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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1957-06-20, Page 9VISIT COLLEGE= The Ontario Agricultural College was host to the farmers of On- tario during Farm and Home'Week. More than 15,000 farmers from all parts 0 the province attended to see many experimental projects. and new ideas in modern. agri- culture„Bruce Stone, left, of the Department itYf Animal Husbandry, is pictured here explaining the advantages of the electric dehorner to Mr. and Mrs. George, Neil and daughter 1Vlarilyn of Kirkton. —OAC Photo arm e s, . swum lith2ON':v7c1 NORTH 44/DPLEVE5( • Council Maps Out Policy To Aid County Hospitals Looking ahead toward future needs for more hospital space in Huron county's five public hos- pitals, Huron County Council on Wednesday inappecl out a policy tq g()VOill grants from county funds for future hospital build- ing programs. • ' Approving a . preliminary re- port from the executive commit- tee, of ,,which John Fischer, reeve of Turnberry,Os chairman, Coun- cil prepared a general guide to future hospital grants establish- ing a rate of $700 a bed •lor grants, for "second -round" build- ing projects, and $350 a bed for "third -round" projects. Diking the postwar years, each of the five hospitals, at Wingham, Goderich, Clinton, ‘Seaforth, and Exeter, • has bad ohe county grant toward cuts of :new build- ings, "W„ 'aud,•,4oderieh bawedeltlfgtv,S3,smoo grant towarcl'an addition,, and Clinton Public -Hospital has had a $12,000 4'secend-round" connty groat toward an .extensive re- modeling. project, At' this jitne- session, .Council is working out' in advance the answers it will sgive if hOspitals at Sealorth and Exeter should ask for help with additions, or if further additions should` be in pr6spect at Goderich, Vingham, or Clinton. The Augh outline of the policy, as aPprovecl Monday, is to be enibodied in a by-law, that will probably come before Council before the end of this week's session. , The executive committee re- port reeommends that a limit of $35,000 be put on the grant to be made to any one hospital for a second -round addition, and a of $15,000 for any third - round addition. The South Huron Itespital .at Exeter, it is under- stood, is planning to start ia 16 - bed addition before the end •of 1957. When the by-law is being draft- ed, to make the grant policy of- ficial, it will be necessary, ad- vised A, H. Erskine, county clerk -treasurer, to state clearly whether grants are to be given at the $700 -a -bed rate if a hospi- tal builds two or more times, and is still within. the $35,090 limit for grants eat' the $700 rate. —.11-6'114b`rrxTriVfitilt; deputy - reeve ef Clinton„ suggested that there•may be a saving of .§90,000 to the county next year, if the county is relieved of indigent patients' costs; by a national hedlth plan. -"We are hopeful, but not certain," said Mr. Ers- kine, that the county will be re- lieved of indigent patient costs. It is doubtful, said 14 Erskine, whether indigent hospital pay- ments will be cut off as early as 1958. William McKenzie, reeve of' Exeter, suggested 'there inight emonstration! NEw..gio ,Tprinage 'coFkshiitt • LARGEST CAPACITY OF ANY SIMILAR BALER et PACKS MORE FEED INTO EVERY BALE - Compare The Savings! If ybu are losing 25% of the leaves when you bale, your Ioss per year on 8,000 bales is '8600.00! The Cockshutt Baler loses only 2%,,of the. leaves; so if you are baling hay for feecling,,purposes, Op new "344" will cut your loss tb only $48 1. A SAVING OF $552.00! Let us show you how the new Cockshutt baler makes this saving. Action .1loy ;Lam' oorfi Farm - Milea Shunt xetar ori No-, 4 'Highway HFRIDAY, JUNE 21 • 100 PAL • L. Chafte &Sons 1, . Your Cockihutt Dealer PHONE $48 Devon 'Coehar , EXETER Cotner No, 4 Highway and Cradifan Road Second Section • ,EXIFTER, ONTARIO, JUNE 29, 1957 Sudo:0 Ta.:7 Oroira. Ao;IeciuOte. - Says..Cot,inty Road Horior Usbome Man For Wood ot Care Ross Hera, R.R. 1 Granton, county taxes be the ones to get was among three farmers ih Huron County who became the first in its history to receive certificatds in recognition of their outstanding work in man- aging woodlots over a period of years, Presenting the certificates and Tree Farm signs were Thomas Pryde, Exeter, MPP for Huron; Harry Gowdy, reeve of Howick and" warden of Huron; Ron Hunirnell, Galt, district forester. Mr. Hern farms 100 acres in 'Osborne township, on which lie. has a 14 -acre stand of maple - beech lowest. His citation for the Tree Farm award notes that the woodlot has not been grazed for more than 20 years, and that for 20 years Mr, Herm has been doing iinproVement work, hpr- Vesting mature 'trees for lumber, and taking out cull trees for fuel. Some tree planting has been done to fill irregular areas around the edges of the woodlot. Other awards 'went to' Frank Raithby, R.R, Auburn, and Thomas W. Rathwell, R.R. 