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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1962-04-12, Page 11.Secon d Will Usborne be next township with central school? ome will vote more attention tinder a graded school system." MORRIS H. HERN, Lown• ship school area trustee—"A central school can give the best education available today. The one room school was the best known 50 to 100 years ago, hut, this is 1962 not 1862. It is my wish and I feel it my duty as a member of the Usborne township school area board to give the pupils of Usborne township the best there is, and that is a central school." GERALD PROUT, township school area trustee — "I am interested in the best way of educating, our public school children — in graded class- rooms. This gives the Leach- ere more time with each class and more competition for the pupils. The trustees of Usborne township have spent a lot of time on this project and what I have le irned about educe- don. I feel I cannot stand in the way of progress of this kind." HUGH BERRY, former reeve — "Thanks for you re- questing my opinion on this is- sue, which is a very important one. flaying been out of har- ness for twe've years, I think it, would he unfair for me to Lake sides before the public. I know how i am going to vote." REEVE GEORGE FRAYNE — "The property owners of the township school area are to have the opportunity on April. — Please turn to page 12 Councillor To the editor, You have, asked me person- ally, to briefly discuss the central school question in Us- borne. to say how T plan to vote and why. We in Usborne have always felt pride in the fact that our schools have been maintained in good condition. However, the time has come lo take a closer look. Four of our schools are now getting old with no suitable playroom 017 basement. Water is in short supply in some schools and at Zion and Wha- len the water is - considered to have a nasty taste.How long can our school hoard go before they have to drill deeper wells or build a new school on the corner? Should we spend more money on these schools or should we make a change? We have the ideal number of pupils for an eight room central school. Eight teachers eould do the work that ten are now doing, if the pupils were all in one place. Soon we will have difficulty in securing teachers to prepare the work • E. L. Mickle. SON LIMITED NONE 103 IltNtALL, 'ONT. ORDER YOUR Spring Seeds EARLY +,!e have. available OATS RODNEY. GARRY & RUSSELL BARLEY HERTA, PARKLAND MONTCALM at competitive prices. BEAN SEED MICHEUTE, SAN1LAC & SEAWAY CONTRACTS Unlimited. Malting Barley Contracts Last year Malting Barley prices averaged between $1.30 and $1,37 per bushel reed Oat Contracts Delivery accepted from the field. Bean Contracts A choice of Michetite, Sahilac and Seaway Seed to choose from, FERTILIZER We are selling fertilizer at a new low price, Contact Its before you laity. • FUEL OIL • DIESEL OIL fa GASOLINE • LUBRICATING OIL * STOVE OIL e GREASE FREE n loan , . tanks, pumps end gravity feed. AUTOMATIC PRINT-O-METER TICKETS for accurate measure of 'oar dells Cries. TWO METERS: error CO-OP Petroleum Truck has two metere, on e for fuel oils, the ether exclieevela for eaeolinee. This ensures pure products delivered to eoer iane ALUMINUM PAINTED TANKS stay cooler in .sunshine a nd reduce evaporation. TANK GAUGES to deteimme your requirements. teamwork bloVs earnhvg rvnd Outnersh.ip! EXETER. DISTRICT DIAL 2 5-2081 Your Co-operative is now in the Petroleum business and is deter- mined to provide their member-patrons with first rate service and quality products second to none. TEAMWORK BUILDS EARNINGS AND OWNERSHIP. Teamwork in bueine, produces earnings in the Corm of Patronaee Refunda and oerierahm. If Lott arc not already a patron, whr' don't you phone or call in at your Co-operative and become a member. POLLING HOURS; 9 A.M. TO 5 12,m, Usborne School Area Board Harry Dougall, Proof, Vied-Chairenah Kenneth Sinipseri MOTU 1401'i aleette Lynn eiga—aeleemeeeeeiliiitearitiiiiiest•reereieekeeetiireee.a.,..e.—eXlie t USBORNE CENTRAL SCHOOL VOTERS The choice is yours! Will Usborne children be among the 93($ of Ontario children who are given the advantages of a graded school education or will they remain among the 7c.", who are still being taught in one-room schools? After careful consideration of all the factors, your board believes that now is the time to erect a central school, in our township, VOTE "YES" MONDAY, APRIL 16 Monday, April 16, 1962 you'll on the following question: ,a,et?, you in favour of a de- benture. issue by the Council of the Township of Usbothe in the amount, el $1$0,0110,06 for the nth:vote Of building a new school with eight classrooms And t playeoom rn the Township School Area of Vet:weer YES Fieldman comments Huron near half-way toward FAME goal ote (c.iofor ime37Abuocafe on $180,000 school