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Request to close ditch
To .dose horse .barn
loses $3 over .year
meets little success
rejects HS loan
third straight time
mope, "When We are pine to
have the Money to close in
that creek,. The eflein.,St,. elegie
from John to Anne has got to
be done next year, l ean't see
how we can plen to close in the
creek until, we get the Main
St, drains fixed,"
Heywood said. it seemed there
was always something which
took priority over the creek
and, as the town grows, there
would be more major projects
to consider. He felt council
should put away a sum of money
every year entilit raised enough
to proceed.
"I hope this goes in the
newspaper,o" he said, "so that
others will come to council
about the ditch,"
He's not looking
for calls, but , ,
Ton W o,r ICS Sup't Jim
Paisley isn't looking for a
barrage of complaints but he
gets them anyway, because
of his position.,
He reports, however, that
reeidents are heving
petty contacting him because
bis telephone numbers aren't
listed in. the current book.
And the telephone compapy
hes asked him to do some,-
thing about it. They've been
beseiged with "information"
calls.
Jim's numbers; office
(town hall), 239-1535; reel,
Bence (above. Hopper-Hockey
funeral lime), 235-444.
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About 30%
vocational
Area Anglicans
RAP also has secured from
the Publie echoed, board a group
of swings which Will be tele
cated at Riverview Park.
Councillor Joe Wooden suge
geeted the area west of the horse
barn be gravelled, to Provide
more parking space in the
arena-park eeetiOn. He also
wondered if some of the backs
of lots abutting the area could
be secured to enlarge the space
for parking, "It's just a weed
patch now," he said,.
Wooden, who also coaches
Exeter Mohawks, lauded the
condition of the park, "The dia-
mond is in better shape than it
has been for some time," he
said.
Councillor ROSS Taylor:
"Are we getting any revenue
from the diamonds?"
Mayor Simmons: "We're
leaving that up to the ban teams.
We expect they'll donate $400 or
$500 at the end of the season"
(Laughter). to hear leaders
Area Anglican pulpits will be
occupied by eminent world lead-
ers of the Anglican communion
during August. They will be
among the delegates to London
meetings held in advance of the
Anglican congress taking place
in Toronto, August 12 to 23.
Trivitt Memorial church here
will hear Rev. Canon E. H.
Wade, general secretary for
the United Society for Christian
Literature, England, August 4.
Rt. Rev. J, W. A. Howe, bish-
op of St. Andrew's, Scotland,
will speak to St. John's-by-the-
Lake, Grand Bend, August 11.
The same Sunday, Most Rev.
A. H. O'Neil, metropolitan of
the Eccesiastical Province of
Canada, will be guest speaker
at Holy Trinity Church, Lucan.
The barn ,at community Perk
-for` years the centre of her-
IlesS racing sport in this com-
munity—will not be rented to
horsemen after September 30,
Council learned Mendel, night.
Mayor Eldrid Simmons re-
ported, owners of the horses
which have been kept in the
barn have been informed that
the facilities will not be avail -
able this winter.
RAP committee, he said, had
discovered the cost to the town
of providing the facilities was
$8e a year. Rent income was
only $80.
"We feel we can put it to
better use for storage facili-
ties," said the mayor, Picnic
tables and other equipment will
be kept in the building over tee
winter.
ORDER MORE TABLES
The RAP committee, appar-
ently bowing to earlier demands
from councillors, has agreed to
provide five more picnic tables
for the parks, Reeve Fisher re-
ported. Three will be placed
along the river flats at River-
view And two at Victoria.
RAP also has reviewed the
liability and accident insurance
coverages provided by the town
and service clubs for recreation
purpoees and plans to adopt a
new program in 1964.
Each of the children partici-
pating in the programs, such as
minor hockey, minor bowling,
playground, will be charged 50e
to finance the accident cover-
age. The town and clubs will
continue to provide liability in-
surance.
A taxpayer's request to cou a-
oil to budget for closing in the
Anne St, drainage ditch,met with
little success Monday night.
