The Wingham Advance-Times, 1969-01-30, Page 8rues, Thursday. fan. 8. 1999
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snow .crew
BY SHIRLEY J. KELLER
The road committee -of
'flurStn . ;ounty reported at Thurs-
day's session it had managed to
Stay . within its estimated budget
for 18.68 even though mainten-
ance costs were unusually high.
Estimate for winter -road care
for 1968 was $115, 000 when in
fact actual costs were about
$28.000 over that figure.
County engineer James Britnell
blamed severe snow storms in
the latter part of December' for
much of the increase.
The county spent $12,934.30
on snow fence; $71,889.90 for
salting and sanding; and $58.-
569. 75 for snow clearing through-
out 1968.
Britnell told council he was
proud of the county snow crew
who often worked long hours
without complaint during a
storm. He compared the cost
in the county of about $340 per
two-lane mile for winter road
maintenance to the department
of highway's budget of about
$2,800 per two-lane mile.
He said while many residents
in the county expected the
same service oneounty roads as
on provincial highways it was
impossible with one-third the
snow crew,' one-half the equip-
ment and about one-seventh of
the budget for provincial high-
way snow clearing,
A very wet summer raised
the cost of weed and brush cut-
.
Two cars damaged
during week
On Thursday morning a 1968
Pontiac owned and driven by
W, E. Fielding, 'Wingham,
suffered about $500 damage to
the left rear door and rear. pan-
el
in an accident on Frances
Street. The vehicle was meet-
ing a gas truck owned by Len
Bock and as the two were side-
by -side the wheels of the car
skidded on the icy road surface
and therear end struck the
truck.
Damage to the truck amount-
ed to $50.00. _
A•1959 Thunderbird driven
by Stanley Hopkins of Dundas
suffered $500 damage on Sat,
urday morning. The car was
being ,pushed on Josephine St.
northiby King's wrecker. When
the motor started the driver
put the car into gear and it
went out of control sideways
across the road and struck a
hydro pole opposite the Brew •
-
er's Retail store.
--Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Mc-
Burney of East Wawanosh; his
sister, Mrs. R. M. Shieli and
Mrs. May Young of Scott Street
visited'on Thursday with Mr.
and Mrs. Art Nicholson of Sea -
forth. • •
ring and spraying from the esti-
mated cost of $35,000 to an
actual expenditure of $52, 501 -
3 5.
Total road construction cost •
td the county during 1968 was
$467, 471.2 5 and total bridge
construction amounted to $135, -
233.32, both figures well with-
in the estimated budgets.
:(At the inaugural session of
,council Tuesday, Judge R. S.
Hetherington had praised the
county officials for their efforts
to improve the county road
system aid mentioned in par-
ticular the dumber of new mod-
ern bridges which had replaced
"the old iron cages that used
to let the horses ®through". )
Total road budget presented
for subsidy was $1,378., 231.44.
Warden James Hayter, 1968
road chairman received coun-
' cil's approval for an annual
boost of $1, 500 to Engineer
Britnell's salary, now $19, 000.
Mr. Hayter said, "We're just
keeping Jim (Britnell) in line
with other engineers with his
experience and qualifications. "
Ccsiderable discussion was
heard concerning new regula-
tions in the Employment Stand-
: ards Act by which snow remov-
al crews are,not within the
meaning of. "maintenance" in
the Act and thereby must be
paid time and a half for over-
time.
Council approved a 1969 road
committee recommendation to
petition the minister of labor
and the director of employment
standards to allow employees
carrying out these maintenance
procedures to come with the
meaning of "maintenance" and
thereby become exempt from
the new regulation -regarding
overtime.
Britnellexplained to council
that aside from the fact that
road crews had never mentioned
dissatisfaction 'with the present
_arrangement, if the new regula-
tions were enforced it might
become necessary for the county
road,employees to work shorter
hours in the fine weather to
compensate for the overtime
expenses in the poorer .weather.
It was.: the county's policy
through . the years, added Brit-
nell,. to ensure road crews of a •
full week's pay every. week. He
said that he felt the new regula-
tions were designed to cover
workmen who were being ex-
ploited by employers.
