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Home My WebLink AboutThe Huron Expositor, 1962-06-21, Page 6SET BOARD OF RBITRATION. 'T0 :CONSIDER BELMORE SCHOOL The" Relmore school contro- versy will go before a board of arbitration, believed the first ever set up by Huron county council to deal with a matter• on which the elected body was asked to act. Council adopted a report from its consultative committee setting forth that it had considered a petition from ratepayers of the Belmore dis- trict relative to a central school in Hawick and "in order to clarify the matter" recommend- ed a r board of arbitration as follows: County judge, Insp e - tor James Kinkead, Crown 'At- torney W. G. Cochrane, John Durnin and William R. Jewitt. The twp last named are ex- warden"s: . As County Judge Fingland is ill and some supplying judge will have to be brought in for Huron Refuge in Case Of Attack "We could take care in Hur- on, I feel, quite adequately, un- til it became a matter of ra- tions, of more than 100,000 people —probably would get more than that," Emergency Measures Co-ordinator Murray MacDonald told county coun- cil. In event of nuclear attack, an influx could be expected from the Windsor and Niagara Falls areas. Accordingly, regu- lating centres. would be located at Kintail, Grand Bend, Sea- forth, Wingham and Exeter, and road movement restricted to Highways 21 and 8. Railway receiving terminals would be at Exeter, Seaforth, Clinton, Wingham and Gode- rich, and marine terminals would be at Goderich, Kincar- dine, Bayfield and Grand Bend. Mr. MacDonald, who has been on probation, is now, on recom- mendation of the EMO Com- mittee (Morgan Agnew, chair- man) appointed on a . perman- ent basis. The county's EMO bylaw, redrafted, was approv- ed. A former officer of the Royal Canadian Regiment, Mr. Mac- Donald said in connection with reception: "Ihad a lot of ex- perience in Korea after the fighting was over. You cannot stop people from coming; you can only control them. That was shown in the Winnipeg flood of -1950. There will be aircraft arrivals and you cannot' stop theni. They will land on farms, etc. Our air receiving terminals 'will be Goderich, Wingham, Port Albert, Grand Bend, Exeter and Brussels." Grand Bend is included in Huron plans-'; with consent of Lambton and Middlesex coun- ties. "The war threat still e,tists," Mr. MacDonald told council. "There are aircraft airborne right now with weapons. If emergency comes, there's en otigh people organized in our county to take control, and as long as we survive the attack I do not think we would have too much to worry about. We are fortunate in 'our county. "Please don't think this is for war; it is emergency mea- sures and all that that involves. The good Lord has protected us in this county, but there is no reason we cannot be hurt by tornado or some such ev- ent." When the report was present- ed, Reeve ,Morgan Agnew, of Clinton, chairman, said: "For this particular work we are very fortunate in having select- ed a man of Mr. MacDonald's ability. He has done a lot of work—it has not been too easy —and he has shown devotion to duty and an interest in this work." Reeve Tom Leiper, Hullett, said he felt as though he had let Mr. MacDonald down. "In a rural municipality," he said, "it is hard to get any co- operation or a program set up. I do not find anybody interest- ed." "I thought we had sold this through the county," said Reeve Agnew. "Personally, I carry fire insurance and life insur- ance and hope I do not get burned out or die, but I have this protection. We may never have this emergency, but it is good insurance to have this or- ganization. It would be a ter- rible situation ii an emergency arose and we had no prepara- tion. We would be blamed for it." Mr. MacDonald' mentioned that Major John Clark, provin- cial field officer of EMO, was present and available to answer questions. None were asked of either at close of Mr. Mac - Donald's presentation, and War- den McCutcheori' remarked that the report seemed to '"have all the answers." Mr. MacDonald reported vis- iting since last council session Legion branches, municipal of- ficials in every area except Sea - forth, cadets, Boy Scouts, Scout- masters and hospital staffs. "The Legion is behind us 100 per cent in our county," he said. "I have coveted every branch • and the zone confer- ence, and you can rest assured the veterans Will be 100' per cent behind us in any planning we put into effect," the board, it may be some time before it sits. It will likely meet at Gorrie and taken sworn testimony. "In March," said Reeve Tom. Leiper of Hullett, chairman of the consultative committee, "we met one delegation. Since then we met I1'ith another and heard the pros and ,eons, After -dis- cussion we thought the best thing was to have an arbitra- tion board appointed." The Belmore section is as- sessed in Culross township school area, Bruce county. Bel - more comprises parts of Turn - berry, Howick, Culross and Car rick. The Belmore school is crowded and is old. Culross board did relieve the situation by taking some pupils to Tees - water. The Belmore group is pressing to have a central school built there, and in order to do this they wanted one section from Turnberry and three from Howick and one from Carrick and proposed building a four - room school. Then discussion followed as to what Howick would do, and Howick council was asked to release these three sections. Council refused, maintaining that the three sec- tions belong to Howick, and any plans for centralization would be carried on in Howick. So the people up there got a peti- tion out, protesting the action of Howick council, and under Section 76 of the Public Schools Act appealed to county council, which referred the -matter to its consultative committee. Reeves Reject Plea To Up Huron Hospital Aid On the ground that Huron County is paying the same grant per bed as Dominion and Pro- vincial governments, a proposal to increase the Clinton Hospital grant to .$60,000 was again re- jected at Wednesday's session. The executive committee re- commended no action on the following motion: "Moved by M. Agnew, sec- onded by C. Dunbar, Reeve of Grey, that the matter of hos pital grants be referred to the executive committee for fur- ther consideration' on the fol- lowing basis: that the grant to the Clinton hospital be increas- ed to $60,000 and that the by- law be adjusted accordingly," A grant of $40,000 was auth- orized at the March session, when Mr. Agnew urged the in- crease and presented his mo- tion. "If we went along with this motion," said the committee chairman, Reeve Ralph Jewell, of Colborne, "our grant to hos- pitals would exceed the provin- cial , and federal by $1,000 a bed. We are a -smaller gov- ernment and feel $2,000 is quite reasonable as the county's share." "I am not surprised," com- mented Reeve Agnew. "No doubt the members have the welfare of the, county, financial- ly, at heart, but I still think I am right and you are wrong, but that is neither here nor there. I feel like the little girl whose aunt failed to bring home a promised -ice cream cone. She said, 'I don't want io talk to you', Huron Library Co-operates With Highways Staff Reeve William N. Ball, of Seaforth, reporting for the Lib- rary .Co-operative Board, said the board met every other month in connection .with lib- rary operations in order that they may have the opportunity of reviewing accounts and keep- ing up to date with the activi- ties of the library itself. A very successful banquet was held in St. George's Angli- can Church, Goderich, at which time the annual meeting was carried out. We appreciate vary much the opportunity of meet- ing with the various librarians and local board members and we feel this makes for good public relations. "Our regular driver, Mr. Freeman, who had been engag- ed effective Dec. 1, 1961, has resigned and as a result it has been agreed through co -opera - ,tion with the County Highways Department toengage a driver from the Highways Department when necessary. An arrange - has also been made with the Highways Department whereby Miss Dianne Ritchie will be made available to do a certain amount of clerical work in the library." Mr. Bail explained the em- ployees are needed on a part- time basis and the arrangements have been working out quite satisfactorily. Sell that unnecessary piece of furniture through a Huron t- positor Claesifled Ad. Phone 141. 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