Some 400 property owners in Usborne township will decide Monday whether or not .a new '$1.80,000 central school will be .erected Ibis year. They will vote on the question: "Are yrn in favor of a debenture issue . • . in the amount ,of $180,000 for the purpose of building a new school with -eight classrooms and a playroom . - ?" In co-operation with the board, the, paper is pre., senting answers to some of the most frequently -asked questions about central schools. Three more questions are answered below, By J. CARL -HEMiNGWAY Federation Fie!citron On Thursday evening the -eounty directors of "FAM4" along with a good number of shareboldere met in the Agri- telture Board Rooms, Clinton. The report shows that Huron County is now within 1.6 or 20 shares of the half-way mark in their share sales. A suggestion was accepted whereby each shareholder will be urged to obtain one new shareholder, This shouldn't be a very difficult job If every- one puts forth a little- effort, a big job can he accomplished. The majority of farmers are realizing that production is not enough. The product must be sold. Huron County Beef Producers held their annual zone meet- ing Tuesday, April 3, at Cent- ralia. Seed plant busy now By MRS, KEN McKELLAR CROMARTY The seed cleaning plant at Cromarty, is running full time. with Mr, Dalton Balfour of Mitchell in charge. Mrs. Ethel Currie and Miss Barbara Norris of Winnipeg, who have spent the winter in Florida, visited on Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Otto Walker and other friends. Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Rus- sell and Mrs. Grace Scott ac- companied Miss Margaret Jean Russell to Woodstock on Sun- day where she is practise teach- ing this week, Mr. Andrew McLachlan vis- ited on Sunday with Mr, and Mrs. Carter Kerslake and fam- ily, Staffs, Sunday visitors with Mr, and Mrs. Roy McGhee and Connie were. Mr, and Mrs. Fred Wat- cher, Bradley and Richard of Strathroy and Mr. and Mrs. Chas, Rhode, Danny and Fred of Mitchell. Sunday evening guests with Mrs. Sadie Scott were Mr. and Mrs. Carlyle Meikte, Mr. 'Reg Findlayson, Misses Ina, Doro- thy and. Anna Scott. Mrs. Garnet Cockwell, Dash- wood, visited on Thursday with her sister, Mrs. Otto Walker. Mr. Frank Routly of Kirktnn was a Sunday visitor with Mr. and Mrs. K. McKellar, Mrs. Wm. Sillery, Exeter and Mr, and Mrs, Nelson Hunkin, Belmore, were Sunday visitors with Mr. and Mrs. William Hamilton, Miss Margaret- Ann Wallace. and her sister Debbie, were among those taking part in the Frostie Frolics Skating Carni- val in the Mitchell Arena on Saturday night. Sandra el u l i e y, Winthrop, spent the weekend with her grandparents, Mr, and Mrs, Otto Walker, Mr, and Mrs. R. Laing, Mari- lyn, Margaret, Andrew and Murray visited on Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Chessell, Stratford. Mrs, E. Moore is a patient in Stratford General Hospital, where she underwent major surgery last week, Mr, and Mrs, K. McKellar visited on Monday with Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Routly of Elimville. Mrs. Peter Gardiner and Miss Vera. Gardiner of Toronto vis- ited for a few days with Mr. and Mrs. Alex Gardiner. Mrs, W. E. alcLaren, a for- mer resident. of Cromarty dis- trict died in Toronto Sunday. Funeral service was held from the Box Funeral Home in Sea- forth on Wednesday. Belated tenth anniversary Due. to stodgy weather on January 30 a postponed 10th wedding celebration was held for Mr. and. Mrs. Sam McCurdy on Thursday, April 5. A hot turkey dinner was served in the basement of Cro- marty Presbyterian Church by Members of the Ladies Aid. After dinner the guests were in- vited to the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Miller, Staffa, for an afternoon of progressive euchre and visiting. Jim Miller read an address and Jack and Ken Duncan pre. sented Sam and Sarah with bronze kitchen chairs. Sam thanked those present for the gift, Guests Present. were, Mr, Bill McCurdy, Miss Nettle Mc- Curdy, Mr, and Mrs. P. Dun- tan, Mr. and Mrs. K, Duncan, all of Kirk-ton, Mr. and Mts. Charles Coward, Exeter, Mr. and Mrs. W. Kay, London, Mr, end Mrs. Mac -McKellar, Sea- forth, Mr. and Mrs. Ken Dtake, Mr. and Mrs, Wilbur Miller, Mr. Ken Miller, Mr. and Mrs. John Miller, Mr. and. Mrs, Russell Miller of Staffs end Me. end Mrs, jim Miller, Crom- arty, mommummansmumummumm GET UP TO DATE ON FERTILIZER APPLICATION Liquid arm's Mill LTD, Phone 2:15.1782 L McGregor of Kippen was re-elected as zone director and in accepting_ the positron expressed the hope that during the next few months the, volue- Lary through the bill of lading would be in. operation. Unless a better supply of money is available it is use- less to try to do something in the way of research M feed conversion to make beef more competitive with other meats or to do any promotion work to Improve the industry. Again a