Eric Heywood, Huron St.,
who said councils over the years
have promised to give the pro-
ject consideration but have "01-
Ways thrown it out the hack
door", urged the adoption of
definite plans toward closing in
the drain.
"Do people living along the
creek have to put up with sewage
from the rest of the town for
another 40 years," he ques-
tioned. "All I'm asking is that
the drains committee make
plans to do a portion each year."
Drains Dhairrean Joseph
Wooden said council had con-
sidered the creek both last
year and this but had decided
the Main St. drain should be
given priority.
Mayor Eldrid Simmons felt
council could investigate the
installation of an interceptor
to the Huron St. sewer to take
away sanitary waste from the
ditch but could not consider
closing in the ditch in the fore-
seeable future.
Hyewood told council he un-
derstood that about 25 years ago
a group of people collected
$1,500 and offered it to council
to nelp finance the closing in
of the drain. Council turned it
down. Another petition was
made about eight or nine years
ago and it, too, was disregar-
ded, although council had pro-
mised "to look into it".
"There have been talks and
studies for quite a few years
but nothing is ever done about
it," he said. "The town spends
thousands of dollars on other
things but nothing on the creek."
"The creek was dry in the
summer time when I moved
there 10 years ago. Now I'd
like to take you down there
and show you the messof weeds
and soap. If you took your
laundry there, you could wash
it and you wouldn't need any
soap."
B oyle: "Where would you
start?"
Heywood: "Start at the west
end. They have the worst mess.
They get raw sewage which we
don't have, thank goodness."
Drains chairman Wooden said
it was a "case of priorities."
"The drains committee has
talked about it and it was men-
tioned in council last year,"
said Wooden. "The general fee-
ling of council, however, is that
we have adequate drainage there
and there are other areas which
don't have good drains."
"We have this whole Main
St. project to do," he said,
pointing to the engineering maps
of the proposed new drain pinned
on the walls of the council cham-
ber. This drain, he said, is the
basis for improvement of drain-
age in a number of areas in
town. "The Sanders St. drain,
for example, is woefully in-
adequate but we must put in
the Main St. drain before we
can fix it,"
This year's drains budget is
more than twice last year's, he
pointed out, principally to pro-
vide for the drain on Main St.
where the new pavement will be
laid.
Mayor Simmons suggested
council should investigate in-
stallation of an interceptor from ,
creek at Edward St. to Huron
to take the sewage out of the
creek. The sewage in the west
end will be taken care of when
the sewerage system begins op-
eration.
The mayor pointed out that an
earlier estimate of the cost of
closing in the creek for two
blocks was about $14,000.
"I can't foresee," said Sim-
Damage $500
in area crashes
About $500 damage was caus-
ed by five area accidents during
the past week.
Early Wednesday morning,
Kenneth E. Bassett, 5'7, Sea-
forth, struck a pea loader drawn
behind a tractor driven by Gor-
don Free, 19, RR 1 Frankfurt,
on No. 4, three miles north of
Exeter. Damage amounted to
$250, according to PC John
Wright.
Donald Bain, 28, Stratford,
and Samuel Salton, 59, Mitchell,
collided on No. 83, west of Ex-
eter Saturday when Bain at-
tempted to overtake Salton. Da-
mage was $175.
Cars driven by Otto Reste-
mayer, 73, Dashwood, and Wil-
liam E. Dunnell, 19, RR 6 St.
Marys, collided at the inter-
section of No. 83 and Philip
St., Dashwood. PC Willi am
Glassford investigated.
Sunday, about 9:30 pm apick-
up truck driven by Rodney W.
McLaren, 21, Cromarty, and a
car operated by Andrew W. Van
Gastel, 25, Kitchener, met at
the intersection of No. 4 and
83. Van Gastel, travelling 83,
struck the westbound McLaren
pickup as it turned onto No. 4.
Constable Harry Van Bergen in-
vestigated.
