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NO. 29 FIRST WITH THE LOCAL NEWS
ZURICH, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, JULY 22, 1971
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DISCUSS MUTUAL AID - Members of the Huron County Mutual Aid for Fire Brigades met in •
Zurich on Monday night to discuss some of the problems which they might encounter during the
year. Several members of area brigades are seen here as they look at the Zurich fire truck. Left
ro right are David Sangster, Hensall chief; Howard Klopp, Zurich chief; Leo Meidinger, assistant
chief of the Zurich brigade; and Gerald Martene, Dashwood chief.
Set salary schedule
(by Shirley J. Keller)
While the secondary school
teachers' salary dispute with the
Huron County Board of Education
is still unsettled and the board is
unable to offer any indication of
whether or not secondary schools
in the county of Huron will open
on schedule in September, memb-
ers of the board , Monday evening
ratified an agreement with the
Huron County elementary school
teachers for the upcoming school
year.
According to the schedule,
the starting salary for teachers in
Category I will be $5, 400 with
the maximum of $7, 300 reached
in six years: Category II, $5, 800
starting to $8, 800 maximum in
nine years; and Category III,
$6, 300 the starting salary and
$10, 500 maximum after 12 years
of experience.
Ask report on school material
(by Shirley J. Keller)
Dr. Alex Addison, of Clinton
expressed some displeasure at
Monday evening's board of educ-
ation meeting in Clinton, concern.
ing the way in which materials
donated by A, V , M, Hugh Camp-
bell School at CFB Clinton were
distributed to schools in the county
of Huron.
However, the doctor received
little support for his views from
other board members who agreed
that since the supplies were a gift,
there should be no dispute.
Director of education, D. John
Cochrane said that when the
school at the base was closed
down, much of the equipment
was taken to the school at Camp
Borden. A few other supplies such
as library books, text books, maps
and globes, sports equipment,
records, filmstrips and sundry
items were distributed in Huron.
Principals in the county elem-
LONDON GRADUATE
Mary Anne Farwell, daughter
of Mr, and Mrs. Louis Farwell
graduated on June 25, from St.
Joseph's Reg_onal School of Nurs-
ing. Mary Anne is a former grad-
uate of South Huron District High
School, and will be nursing at
St. Joseph's Hospital, London.
entary schools received a letter
advising what was available and
noting that the materials would
be given out to the schools in
most need on a first-come basis.
Dr. Addison asked for a report
on where these items had been
received. He indicated that the
Clinton Public School did not get
a fair share of the items for dist-
ribution.
Cochrane said that all schools
in the county - the public schools
the Roman Catholic Schools and
the Christian Reformed Schools -
had shared in the gift.
"Right about now I wish they'd
taken it all to Camp Borden, "
stated Cochrane,
A report on the progress of
construction at Seaforth showed
that the project is moving along
on schedule. It was also rioted
that a separate contract has been
arranged with Cale Doucette of
Clinton, for $14, 000 to renovate
existing windows, repair existing
roof and repaint the existing
school.
The McKillop schools will be
sold by auction with the date for
dispersal to be arranged with the
auctioneer, Bruce Rathwell, R, R,1,
Brucefield. It has been agreed that
the school bells will be sold sep-
arately from the buildings, with
the removal of the bells to be the
responsibility of the person who
purchased them.
Results of the maintenance
tenders for schools in Huron County
were discussed and showed that
painting contracts were costing
(continued on page 2)
New doctors at Grand Bend
After nearly four years of wait-
ing and searching for a doctor,
Grand Bend now has two of them.
Dr. William O'Connor and Dr.
Sean Trapp, both graduates of
the same medical college in Dub-
lin and both 26 years of age, will
set up their practices in the new
Grand Bend area medical centre
as soon as equipment can be inst-
alled.
The $35, 000 centre, built on
land donated by the local Lions
Club, has just been completed.
The funds to finance the construct-
ion were raised in a several
months drive which brought in.
several large donations and hund-
reds of smaller ones.
The village's population of
something over 700 is swelled to
over 30, 000 on some summer weel
ends.
Thousands of vacationers spend
their holidays in nearby Pinery
Park.
"The need for medical service
close at hand is very evident, "
says medical centre chairman Bill
Sturdevant.
