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The Wingham Advance-Times, 1972-04-06, Page 8u DISCUSSING THE PLAN for the Wingham Lions Club to enter a float in the Lions district convention are second vice president Russell Zurbrigg and Archie Hill who volunteered to lock after the details of preparing a float. —Staff Photo. Huron -Perth board exercises option The Huron -Perth County Roman Catholic Separate School Board passed a motion exercis- ing its option on 7.2 acres of land on the easterly limits of Seaforth when it met in regular session in Seaforth Monday of last week. The land will be a school site for future needs of the board. It is bordered by Goderich Street (No. 8 Highway) on the north, Cole- man- Street on the west and Gouinlock Street on the south. The price is $40,000 with closing date on July 31.. John Lane, business admin- istrator, revealed that a saving of $4,196.20. would be made by 'the By-law sets Continued from Page 1 totalling $33,703, , which were approved. Reeve Jack Alexander; report- ing: for the property committee, recommended the purchase of a wide -carriage typewriter for the police office if a suitable used 'machine can be located. There was also some discussion of waste containers which could be affixed to the lighting standards along the main street, similarto those in use at Listowel. . The reeve also . . subm fitted the, plans and specifications for the new police offices in the former armouries building and the clerk was' asked to • advertise for' ten- ders for the' work. , The appointment of Mrs.' Bruce, . MacLean 'as secretary for the new Day Care Centre was ap- proved and approval has also been ' received from the Depart- ment of Social and Family Serv- ices for ' the revised estimate of $5,300 for the renovation of the former post office building as. the site of the centre. The change' to daylight saving time for the end of this month was • authorized. Councillor Harris reported that all -fire departments in the mutual fire aid area of which Wingham is a part are "hooked up" on one radio frequency which it is hoped will eventually be used throughout the county: board if the 45 municipalities. paying school levies were to pay them in four instalments each year. At present, 30 municipali- ties pay them in two instalments and 15 pay them once yearly and none pay them in the four instal- ments as per Section 81 (2) of the Separate School Act. The study of the tax levies was authorized at a board meeting two weeks, ago When a Stratford trustee questioned his city paying its levy in four instalments. How - ,ever, the business administrator, who was absent from that meet- ing, assured board members that Stratford paid its tax levy 'twice yearly even though taxes were collected four. times a year. Trustee Joseph Looby, Dublin,. stated; "I think we should get a report on the feeling of the public school board." • Jack McCann, Ailsa Craig, vice chairman' of the board, , who 'presided for the meeting, suggested the matter be left over for another meeting after Trustee Ted Geoffrey;; Zurich, offered to contact Charles Rau of Zurich, the separate school representa- tive epresentative on the Huron County Board of Education, and Trustee Chris Walraven, St. Marys, offered to contact Leonard Feeney, Strat- ford, separate school representa- tive on the Perth County. Board of Education to get the feelings of those public school boards. At tiresent both public school boards accept the school - levies in two yearly payments. Accident• insurance for parent volunteers will be provided as made available by Pitts Life Insurance Company. • A study on the Family Life Ad-. visory Committee program at St. Jerome's College in Waterloo commencing in July will be at- tended by Sister •Mary St. Louis, principal of St. James', School, Seaforth. At present the board has a committee' studying the possibility of the Family Life pro- gram being started in the schools under the Huron -Perth ' board. 'Nobody, told him it couldn't be done, and so he went right ahead and found it out for himself. MEN'S FIRST QUALITY FOREST GREEN SIZES 30.42. WORK PANTS s4. 9 $.99 'CHILDREN'S 2-6x COTTON Reg. 99c each PRINTED SLACKS Z/s 100 LADIES' 1ST QUALITY Reg. 89e PANTY HOSE 3/$10�' SEE OUR LINE OF FOOTWEAR FOR MEN Earl's Fair Clothine for the Entire Family JOSEPHINE STREET WINGHAM Directorsle unfair basisof tui While members of the Huron County Board of Education were having difficulty staying within a budget ceiling imposed on or- dinary expenses by the Ontario Government, there was consider- able concern building for the future of education in this county. During the meetings held Wed- nesday, March ;29` and Monday, April 3,- in- Clinton, some mem- bers of the board expressed the feeling that the Huron board is being penalized for not spending more in previous years. It was pointed out that while Huron has spent wisely for edu- cation and implemented only those programs recommended by the Ontario Department of Edu- cation, other boards in the prov- ince have spent large sums of money and have updated their • educational facilities in the in- terim. It now, appears, according to board officials, that Huron County will not be able to achieve the level of facilities and equip ment maintained in other schnn& jurisdictions, because grant ceil- ings will rise in Huron at the same level as every other schuui district in the province while their base remains unusually low. Director 91 Education 101, Huron, D. J. Cochrane, termed Prime Minister William Davis' promise for educational equality the "Great Ontario Myth". Ina letter from' the director to The Honorable Thomas Wells, Minister of Education, Huron's position, was explicitly outlined. "As chief education officer for the Huron County Board of Edu- cation and as your representative in Huron