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The Wingham Advance-Times, 1974-08-22, Page 1.t o.t p14000' 'the Huron C�+ 'd BEduca- ▪ tve 1 given4saw . ter4.15 6s4B 0 ,10 Ito a statement on co pleted ash negotiations released Monday . afternoon. Details of settlements reached with thing and non- teltehlnli pers,� were withheld. until all negotiations ‘were completed in order that the settlements would not idguence talk* , p�, . mrd Chair- p.Hill of Goderich said.. plant,. • ele entery school teachers.- hi .the last sa% category will` receive 40,200 annually increasing to . sego in six years. The highest salary.an ' elementary teams without a university degree can rive'Is $7,200, Increasing to $13,060 after 11 Yee►rar Teachers with degrees will be lid At the same,rate as secondary teachers. Secondary school teachers in the lowest category will receive 27,700 annually, increased to $14,- 400 after 11 years. The highest category ttijill receive $9e400 • annually,, increasing to $18,400 after. 14 years. The Service Employees Inter- national Union has 'negotiated a 26 per cent • increase; over •two years for its members who are custodians in the 12largest Huron. Board' schools. • .Employees with less than a' .year of service will receive $3.45 lam`, Hill was unabWW to give an approximate total figure on the amount of money'.the settlements, will cost the board but .said the proportion that the board now Vends .Ort salaries °will • not be changed appreciably by the new increases. . In the 1974 budget' of about 012 million the board spent about million on salaries, Huron's director of education John Coch- rane . said Tuesday Morning "about 72 to 75 per cent of the total". Mr. Cochrane said in- creased grants vrill.:keep the ▪ salary percentage about the same for 1975. • The board's 350 elementary schoolteachers will receive a 12.5 per centincr.4seover 1973.74 and its 265 secondary school teachers will get a 12.8 per cent boost. Under the new oneLyear agree- • Wingliam couple w. d. 63 years Mr. and Mrs. Scotty Ross held a quiet family gathering at 'their home on'nday in honor of their 63rd wedding anniversary:. Mrs. Ross was well enough to be home for the afternoon. Their fainily was present from Kitcheneiri , Goderich, +Guelp i tinnion and Wingham J no.a. o.. .. • q, p. k•Yi1n w"1.ypl� u Two businesses change, : hands There will two . new busi- nesses on the main street soon, one an .old face in a' new location and the other a completely new face in Wingham. The first is that Of Chris Gosling who is expanding his.car sales operation to include the Texaco station at the corner of Victoria and Josephine St. as well as selling gasoline there. Mr.. Gosling plans to sell both used and new cars at the new location. The "Goose" still in- tends to continue business as usual at the old location, Jose- phine St. north. The other change is the estab- lishment of a Becker's Milk Store in town. "Tiny" Templeman, the proprietor of the Rac and Break Billiards announced that he has sold his operation and the Becker Corp. will betaking over the loca- tion Sept. 1 of this year. However, the store will have to undergo some remodelling before the new owners can open. for business. At the present time Tiny says he has no firm . plans as to his future but whatever he does he would like tto stay in the area. ALONG THE MAIN_ DRAG By The Pedestrian NEW STANDPIPE— Workers on Wingham's new standpipe are taking a bit of a breather this week while the con- crete poured to date has time to set. However, the workers will be back on the job soon and we . should be seeing the worth of the new structureby a fall. 0-0-0 STRIKE NEWS— There has been little or no news for"thcoming from officials about the strike at Stanley Door Systems other than the strike is w going into its fourth week and there is no sign of a settlement. However, it is rumored that some some of the company officials in- volved in the negotiations are now on vacation, • 0-4-0 LIONS' FROLIC— Well, it's back again this year folks. The Lions are holding their annual summer frolic Aug. 21, 22 90 and 23. Come on out and support the, They do goad work for the community we live in. ir.. cr.... ci.s an hOur with an ie to SSS an hour Judi,. PM*. esnployees W receive $3.70 . as within Increase to $4.00 an Jtine1, 1975 tical " ted ��a'eaen by. the Canadian. Union Of "Public. .Employeee :.geta. pay in, .crease of 22 per cent. over two years, This year a category two .,.c,lericai workerwould 'receive :600r a to $5,900' tri .four n years. In 1975 *categOry. two . worker would Start at :0,00,0, and rise. to 40,E in f ve years.: - Non- .union, .secretarini. emr- ' ployees of the board were . •granted a 10,3"peer cent:increase v salaries rang,irng from 05,300.': to start to 07,200. after 'six years. Chief custodians .in ° Ifuronn's fivesecondary schools, received a 11.3 ' per cent- increaseputting, their Salaries in the $0,000 -to 010,100 range, • Management personnel , at the, board's adml tion Clinton have berm ivon all Increase of 10.1.per salaries! et the :chief plant ouperintendent, Purchaainit, manag portation,, accountant tive assistant to the be in the $10, to $111,1,00 The director' education mid the four superintendent* s education have their *Oleg Jolted in January, Board bus' drives will have their basic. salary i'aised 040 for 200, AAA to$2,405 for lid days. The 19 people who contrastcus- todial services, In elementary schools in the I B . and the Cli4on .centre reed . . an increase of 12.3 per cent. The.'mailer service contract has been increased from $4,740. to $5,'77MA% effective Sep. 1, '10.74. DWIGHT,:I ONELDA AND DANNY ,arnont�of igrave. received -a visit . rom a ¥heir grandmother ` Mrs.Jesse .., ,.; Lanraphf • of Moosomin, Sask., during''the .pas) week. 