Clinton News-Record, 1978-04-27, Page 344
Residents of the area received a rude awakening last
Friday morning, as winter returned for a short stay,
dropping an inch of snow. The snow was gone by the
evening, and cool, but sunny dry weather has persisted
since. April will go down as one of the coldest in some years,
according to preliminary statistics gathered by the weather
office. (News -Record photo)
MPP supports ban.....
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Elpcouncils, county council, minister of
education Thomas Wells and area
churches.
Clarice Dalton, spokesman for the
CWL, said the novels — The Diviners by
Margaret Laurence, Catcher in the Rye
by J.D. Salinger and of Mice and Men by
John Steinbeck — were objectionable
and should be removed from the list of
books used in the county's five secon-
dary schools.
The women bolstered their request
with letters of reply from Wells, Huron
Bruce MP Bob McKinley, MPP's Jack
Riddell and Murray Gaunt, and Stephen
and Tuckersmith township councils.
Both township councils endorsed
resolutions to have the books removed
from the curriculum and of the
politicians only Gaunt spoke out against
the novels.
Dalton_ said the CWL's strongest
support came from Gaunt who, in a
letter to director of edtication John
Cochrane, said he was "really quite
shocked and -offended to read some of
this stuff". Gaunt said "of all the crap I
have ever heard, that has to be it, and I
can tell you that if that material is going
to be taught in Huron County high
schools when my children go to high
school, they won't be going to the public
system".
Gaunt said he was fearful of the
direction in which society is heading if
"this kind of junk" is taught under the
guise of freedom of education. The
Huron -Bruce MPP said he hoped the
board would use good judgment in
warding off a situation which he
described as a "moral decay in our
educational ethics and standards".
Gaunt said he did not want to sound
"prudish or self-righteous" but he said
he strongly objected to that kind of
material being taught in high school or
anywhere else.
"If we continue tosow this kind of stuff
in the minds of young people we will sow
tc the wind and reap the whirlwind," he
said.
Clarice Dalton said Gaunt's response
was the most positive the CWL had
received but added that the ladies had
not received any negative opinions. She
said all they were basically after was to
have those three books removed from
the curriculum list. She said they were
not seeking total censorship of English
novels
Stuck in the middle: Roger
by Shelley McPhee
There may be hope. By the 1980's I
may finally overcome my faults and
become an organized housekeeper
and successful cook. It's not going to
take years of practice either, but with
a little pressure from my finger, I'll
be able to activate my home com-
puter.
Roger (that's what I'll call my
metal advisor) will be able to tell me
how much food to prepare. Now I
always have an abundance of lef-
tovers, especially spaghetti. Roger
can plan a menu for me when guests
are coming and even remind me
what's stocked in my cupboards and
refrigerator.
Roger will be able to help . me
decifer recipes in metric and even let
me know when my cake is baked,
before it burns.
Along with kitchen chores, Roger
can suggest that I cancel an
engagement when I have to cover a
council meeting song night and also
pester me to pay my bills.
Roger ,can .also be my companion
and the two of us could battle it out
with three dimensional tic-tac-toe or
he could help me spruce up on my
French.
Roger is just the thing that I need
and the years ahead are looming as
the decade of the computer. With a
,price tag of somewhere between $900
and $1,200 per home, 'family com-
puters are soon to be on the market.
In fact, Radio Shack hopes to have
its version of the computer in stores
next month. As well, Commodore
Business Machines hopes to have
their PET computer out by June and
other companies will be introducing
their models to the Canadian market
as well.
It seems a little impossible to think
that someday computers in the home
will become as popular and common
as the TV set and an automobile, but
with technology moving at such a
rapid pace it is foreseeable.
Microprocessors, the "brains" of the
computers, are getting smaller and
cheaper and a $1,000 computer today
can do more than a $1 million system
did 25 years ago.
The only problem that I may have
with the home computer is trying to
run the thing. 1 have problems even
tryi{ng, to manipulate the calculators
that they have out today.
However, for people like myself, a
course is now being offered at
Sheridan College to teach beginners
how to run the tiny home computer.
Although Roger could keep me in
line and help manage my home, what
I'd really like to see on the market is a
moveable computer with arms and
legs, a machine that could wash my
dishes that always pile up, scrub my
floors and get rid of the coat of dust
that covers my furniture.
When such an appliance hits the
markets I may consider taking in
Roger as a room mate.
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CLINTON NEWS -RECORD, THURSDAY, APRIL 27, 1978—PAGE 3
Education budget up only 5.6%
The Huron County Board of Education the Huron board but attending Huron
approved its 1978 budget in a special County schools.
meeting Thursday night and increased Each municipality in the county will
the education mill rate by 5.76 percent in have its share of the $213,959 returned.
