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fit ✓ ry C©V1N:Zy 4F ©XF©RD j k v y°j x� Kx l y Ss q Jii y�V.p LAN �:' r - LL•*vim„ � -_ .5 a Mi {.� 1 tY a' r iv t n• � 4 .� �L .N� a .4.Yfn �I >r l` F K Y _ 1 14Y Asa = 0) 0 Ken Peers elected warden of Oxford a, w EM.;� OXFORD COUNTY Judge mayor of Norwich Township, meeting .held yesterday in in ceremony for the new Kenneth Y. Dick, on being elected warden of Woodstock. Judge Dick had warden. tStaff photo) congratulates Ken Peers, Oxford County at the just completed the swearing - Ken Peers wins warden's post By CHRiS NIXON fSearinel-Review Staff Writer Norwich Township Mayor Kenneth Peers became Oxford County's 121st warden Wednesday. Mr. Peers, 54, won the sn,e60-a-year post in the second round of voting by county council. He defeated Coun. Kenneth Webster of 1111sonburg in the second round by 13-to-6. Aid. Wendy Calder of Woodstock was eliminated in the first ballot, picking up only five votes. A 16-year veteran of municipal polilics, Mr. Peers won votes from muncillors representing all sections of the county, He picked up all six Woodstock votes after Aid. Calder was eliminated. The warden's name isn't new to county politics. William Peers was warden in 1864 and 1879 and John Peers filled the seat in IRW Both are the new warden's an- cestors. Mr. Peers was a member of East Oxford Township council for five years, reeve of the township for three years and Norwich Town- ship's councillor -at -large on county council for the past two years. He replaces Percy Sibbick of Blandford-Blenheim Township in the eounf�'s highest seal. Mr. Sibbick stepped down from the warden's position at the end of hie term. He now is his township's councillor-at-1. arge. The results of balloting were: — First ballot; Voting for Aid. Calder were: Mayor Leslie Cook and Aldermen Walter Hulme, Keith Latter, Philip Poole and Mrs. Calder, all of Woodstock; voting for Mr. Peers were; Aid. Ken Bullen of Wood- stock, Coun. Wallis Ham. mond of Zorra Township, Mayor Douglas Harris of Ingersoll, Coon. Perryy Sibbick of Blandford- Blenheim Township, Mayor Harold Vogt of East Zorra Tavistock Township, Coun. Cecil Wilson of South-West Oxford Township and Mr. Peers; voting for Coun. Webster were; Mayor John Mayor Lou Barrett of South- West Oxford Township, Mayor Robert Blair of Zorra Township, Mayor Ross Livingston of Blandford- Blenheim Township, Conn. Leonard Seegmiller of East Zorra-Tavistock Township, un, Jack Warden of Ingersoll and Conn. Webster. —second ballot: Voting for Mr. Peers were: Mr. Barrett, Aid, Bullen, Aid.. Calder, Mr. Cook, Conn. Hammond, Mr. Harris, Aid. Hulme, Aid. Poole, Coun. Seegmiller, Coun- Sibbick, Mr, Vogt, Coun. Wilson and Mr. Peers: voting for Coun. Webster were; Mr. Arm- strong, Mr. Blair, Aid. Lauer, Mr, Livingston, Comr, Warden and Coun. Webster. New county warden assails annexation, sees better things By CHRIS NIXON senHnebitevlew staff Writ" Warden Kenneth Peers of Norwich Township spoke out. against annexations and predicted better things could be in store for Oxford County in his inaugural address Wednesday. Elected by county councillors to serve in the $15,000-a-year post for the next two years, Mr. Peers said planning is the catalyst that�l bring about the full potential of the county."We are blessed with highly productive agricultural land and a great possibility for much more commercial and industrial development than we have now," he told councillors and a full citizen's gallery. "Commerce, industry and agriculture each must have their place to exist and grow ... I see nothing wrong with corn, beans or tomatoes growing beside industrial development but present livestock operations and future feedlot expansions must have the assurance that they can continue to exist and expand." OPPOSED Mr. Peers, 54, said he is against annexation. Annexations can only breed destruction in the county, he said. "I am against annexation and for agreements ... I really see no reasons for annexations since restructuring-" The warden was elected with a strong majority —13-2-6 over second -place -finisher Coun. Kenneth Webster of Tilisonburg. Woodstock's Aid. Wendy Calder was eliminated in the first ballot with only five votes while Mr. Peers and Coun. Webster picked up seven apiece - The unsuccessful candidates indicated they would support Mr. Peers during his two-year term. Mr. Peers and 19 members of council were sworn into office by Oxford County- Judge Kenneth Dick at the county courthouse. Coup. Jack Bum of Norwich Township was not at the meeting. He is in hospital. FOUNDATION BUILT . Since the county was restructured two years ago, council has built a, "good. solid foundation" for the county he said. "Let us keep building solidly on that foundation to keep this the best county in the province." With the exception of his remarks on annexation, Mr. Peers failed to mention other outstanding county issues. And he was reluctant to divulge his stand later in in- terviews with rreeppoorters. He said Tillsonburg's propasai to annex thousands of acres of land from three townships - including South-West Oxford Township will require "some pretty frank discussion." Mr. Peers said a solid waste recycling report brought to council in 19"" looked good." But, he refused to comment on the committee that set up county's restructuri and would not answer questions the Salford landfill, site Issue. He said be has not thatuihf about establishing priorities Tor his term in office. '"Mr. Sibbick showed excellent leadership in the past three years and I realize it wilt be hard to equal his efforts, but. I' will do my best to represent the county for this term," he said. The warden was the recipient of good wishes from council members. Former Woodstock alderman 11'illiam Dutton said county residents now should know they have "s very powerful county council and a very powerful leader," He praised the warden's stand against annexation. GVEDNESDAY, JANUARY 12, 1977 Locall'06101 to shut down within next 6 months Province decides TIIE BACK of the jail is on the left is where supplies have yet been made for the shown in this photo taken are taken inside the wall to building when it becomes from the third floor of the the jail facilities. No plans vacant. County courthouse. The gate THIS YIFW of the old jail district. At the bottom of the prisoners who paid the at the one that most people arch, on the right, over the supreme penally al the jail. see if they bappen to he main door, is a death mask, (Stuff photos by John strolling in the Buller Street reptn tell to be from one of the Leckie) service 'outdated` By ADRIAN EWINS Sentinel -Review Staff Writer The 123-year-old Woodstock Jail will be closed within six months, the ministry of correctional services announced Tuesday. A ministry spokesman in Toronto said the closing is part Of an effort to replace "out- dated" facilities in the province with new regional centres. The closing of't le Brampton jail was announced at the same time. Prisoners being held to face charges in Woodstock will now stay at the Elgin -Middlesex Detention Centre currently being built in London. Responsibility for tran- sporting the prisoners to Woodstock for court ap- pearances will lie with. Wood- stock city and provincial police, the spokesman said. Sixteen staff members at the jail will also be affected by the move. There are 10 guards, five management personnel and an acting superintendent now The spokesman said they will all be interviewed by the ministry and "all efforts will be made" to place them in the London centre. The closing is part of the trend towards regionalization of detention facilities as a cost - saving move by the ministry, he said. "It's more economical to have it in one operation with a large More Stories number of staff available, OnPage 9 rather than have a number of small jails with a small number of inmates." Prisoner to arrange tran- The Woodstock jail holds 27 sportation between Woodstock prisoners - 24 male and three and London to be eligible. As for the building itself, it is owned by the county and leased by the province. Certain ser- vices are provided by the county but the facility is provincially. PLANS County clerk Gerry Staples said today he had had no contact with the province and has no idea what the plans for the building are, The ministry spokesman said correctional services intends to maintain the lease. "We'll watch the number of prisoners in London and if they get up too high we may want to eop people in Woodstock," The London centre, designed to serve the London, St. Thomas and Woodstock areas, will have a capacity of 177 lint males). He said the Woodstock facility might also be used as a training centre for ministry personnel. Transfer of operations will begin as soon as the London centre is read-v, probably within about six weeks, he said. This brings to 14 the number of closings of local jails announced by the ministry since 1971. A Public Institutions Inspection Panel report last November recommended "new, up-to-date facilities he provided for a central detention centre" for the county. Gerry Staples ...county clerk female - and is usually about half full. Acting superintendent Greg Simmons said there are ctnxenUy 15 inmates in the jail. Some of those prisoners are part of the temporary absence program, which allows them to leave the jail during the day for work and return overnight. The spokesman said he didn't know what effect the closure would have on fhat program, but did say it would be up to each 0 40, •' Norwich Township Mayor Ken Peers takes gavel in hand following his election as Oxford County warden last Wednesday. He won on the second ballot, defeating Tillsonburg Councillor Ken Webster and Councillor Wendy Calder of Woodstock. Oxford council picks members for committees Free Press Woodstock Bureau WOODSTOCK —Members of Oxford County council's four standing committees were se- lected by a striking committee Wednesday fol- lowing the election of Norwich Mayor Ken Peers as warden for 1977-78. Committee chairmen and vice-chairmen were pointed by individual committees follow- ing the striking committee's report. Appointments announced by the striking - committee were: • .Adminlatration and finance: Councillors Louis Barrett of South-West Oxford Township„ Philip Poole of Woodstock, Leonard SeegmfIl- er of East Zorra-Tavistock and Warden Peers. Ken Sullen of Woodstock will be chairman. 0 Public works: Warden Peers, councillors Robert Blair of Zorra Township, Leslie Cook of Woodstock and Doug Harris of Ingersoll, with former warden Perry Sibbick of Bland ford-Blenhelm Township as chairman. • Planning: Warden Peers, Councillors Wendy Calder of Woodstock, Wallis Hammond of %enrra Township and Ross Livingston of Blandford-Blenheim Township. Conn. Kenneth Webster of TlBsonburg was reappointed chair- man. 0 Health and social services: Warden Peers. Councillors Jack Burn of Norwich Township, Keith Latter of Woodstock, Harold Vogt of East Zorra-Tavistock, Jack Warden of Ingersoll, Cecil Wilson of South-West Oxford Township and John Armstrong of Tillsonburg. Coun. Walter HWme of Woodstock was ap- pointed chairman. OPP official critical of closing By BRIAN McANDREW Sentinel -Review Staff Writer S. Sgt. Douglas Ross of the provincial police at Woodstock has joined the growing list of local officials upset about the decision to close the Woodstock Jail. Correctional Services city police chief opposes closing of city jail Minister John Smith announced Tuesday operations at the jail will be phased out over the next six months. Prisoners will be transferred to the Elgin -Middlesex Detention Centre, scheduled to open in London near the end of February. "We're not too happy about the whole situation," S. Sgt. Ross said. More man hours and cars will be required for the 30-mile transfer, he said but the OPP will not jeoparbize any area patrols. The OPP will be in the same bind as city police, he said. MILLER CONCERNED City Police Chief James Miller stated earlier he is concerned about extra costs and the in- convenience of sending officers back and forth to London. S. Sgt. Ross said he expects to cover the extra duties through overtime initially but doesn't know if the OPP will add any officers. The OPP does not have a police wagon for transferring prisoners and the transportation will be done by regular cruiser. Oxford County wanted a gaol (Brock) in 1839, By ADRIAN EW'INS Sentinel -Review Staff Writer When the doors of the Woodstock iail slam shut for the last time sometime in ilia next few months, the County of Oxford will have come full circle from 1839. In that year Woodstock councillors decided it was time to break away from the District of Landon, of which Woodstock was then apart, and set up a separate district, complete with jail and court house. Permission was received from Governor-General Lord Sydenham, and at the first meeting of the new District of Brock (Oxford County's predecessor) council, the first item on the agenda was a county jail. Its first bylaw, dated Feb. 8 1842, was entitled "For the completion of the court house and Gaol of the District of Brock". Now, in 1977, Woodstock will soon be losing the jail it was once so anxious to get and prisoners facing charges here will be held in London at anew detention centre currently under construction. That decision was made by the ministry of correctional services Tuesday. Back in IS50, when the County of Oxford was born, the need for adequate jail facilities was again high in the list of priorities. In January, IBM, Oxford County council passed a resolution recommending that "steps ought to be taken to improve or renew the present gaol accommodation of this county.' In August of the same year, after various committee reports and haggling, a bylaw authorized the borrowing of £ 5,000 to aid in any renovations or construction. Construction contracts were finally signed in Sep- tember, 1853. The architects were Clarke and Murray of Hamilton. with the firm of John Addison of Hamilton as carpenters, joiners, painters, glaziers, and ironmongers. A copy of the contract worth E 1,255 is available at the Woodstock Public Library. The building was completed in late 1854, but it wasn't ready for occupancy until August, 1855. Changes were continually made in the facilities and services offered in the jail. In 1856, Woodstock ministers convinced the county council to make alterations in the building to provide a place for weekly worship services for the prisoners. Still later in that same year a sum of £ 5 was approved by council to be used towards creating a prison library. That sum was increased to £ 150 10 years later. The history of the jail may be interesting and amusing at times, but it also has its share of human tragedies and suffering. In 1856, two boys, 10 and 12 years old, spent six months locked up. The next year a 10-year-old Negro - identified only as a laborer - entered the jail for the third time. And the jail has seen five poor souls climb the 13 steps to meet their maker. In 1862 Thomas Cook of Innerkip was hanged for mur- dering his wife. Norman Garfield in 1921, Elizabeth TWord in 1935, Velibor Rajik in 1954, and of course the most famous of them all, J. R. Birchall in 1890, were also executed in the jail. Birchall's body is still buried in the jail grounds - Cook's lasting contribution to the jail is a stone carving of his face at the main entrance to the jail, the only such feature on any jail in the province. Of course the building as it exists today is vastly dif- ferent from the original one constructed. In the 1950s some new brickwork was done. 50 seeking county posts About 50 persons have applied for openings as county representatives on boards and commissions, county clerk Gerry Staples said Monday. With applications closed now, the names have been sent to the appropriate municipalities for consideration. There were 16 openings on the Upper Thames River Con- servation Authority, three on the Long Point Conservation Authority, one on the Catfish Conservation Authority and one on the Grand River Con- servation Authority. Sixteen persons applied for the three openings on county land division committee and five applied for the single opening on the library board. IIt's not the first occasion province wanted jail shut By JOHN LECKIE 1 -Sentinel-Review Staff Writer Oxford County has not favored the use of a regional detention facility in London in the past, tlounty council rejected a ptroppuenl by the Jobn Haward Sneleiy fnr the county to ,µdo with London and Middlesex to construct u regional detention centre in Devemtnv. 