County School Divi- sion," wrote Mr. Cochrane, "I feel obliged to draw to your atten- tion the fact that the Department of Education's ceiling on ' or- dinary expenditures as applied to this particular jurisdiction will practically decimate the school system as it now exists." "In effect," the director con- tinued, "the program offered to the,ch i ldren of, Huron' County next year will, at best. he similar to those offered before the introduc; tion of the county hoards of edu- cation in 1969. It seems to us that Mr. Robarts' statement in Galt on .November 14, 1967, to the' ef- fect that the number one priority was ,the equality of educational opportunity, will only be a myth insofar 'as we in Huron .County, are concerned.; "May I hasten to point out that, In general, we are not opposed to ceilings on expenditures," wrote Mr. Cochrane, "but we do feel. that ceilings based on expendi, tures per pupil in the previous year are totally unfair to consea'- vative jurisdictions such as. ours:" "As an example of my point, I would cite the situation regarding Special Education," continued the director. "Mr. Davis on March 15, 1968, when he intro- duced the 'legislation regarding larger units of school administra- tion, stated. . .'We feel that in- herent in this basicl, legislation is a requirement. that the type of education to be provided must meet the needs of all boys and gids in a school juri dicti ►n. This point of view will require the es- tablishment of a program for special education'." Special Education "We did not, however, rush out and appoint a large speciaf'edu- cation staff," Mr. Cochrane wrote. ' "We took time to do a Icy roads cause mishap. in Howick °Twp.. One man •was injured in a sin- gle car mishap last Tuesday on Concession 4 and 5 of Howick Township. John R. Bradley of RR 1, Ford- wich, was travelling. west on the concession road when his car skidded on ice and rolled onto its roof: Mr. -Bradley., received :only. minor injuries; damages to his vehicle were estimated at $900.00. The day previous to that, ap- proximately , $200.00 worth of damage was caused to a vehicle driven by Ralph Carere of Guelph when, in attempting to avoid col- lision with another vehicle on Highway 86. he collided ,.with •a snowbank on the north side of the highway, swerved back' across the highway and came , to rest against the south snowbank. ' On Saturday vehicles driven by Hans J. Splett of Wingham and Ronald G. Cook of Belgrave were involved in an accident on High- way 4, south of the intersection of County Rd. 16 in East Wawanosh. There were no injuries and dam- agesto both vehicles were esti- mated at $600.00. Provincial Po- lice officers state that charges are pending in connection with this mishap. All three accidents *ere inves- tigated 'by the Wingham detach- ment of the Ontario Provincial Police. thorough, comprehensive study of the county's needs and only then did we approach 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 to our elementary school pupils and their parents, we introduced 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 per cent of these salaries,, coupled with any crease in September of this year, are charged to the 1972 budget, we find ourselves in dire straits," said Mr, Cochrane. "I shouldper- haps also mention, in passing, that the opportunity to take oral French at the elementary school level was extended from one former secondary school district to all children of the county and this required the' addition of 12 additional teachers with the same salary impact in 1972." Mr. Cochrane's letter then out- lined the cuts which had been made in the budget to come be- neath the ceilings imposed by the government. "The part that bothers us most, of course, is the cutback and or :elimination of programs -we were able to institute 'as a county operation," the letter went on. "Frankly, sir, we fail to see the fairness in a grant system that allows a no -growth area' such as Music group will continue in armouries Grant Heywood 'and Gary Brenzil, members of a young people's music 'group known as the .Callus Blue, appeared as a' deputation before town council on Monday 'evening to seek an un- derstanding over use' of the former armouriesbuilding as a place to practise. During the discussion on Mon- day evening Ithe two members of the delegation discussed the alle- gations that doors had been left unlocked, etc.,and the outcome of the' matter was that the band will be' permitted to continue use ofthe armouries building. They • were' asked, however, to take precaution$ to reduce the noise level as far as possible, particu- larly during the warm weather when windows would be open: Board forced to slash budget Continued from Page 1 portation and other operating ex- penses. • Cut Field Trips In transportation, for instance; budgets for field trips and pro- , gram athletics were cut severely to one-third of last year's bud- gets. The driver education program was retained for secondary school students although students taking the course in 1972-73 will pay $20 towards the cost of 'the course intead of. $15 as previous- ly. About 480 secondary school students are enrolled in the driv- er education courses at the five county high schools, and the ma- jority of board members felt the program was too valuable in terms of road safety in the coun- ty, to delete from the budget. Original indications had also been that night school courses would be cut from the budget but it. 