704ea toftia
Approximately 30 percent of
the grade eight graduates in
South Huron district will enrol
in vocational training courses
at Clinton in September, Inspec-
tor G. John Goman reveals this
week.
Of the 190 who will start high
school, 56 of them will take the
new occupational, technical and
business courses which start
this year at the Clinton school.
Almost half of these--27--
have been transferred to the
diversified occupations prog-
ram which includes training in
sign painting, printing, mason-
ry, photography for boys and
hairdressing, simple bookkeep-
ing, clerking and restaurant
service for girls. Nineteen of
this group are boys.
A total of eight students have
entered the five-year programs
in science - technology - trades
and business-commerce. Six-
teen are enroling in the four-
year programs of the same type
and five will take the two-year
courses in these fields.
The remaining 134 are taking
the five-year arts and science
course at South Huron.
INSPECTORATE CHANGE
The department of education
has announced that the inspec-
torate of Huron No. 3 and Perth
No. 3 will revert to its former
name, Huron No. 3, effective
August 1.
Owing to the establishment of
the city of Stratford as a mu-
nicipal inspectorate and the
consequent reduction in size of
inspectorate Perth No, 2, the
township of Hibbert in Perth
County will be returned to the
inspectorate of G.N. Edwards.
When J.G. Burrows assumes
his duties here on August 1,
his territory will include the
townships of Hay, Stanley, Ste-
phen, Tuckersmith, and Us-
borne, including the RCAF Sta-
tion Centralia, the town of Exe-
ter and the villages of Hensel].
and Zurich.
home there, wished .inforinetion
on thp. actual ownership of the
land,
cleric Posjardina (also the
assessor} commented that be
had understood some years age
that this property had beep given
to the grand Bend Boy Sconts,
(Property vested in the Boy
Scouts Association 0,014.4191s
pot taxable).
GregOry Gleba, Wateelooeep-
proectee council with regard to
assessment on his property in
eoutecott. Pines, on which he
claimed too high a charge--also
that he had net received. his
1,962 assessment, notice early
enough to appeal it. Council
advised him that the time was
passed for Appegl, and with the
feeling that in 1962, Mr, Gleba
had paid taxes only on the land,
though his Wally had livedpart
of the summer in the cottaee,
that he was getting a good deal
When the two years were con-
sidered together.
Council received word from
the Canada Department of
Transport that they were not
responsible for the metal lad-
ders on the pier, but that maybe
the Canada Department of Pub-
lic Works in London might be
interested in replacing them.
Considerable discussion took
place with regard to the life-
guards, The Grand Bend Re-
creation Committee is in charge
of this work this year. The life
guards have been advised to
request people to keep their
dogs off the beach; to keep
people from swimming off the
pier, and to spend more time
on the lifeguard stands.
The village also received
Word that they will be respon-
sible for paying for relief for a
family now in Winnipeg, who
lived in Grand Bend after the
wage earner had left the RCAF.
Group tours
area farms
Charles Elliott, step father
of Mrs. Vernon Postal, Ex-
eter, and Terence Beer, Clin-
ton, died June 29 at Freming-
ton, Devon, England.
Robert Nicol of the T-A staff
holidayed in Toronto last week.
Mrs. A. E. Delbridge, who
has been living at the McCor-
mick Home, London, has been
moved to Parkwood Hospital as
a result of a fall.
Miss Denise Doherty of Mt.
Clemens Mich., is visiting for
two weeks with her uncle and
aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Keith
Coates, Exeter.
Lt Commander and Mrs. Rus-
sell Passmore and family left
Saturday for Halifax, N.S. after
spending their vacation with Mr.
and Mrs. Norman Passmore,
Sanders St.
Musicians
pass exams
GRAND BEND.
For the third time in two
months, the council of Or and
Bend refused to endorse a Pro-
posal by the Forest District.
High School, Board to build an
addition to house a limited vo-
cational course at a projected
cost of $.372,000.