'The Lamont our # s. are triplets andd Y gS +�i`;� p S , ^tae to` the distance-, Mayor tt Miller w t senioi Citi in town who PresOlt l ving in O�nntario 2 - Co F rlati y�nr ¢Ja tmenyVht. s� y 1e P L-�•moi } entlas a the new ` on� " ' ,this The ex � on' red $t.'later year.. ma' told members of the Wingham' council that he had met with the OHC's local manager who had'assured him that the present residents . will not be very high on the waiting -list for the new apartments:. The meeting was promoted following' persistent'rumors that seniors. who already live in OHC apartments would • have ' first priority for the new apartments. In another incident, authorities offered an open apartment in an older OHC building to 17 people on the waiting list for the new building, before they found some- one willing to take the apartment. caned' The'mayor.was distressed latter `incident Comment t .those 17, p"Iebffear� . oo pertinent . i►,ou �� 1 1 1 In. t•0 the hew btl3 Mayor Miller reported that he had met with the deputy minister of the Ministry of Natural i Re- sources concerning the condition of the lower pond and the dam that collapsed earlier this year. He said the deputy minister's only suggestion was that the town write the Maitland Valley Con- servation Authority with a list of alternatives for repairing the structure. Reeve Joe Kerr suggested that the town look into the possibility of building a new spillway at the dam site while a new bridge planned for the area is being constructed Council, on a motion by Tim Willis and Bill Harris, agreed tp increase the compensation coverage for the town's firemen to $12,000 from $10,000. Council received a resolution from the Town of Orangeville asking the province to exempt municipalities from paying On- tario Sales Tax on items pur- chased by the municipality. Council endorsed the resolution and will forward their decision to the prQvincial MPP for the area as well as the provincial treasurer. Council decided to arrange a special meeting between the town's consulting engineer, Burns Ross; the town's solicitor, Bob Campbell, and the council to discuss the installation of storm sewers in the Moore and Reming- ton subdivisions. FIRE STRUCK the home of John Hamilton of Bluevale of Monday and Wingham and District firefighters rushed to the scene. No one was injured in the blaze which completely destroyed a garage at the rear of the home and destroyed the roof and second floor of the building. (Staff Photo) Cartruck accident takes Iife of Mrs. A. McBurne A 51 -year-old RR 5, Wingham woman, Mrs. Marion McBurney, died Thursday afternoon follow- ing a collision between the car she was driving and a gravel truck on Concession 10-11 at its intersection with Sideroad 36-37 in EastWawanosh Township. Her car was completely demolished in the crash. The "accident occurred when Mrs. McBurney was travelling to work at Wingham and District Hospital along the concession. The truck, driven by Alan Schu- macher of RR 2, Mildmay, collided with her car at the inter- section. The heavier vehicle slammed the McBurney car into a nearby ditch and then flipped over. Coroner Dr. J. K. MacGregor pronounced the victim dead at the scene. Mr. Schumacher received minor injuries to the left side of his face, and was treated at the scene. Wingham firemen were called to the site of the accident but their services were not needed. There had been fears that a fire might break out in one of the vehicles. WINGHAM'S RE DEPT. was called to the scene of a tragic accident on iliursdely afternoon in East Wawanosh Twp. wvhfl1 Mrs. Allan McBurney of RR 5, Wingham, was killed instantly when her car collide y+dump truck on the township's COncessi 10. The truck driver sustained only minor in Pities. on (Staff Photo) �I Opp officials have set the damage estimate at $4,300: Mrs. McBurney was the former Marion White and was born and educated in Ripley. She was a daughter of Russell White of San Jose, California, and the ° late Mrs. White. She was a registered nurse, having graduated from Victoria Hospital School of Nurs- ing, London. Mrs. McBurney was a mefl her of the Belgrave' Presbyterian Church and of the Women's Mis- sionary Society. She was also a member of the tidies' Auxiliary to the Royal Canadian Legion. Surviving, besides her father, are her husband, Allan Mc- Burney, whom she married in Ripley on Deceniber 26,1962; two sons, Danny and Ricky, aged 16 and 17, both at home, and one daughter, April, 14, also at home. Also left to mourn is one sister, Mrs. Dave (Isabelle) MacDonald of Goderich. The late Mrs. McBurney rested at the S: J. Walker Funeral Home, Wingham, where Rev. Barry Passmore conducted the service at 3:30 p.m, on Saturday. Interment followed in Brandon *glittery, Belgrave. A, Pallbearers were Clarence Hanna, Sydney Thompson, John Nixon, Gordon McBurney, ' Bob Armitage and Gary Barbour. Floiral tributes were carried by tabl1 Scott, Calvin Nixon and Roddy MacDonald. Dilations are being accepted tea Marion McBurney Memorial p'kr the Wingham and Dis- trict Rospital. results of the stivey.shoukl be forthcoming in the . near future. He added that under, the HOME scheme OHC will buy the lots,. 