Present rate of pay for snow
removal crew members is $2.20
per hour:
In other business, the . W ard-
en , 'the road committee and
the county engineer were ap-
pointed to attend the Ontario
Good Roads Association coif-
vention as delegates. 'Is well,,
Mr. Britnell will go to the Ca-
nadian Good Roads Association
convention.
INTERFAITH MEETING—Several gatherings have been held
in the community during the past week as members of var-
ious Christian, denominations gathered to discuss the bar-
riers which separate the church groups. This group met
on Sunday evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs.. Richard.
Campeau. They are Mrs. L. J. Slosser, Mrs. 4topas, Mrs.
Fenwick, Mrs. Campeau; standing: J. Kopas, Robert Chet-
tleburgh, Michael Herrington, Richard Campeau and Duane
Fenwick. '
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Board picks administrator
from 31 applications
The Huron County Board of
Education met last week in '
Seaforth, where members were
the guests of the Seaforth town
council for dinner and later
toured three possible office sites
in the town. Seaforth would
like to interest the board.in
that town as a•perinanent site
for its administrative headquar-
ters.
Dan Murphy, separate school
representative on the county
board, pointed out that the
courity of Huron may have space
available on the second. floor of
its new assessment -building in
Goderich.
From 'some 31 applicants for
the position of business admin-
istrator the. board selected Roy
B. Dunlop of Toronto. Mr. Dun-
lop will come to Huron from •
his recent post as financial ad
ministrator for the University of
Toronto_Press- .
In other business the board
voted to join the Ontario Public
School Trustees' Association at
g fee of $2 660. It :was pointed
out that the fee is less than the
total of fees paid by individual
school bcreds in former years.
The board was also informed
•that: the maintenance staff at
the Goderich secondary school
is seeking to have a local of
the International Union of En-
gineers certified as ,their bar
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gaining agent. Mr. Murphy '
said he was contacted about the
matter by the Goderich princi-
pal and ori his own initiative •
had filed a report for the board
with the Labour Relations Board
in Toronto.
In Mr. Murphy's opinion,, the
engineers' application is defec-
tive and should be challenged.
The board authorized him to
instruct a Toronto law firm to
appear on its behalf before the
labour board at a public hear-
ing this week.
One question to be decided
is whether a.union can be cert-
ified to represent one school
only or whether it itiust repre-
• sent a majority of the workers,
in all the •county schools. '
The Huron .board also voted
to proceed with the construction
of a $408, 000 addition to the
Robertson Memorial School in
Goderich.
A, special board meeting
was announced for Monday
evening Qf this. week at the
court house in Goderich to deal
with•staffing and organization.
'In preparing for the meeting
D. J. • Cochrane, director of
education for the county, met
• with all school principals on
Tuesdayin Clinton.
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Huronview
physician
.
to retire
BY SHIRLEY J. KELLER
Wingham Reeve Jack Alex-
ander, chairman of the Huron -
view committee of manage-
ment, told council Thursday
afternoon he hoped the salary .
disputes would be settled soon.
He said the committee is
presently negotiating a new con-
tract with the Building„Service
Employees Union, . Local 210,
And noted that salary increases
of approximately six per cent
have been granted to the super-
visory
upervisory personnel in accordance
with county policy.
Council accepted a commit-
tee recommendation to raise
the salary of Huronview•super-
intendent H. C. Johnston to
$8,000 from $7, 500.
- In his report to council,' Mr.
Johnston noted that Grey Town-
ship was the only municipality
in fiuron County from which
there were no Huronview resi-
dents.'' He `said there were pres-
ently 270 persons at the home
and of the 89 residents admitted
in 1968; two-thirds were ladies.
Deputy -clerk Bill Hanley
.advised council that Huronview
physician Dr. J. C. Ross plans
to retire in June, 1969. Mr.
Hanley indicated a possible
problem in securing a replace-
ment for Dr. Ross due to the
shortage of doctors in the
county.
