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Home My WebLink AboutThe Brussels Post, 1978-05-10, Page 17Now Paying a HIGH RATE of Guaranteed Trust 7/ o Certificates 0 for 5 Year Term If you can not come to the office we will call at your home. The Company is a member of the Canada Desposil Insurance Corporation. Ronnenberg Insurance Agency Monkton Office Open Monday thru Saturday Phone 347-2241 Brussels Office Open Tuesdays & Fridays Phone 887.6663 THE BRUSSELS POST, NIAY 10, 1978 17 McKillop talks budget [by WIlimnOkel McKillop Township Council will hold a, special meeting Monday night to deal with its 1978 bud get, A visit from the Auditors this week will finalize the report. At a meeting. in, Winthrop Monday afternoon. council endorsed a resolution from the 'Township of Turnberry asking the Huron County Board of Education to ban the following books from courses of study: The Diviners by Margaret Lawrence, winner of the Canadian governor-general's award for literature; The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. 'Salinger and Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck,., winner of the Nobel prize for lite'rature. All three are on the approved book list for senior high school students and one, The Diviners is. being studied 'this year. Council Will. forward to Grey Township council a: petition it received from Wayne Williamson for repairs to the Buchanan Drain--a Grey. Township drain which affects a small acreage in McKillop. McKillop accepted the AlB rollback County pays .cut The Anti-Inflation „Roard rolled back wages in four county offices by two percent recently and the new salary schedules were approved by county council at its Friday session. The four employee groups affected by, the cutback--county planners, health administrators, health ihspectors and secretarial staff--had two percent slashed from wage and benefit packages negotiated during-1977 and 1978. Employees in the county planning department had from $200 to $400 taken from their annual earnings. The wage of a planning technician was cut from $12,740 to $12,558. Both county planner wages were rolled back, One wage from $19,786 to $19,318 and the other from $18,616 to $18,148. Supervisory staff in the health unit did not escape the AIB pencil. Three top administrators had two'percent taken from their wage and benefit package. The director of nursing for the county now makes $18,642, the director of inspection makes $18,642 and the home care supervisor makes $18,122. Health unit employees that are members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees Local 1305 reworked their contract after the AIB cutback altering the expiry date and the benefit package. The employees were ready to Settle on an 18 month pact inc9rporatina salary increases of four percent effective July 1, 1977 and six percent January 1, 1978. Along with those increases was an agreement for the county to pick up two thirds of a dental plan for the employees. The AIR did not accept the increase in the second year and ordered the paekage reduced to six percent. • Non union secretarial employees were also cut by' the AIB. In a report to council the special committee, chaired by Warden Gerry Girth, retomniended that due to the high rate of unemploy- ment and in an attempt to hold inflation to a reasonable rate that future employee increases be held at four percent including benefits. The committee suggested that increases for any individual employee be kept at four percent or $1,000 for the balance of 1978 and 1979, ' petition, Council accepted the tender of Birnam Excavating Ltd, for $1,973 for the construction of the Elligson Drain. It was the lowest of three tenders received. Work is to start in June.. Passed for payment were road accounts of $5.93.1.07; general accounts. of $3,243.82 and a. recreation payment of $603.75 which represents a govornmont grant the council received to pay for a safety screen to be installed at the Walton ball park by the Walton Recreation Association. 'Approved two tile drainage, Wingham Memorial Shop QUALITY' SERVICE CRAFTSMANSHIP Open Every Weekday Your Guarantee for Over 35 Years of CEMETERY LETTERING Box 158, WINGHAM JOHN MALLICK BUSINESS DIRECTORY FREE . Home Siding MacLean Aluminum/Windows, Awnings, improvements -Aluminum 527-0032 ESTIMATES Railings &Vinyl Doors. -, BlVth Income Contact KENS and. & TAX Reasonable Tax Ken Bookkeeping BOOKKEEPING SERVICE Preparation McGowan Rates 523-429 3 170 Wallace Avenue N., Flower Phone 291-2040 , 4 , 1 21110 WEI 9r0 ThE Ltd,, 5. (' ED VAN GEEST 71~44-00"7" . ezzorzcm LISTOWEL, ONT. e # .. YOUR PERSONAL FLORIST 4....s' WITH WORLD-WIDE CONNECTIONS For Feed BRUSSELS 887-6453 Universal & BELGRAVE Fertilizer Hardware Milker and and Cleaners — Petroleum CO-OP l WINGHAM 357-2 71 1 Products t. McGavin s We specialize FARM Brussels Sales 887-6365 in a Complete EQUIPMENT Walton Farm Equipment and Service Seaforth Line of 527-0245 Equipment Appliances R.R. 3 Mrs. ElMa Insurance Brussels, Yvonne Agent for Farmers • Mutual Company Knight Fire 887-6476 Anstett BULOVA SEAFORTH Watch and — We Sell — Jeweilers — ACCUTRON — CLINTON Jewellery and Service 3 Stores — — Repairs --WATCHES — WALKERTON .L.tcF. Bray Chiropractic 1 .97 Josephine Wingham, Ontario Phone 357-1224' Street Office MerWOOCi R.R. 2 Listowel Appliance TV Refrigeration • , & C Smith Service • 291-3810 , Ltd Livestock BRUSSELS Phone George Local Trucking and 887-6122 kuttzi, Long and TRANSPORT Shipping Distance (Evenings) Brussels Service Pardys Supplies Sales . - Service , HIM. Brussels Sales UNIVERSAL Dairy Service milking' pipelines parlours Systems and Installation and RR. Walton of Ltd. 4 Brussels 'Dairy MILKERS 887,6694 loan applications for a total of .3.400, Council passed a by-law requiring fencing of privately owned swimming pools through- out -the township before any water . is put in them. A copy of a ,report by the McKillop Federation of Agricul- ture on a survey made by the . Federation on township farmers was discussed. Comments were vague in the report and to .clarify the suggestions contained in it. council will request a meeting with federation officials.