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Home My WebLink AboutThe Brussels Post, 1972-02-09, Page 1$4.00 A Year in Advance —$5,00 to U.S.A, — Single Copy 10c 101st Year issue No, 6 Wednesday, Feb. 9, 1.972 Province Reduces Huron Road'Subsidy By $100,000 In '72. Centennial Kick-off Event Planned For Saturday In spite of hazardous road conditions, gusting winds and blowing snow making motoring an unpredictable venture, our Garden City visitors arrived in our village Satruday morning on the tail end of the storm that blew in over our area on Friday. Shortly after their arrivarthe sun broke through the overcast and it was clear, sunny and cold for the rest of the weekend. A fine Canadian welcome for our U.S. neighbours. ** ** ** ** ** Thursday night the winds gusted and the snow kept coming until it smothered this area, along with many other Ontario com- munities. Highways and roads became impassable Friday. Schools were closed. Only those who had to be out were about. Those who were had many a tassel with the elements. Digg- ing out cars stuck in a snow- drift is no fun. Snowmobiles were the most frequent vehicles seen and they were skittering around at a great rate, a most accept- able vehicle in such circum- stances. The streets were almost deserted. Customers in places of business were almost non- existant. Merchants, particularly grocery store operators gave delivery service under very adverse conditions. ** *** *** *** It is not often one sees a man walking along main street with a Canada Goose tucked in his arms, but that is just what we saw one day last week. Dave Hastings Jr. sighted one in a main street back alley. It led him a merry chase before he was able to capture it. It had been making its home at the Continued on page 11 The Brussels Centennial Celebration will be officially kicked off on Saturday afternoon when three young couples will leave Brussels to personally deliver a special invitation to John Ainlay at Evanston, Illinois. Those who are making the trip are Mr, and Mrs. Harold Bridge, Mr. and Mrs. David Hastings Jr. and Mr. and Mrs. Murray Lowe. Mr. Ainlay is a grandson of the founder of Ainlayville and is com- ing to Brussels to act as Honorary Receives Guiding Gold Cord Louise Procter, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ross Procter has received her Gold Cord, the highest honour in Guiding. Morris Township Council met Wednesday of last week with all members present and Reeve Wm. Elston presiding. A dele- gation of representatives from Township and County Federation of Agriculture was present ask- ing for a return of the levy or a grant. Council endorsed the action being taken by Huron County Federation of Agriculture's Telephone Committee for a larger toll free service and approved the installation of two way radio in Wingham and Dist- rict Rural Fire Trucks. The Parade Marshall on July 1, 1972. The party will leave the clerk's office at 3;30 p.m. in a 1928 Ford coupe with a rumble seat. Members of the Centennial Committee, local members of Parliament and the reeves of Brussels, Morris and Grey will be on hand to sign the invitation. If the weather permits, they will be piped , out of town by the Brussels Legion Pipe Band. The public is invited to come out and assist in making the event an enthusiastic beginning to the Centennial. The remainder of the invitat- ions inviting former residents to come home for the celebrations are expected to be in the mail by the end of the month, according to Reunion officials. • Anyone who has the names of former residents and who has not yet sent them in, is urged to contact Mrs. Matheson. The next meeting of the Cen- tennial Committee will be held next Monday evening. meeting agreea tnat the Township representative to the Wingham and District. Hospital Board be elected on the occasion of the Township elections and for two years. Council entered into agree- ment with R. M. Dawson to eng- ineer the new Clark Bridge, at lots 15 and 16 Concession 6, Morris and approved advertis- ing for warble sprayer and a warble fly inspector. The meeting adjourned to meet again on March 6. Accounts paid included, Roads, $6,171.08 and General, $645.75 for a toal of $6,816.83. Education, health and social, services are biting into the roads budgets all across the province, Huron County EngineerJim Brit- nell told county council last Fri- day, as he told council that the Ontario government has reduced Huron's subsidy allotment by about $100,000. "That's a little more than we expected," he admitted and went on to explain that" The pinch in the budget is in road construction There are severe limitations on road construction in 1972. For a long, long time we got everything, we asked for..: what we could af- ford to match. Now we can build less than half what we know is deficient." The Engineer's year-end re- port from 1971 showed a $8,337. 80 deficit in county funds. "It should be noted that our county fund deficit of 1.1 percent was encountered mainly due to the high winter control costs for 1971 and because our bridge work which is subsidized at 80 percent, was completed under the estim- ates. This means that a higher percentage of the total budget was paid by county funds in order to utilize our full allotment of De- partment of Transportation and Communications subsidy. It should also be noted that the County Roads Department had a surplus of county funds in excess of $10,000 in 1970." Throughout 1971, $447,209.60 was spent on road construction; $194,840.76 on bridge construc- tion; $528,524. 03 on road main- tenance; and $2,822.41 on bridge maintenance. Overall expendi- ture for roads in Huron County amounted to $1,901,870.63 in 1971 "Our grants are being cut but the regional government grants are being increased," advised Bill Elston, Reeve of Morris Township. Reeve Elston speculated that the provincial government may be attempting to make the regional concept more attractive to mun- icipalities and counties by dang- ling favorable grant structures as a reward. He said that much the same tactic had been employ- ed by the Ontario Government to encourage county school boards. County Council approved an annual $500 increase (2.4 per- cent) for Engineer Britnell. It was pointed out that the county vehicle supplied to him for busi- ness and personal use now will be regarded as an asset under new income tax regulations and it was estimated that he would pay an additional $500 per annurn for come tax because of it. It was Reeve Hugh Flynn who questioned council concerning the Engineer's car privileges. It was learned that the county engineer has had a new car about every three years since 1920. 'It is a county policy which I didn't know about until I became a member of the road committee," road committee chairman Reeve Elston said. All hourly rated county road employees will receive an addit- ional 20 cents per hour, an in- crease of 7.5 percent., and the salaried foremen have been granted an increase of $500 per 'annum which amounts to six per- cent. Appoints J. Cardiff To Board James Cardiff has been ap- pointed by council as Brussels representative on the Wingham and District Hospital Board. He replaces R. B. Cousins who re- cently resigned after serving in that capacity for 24 years. Entertain Players From Garden City Parents and friends of the Garden City hockey players who were weekend visitors in Brus- sels were entertained at the Royal Canadian Hall on Saturday night. Coaches of the Brussels teams with their wives, parents and friends of the Brussels play- ers were also present. An enjoyable, friendly evening was spent dancing to the music of the Town and Country Gentle- men. Brussels Royal Canadian Legion Pipe Band provided in- termission music. A buffet lunch was served. Winners of the Minor Hockey draw made during the evening were ; 1st. Mrs. Margaret Mc- Cutcheon, Brussels; 2nd. Mrs. De Ruter, Listowel; 3rd. Vera Nicholson, Bluevale; 4th. Roy Alcock, R.R. 2, Brussels. Morris Council Sets Plans For New Clark Bridge Brussels Main Street in. Winter- 0' • a I 4 14 0 I