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Zurich Citizens News, 1965-06-03, Page 2PAGE TWO ZURICH CITIZENS NEWS THURSDAY, MAY 27, 1965 ditcoucz I ectopmeott IIPIN We Still Need Them In a news bulletin from the Financial Post, one article is headed up "Corner Store Just a Memory?" It goes on to state that there will be more use of elaborate electronic data-processing systems for mer- chandise, a further move by department store operators into unconventional market- ing methods, more tie-ups between dis- tinct types of merchandise and •other pro- gressive features. All designed, no doubt, to streamline the retail trade. Living in a small community, we are loath to see the personal touch gradually being lost in the business world. As yet, we can still expect, and get, a very per- sonal type of service from our retailers — and we don't want to lose it. No amount of slick merchandising can replace the comfortable feeling of being able to order a roast from the butcher and Spending Is One of the bright ideas for "Expo 67", the World Fair to beld at Montreal in 1967, is an apartment house for the officials of the Fair, and the representatives of foreign government which will have exhibits there. Plans have been completed, we see by the news. for a building to contain 185 apartment suites, to be built at an esti- mated cost of $11.500,000. At whose cost? Well, at your, for one an at that of all other Canadian taxpayers. We believe that new apartment build- ings of the kind we have constructed in Stratford in recent years can be put up at a cost of about $10.000 per apartment unit. That's about the scale of cost at which apartment housing is provided for people you are likely to know. When we do a little simple arthimetic, dividing 185 into $11,500,000, the answer we get is a figure a little in excess of $62,000. What does one get, we wonder, in an apartment unit at that price? Gold- plated door knobs? Broadloom on the ceilings? Organizing a World Fair for Canada's Centennial Year is a matter of putting on a show, and we understand that putting on a show can't be done on the cheap. Unless it's .a good show, it's a flop. At the same time, we wonder whether it is really going to help the show to have its officials living in super -luxury at the expense of the Cana - The Rea The real Westerner lives in the west because that is where he wants to live. To be sure there are times—in the thick of a dust storm, or in the depth of a hard win- ter—when he reviles the country and de- clares that the Indians got all the best of the deal. But this is merely from the teeth out. It doesn't mean a thing. He wouldn't, in cold blood, trade one dust storm for all the balm of California. The real Westerner is never shaken by the passing cataclysms of life. Each day he looks at the mountains, and finds them intack and indestructible. This gives him poise, and something to live up to. He, too, remains intact and indestructible. Each day he looks upon the immensity and candor of the plains. And is impressed with the spacious of life, with always room for another chance. Each day, he breathes deep of the tonic air, and figures it's a good life after all, It is admitted that he sees things on a somewhat magnified scale, but that is the result of his large size environment. A mile isn't anything, better say 10 miles; 100 head of cattle is more in keeping than 10 head; a crack in the earth becomes an Radio Equipment In this complicated age, even staying in your own back yard won't necessarily keep you out of trouble, particularly if you are one of those progressive homeowners who have radio -controlled garage doors. The equipment that operates the doors can be a hazard to flying by interfering with air navigation signals. Though they are receivers, they can generate signals like a small radio transmitter if their an- tennae are not sufficiently isolated. In one week in Los Angeles recently, investigators tracked down 58 offending garage door openers and shut them down. While most of the trouble has occurred know that he will remember your famrite cut. Or calling the repairman for the wash- ing machine and have him come right away because you are in the midst of a wash. Even the milkman gets to know your requirements, and if you inadvertently forget to leave bottles out he will usually leave the right quantity for your needs — or make a second trip to deliver if you call in. Our local businessmen are often our unsung heroes. Many calls are made on their time for service they would not be required to give in larger centres. The corner store is a cherished part of our community. It may be slightly old- fashioned, but it is a facet of our daily liv- ing we would not like to do without,—(New Hamburg Independent) Nice Work dian taxpayer. We have an uncomfortable feeling that nobody has a grip on the purse -strings that supply money for the World Fair that we are to have in Montreal two years from now. If nobody is holding the purse - strings, it is only to be expected that the Fair officials, who are hired to spend money, will get on gaily and happily with the spending of money. The Hon. Maurice Lamontange, Secre- tary of State, is supposed to- be the member of the Government who reports to Parlia- ment for the management of the World Fair. If anybody in authority is keeping an eye out to whittle down the spending of the World Fair dreamers, he is the one. Remembering how the Hon, Maurice La- montange managed his own furniture pur- chases. we think the taxpayer would be better protected if someone just a little sharper and more businesslike could be the connecting link between the World Fair people who are spending money, and Parliament which has to provide it out of money raised in taxation. If taxpayers' money is going to be used to put up apartment buildings, then $11,500.000 could be used to provide about 1,150 apartments for people who could use them for the rest of their lives, rather than provide them for six months for 185 World Fair executives.