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Stouffville Tribune (Stouffville, ON), February 13, 1947, p. 2

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the tribune stouffville ont thursday february 13 1947 nbs tmrff trill uribun established 1888 member of the canadian weekly newspaper association and ontario quebec newspapers association member of the audit bureau of circulations average paidinadvance circulation as of sept 1st 2473 issued every thursday at stouffville ontario subscription rates per year in advance in canada 200 in usa s250 a v nolan son publishers notes and comments bigger money should the japanese chinese or some other race be come strong and influential in canada as the french our dollar bills may be larger to allow still another langu age printed on them snow removal problem met there is no law by which the business area of stouffville could be assessed for the removal of the great piles of snow that are rolled up along the curbing thereby becoming an impediment to business unless perhaps it could be author ized as a local improvement and paid for on a frontage basis something council would not attempt to do- neverthe less it is considered a special benefit to the merchant to have the snow removed as a means of providing better accommodation for patrons of the stores who wish to trade here undoubtedly women who otherwise might drive into town to transact business do not do so when thestreet is narrowed down so that driving a car becomes a difficult job many merchants had signified their willingness to con tribute to the cost of this snow removal and the splendid way in which they have responded warrants the council in doing the job and charging up any amount over and above that so generously paid by the merchants to direct taxation a wide clean street invites business and is a general benefit to almost everybody and especially the merchant the present arrangement is a most amicable one and will benefit the town in general the councils effort to plow the roads is meeting with general satisfaction judging by the favorable comment heard from so many story has swung to full circle the story has swung to the full circle and closed seven years ago the aquitania sailed from the ancient port of halifax with the first canadian troops aimed at the heart of hitlers expanding empire and now the aquitania has returned to halifax with the last canadian contingent com ing home the job is done hitler lies dead his forces shattered and mankind freed at last from the bonds of nightmare slowly painfully and with much heart search ing sets to work to build a new world out of the wreckage of the old the first canadian division sailed from halifax in dec ember 1939 in five steamers including the aquitania since those days seven years ago when some 15000 men were carried into halifax on 33 canadian national troop trains more than 1200000 on the way to war or homeward bound were transported by the cnr or 3000 special trains this is only part of the cnr war story as in the first world war the heaviest transportation load of materials as well as men was shouldered by the national system not only because it is the largest railway in the americas but because it is the only railway with a direct allland all canadian route to the atlantic seaboard a fact of strage- gic significance it was through halifax that the troops and war mater ials poured from halifax the canadian national carried such distinguished passengers as churchill on two historic visits the earl of athlone and his successor viscount alex ander viscount montgomery the princess juliana and other notables halifax and the cnr made history toge ther at one end of the story is the special train which left the port in september 1939 with the survivors of the torpedoed athenia at the other end the special bearing the european delegation to the united nations conference at san francisco in april 1945 our capital correspondent ville tribune by mi l sschwartz written exclusively for the stouff- it is evident now in ottawa that the fight against inflation in this country is not ended and controls in some directions will be with canadians in 1017 or until such tima to the nova scotia industry should be continued for a limited time ing to attain the objective of 20000 housing units for 1917 this has been disclosed in ottawa the royal commission on coal in its majority opinion has declared that production subsidies should be withdrawn completely on the aban donment of price control but in separate reports air justice car roll and mr morrison agreed special wartime financial assistance decision must be made some important points were raised recently by fagaby former chief engineer of the ontario hydroelectric power commission in discussing the proposal to change all power circuits in ontario to 60 cycle his main objection was on economic grounds mr gabys long experience with hydro affairs gives considerable weight to his opinions there seems to be general agreement on the superiority of 60cycle frequency over the 25cycle type from a techni cal standpoint those in the know say that most industrial processes can be performed more efficiently with 60cycle power the higher frequency gives a more even flow which increases the efficiency of the equipment used- fur thermore 60cycle equipment is considered standard and therefore cheaper and more readily available the discouraging part of the changeover is the cost it is estimated to be in the neighborhood of 200 million very often the completed job runs in excess of the original estimate it is an expenditure that should not be under taken until the project is studied carefully from every angle sfrfilff friday and saturday feb 14 is strange triangle masquerade in mexico fog on the financial front family herald and star it is very difficult just now to pierce the fog which sur rounds the financial battlefront in canada one of the chief difficulties is that the activities themselves are so many and so intermingled that they cannot be separated the hugely swollen payrolls of the dominion govern ment its enormous expenditures and the halfhearted na ture of the efforts being made to reduce them are among the main points to be examined closely tied up with them are the long drawn out and confusing negotiations between the dominion and the various provinces intimately affect ed by both these points is the whole subject of taxation it is reasonable and we believe just to remind all con cerned whether actively engaged in these negotiations or merely passively suffering from taxation that these three subjects cannot be dealt with separately provincial and dominion governments do not seem to realize the flimsy unreality of much of their talking and negotiating to read the newspapers one might suppose that it was governments of different countries which were negotiating one might also suppose that all these gov ernments were taking the money they are bargaining with from some newly discovered hoard of gold and that the only