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tut 8 the stourrvflii tribune thny jn1 76 j962 coodwood comer scene ol double faialiiy couple killed in twocar crash claremont uxbridge pickering tp news high school boards reply on 62 budget termed disgraceful mr and mrs gordon mc- grath susan and brian visited with relatives at hespeler on sunday mr and mrs peter lippert ot madoc called on friends in the village last week mr bill voss spent the eas ter weekend with his sister mrs david gillingham of lakevicw mr and mrs bob baker and family of toronto spent the weekend at bakers acres northeast of claremont miss mabel sanderson of to ronto was a holiday visitor at the home of mr and mrs malt anderson mr and mrs allan tomlinson and family of hamilton were weekend visitors with dr n f tomlinson mr and mrs lloyd mason and family visited on sunday with mr and mrs jack norton mr and mrs michael burke of toronto visited with her par ents mr and mrs bruce han thorn on sunday several members of the bap tist church are planning to at tend the graduation ceremony for miss joyce schneider at the baptist training institute in brantford on monday joyce is the daughter of mr and mrs alex schneider ashburn rr 1 mr and mrs cleeve home of toronto spent the weekend nt their claremont district home on cone 8 miss jackie pascoe and miss susan mcgrath were visitors on friday at the home of mr and mrs jas thomas stouffville church services in claremont were well attended on easter sunday the meeting of the mission circle will be held at the home of miss mabel edwards church st stouffville on tuesday eve ning may 1 at 745 the speak er will be mr john carnegie mr and mrs roy zellers and barry park drive stouffville were visitors on sunday even ing with mrs zellers and mr and mrs burnell the boy scouts will t n weekend campout on saturday may 5th mr and mrs vm gliddon left on friday for an extended holiday motor trip kay hayward and jessie mc- guirc left on wednesday to at tend the annual meeting of the guide brownie leaders rang ers and la members in lon don ont mr ralph hill of toronto is spending the easter vacation period at the samarillo farm mr and mrs f hollingshcad left on thursday for an extend ed easter weekend trid to visit friends in warren ohio mrs a samarillo valerie and leo arc spending the easter week visiting at the home of mr and mrs b kelly at nor wood marilyn rennie is spending her easter holidays in toronto visiting at the home of mn and mrs h gifford the regular monthlv meet ing of the guide and brownie mothers l a was held at the home of dorecn welsh with commissioner kay hayward presiding general business was dealt with and arrangements for cookie day planned cook ies will be packed may 4 in the community hall mothers bak ing cookies are asked to have them at the hall between 6 and 730 pm cookies will be deliv ered saturday may 5 mr and mrs mac mclean and family of ottawa spent the weekend at the home of mr and mrs a robertson mr and mrs ross redshaw ted and miss pat steward and jack went to hensall ont on thursday night to sec the hoc- key game between uxbridge and hensall visitors at the rennles on friday were mr and mrs b wells mr g rcnnlc miss joan ingham and fiance and danny phillips all of scarboro a very nice miscellaneous shower for be v norton and russel blundell was held at the home of mrs c redshaw on tuesday evening when they were the recipients of many lovely and useful gifts dont forget the next bingo at the claremont legion april 30 cash prizes specials and jackpot last euchre of the reason may 7 mr and mrs clarence beel- by and family and mr and mrs james taylor spent gqod fri day at the home of mr and mrs peter bylstra and family at listowel ontario dennis arksey of brooklin is spending his easter holidays at the home of his grandpar ents mr and mrs jim taylor reassessment brings drop in rate the land reassessment pro gram in the township of pick ering is mainly responsible for a noticeable drop in the general mill rate for 1962 the break down of the figures was final ized at a special meeting of council on monday night for township purposes only the farm and residential rate is 103 mills the industrial and commercial rate is 12 9 mills the individual tax bills will be affected however by school rates and other special services where applicable in various sec tions for township purposes only a total of 74196254 will be raised the county of ontario will take the biggest bite with 101 mills or 526652784 road con struction and maintenance is next in line with a rate of 54 mills or 514250000 the breakdown is as follows county of ontario 101 mills road construction and main tenance 54 mills police area 5 mills welfare 9 mills garbage area 2 89 mills health unit 7 mills conser vation authority 5 mills recreation 25 mills parks 25 mills educational costs in the town ship will take close to 60 per cent of the pickering tax dollar the council has little or no con trol of this expenditure a breakdown of the individual sections and areas will be pub lished next week with a com parison with 1961 tax payments for 1963 will be split into six installments but this will not be effective in the current year to discuss green river cons project the many rumois