The Lucknow Sentinel, 1969-05-03, Page 16PAGE .SIXTEEN:
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. 'THE LUCKNOW 'SENTINEL, LUCKNOW, ONTARIO'
WEDNESDAY, MARCH Sth, 1969
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BY :SHIRLEY J.°. FELLER
At Friday's session of -Huron
County Council, members voted: ,
themselves a raise of $5 per day
from $20 to $25; an increase to.$S
per day for meat allowance. while
attending conventions; .a $400 ,per.
'annum •increase for. the Warden
horn $800. to $1200; •and a bus•trip
to. the• Ontario Legislature for which
$60`0 has been. budgeted.
Seriousdiscussion preceded the
pay raise for members: and the.
warden:. Reeve Claience "Derry"
Boyle ,. Exeter , told council the
warden retei'ved. "a"pretty small
piece of/change as•the head of a
government this size`"';
Wardens James Hayter who had -
suggeste• an onorarium o
for the warden, said he was keep-
ing a running expense account
which would show whether or .not
the'warden was, "Makin Money"
for his one year of office',
;Reeve Borden Cook, Blyth, said
"Anybody. who gets into municipal'
'politics•for the money, involved
would' soon be looking for a 'better
position"
Cook did °advocate a six percent;
hike for council members.' in.keep-
ing with the six percent .per annum.
system'af salary increases witli.
regard to other county employees .
Stanley .Deputy Anson McKinley
said .that if council' had'taken the
six percent raise every year,"since;
the last.raise five or' six years ago., .
the per diem rate would far exceed.
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hold down a job,, he was "losing
money at the :present; rate"
Reeve John' Flannery , Seaforth,
reminded, council thatthe average.'
Wage in. Huron County was •$1000
below the provincial average.
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Warden Hayter explained that it
cost the coiirity about. $35 ,040 per
year for the 38 mein and•women.
who, serve, the county as councillors.
He noted that some men in .the
county ate making, "almost that,
much" and compared'': the'sa'ries ..'
of board: "of education members.. at
$1$00 per annumto county' coup-
.cill'ors' average, wage of $900 per
member last year,
The bus trip to Toronto- brought:
another, wave of discussion led by
Reeve 'Boyle who called it a, "waste
of the taxpayers' money'. and "Utt-
erly ridiculous''; He said the
taxpayers•would be '.:pretty bitter,
about it" .
Boyle said he was not only oppos
ed to the bus trip ,to Toronto but
any but trip which he called'. a
"social event at the expense of the'
ratepayers'.
Clerkf.John Berry announced the
trip ta' Toron'to would'' include 40'
free tickets to see .a hockey game'.
at,Mapie'Lea f Gardens "at no
expense - to the county". Results' of
a vote "showed ' 32,,membefs in favor
',of the trip and four against.
'" T hat's three more .votes. than .I'
got last'. year'„ comrnented. Boyle.
Luncheons prior to each county'
council , essiomat-the-expense--of.
the county were discussed, The
•matter was referred back to•the
e tecutive coh. mittee••which: has
• been asked to try to'arange
long,sessions.rather thaniafternoon.
agendas.
The salary of:construction safety'
inspector :Everett'Smith was ink
Created to $5;300: Mr.' Smith ask
ed for council's co-operation in: the
matter of prompting municipal
°clerks •to: advise him of building ' •
pro leets' in progress' throughout the
county. • •
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MRS. ABNERMORRIS
Mrs. 'Abner Morris •a' -resident of..'
Huronview,, died, at Alexandra
•,Marine and 'general Hospital on`•
Friday', February 21, 'following a,
t -F lness;' She was."91
Mrs Morris was born in Bristol,
England ,,,on May 11,;i877, a
daughter 9f Fred Rendell and the
former Annie Dunn She came to °
Canada 82 years ago and had: lived
in Dungannon until two -years ago
when she moved to Huronview.
Mrs, „Morris was• well known, for •
her hi Makin• -and had been 'the
subiect .of. a national. newspaper • •
feature story -'some time ago. -
She was predeceased by her bps. -
'band ;
us'band:; Abner, who 'diied. in 1949;
'arid' by one daughter .Nellie , who
,died in1931.. • .
S-trrviving--are-t crsb"ns Ch"a"rlles , .
• Strathroy,. and l 'en, °Benmillec; four
daughte1rs rIrs Len -(Lilly) Christi=
law, Nile; -Mrs. Anderson (Agnes).
Mugford ,• Dung.annon; Mrs: , Doug
(Charlotte) Freeman,. Clinton and
'Mrs. Russell (Mary) Drennan,
Strathroy; eight, grandchildren' and
26 great-grandchildren;
The 'funeral service wa.s held- at
Lodge. Funeral Home at, 2 p.•m. on
Monday, . February 24,' with the'
' Reverends • Kenneth Knight anti. a
Glen ,Wright officiating.