The village is requesting that
the board arrange for a meeting
of the seven municipalities in,
volved to discuss the need for
the =tree and to learn more
of what will be included in the
addition. •
The council's representative
on the Forest board is Mrs.
Emery DesJardins. She approa-
ched council Monday night to
point put that when the addition
was first mentioned she had ob-
tained verbal approval of the
plan.
Reeve Webb noted that the
price had "doubled" sineethen.
M r s. DesJardins reported
that the school board is at the
mercy of the department of
education. "We have no choice
in this matter," she said. "The
Hon. John Roberts set up this
plan for education, and we must
provide facilities for the cour-
ses.,,
Last year the board provided
an opportunity class for 25
pupils, but did not have space to
do this another year. Mrs. Des-
Jardins pointed out that Forest
would either have to build and
provide for the students, or else
transport pupils to the vocatio-
nal school at Petrolia.
"The one mill which this ad-
dition will cost is the same as
we would be paying for trans-
portation to P et r oli a," she
pointed out.
Grand Bend's share in the
support of the Forest District
High School is about five per-
cent of the total assessment of
the seven municipalities in the
district.
The addition has been appro-
ved by the town of Forest and
the townships of Plympton and
Warwick.
Councillor Ian Coles com-
mented, "I can't understand the
department of education encou-
raging people to embarrass
themselves by going out and as-
king for this money. We have to
pay it any way. It just makes it
into a Jesse James Affair.
"We're faced with a health
problem here," said Mr. Coles,
who is head of the health and
welfare committee of council,
"yet instead of using money to
provide a good water system,
and other things," he went on,
"we have to fork over a great
amount of money for education.
Many of these school buildings
are nothing but gross extrava-
gance on the part of the Ontario
Department of Education."
The reeve asked that the
people who want the addition on
the Forest school should ar-
range for a meeting and explain
the need more fully.
Praises OPP force
Frank Plumb, who operates
the Happy Valley and Hillside
cabins in the heart of Grand
Bend voiced his approval to
council Monday night of the ef-
ficient way in which the local
detachment of the Ontario Pro-
vincial Police was policing the
village.
Some people feel that the
police drive business away,"
said Mr. Plumb. "But our busi-
ness has been good, and we
appreciate the way the police
have cracked down. We can get
a little sleep at night."
His only complaint was that
the weather in the ,past few
days had not been very good.
VISITORS
Reeve Jim Sitter and Deputy
Reeve Bruce Scott of the Bosan-
quet Township dropped in for a
casual visit while council was
in session.
Eric Turnbull was awarded a
permit to erect a utility building
12x24 on his property.
Council will investigate the
situation with regard to owner-
ship of the Riverview Park area.
This two acre plot is at the east
end of Green Acres subdivision.
AsseSsor Murray DesJardins
had discovered that taxes have
not been charged on this pro-
perty for some time. Reeve
Webb said he understood the
property had been given to the
village for park purposes. How-
ever, Harvey Sherwood had ta-
ken an option on the land from
Mrs. Gladys M. BrOdrick, and
since he ihtends to build a
Check footprints in robbery
Chief C. H, MacKenzie checks footprint found behind Tuckey Be-
verages Ltd., town, following break-in and theft there early Sat-
urday morning. Entry was gained through a rear window which
was broken and doors inside were pried open. Filing cabinets
and drawers were ransacked. About $214 was taken in pay en-
velopes from a desk drawer. Chief MacKenzie said one suspect
was questioned this week, then released pending further inves-
tigation. --T-A photo
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Planning board gets
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Business Directory
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The following pupils of Law-
rence A. Wein have been suc-
cessful in passing their music
exams during the past year, with
the Western Ontario Conserva-
tory of Music:
Grade 1 Theory - Eleanor
Stanlake, Nancy Strang, John
Godbot, Nancy McTavish,
Brenda Dinney, all with first
class honours.
Grade 2 Theory B r y an
Baynham, Marie Powe, both
with first class honours, Susan
Dinney, honours.
