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County Board
to aid retarded
The Huron Board of
Education decided last week
that a school for trainable
retarded children be opened in
the southern part of Huron
County as recommended by the
advisory committee,
D. J. Cochrane, director of
education, stated that retarded
children's schools come under
the Ontario Department of
Education. Parents have the
right to demand education for
their children if there are one or
more schools for trainable
retarded children already
established in the County.
"Transportation to and from
either of the existing schools at
Goderich, with 12 pupils, and
Wingham, with 16 pupils, is too
great a distance for children," he
said. "That is the big problem."
These children have the same
rights as any other child living at
more than three miles distance,
he pointed out.
The Board may use present
facilities at the J. A. D. McCurdy
School at Huron Park, Centralia,
now operated by Stephen
Township on a part-time basis
for pre-school children
Operations would be extended
to_ five days a week from three
days, with a full-time teacher in
charge.
Board study
bus safety
By Richmond Atkey
Robert E. Elliott, RR 1
4 Clinton, who represents
Goderich and Colborne
Townships on Huron County
Board of Education, led a
lengthy discussion on safety
regulations for buses and
operators at last week's meeting
of the Board in the County
a Council Chamber, Goderich.
He fathered a motion, which
passed unanimously, that a full
investigation as to what is
needed, be made at once. He
urged the exercise of the greatest
possible care in bus operation,
with which Board members
heartily agreed.
• Action by the Board of
Education followed an accident
May 9 when a bus contracted to
transport pupils to and from
Holmesville school, was
involved, when a wheel allegedly
got loose and freed itself from
• the bus. No one was injured.
The principal of the
Holmesville school reported the
accident to the Board of a bus
operated by Huron Automotive
and Supply, Goderich, which
agreed to place another bus in
service.
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DETACHMENT — A full
complement of 25 Ontario
Provincial Police officers has
arrived in Grand Bend for the
summer and is headed by Sgt. M.
R. Speicher. Sgt. Speicher
started his career in Kenora in
1950 and for the past 16 years
has been associated with District
6 at Mount Forest. T-A photo
Board buys
two classrooms
By Richmond Atkey
Two portable classroom units
for use in the Huron County
School System will be purchased
by the Board at a cost of
$7,950. "Extras," such as special
carpeting, bookshelves, coat
racks, teacher's cupboard, and
window shades, will be obtained
as soon as possible.
The County Board is buying
the units from Halliday Homes
Limited, RR 5 London, on
recommendation of the
committee. Gordon Moir,
Gorrie; James Taylor, Hensall
and J. W. Coulter, Board
employee, Goderich.
Committee members recently
inspected "portables" of three
companies including General
Coach Works of Canada Limited,
whose price was $8,924 plus
$140 freight. The Halliday
portables will be built on site.
After considering appearance,
constructions mobility and price,
the committee recommended
the London-built product.
A draft bylaw to borrow
$408,000 to finance an addition
to Robertson Memorial Public
School, Goderich, was approved
by Huron County Board of
Edification at its meeting in
Goderich last week, The bylaw
WAS prepared by Ontario
Municipal Board.
Debenture will be for twenty
years at an interest rate of 71/4
percent annually.
Parliament Buildings
Toronto 182, Ontario
May 20, 1969
Mr. William Batten, Editor
The Exeter Times-Advocate
Exeter, Ontario
Dear Bill:
I thought your readers might
be interested in some comments
from me on the topical question
of regional government in
Ontario. From talking to local
constituents, I believe there is
considerable misunderstanding
about the government's
intentions.
Over the past decade, the
Ontario Government has
received a number of
recommendations from various
commissions and from municipal
organizations themselves urging
the government to revise local
government structure,
established 50 to 100 years ago,
in recognition of the rapid
changes which have taken place
in communications,
transportation and technology.
In other words, the trend
toward larger units of
administration is not new!
At the request of
municipalities in fast growth
areas, the government
established a number of
commissioners' studies into local
government organization in
those regions where municipal
boundaries were disappearing
under the asphalt and concrete
of urban development.
Where these studies have been
completed, the government is
proceeding with regional
proposals in full consultation
with local officials.
As a result of these studies,
the government has developed
certain guidelines which have
been proposed by the
Honourable W. Darcy
McKeough, minister of
municipal affairs, in his recent
white paper entitled "Design for
Development, Phase Two".
The Minister emphasized in
that statement that the
organization in slower growth
areas will take place only after
more urgent needs have been
met and only after intensive
consultation with local. officials.
I believe you will be aware
that Huron County Council has
begun to study this question and
I have kept in close touch with
subsequent activities at meetings
with the minister and officials of
the department of minicipal
affairs.
I have advised Huron County
Council and other interested
citizens who have inquired that
it will be some considerable
length of time before regional
government can or should be
contemplated in Huron, at least
before it can be contemplated
along the same lines as in
Ottawa-Carlton, Niagara, or
Halton-Peel, for example.