concerning the proposed conservation au thority project at green river will be cleared up at a special public meeting in the green river school on monday even ing april 30th a speaker from the authority will address the gathering the program has been arranged bv the green river home and school asso ciation it has been suggested that a 35 foot dam will be erected on dufflns creek to create an 85 acre lake it is hoped that the speaker will shed some light on the construction scheme included in the agenda will be the election of officers for the coming year and a film de picting the completed works of the mtrca queen scouts receive awards four claremont queen scouts were presented with plaques and badges at the annual fa ther and son banquet in the masonic hall on monday eve ning of last week the boys were jim torrance fred moore tim death and terry shcrrin these scout members will receive their certificates at barric on may 12th close to 100 fathers and their sons wore in attendance in ad dition to a number of guests and group leaders a turkey supper was served by the moth ers l a following the dinner the ga thering was moved to the com munity hall fr th entertain ment portion of the program this board does not care to set up anything special for the township was a portion of the reply submitted in writing to pickering council from mr ross irwin secretary of the pickering dist high school board after the council mem bers had asked for a breakdown of their 1962 budget the board said that they had earlier agreed to meet with the council to dis cuss the matter on march 8th but only the clerk mi johns ton had attended i think the reply is disgrace ful charged councillor hu bert wank the board secretary also ad vised the council that copies of their minutes would be supplied at the regular fee councillor wank noticeably concerned over the reply lashed out at the high school boards actions on the issue they bud get for a million dollars and act as though it cannot be question ed he said im completely appalled that the high school board could take such a stand on the issue he continued we know that they have more information available they send in one sheet of paper and we can like it or lump it councillor milton mowbray said that on the night of the suggested meeting with the board some members of coun cil were tied up in a committee meeting we dont know how the money is being spent and it is the concern of every councillor stated deputyreeve mrs jean mcpherson should call a halt councillor mowbray suggest ed that the members should limit themselves on their pur suit of the matter we have an interest in seeing that they dont take too big a bite out of the tax dollar but i would be rather reluctant to pursue the matter any further he said he contended that the councils main responsibility was in mak ing appointments of competent persons to the board its getting a bit late to keep pushing it back and forth agreed councillor ross deakin perhaps the board will realize that next year we will expect a further break down of the budget not satisfied some other members of coun cil did not comply with the views expressed by councillors deakin and mowbray they have the information all they have to do is submit it to council countered council lor wank its taxpayers money ag reed councillor w j greening the council has every right to question the high school bud get and ask for details con tinued councillor wank the board should cooper ate commented deputyreeve mrs jean mcpherson reeve sherman scott agreed that the boards reply to coun cils request was not satisfac tory and the council should go on record as feeling this way the council agreed by mo tion that the boards letter of april 17th was not satisfactory and further information on the 1962 budget was desired editors mail top education in oneroom school dear sir in the december 28th issue of the tribune there was an article on the question of reopening mount pleasant school next sep tember near claremont from the article i understand that there was only one trustee russell gostick to work for the reopening of that rural school built by pioneers no doubt many fine men and women have graduated from its portals i myself attended a rural school and there decided i must be a teacher so 45 years ago drove to high school six miles morning and night with a horse and buggy in the summer a cutter was substituted for the buggy in the winter and as there were no snow ploughs it was often tough going the high school had only 120 pupils so the teachers took a personal interest in the weak subjects of each student i taught in rural schools for eight years grades 1 to 8 but never had more than 25 pupils yywwwy uxbridge black hawks vs port dover at uxbridge arena saturday apr 28 9 pm admission students 100 75c 4th game ontario finak wavsfvs therefore i always had time to give extra help where it was needed there was space to spread the pupils around the room thus separating the mischievous ones there were good wide aisles and several times a day i could take a surprise sally around the room stopping occasionally to check some work or praise a pupils initiative modern classrooms arc too crowded for this my own children attended ru ral schools and although