'was later learned that deleting this item' would not constitute a saving because of the grant structure governing night school. It is interesting to note that personnel in the head office at Clinton led the way•in budget sav- ings. The original budget for head office spending had been $17,525 and after the cut backs, remained at $9,425—about 50 per cent! In all, $129,712 was sliced from the secondary school budget and $219,500 was stricken from the elementary school budget. Even with the cutbacks in spending, the levy to the munici- palities will likely remain the same: The board gave its approv- al Monday evening for the insti- tution of a $200,000 reserve for working fund• -The fund is consid- ered important to Huron County's educational, system, because in- dications are thit even more drastic reductions in the ceiling for the 1973 budgets will be- im- . posed. - There is no doubt that mem- bers of the Huron County Board of 'Education are concerned. In fact,, a resolution was passed Monday , evening that. a meeting between a delegation from Huron County's board and the Ontario Minister of Education be set up. The purpose of the meeting will be to outline to the Minister that while Huron County Board' of • Education' has complied with the. government's halt on spiralli g educational costs for .1972, it can- not live within similar restric- tions for another year without jeopardizing the' total educational system in Huron. Hon. C. S. MacNaughton and Murray Gaunt, MPP for Huron - Bruce, will be invited to attend the meeting and will be urged to -be present if at all possible. COMPLETELY ENJOYING himself at the party held in his honor to mark his retirement as a custodia► at Wingham Public School, Roy Manuel is offered good wishes by Mrs. Jane Heipel while Miss Donna Malick, left, looks on. —Staff Photo. ' s ours per pupil expenditure ceiling of $531 and allows a neighbor, who has had time to develop spe- cial programs because it was not a newborn jurisdiction in 1 : , a ceiling that is $140 per pupil higher." "It seems to us up here on the shores of Lake Huron that Mr. Davis' statement to the effect that the major and ultimate goal of the ,legislation .to establish boards of education• was that all children, regardless of, their so- called station in life, the particu- lar nature of their. individuality, or the chance of their geographic location have a right to equality of educational ,opportunity will remain the Great Ontario. Myth," wrote Mr. Cochrane. "Suffice it to say that programs such as art and music that the ratepayers have requested do not stand much chance of implemen- tation," continued Mr. Cochrane. Delegation As a. follow-up to Mr. Coch- rane's letter, a delegation of the Huron Cou ty Board of Educa- tion will visit the Minister of Edu- cation at a date still to be an- nounced, to plead their case. They will make it clear that while cuts have been made in the 1972 budget, this county cannot live with a similar budget another year without jeopardizing the educational system in Huron. There is some urgency to this action, because the board has in- dications that the projected ceil- ings for 1973 will result in addi- tional cuts and consequential problems for the Huron board. Ratepayers of Huron County will note that the cuts affect only ordinary expenses—those items such as teachers' salaries, school supplies, school , offices, plant operation and maintenance,. transportation, libraries, etc. In his budget presentation, Treasurer Darcy McKeough stated the government's ob- jective 'was "the continuing ex- pansion of the economy and a substantial improvement in the unemployment situation". He said that new jobs require capital investment. • "When governments were hit by the tidal wave of the post-war baby boom," said Mr. 'Mc - Keough, "they were obliged 'to - step up dramatically their capital investment , in education . facilities: Now that these young people need jobs and housing, fis- cal and monetary policies shod recognize this demographic and. economic fact." He has estimated that about 120,000 new jobs will be created in 1972 and .that unemployment will drop to an average of 4.8 per cent of the labor force from the average of 5.2 per cent for 1971. In addition to the cuts in educa- tional ceilings,.' fees at univer- sities and community colleges will increase by $100 per year and. new tuition .fees will be es- tablished at teachers' colleges and schools of nursing. The treasurer has said that it is unfair for taxpayers to bear all of the cost, increases in post -second- ary education and' that some should be borne'by students since they receive the- direct benefits. winners ' WI1ITECH CH. -- Currie'a Euchre Club held Ilts card party last Thursday in the 001011ve Arena assembly roOm with eight tables in play. ' Those winning prizeswere. Mrs. Jim Currie, illi. John L. Currie, Mrs. Aruckle, M. Nor- man Coulter,' Ronald Coultes, Bob, Arbuckle and Lloyd Mont- gomery. Howard Walker won the novelty prize. The sponsors, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Moore and Mr: and -Mrs. Henry Pattison, served lunch. The next party will be April 14, with Mr. and Mrs. Norman Coul- tes and Mr. and Mrs. Jim Coultes superyisors. Combined choirs provide music at Easter service day service was held at 11 a.m. in the ,United Church which was en- hanced with baskets of spring flowers. , Singers from the United Church, Chalmers Presbyterian and Langside Presbyterian choirs gave the song message, "The Old Rugged Cross," with Mrs. Garnet Farrier as organist and John Gibb pianist. They also accompanied the singing of East- er hymns. Karel De Koeijer opened the service and Victor Wybenga read the scripture, led in prayer, and gave the announcements. The of- fering was received by Earl Thompson and Garry Chapman. The Easter message was given by Mr. De Koeijer. The best place to find a helping hand' is ,at the end of your arm. Perma - Drive PAVING Box 791 Listowel 291-2637 A er.Wd , A comm on i ► L'0? brook United u Friday, R , St0,1003, orkonald. was guest sp!. Miss Jeanette Johnston pf Stratford spent the weekend with. her parents, Mr. and Mme. 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