Up to now, most of the popul-
ation of Grand Bend has had to
depend on medical services at
Dashwood, Thedford, Parkhill
and Forest, ranging from six to
20 miles away.
The recently -completed med-
ical centre was designed with the
guidance and advice of Dr. W.
Copeman of the provincial depart-
ment of health,
The two young Irish doctors will
work under a provincial govern-
ment plan which will guarantee
them a gross annual income of
$26, 000 each.
The plan is designed to attract
doctors to areas designated by the
provincial government as medic-
ally under -serviced.
One of the main reasons Grand
Bend hasn't been able to obtain
a resident doctor for some time
was the lack of facilities.
Both of the doctors voiced ap-
proval of their new quarters.
"We are very anxious to get the
place set up and going, " one of
them said.
Supply teachers will be paid
a per diem rate of $22.
The board will pay the greater
of 55 percent or the percentage
agreed to with the Secondary
School teachers of the Ontario
Health Services Insurance Plan
and the Ontario Hospital Services
Commission coverage.
As well, both male and female
teachers will have available to
them a group term life insurance
plan amounting to $10, 000 cover-
age of which the board will pay
' the greater of 55 percent or the
I percentage agreed to with the
Secondary School teachers of the
premium.
Categories 4, 5, 6, and 7 have
not been settled to date since
these depend on the secondary
school teachers' settlement.
Elementary school principals'
salaries range from a maximum
of $14, 000 to a maximum of $18,
000. per annum depending on the
number of teachers on staff in a
school and the maximum for a
vice-principal in any elementary
school in the county is $14, 500.
Opportunity class teachers, re-
medial teachers, teachers of
children with specific learning
disabilities and teachers of child-
ren with specific speech problems
will be paid a basic salary accord-
ing to the schedule plus an annual
allowance of $100 if an element-
ary certificate is held: $300 if an
intermediate certificate is held:
and $500 is a specialist's or sup-
ervisor's certificate is held.
The same pattern of allowances
will be paid to a teacher on the
recommendation of a principal to
a committee composed of the dir-
ector of education, two superint-
endents and three elementary
school principals appointed by the
elementary school Principal's
Association.
As well, any principal who
holds a Master's Degree in the
field of Educational Administrat-
ion shall be paid an additional
allowance of $500.
The settlement also provides
that following the successful
completion of each Department
of Education or University Course,
up to a maximum of two per year,
a teacher will receive the sum of
$100 per course.
Little opposition
to official plan
for Huron county
The proposed official plan for
Huron County received little
opposition Tuesday night at the
first of three public hearings.
The two-year study costing
$58.000 was presented by J.A,
Nicklom and T. S. Keith of G, V.
Kleinfeldt Associates Ltd. of
London to about 40 ratepayers at
Exeter town hall.
Mr. Keith stressed that there
was room for local planning under
the county -wide plan which
wasn't designed "to replace local
council but rather to act as a
framework of deciding general
land use objectives.
(continued on page 3)
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New member
for Goderich
(by Shirley J. Keller)
Cayley Hill, the vice-president
and general manager of Dominion
Road Machinery Co. Ltd., and
the last chairman of the former
Goderich Public School Board, has
been appointed by the Huron
County Board of Education to fill
the seat left vacant by Mrs. LW,
Wallace who resigned one month
ago.
Mr. Hill, chairman of the Int-
erim School Organization Commit-
tee (ISOC) ran against Mrs. Wal-
lace in the first elections for
school board but was defeated.
Mrs. Wallace resigned her
position with the Huron County
Board of Education following a
dispute over the board's stand on
the secondary school teachers
salary negotiations.
At Monday evening's board
meeting in Clinton, the resignat-
ion of Dr. A , B , Deathe, also of
Goderich, was received and ac-
cepted without objection. Dr.
Deathe also resigned following
the dispute concerning teachers'
salaries in secondary schools.
The replacement of Dr. Deathe
will be named at the next regular
meeting of the board of education,
August 16.
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WILL TEACH IN KINKORA
Donald Farwell, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Louis Farwell, recently
graduated from London Teacher's
College. He was a graduate of
South Huron District High School,
and received his B. A. degree
from the University of Western
Ontario. He has accepted a posit-
ion with the Huron -Perth Separate
School Board, and will be teach-
ing Grades seven and eight in
Kinkora, Ontario.