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Clinton News-Record, 1974-02-28, Page 6AWE* 1.$ A 'TOY, IRE EASTER WEEKEND FUN TRIPS 4 DAYS Nashville and Grand Ole Opry $82,00 4 DAYS New York City $79.00 4 DAYS Washington D.C. $75.00 '3 DAYS Wheeling West Virginia $59.00 • ALL OATES EACH OF TWO SHARING OPERATED ST- ALL STAR TOUR RESERVE THROUGH THE COACH HOUSE TRAVEL SERVICE AMILTON STREET, GODERICH 524.3366 lattgkart, 'Nig and Co. Chartered Accountants 268 Main St., Exeter' ARTHUR W. READ Resident Partner 235-0120 Huron Board wants Bill 27.5 change By WII-PAA OKIE The Huron County Board of Education agreed to most of the recommendations of the Ontario School Trustees' Coun- cil calling for revisions to Provincial Bill 275 at a board meeting in Clinton The board supported the OSTC proposal that bargaining be left up to the local division of the Ontario Teachers' Federation instead of to the provincial body as Bill 275 would have it, The board agreed there should be only one negotiating entity per school board. In Huron there are two, with the elementary and the secondary teachers negotiating separately. The board approved con- sideration be given to the role and the status of the principal in the negotiation process. The board rejected the OSTC position with respect to the scope of negotiations that only direct and indirect salary con- ditions should be subject to negotiation and that a Management •rights clause be contained in the legislation, while it agreed that the scope of negotiations must not interfere with or negate the con- stitutional rights of any school system or school board ' established within the historical and constitutional framework of democracy. According to Bill 275, in- troduced in the middle of the recent salary negotiations; the supremacy of provincially regulated arbitration procedures in teachyr contract disputes.would be established. • The hoard agreed that the teachers be given the right to strike under legislation similar to that in the Labor Relations Act, but tailored to the needs of the educational system, and eliminating all other types of sanctions and supported the OSTC position that the protec- tions now provided for teachers under existing legislation be reviewed. Support was given OSTC' resolution that refusals to work, and work slowdowns during bargaining should be declared illegal. The OSTC resolutions resulted from a two-day con- ference in Toronto on February 1 and 2, attended by Vice- chairman Wilfred Shortreed; D.J.. Cochrane, Director of Education; 'and R.B. Dunlop, Businese Administrator. The board will inform the Minister of Education, Thomas L, Wells, that Bill 275 in present form is unacceptable and requires major revisions, and that the Executive Com- mittee of the OSTC be em- powered to draft revisions to• the Bill in conjunction with other interested parties (i.e. teachers and individual boards of education). The Huron Board will add its name to the end of this previous sentence. Approval in principle was given the resolution asking for an increase in fees in order for the OSTC to provide more ser- vices and help with ,regard labor relations and negotiations. The board supported the OSTC proposal that school board employees not be eligible for positions as trustees, as well as the recommendation that calling for the preservation of the autonomy of local govern- ments rather than the strong centralizing of education power as provided for in Bill 274. The board agreed also to support the OSTC recommen- dations and that individual trustees are prepared to bring their position to the electors to obtain a clear mandate on the matter. A rider is to be added by the board that while op- posed to Bill 275 in its present the right to IrilWriclial action on a personal basis. In other business at the board meeting Tuesday the board approved the holding of an elementary principals' con- ference on April 18-20, at the Nottawasaga Inn at Alliston: that membership not be taken in the Ontario Education Research Council; that leaves • of absence be granted to Mrs. P. Cook, teacher at Robertson Memorial Public School, Goderich, Mrs, Margaret Deichert, Grade 2--8 teacher at Zurich Public School, and Mrs, Clara IL Scott, teacher at Huron Centennial Public School, Brucefield, The board will authorize its solicitor to draw the necessary deeds conveying the Bayfield School property to the Village of Hayfield. When the property was sold to the village for $15,000, when the area school at Brucefield was built, the deed' was supposed to have been given with the final payment in January, 1969, but this was overlooked at the time. The 'Management Committee was asked to review again a recommendation that fees for non-resident pupils, not sup- ported by other boards, be set at $450 for secondary school students and $250 for elemen- tary school' students, and $125 for Kindergarten pupils, effec- tive September 1, 1974. At the present time fees for these students are $200, $100 and $100, respectively. The Management Committee will consider if this should affect students • with whom the smaller fee agreement had been set. In the future any new non- teaching employee of the board may have to undergo a medical examination to certify his health rather than just present a certificate of health following a recommendation being con- sidered by the Management Committee. Mrs, Mollie Kunder was ap- pointed as board representative to the Huron-Perth Respiratory Diseases Association. The Board in the future will delegate to the Director of Education, and through him to the individual school prin- cipals, the authority to close a school or schools under emergency circumstances such as inclement weather, fire, flood, the breakdown of the school heating plant, or a similar