HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1961-05-04, Page 10Befduntion in Needed Sk�Is
May Solve Unemployment Problem
(113y J. Carl lllemtneway)
At the first meeting of the
board of direetiore of Farmers
Allied Meat Enterprises Ca-
operateve Ltd., which was held
in Toronto April 17, Charles
McInnis was elected president;
Clayton Frey, first vice-presi-
dent sand Mel Becker, second
vice-president. The executive
consists of the three presidents
and Leonard Laventure, Harold
aker, ,and William Anderson.
At the folk-s'chooi annual
meeting on April 18 it was
Made ;apparen't to us that there
is great need for adult educe: -
teen. We are too prone to
think of our education corning
to an end when we leave sch-
ool to be able to solve our
present day problems. Exper-
ience gained through folk-
echools can broaden our out-
look so that we can recognize
our difficulties and help us
overcome our predjudices. The
introductiort of the Fo11c-Sehaol
on "Wheels" last year gave the
participants a wonderful oppor-
tunity to see conditions and
meat :people over a wide area.
Arthur Piggott, director of
the Canadian association, of
adult education, pointed out
the steed' for specialized train-
ing for our young people and
also for many of our older lab-
our force. The introduction of
machinery has not reduced the
need for labour nearly so much.
as it has changed the type of
labour needed,
While the need for labour to
produce food has been greatly
reduced, the need for labour to
manufacture and service the
tools of productionhas been
vastly increased.
In industry, office work was
done by many clerks, and sec -
re taxies. Now it has progressed
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FINANCIAL STATEMENT
1960
RECEIPTS
Balance on hand,
December 31, 1959 $ 2,824.56
Provincial Government
Grants 22,992.48
Tax Levy 20,971.65
Interest 270.14
Sale of cupboard 2.00
Bank Loans 10,000,00
Superannuation
Deducted 1,853.25
TOTAL $58,914.08
ROSS J. FORREST,
Chairman
EXPENDITURES
Instruction Salaries $30,887.50
Instruction Supplies 2,975.33
Administration 1,352.28
Plant Operation 5,834.90
Plant Maintenance 1,674.41
Auxiliary Services 592.87
Fees to other Boards 225.00
Capital Outlay 594.00
School Tax Refund
Ex. E. 219.54
Repayment Bank Loan 10,000.00
Bank Interest 367.82
Balance on. hand
December 31, 1960 4,190.43
TOTAL $58,914.08
W. P. ROBERTS,
Secretary -Treasurer
Goderich Township School Area
ANNUAL FINANCIAL REPORT . .
1960
CURRENT FUND
Receipts Payments
Balance on Hand Instruction $22,312.00
at Dec. 31, 1959 ,,..$ 8,192.00 Instructional Supplies 2,830.78
Grants from Provincial Administration 1,129.59
Government 18,127.97 Plant Operation 3,969.35
Plant Maintenance 2,183.01
Auxiliary Services 299.29
Transportation 3,030.00
Capital Outlays from
Current Funds 3,846.21
Transfers to Capital
Fund 3,215.38
Debenture Payment , 3,487.38
Rebate of School Tax 55.63
Temporary Loans
(Principal & Interest) 7,179.44
1,338.72 Balance on Hand at
Dec. 31, 1960 1,185 49
TOTAL $54,723.55 TOTAL $54,723.55
Local Tax Levy
Received
Debenture Levy
Receipts from Other
Sources
Temporary Loans
TOTAL
15,349.48
3,487.38
1,228.00
7,000.00
$53,384.83
Superannuation
Deducted by the
Board
CAPITAL (BUILDING) FUND
Receipts
Balance in Fund at
Dec. 31, 1959 $24,020.00
Transfers from
Current Funds 3,215.38
TOTAL $27,235.38
Payments
Buildings $26,911.69
Cost re Debenture
Issue 323.69
TOTAL $27,235.38
FRANK YEO,
Secr'etary-Treasurer
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Hare Completed 12 4^H Projects
Proud holders of provincial honours certificates are Donelda Lostell, Kippen,
left and Marie Black, Dungannon, both 4-H Homemakers Club members who
have successfully completed 12 projects each. With them is Mrs. Dale Miller
(right), home economist for Huron County, who presented the certificates at
the achievement day here in the CDCI auditorium last Saturday.