3 Clinton, Mr, Raithby r eceiv ed his award for the care he has given to a 32 -acre sugarbush in the 14th concession of liullett town- ship. This Woodloe has never been pastured, and has been be a danger that the announced kept at a high standard by the maxfinum of $35,000 for grants, selective cutting of low-grade at $700 a bed, would induce hos- trees for fuel,. pital boards to build larger acldi- Mr. Ratlfwell's citation notes tions, to get the maXimurn grant. that he has given 15 years of at - "They'll make sure 'they get the tention to improving 10 acred of full grant for 50 beds, and they'll maple -beech woodland on his 200.f acre farm in Goderich township, It is described as a dense second - growth stand of hard maple, white ash, white elm, basswood, Week cherry; yelloW birch, hem- lock and. white cedar, P r in cip al speaker at the awards dinner was I, C. Marritt, Galt, who pioneered 30 years ago woodlot care in Western On- tario, and brought about the organized management of more than 300 demonstration woodlots, when he was a district forester for the Ontario Department of Lands and -Forests. Mr. Marritt outlined •the "historY of the Tree Faint Movement, which is now organized 'to .fetognize'ontstand-- ] rity vote, • cotincillors defeated ing achievements by forest land a proposal to raise the rate to owners in most of the states and provinces of the United States arid Canada. Dislike Increase overbuild." "Don't worry about: overbuild- ing," said Norman Scains, reeve of Seaforth. "The' hoSpitals are not going to overbuild, or pro- vide costly' space for beds that are not„needed." HolctRate To $60 Residents of the Huron County 'Home who are paying for their own keep will continue to pay at the rate of $60 a month, al- though actual cost per resident is now reckoned to be $75 •a month, it was decided Thursday b Hilron County Council. By ma - $75. Of the 95 residents in the Home there are how 11 who are pay- ing their owh way at4 the rate of $60 a month, reported Bailie Parrott, reeve of Morris and After spirited debate, Huron chairman of the home commit- County Council decided Thurs- tee. Another 65 are pay,ing. $35 day that it agrees with Perth a month, from pension Income, County Council that it does not while 19 are non-paying resi- like new Ontario legislation which dents, for whom the county must increases the size of county coun- cils. • assume the whole cost. Any resident with enough On a recorded .vote, 19-13, the means to pay $60 a rbonth should a resolution, liaised a Week ago be able to pay $75, suggested by tfi-e Perth council: ab,Stratford, Cecil Elake, reeve of Ashfield. which asks .the Ontario govern - William Jewitt, reevemif Hullett,iment to undo, its legislative diSagreed. • ' ,eMendment, and let county coun- Reeve 'Jewitt described the case of an elderly woman from hiS own township, who is now•in the Home. When she, entered the Home, he said, she wanted to pay her own way, and with what money she had, ,she calqulated that she cotild de- it, if she did not live too long. "The old lady could stretch it out at $60, btit' she could not a $75." said Reeye Jewitt. J'She's a grand, old lady, proud, but with a nice kind of pride. She had it all figured out that she could add nine deputy reeves; in pay her own way. If this goes Perth's case, the present 17 -man council will be increased by the addition of .seven or eight deputy reeves.. On the recommendation of think there are people in Chester Mawhinney, chairtrian there that dad well afford to pay .of the county property commit - $75 a month for the care they're tee, Hum councilors agreed to getting," said Reeve John Mot.... allot $2,500 for the purchase of rissey. , extra desks, chairs' and other equipment, to be ,readY for the extra members ofoouncil in Jan-. nary, 1958. John beeves, reeve of Goderich township. one of those who voted against concurring with the Perth resolution, said that if any ehange is to be madein the waSi county countils are constituted, it shOtild be to allot more weight to assesment and let the munici- palities which pay the most in cils remain as they are, While registering its objection to the increase, however, Huron council Thursday made arrange- ments to obey the nevy law as it now stands, and to make pro- vision for adding nine eXtra members to the 31 -man council. The new'Ontarid law, in the form of an amendment to the Muni- cipal Act, broadens the basis for reckoninewhether a Municipality is entitled to send a deputy reeve to county, 0=61.. In Hu- -yin's ..case, the effect Will be to through, to put it up to $75, I'll make it my business to go to the county Home, and advise her to drop down to the $35 rate.", On motion of Deputy Reeve Arthur Gibson and Reeve Har- vey Coleman, Cptincil voted to leave the rate at $60, and let county funds make tip the $1.5 difference. Connell approved recoinmenda- thins from Reeve