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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1960-12-01, Page 9Osborne WI Make Tour of Goderich 'About 33 members of the Wo- eluded a visit to the Huron men's Jnstitttte 'from Usborne County Court House where the Township made a tour pf Gode- ladies sat in on a session of rich on Wednesday of hfst week: the ,County Council. The group, composed of ladies from . Exeter and surrounding rural area, were taken on a sight-seeeing tour under the ... direction .:of .'Cauncillor Charles M. `ltoibertsorl, chairman of the special committee for. the-touxt The visit, ladies .,mere sex tended a 'welcome by Mrs. Nor- man MM Innis on behalf of the Goderial W,1. The day's entertainment in - Other points of interest seen by the group were the Sato Salt plant, the Sheaffer Pen plant and the Goderich Harbour. AL,..hhe .,dinner _held at the Lakeview Restaurant, the-itidiehh expressed thals' foi the court- esies'xtended by the Goderich Town Touncil an•d the local Women's Institute. They were presented with souvenir book- lets of the town of 'Guoderiih. 1111111=111.111111111 V Mahood'.. Esquire Restaurant On the Square, Goderich, is giving away o'ne full• course meal to everyone who dan present the cashier with their birth certificate on their birthday. Just a way to say "Come and enjoy the finest food in Town." —If your birthday falls on Wednesday you may claim your free meal on Thursday. OPEN DAILY from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. CLOSED ALL DAY WEDNESDAY L. MAHOOD SONS, Prop. -46tf ounty Road Costs Are utpacingTaxRevenue Tax revenue just isn't keep- cording to their usefulness in maintenance, in the next 25 ing pace with the ;money re- .:reuired,1a r ainta~in elitrren Comp,. ty's 390-mileeroad ,system, n Op•,une ty Euginee>`'Jamesy> nne11 tci + . -,Hurod County 'Council on Wed- nesday of last •week. At the present annual rate of construc- tion•he said, it is going to take 52 years to bring all the county roads in Huron up to standard —and the life of a new road is about 20 years. 1Long ibelore all the 390 ,Hiles of road can Ibe rebuilt, said Mr. Britnell, it 'Will 'be time to start at the beginning again and re- build the roads that are being rebuilt now. "There are only 'two solutions," he said: "raise the mill rate, o,•r drop the num- ber of miles, Of road." 'In his sessional report to council, Mr.. Britne , .used a large map ,of the tHur - h County road system, on lhi•ch the county roads were cir ITC= Buying A Diamond This Christmas? DO YOURSELF A FAVOR -- connecting towns and villages, snob: nteortldinr i:cs 'the.:amowit of'traffie they parry. There are l2; - nrzles of road* *na =rn• °tire county system, staid .Mr; .Britnell, which do not qualify, in the service they .give to the motor - 'ng public, as essential routes for' a county system, 'If 82 miles could be out 'from the county system, he suggested,*he county could save '$82,000 a year in maintenance, and would have that much more to devote to' new 'construction. The engineer's review of the long-range problems of the county roads depart in e n t was ptresented to° the Whole • 32 -man 'council, Wednes- day, ori the instruction of the five -loran road commitltee, of which.reorge M�eCutch•eon, reeve ,oBrussels, is chairihari. 'Phe study of, the usefulness of the roads now maintained by the county, said. Mr. Britnell, has included a traffic 'count on every road in the 390 -mile sys- tem. See N. T. ORMANDY DIAMOND SPECIALIST PHONE JA 4-8833 APPOINTMENTS AFTER 7 P.M. -4 27F BANKRUPTCY AUCTION Cement , Contractors Equipment IDEAL CONSTRUCTION COMPANY HAMILTON AND NELSON STREETS (Rear Of Royal Hotel) GODERICH, ONTARIO FIUDAY, DECEMBER Ind 1.30 P.M. - kr- We have received instructions to sell without reserve: pver 209 cement forms in various sizes, poles and timbers, tarpaulins, some nails and spikes, cement molds, quantity finished cement items including coloured flagstone, blocks, -curWorie n`tI-fey trigpsTre'-Y eing-steed; tei erlt;-ereellait-transit ani level, steel file cabinet, 2" gas water pump with hose, table saw, quantities of hand tools, hand -operated block machine, similar flagstone machine, vibrator. table, 21/2 cubic foot 'portable mixer, 42" barrel large gas -operated mixer, two 36" floor finishers, some office furniture, nearly new cheque