Zurich Citizens News, 1965-01-28, Page 7THURSDAY, JANUARY 28,. 1965
PAGE SEVEN
County Council Opposes C.A.S. Plans
Goderich — The directors of
Huron Children's Aid Society
are not impressed by the reeom-
mendations of Ion. Louis Ce-
cile's advisory committee on
child welfare, according to a
report placed before county
council by the secretary, John
G. Berry. In particular, they do
not approve a proposal to amal-
gamate societies under a re-
gional welfare authority. It is
Assessment Job
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Goderich .— Assessment rec-
ords are becoming a job for
machines, county assessor A. A.
Alexander told council at the
January meeting.
"The department requires
more details every year," he
said. "In the near future this
is going to be a job for a me-
chanical device, such as IBM,
which many counties have start-
ed to use. I understand the
cost is not prohibitive.
"If this county ever consid-
ers a commissioner, there is a
considerable amount of infor-
mation should be gathered by
some committee before any
study is done. The department
of municipal affairs wants to
supervise right from the start,
and is willing to send qualified
men to instruct assessors."
Mr. Alexander explained the
adjustment made in equalized
assessment arising out of the
incorporation of Bayfield. Part
of Stanley has been included
in the village.
proposed by the advisory com-
mittee that the number ofCAS
jurisdictions be reduced, and
the services of Children's Aid
Societies "may" be purchased.
As to representation on such
regional boards, the Huron
board comments: "We are cam-
pietely satisfied with our rela-
tionship with county council,
and feel that enlarging the area
and reducing our representation
of county councillors would not
be in the best interests of our
children or our community."
The advisory .committee spent
two years studying the child
welfare field, under chairman-
ship of Charles J. Foster, To-
ronto. To this committee the
Huron board suggests "that they
send representatives to visit this
county and learn how a society
can work in close liaison with
a county council."
In the advisory committee's
recently published report, two
examples of proposed grouping
have Grey, Bruce, Huron and
Perth associated. Another
groups Huron, Bruce and Perth,
with headquarters at Wingham.
In elaborating the views of
the Huron board, Mr. Berry
said: "The point we are con-
cerned with is that not only are
you going to have a larger ad-
ministrative staff, but less rep-
resentation on the board by
county council. At present,
one-third of our board of direc-
tors is made up of county coun-
cillors or those connected with
county council. You might
wind up with three on a board
of 24 or 25.
"We have not now enough
trained staff in the province,
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and it is not possible to bring
in more when they are not avail
able, to reach the number need-
ed under a regional authority,
We think that with our own
staff, ,our own board, and the
representation from c o un t y
council we are satisfied with
the operations of our society,
and can see no advantage at
the moment in going along with
the idea of a regional welfare
authority.
"We think before any changes
are made we should have the
opportunity of meeting with
these people and trying to find
out what the implications would
be in an overall change before
they go ahead. We feel that in
Huron we have one of the best -
working arrangements in CAS,
and it is a very nice arrange-
ment, because if the CAS hasn't
the funds it looks to the county,
which has always been willing
to pick up the tab for the re-
mainder, and you cannot get a
better arrangement than that.
That is not the ease will all
societies.
"Of course, a further step,
not applicable to any other, is
that we have county officials
acting in the capacity of sec-
retary and treasurer of the
Children's Aid, which means we
can avoid bank overdrafts, and
there is no financing problem,
as we can transfer funds when
required, and it is not necessary
to run a large bank account for
the CAS."
Miss Clare McGowan, CAS di-
rector, wondered if that ap-
pointment would be provincial.
She noted that the proposed
welfare authority may purchase
CAS services to take care of
children, but it is not stated
that they shall. "We have been
much concerned about this
part," Miss McGowan said.
The director's report showed
that all phases of the society's
work increased last year. Court
hearings, for example, number-
ed 150. Miss McGowan ex-
pressed gratitude to foster fam-
ilies, and said: "We can use
more adoption homes, especially
Roman Catholic."
She announced the annual
meeting of the CAS February
10, to be preceded by a dinner
in Knox Church hall, Goderich,
at 6:30, to honor the foster par-
ents, and idea originated by the
late William Jewett, former
president.
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The member compared pro-
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Goderich— A health science
centre "unexcelled in North
America" is in the making at
the University of Western On-
tario, Huron County council
was told by university represen-
tatives at the January session.
Lt. -Col. Fraser Rolands, secre-
tary of the board of governors,
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And that reminds me of the
silliest thing Montgomery ever
said. It was a few years ago,
during an interview. It was to
the effect that he likes to see
soldiers soaking wet, hungry,
filthy and exhausted. Then he
knows they have been soldier-
ing, That sort of poppycock is
fairly typical of the intelligence
of a general.
This may have been true dur-
ing the Kaiser's war. Old sweats
of that one knew all about dirt,
wet, lice, slim rations and ex-
haustion. But their troubles
were all physical ones: being
blown up, or sniped, or caught
en the barbed wire, or gassed,
or eaten alive by rats. They
didn't face the psychological
horrors of my war.
It was sheer hell, at times,
for us pilots, especially if we
were officers. Even today, after
two decades trying to heal the
scars, memories of those ordeals
sends a cold shudder through
me.
Sometimes, for example, the
batman would forget to put.
sugar in the morning tea he
brought when he awakened you.
But you never complained. You
drank it down stoically, without
a whimper.
Another experience that left
its mark on many of us was the
time they took the batmen off
altogther and substitute d
WAAFs for them. Some of the
chaps were totally unnerved to
be awakened in the morning by
a chubby little air -woman, coo-
ing "'ere's you tea, luv. Drink
it up while it's 'ot".
Some of the other hardships
we endured can scarcely be re-
counted in a family journal.
One aerodrome at which 1 had
the incredible bad luck to be
stationed in England was eight
miles from the nearest pub, and
the only way to get there was
by bicycle. Match that for -in-
human conditions.
But that's the sort of thing
we went through, and t ose o
us who survived were prema-
turely aged by the pitiless cir-
cumstances under which we
strove to ensure there'd always
be an England. Seared in my
brain forever Is one horrible
day we were drafted by a brutal
group captain to play rugger
the morning after a farewell
party in the sergeants' mess.
Rugger is a peculiar British
game in which you never stomp
a man in the face until he is
down, and only then if yatt can't
stom him in the stomach.
Another painful memory is
that of fat senior officers
standing with their backsides to
the fireplace, while we junior
officers, shut off from the only
heat in the place, shivered mis-
eraIy around the bar.
Old sweats talk about march-
ing 300 miles in ten days. They
don't realize what we went
through on those trains in Eng-
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even though we had first-class
tickets, had to ride in the third-
class coaches with all those
rude, nasty soldiers and sailors
and things.
Looking back, I can't help but
marvel at the way we faced up
to the hardships of those grim
days, without a murmur, But it
was war, and we were •true-blue.
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we were a little green around
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