In these areas, the urban
influence has developed so
quickly that the need for
re-organization of local
government is more immediately
apparent and more readily
identifiable.
This need to re-organize is
not so urgent in Huron and like
areas of the province, which
serves to illustrate, emphatically
I believe, why regional
government cannot — should
not, in my opinion — be
imposed all at once on the
province as a whole.
Ontario is a vast area. It is so
diverse that what may be
manifestly desirable in one
section simply would not fit or
work in another.
Nevertheless, I believe it is
wise for county council to
consider the question now to
ensure that it will have a
comprehensive background of
fact and opinion to contribute
toward later discussions.
No one knows better than I
that Huron County Council is
one of the most efficient
government organizations in
Ontario. I believe it can provide
sound, practical advice to the
provincial authorities and I
know that the Minister of
Municipal Affairs is looking
forward to Huron County's
submissions.
The Honourable Mr.
McKeough has stated frankly
that he has no fixed policy
concerning regional government
functions in rural areas and he
not only wants, but needs,
advice from the people who
know local administration and
local needs best.
There are two principal
advantages to regional
government, as I see it. One is a
broadening of the local tax base
to provide for more equitable
distribution of both local and
provincial revenues and the
development of a broader
community in which services can
be shared and which can
assemble the administrative
expertise to enable the province
to return more autonomy to
local officials.
We are all aware of the
growing number of complaints
from local municipal officials
that their responsibilities are
being taken away by the
provincial government.
The frank fact is, and I think
many local officials will agree,
that local municipalities have
not been able to afford properly
qualified personnel to handle
such functions as planning,
which would be better handled
at a regional level than at
Queen's Park.
Our objective is to provide
larger units which can assume
greater responsibilities and
return more autonomy to
community levels.
Why then, some people are
asking, did the province take
MRS. ISABELLE WEIN
Mrs. Isabelle (Cameron) Wein,
72, Exeter, passed away
Thursday at South Huron
Hospital. She was the widow of
the late Wesley Wein.
Survivors include four sons,
Gerald, London; Cameron and
Calvin, both of Exeter; and
Ronald, Royal Oak, Michigan;
one daughter, Mrs. Gordon
(Verna) Stone, Usborne
Township; and one sister, Mrs.
Paul (Edna) Temple,
Pennsylvania.
Funeral service was Saturday
from Emmanuel Baptist Church
with Pastor Ivor Bodenham
officiating. Interment was in
Exeter Cemetery.
Pallbearers were Fred Wuerth,
Wilmer Wein, Lloyd Wein,
Lawrence Wein, Orville Wein and
Eugene Temple.
Hopper-Hockey Funeral
Home was in charge of
arrangements.
JOSEPH McCARTHY
Joseph McCarthy, 86, RR 8
Parkhill, passed away Monday at
home.
Formerly of McGillivray
Township, the deceased is
survived by a daughter, Mrs.
Eugene (Mary) Dietrich,
London, and a brother, Patrick
McCarthy, London.
Mass will be sung this
morning (Thursday) in Our Lady
of Mount Carmel Church with
Rev. Raymond J. Groorne
officiating. Interment is in
Mount Cannel Cemetery.
Six nephews are pallbearers.
Hoffman Funeral Home,
Dashwood, is in charge of
arrangements.
over assessment? The answer lies
in the urgent need for tax
reform. Property reassessment
was required not only to correct
the many inequalities that now
exist but also to ensure that
many provincial government
grant programs, now based on
assessment factors, will be fair to
each region and municipality.
This will become increasingly
important as grant levels rise and
as the grant program is revised
according to the commitments
in our white paper on tax
reform.
I am also aware of the
widespread concern over new
county boards of education. I
suggest, first, that we should not
prejudge benefits of this
program and, second, that we
should be realistic about the cost
factors.
Before this reorganization
took place, the Ontario
Government received
considerable criticism about the
practice of having appointed
secondary school boards
demanding tax revenues from
elected municipal councils.
The new program was
designed to overcome these
objections by having the trustees
directly elected by local people
and making them responsible for
all decisions on local education
matters. Despite the publicity
which newspapers in Huron
County gave to the recent
JAMES S. PETTY
James S. Petty, 81, Hensall,
passed away in South Huron
Hospital, Exeter, Thursday
where he had been a patient for
five weeks.
The late Mr. Petty moved in
1967 from his farm in Hay
Township to his new home on
Queen Street.
One sister, Miss Florence
Petty, Hensall, survives.
Public funeral service was
from Bonthron Funeral Home
Saturday conducted by Rev.
Harold F. Currie. Burial was in
Exeter Cemetery.
Pallbearers were W.J.F. Bell,
Duncan Cooper, Glenn Bell,
Frank Forrest, Asa Deeves and
Robert Glenn.
