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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1963-06-27, Page 2*cooteatoialudgat Orange .juice. Morton's Turkey, Chicken, Beef Frozen Pies Fully .Cooked Barbecued Chickens Cottage Rolls pickled 6,oz. tin 3 FO 1 99t 4 FOR 994 LB, 53 LB, 5k Ripening Now Red Montmorency Cherries, 22-lb, pail and large firm black cherries, pitted and sugared, 22-lb. pail. Place your order today. DASHWOOD MARKET & LOCKER PHONE 98-W HUGH BOYLE, PROP. Mon-Thurs. 8.6, Wed. 8-1. Fri-Sat. 8.9 Page, 2 Times-.Acfrocote, ..hme 27,, 1903 end was more than a year old. tie told the hoard:. "1 li11114 find my name on it" and. InvestiPtiOn revealed he was, right. Mr, .Rowe said the lealtiOn was taken around the east end about "a year or so ago" when there was ohjectio1110 the tralie- Pertina of children from No. 14 to Zurich, Both he end Trustee k;rb predicted that if the petition was seat around again, less than. VA of the original: signers would support It now, Those who witnessed .the .97 signatures on the petition included Robert Rowcliffe, Alexander,. W. Edison Forest, Robert Vryde, Harold. Camp, Oda Jack Tineey and Milford Prouty, ay board oar requests vote on Zurich PS .addition, rejectss petition from east end for further study Ratepayers press. to send children to neorest schools Hay Township School Area Board made Its decision to re- quest a vote on the a80,000 addition to Zurich school after considering a number of alter- natives it might take following aoutMil'a rejection of its re, quest fel' funds to proceed with the project. Highlights of the discussion included: Discovery that apetition pre- sented by east end ratepayers was more than a year old and a prectiction by some of the trus- tees that at least 50 percent of those who signed the petition at that time would not do so now; A Prole:led to wait until the year-end election in the hope that personnel on council would change to permit the approval of the addition without having a vote of the ratepayers; A suggestion that the board pass a motionof non-confidence in the council; Criticism of Reeve John Cor- bett's opposition to the school board's plans; Consideration of holding a public meeting to explain the board's position to ratepayers and of making a second appeal to council in which further details would be provided to show that the board's proposal is the best of the alternatives. Trustee Clifford Pepper, RR Request for further investi- gation into the alternatives to providing Central echool edu, cation at Zurich Was made by a group of ratepayers repre- senting various parts of the township, to the Hay Township School Area Board Wednesday night, June 19, The meeting was highlighted by the presentation of a peti- tion, signed by 97 ratepayers in the east end, requesting e new graded school for the three for, mer school sections in that. area. The school board discovered later, however, that the petition presented by Robert Rowcliffe, Hensel', was taken more than a year ago when the controversy arose over transportation of pupils from No. 14 section to Zurich. Trustees called the pe- tition a .misrepresentation" and ignored it when they held their board meeting following the session with ratepayers. The east end representatives also requested investigation in- to the possibility of sending their children to HensallPublic School, This prompted other ratepayers to voice preferen- ces to send their children to other district schools including. Exeter, Dashwood and Grand Bend. Before the meeting with the ratepayers was over, Chairman Ray Fisher promised them the board would conduct an in- vestigation into the possibility of sending children to these various schools and the sug- gestion was made that the board report back to the ratepayers its findings. About 25 ratepayers, includ- ing Reeve John Corbett, met with the board in the Zurich school. The beard's chairman, Ray Fisher, handled the meet- ing which included some sharp verbal exchanges between rate- payers and Inspector G. John Goman. Lawyer Ron Rowcliffe, who earlier had appeared before council in opposition to the school board's application for funds, first presented the east end's request for further inves- tigation. He was backed by his brother, Robert Rowcliffe, Hen- sall area ditching contractor. The lawyer cited two of the alternatives he felt should be considered, One was a new three-room school In the east end of the township. Another was the sending of pupils from the east end to either Hensall or Exeter, East-West Germany ? Chairman Fisher expressed opposition to dividing up the