emergency. The board agreed to accept Glen Irwin, a year 11 student at' F.E. Madill Secondary School, with no fee for the reniainder of school year. He father who has been ill, has been living with his grand The hoard accepted kb resignation of Miss Norma Coutts of F,E. Medill Secon, dary School, Wingham, who is completing her 40th year of teaching, effective February 28, 1974. The board approVed the ac ceptance of a copy or the Wor of Robert Browning to b donated by Woo 'obligor o Wingham. The book originall was owned by Miss Mario White, apparently one of th original staff at the Wingha School and a teacher of NO Isbister, now an octogenarian. The Management Commit will consider a revision in th grant ceilings for transpor tation by the Ministry to deter mine if the board will be abl to adjust the transportatio contracts upward by the 2 pe cent granted by the Depart ment, The roam* for the in crease was made by J.H. Mur phy, Clinton, on behalf o school bus operators of Huron County.ajhoroin Westbrook and Mrs. ,4n Zinn will represent th Board at the Canadian School Trustees' Association in Van- couver, May 26, 27 and 28. while J.W. Coulter, Superinten- dent of Program and Planning, and another academic superin- tendent will also attend the general meeting, A request for Donald Martyn of RR 3, Lucknow, to atten Kindergarten in • September 1974, at Ripley Public School was denied unless Bruc County' will pay the tuitio fees. The Board approved th establishment Of the Mr. an Mrs. William F. MacDonal Award at F.E. Madill Secon dary School in Wingham to graduating student to be selec ted by the principal and staff J. and T. Murphy Ltd. wa awarded the contract for th period March 1, 1974—June 28 1974, to transport on weekend the hearing handicapped to an from the Regional Centre London to their homes at a cos of $27.00 per trip, lowest of si tenders. -track betting. ow you can help. 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Call linytieno lot ast"appo4ntMent sit, Opt Theredaysii ll101, 482-3816, 0j). err ~r NEWS- E' 'TKIRSPAY, FERRIJOY 28, ;974 Nuclear plant . ChM 1 land end 48,576 lineal feet of Class 0 land,. Gordon Hill, president of the Ontario federation of Agriculture, estimates that Ontario farm land is being taken from production at the rate of 26 acres of proved farmland per hour.. If present trends Continue, committee members ppinted out, Huron County's prime farmland could be used up in three years. Jack Riddell said that the brief presen- ted by the committee was well received in Toronto, , "Bill Stewart is most sympathetic," said Riddell. "We've, got to,take a look at 'this waste of agricultural land- and definitely consider the alternatiVes," Dr. Bob Walker, Senior Ecologist with the' Forestry Department of Ontario Hydro, -seems to agree with this premise and told members of Ilaron County Council so. "Soil is not' a limitless resource," said Dr. Walker. 'It must be protected. It is being used up at an astonishing rate. On- tario Hydro is being very careful to make sure we are not using it up at the rate in- dicated," Dr. Walker said that on the hydro line to Georgetcain, for instance, Ontario Hydro is crossing "prime agricultural land".... but in over 170 miles of right-of-way, they are using only 40 acres of Class 1 and 2 land. He said ti:tWr bases . are presently estimated to take a 35 foot square area plus again that much land to permit farm machinery to turn easily around them. He suggested that planners 'already have designed a tower which requires much less land area than this, but that calculations in this case were made on the present tower size. Another Hydro spokesman, Art Moshera said Ontario Hydro is listening to 'the people. He said wherever possible, lines are following back lot liries, towers are being placed opposite each other atree plan- ting is done to cover unsightly installations ' etc, ' "We appreciate the nuisance factor," said Dr. Walker. "The total community benefits in the •routing of these lines,'•" added Mosher: The brief from-the farmers had shown the importance of producing nuclear energy closer to the need. In this way, the brief reasoned, valuable farmland would not be crossed to take hydro-electric power to the cities where vast amounts of energy are required. Mosher pointed out that Toronto is presently producing more power than is being used in Toronto. Even so, by 1987, the energy produced by the first stage of Bruce Nuclear Power Development, for in- stance "will be all used up". Mosher also reminded council that modern, effiCient farm methods require substantial blocks of, electrical energy. Ottiltitt4t0 from 0090 1 There was some.discussion.among county councillors concerning whether or not Hydro is, indeed, •&dint, everything possible to keep people informed and to Seek ,out the opinirm of the grassroots.. DonFraser, Property Division of Ontario Hydro, told council the planning depart» merit of the county had been kept informed of Hydro developments concerning Huron. AOtfielci Reeve Girvin Reed, a apriner member of the planning and de4lepmenil committee of county council, said, to his knowledge Ontario Hydro had never ap- proached the local officials, He admitted members had been invited to a public meeting in Bruce County, but suggested that no direct, attempt had been made to contact the county committee, County Planner Gary Davidson said he'd been telephoned on one occasion by Hydro officials, but that no meeting was ever scheduled to make him and his staff aware of developments' in the district. Fraser and Davidson were also at odds on whether or not the construction of a Hydro Power Line in Huron County necessitated a change in the Official Plan. Fraser said transmission lines are not usually._ designated • on Official