1966. Estimated cost for the proposed centre was 913 million. Warden Hugh Munro said at the time that the existing Woodstock jail was adequate. The jail population front the county dill not justify the ex- puose Involved in a new facility. be Sald The provincial miNstry of correctional services announced Tuestlav that the Woodstock jail. would be. closed and prisoners from Woodstock would be seat to the ae%, regional detention W0111y in London. Restructured county had an able leader Oxford County council elected its seeond warden under restructuring and the 121st in its history Wed- nesday. Ken Peers, a veteran councillor from Norwich, will head the county government for the next two years. We're sure Mr. Peers will carry out his duties ably. We should also pay tribute to his predecessor, Perry Sibbick who led the county through its first two years under the restructured system. With a new form of municipal government. the first two years under restructuring could have been dif- ficult. But Mr. Sibbick was able to provide leadership and direction as representatives of both urban and rural municipalities worked together with increased responsibilities. Obituary J. CALVIN McKAY J. Calvin McKay 581 Princess St. Woodstock, died Monday at the Bonnie Brae Nursing Herne, Tavistock.. He was 83. Born near Kintore, he was a son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Donald McKay. He farmed on the family homestead in East Nissouri township until moving to Woodstock in 19W. He was an employee at the Oxford Regional Centre until retirement in 1963. He served on the East Nissoun and county councils. He was an elder at Chalmer United Church, Kintore for 33 years and had been a trustee of the Holiday School board and served on the Kintore Cemetery board for many years. He was a member of the Central United Church, Woodstock. He was predeceased by four brothers and two sisters. He is survived by his wife, the former Grace M. Stokes, one daughter. Mrs. Margaret Hossack of Woodstock, three sons. Hugh of Thamesford, and Cordon and Rev. John McKay, both of London. He is also survived by 12 grandchildren and five great- grandchildren. Friends will be received at the F.E. Rowell Funeral Home at 134 Riddell St. Woodstock. The service will be held i - Wednesday at 2 p.m. Rev. Austin Snyder will of- ficiate, assisted by Rev. John McKay. Interment will be later in the Kintore Ceretery. , _ -- �--t ,k E ua. BOSPITALITY SUITE The county no longer will have a hospitality suite at the Royal York Hotel during the Ontario Good Roads Assoclation's an- nual convention, County council Wednesday decided instead to consider a hospitality room at the Ilm annual convention of the Association of Counties and Regions. Under Mr. Sibbick, the council began studies and deliberations on a new county official plan, a work which will be the planning outline for the county in the future, Despite in- flation, county expenditures were held at reasonable levels, thus sof- tening the blow of tax increases on property owners. The deliberations of county council could easily have broken down into squabbling among the various municipalities. Mr. Sibbick's firm guidance, helped produce a spirit of co-operation among representatves that is seldom seen at any level of government. There can be no doubt the first two years of restructured government in Oxford were successful. A part of that success is due to Mr. Sibbick, WORD RECEIVED GM could reopen plant by Jan. 24 By JOHN LECKIE Sentinel -Review Staff Writer No one will he back to work at. the .General Motors national parts distribution centre before Jan. 24, the provincial labor ministry said Thursday. Duncan Black, of the ministry's London office, said repair work on the roof of the building would not be completed before the end of next week. A 17,000-square foot section of the root collapsed Jan.2 causing an estimated $5oo,000 damage. Employees have been out of work since the collapse. Mr. Black said the suspected cause of the failure is a welding deficiency, although that is still Under investigation by the consulting firms. Harris won't play hookey to attend works meetings Ingersoll Mayor Douglas Harris, a teacher, apparently won't play hockey to attend county public works committee meetings. In its first meeting since being formed Wednesday, the com- mittee Thursday decided not to change its meeting times to accommodate the mayor. Mr. Harris is one of two urban representatives on the four -man committee. Woodstock Mayor Leslie Cook is the other. The committee was chosen by a striking force Wednesday and the problem of how to work meetings into a schedule that would allow Mr. Harris to attend came to the fore when the new members sat down to pick a chairman. Mr. Harris, a teacher at Ingersoll Collegiate, was not at Thursday's meeting. 10 HALF -DAYS Public works committee members said Mr. Harris is allowed to -half days off during the school year without pay, but he pretty well uses those at- tending county council's day meetings. If Mr. Harris decided to get off the committee, council will be Faced with the problem of fin- ding an urban representative to fill the vacancy. The committee will still meet the second and fourth Thursday of every month, but has pushed meeting limes ahead to 9:30 a.m. from 10 a.m. BLUES CHASER "Do you think there is intelligent life on Ifars?" Sure do. Do you see them wasting $uI million to find out about us?" Health, social services subcommittees set up Free Press Woodstock Bureau Tlllsonburg and Woodstock hospital board, of WOODSTOCK—Oxford County's health and trust, „racial services committee selected members The committee decided to eliminate the dad i1, sit on Its four spbcommittees Wednesday care subcommittee which formerly, served night centres lit Woodstock, Ingersoll and Tilkkon Subcommittees will be made up as follows: burg because members felt any business per • Board of health: Warden Ken Peers and Coun, Jack Burt, Norwich Township, Council- lors Walter Hulme and Keith Latter, Wood. stock, and Coun. John Armstrong, Tlllsonburg, • Woodingford Lodge board of manage. ment Warden Peers, Councillors Hubne, Jaek Warden, blgersoll, Harold Vogt, East Zorra- Tavlstock Township and Cecil Wilson, South- West Oxford Township. • Family and Children's Services: Council- bwr Vogt, Wilson, Armstrong and Burn. 0 Victorian Order of Names: Coun. Latter. Councillors Warden and Armstrong and Les. lie Cook of Woodstock will sit on the Ingersoll, taining it) day care could be desalt with at health and social services committee meet hills. Coun, Hillme, committee chairman, said elimination of the day care subcommiurr would be an advantage to members of dw health and social services committee btsam>e each piece oflday care business would be dvaii with separately rather than In report form. ROAD RESURFACING County council Wednesday approved a public works committee recommending to approve the transportation and communications ministry's proposal to resurface parts of Highways 59 and %. . GLASS PARTITION A recommendaticn from public works committee that county council approve the construction of a wired glass partition in the east hall of the ground floor of the courthouse at a cost of $2,340 was approved Wednesday. IIARRIS MOVED Ingersoll Mayor Douglas Harris was transferred Wed- nesday to administration and finance committee from public works committee after he made the request to a county council striking committee. Mayor Lou Barrett of South West Oxford Township will move onto public works committee in the mayor's place. >14 now am V a .0 .sn ♦n N lose a CL u WC X V Q won 'ty�= (ay��yLL YFw .CS ?L c 3 C p �y=iE��U���a s Qmom Vt a7a.-y C3 °E-ry Ya 0% W Ontario looks Canada sends at bypass I gas, fuel oil funding plans Free Press Woodstock Bureau WOODSTOCK — A decision on methods of financing the. proposed Woodstock truck by- pass is In the hands of the ministry of trans- portation and communications, Coun. Perry Sibbick ofBlandford-Blenbelm Township said Thursday. Coun. Sibbick, chairman of Oxford County's public works committee, was in charge of ne- gotiations with the ministry before he retired as warden Jan. 1, fn favor of a position as councillor -at -large in Blandford-Blenheim. He met twice with Dr. Harry Parrot, MPP (PC — Oxford), after the public works com- mittee expressed concern in November that a route suggested by James Snow, minister of transportation and communications, would de- plete the comity roads budget for the next two years. "Both Dr. Parrott and myself made some suggestions to Mr. Snow and hopefully he will go along with them," Conn. Sibbick said. "However, I can't comment on the details at this time." Coun. Sibbick said he had no idea when a de - County Council cision would be rustic. Under Mr. Snuw's proposal the county would be expected to pay about 50 per cent of the $3- million cost of upgrading County Road 6, the _county -advocated portion of the proposal. The ministry proposal calls for construction of a realigned Highway 59 breaking west of the existing highway at a point northwest of the city and extending south to join Governor's Road west of the Eleventh Line. It includes upgrading County Road 6 from Governor's Road south of Embro to Highway 401, north of Folden's Comers. The province will pay for a new cloverleaf at Highway 401 and County Road 6 plus costs of the new por- tion of Highway59. The project Is expected to cost about $7.5 million. It has received approval in principle from Woodstock but the county has not given appro- val. Conn. Sibbick said it would be up to county council to decide whether he would continue as the county's negotiator with the province should further talks be necessary. to cold U.S. OTTAWA (CP) — Emergency exgtrts of natural gas and heavy fuel all have been au- thorized by the National Energy Board to meet growing fuel shortages btxause of cold weather and production problems in parts of the United States, the board said Wednesday. It sold special Orden have been issued al- lowing the export of 2.5o million cubic feet of natural gas a day for 60 days and 50,090 bar- rels of heavy fuel oil during the month of Jan - nary. Requests for more natural gas came after heavy fuel demands caused by bitterly cold weather combined .with production problems at a synthetic gas plant In Green Springs, Ohio, to cause severe shortages on the Colum- bla Gas System Inc. pipeline. It serves markets in Ohio, Kentucky, West Virginia. New York, Maryland, Pennsylvania and the District of Columbia. A spokesman for the board said the emen gency export was arranged following tole. phone calls between Richard Dunham, chair- man of the U.S. Federal Power Commission. and Marshall Crowe, chairman of the National Energy Board. The gas will be provided by TransCanada PipeLfnes Ltd., thesele transporter of western natural gas to eastern markets. The decision came so quickly that TransCanada has not yet County traffic signals updated Elected reps on land committee BYCAROLLEARD Oxford County council member and former warden Perry Sibbick was defeated in his attempt Wednesday night to have the county land division committee composed com- pletely of nonelected, lay members, but he succeeded in his bid to have the discussion in open council, Planning committee chair- man Ken Webster moved that council go into committee -of - the -whole, in camera, to discuss committee recommendations for appointments to the Oxford County land division com- mittee. As reporters prepared to vacate the council chambers for the in -camera session, Coun- cillor Sibbick rose to say he objected to the public being excluded from hearing the planning committee report, and moved that it be presented in open council. In a vote, 13 members ap- proved the open session, and seven were opposed. The report recommended that all four members of the plan- ning committee, Councillor Webster, Councillor Wendy Calder, Councillor Ross Livingston and Councillor Wallis Hammond, sit on the land division committee, along with three lay members ap- pointed by the committee, C.W. Dew of Norwich Township, G. Wilhelm of East Zorra- Tavistock Township and M. Hicks of South-West Oxford Township. The report also recommended that all members of the com- mittee be paid for their ser- vices. Councillor Sibbick said he has been opposed to the make-up of the land division committee for the past two years, since the introduction of restructured county government, and that he did not see how elected mem- bers could find time to do their job in planning as well as sit on the land division committee. "The workload on the official plan in the next 12 months is going to be tremendous," he said, adding that he did not see how the four -member planning committee could do both jobs. In a.motion seconded by Ken Bullen of Woodstock, he recommended that the planning committee be instructed to recommend at council's next meeting five names of non- elected members to serve on the committee, two of them representing urban municipalities and three from rural areas. Councillors voted down the resolution, but later approved Councillor Sibbick's second made a formal export application to Ut board. TransCanada advised the board Wednevd:,, that It could provide the gas. since it was emergency, the board authorized shipment start immediately and said the formal nfcet could be fulfilled later. TransCanada said distribution utilities Canada had agreed to reduce their normal de, liveriex from the pipeline company to make the emergency supplies available. But this could only be done as long as it did not finer. rapt deliveries to domestic customers. The board also licensed Canadian Fuel Marketers Ltd. to ship 50,400 barrels of heavy fuel Oil to deetroft Edison Co. for use in gener- ating electric power. But the export Ifeence says that If beavy fuel oil supplies inn short. in Canada. Detroit Edi- son will reduce the amount of heavy, oil it will take later under a long-term supply contract with Sun Off Co. The board says Canadian electric. utilities at - ready are authorized to increase experts to meet emergency needs of U.S- utilities, a sys- tem that is used regularly. It points out that Ontario Hydro recently re- duced voltage on its system by up to fire per cent to provide more electricily to utilities io Michigan. resolution calling for the deletion of the item dealing with remuneration to committee members. According to Councillor Livingston, who has served on both committees for the past two years, the land division committee is "where the action is" in planning. "Sitting on that committee is the only way you get the input," he told council. "Bill 95 tries to get more responsibility back into the hands of elected people, and Ithink that should happen here too." He said that members had discussed the arguments for a lay committee in a closed session in the fall, and all were opposed. 