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Provinc
assessmen
On New Year's Day the Pro-
vincial Government takes on a
responsibility that will affect
every taxpayer in Ontarlo,-,
propertyreassessment at market.
value. The Government's ob-
jectives are:
To achieve uniformity in
proeerty valuation by reassess-
ing.all properties in the Prov -,-
ince on the same basis --at mar-
ket value. The Government
intends to do this by 1975.
To achieve ;equity in proper-
ty taxation. Mill rates, which
are set by local governments,
are based upon; assessment rate-.
If the data is inconsistent for
two identical properties, oris
inadequate, or is gathered by
different methods, then inequie
ties in taxes will occur.
:In its simplest form, reas-
sessment at. market value means
some property owners will find
that their tax billswill increase,:
some will decrease, and tonne
will xettl.4 ugchanged-
f§ apart from "any general =in,
crease in the mill rate):
For example, suppose there.
are two identical residengal`
properties in a municipality.
One is assessed at $5,000 and
the other is assessed at $16, 000.
The second—with the higher
assessment -=would pay more
taxes than the first. But both
ALONG THE MAIN DRAG
By The Pedestrian
CHRISTMAS CHEER --
Although nobody wants to
spend Christmas in a sick bed,
the staff and many outside or-
ganizations certainly put forth
a tremendouseffort to cheer
the patients who occupy the
beds at the Wingham and Dis-
trict Hospital over the -holiday.
The rooms and corridors are
gay with Christmas decorations,
most of the windows now bear
Christmas scenes painted by •
staff members and students.
Carols echo through the -halls
as various groups° coarse to sing
to the patients and food trays
are enticing with special dishes
and favors.
THE WEATHER
Well, we had quite a bit of
snow, a smattering of rain,
some sunshine. All in all the
weather isn't too bad at all. ,
Roads are a mite slippery --but
then what can you expect the
week before Christmas? Temp-,
erature slipped down to three
above early Tuesday morning.
Better now than in July!
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SHE'S GETTING ON --
our report of a recent cer-
emony at which United Church
Sunday School pins and awards
were handed out, we said that
Mrs. Albert Rintoul received
an award for 90 years of per-
fect attendance. My gosh that
woman carries her age well!
For that kind of loyalty she
should get the Victoria Cross.
Actually her record is 19 years.
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HELLO TORONTO --
We know some of you aren't
getting your Wingham papers
until Tuesday, Wednesday or
Thursday. Please believe us --
all our rnailings are in the post
office before noon - on Thursday
of each week --including those
in which Monday is a statutory
holiday. We very much fear
this is,a federal offence.
ft It
es over
Jan. lst
Jproperties are identical—and
worth $25, 000 each at market
value. Obiriously, rthen,, the
second property is unfairly pay-
ing more taxes than -the first
property,. If both properties are
assessed at market value, this
type of discrimination, based
on differentassessment methods
at different times, would. disap-
pear.
• Municipal Affairs Minister
Darcy McKeough, whose De -
partment is responsible for as-
sessment, explained that the
bulk of province-widh', reassess-
ment at market value will be-
gin in, 1971. •
Mr. McKeoughsaid that, on
January 2 the new Assessment
Division will absorb close .to
0 a •
Moo assessors and nd assessmeht
staff now working for ,rnunici-
panties and counties.
The Province has been di-
vided into seven assessment
areas, each headed by an as-
sessment director. These ap -
pointments were announced'
last June. Each assessment area
is divided into four or five re-
gions according toproperty den
sity and geogtaphie size.
Thirty-two regional assessment
commissioners were appointed
in October.,
Special° telephone arrange-
ments are being made so that
property owners in eachrassess
ment region can call their re-
gional office' without having to
pay long-distance charges.
The assessment office for
Huron is located at 57:Napier
Avenue, Goderich. For.Bruce
County the office is at 215 Cay -
ley Avenue, Walkerton.
