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samt enter ee eats a TORONTO -- Ontario's,which had been increased by; dl heaith|about $6,000,000 between the} ship $137,-| current fiscal year and the 1063+ gross expenditure on services in 1963-64 will be 471,000, Provincial Treasurer James Allan forecast in his an- aual budget speech today. The figure is $12,508,000 less than the interim statement of} expenditure for the current fis- cal year, ending March 31. Mr, Allan said the decrease did not mean a drop in spend- fog for actual health services, $5 Million To Begin Park Plans TORONTO (CP) -- Provision of an initial $5,000,000 for the first year of a 20-year sh>-eline and parks acquisition program highlighted the natura! re sources measures forecast in Ontario's 1963-64 budget pre- sented to the legislature today. The program, to be carried out under a new branch of the tands and forests department, involves spending an estimated $200,000,000 in the next 20 years to acquire and develop Great Lakes shoreline into parks and recreational facilities. Total 1963-64 appropriation tor parks development, including a joint federal-provincial survey of marine resources, is esti- mated at $8,300,000 comnared with a parks expenditure of $4,000,000 in the current fiscal year, ending March. 31. Combined appropriations for the agriculture, lands and for- ests and mines departments for the coming fiscal year were estimated in the budget speech at $60,500,000 for ordinary and capital expenditures. : Agricultural programs will require an estimated $18,563,- 000, an increase of $1,000,000 from the current fiscal year, Provincial Treasurer Janies Al- lan said in presenting his bud- et. e The mines department fore- cast is $2,275,000, an increase of $240,000 from estimated 1962- 63 expenditures. The lands and forests depart- ment will spend an estimated) $38,400,000 in the next fiscal year, up $6,900,000 from the current year's total. SET UP FOOD COUNCIL Among measures included in THE OSHAWA TIMES, Thursdey, February 7,1963 15 for children 'unable to benefit - $137,471,000 Expense For Health Services 64 forecast. The drop was due to a surplus in the stabilization grants made to the Ontario Hospital Services 'Commission in the last two ears, he said, Overbudgeting Ne the grantswhich were to be $58,000,000. a year in the three years 1061-64 -- left the rovince with only an additional 900,000 appropriation in 1963- 4. The budget speech said the health expenditure would in- clude $58,900,000 for mental health purposes, an increase of $4,900,000 from the total for the current fiscal year, Supplementary estimates for 1962-63 included $200,000 for the Ontario Mental Health Founda- tion, set up in the 1961 'egis- lature session to promse re- search on the care and treat- ment of mental illness. PLAN 3 HOSPITALS Two new mental hospitals have been built in the last year, at Goderich and Owen Sound, and -three others are planned for Northern Ontario, Mr. Allan said. The new hospitals--at Tim- mins, Sault Ste, Marie and Sud- bury--would allow an existing Ontario hospital at North Bay to be used for children. At least one of the three new community psychiatric hospital, on a plan similar to one worked out with the Royal Ottawa San- atorium, which uses some of its surplus bed space for mental patients, he said. Supplementary » 1962-63 esti- mates, the provincial treasurer said, would include $3,400,000 to assist public hospitals in deht retirement and other capital projects. Out of this, a $75-a- bed grant would be made to all qualified public hospitals. The welfare expenditures for 1963-64 are estimated at $61,- 800,000, compared with $58,000,- 000 for the current year. Welfare progress in the last year included increases to. $05 from $55 a month in okt age assistance and blind and dis- abled persons' allowances, and grants to charitable organiza- tions for building four new homes for the aged. The budget speech said efforts in the coming year would be concentrated on increasing and improving institutional facilities the province's agricultural pro- gram this year are: Creation of an Ontario Food Council rep- resenting producers, processors and consumers; application of the recently-passed Agricultura! Rehabilitation and Development} Act and a widening of the scope of the Junior Farmer Esiablish- ment Loans Act. Mining advances planned in- clude enlargement of the de- partment's geological branch staff to speed mapping and im- prove other services, research into iron ore smelting using natural gas and development of improved methods of ore dressing. The budget speech said the lands and forests department provided 44,200,000 tree seed- lings in the last year for plant- ing on Crown and private land, exelusive of tender and depatr- ment-timber company projects. In 1962, the province's junior forest ranger program trained 680 boys in 54 camps through- out Northern Ontario. Five new provincial parks, totalling' 11,833 acres, were opened last year to bring the total area of parks in use to 3,500,000 acres. The number of visitors to On- tario's 81 parks in 1962, at 7,800,000, was 26 per cent higher] than the previous year and the 1,000,000 campers recorded rep- resented a 23-per-cent rise. Provincial Aid To Municipal Bodies Higher TORONTO (CP) -- Provincial assistance to local government in Ontario will reach an esti- mated $486,000,000 in the com- ing fiscal year. This compares with $469,- 000,000, including $34,400,000 in supplementary estimates, dur- ing the fiscal year which ends March 31, Provincial Treasurer James Allan said today in his annual budget speech. He said the 1963-64 forecast for municipal aid from the province represented 90 per cent of expected revenue from the retail sales tax and corpor- ation and persona! income taxes. "In other words, the province is turning over for local pur- poses about 47 per cent of its net ordinary revenue, as com- pared with 19 per cent in 1942- 43," Mr. Allan said. In addition to aid in "the fundamentally important fields of education, roads, health and welfare," he said, the province contributes to special municipal needs through other grants and payments. Payments under the Uncon. ditional Municipal Grant Act are expected to rise to $26,900,. 