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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1963-10-03, Page 13County Council Meets for Oneday Session tt,r+y. Clerk Expects increased Surplus GOPERICH-Work is progres- sing "ahead of schedule" on THINKING OF AN Huron county's 196$ road pro* grant, council was told at Mon- day's session in the road com- mittee report, presented by chairman Dan Beuerman, reeve of McKillop. The following road projects OIL FURNACE THE CITIES SERVICE FURNACE FINANCING PLAN 'MAKES YOUR PURCHASE EASY • LOW DOWN PAYMENT • UP TO 5 YEARS TO PAY • 3% INTEREST You can't afford to be without an oil furnace using these easy terms ... Choose your own heating dealer. We will finance any type of Domestic oil furnace. FREE FURNACE CLEANING SERVICE by our service man or by the heating dealer who installs your furnace --• as you choose. FOR SERVICE AND SATISFACTION CALL W.A. "Bud" HAMILTON YOUR LUCKNOW AND DISTRICT AGENT FOR ALL Cities Service Products PHONE WINGHAM 357-2740 LUCKNOW 528-2427 COLLECT OFFICE OPEN DAILY — 7:30 A.M. TO 7:00 P.M. LOCATED EAST OF LUCKNOW ON HIGHWAY 86 are completed; Reconstruction of $.$ miles, Highway 4 east to Winchelsea; Middlesex -- Huron boundary, surface treat- ment, 8 miles; Belmore south, surface treating, 21 miles; Car- low -Nile cold mix paving, 21 miles; Lucknow south, Bold mix paving, 2i miles, construction on develop* ment road 670 from Seaforth to Walton is nearing completion, and total cost of this year's work will be about $325,000. Construction on development road 669, Brussels to Highway 86, has commenced and will proceed until freeze-up. It is hoped to pave both these sec- tions next year. BRUSSELS TO NO, 4 Total expenditures of the committee, including develop- ment roads, will be about $2, 000, 000 this year, of which the county's share will be ap- proximately $532,000. A bylaw has been prepared to expropriate land on county road 4 from Khiva Corners to Highway 81 in Stephen. Road 4 has been designated as a development road for pre - engineering in 1964. A bylaw has been prepared to exprop- riate land for road widening on county road 16 from Brussels to Highway 4. Construction is scheduled for 1964. Expenditure on roads to June 30 was $574,'168, and the roads account as of that date showed a surplus of $16, 622. In the general account there was a surplus of $9, 306, clerk - treasurer John Berry reported. The roads department appeared likely to stay within its budget of $1, 670, 300. "The potential surplus for 1963 would seem somewhat higher than estimated," said :Mr, Berry, "due mainly to the drop in cost Of child welfare and the fact that I have not al- lowed any expenditure on the Huron county history for the remainder of 1963." A bylaw has been prepared authorizing the warden and clerk to sign a franchise agree- ment authorizing the Union Gas Company to install transmission lines along county roads. Ap- proval was recommended by the road committee, The property committee, of which Reeve Ivan Haskins, How - ick, is ohairman, reported the engagement of Joseph Smith, of Brussels, as turnkey at the county jail. He replaces M. N, MacDonald, retiring on account of ill health. Gover- nor R, W, Bell, who normally would retire at the end of this year, has been granted one year's extension. SeekMore Seats On .CAS. Board Special to The Advance - Times by W. J. Elliott GODERICH-On the princi- ple that he who pays the piper calls the tune, or ought to, county council has approved a move for greater representation on the board of the Children's Aid Society. Expenditure of the C.A.S. was reported by the clerk -treasurer as $35,533 up to June 30. Council adopted a report from the wardens and personnel committee proposing that 'greater representation should be sought on the board of direct ors, and that the members of the Health Unit Board with the exception of the provincial representative, be the represent- atives epresentatives of county council, in addition to the chairman of the finance and executive commit- tee, (Mrs. May Mooney, dep- uty reeve of Goderich) who is the representative at present." The other county member at present is Reeve Ivan Haskins