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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1973-04-04, Page 12FARM SEEDS Climax Timothy, Grass and Clover Seeds Locally Grown — Barley (Herta and, Fergus) Gary Oats, Cereal Mixtures, Century Peas. — SPECIAL MIXTURES — As in the past, we will also prepare mixtures to meet your own individual requirements based on recom- mendations by the Department of Agriculture. (See pages 20 to 32 in "Field Crop Recommendations for 1973") RED CLOVER (See Page 27 in Crop Recommendations) — RED CLOVER MIXTURES -- For Flow-Down Purposes -- There is nothing better than RED CLOVER for soil-building purposes. ?.11 PPIPw Board looks at integrated school bus transportation Huron County Board of Educa- tion meeting in Clinton Monday night approved the sketch plans for alterations to Wingham Pub- lic School. D. J. Cochrane, Director of Education, said he hoped there would be no delay in having the work completed in the renovations to the two class- rooms to enlarge fa.cilities for the trainable retarded. He re- ported at the present there are 16 pupils and when school opens in the fall he hopes to accom- modate 22 pupils. Mr. cochrane informed the board that he had replied to a letter from the Bruce County Director of Education which said there are several pupils •in Brookside School in Ashfield Township who should be attending Ripley Public School in Bruce County. Mr. Cochrane wrote that he was most emphatically opposed to the unilateral decision .of the Bruce Board to withdraw pupils from a school that he was convinced they have a right to attend under the laws of the province. He told the Bruce Director that is he referred to those pupils living on lots 1 to 60 inclusive of concession 1, Huron Township, that is was his opinion that these pupils have a right to attend Huron schools, basing his con- tention on the facts that children of residents living on these lots had the right to attend the school in the North Ashfield union School Section, and that subsequently, but before January 1, 1969, the former North Ashfield Union School Section was absorbed into the Ashfield-West Wawanosh Townships School Area. With' Don't start too early • the formation of county board Of education on Jannary 1, 1969, pupils referred, to above, due to previous rights of attendance, were guaranteed continuance of their rights under section 43 of the Secondary Schools and Boards of Education Act R.S.O. The Huron board referred a re- quest from the Huron-Perth C aunty Roman Catholic Separate. School to its management com- mittee for in-depth study on the feasibility of integrating bus ser- vices for public and separate school students in the Wingham area. John Vintar, Superintendent of Education for the Separate School Board requested integrated transportation services for all pupils attending Sacred Heart School, Wingham, Turnberry- Central public School and F, E. Madill Secondary School, with • particular emphasis on the align- ment of dismissal times at all schools mentioned. Last summer the administra- tions of both boards discussed integration of services, but the proposal was prohibited by a stag- gered dismissal' time at F. E. Madill. Presently the two boards have integrated services for MeKillop Township and parts of Grey, Hal- lett and Morris Townships. Mr. Vintar is hoping for, shared bus service by September. In other business, the board approved in principle a proposed building program for Exeter Pub- lic School but a final decision was withheld until a feasibility study is conducted by the Minis- try of Education and the exact amount of available funds is known. Another recommendation from the Education Committee was approved in principle that of converting surplus classrooms for library facilities in element- ary schools where no library facility exists, subject to bud- getary considerations. Final approval was withheld on a field trip from Grey Central School to Toronto in June until full details of the trip are sub- mitted, such as number of cha- perones, plans, for overnight ac- commodation, etc. Approval was given for the pro- posed spring tour of the Goderich Viking Concert Band from God- erich District Collegiate Insti- tute on April 12 and 13. Approval in principle was given the Education Committee recom- mendation on the offering of the new course World Religions in South Huron District High School at Exeter, subject to MinistrY of Education approval and enrol- ment requirements (15 pupils). ' The following trustees vol- unteered to act on the Ad Hdc Committee for Schools for Train- able Retarded children for 1973- 74 term; Mrs. Mollie Kunder, Seaforth; Mrs. J. W. Wallace, Goderich; and Herbert Turk- heim, Zurich. This week the Throne Speech Debate has been the highlight of the session with Opposition Leader Robert Nixon taking part. Mr. Nixon said there were developers who were getting ex- tremely rich at the expense of the Ontario taxpayer and singled out G.W. Moog, President of Canada Square Corporation Ltd. "who is known to be a close personal friend of the pre- mier's". In the speech Mr. Nixon was critical of the inadequacies of a system where builder proposals are accepted as against competi- tive bidding with the contract going to the lowest bidder every- thing else being equal. Mr. Nixon cited three cases of Companies headed by Mr. Moog working for the Govern- ment (1) Canada Square which is building a new $40 million office complex for Ontario Hydro (2) Swiss Granada Holdings which built facilities for the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, and (3) Transamerica Realty which built the Transamerica Building holding the Ontario Edu- cational Communications Au- thority. Each of these contracts was obtained • through the proposal method. In the 'case of the Hydro Office building which is under construction, Mr. Nixon said Hydro was leasing land valued at $7 million to Canada Square for. 30 years at $1 