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Salaries: 74% �feducatiQn budget in Huron
BY JEFF SEDDON
If quality of education hinges on personnel
costs Huron County should rank as having one of
the best education systems in the province. Just
under 75 per cent of the money Huron taxpayers
pay for an education system goes toward
salaries for teachers, .administrators,
secretaries, janitors and bus drivers.
Roy Dunlop, superintendent of business affairs
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' for the board of education, said Monday that 74.6
per cent of the total education budget is
designated for salaries. The total board of
education budget for 1978 is $21,381,859 and of
that $15,940,760 pays the help.
The wages are broken into five categories.
Business administration, which includes Dunlop,
some staff at the board's administrative offices
and school secretaries cost $218,192 in 1978.
$10 A Year In Advance $14 To U.S.A. and Foreign
° Teachers, principals, vice -principals,
superintendents of education and the education
director cost the taxpayers $14,529,704 this year.
Employees in educational services which
include audio-visual technicians and a• librarian
cost $6%,259.
Janitorial staff in the county schools cost
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Russell Barr, who was raised in Kinlough and graduated from Lucknow District High School, has returned from South
Africa where he worked as a consultant engineer for four years. He has accepted a transfer to Thunder Bay where he and his
wife, Trixie, and their four children will make their new home. South .Africans lead a casual lifestyle he says. The hot
weather means men rarely wear suits even when going out to dinner. The country is the most advanced technologically of an
the African states, but, television is only two. years old and is only on air in theevenings and Saturday afternoons.
Clockwise, the family includes, Russell, Jane, Darrell, Katie, Cynthia, and Trixie. The family's pet miniature Dachshund,
Heidi, is curled up on Trixie's lap. They were allowed to bring Heidi and their golden. Labrador, Jasper, with them from
South Africa.
Gaunt chairs committee proposing
alternatives to OHIP increase
Murray Gaunt, MPP Huron -Bruce, has chaired the
committee that recommended the OHIP premium increase
-be withdrawn and the Ontario provincial government
present alternatives to it.
"With almost anyone else as treasurer, we wouldn't be
in this situation," says Gaunt. TreasurerDarcy McKeough
was "completely uncompromising aiid unrepentant."
The Liberals and New Democrats have backed the
Conservative minority government into a corner over the
37.5 percent increase in OHIP premiums proposed in the
recent provincial budget brought down by McKeough.
Liberal Leader Stuart Smith and NDP Leader Michael
Cassidy have been adamant about stopping the increase.
Since the increases didn't have to be approved by the
Legislature, they promised to use the only weapon at their
Lifestyle casual in
South West Africa
The political crisis concerning apartheid in
Africa has not spread to South Africa says Russell
Barr, formerly of Kinlough, who .has lived there
for the past four years. The trouble is. mainly in
.the black townships.of Rhodesia and South West
Africa and has only recently moved into
Johannesburg and Port Elizabeth, South Africa.
The foreign press refers to the activists as
guerillas but in Africa they are called terrorists.
There have been only isolated incidents in South
Africa says Russell°as the. terrorists are held out
at the borders. The major uprisings in Rhodesia
and S.W. Africa last year were centred in the
black areas and like the Detroit riots in 1967, the
blacks burned their own . houses, . banks. and
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Rabid dog attacks
Lucknow man
A dog attacked a Lucknow man ' last
Wednesday afternoon and it is believed the dog
was rabid.
W. 11 "Duffy" McQuillin, who lives on Bruce
County Road 1,• at the northern limits of the
village, reported the incident last Wednesday
afternoon around • 3.30 p.m.
The dog was standingin his backyard as Duffy
walked from his house towards his shop. He
hollered at the dog and it backed away. Duffy's
son, Raymond, was standing at the door of the
shop and he told his father to watch the dog
because it was acting strangely.
The dog turned on 'Duffy and attacked him
from behind. Raymond grabbed a wooden 'club
and beat the dog about the head and when he
struck it on the middle of the back, the dog ran off,
through the hollow behind the McQuillin
property.
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Education budget
Mill rate up 5.76%
BY JEFF SEDDON
The Huron County Board of Educationap-
proved its 1978 budget in a special meeting
Thursday night and increased the education mill
rate by 5.76 percent in Huron.
The $20,352,954 budget was presented to the
board in public session and received little
criticism by trustees. A few were concerned
about small expenses at schools in their'
jurisdiction but those concerns involved minor
expenses.
The province picks up 69.5 percent of the costs
for education in Huron and the .remaining
$6,217,938 is the amount paid for by the county's
26 municipalities. Superintendant of education
Roy Dunlop explained the 30 page budget
document to the board pointing out that after
provincial grants the board's expenses totalled
$6,178,399. An under levy of $39,539, brought
about by the board's conservative requisition in
1977, made the total requisition this year
$6,217,938, an increase of 7.72 percent.
The bulk of the education .costs are salaries
which take up about 75 percent of the money
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