4W C 2 0 U 4) Im C ISM mc An a 0 2 4A om Im C em 10 C 2 No C 0 OW UP TO COUNTY COUNCIL Bypass proposal by the province passes a hurdle By CHRIS NIXON SentinebReview• Staff Nriter A new provincial fmancin scheme for a county truck bypass received unainimous approval today by county public works committee. It now is up to county council to approve the proposal which is essentially a series of road swaps between the county and provincial transportation and communications ministry. The Transportation and Communications Ministry trade off several highways and in return rebuild County Road 6 to serve as part of a county truck bypass. In a letter Wednesday to county council, Transportation and Communications Minister James Snow, said the road swap will increase county road mileage, but allow construction Of a long -sought bypass without depleting the county road budget. Council didn't discuss the announcement. Council's public works committee was expected to make a recommendation on the offer at today's meeting. REPLICA The proposal is a replica of suggestions 'made by former count warden Perry Sibbick of Blandford-Blenheim Township to Dr. Harry Parrott, Oxford MPP and colleges and universities minister. Dr. Parrott took the proposals to the transportation ministry. The proposal calls for the province taking over Governor's Road from Thamesford to Woodstock and taking over and building County Road 6 from Governor's Road to Highway 401. In turn, the county will be given Highway 97 from Highway 59 to the Oxford -Waterloo boundary, Highway 2 from Thamesford to Woodstock, Highway 19 from Highway, 401 to Ingersoll and the connecting links on Highways 2 and 19 at Ingersoll Although there would be a net increase in county road mileage, the proposal would allow the county to continue their normal construction program, while the ministry would proceed immediately with design on County Road 6," the letter says. Ontario trying to 412-Litsway out of gale -whipped snowdrifts Oxford struggling back By 11111AN MCANDREW TenLlnel-Review Staff Writer e Woodstock area slowly I struggled back to its feet today following Friday's devastating wind and snow storm. Police blocked all major high- ways around 11:30 a.m. Friday and warned motorists they were Proceeding at their own risk. Highway 401 was practically barren as provincial police patrols in both Woodstock and Tillsonburg were pulled off the roads. County roads remained clogged early , today but Woodstock OPP managed to send out patrols to recover abandoned cars along the roads and to allow. snow plows to begin j the mammoth task of clearing drifts. VISIBILITY AB plows were taken off the roads Friday after blowing snow Theills ng reduced Ttbuemdetachment of the OPP did not sent out patrols for the morning shift today. Cars littered the 401, some blocking both driving lanes and others overturned in the median, until tow trucks finally began reaching them this morning. Woodstock OPP reported nearly 50 known stranded vehicles along the 401 which were towed to various service stations throughout the city. Oxford will consider hospitals"funding bids By RANDY RAY Free Press Woodstock Bureau WOODSTOCK — Oxford County council Wednesday night referred requests for finan- cial aid from Woodstock General Hospital and Tillsonburg District Memorial Hospital to its admbfistratlon and finance committee for con- sideration. Robert Smith, chairman of the board of Woodstock General, asked council to consider paying about $206,000 towards the $1.6-million cast of a 39-bed psychiatric un(t. 61e said (be province ham agreed to pay two- thirds of the cost and the hospital's board of trust will fund the remaining $206,000. Mr, Smith said the hospital decided to ap- preaeh the county for financial aid because Pe propomed expansion is a county project. "It's notanly a Woodstock project," he said. "It's goared W handle all of the population in Ow county ... the hoard of trust feels the Opening of a new wing is a good move for the said the hospital construction of It da for the orevfn space for outpatient services and a psychia- tric day-eare program. Psychiatric services for Oxford County were moved to Woodstock General in April, 1974, after the psychiatric unit at the Oxford Ile- glonal Centre was closed by the health minis- try. Mr, Smith said about 15 beds are being used In the Woodstock hospital tot psychiatric pa- tients, "but this Is completely unacceptable to the bnard'Of trust," . "This matter has been referred to the Thames Valley District flealth Council by the ministry of health and a report Is being pre. pared," he said. Mr. Smith maid the addition will employ about 50 persons. A three-man delegation representing the 147-bed Tillsonburg hospital 11180 appeared be - tore counell The group requested $141,M10 for replacement of equipment which a xpokesinan described as "obsolete and archaic.' Lloyd O'Grady. chairman of the hospittl's board of directory, told council a doiay In ex. Parisian of the hospital hits necessitated re. placement of certain uipment Immediately. Approval for an addl an and renovations has not been revolved, he suit[. After normal pro- vhuJal cadlributions for building and enulu- meet costs, Mc O'Grady estimated Oxfonl County's share would be about $1.2 million. However, since the expansion is stalled, 0\ ford County's share of costs for equipment on ly, will be $1,11,000, he said. Mr. O'Grady slid the funds requested by th hospital from Oxford would go toward a nerc x-ray unit, air conditioning and dietary equip moot "We're getting a little frustrated, We hate high -priority, equbpmenl failing apart, yet we can't get anything done," he said, referring to delays In getting the hospital's expansion pro gram underway. The hospital's chief of surgery, Dr. Elmer Quintyn, said the hospital may have saved money in (lie past by not replacing equipment but now It Is faced with many problems. He said the x-ray machines are 20 and 13 years old and both break down often. "it leaves a lot m be desired in our patient care," he said. "With the equipment wr have we are nut serving the community's noels•" Witter Burton, a representative of tho bosp, tal's property committee, said outdated eqtop mono is forcing the hospital to push Its staff III the limit hecduao tho equipment Is so hief1, `1`� Loil 6 O OW FA 00 Q me C a L N C a mc d La rw O a is 0) C O L C V 4) V 01111110 211 0 To All Motor Vehicle Drivers in Ontario if ied Driver LicensingC ass Starts February 1 19�1'7. Ontario's new Classified Driver Licensing program is aimed at matching a driver's skills and responsibilities with the kind of vehicle driven. All drivers will have a licence relating to a specific class; a driver will be permitted to drive only the vehicles indicated in that class. If you drive a car, light truck or a motorcycle -take no action. Keep your present licence. After the first year of the program when you renew your licence or a replacement licence is issued, a new classified licence will be issued to you automatically (see CLASS G and M). There will be no more operator's or chauffeur's licence; being paid to drive will no longer be a factor in the classified driver system. CLASS A -Any tractor trailer or truck trailer combination and any vehicle authorized by classes D and G. CLASS B-Any school purposes bus and any vehicle authorized by classes C.D.E,F ano G. CLASS C-Any bus, but not a school purposes bus, and any vehicle autho- rized by classes D,F and G. CLASS D-Any motor vehicle or combina- tion of vehicles provided the towed vehicles are not over 10,000 lbs. gross vehicle weight. Includes a bus while not carrying passengers, an ambulance while not providing an ambulance service, but not a motorcycle. CLASS E-Any school purposes bus designed for not more than 24 seated passengers and any vehicle authorized by classes F and G. If you drive a vehicle other than a car, light truck or motorcycle - Go to your nearest MTC Driver Examination Office for an application to convert your licence to the class you need. Application for classes other than school bus must be made by January 31,1978. School Bus Drivers: Licensed school bus drivers will receive a letter from the Ministry in February explaining how to convert their licence. They must act on this letter by August 31. 1977 CLASS F-Any bus designed for not more than 24 seated passengers but not a school purposes bus, an ambulance and any vehicle authorized by class G. CLASS G-Any motor vehicle or combina- tion of vehicles up to 18,000 lbs. regis- tered gross weight or gross vehicle weight provided the towed vehicles are not over 10,000 lbs. gross vehicle weight; includes a bus while not carrying passengers, an ambulance while not providing an ambulance service, but not a motorcycle. CLASS L-Instruction Licence -The holder of a L licence can operate any motor vehicle or combination of vehicles as under class G licence -but only when accompanied by the holder of a Class A,B.C,D,E,F or G licence who is occu- pying a seat beside him or her to give instruction. L also can be used to operate a motor -assisted bicycle (Moped) unaccompanied. Further information Is available at any MTC Driver Examination office and at the Driver Licensing Section, 7th Floor, Ferguson Block,Oueen's Park, Toronto M7A 2H5 ADMINISTRATION COMMITTEE County council's ad- ministration and finance committee meets Thursday at 4:15 p.m. at the courthouse. The meeting. date was set after the Monday meeting was called off Because of qx)r weather. CLASS M-Holder can operate a motor- cycle. Also when accompanied. any motor vehicle or combination of vehicles authorized by class G licence - if holder of a class A,B,C,D.E,F or G licence occupies a seat beside him or her to give instruction in driving the vehicle. CLASS R-Motorcycle training: this autho- rizes holder to drive the motorcycle for the purposes of training, subject to the conditions shown on the licence. NOTE: Class G or higher licence may be used for training purposes while the holder is being trained to drive vehicles of a higher class provided the accom- panying driver is licensed to drive that type of vehicle. All classes of licences authorize the operation of motor -assisted bicycles (Moped). V l Ministry of Transportation and Communications Woodstock fire chief quits over salary arrangements WOODSTOCK - Fire Chief William Martin said Friday he asked city council to terminate his contract effective May because It has re- neged on his salary arrangements. Council accepted Chief Martin's letter on fhuroday. Chief Martin, 52, said he was the fire chief of Bromalea-Chinguacomy (now part of Brampton) when he was offered the Wood- stock position. When he was hired in 1072, Chief Martin said, he accepted the post only because coon cil accepted certain conditions he set down, In eluding that he would work under a contract that would loot until his retirement in lags and that his salary, which would be negotiated, would be at leuhl lea per cunt of that of a first chins fireflghu-r, 'these terms, he said, were unanimously ac- cepted by council. Chief Martin said he started to discuss sala- ry in I975, but made no progress, "they re- fused [it negotiate a new salary." FIRE CHEF MARTIN - - • 'Ihey refused to negotiate' Instead, conditions were set arbitrarily, he said He refused to say how much he is being ppaid, or how far it Is behind what he believe, he should be making. 1 Suess they don't think I was worth the ex- tra money," he said. Although council has changed twice since be was hired. Chief Martin said, coulacill's atti- tude isn't the result of dealing with new faun. .,Some of the major attack was led by the original pedple." Chief Martin said he hasn't found another job yet Mayor Lcslte Cook said 1hurgday llo� couldn't renteiri er the term, of the ccumraet "I'm not sore what the terms are he refers to to the lotto " FEBRUARY 10, 1977— $7.5-million project Oxford OKs Woodstock bypass as opponents fire parting shots Free Press Woodstock Bureau WOODSTOCK — Oxford Cnunty councl ap- proved a proposed $L5 miillon. proefnc•ialh- funded. truck bypass Wednesday bill not with- ,' out some parting concerns front councillors. The proposal. worked out by ,atoll. and transportation ministry officials, means the jurisdiction of certain highways and county road, will change and the province will pav the full c u,t of reconstructing Cnunty Road 6. The road swaps should be completed by Oct 1.. Tile ministry plans to build a realigned highway 59 breaking west of the existing high- way at a point northwest of Woodstock and ex- tending south ha ,loin Governor's Road west of the llth Line. County Road 6, which will form part of the bypass, Is to be rebuilt. from Covernor's Rood ,south of Embro to Highway fill, where a new cloverleaf is planned. The ministry will also lake over Governor's Road from Thamesford to Woodstock. The county in turn will assume Highway 97 from Highway 59 to the Oxford-WaterloU boun- dary Highway 2 from Thamesford to Wood- stock Highway 19 from Highway 101 to Inger. soll; and the connecting links on Highways 2 and 19 fit Ingersoll. The transfers add 19 miles to the county road system. Conn. Perry Sibbick of Blandford-Blenhehn 'township, chairman or council :s public works committne, said engineering work for the pro. ject could .start immediately with construction starting in We 1978. Woodstock No Leslie Cook, whose coon. ell has approved the proposal inprinciple, said construction of the bypass is the first step in a loop road proposal which would eventually ..surround the city. Before council approved the bypass propos- al, which will he returned to the ministry for final consideration, some councillors contin. tied to question the pplan's merits. Coun. Doug llarris of Ingersoll said the pro. posal, which would swap Highway 2 for Gover- nor's Road, might take business away from Hospital request for $206, 000 hits Oxford council roadblock By RANDY RAY Free Press Woodstock Bureau WOODSTOCK — Woodstock General Ilospi- tal's request for J?06,000 in county, financial aid for construction of a psychiatric wing hit a roadblock in county, courted here Wednesday. Despite a recommendation from the admin- istration and finance committee to approve funds for the $1.6-million wing, Councillors Doug Harris and Jack Warden of Ingersoll persuaded council to delay final approrat until other means of providing psychiatric facilities in Oxford are investigated. The committee last week recommended that the hospital receive the funds in two yearly tnstalments of $103,0N. The wing would in- clude additional space for out -patient services and a psychiatric day-care program. It would employ about 50 persons. The province has agreed to pay two-thirds of the cost and the hospital's (ward of directors would finance the remaining $420,000. Coun. Harris, one of the members of the ad- ministration and finance committee responsi- ble for the recommendation, said he was not aware of certain circumstances at the time the committee acted. There is a vacant wing at the Ontario Re- gional Centre north of Woodstock, formeriv used for psychiatric services, and 20 buts in Alexandra General Hospital in Ingersoll which were recently taken out of service. "Both facilities would be acceptable toy, what Is being proposed." Coun. Barris said. ,':Some of the active patients could be moved to. Alexandra and some of the existing Wood - 'stock hospital could he made into a psychic We unit." Twenty beds were closed at Alexandra in March, 1976, because of constraints imposed by the provincial health ministry. Psychiatric services for Oxford were transferred to Wood- stock General two years earlier after the psy- chiatric unit at the Oxford Regional Centre (formerly the Ontario hospital) was Closed by the ministry. "Taxpayers .should not have to support a completely new unit when we already have empty beds available" Conn. Harris said. ,,rm not saying Ingersoll is the greatest, I'm just saving let's take a look at the situation. In a letter to council, William Roepman, chairman of the Alexandra hospital board, ex- pressed similar concerns. It stated: "It is cer. tainly false economy to close hospital beds within the county thenspend over a million dollarsof the taxpayer's money to build new hospital beds at Woodstock General Hospital. "The Alexandra General Hospital board of trust ... recommends that county council re- consider this expenditure of funds to assist with his building program during a time of severe constraints imposed by the Ontario ministry of