000 in 1963-64, and an appropri- ation of $2,800,000 would be re- quired 'in the next fiscal year for the municipal winter works program. HIGHLIGHTS FOR ONTARIO BUDGET By THE CANADIAN PRESS Ontario budget highlights: No new taxes or increases in existing taxes. Retail sales tax will not apply on single transactions under 20 cents. Business gets tax incentives including tax credits for in- creasing efnployment and in- creasing production facilities. Surplus of $30,000 on ordin- ary account for year ending March 31 and $378,000 for 1963-64, Gross ordinary expenditures of $1,029,870,000 in current year and forecast of record $1,074,715,000 for 1963-64, Grants to elementary and secondary school boards in 1963-64: $233,300,000, up $31, 900,000. Grants to universities: $70,- 000,000, up $24,400,000, Government will provide $40,800,000 to hold down cost of hospital insurance premi- ums, making $148,000,000 in three years. Government will make ad- vance payments on grants to municipalities and schoo} boards. Community deve! opment corporations will qualify for government guarantees for joans. Highway expenditures will rise by $19,500,000 to $275,- 000,000 in 1963-64. First-year appropriation of $5,000,000 in start of 20-year shoreline and parks acquisi- tion program. ' Total 1963-64 appropriation for housing will be $5,600,000. Assistance to municipalities, school boards and other loca, agencies totals $469,000,000 in 1962-63 and $496,000,000 in 1963-64. Retail sales tax receipts for 1963-64 estimated at $180,- 000,000 compared with $174,- 000,000 this year. Corporation tax biggest rev- enue producer with $182.000,- 000 this year and $190,000,000 estimated for 1963-64, Gross capital spending $290,- 817,000 in 1962-63; expected to be $356,334,000 in coming year. hospitals is expected to bo a/31 from a normal family relation- " Among the new expenses of the welfare department would be provincial grants, under leg- islation passed last fall, to help iprivate organizations with build- ing homes for trainable re- tarded children attending day! school classes run by local as- sociations. Hiked Spending On Highways Planned TORONTO (CP) -- Ontario government spending on high- ways will total $275,000,000 in the 1963-64 fiscal yea>, Pro- vinciali Treasurer Allan an- nounced today in his budget speech. It is an increase of $19,- 500,000 over the current year. Of the total, $82,500,000 will be for maintenance and $192,- 500,000 for capital purposes. In- cluded are road subsidies of| $87,300,000 for municipalities and unincorporated townships in Northern Ontario. The treasurer said the amount will provide for a combined provincial and municipal pro- gram for the year of 3362,300,- 000, an increase of $27,300,000 over the combined total for the current year that ends March Construction of sections of Highway 401 will be acceler- ated, the minister said, in ovder to have this freeway from Wind- sor to the Quebec border com- pleted by the end of 1963, There will be additionai work on Highway 403 in Hamilton and a start on the Brantford pass, with the first six-m:z'e s-+- ton of the latter exptcted to be open to traffic by ths end of 1963 from the Freeman's in- terchange westerly to Lougwoed Road. Work will be continued as scheduled on the Trans-Canada Highway, the Ottawa Queans- way, a controlled-access route to the Toronto International Air- port, Highway 11 between Fort Frances and Atikokan and High. way 101 from Chapleau to Wawa. A "crash program'"' to elimin- ate limited load capacity bridges will be. continued, Training Plan Seen For Businessmen TORONTO (CP) -- A small- business management training program, a products and tech- niques show and several con- ferences on standardization of manufactured parts will be in- itiated this year as part of the Ontario government's industrial development program. The measures, promised in Provincial Treasurer James Al. lan's budget speech today, are further steps in the province's 20-point program launched iast April with the establishment of the Ontario Economic Council. The budget speech also said: The trade crusade program would be accelerated, particul- ary at the consumer level. Loans to qualifying industries would be guaranteed under the recently-created Ontario Devel- opment Agency. Legislation would be intro- duced to encourage creation of community development cor- porations to assist local or reg- ional development. In addition to the industry- labor conferences "'to encour- age standardization of parts used by manufacturers in On- tario," Mr. Allan said, the province would sponsor a con- ference on "automation and gso- cial change * The small-business training program, to be introduced by the economics and' development department in conjunction with the education department and the federal trade and comnierce department, would offer a se. ries Of courses on basic busi- ness operations to all small business owner and manager beginning September, 1963. Song Service Planned At Burketon By A. R. HUBBARD BURKETON -- A card party was held in the school recently with prizes going to: high lady, Mrs. A. C. Stephenson; low lady, Miss Pat Turnbull; high gentleman, Joseph Stephen- son; low gentleman, Is. Pres- cott. A song service will ts held at 7.30 p.m., Sundey, Feb. 10, in the church, The UCW will meet in the church hall at 8 p.m., Wednes- day, Feb. 13. Mrs. Dorothy Bryan, Mrs. G. Weatherup, Miss Hilda Hall, Oshawa, enjoyed an oyster sup- per at the home of Mr, and Mrs, B. Hubbard. Miss Pat Belsey, Newcastle, Mr. and Mrs. John Stephenscn, Oshawa, were weekend guests of Mr. and Mrs. A. C, Stephen- son and family. Net debt at March 31, 1963, estimated at $1,316,402,700, up $107,339,000 in year. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Carter, | Bowmanville, were Sunda y| guests of Mrs. A. Carter, 1959 CHEVROLET STATION WAGON. A ennnaihiey, power- packed 4-door model... WAS $1445. ww SI295 1962 CORVAIR MONZA SEDAN with automatic transmission and powerful 102 h.p. engine... WAS $2245 ww SIQQOS 1957 CHEVROLET DELUXE 4-DOOR STATION WAGON. In good shape... 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