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through the typewriter and ad-
ding machine to the electronic
computer, It requires s'kil'led
labour to manufacture these
machines and trained techrdc-
lans to service them. Job op-
portunitiee are quite plentiful
in these fields.
This, I suppose, leads dir-
ectly to the meed for a source
of technical training in, our
own county. As fanners, we
can easily recognize the folly
of producing only cattle or hogs
or sheep. We need a proper
balance of all three. In the
past we have been directing
our energies to producing only
academic scholars but now we
find ourselves faced with un-
employment on one hand and
a serious shortage of skilled
technicians on the other.
The farm organizations and
Women's Institutes in the conn -
try have been successful in
bringing this to the attention
of the High School Boards and
they, along with the Ontario
Department of Education, are
giving aotive consideration to
the ways and means by which
this: can be brought about. Let
us give them all the support
we can in their endeavour. Mr.
Piggott assured us that this
type of school is practical as
has been proven in Western
Canada. Also at least two ar-
eas in Ontario have applied for
the financial assistance offered
by the Canadian and Provincial
governments.
FAME Share Sales
Go On Steadily
Sales of shares in the Farm-
ers Allied Meat Enterprises Co-
operative Ltd. appear to be
running steadily, ;though with-
out spectacular totals. At the
time of the annual meeting of
FAME in Toronto on April 7
a total of $300,000 had been
sold.
Sales were led by Halton
County, with Grant, Welland,
Bruce, Peel, Gray and EIuron
next in that order. At that
time only 15 percent of the
potential shareholders had been
approached by canvassers.
Offioers elected included 18
directors; Alex Anderson, Wel-
lington County; William Ander-
son, Perth; Harry Baker, Duf-
ferin; Melvin Bucker, Water-
loo; Wilfred Bishop, Oxford;
Honore Bourdeau, Russell; Cl-
ayton Frey, Lembton; Robert
Good, Brant; Carl Hemingway,
H u r on; Leonard Laventure,
Renfrew; Jack MacGillivray,
Bruce; Don Massey, Northum-
berland; Charles W. McInnis,
Dundas; Alfred Monk, Bruce;
Lava Rintoul, Lanark; leaned
Schmidt, Waterloo; Archie Ser-
vice, Halton and Ray Webster,
Victoria.
More than 350 holders of
Co-op comons shares in FAME
at tend e d this shareholders
meeting.
The guest speaker was Doug-
las Curtis, who played a nnsajor
role in the birth of the Nava
Scotia Co-operative Abattoir.
"Some people look upon ontr
co-operative as quite an aC-
complishment," he said. "The
only thing wrong with it is that
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BY DOROTHY BARKER
age pensioner, evidently had its
advantages. The more you re-
ceive, the more you pay in this
game of put and take. I hadn't
sold a heifer, nor had I been
paid any alimony.
The family suggested I pur-
chase a book on how to make
out income tax returns. It
had a reassuring subtitle about
understanding legitimate de-
ductions. This seemed like a
good investment, though it
proved about as enlightening to
my befuddled mathematical
processes as Greek Mythology
had to my course in journal-
ism.
The book intimated I would
have been smart to have mar-
ried "on or before December
51". Or is that deduction/ for
gentlemen professionals only?
My "wholly dependent child-
ren" have wholly dependent
children of their own. The only
claim I might have made was.
that the youngest had borrow-
ed the brand new power lawn
mower in which I had invested
$200 and became wholly depen-
dent on it to manicure his
lawn for the rest of the season.