protector, I iTton adding machine mper al -fypewrif er, form wages, steel Wheel 15 rows, -1952 International platform truck, house jacks and many other items. • ON VIEW.FROM TEN O'CLOCK THE MORNING -z -OF THE SALE Terms — Cash or Certified Cheque F. 0. KIME, ESQUIRE GEO. R. GARDNER & SON Trustee in- Bankruptcy �r Auctioneer 46-47 "Your committee is not mak- irl,g any recarnmendations at this time," said Reeve McCutcheon, "but we urge you to consider the submissionseriously, keep- ing in mind that a county road system should serve the county as a whole, and not any par- ticular area." Procedure in cutting 82 miles from the system, said 'VJ;r. Brit- nell, would be to turn` -'the ,eau's concerned back to the town- ships. The county could do this on its own authority, ,he said, just as the provi-n•ce can turn a section of King'sHighway back to a county, without any need to get agreement from the co unty. The county roads department can not cut costs on new road construction to any- appreciable extent, Mr. Britnell explained, because road 'building subsidiz- ed by the province must he done to standards prescribed by the Ontario Department eef High- ways. The cost of meeting pro- vincial standards, he noted, has been increased during the past year; ,by new regulations •'t''eat require the county to submit detailed plans and profiles, to Toronto, for all subsidized con- struction. "About two dr.ys'- field work and three days' office .work, by a crew of three or •four men," said Mr. Britnell, "is required t,o—piwatz. eaoh ,mi -1-„a6' _.pl:an and profile. In addition to this, a •,survey party of three men is required on -the job at all. times in order to lay out the require- ments of the approved plan and profile, and to constantly check that the grade- is -con strut pcclansord."ance with the approved a The subsidy paid by the On- tario Government, on approved work, is, 50 per cent for road building, 80 per cent for bridges, and 100' per cent for the new development road that runs east -west 'through 'Carlow and Auburn. years. •=44 r�t'lt- ctualyp' l tit county. ,road system than Ilur- More dollars to each mile of road, it was noted in a table of comparisons presented by Mr. Britnell. The 204 miles of county read in`Perth, the table showed, are supported by an assessment of $38,000,000, while the 390 miles of county roa.d irk Huron are supported by, an as- sessment of $6'0,000,000,. 'On the basis of 1958 iigires, Perth was spending $2,400 a mile of road each year, while Huron was spending $2000. With Huron's big area, and big county road system, the table showed, each $1,000,000 of assessment in Huron has • to support 6.5 miles of county road. In Perth, the comparable figure is 5.4 miles of road per $1,000,000 of assessment. In Middlesex the •figure.is 4.4 miles, in Oxford 3.8, in Bruce 5.8, and in Grey 7.5. Council accepted, a recom- mendation by the road com- mittee• that a small deviation from County Road 25, where the road crosses Highway 4 at Blyth, be declared a one-way street, to channel traffic and reduce the .danger of accidents at the in- tersection. amount IeS .more than three times the $67 million earned in 1935 by agrieulturaI workers; these workers then represented 22 per cent of .the labor force. The numte of farm workers has declined 3ut farm produc-, tiyity has more than doubled rn the last 20 years. There is no end in sight to the search for labor-saving devices, both en d ever - chin Cana a Tie iron s s .5c:;tia nig .. ► ' S=m Shaw l a it will long -play a prominent part in the national economy. Tax Rate At Peak The present tax rate of six and a. half -Mills, said Mr. Brit- 4,1e�peaass---to�be-ease..h , the taxpayer has been expected to bear. On .the Huron assess- ment of about '$60,000,000, the levy raises $390,000 a year. The fixed costs, Mr. Britnell said, in- clude $150,000 a year for the county's ,share of •maintenance; $32,000 a year for the courfty's share of new bridges; .