resolution was pass- ed requesting goverment grade and weight on all cattle sold on dressed weight basis, This has been requested several times in years past but apparently it will take concentrated pres- sure on the part of the farmers to get government action. it would require no extra grading as practically all car- casses are now government graded wholesale. to retail,. lt would only require that the records he made available to the producer for settlement. This was done wills hogs over a period of time before hog producers decided to sell all hogs this way. Therefore it. is not ton difficult to administer. Extend inspections It was also urged that government provide federal in- spections immediately to all plants who expressed willing- ness to come to federal re- quirements. After all, it is ,the inspec- tion of meat that is important. Size of plant and even the plant equipment need in no way harm the meat. 'Yet if these smaller plants fail to get this inspection during the time necessary lo make alterations they will he bankrupt. This would certainly curtail com- petition for livestock drastic- ally. Fairfield fete ends season Fairfield Earns Forum closed its forum season with the an- nual turkey banquet in the Crediton Community Centre served by Crediton CCW, Following a varied program officers were elected for the next season. President is Mel- vin King; vice-president, Mau- rice Heist; secretary, Welling- ton Heist; assistant, Elmer Powe; press, Mrs. Herman Rowe; social committee, Mr, and Mrs. George Hepburn and Jack; Mr, and lairs. Joe White, Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Heist and Mr, and Mrs. Earl Neil. The program included an "act fast" feature with Her- man Powe. as MC and a panel of Russell King; Mrs, Earl. Neil, Mrs, M. Carter and Mau• rice Heist. "Acting fast" were 'Mrs. Russell Schroeder, Mrs. Herman Powe, William Schroe- der and Ted Lamport. Other numbers of the pro- gram were choruses by Fair- field School, and by the jun- Mrs , Janet McDowell. Ruth Ann King and Lynn Richard; readings, Mrs. Ted Lamport, Wendy Neil and Brenda Neil; vocal duets, Margaret and Bob- by Heist, Mr. and Mrs. 'Rus- sell Schroeder, solos, Brian and :)tidy Lampert. Piano solos, Lynn Richard, Jane McDowell, Elaine and Marie Powe, Ruth Ann King, accordion selections, Jim Neil, mouth organ duet. Russell and William Schroeder and a sing- song wills Mrs. Russell Schroe- der at the piano. Ted Lamport was in the chair. A contest.. peeling an orange, was won by Ted . Lampert and 'Mre. Allan Richard. EXETER, ONTARIO, APRIL 12, 1962 Page. Eleven Opinions expressed by some Usborne township leaders this week indicates fairly strong support for the central school proposal. The T-A this week polled 24 township officials by mail. Less than half replied but all, of these indicated they would vote. "yes" in Monday's elec. lion. The .newspaper asked Reeve George Frayne and all In CM- hers of council, as well as the township school area trustees, to express their opinions on the question. The T-A also requested the viewpoints of all former reeves fie the township; Rev. Hugh t..lson, minister of Elimville and Thames Road churches; the presidents and citizenship and education chairmen of Hu- rondale and Elimville Women's Institutes. As well, some of the trust- ees of McGillivray township school area boar rl, w h o erected. a central school Iwo years ago, were asked to com- ment on the success of the pro- ject there. Twelve replies were reeived by the newspaper and are re- printed here. Most are in fa- vor. The T-A contacted some of the remainder and learned that a portion of these did not wish to reply. Others felt there was not. sufficient time for their opinions to reach The 'I'-A df- fire because. of the awkward mail connections between Exe- ter and the Woodham and Kirk-ton routes. Reprinted below are all of the opinions received. MRS, HOWARD PYM, citi- zenship and education chair- man, Elimville Wl—"I believe that pupils would benefit from the advantages they should re- ceive in a graded school. Chil- dren are not all able to pro- gress in their studies at the same rate. It would be more beneficial if pupils could be in classrooms where they are among others with approxi- mately the same ability to learn. Teachers should then be, able to give more time to the individual needs of each pupil, Usborne voters will decide Monday if their children will ship in Middlesex was the first in this district to con- soon be t‘eceiving their education in a modern graded struct, a central school, architect's sketch o1 which is school. They will vote on the $180,000 central school shown above. Hay township also centralizes by bringing question between 8 a.m. and 5 pan, McGillivray town- many of its sections into Zurich, ere's h I am convinced. that this could be accomplished in a central. school system. II would not