The Huron Expositor, 1964-04-30, Page 2•
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SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, APRIL 30, 1964
Reasons for Tax Increases
One of the problems facing municipal
councils at this time of year is that of
attempting to balance contemplated
expenditures with anticipated revenue,
and the agreement on a mill rate that
will produce the maximum number of
dollars with the minimum of objection
on the part of the taxpayer.
Actually the extent to which tax
payers complain bears little relation to
the rate. An increase of a few dollars
in a tax bill will produce just as much
difficulty in some quarters as a major
hike in the rate.: In other„, areas, tax-
payers will realize the provision of in-
creased services which they demand
must be reflected in increased rates.'
• Actually, taxpayers have little to
complain about even though across the
district counci.L after council has been
forced to increase the mill rate. In
terms of service being given for the tax
dollar today, and having regard to the
.difference in purchasing power, the tax-
payer today is paying less than he was
verififfeen years ago.
Most. councils have good reasons for
tax increases, and when complaints
;arise it generally is because the rea-
Sons for, the increase and information
as to h4 it, was 'reached were with-
held from the public. The public is
reasonable providing it is kept inform-
ed.
At the same time there can be situa-
tions where the rate increases to such
,an•extent that the "ability to -pay" be -
cones a factor, as the St. Marys Jour-
nal -Argus pointed out recently. '
The paper Sees greater assistance
from the province as a possibility, par-
ticularly in educational fields, but warns
that such assistance may well mean
loss of local control of educational mat-
ters. •kou can't have it both' ways is
what the Journal -Argus says. '
Reeve D. C. White of Blanshard
Township was on firm ground recently
when he drew attention to the fact that
the "ability of the people to pay" should
receive great consideration when all
matters regarding an increase in the
tax rate come up for discussion:- ,
The Reeve was referring primarily
to the farm population, beset by ever -
rising costs and a fluctuating price situ-
ation. There is no doubt but what
creasing municipal taxation has an ef- •
fect on the already shaky condition, of
the family farm unit as a means' of.
making a livelihood in Ontario. Farm-
ing is basically one big gamble and
each risein the tax rate means the
farmer loses another chip in the poker
game:
Just what can be done about it is
the problem of the day. Without doubt,
some more equitable means of support-
. ing education, largest single bite -taker
in the municipal tax field, must be
'found. While each move of the Pro-
vincial government in the field of edu-
cation is received with agonized
screams by large segments of the rural
population, the fact must be recogniz-
ed that this same government takes on
a large share of the school load each
year and the time may not be far dis-
tant when payment and therefore any
semblance of control over local• educa-
tion will pass from the municipal tax-
payer. •
While some may regard the remedy
as worse than the disease, there should
appear to be little alternative. The
householder and farmer • has about
reached the limit,.of his ability to pay
in the field of municipal taxation bas-
ed On property holdings.
Some other bas'is for supporting edu-
cation must be found outside the muni-
cipal field. It boils down to either sacri-
ficing your money or your control over
local school 'matters. The final solution
will largely depend on -which hurts the
most: sentiment, or parting with the
property tax dollar.
•. iience
Most ,,r-ople think of silence merely
as an absence of noise. But isn't it
something more, 'something positive in
itself ? •
Recently We came upon a neat phrase.
"The silence of the cottage has become
vocal." To the writer, silence wasn't
merely a negative thing. It had its own
qualities and these spoke to him.
Silence •isn't negative. It has the
power to • influence. It can cause the
body to relax. It can cause the mind to
meditate. .It can be a balm to the spirit
and a solace to the soul. — (Windsor
Star). •
Don't laugh at a youth for his affec-
• tations ; he is only trying on one face
after- another to find his own.—Logan
Pearsall Smith.
Most leaders run seared'.' A degree
of fear inoculates them against the
sleeping sickness of complacency;Lh-
ArnoldH.
In the Years Agone
From The Huron Expositor
May 5, 1939
Pupils of Seaforth public
school presented their first
music festival in Northside
United Church on Friday eve-
ning, with nearly 100 students
taking part. The festival was
largely attended.
Seeding operation g are in
full swing and the ideal cool
'weather has made it excellent
for the horses to get hardened
for the rest of the season's
work.
With the upmost sadness, we
inform you that a familiar
landmark around SCI is being
torn down this week. The old
gymnasium is being torn rough-
• ly from the moorings and - will
soon be levelled to the ground.
• The first step, in a larger and
• more fully equipped Lions Park
was taken Tuesday night when
the park committee was auth-
orized to purchase additional
land adjoining the park from
E. B. Goudie. The committee
• had previously obtained an
agreement to buy from Mr.
Goudie.
