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Home My WebLink AboutThe Brussels Post, 1978-01-04, Page 1 ESTABLISHED 1872 rOsSeis..:Post 107th Year - Issue No. 1 WEDNESDAY,JANUARY 4 1978 BRUSSELS ONTARIO MORE FUNDS'FORTHE ARENA '7, Arena committee'ohairmanOiret Prior was presented with a check for the arena fund froin the Rebekahs and, Oddfellows last week, Rebekah Delores Wheeler and. OddfellOW Mo'Set, presented the check, in the. arnbunt. of $1141.75, which 'WAS raised through. danCek card- parties and draw--. THE END OF A- COMPANY — The office of Maitland Teleservices Limited officially closed last -week when Bell Canada took over responsibility for the areas Maitland previously served. Phone bills Preliminary approval given County studies budgets must now be sent to Stratford for payment. M any Brussels and area people will miss being able to drop into the office to pay a bill or discuss a problem. (Photo by Langlois) Huron COurity . Council met Thursday, December 29 for a final 1977 session_ and during the day-long meeting studied more budget figures and gave preliminary .approval to them. The first budget draft for. the Huron County Road ComMittee shows, : that the total county contribution in 1978 will be up $167.000 .or 13.2 per cent. However, R. W. .1. Lyons, a a 0.61 ni Wee; 04 iri,his "?'1.i d: ei;;tliirt tide. budget is only a pieIinitnary One, • and tharifie of-Triinspor Cation 'and Communications May allow i supplementary allocation for niuhiCipar drain assessments.. "This could inert:case the MTC total contributioti by $20.000 and • reduce the county rate by $20.000 resulting in an increase in the county rate of only . eight percent." said Mr. Lyons in the report. The regular MTC allocation is expected to he up six per cent by $94,000 to $1,661,000 s in. 1978. There is an estimated, surplus from previous years of $190,000. This surplus -will not- be known accurately until- the county -audit is completed in Mid-January. Most fixed costs in the county road budget—roadside. mainten- ance, hard surface maintenance, gravel surface maintenance, safety devices and -culvert maintenance are up in 1978. Engineer Robert Dempsey, however. estimated winter control at $450.000- for the year--$25.000 less than in 1977 because. as Mr. Dempsey told council. he's hoping for a more normal winter this year. Expenditures for fixed costs are up from $1,726,000 in 1977 to $1913.000 in 1978. Road construction and paving will cost an estimated $1,098,000' and, includes Cohnty Road 30 from 'Clifford West; County Road 1 from. ...Carlow .to :Behronler; County Road. 31 from Varna . to Road 13: (polity:Road-25 east of Walton; county Road 16 from Brussels to The Perth Boundary; and boundary Road 25 with Perth. The cost of basic telephone The road committee answered service for Brussels, Blyth, Auburn and area customers rose Monday with the official take&*er by Bell Canada of Maitland Teleservices Limited. Increases range from 5 cents for Auburn customers on a multi party line to $11,75 in the 'cost of having a business phone installed. Rates for a private line in Attburn rise to $5.05 from Maitland Teleservibes rate of $4,35. A private line in Blyth Will cost $5.05 per month, up* from $4.65. A BraSsels customer with a, private line will now pay $5.30 instead of the $4.95 that Maitland charged. Increase sare also effective for customers on two party lines: Auburn customers will pay $3.80, up froth the previous- $3,45. Blyth Customers will be charged $3.80, 20 cents more than before, and Brussels people will see the two party rate rise by 15 cents to $4.00 per month. Multiparty line rates in Auburn, go to $3.35 from $3.30. In Blyth they decline 15 cents, to $335 from the previous $3.50. Multi party rates in. Brussels are down 20 cents, to $3.45 from $3.65. Businesses in the three villages will also be paying more for phones as a result of the Bell 'takeover. Auburn businesses with -a single phone previously. paid 57.35. The Bell rate is $9.85. Blyth businesses will see the rate jump from $8,40 to $9.85. In. BrusselS, the business phone rate will rise to $11-.20 from the previous $9.60. Installation charges also rise substantially for customers formerly served by Maitland Property tax assessors to survey county Huron and. Perth county home- owners who have improved their property and increased the value, of their homes should beware - the property, tax assessment inspector is coming. For the first time in 'four years, assessment officers are visiting the 52,000 resiiiential properties in the two counites to find any change which would affect municipal tax assessment. The assessment office usually learns of property improvements through building permits issued by municipalities. The problem is many peo ple don't always take out building permits when they construct a building, assessment commissioner Fred Jenkins said. Some municipalities don't always issue permits he added. That is why the doorlto-door survey is needed, Mr. Jenkins said.A total of 16,000 rural properties have been inspected since , the program started in (Continued on Page 16) Teleservices. Cost of installing a business phone goes from $20.50 to $32.25 in all three villages. A residential customer will pay $15.50 to have a phone installed. Maitland Teleservices had charged $12.50' for the same, service. Installastion of an extension rises from $10.50 to $14.25. The takeover has also affected Maitland Teleservices employees. • M ary Lowe and Karen. Hasting, who• worked in the office, were offered other jobs with Bell in Stratf -ord, but both turned the offer down because of the difficulty of commuting. Maitland lieleservices lineman Don Noble will continue for Bell, but will be dispatched out .of Clinton. Linemen Bill McKinney and Dale Newman will be dispatched out of,Listowel. questions concerning salt appli- cation during the: winter months, and Engineer Dempsey 'said -that while other substances have been termed satisfactory for -winter roads. salt has been found the most effective and the most economical. Mr. Dempsey said that people have come to expect a "certain level of service" even in the severest winter weather ant said the only thing to ensure the provision of such a. level of service is salt. Less salt has been used in 1977, said Mr. Dempsey. than ,in 1976, but that is simply because•Mother 'Nature has been looking after winter control for the county road -(COntinued on Page 16) Short Shots by Evelyn Kennedy While the holiday weekends were not too bad weatherwise this January 3rd morning blew in with snow piling up in sculptured drifts causing problems for a good • many people. Snowplows are out trying to cope with clogged streets and roads. All this causes me to question can I make it to the office? * * * * * Colds, coughs and flu have been prevalent: We do hot know what Strain of flu has been attacking so many of us but - whatever .bug it was that ,bit us was a miserable one that laid tis low for several uncomfortable days. Certainly different from the previous ones as far as' I was concerned. Then, I and . my 'husband ;would sit, cozy and, warm watch the Old Year out and the New Year in, with a tasty drink in our hands, while we listened to the Sweetest Music this side -of Heaven by Guy Lombardo. * * * This NeW Year's EVb was This yeat i, there. WAS; alone :with my dog; all wrapped in a warm lotariket.ipping Neo eition trying to keep from .$hiVerfits Oottid'oot even stand the sound of the T.V.,tO I gave up and crawled into bed while Sheba plaeeda tytripattietie head on my shoulder: * * * *