MRS. ALFRED CLARK
Mrs. Alfred Clark, Hensall,
passed away Thursday in South
Huron Hospital, Exeter, in her
77th year.
She was the former Bertha
Welsh. She was a member of
Hensall United Church and Unit
4 of UCW, a former member of
the choir for many years, and a
former member of The Legion
Ladies Auxiliary.
Surviving are her husband;
one son, James, Palmerston; one
daughter, Mrs. Keith (Mary)
Buchanan, Hensall; seven
grandchildren; two sisters, Mrs.
Nell Youngblut, Vancouver, and
Mrs. Jean McMurchey, Ottawa.
Public funeral service was
held Saturday from Bonthron
Funeral Home with Rev. H.F.
Currie officiating. Burial was in
Hensall Union Cemetery.
Pallbearers were Dr. W.T.
Joynt, Jaek Simmons, James
Bengough, Ron Mock, Sam
Rannie and William Fairbairn.
elections, I find that many
people still believe that the
board decisions are being made
by the Department of
Education.
In regard to costs, many
people seem to forget that
education expenditures were
rising each year before the
boards were established and it
would be unfair to expect them
to bring these increases to an
immediate halt.
My Budget for 1969 provided
for increased grants to local
boards but this has not been
enough to offset the cost
growth. The recent financial
adjustment program announced
by the Minister of Education has
helped to ensure that there is a
limit to tax increases in local
municipalities.
Starting next year, the
provincial government will
increase the general level of its
financial support to school
boards from the present 45%
average to reach a 60% average
in three years. The province
intends to co-operate with
school boards to ensure that this
increased assistance is passed
along to local ratepayers.
I suggest that citizens can
expect educational officials to
provide as many benefits as
possible to the children under
their guidance. That is their
responsibility.
By the same token, I think it
is the right of the local taxpayers
to indicate to the educators,
through their elected
representatives, the extent to
which they will provide finances
for these services. No board
should be a rubber stamp for its
employed officials and I am
confident that the Huron Board
will not be.
Paradoxical as it may sound,
one thing that is constant is
change, particularly in a
progressive society and in a
developing jurisdiction such as
•Ontario. The desirable approach,
then, I believe, is not to resist
change, but to make change
work for us.
I regret these coments are so
lengthy, but I believe they are
'Historical group
chooses officers
The fate of 40 weekly
newspapers once published in
the county was recalled briefly.
Monday evening at a meeting of
the Huron County Historical
Society in Auburn.
According to George
former publisher .0 the
Goderich Signal-Star, 40 county
weeklies have gone out of
existence in recent years, Some
of them have amalgamated with
other papers while others have
just ceased publishing.
Nine weekly newspapers are
TOW printed in Huron County,
Harold Turner of Goderich
was elected society president,
succeeding J. W. McLaren of RR
4 Goderich.
Other officers;
vice-presidents, Harry Sturdy,
Goderich; Merrill Cantelon,
Wingham; secretary-treasurer,
Mrs. Otto Popp, Clinton;
archives historian, Mrs. W. Mack,
Crediton; public relations, Mrs.
D. D. Mooney, Goderich.
Committee chairmen are:
Mrs. Leroy Poth, Bayfield; Mr.
Cantelon; Mrs. Robert Simpson,
Hensall; Harry Worsen,
Goderich; Mrs. Tait Clark, RR 6
Goderich; Judge Glenn Hays,
Goderich.
Thirteen councillors and two
ex-officio members were also
elected.
About 75 persons attended.
Wingham man
new manager
Lorne Archer, 38, Wingham,
has been appointed manager of
the Hensall PUC, replacing Harry
Page who resigned to become
manager of Wingham PUC.
Mr. Archer was an employee
of the Wingham PUC for 12
years and the Ontario Hydro
Commission for two years. He is
married and the father of five.
Stephen clerk
— Continued from Front Page
The panel discussed ways of
improving liaison between
engineers, contractors, and
township and county officials
during drain construction.
At the morning portion of
the meeting the guest speaker
was Dr. Peter Forsyth, physics
professor and director of the
centre for radio-science at the
University of Western Ontario.
Dr. Forsyth said UWO is a
centre not only for education
but for research that can be
beneficial to the community at
large.
Hensall folk
at 4-H meet
Attending Huron County
Achievement Day at Huron
Centennial School, Brucefield,
Saturday from Hensall were
leaders Mrs. T. Travers and Mrs.
Wm Fuss; 4-H club girls Sherry
and Gail Travers, Elaine Randall,
Linda Fuss, Carmen Currie and
Julie Heal.
Also attending were Mrs.
Clarence Reid, Mrs. R.M. Peck
and Mrs. R.A. Orr representing
Hensall W.I.
Themes for the afternoon
program "Meat In The Menu."
pertinent. If you can present
them to your readers, I would be
most grateful.
Yours sincerely,
Charles MacNaugh ton
Minister
Times-Advocate, May 29, 1969 Page 3
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