Meeting in Clinton Tuesday
evening, the special Royal Visit
Committee of the Lions Clubs
of Zone 7, discussed final
ar-
rangenients to transport the
• 7,000 school -children of the dis-
v,
trlet to Stratford on brie 6th,
t�gee the King end Queen
when they arrive.1
At At
•
Peart The Huron Expeeiter
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100 114914 0.
Ile drat Cargo of grain this
4 NM* 'arrived in Goderldh Oi
**St AftertteOIL The Stegmer
;
Neebing arrived with 103,000
bushels of wheat from Fort Wil-
liam for the Western- Canada
Flour Company.
Mr. Phillip Ament, of Brus-
sels, has invested in a large
touring car which arrived from
Detroit last week. It is a Buick
manufacture. There are now
about a dozen autos owned in
Brussels, with More. to follow
in thenear future.
William Taylor, of the 9th
concession of Morris, keeps the
right kind of sheep for breed-
ing purposes. One of his ewes
gave birth to five lambs, four
of which are still living.
' At a meeting held at Seaforth
Thursday, a new lawn tennis
league was formed, composed
of Goderich, Clinton and Sea -
forth. Tennis is likely to boom
this year in each of these towns
and a most successful season is
expected -
Farmers in the vicinity of
Brueefield are new busy seed-
ing. The land is in fine shape.
The fall wheat in some places
does not look too bad.
Mr. George A. Sills, of Sea -
forth, has been awarded the
contract for the phlmbing, heat-
ing, etc., of the new $30,000 pub-
lic school building to be erect-
ed in Mitchell this summer.
Mr. Joseph Keating has been
awarded the contract for the
woodwork, and Mr. George A.
Sills, theyheating and pluMbing,
In the new Separate School to
be erected In Dublin this sum -
Me
Another old ' landmark has
been removed in the Township
•of Tuckersmith. The old, Red
Tavern, on the Kippen toad
•
that has harbored Many a way-
farer, is to be torn down.
The ground around the new
Carnegie Library is being nice-
ly levelled a,nd planted, and
will;, form a real beauty spot in
that 'part of the town.
* * *
From The Huron Expositor
May 3,1889
The fall wheat in his section
has not looked better for many
years. Seeding is progressing
favorably; with fine weather it
will be nearly completed this
week.
Mr. John 'Robb, of Brussels,
a retired 'farmer and one of the
pioneer settlers of Morris
Township, one day last week
dug 26 postholes in two hours,
aff'd they were all three feet
deep. Unless they were all in
a sand pit, there are not many
men nowadays who could ac-
complish a similar feat.
The contract for supplying
the stones for the paving of
Main Street ha's been awarded
to Mr. R. Common at $4.50 per
cord.
We understand that a social
and concert will be held in
Cardno's Hall on the evening of
the 24th, under the auspices of
the congregation of St. James'
Church.
The contract for supplying
the Seaforth Collegiate Institute
with aparatus and chemicals for
their new laboratory has been
awarded to Mr. L V. Fear, drug-
gist, We congratulate Mr. Fear
on his selection for so impor-
tant a trust, and have every
confidence that he will flll the
order with care and efficieney.
FENCE MENDING
A: Macduff Ottawa Report
CANADA GETS A PLAN integrate with service plans, ev- of more revenues from Ottawa.
OTTAWA—Time will decide eryone earning more than $600 For all this he has modified
whether Prime hiinistgr Pear- a year -
his °Urn pension plan and prom
son and his Government have This Compulsory feature fOi. ised that if he "opts out" of a
performed an act of superb the self will bring shared cost program and re -
statesmanship or have beaten a some grumbling. The farmer, ceives compensation in new tax
frightened and ignominious re- will have 'to contribute not on- abatements, he will carry on
treat.
ly for himself but 1.5 per cent that program in the province
At Quebec City two things of anything over $600 paid to for. the time being.
were made plain to the prov- his hired man. There will be
.
But Lesage has done one
ince' including Quebec. Ottawa
one small compensation. For thing more which in importance
had gone.as far, as it could in the firSt time a Federal tax'will could exceed both that of a Na -
tax abatements except as com- be deductible from taxable in. tional Pension Plan and more
pensation to provinces ready to come, tax monies for the provinces.