of Howick. Both Mrs. Mooney and Reeve Haskins are members of the executive committee. There are five members of the health board, so the proposal to add them without increasing the directorate obviously means dropping some of the present directors. The county clerk - treasurer and deputy act as secretary and treasurer, res- pectively, of the C.A.S. Board. The proposal goes to the C,, A.S. Board "for consideration." As it is not a municipal board the revision presumably is not compulsory. The local direc- . tor, Miss Clare McGowan, had not seen the report before its adoption by council. "1 said last session," Reeve A, D. Smith, committee chair- man, told council, "I thought the people who paid the piper should call the tune a little with new earning power, new saving power through • ENG/NEER/NG LEADERSHIP NEW CAB COMFORT NEW SOUND -DEADENING INSULATION NEW SELF -ENERGIZING BRAKES NEW MODELS , . , NEW VALUE VAN NEW DIESELS • NEW ENGINES NEW WHEELBASE$ plus these time -proven GMC engineering advances Safety Wiring • 7 Main -bearing Crankshaft Rugged Ladder -type Frames Delcotron Generators Advanced Suspensions Wide Transmission Selection Double -Walled Cab Construction :ate!:::;:.:. ;.;:•>::::;: »:::> Now for '64 , . . the most advanced range of GMC trucks yet! Every truck is proved and im- proved through GMC engineering leadership for '64. There are improvements in the cab. The door pillar has been straightened. There are new brakes. wheelbases and engines. There are three new diesel models, too. Let GMC earn, save for you. Check into a GMC at yourdealer'stoday. TRUCKS 1/2 TO 60 TONS BUILT Foe Eve McPHERSON'S GARAGE Trucks from top right to bottom left. C9t0'h•toa TOUGH WidesidTandem e Pickup Y 1 Ut/tlff JOB M980 T960 Tilt G I6,111 CLINTON STREET TEESWATER, ONTARIO Winghan Advance*Times, Thursday, Oct. 3, 196$ ^ Page 6 more, and the committee has given this considerable attent- ion. However, I want to make it clear the committee, and I believe county council, do not want to give the impression we are forcing our wishes on the C.A.S. board of directors. We recognize the valuable service they are giving, and do not want to interfere in any way with their program, but we do think county equncil has a very small representation on the board, considering the amount of money we sometimes put in it - as high as $48,000 a year, I understand." Miss Gertrude Wilkes, of the C,A,S. staff, addressed coun-' cil on the subject of foster homes. "For the sake of Huron coup* ty's future, help us out with foster homes," she asked the members. "You have to work with these children," she said, "to understand how terrific the shock when they are taken from their own homes and placed in changed circumstances. They do not understand why they can- not go home, The only way we can help overcome this is find homes where they will take these children, especially those of school age and particularly those going to high school. Their teenage problems are compounded by lack of home security. These children will become the people of Huron county and, one hopes, citi- zens and fathers and mothers, perhaps county council mem- bers. They must have as much grounding in good living as can be given them, and the only way to provide this is by open- ing our homes." Fall -out Shelters Shown to Council Special to The Advance - Times by W, J. Elliott GOPERICH--County council members arriving for the Sept- ember session found arranged at rear of the chamber a half- dozen different types of surface and underground shelters - con- crete, metal or sandbag --such as recommended by the provin- cial emergency measures authorities. These were not subject of discussion in detail. It was explained that the new county co-ordinator, W, Stuart Forbes, who addressed council briefly, would have a detailed report for the November session. "The co-ordinator is moving along nicely," reported Reeve Milton Oesch of Zurich, chair- man of the committee, "and doing a good job in the circum- stances. This is still more or less a controversial subject, but the people of Huron are grad- ually recognizing that this is something we cannot throw away." "Our budget is very small, and makes