Things began to look pretty
bleak exemptionwise when I
&covered an ad in the local
weedy newspaper offering the
services of a chartered account-
ant. "Are You Having Trouble
With Your Income Tax Re-
turns?" the advertiser wanted
to know. "Do You Need Help?"
he asked in print, Boy, did I
need ;help! There would be a
fee, the ad stated but I figured
it would be cheap at any price.
Besides, this was one expense
I could deduct.
I learned from the statement
he prepared for me that those
That Time Again.!
I was bloody but unbowed
after having come off second
best in xny first tussle with
that terrifying document des-
ignated as "Individual Income
Tax Return'.
It had been so simple in the
past when the bookkeeper in
our weekly newspaper . office
deducted a regular amount from
my pay check for tax purp-
oses. It was as painless as•
hidden taxes .and usually res-
ulted in my being able to Claim
a fat refund each year.
Now, it was my first year
as a footloose Vagabond and
I tackled the business of com-
pleting the form with unsus-
pecting bravado
The switch was that I must
estimate my annual income as
"a professional free lance writ-
er" and make a quarterly ante
in order to stay on friendly
terms with the Minister of
National Revenue. The ibaiance
owing the government at the
end of my first year looked
like the interest on the nation-
al debt. I hadn't a clue where
all that money I was supposed
to have earned went to, nor
how I was going to raise the
amount the taxtable claimed.,
was due without mortgaging the
old homestead or selling the
dilapidated '56 model standing
in the driveway.
When I had totalled up my
taxable income and subtracted
the deductions it looked as
though I owed the Department
of National Revenue more than
I had made. Thoroughly fright-
ened at the results, I started
digging like a ferret through
the four pages of that form in
search of some deduction I
might have missed;. I discover-
ed I had been positively unchar-
itable, that Giel Guide Cookie,
purchases, TB seals, Easter
Seals, donations to the local
swimming pool fund, the can-
cer campaign and the church
building fund hardly made a
dent in the "deduetables"
though at the time I had felt
my so-called generosity made
quite a dent in my purse.
I had also been much too
healthy, no doctor bills. In
fact I tore up my only receipt
from the dentist. He couldn't
even find a cavity. Studying
the form I ;began to believe it
might be profitable to join a
union or, if I could only dis-
cover some business loss, I
might end up in the black in-
stead of with the prospects of
a tern in jail.
Sotne Consolation
Not being a fisherman or a
farmer, a divorcee or an old
we should ,have started it 20
or 30 years ago."
Urging his listeners to get
behind their meat -packing and
marketing co-op, Mr. Curtis
pointed out that Ontario farm-
ers could afford the cost of the
venture because of their ;num-
erical strength. "Drive it thr-
ough," he said. "Don't stop
now. Your directors will, see to
it that you get top manage-
ment for your plants. Good men
are eheap at any price,"
The speaker predicted that
every effort would be made to:
divide the farmers of Ontario
in order to weaken the FAME
Cooperative. "It won't be done
only by .Meat packers. 'The
farmers •themselves may do it.
Don't -you people be divided,
You can carry on ,business just
as effectively as anyone else.
The problem i5 management•.
Your directors will determine
policy and management will
run your plants
Mr. Curtis suggested that,
eventually, FAME and other
co-ops across' Canada cattld
come 'together to form "the
greatest farm organization" in
the country. When this happens
he cm:eluded, "the farmers will
begin tO take their rightful
place in destiny,
HancisThat to Heal.
Serve at Clinton Hospitai
During I.951, Ontario ,citizens
will receive insured hospital ser-
vices costing around: U30,000.,-
000. 'OR this total, :approxirnat-
ely 10 percent, or $170,000,000
will be utilized in the payment
of salaries end wages for: hos-
pita; personnel.