health." Conn. Warden, a. member of the hospital's board of trust, expressed concern that -Wood- stock General could become a county hospital, resulting in the eventual closure of the Inger- soll hospital. "I've seen ithappen before with the jail in Woodstock and in other instances," he said. "I'm against this talk of decentralizing st rvic- es." In a further letter to county council, Mr. Roepman also voiced his board's objections to the county's consideration of $141,000 in finan- cial aid to the Tillsonburg District Memorial hospital to buy equipment. ,.Requests for funds from county council should be limited to new capital building pro- jects and should not be considered for the re- placement of capital equipment, which is a fully allowable depreciation Item under any hospital's operating budget," Mr. Roepman said. ❑e said the Tillsonburg hospital, which requested funds for an x-ray machine, dietary equipment and air conditioning facilities, should have built up a capital equipment re- serve instead of asking the county for money. Corm: Warden said that if council supports the Tillsonburg hospital's request, Alexandra will "definitely" approach the county within three years for money• "we want tale same consideration given to the Ingersoll hospital that you possibly or not. possibly will give to Tillsonburg," he said. A delegation from the 117-bed hospital is scheduled to meet with the administration and finance committee shortly to further outline reasons for the request for funds. The Woodstock General Hospital matter was lobled until cnunt.,y council's next meeting I., h. 23. cstablishmems on llfghway 3 between Wood stock and Ingersoll. "I have bad calls from people. Including motel owner wondering how this wi f affect . business," he said. "Pie should consider Whether we will haveany liability for any loss of business caused by this proposal." Mayor Cook said studies have shown the proposal would not be ',all that detrimental" on commercial businesses. Coon. Harris said public meetings should be set up to allow people to express concerns and views regarding the proposed bypass. He also pointed out that the swapping of roads would lower provincial subsidiesfor the mainte- nance of connecting Bnks in Ingersoll to 5o per cent from 90 per cent. "I thinkcouncil should be aware there will be some extra cost involved," Coun. Hard, said: Warden Ken Peers of Norwich Township said he has had calls regarding the possible loss of business along. Highway 2. "Complaints might be legitimate. We should consider more highway advertising. There are ' a lot of people who have built up businesses. along-IGghway 2 who depend on highway traf- fic." he said. Conn. Leonard Seegmiller of East Zarra Tavistock Township said many residents of his municipality are not happ postal.y with the pen. "People were not too happy with the bypas, before but now that it. is not going around Woodstock they are going to be even less hap m" he said. "Them was not too much flack with the route going around the city but people don't like that little section (a realigned Higle way 59.)" Conn. Philip Poole of Woodstock said the county was wrong to go along with a provin- clal proposal which calls for new instead of upgraded roads. It's ridiculous ... we're taking on a bigger burden. It would have made much more sense to upgrade existing roads. "The bypass will stop Woodstock', east -west (truck traffic) problems, but It won't help the etq-north-south." he said. Public works budget rises 6°' in Oxford Free Press Woodstock Bureau WOODSTOCK — Oxford County's public works department budget for 19 at' shows a six. per -cent increase over last year. The total budget estimate, presented to the public works committee Thursday by county engineer Don Pratt, calls for expenditure, of 5""3,617.8110. Mr. Pratt pointed out that because of a four - percent increase in assessment, the net in, crease in the budget for this year will be, only two per cent. Mr. Pratt said the increase was a result of several added expenses: • A $100,000 debenture payment. for urban roads. • $MAN in added road maintenance costs and $100,000 for municipal drains. 0 $35.000 .set aside for the department', equipment fund. 0 .tv"2J0 In administration cost increases, the result of staff additions in the. works de- partment. • SWAM Increase in solid waste dispicsal t oNt1 The budget will be considered by county rMolt it Noun. 0 `Whether we want it or not' Oxford growth `tied' to Woodstock Free Press Woodstock Bureau WOODSTOC:K — Oxford Gmnly, with the city of Woodstock at the centre, has great potential fur growth "whether we want Ilor nut," Warden Ken Peors said here Monday. "Tile county has seven major highways, three major railways and we have Woodstock — how it goes, so goes the county," War- den Peers told a Rotary Club luncheon at the YMCA. Warden Peers. mayor of Norwich Township, said limited growth in the county wtli be a challenge to planners, elected offi. cers and the public, but "t don't think it (growth) can be stopped. "However, at least we have a chance to plan," he said. Highway 401 is unlikely to continue as a boundary for the cit because Woodstock is situated beside two "sleeping giants" — tendon and Kitchener -Waterloo — which will play a large role in the growth of the county, he said. "Woodstock had building values over $7 million last year. Norwich Township reached building figures of $71,j million and South-West Oxford Township was probably similar," he said. Warden Peers said the recently approved track bypass will also attract commercial and industrial growth, while the area east of County Road 4, east of Woodstock, may also be developed soon. Another indication of growth in the county, Warden Peers said, is Canadian National Railways' plan to replace its two east -west tracks through Woodstock with a five -track route. -There isn't another municipality in Southern Ontario with highway exchanges and railway links like those found in Oxford County." Warden Peers cautioned that insufficient water supplies might. hinder development east of Woodstock. County council's public works committee has recommended that this area not be serviced by Woodstock before areas inside the city are developed. And em ironmenl ndnlstry officials lime said iutlosp'ial growth near Woodstock, Ili the form of it pproposed General Motors or Ca nada plant, may cause Woodstock's soon -to -be -expanded sewage plain to reach its capacity within 10 years instead of the 20 origin ally envisaged. Warden Peers said the apparent lack of wuler east of Wood. stock may force the county to draw water from other sources as far away as Lake Huron. fit suggested a pipeline Runt that lake as one alternative if more large underground wells cannot be located, "The cost may seem great to as now but In a few years It will not seem overwhelming," he said. Warden Peers said he is not concerned about the loss of agricul- tural land resulting from growth bill "we should not let people spread out indiscriminately. Many Industries could be using less space than they do," he said. lie also predicted the Woodstock jail will likely be torn down alter the province moves out of the 123-year-old building within the next few months. "When the province is through with the jail there Is no other fu- ture but to tear it down. We've had suggestions for a restaurant and offices but the land is Guile valuable. I hope county council will consider that its administration (now located In the court house on Graham Street) is crowded and needs a three -storey building," he said, Warden Peers pointed out that the county also owns some near- by land next to the offices of the Oxford County board of educa- tion which could be used for expansion. The ministry of correctional services announced in January the jail will be closed shortly and inmates transferred to the new El- gin -Middlesex Detention Centre in London. Oxford County Warden Ken Peers, left, 87-year-old Flos- official opening of an Ontario Housing Corporation senior sie Fowler, MPP Or. Harry Parrott (PC — Oxford) and citizens home on Alice Street in Woodstock. Mrs. Fowler Woodstock Mayor Leslie Cook cut the ribbon marking the is the oldest resident of the new facility. Fourth for Woodstock Ribbon cut at seniors' home Free Press Woodstock Bureau WOODSTOCK — About 75 persons, including MPP Dr. Harry Parrott (PC — Oxford), were on hand Friday to mark the official opeging on Alice Street of Woodstock's fourth senior citi- zens' development, Construction on the $577,733 Ontario Housing Corp. (OHC) project started In August, 1075. The first of the building's 44 residents moved fit last November and the units have since filled to capaclly. Woodstock Mayor Leslle Cook said the 40. unit project Is so example of the things that can be accomplished when different levels of government work together. "The other projects we already have are monuments to that type of co-operation," Mayor GNrk said Dr. Parrott said the time has cone for Ox- ford County residents to think of themselves as a "family unit." He said a residency clause in some parts of the county requiring persona to live In a muni- cipality tar a certain period of time before moving In to provincial seniors' units should be destroyed, "A family unit is what it's all about," Dr. Parrott said. "Maybe if people live In South- West Oxford or East Oxford (now Norwich Township) they should be able to live In Wood- stock. "it may not be practical to build units In places like Curries, Salford or Hickson," he said. Woodstock has no much limitations on Its residents, Dr. Parrott pointed out. A. Parrott lauded the Tlltsouburg Bolan 's phone-in service for seniors, a sent ice by which people call a central number daily to let volunteers know they are well. "Something like this is needed In every unit In Oxford County. I hope the Tlllsonburg con cept will be considered — we need this kind of service and we must never lose the family concept In Oxford." A housing ntiutstry official said 00 per cent of OHC's funds came Rom a CMHC loan whiic the remaining 10 per cent was provided by ilia province. The project's operating ]oases will be subsid Ized 50 per cent by the federal government 42.5 per cent by the province and 74 per rent by the City or y6odsloek. Mowat's store closing to end postal service Free Press W'eudstocl, Bureau Sane of the ruslonters have born cow.'rned SPRINGFORD — When the office at Willi. that the village may lose lis dcntih om, am Mowal's %torn closes on Feb. 28, the cil. 5pringford is no longer the malting addro,,. loge will be without a post office for the first Matte of them have said they plan to condnw I Unit since Jan. it, IW.. Using the village's male along with the punk T* IV persons served by the post office address will get their mail from a green group mail box. In plasm of Sprfngford as theiraddress. ii will be RR I, Otterville, NO.1 1R0. The past office has been a part of Mr Mowat's store since his appointment in 1911. ' Mr. Mowat said he i% resigning as postman- BLUES CHASER ter for personal reasons, ending the longest .� Tfrr Sete., nets bey rgna1. but did ivue rrr term of any of the 13 postmasters who proced r hresr u! o horhrn iti•.r4e,u4e in1„ nvirruu•nC' ed him Springford gained recognillun during the - - early 199Ds when an area farmer, George W'it rox, waged a one-man battle against the pose office for rural mail deltvery and Iron. The First rural maildelivery in Canada was in rho Hamilton area on Oct. 10, IfA1s. A survey in the village will establish how many customers there are and where the group mail boxes should you of located, a yoof Group honors rice letter ,aid, court official Free Press W'oudsiock Bureau ti'OODSTOCK — About 100 persons, includ- ing city, county and provincial ofiCis ts, were on hand Friday night to honor Margaret Ross, retiring provincial court administrator. Miss Ross, 65, officially retired Dec. 31 after soling as criminal division court administra- tor in Woodstock for 29 years. Among those who paid tribute to Miss Ross were provincial court Judge R, G. Groom, county court Judge Kenneth Y, Dick and Dr. Harry Parrott, MPP (PC — Oxford). Miss Ross took over the post in 1948. She al- ,o worked as a librarian in the courthouse taw library fora number of years. PROVINCIAL Court Judge ministrator, at a retirement administrator of the local R. G. Groom presents a tray party held in her honor provincial court for many to Margaret Ross, the Friday night. Miss Ross was years. (Staff photo) provincial court ad- Court administrator honored by colleagues Provincial court ad- honored on her retirement with She said she plans on hosting ministrator Margaret Ross was a reception at the Moose Lodge some visitors to Woodstock and Old Woodstock jail may be demolished, councillors indicate The Woodstock jail will probably be torn down because it will serve no useful purpose after it is closed, says Court. Perry Sibbick of Blandford. Blenheim Township. The 123.year-old building is Protected under the Ontario Heritage Act. But after a 190- day waiting period before demolition or major alterations an owner can do as he wishes if no one buys the building. "We'll have to go through a lot of red tape to do it (demolish) but we can't do anything else with it," said Conn. Sibbick. Woodstock Mayor Leslie Cook agreed. While the mayor originally suggested the building might be renovated and serve as new city Police headquarters he now doesn't think that's feasible. "The idea of the police department locating in the jail just doesn't make sense," the mayor said. "I merely suggested that at the spur of the moment." The province has decided to shut down the building. Prisoners will be detained at a new regional institute in Lon- don. Four sites considered for 1980 plowing match The 19W plowing committee met with the Ontario Plowman's Association Tuesday and sub- mitted four sites for the 1960 international match. 