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SEAFORTH, ONTARIO,.: JANUARY 27, 1966 ..
Rail. Service Depends on Facts
Municipalities along the Stratford-
Goderich line of the CNR are on good
ground when they take a stand on the
railway's avowed determination to
abandon passenger service between the
two points.
Loss of passenger service, regardless
of the degree. to .which it has been used
in the past, will have unfavorable econ-
omic effects on the community concern-
ed. Quite properly, municipal repres-
entatives question the railroad's deci-
sion. • '
But whether threats to boycott CNR
freight business will achieve the desir-
ed result is another matter. If the
threats were carried into effect it might
just be that this would provide the rail-
way with an excuse to roll up its tracks
and call it quits as far as this area is
concerned. There is growing evidence
that the railways are not interested in
providing local service, no matter whe-
'ther it.is passenger, express or freight.
Final decision of course rests" with
the Board of•. Transport Commissioners
wlio .will judge..the merits of the CNR
application to abandon the service on
the basis of the mass of statistical data
which the railway has accumulated and.
interpreted to support its case.
True, threats of boycott gain news-
paper headlines, but it wont be on head-
lines the Board will decide -the case. It
requires facts. "[Thiess the municipali-
ties concerned present an equally well
. documented case for continuing the
service, as the CNR presents for aban-
donment, the Board will have ' "little
' choice..
What is needed, if the municipalities
are serious .s they „should be in their
opposition to the railway plan, is a
searching analysis of the railway's
claims. What are the total revenues of
the line, and what proportion of
pe.nse is charged to passenger., service?
What proportion of the claimed annual
Ioss is represented by the cost of the
dozens of staff who over•several years
have spent many months building a
case to support , abandonment of ser-
vice? On what grounds is the Strat-
ford-Goderich line being discontinued
and other lineswvith perhaps less over-
all revenue beipg continued? What 'ef-
fect has the CNR, decision to parallel
railway express service with truck
service had on costs?
To what extent does the overall ser
vice in this area generate ..business in
other areas of the CNR system? What
is the growth potential of the Huron -
Perth district, and what effect will loss
of rail service have -Ori it?
The CNR contentions must be exam-
ined
in detail °and countered with facts.
Threats and generalizations that we
want passenger service simply will not
be good enough-.
The CNR but .recently has gained ..a.
belated awareness„ of the existence of
a' public it was created to serve, and as
a result is encouraging increasing num-
bers* to „use its facilities. It is . ironic
that at such a time it should decide to
deny certain services to areas which on
balance continue to be its- good cus-
tomers.
Creating Jobs for Huron. Youth s
I, robably nothing could . contribute ined desire to correct the situation.
more to the development of ,Huron than
the successful completion. of a program
outlined by Warden Kenneth Stewart
following his election a4.t. the inaugural
meeting Of County- Council last week.
What is needed, Warden Stewart told:
his fellow .councillors, `is a program that
will create more jobs for the. boys and
girls of Huron that are being trained
in the county each.• year. Instead of be-
ing drained off by the job attractions
of the cities, Huron youth must be' pro-
vided with opportunities that Will per-
mit all their skills, and knowledge, and
enthusiams to - be retained in their
native county. - • --
The answer he suggested is an , in-
crease in the number of secondary in-
dustries in the county. Council quite
properly aagreed, and "at a subsequent
meeting instructed ,.,the Warden's Per=
sonnei Committee ? to carry out a 'Min,,
vey and suggest steps to be taken to
provide more job opportunities in
Huron. •.
Iii such a study the committee will
have available to it the results
of surveys of highly trained per-
sonnel of government at various levels.
Certainly there 'is a growing accept-
ance in goverl'rmerrt of the fact that
there is an imbalance in the oppb'ituni-
ties existing in one part of , the prov-
ince as compared to another ; between
--- —the city and the semi -rural economy,
Mach as exists in Huron, and a determ-
A Macduff Ottawa Report
.By recognizing that the problem ex- -.
ists, and taking a positive step in de-
termining on a "study, Huron has gone
a long way towards a solution. But
this in itself is not enough. If such
a program is':=to meet with success,
there must be a willingness to provide
funds necessary to carry out required,
studies and --•-surveys, because industry
rarely makes a move on the grounds
only that it is Welcom.e. It must be
convinced of the economic advantages
that can flow 'from a location in Huron,
and this is possible only, if proper data,
prepared by trained personnel, is avail-
able. •
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Equally important is the willingness
td employ personnel qualified, to carry
the message of Huron to those,•.ax•eas
in Canada, and perhaps abroad, where
decisions concerning - industrial loca-
tions are ,made. . " •
But -.:above all, the program must be
entered into with 'the acceptance of the
fact that there is no•short=gut to indus-
trial self-suffreiency.- Demands. for the
curtailment, or even' abandon!rlrient of
the program, if immediate results . are
not forthcoming, will have to be re-
sisted.
