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1970
�-L- '1.�-.71.V'-�' .°_��.�,��dJ'•�. Yrlu'J.. '.;.�3.��.ti;,+J�..'� � 0 � � � � 0 0 GEHRING, NEW OXFORD WARDEN, Study THE PROUD MEMBERS of Stanley Gehring's family beam at the reeve after his election of warden of Oxford County yesterday. Mr. Geh- ring was elected warden on the sixth ballot .of an open vote by members of Oxford County Council. Surrounding the new warden are, left„his son-in-law John Drew of Grimsby, Mr. Gehring's' wife Muriel, son Gordon who on the family tobacco at RR 2, Otterville, dau,; in-law Grace and Mr. ring's daughter Mt Drew. regional government urged by Oxford County warden VAYNE Macl'lIVI(SON of The Free Press WOODSTOCK — A commit- tee tip prepare a regional gov. ernmhnl study was proposed to �xday County council "W yUy Warden Stanley Ge ng, reeve of South Nor. wi($t, ownsh.ip. ilia!recommendation may be con*ered when council re- convenes Jan. 28 and 29- Wljrdea Gehring said he hoped a report could he pre• senW to the minister of mu. nteipal affairs before the end of 1970. He said council has an obli- gation to the ratepayers to re- tain Oxford as a unit, and if feasible to enlarge the area. Maps being prepared in re- gional government studies by neighboring counties, he said, include large parts of Oxford. The committee, he said, would be composed of "inter- ested" county council mem- bers and representatives from Ingersoll and Woodstock. Ingersoll Mayor Gordon B. Henry proposed in his inaugu- ral address Jan. 5 that Wood- stock, Ingersoll and oxford County form a unit In the Woodstock Mayor William Allen said the city is interest- ed lit any dialogue which would benefit the residents of Oxford, Woodstock and Inger- soll. Derehom Township and Tili- sonburg representatives have been meeting since last fall to consider creating a "lower - tier" unit for regional govern- ment, which they visualize could come into effect by Jan. 1, 1971, Municipalities across the north of Oxford have held two informal meetings. Reeve Albert Cornwell of North Norwich Township was elected chairman of the roads committee; Reeve Max L. MacKay, East Zorra Town- ship, chairman of finance and administration; Reeve Ken- neth Webster, Tillsonburg, chairman ofproperly and as. sessment and Deputy Reeve Archie Longworth, West Ox- ford Township, chairman of agriculture and community services. ALLOT By ROSE MARIE EARLE ; and was South Norwich's first When Stanley Gehring was deputy reeve in 1M. announced as warden of Oxford) Mr. Gehring is a past com County yesterday the first wordl mittee member of the Ontario he used to describe his success I Flue - Cured Tobacco Growers was "unbelievable." Marketing Board. He is a mem- Mr, Gehring is also the reevei her and past district deputy depen- of South Norwich Township, In Lotd0 der of Odd emaster of llows of seeking the warden's chair for.Otterville district no. 7- He is 1970. he was opposed by Alberti on the Otter Creek Covservauon Cornwell, reeve of North Nor wich Township, and by JohnAuthority, Hofstetter, reeve of Blenheim, The Gehring family attends Township, Otterville United Church. Mr. Gehring was successful) Mr. Gehring owns over too for the position on the sixth bal- acres of land where be lives. lot of open -voting. Forly-eight acres are planted Following his declaration of with tobacco and some land is office, the new reeve delivered rented to other tobacco graw- an address to the 23 members er Gehring's have o n e of county council who were; daughter, as well as their son, present to the county rnocouo . Gordon. Daughter Marilynchamber yesterday afternoon. i gh is He told the group he appre-I married to John Drew and mak- es her home in Grimsby. Mr. Gehring discussed recent Other Picture, Stories statements made by Ingersoll On Pages 3 and 13 Mayor Gordon Henry in his inaugural address to Ingersoll town council. Mayor Henry mg. eiated their having elected warden and he promised the that he will not take his ne position "lightly". He said h realized there will be many hours of work involved in th new job and said he expec to maintain the high level. of government achieved by pre- vious county councils, He told the councillors he didn't expect his job would be easy and told them he would not be able to do the job alone. He said "I shall need plenty of m w e e ts him gested at the time that 9ra county and the city of Weod- stock along with the town of Ingersoll should took into the possibility of a top tier govern - meat for the comity before out- side forces come in from Tor- onto and split up the catafy, He told the councillors he would have to depend on them to help him achieve any goals that are set for the year. The wardensbip of the county was an early birthday present He describes himself as s (retired from his farm loc !just at the south town It !of Otterville, Mr Gehring's '.Gordon, and his daughter -in !live at the farm and ran ',business In partnership The new warden has live his RR 2 Otterv.ille farm t 1932. He has been. on Co (Council for the past eight y idea.. He said he wa to discuss counts with other officials. Mr. Gehring felt as in the county together to prese! County and protect WORKING UNIT He said the county is a fea- sible working unit and cited work on the county, home. county library and Cbldrra's Aid Society as examples of what co-operation from govern- ments in the county can as The new warden's -wife -was asked for her comments on the election. She said she and the rest of the family are very proud of Air. Gehring and very happy. She admitted that a lot of her husband's time wilt be taken up with his xkW res- ponsibilities but said, that af- ter his serving on-counell for eight years the family has be- come used to sharing Mr. Geh- ring with his other interests. How the unique open vote went in Oxford election By ROSE MARIE EARLE Three men were in the run. Comity council chamber was ping for the seat. As well as tilled to cnpariq, and than Mr. Gehring, who emerged as s o ine, yesterday afternoon. the winner , John Hofstetter, when reeves of the 16 munici• reeve of Blenheim township, palities represented on County Iwas also contesting the word. Council convened to elect the,, en's chair along with Mr. Corn - warden of Oxford County for well, reeve of North Norwich, 1970. who withdrew from the race After six ballots of open voting after the fifth ballot. a 59-year-old tobacco farmer, Stanley Gehring, of RR 2, &'. CAMPAIGNS ren had been con. guitervde had been it through to dueling their campaigns for the guide county council through past few weeks and had visited the next year. all members of council to solicit The council meeting for n. their votes. The three were of. election of Urn c n cone con• vaned at 2 p.m.. in n county coon- ficfally nominated before ballot- cil chambers under the watch. mg began yesterday, ful eye of county clerk-treasur. Mr. Gehring was nominated er, Len Coles. Mr. Coles, who by the deputy reeve of South is retiring as clerk -treasurer at Norwich, William J. Martin. the end of the year, occupied The deputy reeve of Blenheim, the chair for the first ballot. He L. H. Sibbick nominated Mr. was aided by 1969 warden, Hofstetter and Mr, Cornwell's Gordon Aspden, and 1968 ward. nomination was entered by W. en, Glen Kitchen, Leslie Dickson, deputy reeve of DEPUTY -CLERK North Norwich. At the start of the second bal- lot deputy clerk -treasurer, Ger- ry Staples took over the chair. He conducted the voting until after the fifth ballot when Al- 'bert Cornwell, one of the candi- dates for the warden's c h a i r withdrew from the contest. With 27 votes to be considered, the first person with 14 votes was the winner and when Mr. Cornwell withdrew one of the other men had to emerge a winner. Balloting for the warden be- gan when a resolution calling for an open vote was moved by Archie Longworth, the deputy - reeve of West Oxford township. The motion was seconded by John Nadalin of Beachville. Hong Kong flu not here yet There is still no sign of the Hong Kong flu in Oxford County according to Dr, G. Q. Suther- land, Oxford County Medical Of. ficer of Health. Dr Sutherland said that cos - es of upper respiratory infec- tion are rather prevalent in the county: He said the illness is not really serious enough to keep someone home from work and it is spread around. Although there are 24 council members the number of votes on council totals 26 because four of the council members have two votes. Medford C l a r k e, reeve of Dereham Township has two votes as does Mr. Hofstetter as reeve of Blenheim Township, Kenneth Reeve as reeve of Till- soaburg and J. Seldon Wilkin- son as deputy reeve of Tillson. burg. 26 VOTES Although there are a total of 26 votes possible, the total pos- sible yesterday was only 27. Bruce Amos, reeve of West Ox- ford is out of the country and no one could take his placein voting. Mr. Coles explained to the group assembled in the council chambers that Mr. Amos had come to him a couple of months ago to say that he might be out of town at the time of the warden's election. At that time the clerk -treasurer looked into the possibility of having some one from the township stand in and vote for Mr. Amos. The question was taken to the Municipal Affairs office in Lon- don then referred to the Muni- cipal Affairs department in Tor- onto. The legal department look- ed into the matter and informed' Mr. Coles that it is not possible for another person to act in someone else's place on county council. A replacement can be named to act in an absent main. City won't sell furniture Office equipment and furniture In the former city assessment office will not be sold to the province. The province has taken over assessment in the province from municipalities as of Jan. 1, 1970, It offered to take over furniture and equipment In the vacated city office for 31.,405. City employees have estimated that the equip• meat and furniture is worth $6,147. They recom- mended to council that the equipment be offered to other city departments on a basis of need then the balance be sold publicly. City council accepted the suggestion last night, In other words, you can take Our assessment de- partment, but you can't have our furniture and equipment, toe. a place, with frill voting to, on a township council but on county council. NO TIES Without Mr. Amos' vote the most votes a candidate could re- ceive was 27 votes. There was no possibility of a tie and the first person to reach 14 votes was the declared warden. Mr. Gehring came out of the first round of balloting with the lowest number of votes. Of the 27, he captured only seven votes to nine for Mr. Cornwell and 11 for Mr. Hofstetter. He continued polling the low- est number of votes on the sec- ond ballot gaining seven votes again, compared to 10 each for the other two candidates. Shifting votes began in earn- est after the second ballot and on the third round Mr. Gehring was pulling up to Mr. Hofstetter while Mr. Cornwell fell behind with only six votes to 10 for Mr. Gehring and 11 for Mr. Hofstetter. Mr. Cornwell continued with only six votes on each of the fourth and fifth ballots. Mr. Gehring in the meantime was pulling slightly ahead of Mr. Hofstetter and polled 11 votes to 10 for Mr. Hofstetter on the fourth ballot and 12 votes to nine for Mr. Hofstetter on the fifth ballot. WITHDRAW Mr. Cornwell withdrew at this point and much of the excite- ment was over. With a total of 27 votes possible it was obvious someone had to emerge as the With four councillors still to be polled Mr. Gehring It a d amassed the desired 14 votes. In the final tally of the day Mr. Gehring had collected 19 votes to eight for Mr. Hofstetter to become the 1970 warden of Ox- ford County. Following the oath of office administered by Mr. Coles, 1969 warden Mr. Aspden congratu- lated Mr. Gehring, presented him with the gavel. of his office and escorted the new warden to his chair. History of Oxford County council voting explained By ROSE HARM EARLE i wads superintendent at the time nd Oxford County's best known-lustilyas prepared for the even,, .historian is Len Coles, clerk for Dereham Township with the the county. Mr. Coles presided highest equalized asseaamant over his 29th election of a war- was allowed the decidtaft-vote, .den for the county this week. John W. Smith decideedd woo After Stanley Gehring, reeve of would be warden of 0 It f or d South Norwich Township had County that year. .been elected, Mr. Coles asked Other tie votes were recorded for council's indulgence while he. in 1959 and in 1966. In 1959 Ed reminisced a bit. Be presented Pearce was finally elected war- ' a brief outline of the history of den and Ed Pearce had cast the the election Ofwardens in the deciding vote. in 1966 Cyril Do - county, was appointed clerk Meyers cast the deciding vote in pP favor of Hugh Mourn. of the county, he said, in 1943. Before launching into a brief ac. FOUR RUNNING - count of elections he has wit- Mr. Coles recalled that in 1961 nessed personally the county there were four reeves running clerk filler] in a bit of Flack- for the warden's office. On the ground of the tradition of elect- 28th ballot Harry Little with- ing a warden. drew but there were still three STARTED IN 1911 in the race at the 52nd ballot at 4:20 in The unique open vote system Lafternoon. I used in county council to elect Mr. Coles lon roamed council it they couldn't make up their a warden was begun in 1911 Mr. Coles said. Since that time there minds ent. would ask for an nt, have only been two acclama- be though The adjournment, eoe lions to the warden's chair. in he thought, would allow the 1915 John Campbell of Dercham councillors to get together to de - Township was acclaimed and in tide what they were going to do. The adjournment was not 1936 the same was true of Wil- necessarythough because Thu. ➢am Lampman of East Oxford. mas Pellow withdrew after the In 1943, when Mr. Coles he -,gird ballot. Grant Sutherland came the clerk, he was faced was elected warden after the with a tie vote between J. K. Wardell of South Norwich and m ballot. Mr. Coles councillors J. K. McLeod of East Norwich. that there were 20 counriliors Fortunately Mr. Coles tied been at that time. He calculated that he called acmes out a total of alerted to the prospect by the 1,040 times during the election. LEN K. COLES . historian 4 Oxford County council members going to Toronto STANLEN GiTJIRING . .. Oxford Warden Four members of the Oxford County council were named yes- terday to go to Toronto to meet Municipal Affairs Minister D'Arcy McKeough. warden Statilev Gehring will head the Oxford delegation which will be made up of Ken- neth W. Webster reeve of Tlll- soriburg, Louis Barrett deputy reevc of Dereham Township and Gerry Staples deputy clerk of the County. The four men will present a brief to the minister to protest the recentchange-over from muniepul assessment to provin- cial assessment. The main purpose of the brief is to ask for an assessment of - fire to be retained in Otcfotd County. The brief also protests some unfairness that council thinks has been sbown in ap• plying a provincial a ualiaatil factor to property in the county. MOST BALLOTS The most ballots ever needed was in 1913, well before Mr. Coles' time. That year Charlie Denton of Tillsonburg was elect- ed warden after 63 ballots. The tradition of driving around the county to see all of the councillors before an elec- tion was established by J . C. Eichenberg, reeve of Tillson- burg in 1944, fir. Coles said. Eichenberg bad entered the race late and to make up for lost time he visited all council- lors to press his claimfor the office. Mr. Eichenberg came out on top and the tradition, has re- mained. Mr. Coles recalled too that in 1945 before the first ballot, Al Parsons of Tillsonburg com- plained that there were four reeves running for the office of warden and that he was not too `familiar with the men. He asked that all of the candidates be re- quired to deliver a speech to the councillors. Council agreed with the proposal and without any preparation the four outlined their ideas to council., BEST ORATORS Apparently East Nissouri pro- duced the best orators that year for their reeve, Alex McCorquo- dale went on to win the election. Mr, Coles said that appar- ently the election In 19U was illegal. The Sunday before the election Bob Rudy of Tavi- stock broke his leg. The village council met and selected Milt Both to stand in for the injured reeve. Roth voted for the warden as any regular member of coon. ell. However, this year when Bruce Amos found out that he might be absent from the elec- tion a check was made to fund out it another town councillor could vote for the warden to his place. The answer, no, camp front the legal offices of the De- partment Municipal Affairs in Toronto. it 0 0 Oxford's regional government: a good idea but is it too late? fit the light of developnicnis that indicate the eventual arrival Of regional government. in Ontario, htgersoll's Mayor Gordon Henry has made a bold and commendable suggestion. In his inaugtwal address to the femn council this Creek he said the lime has come for the officials of the various municipalities in Ox- ford County to discuss the forma- tion of an overall council for the .i r.,a Mayor N'illitun Allen. Ile has said he will be happy to meet with Mayor Henry, the warden of Ox- ford, or a composite committee to discuss the project. How far they could go is diffi- cult to say. Municipalities are con- stitutionally the responsibility of the provincial government, and final authority for any change of municipal formal would naturally come from Queen's Park. ALBERT CORNWELL JOHN HOPSTETTEB STANLEY GEHRING Three in the runn41 ing for Warden of oxford BY JO-ANNE THOMPSON reeve of Blandford Township has two votes and the deputy Len Coles, Oxford . County and Albert Cornwell, reeve of reeve has one vote. Blenheim clerk - treasurer, will take the North Norwich Township. If Township received the addition - Warden's chair for the 28th one of these candidates does not I at vote when the number of time. When he rings the bell, have an absolute majority of 15 municipal electors topped the the election for the rnunty's of 28 votes, the clerk declares 2,000 mark. 116th warden will get under 'no election.' In less than two i The number of votes is bas- way. minutes, the second round of ed on the number of municipal. The 1970 Warden will be vot- voting is under way, selectors in the township. If the red in by an open ballot system, If, after the fifth ballot, one number of municipal electors is almost unique to Oxford County. candidate does not have clear under 1,000. there is one vote; The system was instituted in majority, the man with least over 1,a9a two votes: aver 2.0M0 1911 and many other counties number of votes is expected to.three votes; and over 3,0N, .are now switching back to the withdraw from the race. How -four votes, lopen ballot system, ever, this is not compulsory, If The election of the warden he does drop out, his support- T1tfi VOTE a tie vole, the takes place on the third Tues- ers will back someone else and In day at 2 p.m. every January. the election proceeds until one reeve of the municipality with When Mr. Coles takes the war- man has the majority vote. the highest equalized assess- Iden's chair, he is in complete Iment, which Is Tilisunburg, charge- of the voting. 28 VOTES casts the deciding vote. The clerk calls the name of There are24 council membersi This year's election will act - each councillor who in turn re- with a total of 28 votes. Some I ually be the 129th time the vote 'sponds with the name of the county council members have for Oxford County Warden has man who is his choice for the more than one vote. Derehamltaken place. At one time, the position of Warden. After each Township has two men oa cone- warden could be elected for of the 24 councillors has stated cil and has three votes, The I more than one term at a time. his choice, the clerk totals the reeve has two votes and the FOUR IN A BOW ballots. deputy reeve has one vote. In James Matheson of West Zor- Tillsonburg, the reeve and de- ra the third warden of West Oxford HOPEFULS poly reeve each have two vOt-, County, was elected to his first This year's hopefuls are Staa- es. term in 1852 and was elected ''ley Gehring, reeve of South Nor. For the first time this year, fore- times in succession- In :wich Township; John Hofstetter, the reeve of Blenheim Township 1901. Oxford County had two Wardens. At that time, Wood - Quarry industry take-over Stock was a town and Reeve S. J. Cole was elected County 'Warden. By July of that year overdue: Beachville Reeve ogr` ligible toCber unty warden. John Youngs- who re - The reeve of Beachville,- John be rehabilitated when quarry-� presented West Zorra Embra J. Nadalin, feels that a provia-ling is completed, and East Nissouri, was elected cial take-over of the jurisdiction Mr. Nadahn said he felt the to finish out the term. of the pit and quarry industry move was years late. He said There have been only two ae. is long overdue. the various municipalities have elamation votes since the open , Mines Minister A I I a n F. tried to enforce their own re- ballot system was instituted in Lawrence said the provincial gulations but did not possess 1911. John Campbell of Dere- government has intimated they enough power, ham Township was acclaimed ,will take over the pit and quarry He said the government needs warden 4n 1915 and William [industry to ensure the lands will to exert stronger controls over Lampman of East Oxford was the industry, even though they acclaimed in 1936, are an asset to a community Immediately following t h e u such as Beachville by providing election of the wards-n, there Is employment and bringing a 20 minute recess and council v «, money into t h e village. Mr. gets down to work facing it for Nadalia It; an employee of the the year- ' Steel'Climpany of Canada in In-; to air grievances on wages A delegation from Derchannibeen sent to other municipal'. When the county board met Township Council it to be in• councils in the county. Last last night and studied the Deco-. vited to a meeting by Oxford week Tilisonburg Council stud- 'hem resolution, It was decided County Board of Education to led the matter and took no ae- to .invite a delegation from air its complaints about "Ex- tion to endorse the resolution. Dereham. The delegation will horbitsnf." salaries awing paid. The Tillsouburg Council had be invited to substantiate the to sopervleers, principals and'invited Director of Education allegations and to give compar teachers, George A. Simmons, andiative figures If fliey have them.r In December the Dereham Board Trustee in Linton to Council passed ■ resolution do- speak on the Wailes involved. poring The irresponsible ac-I After their presentation, the lion of the Oxford County School � counrit stated that. salary svbe, i Board in giving Out such ex•I dulrs compared favorably in ef- horbitinl salaries to supervi feet with; 'boards of similar size airs, Prtachials and teaeberej4n soutbern Ontario land mould suggest that all sal. .,The opinion of the counetl arks the redoned forthwith." 1waa that, action of the Board CAP" of the resolution have was Just. •• i'hete are good grounds for iii ar;,unient Many, services are, al nearly provided on a county wide basis and new ones are emerging all the time. The, most recent one has been the formation of a county school board to replace the multi- plicity of smaller boards that once administered education in the area. Pelt as Mayor Henry has 1xinled out. it goes much ftu•ther 'man education. For example, the health unit. has operated on a county basis for many years. There is also a coun- ty library system with a number of community libraries throughout the county under its central ad- ministration. Woodingford Lodge, our newest home for the elderly, is a joint venture between Wood- stock, Ingersoll and the County of Oxford. Several social agencies are county -orientated, such as the CNTB and Red Cross Society, and they use Oxford County as part of their name, What Mayor Henry* appears to be concerned about — and right- ly so — is that unless positive steps are taken soon at the local level to protect the future of the area that comes naturally under the economic and social influence of Oxford, the administrative shape of that future will be im- posed from without — possibly with little or no consultation with Oxford officials. One encouraging sign resulting from Mayor Henry's idea, is the ready response of Woodstock's neW At the same Iirne, r1 Those from this area slloww some enthu - rasm, imagination and initiative, and present ' some constructive ideas somewhat forcefully, they may well help set the pattern of similar regional units in the fu- hire. That the time for action is long overdue may be gathered from the fact that on Jan. 1 of this year one regional government, came into being in Ontario. It comprised the cities of St. Catharines, Niagara Falls, Welland and a number of smaller communities; together with the surrounding area. This is now the region of Niagara, and follows a pilot nro,ject affectiive the area aroinld Ottawa in Carle- ton County. Oxford County is different from these other areas in that it is still predominantly agricultural in nature and does not include any, urban centre the size of St. Cath- arines (100,000) or Ottawa (291,- 000). This should Influence the for- mat of regional government here as it should for many other areas that are predominantly agricultur- al and which have small cities or towns as their focal point. If we show initiative now we may be able to make a contribu- tion to the shape of things to come rather than wait for it to be impos- ed from above. It is unfortunate that: Mayor Henry's predecessors did not see the issue as clearly as Mayor Henry now does. We only hope it is not too late. Dereham will get a chance JOHN J. NADALiN ... 'controls needed" Mr. Lawrence said that many municipalities lack facilities, staff, finances and experience to police the operations. He said that several municipalities, ag- gregate producers and the gen- eral public have suggested that the government take over the responsibility, Mr. Lawrence said a tech. Ewa me i.eguhature East we re- port has been sent to various municipalities asking for their comment by Mid -February. He said, "If there is a general concurrence, the government will be to a position to announce a course of action early to the 1070 session of the Legislature. ZONE MEEiNG The annual Oxford Econo- mic gene meeting will be bell Feb, 11 at 8 p.m, in the Oxford County buudng. The topic of discussion will be a, concept of economic develop- ment In our Erie Economic re- sition. The Oxford County tone officers for 197E will be elected, d b d w3� d�Et A'n yyyy � ggII rrcj ta.j sm��+�� 31113 g. � o. 8 ? d `o ;8nEo>;� > O '°EcarsR S'm °dEYE d>.g T �gwwm�� x V' 5a Em a Ydvessel Xw.-, i, G'r''q 4C»On od o W >�dm�?o�mvE g d d d n0 _ rosiest=3•. 01uv a";oad ^, uo3v dmv:a, cdaa wu.+� wa� my Uw�O d'c m�01ovwaa Ada '3. r.. utCoomd d SeW U2 ® CTO E` O c" o E .. ®.a« mM � c c p, � " d c°'• o d am O�dO c � e A 5:EiEi dU Q du.=aums'�. ro �QrQ u Q 4g o X GSa«5d OOum duww�P„v. °: of 04.J Esc J7n ;m��a,E�y r ! w� ro W a20 Q EOIp g9d. d U.� b d'3A O 3 q.5 � Ygg�Rd�"o�p9�a da C1w�a3, q�'W f� m ��� Run Overmall council urged for Oxford INGUIISOLL — Regional government studies which in- corporate parts of Oxford County have prompted Inger. soil Mayor Gordon B- Henry to suggest protective steps aimedatkeeping the bounda- ries of the county intact. Mayor Henry, speaking at the inaugural meeting of In- gersoll council Monday, said regional government studies being conducted by other counties threaten to "chop away" parts of Oxford Coun- ty. "Now may be the appropri- ate time that we in Oxford should take some positive steps toprotect the future of the area which comes under the natural and economic in- fluence of Oxford," he said. The mayor said he will fol- low up on a proposal to form a committee, representative of the county, the separated town of Ingersoll and the city of Woodstock, that would study the feasibility of establishing a top -tier area government. The municipalities within Oxford should get together and discuss forming one tier of government," he said. "It could consist of representa- tives from wherever our sphere of influence, economic and social, extends, including some areas outside the bound- aries of Oxford County." Mayor Henry would not specify which areas but said they would probably be to the south of the county. "rhe possibility exists, be cause of our sphere of influ- ence that the area be enlarged beyond the borders of Oxford to form a top -tier area govern- ment and then have necessary second -tier governments to carry out their ... func- tions, he said. lie suggested discussions be held with provincial authori- ties to obtain their views on such a proposal. WELFARE CASES INGERSOLL — The Oxford County Social Services reported yesterday a total of 737 welfare cases in Oxford County for the month of oecember 49 cases from the 9. That is ae am month of November when there were 689 cases. County Council delegation plans talks with McKeough An Oxford county Council I ty clerk - treasurer said the delegation will meet, with Darcy meeting will take place some McKeough, Minister of Manuel- time this month in Toronto, He pal Affairs concerning the clog —said the date Is still indefinite. mg of the county assessment The county assessment em- uniue. ployees moved out of the local During The December session office at the end of December. of council, the property and The provincial assessment pro- as,ossmeut committee express• gram came officially into ef. ed. concern over the govern- Jeet Jae. 1 with all county am. meal's decision to not make use ploy ®amnLopfidon�o the regional of the local assessment office. They suggested that a county The county council COMMIUee delegation moot with Mr. Me- felt a local assessment branch Keough to discuss the situation, would beanasset to the com- Gerald Staples, deputy coup- munity. Mayor Gordon Henry Use of library is increasing LNGERSOLL — During the first year of operation as a branch of the Oxford County Library System the Ingersoll Ii- 'brary has received 847 new .applications for membership, Consequentlythe circulation of books and printed material in the form of clippings, pamph- lets and periodicals rose to 64,- 069, 4,000 over the previous year. FULL CONTROL While the Ingersoll Library still has full control of the selection of books, the ordering. processing and cataloguing is all done by the County library, giving the Ingersoll staff more 'time for organizing the collec- tion, becoming familiar with the books, and more time for spe- cial requests from members. As a result, the community has received improved service at the Library because the staff has had time to make the ef- fort, In its first year with the County Board the Ingersoll Lib. rary borrowed over 3,000 books from the County Library and during the same period of time subscribed to 40 periodicals. In addition to the 40 periodicals which come from the County Library 30 otherscome to the Library free. Another advantage of using the County facilities is enjoy- ed by the public schools. This. past year more classrooms (ban ever before used the Library for special classroom projects. The supply of hooks available to them is almost unlimited. From October -December, 1969, there were 23 class visits to %e Ingersoll Library. During the reshot the year there were. an additional 25 who took advan- tage of the enlarged circula- tion. To give same idea of stu- dent use 25,M of the total book circulation were children's books. MEMRRRS The Library Board members in Ingersoll are Sid Underwood, Chairman sad representative oe the Oxford County Library Board; Miss M. Hamilton; Dr. J. A. Paterson; and .Peter Bryce, . The summary of 1te+li was part of the meeting of the In- R rsoH Library ay Board which • I* S Counties on the defensive The suspicion, mistrust and outright hostility generated in rural areas by the spectre of regional government surfaced repeatedly in the inaugural speeches of Western Ontario's new county wardens. For the most part, they recognized the inevitability of change and yet were reluctant to accept the region- al patterns being encouraged — or, in some cases, decreed — by the provin- cial government. The speeches were mainly defensive in tone. The need for a reorganization of On- tario's municipal structure to reflect the urban realities of today is surely beyond dispute. It must be evident to county leaders that those who fight too stubbornly to preserve the status quo will ultimately have change thrust upon them and that a blind determina- tion to perpetuate the present county framework will be self-defeating. Although the counties don' regional policies being shape province — they fear excess tralization, higher costs, loss autonomy, urban domination, ing gulf between people elected representatives — t been unable to unite in prop ternatives. t like the d by the ive cen- of local a widen - and their hey have osing al - Some of their fears are valid. It is foolhardy for proponents of regional government to claim that it will save money — school board consolidation proved otherwise — but it can be legit- imately promoted as a move towards greater efficiency and equality. Nevertheless, the issue could have explosive political consequences for the Conservative government because resentment is running deep in rural areas whose support it will need to survive the next election. Government assurances that local municipalities will be consulted before new regional units are established have not been enough to overcome resistance and the province has already been forced to hedge on its regional timetables. The common theme in the wardens' speeches was vigilance against en- croachment, though their warning rather resembled a sentry's belated County shelves proposed cuts No action was taken Thurs- day at an Oxford County coun- cil meeting on a Dereham Town- ship resolution to reduce imme- diately the salaries 'of all ad- ministration officials for the Ox- ford County Board of Educa- tion. The resolution Is expected to be discussed at a later date. An invitation from the board of education to hold a one,day communication seminar for am- pioyees and municipal officals wag turned down by councl, Cost for the semnor was set at approximately tn,4i10. Continued liaison meetings with the board will be sought, A study will be commissioned by council to determine the zay. hogs which would result with one board of education for ele. mentary educstloa, The eildors. ed restniltlon was made by Kent County. cry of alert after the foe has breached the walls — when the defenders might more usefully direct their efforts to. wards compromise and reconciliation. Vestiges of the county structure will doubtless be retained in regional gov- ernment. Some boundaries will sur• vive but to suggest, as Oxford's new warden, Stanley Gehring did, that they must be protected simply be• cause they exist is being unrealistic. A,more reasoned voice was heard in Huron County, where retiring warden James Hayter urged the area to ac- cept change through regional govern- ment. "If we are unwilling to change, council will go backwards," he said. Prophetic words, even though a re- gional destiny is more remote in Huron County than it is elsewhere in Western Ontario. Economic council meets Feb. 11 Economic Council - Erie Region will hold Its annual Oxford Zone Meeting Wednesday, Feb. It at 8 p.m. in the County Building. The Eric Region council takes in the counties of Oxford, Elgin, Middlesex and Norfolk Economic development is the topic of the meet- Ing. Officers for the Oxford County zone of the council will be elected. Meeting at Wood?ngford Lodge The Woodingford lodge Com-ter, reeve of Blenheim. Town- mittee of Management will ship. The City of Woodstock, the meet Tuesday at 7.30 p.m, at Town of Ingersoll and Oxford the home on Devonshire Ave- County are represented on the nue. committee. The 1909 Oxford County com- The 1970 Oxford County Coum- mittee members were Gordon cil eomittee members will Aspden, Oxford County Warden: be appointed at the council sea Glen Kitchen and John Hofstet. Sion on Jan. 21. County Council appoints 1970 committee members By ROSE NARIE EARLE Oxford County Council m e t „yesterday at 10 a.m. and elec& ed a striking committee of five men to choose council commit- tees for 1970. The five man committee, chaired by Ken Webster, reeve of Tillsonburg, met along with warden, Stanely Gehring, throughout part of the morning and the afternoon. They pre- sented a slate of committee members to council at 3 p.m. As well as choosing commit. tees council also heard corres- pondence that has ,been received for consideration by council. No action was taken on any of the correspondence. It will be con- sidered when council meets again next Wednesday, Jan. 28 and Thursday, Jan. 29. Several delegations are also scheduled to address county council next week. COMMITTEES After the slate of committees was presented to council by the striking committee council broke up into the various com- mittees to choose dbairmen for 1970. Named to the Road$ Commit. tee for this year were Stanley Gehring, warden of the county and reeve of South Norwich Township, Bruce Amos reeve of West Oxford Township, Med- ford Clarke reeve of Dereham Township, A l b e r t Cornwell No reeve of rth Norwich Town.. ship, John Hofstetter, reeve of Blenheim Township and Will- iam Ducklow, reeve of Tavis- itock. Mr. Cornwell was named ,as chairman by the committee. The Finance and Administra- tion Committee chose Max Mac- Kay reeve of East Zorra as its man. Other members of this. committee are W. Lealie Dick- son, deputy reeve of North Nor. with Township, James K. Flem- Ing reeve of West Zorra Town- e P, Douglas Muir, reeve of 'East. Nissouri Township, L. H. Sibhick, deputy reeve of Blen. heim Township sad J. Belden Wilkinson, deputy reeve of TW- isonburg. The Property and Assessment Committee is headed by Ken- neth W. Webster, reeve of Till- sonburg. His committee con- sists of Louis Barrett, deputy reeve of Dereham Township, John J. Nadalin, reeve of Beach- ville, Kenneth L. Pollard, reeve of Norwich, Rowland Ruther- ford, reeve of Embro and Wall- ace Ross, deputh reeve of East Zerra Township. Melvin Balls, reeve of Bland. ford Township, William J Mar- tin, deputy reeve of South Nor- wich Township, Clair G. Min- ler, reeve of North Oxford Township, James R. Patience, deputy reeve of East Nissouri Township, and Kenneth Peers, of East Oxford Township were named to the 1970 Agricultural and Community Services Com- mittee which will be chaired by Archie Longworth, deputy reeve of West Oxford Town ship. Representatives were also named to several county boards and organizations yesterday. Warden Gehring, Mr. Hofstet- ter and Mr. Ducklow were named to the board of Wood. ingford Lodge. The warden along with Mr. Nadalin and Mr. Fleming was named to repre- sent council on the Oxford Health Unit, Representatives to the children's Aid Society are Mr. Gehring, Medford Clarke and Clair Mtaler. Mr. Gehring, L. H. Sibbick and Kenneth L Pollard are council representatives to the Oxford County Library- Repre- sentatives from county council to the Oxford Community Ser- vices will be Mr. Gehring, Max MacKay and Albert Comwell. Keimeth Peers and Len Coles, clerk of the county, will repre- sent the county to the Oxford County Museum. Warden Gehring Is eo®cil's representative to the board of the Woodstock General Hospital. Archie Longworth will repre- sent council on the board of Al- exandra Hospital in Ingersoll, while Louis Barrett and Dan* las Muir represent council on the boards of Tillsonbarg Dist- rict Memorial Hospital and St Marys Hospital, respectively. New 1970 stamp program will feature 12 portraits By ART FRASER Centennial stamps will appear. INGERSOLL — The post of-, Feb. 18, the Iaternatianal Bio- fice will have 12 new portrait, logical Program stamp comes on stamps in 1970. The six cent l out. stamp which changed color! The 25 cent Expo 70 stamp. from orange to black on Jan.,with four possible designs, will uary 7. 1970 will feature the - make an appearance on March Queen, Manitoba's Centennial, 18. the Northwest Centennial, Hen. , ander MacKenzie, thegroupofHenry Kelsey will be featured ry Kelsey Louis Riel, Sir Alex -•an the six cent stamp starting seven, Sir Oliver Mowat and on Aril AS. Sir Donald Alexander Smith. I On May 13, 10 and IS cent The 1970 stamp program was stamPs will. mark the 25th announced yesterday by C. H.I Anniversary of the U n i t e d Eglcy and Alf Boniface. The; Nations. color change in the six cent) The controversial six cent stamp from orange to black is Louis Riel stamp will appear the result of the difficulty in- � on June is', volved in painting. 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Mr. Kitchen is ing Reeve and former warden ing of the Fast Oxford Town- now the clerk -treasurer of the of Oxford County, passes the ship council held in the Ox- township, gavel to the new Reeve, Ken ford Centre municipal office E w s 2Ew- E c m o vcm�s a o 0 v U—i Q E ¢ K c` o m a w E W c E » o C O c V Vi W aO W wCJ •A O,L ` Z �.]yy' O d1 d N m m a Q O C, -F6 rni Z �, a�,cE C j b al O O t ,`fix '° w av>_ O 0 q, kw +yL Q_ z9 F C c ro .a p �, F _ L1.J E m g <s C, L O .I z N an d >mEO _ .c aAuEF•no. > py E�'c f7 Uw A In wyt T L.. n rnaE o N c- yS C C d'O.E U C fl a°'ww� Epu}1 °'ne+`o a� QVe�ev�t00 y Ci �u , yavi ;�mrtci N'� Et1�m`->" 0 6AFAI qq j , Tavistock's Coat of Arms follows year of discussion TAVISTOCK — After a year the tendency of both not to of discussion a decision has waste words but get on with been reached on the color the job. scheme for the new village of The crowning maple leaf ere- Tavistock crest, ates a unity and the fact that The crest was designed by all are Canadians. The dates on Cecil R. Davies of Cobourg and the cairn 1848 the founding of was approved by the village the village, as Freiburg, 1855 council Nov, 9 1968. its renaming as Inkerman, and It is made tip of four equal 1857 its renaming as Tavistock. portions with the village cairn The background for the thistle and the sheaf will be dark red, forming the centre piece of the sield. one portion contains a and for the German Ma.l be Scotch thistle, another bad the a Pal and the factory it be German cross while another has a pale (Pinkish) red. The this - German sheaf of grain and the fourth tie will be white, the cross has a factory. On the cairn are black, the factory black and .inscribed three important dates gold, the sheaf gold, the cairn in the history of the village. white and gold with black The Scottish thistle and the dates. The trim will be gold German cross are symbols of with black tattering. the people who founded the ON CRMER community. The factory and the The crest will appear on the sheaft symbolize the marriage village police cruiser and also of Agriculture and Industry of on official village stationery the two races. and notices, C. J. Seltzer, author of Facts ON WITH JOB and Fantasy, the story of Tavi- By its terseness, the motto, stock, acted as co-ordinator dur- Gentis Conficimus" which ap- ing the discussions in prepar- pears below the shield signifies Ing the crest. Drawbacks to centralizing assessment office in London Although the idea of regional government has its points and has generally been accepted as in- pvitable, the manner in which it % hang Introduced in Ontario to &ate has all the appearances of inrmething being done hastily and With a lack of adequate planning. The latest example of this has been the takeover of municipal assessment by the provincial gov- crnmant. Announced only last spring as a policy of Queen's Park, its implementation at the first of this year has already re- Sulted in the removal of local. assessment offices to a central lo- Ication in London, together with all documents and personnel. This has resulted in no little confusion and has already brought a letter of protest from the city Oxford County councillors 'attend assessment talks Five members of Oxford would be leased by the prov- �County Council met yesterday ince. (with Municipal Affairs Minister However, in. November the re- D'Arcy McKeoughto protest gional assessment office was takeover of assessment by the announced as being located in (province, London and Oxford County The councillors were primarily., was informed that its offices nbiecting to the lack of a branch would not be needed. office for assessment in Oxford 11 Council is requesting a sub - and the application of I office for the county. They also (County the provincial equalization fac object to displacement of some itor on properties in the county. 1 Warden Stanley Gehring was staff, especially married female accompanied to Toronto by support staff who will not move Kenneth W. Webster, reeve of to the London office, and county Tillsonburg, Lords Barrett, dep. . and city of Woodstock staff who uty reeve of Derebam Township, have been trained for reapprai. Howland Rutherford, reeve of sal. Re -assessment has been Embro and Gerry Staples, dep• going on in Woodstock the coun- uty clerk of the county. ty and Ingersoll and the brief The objection to the branch states re -assessment will be office location ib the brief is slowed down by shifting per - based on the fact that Oxford sonnel to the London office. County began 1969 under the .NOT TRAINED assessment commissioner sys- tem and as a result hired addi. Other support staff from the tional staff for the county as. Woodstock office not trained in sessment'office and did exten• re -assessment, the brief states, sive renovation on some resi- will be lost with the move to dential property to accommo. London. date the offices. The brief urges keeping a sub - office in the county to deal with OFFICES W he n assessment was an- day -today complaints f r o m rata•payera in the area and to nounced in March 1969 as a maintain good relations with the provincial responsibilityafter public. ,Jan. 1, IM, council claims It iwas assured by the deputy min- -The brief also slates that the ister of Municipal Affairs that county objects to provisions re- assessment o f f l c e a lating to the provincial equali- lating i zation factor, The brief states that sales analysis does not give a true 'picture of equalization. Sales are primarily residential and farm while industrial and com- mercial property form a fair -h r f the tax base slid there ro w o W% v mo v r• ml s are o E•,% g o% �' !� fit« c k v ,s,� g ffi 46 � a is seldom a true sale of these a p o e e. to l5'paa of properties. CQ .O, tb y U�J+'♦�+A .. Nt�-�lt4', oat] eO 1-e w : � u, g i7 0 . g v " � � �'d ��77.a ,S No SALES .5 'S 9.0 a r.,�to' ^» a va d-E „d—S Fixed assessments, pipelines, .5 k u w r+. M. . ge ®a % 1 � I a � raitways, telephone and true. :G:Grr�a o•y a� m $a ,$ a •� w graph cannot he taken into con• t0 s $•` p° a �'= ° p,t� sderauon as there are no sales QJ•� w,o a� „'8,. a.d o m b $•� is another point mentioned by y 2r` g. aq°om'S,�oat? „� -i.trpl .." the brief, ^dam„ gg c�;i'B80•a iav&�m.8'� 3� aW Qa§ p 1�ro�ya'����pu26«o ac .49 335 it ail �3t: Cd;951 of Woodstmck. Another protest w,is presented by a delegetlow front Oxford bounty Council this wrack io the Minis -ter of Municipal Affairs Ilan. D'Arcy McKeough. Whatever the reasons of the provincial government to bring about a more equalized a s- ment throughout Ontario, under present circumstances we can foresee a number of practical difficulties in operating such a project with the success it de- serves. For one thing, there is the ab- sence of the personal touch. Al- though plans eventually will mean reaching the 'central office in London by a toll -free telephone service, there is no way of deal- ing with details requiring chaps and plans without the time-con- suming necessity of going to Lon- don. Then there is the fact that de- spite an equalization of assess- ment based on provincial stand- ards, the worth of property in one community varies considerably, depending on a wide range of cir- clunstances, Property- in Wood- stock cannot be valued identically with comparable property in Lon- don. Ingersoll or in some rural lo- cation. And if it is, there is a real danger of Woodstock becom- ing a suburb of London Even within the same munici- pality there are variations that change with time. In Woodstock we were in the midst of a detailed reassessment program when the province took over. W h i l e Queen's Park has promised that this will be allowed to be finished, the new circumstances of regional assessment covering 0-dord. Mid- dlesex and Erin may make the end result useless. The fiat major move by the province in the direction of reg- ional government was in the field of education and this was set up on a county -wide basis. Despite the problems the changeover ptr- sented, school administration was kept within the reasonable geo- graphical limit of the county and gave the impression that the county, would be the ultimate reg- ional tint- The same impression was given when Queen's Park as- sumed the full cost of justice. Their was no effort to centralize the courts in a city as distant as London. But the move to centralize the assessment department, and group it with other counties, has some disquieting overtones concerning future. moves These were ex- pressed by Ingersoll's Mayor Gar - don Henry in recent days when he suggested a top -tier form of gov- ernment representing municipali- ties within the ccamty. This would help maintain the identity of Oxford as a unit. This, coupled with the dedsion of Oxford County Council to go along with iVarden Stanley Geh- ring's suggestion it) retain an ns- smineut committee to watch lie- velopinents, should cause Queens Park to have some serious second thoughts about its confused plan for regional govennnent. .A, we, have said, their inns be $ m;•rii in the Ideal of such It forni C lit, but befotr being mit iglu (livrat-lon 1t Smother be osncfully planned than ap-I tr< to have been the ease to Regional rule to be studied by county council Possible forms of regional government will be studied by a seven -member committee set up by Oxford County council Thurs- day. Committee members are War- den Stanley Gehring, reeve of South Norwich township; Reeve John Hofstetter, Blenheim town- ship; Reeve Alex Muir, East Grants OK'd by county Several grants were approved by Oxford Comity Council at its Thursday meeting. A Salvation Army request for a $9,000 capitalgrant toward construction of a $660,000 House of Concord, to be built north of London, was given the go-ahead by couneiL An additional $1.200 was voted toward the. operating costs of the new structure. The Tillsonburg hospital reno- vations - program was granted $11,50lt by council memhera. This was in addition to a $37.500 county payment made in. 1968. Also approved was a $5,000 grant toward capital building costa at the University of West- ern Ontario and $1,000 to the University of Waterloo. A total of $1,000 will be alloted for agriculture, student bursar. ies and scholarships and $1,100 has been allocated Inc the Ca- nadian National Institute for the Mind. Nissouri township; Reeve Ken- neth Peers, East Oxford town- ship; Reeve Kenneth Webster, Tillsonburg; Reeve William Dueldow, Tavistock; Gerald R. Staples, deputy clerk -treasurer. Warden Gehring feels there should be an attempt to hold Ox- .for municipalities together and perhaps join another area. Some plans drawn up by neigh- boring municipalities proposed carving up the Oxford centres. Hopes that Woodstock and Ingersoll would join the studies at a later date were expressed. In his Jan, 21 inaugural add- ress, Mr. Gehring suggested a report be presented to the min- ister of municipal affairs before the end of this year. He further suggested, Thursday, the special committee meet beforethe next county council session Feb, 20. County clerk -treasurer Leon- ard K. Coles told council mem- bers the accumulated surplus for the county has increased to $237.448, This amount will be used to ease the pressure bor- rowed funds needed untiltaxes are received from member mu- nicivalities Figures 'used for borrowing include the 1970 estimated bud- get of $640,W0 for generalex- penditures and $1,350,000 for roads. The Woodstock suburban road commission budget has been set at $108,900, of which $26,458 will be raised from the county, and the Ingersoll suburban road commission budget at $39,200, including $11,600 from the coun- ty, Detailed budgets are to be presented to council at Its next meeting, 'NOW THOSE WERE THE GOOD SONGS' Songs of the old days bring His reflective mood was .spur- auditorium of the Lodge. The a pensive moment to Nelson red by the fine voices of the concert, and similar events, Mundy (foreground) a real- Barbersboppers' quartet, sing- are sponsored by the Auxi- dent of Woodingford Lodge. Ing in the background in the liary to Woodingford Lodge. jProposed bookmobile cost annoys education trustees By JOYCE KNUDSEN Trustees of Oxford County Board of Education are not satisfied with a proposed bill 'of $7,812 for bookmobile ser- vices to Woodstock schools. The service had previously been supplied to Woodstock schools through Woodstock Pub- lic Library, at no cost. Last year the library ,board gave notice it could no longer afford to provide the service without financial aid from the county board. The board of education agreed to contribute approxi- mately $6,400 in cash and. books, with the money coming from the library book budgetsr of the eight schools involved. PROPOSAL - - - This year the library board has outlined - a need for $7,812 to continue the service. The proposed contract outlined the fact that the Public Library would provide all services such as cataloguing, processing and mending, aid to pupils, 'book talks .and liaison With ' school staff, Last year the county board's contribution to Woodstock Pub - Council backs resolution protesting assessment move Despite Premier John P. Ro- :harts, city council Is still pro- testing the Jan. 1 change in as- sessment to provincial jurisdic- tion, Council last night endorsed a resolution by the town of Ingel, solito support a brief presented to Municipal Affairs minister D'Arcy McXcough by the Ox- ford County council on Jan, 22 relating to assessment and a re- quest for a local oflce to he made available for handling as- sessment matters for Oxford County, the City of Woodstock and the town of Ingersoll, Council endorsed the Ingersoll resolution despite a letter from John Roberta telling it that a study of the request for an of- fice is not necessary. The premier's letter states "the Regional Assessment Of- fice located in London will be able to provide the required ser• vice In the Middlesex. Elgin and Oxford region." Mayor W. E, Alien suggested that tits wording of the letter Indicates that regional govarla meat is a foregone conclusion- - A meeting is planned with the warded of the county and the mayor of Ingersoll to discuss plans for a top tier government in the county to protect the boundaries of the county. The premier indicated the as- sessment roll will be returned to the city and a direct telephone -line service will be aysila�ble In order that munici- pal staff and private individ- uals .may obtain information they require on aasessmenl, lit Library bookmobile spurred a similar request for funds from Oxford County Library. Trustee W, Bernard Calder' of the education board com- mented that he was dissatisfied "with the "me too" attitude which had developed. He said, "H all the bookmobile does is to service the schools, we may as well run the whole thing." He was referring to the possi- bilit-v of providing a similar service at less expense: HAS WARNING Dr. Harold Hedley, associate superintendent'of instruction for elementary schools, warned that two large schools, D, M. Sutherland and Oliver Steph- ens School would opt out of the scheme if the money had to be taken out of their library 'book budgets this year. It would take more than half of their book budget. he said. Trustee Ian Linton suggested, "Maybe this expense needs to be reviewed," He said he knew that in El- gin County no charge is made for bookmobile service tr schools In the whole county, In this ease, the County Library ,provides the service, The matter will be referred back to administration for fur ther study. U • Woodingf ord one of four newer homes for the aged By J"NNE T11051PSON (program was a very good idea. W loud Lodge was oneIle said it will make the rest - of font the newest homes (]rots feel that they have some !er the ed io Ontario that re- part to the rumging of the home ceived eques totalling more H d they feel more i pelt of make He said, "The council will make than a ItaSf million dollars from the residents feel more lmpor-, the Department of Social and taut, It will give them another Family Services. purpose to life." The announcement was nutdeMr. Yoramko said that a draft by John Yaremko. the Minister residents' council constitution. of Social and Family Services, has been drawn up to be dis- These four new homes were tributed to the various homes built at a total cost of $6,576,763. as a model upon which they can 'of which the Province of On pattern their own constitution. jtario's share is i3,195,382. I The constitution outlines voting Mr. Yaremko said these new procedures, co - operative re - homes are part of a province- sponsibilities and suggested, wide expansion in sorcitles to committees. e elderly. The homes will pro- He said he hopes that various • vide accommodation and per- municipal committees, volun- sonai care to as many as 540 tary boards, and administrators ` elderly persons and will bring would consult their residents j the number of homes for the and give them every support in ,aged in Ontario to 158. the formation of the council. .73 RESIDENTS Mr. Yaremko also announced At present, there are 73 resi- the appointment of Dr. Mary. dents in. Wondine£nrd Lodge. Jacksonas a consulting psy- .Mike Knott. administrator, said chiatrist to the Department of they should be close to their Social and Family Services. Dr,. capacity of 160 residents by Jackson will be working out of May, Toronto but will visit various Len Coles, county clerk-trea- Homes for the Aged in On - surer, said the cost of building thrto, Woodingford Lodge to Dec. 31, 1969, was $1,973.680.25. So far the Province has paid $916,250. Mr. Coles said that more money, will be received from the prov- ince. Mr; Yaremko also announced that residents of Ontario's H es forthe Aged will be Oxford to protest takeover of assessment by province Free Press Woodstock Bureau WOODSTOCK — Oxfoed County council named a corn- . mitee Wednesday to meet with Municipal Affairs Minis- ter Darcy McKeough today to protest the transfer of Oxford assessment records to London ,and use of provincial equaliza- tion factors for municipal tax- lation. given a voice in planning and FALL FAIRS running the activities of their Oxford still has five f a I 1 Homes, He announced a plan for fairs. Oxford 4-11 Clubs are setting up residents' councils in 'active with over 400 boys and the homes. 