'Me sites named as possible locations for the match were farms rm Highway 97 east of Plattxville, in the Hatho area, the Tillaonburg Airport and Woodslock-owned land in Fast 'Lorra-Tavistock 'township, northwest of the city on ('on- cemion 11. The match is scheduled for Sept. 23-27, 19M. Seven hundred acres are reyuired for the match for the competitions, parking, displays and tent city, Oxford County was last host to an international plowing maten in 1951 on the John Hargreaves farm in South Wcwl Oxford township. Friday. begin visiting with friends our of Miss Ross was in charge of the town on weekends. provincial court office (criminal Crown Attorney Fred Porter division) since 1948 until the end described Miss Ross as a of January. "dedicated, conscientious, and Her official retirement was loyal civil servant." slated for the end of December He said Miss Ross "worked a but she was asked to stay an great many hours after 5 p.m. extra month, and on weekends" to process the Miss Ross said in an interview court proceedings. when she was first hired by Mr. Porter, who has been Judge R. G. Groom the job was acquainted with Miss Ross for only part-time. about six years, said she has The county also required a been "most helpful and co - part -time office administrator operative in her part in the at the time and Miss Ross filled administration of justice." that position as well for three He said Miss Ross was Years. responsible for the ad - As the work load in both of- ministrative functioning of the fines increased and both provincial court. required a full time person Miss She received all the in - Ross decided to stay with the formations, he said, issued court office, summons, received fines. Prior to joining the court she prepared dockets, as well as had eight years experience being the librarian for the working in a law office. Oxford County Law Association WENT QUICKLY until 1975, Miss Ross said the 29 years as the administrator went by very As an example of the amount quickly because she enjoyed her of criminal administrative work work so much. Miss Ross was responsible for, She said she has not had time Mr. Porter said 100 per cent of to make any definite plans for criminal cases begin in (he future but would like to begin provincial court and 95 per cent n:nrlling. of them are con•pleted there. .I A *l Get -acquainted tour urged for councillors Free Press Woodstock Bureau WOODSTOCK,— Oxford County'coun- cillors should take a guided lour of the county to see what is going on around them, council's public works committee decided Thursday. Committee chairman Perry Sibbick of Blandford-Blenheim Township, said the tour could start at the county courthous,- in Woodstock and include visits to Wood stock's sewage treatment plant, the soon - to -be -expanded Tillsonburg reservoir and some of the 273 miles of county roads. The tour is set tentatively for April z. The committee Instructed county engi- neer Don Pratt to draw up an agenda for the day -long excursion. In other business, the committee fa- vored building a new Oxford administra- tion building on the east side of Graham Street between the Woodstock library and the board of education building. The county owns three lots there which are now occupied by two houses. A third was demolished earlier. The building would house offices for public works, planning and social services and the treasurer. The clerk's office and council chambers would remain on the second Boor of the county courthouse. Planning and public works currently are located in the basement of the court - home and social services is in a converted house behind the jail. Treasurer Howard Day's office is squeezed in between the council chamber and the clerk's office. Committee members favored a three - storey building to be built within two years. Counci's other standing committees al- so are expected to consider the proposed building and report to council. The public• works committee also re- commended thatcouncil accept Its 1977 budget of $17 million. Council will consider the recommenda. Lions in March. BLUES CHASER �mployca, nutlny the newaat tax dedacted from his paycheque: "This must he part of a contimdng program to handieap the hhrd, " �•-• ���••tr Y.e,tiun nurr.u, vrA uirectur; a ebue vicason, vice-cnatrman of pwwmE match committee: Mrs. Claire Cole, publicity chairman of plowing match committee: Don Taylor- OMAF agricultural representative; Mrs. Glenna Harris, publicity plowing match committee; Rai Dedman, exhibits chairman; John Hofstelter, chairman plowing match committee: Bill Wather- slon,exhibits committee; and John Summerhayes, OPA director. Oxford awaiting word on snow grant policy Free Press Woodstock Bureau WOODSTOCK -- Oxford County will await word from Queen's Park before approaching the p�rovincial government for subsidles which could be made available to municipalities with high snow removal costs this winter, county engineer Don Pratt said Tuesday. Solicitor General John Macbeth announced earlier this week that municipalities which have been hit particularly hard by a series of blizzards would be eligible for "some kind of subsidy." However a cabinet committee studying claims for assistance because of the effects of this year's harsh winter hasn't worked out a formula for calculating grants, Mr, Pratt said the winter In Oxford County has been "in a sense disastrous, but not ton bad fur costs." "So far this winter hasn't been much wors, than last year In terms of costs even with the big storm we had. However, If we can reeocnr any money we can certainly use it In other it, eas. If the opportunity Is available for subsid -its, we'll take It," he suld, Mr. Pratt did not have figures available on the cost of snow removal and maintonnve on county roads this winter, The comndttee studying the program i, made up of Mr. Macbeth, Energy Minlnior James Taylor and Transportation Minister James Snow. The commuter is expctcd o. nurl Ihla at•ek but au} prupn.wl umst he lal, to In I1w l 11hiu,rl J M INTERNATIONAL PASSPORT TO DAIRYLAND VALID: 1980 9 OXFORD COUNTY INVITES YOU TO THE INTERNATIONAL PLOWING MATCH 1980 CHAIRMAN — JOHNHOFSTETTER VICE CHAIRMAN — LES DICKSON TREASURER — GARNET PECK SECRETARY — DON TAYLOR Box 666, Woodstock, Ontario Welcome To THE COUNTY OF OXFORD INCORPORATED 1850 RESTRUCTURED 1975 KEN PEERS — Warden 84,492 happy people ready to welcome visitors. 500,608 acres of the best farm land in Canada, 300 miles of county roads servicing the heart of the dairy industry. F! Oxford votes funds for psychiatric unit Free Press Woodstock Bureau WOODSTOCK — Oxford County council on Wednesday decided In a 13-6 recorded vote to gay $206 001t towards the S1.6-million east of a 18had psychiatric unit at Woodstock General The funds will be paid In two yearly instull- rtlents or $103.t11q. The procure has agreed to pay two-thirds of the east and the hospital board would finance � the remag $4X000 for the wing which will ,. Include space for outpatient services and an outpatient day-care program. 'Tenders for the project were called earlier this week. Council earlier this month tabled the hosed- ; tal's request for funds so that Warden Ken I Peers and county clerk Gerry Staples could study other means of providing psychiatric to. cihues in Oxford. A move to table action was spearheaded by 'I Uygersell councillors Doug Harris and Jack I Warden who felt it was poor econnid" to spend money on a new hospital wing when 20 beds lie idle in Ingersoll's Alexandra Hospital. On Wednesday night Warden Peers reported Woodstock General Hospital officials had indi- cated awillmgness to utilize the Ingersoll hos- pital for day-care psychiatric services. Such I services would not require beds, he said. However• the warden's comments were little j comfort to Councillors Warden and Harris. Y Coon- Warden said he could not vote infavor ll of granting funds to Woodstock General Hospi- tal until Ingersoll had a written agreement that Alexandra Hospital's facilities would be used for ckwcare services. He called a letter from the Thames Valle% District Health Council outlining the need i'or psychiatric facilities in Woodstock a "snow Tile letter from health council executive di y rector J. D. T..Roberts, said: "... The Alex- c andra hospital in Ingersoll was not considered _`.• for an acute psychiatric unit because it did not have the historical relationship with respect to the provision of psychiatric service ... . Coun. Harris and several other councillors expressed concern that the county was being asked to contribute money to a project into ywhich it has had little input. 5�He said the project has become a "political football which f don't want to get into but I'm willing to play with." I "We should quit dosing down one facility, in idle area and then build another for $1.6 nit- . i lion somewhere else," Coun. Harris said. - ,Conn. Philip Poole of Woodstock suggested IcopnclBors set up a tour of all hospital facili- 'ties,in the couty so they would know what They were considering. ! "We s" ask the ministry of health 10 y show us why things aren't suitable This coun- cil hasntf ss�ithe need for a new facility. The min sin should justify the need for new facili- 'tie� " he }old - �rr Wallis Hammond of Zorra 'township, who supported the request for funds, said: "If Ox- ford Coum.y wishes to look after Its 80,000 peo- ple this new wing is one of the best things we can support." Voting in favor of granting Woodstock Gen. eral Hospital the funds were: Councillors Lou. is Barrett, mayor of South-West Oxford and Coun. Cecil Wilson of South-West Oxford Township, Councillors Keith Latter, Leslie Cook, Wendy Calder, Ken Bullen and Philip Poole of Woodstock, Warden Peers, Coon. Koss Livingstone and Perry Sibbick of Bland. ford -Blenheim Township, Coun. Robert Blair and Coun. Hammond, Zorra Township and Coun. Leonard Seegmiller of East Zorra-Tay. Istac•k. Those opposed were Councillors Warden and Harris, Ingersoll Coun.. Harold Vogt of East Zorra Tavistock Coun. Walter Hulme of Woodstock and Councillors John Annslrnng and Ken 11"cbster of Tillvnnburg. In other business, council decided non-eiect- ed persons appointed to conservation authorl ties in Oxford County will continue to be ap- pointed for unlimited terms. However persons appointed (non-olecic i' to I other boards will be limited to a maximum of six consecutive years. Council voted against limiting appointments to six consecutive years on conservation all thoritles because It felt a six -year stint on a particular authority was not an adequate pen ad to allow a member to join the executive and offer any valuable input. Coun. Webster said council should establish the six -consecutive -year limit when such poli- cy becomes prevalent In other areas. Coun. Barrett pointed out that if the six -year Polley was implemented, Oxford County, three appointees on the Upper Thames Ricer Conservation Authority would have their terms curt off shortly, eliminating experienced i,rprewnlalion from Oxford an the. authurllc. FEBRUARY 24, 1977— Oxford warden pushes idea of new quarters on jail site Free Press Woodstock Bureau WOODSTOCK — Oxford County Warden Ken Peers said Wednesday he is in favorof tearing down the Woodstock jail and replacing the 123-year-old structure with a county ad. ministration building. - Warden Peers told county council he fa- vored keeping the clerk and treasurer's offic- es and the council chambers in their present locations on the second floor of the courthouse because of "the tradition of this part of the building-" "However, no tradition Justifies the plan- ning department and county engineer in the basement of the building and the county health and social services department being located in a converted house," he said. The warden said he favored construction of a three -storey administration building within two years on the jail silo. "The space problem is not yet critical but we should at least start planning for a new building." Plans to close the Woodstock jail were an- nounced in January by the correctional servic- es ministry. No plans have been announced for the building, located at Buller and Graham streets, which is owned by the county and leased by the province. Inmates will be transferred to the new El- gin -Middlesex Detention Centre in London. "No one has come up with any good sugges- tions for use of the building once it is aban- doned And the county is not going to sell the property. The land is too valuable." Warden Peers urged committee chairmen io consider the proposal for •a new adminisir-:i- tion building at their next meetings and reu;r.! to county council in March with some cwr.- ments on the best way to house the county ad- ministration. "Something should be put in the budget thi. year if it is the committees' feeling that nv,. quarters are needed," he said. Warden Peers reminded council the couw-. will soon require a new computer and quant- to house it. Two-tier public utility plan rej tiected by Oxford County commission reps 0 • Administration building Oxford to study preliminary plans Ito take priority Free Press Woodstock Bureau WOODSTOCK — Oxford Comity administra- tion and finance committee decided Monday to examine preliminary, plans drawn up last year for a proposed admiistration building before offering Its ownsuggestions to county council. The plans, drawn up by Woodstock architect Leonard Dickson, call for a three -storey struc- ture, including council chambers, built on county -owned land on the east side of Graham Street between the cite' library and the Oxford County board of education building, - do action was taken on the sketches after Dickson submitted them to the county. Committee members, who Monday were In tat or of a new bullding, discussed several pos- sible locations for the complex., suggested last week by Oxford Warden Ken Peers, mayor of Norwich Township. Peers last week asked council's four stand- Ing committees for their comments on possi- le alternatives for a new facility. He said overcrowding in the county courthouse neces- 'sitates a move to larger quarters within two years. - He suggested the site of the Woodstock jail as a location for a county administration building and also concurred with a public works committee recommendation that a three -storey structure be built on the site pro- posed by Dickson. The property is occupied by two houses. Postage 12 cents today Throw those 10-cent stamps away, unless you have an abundance of two cent stamps lying around. Effective today, Cult class mail within North America costs 12 cents instead of ten. Foreign rates - 25 cents per ounce on first class mail - remain the same. "AB second, third and fourth class mail within Canada and the United States has also gone up," said assistant Woodstock Postmaster W. H. Allison. A new 12-cent stamp commemorating the silver Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth was also issued today. The stamp -in 12 cent issue only - is silver on a blue background. Conn. Doug Harris of Ingersoll said he was in favor of "new practical" offices for the county with the county courthouse and council chambers retaining their present status. "It's (the courthouse) not functional for the type of office we want. There are too many stairs," Harris said. The courthouse houses the council chambers and clerk and treasurer's offices on the sec- ond floor with the planning and public works departments on the first floor (basement), The Oxford County courtroom Is located on the third loor, The health and social services department is Immediately north of the courthouse in a con- verted house. The public works committee suggested all departments with the exception of the clerk and council chambers move to a new building. There also have been suggestions that treasur- er Howard Day's office,should remain in the present facility, Day said Monday his office would be best lo• cated near the financial action, in the vfciniq of public works and social services. County clerk Gerry Staples said his officf should be located near the council chambers but added, "if everybody but the clerk is in s new building the clerk might as well be then too.,' Staples also pointed out the possibility of IN province building its own justice and adminis tration building housing a courthouse and ad- ministrative offices. .. Ontario pays two-thirds of the maintenance costs of the county- owned courthouse. Staples said the province is In the last of a 10-year lease agreement with the county, but. is expected to sign a new lease later this year. Harris suggested a new facility could be. build north of the courthouse on the site of the health and social service office, with a walk- way connecting the two. "Then if the province should move out of the courthouse the buildings will at least be con- nected," he said. "H we move everything too far from the courthouse it might be forgot- ten." Harris said if the jail is eventually torn down the land could be used for parking. In other business, the committee approved the public works department's $3.7-million budget for 1977. County council will consider it later this month. Courthouse lease Free Press Woodstock Bureau WOODSTOCK — The county health and so- cfal services committee agreed Wednesday u, study the courthouse lease agreement before making recommendations for new county ad- ministrative facilities. Committee members decided a future lease between Ontario and Oxford County for rental of the building must be settled before new fa- cilities are proposed. A 10-year lease expires this year and War- den Ken Peers said Ontario plans to continue its "gentlemen's agreement" with the county. Under terms of the lease, the province pays two-thirds of the maintenance costs of the courthouse which supplies court faclities, pro- vincial and family court offices. Peers said he soon will contact provincial of- ficials regarding the province's plans. Peers reafirmed his stand Wednesday that he would like to see the courthouse remain In use for either judicial or municipal functions. He said if the province should decided to move out of the building, the county