It will he a long-term project,' liu£'''
one that if handled with determination
and persistence, can meet with success
to the advantage of the people of Huron
for years to come.
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In the Years Agone
From The Huron Expositor Harold Ford, two-year-old son ed in Mitchell.
January 3L 1941 of Mr. and Mrs. Grant Ford, • of Ninety-nine pairs of socks
Mr. Ross Savauge wasamed Hensall, who has been in St. 'have been sent to the front
chairman of the Seaforth pub- Joseph's Hospital, London, for from tlie funds collected by the
lic school board at the inau- the past five weeks where he Boys' Button Brigade at Crom-
gural meeting. Other appoint -was receiving treatment after arty.
meats, we're as follows: scene peanuts he wa eating,- lodged Messrs. E. Dinnen and F. Hor-
tary-treasurer, M. McKellar; pro- in his winc1pipe, was brought Ion are canvassing on behalf of
perty committee, J. A. Hotham; home and is improving nicely. • Provincial Prohibition and re-
Rey- W. A. Bremner, M. R. * * port that they met with `very
Savauge; supply, Rev. Dr. Here- _, From ,The Huron_ Expositor little opposition. It seems this
ford, J. -A. Westcott, -M.• Mc- • January, 28, 1916 • day—that it is all commissions
Kellar. C. A. Barber, was re- and pettions-
appointed as representative to Since the sleighing has gone,- H. Kleber, of Manley, has
the Collegiate Board for a one the farmers are busy grinding returned from Berlin.Hospital
and threshing clover in Tucker- following a • successful opera -
year term. P. B. Moffat was re- smith.
appointed to the library board The wooden blackboards tion.
for a three-year term. which 'have been in use -in No. •
Mr. and "Mrs:: Alex, Wallace, 6 Tuckersmith'Schooi - for the From The Huron Expositor
of Tuckersmith, celebrated their past 50 years, have been re- January 30, 1891
36th wedding anniversary. moved and slates ones put in. The anniversary of the birth -
E. L. Box was A. appointed .Misses Mabel and,,,.Margaret day of Robbie Burn's, Scotland's
chairman and manager at the Ross, Brucefield, entertained a greatest bard, was •celebrated by
inaugural meeting of the Pub- number of their young9.friends. a supper at the Queen's Hotel,
lic Utility Commission.. Mr. T. N. Forsyth, of Kippen, Seaforth, sponsored by the Cale -
The Dunnville Chronicle re- who always has something good donian Society and was attend-
fers to the, recent appointment~ in -the horse line, recently sold ed by 90 persons. The spread
of Clifford Britton as YMCA a fine King Thomas colt, eight was headed by a grand old
director of Dunnville No. 6 months old, to William North- Scotch haggis, and the Meal was
Training School. cott, of Hay, for, the handsome prepared by the culinary skill
sum of $9540; of Mr. Stephen's helpers.
• sea-
-William Chapman, Tuckers— h, Mr. -Thomas Mellis, of Kip -. The first carnival of the sea-.
was the setting, fora delightful he' funeral -Seaforth was in of helate M. attending rink son in stown. The ice was held in the skating
evening recently when some 40McLean and visited with Messrs. -as is ; how-
neigffbers and friends gathered good as it usually
to honor Mr: and Mrs. Albert R. P. Bell, A. G. Smillie, Thos. ever, it didn't prevent a large
Shirray, the former Miss Mabel Elder; James Dick `and Wm. `,cowd from turning -out to see
Mulholland. , the races.