1500 girls taking part. Mr Knrdt aaiA the recidonta I of the homes will make up the LARGEST SHOW membership of the councils. The, The dog show held in Wood - council will plan activities with !stock in June is the largest out - consideration for each resident's door dog show in Canada. .interests, in co-operation with staff members, the administra- torand groups in the commun- ity, RESPONSIBILITY Mr. Knott said the residents' council will take the responsi- bility of informing residents of .decisions made by the adminis- tration and will work with staff members and residents. He avid a residents' counefl willbe set up in Woodingford Lodge in the near future. He said the council will be similar to a department head meeting. "The residents will be able to voice tl eir opinion of the way the bome is operated. They will be able to express their wants and needs." Mr, Knott said he thought the County Council plans meetings', Oxford County Council mem-i brr9 will hold a number of committee meetings within the'. next month. The property and assessment committee of Oxford C o u n t y Council will meet ?starch 9 at 7.30 p.m. in the council chamb- ers of tho Oxford County Build. iv, On March 10, the Wondingfordi Lodge committee will meet at the home for the aged at 7.30 p.m. Tiw meeting of the Oxford Cmmty Health Unit will be held March 11 al. 7 P.m. The agriculture committee of Oxford. County Council will meet March 13 at 2 P-m. at the �; County Building. The finance[ committee will meet March IsI at In a.m. 012 March 24 Oxford Couaty1 Council will meet and hold theirs 1970 budget aossiana. Named to the committee were • Warden Stanley Gehr- ing of South Norwich Town- ship; Tillsonburg Reeve Ken- neth Webster, chairman of the property and assessment earn - rattles; Dereham Township Deputy Reeve Louis Barrett, a member of the property and assessment committee, and deputy clerk -treasurer Gerald R. Staples. County council had asked for the meetingat its Domm- her session, Warden Gehring was sup- ported by county council on his request to retain an as- sessment committee in 1970, although assessment work has been transferred from county to provincial jurisdiction, ef- fective Jan. I this year. "I feel there should be a —Free Press Woodstock Bureau Oxford County council members cast disbelieving eyes at Reeve Bruce Amos of West Oxford Town- ship after he passed .around Cuban cigars which he said m,e from Fidel Castro, Reeve Amos, left, presented one of the cigars to Warden Stanley Gehring, a tobacco farmer. close watch kept on the equal illation factor. which has fluc. tuated in some municipaB- ties," Warden Gehring said. County assessors, he said, would have been in a position to judge any inflation prices. "I don't feel in one township it is a true picture and an as. sessment committee should try to figure it out." A study made by Mr. Sta- ples determined that if the new proposed provincial ratio had been used in 1969, South Norwich Township would have paid 28 per cent more and Fmbro 36 per cent less, Increases would have result- ed in East Oxford, West Ox. ford, East Nissouri, Blenheim. Dereham and East Zorra Townships, with decreases in the other municipalities. Warden Gehringsaid the new equalization figures will be used in determining pay- ment not only for county enue. cil levies, but for county schools, conservation authori- ties and other joint participa- tion projects. JOHN M. RTDER Former reeve in I Norwich NORWICH — A former reeve of South Norwich Township, John Matthew Ryder of 21 Sto- ver St. South died yesterday in Tillsonburg District Memor- ial Hospital- He was 84. 'Oxford names committee on regional government Frye Press Woodstock Bureau WOODSTOCK — A seven - member Oxford County coun- cil committee was set up '('Thursday to study regional government possibilities. Named to the committee were: Warden Stanley Gehr. ing, reeve of South Norwich township; Reeve John Hofstet-. ter, B l e n h e i m Township; Reeve Alex Muir, East Nis. souvi Township; Reeve Ken- neth Peers, Fast Oxford 'I' o w ns it t p; Reeve Kenneth Webster, Tillsonburg; Reeve William Ducklow, Tavislock; G,rald It. Staples, deputy r lerk treasurer. Warden Gehring said he hoped the committee will ntecl before the next county ton evil session on Feb. 20, It,, said the county shout(] wtempt it) keel) Oxford oiunlc- ipalities together and perhaps jnln with another area rather than be. carved,up, us is pro- posed in some plans drawn up by neighboring municipalities. The warden said in his Jan. 21 inaugural address that he hoped a report could be pre- sented to the minister of mu. nicipal affairs before the end of 1970. He said Woodstock and In- gersoll, separated municipali- ties within the boundary of the county, would likely join the study later. County clerk -treasurer Leo- nard K. Coles said the coun- ty's accumulated surplus has increased to $237,448, This is used to help reduce file amount that must be borrowed until taxes are received from member municipalities. He said the county budget. for 1970 has been estimated at 3640,000 for general oxpendi- l.ures and $1,350,000 for roads. 'These figures are used for burrowing pmWposes, The Woodstock suburban road conimisMon budget has been set at. $108,000, of whleh $26,458 will be raised from the county, and the Ingersoll sub- urban road commission budg- et at $38,200, including $11,600 from the county. Detailed budgets are to be presented to council at its next meeting. Ln other business, council declined an invitation from Oxford County board of educa- tion to hold a one -day commu- nication seminar for employ- ees and municipal officials at a cost of $1,400. Continued lia- ison meetings with the board will he sought. Council took no actual' an a Dereham Township resolution that salaries of oil administra- tive officials of the board of education be reduced immedi- ately. A Kent. County resolution asking fur it study to deter- mine the savings that would result with one board of edu- cation for elementary sch ial education was endol•aed. In its resolution, Kcal County Coan- ell deptored lict,. suggestion that provincial grants for tale separate school system be ex- tended to cover Grades It. 12 and 13. A request by the Salvation Army for a VAN capital grant toward construction of a $660,000 Rouse of Concord, to be constructed north of Lon- don, was approved. Council also decided to give the Salve- fion Army $1,200 toward War- ational expenditures. An $11,508 grant for Tillson- burg hospitals renovation Pro- gram was approved. The amount was in addition to It $37.500 county payment Slade in 1948, Council approved a $5,00 great toward capital buikting costs at the Umveraily of Western Ontario and $1.000 to the University of Waterloo. A total of $1,000 wilt be Alto - called for agriculture student bursaries and scholarships and $1,100 for the Canadian National Institute for tba PAW, West Oxford to oppose Ingersoll annexation plans Free Press Woodstock Bureau stock, tooppose the applies- [NGERSOGL — All Ingersoll flop, application for annexation of about 2,000 acres from West Oxford Township will be "strongly opposed" by the township at an Ontario Munic- ipal Board hearing March 16, it was learned Wednesday. West Oxford clerk -treasurer L. B. Curry said the township has instructed its solicitor, W. E. G. Young, QC, of Wood - He said 22.5 per cent of the township's assessment and 25 per cent of its population are included in the proposal. The area sought by inger- still, he said, has 729 of 2,900 township residents and an as- sessment of $701,570 of a $3,- 550,051 toted. Ingersoll Mayor Gordon B. Henry said the land, to the Annexation hearing on March 16 Oxford County Council bas I Supports and arguments a - been notified that an Ontario gainst the' annexation bid will Municipal Board hearing will be be heard at that time. Meet beld on Monday, March 16 at 2 p.m. in Ingersoll town coun-'legs are still going on in the cil chambers to deal with animeantime between Ingersoll application by Ingersoll to an- and the township to work out nex part of West Oxford Town- zip. a solution to the proposal. south of the town, mainly be- tween Highway 19 and Cullo- den Road, south to Highway 401, is sought for industrial ex - pension. Last week, Ingersoll was listed as a designated munici- pality, one where new indus- try or expanding industry will be eligible for government grants. Mayor Henry said the natur- al expansion of the town is to- ward Highway 401. "We feel we should have controlof the planning of the area where Ingersoll should expand," Mayor Henry said. A successful annexation bid would almost sever a western portion of West Oxford Town- ship from the larger eastern portion at a point by Highway 401 and CullodenRoad. The western edge of the ANNEXATION Ingersoll puts its case for annexation before the Ontario Muwcipal Board at a March 16 hearing but in the meantime delegates from West Oxford and. Ingersoll are continuing nego- tiations to try and reach an amicable solution prior to the 'meeting. After 23 years on the job E. ZoTra official to retire By S-R. C0111S ndC'Ylt HICMN — An East Zorra Township official more than 23 years, Howard J. Hallock will be bowing out of municipal life on March 31- He was first appointed as sec- retary -treasurer of the former East Zorra Township School Area Board on January 1, 1947, and on July 1., 1952, was named the township clerk following the death of Edwin Parker, Mr, Hallock resigned from the former office on September 1, 1966, after aging more than 20 years, TWO OFFICE15 His successor will be Earl Hostetler, presently township tax collector and treasurer, Mr. Hostetler will retain those two offices as well in his new posi- tiot, and will work from the new township municipal office presently nearing completion in the centre of Hickson. Mr; Hostetler was appointed tax collector in 1960, and In HIM was appointed treasurer, He Will assume his new position on April 1, Mr, Hallock has served under eight reeves during his more than 18 years as clerk, Tbcy are William J. McDonald for two different terms; the late L. L. Wetflaufer, James Chesney, the late Lorne Junker, Alex Henderson, Percy Wettlaufer (a H. J. HALLOCK ... to retire son of the late L. L. Wettlan- fer), Allen Littlejohn, and the present reeve Max L, MacKay. WAS AUDITOR Mr. Hallock also .served as the township auditor from 1028 to 1946 and commenting on changes within the township he said the greatest has been the book -work necessary owing to government regulations; and the tremendous increase In Uxa- tion, The present assessment is 280,009, compared to $4,607,540 for 1952. "Collectable taxes have shown a greater Increase in proportion," Mr. Hallock pointed. out, "Lost year the fig. ure was $531,809, while in 1052 the figure was $197,567," fie said the township's present pop- ulation is shown as 4,331. and there are 136 miles of roads un- der township jurisdiction, PLENTY TO DO 111 will find plenty to do," Mr. Hallock commented when asked about his plans in retire- ment, "Mrs, Halloek and I will be able to do things we have never been able to do before. You know she has always been a great help to me in my work as a township official. Maybe we'll do some travelling, but we really haven't made any de- finite plans." As well as his official town- ship duties- Mr. Hallock is also active in the affairs of the South Zorra Free Will Baptist Church, located on the 13th Line of the Township. He has been a trus- tee of the church more than 12 years and Mr. Hallock said the trustees are presently making plans for the 100th anniversary of the organization of the con- gregation, which will take place some time this coming Sum- mer. The date will be announc- ad later, FRUSTRATING Mr.Hallock said that of his duties as a township official, he has sometimes found It frustra- ting owning to regulations; that he has always had the full co- operation of reeves and council- lors and other officials; that the wank -load has increased many times; "but I have always found It interesting and rewarding." Ile said he felt it was time to pass the work on to it younger man, and thut with the now of- fice, the work should perhaps be made easier. town would be extended south from King Street West, then west of the first north -south concession road,' taking in property west of Westfield, subdivision. Mr. Curry said the Harris survey subdivision, just south of Ingersoll, is included in the annexation proposal. The sub- division, he said, receives In- gersoll water at a cost higher than paid by town residents. Township residents west of Ingersoll, also included in the annexation proposal, are also receiving town water, since they are on a water pipe line from the Ingersoll waterworks further to the west. A residential area at Clark's Corners, the location of a pub- lic school, is also in the appfi- cation. Also included are the Inger- soll Golf and Country- Club, Bell -Camp Corporation Ltd., an industry manufacturing farm equipment, just off High- way 19, and the John W. Thompson construction busi- ness site at Culloden Road and Highway 401. Ingersoll declined a 118-acre parcel of West Oxford the OMB approved for annexation following a 1964 application. The town bad sought 800 acres for industrial development, but the OMB would allow only the 118 acres. Oxford County post offices due to close Two Oxford County post of- fices will be put out to pasture in April after many years of ser- vice. The Harrington post office, will be put into retirement at I he age of 106 while its younger counterpart, the Curries post office, will close after 96 years. The 29 customers of the Her- rington post office will be serv- ed by a group box and rural mail delivery which is an exten- Sion of the RR 3 Embro route. Nine Curries residents will receive their mail on the RR 1 Curries route, in delivery out of Woodstock. Mrs. A. N. Condingley, the Curries postmistress, has held' the position for 23 years. During that time, she has been provid- ing theregular money order and stamp sales service on. the basis of a 542-day week. Her husband . Is a rural mail carrier forthe area. Harrington's postmaster, Wil Bam Whitton, said area rest, dents have objected about the, closing of the post office but nothing could be done. "Tile area needs a post office. Resi• dents will have to travel 10 or 12 miles for postal service." Pittock dam and reservoir costs near $5,000,000 mark • • Tavistock population rises 6 p.ce, to lead Oxford centres' growth Free Press WoWslock Bureau 46 residents to 3,371; bast you WOODSTOCK — Tavistock ra Township by 31 to 4,331: uas recorded the largest per- Blandford Township by 15 to 1.438 and North Norwich e.entage increase in population Township by six to 2,506. in Oxford County with a six per -cent rise in the past year. Reeve William Ducklow said about 20 new homes were built in the village during the year. Families moved in from Strat- ford, Woodstock and Kitche. ner- Others have come from farms, co retirement. He said people are finding it may be less expensive to live in Tavistock, taxwise. The vil- lage has many of the same services, and people want to get away from the cities. One of the policies adopted in the municipality, he said, has been to try to attract more of the residents of the village and area to join in community activities. The Tavistock population in- creased by.82 during the year to 1.405, compared with an in- crease of 54 in 1969. Embro showed the second largest population increase — 4.1 per cent — with 27 new residents raising the popula- r tum to 697. West Oxford Township showed an increase of 2.9 per cent, with an additional 81 res- idents raising the total to 2,- 953-, Beachvide. 2.5 per cent, with 25 more residents, rais. ing the total to 1,007; and Nor- wich, 2.3 per cent, with sit ad- ditional 48 residents, raising the totakto 1,753. East Mdord Township popu- lation ' sed just over two per co adding 45 residents, raisingetotal to 2,252. Dereham Township increase was just under two per cent, 86 new residents bringing the total to 4,968. The overall population of Oxford County, Woodstock and Ingersoll, increased by almost one per cent; 690 new resi- dents raising the population to 77,060. The population of Oxford County council member mu- nicipalities increased by 408 residents to 44,751; and Wood- stock by 286 residents to 24,- 912. Ingersoll's population de- clined by four to 7,397. The population of East Nis- souri Township increaser) by County lists budget share Oxford County Council yester- day named its share of the es- timated budgets of various county organizations. Oxford's share of the 1970.bud- get estimates of the Oxford Health Unft is $68,030.04, which represents approximately 58 p,ar cent or the estimated total budget f $234,294.94. The *nty's share of the 1970 hudget %gggptunates of Oxford Soci- ial Ser�.ets is $79,053.95. This so in r�irresents 4,9.77 per rent of the total estimated budget. of $172,720. The mum of $2,500 will he giv- en to the Victorian Order of Nunes foe 19A0. Tillsonburg recorded a de- crease of 30 residents to 6,520, after an increase of 42 resi- dents the previous year. South Norwich 'township re. corded a decrease of 29 resi- dents t013,218. following an in- crease of 45 the previous year. West. Zorra Township's pop. ulation declined by 19 to 2,165 and Blenheim 'Township's de- clined by six to 4,428. West Zorra had increased by 12 and Blenheim decreased by 71 the previous. year. 9 years of city bookmobile service to schools will end By IOYCE KNUDSEN Bookmobile service to Wood. stock schools will be discon- tinned f ro in March 31. T h e service has been available to pupils In the local schools since 1961. For the first time last year, Lack of support from the county annoys educators A decision by the Oxford County Council not to support a communications seminar with the Oxford County School Board drew criticism last night from members of the school board. Members of the school board were upset not only by the fact that the council has decided not to take part in the seminar, but also because the council made the decision not to attend at a meeting behind closed doors. Members of the board felt the. decision should have been made at an open meeting of council and expressed shock that elect- ed representatives would act this way. The proposed seminar was ex - peeled to attract about 800 per- sons. Education officials, municipal officials and em- ployees were expected to bene- fit from the seminar. The need for better com- munications 'between the board and the council was expressed last year by the county council and the board bad proposed the seminar in the hope of crea- ting better understanding be- tween the public bodies and im- proving relationships. The board had hoped that other meetings would follow the seminar. Oxford prepares regional rule plan Free Press Woodstock Bureau WOODSTOCK — A prelimi. nary regional government pro- posal has been prepared. by Oxford County council's re- gional government study com- mittee, Reeve Kenneth Web- stcr of Tillsonburg, chairman, reported Friday. Reeve Webster said: "It is not the intention of the corn. , mittee to reveal the bounda- "es of this area until more statistical information can be obtained." He said it is felt the pro- posed area would satisfy the criteria set out in the govern- ment's "doslgtt for develop- ment phase 2" released in late 1069 by Premier Roberts and M4uniclpal Affairs Minister McKeough. The provincial p r n p o s a 1 calls for a minimum regional. population of from 150,000 to 200,000 persons "for efficient provision of most local serv- ices," compared with the com- bined population of Oxford County end the separate mu- nicipalities of Woodstock and Ingersoll of 77.060 persons. Criteria, as announced by Mr. McKeough, Include an area with a sense of commum. ty identity based on sociologi- cal characterists, economics, geography and history; and an adequate financial base to carry out regional programs. ata satisfactory level. Reeve Webster said it is the intent of the committee to con- sult with representatives of Woodstock, Ingersoll and oth- er municipalities with opinions and feelings which will benefit discussions and plans. The seven -member regional government study connuittee was established ,Ian. 29 by county council. the.. Woodstock Public Library Board approached Oxford Coun- ty Board of Education for Fi- nancial aid to continue the ser- vice. The school board was told at that time that the lib- rary's budget had been cut by Woodstock City Council and the bookmobile s e r v i c e to the schools could not be continued without financial help. ARRANGEMENT A suitable arrangementwas made between the two boards - When a similar request w a s brought forward this year, the county board of education de. ferred its decision. First mention of the discon- tinuance was made at the Wed- nesday meeting of Oxford Coun. ty Roman Catholic Separate School Board. Chief Librarian Lee Bennett confirmed today that letters had gone out notify- ing the bo ds that the service would end(on March 31. Mrs. Bennett, w o is also secretary of the Libiary Board, said the board feelt the first duty of the library is to the local pub- lic and these needs must be met before money is set aside for the bookmobile. SPECIAL SERVICES She emphasized that the lib- rary will not curtail a number of other special services to school children who are able to come to the library. These in- clude story hours, group visits from classrooms, andspecial ar- rangements for high school stu- dents needing reference books for school assi jDanents. On the counlevel, Oxford County l.ibrar Board will con- tinue its ownbookmobile ser- vice and this willi n c l u d e schools. Chief librarian Louise Krom- part says the board has re- quested financial assistance from the boards of education but no consideration has been given so far to cutting the book- mobile service, Airs. Krompart pointed out that the county bookmobile, in service for about 16 years, pro- vides service for branch lib- raries throughout the county, m addition to schools, COUNCIL MAKES GRANTS The committees of Oxford County Council. recommended to make grants to various organ- iratiops in the county at their February meeting held Yester- day, Grants of $885 WM be made Mach of Tillsonburg, Tavi- stock, Emb'ro, Drumbo and Woodstock Fair Boards: The Oxford Historical Saeiety Will receive sno and the. Wood. stock Rotary Festival of Music will receive a grant of $50. Closed -doors No irks board Council .blasted for rejecting schools seminar Pr" Press Woodsock Bureau WOODSTOCK — A "Irlund- cloaed-dtlor," fhford County council derision not to pariici- pate in a communications seminar with the county hoard. of education drew criticism from the school board Monday night. Dr. Bruce Halliday, Tavis- toc•k, vlcechairman of the board, said in a ntalion of re- gret approved by the board, that the decision was "against the common good- and "made behind closed doors". There were two Quesuom which were discussed behind closed doors. The discussion should have been open to dts cussion in public. Dr. Halliday said. "Allowing elected represent- aliVes to carry on like this shocks me." he said. Dr. Halliday and Other Ox- ford board represewalivrs proposed the seminar at the county council meeting .ran. 29. It was esTected to attract between RN and W persons, at a cost of about $2 each- hiumeipal officials, employ- ees and educational officials couldbcnMit ftitm the semi- nar, Dr. Halliday said, lie told council that meet- ings aimed at creating better understandings and improving relationships could follow the seminar, A need for better communications, he said, was voiced by council represents - lives at a meeting with school board officials last December. W. B, Calder, Woodstock, past chairman of the hoard, who seconded Dr. Halliday's proposal, said, "I would like county council to tell as what Warden voices objection to school board criticism ought to be. done. I ain a hill( - fed up at. griping and com- pialning," Barry H. that. Ingersoll, hour(] chairman, said "County council dues like- Lo tell us how to spend our money. Other people should put their own (muse in order first," Oxford County Warden Stan- from the school board was re - ley Gehring, reeve of South Nor- £erred to the finance committee wich Township Council, object- and their report was read ed strongly yesterday to cri& in open council," said the war- cism by the Oxford Board of den. Education. Mr: Gehring said considers - The school hoard criticized lion was given on the idea of a county council for deciding be- communications seminar but hind `closed doors' not to jointly council felt it wasn't a neees- parLicipate in a comunications sary expenditure. seminar with the board. He said it seemed unusual Warden Gehring said he was that county council would be in - disappointed by the actions of volved financially with any certain members of the board school board program. of education. The school board made the "County Council has been ac- proposal at the January meet- cused of making decisions be- ing of county council This hind closed doors. This is far idea was abandoned when coun- from the truth. The request cil declined. ONTARIO GOOD ROADS 1894 ASSOCIATION 1970 .K. COLES IXFORt7 COUNTY 76th ANNIVERSAPY'CONVENTION YOU ARE INVITED I TO ATTEND THE eAnnua.l "Banquet OF THE Ontario e9ood Roads A�ssociation ON WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY THE TWENTY-FIFTH NINETEEN HUNDRED AND SEVENTY AT SEVEN O'CLOCK P.M. AT THE ROYAL YORK HOTEL, TORONTO RESERVED TABLES WILL BE AVAILABLE R.S.V. P. GUESTS THE SECRETARY MEET IN THE TORONTO ROOM P.O. BOX 128 e: 30 P M. ST. THOMAS, ONTARIO DRESS OPTIONAL fir sarl he has yet In hear information on adminhllra- lion costs in the county and Woodstock. Discussions and meetings between county council and the board of education fol- lowed the striking of the 1969 education budget, and at one time county council urged member municipalities to lim- it. education increases it; 10 per cent Over 1999. THE PRESIDENT AND DIRECTORS I OF THE Ontario o9ood 'Roads association CORDIALLY INVITE YOU TO A "Reception IN THE MANITOBA ROOM WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY TWENTY-FIFTH I FOLLOWING THE ANNUAL BANQUET I O#TARIO GOOD ROADS AsSoCIATIoM TORONTO February 23rd, 24th and 2Sth 1910 PAS T PROWINT 0 LI L 0 County boards, besieged by the Too many "libraries- have taken aim on the county school boards as sitting ducks. Without lece0ents to judge expenses, the county boards are now finding that pveryonc wants to dip into the tax pocket. Bodies directly or indirectly supported by the taxpayer are hitting a high in greediness by a=king for money which can only come from the doubly -taxed coun- ty resident - The latest lexamples have been m frnpublic]- -supported bodies that wand a hand-out for film ser tiw .s. In the one case, the Lake Erie P.eeional Library System film service has come up with a price tag on films which had previously been offered for education uses as par`[ of library service, Nowthe Regional Library is working out percentage, -use of rihns, and assessing the county boards on this percentage basis. The _figures quoted are not. -wail. Oxford County Roman 1 Catholic Separate School Board has been faced with a request for V-446. This is a small board with 10 schools under its-ltttisdiction. Since film projectors were in short apply in most of these schools for last year, it is stretch- ing credulity to think' that 10 small to medium-sized schools could use enough films to warrant a service charge of nearly $1,500. The unfalrness of this scheme i= that the films were freely of- fered as a regional service, and apparently without a price tag. Only at the end of a year of op. eration does the Regional Library Systern say, this cost us S52,595, Come RPOSI The "me tod' syndrome start. PA early last year when the Wood- 0ock Library Informed Oxford County Hoard of Education that, without financial help. it. could O %F O R D ENCONOMIC of Norwich, director of econo- deputy -reeve of East Niasauri; COUNCIL members, from mic regional development; Cesar J- Panneste, senior re - left, Michael F. Foster, chief , Loh Barrett, deputy -reeve of gional analyst, and John Hoff - #�yjph tT®P� co-ordinator of regional devel- Dereham; James Patience, stetter, reeve of Blenheim. l pa x e opment; %en Pollard, reeve gir it AJ4ies not continue its bookmobile ser- vice to Woodstock schools. In this case, the I-ibrary had been given a budget -cut by the city. The appeal was to ensure continuation of a service which would have to be curtailed if it didrrt get more financial support, The county ,board assessed the. situation and came up with a con- tribution that seemed fair enough. Then the County Library Board asked for similar financial aid for its own bookmobile ser- vice to schools. It was reasonable for the county school board to get a, little huffy this time, since coun- ty taxpayers were paying for sup- port of the county library, and education taxpayers would be ask- ed for a double contribution, This, however, kept the negot- iations on the local level. Now the "gimme" boys are spreading out to the regionai and provincial level. The latest business proposition has come from the provincial de- partment of education. This body wants to wipe its hands of a, film service that has just become a big bother in administration. It wants to offer educational film to the county boards, some as a gift,, on condition that: the boards buy another proportionate volume of fihn within the next three years. This Installment plan business would cost Oxford County Board of Education an estimated $28,000 a year for three years. The board would undouttedly he getting a fine library of film. But, the board is scarmly In a financial position to take on this new responsibility that hat] form. erly been a provincial matter. The county boards cannot be looked upon as geese that lay golden eggs. Umb.tax money in- rvltably comes fl•nm the same poc- ket. When the hoards calk about heavy expenses, 11w, in the kind of thing they are faring. Regional development team will conduct Oxford survey By JO-ANNE THOMPSON ( first step, provincial goals will should reflect local opuuons A team of surveyors from the be identified. In the next step,- •*In the regional development regional development branch of growth trends will be reviewed survey, the general situation m We Department of Treasury m each region by the survey a regional will be made known." and Economics will visit Ox-,, team. Social and economic base studies will be made and the Mr. Foster said, -'The plan- - County in the next two weeks as part of the provincial present and potential land use. ning nil and process blu print foralltimeisis program for regional develop -:of .of the region will be examined. P g� P-' not tEasible. Future changes 'ment, URBAN CENTRES canny be fully anticipated, the Michael F. Foster, the chief In the fifth. step, the impact I Pla process must be flex- ible co-ordinator of the regional de- of technology in the area will, a Provincial program is �velopment branch, addressed a'�be examined and possible ur-.one of macro planning as op - 'meeting of the Oxford Countyl ban centres of investment op- posed to micro planning in branch of the Erie Region Eco- I Portunity will be considered. At; various regions." '00mic Council. The meeting,; this point, a preliminary report A -al U1411 ULA was held last night in the coup- will be made and presented to. Mr- Foster said that macro cil chamber of the Oxford Coun- local officials for their reaction, planning acts as an umbrella ty'building. Mr. Foster said the In the Erie Region, the report for the municipalities and roll- research team is presently, will be made May 31, A recom- ties in their micro planning ac- working in the Erie Economic, mended regional plan will be tivities. Region. presented on Sept, 30. INDUSTRIES Mr, Foster said the purpose I There are one-half million People living in the 3,359 scare The survey team will be call- of the plan is to educate Queen's- mile Erie Economic Region, en. ling on various local industriesi Park about the 10 economic re- compassing four counties, The and officials. Mr. Foster said gions in the province. He said counties in the region are Mid - I the major objectives of the Re•', that t h e province's thinking dlesex- Oxford. Elgin and Nor- gional Development program folk. Them are 82 municipali- arc to encourage each region ties in th/ region of which gill towards its recognized socio• are mein rs of the economic economic potential, to conserve council, lVoodstock is the onty the natural environment and .non-member, improve the co-ordination of services and proviu• Four Oxford County directors cia]•local relationships. were elected at the meeting. He said that in the past five' •IDev are Jahn Rofstner, reeve years, the Provincial govern. of Blenheim Township Kenneth Township Pollard, reeve of Norwich ment has made substantial pro- James Patience, reeve M East East gress towards an effective to, Barrett, township and Lazes glonal development program, Barrett, deputy reeve of Dam He said that 13 steps are in. hats Township. I volved 1n the entire process for .each planning region. 1 Mr. Foster said that in the Booster immunisation program The Oxford Health Unit is covering the county on its annual reinforcing or booster immunization program, PuPils In grades 1.44 are given protection for (diphtheria, tetanus, polio, smailpoa,"i$> Ide'asios in the kindergartens, , • Licenses issued by county council Tax cutpossible, Oxford County Connell bes Woodstock was issued a sal Issued various licensee to coup- vane dealer's license. Bov ty auctioneers and selvage deal- types of licensee ar issued an Nk Ar of � sa/ AJ IL AI B� MA AJ A M AM I� \ / w era. Dually for a fees 0 1120 each. vAIyr U Wa1 UW11 zayz Free Press Woodstock Bureau WOODSTOCK — A reduc- tion in Oxford County taxes is p o s s i If l e, Warden Stanley Gehring, reeve of South Nor- wich Township, told county council Friday. "It looks very evident we willbe able to hold the tax rate and it is quite possible we can reduce it," Warden Gehr- ing said. The budget session has been Planned for March 24, Warden Gehring made the comments after five county road budget was reduced from. 9.5 to 8.3 mills. The provincial takeover of assessment dulies from the county will ease the tax rate. _iiisessment costs were 2l1 mills. or $175.000 in 1969. The takeover took effect Jan. 1. County council's 190 tax rate was 19 mills. Reeve Albert Cornwell of North Norwich T o w n s h i p, chairman of the road commit tee. said $601,469 0£ a $1,- 433.100 budget for the Oxford County road system and for the Woodstock and Ingersoll suburban road commissions' areas will be raised by the county levy. County council has planned an expenditure of $1.295.600 on county roads. $102,800 on Woodstock suburban roads and U4,700 on Ingersoll subur- ban roads. The largest road construc- tion expenditure is $110.000 for improving County Road 18 for 1.6 miles west of Norwich. The second-largest a $75,100 contribution to the Woodstock Suburban Road Commission, will go toward reconstruction of the Sweaburg Road, from Highway 401 to Sweaburg. Other large road construc- tion projects include the ev. penditure of $48,000 for im- proving County Road 34. il' I west of Tavistock. from High. way 59 to the Perth County boundary: t42.900 for improv- inc County Road 6 ror 2.1 miles just north of f:mbro; s30,000 for improving County Road 29. just east of Drumbo; 920.000 for improving County Road 7 between Ingersoll and Raeside and $20,000 for recon- structing- County Road 19 (Tillson Avenue) on the north side of Tillsonburg. Four bridge projects have � as 0 Y >T V tr W O 14 .0 O W B P, A been planned, including two In the Embro area. One, to cost $76,000, involves construction of a 75-fowl span to replace two bridges on County Road 6, just south of Fmbro in West Zorra Town- ship; Anoher, costing $71,000. involves a 56-foot span to re- placeone an the southeast boundary of Embro, both over the middle branch of the Themes River. Also planned are a $65,000 bridgF replacement on County Road 4, Just northeast. of Im nerkip, and replacement of the deck of the County Road 19 bridge at Otterville, at a cost of $20,000. Council approved a n expend- Iture of $68,030 toward the Woodingford Lodge receives encyclopedia from Kinettes $234,294 Oxford County health unit budget and $79,053 on- wards the Oxford Social Serv- ices budget of $172,720. A grant of $2,500 was also approved for the Victorian Order of Nurses. Grants of $225 were ap- proved for the Tillsonburg, Tavistock, Embro, Drumbo and Woodstock fair boards. Auctioneer Ikensea-bave been Issued to: Alex MacKenzie of RR 8 Woodstock, Donald Rose Of RR 3 Ingersoll, Zehr Ross of Tavistock, William Hawkins of Ingersoll, Dan Murray Jr., of Woodstock, Leslie J Shackelton of RR I Springfield, Edwin Schell of Drumbo and Harry Jansen of RR 3 Norwich, Sandy McCurdy of RR 7 Warden rejects 10 board's criticism Free Press Woodstock Bureau WOODSTOCK — Criticism of Oxford County council by the Oxford County board of education drew protests Fri- day from Warden Stanley Gehring. Warden Gehring said he was "disvnayed and disappointed" atthe board's action. The board of education criti- cized county council Feb. 9 for deciding "behind closed doors" not to participate in a communications seminar with education officials. School board vice-chairman Dr. Bruce Halliday of Tavis- tock put forward a motiaa ex- pressing regret that the deci- sion was "against common The library at Woodingford made by Mrs. Glen Smart cessful Kinetics plan to save Lodge now boasts of a full marks the 50th anniversary more slips to ubtaiu a tele- set of Canadiana encyclope. of the Kinsmen argunlaation, vision set for Woodingford. dia. The books were present- The set of books was reeeiv- Shown above from left are ed to lodge administrator D. ad as a premium for super- Mr, Knott, Mrs. Smart and ' F. (Mike) Knott Tuesday market cash register slips Kinotte president Mrs. Tony evening by Kluettes at their and the project was so sue- Ogden. mreetlxx. The preseataUon good.• and "made -behind closed doors." The discussion, Dr. Halliday said, should have been in pub- lic. Dr. Halliday and other Ox- ford board representatives had proposed the seminar at the county council meeting Jan. 28. It had been expected to attract between Sm and 900 persons, at a cost of about $2 each. The seminar, he had said, would benefit municipal officials, employees and edu- cational officials. The cost was to have been shared by the board and municipalities. The proposed seminar was abandoned when council re- fused to participate. The school board vice-chair- man had told council that'the seminar was intended to cr- ate better understanding and to improve relations between council aad the board. A need for better communicationshad been voiced by council repre- sentatives at a meeting with school board officials last De- cember. Warden Gehring said Friday he took "exception" to the "extreme criticism" by the school board "on the basis they are not fact." The warden said it seemed rather unusual that county coutmil would be involved fi- nancially with any school board program. Warden Gehring said cvpmty council was accused of mak- ing decisions behind closed doors. , The presentation, he said. was In open council and re- ferred to finance committee for a recommendation which was accepted by the whole cowtejl. • 0 0 Dereham vote too determine merger with Tillsonburg Free Press Woodstock Bureau DEREHAM CENTRE — A Dereham Township plebiscite will be held on the question of merging with the town of 1111- sonburg. Reeve Slettford Clarke of Dereham Township said Fri- day night council had unani- mously Supported the plebi- scite after a three-man delegs. Lion requested circulatiot of a petition calling for a vote. The vote, will he held in the spring or early _summer, he said. If the vote if favorable, the merger deadline of Jan. 1, I971, could still be met. Reeve Clarke made the an- nouncement at an amalgama- tion study committee meeting of Dereham and Tillsonburg representatives. Questioned by D e r e h a m planning hoard member Aus- tin Wilson on whether Tilbum- burg would seek annexation if the plebiscite was defeated, Bryon .lanes of Tillsoalturg, a committee member and for. mer mayor, said that it proba- bly would. Mr. Jones said he hoped De- reham Township council would support the amalgama- tion proposal, The amalgamation cotumit- tee asked the clerks of both municipalities to prepare a draft recommendation, includ- ing resolutions of the meet- ings, for a March 17 meeting before they are presented to the two councils. Committee members had hoped for a .tune Ontario Mu- nicipal Board hearing to de- termine the merits of amal- gamation. The committee also decided to approach Ontario Hydra to propose the new municipality hold off purchasing hydro equipment in existing Dere. hani Township uml regional government boundaries have been established. The committee, in other business, recommended no loss In salaries for staffs of the two municipalities In- volved in 'he merger. Meetings have been held since last September to deter- mine how services could be merged. 1). L. Morris, regional su- pervisor, Ontario department of municipal affairs, I.ondon, said at the Sept. 16 meeting the two municipalities—Dere- ilam with a population of 4,- 968, and Tillsonburg with 6,259—would constitute more than the recommended mini- mum viable unit of 8,000 In 10,000 suggested by the depart- ment as a lower tier of gov- ernment in regional govern- ment. It's good both municipalities are about the some size Mr. Morris said, suggesting repre- sentation could be balanced. Oct. 21. an 11-member council was proposed with a mayor and reeve to be elected from the whole municipality. Under the proposal, if the reeve was elected from the ru- ral section of the new munici- pality, a deputy reeve would be elected from among Till- sonburg council members. The municipality would be divided into nine wards, in- cluding one in the residential area of the township adjacent to Tillsonburg, four from Till- sonburg an the remainder from throughout Dereham. If. was learned later that a private bill can be passed. In- creasing the new council's number of members and the number of votes on county council. Without a private bill, the new municipality would have only. two members, each with two votes. Tillsonburg alone already has a reeve and deputy reeve, each with two votes on county council, and Dereham has a reeve with two voles and a deputy reeve with one vote on county council. Members have felt that, with the combined population. they should also qualify for a third representative on the third representative on the Oxford County board of educa- tion. OXFORD FARMERS ATTEND TORO,NTO CONVENTION Oxford County area farmers the 67th annual meeting of the meeting was held Wednesday Amos, RR I Woodstock, Al - were among the 400 farmers Holstein - Friesian Associa- at the Royal York Hotel, Tor- Ebert Cornwell RR 3 Norwich from Ontario who attended tiov of Canada. The one - day onto. From the left are Bruce, and Bob Row of Curries. tiov. 18. clerk -treasurers V. E, Harris of Dereham and Kenneth Holland of Tll1som burg presented a financial study of a proposed combined budget, indicating there would be a slight financial saving to ratepayers with the exception of those in the urban ward a r o u n d Tillstmbutg, which would receive additional serv- lees. The decrease, Mr. Holland said, would basically result from an increased per-eapila grant from the provincial gov- ernment far a larger -sized mu- nicipality. Dec. 16, David Tuckett of the municipal affairs depart- ment's community planning branch, recomm aided that the, official plan, a lone range de- velopment proposal, be contin- ued in Dereham. Both the Till- sonburg official plan and the proposed Dereham plan. he said, have been prepared to coincide with each other and could be merged later. .Ian. 13, the amalgamation study committee learned from - fire and road department offi- cials of each municipality it. would be an advantage to amalgamate those services. A fireball proposed at Mt. Elgin would place residents in the combined municipality within five miles of a fire de- partment. Existing halls are now located at Brownsville and Tillsonburg. Feb. 10. the committee de- cided to make an application to the attorney -general's de- partment to have the Ontario Provincial Police c o n t i n u e service in the rural area of the proposed joint municipali- ty. F. E. Davies of Toronto. an Ontario Police Commission adviser on police service, said he and W. F_ Jghnton, anoth- er commission adviser, will recommend that the OPP service be made available. Oxford's awn 168th was in the battle's thickest Tomorrow will officially mark the end of the one of the more famous battalions in Canada's eoterfal war history. A laying up of the colors cere- mony for the i88th Battalion (Oxford's Own) will start to- morrow at 11 a.m- at Old St, ,Patters Church. Although the ceremony lays the battalion col - to rest, the achievements of rd'$ " can not be fer- n. On Dec. 21. t915, authoriza- tion came from Ottawa of the 166th battalion under the com- mand of Lieut.-Cot. W. T, Me - McMullen of Woodstock. Vol- unteers from all over Oxford County soon filled the battalion ranks. June 1, 1916, the 168th went into camp at London with 943 officers and other ranks. Following a brief training at Camp Francis in London the battalion was ordered to pro- ceed to Camp Borden for four months of strenuous prepara- tion for -front dine action. The long awaited word fin- ally came and Oct. 30 Oxford's Own Stood on the decks of H. M. S Lapland in Halifax har- bor awaiting their trans -Atlan- tic voyage to England. Reaching West Sandling Camp, battalion members were taken on the strength of the 12th and 39th Reserve Battalions. Some Oxford County soldiers were placed with other units. Final preparation for action was now made, REINFORCE UNIT Although the 168th had ceas- ed to exist in name, the men of Oxford fought and died with the imperishable glory of the old battalion between Jan. 1, 1917 and Nov. it, Isis. During this time men of the 168th reinforced many of the service battalions in France and took part in all the subsequent operations in which the Cana- dian corps participated. Oxford's Own saw action at Vimy Ridge, Hill 70, Passchen- daele, Amiens, the second bat- tle of Arras, Cambrai. Valen- ciennes .and Mons. Wherever these soldiers went it was said their efficiency as fighting men was second to none. Of the 713 fighting men who crossed the Atlantic as Oxford's Own, 158 slid not return, This represented 22 per cent of the 168th's overseas strength. In- cluding the 256 men wounded in action, the total casualties num- bered 418 or 58 per cent of the overseas Oxford force, Official recognition crowned the military careers of a num- ber of the battalion men. A- wards made numbered 18 in- cluding one Companion St. Michael and St. George, one Distinguished Service Order, three . Distinguished Conduct Medals, four Military Crosses and 30 Military Medals. Seven men were mentioned in despat- ches, One Belgian Croix de Guerra was awarded. 54 YEARS OLD The'solors of the 168th were presented to the regiment by Lady Hughes, wife of Sir Sam Hughes minister of National de- fense, in a ceremony in Vic- toria Park fit 1916. They were received on behalf of the.regbnent by Sgt, R. M. Moir and Lieut. W. A, Ball, now Lt. Cal Bell. Both men are expected to be in atten- dance at tomorrow's ceremony. Colors were plated in the Woodstock Armory before the 36sth went overseas. They were stolen at one time and upon re- covery were placed In the county court house for safe keeping. When the court house under- went renovations the colors were taken to the foyer at the armory where they havebeen ever since. The 3rd Battalion, The Royal Canadian Regiment, as holders in perpetuity of the honors and traditions of both the 1,ondon Fusiliers and the Oxford Rifles, wiR provide an escort to the colors of the 168tb Battalion (Oxford's Own) C.E.F. in the eoremony. PARADE TO CHURCH The parade and escort will form up at the armory and parade by way of Graham Street and Dundas Street to Old St Paul's Church for the cere- mony. About 25 members of the or- Iginal 168th, out of the surviving 70, are expected to attend the Laying up of Colors ceremony, Also expected is the battalion's oldest member Maj. George Hollier, 93, of Tillsonburg. Once the battalion and con- gregation have been assembled for tomorrow's ceremony the Adjutant will knock three times on the church door with the hilt of his. sword. This will sign- ify the beginning of the official end of the 168th. The escort and Adjutant will slow march into the church and deposit the color,_ The colon's %ill then N, laid to rest with their fallen comrades of the 168th battalion, Oxford's Own. Mill rate down for county roads Oxford County Council yes- terday announced that the mill rate for the county road budget has been reduced slightly, Themill rate for roads was set at 9.3 mills, down 0.2 from the 4969 rate of 8:5 mills. Warden Stanley Gehring, reeve of South Norwich Town- ship, said the decrease In the mill rate was due to the in- crease in assessment. He hinted county council will be able to hold the line on the overall mill rate this year. .Albert Cornwell, reeve of North Norwich Township and chairman of the road commit. tee, said $601.469 will be raised for roads by a county levy. The 1970 road budget for Ox- ford County Roads and the Woodstock and Ingersoll Subur- ban Road Commissions is $I, 433,100. County council has estimated that $1,285,6m will be spent on county roads; $102.13W on Wood- stock suburban roads and $34,- 700 on Ingersoll suburban roads. Improvements on 1.6 miles of Oxford County Road 18, west of the village of Norwich, will be the largest road expenditure this year. The cost of the project was estimated at $1.10,000. Next on the list of expendi- tures is a contribution of $75,100 to the Woodstock Suburban Roads Commission toward the reconstruction of the Sweaburg Road from Highway 401 to the village of Sweaburg. It will cost the county $48,000 to improve County Road 34, west of Tavistock from High. way 59 to the Perth County line. Approximately $42,900 will be spent by county council to im- prove 2.1 miles of County Road 6, north of the village of Embro, Approximately $30,000 has been allotted for the improve. went of County Read 29, east of Drumbo. The reconstruction of County Road 19 on the north side of the 'town of Tillsonburg will cost the county approximately $20; 000. It will also cost $20,000 to im. prove County Road 7 between Rayside and Ingersoll. The county has planned four bridge projects in 1970. The largest expenditure on the list is $76,000 for a 75-foot bridge to replace two structures on Coun- ty Road 6, West Zorra Town. ship, south of Embro. The county will spend ap- proximately $71,000 for a 56-foot abridge over the Thames River, southeast of Embro. A bridge will be replaced on County Road 4, northeast of In. nerkip for a cost of $65,000. The county will spend $20,000 to re- place the deck on a bridge on County Road 19 at Otterville. 'Oxford County library circulation is doubled The Oxford County Library] totalled $15,422.91 with a book has taken many strides. over the budget of $4,052.26, After 10 laid, decade, reported Mrs. S. years, the total expenditure rose L. Kromparl, Oxford County to $187,711.33 with a book bud. librarian. get of $49,950.72. .Mrs. Krompart stated in bar annual report that the circula- tion of books more then doubled from 1959 to 1969. The circula- tion 10 years ago was 207,152 books Last year the clrcvla. tion was 501,674 books. In .1999, the library circulated 22,467 books as compared to 84,946 books in 1969. MORE OUTLETS Ten years ago, there were 18 libraries in the county, four deposit stations, and outlets in 175 school classrooms. In 1969. there were the same number of libraries, six deposit stations and outlets in 250 school class. The number of reference and special requests 'by avail in- creased almost 500per cent in the last 10 years. There were 3,370 requests last year as com- pared to 490 in 1959. In 1959, OxfordCounty Lib- rary had a staff of two with one ,part-time driver, Last year, they had a staff of five time and and two part-time cra- ployees plus three part-time drivers. In 1959, the total expenditure 1N ONE YEAR From 1969 to 1969, the Oltenia- tion of the library Increased by 75,334 books. Mrs, Krompart reported that two important changes took plate in the library services in 1969, 'The Ingersoll Public Lib- rary joined us as one of our branches. Since Ingersoll is a larger library than any of our other branches, some of our systemsbad to he reorganized. But, since Ingersoll reports an increase in the use of the lib- rary, we hope our first year to- gether ban been successful." DRUMBO The year 1969 marked the op- ening of the new Drumbo branch. Mrs. Krompart said it was the first library building owned 'by the Oxford C o u n t y Library. During 1969, three new as- sistants were hired in t h e branch libraries: Mrs. Dorris Hutcheson of the ingetsoIrs Children's Department; Mrs. Myrtle McCorquodale of Embro and Mrs. Ralph Racknor of Drumbo. Request for copy of budget is denied TAMES D. HOSSACK Oxford County Board of Edu- cation has turned down a re- quest by Ingersoll town council for a copy of the. board's 1970 budget when requesting its tax levy. The town of Tavistock, the vil. lages of Beaehville and Norwich and the townships of South Nor- wich and Denham had sup- ported the Ingersoll request and asked for copies of the school board budget. The county boards are not required by law to present their budget to municipalities when Clerk -treasurer they request their levy- They are required to publish a finan. cial statement in local news - Papers within one month of receiving their iauditor's report. Woodstock city council at a recent meeting .did not support the Ingersoll resolution. Most Woodstock councillors feltthat the board budget is too involved for them to spend time on de- tails. The levy requested by the board of education, is pre- sented as a fait aecompn and municipalities can not change the mill rate of the boards. in East Zorra Ingersoll joins gets assistant government nr e.