Four more winners named
The draw for Christmas Ton-
us prizes' last Wednesday dis-
closed the following as winners
of •$25.00 merchandise certifi-
cates which can be usedfor
shopping in any of the partici-
pating Christmas Bonus stores
tan Winghatn. The winners,
were:
Mrs. M. Murchison, Wing -
ham; Mrs. Emma McKay, Wing -
ham; Mrs. Paul Vanstone,Wing-
onus r
ham and Mrs. Harold King,
R. R. 2, Wingham.
Today (Wednesday, Decem-
ber 24) a final draw will be.
made for the winners of four
more $25. 00 certificates as
well as the $100 grand prize.
Names of the winners will be
announced on CKNX and if pos-
sible the winners will be notifi-
ed by telephone:
Mr. and Mrs.Fred Cook
married for sixty. years
Mr. and Mrs. Fred W. Cook
celebrated their 60th wedding
anniversary with a family din-
ner at their home in Belgrave
on Sunday, December 21.
Both are enjoying fairly good
health. Although Mr. Cook is
confined to his home in the
winter months', he enjoys tele-
vision, especially sports, and
reads a great deal, without the
He of glasses. Mrs. Cook's
obby is quilt making and in
the past few years she had made
one for each of her grandchil-
dren.
They are both extremely in-
terested in their -community
and family, and enjoy a game
of cards with those who drop in.
Mr. Cook is the son of the
late Mr. and Mrs. David Cook,
the third eldest of a family of
nine, of whom five. survive.
Mrs. Cook is the former Etta
Black, daughter of the late Mr.
and Mrs. Thomas Black. She
is the second youngest of a fatn-
ily of 13 and only Mrs. Cook
and one sister are living.
Following their marriage in
Toronto on December 21, 1909,
Mr. and Mrs. Cook settled on a
farm on the 6th concession of
East Wawanosh. They resided
there until 1945, when they re-
tired to the village of Belgrave.
They have a family' of six,
two sons, Harvey of Walkerton,
and Albert on the home farm;
and four daughter's, Mrs. Ross
(Margaret) Robinson of Auburn,
Mrs. Ernie (Zelia) Crawford of
Goder'ich, Mrs. Garner (Alice)
Nicholson of Belgrave and Mrs.
Jack (Edith) Waiker•of Wing-
harm. They also have 18 grand-
children and ten great-grand-
chiidren.
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Successful applicants for the
nine units iu the Alfred, Street
senior citizens' apartment bild
ing have been selected a n d.
some of there have already
moved intgt the AO* ,li iilding .
There are four bachelor
apartments and five One -bed-
s�
roo►'units. ,The new tenant.
are Mrs. lane Paisley, Mrs,
Lillian Newman, .Mrs., Mary
Roberts Mrs. Mary Thacher.,
Mts. Martha Gilmour, rs,.
Maildre � Mary d 5 te, a w art Mrs, ,
,Young, Miss 9ertrude Newmm
an
rs
andMara t ` e
� Turner,
Hartley pts r , Ole* o.
f the
town ofListoWel has been nam-
ed as manager ofthe apartments,
and Alexskinn of Wingham
has"'
been employed as caretaker,
Railroad issue
hazard 'signal
The Twenty first Field Regi.
lmeat, Royal Canadian. t ry
!(Militia) •will ceaseta.. ,exist he-
fore the end. of 1970, A.,pro,.
.
,, raof reduction.in
gm ' pw
Vending
ding
anno ca ,earlier
rty'y
.
ear, was brought a 1.e.
'to this eommu .?i X t: `with, ah e.
• word -last week that `-the :regi-
ment
�re. � i-
m
: h .t
.: a wit b 1 e ,.'
nt e��Pe , y�f
:Out b ;y;the retrenchment.
Lieut. -Colonel R. gitte"r.
,.
commanding officer of
.:. the
' rg
*
ment, received officialword
from Ottawa that all three bat
teries, the 99th in Wingharr,
OListowel a : 9 in
�I t�th� in . ast .•
Walkerton, arek' all affected' by
the order. '011e hundred And
forty-nine men, .,all ranks:.and
19Officers;'are f ncludeii *the
1°; tpresent..
