The Huron Expositor, 1972-04-06, Page 1I 4,
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113th Year First Section, Pages 1-8 SEAPORT'', ONTARIO, THURSDAY, APRIL 6, 1972 --16 PAGES Mal& coPiee
PPITA Year. an•AdVEWP
Huron board chops $350,000
to meet Ontario demands
Despite re ccuring snow falls this week area children know
and take advantage of every opportunity to make use of the snow
group orithe way to St. James' Separate School hesitated long enough to enjoy a
of snow near Victoria Street.
that spring can't
before it disappears.
far' away
his
slide on a heap
(Staff Photo)
be
Ontario Ceilings' Jeopardize
to our elementary school pupils .
and their parents, xwe'introdliced
Guidance in the elementary
schools.• This was felt to he a
necessity with the-onset of the
Credit System in secondary
schools and necessitated the hir-
ing of the equivalent' of three',
guidance teachers:"
"Since sixty'percent of these
salaries, coupled with any in-
crease in September of this year,
are charged to the 1972' budget, '
we find ourselves in dire
straits," he continued. should
'perhaps also mention, in passing
that the opportunity to take oral
French at the elementary school
clerk-treaSurer„ said she hoped
the school rate -would be set
this month. and then the .whole
tax program set.
Court of Revision was held
on the McNaught Drainage
Works. When one appeal was
heard on a benefit- assessment
final passing of the drain re-.
port was held aver for another
meeting,
•The tender, lowest of four,
of George Radford Construction
Ltd. of Blyth, was accepted for
construction of the McQuaid
Drain at a cost of $1,325.
Coundil agreed to pay 5 per
cent of the 'estimated oast of
$3000 to provide a two-way radio
on the Blyth Fire Truck.
A statement of a total of
$11,756.08 in unpaid taxes has
been sent toCauntyClerk-Treas-
urer for him to collect.
Passed for payment were road
ac c ousts Of .$ 5 ,743c40and-gerrerai- -•• •
accounts of $5,326.06. Council
will request supplementary
allocation of 'road subsidy money
(Continued on Page 3)
With an attendance which
visitors estimated at more than
3,000 opening ceremonies in con-
nection with the new' facilities of
Vincent" Farm Equipment Ltd.
took place on Thursday.,
The farm equipment complex,
had been under construction since,
last fall. It occvies a 12 acre
site 4n McKillop Thwashi4 on No.,.
.12 county road north of Seaforth.
The, official opening took place
at 2:30 p.m. before a crowd that
filled the maintenance area of
the '60 -3c 144 'foot structure.
Reeve Allan Campbell of Mc-
Killbp in welcorn,ing the Vincent
operation to McKillop said the
new facility ,would be a definite
asset to the township. He assured-
the organization that they were
weldome.
warren Vincent, who operates
the Galt and Ayr branches, was
introduced by his brother, Marlen
Vincent of Seaforth. He told the
,audience that while good
premises and good facilities were
essential these were not, the
entire answer to a successful
ope ration.
Mr. Vincent said the firm was
satisfied it pad a good 'product
and the facilities now being pro-
vided in Seaforth were the best.
Equally important was the staff -
more than 40 at the three-locat-
ions -which was highly qutllified
and dedicated in its desire to
render service.
Finally he said management
'Was' necessary. Referring to his-
brother Marlen, he said the plan-
ning and development for which he
had been responsible since
coming to Seafdrth had resulted
Seventeen tenders were con-
sidered for. theconstruction of
three drains by Tuckersmlth
Township Council when it met
Tuesday night.
The tender, one of five, was
let to Keith Brickman of Sebring-
ville for $3,695 for construction
of the Swinkel Drainage' Works
during the month of July.
Roth Drainage Ltd. of Gads-
hill was awarded the tender, over'
four other firms, for construction
of the Cooper Drainage Works at
a cost of $5,469. Drain to be
finished by end of July.