Grade 2 Piano - Judy Price,
honours.
Grade 3 Piano - Carol Lynne
Shapton, Duncan Etherington,
both with first class honours,
Judy Price, honours.
Grade 5 Piano - John Godbolt,
first class honours, N an c y
Strang, honours.
Grade 6 Piano - Eleanor Stan-
lake, honours, Marie P o we,
honours, Nancy McTavish.
Grade 7 Piano - Bryan Bayn-
ham.
ALVIN WALPER
PROVINCIAL
LICENSED AUCTIONEER
For your sale, large or small,
courteous and efficient service
at all times.
"Service That Satisfies"
DASHWOOD EXETER
Phone 119 Phone 235.0991
MACKENZIE &
RAYMOND
BARRISTERS & SOLICITORS
CHARLES L. MACKENZIE
PETER L. RAYMOND
Hensel' Office in the Town
Hall open Wednesday 2 to 5
p.m.
PHONE 235.2234 EXETER
N. L. MARTIN
OPTOMETRIST
Main Street, Exeter
Open Every Weekday
Except Wednesday
For Appointment Ph 235.2433
A busload of Huron Soil and
Crop Improvement Ass'n di-
rectors and friends viewed a
number of area farm operations
during their one-day tour of the
county Wednesday.
The tour began at the Cana-
dian Canners Ltd. plant here
where the group saw peas being
processed. From there, the men
viewed the Ausable authority's
Morrison Dam in Usborne town-
ship.
At the farm of Bob Down in
Usborne, the group saw an auto-
matic hog-fee ding operation,
created through extensive re-
novations to a barn which per-
mits doubling of production with
considerably less work.
The feedlot operation of Ro-
chus Faber, Kippen, which
handles between 200 and 300
cattle with two large silos and
an auger system, was inspect-
ed. The group viewed another
beef setup at the farm of Alex
McGregor, Kippen, where some
100 head are fed with a dif-
ferent silo system.
After dinner in Seaforth, the
busload visited a number of
operations in the Seaforth area
before visiting the farm of Mel-
burn Greenwood, Mitchell, dis-
trict director of the 0 nt a r io
body. The Greenwood corn har-
vesting and drying operation
was inspected.
Visit to another hog-feeding
setup at the farm of Murray
Selves, near Mitchell, conclud-
ed the tour.
First building permit prob-
lem under the new zoning area
bylaw confronted town council
Monday night.
Council considered a request
for approval of aproposed office
building on Sanders St. which
would not have the required
setback.
The application of G. A. Webb,
chiropractor, presented by
Clerk C. V. Pickard, indicated
only a six-foot setback could
be provided, instead of the 15
stipulated.
Mr. Webb plans to build a
30x40 office just east of his
home at the corner of William
and Sanders.
Planning board's 15-foot set-
back on Sanders was designed
C. H. RODER, D.C.
DOCTOR OF CHIROPRACTIC
Strathroy, Ontario
OFFICE HOURS
Mon., Tues., Thurs., Fri.
9 - 12, 2 - 5
Tues. and Fri. Evening, 7 - 9
By Appointment Please
Office Phone 654 Home 1498
DR. J. W. CORBETT
L.D.S., D.D.S.
DENTAL SURGEON
Devon Building
Phone 235.1083 Exeter
Closed Wednesday Afternoons Consider purchase
of arena sprinkler
BELL & LAUGHTON
BARRISTERS, SOLICITORS
& NOTARIES PUBLIC
ELMER D. BELL, Q.C.
C. V. LAUGHTON, Q,C., LLB.
Zurich Office Tuesday
Afternoons
PHONE 235.0440 EXETER Huron 4-H
visit plants
DR. H. H. COWEN
DENTAL SURGEON
L.D.S., D.D.S.
Main Street Exeter
Closed All Day Saturdays
PHONE 235.0233 G. A. WEBB, D.C.