.re k�ental ro1 a .
hamtrnoarie..,tn a
h.
isregimental `d -.a
rtes...s.'.
been a dislrict nilit:.•cen
th
reas
for many
ye
a
r and
Men ofthe-
various
:unitis•which er�a%s
e
d
here served in 'two. world Wars,
o.r t past yea
rse
primary role'of the
g.Ist Regt-
ment has. been •as. a light aztil-
led: unit,, .employing the i,ob
m. m,,. howitzer. Its se ndary
role was as a S4ke company
with infantry duties,
Several;otf rer units, have been
ti
ct� letely irninatedbu eliminated, _ n
most cases the new orders will
-corn*
either'redtrce strength -or - _.
bine the° sties theof two or.. mote.
g
units. Thedearteen says
that
41aTlour
eswill e '
; .ed
and the strength of the Canadi-
an militia' reduced by:aorrie-` .. :
tha
4�OQ,O: en lt, : +exile e te4l t
b u
ed.
the e
u c
t ks
fence spending .0 Awards of
by p
^ k
111.
5• million. „'fir will be,tleo
Sigalfteantr chatn8es, n
grength of air force • d navy
rerierves..
In city :areas, where units are
be ; redu it is;
T
thattharpersonnel will rejoin the
ma i iear
reming, units, ts, but in
ve..d birth! '21st there :
tl1i
kelfheod of person
in
abSorbed ,elsewhere°, for
other trainng centres Ate too,
far y awa A few • un et' men �+`� g
a :.of
e n f
whoare loQlcl g . rw�d +
neer qualification
may.
join
n.. .
other re enis.
C.N. R. officials are serious,
ly concerned for'the safety of
the operators of snowmobiles •
who are using the ON right of
way east of town. Apparently,
many of the snow bug drivers
have found that the pathway be;.,
tween the railroad tracks makes.
an excellent course for their
machines and they have been
travelling out of town as far as
the poultry barns at the'Junction.,
Although theseoperators are>
trespassing on railway property,•
this is not thechief concern.
The more important fact is that
they. are endangering their own
lives.
On Saturday night the train
crew reported that they spotted
the taillight of a snowmobile
aheid of the locomotive On the
track. Although .the brakes
were 'applied and the day finer
'slowed' as rapidly as 'possible
the snowmobile was still losing
ground at a dangerous pa ce,
'when it reached a crossing and
turned out of the path of the -
train. - • •
The operation of the snow
buggies on tracks is particular-
ly dangerous because they can-
not get out from betweeen the
rails until a crossing is reached.
As the snowbanks alongside the
tracks grow higher during the
winter . it is quite likely that, the
snowmobiles will be unable to
climb the banks' to escape an
oncoming train.
Older operators are warned
of the danger and parents of
younger people who have the
use of snowmobilesshould alert
their families to the hazards of
driving on the railway tracks.
Already several snowmobile fa-
talities have been reported this
winter. Let's make sure none
of them occur here. •
SNEAKY THIEVES
," Hundreds of cars have stop-
ped at the Fred Porter residence
on Leopold Street during the
past month so that children and
adults could look through the
fantastic Christmas scenery on
Fred's front lawn.
visitors haveen appreciative.
Colored bulbs and smaller
items of decoration have been
disappearing ever since the
Christmas display was set up.
HARDLY KNOWING which wee one to start with, Santa
and his helpers were swamped by this group of children
in the town hall last Friday. Santa was there to give
gifts and bags of candies to the children Who to se
him: His visit was' sponsored by thp Wingham Business,
Association. A T °Photo.
Cinknbase toured by
Dept. of Education
On Thursday of last week
the Canadian Forces' Base at
Clinton was toured by a group
of officials from the Applied
Arts and Technology Branch of
the Ontario Department of Edu-
cation. Presumably the pur-
pose . of the inspection was to
ass5ss the possibilities of the fa-
cilities at the base for use as a
community college site.
Department officials includ-
ed N. A. Sisco, director, Ap-
plied Arts and"Technology
Branch; E. L. Kerridge, admin-
istrator, Ontario° Manpower Re-
training Program; D. W. Shay -
er, senior .administrator AA&T
Branch and A. W. Hager, dir-
ector of the Conestoga College.