my daughters were average stu- dents both received their junior matriculation wilhno tutoiing owing to a bad fall i am now a paraplegic in a wheelchair so we moved from the farm to the village in five years i have tutored about 45 young people i have helped with work from grade 1 to grade 11 the young sters are driven to my home from different communities as far as five to seven miles away none of these young people are dumb or mentally retarded all are victims of crowded class rooms changing often from one school to another teachers who lack the time to give any person al individual help too many young people arc entering our mechanized high schools and unable to keep up hence we have far too many dropouts they will enter the crowded ranks of the unemploy ed with no training for any work on the other hand we need scientists doctors ministers lawyers laboratory technicians teachers and nurses we need those dropouts i urge we reopen our rural schools because to hold our community cen tre to have smaller classes where the regular teacher ha tlm to give individual help keep our children in our com munity and not on school buses where the behavior often leaves the lives of a young rexdale couple were snuffed out in a tragic twocar crash on saturday night at the intersection of cone 3 uxbridge and no 47 hwy in the hamlet of goodwood mrs phyllis anne teel- 22 was killed almost instantly and her husband john perry teel 23 died en route to hospital the scene of the tragedy left shows the wreckage of their small foreign car and the body of one of the victims nearby the two front seats were torn completely out of the auto and one right was found more than fifty feet from the point of impact a front fender was hurled forty feet away the couple had planned to spend the easter holiday weekend with family relatives near woodville james frederick bartley of sutton has been charged with careless driving much to be desired small tots are often away from 8 am until 5 pm this is too long a day for the sixyearold to these i add a few more per tinent facts in favour of pieserv- ing our rural schools one mother recently compared the consolidated schools to an assembly line in the general motors each pupil meaning no more to the teacher with too many pupils than a nut or a bolt to the worker the brilliant pupil grasps the lessons as they go by the slower pupil misses them and is as lost as the nut or bolt which the worker does not have time to do up before the next car moves up those unfinished cars go to the reject department the slow pupils have no second chance and are classed as failures in the little red school house the conscien tious teacher always provided a second chance taxpayers why close your own rural schools and pay extra taxes to build another room on a town school a room with a good deal of glass tiled floors but with less space per pupil in and many cases no entry room for a play area on stormy days at courtice high school in darlington township a report was printed in the bowmanville paper of the names of those who received 75 on their christmas examinations of 49 names half were from rural schools four from our own school bradleys school where my own children received their education i a school named mackenzies school in whitby township was closed very suddenly the middle of last september and the child ren taken by bus at their own school the childicn have to meet the bus at their own school by 8 am so many of them leave their homes at 715 am and are not home again until 530 pm if the bus was delayed by storms they waited what was the icason kedron school needed another teacher so the township school boaid took the other teacher and her pupils to their school the value of the bus its upkeep and the drivers wages would have certainly paid another teacher of course consolidated schools mean less work for the inspectors but they can visit the town schools in the winter they can visit the little red schoolhouses in the fall and spring when a drive in the country is a real plcasuie last but not least the con duct on school busses is often far from good books and clothes arc often torn and little tots learn from bigger children things not printed in books yours for better education mrs alf prescott hampton ontario r r 1 claremont dear sir having read the article hun ter target of irate farmer concerning hunters or tres passers in ten years of having tres passers on my property every week only four of these had the decency to come and ask permission to hunt on my land some of these men have utter disregard for other peoples pro perty they climb over fences and leave gates open with reck less abandon on one occasion four men were seen to climb over my fence in a swamp where a fence is hard to main tain and squash it to the ground with the result my cat tle got out and it took me half a day to find them another half day to get them back in and another half day to fix- the fence here is a list of things that have been stolen in the last ten years 190 hubbard squash 50 bushels of potatoes 20 bags of cider apples 20 bushels of turnips 2 axes one set of truck tire chains one set of adjuster chains bisscll disc 18 fat hens i do not accuse hunters of stealing this stuff but it