Huron. Goderich gets the lion's share of the
The $20,352,954 budget was presented return $32,500. Exeter will get $13,019,
to the board in public session and Wingham $10,424, Clinton $8,691 and
received little criticism by trustees. A Seaforth $5,621. The county's five
few were concerned about small ex- villages and 16 townships will also be
penses at schools in their jurisdiction but getting a return.
those concerns involved minor expenses. Dunlop said he was surprised that the
The province picks up 69.5 percent of budget increase was as low as it was but
the costs for education in Huron and the pointed out that the small increase this
remaining $6,217,938 is the amount paid year could create problems for next year
for by the County's 26 municipalities. if trustees are not wary. He said salaries
Superintendant of education Roy Dunlop for board employees account for 75
explained the 30 page budget document percent of the total requisition and that if
to the board pointing out that after trustees are not tough at the negotiating
provincial grants the board's expenses table bargaining on 1978-79 wages the
totalled $6,178,399. An under levy of budget could be up considerably next
$39,539, brought about by the board's ' year.
conservative requisition in 1977, made The biggest decrease in the budget
the total requisition this year $6,217,938, was under capital projects. Those costs
an increase of 7.72 percent. are down 46.9 percent from last year. In
The bulk of the education costs are 1977 the board spent $225,990 for
salaries which take up about 75 percent renovations to Exeter Public School and
of the money collected by the board. The this year have earmarked $120,000 for
31 day high school teacher strike saved work at Goderich District Collegiate
taxpayers in the county $213,959. That Institute and Huron Hope in Wingham.
amount is the county share of the Colborne township trustee Shirley
$653,228 in salaries that weren't paid up Hazlitt raised the most objection to the
to March 31 when the budget was struck. budget. She wanted an explanation as to
Dunlop explained that provincial why a chain link fence to be constructed
grants on teacher salaries pays about 60 at Colborne Public School was not in -
percent of the wages. He said the ,cluded in the budget. She said she un -
province saved $383,981 up to March 31 derstood the fence, to border the school
and tuition fees paid by neighboring playground along County Road One, was
school boards toward teacher salaries put off last year when the road was
totalled $55,288. The tuition fees are for widened and resurfaced and was to be
students living outside the jurisdiction of budgeted for this year.
Hazlitt said the board balked at a
suggestion from the county to trade a
strip of land the board owned that was to
be included in the county road allowance
for a farm fence to be constructed by the
county. She said the board decided then
to take the $600 for the land and earmark
the money for a chain link fence. She
said the chain fence was more
desirable for safety reasons.
Budget committee member and board
chairman John Elliott said the budget
committee considered all requests from
school principals and approved those
requests as money permitted. He said
the $600 was grouped in with the funds
available for school maintenance and
capital projects and that the $3,400 fence
was not affordable.
Hazlitt said she felt the money would
be well spent since the safety of the
children was at stake. She said the
county road will be paved this year and
has been widened and flattened `which
will mean cars will be travelling faster
than when the road was gravel. She said
children play alongside the road and the
risk of an accident from one of them
running onto the road to retrieve a ball
was not worth $3,400.
Hazlitt said she didn't see the merits of
spending $750 for a colour television for
the school when the fence was to be left.
The budget includes a capital expense
for a television for Colborne Public.
The truestee voted against the 1978
budget for those reasons pointing out
that she felt the expense for the fence
was justified. She was the only trustee to
vote against the budget.
Kinettes busy, to entertain seniors
The Kinette Club of Clinton
has spent the past few months
in their usual busy fashion.
At the March meeting they
invited the Mitchell Kinette
Club to Clinton for dinner and
afterwards challenged them
to a lively volleyball game.
The last meeting included
dinner at the Bedford Hotel
in Goderich, followed by a
tour of the Bluewater Centre
which everyone found
enlightening. Also 18 Kinettes
attended interclub in .St.
Marys on April 19.
Up coming is the annual
May meeting at which some
40 Huronview ladies will be
treated to dinner_,. Election of
the new executive will also
take place at this meeting.
The year will finish out with
the June party and wind up.
The service committee
projects lately have included
treating the ladies at
Huronview to tea on Valen-
tines Day; providing com-
plete furnishings for the
children's ward at the
hospital helping the Kinsmen
at their recent canoe race by
serving breakfast to par-
ticipants, with proceeds going
to Cystic Fibrosis; sending
bundles of clothing to the
Take Time Project for the
Unitarian Services Com-
mittee; and financially
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assisting a local family whose
home was burned.
The ways and means
committee is presently
conducting a small money
raising prjoect called a
"travelling basket" which
promotes good Kinship. The
committee is also helping to
plan the annual beef bar-
becue and June dance to be
held on Saturday, June 10.
This event Is put on jointly
with the Kinsmen and they
would appreciate your
support.
The social committee
staged a curling night
combined with a T-shirt and
sock hop party and provided a
dinner, Tom Jones style, with
no cutlery. The girls are also
planning a shopping trip to
Toronto and a car rally with
their K insmen on May 13.
Before long, June will be
upon us and that will see the
opening of Kinette food
concession booth on Sundays
at the race track.
The club thanks everyone
for their combined support
and hope to see people at their
Jur.e dance and barbecue on
June 10 and the Clinton arena,
with music by the Star Trex.
An early morning sun, combined with a hot breakfast, warmed up the several hundred
canoeists and spectators at the Maitland Canoe Race last Sunday. The Clinton Kinsmen
and Kinettes were very busy cooking for the hungry hordes. (News -Record photo)
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