$25,000 for the• county's share ofroad machinery costs$?6,000 ifor overhead. With 'what -IS left, he said, it is possible to rebuild' ohout seven and a 'half miles a year, "Under the present system," he warned, "only .half 'tile' cou.n ty. road system will have any work ',done on it, other than • SURGE IN POPULATION PRODUCTION BOOSTER An estimated increase of about four million in the Can- adian population in the next 10 years will provide a stimulant to farm production and will also benefit retail 'distribution ser- vices, claims C. "Gus" Varkaris, economist with the Canada De- partment of Agriculture. • His review of various reports on Canada's economic prospects indicates however, that a large acreage of agricultural land in the Central Provinces will go out of cultivation before the food needs of an expanded population halt or reverse this trend. 0 iGlasgow, largest city in Scot- land and third largest in Great Britain-•---eketecl dt in population only by London and Birming- ham is he world's, foremost The ' Gode eta Signal -Star, Thursday, D+eeembei ist, 1 9, shipbuilding centre. It dates The 'Girl guides 'vier first back to the nth century and was argttnized in Canada in 1 already an important town Wither same Year the urovement the 12th century• I started in iEngland. got the Agricultural production .con- tinues to, rise de;Jpite the aban-. donrnent 'of faun lands or their diversion to other uses. ' The addition of four million people, by 1910, to Canada's population would probably require the equivalent of 600 supermarkets with an annual volume of busi- milli° doI tSan e o� about turn l o ars each. - The Royal Commission on Canada's Economic Prospects considers that .Canadian farmers will be able to produce the food required. It forecasts that by 1+9'80--the-°total agrieulC>rra € ttt-- put will be 'hall as .much again as in 1955. , In assessing;, ,griculture's pre- sent day position in the econ- omy of the country, Varkaris underlines the changes brought about by mechanical and other SERE DID PI4E GET SNE PMtS? •I'r'lnaive roan was s0 puny an ani- mal we ,}light wonder Trow he girt ,tlieskinslie wore. 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GUARANTEE „ f A SUPCR LASTIC EXTRA S octane, for example, is ten points ago—while in the same,. period I - the amount Imperial receives or a — uper=L ast Road Passenger Tires are H azard Size. 600/16 ---------- 670/ 15 710/15 750/14 760/15 800/14 Safe Price without trade -In 13.95. 13.95 14.95 14.95 ----------- 15.95 15.95 *Price after allow- ance for "Left - Over" Mileage 1OL2.95 10...95_ to 12.95 11395 1140 13,95 12.950 14.9s 12: -g -to 14.95 `From $1 to $3 will be paid for the. "l ft -o TUBELESS mileage on Your old tire. ver $2 extra. f1dd SOC for installation: Insured gallon of gasoline has gene down., against -Llow-outs, accidents, glass cuts, stone cuts er other normal hazards which make a unfit for further service. Customer pays only for service rendered. Mire technical improvements in ,the last" 25 years. During that per- iod er iod the nuinoer of farms de- clined by mare than L60,000 to about 540,000, .,but farm values more than doubled. Total farm capital rose from $4,524 mil1i0n l •a5 'to "10 9.25 illion in 1958. For indlvrc ua, arms us represented an average rise in value from $6,386 to ,$19,656 each --mare than 200 per cent: . ,Gross farm income climbed from $702 million in 1935 t4-43„. billion. Agriculture's contribu- tion to the gross national pro- duct in 1959 was -estimated at $1.7 billion and its Share of the Canadian export market at ,19 per ,cent, or $979 million. °About 12 per cent of the na- tional 'working force of about Fix million people are still en- gaged in-' agriculture and their wages, salaries and supplefnent- ary labor ineame in 1959 were estimated at $221 million. 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We supply a gay Christmas card and envelope, all ready for mailing, free with every Money. "Order you buy. You can use Royal Bank Money Orders to send gifts of cash to friends or relatives in Canada, the U.S., Great Britain or The West Indies—and Royal Bank Drafts to send money elsewhere in the world. THE ROYAL BANK OF CANADA The bank with 1,000 front doots Goderieh Branch: FIREMEN'S ANNUAL° TURKEY BINGO TUESDAY, DECEMBER 6 This gay greeting card and envelope are pro. arairlyith every Money Order. Legion- Hall, Goderich First Game at 8 p.m. sharp. 4—Share-the-Wealth Games.— Cards 25e; 5 for $1.00 EVERY ENG° WINS -A ell/RICEW A Friendly Reminder From Your Goderich Jaycees VOTING'S A PRIVILEGE USE IT DON'T ABUSE IT ! Irt VOTE AS YOU LIKE but ,VOTE MONDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1960 ItZ la ft 411444ft ft# ftreZ1V: fttt ftfta ittattatiltrzu atm