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Home My WebLink AboutTimes-Advocate, 1978-06-08, Page 17I Hay goes computer for 1979 tax year In a move designed to cut costs and to improvb ef ficiency, Hay will be switching to computerized tax billing for the 1978 fiscal year. Hay approved the move at their regular council meeting held Monday night. The firm employed will be Northern Telephone Limited of New Liskeard, the same firm which handles the bill ing for the Hay Municipal Telephone system. Clerk-treasurer Joan Ducharme said the move <£Jlllllllillllllllll|l|||lllll|lllllllll|IIIIIL [ The I Light ITouch e By = JACK = LAVENDER A graduation ceremony is where the commencement speaker tells 2,500 students in identical caps and gowns that individuali ty is the key to success. WWW What is so rare as a day in June? For one thing, a plain white fee shirt with no message on if. ■A it it Modesty is a device a lot of people use to encourage you to discover what they're being modest about. WWW Spring might be when the girl's legs start blooming out, but summer is when ♦he blooming inspectors start coming out. w w w One way pro golfers get rich is by having more irons in the fire than in their golf bags. WWW Welcome fo our "club" at Jack's Small Engine Repair Service 107 Queen St., Hensall 262-2103 You won't need much "green" to make that small engine behave as it should. niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiinif^ s should »cut down on the amount of labor involved and should in the long run, save money. Council approved the application of the South Huron Sportsmen’s Associa tion for the establishment of a gun club on Jot eight, south boundary of the township providing that written con sent from adjoining land owners with regards to noise and the club’s operation is received by the township prior to the club’s operation. Compliance certificates from the ministry of the en vironment for renovations proposed by Raymond Hart man and Bill Degroot were approved by the township. Hartman plans to remodel an existing barn and con struct a new barn along with a covered 100,000 gallon capacity liquid manure storage tank. The extension of an ex isting hog barn and the con struction of a liquid manure storage tank will be the ex tent of Degroot’s renovations. In other business, council: Did not accept a tile drainage loan application from Dennis Ducharme for $500. Approved an application for a tile drainage loan for $4,000 from Laird Jacobe. Passed a bylaw authoriz ing the maintenance and repair of the east branch of Black Creek. Authorized special drain tilage rates to be imposed on properties owned by Harold Dignan - $231.03, John Paul Rau - $1494.90 and Bert Visscher - $774.63. The amounts are to be Imposed annually for ten years and are for the repayment of drain tilage loans. Granted severance applications to Harry Dougall, Barbara Rau and Gordon Ramm. Denied a severance application requested by George M. Harvey. Times-Advocate, June 8Z 1978 Page J 7 tJlllllllfllllllllllHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIflllllllllllllllllllllllllllHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIflllHIIIfllllllllllHI Lh CHAPLAIN HONOURED — Rev. Andrew Blackwell who has been chaplain of the Hensail Legion branch for a number of years was honoured Saturday night. Above, Rev. Blackwell receives a pen and pencil set from Legion past president Murray Traquair. Hensall residents home after visits Mr. and Mrs. Harold Parker returned home after spending a week with Sgt. Doug Wein R.C.M.P., Mrs. Wein and David in Ottawa. Mrs. Edgar Munn return ed home after spending a week visiting with her son- in-law and daughter Mr. and Mrs. Don Gooding and Dale in Parkhill. William Fairbairn is a patient in South Huron Hospital, Exeter. Queensway News “Birthday Greetings’’ to Russell Erratt who celebrated his birthday June 6. The Church service was conducted by Rev. Glenn Wright accompanied at the piano by Louise Mitchell. Recent visitors with Mabel Johns were Howard and Mary Johns. Violet Bishop, Mrs. Jennie Bart, and Joan Bettridge visited Irene Kalbfleisch. Jerry and Jean Wright visited Vera Lammie. Bill and Alma Schwartz visited Mrs. Lou Wuerth. Hazel Snell and Ila Dunn visited Vera Lammie, Louise Mitchell and Frayne. Elaine, Victor, Ruby and Gifford Hoggarth visited Dora’ Hoggarth, Marion Schenk, Martha Smith and Jeanette Lippert visited Hugo Schenk. Stan and Marion Frayne visited Mrs. Frayne. Mrs. Elementary school principals appealed to the Huron County Board of Education Monday not to take their secretaries away from them next year. The principals took a proposal to the board ob jecting to a recommendation made by the board’s fiscal and property policies committee to cut elementary secretarial time by 760 hours per week in the county. The Principals said that the policy in force before the suggested cuts was “barely adequate” but considerably more reasonable than the suggested revision, Arnold Mathers, principal of Huron Centennial Public School south of Clinton, told the board a reduction of principal’s secretarial time would further cramp the already tight schedule of a principal. He said the elementary school prin cipal’s association had appealed to the board every year for the past five years for more secretarial time and was asking the board to not only i gnore the recommendation to reduce secretarial time but to consider authorizing more. Mathers suggested that the board consider giving principals of schools with less than 199 students a secretary 28 hours per week where they now get one 24.5 hours per week. He suggested schools with between 200 to 399 students get 35 hours of secretarial help where they now get between 31.5 and 35 hours and schools with 400 students or more get 42 hours per week where they now get 35 hours. The revised policy suggested by the property committee granted schools with less than 150 pupils seven hours secretarial time per week. Schools with between 150 and 300 students were given 24.5 hours per week. Those with between 300 and 450 students were given 31.5 hours per week and those over 450 students were given week. Mathers adequate assistance was of paramount importance to the smooth operation of any elementary school. He said all but six elementary schools in the county had teaching prin cipals pointing out that the proposed policy penalized smaller schools. He said the added secretarial time could be justified by the principals if the board wished. Mathers said public relations encouraged in elementary schools has encouraged increased visits to the schools by parents, more telephone calls from parents, school newsletters, parent-teacher interviews 35 hours per argued that secretarial and other duties that the principals must assume. He said along with that principals were required to spend time counting and banking milk money, typing class lists, bus lists, O.S.R. cards, monthly reports, ministry reports, reading mail which has doubled in the past three years, organizing field trips, camp programs, money raising projects, class picture money collection and ac counting, organizing school testing programs, handling library duties, handling administration of school supplies and organizing special school events. Bill Black, president of the county elementary school principal’s association told the board in a letter that the secretarial cut will not really save money. “In our striving to provide leadership in our schools and quality of education for the pupils under our care we really cannot feel that it is money saved to have prin cipals spending more time counting milk money, an swering telephones, typing letters, sorting bills, ban daging knees and checking supplies.” The board asked the property committee to meet with the principals to work out a policy for secretarial help and make a recom mendation to the board Where Can You Get More?? 1= KROEHLER CAPE COD - Coleman central air conditioning - Trailers - Recreational vehicles - Modular homes MAX’S TV & APPLIANCES REFRIGERATION SALES & SERVICE GRAND BEND 238-2493 HAY MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY ZURICH 236-4381 Farms - Homes- Cottages Elgin Hendrick Hugh Hendrick Jack Scotchmer Glenn Webb =3 Agents Grand Bend 238-2611 Kippen Bayfield 262-5389 565-5270 Dashwood 237-3229 The Service Men and Women of Union Gas.700 strong. 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