DOCTOR OF CHIROPRACTIC
CLOSED WEDNESDAY
For Appointment Ph 235-1680
JOHN WARD, D.C.
CHIROPRACTOR AND
DRUGLESS THERAPIST
15 Wellington St., across
from PUC
ST. MARYS PHONE 1272
to provide for a wider road in
the future. In its projections,
the board sees Sanders as an
east-west artery road and felt
the street already has conges-
tion problems.
Council referred the applica-
tion to the planning board for
advice.
TO MOVE PILLARS
Pillars at the south entrance
to town are being removed to
permit the PUC to start work
on its new water line for that
area.
Council learned Monday night
the commission was ready to
start immediately with instala-
tion of its line, required before
the entrance section is repaved
by the department of highways.
Mason Fred Bischoff has been
hired to take down the pillars.
The memorial stones will be
saved and erected at a later
date in Riverview Park.
In other business, council;
Learned that the cost of con-
structing soil cement roads, a
new hard surface treatment
which has been tried in the
Pinery and is becoming in-
creasingly popular in the U.S.,
is about $8,000 to$9,000
compared to the $15,000 for cold
mix pavement;
Approved insurance premium
payments totalling $3,606.95,
after reviewing its coverage
with Rick McL ell a n, of the
Frank Cowan Insurance Co.,
arid M. J. Geiser, of W. H. Hodg-
son Ltd.;
Authorized installation of 156
feet of sidewalk at the corner of
Ann and Carling after learning
that Gaffney Construction was
prepared to contribute $100 to-
weed the cost as a result of
damage to the walk during sewer
construction;
Learned from Sanitation
Chairman Jack Delbridge that
the sprinkler disposal system at
Canadian Canner s Ltd. is
"Working fair 1 y satisfactor-
ily'e
Granted building permit to
A. B. Bailey Sales Co., Loudon,
for renovations to the house of
Miss liettie SWeet, AndreW St.;
Agreed to award contract for
construction of the Keller drain
to Robert Roweliffe, RR 1 Ilen-
sail, upon submission of his ten.
der price of $100 tore than the
engineer's e s timate (earlier
tenders have been Conelderably
higher)
HURON CO-OPERATIVE
MEDICAL •SERVICES
Prepaid Health Plans
at Cost
the (F...tc:•1!) way
USBORNE & HIBBERT
MUTUAL FIRE
INSURANCE COMPANY
Head Office — Exeter, Ont.
Directors
Timothy B. Toohey RR 3
President Lucan
Robert G. Gardiner RR 1
Vice•Prcsident Cromarty
William H. Chaffe RR
Mitchell
E. Clayton Colquhoun RR 1
Science Hill
Martin Feeney RR 2 Dublin
Milton McCurdy RR 1
Kirkton
Agents
Hugh Benninger Dublin
Harry CoateS Alt 1 'Centralia
Clayton Harris Mitchell
Solicifore
& ltayiiiond
Exeter
SecretarykTretisuree
Arthur Fraser Exeter
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
President, Fordyce Clark, 11/1.
5, Goderich; Vice-Pres., Gor-
doh Kirkland, RR, 3, Luck-
now' Mrs. 0 G. Anderson,
RR -5, Wiegham; Mrs. Lloyd
Taylor, Ex e t c r; Hugh B.
Saiith, RR 2, Listowel; Lorne
Hodges, TOR 1, Oederich; Roy
Strong, Oorrie; Russell T.
Bolton, RR 1, Seeforth; Bert
Irwin, RR 2, Seaforth; Bert
Klapp, Zurich; Gordon Rich-
ardson, Itit 1, trucefield
Kenneth Johns; RR 1, Wood'
ham.
C. H. Magee
Secretary-Manager
Miss t. E. Plumtree
Assistant Skeet/ley
For inforMation, call your
nearest director or our office
in the Credit Union Bldgo 70
Ontario Street, Clinton, Tellio-
phOne HUnter 2.9751.
tea ion reertifiete of the works
departinent,
Referred to the Mike dente
mittee a Complaint, pretented
by Councillor ,Fergiteori, 'tee
garding habitual speeding Of
motorist On Aline St,
4-H members from Huron
county saw at first hand Tues-
day how bottles, trucks and al-
falfa meal are made.