-R. CgrresponAen! sled`l) TAVISTOCK — Beat Zorra Township has engaged John Killing as office assistant to clerk -treasurer Earl Hostetler, and he commenced his duties on March 1, Mr, Killing is a native of the township, a son of 'Mr. and Mrs. Henry Killing. Mr. Hostetler, formerly treasur- er of the township, .win assume his new duel office the end of the month when Howard J. Hallock, clerk of the township since July, 1952, officially re. tuna, The announcement of the ap- pointment of Mr, Killing, 23, ,was made during the March meeO of the township coon. oil held Monday at the town- sbfp haU. Also during the meet- Ing itwas announced the now township municipal office Ip. Bated in the centre of Hickson, Is now almost ready for occu- pancy. The Regional Government Study Committee of O x f o r d County Council will consult with representatives of the city of Woodstock, the town of Inger- soll and other municipalities concerning regional govern. ment. The committee reported that the opinions and feelings of other municipalities will benefit discussions and planning. The committee will invite the repre- sentatives to future meetings. The next meeting will be held March 6. The committee was formed at the request of Warden Stanley Gehring, reeve of South Nor- wich Township. The committee hopes to have a recommenda- tion on regional government by the end of the year. Kenneth Webster, reeve of Tillsonburg, was named chair- man of the committee. Gerald iStaplos, deputy clerk-treusttrar of Oxford County, was named as secretary. MRS. S. L. KROMPART ... County Librarian Oxford warden in 1954, Pioneer Village curator A former warden of Oxford County, James Donald Hossack Of Embro, died early today in Woodstock General Hospital. He had a singular record of service within the community 'and bad held many executive positions. Born in 1902 in East Nissouri at Lot 9. Concession 12, he was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Wilbert Hossack. He farmed in East Nissouri at Lot 9, Concession 113, before moving to Embro in 1940. During the Second World War he was employed for two years in war work at Camp Ipper. wash. He was employed with the Oxford Farmers' Co -opera. 'tive at Embro for seven years, and with the Wallace Lumber Company in Embro for 13 years. In 1967 be was appointed curator of the Pioneer Village at Fanshawe Park. For seven years he had been 'a member of Embro School Board. He had just completed �20 years on the village council, ,four of them as reeve, In 1954 Mr. Hossack w a a ,elected warden of Oxford Coun. ty, Ile later became a past pre- sident of the Oxford Ex -Ward- ens' Association For 11 years he represented Embro on dia Upper Thames River Conserva- tion Authority. He was a charter member of the Zorra Caledonia Society and was a past -president and seare. 'tarymanager of the Society. He was also an executive offi. cer of the Highland Games As. soclatiou of Ontario. Mr. Hassock was a member and past Noble Grand of the Embro Star Lodge No, 229, fOOF, and was tmasurer for the past is years. Ile had received his 25-year jewel in February. J. D, HOSSACK ... died " morning He was a member of the kirk session of Knox Presbyterian Church and had served on the board of managers. He was congregational secretary from 1953.69. He was also a member of Embro Library Board. Survivors are his wife, the. former Helen Rose whom he married in 1923; a daughter, Mrs, Cecil (Janet) Little of Lon- don; two sisters, Mrs. Wilfred .(Hannah) Stevenson of Port Credit; Mrs. George (\label) Burke of Hamilton; a brother, Wilbur Hassock of Milwaukee, Oregon; six grandchildren and. a great granddaughter. The funeral will be held from the R. W, Johnson Funeral Home in Embro on Momlay at 2 Pm. Rev. William Henderson Of Knox Presbyterian Church, Woodstock, wfil officiate, Tem. with burial. to follow .An Oddfellowb sorvlec will he held at the funeral home on Sunday at 9 nau. No definite stand taken on pits and quarry changes By JO-ANNE THOMPSON said they have not received A Most Oxford County mantel- copy of the resolution. He said paUtiou have not yet taken a be felt the control of the min. ing operations should be left in definite stand on proposed legis- the hands of the township. lative changes by the Ontario "When we receive the resolution Department of Mines, concern- we will study it and measure ing pits and quarries, the good points against the bad. More than 40 Ontario munici- Some quarry operations leave polities have protested the pro. things in a mess. it's the old posed changes which w o u 1 d story of a few ruining things impose the department's auth- i for everyone. If the legislation ority over their land use and is passed, we can expect a plannln$ powers. Uxbridge sharp increase in the cost of • Township Council c l a i m s the materials." proposed changes by the Minis- terUxbridgeresolution of Mines' Mineral Resources Committee would give M f n e a endorsed by the East Nissouri !Minister Allan Lawrence pre. Township Council. Reeve Doug- emptiv€ power to declare any. las Muir said be felt stronger one's land a potential pit or controls were not needed for the .quarry- regardless of its exist- pit and quarry operations. "The ing hand use, control should be up to the in- dividual township." &YEAR FIGHT West Oxford Reeve B r u c e Uxbridge Township, located Amos said the township council about 15 miles northeast ig Met- has taken no action on the re - for Toronto, has been fighting solution. "The township has an for the past six years to control agreement with the quarry gravel operators who h a firms in the area, The re- bouBht up nearly 10 per cent solution will be considered in of the township's land. The eouncil. The proposed legisla- ip sent resolution other a tion has a lot of merit but will other municipalities across the force an increase in the cost of (province, opposing the changes materials." an the grounds they are unwar- ranted, pre-emptive, and would NO AMON create a precedent for the eros• ' Reeve Kenneth Peers of East ion of municipal authority and Oxford Township said council planning powers. has taken no action on the re - The majority of Oxford Corm- solution because there are no ty, Townships have not yet tak- open pits in the township, "We en any action on the resolution. will have more discussion on In a number of cases, the re- the legislation but I feel the solution was held over for for. control is better handled at the ether discussion, township council level." NOT ENDORSED North Norwich Township John Hofstetter, reeve of Reeve Albert Cornwell said they Blenheim Township, said the laid the resolution over until Uxbridge resolution was not en- the next council meeting. "In dorsed by his council, He said some instances, I feel t b a t his township was not as invol- stronger controls over the ved as other townships in the quarrying industry are needed." mining operations. "Council has 'not taken any action as yet. Many of the other township There are a lot of pros and councils will discuss the reso. 'cons to be considered in the lotion at a latter dale. The city ;proposed legislation. However, of Woodstock has endorsed the there is a lot of room for Im- provement in quarrying opera- resolution. lions. I feel they do need strong- er controls." Medford Clarke, reeve of Dereham Township, said his council has not taken any ac- tion on the resolution. He said, One mill are no pits or quarries in our township to be affected Count taxes are CLLt, by the legislation." Y NO COPY Warden Stanley Gehring, Reeve of S. Norwich Township Other organization grants are listed The Oxford Children's Aid On the recommendation of the Society will receive a grant of $30,850, Their total budget is council's Committee on Agricul- ture and Community Services, , County council will grant grants will be matte to the fol. UAW to the University of West- ]Owing associations to 1970: Ox- ern Ontario which is an In. ford Sol] and Crop Improve - ,crease of $200 over last year. ment Association, $500; Oxford The University of Waterloo will County Farm Safety Council, receive $1,000, which also rep. $250; oxford. Ownty Junior resents an increase of $200, This Farmers' Association, $500: Ox- money is used for bursaries to ford County Club Leaders' As. studatits attending the univer- sociation, $1,000; Oxford County slfies from oxford County, ex- Plowmen's Aswelaton, $650; cepting Woodstock and. Inger- Blenheim Plowmen's Associa- soll. A total of $2,500 was grant- tion, $150; North Blenheim ad to the Oxford Museum, Norse Breeders' Associal,lon The county will grant $4.50 no $150; Oxford Poultry and Pet the County of Waterloo to as. Stock Association, $50 and the gist them in basting the annual Woodstock Chamber of Com- conventioe of the Association of merce for Dairy Day, $50; The Counties and Regions of On- agriculture, and community ser- tario. The Victorian Order of vices committee budget was got Nurses was granted $2,500. at 4W.,075, Area social servIs ices show increase in aid By ,10-ANNE THOMPSON Oxford County. Social Servic. Fs showed an Increase in 19M over the previous year in the 'number of recipients of the var. pp services administered by s department, reported Ger. 1d H. MacKay, administrator. Mr. MacKay said there was an increase In the services pro- e visits to recipients for h Oxford Social Services all or part of the costa visit. "Without this service, e 'would •iikely have an in. se In nursing ,home recip- i." He said [ring the month of April. 12 dents recelvednursing ser- ; nine in may; 10 in dune; n July; 13 in August: 13 vided by the department to the LACK OF JOBS in September; nine in October; asrdenta of Oxford County, He Mr. MacKay said the increase 10 in November and 12 in Dec. aid there was also an 'increase in the number of cases toward ember. ii costs. the end of the year was due Oxford Social Services came to lack of jobs in the area. PRIVATE HOMES � to existence April 1, 1969, Mr. "There may he some jobs for In some cases, a i 0metaaker iMacKay said it was necessary skilled workers, but many of was placed in private hones to to reduce and rebudget all the our recipients are unskilled and make it possible for children to cases receiving assistance. Iie work on construction and stay in their own homes while said an area with an tmexpect- seasonal work, of which there the. mother was in hospital or ed increase was. in nursing is very little at the present recuperating at home. There '!home costs. Early in April, the time. We encourage many of were no cases requiring this ser- rate was increased to $1 a day. our recipients to enroll in Man- vice in April or May, There Tbere was also an increase ht ,I power retraining." were two in June; three in July;. �nursm services from $4.25 to one in August- two in Septem- $4.50 per visit. SUPPLEMENTARY ber; two in October; four in During the month of April, November and three in Dec. 'A PROBLEM the department reported 17 cas- ember, Mr. MacKay said the months es of supplementary aid. There Mr. Mackay reported that Hof November and December were. 22 cases in May; 30 in during 1969, Oxford Social Ser- have shown the largest increase June; 29 in July; 33 in August; vices forwarded 177 requests to in the number of recipients. He'34 in September; 26 in October; the Ontario Department of so . said, "at this time of year, 22 inNovember and 26 in Dec- ial and Family Services for one there is very little employment: ember. Supplementary aid. is of their pensions. As of Dec. 31, available and unfortunately, paid to recipients of a govern- 190, there were 6$ approvals this could prove tobe a pro- merdaI benefit for assistanceland 34 applications were not blem for several months in with drugs, high shelter costsiapproved. "When these reeipi- 1970." Or to provide extraardm- ants are granted Family Bene- The field workers of Oxford ary needs. fits, they come off ou rolls Social Services work closely A large number of recipients $a recipients. U the 68 ap. with the local Manpower Office. are in nursing homes which provals had remained on our Mr. MacKay said that through makes this category one of the records, we would have spent discussions, many recipients got department's largest expendi-'an additional S20.990.70" 'back into the labor force and tures. During April there gel EFFICIENT SERVICE lbecam:e self - supporting. "We 110 cases; 106 in May; U4 in An -Ihave also been successful in June; 117 in July; 114 in !working with Manpower to en- gust; 121 in September- IM in deavors have been made to Pro. roll some Of our recipients into October 117 in November andlvide a full and efficient service the retraining programs. Sever- 112 in December. ito the people of Oxford County. al cases have 'been referred to MT. MacKay said they are!There will be occasions when iProvincial Rehabilitation to be trying to reduce the nursingindividuals feel they have not 'trained for work suited to his home cost by. placing some of, re teived a service they feat they the recipients in Wcodm ordhad a rigid to expect, disability." "Our field staff are constant - ',MONTH BY MONTH Lade. ly on the alert for ways and During the month of April, ELIGIBLE PEOPLE means to reduce expenditures Oxford Social Services had 211 Oxford Social Services pro -without affecting the content or cases of general assistance, in- vides special assistance to ell -,quality Of service m the iadivi- volving 656 people. This total gible people in need of such dual." .:vent down to 199 cases involy- items as prescribed drugs, Ben- ing 019 people in May. During tal and optical services. Dur- the month of June, the depart- tug the mouth of April there ment had 190 cases of general were 49 cases of special assis- 'assistance involving 607 people. tance; 24 in May; 39 in June; In July, there were 197 cases 31 in July; one in August; 46 involving 597 people as com- in September; 42 in October; pared to August when the de- 39 in. November and 51 in Dec- 'partment reported 193 cases in- ember. Ivolving 561 people. There were Mr. MacKay said that the 1$3 cases in September involy- Victorian Order of Nurses made Rabies cases ing 546 people and 202 cases involving 645 people in October. November and December had the highest number of general assistance cases. A total. of 221 cases involving 695, people, were reported in November. That total increased to 245 cases in- volving 757 people in Decemh- Painting Tender are going Lip COUNTY Of OXFORD Sealed Tenders for the paint- ling of certain areas of the ' In the county Court House, Woodstock, will Ibe received by the undersign- ed until 5 p,m. April 20, The incidence rabies to Oxford county for 1970. three the first ree months of 1970 would indicate that this year's total of cases will exceed the previous Specifications available at the high of 1969, according to a report released today. County Clerk - Treasurer's Of- Rabid cats and dogs are responsible for 5o per ifice, Court House, Woodstock, cent of human contacts requiring the anti rabies (Ontario. serum. It is important that pets receive the vac- Lowest or any tender not cination. Perth County, under the auspices the Health. necessarily accepted. ie of Animals Branch, County Municipalities and Health G. R. STAPLES, Unit, are sponsoring free immunisation clinics. DEPUTY CLERK -TREASURER, These clinics are held April 9 and 10. Residents COUNTY OF OXFORD of the north part of Oxford who have not had As-70 their cats and dogs Immunised or given a rein. forcing Immunization withal two years should do so The clinic Is being held in Tavistock at the South Easthope Township Hall from SAD - 13 noon. Thursday. April 9. r111114 • 5 W 0 A 0 0 U w•J _0 �• xa "alga B oo y �p e u p' a „FwowYYppa6WWas r was -2Nm veo • 6 a � N em F. O „Oy F, Cam•] s � o � y � k ❑ u E-o N J«�GA fJyq 4 p•x ovia"a m i� u GwN Oy Ga"e�y-i---i11 AiAhC W'A `�v Fv«i w�FayriO. °,ao� u 3xr FC35' �GFm—, h F �• Nr"d• O x e3��f��g;x8 r1 "Fee •a N !a $9,000 Salvation Army capital grant Council a,, read .to pay a $9,000 capital grant to the salvntlon Army on or about Doc. 2o, 1970. During the January session, council approved of the grant for the construction of a House of Concord in the London area. The House of Concord Is a Youth rehabilitation centre, County Council turned down a request of the grant for the support of a second ice surface in Woodstock, Ron Totten of Embro, a member of the Wood- stock and District Committee for a Second Artificial Ice Sur. face, attended yesterday's coun- cil meeting to reauest the grant. Ile aid municipalities sue. roundin7 Woodstock have con. tr➢bated $1,4W toward the cost of theproject. A total of $W4,000 has been raised but $13,00o is still needed. Council reported the grant was not given be. cause many arenas already es- tablished In the county have not ]been supported by County Council in the .past. County clerk -treasurer Leon- ard K. Coles, said a ,total of $37,000has been included in the budget to mover bank loan in. terest and the prepayment of county rates. 1969 construction cost $7,385,277 The estimated cost of report- ed construction in Oxford Comity last year totalled $7,335; �277, according to Clarke Daniel lof Ingersoll, the County Con- struction safety Inspector. In his annual report to Ox- ford County Council, Mr. Daniel stated that new industrial con- struction and repairs amounted to $688,300. A total of $1,&34,681 was spent on new commerical construction and repairs. 1.Construction and repairs to 'the farming category amounted to $790,046 and $12,100 was spent on construction work on county schools. Mr. Daniel re- ported there were. 217 new resi- dential dwellings constructed during 1969 at a cost of $3,974,- 45s. Alterations and repairs to county dwellings cost an esti- mated $8.5,695 in 1W9. Mr. Daniel reported that two LODGE Mr, and Mrs. Ferguson Rutter who have been living at. Woodingford lodge siuce Jan. 20 of this year observed their 55th wedding anniver- sary on Mar. 31. In honor of the occasion residents and staff At the lodge held an fatalities occurred on construc- tion worklast year. He said "The fatalities occurred on pro- jects where the combined cost did not amount to `more than $500. These fatalities were the first to happen in my area since becoming safety inspector in 190 I feel that had there been proper training and supervision given both workmen, these fat. alities might not have happen- ed." Mr. Daniel reported that he made 411 inspections in 1969. �He said that no charges were Mr. Daniel reported that 52 joint inspections Were made with the Department of Labor. A total of 950 blank [building permit forms were given to lo- cal municipalities and 120 acts and regulations were given out. In his work, Mr. Daniel traveled 10.632 miles last year. RESIDENTS WED 55 anniversary party for them. Mr. Buller, before retirement, was a painter and decorator 1n the city and has been active In St. John Ambulance Corp, County Council adopts change in official plan Amendment one to the official plan of Oxford County has been adopted by county council and jwill be submitted to the Minis. [ter of Municipal Affairs for fi- Inal approval. Amendment one is designed to incorporate the changes in lthe boundaries of the planning area and changes the name of the planning area from the Central Oxford Planning Area to the oxford County Planning Area. Included in the original plan- ning area was the City of Woodstock, the Town of Inger- .soil, the Village of Beachville YEARS The couple are members of Bethany Lutheran Church. They have ono daughter Mrs, Harold (Yvonne) ()'Bright of this city, and the townships of Bland-' ford, East Oxford, Notch Ox- ford, West Oxford, and portions, of East Zorra and West Zm' ra. Amendment one adds the am tire village of Norwich and all of the township of East Nis. zouri The amendment also In- cludes the addition of those parts of the townships of East's and West Zorra that bad pre- viously been excluded from the planning area. The amendment. also adds all of the Village of Embro and the entire township of Blenheim. The amendment was discuss - ad and approved at the Decent-, ber meeting of the Oxford Plan- ning Board. Excludedfrom the amendment at that time was the proposed reservoir at Ayr on the Nith River. The action was taken on the recommendation of John Hof- stetter, reeve of Blenheim Township. Mr. Hofstetter said the Grand River Valley Conser- vation Authority had taken no definiteaction on the project. He reported that the conserva- tion, authority had not decided 'what size the proposed Ayr reservoir should be. Mr. Hofstetter said the pro- posed resevoir had caused a hold-up in the approval of the. Blenheim Township official plan[ which needed immediate ap- proval. MUST KNOW GeraldStaples, deputy county clerk -treasurer and secretary of :the planning board, said that ,when the authority makes their i intentions known, the planning board can approve an amend- ment to the official plan, add- ing the area to the official plan. Also excluded from t h e amendment was the Van< car Conservation project in East Oxford Township on the White- man Creek watershed. The area''. was also deleted because of in- definite conservation authority Plans, Another conservation s i t e, southwest of Bright in Bland ford Township, was decreased in size to include low land only. The Town of Tillsonburg, the Townships of Dereham and. South Norwich, and the Village of Tavistoek are. still not in- cluded in the official planning area. • ARME MEN ROB OTTERVILLE Communication Road work plans lack, top topic passed in county for educators Lack of communication be., resentative of the Oxford board, tween the Oxford County board I who was mentioned as having of education and teacaers at Annandale High School in Till• spoken to the teachers explain - Annandale --.:> a major topic at ed to the board he had talked to the meeting of the school trua-,!the teachers of the view the. tees this week. board had of the teachers as Discussion was generated by',always "beefing." He said he a letter from a number of had been broached by the teachers at Annandale to the members of the board regard - teaches in private converse-. ing the rumored closing of the lion. acDrrm Barry Hunt of Ingersoll, `NOT NEGATIVE" chairman of the Oxford County 1 Several trustees at the board board, stated at the outset of meeting went on record as say - the discussion that the teachers '.mg that the board is not nega- are anticipating developments tive towards any school in the and that there has never been county. any discussion at the board lev- Mr. Linton extended his feel - el of closing the school. ing of the lack of communfca- Ian Linton, Tillsonburg mem- lion between the board and An bar of the Board, replied to Dr, nandale High School to the Hunt and supported the request town of Tillsonburg itself. He of the Annandale teachers for a said economically and socially meeting with members of the the town looks towards the east, board to discuss the school. west and south rather than RATIONAL north to Oxford Count for He stated that a meeting to communicate in person with the teachers was `the way to handle the matter in a rational fashion." He said the teachers have been aware of rumblings that the school will be closed and that their anxiety over the rumors has been built up over the months to an explosive situation George Simmons, director of education for the county, said there is no danger, of Annan- dale closing until permission is received from the Department of Education to close South Dereham School, Autism - date then might be sought to house 'the South Dereham ele- mentary students. Dr. Hunt said the anxiety of the teachers is premature, they •have either misinterpreted or misunderstood the situation and as far as be is concerned a meeting can serve no useful purpose. PLACES BLAME Mr. Linton placed the blame for the teachers' anxiety on the shoulders of the administrators of the board. The Annandale teachers in their letter defended the school and described a school as a „relationship — a spirit de- veloped among students, teach• ers, administration, graduates and the public at large — a tradition." ,.;-_y defended appeals they bad made to the board for im. proved educational facilities at the school as a projection of their pride in the school and asked that the board be set straight on IKAY misinterpreta- tion of their earlier demands. Earl Church, Woodstock top - , Y, He described the town as off by itself from the rest of the county and indicated that this is often the cause of misun- derstandings and difficulties, not only between the town and the county board of education but also between the town and Oxford County council. A panel discussion was sug- gested as a way to deal with the communication problem. The board left any decision on a meeting until next meeting of the board. County Council's Committee on County Roads announced yesterday that 54.3 miles of county roads will be treated and resurfaced in 1970. The following roads will re- ceive surface treatment: County Road 6 from County Road 16, north of Brooksdale, a distance of 3.9 miles; Road 9 from In- gersoll to the Middlesex County boundary, 2.8 mites; Road 10 from the Elgin County bound- ary, north to the Penn Central railway crossing at Brownsville and from the north side of the village of Brownsville to Con- cessions 9 and 10, 1.8 miles; Road 4 from Highway2, north to the Thames River bridge, 2.3 miles; Road 7 from Ingersoll, northerly to Conces- sions one and two, 1.7 miles; and Road 25 from Medina to Lakeside,1.7 miles. This repre- sents a total of 23.6 miles:. A total of 9.4 miles of new roads will be brought into the county system on June 1. ANK OTTERVILLE — T w o or I One senior employe0.. Mrs. three men armed with revol- vers robbed the Otterville through four holl�aps:11he last branch of the Royal Bank at 24 years, She has been bank approximately 11;30 a.m. toda7, employee for 27 years. The robbery is being invest[- Mrs. Butler recalled the first gated by the Tillsonburg de. robbery back in 7946 when three tachment of the OPP. Const-Imes entered the bank and an. 'Henry (Harley and Corporal E. other stayed in a car outside. F. Martin are investigating the At that time, the manager rush, incident IV: from the office with his gun Police at the scene reported and the would-be robbers fled it had been undetermined if the I without money, .men were masked. The amount I Mrs. Butler said the second of money taken if any has not [''robbery occurred in IM or been established, il956, Sne said she was net sure .Five people are employed at of the date or at he. much the bank, the bank manager money was taken at the time, and four women. Manager Al- The third be" took pfa,e Ian Montag, who has been em- Sept- 18, 1964 when an armed ployed at the bank for approx- man made off with an uadeter- imately one month, was not in' mined amount of money. T'he the bank at the time of the! man was later sentenced to -A hold-up. yyears in penitentiary. Provincial system - f reassessment expected in 1973 Reassessment under the new understood by the public. He provincial system will be com-(said assessing all property it plated in this area by 1973, ac-'thesame way in the province cording to Paul Simpson of Lon -!!makes more sense and more don, the area director of theequitabletaxation. "Fair taxa. 'assessment division of the On- bon is the concern of every TO Y ` �p honor, ` AlfalariDepartment of Municipal member of every d the oijec" ns ,t�7 Affairs. Mr. Simpson said the objec• Mr. Simpson said the teas• fives of the provincial assess- e/� /�71 sessment program in the com-, ment program is to have uni- ties of illbeOxford, Elgin and Mice throughout nut the sin. standards rllesex will 'be completed for use throw t the ',in the 1974 taxation year. He the h s proven He 'was speaking at the Oxford said will be assessment tech - County Feed Far and Ontario . p will be used throughout after �5 years Hay and Silage Show, hell re- Lae province and more accurate assessment data will be avail- icenUy at the Recreation Hall at, able. ,the Woodstock Fairgrounds. „ - Mr. Simpson told the group Air. Simpson said that farm FOLDEN'S CORNERS — Oip Gordon ford in Fines (L) eE area farmers that the re• homes and buildings will be as- tord Coumty's senior township MPP for Oxford fn congratulat- assessment program is not like. sensed on a different system clerk, Leslie Curry, RR 1 Wood- ing Mr. Curry called him the iv to start in Oxford County, than urban properties, accord - stock was honored at a dinner councillor's counsellor and ex- until 1972. mg to the recommendations hold in Folden's Corners com. pressed his appreciation for the - Before the province took over trom a farm assessment and mu pity centre on Saturday guidance he had given him the assessment program Jan. 1. taxation report. He said the pro - night. when he was first elected a I970, Oxford County assessors posal calls for agricultural land Leslie Curry, West Oxford's councillor for the township. This reassessed part of Oxford Coun- to be assessed from Sky to $a0a (clerk - treasurer for 25 years, advice has been helpful onty, including the villages of per acre according to soil cJassi- A total of 9.8 miles of road will receive slurry seal treat- ment in 1070. The areas are: Road 10 from Highway 401 to Ingersoll, 1 mile; Road 10 through the village of Browns- ville, 1 mile; Road 13 from lot one to seven, Dereham Town- ship, 2.3 miles; Road 14 at Con- cessions two, three and four. E. Oxford Township, 4.5 miles; and Road 18, through the village of Norwich, 1 mile. The committee reported that ten- ders for the reconstruction of a section of County Road 18 has been called and it is anticipat- ed that a contract for the work Aill be awarded during the. first Week in April. The following roads will re- c e i v e gravel resurfacing: Roads 5 and 8 from Highway 97 north to Punkey dandles Corners 6.5 miles; Road 5 from Highway 2, north to Road 29, 5.2 miles; Road 25, wester- ly from Medina, 2.6 miles; Road 27, westerly from Dereham Cen- ltre, 2.3 miles and Road 29, east- erly from Drumbo. This work represents. 20.9 miles of county roads. Tenders for this work will be awarded within the next month. was honored by a gathering of many occasions since that over 50 township officials, em- time. ployees and wives who have Vern Cuthbert, RR 4 Ingersoll served with him during that a former reeve and county war- time. den, said the sound judgment of Mr. Curry had saved the O township ratepayers many dol. Hospital grants furs. He cited as evidence that L grants, purchasing of a truck on its performance rather than its 'price has resulted In a 1947 White truck still being used re- gularly by the road crew. During the evening Mr. Curry was presented with a wale;v and Mrs, Curry with rases. I a Reeve Bruce Amos was master at of ceremonies and slowed slid- ises of his recent trip to Cuba. tins ,, Mr, Curry was appointed total $186,945 Woodstock General Hospital will receive $47,000 which re- mains the same as last year. The county will make its final payment to the city hospital in 15171. The county will pay its complete pledge to Ingersoll's Alexandra Hospital this year in UM sum of $129,437,50. This amount represents the county'& sharp in 2970, 1971 and 19T2, This payment will. com. plate the county's grant of y205,- 000 for the capital costs c recent expanslon program the hospital, The payment subject to the approval of Hospital will receive a grant of $11,608 which was approved at the January session of conned. The cauhtyy's stuare of fire Ox. ford Hoaltb Uull. Intdget $SR,- 030.94, was Approved al. tho February session oi' council. on March 1, INS, In 1950 the role of tax collector was add. ed to his ditties. He Is also As. cretary of the towasblp's com- mittee of adjustment and sec- retary of their plaaningboard since their format la 39M. Embro, Norwich, Tavistock and hcation, Beachvitle, Blaudford Township Air. Simpson told the group and part of East Oxford Town. that consideration was being ship, „wen to an arrangement that Mr. Simpson said property aswould allow the farmer to sessment in Ontario dates backchoose between assessment of 475 years and is greatly mars sliding scale or on market value. Studded tires blamed for damage Oxford County Council will Cummittee, reported that axe stake a recommendation to that sire damage to streets t provincial government that the roads has been caused due manufacture' and eventually the studded tires, sale of studded tires be. banned. Council resolved that the G in the province, , crnment of Ontario should Albert Cornwell, "eve of encouraged to ban the ma North Norwich Totenshfp and facture and eventually the s chairman of the County Roads of the tires. Norwich museum opens June 13 NORW'ICH — A dresm will become June 13. The date marks the officials opening of the Norwich ]tlus- eum, four decades in the mak- ing. The Norwich District Histori- cal Society came into being inl 1930 when approximately 15 in- terested people met and formed] the first make -shift museum in', the basement of Norwich Public) Library, Four original founders' are still'alive today to tell the story and will receive a special imitation to attend the opening ceremonies, In 1949, the relies of the area's past were moved to the second floor of the Norwich Postoffice where they remain- ed until last year. At that time, the Society of Friends donated. their church to the historical so- ciety to make into a museum. The post office space is still used for storage. RENOVATION Since that time, great trans- formations have taken -place. The historical society has spent more than $3,000 in renovating the building to house Norwich's first permanent museum. The inside of the building was painted and partitions were set up to section off various display areas. The basement of the building was renovated to house the larger prices of household articles. The society still wants to ao- quire a barn to yet up on the groins to display the larger pieces of antlaue machinery. Tbe musehm was open to the public for the month of Novem- County official 40.pear-old.ber last. year and many tours a reality1were taken through at that time. GUEST SPEAKER She guest at tre opening ceremonies will be Shelton Carroll of Ottawa, the head of the Canadian Coin Collection of the Bank of Canada. Mr.. Carroll Is a former resident of Norwich and will speak on the importance of museums in Can - The ebairman for the occasion will be Leslie Dickson the deputy reeve of North Norwich Township. Invitations will be sent out to all Oxford County reeves and clerks as well as the members of Norwich Village Council, Invitations will be sent out to Warden Stanley Gehring, reeve of South Norwich Town- ship; Gordon Ines (MPP-Ox- £ord); and Wally Nesbitt (MP. Oxford). An official of the On- tario Department of Museums and representatives of neighbor- ing museums will also be on hand for the occasion. The ceremony will commence at 1 p.m. with official speeches to begin at 2 p.m. The ribbon - cutting ceremony will follow af- ter which a tour of the mu- seum will be conducted. A chicken barbecue will be held from 4:30 p.m, to 7:30 p.m. The official opening commit- tee of the Norwich District His- torical Society met recently at the home of Mrs. Donald Straeh- an to plan the agenda for the The society has also reno- vated the grounds surrounding the museum. goes back to school It's back to school for County Welfare Administrator Gerald McKay and two field represen- tatives on Friday, Mr, McKay will write a two- hour economics exam, the last subject needed to qualify for a certificate in welfare adminis- tration. The course is taken through correspondence and is offered at Ryerson Polytechnic - al Institute, Toronto. The course is offered in co-operation with the Ontario Welfare Officers' Association. Mr, McKay has successfully completedexams in welfare services, applied psychology and sociology — the family. Mrs. Nan Downbam and Mrs, Christina Kaye, two field repre- sentatives with Oxford Social Services will each write 'a three-hour examination in wel- fare services, Mr, McKay .said the regional meeting of the Ontario Welfare Officers Association will be held April 23 in Brampton: The annual eonveation of the association will be held in June in Brockville. Six from Oxford attend mid-term meeting of ACRO Six oxford County represent - to dap to attend Ilse r meeting of the Assoc Counties and Regions of The meeting, being of the King Edward Note? started last evening with a 1('arden's Dinner and will last unttl Thum• doy noon. Representing Oxford County are: Warden Gordon Aspden, reeve of South Norwicls 7bwn- ship; William Ducklow, reeve of Tavtsto¢k; Bruce Amos, reeve of West Oxford Township; Ken - of Webster, reeve nt Tkllnon- burg: Len Coles, counky clerk• treasurer and Gerald Staples, deputy clerk-tressurer. one of the main speakers will be Darcy McKeough, Minister of Municipal Affairs. Topics of discussion will be regional gov- ernment, pollution problems of the 70's; a panel discussion on the problems and hopes of ag- riculture and a discussion on municipal taxation reform. Oxford County has donated two pound blocks of cheese as an 'early bird' prize, All those attending :,en he sexalons before 9:46 a, M. will receive a ticket and a winner's dame will be drawn from these. The animal meeting of ACRO will be hold in Kitchener in October. Amalgamation could create a new Oxford municipality! TILLSONBURG — Tillson- burg Town Council has approved of a proposed amalgamation with Dereham Township. Dereham Township Council has approved in principle a report of the amalgamation corn mittee. A municipal plebiscite on the !merger has been planned since February. Medford Clarke, reeve of Dere. ham Township, said It was not: likely the plebiscite would be held before the Dec. 7 muni- cipal election, He said the tar- get of Jan 1, 1971 for proposed amalgamation would have to be extended. A 10-man study committee has been meeting since Sept.. 1969 and has recommended the councils apply to the Ontario Municipal Board for a hear - ling on the matter. The amalgamation of the town and township would create a new municipality of 11,488peo- ,ple. Tillsonaurg now has a pop- ulation of 6,520 and the pop- ulation of Dereham Towt is 4,968. The combined as ment would be $21,277,085. The amalgamation committee luding a mayor, reeve and ine council members. The dep• ty reeve would be elected from he nine councillors. Nine wards are proposed —four vithin the present town boun- lary, one in the suburban sec - ion of Dereham Township and our in the rural area. The committee reported that onsolidation of the road de. iartments would result in a re- uction to the township road avy of 4.78 mills and increase he Tillsonburg 3.01. mill levy. Library employees going to annual Three Oxford County Library will be Mrs. S- L. Krompart, employees will attend the an- county librarian; Mrs. Arthur ual meeting of the Ontario Lib- Webb, the assistant librarian rary Association May 22 to 24in Toronto. and Mrs. W. F. Cocker, an as - Representing Oxford County sistant. The committee reported that) based on the 190 budgets of, the town and township, there' would be no material change in taxation within the eight rural and urban wards. The com- mittee recommended that the cost of recreation, arena and park services, be general to the entire area. 4he appointment of one plain - board, �board, one consultant and one committee of adjustment was also recommended, Also re- commended was the extension of the urban police service to the suburban township area and the continuation of the OPP ser- vice in the rural area until re- gional policies were established for the area. The committee recommended a central fire department dis. patching s e r v i c e conducted through the police department office. Continuation of hydro service to the town and town- ship by the TiBsonburg Public Utilities Commission and the Ontario Hydro respectively, was also urged by the committee, entil regional boundaries and 'policies are established. BIBLES PRESENTED AT WOODINGFORD A generous suppiv of aged residents of the county',, Knott, accepts the books froth Ribles is nuw avuilahle to new home for the aged hill Carl ffeeney, Gideon member, r o s I d e.a t a of Wuodingford always have easy access to a and Bruck Snell; head of the J,ntdgo. Presenl.ation of the Bible, Above, from left, Lodes Soctely's B i b 1 a placement new stock from the Gideon administrator D. F. (Mike) xomtmttty. Society boa anadred that 0 • i County building parking spaces to be increased The County of Oxford will Gerald Staples, deputy coun• have additioual parking laollij toy clerk -treasurer and secretary ties possibly by the middle of of property and assesment coin - summer, according to Kenneth mitten, said the committee has W. Webster, reeve of Tolson• wanted to increase the park. 'burg and chairman of We prop- Ing facilities for some time. He arty and assessment commit- said the area north of the ice. Registry office is the most read - The County Council Commit• fly available properly. The area tee reported they would ask is covered in grass now. Donald Pratt, County Road Sup- Mr. Staples said the commit. erintendenl, to prepare a plan tee has estimated the cost of for the construction of a small the project at $1,500. He said it parking lot on the north side of won't he completed before the the Registry office. middle of the summer, Mr. Pratt said there is limit. Leonard K. Coles, county ed parking space in the lot be- clerk treasurer, said the county hind the county bicularly He parking lot has facilities for said the lot is particularly con. P 8 gested on court' days. He said approximately 50 cars. He said the new parking lot would have there are another 10 or 12 facilities for approximately 301spaces on the south and north cars. side of Oxford County Library. I Mr. and Mrs. Cordingley remove pout office Sign signaliilig the end of an era Auxiliary for Woodingford picks new slate of officers The 1970 slate of officers of the Auxiliary to Woodingford Lodge was elected last night at the regular monthly meeting, held at the home. Mrs. James Cray of Wood, stock will take over the duties of president from Mrs, Ken- neth Hildreth of Hickson. Mrs. Cray was formerly first vice president. Mrs. Oliver Stephens of Woodstock was named first vice president and Mrs. Frank Manson of Woodstock was el• ected second vice president, Mrs. Ross Butler of Wood. stock will take over the duties of treasurer and the new sec- retary is Mrs. Keith Hammer - ton of RR 1 Beachville. The corresponding secretary is Mrs. John Reindera of Woodstock. The auxiliary presented the Woodingford Lodge tuck shop with a steam iron acquired through cash register slips from a local grocery store. The members thanked all those who had contributed to the cause. The auxiliary had pre. viously presented the home with a television set and film screen. Their next project will be the purchase of a portable tele- vision set for the bed care re- sidents. The group will hold their an- nual chicken barbecue In June - It has been proposed that the money raised go toward the purchase of Sumer outdoor fur- nfture for the residents. The annual meeting of the auxiliary will be held May 4 at a p. in. at the lodge. Four. teen homes for the aged will 'be represented at the regional meeting to be held May 6 sit. Woodingford Lodge. The guest speaker of the eve- ning was Mrs. Oliver Stephens, who founded ARC Industries seven years ago. She spoke of her work with the adult re- tarded in Woodstock. There are approximately 85 members of the Ladies Aux. iliary to Woodingford Lodge. Part of their volunteer work includes visiting the residents W working in the tuck shop. Warden attends Toronto meeting IOxford County Warden Stan- ley Gehring, reeve of South Norwich Township, left for Tor-, onto yesterday to attend the Ontario Provincial - Municipal conference. The three-day session started yesterday and will end tomor- row. The -conference was at, tended by county wardens,' mayors, reeves and members of provincial associations. The question of regional gov. ernment and regional develop-. mcnt was discussed by W. Dar- cy McKeougb. Minister of Municipal Affairs A. F. Law- rence Minister of Mines and C. S. MacNaughton, provincial treasurer and Minister of Eco• nomics. Educational reform, as part of the provincial -municipal re- form program, was discussed by William Davis, Minister of Education and Minister of Unf• versity Affairs. Me, McKeougb also discussed provincial assistance to the municipalities and municipal tut reform, Curries post office closes after 92 years of service sy a: R. Corr. pond t corner of the Norwich road — mile south of the farmer )we - CURRIES — The Post Of- now Highway 59 — and the 6thltion. flee at Curries closed yesterday concession of East Oxford Mr. The addition which was add- er 92 years service to the and Mrs. Douglas McLeod are ed to the Smith home to accomn- mmunity that, up to the time new the owners of the property. date the store and Past Office of the building of the Stratford Mr. Smith was postmaster has since been removed as has to Port Dover railway line, from 1879 until his death in 1920 the blacksmith shop, was known as Zion. at which time the position was The new address of all the In the early 1970's a move filled by his sister-in-law, Miss folk served by Carries Post o[ Igot under way to link the Sara Start and later by J H_ lice is now RR 4 Woodstock. Queen's Bush Counties with the Thain and Fred Watt. f lake by means of a railroad. For the past 23 years Oxford County Council in 1873 Neville Cordingley has become passed bylaw 177 to raise $25,000 Postmistress. by debenture to help build it. A few years after the estab. The railroad crossed the Nor- lishment of the post office at Healthmeetinq with road at what was then Curries, rural mail delivery & Q the Curry farm, now Row. le Ives instituted, the first tamer Sept. 4/ and 2Y .farm owned by G. oR.f Row. At being Alfred Rice. Rj this time the name of the tom- `i had a special conveyance Imunity was changed from Zion built which afforded some pro, to Curries Crossing. tectioa from the weather and Oxford County representa- The mail was tarried on this could be adapted for either fives will attend the annual dine and it was necessary for summer or winter conditions, meeting of the Ontario Health ,the postmaster or one of his and was, of course, horse Units Association. ,family to sheet the train with drawn The meeting will be held the outgoing mail and receive Sept. 27 and 2 in Cornwall., that coming in. They then car- Carriers serving RR 1 car Relegates to the annual meet. ried it about a quarter of a ries after Mr. Rice were ing will be discussed at the .mile to the Post Office which George Smith, Ralph Barnett, regular montbly meeting of the was situated in the general store Irwin Pike, John McKenzie, Oxford County, Health Unit operated by W. D. Smith who Dean Markle and Neville (Bing) board, to be held May 13 at 4 was appointed the first post- Cordingley. p.m. master. Mr. Smith also operat• At the time the Cordingleys ed a blacksmith and carriage took over the post office it was ,shop on the premises at the moved to their home about a Agreement forest area totals 717 acres COUNTY OF OXFORD The Stratford division of the sides were mowed to remove TENDER FOR 3 TRICKS Department of Lands and For. brush and weeds, Mr. Coles said the depart ests reported that as of March Sealed Tenders, plainly marked 31. 18W, the total area of Ox- — trees last year because the de - as to contents will be received 'ford County Agreement For- by the undersigned until 5:00' partment has almost completed P.M. oats totalled 717 acres. planting in Oxford. County. The cost to the department of WEDNESDAY, APRI,L 29, 1970 The department reported that marking and pruning crop trees no additional land was acquired Mast year amounted to approxb- for three 25,sm G.V.W. Trucks, two with dump bodies, one with. during the year. Leo Coles, mately $1,865.66. Ten acres of out. Specifications and tender county clerk -treasurer, said an crop trees were marked in the forms forwarded on request, agreement forest Is land owned Zenda tract and 4o acres of Lowest or any tender not notes. by the county, planted in lands crop trees were pruned In the Hall tract. Twenty-five acres of sardby accepted, and Forest trees, The department reported that crop tress were pruned in the Donald L, ,Pratt, Donald L,Engp1r tt, caretakers were retained for CrodAvllle tract and 35 acres the year to keep watch on all neerock, of troy were pruned in the Box 307E Onlerin, APR ha o. forest tracts. Fireguards we re t3tasnagg tact Tla daps Kmuat reported that worked on various tracts to toe- vent the entrance of fire from abate staMWt their wads opera, the roadside, The fireguards thou In 18f3, their total txpcm- measure a distance of 3si,dflre to March $1, 190 totaled miles. Six miles of main roadism,163.81, The Ontario Municipal Board will hold hearings next week at Ingersoll town hall on Ingersoll's bid to annex 1,500 acres of adjoining West Oxford Township. The township opposes the application because The board members of the O;:Ord Cu:taty Health Unit will t April 15 at 3:30 p.m, in 0.e Ox:ord County building, Sot'm SERVICES The board meeting of Oxford C aiel Services will he held ;r 1 18 at $ p.m, in the County k.a1ding. PA"gMG JOB have bsen invited by f :,i.y of Oxford for a con- o pant the council Chem I ,:z. tha committee room and C-9 halt at the north entrance o Qt a County building, it would lose 25 per cent of its population and 22.5.Aer cent of present assessment to Ingersoll. The section marked "X" is des- ignated by Ingersoll to separate an exist- ing residential area from other property it Guest speakers for planning meeting Two guest speakers will at- went of Municipal Affairs, Lon. tend the regular monthly meet- don area, will speak on the ing of the Oxford County Plan- function of his recently appoint- ning Board April 15 at 8:30 ed office in London. gg m. in the Council Chamber of Lon Johnson of the conserva- the County Bullftg. tion authorities branch of the John Longworth, a planning Department of Municipal Affairs advisor with the community w111 speak on flood plain regu. ,planning branch of the Depart, lations, Tenders for roads due on April 15 The Oxford Connly Rom de of- ed, from the west boundary of flee will open kondmra and award Norwich to the Middletown Line a contract for the re-construea tion of County Road 18 on Aprili distance of 1,8 miles. '- 13. Mr, Pratt said the road will Donald Pratt, Oxford County be completely reconstructed, In - Road Superintondenl, said Coon- eluding re•aurfaeing And wlden- t yRond is will hm re•conatruct- lug the strip. wants for industrial development. The wanted land stretches from the town's Relcroft Street boundary to Highway 401 and northwest to the Thames River bor. dering North Oxford Township. Warden to attend Toronto conference Warden Stanley Gehring, wardens, representatives of reeve of South Norwich Town- provincial Association&, mayors ship, will represent Oxford and reeves. County at a municipal confer- Warden Gehring said the leg- ence in Toronto April 22. 23 and islature will be closed for the 24. three days to allow its mem. The meeting was called by bets to meet with the delegates. Premier John Roberts. Attend- He said he does not know what ing the meeting will be county the agenda will include. Len Coles speaker for CWL The hisiory of Oxford County will take the spotlight of the meeting of the Catholic Women's league in be held today At 7:34 P.M. in St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church auditm•ium. Len Coles, county clerk -treasurer will be the speciul guest of the evening. Ile will show his collection of slides depicting the post of Oxford County, n • WEST OXFORD Township 1,435 acres of township land surer, L. B. Curry; Reeve representatives checked with by the town of Ingersoll. Bruce Amos; township plan. their solicitor and consultant From left are D. J. W. Lit- ning board chairman, A. D. ;prior to the resumption of the tle of Municipal Planning Robinson and solicitor W. E. TOMB hearing yesterday into Consultants Company Ltd., of G. Young of Woodstock. the proposed annexation of Toronto; township iderk-trea- ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ment Day. Loading of tylth of elementary Instruction; Douglas Hilderley, debate teachers of Oxford County greetings to the teachers were Henry Hedges, debate speak- moderator; Barry Tate secre- had their own field day today the officials above, from left: er; Barry R. Hunt, chairman tary of Oxford County Elemen- when they converged on Wood- ( behind curtain) George A. of Oxford Caunty Board of tary Teachers' Association; stock Collegiate Institute for Simmons, Oxford director of Education; Stanley Gehring, fat lectern) Carl. Freeland, the morning s e a e i o a of education; Dr, Harald Hed- warden of Oxford County; Dr, OCETA president, their Professional Develop- ley, associate superintendent James Daly, debate speaker; Hall -Dennis education Report debated this morning at WCI Immunizations total 13,409 A total of 13,409 lmmunizs- tions were administered by the public health nursing division of the Oxford Health Unit last year. The various immunizations were: whooping cough, dipth- er.a, tetanus polio and measles, fi:,6; whooping tough, dip;heria, tetanus and polio, 665; dlpth- eria, tatanus and polio, 3,241; live measles, 815; smallpox, 3- 463 and influenza, 141. The following pa^sport vaccl- nations were also given: typhus, 53; typhoid, 21; and 4.,514 tuber- culin tests. County awards painting contract The County of Oxford has awarded a contract to a Wood- stock man for the painting of the interior of the county build- ing. The tender was submitted by Wilfred Duffy for the price of $746.50- The contract in- volves the painting of the corm- eR chamber committee rooms and the interior of the north entrance of the building. Oxford welfare rolls, rose during March Gerald MacKay. administra- tor Of Oxnard' %dal services, reported the welfare rolls were high during March. mainly due to the high rate at unemploy- ment in the area. Air. MacKay said he antic- ipates a skrw down in the number of welfare recipients with the warm weather ap- proaching. He said that during 62 families registered for program A total of 62 Oxford County families are registered with the Oxford Health Unit's family planning program. Dr. G. Q. Sutherland, Oxford Medical officer of Health, said there has been a steady in- crease in the number of fami- lies utilizing this program since it began in 19E7. Dr Sutherland said the know - 'ledge of family planning must be available to all who seek advice and assistance. He said physicians, the Victorian Order of Nurses, the Children's Aid and Oxford Social Services have all assisted and co-operated in making the program a valu- able service in the county. the month of March, the depart- ment received 107 requests for one of the various types -Of as- sistance. Last month, Woodingford Lodge applications were still 'being completed. Mr. MacKay said due to the demands oftheir other work, the department was not completing too many appli- cations for the lodge except :n urgent cases. During the month of March 1,159 persons, including heads of families, dependents and sin- gle persons, received assistance from Oxford Social Services. This is compared to 1,111 cases 7is February. 