—(Stratford Beacon -Herald) 1 Westener awful abyss on the smallest provocation; and 100 acres is not worth mentioning. make it 1000. But that is merely an out- ward manifestation of his underlying ex- pansiveness of spirit. Petty quibbling over decimals and fractions is foreign to his na- ture. His latchstring is always out for the wanderer, he pays his bills without moans and groans. In a business deal he is bound to his word without the scratch of a pen to hold him. He is lenient towards man- sized sins but despises meanness. His friendship once given is a life -time con- tract. His favorite indulgence is the co- lossal, impossible story. He is fearless, frank, indomitable. He may be temporarily diminished by adverse fate but is never conquered. He knows that no human agency can take from him the things that he values—the ever- lasting mountains, the far horizons, the energizing air, the companionship of high hearted friends. Many a person who has. the making of a real westerner in character and out- look, has never so much has seen the west. And only .a small proportion of those in- habiting the west are real westerners.— (High River Times, Feb., 1950) Can't Think near big airfields, some receivers are strong enough to be picked up by aircraft as far as 16 miles away. Thus it would be possible for a pilot to home -in on some- body's garage and fly directly toward it. The hazard works both ways. The doors of one garage in the Midwest open or close every time a certain flight passes ever. In other locations, signals from ra- dio navigation aids have caused doors to flip-flop at all hours. Some pranksters have discovered a new sport in operating garage doors with transmitters as they pass by en the street. Letters to the Editor The Editor, Zurich Citizens News We wish to present some con- siderations in favour of a school et Bayfield to serve the west- ern end of Stanley Township. PROPOSAL: It is proposed that two classrooms and a gen- eral purpose room be added to the present modern Bayfield School to provide elementary school facilities for the western end of Stanley Township School Area. This school would, of course, be under the control of the new Huron County School Area No. 1. This stunuiary will attempt th present some argu- ments in favour of our pro - GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION : You shbeld study a maty) of Huron County to appreciate the problem. Bayfield is at the extreme northwest corner „©f the couy ty seliboi area. The proposedIdeation of a single central school to serve the whole area is 114 miles south of Brucefield. This is almost 12 miles .distaiit from Bayfield. ' Pupils front the former school sections 3 and four are even further away in most cases. Al- though a county paved road joins Bayfield and Brucefield, it is not built to modern high- way standards .and is of doubt- ful safety in winter. Highway 21 and the year -around town- ship roads in the western end of Stanley Township run north and south and worsen the prob• lem of transportation to a cen tral sehool many miles east. These roads are more naturally tributary to Bayfield. In addi- tion telephone connections and mail services are supplied from. Bayfield. All of these consid- erations, together with normal business and shopping habits established over the years, link the former school sections 3, 4 and 9, Bayfield. UR.BAiN COMMUNITY: Bay- field is an incorporattecl village of over 400 dwellings, Although over half of these are at pres- ent used as summer residences there is a growing tendency to winterize summer homes. They then become capable of being used as permanent dwellings. Thus, there is a very large urban community potential in the village right now. Of re- cent years this community has begun to expand rapidly as families settle here, and com- mute elsewhere to work, er to retire. The 1964 municipal di- rectory listed the year-round population of Bayfield as 386 (September, 1963). As of Sep- tember, 1964, it was, officially, 474. Assessment in the last three years has increased at an average rate of $40,000 per year. A five-year forecast of pupil population indicates the present school enrolment will be maintained without more families moving in. Both the Ontario Telephone Services Commission and the Ontario Hydro forecast growth in Bay- field. On the other hand we understand that Ontario Hydro forecasts a one per cent de- crease in rural population over the nextx ten years. It would, therefore, appear to be folly to ignore the present and