'service them, arrange for the building of the\homes and sell the new residences. Mayor.Miller informed council that prospec- tive buyers would only have to' made a $1;200 downpayment'and carry a mortgage over 50 years at 9% per cent. Council was. unanimous. in its hopes that 'the plan would indeed be established. Councillor Jack Gillespie re• ported that the staff room in the Day Care Centre is nearly com- P pleted and further that the air conditioning system has been in- stalled and is working properly. In another vein the councillor told council that the province will now subsidize 100 per cent of any rej ovations to the Day Care Centre that would be incurred in adding. a Day Nursery program. Councillor Gillespie said that the second floor of the present build- ing could easily be renovated to such a use and added that their is already a waiting list of 20 people interested in utilizing such a pro- gram. Council . responded to the ' in- formation with a motion asking the government to consider a grant to enable the town to add a Day Nursery to its present facili- ties. Police Committee Chairman Bill Harris explained that he had Wingham FD fights $35,000 house fire Wingham firemen fought flames in a Bluevale home on Monday for six hours before they managed to extinguish a blaze which did $35,000 damage to the home of John Hamilton. Chief Dave Crothers said that the call came into the Wingham fire hall at about 4 p.m. and firemen did not leave the scene in Bluevale until after 10 that evening. The fire chief said the fire. started in a refrigerator at the back of the home and then spread through a wall to a garage out- side. Froin there the flames ignited the roof and spread down through the walls of the two- storey brick building. The damages, $25,000 to the house itself and $10,000 to the contents, will be partially covered by in- surance. Mrs. Hamilton and some neigh - hors managed to rescue an number of the family's belongings from the burning home and take them to safety across the road. Mr. rlamilton was not at home when the fire erupted. No one who was in the house was injured." Wingham\ firemen were assisted by a tanker truck from the Blyth District Fire Dept. and at the height of the fire the firemen fought flames shooting 50 feet into the air. On Aug. 16 the department rushed to the scene of a car fire in front of the home of Russell Sewers on Carling Terrace. The fire, which- damaged the front seat of The vehicle, was quickly put out. Chief Crothers said the fire is believed to have been started the car bed cigarette in Councillor*Harris susses the towniderr buYing a near policecruise r as soon as. the lease on the present critwser expir y He.. said the Weeisinterested' in a good used. ;ear to replace the present'cruise r. Council passed a motion to•that effect. Couriciil was informed, that the PUC has ,begun work on re- placing the street lights on Jam=' phine St. Reeve Kerr expressed the opinion that coil :should give consideration: to recon- structing the road and curbs on the main street soon. Council. passed a motion requesting $12,000 , in additional, subsidies from the Ministry of Trans- portation and Communications for the project. Police probe outbreak of hft-run. events Wingham Police' Chichi Jim Miller is°concerned over a recent rash of minor accidents in 'which one of the drivers involved has failed to remain at the, scene. At least four such cases have arisen in the past week. The chief said that earlier this week a man left the scene of a minor collision In the IGA parking lot after he struck a parked car owned by Ed Eichersly. The man was later. contacted by police but they declined to release his name. The man has agreed to pay for the damages to the Eichersly car. Another such accident oc- curred at the corner of Scott and Victoria St. on Aug. 16. One of the cars involved sustained about $100 damage. As in the first case the police discovered the identity of the driver who left the scene and have.made arrangements for him to make good on com- pensation to the other driver. Of the other two cases one was handed to the OPP for in- vestigation and the other in- volving a car belonging to Hec Mackay of Wingham is being investigated by the Wingham police, opolice also report that a Wingham youth, Edward Whitby was charged with causing a disturbance and doing wilful damage following an incidr' t on Aug. 15 in which a youth was seen kicking parking meters and buildings on the main'street. The youth was also seen kicking in the window of s car belonging to Jim Alton of Wingham.