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Phone 235-160 Exeter • WANT ADS BRING QUICK RESULTS:Dial 527-0240 by W. W. Haysom your telephone manager Individual computer service has long been thought of as being in the preserve of large corporations. New develop- ments in computer service, however, are shifting emphasis from the computer as an "electronic brain" and an awe- inspiring, highly -mysterious piece of equipment to •that of a problem-solving'tool of business. Now, through the concept of computer time-sharing, identical computer service is available to small businesses. Br time-sharing, I'm referring to a modern high -speed -computer's ability to deal with many hundreds of different problems at the sanie time and still give each customer undivided • attention. Bell Canada is play- ing an important part in bringing computer service to the small businessman. Through our new DATACOM service which provides the link between computer and Customer, participation in a centralized computer's time-sharing pfo- gram is available the moment it's needed. Since it appears that computers are here to stay, I think this rather puts them at our mercy — for a change. • • • • 1 It's that time of the year again. Yes, in the last week or so our Annual Report for 1-967 has been mailed out to our shareholders. Some of you may have received one since more than a quarter -million Canadians hold stock in Bell Canada. It has been a busy, exciting year for our Company. Behind the financial figures are several -stories of events which marked our progress during Centennial Year. Our sponsorship with other members of The Telephone Associa- tion of Canada of the popular Telephone Pavilion at Expo 67 wasn't the only milestone in Montreal. If you visited Expot,and used any of the attractive pbblic telephones while there — we had ahnost 550 located on the Expo site — your call went through Canada's first electronic telephone ex- change. We oPened this exchange in time to serve Expo 67 and its millions of visitors. A similar unit Will be added this year to Toronto's telephone network, and work is being started on one for Ottawa. As I mentioned in my colemn last summer, we grew past the 5 million mark in the number of phones served — in fact, 284,000 were added to the total at the iervice of our customers. Our construction program was vast — for the first time in a single year we exceeded $300 million in construc- tion expenditures to further expand and improve otir com- munications network. Over 95 percent of this money was spent in Canada. -- Interest in space age communications was reflected In two projects. In the first, we -started construction of an earth station at Bouchette, Quebec, deigned to test satel- lite relay of TV, data and voice communications into Can- ada's Far North. In the second, we joined with members of the Trans -Canada Telephone System and CN -CP Telecom- munications in the proposal to provide a domestic satellite( communications system for Canada. Of special interest to all of us was the Company's ability to continue to hold unchanged at the 1958 level our basic schedule of local telephone rates — a significant vic- tory In the struggle against inflation. I think that veto will agree it has been a busy and successful year for Bell Canada. Ns Assemble for Discussion on Regional Government Although Carl Bateman, chair- ' Man ef the Regional Govern- ment Committee of the Associa- tion of Ontario Counties tried to Pull some contrary com- ments from any one of about 180 delegates from Huron, Perth, Middlesex, Bruce, Grey and Wellington counties who at- tended a one -day workshop in Goderich last Tuesday, there was very little, discussion. • Most of the Men and women assembled in the spacious Her- bourlite Inn sat quietly as they listened to the Association's "Blueprint for Local Govern-' ment Reorganization" as it was explained by five speakers, Mr. Bateman had noted at the outset of the meeting that the panel had come "not to brainwash but to discuss and critically analyze" the extent of reform which is needed at the municipal and county level to keep pace with a modern, chan- ging world. Two -Tier System Ralph Hunter, reeve of the town of Alliston in the county of Simcoe began his remarks by assuring all present, "We are not specialists." He went on to say that while most county councils are too large to be ef- ficient, a streamlined hard-hit- ting county government could evolve from an equally stream- lined, hard-hitting municipal body of elected officials. Known as the two-tiered sys- tem — municipal council the first level and county council, the second level — it is believ- ed to provide the highest pos- sible aniounts of "access' and service" as advocated in the Smith Report. Mr. Hunter Said the two-tier- ed system could be efficient, could operate at a reasonable cost and was best suited to sat- isfy the requests of local peo- ple. Critics of the two-tiered system, he chided, had come up with no satisfactory replace- ment for it. He referred to the report of the Association which stated, "That as /a practical start the county in whole with the in- clusion of the cities and separ- ated towns be adoPted as the basic unit of regional govern- ment, with the exception of the city of Toronto since its inclu- sion with the surrounding bor- oughs in one unit of regional government now forms Metro- politan Toronto" and "That po- lice villages be abolished and for administration purposes that they become a part of the Mun- icipality in which. they are lo- cated." It was also proposed in the report that qualified municipal personnel who could be displac- ed by the changes would be of- fered employment. It was fur- ther stated that the heads of municipalities would be called 'mayor" rather than "reeve" and that the name of ."warden" often confused with jail keep - r) become "county chairman". Boundaries "What is a suitable size for a municipality,a county?" ask- ed Don Rogers, reeve of the village of Stirling at the begin- ning of his talk about boundar- ies. He answered his own ques- tion. "It should be large en- ough to assume a certain set , of services without imposing undue hardships on the taxpay- ers," he said. "People want more services' at a minimum cost." 'If , we want local atonorey," Mr. Rogers insisted, "we. can- not be too small." He gave his opinion that counties should , have a population of from 100,- 000 to 150,000 persons. Acreage, he added, was'no yardstick but rather population and assess- ment. 1-• Voluntary amalgamation was the answer, he thought. "We must join with our neighbours to form a larger form Of govern- ment to our own liking," Rogers pointed out. "Presently we have too many small municipal- ities trying to' provide a service and wanting a voice at the county level." Mr. Rogers asked two pertin- ent questions. "Is it right for a,,community with 2,000 people to have the same power of vote as 'a vil- lage of 200 persons?" he asked. "How many rural Municipali- ties help pay their rightful share of the services their ur- ban neighbours have sacrificed Diamond Ring Sale 20%30% discount on entire stock of diaznonds SAVAUGE JEWELLERS • teOppeisite Post Office . *ening APplittOttuint By Arrangement "" 5214276 4111111111111111iNINIIIIINMEMOL to have and are expeetea share?" "Cities are a balaneed. ar of population and assessrnen sheuted a , member of the an ience. "They should not be fo ed to come into the county s tem." The speaker on the flo noted he was 'from the coun of Perth. Rogers retorted that counties would favor the inclusion of the cities since annexation pro- blems would be solved, business and commerce could expabd more readily -and industrial as- sessment would be shared: Someone from the floor agreed. "Small munkipalities ,are bedroom communities for the cities and we want some of their industrial assessment." "What about representation?" asked another listener of Rod- gers. "Are -we to be devoured?" "Control should revert beck to the localitiee," answered Rod- gers. "We must have a mature type of government. Our neigh- bors have the same concerns as we have. We must learn to trult them to take care of our affairs. If it will benefit my community I don't are if I'm no "linger a reeve." Functions Ted Isley, warden of the county of Waterloo thbught that any successful system would have the entire community un- der one county jurisdiction, "This will require some revam- ping but not destruction of all municipal governments," he said. `In so far as possible, leg- islative powers should be close to the people." He said that the functions of the new county government should be those which are best performed on an area basis and would probably vary from coun- ty to county. Isley forsees all the powers of the present connl ty body retained, and many more duties added with the as- sumption of some types of ser vices by the county which wouldsupplement the service continuing at the local leveL Isley also spoke out for per missive legislation to allow each county to determine its own pattern of local, govern- ment with regard to re -alloca- tion of responsibilities: He quot- ed the report that such a. sys- tem , would require a majority vote of the members of county council for that county to as- sume any new power or I'S ponsibility. Under such a plan, special purpose bodies — such as the recreation commissions, hospital planning boards, public utility commissions, exhibition and fair boards, industrial commis- sions, etc. — would become the 'responsibility of county council. Wilfred Gould, • county of On- tario, dealt with this in a spec- ial presentation. Mr. Gould re- ferred to thereport which stat- ed that a bewildering assort- ment of ,boards and commis- sions had "created confusion for the electors who don't know who to blame when something goes wrong." ,!`It has produced frustrations for the elected representatives who must answer to the people for- actions over which they have little or no control," the report went on. "Not only is there an overabundance of special purpose bodies, but their powers are too great. County council traditionally did not establish a reputation for pion- eering new field's. Rather they showed a great reluctance to accept change. Consequently, the provincial. governMent has looked more to boards and commissions than to county' council when it has something new to, introduce," . . The report continued "Your For Co-opInsurance to councils, it should be pertnis- sive for the appointing body to ea name a majority of elected ts council members to any board d_ or commission." TC- "The majority of special pur- ys- pose bodies could be abolished or and their functions performed ty by a• committee of council," the report says. "Council would have to have full-time positions