7 Mr MacKay reported the ',number of cases handled by the department has been increasing )every month. There were 245 cases in December, 298 in Jan- uary, 345 in February anti 366 ;in March. Of the 366 cases in March seven were charge - backs to the provincial govern- ments for which Oxford Social Services received 100 per cent subsidv. The subsidy appliesto those people who have not re- sided in Ontario for one fall year. Last month, suplcmentary aid was given in 32 cases. This is an increase over February when there were 29 cases. There were 26 cases in December and 23 cases in January. During the month of March, Oxford Social Services had 101 recipients in nursing homes., of which 14 were charge backs to other areas. There were UZ Road contract totals $74,537 cases in December, 110 in Jan- uary, and 104 in February. It was necessary to obtain the services of a Victorian Order: nurse in 12 cases. There were, also 12 cases in December, 10 in January andl 4 if February. During the month of March, It was necessary to place a homemaker in one home. There werethree cases in December; four cases in January and three Special assistance for drugs, dental and optical services, was given to 51 people, which is. the same as last December. There were only 14 cases in January and 60 people received special assistance in February. Health clinics numbered 121 A total of 121 child health clinics and conferences were (held throughout the county last year as part of the Oxford Pub- lic health program. Dr, G, Q. Sutherland, Oxford Medical Officer of. Health, said the conferences allow the nhoth- ers with infants and small chil- dren to talk with the public .health nurse and to receive counselling on the problems of. the developing infant and child. Attendance at the clinics was 2,133 people. The Oxford County Road Com surface approximately nine mittee has awarded a $74,537(, miles of county roads. contract for the complete re.I Mr. Pratt said they received construction of 1.6 miles of no satisfactory bids for re -gray. wes County Road 19, t of the elliag and no contractw a s village of Noraieh. awarded. The county will ro-ten- The tender of Mar-M f x der for the job, He said tenders (Woodstock) Limited was ac- were awarded for all county cepted over six ether bids, the road supplies. highest being $84,S79. Donald Pratt, county road Book about Oxford County superintendent, said work on the road will start immediately I with a completion date planned a e vo v mid -July. dningTthe roan and distributed far and near rile Municipal Spraying and The early history of Oxford found at Woodstock Collegiate ling Company of Rexdale was County and its residents has near anfor. ondary institute, College Avenue Sec. yarded a contract by the coon- been spread d fSchool, Ingersoll Dis- to re -surface approximately Len Coles, county clerk- tiler Collegiate Institute, Coat• miles of county roads. The ,treasurer, said the Oxford Gaz- ral Public School, Annandale ,proximate cost of the project etteer, recording the history of High School, Tillsonburg; Zor- D be $54,000. Oxford County up to 1352, has ra Hfghand Park Public School, An $1g,6tNi contract was been getting excellent distribu- Tavistoek Public School, Spring - yarded the Miller Paving tom The book was reprinted ford Public School, Maple Lane in1%8 by Oxford County Conn. Public School In Tlllsonbur$g, impany Limited of Toronto to ci] East Oxford Central Scharf, Copies of the historical ae. Tollgate Central School, East count have food a place for Zurra; Hickson Central School themselves al. the University of and Ofterville Public School. Wesiern 0 n t a r 10, London; The book is also available in Queens University, Kingston; local libraries and was al" Brock University, St. Cath- sold to the general ,public. urines; the University Of Vic- Reeves and -former reeves of lorin, B.U., York University. Oxford County have a Dopy and Toronto; Laval University in various local organiaotle,na have Quebec and the University of a copy of the book. Toronto. A copy of the book is avail- able at the National Library in Ottawa; the Library of Parlia. ment, Ottawa; and the Library at Congress In Washington, D.C. Locally, the book can be Rabies clinic is approved at county council meeting Final approval has been giv- en to the setting up of rabies clinics around the county, Oxford County Council made the suggestion to the local branch of the Canada Depart- ment of Agriculture which has !approved of the idea. The pre posal has also been accepted by Woodstock and Ingersoll. The clinics will be run by the county, Woodstock and Ingersoll, in con- junction with the Canada De- partment Of Agriculture. Len Coles, Oxford County clerk -treasurer, said it is now up to the department to organ- ize the service. The department provides free professional as- sistance, equipment and the anti -rabies vaccine, Mr. Coles said the county and the individ- ual municipalities are required to provide sufficient clerical as- sistance and lay personnel to assist in the handling of the animals. The agriculture and commun- ity services committee of Ox- ford County Council recom- mended that the advertising cost of the rabies clinic be paid on the basis of the populations of the three municipalities, in- cluding Woodstock, Ingersoll and the county. Mr. Coles said It would be ,the responsibility of the individ- ual municipality to determine the location of the rabies clin- Dr. G. G. Sutherland said that ,rabies is here to stay because there is no solution by elimina- tion. He said the animals act as both host and reservoir for the disease. He said there was a considerable upswing in the number of cases isolated in 1969 — 73 as compared to 41 in 1969. Dr. Sutherland said there has been an increase in proven rab- ies of cats and dogs which ac- count for 50 per cent of human contacts requiring anti - rabies vaccine. Mr. Coles, said rabies chilies, were held in 190 when 8,6751 small pets were innoculated. Ile said county council and the var- ious municipalities did not re- quest the setting up of the clin-� Ica last year, He said the in- crease in the number of cases last year concerned county council, which led to their sug- gestion to hold the clinics again. this year. Dr. Sutherland said that con servative estimates would indi-I Cate several hundred new pets have not received protection. He said municipalities within l the county should consider proof) Of animal vaccination prior toi issuing dog licenses, Dr. D. W. Thompson of the local branch of the Canada De- partment of Agriculture, said the clinics would- provide a pre- cautionary measure against rabies- The clinics win deal. mainly with dogs and eats, pro. vidmg them with the anti-rab- Ica vaccine 413,000 FM radio repeater will be set up by county The construction of a two-way location was chosen because it due on Sept, 1 of each year. FM radio communications re- I is one of the highest elevated I The first payment will be due peater on Bower Hill will in- points in the area. He said the Sept, 1972. Mr. Pratt said the crease by approximately 35 radio coverage will range over rent also includes a right-of-way miles, the transmission range of i the entire Monty. to the parcel of land. The agree. two-way radios in county vehic- An agreement has been made ment will be subject to approval les. with Gordon 'Sparky' Ines every five years, Donald Pratt, county road (MP -Oxford) to rent a 15-foot) Mr. Pratt said the present superintendent, said the initial square piece of his property for range Of inter -vehicle commun- cost of the project will be ap- the construction of the station, ication is approximately five proximately $13,000. Mr. Pratt The tower will be located on lot miles. He said when the new said the e0-foot tower will be 1, Concession 1, West Word system comes into operation, constructed by Canadian Motor- County, communications will be made m I ola of Toronto and will be com- The county has secured a W all corners of the county, pleted by May 14. year contract with Mr. Ines to The main advantage of the Mr. Pratt said the Bower Hill rent the land for $180 per year, new system will be during em- ergency situations during the winter months. Radios will be 'installed in snow plows and other county vehicles, Mr. Pratt said the county 'owns approximately 26 vehicles and in the initial stage, radios 'Educators to attend meeting will 1. sai to 10 itgy per- sonneHe said the county win In a move to foster good communications in have 20 two-way radio$ by the ,education, two citizens of Oxford County are going end of the year, to join education administrators at a school board Also included in the syatem ,conference in Toronto. Is a Dame building for the star. At its latest meeting, Oxford Count Board of ,age of transmission equipment g Y and oiler electronic apparatus, Education made provision to have Warden Stanley Mr. Pratt said eventata}ly the (Gehring and Tillsouburg editor William Pratt join system will be expanded for the the June conference sponsored by the Ontario In- use of other county depart. stitute for Studies In Education. moats, He said if other depart - Also attending will be two board members, menta installed two-way radios in their vehicles, they weeld chairman Harry R. hunt and vice-chairman Dr. have the use of the tower ae Bruce Halliday, and board auperinteadent John a separate frequency, Young. Present trausmlasiaq, are. made through an aerial M the county building. L� Annual meeting of Homes body on Wednesday The annual regional confer- wry members and 'arts and enee of region two of the On- crafts supervisors. Reports of tario Association of Homes for the workshops will be present - the Agedwill be held Wedues- ed at 2:30 p.m, da- at Woodingford Lodge. The guest speaker of the day The conference will begin at will be Doug Johns, the presi- 9:30 a.m, with registration, fol- dent -elect of the Ontario As - lowed by various workshops sociation of Homes for the Aged during the morning. Represen- and is also the administrator tatives of homes for the aged of Hillsdale Manor in Osbawa. will attend from. Arose, Perth, During the afternoon, the re - Oxford, Wellington, Waterloo, port of the resolution commit. Brant and Halton Counties, tee will be heard and the elec- Workshops will be held for lion of officers of district two j� municipal administrators and for 1971 will be held. elected members, members of Mike Knott, administrator of 1 charitable institutions, nursing Woodingford Lodge, said up - supervisors, food supervisors,) proximately 130 delegates are ' adjuvants, housekeepers, auxili- expected to attend. 0 WCI choirs visit Woodingford Oxford County health office busy in 1969 Public health inspectors of the Oxford Health Unit made 10,50f ,inspections in Oxford County List year. Mae Haviland, supervisor o1 public health nursing, said sew. age disposal and plumbing in- spections account for a cent, siderable amount of the inspec- tors' work. She said it is only through the cooperation of the builders, workmen and plumb- ers that costly delays in in- spection can be avoided. The county is served by three full-time inspectors; Joseph Griffith, Mike Bragg and Dan McMillan. Over the year they inspected 1,133 eating establish- ments, 76 bakeries and grocery stores, 97 dairies and cheese factories, 13 locker plants and coaducted 4,244 restaurant uten- sil tests. Historical room at An 'historical room' will be opened in the Oxford County building next year, Left Coles, county clerk- trea. surer, said the small room to he used Is in the basement of the building, and bad housed a county museum before the opening of the Oxford Museum. Mr. Coles sold the room will bold mainly historical liters- ture that he has collected over the years Mr. Codes said he has kept Last year the public health employees inspected four arenas and fairs, 41 slaughter houses and butcher shops, 17 funeral homes, 93 'barber shops and beauty parlors, 12 markets, three drive-ins and pool rooms and 129 schools. The inspectors toured live tourist homes and motels, 14 summer camps and seven trail - or camps. A total of 397 septic tank inspections were made as well as 418 plumbing inspec- In the course of a year, the Health Unit receives in a n y phone calla in the nature of a complaint. The health unit in- spectors check the complaint and give advice and assistance. Last year, the unit received 'seven complaints about Inade- quate heat; 51 bad housing com- plaints; 10 complints of odor; 104 complaints about garbage; one complaint about stricine chemical; 17 complaints about stream pollution; one complaint ,about cemeteries and 17 reports of questlonable food. county building scrap books of happenings In the county Ance 1046 and they will find a place in 'the halt of history.' Mr. Coles has been collecting books of history of other counties and they will also be included in the room. Mr. Coles said he received some type of historical account from every county that had published a pamphlet or book. New light fixtures have been installed in the room and it will be repainted. THE MSTORY of the Su- preme Court room of the Ox• ford County buildingwas ex- plained to five. Tollgate Pub. lie School pupils by Len Coles, county clerk -treasurer. Mr. Coles took the group on a tour of the building recently as part of a special project being conducted by their class. Mr. Coles pointed out interesting aspects of the room to, from left: Marie Hartley, 11, of RR 3 Wood- stock; Susan Breckenridge, 10, of RR 3 Woodstock; Don- na Bruce, 11, of RR 6, Wood- stock- Kathy Brown, 11, of RR 3 Woodstock and Kathy McCurdy, 11, of RR 7 Wood- stock. Behind the girls is Mrs. Ronald Wharram, teacher of Grade 5 and six at the srhouL Delving in the past is fun for Tollgate school group Thirty-three pupils of Toll- Mn. Ronald Wharram of RR tries and seldom learned about gate Public School are proving 5 Embro. a grade five and six their own home area. that delving into the past can I teacher at the school, felt that Mrs_ Wharram said the study be fun — especially if it is the public school children learned of Oxford County is a special history of your own area. so much about foreign coup- project and involves the chil- dren in group work. The class is divided into several groups �/..�a crews each studying a different as - Survey cre l/y s pect of th HISTORYe country. carrying out • mineralstudy i Department of Mines survey said the pit and quarry industry' crews are conducting a map- is a depleting resource and the ping service in Oxford County province is determining the to determine the mineral re- quantity of the mineral still re- sources in the area, maining. He said the survey is Gerald Staples, Oxford County a step by the province to help ,deputy clerk - treasurer, said 'protect the natural resources. ;the survey is in progress in The deadline for filing ob- Oxford County and other gar- jeeWons to the proposed legis- rounding counties in Southwest- lation, regarding the control of tern Ontario. He said some the pit and quarry industry, has county surveys have already been extended four months. The been completed, original deadline was set for F b M 1 1 i ill Mr. Staples said the survey is part of the province's plan to take over the control of pits and quarries in Ontario. He e ruary, umc part as w now have until June to voice their opinion of the proposed provincial take . ever of the industry. Committee to meet with McKeough A committee of members of mayor of Tillsonburg and Med- Tillsonburg town council and ford Clarke, reeve of Dereham Dereham Township council will Township, The meeting willhe meet with Darcy McKeough, held in Toronto. Minister of Municipal Affairs The pwpose of the mewling is May 14. to discuss further steps to be The committee will be se- taken toward the amalgamation companied by Andrew Balan, of the two municipalttles. Some of the pupils are study- ing the history of the counts while others are involved in the agricultural and industrial as- pects of today. The pupils studying agriculture have tour- ed various county farms, dairies and Western Ontario Breeders Incorporated. The children studying industry have toured local enterprises. Five girls who are studying the historical aspect of the county, toured the County Court yesterday. The tour was con- ducted by Len Canes, county clerk -treasurer and a historian in his owns ight. The group has also toured Fraser's farm, fa- mous for its collection of an- tiques. CLASSROOM Mrs. Wharram said some of the work is done in the class- room but all excursions and tours are conducted after school hours. When the assignment is com• plete, the class will assemble booklets and each child will re- ceive a copy. Editor's notebook Good news to hear that his- torical literature and words of Oxford County will be given a separate "home" early next year in the county building. Congratu- lations to Len Coles Whose zest for history has rPstilted in the gather. ing of so much material. A SCREAMING co-ed kneels ally Kent, Ohio. National bodis. Four persons were, kill. at the aide of a xlasamai.e Guardsmen fired into a crowd ed and seven wounded in the Tying dead, face down on the of students protesting entry canfrontatAin of student dem- campus of Kent State Univer- of U. S. troops into Cam- onstrators, troops and police. Troop fire kills 4 during war protest WHEN THE TULIPS ARE IN BLOOM! It's a bloomin' shame this the visitor to Oxford County's- by Dutch -Canadians to com- pieWre is only black and Woodiingford Lodge on Devon- memorate the liberation of white. The display of tulips, in shire Avenue. The mass of the Netherlands by Canadian a confusion of colors, greets bulbs was planted last fall troops in World War Two. HOMES FOR THE AGED GONFERENGE AT WOODINGFORD The annual reglonal confer- The guest speaker was W. D. Ing, Oxford County Warden branch of the Department of ence of Region Two of the Johns, president of the pro. and chairman of the Woodmg- Social and Family Services; Ontario Association of Homes vincfai asnociation. From left ford Lodge committee of man. and D, F. Mike Knott admin- for the Aged was held yester- is; J. H, OWies, chairman of agement; Cyril S, Atkinson, of istrnlor of Wootdingford day at Woodingford Lodge. the conference; Stanley Gehr- the Homes for the Aged Lodge. Deer hunting open season under study Oxford County Council will .discuss the possibility of hold- ing an open deer -hunting sea- son this year at their next regu- lar monthly meeting, May 19. The season has been recom- mended to run from Nov. 2 to 4 by the Department of Lands and Forests. Last year council made a conditional recommend- ation to hold the season, under the Fish and Wildlife division of the Department of Lands and Forests. The recommendation was made providing atleast two of the adjoining counties of Brant, Waterloo and Perth, also held an open deer -hunting season. The hunting season was not held by the surrounding counties and was not held by Oxford County, The open deer -hunting season is a Department of Lands and Forests project and permission must he gained from each coun- ty- every year to hold the sea- i son. New quarters for Innerkip public library The Innerkip Public Library will move to larger quarters in approximately two weeks. Mrs. S. L. Krompart, Oxford Comity librarian, said the lib- rary has been temporarily hous- ed in a small family dwelling and has now outgrown its loca. tion The new library will hold approximately 2,e09 books and will have enough area for a reading room, The new library will be in a building in the centre of the village and had previously been a store. The building is now be. ing painted inside and out and minor renovations are being carried out. Mrs. Krempart said the lib- rary may, have longer hours than it bad previously. An open. ing ceremony will he held. In a routine report on Orford health services, it w'as encouraging to note that a vaccine for measles Is now routine in child-immuniza- tins. For too long, even members of the medical profession treated the disease lightly, despite the fart that its compikatlons could lead to deafness or even blindness. • Reeve explains the opposition to annexation 1NGERSOLL -.- West Oxford The proposal, he said, was ac- Reeve Bruce Amos told the On- cepted- "100 per cent by West tario Municipal Board Thursday Oxford council but was reject. the township is opposed to the ed by Ingersoll council, proposed annexation of a fir- SHOCKED tion of its lands because of the l resulting less of assessment., Mr. Amos said that the town - the proposed annexation area ship wus "ones again shocked", "cut the township in thinking that "we had made In - two," and the "overwhelming geraoll a very fine offer". support" from township rate- A second eemmittoe meeting payers for their council's stand came up with the so-called 272. tin opposing the move. sera "non -opposition" parcel of Air Amos, one of only two land. witnesses called to testify in The additional 32 acres con - support of the township's case. sisted of a strip of land in West, said the loss of 20-25 per cant' Oxford between the CNR a n d of its assessment "could have CPR main lines to permit the very serious financial Implica- town to extend Ingersoll Avenue tions on the rest of the town -I northerly from the proposed ship" area. He said that it would be assist The township also efferent to "very damaging to the town- same roadtsoutherly in to Highway ship as an "economic and vi- 461. able unit" if the proposed an- The recommendations w e r e nexatiop were allpwed to "cut endorsed by West oxford coun- the township in two." cil, said Mr. Amos, but. 'Inger- PETMON sot] turned down the idea, As proof of support of the The township's planning cqp- township ratepayers for coon- sultant was the only other cil's stand Mr. Amos cited the ness called to testify b support submission of a petition to the of West oxford's stand, a n d OMB opposing the annexation. said thatt there is "a good deal It r, Antos said "almost 100 of room" for expansion of in - per cent" of the property own- land o fe the 27 he ere parcel of lead Offered to the town. ors in the proposed annexation area had signed the petition. NOT OPPOSED Ile said the "first knowledge" West Oxford has said that it the township had of the an- will not oppose annexation of nexation proposals came at athose lands, provided the OMB meeting of the two councils in is satisfied with the town's need March of 1969. for industrial land. At that time, he said, Inger. The consultant D J. W. Little ,sell presented its proposal to of Toronto, said that the 272- annex the lands down to High. acre parcel could be serviced was 401. more economically than some Mr. Amos said that township other portions of the proposed 'officials were "shocked at the annexation area because it is .size of the parcel" requested by closer to existing service lines Ingersoll and did not enter into w'ilhin the town. discussions at that time regard Mr. Little acknowledged that ing the proposal. il. would be "to the town's ad- vantage" If more land w e r e MEETING granted than the 272 acres be - He said a second meeting of cause it would allow the town the two councils was arrangedla greater choice of possible "assuming" that Ingersoll would I development sites. make a counter offer of a small- I lie said the effect Of apnpx- er parcel Or "forget the w;bnle ' alion in "splitting" the to 1p idea". is "more of a political- consd. The reeve said that he was oration than a planning ono", "almostembarrassed" by the The planner said the pr•opos. fact that the town made no see ed extension of Ingersoll Avenue end offs. to Highway 401 is "not an im- The two sides later establish- possible problem". rd committees to discuss the He said that he could ''see proposed annexation and cameno roasnn" why a solution Could up with a 240-acre parcel o1 nat be worked out in conjunc- • land to the ufp$t slid spnthwcotltoon with the AepartireAt of of town. Highways. Area man heads Erie council An Oxford County man, Reeve John Hofstetter, of Blenheim Township has been elected president of the Erie Economic Council, Two other Oxford Mon, Reeve John Nodalin, of Beacbvide, and Deputy -Reeve William Martin, of South Norwich Township, have been elected as directora•st-large to the council, The Erie Economic Council rovers Elglu, Mid dh'scx, Norfolk and Oxford Counties, Its purpose is to entourage economic growth for the area, It works with three levels of government and the private sector. Doputy-Reeve Leads Barrett, of Dortharn Town- ship, is the chairman of the Oxford economic zone, Oxford. County council again offers bursaries Oxford County Council is a- i four bursary-scholarshlps Of 1 principals to a committee con. gain offering bursary scholar- $too each to students entering sisting of. Elton Wllker, preat. shifts to County young people one of the agricultural diploma i dent of the Oxford Federeticla, taking advanced agricultural programs at colleges of agricul- of Agriculture; Donald Taylor, ,education. tural technology at Centralia, and one other. Grants will be given to select- Guelph, Kemptvdlie and Ridge- The Women., institute of Ox ed students entering degree town. ford County offers an annual courses at Macdonald Institute, MANAGEMENT bursary of $100 to a student en. .the Ontario Agricultural Col- Two bursary -scholarships of teeing the degree course at ',lege; the Ontario Veterinary$50students either the Ontario Agricultural 1 College and the diploma courses business manenterinagement College. the Ontario Veterinary hat the Ontario Agricultural Col- College or Macdonald Institute,- lege and colleges of agricultural course at Fansbawe College, The student should make a technology,including Fanshawe Agricultural division, Oxford it g pticatfon to his one her scene. College in Oxford County. County. day school ry principal before Donald Taylor,.Oxford County A proficiency prize of $50 is I Sept. 30, agricultural representative, said available to a student of the Oxford County students at. students entering the special first year degree program at tending the fallowing secondary semester at the Ontario Agricul- the Ontario Agricultural College schools are eligible to apply for tural College and Macdonald or the Ontario Veterinary Col -,the bursaries: Woodstock Col. Institute, will be considered in lege. Proficiency prizes of $50'Iegiate Institute Burford Dis; Ithe awardrirg grants this year. each are also available to a First trict Righ School- Norwich Dis- year student at MacDonald In- trict High School, Northwestern APPLICATIONS stitute and a student of each Secondary School, Stratford. In, Applications for bursaries of the first year classes of the gersoll District Collegiate iiit ,must be mailed to Len Coles, diploma course at the pro- tote, Stratford Central College Oxford County clerk -treasurer vince's colleges of agricultural! rate, St. Marys and District by Sept. 30. All county young technology. Collegiate, St. Mars and District people are eligible for this as- Mr. Taylor said application, Vocational Institute, Annandale• sistance with the exception of forms for the bursary -scholar- High School and Glendale Higb residents of Woodstock and In- County are available from Oxford School. Tillsonburg; Delhi Dis- gersoll. triet High School, Paris Drict Mr. Taylor said the scholar- ounty secondary school privet istpals and the Ontario Depart - High School, Waterloo - Oxford ships are awarded on the basis meat of Agriculture and Food, , District Secondary School, Hur•. of academic achievement, lead- Woodstock ,in Park Secondary School anti ership an d participation in College Avenue Setomdary school, 4-H Clubs and other com- DEGREE COURSE JSehocd. munity activities. A bursary of $200 or two of The selection committee Is $300 each is offered annually by 'composed of Stanley Gehring, the Hart family of Oxford Oxford County Warden; Archie. County to a county student en-1 Longworth, depty reeve of West tering the first year of a de - Oxford Township and chairman gree course at the Ontario Ag- of the agriculture and commun. ricultural College Guelph. The ity services committee of county award is known as the Douglas council: Len Coles, county and George Hart bursary. clerk -treasurer and Donald Tay- Applicants for the bursary lor. should have a good academic Admission scholarships In- record and an active interest in ,elude $150 to a student entering community agricultural affairs, 1 Macdonald Institute, University including participation in 4-HI of Guelph; $150 to a student clubs or other similar projects, I entering the degree program 1 The selection will be carried out at the Ontario Agricultural Col- on the basis of recommen 'lege, University of Guelph; and dations by the secondary ached Measles, mumps vaccines soon available, says MOH Vaccines for German Meas- les and Mumps will likely be 'available through Public Health channels later this year, ac- cording to Dr. G. Q. Suther. I land, Oxford Medical Officer of Health. In his annual report to Ox- ford County Council, Dr. Suth- iarland said communicable dis- ease$ were once the .major 'cause of infant and child deaths and now play only a minor part- He said the availability of Immunizations to the public, Isible in reducing cases deaths. He said, "the corn !need of this program slid odic reinforcing procedures are essential." Immunizations offered by the unit in clinics and schools con- sist of whooping cough, dip- thorla, tetamty .measles, polio aml smallpox: Passport require- ments for foreign travel may also include typhoid, typhus and cholera. Dr. Sutherland reported that eases of venereal disease have been Increasing. Ile said 20 cases of the disease were re- ported in Oxford County last LOM was qulte latter me said an in- ltory infer• meat during of 19g9. He Two mill drop 41 in tax figure for Tavistock said isolations indicated a high Percentage of the cases could have been due to the Hong Kong virus. The Board of pealtia has been most interested in the development and promotion of services in the county, accord- ing to Dr. Sutherland He said there are unrest needs which are being given serious am ..A comparison of smvkw over the previous year shows an increase in most. Nowever, the government -operated OHSIP continues to somewhat reduce attendance at child health elfn- Ics." Dr. Sutherland said a borne care program project in the county would provide multiple ,benefits. He said the. program would ease the shortage of bee, pital beds, allots patients to re- main in home surroundings and .allow the Victorian Order of Nurses to adequately adminis- ter bath the home tare and nursing program throughout the County, NEW LOOK FOR COUNTY COUNCIL CHAMBERS Although the controversy in walls, the redecorating is tak- few blocks away. If you look the Woodstock council chain- ing place In the comparative closely, you'll see the painter bens is sometimes hot enough quietness of the 0 x f o r d hard at work on a scaffold at to blister the paint on the County council chambers a the top of the picture. Ingersoll youth vying for honors in Los Angeles INGERSOLL — An Ingersoll youth will represent the prov- ince of Ontario in a North American oratorical contest to be held in Los Angeles In Tune. Ted Comiskey, 15, of RR 2, Ingersoll, defeated five other speakers in Toronto Saturday to earn the right to represent the Ontario district of Optimists In- ternational in t h a t organiz- ation's continent -wide oratorical contest. Ted, under the sponsorship of the Ingersoll Optimists C I u b, topped competition here, in Kit- chener and in London before going to Toronto. Ingersoll contestants in prev- ious years have been edged out by a fraction of a point at the Toronto competitions. In all, 44 coatestants will be vying in Los Angeles for five university scholarships. A $2,000 award will go to the top xpeaker and the next four will receive $1,000 awards. The scholarships are good for any university in North Amer. Ies, Ted will have to deliver his address on at least two more occasions in formal competition, Sundays June 28, shortly after the opemng of the Optimists' week-long convention, Ted will be attempting to. join that select group of five to win awards. The distribution of t h o s e awards won't be decided until Thursday July 2 when the top five speakers will battle f o r first -place honors. It's expected that at least five of the local Optimists and their wives will be accompany. fng Ted to California, The Ontario district of Op- timists International will be paying Ted's travelling expen- ses and the local club will as- sist the Ingersoll members In meeting their expenses, The group will leave June 27 and Is scheduled to return July $ Au of the contestants w I l l speak an the topic of "Youth; Full Partners In a Better To- morrow," Rabies clinics As to start again Rabies clinics will be held in Oxford County during the month of, May. The free clinics are sponsor. ed by the health of animals branch of Canada Department of Agriculture, in conjunction with the county, Woodstock and Ingersoll. Dr. D. W. Thompson of the Woodstock branch of the department, said 16 clinics will be held for the vaccination of cats and dogs against rabies. Dr. Thompson said that 8.675 small pets — 5,356 dogs and 3,316 cats — were immunized when the clinics were held in ISM. He said the animals tm- .maai7ed two years ago should be vaccinated again. I He said kittens and puppies should be four months of age or over before receiving the vaccination, Dogs must be on a leash and accompanied by an adult. Cats should be properly restrained at the clinics. Non- residents of the county can also take advantage of the clinics. CONFIRMED Last year, there were 73 con- firmed cases of rabies in the county. So far this year, 18 eases of rabies have been re- ported in the county — four Iskunks, a dog, a groundhog, a pig, five head of cattle and six foxes, Climes will be held May 11 ,at the Bright fire hall from 9 a.m. to 12 noon and at the brierkip fire ball from 2 to 5 p.m. A clinic will be held in jibe Drumbo township garage iMay 12 from 9 a.m. to 12 noon Warden claims conference dominated by urban areas TORONTO (Special.) — Stan- ley Gehring, Oxford County warden, said the three-day On- tario _Provincial -Municipal_ con- ference was dominated. by the urban areas and offered little room for rural areas to air their problems. Warden Gehring, reeve of South Norwich Township, told the Torono bureau of the Sen- tinel -Review that he counted 15 .urban municipalities asking questions Thursday morning compared with only two ques- tions by rural areas. He said the tone of the con- ference was set Thursday when Mayor William Dennison of Tor- onto asked the first question during the discussion period. "Ilia question was related to growth within the city and from there on, the questions centred ion urban areas. "I felt the rural areas more or less were treated as second class citizens at the confer- ence. Many of the questions con- cerned urban areas wanting more money from the provin- cial government in order to de- velop services." Mr. Gehring said his attitude was to let the large cities have their say and then let the rural people present their briefs. He said he reeived the agen- da for the conference the day before it started. "it would have been far better to have received the brief a week or more in ad- vance in order that real people could study the topics and pre- pare their own briefs. "These meetings should 'be continued, perhaps three times a year. This would break down the harrier between the rural and urban areas," Canadian dollar set free and again in the Hickson fire hall from 2 to 5 p.m.. A clinic will be held May 13 in the Bonds Corners building at the Woodstock Fairgrounds, from 9 a.m. to 12 noon and from 3 to 8 p.m, On May 14 a clinic will be held in the Otterville fire hall from 9 a.m. to 1¢ noon and in the TBFsmburg fire hall from 2 to 7 p.m. MAY 19 A clinic will be held May 19 from 9 a.m. to 12 noon in the Oxford Centre Community hall. in the Afternoon, a clinic will be held from 2 to 6. The new township garage at Folders Corners will be the scene of a rabies clinic May 20 from 9 a.m. to 12 noon. Inger- soll's clinic will be held the same day from 2 to 8 p.m. On May 21, a clinic will be held at Eintore in the township shed from 9 a.m, to 12 noon. A clinic will be held in the Embro fire hall from 2 to 6 p.m. the same day. The Plattsville Community Centre will be the scene of a clinic May 22 from 9 a.m. to 12 noon.. On the same day, a clinic will be held in the Dere- ham Centre township garage from 2 to 5 p.m. On May 25, a clinic will be held at the Beachville fire hall from 9 a.m. to 12 noon and in the Thamesford fire hall from 3 to p.m. The last clinic will be held May 27 in the Bonds Corners building at the Woodstock Fair- grounds from 9 a.m. to 12 noon and from 3 to 6 p.m. Oxford OKs three-day deer season Fire Press Woodstock Bureau WOODSTOCK — A Nov. 2 to 4 Oxford County deer season was approved Tuesday by Ox- ford Countv council, subject to approval of seasons in two neighboring Councils. Council has also requested the department of lands and forests to allow hunting for ,only county residents where the open seasons are being held. The recommendation was made by John Armstrong, dis- trict biologist, department of lands and forests, Hespeler. The season would be the first in the county since 1966, he said. Clerk -treasurer Leonard &. Cates said 295 deer were taken in Oxford in 1966. compared with 57 in Brant and 264 in Waterloo counties. Reeve William Ducklow of Tavistock, said oxford has ap- proved of a deer hunting sea- son the past two years. He said they could not be held ha - cause two neighboring coun- ties were not prepared to go along Mr, Armstrong said the de- partment of lands and forests re-quirex at least three rmlgh- boring counties approve the season, lherobv eliminating a I Une number of converging on mie countyanters fnau • g.9 wo C iC'yp q Gp .p W C O O G,.•�. 1'�� V A �� D w ad w JLWW._rTl. �y �dqw .2 d 4 M'ry' d 1`_ a'3u W E, o Q$ i my4„O�y 'o �,v_x,�5 gggi, W C)�.Y b0� h9-J .Gd1 w N _$�"$c. doss °tia EE d- CD�gubvu Evgd Eye ob w i^ u�m rs�dya8p T'su �u+y�'$m ■j ) L� � .di V� � ad+ O L= W F tl u Y• •U EILO ct 4 =C" F[et d u £ o A -OEI Edr C:.Ea >.3tta �e � n u, w y_ u W ^J :b ' •.ten--. N 5 C OW `3.=ca o.�a�� ooG cc?5z hr T a+a oecEa •• c �,a. 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Leslie Dickson (D.R.) • SOUTH NORWICH ............................Stanley R. Gehring William J. Martin (D.R.) • EAST OXFORD ...... .........................Kenneth Peers • NORTH OXFORD ............................ Claire G Minler • WEST OXFORD .............................. Bruce Amos Archie Longworth ID,R -? • EAST ZORRA............I................... Max L. MacKay Wallace Ross (D.R.) • WEST ZORRA ................................James K. Fleming • TILLSONBURG ...............................Kenneth W. Webster J. Seldon Wilkinson (D.R) • BEACHVILLE ............................... John J. Nadalin • EMBRO............I................... Rowland Rutherford • NORWICH........I......................... Kenneth L Pollard • TAVISTOCK................................. William Ducklow L. K. Coles, G. R. Staples, Clerk -Treasurer. Deputy Clerk -Treasurer. V1 Tollgate pupils to see slides I.en Coles, county clerk-trea. surer, will. show his slides de- picting the history of Oxford County at Tollgate Public School, May 7. The gradefive and six class of Mrs, Ronald Wharram of RR 5 Embrn, are studying the historical and up-to-date aspects of the dairy capital. The project Includes group work during school hours and after - school and weekend excursions. The case has been divided Into study groups, some study- Ing history and others studying the agriculture and industry of 'Oxford County today. The mem- bers of the class have visited .farms, local industries and county buildings. Last week Mr, Coles conducted a tour of the County Court House for a group of .five girls in the class. There are 33 pupils in the class. Warden says other counties interested in Oxford talks - The warden also indicated there are other counties inter- ested in talking with Oxford County when a plan is formed for a county regional govern- ment, Warden Gehring also said the Department of Municipal Af- fairs is interested in any plan that might come from a study of regional government for the area. The warden was reluctant to elaborate on the progress of the county group but said he boas municipalities in the eounty can "sit down in a sane and sensible manner to work out a plan for the county so that the county won't be broken up and thrown to the dogs." The warden said suggestions have been made in regional government proposals for a-eas outside the county that Oxford be broken up. He said Norfolk Social Services meet May 14 The next meeting of Oxford Social Services will be held May 14 at 5 p.m, in the Ox. ford county council committee rooms Gerild MacKay, Oxford wel- fare administrator, said county nursing homes have increased their rates from $9.50 to $10 per day, effective May 1, Mr, MacKay said Oxford So. cial Services has 101 nursing home recipients. He said the department receives an 80 per cent subsidy from the provin- elal government for nursing home recipients. Mr. MacKay reported a part. time clerk has been hired by the department, is eyeing areas in the south of Oxford County while Waterloo is looking at the northeast part of the county and Perth is in- terested in the west of Oxford County Warden Gehring said there are two. things, garbage dipo- sal and planning, which must be pursued to establish a complete region for the county. He added that six different. areas already are running successfully on a county wide basis. Mr. Hofstetter, reeve of Blen- beim Township and a member of the regional study group, re- iterated the idea that Wood- stock and Ingersoll will be in- cluded in the talks. Hesaid he has "high hones that sooner or later Woodstock and Ingersoll will be involved and added the joint meeting of the two plan- ning boards was a good begin- ning. Ma's. Wm Mott, seated, Innerldp librarian, greeted guests at open house, Innerkip's public library is opened at new location INNERKIP — More than 50 people turned out last night to mark the official opening of the new location of the Iunerkip ':Public Library. The library, .previously locat- ed in one room in an old build- ing, moved into its new head- quarters last Thursday. There are approximately 2,000 books in the new library, an increase of 10D per cent. The library is located in the former Major's store. Along with the new building came additional business hours. The library is now open Tues- days from 7 to 9 pm., Wed- nesdays from 3 to 5 p.m. and Fridays from 7 to 9 p.m. Mrs. William Elliott, Inner- kip's librarian, was on hand for the occasion. Mrs. Elliott said the library has approximahtly North Oxford mill -,rates up Area councils setting their budgets for 1970 Various township councils in Oxford County have set their 1970 budget. In East Oxford Township, a mill rate of 89,207 for farm and residential was set, down from 93.59 mills in 1969. The com- mercial rate was set at 96.23 mills, down from 103.16 mills in 1969, Woodstock and Norwich high school supporters will have a farm and residential rate of 89.90 mills, down from 94.28 lest year, The commercial rate was set at 96.743, down from 303.92 In 1969. Blandford Township Council get a farm and residential rate for elementary school support' era of 9.41 mills, upp from W.9 mills last year. Ttio com. marciad rate was act at 97,44 'mills, an increase over 95,2 rate for Norwich village public mills last year. school supporters was set at The farm and residential rate 78.57 mills with a commercial for separate school supporters rate of 87.18 mills. will be 91,48, up from 89.9 mills The separate school rate for last year. The commercial rate farm and residential was set at was set at 100.78 mills, up from 92.03 mills The form and re- 96 mills last year. sidential rate for elementary In the village of Bright, the schools In the village of Bur - farm and residential rate for gessville was set at 88,08 mills. elementary school supporters The commercial rate was set was sot at 94.47 mills, up from at 96.18 Mills. 91.9 mills in 1969. The commer- cial rate was set at 103.44 mills, up from 100.2 mills last year. The mill rate for North Nor. wlch Township elementary school supporters for farm and residential was net at 92,04 mill# ap from 89.01 mills In 110. The .ommerotal rate was set at lo2.N. The farm and residential 311 local members. The circula- tion of the library in 1969 was 4,078. Ten new members signed up at last night's open house. The formal opening of the or- iginal library was held March 31, 1965. A group of Innerkip residents met with members of the Oxford County Library Board and a room was rented. The Oxford County Library stocked the library with the necessary books. Mrs. Elliott became the Iib- rarian in 1968, takingover the duties of Mrs, Walter Ross. Mrs. Elliott said she was ap- preached by the Ianerkip Lib- rary Board to assume the posi- tion. She accepted the job as a challenge, having no previous experience in the field. Mrs. Elliott said the library is frequented by about 50 people each week — evenly divided in- to both children and adults. 'She said the most rewarding .aspect of her job Is meeting the people. Radio tower now in use The construction of a two-way FM radio communications re. peater for county vehicles has been completed, according to Donald Pratt, county road super- intendent. The 60-foot tower, located atop Bower dill increases the trans- mission rouge in county vehi- cles by approximately 35 miles. The initial cost of the project .was $13,000. The tower was con. structed by Canadian Motorola of Tarouto, Communication had Pravious ly been made through an aerial, on the County Court House. The transmission range was approxi. �mately five stile$, Mr. Pratt said three tracks have been purchased at the cost Of $17,00. 0 Truett bypass could become reality soon At its spring session, the Ox- The council was told. by Ox- ford Count' council revealed ford Warden Stanley Gehring plans for a county road to con. that the road would serve as an nect Highway 401 with the outlet for the Beachville quarry Governor's Road which runs operations. from Woodstock through to So far, said the warden, no Thamesford. approval has been given by the The preliminary plans would Department of Highways f o r have a truck bypass meet access to highway 4M. County Road 6 at the Governor's As far back as 1967, Gordon Road south of Embro and east I Pittock, then MPP for Oxford, of the Canada Cement plant to I said that a study was being connect with highway 401 north I carried out with a view to form- at Folden's Corners. I ing a Woodstock truck bypass. Dressers to be added at Woodingford Lodge Free Press Woodstock Bureau He said an average of 25 WOODSTOCK — A dresser- groups is visiting the home each month to provide enter - desk and mirror will be added to each of the rooms in the tainment and to take part In 158-bed Woodingtord Lodge, Oxford County home for the tours. The residents, he said, have aged, administrator D. F. been particularly pleased with Knott said Thursday. an increase in student visitors. The furniture is to be in- stalled before the end of June, at a cost of about $10,000 which will come from a con- Social Services tingency fund in the contract price of the $2,000,000 building. renovations Rooms contain clothes clos- ets, bedside tables and beds Renovations are under way now. In the offices occupied by Oa- Mr. Knott said auxiliary ford Social Services in the County building. - I: members have planned a chicken barbecue for June 20 One of the rooms will be at the home, starting at 5 p.m. transformed into a field work - ler's office and the ceilings are He said 1,000 persons are ex- Peeled to attend the function also being lowered, The walls of the offices are being to assist in raising money for pail. elicit. lawn furnishings. The County of Oxford award. The number of residents, he rd thecontract to McKinney said, is expected to increase Lumber, who submitted the low. fromthe present 126 to about est of two tenders, The work 135 by the end of June, will cost approximately $1,300. Planners discuss pits and quarries Five representatives of the Oxford County's represents- Vxford County Planning Board hives were: Clair Minler, reeve +yttended a meeting lest night "Cuss the operation of pile of North Oxford Township', nit quarries. ries. Alex Hossack tier e, East Nif Ens; The meeting was held in Lon. J. R. Patience, reeve of East Von by the Ontario Department Nissouri Township; John J, of Mines. The group of plan- Nadalln, reeve of Beachville ning board officials held a dis- and Gerald Staples, county cussion on the province'spro- deputy -clerk -treasurer and sec. ,posal to take over the opera•retary of the Oxford County on of pits and quarries. Planning Board, Vaccine Available The Provincial Department of Health, has made avallable German Measles (Rubella) vac- cine to health units. It is 'being given to prevent measles In children and to eliminate the risk and danger of expos- ure to this disease to mothers In early pregnancy. As German measles is usual- ly a mild disease and accom- panied by a rash, often It 1s not accurately known whether the 'child has had the disease or smother condition produe tg a mild rash. The Oxford Health 'unit's program in the very near fut- ure Is to recommend and give every child in grades 1 and 2 'the vaccine regardless of hav- ing had german measles. it must be pointed out that Berman measles and the red measles .are not the same. Both the family physician and the unit have been using the 'red measles vaccine for the past 2-3 years. German meas- les vaccine has not been given by Health Departments before. Notices will be sent home for grades 1 and 2 from the schools. If the vaccine is in sufficient quantity and time allows, these grades will be covered prior to school closing. �-to)111 County welfare administrator will attend meeting in Toronto Gerald McKay, county wi fare administrator, will attei a meeting April 23 and 24 calm for all full-time welfare a ministrators in the province. The meeting was called I the Ontario Department -of c vial and Family Services a will he held in the Parbame Buildings, Toronto. AMENDMENTS The main topic of diaeussb .will be the amendments to t Rabies clinics busy in May A total of 5,483 cats and dogs were vaccinated against rabies in the17 clinics held around the county this month. The 17 clinics, sponsored by the Canada Department of Ag. riculture and Food, Woodstock, Ingersoll and Oxford County, ended Wednesday. The clinics were held during a 21-4 week period, The department reported the total turnout was 37 per teat lower than the previous clinics held in 1968 when 8,615 animals were vaccinated. regulation& under the General Welfare Systems Act, which will come Into effect May 1. Mr. McKay said the new reg- ulations will. Increase by as much as to per cent, the bud. gets of some welfare recipieuts. Mr. McKay will also attend the 20th annual convention of the Welfare Officers Association of Ontario, May 31 to June 3 in Brockville. Also attending will be T. A. Costello, a field representative with Oxford So. PERMISSION Mr. McKay said permission was granted to himby the com- mittee members of Oxford So- cial Services to titre a part- time clerk to work two days a week- in the welfare office. A postage machine willbe rented by Oxford Social Serv- ices at a cost of S3.50 per month. Mr. McKay said the depart- ment sends out over 700 Ietters every month and the machine will save a lot of time. ��X-WARDENS FOLD MEETING l� Twenty - three of a possible 98 ex -wardens of Oxford Coun- I ty attended the meeting of the Ex -Warden's Association yes. Iterday, J. Grant Smith of Bur- gessville, former reeve of ,North Norwich Township, and (Warden in 1958, was elected this year's president of the association. The past presi- dent is Cecil Riddle, former reeve of North Oxford Town• ship and Warden in 1957. Three of lire county's oldest ex -wardens were in atten- dance at the 36th annual meet - ins. From left is: A, D. Rob- inson of West Oxford, warden in 1934; George Holher of Tillsonburg, 1923 Warden and George Balkwill of Blenheim Township, 1935 Warden. The meeting was hold in the coun- ty Courthouse. Mayors to hear county report on regional rule Ruffled feelings in Woodstock and Ingersoll may be soothed somewhat by an announcement yesterday by Oxford Cmmty Warden, Stanley Gehring, that the mayors of the two munici. paties will be invited to attend a meeting of the Bounty's re• glonal government study com- mittee on May 27, After the mayors of the two urban cemtf'es haw made their comments to the committee Warden Gehring said represen- tatives from the municipalities will probably be invited from the two centres. SUGGESTED A regional study of Oxford County wag suggested early In January by Ingersoll Mayor Gordon Henry. He maid the county Is a viable unit and that the county, the Town of Inger- soll and the City of Woodstock should co-operate to protect bor- ders against provincially impos. ed regional government, Woodstock mayor William Al- len also agreed talks on some Mort of overall council for the county should he hold, A committee to study region- al government for the county was set up this year by county council, Members include Warms den Gehring of South Norwich Townahip Douglas Mulr reeve of East Missouri Township, Wil. liam Ducklow reeve of the vil- lage of Tavistoek, John Hof. mtetlor reeve of Blenheim Town. ship, Kenneth Peers, reeve of East Oxford 'township, Ken• moth Webster reeve of Tillsow burg and Garry Staples deputy clerk -treasurer of the county. The Warden was speaking at a joint meeting last. night be. tween members of the Oxford County planning board and members of the City of Wood- stock planning hoary). Warden Gehring stoke cau- tiously of progress being made by his committee studying some sort of regional government fair the county, He said there was no specific reason for not including Wood- stock and Ingersoll in the talks except that the committee has nothing concrete yet to show the two municipalities. He said he wanted to "allay doubts and tears" about the committee. which he said, saute people bay* labelled "a clique'". Oxford plans road linking Highway 401 WOODSTOCK — Plans for an Oxford County road to con- nect Highway 401 to Goner, nor's Road between Wood- stock and Ingersoll were made Tuesday by Oxford County 'council. County council as- sumed township gravel roads between Governor's Road and Highway 401 into its system as part of its additions to its county road system. Both Woodstock and Inger- sell have envisioned the route, which meets County Road 6 at Governor's Road south of Em- bro and just east of Canada Cement Company Ltd. and connects with Highway 401 north of Folden's corners, as a bypass for truck traffic for their municipalities. Warden Stanley Gehring, reeve of South Norwich Town- ship, said the road will serve as an outlet for quarry opera- tions in the Beachville area. He said approval has yet to be given by the department of highways for an access to Highway 401. Gordon W. Pittock, former Oxford MPP said in March, 1967, that the department of highways was .studying con- necting the two roads. He described it as "urgent," requiring completion within five years, He said it was nec- essary to relieve Ingersoll, Beachville and Woodstock of heavy traffic. Warden Gehring said he would hope the route has first priority for development of 16 roads the county has decided to assume from its townships as of June 1, subject to ap- proval of the department of highways. A total of 60.7 miles will be added and 11.8 miles deleted; leaving 278.9 miles of county roads. Additions to the system are: County Road 100, Blandford and East Zorra townships, from Highway 97 between Con. 30 and 11 Blandford to In- nerkip, 4.4 miles; County Road 101, West Ox- ford and North Oxford town- ships, Folden's Comers north to the North Oxford Con.1 and Rabies clinics cost $511 Advertising costa for the rab- ies clinics held last month, sponsored by the Canada De- partment of Agriculture, a a d surrounding municipalities amounted to $511. The cost will he divided be. tween Oxford County, The City of Woodstock and the Town of Ingersoll, The county will pay $296.88 with Woodstock paying $166.27 and Ingersoll's a h a r a amounting to $49,07. 2, Road, south of Governor's Road, 4.2 miles; County Road 102, Fast Zor- ra Township, from Highway 59 at Tollgate School east to County Road 4 (Innerkip Road) past the north entrance to Gordon Pittock reservoir, 3.3 mtles; County Road 103, Dereham and South Norwich townships, Ostrander to Springford, 4.6 miles; County Road 104, East Ox- ford, North Norwich town- ships, Highway 2 at eastern edge of East Oxford Township south to County Road 21 west of New Durham, 7.8 miles; County Road 106, East Zor- Blenheim townships, Highway 97 at Bright south to County Road 29, 3.4 miles; County Road 106, East Zor ra, West Zorra townships, Highway 59 at County Road 33 west to Embro, 6 miles; County Road 107, from west of La Saiette to Tillsonburg, one concession north of the southern boundary of the county, 10.9 miles; County Road 108, South Nor. wich Township, north from the southeast corner of the county 1.4 miles to a point west of La Salett:e; County Road 109, Dereham Township, from a point west of Tillsonburg north 1.5 miles to meet Highway 19; County Road 110, Dereham Township, Highway 19, one concession south of Ostrander, west for .6 of a mile; County Road 111, East Ox- ford Township, Highway 59 east from Curries, 4.5 miles to County Road 14; County Road 112. Blenheim Township, Plattsville west 2.2 miles past Chesterfield; County Road 113, Belnheim Township, one concession east of Washington, a road - 1.7 miles running north from Highway 97 to Wilmot Town- ship West of New Dundee; County Road 114, Blenheim Township, oast of County Road 113, .7 miles to just south of New Dundee; County Road 115, North Ox- ford Township, 3.5 miles from Highway 2, just south of Thamesford, straight south to the Thames River just north of North Dorchester Township and Putnam. Deletions are: Part of County Road 17, West Zorra and East Nissouri Townships, from County Road 6 south of Embro to Highway 19 north of Thamesford, 6.5 miles; Part of County Road 7, from Rayside from County Road 32 (Governor's Road) north to former County Road 17, 1.9 miles; Part of County Road 4, Blandford T o w n a h i p, from County Road 29 north of Inner - kip to Highway 97, west of Bright,. 