long- term advantages of locating part of the school facilities of County School Area No. 1 in Bayfield. It should be pointed out that school is a vital part of an urban community. Remove the school and you remove one of the main reasons people seek to live in urban communities— to have close and easy contact with good school facilities. Bay- field would suffer a partial death. BAYFIELD SCHOOL AND ITS SITE: Bayfield already has a modern two -room school less than 10 years old. It is in excellent condition. It was built that two rooms can be added without too much diffi- culty. Plumbing and heating do not present serious linkage problems. Land was purchased, with 'departmental advice, when the school was built to provide for the future addition of two classrooms. Moreover, the school is very well located and is adjacent to Clan. Gregor Square (four acres) and Centen- nial Agricultural Park (eight acres). The village hall is be- side the school property and the Bayfield arena is located just off one corner of the school property. These facilities are important and can be most helpful to an expanded school program. With some land acquisition (of adjacent vacant property) there would be no problem of providing for fu- ture expansion to six or eight rooms—as will be required, un- doubtedly, in time. ADEQUACY OV E D' U C A- TION: There is ne doubt that good education can be provided WIMINIfte WA.. urich News PRINTED BY SOUTH HUII,ON PUBLISHERS LiMrpED, ZURICH HERB TURKHEIK Publisher J. E. HUNT, Plant Superintendent Authorized as Second Class Mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa and for the payment of postage in cash Member: Member: Member: Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association Ontario Weekly Newspapers Association Canadian Community Newspapers Representatives Subscription Rates: $3.00 per year in advance, in Canada; $4.00 in United States Bind and Foreign; single copies 7 cents. in a four -room elementary school assuming that good and dedicated teachers are provid- ed. Two grades in a room is NOT bad education. In fact, even the largest central schools have to put two grades in some rooms because of differences in numbers of school population by grades. The extras can be provided as easily—and in some oases with Much more fle,ibil- ity; as in a much larger school. When the two additional class- rooms are built a general pur- pose room should also be pro- vided to enable an im ireved type of education — provision for enrichment, a visual aid prograiie a physical education program, m u s i e a 1 education, etc. Such a general purpose room would also provide a fifth classroom, if required; to cope with the pupil growth emer- gencies that a community with as many dwellings as Bayfield can experience on occasion. The provision of a school in the western end of the school area at Bayfield would continue close contact between home and school Which had always been considered an iiriportant •aspect of elementary education. Know- ing the home circumstances of the pupil enables the teacher to develop the learning process of the child with sympathy and understanding. But, what con- tact would the teacher at a large central school have with the circumstances of the pupil who lives miles and miles away? Or what contact would the par- ent have with the teacher and the school in similar circum- stances? Where would the teachers of a large central school, built deep in the coun- try, live? Surely, mainly in urban centres outside the school area they serve. In which case they are "suitcase' teachers who see their pupils only between the times stipu- lated in the bus contract and have little contact with the com munities they are engaged to serve. The provision of facil- ities at Bayfield would enable the continuance in the western portion of the school area of the philosophy that the elemen- tary school should provide the step between the home and the larger community of higher ed- ucation. Such a step should disrupt the child's development as little as possible and enable the growth and development of the 'child in a community which he knows and in which he feels secure. school at Bayfield for the west- ern portion of the school area would minimize the loss of schooling and the hazard due to winter weather. In the event of a bad stormthe village can assist in looking •after storm -bound pupils from the country far better than would be the case at a large school south of Bayfield. Lunch—Over half the enrol- ment c o u Id walk home for lunch, Extra- Curricular Activities---, Stich. as Boy Scants, Girl Guides, Cubs and Brownies; use of Bay- field public library; music les- sons; skating; hockey, etc., can be linked much easier to the school population .if a school is located in Bayfield. Kindergarten is Much more feasible for this end of the school area if a school is lo- cated in Bayfield. After School Activities --Rur- al pupils attending from former school sections 3, 4 and 9 would not be so dependent on the exact time of bus schedules since parents could arrange to pick them up separately, after such activities are finished, as part of a shopping trip, Community Interest — Such local organizations as the Lions Club, churches, library board, village council, etc., would