,,,postill Tile Drainage of
Clinton was awarded the tender
for work on the Wallace Drain
which is to be completed by the
end of May. The tender, lowest
of seven, is for $1,630.
Huron County Municipal of-
ficers will meet May 16 with
Township of Tuckersmith hosting
the meeting.
Ross Scott Ltd., Brucefield,
-was awarded the tender to supply
diesel oil "to the township at
19./4 per gallon plus provincial
road tax, subjec to the approval
of Department of Transportation
and Communication. It was the
lowest of three tenders.
The township shed is to re-
ceive a new coat of paint under
the government sponsoredwinter
works program:
,Clerk James McIntosh re-
ported the township must raise
$74,427 for Huron County •pur-
poses of which $40,479 is for
,general purposes and $33,948 is
for loads. This calls for a tax
Optimists
park lights
under way
Seaforth Optimists are gang
ahead with plans to provide lights
for the ballfield at the MainSteet
South Recreational Park.
Announced as a project early
last year the club in the meantime
has checked installation in other
centres and obtained cost estim-
ates.
The arrangement agreed on
provides for a six pole instal-
lation carying 14 lights.
The poles are to be arranged
in such a way as to permit
installation of additional light-
• ing at a future time to provide
a lighted soccer field.
A tender from G. A.. Sills
& Sons has been accepted for
the complete installation. The
tender of $14,000 is subject to
deductions to reflect the amount
4, of donated labor and equipment
according to Wiri. Teall who
' heads the Optimit Committee
looking after the project. Work
is expected to get underway dur-
ing May.
• Mr. Teall said the actual
commencement date would de-
pend on the arrival of the 70
• ft. western cedar pules which
are on order. All wiring will be
underground with a•service being
installed at the North West cor-
ner of the field. Future plans
include the ereetion of a build-
ing to house dressing rooms
and' other facilities in this area.
The, club'is planning a number
of events as a means of financ-
ing the project. The first of
these is the Optimists iyallion-
aire Night scheduled for April
(Continued on Page 3)
• Swear in new
clerk-treas.
in Hibbert
• The Hibbert Township Council
at their regular meeting Monday
officially appointed „Charles
Friend as Clerk Treasurer and
Tax Collector.
Mr. Friend had been selected
for this position some weeks
ago. He succeeds Mrs. Anne
Burchill who retires after 23
years service with the Township.
Mrs. Burchill is being retained
in an advisory capacity until
• 31st December. Reeve Ross
McPhail expressed the apprecia-
tion of the council for her,
services, and hoped she 'would
a+ enjoy her retirement.'
A number of LandSeverences
were dealt with, and decisions
referred to the Land Division
Committee.
Earl Dick attended the meet-
ing and solicited a grant of $40
for the Hensall Spring Fair. He
'' also gave report on the Ausable•
River Conservation'. Authority.
• The Clerk 'was authorized to
advertise the opening of the Mun-
icipal Dump, Saturday" April 8th,
9 a.m. to 5 p.m. •for the use of
residents only.
Reports, were considered ,for
'the Scott and Lannin drains, and
provisionally adopted.' Courts of
Revision will be held at the next
regular meeting of council.
The - county weed inspector
was in attendance, as was Frank
Campbell and John Moore,advis-
trig council on insurance
coverage.
Bob-Harris, a student at Cen-
tralia, sat in at the meeting, as
part of the course he is studying.
•
It took 'sharp pencils and two
nights of concentrated effort, but
the Huron County Board of Edu-
cation has managed to chop about
$350,000 from the 1972 -budget.
The drastic cuts were neces-
sary because of aprovincial gov-
ernment imposed., ceiling on
spending for ordinary expenses.
This ceiling was based on spend-
ing last year in Huron County
and the board learned that be-
cause it had been ecbnomy-mind-
ed in the past, its ceiling:for
1972 will be much lower ,than ii
some counties in the province
where a' high level of spending
has been maintained.