per, year. "During the construction period of 3 years Canada Square will invest, by way of interest on construction loans a total of about $6 million. "In return Canada Square is rewarded by a rental income of almost $6.1 million every year for 30 years. That's almost $183 million in total." On medicare Mr. Nixon pre- posed changes. He said that doctors should be allowed to bill the Province on a fee-for-service basis but there would be a yearly limit to the amount the Province , would spend. If the, portion of the health fund provided for physicians becomes depleted in the last quarter, of the year only a percentage of the bills would be paid in that quarter, Mr. Nixon said. He continued that instead of placing all doctors on salary, the fee-for-service principle of payment would be continued but with constraints. Premier William. Davis, also taking part in the Throne Debate, claimed that Mr. Nixon's figures were not accurate and claimed Canada Square would make a net profit of approximately $5 million out of the Hydro deal. , ••••••••••- • However, Mr. Nixon issued a rebuttal claiming that many of the expenses of running the new building would be assumed by Ontario Hydro and ,not Canada Square as Mr. Davis had said. The Ontario-Government will finance the world's largest dial- a-bus network in North York as a 3 year experiment to lure suburbanites out of their cars and onto public transit vehicles. On- tario has agreed to pay all capi- tal and operating •costs for the service. All eyes were on Lieutenant Governor W. Ross MacDonald at last week's opening ceremonies marking the opening of the Legis- lature. A legislative chamber packed with Members, representatives of the judiciary and guests heard Mr. MacDonald read the tradit- ional Speech from The Throne revealing the Government's plans for preserving the Province's land, environment and resources and cracking down on crime. The • legislative programme' appeared weighty but dnex- pensive. The major theme was the concern for the physical en- vironment, by controlling urban sprawly desire for green space and attention to quality of life. More than million acres in the Niagara Escarpment as ' wel 1 as parkway belts around Metro Toronto and good agricul- tural land will be preserved by the establishment among other things, of a Niagara Escarpment Commission to save a million square miles stretching from Niagara-on-the-Lake to the• end of Bruce peninsula. There will also be a Royal Commission enquiry into criminal activities in the con- struction industry, something that has been drawing increased attention this past year. • An independent commission will redistribute Ontario's elec- toral districts. It wasn't men- , tioned whether this will be done in time for the next provincial elec- tion expected in 1975 or not, but presumably it Will. Other highlights of the speech were: (1) A crackdown on trafficking in hard drugs. (2) Improved efficiency in the courts and elimination of grand juries. , (3) Increased payments to workers injured on the job under the Workmen's Compensatio Act.. (4) Stronger controls on the sale and use of pesticides. (5) Regeneration of forest lands that 'have been cut over, and preparation of idle land for seeding and planting. Premier Davis said that des- pite two by-election losses last week in which regional government was an issue, he still intends to go ahead with plans for regional government East and West of Toronto. The Auditor's Report was released this week. There were a number of very important matters drawn to the attention of the Members in the Report, . The most glaring was the matter of civil servants who run the Ontario Health Insurance Programme deciding on their own last year not to collect some premiums and to bill too little for others costing the Province about $55 million. In November of last year the Minister of Health. Richard Pot- ter asked the Legislature for $50 million in supplementary funds. Ther e' were some 80 other major criticisms of provincial spending: among them the Pro- vincial Auditor cited use of Government aircraft by Cabinet Ministers, Senior Civil Servants and their families, on non-bus- iness trips, and a $3,182 taxi bill from Thomas Symon s when he was chairman of a Royal Commission on French language education, Also there was a huge under- estimate of the $29 million cost of Ontario Place. TURN ONS 0 I • MOM MIN arm vsiN 1 ci-1 WAY 15 THE EMPIRE Si-AV BUILDING? When ' the days get longer, brighter, and warmer, gardeners are often afflicted with plant- growing fever. You may be disa- ppointed in the result's if you start seedlings too early, says R.A. Fleming, hortiCultural spe- cialist. Most annual plants grow quickly in the bright cool days of late spring. When started in- doors in hot dry conditions, seed- lings stretch to get enough light, becoming tall and spindly long before the time to transplant them outdoors. Easily-grown annuals, such as zinnias and marigolds, should be sown in late April. Petunias and snapdragons can be started in early April. Plant calendula and alyssum outdoors in late April. Once seedlings have 2 or 3 true leaves, they can be trans- planted into plant boxes or indi- vidual pots. Continue to grow them in a cool room with good light. When there is no longer a risk of frdst they can be set out in the garden. _aSitintilieit•• washers&dryets At OLDFIELDS HARDWARE' 804851.-- BRUSSELS' See the nevi line of I S. ALEXANDER at 'E SEED PLANT itt.LONDESBOW Clinton 482,1415 Blyth 5234399 giignsamomawaziodess matenewoommr—,,,,mioutum 12---THE itiatttLt Oott APRIL, di 1973 yoU CAN 'r MI53 IT, AC ROSS TNI bikE5T FROM THE RECORD 5/-101). To keep your farm running you depend on your equipment. To keep your equipment running, depend on your Texaco Form Distributor. When you t eqpiptilehttUftintb.OVettiniei rekadeg fuels and lObtiCahtt keep things running smoothly.. Whir T6X000- Paten. 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