to ,cope with this," was one remark from the floor. "Our communities will suf- fer," said another spokesman from the floor. "The needs of the community are reflected by the people who live there." • Mr. Gould and his associates were id agreement that since eleeted officials got the blame for financial and administrative problems they should have a greater part to play in the de- cisions. "Are the people on these commissions and boards afraid to go to the people?"' questioned Carl Bateman. Mr. Gould stressed his idea that "at no time should they (local members of committees, commissions and boards) have greater voting power than the elected persons on that board", Representation Michael Johnson, deputy clerk -treasurer of the county of Renfrew noted that the present system of local and county gov- ernment was inadequate and in- equitable". "There is just no way to jus- tify a small village being repre- sented by one vote and a neigh- boring community of 30,000 or 40,000 having four -votes," John- son stated. "It just doesn't make sense." He explained, that representa- tives to county council would still come from elected munici- pal bodies. "Hired election to county council is not wise since there should be closer co-ordin- ation between municipality and county, not less," said Johnson. Representation, said Johnson, would be based on resident pop- ulation with each county esta- blishing its own system. "Sum-. mer population is not to be counted for purposes of decid- ing representation," added the panelist. "No one municipality is to have a majority of voting power in its county _council." All terms of office for all municipalities and the county would be three years with all elections in a county held on the same date in the same year. The head %I county council would be elected by secret bal- lot by the county council and from among its own members, the report says. The county chairman (warden) would hold office for three years and be eligible for re-election. • It had been a long day for the delegates. During the sum- mation in late afternoon by Ar- chie Cecchini, reeve of • the town of Thorold, many persons got up and left the room to go home. , , At.the conclusion, thoughtful men and women returned to their own municipalities.to pon- der the sessions. General comments about the amount of information gleaned at the meeting were good; . con- cerning the quality of the red- ommendations put forth by the Association of Ontario Coun- ties which 'encompasses all 37.... counties in the province, dele- gates were mute. Even Cal Krauter, the jovial warden of Huron County who participated in the openidg eeremonies, was caught up in a pensive mood. -- NOTICE -- committee recommends that elected people have more to say about the Spending of the money they- have to raise. Councils set the mill rate. There is no group better in- formed regarding the financial position of the municipality and therefore, it should be the council that has the authority to set priorities when the var- ious boards and • commissions present their budgets. To , this end and in an effort to esta- blish better liaison between al), pointed boards and elected Call W. 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M. and Mrs, Fred Ronsick of London, were Sunday visit- ors with Mr. and Mrs. Jack Smith. Guests with Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Jaques and family on Sunday were,,Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Bonnale and boys of Dorchester. Mr. and Mrs. Adrian Pringle, Terry and Wayne of London, were callers on Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Copeland, Cynthia, Ellen and Deanna. Mrs. Harry Ford is spending sometime with Mr. and Mrs. Newman Baker of Welburn. Mr. and Mrs. Bob Asals of London and Mr. and Mrs. Phil' ip Kennedy and Minnie were Sunday visitors with Mr, and Mrs. Lawrence Beckett and girls. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Hayes of London were Sunday supper guests with Mr. and NM John Witteveen, Sharon and Brian. Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Brine, Misses Myrtle and Pearl Brine and Mr. Lloyd Brine visited on Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Wil- lard Schaefer of Kitchener. Miss Helen Boyle and Mr. Milton ,Boyle of Toronto were week -end visitors with Mr. and Mrs. Williain Rundale and Lar- ry. Mr. ,and Mrs. Albert Scott of Exeter and Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Brintnell, Terri and Scott were also Sunday visitors. Mr. Kenneth Mills of Orillia end Mrs. Marie Mills and Har- rison of London visited Satur- day afternoon •with Misses Blanche and Rhea Mills and Mr. Edgar Mills. William M. Hart FUEL ETC. Phone 527-0870 Seaforth • • 1 Maytag Kelvinator' Admital- Electrohome Sales with Service Maytag Washers and Dryers, 3 years parts, labour service Bob's TV and Appliances 129 Ontario St., Stratford,, Phone 271-6433 127 Queen St., St. Marys • Phone 284-2290 'Bob Weeks, Prop. "Bob's TV Since 13" The Huron Expositor Seaforth "GE BCE MEET 21119653 0" • But you're more than just a number with a Personal Chequing Account at Toronto -Dominion. We think of people as,Individuals.Which explains why Toronto -Dominion gives free fully personalized cheques with a Personal Chequing Aneobar. •PCA is the 10W-costwayth pay bills and keep a record of what you spend. 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