seem advisable In me, how- ever, to have children of ele- mentary school age transported on buses with high school pu- pils," ARTHUR SIMPSON, vice- chairman, McGillivray Town- ship School Area. Board—"I originally was elected to our school hoard to oppose the construction of a central school. However, after a closer study of the situation, I changed my mind and supported the central school, a decision I have never regretted since, I want to say that our school is giving the best of satisfaction. The rate- payer is very pleased wills the mill rate, which, instead of in- creasing as some people pre- dicted, has actually decreased slightly, I think our children gel a better education since the teachers have only -one or two grades to teach and they are under the supervision of the principal. Our township has a school of which we are proud and I have no hesitation in recommending to Usborne rate- payers that they support a similar project in their town- ship." WELLINGTON BROCK, for- mer reeve — "I believe our rural children should have the best possible education we can provide. It is only reasonable that a teacher can leach one grade better than eight. We have elected five very fine. young men to our school board who have made a .sincere study of the whole plan. They pre- sented this plan to the people in a series of meetings about a year ago. The board has the same jurisdiction to spend money to carry out that plan as our council has to build roads, bridges, etc., so I feel that. I should support the, board in building a central school." MRS. HAROLD, TAY LO R. President, Elimville WI — "I believe the central school will enable the board to secure a better grade of teachers. I also think that, any child wise is retarded or who ha . diffi culty in school will receive Is position for eight grades when they can teach one grade only. lt, did not seem practical and indeed doubtful if we could proceed with a central school unless Thames Road No, 2 i came n. This they have agreed to do. It would appear that if a school is not approved now, that the whole issue must be presented again in only a short time. Therefore I am going • to support the central school with my vote on April 16, Your paper has criticized my action in council of voting no to school board's request for money. The school board asked for two things: (A) That coun- cil pass money by-law to build central school, and 03) that bylaw be passed so that school board would not have to ask vote of the ratepayers. I have always maintained that in spending this large amount of money that a vote should he conducted and a de- finite feeling of the people considered. Yours sincerely Delmer Skinner it's obvious that there will be some heavy ex. penditures in connection with the construction .and operation of A central school, To help offset this, Aglaia stantial grants' are available from the provincial govit and there will be, some savings involved in the operation of the. school, In simplest terms, how do these various factors work out financially? ADDITIONAL COSTS 1. Transportation, which should not cost more than 2. Annual debenture costs, ton a $180,000 loan over a 20-year period at current rate of interest), approximately Total additional costs GRANTS Grants toward transportation and de- benture costs (outlined. above) aver- age 52%, which totals about, 2. In addition, the percentage of grants on present expenses will increase from 46e'i to 52.1-. under a central school system, which will provide an addi- tional amount. of approximately ,. Total savings TO SUM UP Additional expenses of central school LESS: 1, Additional savings $17,500.00 2, Operational savings . $11,000,00 $11,000.00 $29,000.00 528.500.00 Net additional cost . $ 500.00 Is it possible that the area school board will not need to raise the present 10-mill levy? Your board is reluctant to make definite pro- mises, because of the fluctuations in teachers' salaries and other costs over which it has little control. If these costs do not change, however, it is quite possible that the board will not require more than a 10-mill levy after the central school is erected. The possibility is . even greater because of the already-promised increase in provincial grants Facts about teachers What evidence is there to show that experienced teachers are attracted more readily to graded schools than to one-room schools? In Huron No. 3 and Perth No. 3 inspectorate, — Please turn to page 12 1. 2, 1. The financial picture Total additional grants ....... $17,500.00 SAVINGS Only eight classrooms will be required. in the central school, compared to the 10 schools now operating. This ,saving, including teachers' salaries, amounts to about $5,000 per school or a total of $10.000.00 The savings in heat and maintenance expenses will be at, least, . $ 1,000.00 $12,000.00 $17,000.00 $29,000.00 $15,000.00 2,500.00