is quite obvious that whoever it was was quite familiar with the lay of the land the putting up of signs is also futile as fast as i put them up they are ratepayers air their private complaints twc pickering twp ratepay ers have filed complaints with the council concerning the mis use of their properties by pri vate interests a letter was read on monday night from mr fred hope lot 35 cone 9 concerning damage to their fence due to the cut ting of trees the work was not done by the road depart ment of the township but by a private individual reeve sherman scott suggest ed that the matter was not a township problem councillor milton mowbray contended that the members should be interest ed only in the condition of the road allowance massing the buck deputyreeve mrs jean mc pherson said she had received a complaint from mrs robt reesor concerning damage to her premises caused by an oper ation promoted by the conser vation authority reeve scott said he had already brought the matter to the authorities at tention but to date no action had been taken he said that there was some confusion as to responsibility since subcontrac tors were involved in the pro ject safety poster competition had many entrants the farm and home safety poster competition as sponsor ed by the ontario county farm safety council was a very suc- cssful project the competition was completed on wednesday april 4 the boys and girls from the rural public schools of ontario countv entered 340 posters in this competition most of these posters were excellent and showed a great deal of thought and painstaking work on the part of the pupil miss lotta mcneill public school inspector and mrs a w stjohn librarian uxbridge did a spiendid job of judging the competition the teachers are to be con gratulated for encouraging the boys and girls to enter this worthwhile safety project the winners of the competi- tion are as follows in pickering township rich ard smith claremont in ux- hridgi township robert lee stouffville rr 3 and in reach township charles cook ux bridge rr 3 scott township winner was doreen stevenson uxbridge rr 2 these were all championship prizes individ ual entrants in each township were as follows pickering twp richard smith ss 15 albert mcqueen ss 15 fred hotner mt zion barbara horrasz ss 11 chris tine goodcrham ss 11 mario- rie lehman ss 11 scott pow ell ss is gordon woolhead ss 11 bob tran ss 16 uxbridge township robert lee ss 8 audrey mcquaker ss 7 larry stewart ss 8 san dy taylor ss 7 ann gage ss 5 michael butters ss 5 wayne bell ss 7 frank ellery ss 11 david 3uttcrs ss 5 reach township charles cooke central no 2 larry couperthwaite donald mccaig heather hill geo irwin bright gordon rudkin joanne jano- sik douglas empringham eliz abeth nodwell all from central no 2 torn down and they disappear has a property owner no say as to what goes on on his land it seems to me that a property owner who orders such people off his land deserves credit be cause that seems to be the only protection he has in relating my experience i am sure there are dozens of far mers who have had the same experience yours truly bernard burnell r r x claremont ont set maximum salary rates a maximum salary schedule has been set for eighteen male employees in various municipal positions in the township of pickering the scale was ar ranged in committee meetings of council and passed at a spe cial meeting on monday night a breakdown including the employees present salary and his maximum is as follows clerk 6200 6400 assess ment commissioner s5600 6400 treasurer 5204 6400 road supt 6200 6400 welfare officer 4800 5200 bylaw officer 4800 5200 fire chief 5200 5200 plumbing in spector 5200 5200 dog- catcher 3300 3800 road dep clerk 4440 5000 asst clerk 4532 5000 works clerk 3960 5000 bldg inspector 4500 4- 800 engineer 9000 9000 dep fire chief 4600 4- 800 assessors binsted 4520 5000 gliddon 4520 5000 baglier 3660 5000 the employees present salary is the first figures listed after each name their maximum is listed in brackets adjourn canvass the pickering township and village branch of the canadian red cross society announces that due to unavoidable cir- cumstances it was found im possible in several areas to complete in march canvassing for the annual campaign and in order to avoid conflicting with the campaigns currently under way by the canadian cancer society and other organizations it has been decided to postpone the completion of canvassing those areas until sometime in may the affected areas include dunbarton frenchmans bay squires beach heron park and part of brougham altona dealer gets tractor contract mr fred lewis of altona feed and supplies submitted the successful tender in the sale of a new ford 661 tractor and sidemounted mower to the township of pickering the de cision to purchase the unit was finalized at a regular meeting on monday night two other tenders were received one from agincourt and another from manchester only a few dollars separated the bids the altona dealers price was 267375 plus tax both councillors harveyspang and milton mowbray noted that the altona dealer was situated in a convenient location for re pairs and service and such a factor was worthy of 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