township. "Are we going to have an East and West Germany right here in Hay township". Tap to now, he said, the area had been "all one happy family" and he hoped to keep it that way. Ron Rowcliffe: "Does the school board figure its pro- posal solves all the problems In Hay township". Fisher: "The biggest rea- son of all for proposing the central shcool at Zurich is transportation". The schoo I board, he pointed out, was pro- viding bus service for children of the closed schools but not for those which were stillopen. This has resulted in complaints from those ratepayers whose children are not getting trans- portation. etar, Dashwoocl, and other cen- tres. "I can't see busting up the whole townehip. As long as I'm ,here, we're going to keep this area together." In the earlyeascesston, Trus- tee Leonard Erb of etrt 1 Zurich said:. "M' own opinion is to let this rest until we get a new council." A number of the member? felt Reeve Corbett was the chief opponent to the school board's proposal. Said Elmer Rowe: ol worked my heart out to get him in there. NOW I'd work my heart out to put him out". Pepper said the vote would put Corbett "on the spot". Trustee Carl Oestricher felt further efforts should be made to present the school board's case more clearly to council and the ratepayers. After sup- porting the motion to request a vote, Oestricher said he did so "with tongue in cheek be- cause I would like, o see some way of establishing more good- will between council and school board." Chairman Fisher said: "There wasn't a council or a school board who could satisfy that east end. It wouldn't mat- ter who you elected." Trustee Elmer Rowe pro- vided the evidence that the pe- tition presented from the east 2.Dashweocl, pressed for the vote, contending that the board can pursue only "one thing at a time". "If it's turned down, we'll work from there," he said, sug- gesting that a new school out- side Zurich might be consider- ed as a second proposal. "We all know consolidated school is coming," Pepper pointed out near the end of the discussion. "Why shouldn't we have it now, Instead of 10 years from now?" Inspector G. John Boman, asked by Trustee Elmer Rowe if he thought the board should ask for a vote, said: "Yee, I think it should". He indicated this was about the only action the board could take. Truetee Rowe said he felt the vote would go down. He urged that everything possible be done to present the facte, Trustee Rowe revealed that previously he had been in favor of a school for children in the east end but now considered the Zurich centralization the best solution for the township, He said it was the most economical way the board could provide graded education for all the children of Hay. Chairman Ray Fisher reject- ed the idea of Hay students go- ing to schools at Hensall, Ex— THE THE C L I A L HOTEL debentures on the two-room act, dithati to Zurich. East end sgbogl Bob Rowcliffe presented the petition from the east,end which stated that the people from for- mer sections 2, 10 and 14 want- ed a graded school but wished to have it near liensall "because the village of Hensel), is the re- cognized centre of the commu, nity life of these three eec- tions." The petition asked the school board to t fprovicle or ar range for a new graded school in a central lo cation satis- factory to the ratepayers of these three sections." This prompted requests from ratepayers in other parts of the township. Said Carl Turnbull: "I'm from the west end. I would like my children to go to G r and Bend," Added Elgin Hendrick: "Nate have a choice, I would prefer to go to Grand Bend." Howard Deters said he'd like his children to go to Dashwood. Trustee Elmer Rowe said he lived close to Exeter and would send his children there if the area was going to be broken up. At one point he suggested a multi-question ballot be pre- sented to the ratepayers giving them a choice of alternatives as to where they wanted their children to go to school, with the cost explained in each case. Inspector Goman reminded Mr. Rowe that as a trustee his responsibility involved provid- ing the best facilities for all the children in Hay township, not just certain groups. When the discussion turned to council's refusal to provide funds for the proposed addition, Reeve John Corbett explained that "they turned it down be- cause they want to know what the people of Hay town s h i p think," He also denied that council had been influenced by "a young lawyer," referring to the newspaper accounts of Ronald Rowdiness representa- tion at the council meeting. Defends statement Inspector John (=omen de- fended his statement in which he charged council was using pressure to usurp the authority of the school board. He ex- plained that council has no right to tell the school board where it should provide facilities. Bob Pryde contended the in- spector should apologize for his remarks. "I stand by my state- ment," replied Goman. "I will .4 4 a STEAKS ck Roam L N 1 COLONIAL HOTEL KM. ns,omo s ?