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Times-Advocate, 1979-02-28, Page 3Exeter pair lose Continued from front page benefit to the entire county. She said the county agree­ ment with the Crown re­ quires Huron to pick up a share of the operating deficit of Sky Harbour to a maximum of $16,000. She said all Goderich was asking for was $7,000. The Goderich reeve ex­ plained to council that the extra money would be need­ ed to cover additional operating costs brought on by the purchase of three lakefront lots adjacent to the airport. She said the three lots were needed to permit con­ struction of a new paved runway. Exeter deputy-reeve Donald MacGregor, who op­ posed the request for more money a month ago, told council he did not see how the town could include land costs in its operating deficit. He said land purchase was Two collisions for town police Two accidents were in­ vestigated this week by the Exeter police department. Both occurred on Thur­ sday, the first involving vehicles driven by Daryl McDonald, Jalna Blvd., London, and Stan Frayne, Exeter. They collided on Main Street and damage was listed at $300 by Constable Keven Short. Drivers in the second collision were Donald Hoggarth, Exeter and Donna Stewart, R.R. 1 Hensail. They collided on the parking lot at SHDHS and damage was set at $410 by Constable Brad Sadler. Hospitals Continued from front page ment had no intention of heeding arguements put forth by doctors claiming the only people the govern­ ment would listen to were “the people that elect governments”. Reeve Elston compared hospital bed cuts to similar decisions made by the province in education matters. Elston said the government planned to cen­ tralize education to improve it and “kept taking and tak­ ing and taking until we had nothing left but big schools that now they can’t operate”. a capital expense and should not be included in the operating budget. MacGregor pointed out that without those land costs un­ der operating expenses the deficit at the airport would not even be $16,000. Goderich clerk-treasurer Larry McCabe, brought in by Palmer to field questions from council, said the land costs were put under operating expenses to allow the town to stay away from long term debentures to buy the land. McCabe said the land costs amounted to a bookkeeping entry telling council the deficit it would be sharing in would be an airport deficit rather than an operating deficit. McCabe added that the deci­ sion council was making boiled down to support or non-support of the airport. Exeter reeve Si Simmons told council he did not want to “run down” Goderich air­ port but he said pilots “may as well fly off a flat top”. Simmons said Sky Har­ bour had trees at one end, a highway at the other and was surrounded by built up areas adding that he “couldn’t see us (county council) wasting money on expansion”. Palmer took exception with Simmons’ comments pointing out that Sky Har­ bour was used as a training centre for airmen during World War Two. Palmer said she felt the airport deserved more merit than a flat top. Turnberry reeve Don Eadie told council Goderich had done a lot of work on Sky Harbour and that the airport was “much improved” over what it was when it was purchased. Eadie said he had looked at the financial status of the airport and it appeared as though it would be operating at a break even point in four or five years and that the finances were “looking better every year”. Morris reeve Bill Elston suggested that the county give the extra money being requested to the hospitals. Elston said he felt “hospitals are more impor­ tant than airports”. Council voted 25 to 19 in favor of increasing the coun­ ty share of the operating deficit. The first time a vote was taken on the matter council agreed 27-25 to take a second look at the issue rather than turn it down. A TOUCH OF GREEN — One of the numbers at Saturday's Exeter figure skating carnival included an Irish touch. From the left are Touch of Green skaters Tara Wright, Janet Wright, Tanya Delbridge, Catherine Davison, Jennifer Hancock and Karen Miller. T-A photo Say kids, dogs on voters' list hate to see a poor one,” saidMorris township reeve Bill Elston would rather cor­ rect voting lists in his township than campaign for a two-year-old girl’s vote. Elston complained to Huron-Perth assessment commissioner Floyd Jenkins after Jenkins told county council Friday that the voters’ lists prepared for the 197b municipal elections were well done considering what his staff had to do to prepare them. Jenkins told council that his staff worked very hard preparing the voters’ lists and despite a shortage of time brought about by the change in the election date made very few errors. Jenkins conceded that there were errors on the lists but told council that the percentage of error his staff had making all the necessary changes on the lists was exceptionally low. He told council that the updating of the voters’ list required enumeration, notating all changes in the lists, key punching those changes and getting all the work done in a little over two weeks. He said “mommoth’ the job was pointing out that the work was done by staff that only work on the voters’ lists five days a year. Jenkins said the changes in the voters’ lists involved new people moving into municipalities, people mov­ ing from place to place within the municipalities, people purchasing property and voters coming of age since the last election two years ago. He told council the enumeration was done in five days and the results of the field work meant 60,000 changes to the voters’ list that involved over 100,000 key punch changes. He said all the key punch changes were done in 16 days. He added that for every 100 key punch changes the percen­ tage of error was .003 per­ cent which he said was “very, very low”. Reeve Elston was not con­ vinced the tax department did such a good job on the lists. Elston said the voters’ list in his township included people that were not Cana­ dian citizens, listed people two or three times and even ■had the name, of a two year old girl on it. “If this is a good year I’d Elston. Jenkins explained to coun­ cil that it was not uncom­ mon for people with no voting rights to show up on the voters’ lists. He said enumerators go door to door gathering information need­ ed to prepare the voters’ lists and take people for their word. He said the enumerators do not challenge people to make sure all information is correct but simply notate what they