the work that much more difficult, and it will take that much longer to do. How- ever, we will do the best we can. "The shelter is a controver- sial subject - strictly a person- al need, if you feel you should have it; if not, nobody can make you put it in. However, this EMO has been kicked about a lot, and we need your par- ticipation, and if you can help us in any way we will be glad". federation Women from Six Counties Gather BELGRAVE-The annual meeting of the women of the Federation of Agriculture, Zone 2, was held in Carlingford United Church on September 30 with 6 counties represented, Huron, Perth, Bruce, Welling- ton, Waterloo and Grey. Mrs. Leonard Taylor of Fergus was chairman. She opened with Grace and the ladies enjoyed a noon luncheon, compliments of the men of Perth Federation. Mrs. Taylor welcomed the ladies and each person intro- duced herself. Present were; Mrs. Roy Black, Fergus; Mrs. Hugh McIntyre, Elmwood; Mrs, Ted Fear, Belgrave; Mrs. Stan- ley Hopper, Brussels; Mrs. James Sinclair, Hepworth; Mrs. Harry McDougal, Tara; Mrs. Douglas Snyder, Baden; Mrs. Harold Shantz, New Hamburg; Mrs. Emmerson Dessler, El- mira; Mrs. Irwin Marten, West 'Montrose; Mrs. Donald Wallace, St. Pauls; Mrs. Alex McGregor, Kippen; Mrs, Ed Walker, Wing - tam; Mrs. Elmer Ireland, Wing - ham; Mrs. Lyle Murray, Clif- ford; Mrs. Warren Zurbrigg, Clifford, Mrs. Bert Knott, Car- lingford; Mrs. Murray Lobb, Clinton; Mrs. Jack Merrill, Clinton. In her opening remarks, Mrs. E. Taylor explained that the Federation is affiliated with the Women's Institute and said that if we expect our young people to stay on the farm we must make it more attractive to them. Mrs. J. Sinclair re- ported on the work in Bruce County and said that the Insti- tute there send a delegate to the County Federation meeting held each month and minutes are taken by that member and she reports back to the institute. Mrs. Alex McGregor report- ed on the work of the Huron County women and said that the women attend the monthly meetings and serve lunch at each meeting. Mrs. Snyder reported for Waterloo and said that each township appoints five delegates and one must be a woman. They also have a representative to the Freeport San and make tray favours and take treats for the patients, help with the dairy princess contest. Mrs. Donald Wallace report- ed for Perth County and Mrs. L. Taylor repotted on Welling- ton. All agreed that their best project was a better under- standing between Federation members and the members of the Institute. Mrs. L. Taylor, in her fare- well speech, remarked that new people brought into the Federa- tion brought new ideas. Min- utes of the last annual meeting were read by Mrs. Alex Mc- Gregor of Kippen. A motion was passed that a vote of thanks be sent from the meeting for the dinner served. Mrs. Am - old Rife of Galt spoke on Radio Farm Forum, the educational arm of the Federation, and ably presented the picture of Farm Forum. Mrs. L. Taylor conducted the election of officers which resulted as fol- lows: President, Mrs, Emmerson Dessler, Elmira; lst vice- president, Mrs. Alex McGre gor, Kippen; 2nd vice-presi- dent, Mrs. Hugh McIntyre, Elmwood; secretary, Mrs. Dc - ald Wallace, St. Pauls. The next annual meeting for Zone 2 will be held in Waterloo County on Sept. 28, 1964. Mr,., Leonard Taylor was thanked for her term in office by Mrs. Irwin Marten of West Montrose. Beef Champions At Seaforth Fair Top winners in the Huron County 4-11 Beef championshio show held at Seaforth Fall Fai=•, Friday, September 20th were: Grand Champion Steer, Avis Hodgins, R.R. 1, Granton, Kirkton 4-H Beef Calf Club; Reserve, Bob McNaughton, R. R. 3, Kippen, Seaforth 4-1-1 Calf Club; Grand Champion Heifer, Paul Eedy, Dungannon, Dungannon 4-H Calf Club; Re- serve, Bill Morenz, R. R. 2, Dashwood, Exeter 4-H Beef Calf Club; Grand Champion Beef Showman, Barbara Wat- kins, R.R. 1, Londesboro, Blyth-Belgrave 4-H Beef Calf Club; Reserve, Bill Kieffer, R. R. 1, Wingham, Turnberry 4- H Beef Calf Club; Grand Cham- pion Sweepstakes Showman, Ken Papple, R.R. 5, Seaforth, Seaforth 441 Calf Club; Tom Riley, R. R, 1, Londesboro, Huron County Hog Producer's 4-H Swine Club - Reserve.