Plans, Davidson-said Hydro Power lines were con- sidered an Institational use and that if council and planning board deemed it ,necessary to make an amendment to the of- ficial plan, it would require an amendment. Mosher told council that while Ontario Hydro may not have provided enough in- formation about their planning, it was possible "to inform the public too much". "The people may get upset," said Mosher. Warden Bill Elston told Hydro officials he was satisfied communications had im- proved over the past two years between Hydro .and the people. He said relations could be even better if county councillors became informed about and interested in Hydro developments in" Bruce. as well as Huron. "A lot is happening in this county with Hydro lines," said Elston. "A lot more will, be happening in the next five years or. so. There's no doubt in my mind." Jack Riddell believes that local govern- ment will play an important role where Ontario Hydro is concerned in the next few years. "Local government is going to have to see that Ontario Hydro pays its way," said Riddell. He said the local people should not have to "pick up the tab" for changes because of Hydro development in the area. One of the points in the county which has been mentioned as a possible site for any nuclear development in Huron is Blake, a small hamlet about five miles northwest of' Zurich. Nestled quietly in Stanley Town- ship, Blake is not far from the shores of Lake Huron. Reeve Jack Turkheim of Zurich says the people of that village are talking about the news of possible nuclear development closeby. In a telephone,conversation Saturday af- ternoon, the reeve said the people of the area "don't seem to be frightened" by the possibility though he expects some are ',thinking about the changes which could take place in the area if a nuclear plant there did become reality. Ironically, when county council met last Friday, one of the documents on the desk of each member was a copy of the secon- dary plan for the village of Zurich. Con- taining over 6Q pages prepared by the staff of the Huron County Planning Depart- ment, the book shows two housing sub- divisions - one almost ready to roll, accor. ding to Reeve Turkheim and one in the planning stages. The progressive little village has water and sewage to offer with housing for senior citizens and a dentist's quarters in the offering. Reeve Turkheim termed it "purely co- incidental" that Zurich's plan was ready at the same time as the announcement about a nuclear plant in the area was made. Asked if he had considered the im- plications of a nuclear development to the Zurich area, the reeve said he'd thought of 'many aspects but doubted that "much harm" would come to 'Zurich if a nuclear plant was located outside the village. He saw it bringing "tremendous land values and a boom to the area". He said that to his knowledge, the people in Port Elgin and Southampton are coping nicely with the situation which has arisen out of the Douglas Point development. "The average citizen doesn't seem to be that concerned," said Reeve Turkheim. "If he is, he's not talking about it," Mayor Jack Delbridge of Exeter says he's not prepared to say.whether a nuclear plant in his area would be good or bad. "I just don't know," admits Delbridge. "But I sometimes wonder if it wouldn't have been a great deal better for all of us if we'd never cracked the atom," said Delbridge. "One day there's going to be an accident and we're going to bloat our- selves up." Delbridge says that speaking personally, he is concerned about the environmental aspect of nuclear energy. Re wonders if future generations will suffer because,of it one day, But, says Delbridge, if nuclear energy is to be reality in the area, the people of Huron will have to live with it. "Is it worth the risk?" muses Delbridge. "Who knows, but I don't think it matters whether the plant 'is at Blake or Douglas Point or Toronto or Montreal. A great many people could be affected." r. Ontario extends homemakers services Homemakers and nurses ser- vices have been extended to cover care for the elderly, han- dicapped, ill or' convalescent without restriction or limit on the amount of service required, Minister of Community and Social Services Rene Brunelle announced recently. "Services will be determined by the needs of individual cases," he stated. The Ontario Government . THE SEPARATE SHOPPE Main Corner—Clinton * BLOUSES * PULLOVERS * CARDIGANS * PANTS * SKIRTS . will also provide for ..,the payment of provincial grants towards the cost of training courses for homemakers. In making the announ- cement, Mr. Brunelle added that amendments to Bill 240, The Homemakers and Nurses' Services Act, will move per- sonal care services into the home as well as prevent in- stitutional placement and dependency on public assistance. It will also provide for more assistance for the working poor using either homemakers or nursing ser- vices. "Homemakers and nursing services will now be available to more people," Mr. Brunelle explained. "For example, the elderly will be able to remain in their own homes a few years longer, or a father with a young family may continue to work when the mother is ill or absent from home." In addition, homemakers will be permitted for households in which child care and household management is needed for improvement. This is to prevent financial or family difficulties which often leads to dependence on public assistance. For persons 65 years and over, the needs testing has been increased through, the addition of an "Advanced age Item" of $45 per month. Also available income --- which is the amount recipients contribute to the cost of service--- is now computed on a ,daily basis rather than on a monthly basis as in the past. Open Closed 24 p.m. Weds.