgatalnc,d.wv-tbe., history of the see the reproduction of our post P.S. It of priests from the Bayfield Conservation Authority, Scott -Dickson clan in the Roxbor- card, especially as it arrived only , - w•as•too trivial to mention Deanery to discuss common areas son of Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Rowat ough area to the Duke in a short time after the Duke of on mt� earlier post card to yqu, but of concern. The board members of Seaforth, spoke recently at the Scotland. Buccleuch had died, on 4th another reason for the delav in are: Francis Hicknell, Howard Kippen Womens Institute Some time ago Mr, Scott October. replying to your invitation was Shantz, Ted Geoffrey, F.J.Vere meeting. Mr. Rowat described received a note of thanks from the I am sending you the relevant that I had been away for my an21 Donald Crowley. • - the Authority and showed Slides Duke's'privateretary who also pages of The Southern Reporter, summer holiday, in Canada, just Permission was grant ed Rev.of land under its control. enclosed a copy of The Southern one of our local Border news- shortly' before His Grace became Michael 'Hughes of the St. He stated there are 39. Reporter and Border Standard papers, so that you may read ill: Joseph Parish, Stratford, to hold Conservation Authorities in some of the tributes to him, and i visited Montreal, the.Lauren- a COR weekend (Christ in Others Ontario. The programs includethe account of his funeral. tians, Quebec, Niagara, etc.; and Orangemen Retreat) at St. Michael`'°s Sthodl in flood 'control, water conservation, Not one of the'glowing tributes nvab-vover whelmed bye the kind - Stratford on the weekend of May erosion control, reforestation, tO is exaggerated; on the contrary, ness and generous hospitality of no words can adequately record Canadians whom l met there. 3 - S. development of recreational gather Arthur Haid, .Oscar Kieffer, areas, fish and 'wildlife and also his stature as a great man, or his You may be interested to know Ted Geoffrey, Francis Hicknell, Camp Sylvan Conservation' in Goderl�,h ,, humble manner as a kind and that until his death about 1945, late Duke's Gordon Ball, Howard Shantz and School. gentle man. the uncle, Lord Vincent Young will attend a ers answered the roll b y The. funeral service was per- George Montswood ugr Scott, Memorial services at the meeting in St. Jerome's Scliool in ' ' Na Ing a favourite use of cenot ph, two banquets for all feet, in the open air, in the lived at Gle.dswood (or Giads- "the Waterloo on February 28 to cheese"'. - Mrs. H. Caldwell g marvcll +Js; peaceful• surround- ti%ood) - wood of the hawk" members, and a Scarlet De ree °� discuss in greater detail Bill 255 commented on the motto "The logs of the ruins. of Melrose in Roxburghshire. Scotland." meeting conducted by Hullett - Which the Board feels infringes on d 11 d ' 't d reason a o ar oesn o as District degree team, are to be the rights of 'separate schools. much as it once did is, th t people features of a gathering , of Passage of Bill 255 would result in don't either She stated that Orangemen and Black Knights in there being no distinct Ontario people are not ready to do an Goderich, April 23 to 27. On April Separate Schools Act. honest days worlr and strikes are y 25 there is to be a dinner meeting Michael Connolly, Board ruining the economy of the at Hotel Bedford for county Chairman, Ted Geofrfrey, country. She also read highlights masters. This hotel will be chairman of the Building and from Judy LaMarsh's off-the-cuff headquarters for Grand Lodge Property Committee;' and 'Ed talk, at the Canadian Club ' of officers. Rowland, Maintenance Officer for London banquet. � The occasion is the 98th annual the Board, will attend a workshop Members will visit the convocation of the Provincial on energy conservation, Bluewater Rest Home on March Black Chapter of Ontario West fltetrication and updating older 12 and Huronview March 27. A and the 115th annual session of schools at Bluevale School in donation was made to the South the Orange Grand Lodge of Waterloo on March 7. Huron District Association for the, Ontario West. Business sessions The Board will not send in its mentally retarded and to the will be held in Knox Presbyterian ballot to the Ontario Schools A.G.W.W. ,Save the Sight fund. Church hall, one, banquet there Trustees' Council which it' voted Mrs. J. Drummond was hostess and the other in North Street on and filled in at its February 11 'and Mrs. R. Kinsman co -host ess. United hall. ' meeting because of a request Mrs. H. Caldwell and Mrs. E. Ernest G. Ashick, of Garson, from the Ontario Separate School Whitehouse served lunch, Mrs. Orange grand master, has noted Trustees' Association. The S. Pepper gave ourtesy remarks. that GrandLodge last met in u Goderich in 1906. That was the Grand Lodge of British America, its officers including such noted Fr/1m names as those of. Horatio l Vs.a•i Hocken, Lt -Col. F.T.Sproule and the perennial graq, secretary, the William Lee. Grand Master othe Ontario • West Black Walter H. Horses Mouth Scott, Belgraverave, is but he is reported to be ill, and another (By Ken) officer may preside. Several hundred delegates are - expected, though much depends b FROM THE HORSES MOUTH upon weather conditions 'at this At. the Western Fair Raceway on Wednesday, season. A billeting committee will February 13 in the third race Jay Bee Blaze owned by- be stationed at Hotel Bedford, BensonFeagan and driven by Gerry Roebuck, both of and cars will be available to assist Goderich was out of the money. senior members to get around. Saturday afternoon at London in the Fifth race True Roots of the Orange Order go Personality owned by the partnership of Whetham and back 17�years in Canada. The Sadier was second with Don Corbett on the bike. In the Grand lack Chapter of British tenth race Miss Belle Bars owned by Fred Fowler of America is to observe its Londesboro was fourth with Frank MacDonald of centenary at Niagara Falls, .Tune Clinton driving. 16-18. Monday night at London the second race winner was Pebbies Girl owned by Geo. Feagan of Goderich and Ron, Feagan Dundas with Gerry Roebuck driving. The mile was in 2:11 and the pay off was 13.40. In the Seventh race Carry on Sly owned by Andrew Park of Mitchell was out of the money with Gord Pullman on the bike. In the ninth race El Sam O owned by Joe and Jim Dick and Dick Burgess and driven by Gord Pullman all of Seaforth, was second. Saturday at London in the sixth race Artic John owned by Larry Dale, Seaforth and driven by Clarence O'Neill was third. In the seventh race Jimmy, The Butler owned by Robert and H.O.Jerry of Goderich, was out of the money with Robert driving. The next race at London will be Saturday, March 2 Saturday night at Windsor in the third race Harlo Pucy owned by Frank Cook, Lorne Brown and Ross McEwen, all of Clinton, was second with Hardy on the bike, ai , Corn and bean club is foirrned George Douglas of Cromarty was elected secretary ofthe Perth County Corn and Bean 4-H Club at their organizational meeting on Monday, FebruaW 18. Other officers elected were , Floyd Harper, President; Warren Wolfe, Vice -President, and George Douglas, press reporter. 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