Johns, of London, and a re -Additions to Seaforth's honor - -,The auction sale on the farm
cent bridal couple. They were roll are as follows: Charles F.' of the late David Walker, on
presented with a handsome easy Neely, C. A. Hodge, Rollo E. the. Mill Road, 'was the most
chair. Cook, Burton 0. Muir, . John largely attended sale ever held
With the call for increased Marshall, George 'A. Duncan, EP in the county, there being 1,000
production, Elgin Roweliffe, of C. Dilling, Albert Potter, 161st present. Mr. Arch Bishop, MPP,
Highway No. 4, south of Hen- Battalion; I . F. J. Ewing, hos--, was the auctioneer. The farms
sail, has , a cow that will take pital surgeon; Charles P. Sills, were disposed of as follows:
a' lot of beating, as • she has 43rd Battery; W. G. McAuley, The homestead farm, 98 acres,
produced her third set of .twin 110th Battalion; Charles Rolph, was purchased by Ed. Papple
calves in 26 months. 142nd Battalion; Thomas Mc- for $6,200; the 50 -acre farm
• Mr. Gordon B:.:nder, who •has Auley, 161st -Battalion. without buildings was -bought
been in '-charge of truck deliv- - Capt. J. Cooper, of rerun- by John Walker for $2,000; and
ery-..for .the Supertest Co. for to, has been officially gazetted the other 50 -.acre lot was not
several years, reported to. the to -command a new regiment to sold.
RCAF at London: Itis .place be recruited in Toronto, to be Mr. James Smith, of McKil-
here will be taken by Alvin known as the 186th Overseas lop, deliyered in town- a goad
Dale, cif Hullett. Battalion. Capt. Cooper is an of wood which brought 'down
Francis Rowland,, youngest Old, Huron Boy. the market scales rat 9,300,
son of Mrs. Lillian Rowland, • Mr. William Brine spent Sun- pounds. This is ;a pretty solid
Dublin, fell on the ice While day with his mother and sisters load for one team.
skating when he ,suffered . a at .their home here. He is con- Mr. William Dale, of the Hur-
severe blow on his head, '.taus- netted with the Grand Trunk on Road, Tuckersmith, has a
ing concussion. Systerh in Toronto and has re- last spring horse colt which
Owingto the precarious con- signed his position and enlisted weighs 933 pounds..
dition of the roads on Sunday, for overseas services with' the The sale of Hugh RoSs, Lead -
many cars had to be • drawn Toronto Highlanders. bury, was a complete success.
The. first carnival of the sea- He rolled up nearly -$1,000 from
home by., horses.rolled
and Mrs. Lee McConnell, sob' was held in the Palace his flock of sheep alone. The
of Varna, and Mrs. Ernie Mc- Rink. There were••a• goodly num- old veteran, George Birkby, was
Clinchey attended the funeral ber of skaters in costume and auctioneer..
of Mrs. Chester Duncan (nee excellent music - was furnished Messrs. John McIntosh and
Mamie Johnson), a native , of by the...Band. The prize winners Arthur Mason, of Brucefield,
• were: Ladies' fancy, Martha have gone to the London Busi-
Stanley Township.Reid, "Stbepherdess"; girls' fan- ness College. -
Letters from' the following eye, Florence -Beattie, "Swastika Messrs. Dixon & McCartney,
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boys whd are serving overseas Girl"; gent's fancy costume, ,.. of Brucefield, are laying in a
were printed this week: Spr. Charles 'Brunner, "Sailor"; boys' large stock of beautiful ice. '
C. Coombs; -Harry Bolton, Her- fancy costume; Bub Aberhart, • Mr. Alex McEwan, Hensall,
bert A. Whittaker and Pte. C. "Cowboy gent's comic, Chester intends moving to Portage la
Wood: Crich, "Charlie Chaplin"; boys' Prairie, Man. and has rented
The bingo and dance held in comic, Jack Scott, "Weed In- his farm of 150 acres to Mrs.
Hensall and sponsored by Cana- Spector"; half mile' race, 15 Jane Laing, of the Township of
adia�z Legion, was a great sue- years, Frank Coates, H. Brun- Hay.'
cess. Two hundred and thirty- Her; 1/4 -mile race, •Vince Patter- Mr. William Ford, son of -Jelin
....five• paid admission. Five special son, 10 years;. H. Daley, mild Ford, of Tuckersmith, left for
prizes of. turkeys were won by race, 12 years; Earl Smith, Per- Repon, N.D„ where he has se -
Ted Taylor, Mrs. Aleve Coch- gus Somers. The judges were cured a good •situation as teach-
rane and Mrs. A. McBride,.1{ip= Mrs. Jeffery, Mrs. Livingstone er.
