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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1954-12-01, Page 12WEDNNESDAY, DEC, 1st, 1954(THE LUCKNOW SENTINEL, LUCKNOW, ONTARIOI»AGE TWELVE ; N$ed for New Schools Poses Problem In Ashfield Township * t .County, township school affairs were dealt with thorough­ ly at Ashfield Township’s hum­ iliation meeting on Friday, held in the .basement of the 9th Con­ cession School which was packed to the doors. 4 Clerk Donald Simpson presided during the nomination hour, and JEx-Warden Cecil Johnston was iwQiqtpd chairman for the. rate? gmyers’ meeting. Before vaouting *.* the chair, Mr. Simpson, explain^ ^ed’that the Tpwnship was in a favorable financial position al-. t though the financial statement ^showed (expenditures esdceeding receipts by some $8,000. However, there are outstanding taxes in the County of about ' the same amount? while the Robb drain whs paid for out Township funds’ in an amount close to $5,000, which will be. repaid to. the Township this month. ? County Getq $100,000 Insurance Reeve Cecil Blake gave a clear - cut address, chiefly on Couxity i W first Vie' Township lhvy had been held at & mills although it Was' ■ hard to do so. Huron County had three major projects during the* year — the Auburn bridge, the new wing at the County Home and-the Court Mouse. The new 361-foot bridge at Au- mirn, the biggest in the County, will be passible in about mid-' JJecember. The cost will be in excess of $200,000. For the first time in the history of bridge building in Huron, insurance had been carried, and . aS a result of <iamage caused to cribbing : dur- . ing Hurricane HdzeL floods, the i County received about $10,000 in­ surance. .v • . ‘1' Due to the destruction of the Hoiise by fire the County Sbollected $75,000 insurance on the building and $15,000 oh the con­ tents. All told,7 insurance collect­ ed- fTom flood and 'fire Was apt proximately $100,000. The new wing at the County home, costing some $466,000, re­ ceives a 50 percent provincial grant. This and the foresight in ■.. establishing a building fund in / recent years permits, taking care Of the balance of the cost in this , year’s County levy. / The Home Will now be able to accomodate 135 inmates, and inadequate’ rooms which drew, some unfavorable publicity this year will be used for. store rooms and other such purposes. . Cost of/the new three-floor, 40- room Court House, with furnish­ ings, it is estimated, Will run to $640,000. Mr. Blake explained that the architect’s fee of 7 per­ cent covered the complete in­ spection, by, experts of ;every phase of construction of , the. z building, which Will have “accom­ odation for rent, with, forseeable revenue of about $5,000 a year from this source. Reeve Blake stated that in- , digent costs in Huron this year would run to about $85,000, and the figure was expected to soar to $100,000 next year* or the equal of almost two mills. Built Township Bridge Councillor Andrew Ritchie gave a breakdown of road expen. ditures, covering sanding, salt; snowplowing, steel culverts and ^l^rtdge building.J^ei^ll,OOd--ydS^ of , gravel had been put oil Town­ ship roads at 73 ^c/ a yard. The tender of the $aiidy Co. was the billy one received. / Biggest expenditure was $5,233 for the Baldwin bridge, - plus grading \ and other associated work that ran the total to CVef $8,600. The province pays 80 per- cCiit of the CGst Cf such construc- ' tion work; ' ’■ . Gordon Barger drew1 attention ‘ js^itosa^dangerous-unmarked-curve- in the road near > his place* and •Ewart Jdiniesori questioned jf an , * abutment at Lanes Store was not a on the road allowance, and, a traffic hazard. Township In /Good Shape Councillor John Bradley fav,- , . -ored a continua’-'-ce of the bridge building, program while prdVin- , cial grants of 80 percent Could ■ bd received. He felt finer crush- A •ERMWOD, ' , SI#? ed gravel would tend to better packing. ' ' , ■ The Township/he said, was in good shape and while taxes are high you can’t do much about it, and can’tx expect them to be less. Councillors Donald MacKenzie and Tom'Howard, both first year men on the Board, pointed out that they had been “learning the ropes”, this year. Mr. MacKenzie raised the question of weed spraying, versus weed cutting. He* did not think spraying would be too cofctlya methdd but there was J the danger of the spray drifting and causing damage and trouble; to which Reeve Blake could testify. '■ - Flood Damage t R o a d Superintendent Herb Curran sad that ■ there hadn’t been anything in years in ^Ash­ field to equal the flooding caus­ ed by Hurricane Hazel. The floods had> changed the. course of streams and repair work was ne­ cessary as a resultx According to law, weeds must be either sprayed or cut. $44,000 was spent on roads and bridges during the.year, with $27,000 re-, ceived in provincial grants. A 50 percent grant is received on maintenance work........ Mr: s Currnr referred to. expen­ ditures on the, grader; and ex­ pressed the hope/that an open winter might cut snowplowing costs to a point that a new main- tainer might be possible. Opposition To Closing Speaking on Township School Area mavters Trustee Clifford Crozier said, that . as had been, forecast a year agq, the Tate would go up if expenses could not be curtailed by closing some schools and transporting child­ ren. The Board’s attempt to carry out this, policy had met with op­ position and’ all schools were kept .open. The mill rate is up 1% mills. ■ . Trusted Marvin Durnin felt they,should get busy on school* building. “Decide where they are to pe located and get going”, he said. -' • o - v'-XX—Xr-r* Bod MacKenzie, a new nom7 inee for trustee, had no comment .to make.. ’ ■/' . Compares Costs Board Chairman Marshall Gib- son said he felt, and still feels, it would be a good idea tbclose some schools. Some are in disre­ pair, and a school at. Kintail will have to be built soon, he said. Mr. .. Gibson, compared school costs’in Ashfield and Grey Town­ ships, which have a comparable assessments ,His .figures showed that in ^1952, in 12 schools ’in Grey; 319 pupils had been edu- cated at a considerably lower figure than in. Ashfield where there were 267 pupils in 15 schools. The salary scale in Grey was higher also. The chairpian used these fig­ ures to support: his claim that the. closing of three schools’ in Ashfield would effect a substan­ tial saving. ' Reference was made to the re­ port that there was talk in some sections of “pulling out” of the Area, ’• v Suggests Township Vote » Trustee . Walter . Alton, who hadn’t supported the school clos­ ing plan, said he felt additional snowplowing costs, might ’coun­ teract some of the saving of a school closing program/ He sug- gester a yote of the ratepayers on the subjecj. “A vote is the way to find out”, he* contended, and added if the people want their schoolhouse they will have to pay for i|. /1 The question of whether it would be an area or section vote was raised, as well as where new schools, if built, would be lo­ cated, These are questions to be settled and Mr.. Alton felt that in the meantime they could carry on ,by making *some improve­ ments to schoolhouses where necessary,: • Trustee Jack Gould was not present.. Secretary-Treasurer R. T. Kil- Patrick explained: details pf the financial'report. . Haven’t Released Contractor Henry MacKenzie, Ashfield’s representative on the Lucknow District High School Board refer- red to the school rate being up ^rhill.and a half, buradded“that it was the first levy for a full* year’s operation r pf the new school; . ■ ■ 1 The building hasn’t yet been taken Off the contractor’s hand. Several thousand dollars is being held back as they have had trouble with serious water leak­ age. Coping has largely corrected -this but; further sealing will ^be necessary. Mr. MacKenzie intim-. gted there might^be g lively meeting in determining who was going to pay for these1 corrective measures. Omar . Brooks, a member of the Goderich Board1, said their eight mill rate raised $9,600 in Ashfield for the Goderich District High School. He ppinted out that they had a limited control of expen- ditures/and that in the matter’ of salaries the Teachers’; Federa­ tion prietty much had the say . Ralph Foster was called on as Ashfield’s representative on the Goderich hospital Board. Others called on Were Elmer Graham, K. L. MacKenzie and Gilbert - Frayne. The.latter pointed to the existence of Bang’s disease which infected one in thirteen dairy cows. In the interest of the health of rural children, he; urged that at least ope cow on each farm be kept under, veterinarian sup­ ervision, for supplying the house­ hold milk. / < Chairman Johnston congratu- . lated the large Withering tor their turnout and their evident appreciation of the work of their municipal servants. CUIJBERT—-at Alexandra Hospi- tal^Goderich;-on ^NbvemW n7» 1^54, to, Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Cul- berti R. 6; Goderich; a daughter. ELLIOTT—in Wingham General Hospital, on Saturday, Novem- ° ber 20th, 1954; to Mr. and Mrs. Walter Elliott, R. 1, Lucknow, a daughter. 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