A mother with five small
children baked herself a cake
on Labor Day with the cheery
inscription: "Happy Birthday
Slave. ” .•
Sec. school principal
speaks on education
Continued from Page One
ungraded system are t akin g
place.
Mr. Madill will attend a
seminar within the next few
weeks conducted by Dr. Trump
who is the leading advocate of.
the ungraded system. Educa-
tion must continue all our lives.
The students today are encour-
aged to think and make deci-
sions on their own.
In the F. E. Madill Secon-
dary School the library is the
focal point.. Besides a well-"
stocked library section there
are seminar rooms (where small
groups may discuss a subject),
stall. study cubicles• and a read-
ing area. Educational TV....will
definitely become a larger
and larger part of the school
program. . Within a short time,
up to 12 rooms at a time will
be able to watch pretaped pro- ..
grams' on TV. Experiments
with the students' use of free
time are taking place It is
hoped the students will° use free
time togood advantage.;and not
fritter it away.
The,Hall-Dennis Report.;
which includes a wide diversity
of programmes was. mentioned.
Mr. Madill finished with a
question. period. Mrs. R. Bell
thanked the speaker.
In closing, Mrs. Kopas-men-
tioned that the room represent-
ative program is being revamp-
ed and will begin at the start
of the fall term. She asked if
all members had received their
Quest magazines in December,
and found that .some .had not.
The publications chairman will
chec int • this.
Local winners
Mary Edith Garniss, of R. R.
4, Wingham, a student in
Grade 7, East Wawanosh and
Velma Fear, R. R. 3, Blyth,
Grade 8, East Wawanosh, were,.
among the winners in an essay
contest sponsored recently by
the Huron and Perth Tuberculos-
is and Respiratory Diseases As-
sociation. • •
First prizewent to Brenda.
Siberrjr of Stratford for her es-
say on "How I Fight Respiratory
Disease".
Pupils from Grades 7 and 8
in both counties entered the
contest and the 20 best essays
were submitted for final judging
Edward Walker of Wingham
is president of the Huron Associ-
ation, which will combine with
the Perth group shortly. .
Ccutinuol:fron0,41
quality Qf the 'entries, the .en-
urged exhibition hall' and the
interest by Junior entrants, the
society hopes fOr a better turn
out from the town! and district
during this coining how
The society suffered the los
of two devoted mea lbers during
the peat: year in the passing of
s gondvice.president Howard
Sherboady, and director Pr. W.
A,. McKibbon.
The nominating committee
presented .the following slate of
officers: President, Ed Field-
ing; 1st vice-president. Rev.
Gordon L,, Fish; 2nd vice-presi-
dent, Mrs, William Connell.
One. year directors, Mrs.
Jim. Meyer. •Mrs. I.':g.Morrey.
Miss' Z. Hopwood, Wlliam
Harris, Stewart Beattie. Two-
year directors,. Colin Campbell.
Mrs. Ed Fielding, MIS. Mary
"Cleland, Mrs., George Gal-
braith, Roy Bennett. The sec- ,
retary and treasurer will be ap-
pointed by the Board of Direc-
tors at next Tuesday evening's
meeting.
Mrs. Connell and Miss M.
MacLeod were appointed dele-
'gates to the Ontario Horticul-
tural Association annual meet-
ing to be held in. Harnilton on
June 18-19-20 at the Connaught-
Hotel.
onnaughtHotel. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Field-
ing were appointed delegates
to the annual meeting of Dis-
trict 8 on Saturday, April 19 in
Brussels.
A question and answer per-
iod followed in which a num-
ber of items were discussed.
Announcements of coming
even$ Vero made., And t:
busO ,etiatg addou l to..
vier $dam- takkow by vo•
members of the; socil y ►g;
the parr sealed. The Society is
indebted to 0. W. Otuicitalloik,
Conn Campbell, Rfo Bennett
and EdFielding. for t eir corn
.tributiof in :colored 4,1140*
which with refreshments, 40rv1,'
ed' by a committee; rounded
out a very pleasant 41141.1 a i
meeting. .
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