3.4 miles. Norwich museum opens on June 13 NORWICH — The official opening of the Norwich Mu- seum will be launched with a parade to the museum grounds at 1 P.M. June 13. The program will begin at 2 p.m. featuring an address by Sheldon S. Carroll, curator of the Numismatic Collection of the Bank of Canada. The pro- gram will include antique car 'participation, musical entertain. meat, and amusement for the children. A chicken 'barbecue will be held on the museum ,grounds from 4:30 to 7 p.m. Tickets for the meal may be obtained in advance by contacting D. W. MacPherson or any Norwich merchant. The advance sale price is $2 until June 5, after which the tickets will be sold at $2.25. Admission to the mu- seum is free for the occasion. The museum is located in the former Friends' meeting house on Stover Street North. In 1f168, members of the Norwich Society of Friends donated their meeting house to the Norwich and Dist- 'rict Historical Society to be used as a museum. Amalgamation plan progresses VLLSONBURG — The way seems clear for the proposed amalgamatton of the town of Tillsonburg and D e r e h a m Township by .tan. 1, 1971, After recently meeting in To. ronto with W. Darcy McKeough„ Minister of Municipal Affairs, representatives of both munici- palities are hopeful the Jan. 1 .date can be set. The Toronto meeting was held following the completion of an amalgamation report, which started last fall. Andrew Balazs, mayor of Tillsonburg, said the amalga- mation would create a munici- pality with an assessment of $21,277,095 and a population of 11,488 people. He said an On. tario Municipal Board hearing could be held concerning the proposed amalgamation in Sep. tember. Mayor Balazs said Mr. Me - Keough suggested that three publ.`c information meetings be held in the two municipalities in the next month. Mr. McKeough said he would attend at least one of the meetings. Medford Clarke, reeve of Dereham Township, said the township council will .likely make application for the OMB hearing if a favorable outcome is recorded in the June plebi- scite of the tow-nsbip, regard- ing the proposed amalgamation. Mr. B a t a z s said Mr. Mc - Keough stated the proposed amalgamation was in the inter- est of both municipalities and indicated he would support the application. Dereham to ask a postponement of June amalgamation meeting DEREHAM CENTRE— Dere- ham Township council will re- quest a postponement of a June 24 meeting" planned to discuss .:the ' proposed amalgamation with the town of Tillsonburg. The meeting has been sched- uled to be held in Tillsonburg with W. Darcy McKeough, Min- ister of Municiaal Affairs in at- tendance. Medford C l a r k e, reeve of Dereham Township, said his council needs more Regional planning necessary for survival of Oxford County We hope that the city of Wood- stock takes the opportunity now presenting Itself, and joins with Oxford County Council and the town of Ingersoll to study the ff,asibility of regional 'government. We agree with Mayor William Allen that "change for the sake of change" Is not desirable. But the signs are plentiful and clear: the provincial government has com- milled its future to regional gov- ernment. With this in mind, there can be no question of whether or not regional government is coming. It is a matter cif when. And also, of what: form the regional rule will Lake when it is introduced. There are many unanswered question; and with the Ilkellhood chat any local planning Will be obliterated by structures supetim- posed by Queen's Park. And in such a context, It is possible that Oxford County will no longer exist. Already, the Fyfe study on regional government in Waterloo county has suggested that Blenheim Township be part of the Galt -Kitchener area. We urge Woodstock to ,join the proposed Oxford study. We salute Oxford County Council and Mayor Gordon Henry for coming up with the Initiative and the suggestions. Ir Oxford County is to continue as an entity, and if Woodstock and Ingersoll are to continue as shop- ping centres of the area, then regional planning is a necessity. It's more like planning for survival's sake, time to inform the public of the situation. Municipal officials of Tillson- burg and Dereham Township met. with Mr. McKeough last month to discuss the propos. ed amalgamation. The June meeting was proposed at this time. The town of Tillsonburg has yen unanimous support to the nalgamation plan. Two named to planning board Representatives from the village of Taviscock 'leave been appointed to the Oxford County planning board. Reeve William Ducklow and Robert Rudy of Tavistock have been named as representatives. Tavistock has only recently applied to be in. cluded in the Oxford planning area. All townships andmunicipalities in Oxford .County are now represented on the board except Dereham Towaship, South Norwich Township and the town of Tillsonburg: Mill rate down in East Zorra Waster project for Plattsville set for 1972 r� • E • County council to recess on June 17 Everyone needs a summer) To mark the start of their vacation and the members o[ summer break, the council Oxford County Council are ao members will attond the annual exception. County Council Day' at the June IT will mark the last meeting of council until Septem- University of Western Ontario at er. The meeting will begin at 2 p.m. with the members of 9:30 a.m. other surrounding council. New furniture at Woodingford Additional bedroom furniture will be included in each room at Woodingford Lodge before the end of June. Mike Knott., administrator, said a dresser -desk set and mir- ror ,will be added in each room of the 158-bed lodge. Mr. Knott said the cost of the furniture will be approximately $10,000. The money will come from a contingency fund included in the contract price of the $21,000,000 home, The Auxiliary to Woodingford Lodge will hold a chicken bar- becue June 20 on the I o d g e grounds. The event is scheduled to start at 5 p.m. and approx- imately 1,Oa0 people are expect• ed to attend. Funds raised will go toward the purchase of lawn furnishings he this (tome, HENRY FINLAYSON m. D. M. smeea,na OXFORD HERO IS DEAD AT 90 Never a year half -lived was Dr. Sutherland's record This week Oxford County lost one of its most distinguished sons. But seldom has a life been so fully lived as that of Dr. D. M. Suther- land. Serving with high honors as a soldier and later as a political minister, his enthusiasm for all as- pects of life was shown in the way lie lived his senior years. Youth was the natural time 'for accomplishments that required great drive and intense devotion to an ideal. But in middle and ad- vancing years the pace continued with zest. At an age when lesser men would ,be slacking off and 'taking to the rocldng chair, he was ot'ganizing clubs and putting 'his mark of enthusiasm on -them. Former reeve of N. Oxford A former reeve of North Ox- ford Twonship, Henry Finlay - son of RR 2 Ingersoll, died to- day in Woodstock General Hos- pital. He was 71. He was born in Edinburgh Scotland, the son of Mr. and Mrs, Henry Finlayson. He came to Oxford County from Scot- land 48 years ago and resided and farmed in the county since that time, He served with the Royal Scot;; Cavalry four years dur- ing World War One. Be served on the North Oxford Township council for six years as coup, color and four years as reeve, before retiring from municipal life in 1965. He was a member of Beach- ville United Church and. the Board of Sessions of the Church. He was also a member of St. John's Lodge AF and AM In- gersoll. He is survived by his wife, the former Nellie A. Craig; a daughter, Mrs, Murray (Avis), Clifford of RR 2 Ingersoll; three sisters In Scotland and two grandchildren. Friends will be received at the M, D. (Mac) Smith Fun- eral Home after tomorrow at 2 p.m, Funeral service will be held Saturday at 2 p.m. with Rev. D, M. Nimmo of Beach. ville United Church officiating. Burial will he made In Oxford itemurial Pent Cemetery, Rotarians will remember that he was not too busy to found the Woodstock Club. Legionnaires knew well his great talent for or- ganization. Behind that talent was his genuine love of living. Even in his hours alone that zest was evident. As an amateur naturalist he kept valuable records of bird - watching that spanned more than 30 years. Well into his SOs he personally cared for the lawns and shrubs on his four -acre home estate at Embro. History was another interest that mem- bers of Oxford Historical Society knew well. There were seldom enough hours in the day for all he wanted to do. Many men would like to say that But Dr. Sutherland sax' that those things were done. Workmen thin out agreement forest DRUMBO — Ontario Depart- fourth row of trees in the Hall �Iment of Lands and Forests (Tract, north of Drumbo,, is be. workmen have set up camp mg cut and left in rows, await - 'near here to thin out part of bag removal, an Oxford County agreement After the completion of work .forest. at this site, the loggers will Approximately 12 loggers move to the Chesney Tract in ',have been working the area for Blandford Township, a week with another week of Mr. Lancaster said the wood work to go. Approximately 100 will be sold under contract with acres of trees are involved in we profits going to the county the project. Howard Lancaster, district for the upkeep of county wood. forester at Stratford, said every I lots. Bookmobile visits .Woodingford Lodge Woodingford Lodge has be- come a regular stop of the Ox- ford County Library bookmobile. The bookmobile visited the residents of the lodge yesterday morning as part of Its quarter. yearly rounds. Every three months, the bookmobile visit$ various Oxford County Library branches. Mrs. Arthur Webb, assistant Oxford County librarian, said she hopes the residents are sat- isfied with the new service. The bookmobile will stock the library withbooks at the coun• ty home for the aged and re- place them in three months. The 'Grand Old Man of Ox- ford County,' Dr. Donald Math- eson Sutherland of Embro, died this morning in Woodstock Gen- eral Hospital He was 90. The death of Dr. Sutherland marks the end of a long, dis- tinguished career as a doctor, world traveller, soldier and statesman. As well as being a prominent local leader, Dr. Sutherland was the Minister of National Defence in the Bennett cabinet from 1930 to 1934 and Minister of Pensions and National Health from 1934 to 1935. He was appointedto the _=r Queen's Privy Council of Cm - ads in Mo and was fifth in seniority. Locally, Dr. Sutherland was DR. D. X SUTHERr sND the founder and first president • • • former defence minister of the Woodstock Rotary Club tario Historical Society, the Ox- in 1924, He also helped to form ford Histories! Society and the Branch 55 of the Royal Canad.INorwich Pioneers Society. He ian Legion and served as their was also a member of the Nor - first president in 1926 and 1927. with and Woodstock Masonic He was recently made honor- Lodges He was a past district ary president of Branch 55. I deputy of St. John's Lodge, Nor D, M, Sutherland Senior Pub- ; with. lie School in Woodstock was' He issurvived by one sister, named to his honor in 1958. ;Mrs. N. C. Macwhirter of Nor - He was born near Norwich ; with and two nieces, Mn, N. C. Dec. r 1879, the sou of Dr.I and M1rs��G (Mary) Stauffer Of Montreal and Mrs, Fitzgerald Sutherland. He attended school is Norwich of Amara. and Woodstock and graduated Friends will be received at from the University of Toroato,� Argyle Street home in Enl- is 1903 with a degree in med. bro. Funeral service will be icine. He began his medicai,beld Saturday at 2 pas, from practice in Princeton and also Knox United Church, Embry. practised in Woodstock. Rev. John. Davies will officiate, During. World War 1, be ser- assisted by Rev. A. G- Pease, ved overseas, heading A Com- Burial will be made in the panp, 1st Battalion CEF a'North Embre Cemetery, , France. He was wounded and Contributions to the Wood, returned to Canada. He later stock Rotary Club for the Crip- took the 71st Battalion, which,pled Children committee, would 'he formed to France and was be gratefully appreciated. A known as a front line colonel. masome service will be held He was awarded the Distin- from Dr. Sutherland's home guished Service Order for the Friday at 8 p.m, order the aus- achievements of his battalion. pices of St. John's Lodge 104 Dr, Sutherland retired to Em AF and AM Norwich. bro in 19M living in the estate of his grandfather, Donald Ma- theson, the founder of the village of Embro. He was a member of Knox United Church, Embro, the On - Oxford bookmobile starts quarterly visits on Monday Deer hunting is ruled out An open deer-hunthie season will not he held in O s f 0 r d County thk year. The hunting season h a pro, ject of the Fish slid {1'ildlite branch oi the Ontario Depart- ment of Lands and Forests, ie co-operation with the various counties. Council agreed to bold an open season if two of three surroundinti counties. Perth, Waterloo and Brant., held one. The season is planned f o r Nov. 2, 3 and 4. Citizens ex-officia in Tavisl W 3.R. Ccrm,f,.dmt I5111'er TAVISTOCK — The citizens eirtt6e of Tavistack paid tribute t o on we their. former reeves, clerk -area -ion Waste disposal causes concern Garbage disposal, especially for commercial and industrial waste, could become a major problem in the county a n d should be solved on a county- wide basis before problems arise according to Ingersoll aid- erman, Allan Ward. Aid. Ward voiced his concern over garbage disposal at the joint meeting last night be- tween Woodstock and Oxford County planning boards. Aid. Ward is one of Ingersoll's rep- resentatives to the county board. He urged the municipalities to address themselves to the prob- lem of where to dispose of waste now and cited the acute problems already faced by lar- ger urban centres such as Lon - doe. He said the problem of where to put waste is an "inter-muni- cipaljurisdictional problem." He warned that the problem of what to do with municipal and industrial waste has to he solv- ed jointly and wondered what will happen when Woodstock and Ingersoll use up their pres- ent land fill sites, Oxford County warden Stan- ley Gehring suggested the Ox- ford County Health Unit might supervise garbage disposal on I county -wide basis and cited the problem as one of two left to he solved for the county to be a complete region. Fon er, ' M Rudy 1950 ) plaque and it treasu Sesser rented set. The lowmi clerk Haroli from Sasso] Wilford Corp, reeve served from 1945-1947 and Robert Rudy ser- ved as reeve from 1949.1963 and as Oxford Warden in 1950. Among those attending was Oxford's warden Stanley Gehr- ing, reeve of South Norwich and county clerk -treasurer Ian Coles of Ingersoll. Former reeve Wilford Corp wasunable to attend the din- ner. FROM LEFT former reeve, Harold Wilker, former clerk -treasurer Charles Klein, present reeve, William Duck - low, former reeve Robert FLAG POLES Oxford County Council has approved a Department of Pub - lie Works request to install two flag poles at the entrance of the county Jail. County committee meetings scheduled The various committees of 10 a.m. in the county roads of. Oxford County Council will belfice. Oxford Social Services will meeting in the next month. meet June 25 at 5 p.m. in the The county committee to Oxford County Council Chamb- Woodingford Lodge held their ers. .regular monthly meeting yes- County Council will meet for terday at the home. The Oxford the last time until September on County Health Unit met today June 17 at 9:30 a.m. Council at 4 p.m. at the courthouse. members will attend the annual The Oxford County Road Com-. 'County Council Day' at the mittee will hold their regular bi- I University of Western Ontario monthly meeting Thursday atl in the afternoon. BRIGHT CHOIR VISITS WOODINGFORD Rudy and former assessor, Charles Quehl look at a plaque presented to Robert Rudy at a civic reception held in Stratford on Wednesday,. REPAIRS Council reported that A. J. Lampman of Woodstock has been contracted to make the necessary repairs to the roof of the County Courthouse and the Oxford Health Unit $472,136.75 budget is set 1 by South Norwich council On a return visit, after a Led by Mrs. George Shcard, piano rentals performed by year's absence, the Bright the chair presented a number members of the group. Intro - United Church Junior Choir of choral selections inter, ductions were made by James ontertoinpd the residents of spersed with several sulo Quick. Woodingford Lodito recently. An old soldier is laid to rest EMBRO — Approximatey 500 friends, relatives and associates attended the funeral of Dr. D. M. Sutherland of Embro held on Saturday. Dr. Sutherland died Thursday in Woodstock General Hospital ! at the age of 90. During his long distinguished career, Dr. Suth- erland wore four different hats, that of a country doctor, states- man, soldier and world travel- ler. Dignitaries attending the ser- vice were Wallace Nesbitt (PC. oxford), Gordon 'Sparky' Innes (Lib -Oxford) and James Brown, a representative of the federal Liberal government. Dr. Suther- land was the Minister of Na- tional Defence in the Bennett cabinet. from 1939 to L934 and Minister of Pensions and Na- tional Health from 1934 to I=. Funeral service was held from K n o x Presbyterian Church, Embro, with Rev. A. G. Pease officiating, assisted by Rev. J. A. Davies, retired padre of Branch 55 of the Royal Canadian Legion, Members of the Woodstock Rotary Club acted as pallbear- ers at the service. Tboy were Dr, James A. Vance, John Rut` ridge, William Dutton, Donald Hart, Charles Earn and AuM Mawat, The flower bearers were members of Branch 55 of the Royal Canadian Legion. They were A, W, Farmer, W. G, How- DR. D. M. SUTRERLAND funeral Saturday 1ett, H. F. Mighton, D. McBtm. ney, G. Beattie, J. A. Anoerson, R. F. Woodall and A. Mills: Dr. Sutherland was the found= er and first president of the Woodstock Rotary Club in 1924, He also helped form Branch 55 ! of the Royal Canadian Legion and served as their fist prod dent in 19S and 19X. He was M Gently made honorary President' of the hraneh. Ur. Sutherland was buried for d the North Embro Cemetery- 10 ,0 Norwich museum opening draws crowd of 1,500 By !O-ANNE THOMPSON NORW ICH — It felt like a trip into the lath century, coed'• plete with a stagecoach, steam engines. and ladies w e a r i n g ... long, hooped skirts. The mood' The museum building was was perfectly set for the open- donated to the historical society ing of a tribute to the past. too years ago by the Society Saturday marked the outcome i of Friends. A member of the of years of work and planning group- Miss Elma Haight, pre - Di a lot a; people. The iet,_ of_ sented the keys to the society. District Historical Societ}- of -I The chairman of the program ficia➢y opened their new ran"! was Leslie Dickson, director of More than 1,500 people turned i the society, Greetings were obrought to the group by Wallace out to witness the event, coed mencing with an 'antique' par- Nesbitt (MP -Oxford) and Stan - Gordon ade_ The parade, headed by the nines (MPP-Oxford) Norwich Musical Society, start- ley Gehring. Warden of Oxford ed from the Norwich Fire Hall, County, along Main Street West, to the Also present were A l b e r t museum grounds. Cornwell, reeve of North Nor. Included in the parade was a with Township; Kenneth Pol. horse-drawn hay redder, antique lard, reeve of Norwich; and cars and tractors, the village Wilfred Bishop, chairman of fue engine and antique steam archives, Norwich and District engines. Historical Society. T h e guest Three members of the original speaker of the afternoon was bistmzeal society were the horn Sheldon S. Carroll, curator of wed guests at the opening the numismatic collection of the Miss Ethel Pelden, Howard Bank of Canada- Present for Clayton and A. L. Bushell. the ceremony was V- N. Styrme The Historical soclety, bead- ed by Lavern Irving, president, A spent considerable time and money renovating the building and the grounds. Various fund - of the Ontario Department of raisingevents were held to Tourism and Information. raise money for this -purpose. Mr. Carroll, formerly of Nor- wich and former secretary of the historical society, said Can- society consists of Iavern Irv- adians are becoming more in- ing, president; Paul M o o r e, terested in their past. He said, past president; Harold W i 1- "H we don't know where we've been, bow do we know where ,Hams first vice-president; Mrs. we're going?" Marie Avey; second vice-presi- dent; Walter Haight, secretary - treasurer; Robert Parkhill, Mr, Carroll said Norwich has Ronald Dennis. Wilfred Bishop, a proud history and the museum Mrs. Lettice Hoover, D o n a I d - - was a tribute to the pioneers of MacPherson and William But- the village. Wilfred Bishop ask- ler, directors. ed the residents of Norwich to - prepare- their family trees for Leslie Dickson is. the North use in the museum. The dedica- Norwich Township representa- tion of the building was given tive with Paul M. Moore re - by Rev. George German, of presenting the village. William Norwich Baptist Church. Butler is the chairman of the The museum was originally official opening committee. The -- housed in the basement of the curator of the museum is Mrs.' - Norwich Public Library and Hilton Hilliker assisted by Mrs. GUEST SPEAKER of the was. moved to the upstairs of Greta Simmons. afternoon was Sheldon S. the post office The antiques - - Carroll, curator of the uum- were moved to its present lo- Theday ended with a chicken ismatic collection of the Bank cation last year and the room barbecue held on the museum of Canada. Mr. Carroll, Be- at the post office is still used grounds, attended by more than livering his speech; is a form - for storage purposes. 700 people. er Norwich resident and -a former s-cretary of the Nor. wich and District Historical Society- Mr- Carroll praised the group for their efforts and spoke briefly on the pur- pose of a museum. The Daily Sentinel -Review, Mon . June 15, 1970 Pop Oxford wants Blenheim Tp. excluded from proposed new region Free Puss Woodstock Bureau WOODSTDCK — A newly- p r o p o s e d Waterloo County area should not include the northeast quadrant of Blen- heim Township, Oxford Coun- ty council win recommend to Municipal Affairs Minister W. Darcy W. Keough. Oxford Comity c o u n c 11 passed a resolution Wednm- day to recommend to the mm- inter that "no action be taken' on a -'tentative suggestion" of the Dr. Stewart Fyfe report in regard to. the inclusion of a portion of Blenheim Township in the new Waterloo County area. Council has pointed out they have, on their awn initiative, begun discussions and studies of local government reform. Information available indi- cates Blenheim Township is oriented toward Woodstock and Oxford County more strongly than toward Waterloo County, council states in its report A report, prepared for Ox- ford by Brian Turnbull and Associates, urban and regional consultants, Kitchener, quotes a thesis being prepared by Al- lan S. O'Neill at Waterloo Lu- theran University, studying communities of interest in the Guelph -London a r a a, that most residents in Blenheim Township shop for groceries within the township or In Woodstock. Most comparison shopping has been done, it states, in Woodstock or in London be- cause of easier access by au- tomobile. Factors considered in the study included highway travel flows, telephone message flows, newspaper distribution, ethnic background and rate of population growth. One of its conclusions is that Blenheim Township is natural- ly oriented toward Woodstock and Ingersoll. Although some people from the township work in Waterloo County, it states, there are more who work in Paris, Brantford and the Woodstock area. The majority of the township's workers, who are not full-time farmers, are em- ployed within the township, particularly in the village of Plattsville, it states. County council action fol- lowed that of Blenheim Town- ship council and the planning board, both of which went on record as "strenuously object- ing" to the proposed Fyfe re- port plan. The Fyfe report, township officials said, includes more than 25 per cent of the land or about 22,000 acres, a popula- tion of about 1,000 persons and assessment of $1,500,000. The total 1060 township population was 4,428, assessment V.- 506,353 and its area 67.000 acres. A southwest boundary line of the new proposed Waterloo County area runs north -south along Oxford County Road 3 and extension northward, through the centres of Wash- ington and Drumbo, and east - west, one concession south of Drumbo. Brian Turnbull and Asso- ciates stressed in the brief Unit the inclusion of the por- tion of Blenheim Township is part of an "alternative" pro- posal and not one of the "strong recommendations" in the Fyfe report. Oxford's reply stales school district boundares do net co- and Paris dignct high school inside with the proposed boundaries, considered by the Fyfe report as "afftai dy de- sirable." Oxford criticised the Fyfe report statement that "in each case these are arm from which children go to school in the review area." The portion of Blenheim Township in the Waterloo study includes part of the Wa- terloo -Ward bigtt school area area. The minister crt municipal affairs had artuested written comments on the Fyfe report, relea`ed Marr-t 10 in Kitchen ner, by July L A 111240,01110 Waterloo ability propo�eii two cities, ate eto- bracing Kitchener and ' Wtleh too and the otbet owferigt Gait. Preston and Hewelet, is part of a regional costpialt ON Waterloo Couuk3- C, J THE Two mayors invited UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO 1' iSC. 1: PROGRAMME FOR THE VISIT OF THE COUNTY COUNCILS OF BRUCE ELGIN GREY HURON KENT LAMBTON MIDDLESEX OXFORD PERTH WELLINGTON June 17, 1970 GREETINGS The Board of Governors, the Senate and the Faculties welcome the members of the visiting County Councils and trust that their visit may be a very pleasant one. County roads officials end 3-year course oxford Gruoly road employ- of the province. There were sp- ieb recently graduated ,from proximately 4M mad employ- variou.l read courses, held at ees in attendance this year, the linivereity of Guelph. Donald Pratt, Oxford County 'phree employees of the Court. Road Superintendent, Is the .ty Itoads Department success- director of the C S. Anderson fully completed a three-y e a r road school. Graduates of the course, at the T. J. Mabony advanced surveying course road school, on road and 'bridge were James E. Hornsby, Till, construction and mainteasnee.Isnnburg road superintendent; "rhe graduates are Le i g h W.isnd William D Smith, of RR 4 llarlington of RR 2 Drumbo;lErnbro, Weal 2orra Township .Ralph Huggina of RR t Cur -road superintendent. saes, East Oxford Township There were two graduates of road superintendent and Don- the sport course en r»slnten- ald 1.. Morrua of Beachville. once and management. Herbert All the road schools and else- Ralkwlll of Dnnuho, Blenheim sec at the university are apon- scrod by the Ontario Good Township road superintendent, Roads Association of St, Them- and Albert. Freeman of RR 2 aa. The Unrea-year course is sb Norwich, North Norwich Town - tended by municipal road sup.. ship road superintendent, sue- ermteniJema from all sections easefully completed the course, to join county study about regional rule It will be up to Woodstock city council now whether or not Woodstock takes part in region- al government discussions for ,the whole county. Mayor W. E. Allen of Wood- stock and Mayor Gordon Henry of Ingersoll last night attended a meeting with a Oxford County council committee sot up to in- vestigate the feasibility of a 11 county wide government. Mayor Allen said today the meeting was purely .explor- atory." Jae said he will recom- mend to city council that reo- resentatives of the city be sent to the next scheduled meeting !of the county regional govern- ment group on .June 22• How- ever, the mayor said, it will be council's decision now whether m• notto continue the discuss- ions with the county and Ineer- sol1. Mayor Allen described the formation by the county of the committee to study regional government as a "defensive ',measure" to stave off the ap- proach of other study groups on regional government in azeas around the county. :MAYOR HENRY I The idea of a county -wide sys- tem was first advanced by Mayor Henry in his inaugural MAYOR .ALLEN ... Woodstock address In Ingersoll town coun- cil. He suggested that the coun- ty is a reasonable unit, goo - graphically and economically. He was concerned that region- al government studies will take bites out of Oxford county unless the councils of the county and other municipalities co-operate Odd, but welcome, letters reach Oxford County clerk Children say the funniest ,things and no one knows bet- ter than Len Coles, county clerk -treasurer, As the end of the school year approaches, more and more ischool children are going on ,field trips and taking tours a. round the county. Recently a large number of pupils from ,county schools have been tour - ling the Oxford County Building, guided by Mr. Coles. Mr. Coles has received a number of thank -you notes from the pupils. Due young boy in a class of approximately 35 pupils toured the building and 'started his letter: Dear Mr. Coles, You might remember me..... Another public school pupil wrote: "Dear Mr. Coles, Thank you for telling us about the courthouse. Even though I didn't hear the whole thing, 1 though it was very good." Road jobs delayed 'dove county roads projects are being held up by Oxford County property - owners, Donnld Pratt, County Roads Superintendent, said the pro- jects involved the land of ap- proximately nine property-ovn- ers who either refuse to sell their land to the county or act thela prices too high, Mr. Pratt said the county must acquire 17 Meet ou each aide of a cooly road, which Ill. Volvo& approximately lour 'arros of laid in a mile. Land bps just.. been acquired for a project on Sweaburg Road, 2,21 mile- -from the south. Ihounclary of Woodstock to Swes- lnurg: Tltc county plans to come During his tours, Mr. Coles relates some of the interesting history behind the county jail. One grade four girl wrote to Mr. Coles and said, "I hope you catch all the criminals." Another. letter stated: "De a Mr, Coles. Thank you for tell- ing me about the courthouse and telling me about the mon- key and that man that got hung." One .grade four student told Me' Coles "I'd really like to be the county Warden and sit on those soft chairs." Another young girl asked bur. Coles if they still used the two canons on the front lawn of the courthouse. Central Senior Public School would be in trouble if they did! py property owners pletel-v reconstruct and widen the road by approximately tti ,feet. Mr, Pratt said the mad will be paved next year. Mr, Pratt said the road pro- jects could possibly be held up until the spring. Also at a stand -still is the Ox, ford County Roads Needs study. 'Me =,00n report, being pre- pared by A. M. Spriet and As- sociates of London, was started in Dec. 1W. Mr, Pratt sold the report gives definite projections for the next five years with hafefi. title forecasts for the next flee years after that. The study sets: down $14,OM,,000 worth of ,toad construction netts for the next to years, MAYOR HFNF.f- .. . fager,rtu to form a counts m_nt. The idea was to make a coua• ty decision on a regional `sys- tem of government before a system is imposed on the countr- from Toronto and the count.- is. split up. -. The Fcfe Study on regional government for the Kitchener- Waterloo -Galt area included- It part of Blenheim Township;. Ae- cording to John Hofstetter, reeve of the township. people in the township would rather re- main with Oxford County. 11FINIBERS Members of the county earn - mitt" on regional government include Oxford County warden Stanley Gehring, who is also reeve of South Norwich Tawtt- sh.ip; Douglas Muir reeve of East Nussouri Township: Wi11- win Ducklow, reeve of the ciil ale of Tavistock; Mr. Hostet- ter: Kenneth Peers. reeve 'Of East Oxford Township; Ken- neth Webster, reeve of the town of TiRsonburg and G e r r v Staples, deputy clerk -treasurer of the county. Regional government was tee main topic of discussion last week when the Oxford County planning hoard and the City ,of Woodstock planning boardmet together for the first time Wan den Gehring, a member of ibis Oxford County planning board, indicated at that time that Woodstock and Ingersoll mayors would be invited to 11st sight's meeting ' The warden said at that time he wanted to allay fears that the regional government study committee set- up within cuun- ty council was "a clique.". Mayor Allea acid he tropes city council will sit least tied out what the costs at an 111 depth study on regional govern- ment for the county might be. lie ttxhcated he does not favor '•change far the sake at change." but added that it (hi(, .area can be run more elYtefent.-- I,v and better w24h 1 regional type government then he would supp, rt the root". THE • UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO 1878it 1970 PROGRAMME FOR THE VISIT OF THE COUNTY COUNCILS OF BRUCE ELGIN GREY HURON KENT LAMBTON MIDDLESEX OXFORD PERTH WELLINGTON June 17, 1970 GREETINGS The Board of Governors, the Senate and the Faculties welcome the members of the visiting County Councils and trust that their visit may be a very pleasant one. WEDNESDAY, June 17, 1970 • 3:00 p.m. Assembly at Middlesex College Theatre 3:15 p.m. Welcome on behalf of the Chairman of The Board of Governors, The President, Faculty and Staff —Mr, W. C. P. Baldwin 3:20 p.m. Introduction of Speaker —Vice -President, Admini- stration and Finance —Mr. R. B. Willis 3:25 p.m. Address: Dr. O. H. Warwick Vice -President (Health Sciences) Topic: "Centres for Community Medicine —Supply and teaching of Family Doctors" 3:45 p.m. to 3:50 p.m. Question Period 4:00 p.m. Buses leave for Canadian Forces Base, London Officers' Mess, Wolseley Barracks 4:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. Reception 5:30 p.m. Buses return to Somerville House, University of Western Ontario 6:00 P.M. Dinner in the Great Hall, Somerville House 7:30 p.m, Dispersal Buses of the County Councils are requested to park in front of Middlesex College ready to depart for the reception at Canadian Forces Base Officers' Mess, Wolseley Barr- acks at 4:00 p.m. Members of the Middlesex County Council are requested to park their cars in the Visitors' Parking Area behind University College as a bus will be provided to transport members to and from Wolseley Barracks. Wardens, or their representatives, are re- quested to gather in the Graduate Students' Dining Room, Somerville House, on return from the reception. COUNTY OF BRUCE Warden —Mr. Howard Chesney Clerk -Treasurer —Mr. W. F. Forrester • COUNTY Reev ELGIN Wardenen —Reeve W. R. Caverly Clerk -Treasurer —Mr. H. L. Johnson 11 COUNTY OF GREY Warden —Mr. Lindsay Inglis Clerk -Treasurer —Mr. H. J. Henderson COUNTY OF HURON Warden —Mr. Roy Westcott Clerk -Treasurer —Mr. John G. Berry COUNTY OF KENT Warden —Mr. M. Crawford Clerk -Treasurer —Mr. Sherman Brown COUNTY OF LAMBTON Warden —Mr, Alvin Perritt Clerk -Treasurer —Mr. J. A. Hair COUNTY OF MIDDLESEX Warden —Mr. Ronald M. Crawford Clerk -Treasurer —Mr. Harold Eastman COUNTY OF OXFORD Warden —Mr. Stanley Gehring Clerk -Treasurer —Mr. L. K. Coles COUNTY OF PERTH Warden —Mr. Ross McPhail Clerk -Treasurer —Mr. A. W. Blowes COUNTY OF WELLINGTON Warden —Mr. W. Kenneth Denny Clerk -Treasurer —Mrs. Vera Myers 0 Regional government studied City officials of the county liaison committee have met with the Oxford County council commit- tee studying regional government for the area ac- carding to Mayor W. E. Allen Mayor Allen, aldermen VI Adams and William Dutton were the committee that met with the coun- ty, Mayor Allen said a report, paid for by county council, was presented to the meeting. No announcement of the contents of the report will be made until the report is presented to aunty council. The county body has adjourned for the sum- mer and will not meet again until September. The county committee Is studying the feasibil- fty of an oxford County regional type government to stave off encroachment on the boundaries of the county included in other regional government stud- ies. Mayor Allen said there were parts of the repor' he favored but some parts that he did not like. did not elaborate. w0mor Township 6u/i0/O Township IN '. GERSOLL TO ANNEX 700, ACRES Oxford County council has decided to oppose the inclusion of the northeast corner of Blenheim Township in a new Waterloo County regional govern- ment proposal. Part of the Oxford criticism of the proposal notes second- ary school area boundaries do not coincide with boundaries proposed hl a $120,000 report by Dr. Stewart Fyfe on the Waterloo plan. The dark, bro- ken line shows the area proposed for inclusion in the Waterloo plan and the shaded lines mark school boundaries. Work started on Otter Creek bridge Construction began Monday on a bridge to replace the orfg- Inul %pan over Otter Creek in the South Norwich Township vB- lage of Otterville, Donald Pratt, county road superintendent, said the now brhtge will be 05 feet in length and 30 feet wide. There will be five foot wide sidewalks on each aide of the structure. Mr. Pratt said the original bridge wan constructed in 1937 and the existing abutments will be used in the new structure. lie said the bridge wns built to allow for future widening. During the construction per. led, traffic will be re -rotated to Cornell Road to the south and Concession 7 of South Norwich Township to the north, Mr. Pratt said the apprwtt• mete cost of the project In $40; 000 including soma work on the approaches and the drain- age system. By RON LEVETT INGERSOLL — Ingersoll has been granted roughly It a If of .the 1,435 acres of land it pro- posed to annex from West Ox- ford Township. In a decision handed d o w n Monday and received here Tuesday, the Ontario Municipal Board allowed annexation of the westerly portion of the proposed parcel, bounded on the south by Highway 401 and on the east by Whiting Street, about 700 acres. The application for annexation of lands east of Whiting Street was dismissed. The OMB ordered that the so- called Takla property, approxi- mately 100 acres presently un- der purchase option by the In- gersoll Industrial Development Corporation, become part.of the town as July 1, 1970. The remainder of the lands :will come within the towa's limits January 1, 19,L II -PAGE REPORT In summing up an 11-page re- port on the two weeks ofhear- ings into the application, the OMB concluded that: "Ingersoll has been a pocket of slow growth if not stagna- Studded tires resolution gets response An Oxford County Council re- solution, recommending a ban on the manufacturing of stud- ded tires and an eventual ban on their use, is being fairly well accepted by other 0 n t a r 10 counties and regions. Len Coles county clerk -trea- surer, said 12 counties and reg- tons have supported the pro- posal while nine have turned It .down or taken no action. The resolution has been sup- ported by the following counties: Brant, Elgin, Haldi- mand. Rent, Prince Edward, the united counties of Northumber- land and Durham, Huron, Mid- dlesex, Wentworth, Lennox and Addington, as well as the Nia- gara and the Ottawa -Carlton Regions. The resolution was not endor- sed by the following counties: Ontario, Perth Peterborough, ,Bruce, Peel, Hastings, the unit- ed counties of Stormont, Dun- das and. Glengary, Norfolk and Leads and Grenville County council made the pro- posal recently to end the dam- age done to highways by the studded tires, Irwin Haskott, Minister of Transport, notified council that the Oxford resoho- tion will receive full consider- ation. The anomaly seems to be neighboring municipalities shown marked economic "The town has all the facil- ities and potential" to break through this static barrier. "The applicant town should be allowed to expand its borders to permit the introduction of a new era of industrial develop ment- Not a single witness was able to furnish this Board with the quantum of need based on industrial demand. "Because of the remoteness of the industrial development east of Whiting Street and the south- erly projection thereof, and hav ing regard to the land uses pro- Posed and, the extent of exist- See Page S for town react oM resides ial lands now with- ie town limits, this area of should not be considered annexation- t "The applicant, however, !should be given jurisdiction of sufficient lands to take care of its needs now and welt into the future, The costs of service ing the proposed industrial lands were considered in exhibit 41, This encompassed only the re- mainder of the lands contained. 'yin the application. "There would appear tobe sufficient lands designated f or industrial purposes within these remaining lands (see exhibit 101) to take care of industrial needs within the foreseeable fu- ture having regard to potential demand for both large a ad jsmall parcels of land as may be required. If the applicant jhas proved itself by introducing '.so many industries that further land may be required, it is axiomatic that further appli- cation for annexation may be made. This area would also include some land considered as ,prime industrial land abutting Highway Of and would effect jsome planning control over one. Iof the approaches he the town. "In considering the appropria+ itehess of all lands applied for lexcept the lands east of Whiting ,!Street and its projection, it would seem from the financial data introduced as evidence that the township may continue as a healthy and viable munie- ipality. The residents in the town and township tan only benefit in the long run from now plan- ned economlt growth *von it there may be some resulting in- dividual disadvantages t a x- wise," L J E i i Welfare cases are on decline states official Welfare cases in Oxford Coun- ty have been declining the last few months, due to seasonal em- ployment, according to Gerald MacKay, county welfare admin- istrator. Expenditures 78,142.56 in 5 months For.the period Jan. I to May 31, total net expenditures for Oxford Social Services amount During the month of March, the caseload was 366 decreasing to 382 in April and 289 in May. Mr. MacKay said, "Lack of suitable employment is still one of the major obstacles we have to contend with. This seems to be a province - wide problem." Me MacKay and two Oxford Social Services employees re Gently wrote examinations in the welfare administration course. He reported he received 75 per cent in economies while Mrs, Kristine Kaye achieved 68 per cent in the history of social services. Mrs. Nanette Down - ham received a mark of 75 per cent in the 'history of social ser. ed to $78,142.56. vices. Gross expenditures amounted IN MAY to $209,145.97 with $237,253.65 re- During the month of May, venue received in the form of Oxford Social Services received subsidies, leaving net costs of 92 applications requesting as- 961,892.32 sistance. This is compared to In the County of Oxford, ex- I'll applications in April. Thir- penditures amounted to $144,- teen cases were referred for ,490.10 with a total revenue of family benefits, down six from $114,676.23, leaving net costs of April. $29.611.87. During the month of May, 289 Expenditures for the City of cases were receiving assistance Woodstock reached $ll2,139.811from Oxford Social Services. for the five -month period. With This is down from 332 cases in a total revenue of $8824604April. During May, 914 persons net costs amounted to $23:893:77: were receiving assistance, corn. In the Town of Ingersoll. ex- .pared to 1,031 •persons in ApriL penses totalled $9,516.06 with a.. total revenue amounting to $34,- 129.39. The net costs amounted to $81366.69. Net administration costs for the period amounted to $16,250. 24. Of this total Oxford Cou nty's !share was $7,437.73 with Wood- illsaegf6,e sos share oadministration Costs amounted to $2,512.29. Total net expenditures for Ox- ford County amounted to $37,- 049.60 with a net expenditure for Woodstock of 930,193.99. Inger. soll's net expenditures amount. el to $10,M.97. New township crest adopted in E. Nissouri Br S.-R. CwTespondcnt KINTORE — At a special meeting of the 'East Nissouri Council the council officially adopted their new township crest. The ere at includes a three part shield with sections for the pioneer, farming and conservation. The pioneers are represented by a plow, farming by a sheaf of grain and conservation by a Canada goose in flight. The township name appears 'across the top of the shield with a spray of five maple leaves on either side at the bottom. The crest which has been mounted on a plaque hands a j listing of 75 names of former reeves, deputy reeves, township clerks and read superintendents .since the township was incor- porated in 7950. The plaque will band in the East Nisenuri council chamber as a memorial to those who served the township. A number of smaller crests have been ordered which will be available for presentation pur. poses. Planning board members get department approval no 1970 membership of the Oxford County Planning Board 'has been approved by tte De- �pertinent of Municipal Affairs. The chairman of the board is Thomas J. Comiskey of RR 2 Ingersoll with W. G. Lazenby' of RR 4 Woodstock as vice- chairman. G R. Staples, deputy clerk -treasurer for O x f o r d .County is the secretary -treasur- er. The board's planning con- sultant is Derek Little of the 'Municipal Planning Consultants Company limited, Toronto. MEMBERS The members of the board are as follows with the munic- ipality they represent and the expiry date of their term. John S ip p e 1, Blandford Township, Jan. 1, MI; John Hofstetter, ' Blenheim Township, Jan, 1, 1971; James R. Patience, East Nissoari, Jan. 1, 1971; Leslie Dickson, North Norwich, Jan. 11, 1971- Alan Ward, Ingersoll, Oxford, Jan. 1, 1971; Clair Min- ' ler, North Oxford, Jan. 1, 1971; Archie Longworth, West Oxford, Jan. 1, 1971. Robert Blair, West Zorra, Jan. 11, 1971; Ain alWard, Ingersoll, Jan. 1, 10n Jahn J. Nadalin, Beaehville, Jan 1, 1971; Bert Armstrong, Embro, Jan. 1, 1911; Robert Moodie, Norwich, Jan. 1, 3011; Warden Stanley Gehring, County of Oxford, Jana. 1, 1971; Webber Lazenby, East. Zorra, Jan. 1, "'T VTITT Moggach Jr.; Beachvite, Jan. 1, 1971; Frank Smith, Embro, Jan. 1, 1971; Donald Sweazy, Norwich, Jan. 1, 1971; Ken Bul ten, Woodstock, Jan. 1, 1971. The following members have terms expiring Jan. 1, 1972. Alex Hossack, East Nissouri; J. H. Lester, North Norwich; Thomas J. Comiskey, North Ox- ford; WBbur Cuthbert, West Oxford; C. A. Robins, Ingersoll; and Tim Breuls, Blenheim Township. TERMS END The following members will leave their positions on t h e planning board Jan. 1, 1973: Jack Griffin, Blandford Town- ship; W. G. Lazenby, East Ox. ford; William Illbury, East Zor. ra; Ernest F. Garner, W e a It Zorrs and A. M. MacKenzie of Woodstock. PIPELINE PROGRESSES NEAR HICKSON Workmen are shownhere in- been installing the pipe line Provincial Pipelines of Sarn. stalling a pipeline that will on Highway 19. south of Hick- ia, The contractor is Mo- carry oil from province to sonthis week. The oil pipe. Deets of London. province. The workers have line is a project of later. City seeks 140 acres Application for annexation by the city of 140 acres of land in East Oxford Township will be made to the Ontario Munic- ipal Bosrd. The township has agreed not to oppose the annexation move according to Mayor W, E. Al. len. The move will bring 140 acres into the city including one re- sidential property and land be- longing to Timberjack Ma- chines Ltd, who plan a new plant in the area. The land is on the north side of Parkinson Road just east of the city limits. It is tieing re- zoned by the county from agri- cultural to industrial. A bylaw to authorize the ap- plication for annexation passed council last night. Councillors also approved a bylaw to apply to the provincial legislature for a private bill to authorize the payment of $5,5W to the town- ship instead of a Compensating grant. The application for this private bill will be fncladed with one already beingsought by. council to legalize the p u r- chase by the city of 300 acres of land for housing in East Zorra Township: The purchase aL,W land. _lin..