would likely re- novate the structure for its own use. Renova- I tion proposals were shelved last year due to excessive costs. $500 requested for trail project Free Press Woodstock Bureau WOODSTOCK — Oxford County couneit will be asked to contribute $,i00 for at nature trail development in Oxford County: Park belwt-n BeachvWe and Woodstock. Ingersoll Mayor Douglas Harris, who pres. rented the proposal to the county's adminis- tration and finance committee Monday. said the nature program would be eligible for Ex- perience' 77 summer employment grants from the province. Harris said a grant of up to s5,00o would he available for salaries and to develop the tra;L which could be used by elementary school children throughout the county. Ile said the provincial subsidy would drop to too -thirds of the cost In the second year of the program. one-third in the third year and then end. Cancer link seen, saccharin banned (OT rAWA (CP) - Smoking cigarettes is more dangerous than normal consumption of saccharin, federal Health Minis- ter Marc Lalonde said Wednes- day after announcing the arti- ficial sweetener would be banned because of possible links to cancer. Lalonde told a news confer- ence that action was taken against the food additive be- cause it is not essential and can be replaced. He said although smoking is not essential, the risks it entails have been ac- cepted by society. Minutes after the Canadian 'saccharin ban was announced, the United States said it would follow suit, citing the three-year $300,000 study done by Canada's federal health department, which found high rates of blad- der cancer among the male off- spring of rats exposed to high levels of saccharin. Lalonde said the needs of Canada's 175,000 diabetics haven't been forgotten and some dietetic foods may be exempt • Third committee in Oxford favors new county offices Free Press Woodstock Bureau WOODSTOCK — The eounty planning com- mittee became the third Oxford committee Tuesday to react favorably to construction of a new Oxford County administration building In Woodstock. The committee, minus Ross Livingston of Blandford-Blenhelm Township and Wallis lidmmond of Zorra Township, voted in favor of building a new facility an county -owned land on Grdhom Streit serobs from the court house which horses county bcadquariers But committee chairman Ken Webster of Tlllsonburg and members Wendy Calder of Woodstock and Warden Ken Peers, mayor of Norwich Towmili p, agreed the council cham- bers should remain in the courthouse, The county owns three tots occupied by two houses on the east side of Graham Street be- tween the city library and the Oxford County board of education building, Webster bald a new administration btdldin�gI should be built with enough extra space to nl- luu future expansion. He said the county could lease out extra ypace until it was required, He said Oxford County should consider sell- ing the courthouse or reuttog It to the province at market value should a new building be built on G raham Street. Webster did not agree with Coun, Doug Her- ris of Ingersoll, a member of the administra- (too and finance committee, who suggested a new structure be !milt behind the courthouse with an overhead walkway connecting the two "I do go along with the Idea of building it acroas the street (Graham Street)." he said. "If we put wings on It (the courthouse) we'd ruin it. Webster said that If the province dtxid0s to move out of the courthouse, the county could keep the building and have ample space (or its onl Ire operation, "Myself, I would Ilk,, to see It preserard," he µiirl. from the ban. He said pure saccharin, used mainng to sweeten,coifee and tea, wilt ntiR be available, but sold only in drugstores after Sept. 1. EXCEEDS CONSUMPTION "It must be stressed that the saccharin dose used in this study exceeded average human ex- posure by at least 800 times, based on consumption of one 12- ounce bottle of diet soft drink a day," said Dr. Alex Morrison, head of the federal health pro- tection branch. Department officials said safety standards set by the UN World Health Organization cell for the normal human con- sumption of any substance to be less than one -five -thousandth the amount shown to cause can- cer. "No cases of human cancer attributable to saccharin have been identified," Morrison stressed. "Action to restrict the use of saccharin by the general public is being taken as a pre- cautionary measure in the in- terest of prudence." Thamesford to get watermains A section of Thamestord will get new watermains. County council Wednesday approved a public works committee recommendation that watermains be installed on Allen Street from Delatre to Dundas Street; St. Patrick Street from Duadas to Brock and Brock from St.. Patrick 40C westerly. County engineer Donald Pratt has said the wwrk is only a small ptuliort of the: village's servicing requirements. The work is expected to cost about $M,000 but refurbishing the whole system will be about $800,t1W. Zorra Township will be signing a water system agreement with the county and the coat of the watermain project will be charged to users. County council minute books retained A move by Oxford County council's administration and finance committee to discon- tinue the policy of printing the Previous year's meeting minutes in book form was turned down fit a close vote at last Wednesday's council meeting. The committee recommended that the Minute Book not be printed this year because, according to chairman Ken Bullen. "It's a waste of money." He told council it had coat si.54o to print 190 copies last year. "It's not used enough and the printing is hard to read," he said. He suggested that if members wanted copies, they should pay the $10 to purchase them. South-West Oxford Township Mayor Lou Barrett said he would be glad to pay $10 for the book. and mtrodueed a motion calling for deletion of the committee's recommendation to discontinue printing. "I regret the committee's decision to discontinue prin- ting," he said during discussion of the report. "I have referred back often to that book. and have kept them (the minute books) from all my years on council and during the period when f was not a member." According to County Clerk Gerald Staples. the books have been distributed to all area municipalities, to past and present council members, and to area libraries, as well as on an exchange basis with other municipalities. He said. however, that making the print larger so that it would be more readable would involve doubling the cost. He said that the printing is done by a direct photography method to cut the cost, and that if all the type had to be set, the volume would be at least twice as big and would cost twice as much to print. Ingersoll Mayor Doug Harris said he thought he used the book more than anyone else because he used it in his municipal law course, bqt still could not justify the cost. Council voted to a tie on the question. and Warden Ken Peers broke the 9-9 tie in favor of continuing the policy of printing the minute books. Selling courthouse said a possibility for county centre The county should consider selling the courthouse as a means to finance a new ad- ministration centre, Conn. Kenneth Webster of Tillsonburg =aid Tuesday. "I'm wondering if we should he considering selling this ([wilding) to the province," Webster told County planning committee Tuesday, Chairman of the committee, he said the money could be used to help finance a new complex near the existing facilities. The province now fills many of the courthouse offices while two county departments - planning and public works- are located in cramped facilities on the ground floor. . Webster said that if it is decided to give up the cour- thouse it could be rented to the province at market value or sold. A 10-year lease with the province expires this year. "But I definitely want this building preserved," he said, 'EXPLOSIVE ISSUE' Report released on property tax 'wi110 not Into reforming Its (properly tax system until prop- erty owners understand the im- ',plications of any changes, 'Treasurer Darcy McKeough said Thursday. McKeough was speaking at a news conference after the re- lease of a 143-page report by a government commission on the reform of properly taxation, Willis Blair, former mayor of the Toronto borough of East York, was chairman of the commission. Ministry offices to be relocated near Woodstock WOODSTOCK — Ministry of agriculture and food offices will be relocated in the vacated regional health laboratory just north of Wood- stock, Colleges and Universities Minister Har- ry Parrott announced Friday. The 1&member agricultural staff located in rented Dundas Street East facilities are. to move sometime dunWthe summer, after re- novations costing $112,000 are completed. Renovations include $45,000 for severing of utility services with Oxford Regional Centre, the Oxford member of parliament said. In - eluded will be a meeting room for up to 40 per. sons. The offices will house the agriculture exten- sion branch, milk industry branch, home eco. nomics branch and dairy, herd improvement !.laboratory staff which carries out testing for an 18-county area. A ministry of health decision caused the Iransfer of regional health laboratory services from the building to London a year ago. Most of the 21-member staff has been relocated in London and In other ministry positions. Oxford plan papers on view in libraries Free Press Woodstock Bureau WOODSTOCK — Ten technical papers that form the basis of the new Oxford County offl. clal plan are available to the public at several county libraries, librarian lane Webb said Monday. The ppaapers, con iced by Marshall, Macklin, Moaatthan Lid., panning consultantk, can be read si the county library In Woodstock and at 11 bronchial, Including Norwich, Ingersoll, Burgessville and Tavistock, They are also ova able at the Tillsonburg Public Library, which is not In the county system. The papers cover three main areas — re- somrves, econarnles and phyelcal structure — and will be. used to form long-term pokirlea for the county, The official plan is scheduled for completion in late December. Papers relating to resources Include envi rgnmenlal, agricultural, heritage, parks and open space and social issues. The economles papers Include studies of demographic and economic characteristics of the county, as well as municipal finances. The physical structure of the county is in- vestigated In individual studies of public utlll. "as, transportation and municipal planning. The papers present the results of analyses and are not Intended to give study conclusions, Interpretations or policy. Officials say they are intended to evoke comment and offer n chance for corrections of fart to Interested persons and groups in the dainty. The treasurer said few issues are as explosive to the estimated 3.5-million provincial property owners as property tax reform. He told reporters this state- ment might be read as a politi. cal remark "if you like" —a re6 erence to the minority govern- ment in Ontario. Despite the fact the commis- sion heard more than 890 depu- tations during hearings across the Province and received hun- dreds of letters, McKeough said he believes a large number of groups and individual -il s wt want _ to make further comments. "A lack of understanding (by owners) can lead to fear," he said. PROPOSES RATE The report, which contains 81 recommendations and cost about $50e,001) to prepare, says residential owners should be taxed at a rate of 50 per cent of market value. It says a uniform mill rate should be levied on residential and commercial properties and that all publicly -owned prop. erty, including that of mtmici- Pali lies and school boards, should be taxed. Churches, cemeteries and In- dian band lands should be ex- empted from property tax, it adds. "I'm not going to set a time- table" for implementation of the recommendations, McKeough said, adding that the earliest possible date for the province to j bring in legislation would be this summer. The earliest such legislation could be passed would be next fall.. However, he said he is not I optimistic anything can be ac- complished in that short a time, Particularly when the govern- Darcy McKeough ... not rushing it ment wants concerned parties to make known their views on the proposals. EXPLAIN IMPACT It is -important that all owners understand and appreciate the impact of tax reform, he said. For this reason, Ontario "will take all the time necessary" to make owners understand and the end result will be a better form of taxation. McKeough stressed that tax reform will not mean an in- crease in the average home. owner's tax bill. He said his home is under -as. sensed while some apartment buildings are over -assessed. With tax reform, the inequities would be removed. In the Ontario budget last Apra, McKeough had said the government would push ahead with its timetable for tax reform with a starting date in the spring of 197T. Roof near collapse Closing of firehall urged after study PLATTSViLLE —All Untario fire marshal's )(flee report that recommends, among other things, closing the fire station at Bright, was released Tuesday al. a meeting of Biandford. Blenheim Township council. But township Mayor Ross Livingston said 'I'ucsday night that "I don't think there's any Ivay" council will adopt all lice recommenda- t ions, Including the suggested Bright closure, "We're not getting exeiled over: this report." 'rho fire marshal's office suggests closing the Bright station, staffed by 14 volunteers, hecanse of the poor vondltkin of the buflding,.a lan ding. Including thnor blackNillilli's e tunfhis hoeing sighs or collapse, Bright Fire Chfef Bill Bulyd said Tuesday he it a, not contacted by fill' fire mtrshal's office ,(tll working on situ report but agreed that the bulldhlg Is dune." Ile said his department has been pushlog Ilse nnutship for 'five years for a nea firehall hilt ii1v low'nslllpp has Just been putting it. ,if and pouhtg fl ar(." The fire deparlmpnl fills use (ruck and is and 01"ll called out Ilia Marv. We've been Ineky, relatively fh.e free " hnlyd ,ald. The fire marshal's report says the area uo+t covered by the Bright department could be covered by the Plattsville fire department about four allies away. Baird said residents of Bright and the for- mer Blaulford Township houghs the fire truck for their department. and if it is closed, "there's going to be an awful hoopla here in the village." Living%tun said the report, which contacts nlorr than 30 recommendations, is being passed on to fin chiefs in the township, still there will be a aleeling it, discuss it in two weeks. The holvnship. he said, will "louk at. it ver) closely." The report's other rectuumeadations include bringing all township fire prole+cliaa inside the lowllship boundaries instead of buy'innpgg� some full flaw fire Recto oyerslee pI depathtmems Its the lowashlpi eatabll:hillg a fire atatlon I1t Inn soulhwest purl of the township, and buying same new ealuipment, Llvhtgslon swill the reeomtnendation.s are not mandator) and implementing all )f Ihrnt tt'utdd Iw lou e�prn>itc 0, • Geese museum birthday gift for Ingersoll The town of Ingersoll celebrates the 125th an- niversary of its incorporation this year and to mark the oc- casion a unique birthday gift is in the works. The town will be the recipient of a vintage cheese factory museum saluting Ingersoll's beginnings as the centre of Canadian cheese production in the 18M's. A $43,350 focal Initiatives Program grant has been received by Promotion Ingersoll to construct an authentic replica of early cheese factories in both Ingersoll and Oxford County. The museum will be built in the town's Centennial Park adjacent to free overnight parking for campers and with other recreational facilities available m the park. The site is located just one mile from High- way 401. An historic 130-year-old barn was donated to the project and materials from this will be used to construct the museum. Members of the