They also saw a. large num-
ber of agricultural field tests
being conducted at the Western
Ontar lo Agricultural School,
RidgetoWn, and the Canada and
Dominion Sugar Co., Chatham.
About 250--five full busloads
--took the annual 4-H tour which
started at 6 am for some of the
county youth. They returned
home about 9 pm.
The Morning was spent at
WOAS, when the boys and girls
viewed plots testing varieties,
fertilizers and herbicides, as
well as viewing the farm and
school in general.
For afterhoon tours, the tra-
vellers Split into tWO groups.
One vieWed the truck assembly
line at International Harvester.,
Chatham, and the glass factory
at Wellaeeburg, Where each re-
ceived souvenirs.
The other tour visited Ron-
dean Park and Erieau Marsh,
then followed the first group
through the tetielt factory. They
also saw the Manufacture of
alfalfa meal by the Greentnelk
company,
The gtoupe teehited at Wel-
liceburg for supper, then en-
JOyed the seerlie drive home by
Way of Lake Stir Clair Rivet.
About 25 club leaders ed-
dOinpenied the youths on the
tours organized by the staff of
the agricultural Office, Clinton.
The mayor felt the $9,000
sprinkler system would be a
better investment than reduc-
ing the sewerage loan on which
the town is paying at five and
one-half percent interest.
Deputy-Reeve Bailey sugges-
ted consideration of the project
be postponed until later in the
year "until we see how our
expenses are".
Council authorized the RAP
committee to secure a number
of estimates on the cost of the
system.
In other business, council:
Awarded contract for supply
Of gas for operation of the can-
ning plant sprinkler disposal
eystem to Exeter Co-op at its
bid of 34.5 per gallon, the
lowest of three tenders.
Authorized payment of $3,00'7
to the Ausable Authority as the
town's share of the cost of pur-
chasing the Learn end Johnston
properties in the Riverview
Park area;
Received One-half payment of
the unconditional grant from the
provincial government Which
will amount to a total of$9,303.
10 this year;
Placed Irtein Ford, operator
of the disposal system at the
canning plant, on permanent
Works force at the rate of $1.30
per belie;
Agreed to proceed with the
closing of John Street fron1
Marlborough west;
Referred to the finenee cern-
Mittee a submission by Court=
Boyle that some type Of.
contract or bylaw shOtild be
provided outlining employment
conditions, sick pay benefits and
other stipulations for the pro-
ToWn council was tempted
by a favorable six-months fi-
nancial report on July 4 to
consider purchasing a $9,000
sprinkler fire protection sys-
tem in the arena.
The system, Mayor Simmons
reported at a previous meeting,
Would save the town about $2,500
a year on fire insurance costs.
Council members agree the
investment is a sound one but
the question hinges on funds.
Clerk C. V. Pickard, who
presented the six-months re-
port, predicted the town would
end the year with a surplus.
Spending, in the majority of
departments, is running well
within the budget figures. How-
ever, he pointed out the major
expenditures come in the final
three months of the year and
there were a number of costs
which were unpredictable at
this point.
"To be candid with you, I
don't think we should consider
spending that $8,000 or $9,000
for the sprinkler system" the
clerk advited. He felt the muni-
cipal board might question the
Unbadgeted expenditure, in view
Of the large loan it has ap-
proved for the installation of
the sewerage system.
The clerk pointed out that
the town Would net likely re-
ceive as large a grant through
the winter works program
ward the cost of sewerage as
had been esernated earlier,
Mayor Simmons wondered if
council could set aside half
the cost this year and the other
half next. The clerk indicated
approval Would have to be tee
cured from the municipalboard
fot such an attaiigeinelit.