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smasher WA 8mlth Studio WEST BEND ALUMINUM CO PMNI BARBIE BECOMES CITY Continued from page two new executives some from the United States and their famil lesf lhcre was degree at res ervation undoubtedly hut how could anyone do anything else but accept into community body of men who were so will ing to take on the community chores Within the city and outside the church there are three points of social contact The Barrie Golf and County Club the Barrie Curling Club and the Oltlcerc Mess Grey and Slmcoo Foresters no The latter is the smallest and possibly the most exclusin meeting point and fourth should possibly be added though iii influence can be re luted to the past three years The Barrie Yacht Club In the membership of these four clubs can be found the ex ecutives and their wives of most ot the major businesses and in dustries in the city member ship of one or more of these clubs was almost obligatory for the top executives it they want ed to make point of meeting others oNhe community and be coming accepted as one of the group With the possible ex ception of the Officers Club where the membership is amt ically limited no new executive to town has found any major difficulty in joining any of these clubs The membership at each club has thrived beyond the expect ations of the small group of cit izens who in each case founded them prior to the arrival of in dustry en masse in the town In 1959 for the first time in its history the golf club had to put limit on tha number of playing members to avoid crowding the ninehole course to such an ex tent that the membership would defeat its own professed object ive SCHOOL PROBLEMS The most acute problem in any win community is schooling and Barrie in this respect has been no different to the rest of the Province The need for more schools has been the headache for the boards dur ing the past five years and the growing cost of education has been the whipping boy for mun icipal government which has found small satisfaction in that rising tigure when urgent mun icipal work needs to be done end no one wants to see the mill rate rise At the beginning of Septemb er 1960 enrolment in the sight public schools came to 8232 The public schools hoard em ployed 116 teachers at cost of pamper year Since 1949 five new schools have been built in the commun ity and one has been brought under the jurisdiction of the board through annexation One of the older type schools has been demolished and mother was handed over to be used for the schooling of retarded chi1dlt ran The public school board has made additions to three of the schools built in the past ten years and to twoof the older schools in existence it has also purchesed two pieces of proper ty in anticipation of in school expansion it also engag ed Superintendent of School ing in 1960 The city possesses two high schools the more recent being built in 1956 The older high school had an addition put on it in 1552 but by 1955 it was over crowded Both these high schools serve the surrounding district as well and townships concern ed contribute to the cost and are represented on the board in addition to these education al facilities there are two sep arate schools and small sells arate high school One of the separate schools was built three years ago ANNEXATION ncccssray part of assuming city status hes been the annex ation of additional land princip ally for industrial development indeed as feras council was concerned the whole matter of becoming city hinged on an nexation being granted The aid ermen had the foresight to ack nowledge that without addition GAS APLIANCNSTKLLES HEAR Two hundred gas appliance installers attend lectures in the Containers Gas Com panys llama room in Toronto preparing for examinations leading to certification by the Ontario department of energy About 4500 dealers installers and plumbers have taken ad vantage of these classes hlnoughout the companys serv vice area Chief lecturesz Robert Dick under the super vision at Pat Monell person nelidepartmeotztlaiuing direc torior Consumm Gas siExToNrsf METAL 1s sccussr AND HEATING LEADING SUPPLIERS ro BARRIE IVINDUSTRIES FOR AIR CONDITIONING IVENTILATIOIN oAIR HANDLINGEQUIPMENT iHEATING IV FORALLVENTILATION sneer Magma aincouoirrioume nun HEATING éAIL sure Marni Ilnnrmé TUESDAY BABY ll nitridusuyfhlsmingm munitywouidbobilfledwlth uxuwhiahwoulddrlvcnw mosaicunion wunomomlefllntheuirting Alndusulnlmnltwudlfflwit to see how Iuhllntinl indust flu could be alluded to the community The town received lpprnyll for the annexation of 1700 acres from the townships of Vespn and Innlnfli nnd the annexation took place on Jan i959 coincth with assump tion of city status Overnight Barrie became al most twice its line and ciw it added to the problems oLtho first city year Mldtn who had not previously lived in city now did so City amenities anticipated by them were not immediately iorthcolninl but in most cases the tax rate was nearly double Since Barrie ceded from the county in use form of round table coolerence was necessary between the new city and coun ty respecting financial adjust ments The city had an equity lathe county assets and also wanted to participate on char log Ibecostbnslsinoertainot the services for the time being Both the City and County council appointed committees to meet and negotiate and sur prisinglienouxh alter meetings spread over ten months between the two representative bodies an amicable agreement was reached The agreement called or pay ment by the county to tha city of $135941 in five equal instal ments tree of interest com mencing December of 1960 This represents Barrles origin al contribution to the county building equipmmt reserves and land Other items held by the county are not included in the agreement as the county and city have to operate certain services such as the adminle tratlcn of justice jointly and the buildings and equipment would therefore remain joint WOW The city agreed to buy certain services from the county and agreed to pay the county treas urer $150110 for services rend ered to the city in 1959 Only anone point was no aglt rcement reached and that Wu on the question of payment to the county recreation commit tee Normally Barrie used to subscribe about $2200 to this committee through county levy annually The committee reject ed the citys otter of $500 made on the grounds that many of the citys recreation services are available to members of the county The main agreemt between county and city has been com pleted on the understanding that separate negotiations would con tlnue between city and the coun ty recreation committee The first year of city status brought windfall to both the county and the city The Ontar io Provincial government was persuaded to band out to the county $96000 and to the city $23000 to help in the finances for 1959 MATERIAL BENEFITS The idea of city status was sold to the community on the theme that it would bring mat eriair benefit to their pockets as taxpayers If this was interpret ed by any as reduction in tax es then they are likely to be disillusioned But if by material benefits is meant value for money for the taxpayer then there is grounds for optimism it is too early to tell yet for certain for the first years of city is period of change giving rise to unusual expenditures and unexpected revenues But thae are signs such as plans for the orderlygde velopmcnt of the city streets plans for lakeshore parks and drives which seem to indi cate that Barrie will be better place t4 lliiiae tumthe years to come eexpenseLto the taxpayer 84040 neuron vmw 3mm aasr BN1 Our Past Has Been Linked With Barrie Our Future Will Followlhe ROAD or Innocenst YEARS OF PROGRESS PROVEN lNDUSTltliit COMMERCIAL WIRING MAINTENANCEQAND RasAia SERVICE ELECTRIC rumors as on ANostscrRiCAL HeATiNG Moron REPAIR ANS Rawmoitlie