question was who was to have how much when we read the accounts of these negotiations we should never forget that all these different governments represent the same body of people the citizens of canada do not let us forget either that no new mountain of gold has been discovered that theie is only one source of the money for which these ten governments are squabbling and that is us the workers and taxpayers of canada and in this connection it is well to remember also that even we the taxpayers have no money we only have our labor and our tbrains all the money which the dominion is giving to the provinces represents nothing whatever except so many hours of labor by men and women who are citizens of those same provinces as well as of the do minion while there may and should be a certain transference of wealth from the richer central provinces to the handi capped western and eastern ones this is a comparatively small matter and does not affect the argument that we are all one body that we are arguing about taking money out of one pocket and putting it into the other that any money spent or given or received by the dominion govern ment or a provincial government is merely hours which we the taxpayers will have to work without getting any wages for ourselves the canadian national railways have everything down to the minutest detail we learn from a report issued that in the 30551 miles of main line tracks and yard spurs included there aw 2856 ties per mile or a grand total of 87209461 as the authorities decide that such measures are no longer essential even if there are many people who seemed to believe that such controls would die at the beginning of this session if there has leen one thing above another that the people of this country have implored this government to watch it has been to see that prices did not go skyrocket ing after this war as they did after the last war said in parliament premier king in support of the governments price control policy all the indications are that delay from now on in removing controls will cause constantly increasing difficulties said the leader of official opposition hon john bracken in discussing controls the moral of this is that the soon er these hindrances to production can be removed the sooner we will get the advantage of free and full production until then we shall have the constant irritation of a series of price rises however rents export controls and things of that sort in modified form had to be given careful consideration and retained if necessary while no specific information is available exactly when the 19474s budget will be presented in ottawa yet it is said in usually wellinform ed quarters on parliament hill a strenuous effort will be made this year to bring down this budget earlier than last year when it was offered on june 7 amidst much dis satisfaction the federal government if the companies will rehabilitate their operations indeed i fear the exodus from britain to canada would be intoler able if the gates were opened said in ottawa canadianborn british mp beverly baxter canada was proud to share the fortunes of war with her allies emphasized external affairs min ister stlaurent in parliament she expects to share with them also the task of making a just and lasting peace we then took recourse to individual negotiations with the provinces and we have met with some measure of success said finance minister abbott about dominionprovincial taxation dis- county tax rate down slightly but county reverts to issuing first debentures in 15 years york county tax rate for 1917 is slighty lower than 1916 because items of expenditure were placed on debenture issue one for roads and one for an addition to the south york registry office a slight reduction inthe 1947 tax rate was revealed in the finance committees report to county council last week the general purpose mill rate was set at 519 a reduction of 26 the equalized assessment for 1917 upon which the reduced mill rate was set amounted to 170808430 this figure gave a proposed mill rate of 460 special hospital grants amounting to 59 of a mill raised the final rate to the 519 mark reason for the reduction was at tributed to the fact that debentures for a fiveyearperiod have been issued resulting in a 35000 reduc tion in levy this year debentures were issued to cover road construction amounting to ap proximately 75000 as well as an addition to the south york registry office estimated at 51000 the total budget for the year 936s57 will allow for expenditures of s7s5718 for county purposes it was stated the county completed 1946 with a surplus of 48741 with no outstanding bank loans at dec 31 the year 1946 the report added is the 14th consecutive year in which the county has balanced the budget during the 14yearperiod the net debenture debt has been reduced approximately 1100000 the 1947 budget for the toronto and york roads commission was estimated at 419592 a 1500 in cussions the canadian council of churches is not an instrument of crease in thv grant to theroya union but of cooperation stated very rev dr john w woodside in speaking at a meeting in this capital winter fair increased the grants to agricultural societies to 4150 council also voted a 3000 increase in the grant to the york county hospital at newmarket it is evident here that many grants to the york coumy sec members do not like the doubling ondarv schools were increased this up or twotoiheoffice basis in vear schedule subm by s chairman of the finance corn- offices the clothing shortage has nuttee h huch criers of vim- been brought close to the house of ctllefa budget 7286 rcw sfn as compared with the s142s73 re- for 1946 senate majcrlamoureux found that his tailors could not complete his dress suit in time for the open ing ceremonies reproduction prohibited 1917 federal features syndicate the canadian government which has completed 50000 housing unitsj500 readers each week hers in 1013 and 60000 in i9ig is plannjready market at lowest cost tribune classified ads reach over a a break down of county expendi tures for 1916 was as follows tor onto and york roads commission 0293 per cent capital hospital grants 1590 pc childrens aid society 1457 pc education 1203 pc debenture debt 8s9 pc admin istration of justice 772 pc hospi talization fi23 pc municipal gov ernment 185 pc- house of refuge j 149 pc and registry office 130 pc when you make ouf a cheque you give an order to your bank co pay the amount specified to the person named if he lives 011 the next street or thousands of miles away he can take your cheque to his local bank and get the money he connof get it without a receipt his signature on the back of the cheque if yours is a current account your cheque comes back at the end of the month and so you have a per manent record and receipt of the payment the enormous convenience of the chequing system is just one of the many services provided by your bank for you t h a d vertisemen t is sponsored by your honk

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