-Fast Zorra has been declared illegal. Borden plant at standstill as farmers continue blockade Kintore branch City purchases of the library changing sites KINTORE — Come Septem- Mrs. Krompart said the early her, the Kintom branch of the library boards explored various Oxford County Library will be possibilities of raising funds. located In a iaim at the Mas- Concerts and plays were a ma- onic Hall. The library was formerly lo. Joe source of revenue. Mrs. called in the home of Mrs. Kmmpart said the most original Harry Haynes, librarian for 41 fund-raising project was the sale years. Mrs. Haynes recently re- ui jack rabbits. tired due to ill health requiring The Kintore Hunt Club dona- the re -location of the branch, ted $25 to the library and gave Mrs. S. L. Krompart, Oxfordtherabbits to the library to dis- Couut-v librarian, said the new pose of. The library sold the later libariaa dace. will be named at ? rabbits for 13 cents apiece. The Kintore Public Library Mrs. Krompart said the lib - was organized in 1895 with the rary became a member of the first librarian E. J. Pearson, Oxford County Library Assoei- being appointed in 1896, at a ation in 1936. The Oxford County salary of 512 per year. Library Cooperative was form - The library report of 1898 in- ed in 1949 and the Kintore. Pub, dicated there were 453 vol- he Library became .a member umes in the library with a cir• of the Oxford County Library culation of 920. in 1901, the Iin 1965. library received $20. slit first) Last year, the circulation of municipal grant. the library was 5,942. Action started against misuse of relief funds TaJ-90NBURG — Prosecu- Services, visited the Johnson lions have started here for the home twice and was unable to misuse of county welfare funds. find the couple at home. He A Tillsonburg man, J a in s phoned Johnson's employer to Harvey Johnson was laid off learn of his whereabouts. work last December while liv-I plant officials •reported John- ing with his common-law wife, son had been called back to Mary Waters and five children. work Jan. 5. Johnson was sole They applied to the Oxford So- cial Services Department and sequently charged under the received $618.51 worth of wel- General Welfare Assistance Act fare payments from January un- of Ontario. til mid -March. The accused man appeared In The county cut off payments,Tbllsonburg provincial court, after Johnsonfailed to return a I criminal division and was con - standard form declaring other visted of the charge. Judge R. sources of income. T.. A. Cos- G Groom ordered Johnson to ulk, of Woodstock, a field re -(repay the county as well as a presentative with Oxford Social $25 fine. former church Library facilities in the city will lie expanded sometime within the next few years. Al- though there Is no indication when the expansion will take 'place a bylaw passed by the Icily council last night authoriz- es the purchase of property ad- 'Ijaconl to the existing art gal, ilery, and public library for the expansion The property belonging once jto Bethany Lutheran Church will be bought by the city from the County of Oxford f o r $45,090. The property is located north of the present library. Money was included in this year's capital budget for the purchase at, the request of the library board. Mayor W. E. Allen said the building is being leased now to a church congregation who will continue to rent the space until the city has fundA available to renovate. the building for a children's library. The children's library is now located in the basement of the library building on H u n t e r Sire,pt. Vaccinations over until fall Dr. G, Q. Sutherland, Oxford County Medical Officer of Health, announced today the program of German measles vaccination for pupils in Grades one and two in Oxford County has been completed ,until the fall. Many of the schools had a 100 per cent response to the program, said Dr_ Sutherland, however, it was not passible to cover all the schools due to the lateness of the term - About 2,000 of the estimated 2,600 pupils have been done, The fall program will complete Grades ooc and four plus those who were missed during June,. Reduced library grant okayed A grant of one -quarter of last year's grant is to be given to Oxford County Library by the county board of education. Bookmobile service to rural schools had 'been supplied by the county library without a fee to last year. The library board then requested a contribution to cover the service. The education board has now approved that one -quarter of last year's grant of $9,455 should. be given to the library board, County Council will study amalgamation road effects Oxford County Council last night supported Warden Stan- ley Gehring in his proposal to make a thorough study of the effects of the amalgamation of Tillsonburg and Dereham Town- ship on the county system. Warden Gehring, .reeve of South Norwich Township, call- ed a special session of county council in order to get coun- ed's views on the proposal. An Ontario Municipal Board (hearing to discuss the proposal was held Aug. 4 in Tillsonburg 'Town Hall. The County of Ox- I,ford'was represented. by James ICarnwath, the county solicitor. Also in attendance were Warden Gehring, Gerald Stap- les, county deputy clerk-trea-. Fanshawe College fire destroys barn snrer and Albert Cornwell, reeve of North Norwich Town- ehip and chairman of the coun- ty roads committee. The county asked for an ad- journment of the hearing to make a closer study of the pro- pusal. The hearing was adjourn- ed until Sept, 3. The county received word of the hearing on June 25. Since County Council does not meet during the summer months, Warden Gehring took it upon himself to make his personal feelings known to the Municipal Board. Last night his actions were supported by the mem- bers of council. Warden Gehring stated that although both municipalities are MUNICIPAL DONATIONS Municipal donations to the an- nual Woodstock Fair this year amount to $735. Woodstock coa- 1 tributed $300; Oxford C o u ut y donated $225; East Zorra and West Oxford each gave $10D, East Oxford came through with $75 and Blandford contributed $35. OMB hearing set for Aug. 4 on Dereham amalgamation TILLSONBURG — An Ontario' Municipal Board hearing will be held here Aug, 4 to consider the proposed amalgamation be- tween the Town of Tillsonburg and Dereham Township. The hearing, requested by Tillson. burg Town Council., will be held in the municipal building. Dereham Township Council and Tillsonburg Town Council initiated a 10-man study com- mittee report last fall. Tillson. burg council approved of the proposal April 12 - and Dere- ham Township approved of the proposal In principle and called for a pleblselte. Dereham 'rownshtp property - owners and joint . owners will vote Wednesday on the proposed amalgamation. Voting will take place from 10 a,m, to 8 p.m. at Safford and Ostrander schools, Mount Elgin and Brownsville community halls and the m5i- deoce of Gordon Houser, a Wil- liam St„ Tillsonburg. Also to be used as pools will be the stores of Sydney Page of Verseboyle, Clayton Boyle of Culloden and Harry Hosner on Highway 19, The committee report recom. mended the formation of an U- member council with a mayor, reeve, deputy reeve and eight the residents involved. A meetr council mnmhers. The comhlned in8 held .Thursday in Glendale assessment would total High School, Tillsonburg drew 05, a crowd of 200 interested citi• A number of information zens. meetings have bees hold lot ells- On hand to answer queries cuss amalgamation plans wiHi were the members of the study committee, Including former (Tillsonburg mayor Bryan Jones 'Konneth Webster, reeve of Derchom Township, Ralph Mc- Laughlin, former D e r sham Township move unit K, E. Rol- land, Tillsonburg clerk-tteasur, or. part of the county system, cer- tain problems could be brought up by amalgamation. "we just want to be sure the county position will not be in jeop- ardy." REPORT A report on the effects on the county will be preparedand will be available in -two or three weeks, to be presented at the September OMB hearing- '3Ir. Gehring said if the conclusions of the report show there will be no ill effect on the country system, the county will have no objections to the move. Kenneth Webster, reeve of Tillsonburg, said if the t w o municipalities amalgamate, there will be two represent- atives with four cotes on coun- ty council. He said this will eliminate two men and three votes on council. Reeve Webster said Tillson- burg enjoys a 40 per cent re• bate on their road levy from the County of Oxford as an ur- ban road rebate. Rural munic- ipalities are not eligible for this subsidy. The villages of Tavis- tock, Embro, Reachvilie a n d Norwich also received the 40 per cent rebate. MINIMUM Mr. Webster said Tillsonburg would be willing to settle for a. 25 per cent urban rebate- which is the minimum, if the town and Dereham Township amal- gamate. Warden Gehring said they can not have two urban rebate figures in the county, which would make a 15 per cent re- duction for all eligible, urban iiuiiicipahtits, William Duck - low. reeve of Tavistoek, said he would not stand for such a reduction in his village. Reeve Ducklow also wanted to know why Mr. Webster did not make a repot of the proposed amal- gamation to the co ncil's reg` Tonal government study com- anittee, Mr. Webster is t it e chairman of the committee. County council will also pre- pare a report on the effect of the amalgamation on the county road system and the R a a d s Needs Study. • • 6 County on 1970 targets Warden Gehring claims At the half -way point in his well, according to Mr, Gehring. year as Oxford County Warden, He said he feels be has 100 per Stanley Gehring, reeve of South cent co-operation from other Norwich Township, feels he has members of council, with no accomplished everything he has conflicts of Interest. He said all set out to do thus far, decisions are made as a unit. Mr. Gehring said he planned Mr. Gehring said he feels he and initiated an additional coup• has promoted more harmonious 'ty committee — the regional relations between Oxford Coum ggoveraTneat study commfttee. ty Council and the County Mr. Gehring said he felt a deep- Board of Education. er study of the subject was ne- Mr. Gehring' said the War- cessary In the light of impend- dens' chair has been his goal Ing regional government take, . over for a number of years and he is Everything Is functioning thoroughly enjoying his year. Bright, Norwich r NORWICH — The streets of Norwich are 'paved' with slur- ry seal. Donald Pratt, Oxford County road superintendent said the ,asphalt treatment was spread last week, The contractor was R. E. Law of Port Colbourne and the cost of the face lift wa 'approximately 12,500. Mr. Pratt said the treatment oads are resurfaced s 'was applied to approximately one mile of Main Street. He said the general maintenance job is done about once every five years. The surface treatment was also applied to a section of road in the village of Bright. The cost of the project was approximate- ly $1,500 for approximately 1,500 County home sign gone, Fanshawe name takes over The last traces of the old Also included in the facelift. county home for the aged have jag program was repair work to disappeared. The Oxford can" the bricks on the exterior of the pus of Fanshawe College has building. All of the hallways and fledged cotla the look of a full- flow taken classrooms received a fresh Large white letters spelling cost of paint and new drapes out FAINSHAWE have been have been purchased, pplaced on the building and the Terry Cowley; supervisor of initials C and H, reprosonting the Oxford school, said work 'County Home,' have been re- has already begun on a small waved from the front doors, A parking lot to the rear of the large sign at the road unquas- building, The lot will facilitate tionably identifies the building from between 20 to 30 cars, as the Oxford school of the Fen- Mr. Cowley said the costof all rhawe College agricultural divi- renovations and improvements slon. totalled approximately $3,SOo. All repairs will be completed by the time classes begin on Oct. 26. Welfare in Oxford close to budget While welfare payments have four months remain stable, the May 31 came to $299,145, Par. gone up sharply in many parts budget will balance by year's I tially, balancing this were revew of Canada, Oxford County is in end, laes of $237,253. The expen& the favorable position of having ' There is a much lower output;tures covered nursing home exceeded its estimated'expendl- of welfare payments in summ"Ifees, homemaker acrvices, sad Lures by 8.3 per cent. This is than in winter, according to the . VON services, in addition to considered a workable figure department's staff. "From De -I general assistance allowances by the county social services eember to March we're swamp- (generally known as welfare). department, ed. But from April on, pay-! The revenue mainly came In the absence of administra. ments ease off as farmers need from the provincial department for Gerald H. MacKay, who is help with planting and there's of social services, which sub. on vacation, a spokesman for more employment." sidizes most of the local ser. the department said that if ex- Gross expenditures in the five- vices and allowances to about penditures in the next three or month period from Jan. 1 to I g0 per cent. This left a net cost 'of $61,892, to be met by Wood. stock, Ingersoll and the county Those bars above the front body- Separate sets of he thre- ing books are kept for the three door of the Oxford Health Unit municipalities, w i th accounts building look just a little too grim listed according to payments for an organization devoted to and revenues for welfare in the lhealth. Just kidding. three places. Woodstock's net cost for the five months was $23,03; lager- sell's was $SM6; and Oxford County's was $29,611. County clerk takes a rest These are the latest figuresle available from the mnmty`s County clerk - treasurer Leu Coles will be on social service department- High unemployment in other vacation until Sept. 1. parts of Canada has resulted in While Mr, Coles is on holidays, his duties are a heavy drain an welfare funds. The mayor of Calgary. in one taken over by Gerald Staples, deputy clerk -treasurer instance, has announced that ,welfare payments have almost Mr. Coles will be back is ample time to prepare exhausted the city's social as. for the first fall session of county council, to be held sistance budget for 1970, Sept. 22 at 10 a.m. in the county council chambers. THE OXFORD SCHOOL of Fanshawe College is now in the process of a complete transfotmatiou from theform. er county home for the aged. Renovations to the tone of $3;500 are now in progress; in. cluding Lite installation of a small parking lot and. the painting of the halls and classrooms, Large white let- deripg at the front of um �buildig.uUgtionahly idea- litfy the building as Faualtnwe elww br. J,,Awm. College. Tarry Cowley, suw - visor of the Oxford'Srbool, Standing on the front steps, proud of the way his schu,�i is taking shake. The school will be more than ready when. classes commence 01 1 P6, NOTICE TO THE TAXPAYERS OF DEREHAMI TOWNSHIP ARE WE REALLY INFORMED ABOUT THE PROPOSED AMALGAMATION? What are the answers to these questions? HYDRO — What will it Molly cost to purchase the Ontario Hydra services? Estimates have ranged from to one million dollars. How will the Tillsonburg P.U,C. service 108 square miles of municipality? POLICE — Wisat will it cost to police the municipality when the cost to maintain one policeman around the clock will be at least $40,000,00? BUILDINGS — What will be done with our $50,000.00 town- ship offices which were expanded within the lost 4 years? ROADS — Who will maintain and service the additional 35 miles of road presently under county jurisdiction? What will the additional cost be? COUNCIL — How can we have an appointed deputy reeve when this is not permitted under the Ontario Municipal Act? SERVICES — What would the projected debt financing be if amalgamation took place considering that (a) a new sewage plant, (b) extended sewage systems, (c) a new town hall and (d) I or 2 new fire halls, would be required? Who will pay for all these services? Why have the other municipalities refused to participate in dis- cussions of amalgamation? What have they to fear? DID YOU KNOW: —Thor the Township of Derehom has a general purpose debenture debt of $NIL whereas the Town of Tillsonburg already has a general purpose debenture debt of $235,624,91. —That neither the Town of Tillsonburg nor the Township of Dereham hove published their yearly financial state- ments but it is known that the Township of Derehom will hove o 1969 year-end surplus in excess of $100,000,00. In addition the township road equipment is all modern and debt free. IN SUMMARY — Where is the urgency concerning regional government in this area when no preliminary studies are yet ovoilobie for our consideration? What have we to gain from amalgamation? To sacrifice self-government in order to assume urban problems and the costs of operating a large urban municipality is rather illogical. The result must necessarily be higher taxes and a smaller voice for us in the expenditure of the same. If you don't know, come out and vote NO on July 29 — 10:00 a.m.-8:00 p.m. Delay granted in Tillsonburg OMB hearing TILL.SONBURG — An On- tario Municipal Board hearing to discuss the proposed amal- gamation between Tillsonburg and Dereham Township, went on yesterday, despite the ef- forts of Dereham Township of- ficials seeking a postponement of the hearing. However, the case was adjourned until Sept, 3 and no evidence was heard. The adjournment was request- ed by Chatham Lawyer Ralph Steele, representing the town- ship. He stated that Dereham Township council passed a re- solution July 30 opposing the proposed amalgamation. T h e Adjournment was also request- ed by James Carnwath of Woodstock, representing„ the County of Oxford. lie said Ito county has not taken a stand on the issue bul. wishes In study the impact of the proposed amalgamation on the county system. ANNEXATION Opposed to the application for adjourvivai was Grant C. Brawn of Tillsonburg, represen. tative of the town In granting the 30-day adjournment, Chair- man F. G. B ice sold It would $lye Tillsonburgg the opportun- ity to consider I£ the annexation of a smaller area would satisfy their deeds- He said, ".The town could consider seeking annex ation of a. smaller area if amal gamation is not granted." The two councils Initiated a 10-man study committee report on the proposed amalgamation last fall. Tillsonburg It a w n council unanimously approved of the move in April and Dere- ham_ Township council approv. ed of the proposal in principle and called, for a plebiscite, PLEBISCITE The township plebiscite was held July 29 with the proposal being turned down 817 to 306 voles. These are 1,971 eligible voters in Dereham Township. The committee report recent• mended the formation of an it. member council including a mayor, reeve, deputy reeve and eight council members. The combined assessmentwould total $21,277,085. Mr. Blake said the matter started earlier in the year and :should he settled so that what- ever is ordered — annexation or amalgamation — might be effective. Jan. 1, 1971, Bitting with Mr. Blake was OMB member Alan Vanklvery. Approximately 110 people at. terxled the hearing, held in Till- sonburg Town Hall. Armoury now belongs to board of education - —Free Press Woodstock Bureau An estimate of $183,279 has been set for conversion of Woodstock Armory to a new Oxford County board of education administration building —more than 100 per cent above earlier estimates —the board learned Monday night. The board purchased the building for $65.000 and had planned to spend $92,000 to convert it for office accommodation. Budget for lodge expansion, alderman tells city council Woodingford Lodge is filling 1three years to have the rest of up and Aid. William Dutton the building ready, if the mach. ,thinks we should look ahead to finery starts now. providing more space at the The city of Woodstock has 51 new county home for the aged. beds in the home. Forty-six a:e The lodge opened last year filled and there is a waiting as a Joint project of the Citylist of 36, he said.' If Woodstock, Town of Inger- soll and Comfy of Oxford. It is financed by the three) TENDERS ,municipality pays.�� Aid. Dutton is the Woodstock's represent ;the committee respc k that there are 158 beds he home with 123 residents, said there are 61 applications the other 35 beds. to alderman suggested the P was built for expansion budget forecasts in 1971. lie estimated it would take 'h-TON PICK-UP TRUCK TENDERS are invited for (1) one 1970 model 4200 GVW pick-up truck. TENDERS close at 5:00 p.m. Wednesday, September 2nd, 1970 and must be submitted on the forms as provided. TENDER forms and specifica- tions can be obtained by con- tacting D. F. Knott, Adminis- trator, Woodingford Lodge, 423 Devonshire Ave„ P.O. Box 308, Woodstock, Ontario. A.Yr-7n Dereham holds amalgamation vote Dereham Township property. of Gordon Holler of 3 William owners and jointowners voted St„ Tillsonburg and the stores today on the proposed nmalga. of Sydney Page of Verschoyle, Clayton Boyle of Culloden and motion with the Town of Till- Harry Horner on Highway 19. aonbprg. An Ontario Municipal Board Voting polls opened at 10 a.m. hearing will be held Aug. 4 at and will remain opon until 8 f1 a.m, In the Tillsonburg Town p.m. The polls are located at Hull, The hearing, requested by Salford and Ostrander schools, Tlllsonburg Town Council, will Mount Elgin and Brownsville consider the proposed su lga- comnunity balls; the residence matlon. ;at WARDEN GEHRING . calls meeting Special County Council session Oxford County Warden Stan- ley Gehring, reeve of South Nor- wich Township, has calleda special meeting of County Coun- cil tonight. The meeting will be held in the council chambers of the Ox� ford County building at 8 p.m. .W'arden Gehring called the snorting to discuss the pro", ed amalgamation betwteen. *a Town of Tillsonburg and 11116 Township of Dereham. Council' will discuss the impact of the proposal on the vaulty system. An Ontario Municipal Board bearing was held Tuesday in. the Tfllsonbur_ g Town Hall to consider the proposed amalga- tion, Dereham Township and representatives of the County of Oxford requested a one month adjournment of the hearing,. 0 10 • • BE I REHAM VOTERS REJECT PROPOSAL JERFLA .EM TOWN> H1P re- here is the Salford Public vote. Placing his ballot. in the dents mooted ^'agamst the School poll where voting box is poll clerk Austin Wil- amalgamation of the town- went 110 no votes and 13 yes son. Assisting him is M r a. ship with the Town of Till- votes. At left is Harry Dinner Janet Durham. sonburg yesterday, Pictured of Salford who just cast his Road budget being held for approval The 1970 road budget has not 'been approved by the Depart, ment of Highways and county road projects are at a stand- still. ' Donald Pratt, county road superintendent, said the budget was set at $1,43',,OOf) by the county roads committee of ox. for County Council in the spring. Mr. Pratt reported the Department of Highways has set a cutback of approximately $30r1,000 to $1,170,000. The regular bi-moonily meet- ing of the county roads commit. teat was held today, The com- mittee discussed what projects will have to tea cut hark in the county roads program, County Council meeting Friday night Members of the Oxford Coun- ty roads committee have call- ed a special meeting of Ox- ford County Council Friday at 8 P.m. T1ae meeting was called to discuss the amalgamationof the Town of Tillsonburg a n d the Township of Derebunr and its effect on the county roads system. A report to this purpose was prepared by A. M. Spriet and Associates of London at the request of the county roads committee. The report will be available for discussion Friday evening. The proposed amalgamation will be discussed Sept, 3 at a hearing of the Ontario Munic- ipal Board, to be held in Till- sonburg Town Hall. (2- omp iinentcArli Tavistock Fall Fair TAVISTOCK, ONTARIO Friday & Saturday, Sept. 11 th & 12th, 1970 ADMIT,/�r Wilfred Rosenberg R, Rudy President Not Transferable Secly Plan for amalgamation turned down 817 - 306 By JO-ANNE THOMPSON (lawyer at the hearing. He said, Dereham Township residents "The OMB hearing will take do not want to amalgamate with the heavy vote against the the Town of Tlllsonburg and proposal into consideration-" Yesterday they said so in a "The township feels amalga• way more powerful than mere mation would have on beneficial words (effect on the rural areas," Mr. Township property o w n e r a' Clarke said- "They feel they are and joint owners voted yester-better off as they are now." day on the proposal and over- I The voting at each poll went welmingly turned it down 817 as follows: Safford Public votes to 306 votes. jSchool, ll0 no votes, 13 yes Township clerk -treasurer F.votes; Verschoyle, 119 no votes, E. Harris reported there were,16 yes votes; Mount Elgin, 167 50 spoiled ballots and 40.76 per no votes, 30 yes votes; Cullodcn, cent of the eligible voters did 81 no votes, 21 yes votes; Os - not cast a ballot. Of the resid. treader, 88 no votes and 29 yes ents who voted, 41.27 per cent votes; Brownsville, 138 v o t e a voted 'no' while 15.45 per cent against and 37 votes for; Harry voted 'yes.' There are 1,M1I110sner's store, Highway 19. 64 eligible voters in D e r e h a m : no cotes, 78 yes votes; a'a d Township. .Tillsonburg, 50 no votes and 82 Medford Clarke, reeve of ''yes votes. Dereham Township, said coon -I Mr. Clarke said polls seven cilwill negotiate with the Town I and eight are the two areas of Tillsonburg in order to post- I closest to the Town of Tiliwn- pone the Ontario Municipal.burg and they recorded more Board hearing slated for Aug.', yes than no v,` 4 in the Tillsonburg Town Hall. i The town and township coun- Mr, Clarke said if they co-oper- icils initiated a 30-man studp ate, it will save both parties a !committee report last fall, The lot of time and expense. The report recommended the for. OMB hearing was requested I mation of an 11-member noun. Tillsonburg Town Council �cil with a mayor, reeve, de - Mr. Clarke said if Tilisonburg,puty reeve and eight council will not co-operate, the town- I members, with a combined as - ship will be represented by asessment of $21,277,085. Warden's class open for showmanship The Oxford Count}Warden's to all beef and dairy breeds. special 'showmanship' class will Prizes are donated by warden 8 at 3 p.m. at Stanley Gehring, reeve of South be held Aug. 1 the Woodstock 8 at Fairgrounds. Norwich Township. First prize is a trophy. and $15: second, The cattle judging class is $14; third, $11; fourth and fifth, open to all Oxford County boys 38: sixth and seventh. $7; eighth and girls who had not reach. ninth and tenth. $5. ed their 12th birthday by Jan. Entry forms are available 1, 1970. The calf shown has to from the Oxford County office have been born after July 1, ! of the Ontario Department of i 1969. The competition is open' Agriculture and Food. Woodstock Agricultural Society - FAIR — y August 18th, 19th, 20th, 21st, 22nd, 1970 c 1-- ME Admit ................... and Lady NOT TRANSFERABLE C. M. TMrd f— President w n w�118Ct3 � SecroterY-Manager �--' Mowat stamps go on sale Free Prefix Woodstock Bureau WOODSTOCK — Red -and - black sixrem stamps, corm- ntemorating the 150th anniver- sary of the birth of Sir Oliver Mowat, one of the Fathers of Confederation and a former Ontario premier and anor- nev-general, representing Ox- ford North, went on sale Wednesday- in open post it. fires across Canada. Pastoffice employees were (in strike in London Wednes- day, and the Ingersoll office was closed, notpermitting slamp eolleclurs In reielve their first day s of issue .mufts at toast offices there. Oxford County council serd out. nearly 500 first-day cover slamfis to council members, former councillors and offi- cials including Gordon W, Inns, MPP (L-Oxford)- Wal- lace Nesbitt, MP (PC -Oxford) and Premier John P. Rubarts, County clerk -treasurer Leon- ard K. Coles said 34,000,000 stamps of the issue have been printed by the British Ameri. can Bank Note Company. —Free Press Woodstock Bureau Nearly W first day cover stamps of the Sir Oliver ylowat six -cent issue were sent out from Wood- stock Wednesday by Oxford County Council in hon- or of the former Oxford North member of Parlia- nlent who served as Ontario premier and attorney - general. At a cancelling machine at Woodstock post (office are county clerk -treasurer Leonard K, Coles, left, and postmaster B. B. llook. Mr. Coles said Mowat was a native of Kingston who fu•tl- cled under John A, Macdonald in his new law prnctive there in 1836. Later, he said. Mowat, as Ontario premier, clashed due and again with his old col league Macdonald, "who re- peatedly tried to encroach on Provincial rights. Mowat re. sisted all attempts of the do- minion government to water down provincial powers." Mowat, Mr. Coles said, was often called the "father of pro. vincial rights" because the do. cisions he won before the Privy Council constitute a vir. tual charter of liberty for the provinces. A former Toronto alderman, he has been credited with in- stituting Toronto's park sys. tem. Nlowal was elected to the legislative assembly from 1837 to 1864, representing Ontario County, serving. as provincial secretary in 1858 and postmas- ter -general in 1863 and 1864. He was vice-chancellor of the court of chancery from 1864 to 1872. Mr. Coles said Confedera- tion was the larger vision of what Mowat had strongly ad- vocated to reconcile the diffi- culties of the Canadas. "While he did not attend the Char- lottetown conference, he was among the ministers who met at Quebec," Mr. Coles said. "There he played a promi- neni role by drafting several Of the resolutions, particularly those Which dealtwith till,. varying powers of the renlial and provincial parliuments." "I'll(- influence of Oliver Mowat at the conference un- doubtedly had a marked effect on the resolutions defining provincial rights, particularly those covering education and agriculture," the county clerk said. Mowat, hesaid, was encour- aged to re-enter political life as leader of the Ontario gov- ernment. after a brief reltre- ment from it. His friends, Mr. Coles said, felt the future of Ontario was at stake, and that if the hrovince was to be gov- erned from Ottawa, the chief object of Confederation would be thwarted, and provincial autonomv would have become "a delusion and a sham." Mr. Coles said Mowat chose the north riding of Oxford as his constituency, a stronghold of liberalism then. Mowat, he said, served as premier for 24 years, the long. est of any person in Ontario. Leslie M. Frost served for 12 years, starting in 1949 and Sir .1. P. Whitney for nine years starting in 1905. Premier Ro. barts has been serving for nine years, since 1961. Mowat was the minister of justice for Canada and mem- ber of the Senate from 1896 to 1897 and lieutenant -governor of Ontario from 1997 to 1903. County calls road tenders The county roads committee ,of Oxford County Council has called for tenders for the in- stallation of storm sewers and the purchase of a patrol veli- icle. Donald Pratt, Oxford County Road Superintendent said the storm .sewers will be located on !County Road 19 near Tillson- burg. Approximately 3,000 feet of storm sewers are to be con- strucled. Tenders willalso be called for 'a half -ton truck. The deadline for submitting bids is Oct. 29, 16 the STAR -PHOENIX Saskatoon, Wednesday, August 26, 1070 aay STAN S*" ns""' FDC listed Sir Oliver's public Oxfnill.�Itgty.WttfAlin On. service record to Canada and taro has used the Sir Oliver Ontario, from the time he was Mowat Stamp as a vehicle to elected to the legislative as let the world know that Sir Usably In 1857 In the close of Oliver represented Oxford North big tenure at Iieutenanbgover. riding while he was premier of nor of Ontorin in 1903. Ontario from 1872 to 1.806. A first day cover was received from 1.. K Cole, the county clerk. "with the compliments of the 1070 Oxford County Coun- cil," It also advises that a brief historical sketch of "Sir Oliver" has been prepared In mimed. graph form and is available from the county clork's Office on request. The fill curd In the .. lrW, .... .... joint meeting date is set "Let's keep to touch" is tits sentimentby school If a a r of ;trustees in a move to meet again with mayors, raeves and .clerk -treasurers if, oxford Coun- ty, oxford County Board of Ed. ucation has net the date of Tuesday, Oct. 20, The municipal representatives Rile to be asked for suggestions of Ill, agendn, Onc item, alrendy suggoated Is joint PlOnnlnll of school and municipal recrea- tional facilities. Book review contest is set The'Oxford County Library is again sponsoring a book review contest this year for pupils of gradea seven and eight in ox. ford County. Mrs. S. L. Krompart, Oxford County librarian, said prizes will be given for the best book reviews of both fiction a a d non- fiction reading material. She said the review must he written by the boy or g 1 r 1 who sends it in, written in ink and no longer Than one and one-half pages of foolscap. The review must be of an ox- ford County Library book from the central library, school or township library. Entries should be sent to the Oxford County Library, 93 Graham St., Wood- stock, including the P u p i I' s name, age, home address, school grade and the name and number of the school and town- ship, First, second and third prizes in each of the fiction and non- fiction classes will be S5, S3 and $2 respectively. There Will also be 15 other prizes of III for a hook review in both classes, All entries most be in by Oct. 31 and the awards will be made during 'Young Canada Book Week,' Nov, 1S to 22. PRIZE LIST 1970 CHARLES TATHAM, Net. MAYOR W. ALLEN WARDEN STANLEY GEHRING W. a. WAttACC SWv-MHO. P 0 0 • 0 V • r.j I•� �no %4W4 0 i- 1M_ Q) 0 0 %.Faa1 14 0 0 0 rri brEl 4 � "d,7 uaguw,olJ 4 w FT 9 P"6 "w VI El O V� .pi c a .w a a; ,_ O m a .�•� w w a a .p to a g oqo ,�j,o d Sq V n p, u"w'.-°. u.°fs v� o o v 3.� O .wq '«° S., �W 9r7 H C •q .'S IN 18 i w uzl O m tt"M $'8 eWD °' jy ° a cot t s w N 6 a mv' acn W c,.' 307A g ,O Qpp ;1, ,4_qy V M d W a W eWepp f�iPlfm�Ff%2-j �ry.Sq Yw�m �NO tlU.9fO -ga a F gq,cv q ,G ~ G a° Y m H q �E�a�.�3`v �moa9ad a m O� W F w� F4 o v w w ,., �o lip 3 a, y cF7 BwQ 'q, 0 w ° `.° 6" AWE E H =-o w m Fq, d f1 m F 'i w w m m� z O N m w d R y G 79 U w °� p i3s W.'q+w +w+.�+oWJ m wm lu Ugs°tw V+O l,- i Y 4 M ua4" I,J re� V i 4 4` 3� 6 ro C� 'P o 5 Oxford MPP Oxford County Council has used the Sir Oliver Mowat stamp as a vehicle to let the world know that Sir Oliver 'represented Oxford North rid- ing while he was premier of Ontario from 1972 to 1996. A first day cover was received from L. K. Coles, the county �rlerk, "With the compliments of the 1970 Oxford County Council." It also advises that a brief historical sketch of "Sir Oliver" has been pre- pared in mimeograph form and is available from the county clerk's office on re- quest. The filler card in the FDC listed Sir Oliver's public ,service record to Canada and Ontario, from the time he was elected to the legislative as- sembly in 1957 to the close of his tenure as lieutenant -gover- nor of Ontario in 1903. Montreal trip for councillors Oxford County Council mem- bers will travel to Montreal next month to attend the an- nual Canadian Good Roads convention. The annual meeting will be heki Oct. 5 to 9. Representing Oxford County will be: Donald Pratt, county roads superinten- dent: Warden Stanley Gehring, reeve of South Norwich Town- ship and a member of the roads committee and Albert Cornwell, reeve of North Norwich Town- ship and chairman of the coun- ty roads committee. Also attending will be the members of the county roads committee: Bruce Amos, reeve of West Oxford Township; Med- ford Clarke reeve of Dereham Township; John Hofstetter, reeve of Blenheim Township and William Ducklow, reeve of Taviatoek. Thanks to local area from Chilhwack To the Editor: On behalf of the Young Voya- Our Group from Chilliwack, Brit- ish Columbia, we wish to take this fneans of expressing our thanks to you and your paper for your inter- est: in the Young Voyageur pro- gram. Our visit to your fair city was truly memorable because of the many kindnesses we experienc- ed in our all -too -brief stay in Woodstock. We were especially pleased to have Mir. and Mrs. Ross Pirie as the official hosts. They extended to all of us the warmest hospitality for which we will long remember Woodstock and its good people. As a result of the excellent ifinerary arranged by the Piries, we were ahle to pack a tremendous amount of learning, pleasure and excite- pient into a very short time. Otw sincere thanks go to Mayor 'and hlrs. Allen for their personal involvement in this student ex- change. They opened their hearts and home to all of its, drove us around, and even offered us the usT of their cal:'. We will long re- member the banquet they hosted for tK at the Old Golf Club. The Board of Education de- serves a big, "Thank you for pro- viding us with a banquet and iak- inl a real interest in the exchange. Dr. hunt, Mr. Simmons and others showert concern that we see and learn as much as possible about your area. We did! Mr. Coleti slides of Oxford County, the Oxford Sailing Club s hospitality M Pit.tock Dam, the food provided by the Admiral Van- sitlarl, the G. R. Green, the Have- lock and the Wingale Raiders IODI:'s and the Woodstock Rot- ary Club, the tour of your won- derful city including the City Hall, Wie Museum and Old St. Pautl's, the tour of the various industries fol- lowed by a very nice lunch, cour- tesy of these industries as mem- bers of the Woodstock Chamber of Commerce, the visit to the Alyea and Cohoe Farms, the wonderful farewell party at Kindaca, (cour- tesy of the Woodstock Kinsmen and Kinettes) and the very enjoy- able meals that Mr. Huei Chong served us at his restaurant, all these made us feel that we were In a dream world. But it did turn out to be a real experience and we thank your entire commuity most sincerely. A special "thank you" is In order to those wonderful people who opened their homes to our young people and accommodated them so well. And we would be remiss if we did not express a most sincere "Thank ,you" to Henry Sage whose pleasing manner en- deared him to the young people and who not only.transporled irs many, many, miles safely, but who also augmented this with his en- lightening commentaries about the places through which we passed. Thank you again to Mr. and Mrs, Ross Pirie for arranging a tremendous itinerary for us, Inger- soll, Niagara Falls, Welland Canal. Collingwnod. Midland, Sainte -Mar- ie, Stratford, Toronto, and of course, your• enviable city, will the fondly in our thoughts in years to come, From the Young Voyageurs and their parents and friends from the community of Chilliwack, we, extend our sincere thanks to the kind people of Woodstock for their graemus hospitality towards its ae fellow Canadians. Sinmrely, Susanne and Jack Kope, Escorts, Chilliwack Young Voyageur Student Exchantie Grotto, Tenders for two county bridges opened The county loads committee replace two existing bridges.j of Oxford County Council today Tenders have also been submit- o!Kned tenders for the rocon- ted for the construction of a strurtion of two county bridges. bridge on County Road ltk, mi The lender -opening was eon- the south boundary of Embro, ducted daring the semi-monthly to replace an existing sh'ucture. meeting of the committee, held The committee also discussed in the office of the county roads a reviser) road budget, accord- superimendent. Donald Pratt, ing to Mr. Pratt. The original county roads engineer, s a i d budjet was set at $1,430,OW and construction an the two projects has since been cut by approx• will begin almost immediately imately $100,OW by the Depart. after the contracts are award- ment of Highways. ed. Mr. Pratt said some road pro - Tenders have been submitted ]acts slated for this year will for rite construction of a bridge have to be postponed- He said on County Road 6, south of'a revised road budget will be Embro. spanning the Thames presented to County Council at River. The new structure will,their meeting Sept, 22. Council awards road contracts to Arthur firm Arnett Construction Company � mitted the lowest of three bids Limited of Arthur, has been with a tender of $37.036,38. The awarded two contracts by the high bid was $42,759.86. Oxford County Roads Depart- Donald Pratt, Oxford County went- road superintendent said t h e The century. roads committee committee drew up a proposed of Oxford County Council recent- revised county roads budget for ly opened tenders for the bridge 1970, subject to the approval of construction at their regular county council. semi-monthly melting in the of- BUDGET fice of the county roads super- Mr. said original intendent, budget Prattwas set atthe $1,430,000 THREE BIDS which has since been cut by Three bids were received for approximately $100,000 by the the constructionof a bridge on, Ontario Department of H i g h- Cvunty Road 6, south of Ein ways. He said the proposed re - bra, over the Thames River. vised budgets cuts down r 0 a d The new bridge will replace two maintenance costsheavily. existing structures. The h i g It The proposal also suggests bid was $9226225 and one bid that the construction of a bridge was disqualified due to improp- on County Road 4, north of In- er tendering. Arnett Construct-nerkipbe postponed this year. ion Limited submitted a bid of I The construction was originally $81,471.65 and received the can-, slated for this year. tract The proposed revised r o a d Arnett Construction also re- budget will be presented to Ox- ceived the contract for the con- ford County Council at their first struction of a bridge on County regular meeting of the f a 11, Road 106. on the south boundary Tuesday at. 10 a.m. in t h e of Embro. to replace an exist- council chambers at the Oxford ing structure. The company sub- County Court House. WItMM meeting of Ox. township clerks n was beld Wed- s County Court- DONALD TAYLOR, Oxford examine old fair records dat- Agriculture Representative, ing from 1852. and Mrs. Robert Rudy, Sr. 2.15 p.m. -The parade then goes up Graham Street to the County Court House, where two cannons will be fired by 2 Division Leaders. Oxford County Council pre- srnted Reeve William Ducklow of Tavistock with half a brick at the recent, session of council. The hrick was to aid in the building of the lie": tzllage post office. Well, half a brick is better than none. TREASURERS Waterloo plan KITCHENER (CPI — Area officials decided Friday to rec- ommend a twotixr regional government for Waterloo County to take over powers now held by the Ontario Municipal Board and various local coun- cils. A review committee Friday finished compiling recommen- dations submitted by represent - olives of Kitchener,. Waterloo, Galt. Preston, Hespeler and sur- rounding rural municipalities for submission to the Ontario government. The local presentation follows a report prepared last February for the provincial department of municipal affairs by Dr. Stew- art Fyfe of Queens University, Kingston, Approval of the local commit- tees recommendations would bring an end to the existing Wa- terloo County council. The new government would include rep- resentatives of local councils on one tier and elected members, based on representation by pop- ulation, on the second tier. The presentation says plan- ning would he a major function of regional government, with local matters left in the hands of each municipality. The r e g i o n a I government would be responsible for ap- proval and co-ordination of planning, relieving the Ontario Municipal Board of its supervi- sory role. August busy for welfare department $737-10 a year ago. The cost of emergency aid totalled $557, an increase over $131 during Aug. 1969. income repayments totalled S3.055.15. an increase over the period a year ago when Ivir. MacKay said that due to the costs in this category total - ,the problem of mail delivery, led $145.59. 'employAPPLICATIONS ees of Oxford Social Ser- vices had to deliver some of During the mooffi of august. ;the r. archeques themselves. Oxford Social Services received Mr. Mackayexpensaid the depart- 138 applications requesting as - nee expenditures or for assist- pP once are double or more in all sistance an increase from 73 cases with no indication that applicants a year before. Eigh- this will change. He said that teen cases were referred by in statistics received from the Fancily Benefits Allowance, an province, there is a general in- increase over 16 a year beforet crease in assistance across the During the month, 333 case province, .involving 1.051 persons werere ceivin� 'assistance. This is at� GENERAL increase over Aug. IM when For the month of August, the 193 cases involving 561 Persum 'issuance of general assistance were receiving assistance, amounted to $58,774,83, up from During August. Oxford Sects the same period last year when Services was assisting 92 per the Total was $41 954.23. General sons in nursing homes, a de+ assistance covers household sup- crease from U4 during A u g plies, utilities, shelter, fuel, 19&9- foster children, transients and Eighty-eight cases were take nursing homes. off assistspu a during the mouth Supplementary aid totalled an increase over the year,beforq $485.01. donor from Aug, 1969,when 72 cases were removed,, when supplementary aid total- Forty eases secured enaploy� led $530.25. I went while 19 cases have re�', During the month of August, sumed empioynceat. special assistance costs totalled Seven cases have moved qui $2,008, a marked increase over of the area end four cases have the same period a year ago,been granted unemployment in - when the cost totalled $30. This!surance. SLR- cases became In category covers drugs funerals,)eligible for welfare through im dental services, optical services, come and two cases were bob•. prosthetic appliances, travel and pitaliaed or in jail. transportation. I Four female cases reconciled Homemaker services totalled, with their husbands and font $315, % from $64 during Aug.I cases vere granted f a m 111 1960, The cost of nursing swr� benefits. Two cases are iovot vices. totalled $944,19, up fomlved with Manpower retraining. August was a busy month for Oxford Social Services due to a heavy case lead, vacations and the mail strike, according to Gerald MacKay, welfare admin- • 0 • • On Amalgamation Hearing Reeve Sees County Opposition Means to Roads Rebate Guide County council's stand oppppoosing amalgamation of Tillsonburg and Dereham Township has been seen as a move on the part of Oxford, seeking an Ontario Municipal Board ruling (that would set precVotory guidelines governing its future municipal road re bates. When the municipal board first convened August 4 to hear arguments both for and against the proposed merger, Oxford was grant- ed a postponement, allow- ing time for further stud- ies on the effects amalga- mation would have on the county road system. Report of a firm of Lon- don engineering consultants was brought down at a meet- ing of county council last Friday night. It indicated that the proposed merger would have considerable ef- fect, particularly in the area of municipal road rebates. And so, the county voted to oppose amalgamation when the O.M.B. hearing resumes tomorrow. In making his report to town council last night, how- ever, Reeve Ken Webster said that reading between the lines, county council- lors, in general, are not opposed to the idea of am- algamation, but took the stand they did in an attempt to have a ruling made. But, that was not the end of the matter...,. In general, Tillsonburg council was quite concerned that Warden Stanley Gehring had Instructed legal counsel to appear at the last hearing without first securing ap- proval of the county. Councillor Art Ronson contended that, "the warden does not run this county whether it appears thatway sometimes or not." Book supply for Otterville By s.-n. Correspondent OTTERVILLE — The Otter- ville Branch of the. Oxford County Library has recently re- celved another new supply of There were 260 brought in at ,the last exchange and the local librarian, Earle Petcb, a a i d there had been an increase in the number of books taken out, the most since 1060,. Many of the new books re- ceived are nowffetion as there has been a great demand for these type of books. Reeve Webster said that the warden had auth- orized the lawyer's appear- ance on behalf of the county roads committee, but add- ed, "This is not the proper way to hire legal repres- entation." Ile pointed out, however, that while they were fully aware of what had gone into It, county councillors did not officially receive a copy Of the report on the pro- posed amalgamation before recessing June 25. Amalgamation Hearing Continues Bearing by the Ontario Mr. Holland to read ex - Municipal Board on an ap- erpts from the white paper r plication for amalgamation "Design for Development, of the Town of Tillsonburg which contains statements and the Township of Dere- by Hon. W. Darcy McKeough ham re -opened Thursday and Hon. John Robarts set - after adjourning August 4 at ting out criteria for both the request of Dereham and local municipalities and Oxford County. regional. municipalities. Thursday's proceedings, The request brought a which ran from until quick objection from Ralph mail 4 p.m., were mainly taken Steele, Q.C,., attorney for the Township of Dereham, up by a merciless cross- examination of Tillsonburg on the grounds that the auth- Clerk -Treasurer Kenneth ors were not present for cross-examination. Holland, who had acted as secretary of the eight -man' study committee, and who had written the committee report which recommended amalgamation. The hearing was conduct- ed by Walter T. Shrives and Social services ire new man Free Press Weuedstock Bureau WOODSTOCK — luring of an additional field worker by Oxford Social Services, to heir with the increasing number of welfare cases, was announced Wednesday by C. II. MacKay. adminislrator. Donald Crandall was hired, effective Oct. 19, from 43 up. I plicants for the position. Mr. MacKay said the social �scrvice area will he divided into four areas, Mr. Crandall has been named to work in Tillsonburg, Dereham Township, North Norwich and South Norwich l uwnships. 11'. A. Costello has been as - 'signed to East Oxford, Blen• helm and Blandford townships end Woodstock, east of Huron 'Street; Mrs. Kristine Kaye, west of Huron Street in Wood• stock; and Mrs. Nanette Downhum, East N i s s u it r I, West ?.orra, last Zorra, North Oxford and West Oxford town. , ships, T a v I a I o c k, Embro. Beachvllle and Ingersoll. The additional field worker will mean eachwill have her tween 70 and 80 cases, rather than about 1.10, Mr. MacKay NOW. At the end or Aumixt there were 333 cases, down from the high of 366 in March. Mr. MacKay said the field workers try to return to see the recipients at least once a month. At the end of August the service had cost $477,066. The county service received pro- vincial grants and repayments amounting to $380,100 and a total of $96,906 from county municipalities, or $7,900 more than was estimated as the share for the municipalities. Council urges a bottle ban The agriculture and commun- ity services committee of Ox- ford County l'ounril will re• quest that bottlers of s o f t drinks increase the deposit on nonreturnable 910ss containers, The commil.lee reported that increasing the deposit err IlOt- itca would insure that the bot- tles would he returned, T h e y foilnon returuahle bottles were a haaerd and great contributor to the Utter problem, The chairman asked was the amalgamation study in- itiated by the report or a need for more land, to which Mr. Brown replied, "This is not a land grab, but an attempt to reorganize the municipality tocoincide with plans for regional government,' In cross-examination of Mr. Holland, Mr. Steele doggedly quizzed about points not covered in the report and seemed almost to ignore the subject mat- (Continued'from page 1) ity which stated a policy proviso that should the reeve be elected from an urban ward, the deputy - reeve would be elected from representatives of the rural ward, or vice -versa. "Is there any way that this can be carried out'?" Mr. Steele asked. "It could probably be done by a ruling of the OMB or by special legislation," Mr. Holland replied. "Should not this then have been an application for special legislation instead of amalgamation?" "I am not qualified to answer that." The cross - examination continued into the areas of the size of Dereham, dis- tance of its nearest points to Ingersoll, Aylmer and Woodstock, proposed use of the Dereham township hall, details of the police sys- tem, fire departments and other services. Mr. Steele's questioning concluded at 2;45 p.m, Acting for Oxford County, James D. Carnwath quest- ' coned Mr. Holland on val- idity of figures in appendix 3, showing ratio of Tillson- burg population to assess- ment in the county setup. He also asked if the com- mittee at any time had ap- proached the county re - ter that was contained. Asking about probably growth into the townships of South Norwich, Middle- ton and Baybam, Mr. Steele asked why there had been no attempt to amalgamate with them. "They had stated that they were not interested," was the reply. Closely questioned was the study proposal of council setup for the new municipal - (Continued on page 2) garding the amalgamation proposal. "Not officially," said Mr. Holland, T. R. Parker, acting for Ralph McLaughlin and other ratepayers said, "Would you say that the south part of'-Dereham is of prime interest to Tillsonburg?" "Yes, I would agree. "And, that the north half would be more closely al- lied with Ingersoll?" `Yes." Questioned again by Mr. Brown, Mr. Holland 'said that verbal assistance had been received from Ontario Hydro before the report was made up. He also affirmed that annexation of part of Dereham had been dis- cussed with Dereham rep- resentatives. "Who made the decision to proceed with a study of the amalgamation with the entire township?" "Dereham,' said Mr. Holland. Mr. Holland also said under questioning that while no legal opinion had been obtained regarding the am- algamation, advice and in- struction had been received from representatives of the Department of Municipal Affairs, who had attended many of the committee meetings. The hearing continued to- day, EX -REEVES AND WARDENS OF OXFORD COUNTY MOLD BANQUET IN PRINCETON CENTENNIAL CENTRE EX -REEVES BANQUET — Each year file Ex -Reeves' Assoiation of Oxford County holds an annual din- ner meeting in a different town- ship in the county. This year the meeting was held Wednesday, Sept- ember end, in the Princeton Cen- tennial Centre, with Blenheim Town- ship as host. All ex -reeves and wardens of Ox- ford County were on hand and pic- tured above are a few ex -wardens as well as the host township com- mittee. They are, back row (left to right) Irvin J. Haines, clerk - treasurer, Township of Blenheim; Peter McDonald, chairman of the Library workshop to be bus tour The annual Oxford C o u a t y Mrs. S. % Krompart, Oxford Library workshop will take the County chief librarian, form of a bus tour this year. Mrs. Krompart said that this Each fa the librarians year, the group will tour some »• of the county library branches the county library branches to see how they operate. meet together to exchange he event will be held Oct. 14 ideas, under the direction of from 9:30 to 5 p.m. Plaque unveiling in Blenheim Twp. set for Oct. 18 A historical plaque will be unveiled in Blenheim Township Oct. IS at 2:30 p.m„ according to Len Coles, Oxford County clerk -treasurer. The plaque, provided by the Archaeological and Historical Sites Board of the Department of Public Records and Archives of Ontario will be located in the tiny hamlet of Wolverton, one mile north and IVA mllea east The historic site is the Wol. verton Hall, a fine brick house, Regency in style with Gothic touches. The structure was built in 1855 by Enos Wolverton, Mr. Wolverton was born in Cayuga County, New York In 1410 and canto to Canada in 2W. In 344, he bought 200 acres go the Nith River i n Blenheim Township and I a I d outthe village plot in 1851. He became Wolverton's first Postmaster and during the de- pression, following the Crimean War, he rented the house and moved to Walsingham Township where he built and operated a steam sawmill. He returned to Wolverton Hall in 1861 anddied there in 1802. The unveiling ceremony will be sponsored by the O x f o r d County Museum and the Town. ship of Blenheim, John Hofatet. ter, reeve of Blelnheim Town. ship will be the program chair. man. The guests of honor will be Robert Nixon, (MPP-Brant), leader of the provincial Liberal party, and Prof. W S. Gould. ing of the University of. Tor. yes of Ontario. Ouse la now oe- and Mrs, Law - Ex -Reeves' Association; John Hot - Steller, reeve of Blenheim town- ship. Front row (left to right), Charles Milton, Princeton, warden of Oxford County in 1938; George Balkwill, Drumbo, warden of Oxford County for 1935: Gordon Aspden, Innerkip, warden of Oxford County for 1969. COUNTY COUNCIL The regular monthly meeting of Oxford County Council will be held Oct. 20 from 10 a.m. to 12 noon. In the afternoon, the councillors will make their 'an- nual tour of thecounty roads system and in the evening, they Mil make their annual visit to Tillsonurg District Memorial Hospital. 28 years area service to be marked Pree Press Woodstock Bureau WOODSTOCK — W. Scott Mackay, a St. Thomas lawyer, if o r m e r secretary -treasurer, Ontario Good Roads Associa- f tion, will be one of the speak- vrs during an appreciation night oil. 23 for Oxford Coun Ly Clerk -Treasurer L. K. I Coles, to retire Dec. 31 after 28 .rears. Grant Smith, Burgestsville, 19.59 warden, and president of Oxford County Ex -Wardens Association, will also speak. G. R. Staples, depuChairman, GUEST treasurer, program chairmairma n,, said all 350 tickets available have been sold to municipal Oxford County will honor L. and former municipal offi- K. Coles, county clerk-tress- cials. urer, at a dinner Oct 23. Mr. Dr. D. Carleton Williams, Coles has served Oxford Coun- ty since 1942 and will retire president. and vice-chancellor, Dec. 31, 1970. The dinner in University of Western Ontario, honor of Mr. Coles is sponsor - will speak at the warden's din- ed by Oxford County CouncA tier, Nov. 26 at Woodstock, in and will commence at 7 p;m_ honor of Warden Stanley In the Recreation Hall at the Gehring, reeve of South Nor- Woodstock FairgronndL wich Township. Historical site at Wolverton A plaque, recognizing Wolver- Gzbring, reeve of South Nor- ton Hall as a historical site; wish Township. will be unveiled Sunday at 2:30' A special guest will be Robert p.m. Nixon, leader of the provincial The program chairman will be I opposition. Mr.. Nixon repre- �John Hofstetter, reve of Blen- I sents Blenheim Township in the i heim Township. The hamlet of provincial legislature. Prof. W. Wolverton is located near S. Goulding of the school of Drumbo in Blenheim Township, architecture of the University of Also in attendance will be Ox- Toronto, will represent the Ar- ford County Warden Stanley ebaeological and Historic Sites Board of Ontario, which erected the historical plaque. Historical background will be provided by MrC. D. Milani s , Old Wolverton home great granddaughter of Enos Wolverton, the builder of the hall, The plaque will be unveil- becomes historic site red by Miss Mary MacPherson, �[he only living person remem- ', bering Enos Wolverton. The brick house, now occupie(I .Free Press Woodstock Bureau 200 acres or land in 1844 along iby Mr, and Mrs. Lawrence J. WOL.VERTON — A plaque the Nith River. Village lines Whitney, was built by Enos Wol- !�tuarking Wolverton Il;tll as in historic site was unveiled Sun- day dome( it cerenums hotwr- 'ing the village's founder. The 14-room brick home of the late Enos Wolverton was selected by the provincial de- partment of public records and archives' archaeological and historic Sites board. The bait was built about 1855, Mr. Wolverton had (moved to Canuda frog New York In 1826 and purchased CLERKS To MEET Oxford County will be repre- sented at the semi-annual meet. ping of county clerks .and deputy clerks in Guelph on Oct. l0 at 10 a.m. Attending will be Len Coles, county clerk; Gerald Staples, deputy clerk and Mrs. ,Jack Love, secretary, COUNTY ROADS The regular seal -monthly meeting of the county roads committee of - Oxford County Council, will be held Oct, 1s at 10 a.m. in the office of Donald Pratt, county roads superloten. dent. were Surveyed seven Sears verton from 1&54 to 1955. later. The ceremony is sponsored by the Township of Blenheim, Ox- Mr. Wolverton was the ford Museum and the Amhael- Blenheim Township communi- ogical and Historic Sites Board of the Department of Public Re- ty's first postmaster and mer- cords and Archives of Ontario. chant. Follwohig the unveiling, fight refreshment will be vrved by The Ihree-storey structure has a spiral staircase and pine floors. The plaque was unveiled by Miss Mary MacPherson of Stratford, who knew Mr. Woi- vo•ton when she was a child. (ethers attending the eer- mmtly were provincial Liberal loader Robert Nixon: Mrs. C. D. Milani of Willotvdale. great-granddaughter of Mr. Wolverton: Prof, W. S. Gould- lng of the Llniversip of Toron- lo, srhhol of architecture, rrprrsenling Ihr hlelufh• sites iw;o—jL oxford Counly Warden mmlicy Gehring; and Blen- heim Township Reeve John Iln(nteller. i the Wolverton Ladies Union. Plowing match set for Nov. 7 The Oxford County p I o w - fng match, sponsored by the Oxford County Plomnen's As- sociation, will be held Nov. 7 at the term of Bruce Burrill of RR 6 Woodstock. The county plowing match was came -led last year in favor of the International Plowing match, which was held in Parts. This year's International match will be hold in Lindsay from out. 13 to 17 on the Claire Farr and neighboring farina. The Blenheim Plowmen's As- aociation will hold their meet Oct, 40 At 0:30 a.m. atthe farm of Rudy Roesler of RR I Platteville. 0 0 �l • Area resolution helped with ban on studded tires An Oxford County resolution caused in Oxford County by the played a part in the Ontario studded tires." government's decision to ban Mr. Amos said he would like the use of studded tires in 1071. to think the Oxford County re - Oxford County Council recent. solution effected the govern-. ly passed a resolution, asking ment's decision. the provincial government to Donald Pratt, county roads ban the use and eventually the superintendent, said damage manufacture of studded tires. has been caused on county The resolution was endorsed roads by the studded tires. He by: the Niagara Region, Ot- said the most serious damage tawa - Carlton Region, the coun- was caused on the Governor's ',ties of Grey, Lambton, Brant, Road, where there is a definite Elgin, H a 1 d i m a n d, Kent, rut in the mad. He said the Prince Edward, Huron, Mid- white lines down the centre of dlesex, Wentworth and the the mad are disappearing far United Counties of North. too quickly. umberland and Durham. SAFETY NOT ENDORSED Mr. Pratt said the safety The resolution was not en- factors of the tires do not out- dorsed by the counties of Sim- weigh the cost of road dam- coe, Fmntenac, Dufferin, On- age. He said people using the tario, Perth, Peterborough, tires acquire a false sense of Bruce, Peel, Hastings and the security and feel they can drive United Counties of Stormont, 70 miles per hr over glare ice. Dondas and Glengarry. The Ox- Ontario Highways Minister ford resolution was endorsed by George Gomme and Transport 13 counties and regions and was Minister Irwin Haskett, made a not endorsed by 10 counties. joint statement recently that Bruce Amos, reeve of West Ontario would ban studded tires Oxford Township and a mem- after April 30, 1971. They said tier of the county roads com- 32 :per cent of the vehicles in mittee of county council, said Ontario now use studded tires the government decision was and by 1971-72, at least 60 per Ion, overdue. He said as a cent would be equipped with. member of the county Toads studs. committee, which instituted the Provincial officials have pre-1 resolution, he said he was dieted that studs would cause very pleased to hear of the p127 million in road dat ge, in government's plan. the next 10 years- Mr. Gomme Mr. Amos said, "More re- said the tires obliterate lane search should have been done markings and treate ruts in before the tires were allowed the roads_ which are both safe-1 on the highways in the first'ty 'hazards. He said studies place, before they c a u s e d have shown that studded tires serious damage to roads. "SE increase braking distance un- ions road damage has been der most conditions. Mr. and Mrs. John Winterburn lFormer Norwich couple mark 64th anniversary . —Free Press Woodstock Bureau Lt.