are told and pass it on to the assessment of­ fice staff. He said any in­ correct information given the enumerators would be keypunched and no questions asked. He pointed out there is no way there is time to check on every person in the coun­ ties adding that any mis­ takes hopefully will be cleared up after the elec­ tion. “The keypunch operator depends on the enumerator for correct information,” said Jenkins. “Two years ago we had a dog on the voters’ list,” he quipped. He said there are several reasons mistakes occur. Some peopletsimply aren’t aware of their rights, some misunderstand questions the enumerator asks and some are errors made by assess­ ment office staff. But he stressed that it was more important to get a per­ son on the voters’ list under incorrect information than to leave them off. He told council his ex­ perience has been that it is far better to have a person on the list three times than not at all. “There is a greater hue and cry when people are missed than when they’re on and there’s a mis­ take,” said Jenkins. The assessment officer told council his staff was us­ ing records from the last voters’ list to improve on the next one adding that hopefully there will be very few problems like the ones Elston referred to. He said the computer that prints out the voters’ lists was being programmed with more information than ever before so that duplications will be eliminated. He said people that own several pieces of property in one municipality appear on the voters’ list for every proper­ ty owned. Under the new system Times-Advocate, February 28, 1979 Page 3 Child abuse seminar told words can hurt too Verbal abuse can be as damaging to a child’s development as physical assault, a seminar on child abuse was told • About 60 persons attended the Wednesday seminar in Goderich sponsored by the Huron County Family and Children’s Services. Seminar organizer Neva Muffitt said verbal aggression is one of the most common forms of child abuse. She said sometimes parents aren’t aware that “put-downs” directed at their children are verbal abuse that can eventually destroy the children’s feelings of self-worth, Guest speaker Dr. Don Galbraith, a London-area child researcher, said because verbal abuse is hard to detect there hasn’t been much good research on it. Continuous putdowns can have seriously damaging effects on children, he said. “The main thing is the basic message the child gets from the parent.” If it’s constantly negative, he said the child develops a negative feeling about himself. Some parents at the seminar wondered if the court system could handle a case in which constant verbal abuse resulted in an emotionally-distu r b ed child. Lawyer Paul Rivers, Hawks Scoring G A Pts Ken Pinder 22 39 61 Jamie Caldwell 34 18 52 Preston Dearing 26 26 52 Don McKellar 15 27 42 Dave Bogart 14 19 33 Kerry Bedard 12 18 30 Fred Mommersteeg 8 19 27 Terry Caldwell 11 14 25 Ken Varley 10 15 25 Brian Mercer 9 15 24 Brad Taylor 12 11 23 Dave Kinsman 8 15 23 Dave Atthill 3 12 15 Phil Knight 1 10 11 Steve Jennison 5 5 10 Ron Bilcke 1 8 9 Doug Brooks 4 3 7 Jeff Fuller 1 2 3 Doug Fletcher 2 0 2 Randy Lovie 0 2 2 Steve Beer 0 1 1 they will only appear once, under the property they reside on. He added that birth dates, which are now included in computer in­ structions, should prevent fathers from appearing twice on voters’ lists when sons with the same name don’t appear at all. one of the seminar speakers, said “the difficulty with emotional abuse is getting evidence.” County medical officer of health Brian Lynch said the only answer is to make the public aware that verbal District obituaries RAYMOND CLARKE Raymond (Ray) Clarke, suddenly in St. Marys Memorial Hospital, St. Marys, on February 25, 1979, beloved husband of Gertrude (Martin) Clarke of St. Marys in his 60th year. Father of Kenneth of Sebringville and Ronald of St. Marys; also survived by two grand­ children, two sisters, Mrs. William Walters (Blanche) and Mrs. George Frayne (Ella) both of Exeter. Friends may call at the Hopper-Hockey Funeral Home, Exeter, where funeral service will be held on Wednesday, February 28, 1979, at 2 p.m. Rev. Tozer officiating. Interment will take place in Exeter Cemetery. VERDA KELLETT Verda M. Kellett, former­ ly of Usborne Township at Huronview Home, Clinton, on Tuesday, February 20, 1979, beloved daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. John Kellett of Usborne Township IN-TOWN DELIVERY Letters and Small Parcels We will deliver letters and small parcels in the town of Exeter. Our service is reliable and the rates economical. Significant savings for most businesses. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CALL JOHN VARLEY, 235-2030 child abuse can be a serious problem, through seminars such as Wednesday’s. Similar sessions are planned over the next two months in Wingham, Seaforth, Exeter and Clin­ ton. in her 71st year. Miss Kellett is survived by one brother George of Usborne Township, one niece and one nephew, one brother Laverne predeceased in 1971. The funeral service was held Thursday from the Hopper-Hockey Funeral Home, Exeter with Pastor Ross Hargreaves of­ ficiating. Interment in Ex­ eter Cemetery. MURRAY BELL Suddenly at Exeter, on Thursday, February 22, 1979, Murray Neil Bell of R.R. 1, Hensail, in his 38th year. Beloved husband of Donna (Heywood) Bell. Dear father of Ronalynn and Brent. Brother of Jim of Ex­ eter, Roy (Spike) and Bill, both of Hensall. Son-in-law of Beatrice and Laverne Heywood of Exeter. Predeceased by his parents, Roy and Ruby Bell. The funeral was held Sunday from the Bonthron Funeral Home, Hensall with Rev. K. Knight officiating. Inter­ ment Exeter Cemetery. A A A IA kA Al Al 346 MAIN STREET (NEXT TO PAT'S PETS) r*-------------------------------------------------------a RENOVATIONS Have started at our store and when they're completed we think you'll be pleasantly sur­ prised. The renovations to our store will not be completed for some time making it necessary for us to find a new loca­ tion where we could continue business as usual. We have moved a good selection of jewellery and gifts to our tem­ porary location. Despite the fact that our new surroun­ dings aren't what you might expect to find in a jewellery store . . . you can still be assured of getting the same ex­ cellent quality of merchandise and our usual friendly, per­ sonal service. kJ Main St. • * flCA * Exeter r OUR TEMPORARY LOCATION OFFERS QUALITY GIFTS AND JEWELLERY. REPAIRS WILL BE COMPLETED AS USUAL.