In 1971, for example, spend-
ing in Huron County totalled
$470.88 per resident internal el-
,ementary student. (A resident
internal student IS One vthO lives
and attends school in Huron coun-
ty.)
The 1972 spending at the el-
ementary level has been increas-
ed this 'year by $60.24 per resi-
dent internal student, making the
ceiling on elementary spending
$531.12 per resident internal stu-.
dent. — '
in the secondary panel, last
year's spending per resident in-
ternal student was $942.914 This
year's increase ..will be $76.58.
per resident internal secondary
school student, bringing the
to $1,019.48.
This same ceiling applies to
the grants for' the trainable re-
tarded too. It was pointed out
that the increases from govern-
rnent grants will do little' more
than pay for the increases in
salaries already. ,contracted. •
Huron County is also faced
with a substantial reduction in
the riiimber of resident internal
students on which the government
grant is based. 'It has been est-
imated that there will be about
20Q-students less in the elemen-
tary system and, about 119 stu,-;
dents less at the secondary level
beginning in September 1992.
Seaforth; Mrs. Wallace- Haugh,
Brucefield; Mrs. James Papple,
RR 4, Seaforth; Mrs. Kenneth
Campbell, R.R. 1, Dublin; and
B, R. Thomson, RR 4, Seaforth.
Robert New.nham was named
• librarian for the gardening books,
pamphlets and literature to be
available for members. M. Klie
informed the group that the Sea-
forth club now has become the
sixteenth in District No. 8 which
comprises the three counties of
Huron, Bruce and Grey. There
are sixteen districts in Ontario.
Mrs. Kite invited the Seaforth
Club to the &nnual meeting of
District No. 8 to be held In
Hanover on April 15.
The meeting concluded with
Mrs. Kite showing slides of a
trip she. and her husband took
to California.
A • sale of plants donated by
Dr. Whitman followed the meet-
ing.
' The next meeting will be held
on April 19 when those,inter-
ested in a gardening club, and
the companionship, information
and competition that it offers,
are invited to attend.
while members of the. Huron
County Board of .Education were
having difficulty staying.. within
a bpdg.-a 'courlg invpo4Lon.Q.P7
dinary expenses by the Ontario
government, there was consider-
able concern building for the fut-
ure of education in this county.
During the meetings held
Wednesday, March 29 and Monday
April 3 in Clinton, some members
of the board expressed the feel-
ing that the Huron board is being
penalized for not spending rpore
in previous years.
It was pointed out that while
Huron has spent wisely for educa-
tion and implemented only those
programs recommended by the
Ontario Department of Education,
other, board s in the province
have spent large sums of money
and have updated their education-
al facilities in the interim.
It now appears, according to
board officials, that Huron County
will not be able to achieve the
level of facilities and equipment
maintained in other school jur-
isdictions, because grant ceil-
ings will' rise in 'Huron at the
same level as every other school
district in the province while
their base remains unusually low.
Director of Education for
Huron, D.J.Cochrane, 'termed
Premier William Davis' promise
for educational equality a myth.
In a letter from the director'
to Hon. Thomas Wells, Minister.
of Education, Huron's poSition
was explicitly outlined.
"As 'Chief Education Officer
for the Huron County_Board of..
Education and as your repres-
entative in Huron County School
Division,"wrote Mr. Cochrane,
"I feel obliged to draw to your
attention the fact that the depart-
ment of Education's ceiling on
Ordinary, ,Expenditures as applied
to this particular jurisdiction will
practically decimate the school
'system as it now exists."
