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
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.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
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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-
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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
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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.
LINA—in Wingham General Hos
pital on Sunday, November 21st,
19M, to Mn and Mrs. Ary, Lina,
Lucknow; a daughter.
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