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relude to Spring
Isn't:. it a delirious • feeling,.
.aboutthis: time of year -.to wake
up in daylight; and, get home
from work before dark
" : Itbegins to -'restore one's
faith in the scientists' claim
that the *earth As round, and.
Moves in orbit about the 'sun.
Oris it the •, other. way 'round?
•
For' about three months, ' any
winter, I'd join the- Flat -Earth
Society, and agree with practi
cally„ anybodythat the suns is a•
• legend, a . figment' of last • 'suni=
mer's' imagination.
Don't know.why`I'm in .such
a jolly mood ' today. Perhaps. it
Tis that .we've :had: three straight
days ' of sunshine. 'Freeze the
brains: of':' a brass money, bust
.sunny.. -
J. . Spring is on its way.: '`I can•
tell. The •snowbank pushed • up'.
beside my garage has dwindled
-from-22 feet" to16: Arid Wri
"teachers ° smiled at each other.,
• in the staff room' this week ••
It's- not such 'a' bad old world
after all. 'Nobody hasp axed a
computer or lynched .a • univer
sity president this, week =-= yet..
Mykghter _passed- •wo'tea
in school: I . got • the 'garbage 'out
without- cursing once. .
My wife anddaughter have
stopped lighting .(they gang up
on me, instead ). My, bursitis 'is
practically neutral:. The. ;income.
tax . deadline ,is: neatly a• whole
month away.. I• found, the toe
rubber • that's been missing for
a week. What more' could a
•man want?
•
hasn't
'haven't had
months:
curling
What more
'making
— o
nights h
�S•;
he's
noise
bout.
ram
qday smiling,
hrrg.
she
'came
aced'...• T
the '
Now, don't get . me • wrong.
I'm no Pollyanna. I know that
The- muffler fallen off':.
my car. I ' hav a: tooth
-`ceche for six. I almost
made a crucial shot the
other .night. could
•.life offer?`.: • '
. My son is his mark'•~
Tin the world f -dining-
rooms. Some he ,makes
as much 'as And some
nights: $5. Andmaking,
something else;s, vague
but audible, a going bask
to; school :
My daughtere: home
from school : t. : in-
stead of ' scow Her ' mother,
asked her whatwas smil-
ing at, as shein. "The
door,' goker_f hings.. r
definitely on ; upswing
around here:
lnterrnent was -in Colborne.Cern-
Drennan, Harold Mugford , bon.
Shanahan,' John Whitten, Jitri. Mc`-
lntvre and Geald Blake. Flower
bearers were: Kevin Knight, Wayne
Mugford, Gerrie Glenn Kevin
,Shanahan, .Kitk Knight and John
Whitten Jr.
W
though` God's in ' •His heaven, . .
even on weekends,. all's' wrong
with the world. 'T know that
there 'are little black clouds, no, ' ,
bigger ;than .:t the Rocky .Moun-
tains, on the hbrizon?
There are, Black Pan-
thers, and •the • Yellow Menace,
and brown guerrillas, and white'
gorillas, and pink. elephants,
and blue singers, arid reds:un-
der
n der a great many beds.
There are broken homes and..
broken marriages . `and broken::
garterrbelts. Practically • .every
body. you 'meet over the. age of
eight months' is either emotion -
By -disturbed or -senile.
We- have explosions' in the. ;
population, the . stock .,markets'
and the furnaces of the nation.
Taxes and :insurance and even
the important'' ' things, like
bread and milk, keep going up; •.
-(It: won't -be--long before -most -�
• of us are living on : bread and- , I.
milk, considering the price of ``
'meat.) .'Fr(
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6` Cars are • not being' as-, well ' • 1963
made as tin cans:: The;non-re- (PI
turnable bottle is our bigge' ca
threat 'since—the- • buboni
plague. -: The ' Man -in -the -Moon . gate
:las lost • his image . andMr. Coui
Trudeau is following fast Rip
Tomorrow there; will be a Harc
blizzard. And the day after, the , eY a
muffler, and tal•pipe, will fall ter ,
off my car: My piles will re- misi
activate. ' I'll lose both: toe; $45
rubbers.. Pre
But today: I don't. care: The
yellow sun•is kissing the white' '
snow, and • the latter, . overcome
.y_passion;=is-Wilting. T=hat-
all I; know.and all.. ',need .to
know. To hell with all the rest- •
of. it. .
I'm in such, a state of eupho-
ria, I think I -could even go out : _
and have a whale of . a time:
with a girl called 'Gloria. If I
knew One.
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