western Ontario Cheese Makers' Association have donated several pieces of antique cheese -making equipment to be installed in the museum. Equipment given ranges from an upright curd mill to an old screw press, cheese hoops and samplers. Area cheese makers' have displayed a great deal of in- terest in the project and donations of equipment and expertise in various areas are coming in at a good rate, Cliff MacDonald. the on -site car- penter and supervisor of con- struction at Pioneer Village in London's Fanshawe Park, has agreed to assist Promotion Ingersoll staff as a consultant. Mr. MacDonald will provide valuable teaching in the dying art of old-fashioned carpentry. The first cheese was made in Oxford County around 1830 and the first co-operative cheese factory opened its doors in 1864. A few years later the Canadian Dairymen's Association was founded at Ingersoll in 1867. Cheese has indeed played an important role in the town's development. Promotion Ingersoll has Provided employment for nine persons including a researcher. A book will be compiled from materials collected during the project. This documentation of Ingersoll's and Oxford County's cheese -making heritage will be given to schools, colleges, libraries and universities for their archives. The museum, which is set to open this summer, will also house a tourist information centre and will be a good tourist attraction for the town, com- plementing one other well- known annual event, the Cheese and Wine Festival set for September 17.24 this year. OPP at Tillsonburg now in new quarters TILLSONBURG — The provincial police de- tachment here has completed its move to a $227,000 headquarters at the new Highway 3 and John Pound Road and expects to hold an official opening later this month. Sgt. Bernie Crane said the provincial gov- emment services branch has taken over the old building on Highway 19 in north Tillson- burg but no plans for it have been announced. The new building contains updated facilities, a soundproof room, cells and a two -car gar- age. New lab opens Pros Press Woodstock fsw eau The new $1 million Industrial Laboratories of Canada building in Tillsonburg was officially opened Friday by Oxford MPP Dr, Harry Parrott, provincial min - later of colleges and universities. Parrott, standing, observes an egg powder teat by chemist Gary Myny. WOODSTOCK GENERAL HOSPITAL APPOINTMENT Angus A. Mowat, President of the Woodstock General Hospital Trust announced today that the Board of Trust had appointed Mr. W. B. Pogue as Executive Director of the Woodstock General Hospital effective April 1, 1977. Mr. Pogue will succeed Mr. Peter Smith who is retiring after twen- ty three years in the post. Mr. Pogue, originally from Toronto, has been the Assistant Executive Director of the Hospital for the past four years, and has previous experience in hospitals in the Yukon, Alberta and Saskatchewan - Oxford road program will cost $3 million Free Press Woodstock Bureau WOODSTOCK — County council Wednesda)< approved a major portion of Oxford's 19T7 works department budget calling for expendi- uires of about $3 million for road Construction and maintenance. The remainder of the $3.7 million budget will hbe considered during budget sessions in the pring. 'The roads portion required immediate ap. proval so figures could be submitted to the, ..provincial government before March 31 for' >uhsidy approvals. The budget Is up more than $1.3 million over n976, duelargely to added maintenance costs from addition of roads to the county system, nereased solid waste disposal costs, increases In administrative costs and $35,000 for equip mrnt replacement. In (other business, council approved an April '3 bus lour of the county arranged by the works dcparunenl. The tour, to begin at the court. house in Woodstock, is expected in Include vis its le Woodstock's sewage treatment phut, fillsonburg's soon-Wbe,expanded reservoir is well as Iravel along some of the county's more - than 3H0 miloa of ruadn. Caunh engineer Don Pratt will dnnr up an t BLUES CHASER A wisv:- tnan never plants tore garden than his wife can hoo. agenda for the day. All councillors indicated they would attend. Council also approved an administration and Arcane committee recommendation to ap- point Warden Ken Peers to represent Oxford County on the assembly at the IIniversft} of Western Ontario in London. The assembly, formed in 1967 to imprme communication between the university and the community, includes representatives of the pruvincial government as well as city and ar- ea counn. Municipalities. There's big changes at city radio station By TIM McKENNA Sentimrl-Review Staff Writer With 2-1 stations penetrating Oxford. CKDK radio is ex perimenting with an upbeat format, instead of trying to please all tastes. The new "adult con- temporary" format including new announcers, news director and program director consists of today s sounds minus "heavy rock ... and crap" and con- densed newscasts, said program director Mike Perras. "We're playing the music of today ... people like Barry Manilou, the Spinners and Loui Rawls. The format is designed to attract the 25 to 49 age group APPOINTMENTS MADE County administration and finance committee Monday appointed Aid. Philip Poole of Woodstock the county representative on a committee established to organize Wood- stock -Oxford County Day at the CNE and Warden Ken Peers and we're bound to pick up younger people. CKOX's format of "e little of everything turned a lot of people off," Surveys conducted on equal size stations and through the Bureau of Broadcast Measurement (BBM) have resulted in 15 minute newscasts at 6 a.m., noon, and 5 p.m. rattler than spread throughout the hour. There will also be five minutes of news each how, and special features on sports, stock market and farming through the day. "Before tat CKOX) it was five minutes of international news, then a couple of songs, then five minutes of local news, and a was selected as council's representative with the Association and Regions of Ontario. OXFORD MUSEUM Melvin Balls and Court. Leonard Seegmi ler of East Zorra-Tavistock Township were selected county representatives on the Oxford Museum board Monday by administration and finance committee. couple of songs then five minutes of farm reports. It took almost 45 minutes of the hour," said news director Ken Curtis. "A 45-minute package is too long. No one has that kind of time. It's composed now so you can hear all the news in 15 minutes." Public involvement is also a facet of the new image, but Perras added that the station will not "give itself away. CKOX used to give Itself away and was losing money year after year." Part of the facelift includes restructuring the radio towers, a new transmitter "to clean up and strengthen the signal" and renovations to the studio to begin within weeks. Perras feels that the station's new image will be welcomed. He cited a phone-in contest held Monday and Tuesday to promote the station's new call letters in which phone lines were jammed throughout the city, as proof. The success of the experiment won't be officially determined until November when the BBM Issues its ratings but Perras added that the station will be closely monitoring its popularity through on -the -street reaction and by the calls and letters it receives. Tree -cutting fine regarded as a licence fee: official The maximum $500 fine levied ;against offenders of tree cutting bylaws, often serves as a licence for wood clearing, Don Scott of the ministry of natural resources said Tuesday. Speaking to about So people at a farm woodlot managment .meeting, Scott said landowners often clear their woodlots, then Pay the fine when the tree commissioner enforces the bylaw. Oxford County has four tree commissioners appointed by county council. Scott said three com- missioners from several counties including Oxford have submitted a brief to the provincial government recommending the fine for tree cutting bylaw offences be in- creased to not more than $5,000 and the minimum fine not less than Ism. They also recommended the landowner be required to replant the cleared land with trees. The present bylaw in Oxford County restricts and regulates the destruction of trees by cutting, burning or other means. Certain species of trees must have attained measurements of 18 inches in diameter or 57 in- ches in circumference before they can be cut. The bylaw does not apply to Christmas trees, diseased, in. sect infested, or trees damaged by natural causes. Nor does it apply to trees removed for the landowners use or for any group removing trees on behalf of the Govermnent of Ontario or muniepalities. Any person contravening the bylaw is liable to a fine of not more than $500 or three months in jail. Oxford County clerk Gerry Staples said three persons have been convicted under the county's bylaw over the last three years. But he said the fines were well under $500. INSTANT COFFEE NESCAFE SPECIAL! 10 OZ. JAR 488 City's next fire chief to be county co-ordinator Woodstock's next fire chief will also be the county's fire co- ordinator. County council Wednesday accepted an administration and finance committee recom- mendation that Woodstock's chief hold the position, The county hasn't had a co- ordinator — required under the Oxford Restructuring Act _. since Woodstock Fire Chief William Martin resigned from the post in 1975. The co-ordinator's respon sibilities will he mainly to set up a county -wide communications system and training program between fire departments. No cost estimate for the program has been calculated. Martin resigned after presenting a budge of $96,00o. County council turned down the chief's bid and he quit. Woodstock Mayor Leslie Cook said the city will make the position mandatory when it accepts applications for a new fire chief' after Martin steps down in May. He said he hopes costs will be minimal. It will be up to the county to pay the chief for his duties as co-ordinator, he said, The resolution Passed stipulates that the a"rdinator _,,:- will spend no less than efyght hours a week Carrying out duties under the portfolio. Court, Jack Warden of Ingersoll said the county had run a successful mutual -aid fire system before restructuring Lind he didn't see why the new system was required. I hope this isn't going to t`c a big, fat paying job,..tt is, necessa he said. The decision to appoint Woodatock's chief came after meetings of sub -committees formed from the county ad ministration and finance and city municipal services com millets. THE OXFORD MEN OF THE TREES — and — THE MINISTRY OF NATURAL RESOURCES invite you to attend a Public meeting about PRIVATE WOODLAND MANAGEMENT free planting, woodiot development, assistance provided by Ministry personnel, Oxford County tree cutting by- laws, marketing of forest products, wildlife and the forest —on — TUESDAY, MARCH 15,1977 from 11:00 A.M. to 4:00 P.M. THE WESTERN ONTARIO BREEDER'S INCORPORATED OFFICE ( l mile north of Woodstock on Highway 59) lunch available ® Ministry of Natural P. R. Davidson District Manager I Ontario Resources Aylmer District 3,200 unemployed in Oxford County There are approximately 3,200 Oxford county residents looking for work as of the end of February. This represents a percentage of7.2 per cent of the totalwork- G,rce in Oxford county seeking employment. The national average is 7.9 per cent. 'The latest, figues available from Canada Manpower in Woodstock and TWsonburg show a labor force of 37,Wo in Oxford County. The Tillsonburg manpower office is responsible for the town and the South Norwich and Dereham districts. Tony Murphy, manager of the Tillsonbwg Manpower office said Tuesday that half the number of workers registered with his office would be from Oxford County. Tillsonburg has 2,593 unemployed registered from a total labor force of 11,500. Approximately 2,000 registered jobless are served by the Woodstock Manpower office from the total workforce of 31,000. The Woodstock Manpower office covers Woodstock, Ingersoll and the bulk of the county.. COUNTYSEMINAR The .county may have found someone to organize a councillor seminar in June. Warden Ken Peers of Norwich Township told county council Wednesday he has talked to Tillsonburg Mayor John Armstrong and Armstrong indicated his town might be 'interested in holding the event. NEW TILE County council Wednesday approved a public works committee recommendation to install new floor covering on the first Boor hallway of the county courthouse and repair stair treads at a cost of about $6,224. The province will pick up about 66 per cent of the tab. PASSING LANES Blanciford-Blenheim Town- ship's resolution to the provincial transportation and communications ministry that passing lanes be constructed at the intersection of Highway 2 Lind County Road 3 and the in- tersection of Highway 2 and County Road 22 north was en- dorsed Wednesday by county council. DRAIN DEBENTURES County council Wednesday, ,approved Norwich Township's request for debenture issues of ',$24,565 and $26,500 for the construction of the Avey Municipal Drain and Pollard Improvement Drain. RESOLUTION, ENDORSED A resolution from Ingersoll council asking that municipal councils be given some say in determining what Local Initiatives Program (LIP) grants should be given out in the community was endorsed by county council Wednesday. EXPERIENCE17 County council approved an administration and finance committee recommendation Wednesday to apply for a grant from the culture and recreation ministry for Experience'77. The county will put up to $500 with the grant for developing a nature trail in the county -owned park between Woodstock and Beachville north of Highway 2. WARDEN APPOINTED Court. Jack Warden of Ingersoll was appointed the county's representative on the Thames Valley District Health Council Wednesday by county ennneil, ACROCOMMITrEE Warden Kenneth Peers of Norwich Township was ap- pointed the county s representative on the Association of Counties and Region of Ontario (ACRO) regional government committee by county council Wednesday. Bt'DV.FT MEETING County Council's first current budget session is scheduled for April 27 at 6-30 p.m. Budget deadlines (or county depart- ments Is April 13, • i •) Oxford approves plan for trucki ng terminal By RANDY RAY Free Press Woodstock Bureau WOODSTOCK — Construction of a truck ter. minal In Norwich Township east of county Road t has received (oxford County council ap- prIAI bill further development will not be al- Inwed until a feasibility study of the area is .indertaken, council decided Wednesday night. Preliminary work on a parking lot and mar- 'halling yard for International Carriers Ltd. 