Clin-
pen; Gordon Taylor, Hensall, and Mrs. L. T. DeLacey. The Lutheran.congregation
and Mrs. James Vincent, Clin- Mr. Neil Park, Cromarty, now at Zurich Intend building a new
ton, wears the khaki, having 'enlist brick parsonage this summer.
e Home of air. a
Sugar , andSpice
-,- By Bill Smiley -- • -
Try This On Sadists icious, old ba who looks like,
A goo& many people, decent,
kindly; warm-hearted in mast
respects, have a morbid' streak.
They get a big vicarious bang
out of the gruesome or the gory.
Eyes glinting, voices lowered,
they discuss with relish Aunt
Sadie's cancer of the liver, the
weekend accidentin which a •
pillar of the community smash-
ed his pelvis while. -heading for
the city with his mistress, or
Uncle George's advanced drop-
sy. -
It's a shame, then, to disap-
point these people when there's
a chance to add a little color to
their lives. .This week I had
that chance. 'I" cut my+ foot
rather badly. Nothing .serious,
but enough to give me a.good
heavy limp.
- It happened on the weekend,
-and Monday morning I was
ready for them. The first eager
enquirer caught me just inside
the door, as I arrived for work.
What was it? Bad fall and a
broken ankle? Hopefully. Arth-
ritis getting unbearable? Coy-
ly.
No, no, nothing as simple as
that, I assured her. I explained
that my wife and I had been
practising our karate on Satur-
day night, as usual. Growing
bored with smashing those big
dents in the refrigerator with
the sides of - our hands, we'd
decided to try some footwork.
I'd launched a jump -kick at my
wife's teeth. She, a real karate
expert, , had stuck out - her
tongue, and it was so sharp
she'd opened . a four -inch gash
in my foot. Four inches deep,
that is.
I don't know whether the
lady who'd asked belied me. I
just walked off and left her
standing there, mouth open,
eyes slightly crossed. .
The next. enquiry came from
'one of those loudmouths who
like to embarrass 'one in front
of a group. He tried. Loudly.
"Whada do? Get drunk and.fall
down the cellar stairs, ho -ho?"
Not at all, I told him calmly.
I'd got drunk, been 'locked out,
slept in a snowbank all night,
Was It Only A D.rear Or An Optical Illusion?
OTTAWA — It's almost as
though the sound and fury of
,•, .last year's Federal election was
only a dream or an optical il-
lusion.
The pre-election parliament is
ineetirtg again with a few shifts'
fa seating and a few new faces.
'But it's still the same fractured
minority „House and `Jo'hnief-
enbaker stilt faces Lester Pear-
son arss those few years of
green carpet.
And the program for this Pari
liament---rat least what was con-
tained in the Throne Speech
—
...is the, mixture as before, �..•_
session will have to
wrestle with the old problems.
In the 1 .page throne Speech
‘at, the opening of the session
tilers were 85. specific govertin-
`rnent prograrns or legislative
faealsures.-But there was scarce -
ply one that hadn't 'been" wxaw
bounced, ,dice sled or even 'de.
bated in Pariianteiit before,
Thebig ;tills will be familiar
ones ' — railway legislation,
changes in the bank act, fiscal.
arrangements with the prov-
inces:- •
• But as the session goes on
it may develop that the impres-
sion of sameness is -the optical
illusion -that subtle but defin-
ite changes have come over the
House. The only safe predic-
tion about a session of Parlia-
ment is ,that there's no safe
prediction. But there may be
-hints of things to come even
in the Throne Speech with most
commentators dismissed with a
weary . Yawn. .
The pro'vinc'es • may discover
anew firmness at Ottawa. This'
is .the hie year for Federal Pro:
*Afield reiatio s,...when..the fis-
cal . pattern ' for the next five
years will be set when the fla-
tten will have to deeide on Que•
bee's drive for "special status"
*within Confederation,
Prune Minister „Pearson re-
cently blasted ack at the ,i11•
conceived intervention of Que-
bec's Eric Kierans into foreign,.
affairs. And .:this was followed
in the Throne -Speech by a
declaration that Mr. Pearson's
government • is "resolved to
maintain the constitutional , re-
sponsibilities of the Federal
Government".
' There may be a new turn in
economic policy too. Walter
Gordon is gone ,from the Cab-
inet, although he still sits on
the front bench. And the bank
act revision he drafted, for one,
has gyne back-• to the drawing
boards for the, review by
the new Finance Minister, Mit-
chell Sharp. , It is thought that
Mr. 'Sharp will be more likely
to lift the six per eent ceiling
on bank loan rates, a • step Mr,
Gordon, refused to take, ..last
year. '"''
The -railway act which faced
the last parliament will be
mbdified Ss Well, perhaps meet
fine the near•ttnanitnaus , objet•
tions pf Western Canada. •
Forte farmers, the Liberals
propose • to enact their farm
promises of the election cam-
paign despite the fact that so
many' rural ridings rejected Lib-
eral candidates,•
But already J. J. Greene, the
new Agriculture Minister, has
been hearing from the back
forty and .is- shifting the em-
phasis of some of the proposed
policies..