*b To the seggestioe that the east end students go to lieesall, the chairman asked; "Are you willing to jump out of the frying pan right into the coals?" lie explained that the east end, if it formed a union section with Hensall, would be forced to pay about iO mills more in taxes than the nine now being levied by the school area board. Bob Rowcliffe said Fiensall was charging Only$80ayeerfor tuition fees for pupils outside the village. Inspector Gorria.n said it cost the Henson board more than $80 to educate non-resident children and he felt Hensall would have to charge its full cost if it accepted a large num- ber of students from Hay, (He later estimated the actual an- nual per-pupil cost at Hensall at around $120). In any case, the inspector said, the Hensell school was practically full and could not take in Hay students without adding more classrooms. He also pointed out it was not the policy of the depart- ment to pay grants toward con- struction of facilities for non- resident pupils. This means that Hensall could not add more classrooms unless the three sections of Hay township formed a union school with Hensall. Chairman Fisher explained that the school board had no authority to change the boundary lines for school purposes. Thus, if the three east end sections wished to unite with Hensall, they would have to get per- mission to do so from council. Bob Rowcliffe suggested that "If Hensel' is willing to sell education at $80 a year," Hay should take advantage of it. Trustee Elmer Rowe: ""Hen- sail ratepayers are not going to subsidize the education of our children." Bob Pryde, No. 4 highway, interjected: "We're subsidizing Zurich". Chairman Fisher pointed out that Zurich, on the other hand, was contributing toward the cost of transporting Hay children, Bob Rowcliffe enquired about the possibility of taking all Hay township children out of the Zurich school and turning the facilities over to the village. The division of assets in the school, it was stated, would be decided by arbitration, the re- sult of which would be impos- sible to predict. Chairman Fisher suggested, however, that Hay would still be responsible for the $12,000 remaining in HOTEL 41. apologize to no one." "What is wrong with the school we have here," asked chairman Fisher,. "Nothing", said Bob Row- cline! Fisher: "There must be." Ron Rowcliffe; "What about the playground?'' lie referred to suggestions that there would not be enough room for play- grounds on the Zurich site if the addition is built, requiring the acquisition of other property which would force children to cross the street. Chairman Fischer said the present site would provide plen- ty of room -- three ball dia- monds in fact, In addition, the children would have a gym, toriurn in which to exercise in the winter time. Bob Pryde: "How long will it be before the old Zurich school is condemned?" None of the officials would hazard a guess but Chairman Fisher said the school was as solid as the day it was built, "How old is it?" air. Fisher didn't know but said it was erected "a very long time ago." The question of what time children would be picked up by the bus for transportation to Zurich was raised by How- ard Deters. Board members indicated no child would have to be put on the bus before 8:1a. Chairman Fisher also indicated every child would be picked up at his gate. Upon further insistence by the Roweliffe brothers that the school board should investigate the alternatives, C ha irman Fisher said the board would undertake to interview school boards at Hensall, Exeter and the other centres to see what arrangements could be made. The Rowcliffes also said the possibility of building a three- room school at the front of the township should be studied. Don MOusseau, RR 211ensall, requested another meeting at which the board would present its findings: Leonard Lovell, near Kippen, wondered about the effect which would result from the trend toward decreasing population in rural areas. Inspector Goman said he was glad to see such interest in school affairs. "From now on, we should have no problem getting school trustees." Ronald Rowcliffe: "What do you mean by that?" 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