take on the full cost of shared The family allowance deal by He has said .that this compro-
welfare and other programs. which Quebec will continue its mise displayed the true spirit
Not only was the Canada Pen- own payrnents to families of 16 of Confederation and_he has
sion plan final except in small and 17 year old students and shown 'himself willing to risk,
detail but provinCes Opting out be compensated by Ottawa has assuming in the Province of
could do so only if they offered no financial implications. It is Quebec •the mantel of confed-
a plan of which the Federal merely ,a concession to what eration against the extreme
Government approved.Quebec nationalists within and,
seems to many a rather silly
There is ne doubt that fear rigidity by the Quebec Govern-
ment over provincial rights. The without his own Party. If the
was responsible for the mine --
compromise fortifies Lesage' for
quent negotiations with Quebec same can be said 'of the stu-
this task, the benefit of the
but it was not a political fear dent loans that can- now be ad-
compromise will far exceed ev-
of losing Quebec VOtes. It was ministereden the material benefits of a by any province if
not really a fear of ,Quebec At it so desires. There may even uniform national pension plan
all. It was the fear that the be some advantage to this. and the first steps towards
_rest of Canada might write off But, for the principle purpose bringing Federal and Provincial
the French speaking province., of gaining a National Pension taxing resources in line with
The right to "opt" or "con- Plan, as well as helping Pre-
their spending responsibilities.
tract one' of joint projects mier Lesage with. his budget, While the Lesage demand for
which fall within Provincial the Federal Government has' more revenues is associated in
jurisdiction under the British agreed to further abatement of the public mind with the aspir-
North America Act is not un- 2 per cent of personal income ations of the new Quebec, it is
reasonable in principle, what- tax for the years 1965-66 and not fully realized that whereas
ever one may think of the re- 1966-67, the last years of the in 1946, Federal spending was
-
sults. But to English 'speaking present.tax sharing agreements. almost three times that pf the
,
Canada the Quebec attitude was Cost to the Federal Treasury
provincesand municipalities to-
,.
being interpreted more and will be about $200 million. gether, today the share of
more as a gradual "opting out"
of Confederation.
This was the basjs of reasdn-
irig in Ottawa that, Quebec
must he kept in the family.
that a Canada Pension plan if
it had not proven. as expected,
to be a unifying force at least
must not divide. It may , well
also have been part of the reas-
oning in Quebec City.
Meanwhile Canadians ..have a
p`ension plan which they may
like a great deal better. It will
cost more for the next 15 years
at`least. It will he later in start-
ing. The Government will he
doing well if it can get contri-
butions started irx 1966 and the enues at the expense of the
first'pentions paid in 1967. In Federal Treasury was obvious -
addition, substantial Savings by• ly "wait and see". An interim
Canadians are involved which report of the Committee is tim-
may be very important if Can, ed for the end of the year and
ada is to meet more of its capi• a definitive report as early as
tal needs out of its own rather possible in 1965. At that stage
than foreign savings. further tax abatements might
The new plan has wiped out be justified and there would
the last excuse for not treat- have been no loss to Quebec or
ing the pension contributia-as any other province,
a tax. With the possible excep-
tion of the Armed Forces and
RCMP where early retirements
make it almost impossible to
THE HOME TEAM
The Canadian taxpayer is, of spending of the provinces and
m
course, indivisible. He has one municipalities slightly exceeds
pocketbook from which to pay that of the Federal Government,
taxes to Ottawa and the prov-
although the combined expen-
d
ince. It matters little to himitures of all three levels of
if, .by paying higher Federal
Government represent approxi -
taxes, he avoids higher provin-
mately the same share of the
cial taxes. gross national product today as
What does matter is 'the de-
they did in 1940—namely, about
,
gree of essentiality in the" ex -
32%. Further; this trend to •
more Provincial and' Municipal
penditure. This is the primary
reason behind the new Federal-
spending in relation to Federal
Provincial tax structure
spending is almo • certain to
corn-
mittee. It is to study priorities continue.
in expenditures both on Federal
* * *
and Provincial levels.
Ottawa's first answer to Que-
Capital Hill Capsule
bec's demand for more tax rev- , The House Of Commons at
Ottawa has adopted a "chil-
dren's hour" on a trial basis. It
occurs after the regular 10
o'clock adjournment on Mon-
day, Tuesday and Thursday
night. At that time an opposi-
tion member who feels aggriev-
ed because the speaker has sil-
enced him during the question
period or that a Minister has
not properly answered his ques-
But Mr. Lesage had a budget' tion has seven minutes to state
speech to make and demanded that grievance. The Minister or
that he b„e put in the position his Parliamentary Secretary has
where he could give assurance three minutes to reply. Only
three grievances will be heard
each night. The idea is excel-
lent and the performance may
improve. Up to now it has been
something less than adult.
1
by Wirth
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BOWLING 'RULES
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Smiles...
Hank: "How did you know
my wife wasn't always a hard
woman to please?" I,
Frank: "Well, she ' married
you, didn't she?"
The wife of a small farmer
sold her surplus butter td a
grocer in a nearby town. On
one occasion the grocer said,
"Your butter was underweight
last week."