The fact that more than 200
of the 165 faces in Parliament
were in the last House may give
this Parliament a deceptive im-
pression of sameness. The new
faces are important ones since
they belong to men like Robert
Winters and Jean. Marchand on
the Government frontbenches,
and to George Hees and Davie
Fulton on the Tory side.
Each of the •three biggest
partida in the Commons has an
.interesting new mix' of 1rer'son•
alit%a
On the government side, three
former Ministers—Messrs. Gor-
don, Lamontagne and Tremblay
—sit as private' metfibers. But
thelir _real influence in the Com-
mons will be' 'Something to
watch, especially that of Mr.
Gordon whose pronipt--resigna-
tion following the election made
'him stin ething of a hero to his
fellow Liberals.
Matched against these,. three
are thii'trio of "new wave" Que-
bec Liberals. 'Sean' Marchand
has the potentially important
manpower portfblio. Pierre El-
liott Trudeau is Parliamentary
Secretary to Prime Minister
Pearson. And. Gerard Pelletier
is on . the .farthest back 'bench.
But • all, three, from back bench
to front are the litmus paper
of the new Quebec,, thrust, into
the acid test of Ottawawhieh
has destroyed other Quebeck-
ers. '
The '1`ories,, to watch are
MOOS, Innes, iE`ti1toin, blek Bell.
and the fast -rising Erik Nielsen.
But John . Diefenbaker is more
the chief unchallenged than he
has been since the Tories lost
their big majority in 1962. The
new man in the NDP front
bench is David Lewis,, a phil-
osopher 'arid strategist of Cana-
dian socialism for more thin 30
years Who has taken the deputy
leadership given up by Douglas
Fisher, who opted out for writ-
ing and television instead of
politics.
Probably the most important
thing about this Parliament is
that it has come out frdn\ the
"dost-Diefenbaker" periods-- so
evident in the last House where
everybody was so• busy proving
something to ,somebody that
they hadn't time to run the
country. •
Having clone much better than
,anybody thought he would, Mr.
j5iefiynbaker now. takes a, inore
relaxed view , of his place in
Canadian history►. And having
the Bower, but in reality is
the serpent _ under t. ` "Been
fighting with your wife again?
It's abotu time she put her foot
down. On yours, hee-hee!"
"Well, we weren't exactly
fighting," I told her. "I had
the shotgun out and was just
trying to scare her a little, just
in fun, when the darn thing
went off and blew a hole in
my foot the size of an orange.
Wanta see?" She turned green
and started to sway, so I left
her.
A fourth interrogator, a
young lady who loves trouble
—other people's, that is—came
up to me, eyes glistening, and
solicitously hoped it was noth-
ing serious. I said not really,.
just a few severed tendons.
Never be able to wiggle my
toes again, but lucky to get off
so easily. "After all, it was a
30 -foot drop."
Gaping, 'she" pursued, "What
in the world happened?" '
"Nothing much. I fell --off the
roof and landed on one of the
iron spikes in 'the front porch
railing."
"But what in, the world were
you doing up on the roof, in
the middle of winter? You
must have been out of your
mind!".
"Oh, no, not really. T was just
trying to get my wife to :come
down out of the tree.",:And that
shut her up..
As the day went on, I told
other vultures that: , A Grey-
hound bus had stopped on top
of my foot and didn't move un-
til thelights changed; the foot
had ,been burned beyond recog-
nition by a faulty electric blan-
ket; that my, daughter had been
helping to chop • kindling for
the fireplace, missed, and lop-
ped off all but my littlest toe.
Getting r moat in the cloak-
room at the end of a pretty
interesting day, I heard two
female colleagues, unaware of
my presence, reconstructing the
accident,
"Drunk as a billy -goat, they
say, and .climbing a tree after
black squirrels, with a shot-,
wakened with a frozen • foot, and' .gun."'
had had to have three toes am- "No, no. I, heard he'd gone
putated. I asked him if he'd' after his wife and kids with
like one as a souvenir, but he the axe, and dropped it on his
didn't seem too keen. foot." I limped off. Quietly.