Parrott's com- mittee that the salary of the phy- Sician for the Home be set at $2,100 and the salary of the top- erintetident at $4;800. At the County. farm, whieh is operated in cOnjunetion with the gram •alSO ineludes six .acres of Herne,- Reeve Parrott reported, potatoes, no tomato plants and 75 acres vytte put to Spring grain other garden plantings. There this year, With 20 acres Of the ate 16 Cows niilking, and the 75 being seeded down to grass farra has bought 400 starting pul- and clover. This year's farm pro- letS, ; Timanmitinom lll lllll lll I ll llllll 01114111001IIMIlill l ll 'Obtain The 1' . • Highest Prices .Fpr Your,Poultryl - _so .TO- 'the " Riverside 'Poultry Company, 'Limited, • LONDON . • t London 7.1230 Phorio Collect Hansa!! 6804.2 the greater representation. On the -present basis, of allo.t; ting deputy reeves on a basis of population,. said Reeve Deeves, rural townships with big assess- ments are getting less represen- tation than urban centres. He tided that two towns and two villages, Exeter, Hensall, Clin- ton and Blyth, have a total of six members in county •couricii now. while two rural townships, Gode- rich and Stanley, with a com- bined assessment equal to the four urban places, have only one member each, "We're her e to represent people, not dollars," said Nor- man Scoins, reeve of Seaforth. .1, M. Donnelly, deputy reeve of Goderich, and chairman of the county legislative commit- tee, said that in Jantrary his committee *as opPosed to the increase in the number of deputy reeyes, and that the committee, after discussing it again this week, still holds that view, The 31 members of council di- vided 18 to 13 on the issue: with Pe reeve of Goclericb. having a double -value vote, because of Goderich's population. the re- corded vote was 19 to 13, Reeve Ernest Fisher of Goderich cast- ing his two votes in favor of the Perth resolution, and against the proposal to add new members to council, Cases Total 213 Children under the supervision of the Children's Aid Society in Huron now number 213, council- lors were told in a report from Mrs. Mary P'. Chaffe, superin- tendent. There have been nine new cases under the Unmarried Parents Act, and there are 58 homes waiting for children to be adopted. F our investigations have been made by the Huron CAS, in divorce cases where chil- dren under the age of 16 have been concerned. The policy of the Huron CAS, said Mrs. Chaffee, continues to be to try to keep families to- gether. " We,,have always felt that, tlieTwhole community Bene- fits When. children are kept under the care of their own parents. This policy•not only is the most humanitarian, but it is the. most economical' from the standpoint of total cost to the county. It is always a drastic measure to take children out of their own home. We may, at times, be sub- ject to criticism when we re- commend welfare relief for a family instead of removing the children and making them wards but eyjen here we are not only serving the best interests of the children, but also saving dol- lars for the taxpayers: It takes fewer tax dollars to keep a fam- ily on relief than to make the children of such families wards." OK Deer Season Approval' was voted by Huron councillors for 'an open season for deer -bunting* this autumn. The provisions made by the Coun- cil are that the open season should be for four days, some- time in the last half of Novem- ber; that the dates should be the iyfkiis,..1•01,1- • 0. P.;•;(9)4 • The tOtal .0.f '028i000 that ta be spent, this Year vn eoustme. tion woric 01 the HUron counlY road system is far from ado.- quate„ and the .whole system is now esteadily deteriorating; ..coun- .conneillors were warned .Wedo nesclay by 4. W. county engineer. Only about two per .eent of the 412 miles of gounty roads, in iron are DOW. in good ,condition, ", he said, and road budgets of the '4'413rcler of .$1;000,000 year ars going to be needed, if the eon- trroads ate not to go to pioges: within the next few ye.ars.- With a total road .b.udget Ot. $1,000,000, said Mr. Brituello Ssso,000 a year .coUld be allot- ted to new ,construction, whinh would be enough to rebuild 15 miles of road, and build 'three new bridges, each year. "It wotild not be -practical;" he said, "to expeet to haVe. .e}re ry road in Huron -County •up first-class standards. We shOuld; however, attempt to grade and pave 300 miles of road, The life of a first-class • paved road Is considered to be 20 years. 