-Gov. W. Ross MacDonald officially opened the 120th annual two-day Drumbo fair Friday. From left, George Sibbick, president of the fair board, Lt.-Gov. MacDonald and Blenheim Township Reeve Sohn Hofstet- ter. — Free Press Woodstock Bureau to Oxford Gazettrcr, a history of early Oxford government given to Young N'urageurs this summer as a gift for the mayor of Davidson, Suit., has brought, in return, a five pound sample of wheat. Warden Stanley Gehr- tag, reeve of South Norwich Township, left, and Deputy Reeve Archie Longworth, West Oxford Township, chairman of county Council's agrtcul- 'lutlRoulluittee, examine the wheat. • � A portion of the huge crowd that turned out for the plaque unveiling ceremony. The wording on the plaque erected at Wolverton Hall Federation rounere internalionale International Road Federation Wolverton historical site plaque unveiled The unveiling of a commem- orative plaque for Wolverton Hall in Wolverton look place on S u n d a y. Approximately 150 people attended the unveiling of the 630th plaque erected by the Archaeological and Historic Sites Board, Dept. of Public Records and Archives of On- tario. The plaque was erected to commemorate Wolverton Hall, builty by the late Enos Wolver- ton in an area north-east of Drumbo in 1854. Reeve John Hofstetter of the Township of Blenheim acted as Master of Ceremonies, intro- ducing Robert F. Nixon, Liberal MPP as the representative of Blenheim Township in the Pro- vincial Legislature, and Pro- fessor W. S. Goulding who was representing The Archaeological and Historic Sites Board of On- tario. The great-granddaughter of Enos Wolverton, Mrs. C. D. Milani, was present to give the historical background of t h e Wolverton family before the at- tention turned to the unveiling by Miss Mary McPherson, who is the only living person re- membering Enos Wolverton. District municipal engineer retires MR. LEONARD K. COLES COUNTYOF OXFORD By A.-R. Con+ ndeu< riculi:ure, Rev. Kenneth Bolton, THAMESFORD T. S.IJaek Spence end It. O'Neil nnr'``'ORD i NGERS(JLL I © "Spike" Caldwell, B y r o iimembers of the Legislative As- sembly. Tqlegrams were re- a UfY 1 Fll Avenue, retired from his posit, ceived from Premier John Ro- CANAOA. ion as District municipal en• bans; George E. Gomme, Min• UfSfY 1F givaer for the Dept, of High- istmr of Highways; L i b e, r a I #�( �7O o ways on Sept. 30 after mote Leather for Ontario, Robt. Nis- JJOO than 40 year$ service. on; A. McNab, Deputy Minister One-hundred•sixty-two guests of Highways; James Allan, were present to honor him at a MPP and Gordon force, MPP, World way Conference_ banquet held In tire. Crystal ex{{wessing their regrets to not If Ballroom of the Hotel London, hehtg able to attend. Among those present were: The highlight of the evening -. Wm. Stewart, Minister of Ag- was Mr. Caldwell's speech. County council and planners to meet soon The subdivision section of the .community planning branch of the Department of Municipal Affairs will meet with Oxford County Council in the near fu- ture to discuss the forming of county land division commit. tees. Darcy McKeough, Minister of 'iMunicipal.Affairs, in a letter to (council, stated the establishment 'iof these committees would en- ceurage more local responsibil. ity. He said the committees would have the power to grant consent to land severance ap- plications where no municipal committee of ajustment was in operation. Warden Stanley Gehring, reeve of South Norwich Town- �sbip,. reported the Department of Municipal Affairs has not made any definate arrange- ments with council as yet. PLOW MATCH Warden S t a n l e y Gehring, reeve of South Norwich Town- ship, will take part in the Ward- en's plowing contest, to he held Oct. 14 in conjunction with the 1970 International Plowing Maich- The event will be held Oct. 13 to 17 on the Claire Farr and neighboring farms of Lind- say in Victoria County. ITIN V EIISNG An historical plaque comment orating Wolverton Hall in Wol- verton, a hamlet near Drumbo in Blenheim Township, will be unveiled Oct. 18 at 2:30 p-m. PARKING SPACE parking space will he reser- ved for Oxford County council- lors on the day County Council meets, until 10:30a.m., from the courthouse, north to the jail 300 attend Corn Day Approximately 300 people were in attendence yesterday for the annual corn day held on the John Hofstetter farm in Plats- vllle. The event is sponsored by the Oxford County Crop and Soil Improvement Association under the management of the Ontario Department of Agrieul- lure. Fifteen agricultural equip- ment companies put on demon, strations of tilling Rod harve—st- Ing. Five seed companies also had exhibits at the fair. The highlight of the afterneor which lasted from 1;30 to 5 p. nt. was an address 15v Archie Mr Laren, Ridgetown agricultural school all diseases in earn. 0 0 0 • i qJ 04 5 M'nm - Y:' :ii s: z J C.r O J i• - G lli ni .� k C =: _ �✓.. c IFS �• _ c. �y 4, D T V L ,-• _ ! pL ti L O O- v- v m u G G G-- .� t� Cry U`OFN �vi�Ai = _ 1. 0 6G y�.^OCiZGti O,_TD GCI �L- _ ._t v cCGD2f 0.S7in �,: DC Ci ti C C NCO .L S ;Y.9 _^%.— `L tU ❑ c O x Y _v d L 0 it o X v a_ i tt U I V I I I I 10 of an 11STURICH PIAQU[ WOLVERTON HALL SUNDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1970 2:30 p.m, Oxford bookmobile keeps busy The Oxford County Library bookmobile is in the orocess of visiting county schools in one of its three visits during the course of the school year.. The bookmobile will visit approximately M classrooms in all the schools in the county system to exchange books. The book exchange lasts ap- proximately three weeks. Mrs. S. L. 1Srompart, chief librarian at Oxford County library, said approximately 15,000 books are left in the school classrooms. Roads program major projects nearly complete The Oxford County roads Arthur, for the construction of committee has reported the pro- a bridge on County Road 106, gress made to date on various at Concession 5. West Zorra major projects in the 1970 road Township. The contract was let program. I for $37.036.38. Mr. Cornwell said Albert Cornwell, chairman of only the structure itself wIR be the county roads committee of constructed this year with the Oxford Counts- Council reported approach gradingplanned for that the surveys and engineer. 1971. ing design are complete for the widening of County Road 6,i$RIDGE south of Embro. The construction of a bridge A contract was let to Mar. on County Road 4, at the Bland - Mix (Woodstock) Limited for ford - East Zorra Township the reconstruction of C o u n t y boundary has been postponed Road 12 from highway 401 to!until 1971, A contract has been Sweaburg, Mr. Cornwell s a! d ; awarded to Arnett Construction due to the lateness of the con -'Limited of Arthur for the con- struction season, the work Will I struction of a bridge on County not be completed this year. Road 6 in West Zorra Town - The construction of County ship, to replace two existing Road 16 for 1.6 miles west of bridges, The contract was let Norwich is complete and ready for $61,471.65- for surface treatment or some Mr, Cornwell said the recon- form of paving in 1971, The struction of a bridge, approach total cost to elate has been $101,• grades and sidewalks on Coun- 100 ty Road 19, in the village of Otterville, has been completed, DESIGN with The exception of the pav- Mr. Cornwell reported the ing: of the approach grades. The surveying and engineering de —cost of the project was sw'soo. sign are complete for the con-1 The new garages at Drumbo struction of County Road 29,land S.pringford are essentially west of the Moscow Bridge, Mr. complete and ready for occap- Cornwell said no physical sin- ancy, according to Mr. Corn- struction will be carried out well. this year. Mr. Cornwell reported a two - Tenders have been called for way radio system has been in. the reconstruction of C o u n it y stalled in county vehicles. He Road 34 for .6 of a mite. Mr, saidit is anticipated the it - Cornwell said he expects con- stallation of an additional rtt- struction will commence about peater station may be required Oct. 1. In the future to glee irate 4 cuatract has been let to radio coverage w-thooutti of Arnott Construction Limited, - the county. u I v I I [ I 10 or on UISIORICAI PIAQU[ WOLVERTON HALL SUNDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1970 * 2:30 p.m. 0 PROGRAMME Chairman Reeve John Hofstetter, Township of Blenheim # # # Warden Stanley Gehring, County of Oxford Reeve, Township of South Norwich # # # Mr. Robert F. Nixon M.P.P. representing Blenheim Township in the Provincial Legislature T # # Professor W. S. Goulding, School of Architecture, U. of T. representing The Archaeological and Historic Sites Board of Ontario # # M Historical Background Mrs. C.D. Milani, Great Granddaughter of Enos Wolverton # # # Unveiling of Plaque Miss Mary McPherson - only living person remembering Enos Wolverton • WOLVERTON HALL This fine brick house, Regency in style with some Gothic touches, was built about 1854 - 55 by Enos Wolverton. It retains the splendid cir- cular stairs which originally led to a windowed belvedere above the house's roof. Wolverton was born in Cayuga County, New York, in 1810 and came to Canada in 1826. In 1844 he bought 200 acres here on the RiverNith and, in 1851, laid out a village plot. He became Wolverton's first postmaster that September. During the depression following the Crimean War he rented this house and moved to Walsingham Township where he built and operated a steam sawmill. He had returned to Wolver- ton Hall by 1861 and died here in 1892. Erected by the Archaeological and Historic Sites Board, Department of Public Records and Archives of Ontario. 11 ,� d S I :'� ,ak � �i - - 'ie r ?� — C ; �i J '� �. 'Ix, n �' jy t rev r 1 Y_ � I �S A� � /y In r �ii l 'i 1 —Free Press Woodstock Bureau Alar Mix (Woodstock) Ltd., has started work on a $96,000 widening and reconstruction job on Woodstock Suburban Road 12—the Sweaburg Road —for 2.1 miles from Highway 401 to Sweaburg. The contractor plans to complete the work by the end of December. Innerkip span replacement deleted from Oxford budget Free Press Woodstock Bureau WOODSTOCK — Replace- ment of the Innerkip bridge over the Thames River has been cut from the 1970 Oxford County road committee plan. Road superintendent Donald Pratt said Thursday grants were lower than anticipated. Mr. Pratt said the road committee anticipates a de- partment of highways grant of $729,000, rather than the antic. ipated $799.6410. The road committee, which had a $1.43 million road pro- gram planned,will be required to complete this year's work with $100.000 less - Mr. Pratt said thecommit- tee hopes to complete the pur- chase of property for the In- nerkip bridge project by the end of the year. The bridge, estimated to cost $65,000, will have a span of approximately 65 feet. Mr. Pratt said tenders have been called for two new bridge projects just south of Embro, Sept. 16. One 65-foot bridge on County Road 6 will replace two bridges over the middle branch of the Thames River and Mud Creek. The second bridge will be on the new County Road 106 on the south boundary of Embro in conjunction with a new road alignment, to be complet- ed afterwards. Mr. Pratt said work has started on the $96,000 Wood- stock Suburban Road 12recon. struction program from High- way 401 to Sweaburg, 2.1 miles. The reconstruction is to be completed by the end of the year. County Road -needs study due on Dec....8. The Oxford County roads /reds study will be completed 6y Dec, 8. according to Donald Pratt, county roads auperintem rent, The Oxford County roads !feeds study committee met rn eently to finalize the report, wtuch commenced Dec. 1068. The consultant to the commit- tee is A. M, SprIent and A - stes. Mr, Pratt said the committee will meet regularly until the re- port has been f "llsed. lie said the nextmeeting will be held Nov. 5. The final coat of the project will be approximately $30,009. The study covers the construc- tion needs and financing for county roads for the next five years. The report also includes a long-range forecast of road needs for the next 10 years, The committee consists tr: Donald Pratt, Albert Cornwell, reeve of North Norwich Town. ship and chairman of the coun. ty roads committee; Oxford Oxford warden says provincial grants to be reduced in '72 1'ree Press /io(Wslock Bureau W""I)SIR rants w,il CK — Deparl- nunl. of highways g be reduced to $630,000 for Ox- ford County road operations each year for five years start- ing in 1972, Warden. Stanley Gehring, reeve of South Nor- wich 'Township, said Tuesday. The figure compares with $729,000 anticipated subsidy this year, which had been cut from an earlier estimated $799.600. Warden Gehring said that in a new system of provincial grants, the county will receive 45 per cent of estimated costs per year for the five years. Ile said the grants, are based on an estimated $7 mill. lion toad program over the next five years as proposed in a county road needs study. The complete need study, he said, extends for 10 years and anticipates expenditures of $14 milon. Tentative approvul has been given to the study by the prov- ince, Warden Gehring said. County council approved 35 m.p.h. speed limit zones for Iwo Tillsonburg area county roads, Road 109 from County Road 110 to William Street and County Road 110 from Lot 6. Concession 12. Dereham Township to County Road 109. County clerk -treasurer Leon and K. Coles said there would, be no change in the number of trustees on Oxford County County Warden Stanley Geh- ring, reeve of South Norwich rownship; Gordon Aspden, 1960 Warden; Glen Kitchen, 1059 Warden; T. S. Caldwell, former district municipal engineer with the Departmeat of Highways. Cecil Riddle, chairman of the Woodstock Suburban Roads Committee; A. D, Robinson, chairman of the Ingersoll Su- burban Roads Committee; and Harvey Orlando, of the Depart. mint of Hightwaya. board of education, with to Still to be elected from the County, four from Woodstock, one from Ingersoll and one from separate school support- ers for secondary school pur- poses. Ile said a reassessment of the number of trustees is re. quired every two years if there have been boundary changes. Annexations, he said, took effect in Tafistock and it, Ingersoll, Warden Gehring • to open Corn Day in Platteville Oxford County Warden, Stan- ley Gehring, reeve of South Nor- wich Township, will officially STANLEY GEHRING the 1WO Corn Day on Fri - The seventh annual event is being held on the farm of John Hofstetter, one mile east and one mile north of PlattsviLe- The program will commence at 1:30 p.m. Archie McLaren of the Ridge - town College of Agricultural Technology will discuss some of the new problems in corn pro- duction. Approximately 30 com- panies and farm suppliers will be on hand with displays and many of the machines will be in the equipment parade, be an opportun. HoLstetter -farm id trials. The lad- rmbo Agricultural provide lunches. sponsored by the y Sod and Crop Association and — F fee Press Woodstock Bureau Three (trade 7 pupils got right oil top of things when they were assigned this old cannot, as the subject for an outdoor art class, Pictured in front of the Oxford County courthouse, Woodstock, are, from-.Sei ,,Mean Wilkins. 90 ferry St., Tout henry. 12, of Rif 1, Woodstock, and Erie Sifton, 12, of 71. Delatre St., all from Central Senior Public School. • - E 1 Cn 0 • :n3c o;; p$ at6 lac �°o c•mp ..� 'Emc.�. u¢m z4: a,m m —roo "G` o sF'aoEa gore a.i�y m mL 4 21 0-1 F {n ° ce �• m eta' �waGia °' L •a'OC ��7�H Fy n�L to O c 9 o toe y a°i , �.•pS « 3 a C S'u 7g C E ='V py^py��j oo�i x C O= O x 0. @aG�v:u aE�ncn Application to amalgamate is turned down by the OMB The Ontarin Municipal Board bas turned down Tillsonburg's ;bid to amalgamate with Dere- 'ham Township. The municipalities were notif- led of the decision yesterday, a little more than a in o n t h after the two-day OMB hearing on the proposal 0 Tillsonburg !town ball. The proposed arnal. jgamation was opposed by Dere- 'bam Township, the County of (Oxford and a group of rate- payers. 7-MONTH STUDY Following a seven - month study by both municipalities on the possibility of amalgamation, Tillsonburg council endorsed the amalgamation Proposal while Dereham Township put the question to a vote. A township plebiscite was held, resulting in ,817 votes against and 306 votes for the proposal. The Ontario Municipal Board ,suggested earlier that the town commence annexation proceed• dugs but at the time, Tillson- lburg considered annexation dis- tasteful and preferred amalga- mation. Two members of the board, W. T. Sbrives and D. S. Col - bourne, said the purpose of the application was to extend the boundaries of Tillsonburg, add- ing to the population and mak- ing it a viable unit under mg. tonal. government. They expres- sed concern that the boundar- ies of the amalgamated unit would not be permanent and that adjustment could still be necessary, if and when regional government was instituted in the area. NO ENTHUSIASM The board stated there was little enthusiasm expressed by the oeighborin�gg township of North and South Norwich, Mid- dleton and Bayham over the proposed amalgamation. The board reported that many aspects of the proposal, involv- ing costs and procedures were not adequately considered by the town. They said studies were not made on the following aspects: ultimate cost for waste disposal.; the operation of the two local water systems and its effect on the rate structure; benefits the township residents would derive from the recrea. tion, community and library services and costs for policing the rural section of the proposed municipality by the OPP. County council accepts revised 19 >� roads estimate �S 0Za: to asV w�0-a -.a taiF� v ,-; m rr a m a E a 0 °' m get The cutbymore countyroadssbud- $100,- S'� AO „ 9 0 e o u p, u '" v ° 000 from the original, was ac- y a'm a 'E m w ro cepted by Oxford County Court- aQ o 2t5 4 a�tj'atpat 0> a 5 cal Yesterday. E a" °' � 8 ro w 9 F° E ll Albert Cornwell, reeve of W a`s �o nn it $ e E'+ v C aw u V ryyi North Norwich Township and , 7A chairman of the munty roads ?A1 e ate° � c o °i F o o v 8 mimes committee,reported been etnformed oby ° :c O F2.y U 2,F«V wV9®. the Minister a Highways that the maximum amount of sub- 4=4 side to be paid to Oxford Court t> for the 1970 mad prpgrare m > c a ."F `� _' o � va. a 4 a t- is $729,000 instead of the orig- s� p W- a�m�'O vtUm m oral $799,581. p ' W °' The original road bud et was 22 d g ce Z F. m �' N c W o� 4,a R, been set tcut Ito ,$1324,500and ha5 auLe- c- w R a+ m d 0 � ^ 51 m E •`gg diction of $108,600. Mr. Corn- a5'0- v a',°, ° o `a-1 NQ m d sn9 well announced it was nems- O sari, to : v,g program by sm king suitable es E ° ,o,ra9� a ° ductions in the amounts to be E. o a ° m 9 g.E m a; -3 w ° no ,°pv '•� o a ° allotted to the various projects. _ 0 ❑ F F ca-+Cc ORIGINAL WARDEN GEHRING otted 'grants may be evt' d v 8 °cs« W a � q S x FG for road The r onstructionnal nwas D$390,-Operational overhead 500 which has now been reduc- as jump from M.800 to M.200. ed to $343,900, a reduction of The cost allotted for the pot+ $460,600. The original amount chase of new machinery and y y g c Nutt ro F a a d ;s of $942,000, set out for bridge machine sheds took a drop from NIJ °.� o m . ° d °• ^o,$ consllvctioq has since bee a $164,60o to $159,50o. aq F E $ Fa reduced to $206,900. Road Warden Stanley Gehring, d 9 g •o „ $ a a d l✓ H d m m F o ! maintenance costs have been reeve of South Norwich Town. m v °.E m si ' p .g m 8 op reduced from $424,000 to $405; ship, said that Department of A m o w E �' ,„ g „ 8; y Soo. Highways grants would take ° " 'a $ E The budget for bridge and cut- another severe out in IM, He Ix c :e"A M:o E �. ;El 3 o w-x d Vert maintenance was c u t said the county will receive art o v E 01 E N� g a l ca.a °' E w E from $20,000 to $14,000, H 0 w- g g w« eu o ;� s9 M9 ever, the cost of administra• acrosx the board Subsft�i• of s m «;o ° a *' 'B E' live overhead increased from $680,000, for each of five years E ° 3 s: a °, E o a0pFa the original $26,200 to $29,000. starting in 19?L m.�rod Y• �s °n w••••qq�� �E"qq �m mpo"ag4tl3o�E<'�mq�� m90 axiP WGa.+°� §OA.ma S7 EaS V,0E4 a o b m w Chief librarian to attend conference '� a ° a g & A S p °a •, '« 9 m �°,' Airs. S. L. Krompart, chief communities. The ecnference, librarian at the Oxford Cotmtywill bring together approx- Aro Library, will attend a confer- �mtately 150 people representing m a-�' s u«'�v)• o m �°�y o .n once on community inter -action various community and regional Oct. A to 9 in Port ETho lgin- services. m? 8 cl 9 sponsored byothePOMario De• tion is to explore e of ways of ef- �en- ' fJ .. o g ,, q "' � 'g � � « �, ; � ;, �partment of Eduoalioa, is core- PecUrely working together is ro !Sa E p rn 6 ® � ° a municstin and co-operatAoa iu the community. mMgl HURA-0 F .$.� wV,S.S3tq Convention delegates named The Woodingford Lodge Auxiliary has named the delegates who will attend the convention of fin- torlo Association of Homes for the Aged in Thun• der Bay. Mrs. James Cray, president of the Woodingford Auxiliary will be accompanied by Mrs. Oliver Ste- phens. D. F. (Mike) Knott, Woodingfo d. administrator, will also attend the convention in his official ca- pacity. All delegates will participate in workshops per- tinent to their particular interests and functions as auxiliary executive officers. The convention will run from Sept. 13 to is ill.. elusive. — free Press Woodstock Bureau The middle branch of the Thames River is being 75-foot bridge. The $91,000 span, built by Arnott rerouted in West Zorra Township, one-half mile Construction Ltd. of Arthur, replaces two old south of Embro, to flow under a newly constructed bridges. They arrived from far and near to bid on treasures in Embro By JOHN BURMAN EMBRO — Buyers came as far as from Illinois and the whole town of Embro turned out to attend the estate auction of the late Dr. D. M. Suther- land, former Defence Minister of Canada held here Saturday Aug. 29, Interested onlookers and seri- ous bidders crowded onto the lawns surrounding the 120-year- old red brick mansion to ogle and bid on some of the 150 pieces of rare furniture and art treasures. Among the serious buyers present was 'Honest Ed' Mir- vi5h of Toronto bargain store and theatre venture fame. Mir- vish purchased articles for his ,Ed's Warehouse' including a rare satsuma vase which stood five feet high and went under the hammer for $2,300. Other pieces Included. many of Dr. Sutherland's cherished Japanese furniture and brass - ware. Many of these had been obtained from Japan to exhibit at the fit. f,ouis World's Fair. others had been shown at exbl. bitions in Kyoto and Osaka, Japan. Smaller buyers bid hotly for @Over tea services, crystal, ;poinuings and household ar- ticles interspersed among the major pieces. As the art dealers bid quietly on the treasures, small children ran and played about the 500 People present. For the town of Embro, a carnival atmosphere prevailed. Local church groups sold tea and sandwiches to friends as they exchanged tales about other sales they 'had attended. Ontario Provincial Police were on hand to direct traffic and cars littered the roadsides near the Sutherland home. Boxes, chairs, and picnic lunch- es were everywhere as the sale got under way with bidders waving their registration num- ber cards in answer to auction- eer Willtant Hawkin's amplified call. NO ESTIMATE Organizers for the sale were unable to estimate the total value of the articles sold, but some buyers felt It would be several hundredthousand dol. lars, More than 6W dealers had been contacted by direct adver- tising and word spread allruct- Ing Montreal (Aio, Detroit and Connecticut buyers. When the rain came late In the afternoon the spectators quickly retreated in the shelter of their care while the hardener) bidders produced umbrellas and raincoats brought in that event. Merchandise lisle, stools and up• ended chairs shleted the un- prnpared. Dr. Sutherland died June 3, 376 at the age of gill Tiff? ROYAL SATSUMA display at the aucunn. It vase, on the left; was ont,. of sold to "honest Ed" Mirvish the most Interesting Items on of Tor'uala for $2.350, OXFORD SOCIAL SERVICES REQUIRES WELFARE FIELD WORKER Candidates should find this position challenging, reward- ing and remunerative. Init- ial salary to be commensur- ate with experience and quali- fications. Usual municipal fringe benefits. Applications in writing, with complete personal data, will be receiv- ed by the undersigned until 9:00 a.m., Sept. 11, 1970. G. H. MacKAY, Administrator, Oxford Social Services, Box 397, Woodstock, Ont. Sewage plant is approved for Norwich B>S.-R, Corresyondent NORWICH — At the request of the Norwich Village Council, ,the Ontario Water Resources 'Commission will install a col- lection and treatment service for the village. The project to be owned by the Province of Ontario, will be built at a pro- posed cost of $1,266,720. For services provided from these works it is proposed to impose an estimated service rate of 61.1 cents per 1.000 gal- lons of sewage, accepted from the municipality, together with a frontage rate, connection charges and mill rate. It is proposed to raise the necessary annual revenue as follows: A frontage rate of 30 cents per foot per annunt oa all lands which abut on or con- nect to the sewers; a connec- tion charge of $23.1.4 per annum on owners or occupants of land for which sewer service connec- tion is provided; a 150 per cent surcharge on the water bill of domestic users of the system and a surcharge of not less than 1so per cent on the water bill of commercial and industrial users; also a general levy of 3.4 mills on all rateable property in the municipality. Where there is a connection to the proposed sewage works, but no connection to the water works, the charge for sewage service normally covered by the water bill surcharge, will be re- covered by the imposition of a foot frontage rate of U,s cents Par foot per arum on the own- er or occupants of such lands. The fruitage rate does not rem duce or eliminate any other frontage rates imposed for sewage or water.. 11 Home care scheme receives tentative OK from Oxford Free Press Woodstock Bureau fees and supervision necessary Dr. Sutherland said services WOODSTOCK — Establish. for health. which will be available im ment of a home care program Financial responsibility, he elude visiting nursing serv. has been approved in principle said, will be borne by the On- ices, v i s i t i n g home -maker by Oxford health unit board. tarfo department of health, services, physiotherapy, occu- Treatment at home, he said, pationaltherapy, speech ther- Dr. G. O. Sutherland, Oxford will allow more people to be apy, supplying of drugs, dress - medical officer of health, said kept within the family su'uc- ings and medical supplies, di - Monday the program will Lure. With this service, he agnostic and laboratory serv- provide treatment service for said, the shortage of hospital ices, supplying of hospital and selected patients in their beds can be relieved by early sick Loom equipment and homes, and a variety of serv- discharges. transportation. Oxford County clerk speaker at IODE Leonard K. Coles, O x f o r d County clerk -treasurer was the guest speaker at the November meeting of the Havelock Chapt- er of the IODE, field at the YWCA. Mr. Coles, who was brtroduc- ad by Mrs. W. H. Sanders as 9Ir Oxford County,' spoke, on tie history of Oxford County and presented his selection of colored slides. The county system included 11 townships, four villages and one town, according to Mr. Col- es. The. history of the court - in Woodstock, built in ' e with pictures taken inside ml outside, was of .special in terest to members. Other county buildings shown in the slides were the Oxford Health Unit, Registry Office, Oxford County Li*�ra:,v, county jail, Children's Aid building, and Woodingford Lodg-,. Members were told of thel first commercial chec a factory near Norwich and that the lar. Best number of turkey farms on the continent are in Oxiwd County, He, saidthe counry's oldest industry is the 'bme- aIone industry. A large number of Century Farms are located in the county. Mrs. H J. Forbes thanked Mr. Coles for sharing bus wealth of knowledge of the county's heritace. LEN COLES ..: 'Mr. Oxford County' Legislation about library grants subject for debate Legislatim on provincial grants, passed in 1070, is to be debated tonight at the Lake ' Erie regional library system meeting in London P u b I I c Library :Ipd Art Museum. This ye the grant structure for the province was altered, accordingito Len Coles, trea- surer for Txford County library. GRANT 1,1 don't know how it affects a city library," said Mr, Coles, "but our county grant remained exactly the -same this year as it did lost year. We want to build a new library in the coun- ty but we are going to have to cut back somewhere, possibly In the number of now books j purchased." The meeting tonight will be in the form of a psael discus. slun. Members of, the p a n e l will be E. 9, Beacock, director of the Midwestern regional Ilb. An assessment of needs and use, he said, should be under- taken by a committee repre- senting interested community agencies, such as the medical society, VIctorian Order of Nurses, health unit, Chi.ldren's Aid Society, hospitals, service clubs, senior citizens, women's organizations and social serv. ices. AWARDS PRESENTED Two .Woodstock students Oxford County, presentspro- were honored recently as the ficiency awards to Miss Susan 'University of Guelph Agricul- Winlaw, registered in the ap- I,tural College and the College plied science program, and of Family and consumer Stud- Douglas Skillings, enrolled in ,ins held its annual awards the diploma in agriculture. banquets. Above, Mr. John course. IHofstetter, left, representing rary sy'stemr 1I. Fisher, chair- man of the board for the Lake Erie regional library system; F, Hamilton, chairman, Mid- dlesex County library board and F. Rowland, business adminis- trator for the London Public Library and Art Museum. The subject under discussion will be: How the New Struc- ture for Provincial Grants Af- fects Your Library and What it Should Be, During the dls- cusslan, the various delegates will hove a chance to V e l c e their opinfons on the situation and how It can be Improved. Delegates attending from the Oxford County Library will he Mr. Coles; Mrs. Louise Kromp- arl county librarian and secre- tary to the board; and Rohert Rltdy, Chairman of the library board and a director on the Lake Erie .library board, Safety meetings for employees Clarke Daniel, Oxford County 'construction safety inspector, announced that construction I safety meetings have been plan- ned for county road employ- ees. Road employees of the town- ships in the northern section of Oxford County will meet Nov. 16 at 2:20 P.M. At the Oxford County works department of- fice, located west of Woodstock. On Nov. 17 at 9 A.M. a see- ond group of road employees. will meet at the works depart- ment and another meeting will be held at 1 p.m. In Norwich, The last of the meetings will be held at a p.m, At the Tit sonburg board of works, COUNTY OF OXFORD TENDER FOR FUEL OIL Sealed Tenders, marked as such, will be received by the undersigned until 12;00 noon, Tuesday, December 8, 1970 for supplying Furnace Fuel Oil No. 2 to the Court House, Jail, and Caretaker's Resi- dence. Information can be obtained at the County Clerk's Office, Box 397. Court House, Wood- stock, Ontario or will be mail- ed upon request, Lowest or any Tender not necessarily accepted, G. R. STAPLES, Deputy Clerk -Treasurer, Court House, Woodstock, Ontario. Nos s: to Results of such an assess- ment and survey, he said, would be sent to the province for consideration and approv- al, Dr. Sutherland said cases accepted into the home care program would be approved by the home care committee and be under the family physi- clan. Surplus funds, cash credits are pondered INGERSOLL — Town council will mull whether or not it will allow a small surplus of funds each year to build up into a fund for paying sick leave cash crvd- its for Oxford Health Unit, A letter from the unit submit- ted to council on Ilaoaday night stated that in the next few, years, it is likely that several staff members will retire who are entitled to the cash credits - The provincial government will subsidise the sick leave cash credits by SY Per cent, However, the unit Is "bag to 'establish a small municipal re- serve to provide for this even- tuality. Two years ago, lrrgersoll had as 599.99 surplus and last year. ell@. The unit is asking to keep this veto's surplus to go towards the fund, Len Coles, left listens as ex -warden Bill Sutherland pays tribute p Len Coles honored ` for contributions — Free Press Woodstock Bureau Oxford County clerk -treasurer Leonard Coles, left, who retires Dec. 31. is Four hundred friends gather- municipal leadership to Oxford honored Friday after 28 years of service. Attending a reception for him is ed last night at the Recreation County, in the role of clerk - hall of the Fairgrounds, to treasurer. his wife, W. Scott McKay, a St. Thomas lawyer and former secretary- W. Scott McKay, a former e to Leonard Coles b d oo-y. treasurer of the Ontario Good Roads Association, and Mrs. McKay. say gsecretary treasurer of the on - He is retiring at the end of this year after giving 28 years of COUNTY CLERK HONORED ON RETIREMENT LEN COLES OF IN60 SOLL, well (mown county Clerk of Oxlord was honored on his retirement when several hundred present and former associates gathered to make a Presentation to Mr. and Mrs, Coles and review tire popular Qvrk'sacNevemems through his 28 years of service, Mf. and Mrs, Cole are seen, left, chatrGrg with Deputy -Clerk Gerryy Staples and Mrs. Staples of f lgersoll, 1t It anticipated that Mr. Staples wiYI socceed Mr, Coles as County Clerk. tario Good Roads Association referred to Mr. Coles as "Mr. Oxford County" of the present day. Mr. McKay also pointed out when Mr. Coles was presi- dent of the association in 1963 he received an award for con- tributing to city -county rela- tions. The speaker recalled t h at Mr. Coles won the Canadian doubles badminton ehampion- 'ship with Jack Sibbald of Guelph in 1936. Mr. Sibbald was present at the reception last night. Mr Coles was apponted to the Senate of the University of Western Ontario in 1943 and served on it until a recent. re- organization. Three county councillors who hired Mr. Coles for the Oxford county post, John Smith of Dere- ham Township, Basil Wilson of West Oxford Township and John Winterburn of Norwich were present. Gordon W. lnnes, MPP (L. Oxford) said the fact that the county has operated without a debenture debt is a tribute to Mr. Coles, ability. L. K. (Len) Voles 4pprec cation Night FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1970 I Recreation Hall (Fairgrounds) Woodstock Time - 7:00p.m. Tickets - 04.00 per person NO 47 SOLD ooT All of the tickets have been sold for the dinner honaring Lou Coles., county clerk . tteoaurer on Oct. 23 Ticket sales reach- ed the sW mark for the event, to be held at 7 p,m, at the Re- creation Hall of the Fair- grounds. The event Is spensor• ed by Oxford Cpunb' counted. e • 0 Appreciation Night L. K. "LEN" COLES OXFORD COUNTY CLERK -TREASURER 1942 - 1970 iF ]C i C as Recreation Hall Fairgrounds, Woodstock Friday, October 23rd,1970 Clerk -treasurer is honored by county library officials Len Coles, retiring clerk-trea- swer for Oxford County was LVA C.OLES . " . retiring honored last night by members of the county library board and staff. Members of county library boards as Far back as 1965, Mr, Coles staff, county officials, and members of the central library office were present, Master of ceremonies was Robert Rudy, chairman of the Oxford County Library Board. Warden Stanley Gehring ad" dressed Sir, Coles and welcom. ed guests. The history of the library was described by Grant Smith as he praised Mr, Coles for his part in the Growth of the organiza- tion. County librarian Mrs. Stanley $rompart commented on the 0A relations between. Mr. Coles and the library staff. She then. askeri Gerald Staples to Present Mr, Coles with a gift of camera equipment and present- ed Mr. Coh: with a remem• branre pin. CLERK -TREASURER HONORED Leonard Colas, O x f o r d lie office. Pictured are Mr, County Clerk•Tretu nrer, was Allan Reid, his first seere- t.he guest of honor at a party Lary, Mrs. John Wood a nd held for him Thursday even. Mrs, Jack Love, present see- ing +d Woodstock Golf Club retarles, enJoying the fes- on file (Weasion of his forill tivities with Mr. C014% coming retirement from pub- Appreciation Night 9 L. K. "LEN" COLES OXFORD COUNTY CLERK -TREASURER 1942 - 1970 Recreation Hall Fairgrounds, Woodstock Friday, October 23rd, 1970 r1 Vegetables Menu 0 Tomato Juice Roast Beef Mashed Potatoes with Gravy Cabbage Salad Relish Plates with Cheese Rolls Dessert Square Tea and Coffee CI Programme O CHAIRMAN — GERALD R. STAPLES GRACE TOAST TO THE QUEEN DINNER REMARKS — MR. GRANT SMITH — Chairman Oxford County Ex -Wardens' Association MR. W. SCOTT McKAY PRESENTATION — WARDEN STANLEY R. GEHRING L. K. -LEN" COLES MRS. BETTY WOOD MRS. KAREN LOVE AULD LANG SYNE Organ Music — Oatman's Music Room • 9 • V AULD LANG SYNE Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And never bro't to mind? Should auld acquaintance be forgot And days of auld lang syne? For auld lang syne, my dear, For auld lang syne; We'll tak' a cup o' kindness yet, For auld Lang syne. PRESENTATION TO CHARLES Mfi TON — On Thursday even- ing, a well-known Princeton man, Charles Milton, was hon- oured with a recognition dinner at the Princeton Centennial Hall. Over 300 persons attended the event for Mr. Milton, who has, CHARLES MILTON HONOURED AT DINNER More than 300 people attended the Recognition Dinner in hon- our of Charles Milton at the Cen- tennial Centre on Thursday, Oc- tober 29th. L. K. Coles, Oxford County Clerk, was chairman. Guest speaker was James N. Allan, M.P.P., Norfolk-Haldimand. Guests were introduced by Wilfred Bishop. Speaking briefly were Stanley H. Gehring, Warden of Oxford County; Robert Kern, represen- ting. the Village of Princeton; N. M. Marshall, Ex -Warden of Oxford County; Fred Crowe of the Pork Producers' Association; Clare Curtin of the Pork Pro- ducers' Marketing Board; Or- val Guy, past president of the Ontario Concentrated Milk Pro- ducers' Association; Wallace B. Nesbitt, Q.C., M.P., Oxford; Ro- bert F. Nixon, M.P,P., Brant; Perry Sibbick, councillor of the Township of Blenheim. 'John Hofstetter, Reeve of Blen- heim Township, presented Mr. Milton with a gold watch. Mrs. John Perry and Mrs. George Sibbick of Riahwood sang a duet accompanied at the piano by Mrs. Ivan Grover. Mrs. Q,ey Baker of Drumbo contribu- "'•vtadings. John Givens, ac- over the years, served the com- munity in a variety of roles. Above, Mr. Milton, (centre), is presented with a. gold wrist companied by Mrs. Joe May - cock, played selections on the violin. Mr. Milton has held many po- sitions over the years. From 1929 to 1933 he was a member of the Blenheim Township Council; 1937 Deputy Reeve; 1936-39, Reeve; 1939, Warden of Oxford County. From 1930 to 1947 he held the office of secretary -trea- surer of Showers' Corners Un- ited Church. 1940 was a busy year for Mr. Milton. In thatyear he was the Conservative candidate in the federal election. He helped or- ganize the Oxford County Hog Producers and was one of the first county presidents. He also held the position of president in four associations: Oxford County Ratepayers and Trustees Assoc- iation, Oxford County Federation of Agriculture. Oxford County Children's Aid Association, and Oxford County Soil and Crop improvement Association. From 1447 to 1966 he was sec- retary -treasurer and manager of the Ontario Concentrated Milk Producers. In 1969 he was chair- man of the Blenheim court of ap- peal on assessment and this year, chairman of Police Village of Princeton Trustees., watch by Blenheim Township reeve, John Rofstetter. Looking on are members of Mr. Milton's family (left to right) Ross Milt- on, RR 2, Princeton; Edith Tay- lor, RR 3, Burford and Bert Mil- ton, RR 2, Princeton. 0 U n U 61fiatIzi '�-MifEar. RECOGNITION DINNER PRINCETON COMMUNITY HALL Thursday Evening, October 29th, 1970 7:00 p.m. 0 Mashed Potatoes Amu Tomato Juice Roast Beef Gravy Seasoned Beans and Kernel Corn Tea Cake - Ice Cream Coffee A7ogramme Chairman - - L. K. Coles, Oxford County Clerk Grace The Queen - - - Introduction of Guests - - - Wilfred Bishop Stanley H. Gehring - - - Warden, County of Oxford Robert Kam - - - - Village of Princeton N. M. Marshall - - Ex -Warden, County of Oxford Fred Crowe - - Pork Producers Association Blake Snoblen - - Pork Producers Marketing Board Orval Guy - - Past President, Ontario Concentrated Milk Producers Association Wallace B. Nesbitt, Q.C., M.P. - - - - Oxford Robert F. Nixon, M.P.P. - - - - Brant Her. James N. Allan, M.P.P. - - Norfolk-Haldimand Perry Sibbick - - - Councillor, Township of Blenheim John Hofstetter - Presentation - Reeve, Township of Blenheim CHARLES MILTON Entertainment Betty Perry Anne Barker Mrs. J. Maycock Dianne Sibbick John Givens Mrs. Ivan Grover "-- — j to 0 0 0 Oxford road study nearly completed Frye Press Woodstock Bureau WOODSTOCK — A 111-year egad needs study for Oxford County is expected to be in the hands of the roads committee. in the next few days, Albert : t'oYnwell, reeve of South Nor- , uich Township, reportedto county council Wednesday. Reeve Cornwell, chairman of the roads committee, pre - dieted that the study in its it- nnl printed form would be wady to be presented to coun. ell in January or February. The consulting engineering l firm of A. M. Spriet and Asso- J dates, of London, was given the task of conducting the 420,000 road needs study_ in 19U. "It had been hoped thatthis study wopld have been com- pleted in early 1970, but the uncertainly of our present p'. economy has made the deci- sion respecting financing of d., proposed road improvements a difficult one to make," the chairman said. Reeve Cornwell said, "It. s` would appear that there will be a definite reduction in the r.t money to he spent. for recon-struction of county roads and bridges over the next five- year period. 3-" "We are pleased to note, from the preview we hive had of the study, that a sufficient amount of money is being .set aside to at least maintain the Present standards of road maintenance." Warden Stam,--v Gehring. reeve, of South No: vich Town- ship. announced id'September department of highways grants will be reduced to $630.000 annually for Oxford County road operations for five years, starting in 1972. Anticipated a u b s i d y this year was 109,009, cut from an earlier estimated $799,00r Warden Gehring said at fit a new system of r hcial grants, the county d'. .rive 45 per cent of estimate rsts per year for the five yea. He said the grants etc based on an estimated $7 mil- lion road program over the next five years as proposed in the needs study. The original draft of the needs study called for an $1.1,155.000 road and bridge construction program over a • 90byear period. The amount in. cluded $1,429,000 for 24 new bridges. In June, the country added 60.7 miles to its roads system, deleting 11:$ miles, resulting with a total of 278.9 miles in the system, as recommended in rt por imi of the report. Included is a road from Highway 401 north. of Foldon's Cornets to one concession south of Governor's Road, be- tween Beachville and Inger. soll, considered earlier as a Highway 401-Governor's Road connecting toad possiUtlity by -the department of highways. Reeve Cornwell said road expenditures pup to Nov. 20 have totalled $1,252,147 of a $1,394,500 proposed expendi- ture, which will allow the committee to be within its budget for the year. Road Superintendent Donald L. Pratt said the committee has purchased approximately 150 acres of farm land east. of Drumbo on County Road 29, for $70,000. The purpose of the land purchase is the straight- ening of County Road 29, a project planned for next year. Ile said it was felt cheaper WOODINGFORD A spokesman for the Wood- ingford Lodge. committee of management announced that a recent position vacancy has drawn 32 applicants to date. No- deeision has been made yet re- garding the peBitinn of Office manager and accountant, but It le in (I that the position will be filed within a week. to buy the land as, a parcel rather than pay the price for splitting the farms with the new road. The remaining Iand will be sold after the road nl- lowance is taken, Mr. Pratt said. ' The properties were pur- chased from Cecil Wilson. Charles Clarke and Wilfred Clarke. Office manager named for home WOODSTOCK — Brien D. McReynolds has been named ! effice manager and accoun. tant of Woodingford Lodge, the Oxford County Home for Ilhe aged. operated by Wood. istock, Ingersoll and Oxford Counties. Mr. McReynolds, assistant business administrator at the Oxford Mental Health Centre, succeeds Ernest Wood, who (was promoted three weeks !ago to superintendent. Woodingford Lodge names administrator Ernest Wood, office manager at Oxford Cmmt.y's home for sell or citizens, Woodingford Ledge, has been named as new administrator of the lodge. Mr APPLICANTS Mr, Wood was selected from more than 90 applicants. The appointment was announced on Saturday by Oxford C o u n t y Warden, Stanley Gehring, who is chairman of the lodge man. agement committee. The new administrator will succeed D, F. Knott who left the post on Sept: 23. No explanation has been offered as to. why Mr. Knott left. Mr. Wood served for 16 years as clerk -treasurer of West Zorra Township and for the sameper- iod of time was secretary -trea- surer of the Township s c h.0 01 board area until the county school .board was formed on Jan. 1, 1969. He took over the post of office manager at Woodingford Lodge IS months ago. Mr Wood was one of the first graduates in a three-year course for clerk,. treasurers sponsored by Queen's University, ... takes sear post Wnodingford Lodge is spon- sored jointly by Oxford County, Woodstock and IngerselL The name "Woodfngford" is made up of Portions of the names of all three. 'Oxford will study �s arin of g services Free Press Woodstock Bureau The fast phase will deal He suggested planting WOODSTOCK — Completion with community services and should be under one official of the first of two phases in a a further investigation of joint plan, after studying difficul- regional government study for participation with Woodstock lies in the established Niagara O x f o r d County has been and Ingersoll. region. planned for June, 1971, War, Among joint service pessi- Oxford County, Woodstock den Stanley Gehring said bilities to be studied are gar- and Ingersoll area already Wednesday in a final address bage disposal and planning, co-operating with the opera - to county council. Warden Gehring said. -tion of a health unit, Chil. L. K. Coles to get time for history .Free Press Woodstock Bureau WOODSTOCK — Oxford County clerk -treasurer Leon- ard K. Coles, will be able to devote all his spare time to his hobby when his retirement takes effect Jan. 1. Ending 28 years as clerk - treasurer, he will continue re- searching and writing abnnt Oxford County and its council. County council will spend $1,200 renovating a basement storage room for Mr. Coles' work. It will Ile used as a county council h i s t o r i c a l 'room, housing pictures, histor- ical items, scrapbooks, histo. ties of neighboring counties and other similar items. Mr. Coles' writings, which began as it centennial project in 1947, include studies of ear. ly councillors and members of Parliament G. R, Staples, deputy clerk - treasurer, will succeed his chief, but Mr. Coles will assist at the lime of [be audit. Land required for road work The Oxford County Roads De- landowners are involved, 13 of partment will iproceed to ex- which accepted the county 's of- propriate approximately f i v e fer of $750 per ace. acres of land in West Zorra Two property -owners were Township for the purpose of not satisfied with the price. improving Oxford County Road The project involves approxi- Donald Pratt, county r o a d i mately 22 acres of land. superintendent said a two-mile ➢ r. Pratt said it is nece.s. otretch of County Road 6, south. sary to improve the road and of Embro is scheduled to be'without the two properties reconstructed in 1971. (there will be no road construct - Ile said approximately SS ion. Applications for Lodge post So far, 91 applications have been received for the (post of administrator at Woodiugford Lodge, the home for the aged located on Devonshire Avenue in Woodstock. Tile Lodge is supported jointly by Woodstock, Ingorsoll and Oxford County, A portion of the name of each area was used in arriving at the name "Woodingford," The bodge management colnmluee started to. viewing the applications today and an announce. rent about the frost is expected shortly, dr'en's Aid Society, sudal serv- ice and a county home. NIX. Gehring said the second Phase includes holding meet- ings and presenting ideas to neighboring municipalities on the formation of a regional government. lie said he could see no rea. - son why the study could not be completed in 1971 and present- ed to the department of mua- nicipal affairs for considers. tien The cost of the $31,300 study is being shared by the county. Woodstock and Ingersoll, The warden also recom- mended disbanding of the property and assessment cyan. nliltee, with assessment now a provincial matter. The roads, finance and ad- ministration, and agriettlture and community services com. nutters would continue. lie recommended that con- sideration be given to holding committee meetings prior to c'outled sessions, in order to continue the ania-jay sessions.. Warden Gehring was pm .sented with an engraved watch. and plaque by Reeve Rowe .Amos of West Oxford 'lown,hip and Reeve Albert Com"vil of Norwich Town - ,hip, both of whom an: retlr- 111g. County cierk-treasurer Leon- unt K. Coles was presented with an engraved ..plaque- , 10ck. He retires Dec. 31 after years of service. Dcpulyelerk C, R, Staples %%,is appointed elerk-treasurer I,, succeed Mr. Coles; Bridge named after engineer T, S. tSpikej Caldwell, former department of highways municipal engineer, will have a bridge named after him. The $150,000 bridge wW i c built north of Putnam over the Thames River by .Middle. sex and Oxford Counties. "Bronze Plaques will be placed at each end of the 140 foot long bridge," said Leonard Coles, Ox. ford County clerk -treasurer, "Engineering is still in progress for the bridge and tenders are expected to be called about next March," said Donald Pratt, road superintendent, "The bridge will be a steel girder structure with no centre piers. H. will be constructed by Ox- ford County... Len Coles to continue writing Oxford County Clerk -Treasurer, Len Coles, is due to retire effective tomorrow night, but he won't leave the iriepoly confines of the county building for a while. llr. Coles, a noted Oxford County historian, with special emphasis on councils of the past, will move into a renovated basement roam where he'll continue his research and writing. The room, to be decorated at a cost of $1,200, trill be used as a county council historical room, housing pictures, scrapbooks, historical items and histories of other councils in the area. G. R, .Staples, deputy -clerk -treasurer, will take over officially from Mr. Coles, Oxford planners win support The plan for more municipal representatives on the Oxford County Planning Board won city council's support last night. Council agreed to endorse the board's plan to petition the miaister of municipal affairs to vary the constitution of the board in order to permit two representatives from each member municipality. Mayor William Allen explained the board sought one elected representative and one appointed re- presentative from each municipality. Tb Oxford County Planning Board felt a bet- ter liaison could be maintained between the local councils and the board if a council member from each municipality was a member. Councils meet for regional plan studies :Members of the Oxford Coun. ty council will study the guide- lines for a planned regional government study Jan. 11, in the county courthouse. Thecounty regional govern. went study Committee which consists of representatives from county council, Woodstock and Ingersoll invited the councils to attend. Oxford, Woodstock and Inger- soll councils have approved the study which will cost $31,300. The study will be explained to the council by Brian. Turnbull, of Brian Turnbull and Associ- ates of Kitchener. Mr. Turnbull will answer questions the noun. ciltors have regarding We study. .tune 1071, is the completion date of phase one of two phases of the study. It rna� to deal with Community services and a further Ihveattgation of partici- patwn of Oxforrdd with Woodstock and Ingersoll in projects of common iateresL Garbage dis- posal and planning are two of the services the study will can. silken for joint operation. The second stageof the study will fnvulve proposed boundaries, Oxford defers formation of land division group Free Press Woodstock Bureau WOODSTOCK — Establish- ment of an Oxford County land division committee was deferred by Oxford County council Friday until its Dec. 8.9 session. Peter Weston, senior subdi- vision planner of the depart. ment of municipal affairs, said the land division commit. Expenditures for road jobs in the county A report submitted to the Ox- ford County Council from the .roads enni nittee indicates ex- �penditureson county Toad pro. jecls to the tune of$1,252,147.92. The report deals with projects up to Nov. 20.' The figure on road construc- tion came to $360,397.47, while bridge construction was some- what lower. Expenditures in this category came to $146,9M.34. The purchase of machine sheds and. new machinery cost the county $164,690.78, rebates to urban municipalities came to $66,322.13 and the needs study came to $5,743.55, Road maintenance cost $389,290.73. bridge and culvert in aintainance cost $15,528.31, en- ginering and administrative ov- erhead came to $95,087.69 and non-subsidizable items came to 18.'3L92. County plans to buy lots on Graham St. The County of Oxford w i l l purchase two Graham Street properties for the purpose of possible future expansion. Tice county will purchase the lots at 76 and 80 Graham Street for a total cost of $60,000. The former Bethany Luther- an Church, located at 62 Gra- ham Street, property purchased in 1963 by the county, will be, sold to the City of Woodstock for $45,0011. The former church will be used to house the child- ren's library of the Woodstock Public Library. I.er, Coles, Oxford County clerk -treasurer said the Conn. ty's total property holdings be. tween the, public library and the former armory has 167 foot frontage sad is 199 feel in depth. Oxford Warden Stanley Geh- ring, reeve of South Norwich Townshlp, said the purchase of the land was an Investment. in Surplus, lie, said that In the event of regional government, additional property would be re- quired for the building of offices for additional staff members. The county Purchased a third lot approximately three years ayo. lee would consider requests for division of parcels of lands in municipalities which do not have any committee of adjust. ment. Division requests from areas where there are no com- mittees of adjustment, he said, have been forwarded to the department of municipal affairs for consideration. G. H. Staples, deputy county clerk, said about one-third of the municipalities in Oxford have not appointed conmaW tees of adjustment. Mr. Weston said committees of adjustment may still be formed provided they are cov- ered by an official plan and have at least a partial zoning bylaw. Road -needs study report expected within 2 months The ruads. committee of the made the decision respecting. 'Oxford County council has been financing a difficult one to the backbone of a 10 year road- make. ,needs study for the county, the The chairman said it would results of which are expected appear that there will be a de. in January or February, finite reduction in the. money to The $20,000 study, which was ' be spent for reconstruction of bvgniir in 1968, has been con- county roads and bridges over ducted by the consulting_ eagin- the next five year period, ering firm of A. M. Sprint and Warden, Stanley Gehring, an - ',Associates, of London. It was nounced that department of originally planned to be com- highways grants will be reduc. pletad in early 1970, according, ed to $630,000 annually for Ox- to Albert Cornwell reeve of)ford County road operations for South Norwich Township a n d a five year Period starting in chairman ofthe roads commit- 1972. Anticipated subsidy t Iti s tee. i14owever, the uncertainty year was $729,000 which was ,of qpr present economy has lowered from an earlier estim- ated $799,000. Warden Gehring said, "The original draft of the study call- ed for an $11,155,000 road and bridge construction program over a 10 year period. Library fee goes up by 20 cents INGERSOLL — It's going to board meeting decided to cost town council more per head charge $2.20 per capita for the in 1971 for people to read books. 