"In effect," the director con-
tinued;" the programs offered
to the children of Hiiron County
next year will, at best, be simi-
lar to those offered before the
,introduction of the County boards
of education in 1969. It seems
to us 'that Mr. Roberts' state-
ment in Gait on 'November 14,
1967, to the effect that the num-
ber one priority was the equality
of educational opportunity, will
only be a.° myth insofar as we in
Huron County are concerned:
"May I point out that, in
general, we are not opposed to
ceilings on expenditures," he
continued, "But we do feel that
ceilings based on expenditures
per pupil in the previous year
are totally unfair to conservative
jurisqctions such as ours.;"
"As an example of my point,
I Would cite the situation regard-
ing Special. Education," contin-
ued the director. "Mr. Davis on
March 15.; 1968, when he intro-
duced' the legislation regarding
larger Units of School Adminis-
tration, stated "We feel that
inherent in this basic legislation
is a requirment that the type of
education to be provided must
meet the needs of all boys and
girls in a school jurisdiction.
paint of view will require
the establishment of a program
for special education.
""We did not, however, rush
out and appoint a large special
education staff,"Mr. Cochrane,
wrote. “We took time to do a
thorough comprehensive study
of the county's needs and only
then did we ipproach the Board.
As a result of this planning, we
engaged a staff of eight special
education people on September 1,
1971. In addition, as a service
", •
level was extended from one
former secondary =11901(4st-riot
to all children: of the CfAtntlr..4n0
this required the addition Of 12
additional tg.aPlier4
salary impact in 1.972."
The director's letter then out-
lined the• cuts which had been...
made in the budget to come be,-
neath the ceilings imposed by the
government.
He asked,,iHow can one pare
fat from a budget when there is .
no fat to pare?"
"The part that bothers us
most, of course, is cut back.
and or elimination of programs
(Continued on Page 3)
in the kind of service which was
so essential to a. successful ober-
ation.
Representatives. of Inter-
national Harvester whO took part.
included Doug: Newman, , zone
(Continued on page 3) '
Make plans
fa( car dub
final ni ht
The winner of $25 in the
final preliminary draw in the
Lions Car Club is Art Strong.
With the completion of the pre- •
liminary draws plans are under
way for ,• the final elimination
.draw when the last holder of the
last ticket selected will win a
new car.
The event is, scheduled for
the arena on April 29th.
The twenty-six winner's of
Preliminary prizes of $25 are:
Red Garron, Bedford Taylor,
Pete Lebeau, Ken Coombs, Winn
McLean, Ken Cardno, Marjorie
Papple, Velma Miller, PegCase,
Lila Campbell, Laverne Scott,
Barbara Reed, Roy McGonigle,
-Gordon Huiley, Frank Case,
'Betty Beuttenmiller, Maurice
Huard, JoeG zerw-intkir-Don-Mor-
ton, Ken oldacre, Wm. Strong,
Gordon McGavfn, Margaret Kerr,
Wm, Laverty, Gordon Elliott, •
Art Strong.
rate of 22 mills a n increase
of 1.46 mills over last year.
Reeve Elgin frhompson and
Deputy Reeve Alex McGregor
indicated' they would, be attend-
ing the Association of Munici-
palities of Ontario meeting in
Ottawa June 18-21.
Clerk McIntosh said a report
from the Huron-Perth- Assess-
ment office gave the population
of Tuci5er'smith as 2799 as of
Junes1971 with 478 as population
of Egmondville.
' Passed for payment were the
folloWing accounts for a total
of $7,805.51. $5,186.64 for
roads;• $1,734.80 for. drainage;
$756,50 for general government;
$23.00 miscellaneous and $104.57
for 'Egmondville water and hydro.
The closing of CFB Clinton
has been cited as one of the rea-„
sons for the drop in enrolment,
although evidence is that the
birth rate in Huron is declining
steadily as it is in most parts of ,
the country.
However, development at for-
mer CFB Clinton could add rev-
enue to Huron County's educe-
tonal coffers; and the board has-
n't rule'd out the possibility of a
larger ..government grant than
presently anticipated.
. In .the meantime, severe cuts
had to be made in the budgets in
both the elementary and Secon-
dary school panels.
At, the elementary school lev-
el, there 'will be no expansion of
Special Education staff as was
previously approved by the board.