'We shoUld therefore plan to grade and pave 15 miles of road eaeh year, to complete the ,300,mile objective in 20 years," S30,000 A Mite • AMONG THREE HONORED—Ross Hern, R,R. 1 Granton, displays the sign which was presented to him and two other Huron county farmers last week in honor of their excellent management of woodlots. —B-H Photo same as for proposed open sea- son& in Larnbton to the south, and Bruce to the north; that the Huron cOuncllors concurred with use of dogs and rifles should be forbidden; and that., hunting be with shotguns only. Perth County Council, a week earlier, had taken the opposite stand, and yoted not to allow an Inien deer season in Perth this year. Raise Mill Rate 'A mill rite of 12.75 mills, thre& quarters of a mill higher than the rate provisionally struck in January, was approved by Huron County Council, ThursddY, An increase of two -fifth of a mill in the rate for county road work' was approved on Wednes- day, and forms part of the three- quarter -mill increase.. The other portion of the increase, .35 mills, will provide an extra $20,000 of county revenue this year for the general account. Needs which call for the ex- tra $20,000, said A. H. Erskine, county clerk -treasurer, ar is e chiefly from changes which have been made in the method of nay-. ment of administration 'of jus- tice accounts. The county's in- come from the province, he said,1 is expected to be $12,000 less than was forecast in January, and costs are expected to be about $4,000 greater than was esti- mated. The extra $20,000 from the increase in the tax lexy will also provide new furnishings for the council chamber, estimated at $2,500, which will be needed when the council membership in- creases from 31 this year to 40 next year. The revised budget predicts an expenditure, on general account, of $476,465, toward which $434,- 220 is to be raised by the county tax levy, and most of the remain- 4me llllll ll lllll ll l to llllll lll I l I llll lllll I l Munition lllll ottionottoommileo lll l io ll lll mum llllll I llllll lllll tar easonal Items • Tomah! and Potato Dust 3% DDT, 7% Copper Weed Killers Including Dowpon, the new grass killer. FLY KILLERS FLOR BAIT COW FLY POWDER BARN FLY SPRAY STOCK SPRAY Twine For square or round bales. , onimmeimmok • Rope Hay Fork Rope Sling Rope anima FRESH Cement By the Bag ot Teuckload EXETEli DISTRICT C O. 0 P il . 1 PHONE 287 COLLECT WE DELIVER I i , .• 1 x %fittiMmitottitoiltimimilitisisittiontalionimilmetiMmittniliklititilvkakfilfinimituffitmlofitinfilitrkkitA i gs,It1 der is to come from provincial road subsidies . Maier Items • Major items of expenditure for which the budget provides in - elude $34,000 for administration of justice, $36,000 for the work of the Children's Aid Society, $15,810 for grants, $24,000 for the upkeep of the county jail, $20,000 for interest on bank bor- rowings, $95,000' for hospitals, $46,000 for the Huron County Home, $34,800 for the county health unit, $6,580 to retire de- bentures and pay debenture in- terest, $22,000 for the mainten- ance of the courthouse. Increase Salaries'. Salaries of s4veral county of - fides in Huron were set by by- law passed Friday by Huron County Council. The by-law confirmed the sal- ary of the county engineer, J. W. Braila, at $9,000; the salary of the superintendent of the Hu- ron County Home, Harvey John- ston, at $4,800; the salaries 'of the two courthouse ,earetakers This program would work,,he said on the basis of an estimated cost of $30,000 a mile for road - building. The Ontario Depart— ment of Highways, he noted, considers the average cost of grading and construction to be 61,000 a mile, • "Our maintenance cost of a$300,000 will not decrease for many years, as we can rebuild only 15 miles a year, and the re- maining roads 'must be kept in reasonable condition. We must spend $50,00 a year to replace equipment. This would bring the total expenditure to% $1,000,000 'year, of which the county would have to contribute $440,000,. or at the present assessment, eight mills; the remaining $560,000 would be in the form of sub- sidy." "The figuf,es at first may astound you, Mr, Britnell told the county councillors, "but if you will study them carefully, you will see .that they are not merely a dream, but: that they can and must become a reality, if we are to giye the traVelling public the roads they seem to --Please Turn to Page 10 at $2,700 ea.ch; the salary of the county assessor at $3,500; the salary to be paid to A. H. Ers- kine as secretary -treasurer of Huron County Home at 11,400, and the salary to be paid to Mr. Erskine as secretary of the coun- ty roads committee at $800. OFF TO MARKET IN ilostmet OR LESS I, HOG FEEDS Are you' marketing hogs this week $ . or next, that Were farrowed during the past six months? Well you could be, and probably are, if your hogs have behn on the SHUR-GAIN 5 -STEP HOG FEEDING PRO- GRAM, "Time" is almost always "money" iA any business, and this is so very true if the marketing of hop is part of your operation. SEUR-GAIN halaneed-fed hogs art finished faster, up td Tmonths faster than straight grain -fed hogs. SHUR-GAIN hog feeds will save you ,this timet—this, money!! So the next time your 110a1' th.e tome hi and let us help yeti set up your SiltIlt,GAIN feeding plans lor your summer litters, GP.AIN FEE1' F D —4,`•••Vvt-JAN G' •