The next customer was a mal- Triumphantly. '
TO THE EDITOR
Suggest' Advantages
Of 'County School Area
Bayfield, .Jan. 21, 1966.
Thoughts Of a, New Trustee
Sir: No matter how much we
may wish to improve education,
the cost is worrying all . of us.
We need new schools. The ex-
pense of • .their replacement
would- astound their builders,'
our grandparents: Teachers'..
salaries are continually rising.
Equipment satisfactory in the
forties is outmoded. We want
new designs; new teaching aids,
and a great deal of auxiliary
assistance, such as medical and
dental examinations, nurses'
visits, aptitude and intelligence
tests, libraries, sports and re-
creational facilities. These' are
only possible in a larger school,
system; thus we go into the
transportation business.
Taxpayers, always consider
that the limit on taxes has
been' reached. Their elected re-
presentatives seem to be spend-
ing more and more,money. On
the other hand, groups of citi-
zens put considerable pressure
on these officials to spend even
more, whether on roads or in-
creased pensions, as long as it
is,in the group interest, and
soeone else pays- Let us re-
member, liOtVever, it is our
money -that is being spent;
Locally, its seems to be believ-
ed that only the landowner pays
for education. On the con-
trary,'this money also conies
from Federal and Provincial
revenue, from money extracted
from our pockets in many dev-
ious and (ingenious Ways. The
big ,change came about in the
last decade, -and many people
are unaware of the huge Ot--
tawa grants to,.l:he provinces
•for education. These have en-
abled the provinces to assist
the municipalities to the extent
that land is no longer the ma-
jor source of school funds.
Proyincial revenues now pay
most of Our expenses.
There . isan old adage that
"he '`who pays the piper calls
the tune". How long can we
imagine 'that local,school boards
will have the whole decision
on spending, when the bulk of
their money comes from the
province?
Ever since the provinces be-
gan to assist the municipalities
in direct costs of education,
they began to see the marked
unevenness of the local sources
of revenue. .Some areas teem-
ing with children had very low
assessments. Some with _very
few children had wealthy land
owners, or high commercial
done worse than they hoped,'
the Liberals know that they'll
have to..convince Canadians, by
deeds; not words, that they're
worthy of the majority for
whieh they have vainly sought
in five .elections• hi the "past
nip years,
taxes.
Although the early grants
were on a per pupil basis, be-
latedly the philosophers' of
Queeri'si-Par'k'•"have seen that
they could not continue , to
make equal grants, to rich and
poor alike. This could only re;
-sult in .the perpetuation . of two
classes of. education.' No long-
er could they justify the same
grants to a village like Brus-
sels, with an assessment of
$4,000 per, pupil, when wealthy
Bayfield or Stanley had almost
$12,000 per pupil. •
..,.Seaforth had -a public school
rate of over 37 mills as recent-
ly as 1962. This is now reduc-
ed to 19 mills. Each 'year the
Department of Education has
been increasing its grants. It
is notable, however, that the
increase is relatively small for
areas with low taxes, and very
substantial where taxes are
high. Some day we shall all
be paying about the same on
our school mill -rate:
We .can not forecast the
ture -•sizeof grants Neverthe-
less, the trend is there for all
to see. Ontario- cannot' tolerate
Pockets of second -Glass- educa-
tion. The ARDA studies, and
the report of the Canadian
Economic Council both. point
out the dangers Of this to our
future.
I believe• that the main rea-
son that many people resist
the formation of larger school
areas, with all their advantages
of efficiency; economy' and im-
provement in education, is that
they feel their taxes will rise.
In this article I' have tried to
point out that senior govern -
Merits are in the process of
making taxes more equitable
across the country. Moreover,
it is only a matter of time be-
fore the body' of elected officials
who have , to collect' the bulk
of our expenses will demand
that we accout for it in the
most effective and economical
manner. Queen's Park will un-
doubtedly issue an order to en-
large our school areas.
Why do we not act now to
form a Huron County Public
School Area?
- G. L. MORGAN SMITH
•
511' l les .. .
Jones: "New teeth, eh? How
long you had them?"
Bones: - "Oh, ever since' the
last decade."
Ottawa postpones some build-
ing to check inflation -- frank
admission that government
spending can cause inflation."
Canadian Students Union
wants; tax -paid tuition, board,
travel' and.text'boalsand gtaar-
anteed dipintriils