be able to interest themselves in assisting local educational ac- tivities. Growth of Bayfield •— There will be an incentive for families with young children to settle in Bayfield and provide a well- balanced community life. Accommodation for Teachers —Teachers could live in Bay- field and contribute to commun- ity life and to good relations be- tween home and school, Tax Base—The base of assess- ment supporting each pupil of the present Bayfield school is almost equal to that in the rural townships. This is be- cause of Bayfield's large sum- mer resident .assessment. This village is NOT in the position of benefitting at the expense of rural assessment. The ratepay- ers of the village (both perma- nent and summer) are entitled to consideration because they are paying for it. The Huron County Way of Life—This is a predominantly rural county. Local attach- ments are strong and part of our way of life. It is suggested that an approach to centraliza- tion which would apply in a large city does NOT apply here. SUMMARY: It is not sug- gested that the foregoing is a complete presentation of all the Bottle Tossers What is to be learned either academically or by experience by waiting for or riding in buses for long hours of each week? Is it not a complete waste of time, and a source of profit to the bus operator? Why should we not then seek to re- , duce such wasted time to a minimum? Are the advantages to be gained from attendance at a distant central school enough to compensate for the sheer frustration and waste of time which are also involved? To say nothing about the added costs. ECONOMIC CONSIDERA- TIONS: The SOS committee has not yet had time to pro- duce detailed figures on costs but there are some facts which should be considered here. The Bayfield school represents now two classrooms (and the land 46 support four) in good condition. There is a debenture debt still unpaid and not due of approxi- mately $25,000. If the school were closed and sold only a portion of this amount would be realized. Bayfield School Section (No. 8) handed over a surplus (which was being built up for an addition to the school) of $13,000 to the new Stanley Township School Area as of January 1, 1965. The ratepay- ers of Bayfield have a large investment in this school prop- erty and should not lose it. The present building, land and equipment might represent a replacement value of $60,000. How much of this would be sal- vaged at sale? The Bayfield school enrol- ment (May) is 68 pupils. The cost of transporting them 24 miles each day might be in the neighborhood of $10,000 per year. The cost of transporting an- other 60 rural pupils from the western end of the school area to Bayfield would, surely (a rough estimate), be less than half of that required to trans- port them to a school south of Brucefield. The above should indicate, at least, that there are savings to be made now, and more so over the long term, by locating school facilities in Bayfield. OTHER FACTORS IN' FAV- OR OF A BAYFIELD SCHOOL: Weather—Still a considerable factor in winter. Location of a Discussion of Law w Fools! nincompoops! morons) simpletons! idiots! These are just e few of the printable names used by farm- ers and road maintenance per- sonnel ersonnel to describe the irrespon- sible people who litter roadsides with empty bottles of every description. The resultant damage to the tires of autos, trucks, farm trae- tora, farm implements and road niaintexiance equipment, cou- pled with the injury to live- stock, represents, if it could be evaluated in dollars, a stagger- ing financial loss to property owners and municipalities. The increased use of snow blowers for snow removal an roads has made the problem more acute. Broken bottles are deposited with the snow a con- siderable distance inside prop- erty fence lines. Portions of broken bottles are often picked up by machines harvesting live- stock forage and so present a constant hazard to livestock and and livestock feeders. In ad- dition, the trampling hooves of foraging livestock and the rub- ber tires of farm equipment are in continual danger of serious injury. This practice of bottle dis- posal is, of course, against the law, and penalties are provided for offenders, but this is a dif- ficult law to enforce. It is a physical and financial impossi• (CONTINUED ON PAGE 7) considerations in favor ,of re- taining elementary school facil- ities in Bayfield. There will be more factors which will be sug- gested by .others. But, we de maintain that some of these arguments are so strong that it would be folly to continue thinking along the lines of one central school for the whole county school area. Lastly, it should be said that it is appar- ent that an overwhelming ma- jority of the ratepayers and parents of the village of Bay- field and a large majority of the ratepayers and parents of the former school sections 3, 4 and 9 are in favor of a four - room school in Bayfielcl. This strong demonstration of opinion is being .collected in petitions which are now being circulated. The Save Our School Committee, Bayfield and Former School Sections, 3, 4 and 9. Florence Oddleifson, May 22, 1965 Secretary Business and Professional Directory OPTOMETRY J. E. 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