"Now fancy that," the lady
said. "My children mislaid my
test weight that day, so I used
the pound of sugar you sold
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By Bill Smiley
' IT WOULD BE HEAVENLY
What would you like to find
most, when you go to haven
Let's assume, for one wild, ex
hilarated moment, that we'r
an going to. get there.
Some people would plum
for a meeting with loved ones
This I can never understand
It's like a fellow who has sery
ed a life sentence waiting t
be greeted by the warden whe
he hits the Dearly gates.
1 had admitted they couldn't take
it with them, would be serene
in a place where there were
no taxes, no labor movements,
no wages to pay, and nobody
asking them to donate to some-
thing every 12 minutes.
• My. personal fantasy is a sim-
, ple one. I'd go like a shot if
- someone would promise me, un -
o conditionally, a dark, swirling
n trout stream, impregnable to
invasion 'by women, telephones
and other nuisanees.
Others, sad souls, would b
overjoyed if they could "jus
be happy." Not me, Being hap
py all the time would be a real
drag. I thoroughly enjoy being
miserable on this orb,. so tha
when something good happens,
my pleasure Is intensified.
Quite a few, who suffer from
physical ailments, would be sat-
isfied with peate and comfort.
The insomniac imagines days
and nights of solid slumber.
The arthritic dreams of being
able to scratch his opposite ear
without feeling as though his
arm was being severed at the
shoulder by a red-hot iron.
* * *
Flat -chested girls would set-
tle for a mammoth bosom. They
forget that none' of the rest of
us would be interested.
Some chaps I know would be
perfectly happy to leave any-
time if they could count on a
golf course with emerald fair-
ways and velvet greens, 18 holes
a 'day in which they sliced not,
nor did they hook, and a good
game of poker at the 19th, ,with
the bar handy,
e
* *
t I can see it now. Swift, deep,
- crooked, ending in a vast, sil-
ent, mysterious beaver pond,
loaded with limiters. I can hear
t it: the exciting mutter of a
small dam just around the
bend; the splosh of a startled
frog; the sudden, heart -stopping
takeoff- of a disturbed- part-
ridge, the whack of a beaver
tail.
However, since my chances
of getting to heaven are just
about as slim as my Chances
of a personal trout stream if
I DID get there, I'guess I'll set-
tle, on Opening Day, for my old
haunt, the Secret Place' Where
The Big Ones Are. Not a soul
knows _about it, except me. And
the 900 noisy characters who
have heard about it since last
year.
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Heaven, thou art distant, yet,
I would work like heck to get
There, if thou could condone
A stream for me — and me
alone.
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Many sober citizens I know
would be happy in heaven for
ever afterwards, ,if they could
be guaranteed (and get it in
writing) that their wives (or
An aged farmer in his anc-
ient pickup drove up to the toll
gate: '
"Seventy-five cents," yelled
the gateman.
"Sold," said the farmer.
husbands) would be in the oth- The judge had just conclud-
er place, permanently. ed lecturing an errant husband
Alcoholics would not only be and granted a divorce decree,
in heaven, but the seventh of "So I have decided to give
the same name, if their crock your wife $40 per month," the
ranneth over, perpetdally, and jurist said.
somebody else was looking af- "Good," answered the ex-hus-
ter things. band, "and 1,11 try to slip her
45 * * a couple of bucks now and then
'A few millionaires, once they myself, judge."
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ANNOUNCEMENT . • •
Singer company of Canada ,are pleased
to annarnce that LLOYD McDOWELL
will be the new Sales and Service Re-
presentative in Seaforth area.
For information call:
Hildebrand Paint & Paper Shop
Phone 27 •
TENDERS
Stanley' Township
WEED SPRAYING_
Sealed tenders for Roadside Spraying
of Weeds and Brush, in. the Township of
Stanley, will be received by the undersigned
until 6 p.m., on May 4, 1964, tenders to state
an hourly rate. The Township will supply
the spray and helper.
Tenders are to be clearly marked as to
contents.
Lowest or any tender not necessarily
accepted.
MEL GRAHAM, Clerk
Brucefield, Ont.
TENDERS
Stanley Township
WEED CONTROL,
Sealed tenders for the supply of weed
and brush spray will be received by the un-_
dersigned untifi, 6:00 p.m., Monday, May 4th,
1964, for 55 gallons of 2-4-D Low Volatile
Ester 96, and 45 gallons of Brush Killer,
Low Volatile, 128 ounces. '
Tenders are to be sealed and clearly
,marked as to contents.
Lowest or any tender not necessarily
accepted.
MEL GRAHAM, Clerk
Brucefield, Ont.
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