1971.72 year. own council When Ingersoll Public Library A letter filed by t became part of the county lib. Monday night from Oxford I rary on Jan. 1, the price tagged County Library stated a recent per capita was $2. ta The change. Mr. Weston said, allows decisions to be made on a more local level and eases the provincial work load. The land division commit- tee, he said, may be estab- lished at any time but tecimi- eally would not be possible for six to eight weeks. Rules of procedure, he said, are to be prepared by the min. ister of municipal affairs. Three or more members may be named by the county, he said. Mr. Weston said municipali- ties will be required to have an official plan by Dec. 31, 1973 to retain their local cam- mittee of adjustment for con. sents. The new county land divi. sion committee, he said, would have no jurisdiction in regard to Woodstock. County council, in other business, approved the dele- tion of one-half mile of County Road 9, the London-Hamiiton Road, west of IngersuB; and one mite of Carroty Road 10, the Culloden Road, from the present southern boundary of Ingersoll to Highway 401 from the Oxford County road sys. tem, in view of the upcoming January 1 annexation of part of West Oxford township by .Ingersoll. Brant County council noti. tied Oxford council of its as- sorting of the Burford -North Norwich -East Oxford Towrdine from New Durham northerly to Highway 2.. a distance of eight miles; and Burford -Blen- heim Townline from the Put. town Road west to Highway 2. a distance of one-half mile, as county roads. The North Norwich -East Ox- ford -Burford Towvline from New Durham northerly to Highway 53 will be maintained by Brant and the road from Highway 53 to Highway 2 and the Blenheim -Burford town - line, the responsibility of Ox- ford. Regional government study gets nod from the council Woodstock will join Ingersoll and Oxford County in a regional government study. The eity's share of the study cost. $10,140, was approved by coned members last night.. Io presenting the proposal Aid, William Dutton said the study is necessary to deter- mine what steps should be taken by the city in the matter of regional government. PLANS Ingersoll, said Mayor Allen, has already approved partio ipation in the study. Original t alans were drawn up within the county council some time ago. Aid. Dutton informed council members Brian Turnbull Assoc.- iates of Kitchener bad made a presentation to the committee as to just what is involved in the study. .Mayor William Allen express- ed the view the city needed to co.operste with Ingersoll and the county on the issue. Re felt they would be unwilling to discuss the study unless the city absorbed a share of the Ca5L SHARE Woodstck's $10,140 share is about one-third of the total coal. A report has been prepared by the Kitchener firm, said Aid. Dutton but details of It will not be released untilthe study Is Completed. ALa1 i r ' COUNTY OF OXFORD Warden s inner<V[ _.0111 THURSDAY EVENING Recreation Hall, Fairgrounds NOVEMBER 26th, 1970 Woodstock, Ontario STANLEY GEHRING, Warden YOU ARE CORDIALLY INVITED TO ATTEND THE Warden J 2inner THURSDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 26th, 1970 ...at... THE RECREATION HALL WOODSTOCK FAIRGROUNDS Woodstock, Ontario AT SEVEN O'CLOCK STANLEY R. GEHRING, Warden _,geception to follow J/ ".J4 to « lFe m,7714 yeu P,ia,w -Ply to 0?s &. 2 Oil.. III, 0-1-,- ved. a ary cu Oq, 397, Ca«.t _4i,, IN.Jdo,�, 04nno *esideni of UWO is speaker r annual Warden's dinner University of Western will soon enjoy a new with 25 acres of floor which will be dedicated to health. is unique," said Dr. Williams, president and meellor of the univer- Williams was guest at the annual Oxford warden's dinner, held y evening in the recre- hall, Woodstock fair- peaker used a theme of banging Scene," for his. . He said the university rgoing changes all the !sere are presently 520 part-time students from County enrolled at Wes - id the total enrolment is He added that a short ,o, the directors of West- dd the institute would xceed 5,000 students. >EAS ore trying to change and same time, hang on to as," said the speaker. o will notundertake new s will suffer new illnes- "The buildings arechanging too," said the speaker. '"The old type gothic architecture is nice, but the modern construction gives more light, more air and more snace. We are build- ing a new library containing 2,- OOo,o00 volumes, and to build it in the gothic style, it would be an immense skyscraper." "The new 25 acre building will house several health units, including a 430 bed university hospital, a dental college, a medical centre, a school of nur- sing and a cancer centre. ACTMSTS "We .also have student acti- vists," said the speaker. "_Ault sometimes they win. We make mistakes too. But when every- body does what they want to do, they do it in an orderly fashion and within the system set up to do these things." Dr. Williams spoke highly of his students, revealing the fact that when Pierre Laporte was murdered, - several students phoned wanting the campus flag lowered to half mast, Some of the students wanted to stage a rally to demonstrate t h e i r favour of the government's courage regarding the War Measures AM, whether they agreed with the act or not. "Our students dnnated 1,W bottles of blood for a recent Red Cross blood donor clinic," said the speaker. He continued, "`Oum,. students also started the. drop-m-the bucket campaign tar the Save the Children Fund. It spread across the country and last year in Canada, univemi- ties collected Mo00. In one day at Western, the students collect* ad $3,000." COLLECTIONS "One of the greater acqui- sitions we have maile." said Dr. Williams, "is the last collec- tion of the works of John Mil ton available for sale. The four volumes are so valuable that Lloyds of London would not insure them unless the chief lib- rarian went to California in per- son to bring them back. 'The four voinnleb are valued at $60.0m." The speaker concluded his address by quoting John .Rase- field — "There is frothing more beautiful than university." OXFORD COUNTY warden, hiLautdv. 5tr, t;ehring adds wardro's dinner, hold Thure- Stno Grilling, is rnngraudnt- her ro'iS, illilations with a duc wining in the reeTeAtixA od by Dr. D. C, N'iltiamx oil a smile. Pr. Williams MR, hall, N'uodatuck fair ground,. wonderful veer of service to euest snoaker at tho annual 0 YOU ARE CORDIALLY INVITED TO ATTEND THE Warden 5 2inner THURSDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 26th, 1970 ...at... THE RECREATION HALL WOODSTOCK FAIRGROUNDS Woodstock, Ontario AT SEVEN O'CLOCK AP Fption to follow STANLEY R. GEHRING, Warden J/una1% h, alien, wpµld ytu r�ea,ra ..Ply to y .,,Ln Sfanlay K. O.L;.q PP. & a 011., lG, Oalar,o er l%. C"..fy CI..G k3.,�/, r 397, (f ..l -our., VV.J,4ocir, Onlavm President of UWO is speaker for annual Warden's dinner The University of Western Ontario will soon enjoy a new building with 25 acres of floor space which will be dedicated strictly to health. "This is unique," said Dr. D. C. Williams, president and vice-chancellor of the univer- sity. Dr. Williams was guest speaker at the annual Orford County warden's dinner, held Thursday evening in the recre- ation hall, Woodstock fair- grounds. The speaker used a theme of "The Changing Scene," for his address. He said the university is undergoing changes all the time. There are presently 520 full and part-time students from Oxford County enrolled at Wes- tern, and the total enrolment is 13,50o. He added that a short while ago, the directors of West - tern said the institute would never exceed 5,000 students. OLD IDEAS "We are trying to change and at the same time, hang on to old ideas," said the speaker. "He who will not undertake new remedies will suffer new illnes- ses." "The buildings are changing too," said the speaker. "The old type gothic architecture is nice, but the modern construction gives more ligbt, more air and more space. We are build. ing a new library containing 2,. 000.00o volumes, and to build it in the gothic style, it would be an immense skyscraper." "The new 25 acre building will house several health units, including a 430 bed university hospital, a dental college, a medical centre, a school of nur- sing and a cancer centre. ACTIVISTS "We also have student acti- vists," said the speaker. "_Anb sometimes they win. We make mistakes too. But when every- body does what they want to do, they do it in an orderly fashion and within the system set up to do these things." Dr. Williams spoke highly of his students, revealing the fact that when Pierre Laporte was murdered, several students phoned wanting the campus flag lowered to half mast, Some of the students wanted to stage a rally to demonstrate t h e i r favour of the govvernment's courage regarding the War Measures Act, whether they agreed with the act or not. "Our students donated 1.&A bottles of blood for a recent Red Cross blood donor clinic," said the speaker. He continued, "Our students also started the drop -in -the bucket camnaigt for the Save the Children Fund, It Mead across the country and last year in Canada, universi- ties collected $50,000. In one day at Western, the students Collect- ed S3,000." COLLEMON3 "One of the greater acqui- sitions we have made," said br. Williams, "is the last collec. tion of the works of John BFJ- ton available for sale. The four volumes are so valuable that Lloyds of London would not insure them unless the chief lib- rarian went to California. in per- son to bring. them back. The four volumes are valued at Sso,aao." The speaker concluded his address by quoting Jobin Mase- field — "'there is nothing more beautiful than a university." OXFORD COUNTY warden, his gunt�. Sirs. Gehringadda wardim',A dtgtw hold,Thyrrc, Stan Gehring, Is cpugratulat- h iti+rl xlulx lions with a dayy ev'elikau� 160 T+4N"tips ad by Or. D, C, Williams, ont a an111C. DI', W1111Ams was hall, Woedsia¢k tak srwds. wonderful Year of aorvice, to Guest aoeakeo ai the sumig n U Warden s inner THURSDAY EVENING Recreation Hall, Fairgrounds NOVEMBER 26th, 1970 Woodstock, Ontario STANLEY GEHRING, Warden 0 I � � S �3�'Lsia p d1rograMMLI a/leilbt Chairman— L. K. COLES * Grace Rev. Cyril Leach The Queen Tomato Juice Introduction of Head Table The Warden TZ Members of Parliament Wallace B. Nesbitt, M.P. Gordon W. Ines, M.P.P. Roast Beef - Gravy Mashed Potatoes ADDRESS Dr. D. C. Williams President and Vice -Chancellor The University of Western Ontario Appreciation G. R. Staples Peas and Corn Rolls Mayor of Tillsonburg Andrew Balazs Mayor of Woodstock William Allen Mayor of Ingersoll Gordon B. Henry Salad Relishes The Warden Auld Lang Syne Pie and Ice Cream Should auld acquaintance be forgot, For auld fang syne, my dear, And never brought to mind, For auld lang syne, Should auld acquaintance be forgot, We'll take a cup of kindness yet, For days of auld lang syne. For the days of auld lang syne. Tea or Coffee Mrs. Evelyn Berlett at the Organ 0 0 OXFORD COUNTY COUNCIL 1970 STANLEY GEHRING Warden Melvin Balls ................................... Blandford John Hofstetter................................. Blenheim L. H. Sibbick................................... Blenheim Medford Clarke .................................. Dereham Louis Barrett ................................... Dereham Douglas Muir ............................... East Nissouri " James R. Patience ........................... East Nissouri Albert E. Cornwell ......................... North Norwich W. Leslie Dickson ......................... North Norwich Stanley Gehring ........................... South Norwich William J. Martin .......................... South Norwich 1i1 Kenneth Peers .............................. East Oxford Clair G. Minler ............................. North Oxford ' Bruce Amos ................................. West Oxford �i Archie Longworth ........................... West Oxford " Max L. MacKay ................................ East Zorra Wallace Ross .................................. East Zorra Tames K. Fleming ............................ West Zorra Kenneth W. Webster .......................... Tillsonburg J. Seldon Wilkinson ........................... Tillsonburg '. John J. Nadalin................................ Beachville e!' Rowland Rutherford ............................... Embro ' Kenneth L. Pollard ............................... Norwich William Ducklow ............................... Tavistock L. K. COLES Clerk and Treasurer f G. R. STAPLES D. L. PRATT Deputy Clerk and Treasurer Road Superintendent t Oxford audience told legal protest best Free Press Woodstock Bureau WOODSTOCK — Student IIr Italian at the University of Western Ontario has rigidly remained on a legal level, lln- like the illegal activities of student activists elsewhere on the continent. Dr. D. C. Wil- hams, president of the univer. sity, said here Thursday. Dr.. Williams, speaking at the Oxford County warden's dinner, said there are student activists at the university who are pressing hard for reform They think is right- However, they are doing itin debates. Opinions differ, he said.:md it is through the presentation of debates that the best solu- tions are found. It is terrifying that at so many campuses. Dr. Williams said, there are people, who, when they or others are broughtbefore the courts on charges arising out of their protest activities, are pre- pared to stand ❑p in frontof a judge and. question his right to ley an individual. Dr. Williams said some stu- dents telephoned on the Sun- day of the murder of Quebec. Labor Minister Pierre Laporte asking the university to fly the flag on University College at half mast. Dr. Williams said also that it was through their requests that a demonstration was held in support of the passing of the War Measures Act. Western with 13,500 shl- dents, he said, is the choice of more students than any other university, considering first, second and third choices. in- cluding University of Toronto, which is twice its size. Oxford County, he said, has 520 full and parr -tame students at the university. Oxford County Warden Stan Icy Gehring, reeve of South Naiwch, was. congratulated by Gordon W. lnnes, MPP (1. Oxford), Andrew Balazs, 'Till- sonburg mayor: Ald. William B. Dulaon, Woodstock acting unyor and Mayor Gordon B. Plenry of Ingersoll. Visiting Wardens R. M. Crawford of Middlesex Coun- ty, D. L. Murphy, Norfolk; R. W Emerson, Brant and W. C. Woods of Waterloo County were in attendance. Perth County was represent- ed by Reeve Homer McKay of Blanshard Township, and EI- g4n by former warden J. B. Wilson of .South Dorchester Township. —Free Press Woodstock Bureau Oxford County Warden Stanley Gehring, left, reeve of South Norwich Township, and Mrs. Gehring were honored rhursdayy at the annual War- den's dinner. From left: Mr. and Mrs. Gehring and Dr. D. C. Williams, president and vice-chancellor, University of Western Ontario, speaker. Kai V MEMBER CANADIAN GOOD ROADS ASSOCIATION L.R. COLE.] E%PING31,xii.70/n .t / {,'/G'l�.r`""" —� MANAGING RIRECIOR 1 COUNTY OFFICIALS HONORED Stanley Gehring, warden of eventful year as warden. The Oxford County, and Leonard new warden will be elected at Coles, county clerk -treasurer, the January meeting of coun- ' display plaques presented to 0, Mr Coles was honored them at Wednesday's session on the occasion of his retiring of county council. Mr. Gehring Dec, 31 after 28 years of ser- ,was honored following his vice to the County. Gehring makes suggestions for assessment committee Stanley Gehring, warden of Oxford County, said Wednesday at county council in his fare- well address that the property and assessment committee should be disbanded, now that assessment is a provincial mat- ter He recommended as well as the five man road commit- tee, there be two committees of nine men. Warden Gehring also recom- mended that committees meet prior to the day of council be- cause in the past they have not had enough time to properly cover the matters at band. Council will still continue with the one day sessions. Warden Gehring was present- ed with a gold watch and pla4 ues by Bruce Amos, reeve of West Oxford Township and Al- bert Cornwell, reeve of North Norwich township, both of whom are retiring. County clerk•treasurer, Leon- ard Coles, was presented with an engraved plaque•clock on the occasion of his Dec. 31 re- tirement after "A years service. STANLEY GEHRING ... farewell address Deputy clerk G. R. Staples was appointed clerk -treasurer to succeed Mr. Coles. 0 0 Warden officially opened new East Zorra Twp. office Stanley Gehring, Warden of Oxford County, said Saturday, as he officially opened the new East Zorra Township offices, that the council is to be com- mended for having the fare. sight to build such a building, Mr. Gehring said that reg- ional government wants the power to control the residents' tax dollar. They pay, and reg- ional government spends. He added that he did not think it would happen this way. ROOM "There is plenty of room here for your municipal office and you might as well have a good one," said Warden Gehring to the audience. "It's going to stay here and it's going to be used. There is no way an investment like this is going to be moved. Regional government is such in name only. They still have a long way to go." Reeve of East Zorra Town- ship, Max MacKay, said the expense can be justified, adding that the council still has to serve the residents locally and the new building will be there for a long time to do so. STANLEY GEHRING Gerald Staples, Deputy clerk of Oxford County, said that in this time of many changes, the ' taxpayers will need a place with moo sur- roundings in which, to meet. Dec. 29 recount set for Dereham 'T pe reeve Free Press Woodstock Bureau DERERA-M CENTRE — A recount will be conducted Dec. 29 all the three-way election for reeve of Dereham Town- ship, which Deputy - Reeve Louis Barrett won by five votes Dec. 7. The recount will be conduct- ed by Judge Kenneth Y. Dick at the Oxford County court- house. Clerk -treasurer F. E. Hams. said the official count gave Mr. Barrett 579 votes, Ralph McLaughlin, a former reeve, 574 votes, and M e d f or d Clarke, reeve for the past two years, 519 votes. Mr. McLaughlin, who served as reeve in 19M, 1957 and 1958, headed a group of Dereham I Township ratepayers in oppos- ing plans for amalgamation with TBlsonburg this past summer. The amalgamation proposal, made to the Ontario Municipal Board by TBlson- burg, was thrown out at a hearing. Dereham voters opposed amalgamation 817 to 306 in a summer ballot. Mr. Harris said the turnout of Dereham voters Dec. 7 was between 50 and 60 per cent heavier than usual in recent municipal elections. The recount was requested by Clifford Prouse of Mount Elgin, a township ratepayer. Thomas Parker, an anger- . soil area lawyer who prepared the recent application, said there is some question about ballots that were disallowed. He said some may have been ruled spoiled when ratepayers voted for four, rather than three councillors, on another portion of the. ballot. In a 1968 recount in a Dere- ham Township election. Mr. Clarke increased his margin of victory over former reeve Carl Sackrider. Mr. Clarke won by seven voles, instead of four as first counted. He received 731 votes to 724 for Mr. Sackrider. In the previous recount in the county, in 1965, Tavistock clerk -treasurer Robert Rudy was called on to vote to break a tie. Harry N'uttal was elect- ed a member of Tavistock council over Stanley Roth, af- ter both received 231 votes in the official recount. There will also be a need for adequate facilities to handle the Increased volume of work. The new buildingserves these pur- poses well. PRICE The contract price of the new building was $33,413 and was awarded to Hanenburg Con. struction Company, Imerkip, in October, 1069. Construction was begun. is November of the same year. The building measures 59 feet by 30 feet and is one storey with a full-size basement. The building contains council chambers, several offices in- cluding the clerk's office, a strong room and washrooms. The basement is designed to serve as a community hall. The exterior of the building is spather brick- The building is located in the centre of the hamlet as land purchased from Douglas Wiffen, It is on a form- er CNR right of way. EMPLOYEES Among those employed in the building are Earl Hofstetler, clerk treasurer and tax collec- tor; John Killing, assistant to Mr. Hostetler; John Appleton, road superintendent; Max Mac- Kay, Reeve of East Zorra Township; Wallace Ross, de- puty reeve and Henry Killing, Percy Wettlaufer and George Wilhelm, members of council - The office has been used since May, 1970. 'Refreshments were served during the afternoon by mem- bers of Hickson Women's In- stitute. Planning - legislation variance urged by Oxford County board The Oxford Count-v- Planntogstock have appointed non -elect - Board will request that Oxfordied members. Cminty Council petition the De-1 Mr. Staples said the planning partment of Municipal Affaira!board has instructed. William to vary the legislation govern -Ogden of Municipal -Planning in; county planning hoards: Consultants, the county 0112mr, PROPOSAL to prepare an amendment to. The planning beard, at their the official, plan, officially ire regular mmuthly meetingg I a a t eluding the village of Tavistock night, :made a proposal Lhai one into the Oxford planning area, elected and one nap-elecG:d The town of Tiltseaburg, and member from each municipal -'the Townships of Dereham and fly represented on the hoard,iSouth. Norwich are the only she allowed to sit on the board. Oxfcud County munlcipalities Gerald Staples, plarmhug still not represented on this Ox- heard secretary, said the legis• ford planums! hoard.. lation states that there cannot be, a plurality of elected mun- icipal council members on the planning board The Oxford planning board consists of 14 elected and 17 appointed mem- bers — two representing each of the 15 member municipalft- ies and a representative of county council. East Zorra Township and the City of Wood- I ^ CONTRACT Oxford County council reports that since their last roads re- port in September, a contract was awarded to King B r o s, Construction Ltd., for road con. struction in the amount of S39,- 052.80. Since the weather h a a been unfavorable since the con- traet was signed, the work will begin in 1971. -TENDERS The county council reports that tenders were called for the construction of storm sewers in Tilisonburg. The tender price of the work turned out to be practically double what w a a budgeted for the job. The job has been referred back to the consulting engineers for reds - sign. XFORD BRIEFS The county road system con- sists of 278.9 miles of roadway. - WOODINGFORD Woodingford lodge now has 1136 residents, ! 108 CHH.DREN ! The Childress Aid Society has 100 children under their care. BUSY YEAR Warden Stan Gehring, of Ox- ford County, has bad a busy year, He has attended 302 meet- ings on the county level and 58 meetings on the township level, as well as seminars in Toronto, Niagara and London. Amendment to constitution sought by Oxford planners The Oxford County Planning Board would like to petition the provincial government for an amendment to the board's con- stitution. This amendment would pro- vide for representation on the board for municipalities in the county which have none. In a letter to city council on the matter, Gerald Staples, sea retarytreasurer of the board notes the present constitution of the planning board permits two representatives from each Clerk - treasurer is forced to cast tie - breaking vote With clerk -treasurer F E. Harris casting the tie -breaking vote, Deputy -Reeve Linda Bar. rett was elected reeve of Dere- ham Township for 1971-1972, Both Mr, Barrett and Ralph McLaughlin, a former reeve, had wound up with 57a votes each in a recount of votes in the Dec. 7 election, The Dec, 7 count had given Mr, Barrett 579 votes compar- ed to 574 for Mr. McLaughlin, Reeve Medford Clarke had 522. It was the first time in Mr. Harris' career as a clerk-trea• surer that he has had to use his right to oast a tie -breaking vote, "1 hope it is the last". he stated, Several spoiled ballots were reported and a ruling on these was made by Oxford County Judge, Kenneth Dick. The re- count was .requested. by Clif- ford Prouse, of Mount Elgin, a lutvnship ratepayer. RECOUNT The area Isnoted for close votes, In 190. in a recount, Reeve Clarke increased h i s margin over former Reeve Carl Sackrider to will by seven votes instead of four as first shown. Reeve. -elect Barrett led In four of the eight toga, winning In iSnlford and` Ostcauder and in two polls In the Ilibu nburg 1,0115 BARRE"I'T ... a�.rktso vale area. Mr, McLaughlin led in Mount Elgin. Verschoyle anc Culloden aroma and Mr. Clarke In Ills Brownsville area,. member municipality. Council members are not permitted to constitute a majority. Because of this section of the planning act, some municipalities have not had a council member on the board. Thereforethe motion to be presented to the government suggests an application be sffir mitted to the Minister of Mum- acipal Affairs asking him to vary the constitution of the Ox- ford County Flanging Board to permit t w o representatives from each municipality, one from council and one other. LIAISON Mr. Staples said It was felt a better liaison could be main- tained between the local caulk. oils and the Board if a council member from each municipal- ity was a member d the board, City council will consider en- dorsation of this request at the regular meeting tonight at 74U —Free Press Woodstock Bureau Woodingford Lodge, the Woodstock Ingersoll and mobile visit to the hone are from left, Douglas Oxford County home for the aged at Woodstock, is Dafoe, bookmobile assistant; Ernest Wood, super - included in the stops of the Oxford County Library intendent, Mrs. Arthur Webb, assistant librarian bookmobile service. Pictured at a quarterly book- and Mrs. Harold Harrison, bookmobile assistant. ALBERT CORN -WELL ... defeated LES DICKSON . pulls upset Dickson upsets N. Norwich reeve Les Dickson, deputy reeve of Mr, Davis polled 524 votes, North Norwich Township for the I Mr. Walther 479, Mr. Monsere, past two years, was sueeeasfit] , 371, Mr. Beal, 213, and Mr. ,n defeating incumbent reeveoSmith, 119. Albert Cornwell, at the Polls yesterday. West Oxford Mr. Cornwell has been reeve In West Oxford Township, of the township for three years, (Cecil Wilson, George Jakeman and was returning to vie for a and Leonard Reeves were elect, aurtft term_ He was trimmedat ed to sit on council for the new /cry poll by Mr. Dickson. term of office, At poll one, Mr. Dickson de- The three candidates defeat: Bated Mr. Cornwell to the tune ed John Masson and Mrs. If in to life, at poll two, 12o to Grace Fiddes. -1. poll three, 115 to 17. poll The poll count shows Mr. WH- our, 75 to 27, and poll five, 178,son with 562 votes, Mr. Jaka- o 25. The overall scoring in the man with 422, Mr. Reeves with ,ace was 617 for Mr. Dickson U3, Mr. Masson with 306, and And 198 votes for Mr, Cornwell. Mrs, Fiddles with 230, { There wag a 82 per cent West Zorra f urn -oil . West Zorra Tnwnsnip voters South Norwich had only to decide upon a new A difference of 405 votes sell ireeve in yesterday's election rated low man from high,and they decided fitrly, pan in the council race in South James K. Fleming Affealed nrwirh Township Fred Howe by a mar, to 0 t50 votea. The final scoring gave Three were elected for the 110-1 Mr. Fleming a total [core of s)tinns out of the five who '446 votes while Mr, Howe had were nominsted, Successfu1.287 votes. were George Davis, Jack Wei• Cher and [lager Monsere. The irsst Nissourt remaining two candidates were Magi Nissourl Township had s i;arl Beal and Llo :d Smith. ual battle In yesterday ales. lion, as the voters went to the trolls to elect a reeve and three For reeve, .lames ,tied aa2 vntea anti were mac xnnwm, err, Dualor, 374. and David 4g4 votes. They Acfral, Vey Waud and Rolled. who had 305 and 3[4 F'orzner warden wins board seat Oxford's former warden, Ver- trustee on the former IDCI non Cuthbert, switched hats to) Board. and the first represen- w•in a seat on Oxford County, l.ative for this seat on the new Board of Education in a strong � county board. win over Get -aid F. Plriv ! Rousing competition was also The rural contest in which shown in thee ward of East Nis. they made dramatic sbownics souri, West Zorra and Embro, was the combined ward of West. where incumbent N. Bruce Mc - Oxford, North Oxford and Leod took first place with I.- Beachville, Mr. Cuthbert ewer- 184 votes, gad with 772 votes, to 392 for Trustee Wesley Wallace also Mr Pirie, retains his seat in this ward. Mr. Pirie was a longtime with 1,013 votes, T h e i r opponent. Norman Landsdell. made a good show. ` sK ad ing in his first try at public office, drawing 889 votes. It. was still not enough to give him ;m. either of the two seats ava❑ a able, E 1 The remamine rural contest �t was in Blenheim. There iucuni- '' s 0 bent Ralph Sparks made a clear win over lima Luyken, by poll ing 6a5 votes to burs. Luy'ken's u t 4, 508. Eig ' Other rural seals on the county board av:re filled h> a •`s, Sr acclamation. They are: Derehain Lawrence Steak ,tley; W andfurd, Fact Zorra, Tavis- stock: Dr. Bruce Halliday, John E. King; East Oxford, North Norwich. South Norwich: Janes Alexan. der, Muriel Bishop, In Tillsonburg, incumbent Ian VERNON CUTIIRER'r Union was also acclaimed to ... on Oxford board the single available seat. The E' ,;lialions Act, a." NOTII,E: OF" APPLICAT1v1J 1i64"APPROVAL TO EXPROPRIATE LAND In the matter of an applica- tion by THE OXFORD COUNTY ROAD COMMITTEE for ap 'gal to expropriate land 1.. parts of the east pasts of tots T. 8, Concession IV in the Township of West Zorra in the County of Oxford, for the purpose of widening and improving County Road 6. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that application has been made for approval (o expropri- ate the land eescvribed as fol- lows: Commencing at the nnrth- east angle of ]ot 7, conces- sion 1V in the Township of West Zorra; thence N. 19' 52' 20" W. along the western limit of County Road 6 a distance of 1,249.00 ft.; thence S. 58' 14' 00" W. a distance of 45.32 ft.; thence S 22, 57' 2;" E. a distance of 566.77 ft.; thence S. 20' 00' 30" E. a distance of 674.32 ft. to the line between lots 7 and 8 in the said con- ces±ion 4: thence continuing S 20' 00' 30" E. a distance of 1,014.80 ft. to the line be- tween the north half and the south half of the said lot 7: thence N. 67° 49' 40" E. a distance of 9.27 ft, to the western limit of County Road 6; thence N. 19" 50' 20" W. along the western limit of County Road 6: along the western limit of County Road 6 a distance of 1,015.03 ft. to the point of commencement. The lands so required are illustrated and labelled "Part 4" on a plan depwit- ed in the Registry Office for the Registry Division of Oxford as number 0, .70. Any owner of lands in respect of which notice is given who desires an inquiry into whe- ther the taking of such land is fair, sound and reasonably necessary in the achievement of the objectives of the ex - expropriating authority shall so nolify the approving au- thority in writing. (a) in the case of a re. -is - owner, served person- ally or by registered mail within thirty days after he is served with the notice. or, when he is served by publica- tion. within thirty days after the first publica. tion of the notice; (b) in the case of an owner who is not a registered owner. withi❑ thirty days after the first pub- lication of the notice. The approving authority is THE COUNCIL OF THE CORPORATION OF T H E COUNTY OF OXFORD, Coun- ly Court (Souse, P.ORox 397. WOODSTOCK, Ontario, OXFORD COUNTY ROAD COMMITTED; ALBERT CORNWELL. Chairman. NOTES: I. The Expropriation act, 1968-69 provides that. (a) where In inquiry Is re- qquested, it ahall be cun- diteted b an I114Wry offi• car ap abl b We Min- dater„o 4,4 iild At. ddib" 6en[aa]e. • E • (b) The inquiry officer, (1) shall give every party to the inquiry an opportun- ity to present, evidence and argument and to ex- amine and cross-examine witnesses, either person- ally or by his counsel or agent, and ii) may recommend to the ap- proving authority that a party to the inquiry be paid a fixed amount for his costs of the inquiry not to exceed $200 and the approving authority may in its discretion or- der the expropriating au- thority to .pay such costs forthwith. 2. "owner and "registered owner" are defined in the Act as follows: "owner" includes a mort- gagee, tenant, execution creditor, a person entitled to a limited estate or inter- est in land, a committee of the estate of a mentally incom- petent person or of a person incapable of managing his affairs, and a guzrdian, ex- ecutor, administrator or trustee in whom land is vested; "registered owner" means an owner of land whose in- terest in the land is defined and whose name is specified in an instrument in the pro- per registry, land titles or sheriff's office, and in. cludes a person shown as a tenant of land on the last revised assessment roll; 3. The expropriating author- ity. each owner who notifies the approving authority that he desires a hearing in re- spect of the lands intended to be expropriated and any own- er added as a party by the in- quiry officer are parties to the inquiry. (This notice first published on the 24th day of October. 1970). 024-31-M-70 0 Six persons in the running for post of Oxford warden To date, six municipal reeves have announced that they are going to contest the wa.rdenshi.p of Oxford County for 1971. Ken Peers, reeve of East Ox- ford Township, has lived in the Oxford Centre vicinity all his life and has served five years as a councillor for the town- ship. He is now going into his second year as reeve, and has decided to run for warden. PEOPLE "I like to meet people and I want to do what I can for my township," said Mr. Peers. Mr. Peers has served on the museum board, the agricultur- al and social services board and the regional government study board. Rowland Rutherford, reeve of Embro has served the commun- ity for three years as a council- lor and 1971 will be his fourth. year as reeve in Embro. His political inkling was from a great deal of support from the village. He is interested in do- ing something for the y o u n g people. Mr. Rutherford had been in the milk business until. I a s t November, and has owned a hardware store in Embro for two ,years which is now a full- time job. Mr. Rutherford has lived in the area all his life and feels he can serve the county well. William Ducklow, reeve of Tavistock has a well-rounded polthical career, having served his community since 1962. He served on the PUC in 1962-63, he was a councillor from 1962, until 1967 and was elected reeve in INS. He is now going into his fourth year as reeve. Mr. Ducklow has dealt with. ,the public all his life, and says he likes it.. He has enjoyed serv- ing the people on the municipal level and feels that the county level offers a challenge. He is interested in the regional gov- ernment study. "I am not pushing it," said Mr Ducklow, "But if it does come into being, we will have our homework done." Mr. Ducklow comes from Lis. towel and has lived in Tavis- tock for 17 years.. He is pres- ident of the Tavistock Poultry Farms Ltd. John HofsteUer, lifetime resi. dent of the Plattsville area and reeve of Blenheim Township has announced his intentions of run- ning for warden. He was runner-up in last year's election, and figured it was worth another try. Mr. Hofstetter has served in politics for nine years. He was a councillor until five years ago when he became a deputy reeve for a two year term, and then a reeve. "I am looking forward to carrying on the best way I know how and am willing to work with the country," said Mr, Hofetr-tter. Clare Minter, reeve of North Oxford Township, has decided after 14 years of municipal pol. New road boss for Dereham Dereham Township has named a new road superintend - cut, in the person of Lawrence Rooke, RR 1, Mt, Elgin. Mr, Rooke has been with the township road department for the past 30 years and his new position is effective Jan. 1, He succeeds Harold Tindale, RB 1, Mt. Elgin, road superintendent for the past 20 years and a member of the department for 43 years. The superintendent and five emplovees maintain the 120 mile Dereham 'township road system. itics to vie for the Position of county warden. Mr. Minler was acclaimed reeve for a two-year term and decided then to run for warden. This will be his second two-year term as reeve. John Nadalin, reeve of Beach. ville has decided that it is about time Beacliville had a warden in the county seat, Since its incorporation into the coun- ty in 1962 Beachville has never been represented in this way. Mr. Nadalin has served the Beachville council for 12 years, 10 years as a councillor and two years as a reeve. He says he is very interested in t h e work. EXPLOSION CRIMINAL ACT: OPP By ROSS ST. CLAIR The detective sergeant said the Criminal investigation contin-la second building comainin .the eight and a half to of as 'ues today into the Monday night' plosives. was then blown up. 'explosion which rocked the "The magazine was complete area. ly destroyed," said Mr. Alsop it left a crater about eight and Police say that the blast was purposely caused and are searching for the culprits, but so far have only drawn blanks on the detonation of eight and a half tons of explosive mater- ial which caused considerable damage. Some snowmobilers who had been seen in the area were checked out by police and in turn reported a mystery car travelling at slow speeds. The car was found and in turn re- ported the snowmobilers. No clues were turned up. OPP detective sergeant D. J. Alsop, of London, who conduct ed the investigation, said that their investigation had reveal. ed criminal activity in connec. tion with the blast which was heard 30 miles away. There were three magazines ''on the site about a mile from the plant. One of the magazines containing blasting caps and fuse had been broken into, ac- cording to police, and a quanti- ty of this material was stolen.i a half to nine feet deep as about 42 feet across. No parts of the building have been four yet." CONCRETE BUILDING The magazines, according to the investigating officer are o a special construction. They are about 21 feet by 17 feet with six inch reinforced concrete floors and roofs with cement block walls. The buildings are surrounded by 14 foot high mounds of earth for protection. The building containing the caps and fuse was slightly dam- aged, according to police. One wall was bulged and some of the cement blocks were loosen. ed. Police say the shock from the blast would not explode the other magazine. Ed Hutcheson, plant manager said that explosives today are designed with safety in mind, and are designed to be deton- ated with blasting caps. Shock would not set the explosives "Very few people would know The Ontario Association of L. K. CuLES Jim, -UK rl lif� SURELII WiJN,rY o uRt) RmrarMunicipalities Annual Convention t how to use these explosives,^ % said Mr. Alsop. "We are satin- - fled that this was no accident." When asked if there were any • tracks leading from the site to the road, 100 yards away from the magazine, police spokesmen d said, "We won't make any com- ment on that." d Canada Cement suffered lit tie damage other than the lost of explosives and damage to the magazines. Police say they had f a few broken windows and a damaged door. According to police, the plant had a small quantity of exples- ives stolen in L969 which was never recovered. The explosive material in this week's blast consisted of sticks and bulk material which is used in mining operations. Mr.. Hutcheson said that the iexplosive material is put into idrilled holes to blast the lime- stone, which is then taken to the surface for crushing. "The explosives are designed to be set off with a blasting cap, SO dynamite could set it off as well," said Mr. Hutcheson, NO ACCIDENTS Police say that there has nev. Ier been an accidental explosion on the premises of the expins. Ives magazines. Anyone who may have seem any suspicious vehicles or per. s.ns in the area of the blast a. round 10 or 10.30 p.m. on the night of the blast is asked to contact the WoudstoSk detach- ment, Ontario ProyincialPolice at 539.9g11 Since the blast went up and to the s»uthwwt, Ingersoll re- ceived the main 'brunt of the damage with the exception of surrounding farm buildings and houses. No estimate of damage has been yet set either by the OPP or Canada Cement • 4. aw eY>ati/ /!v mmkw & ewene7 & /i'aHdenb-9e;vnen #,Vned� &'nav, A,wrkn 7B, 1970 �e7iaxe � ode cr�itn-a e6 Jir=lefir . as came, v.6 deaen cn Dante to follow WILLIAM WOODS, Warden Admission br Tickets Tickets R. S. V P. available at the door $S.00 per person County of Oxford NA11100K 19]0 STANLEY GEHRING Warden I ��77�� /�/l0p Jr // // /� cc77 34e /Vtexantbra-A.4pital Jrull / //nQ I cordially inviloA you to alland 14e Opening 2aV Ceremonie6 r&y 1214 (14,30) hrA. 2.30 p.m., 1970 9ny,rAalf Ontario 119.S V. ✓,iuns�eryer Ctia;.,aa, t (b 94t plesonre of -the congranq of is requested of a Pangbet and Dance to he tendered hg the �Hsin (QountIg Council to }Barden llhlham 3i. Caberly `@he Mork (flub, art Marten, Ontario ffribar, tqr taiCtrrntb bay of October unittan dnnbrrb anb srbenty at six-thirtU u'rlark phrbitations to he presented at the Pauquet *vial Roar 5.30 to 6.30 rwa¢den and e)?. (TV EmFlsore %e9uest tie #Aa((auul of you% at nz#a y at 1 J nzx in da 4Maln Buildiny S aeis Vai% !9xouctla Dfiuudaty, cNommtvc 19, 1970 at 6.41 p.tn. 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Howard Carter, R.R. 1, Innerkip Innerkip 469-3342 Tax Collector .......................... Mrs. Carol MacLachlan Build i ng l nsp................. W. Chesney, R.R. 2, Innerkip Innerkip 469-3317 Date of Meeting —First Monday, Bright Fire Hall Township of Blenheim Population — 4428 Clerk-Treas................................. 1. J. Haines, Drumbo Office: Drumbo 463-5347 Home: Drumbo 463-5365 Road Supt................................. Herb Balkwill, Drumbo Office: Drumbo 463-5389 Home: Drumbo 463-5343 Tax Collector ..... ............................ —.... Robert Hoskins - Building Inspector ....... ....................... Robert Hoskins F. Date of Meeting —First Monday, Township Office Township of Dereham if Population — 4968 Clerk-Treas................. F. E. Harris, R.R 1, Mt. Elgin Office: Ingersoll 48"477 Home: Brownsville 877-2390 Road Supt.................Harold Tindale, R.R. 1, Mt. Elgin Office: Brownsville 877-2953 Home. Ingersoll 48&0107 id Tax Collector ..................... ....Y. E. Harris Building Insp . ......... Ernest Smith, R.R. 1, Brownsville Date of Meeting —Second Monday and Fourth Friday of Each Month Township Office, Dereham Centre 11 • Township of East Nissouri Population — 3371 Clerk-Treas................... G. Gregory, R.R. 1, Lakeside Office: Kihtore 283-6475; Hone: Medina 17-R-17 Road Supt. ,_................... E. G. Rout, R.R. 1, Lakeside Hone: Medina 29-R-19 Tax Collector .......................................... G. L. Gregory Building Insp............... John Baker, R.R. 2, Lakeside Home: Medina 6-R-11 Date of Meeting — First Monday of Each Month - Township Office, Kintore Township of North Norwich Population — 2506 Clerk-Treas . .......... Robt. C. Watkins, R.R. 2, Norwich Office: Norwich 863-2646; Home: Norwich 863-2238 Road Supt.................Albert Freeman, R.R. 2, Norwich Office: Burgessville 424-9933 Home: 424-9229 Tax Collector .................................. Robert C. Watkins Building Insp...................................Robert C. Watkins Date of Meeting — Second Monday Township Office, R.R. 2, Norwich Township of South Norwich Population 3218 Clerk-Treas........................................... M. M. Howse Office: Ottervi Ile 879-6568; Home: 879-6723 Road Supt., ............................. Elmer Almost, Otterville Home: 879-6515 Tax. Collector ............................................ M. M. Howse Building Insp............................................. M. M. Howse Date of Meeting — First Monday Township Office, Otterville — Office 879-6668 Township of fast Oxford Population — 2252 Clerk-Treas...... .... _Glen Kitchen, R.R. 4, Woodstock Office: Burgessville 424-9871; Home: 539-3907 Road Supt.................. Ralph Huggins, R.R. 1, Curries Office: 424-9871; Home: 424-9735 Tax Collector ............................................Glen Kitchen Building I nsp........... Earl Skillings. R.R. 4, Woodstock Home: Eastwood 467-5260 Date of Meeting — First Monday Oxford Centre Municipal Building Township of North Oxford Population — 1749 Clerk-Treas......... ichard D. Seldon, R.R. 3, Ingersoll Office: 485-2490; Home: 485-3708 Road Supt. . ........ ........ J. S. Shannon, R.R. 2, Ingersoll Home: 485-1967 Tax Collector .................................. Richard D. Seldon Building Insp....................................... Wallace Be igent Date of Meeting — First Monday Municipal Hall, No. 2 Highway, 2 miles west of Ingersoll Township of West Oxford Population — 2963 Clerk-Treas............... L. B. Curry, R.R. 1, Woodstock Home: Woodstock 539-2874 Road Supt................... Don McKay, R.R. 1, Woodstock Home: Woodstock 537-8897 Tax Collector .............................................. L. B. Curry Building Insp......... A. D. Robinson, R.R. 4, Ingersoll Home: 485-2941 Date of Meeting — First Monday, Foldens Comers • Township of East Zorra Population — 4331 Clerk-Treas. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,Earl Hostetler, Hickson Office: 462-2697; Home 462-2364 Road Supt. .......................... John Appleton, Tavistock Office 462-2698; Home 655-2919 Tax Collector .......................... Earl Hostetler, Hickson Building Insp......... Clarence King, R.R. 6, Woodstock Date of Meeting — First Monday, Township Hall Hickson — Hickson 462.2697 Township of West Zorra Population — 2165 Clerk-Treas................... Keith Robinson, R.R. 3, Embro Office: Embro 475-4741 Road Supt........................ Wm. D. Smith, R.R. 4, Embro Home: Embro 475-4274 Tax Collector .......................................Chas. H. Foster Home: 475-4487 Building Insp................................... Charles H. Foster Date of Meeting — First Monday Township Hall, Embro Phone Embro 475-4140 OFFICIALS OF TOWN AND VILLAGES Town of Tillsonburg Population — 6520 Clerk-Treas.,_., K. E. Holland, Town Hall, Tillsonburg Office: 842-5252; Home: 842-8127 Deputy Clerk-Treas.................... ....Clair Rush Home: 842-3913 Road Supt................. James Hornsby, 3 Victoria St., Tillsonburg Office: 842-4812; Home: 842-4657 Tax Collector .......... Kenneth E. Holland, Tillsonburg Office: 642-5252; Home: 842-8127 Building Insp. Wm. E. Fitzpatrick Date of Meeting — First Tuesday Council Chamber, Town Hall Village of Beachville Population — 1007 Clerk-Treas,,,,,,,,,,,,, A. Douglas Watson, Beachville Office: 423-6991; Home: 423-6350 II Road Supt., ..... ............... John J. Nadalin, Beachville q Home: Beachville 423-6277 Tax Collector .............................. A. Douglas Watson Building Insp.. ...................... __ ......... A. D. Robinson Date of Meeting — First Tuesday Evening Beachville Municipal Office 0 • Village of Embro Population — 687 Clerk -Tress ............................... Ross T. Smith, Embro Home: Embro 475.4132 Tax Collector .......... _ ...............................Ross T. Smith Building Insp.............................................The Council Date of Meeting — First Monday Evening Council Chamber — Village Hall I Village of Norwich Population — 1753 Clerk -Tress ........................ F. C. Lowes, P.O. Box 460 Office: Norwich 863-2435 Home: Burgessville 424-9265 Road Supt........................... Harold Williams, Norwich Home: Norwich 863-2944 Tax Collector....._ ..................................... F. C. Lowes Building Insp.........................................John E. Young i Home: Norwich 863-2714 Date of Meeting —First Monday of each month, 8 p.m. Public Utilities Building Village of Tavistock Population — 1405 Clerk-Treas. .......................... Robert Rudy, Tavistock Office: Tavistock 655-2315 Road Supt...............................Robert Rudy, Tavistock Tax Collector....................Walter Schaefer, Tavistock Home: Tavistock 655-2962 Building Inspector ................................Charles Ouehl Date of Meeting —First Thursday of Each Month Public Utilities Office PHONE NUMBERS WARDEN — Stanley Gehring ........................ 879.6792 JUDGES OFFICE ............................................ 5373811 SHERIFF..... ...................... ............................ ....537-6561 CROWN ATTORNEY ......................... ....... .......... 537-2611 REGISTRAR OF DEEDS....................................537-6286 PROVINCIAL COURT.......................................537-2369 PROBATION OFFICE .............. ............... ......... 537-2551 LIBRARY.......................................................... 537-3322 JAIL................................................................ 537-2411 WOODINGFORD LODGE ................................ 539-1245 PROVINCIAL POLICE ..................................... 539-9811 ROAD SUPERINTENDENT ............ ................ ...537-7961 CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY ........... ....... .......... 5373425 COUNTY CLERK and TREAS........... ....... ......... 537-3911 LEGAL AID ............................ .. ...................... ..539.2381 OXFORD SOCIAL SERVICES ...... .............. _...537-3428 OXFORD HEALTH UNIT M.O.H................... ........................ Dr. G. 0. Sutherland Woodstock Office ............ Phone Woodstock 537-5711 Ingersoll Office .............. ..Ingersoll 485-0570 Norwich Office ................... .......... Norwich 863-2330 Tillsonburg Office ................... Tillsonburg 842-2979 Drumbo Office .................._ ............ Drumbo 463-5487 CONSTRUCTION SAFETY INSPECTOR Clarke Daniel .......................... 353 Bell St., Ingersoll Office: Woodstock 537-3911 Home: Ingersoll 485-3546 • COMMITTEES OF 1970 ROADS: Cornwell, Amos, Clarke, Hofstetter, Duck - low, Gehring FINANCE & ADMINISTRATION: MacKay, Dickson, Fleming, Muir, Sibbick, Wilkinson PROPERTY & ASSESSMENT: Webster, Barrett, Nadalin, Pollard, Rutherford, Ross AGRICULTURE & COMMUNITY SERVICES: Longworth, Balls, Martin, Minler, Patience, Peers WOOOINGFORD LODGE: Gehring, Hofstetter, Duck - low HEALTH UNIT: Gehring, Fleming, Nadalin CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: Gehring, Clarke, Minler COUNTY LIBRARY: Gehring, Sibbick, Pollard OXFORD SOCIAL SERVICES: Gehring, MacKay, Corn- wel I MUSEUM: Peers, Coles WOODSTOCK GENERAL HOSPITAL: Gehring ALEXANDRA HOSPITAL, INGERSOLL: Longworth TILLSONBURG DISTRICT HOSPITAL: Barrett ST. MARYS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL: Muir REGIONAL GOVERNMENT STUDY: Gehring, Muir, Ducklow, Hofstetter, Peers, Webster, Staples WARDEN'S: Webster, Ducklow, Amos First named on Roads, Finance & Administration, Property & Assessment and Agriculture and Com- munity Services is Chairman TREE CONSERVATION COMMISSION Roy Hughes .................... 185 Bidwell St., Tillsonburg Phone Tillsonburg 842-2124 Ross Calder ..,„.„ .......................... R.R. 2, Thamesford Phone Kinrtore 283-6254 John Mitchell Jr ................................. R.R. 2, Innerkip Phone Innerkip 469.3362 WEED INSPECTOR Burn ice McAllister ............................................ Salford Phone 485-1759 OFFICIALS — 1970 Provincial Kenneth Y. Dick .................................... County Judge R. G. Groom, Q.C....... .........._....... Provincial Judge A. A. Bishop ............:.County Court Clerk and Sheriff John B. Martin ........................................ Deputy Sheriff A. C. Whaley, O•C....................... Clark of the Peace and Crown Attorney Mrs. Sylvia Reid ._ .............County Judge's Secretary. and Court Reporter Miss Margaret E. Ross.......... Provincial Court Clerk, Criminal Division Mrs. Julie Gray ..... _...... ..._.... Provincial Court Clerk, Family Division Wm. Harrington ..............................Registrar of Deeds John Campbei I ......... .............. ........ ..... Jail Governor Sgt. Jack McDowell ........................ Provincial Police C. A. Rawson, T. H. Griggs ..... ..... Probation Officers County Stanley Gehring ................................................ Warden L. K. Coles .................................... Clerk and Treasurer G. R. Staples ................ Deputy Clerk and Treasurer D. L. Pratt ................................. Road Superintendent D. F. Knott,......... Administrator, Woodingford Lodge Gerald H. MacKay ................... Welfare Administrator Mrs. Louise Krompart,......._......--- ............. Librarian Mrs. Jane Webb .......................... Assistant Librarian Howard Pye............................ Court House Custodian MacDougall, Carnwath & Hutchinson ........ _Solicitors Monteith, Monteith Arid Cc ......................... Auditors i • 0 T.- OFFICIAL OPENING a N ORWI CH AN D D I STRI CT M U S E U M STOVER STREET NORTH, NORWICH Saturday, 2 p.m. June 13, 1970 OFFICIAL OPENING a N ORWI CH AN D D I STRI CT M U S E U M STOVER STREET NORTH, NORWICH Saturday, 2 p.m. June 13, 1970 jPROGRAMME BOARD OF DIRECTORS NORWICH AND DISTRICT HISTORICAL SOCIETY 1970 President ........................ Lavern Irving Past President .................... Paul Moore Ist Vice -President ................ Harold Williams 2nd Vice -President ............... Mrs. Marie Avey Secretary -Treasurer ............... Walter Haight. Directors ........................ Robert Parkhill Ronald Dennis Wilfred Bishop Mrs. Lettice Hoover Donald MacPherson William Butler Representative - Township of North Norwich ... Leslie Dickson Representative - Village of Norwich...Paul Moore Chairman of Official Opening Committee ...'Wiliam Butler Curator .......................... Mrs. Winnifred Hilliker Assistant Curator .................. Mrs. Greta Simmons 11 Parade beginning at 1:00 p.m. from the Norwich Fire Hall, Main Street West to the museum grounds Programme commencing 2:00 p.m., museum grounds Chairman ................. Mr. Leslie Dickson, Director, Norwich and District Historical Society Presentation of Key to Board .-Representative of Norwich Society of Directors of Friends Acceptance of Key .. • ...... Mr. Lavern Irving, President, Norwich and District Historical Society President's Remarks ......... Mr. Lavern Irving Remarks ................... Mr. Wallace Nexbitt, M.P. Mr. Gordon Innes, M.P.P. Mr. Stan Gehring, Warden, Oxford County Introduction of Mr. Styrmo, r r Mrs. Winnifred Hilliker, Curator Ontario Department of Tourism and Information Introduction of Speaker ..... •Mr. Darwin Scott, Councillor, North Norwich Township Address ................... Mr. Sheldon S. Carroll, Curator Numismatic Collector, Bank of Canada Remarks ...................Mr. Albert Cornwall, Reeve, North Norwich Township Mr. Kenneth Pollard, Peeve, Norwich Village Mr. Wilfred Bishop, Chairman of Archives, Norwich and District Historical Society Dedication ................ Rev. George Gorman, Norwich Baptist Church Cutting of Ribbon ...........Bryce Lossing - direct descendant of Pioneer Peter Lossing Inspection of Museum Chicken Barbecue 4:30-7:00 p.m. 0 • ' SPECIAL EXHIBITS The Society wishes to thank the following for special exhibits, Lamps and glass collection r. Jo n Ro inson, Ancaster, Ontario Police Badges and Equipment Mr. John Scho ten, Ingersoll, Ontario Collection of Rifle Shells of Various Calibres Mr. Thom 1-s J. Way, Sa ford, Ontario Antique Cars Mr. Bernie Purdun, Norwich, Ontario Mr. Maurice Godelie, Norwich, Ontario Mr. Charles Bailey, Norwich, Ontario Mr. Kenneth Pears, Oxford Centre, Ontario Tractors, Steam Engines, Gas Engines Mr. Russell Ort , Burg-essville, Ontario Mr. Wally Orth, Burgessville, Ontario Mr. Harold Stover, Norwich, Ontario Mr. Norman Shell, Woodstock, Ontario Mr. Frank Piper, Norwich, Ontario Mr. Bernard Porter Also thanks go to those whose contributions of exhibits had not been varified at the time of printing. i]