These facts were pointed out
recently ;by Miss Hilda Smith,
superintendent o' Clinton Pub-
lic Hospital, She was empha-
sizing that 'hospital care 'is stall
.essentially a service provided
by people, that it is not some-
thing which can be automated
in an attempt to reduce cost,
"A highly skilled professional
and technical staff --the people
who provide the `hands that
help ]real' --is the roost vital
requisite to the provision of
the up-to-date care and treat-
ment citizens expect our hosp-
itals to provide" said Miss
Smith. "That is why we are
attempting, during National
Hospital Day observance, to
call special attention to the
many thousands of dedicated
people who ,are. directly respon-
sible for the provision of hos-
pital service."
Miss Smith stressed that
without the proper facilities no
staff, however dedicated, could
de en adequate job. "More
perhaps than) anything else, we
want to point out that every
citizen in our community can
help the hands that help to
heal by giving the utmost sup-
port and understanding to their
hospital,"
When asked if the Clinton
Hospital had any difficulty in
legitimate deductions were
things called depreciation, pro-
motion and traveling expenses;
even the jalopy proved more
valuable to me in the drive-
way than on a used car lot
and—most encouraging of all,
a percentage of my operating
and maintenance expenses could
be claimed because I have an
office in my home.
What, No Refund
Things :began to look rosier.
I planned repairs to the sun -
boom and new drapes in the
livingroorn with the refund I
felt sure would be coming to
me. I took the news with res-
ignation that I must still attach
a cheque for a goodly sum to
the completed statement of my
earnings and disbursements. In
fact, I must admit I got a cer-
tain glow of satisfaction out of
the realization that my dollars
helped make it possible for me
and my family to continue liv-
ing in the present security of
a democracy.
This year I gave the book
on income tax returns to a
White Elephant sale, bundled
all my receipts and cancelled•
cheques into a large manilla
envelope and marched off to
the office of the C.A. On my
way I gave myself a small pat
on the back because I had been
smart enough to increase the
quarterly ante. The final 1960
payment hardly hurt at all.
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In the St. Lawrence the ef-
fect of the tide is felt as far
upriver as Trois Rivieres, more
than 700 miles from the ocean.
Police Village of Bayfield
Attention Dog Owners
Pursuant to By-law No, 10, 1961,
a by-law to provide for regulating the keeping of
dogs in the Police Village of Bayfield:
Any owner or harbourer of a dog
who allows it to run at targe at any
time, can be summoned into court.
The maximum fine applicable is $50,
The council would ask all citizens concerned
to comply with this law.
COUNCIL OF THE
TOWNSHIP OF STANLEY
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For the Utmost in Service,
For the Finest in Plants,
VISIT
SEBRINGVIILE GARDEN
Nick Birkettigren, Horticultural Graduate
Phone No, 8 Highway, Across
393-6131 From Sebringville School
We have a complete line of highest grade Nursery Stock,
EVERGREENS, SHADETREE$, ROSES,
FLOWERING SHRUBS, ORNAMENTALS,
and LAWN SPECIMENS, eto.
Peat Moss, Garden Hose Sprayers, GhemicaIs
Come and See out modern Greenhouse filled with
Spring Plants—all grown from hybrid seeds,
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obtaining staff, Miss Smith st-
ated that this was, one of the
most fortunate hospitals in the
province.
"However," she continued,
"we Cannot afford to confine
our concern, to today's need.
We must think of the future."
Miss Smith pointed out tliat
three factors are contributing
to an increased demand for
hospital services; first, corner-
hensive hospital insurance has
enabled more people to finance
the Dare they need; secondly,
as additional services and treat-
ment techniques are developed,
still more people will be seek-
ing care; and, -thirdly, the pop-
ulation 'explosion' which is oc-
curring in almost every conn-
munrity.
Miss Smith concluded by st-
ating, "Yes, we'll need many
more hands that hell to heal
in the future and, equally im-
portant, we will need continu-
ing support from our commun-
ities if our present voluntary
hospital system is to survive.
We are confident our citizen's
will respond accordingly."
In the course of the Nation-
al Hospital Day observance, Cl-
inton Public Hospital Auxiliary
will be at home to the public
on Wednesday, May 10, 1961,
in the Nurses Residence, The
Hospital will be .open for in-
spection,
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