Prize winners named in
Best Christmas contest
•
This is the week our readers
can find out what a really good
Christmas is like. Over the
past three weeks 'we have been
accepting letters from children
who described for us the best
Christmases they have ever
known. At first the entries
came in slowly and we at The
Advance -Times were almost
convinced that no youngsters
really ert"oy the big day. But
then the entries started• to pour
in. You can read them all in
this week's paper.
It was no small task to pick
the ten winners of $2. 00 prizes.
Even the Judges were fighting
over the decision. (Incidental-
ly, the Judges were not perrnit-
ted to see the names of the win-
ners.) However they finally
emerged from their huddle with
the following names:
Each of the following letter
writers will receive a $2. 00
award, along with -our thanks
for helping to make Christmas
1970 more jolly than most:
David Brewer, 7; David Ten -
Pas, 9; Mark Walters, '7; Scott
Cornwall, 6; David Eadie, 6;
Jane Vath, Grade 5; Ann Cor-
rin, 10; Elizabeth Wehmeyer,
10; Ansley Currie, 10 and Wan-
da Colvin, 9.
The winners may pick up
their prizes at the Advance -
Times office.
They were accompanied by.
Don Southcott, executive assis-
tant to Hon. C. S. MacNaugh-
ton; James Hayter, warden of .
Huron County; Donald Symons,
mayor of Clinton; Roy V. Patti-
son, chairman of the H u r on
County Development Commit-
tee; B. B. Hanly, deputy clerk -
treasurer" and J. G. Berry, 'clerk-
° treasurer of Huron. The,tour
was conducted by Colonel E. W.
Ryan, commanding officer of
,the base.
R. E. WORMWORTH
"Ted" Wormworth, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Ross Worm -
worth, has graduated from
Waterloo Lutheran Universi-
ty. Mr. Wormworth who has
received a • B.A. in Economics
is now doing further studies
in Honours Business.
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Parent -teacher meetings
are slated for January
Through a directive from
the administrative staff of the
Huron County Board of Educa-
tion, the people of Huron Coun*
ty are being given an opportun-
ity to meet with the teaching
staff of their local school to
discuss the aims and objects of
education and a list of some
20 different topics has. been
prepared by the principals as
possible subjects for discussion.
This is an occasion for which
those persons vitally concemed
with the development of the
full potential of all children,
have long been awaiting.
For years children have been
attending smaller s ch 001 s .,
taught by teachers and run by
local school boards with whom
the -parents were in close con-
tact. The advent of the Conn-
ty Board has made the individu-
al contact with parents a thing
of the past --it would seem that
no-one now knows what is tak-
ing place in these seats of learn-
ing, Bit the day has long since
gone when parehts can cease to
be concerned.
The Home and School As-
sociation is the one existing
organization which can bridge
the gaps and the Department of
Education readily recognizes
this and has encouraged the es-
tablishment of communication
with Boards of Education by the
Horne and School Council and
is also anxious for the closer
relationship between the parent
and the teacher which takes
place when there is a Home and.
School Association connected
with a school.
Gone are the days when the
majority of parents are out to
..e�
have a. goat the teacher or to
criticize the running of aschool.
It is of mutual benefit for teach.
ers and parents to get . together
to discuss the ways in which the •
teachers' job can be made eas-
ier and to inform the parent of
all the new advances which are
presently coming our way in
the field of education;
Further announcement -will
be made when dates for t h e
meetings have been finalized:
Prize-winning
homes selected
The Howick Lions Clubspon-
sored a competition for the best
outdoor Christmas decorations
this year. The entries were
judged last week with the fol-
lowing named as the three top
winners, although the judges
stated it was difficult to arrive
at .a decision as a number of
homes came very close.
The Robert Connell home in
Fordwich was judged first prize
winner and will receive a $25
cheque. In second place was
G. Hamilton of the Gorrie Road
for $15 and in third spot the
Jack. Fitch home on the Bel -
more Road for a $10 prize.
Also judged were the best
outdoor Christmas decorations
in Fordwich for which the Ford-
wich Businessmen's Association
put up prizes of x$15,. 00, $10. d0
and $5. 00. First prize went
again to the Robert Connell
home, second to Ken Graham
and third to Anson Ruttan,