Deleted from the budget were
the funds for the psychometrist,
one special learning disabilities
teacher; one speech teacher,
three and one-half remedial tea-
chers and one additiohal assis-
tant superintendent:
Because of the decreasing
enrolment throughbut the county,
the teaching staff can be reduced
by eight teachers without caus-
ing .too much hardship to the
sYSiein. This includes three
'kindergarten teachers and five
regular classroom teachers. -
' It should be noted that 'it is
'unlikely that any teachers will
'be dismissed. The cut back will
• simply mean that eight teachers
who .- are retiring this spring will
not be replaced.
Also chopped from the elem-
entary budget was the funds for
teacher aides which have been
utilized in Some schools in the
county.
Severest cuts will come in the
reduction of expenditures in
school offices, regular day school
supplies', transportation (other
than home. to school and return)
and other tiperating expenses as
well as plant operation and main-
tenance.
As an example of the kind of
cutting which was done, the supply
list from- the elementary (and
secondary) school principals
which had already undergone sev-
eral deletion .. sessions, were
stripped to only the baresi,esSen'-
Hats as deemed necessary by-the
superintendents of education.
In the elementarypanel, there
will be a reduction in the audio
visual add library budget to 50
percent of the actual expendi-
tures made in 1971.
Although an original proposal
had ,been to discontinue guidance'
in the elementary schools Of the
county, the program was saved
through making additional cut
backs in the plant operation and
maintenance budgets.
(Continued on Page 3',
Something new has beenadded
to 'the recreation activities of.
• Seaforth area citizens.
A large crowd of gardening
enthusiasts gathered in the ToWn
Hall Wednesday evening for for-
mation oflothe Seaforth Horticul-
•tural 'Society'.
At the meeting Mrs. William
Klie, Hanover, Director of Dist-
rict No.B, Ontario Horticultural
• Society, advised of regulations
pertaining to setting up such a
club and , gave many valuable sug-
gestions and. told of pitfalls to be.
avoided. ,
Mrs. Klie presided for the
election of o the new officers
who are as follows: Dr. Rodger
▪ Whitman, Seaforth, president;
Rev. Paul Packman, Brucefield,
vice-president; Mrs. John Mc-
Cowan, RR 4, Seaforth, secre-
tary; Irvin TreWartha, Seaforth,
treasurer.
The ten directors are: one
year term--Mrs. Emmerson
flo burst, Egmondville; Mrs. Wil-
liam Scott, Brucefield; Mrs. Rob-
ert NewnhaM, Mrs. Orville Oke
and Miss Donelda Adams all of
Seaforth. Two year term (1972-
73)--Mrs. Clifford Brnacifoot,
Gardening enthusiasts
form horticultural society
The calendar said it 'W-as the 4th of April but as far as motorists approaching Seaforth from
the north were concerned it might just as well have been the middle of February. A heavy snowfall
Tuesday morning covered the ground and strong winds piled up fresh snow drifts andoVith blowing
snow made driving hazardous. (Staff 'Photo)
McKillop
faces cost
i-ncreases
McKillOp Township will raise
$63,101 for Huron County pur-
poses this year it was learned
when the township council' met''.'
in regular session. Monday. Of
this arriontit .$34,319 is forzen-
eral purposes and $28,782 for
roads.
Last year the township, paid
the county $55,795, of which
$28,489 was for general purposes
and $27,306 for roads.
' Mrs. Kenneth .McClure,
Huron educational stand*,
Formal opening ceremonies in connection with .the. new Vincent Farm Equipment Ltd. complex _ • .
north of Seaforth were carried out Thursday afternoon. Shown following the cutting of a symbolic,
ribbon are (left) warren . Vincent of Ayr, Jack wade, vice pres. of International Harvester,
Hamilton and marlen Vincent. Seated are Morris McLaughlin, district manager, London.and Reeve
Allan Campbell of McKillop.
Open new service centre
with ceremonies, dancing
Tuckersmith awards tenders
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