'kill begin later this year, said G. M. Foster, IloFu company's executive vice-president. ture plans for the site at the southeast -mer of County Road d and Highway 2 call for a ill -door, 5,0oasquare-foot terminal and a _.iWiRivare-foot maintenance bay building, Council approved an amendment to the punty's official plan changing the site from -ural to special industrial on condition the de- •,elopment be restricted to 12 of the 32 acres the company proposes to. buy. The remainder must remain landscaped open -space. An application to rezone 38 acres east of County Road 4 and north of Parkinson Road to allow Unit Farm Concrete Products to set up operations there was turned down by council ,n the advice of its planning committee. Council agreed to initiate a study of servic-, Me requirements for roads, storm drainage,' anttary sewers and municipal water in the r: tea. Coun. Perry Sibbick of Blandford-Blenheim ; •�wnship said council's approval of the Inter- national Carriers proposal before a study is undertaken was "getting the cart before the horse." Sibbick said the land to be occupied by the trucking firm was one of the prime parcels of land east of Woodstock. "The area could be used more for the bene- fit of employers," he argued. "I can see more benftts to the county if some other type of plant is built there, making greater use of nearby services. " Coun. Ken Webster of Tlllsonburg, chairman of the planning committee, said there is no reason why some other type of industry couldn't develop on the remaining portion of the site. "The planning committee thought this would help the county because the land is already designated industrial. Otherwise, a polluter could be allowed. We thought that rather than having this, this self-contained use would be best for the county." The terminal will operate on septic tanks and wells without the need for municipal scr- vicing, company officials said. Webster said the Unit Farm Concrete pro. posal was denied because because council and the planning committee fellfurther study was necessary In the area before more develop- ment is allowed. A proval of the feasibility study, which could cost between $20,000 and $30,00o, contin- ued to spark debate among councillors. Corot. Louis Barrett. mayor of South-West Oxford Township, said those who develop the area should pay for a study. "if people are in- terested, the township or property owners should initiate it and pay for it." Webster said the county could recover some of the cost with Impost charges when the land Is developed. Coon. Wendy Calder of Woodstock said such a study, would save taxpayers and the county money in the long run because it would ascer- tain whatwould be required in the area before development begins. Coun. Leslie Cook, mayor of Woodstock, who Was originally opposed to the study because of the cost, agreed with the idea Wednesday night saying, "You don't start out on a trip without a map. The possibility of impost charges to help pay the cost changes the whole picture." Funds will be placed in the 1977 public works committee budget to pay the cost of the study. OXFORDMUSEUM Coun. Leonard Seegmiller of East Zorra-Tavistock Township and Melvin Balls of RR 5 Woodstock were selected by county council Wednesday to be county representatives on the Oxford Museum board. Tenders accepted for county bridge Tenders for construction of a bridge over the Thames River on County Road 5 northwest of Innerkip have been approved by county public works committee. The committee accepted the bid of W. G. Kelly Construction of Stratford for construction of the bridge at a cost of $149,635. A bid of $ 4,012 for supply of steel for the project was ac, cepted from. Emtis-Pailom Steel Ltd. of Hamilton - Construction on the 100-fooll- long bridge designed as a replacement for the existing structure, is scheduled for completion July 24. Loss of tourist,trade Ito bypass discounted Free Press Woodstock Bureau WOODSTOCK — A group of Ingersoll mer- chants, concerned that swappping Governor's Road for Highway 2 will to the town of its tourist trade, received little support from Ox- ford's public works committee Thursday. The changeover is. part of a proposal for a county truck bypass, scheduled to begin later this year. In a petition to county council, the met chants say the bypass will not solve the truck traffic problem in Ingersoll, but instead will jeopardize tourist trade on Highway 2 between Woodstock and Thamesford. In a letter forwarded earlier to Ingersoll (ouncil, merchant Norman Bain estimates 20 Tourists a day stop at his business because of ( raffle along Highway 2. Under the county's agreement with the min- Wiy of transportation and communications, Governor's Road will become Highway 2 in October, Merchants feel this will result in traf- fic bypassing Ingersoll. Committee chairman Perry Sibbick of Blandford-Blenheim Township, .said most lo- cal businesses, excepting motels, probably re- ly on local trade. "I'll bet gas stations in the Ingersoll area get 90 per cent of their business from local pe- ople," Sibbick said. Con. Louis Barrett, mayor of South-West Oxford Township, questioned how much traf. fic actually travels into Ingersoll on Highway 2, Sibbick recommended county council write to Ingersoll, "expressing our concern with the situation ... butthe fact K we are trying to Improve the county road s%, tam andtrafficpnllrrn, in the count)', and although we arc al Reporters given a home but not without argument Reporters covering county council meetings have been given a permanent home. County council Wednesday accepted an administration and finance committee recom- mendation making a table at the southwest end of council chambers the seating area for reporters. The recommendation wasn't acee(Aed without a fight from public works committee members, Coon. Perry Sibbick of Blandford-Blenheim Township led the attack saying reporters should have been left in their traditional spot in the middle of council chambers. Reporters have treen rnovecl from the spot and shuffled to both the norttwest and south. west corners since February, Administration and finance committee — in a closed portion of its last meeting reserved for legal and personnel items — voted that reporters be placed Permanently in the southwest corner. Reporters have told public works committee members it is difficult to hear council proceedings from the area, Sibbick said the original decision to move reporters was not made by council. The news media was moved by someone's decision, not this council's," he said. Sibbick said moving reporters was "doing them a disfavor." "I really don't am anything 1 wrong with the press silting in the centre," he said "They have a responsible position to hold here and anywhere in a democratic society," Warden Kenneth Peers has said — and repeated Wednesday night — that he has had com- plaints from councillors on the chamber's north side that they can't see across the floor to other councillors, Hearing had also become a difficulty, he said. But Sibbick said he had heard no complaints in the years he was warden. He received support from Mayor Leslie Cook of Woodstock and South West -Oxford Town- ship Mayor Lou Barrett. Cook said that In the past some reporters who weren t at the meeting have caused distractions. But, he said he had no otr 1ectiorts to moving reporters flack to the chamber centre. Barrett, who took a similar leviating one problem, unfortunately we are causing anther one." In other business, the committee agreed to send representation to Ingersoll April 4 for a public meeting in the old town hall to discuss the widening of Whiting Street. The $350.000 project, scheduled ta.begm lat- er this year, calls for reconstruction of the street between King and Holeroft streets. Residents on the east side of Whiting Street claim widening the road to 40 feet will rob them of frontage. and trees. They also object to the high cost of relocating hydro poles, Barreu. who obiected to the idea of a public meeting. said: "I've never been to a public mediae where I haven't been abused about something that has nothing to du with the meeting." BLUES CHASER :Aren't coffee prices something? IVow even the decaffeinated kinds make You ne.rvous- stand, asked reporters if they were having trouble hearing. "Pardon?" asked a reporter. Coun. Jack Burn of Norwich Township said he was one of the councillors who asked that reporters be moved. It's important to have them (reporters) here but they don't own the centre of the floor," he said. Peers said it "wasn't written In stone" that reporters should occupy the council centre. Businessman, politician. That's Oxford's warden Rr CHRIS NIXON Sentinel -Review Stuff Writer Kenneth Peers is a man of many hats. If he's not silting in the Oxford County warden's seat, attending a meeting of a county com- mittee, performing mayoralty duties in Norwich Township or directing an Insurance com- pany, you might find him hunting partridge or trout fishing. Failing those, he might be working the family farm. Peers, 54, was elected the county's 121st warden in January, taking over from Perry Sibbick of Blandford- Blenheim Township, He also became mayor of Norwich Township in the Dec. 6 municipal election after having served on county council as the township's councillor -at -large for the past two years. In a recent interview he said he's found the first months of the $15,000-a-year warden's job Being warden of Oxford County isn't officially a full-time job, a fact that has former wardens scratching their heads wondering why. Peers lists as his major in- terest going into the county's highest seat as a successful conclusion to the new county official plan, construction and maintenance of county roads and a new administrative centre for the county. Getting to be warden involved Kenneth Peers ... warden some lobbying with other county councillors. "I knew there would be stiff opposition so I had to get out and work ... you go around visiting people, talking to them." "Most didn't commit them- selves. They said they wanted to talk to all the others first." The lobbying apparently paid off — Peers snatched up the seat in the second round of voting, beating out Woodstock Aid. Wendy Calder and Coun. Kenneth Webster of Tillsonburg. The rise of the politician who began his political career about 10 years ago sitting on the for- mer township of East Oxford Township comes hand in hand with the rise of his township. A section of Norwich Town- ship east of Woodstock is being looked at as the nucleus for new industrial development in the county. With General Motors of Canada Ltd. (GM) having already indicated it may expand in that area, Norwich needs Woodstock water services to make it all possible. Woodstock will probably extend its services whether it wants to or not. They are owned by the county. City money will go into providing the services. The assessment from Industrial development will go into Nor- wich Township coffers. Should Woodstock get a chunk of the bonanza over and above straight compensation? Peers thinks not. About 20 per cent of Standard Tube's people are living outside Woodstock. Woodstock's keeping the assessment and not paying us for keeping the people," the warden says in answer to city fathers who believe the city could become a bedroom community and therefore should get some of the industrial assessment base. One of Peers' first public Atat.ements after becoming warden was to attack an- nexation, saping It would literally tear the county apart. While he's saying that, 9t least one young city alderman Is calling for annexation. The alderman's plans feature taking a chunk of Norwich Township. "I've lived through three annexations in my time (in government) and there have been others ... no one seems to gain anything in the long run. I see no particular gain in an- nexation,' says the warden. He does admit municipalities getting services from a neigh- boring community should realize they'll have to pay their share for the extension. Industrial development brings out the old issue of preserving agricultural land. "I don't want to see a misuse of agricultural land but we must realize there is a need for land for industry and commerce." The warden's stand on that issue is a duplicate of the former warden's. Growth in the county is inevitable, mainly because of the highways and railways that pass through it, he says. City services may not be able to handle it, but septic systems and ground wells might be the answer for some developments. 0 0 MONDAY, MARCH 28, 1977 IA M Worst -ever • air crash kills 562 in Canaries SANTA (-'BUZ DE TENE- RIFE, Canary Islands (AP) — The Spanish air ministry said today that the death lolj from the fiery collision here of two Boeing 747 jumbo airliners has climbed to 562. It was the worst aviation disaster in history. Spanish officials said 72 per- sons survived Sunday's collision of the Pan American Airways and KLM Royal Dutch Airlines planes on the fog Shrouded run- way. All the survivors were aboard the PanAm plane. Eleven were listed in critical condition. Four Canadians from Ke- lowna, B.C., were reported aboard the PanAnn jet. Only one, Toshio Tanemura, was reported to have survived. He was rushed to hospital along with other injured. The other Canadians Two 747s were Tanemura's wife, Aya, and chiropracter Walter Mitchell, 50, and his wife, Yvonne. The Mitchells have three children In Kelowna. "The whole plane was on fire and people were crying and screaming trying to get out," said James Naik, 37, of Cuper- tino, Calif. "Within just a few seconds the metal started to come apart." Pending an official finding, there were conflicting reports on the sequence of events leading to the crash. The Spanish news agency Cifra quoted airport sources as saying the flight recorder from the PanAm plane indicated the collision may have been caused by a misunderstanding on the Part of the Pan American pilot, Capt. Victor Grubb of Center - port, N.Y. In New York, a PanAm offi- cial said the airline expects "anything substantive" con- cerning the cause of the collision to come from a U.S. government investigating team sent to the crash site "and anything else we view with concern." Sources quoted by Cifra said 0@5 the recorder showed the airport control tower had ordered the Pan American plane to move on to the main runway. The sources said the U.S. crew may have misunderstood the order and taxied to another runway where the KLM plane was taking off, An official at Santa Cruz air- port said air traffic controllers at the airport speak only English while working. But Cifra quoted Gmbh, who is in hospital here, as saying he was taxiing down the main run- way at the time of the collision. Those who survived the holocaust of fire and explosions were thrown from the plane on impact or managed to scramble to safety before the flames filled the passenger compartment. 4WI Fox Diagram shows how a taxiing Pan American jumbo jet col- lands, on Sunday in the worst tragedy of aviation history, tided with KLM jet at Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Camiry Is- The KLM jet was taking off. �.y WOOS tOCI� ' BLUES CHASER s water tiro can full dir art, wittft7 old ,in. r„ t vt m a rucking Their and ean't,cet it gurn. •ry to cost 17% moam re o Plowing match I-cs "y,5:.•�`oa=':aa"'ioc� cwv�—❑ �;aa �PEe3 sites discussed • � e a � � � � � d � 1_ 1 � "jd ,F$«, aE'u tia '°noso,5mva°,"� W0OV8T()CK — Organizers of the IN) In- � y� l" �'� � o E �, ,,, °' u•rnallonal Plowing Match In oxford County, e $ �• t .E ,ay,,tbe main site for the match should Iw -9 m _ _ o c E known by early June "at the laiest, John Hofxtetter, chairman of the local rout' �� p ° g melee, said Wednesday that executive com-, F a y S w a 6 nottee. representatives of the Ontario Plow ie x eo i° S e R S mexi s Asmx9ation will meet shortly with iht 9 a ' 3 o, .-• E 4 local committer,. v S E S. v tr w o° 3 IS Abdul I,000 acn:s well be deaden hrr th . ` w nF j o ro w ooY w 5 akrlk. 2I-27 event, he said. a, 0 11 • get heavy us Free Press Woodstock Bureau WOODSTOCK — There has been considera- ble demand for a series of technical back- ground papers prepared for Oxford County's official plan, county librarians. reported Tues- day. A series of 10 papers, intended to evoke comment on the official plan, was distributed in February to county council, municipal coun- cils and various interest groups. Sets of the papers were also sent to libraries in the re- gion. The plan, being prepared by Marshall, Macklin, Monaghan planning consultants of Toronto, will provide the framework and guidelines for county development over the next 20 years. Oxford County librarian Jane Webb said re- 160-mile tour Oxford council to crossiiiiiiiiiiicounty bus bypass and along a part of County Rod 3 be- tween Drumbo and Washington, also sched- uled for reconstruction. Councillors will tour Innerkip where a major storm drain project is planned, the county ar- boretum, streets in Woodstock, including Mill Street and Vansittart Avenue, and an area east of County Road A where a feasibility stu- dy is planned. They also will view the area where the truck bypass will be built. in the afternoon council will see the Hai - brook landfill site, the Tillsonburg Multi Malls project on Highway 3, the site of the soon -lo- be -expanded Tillsonburg reservoir north of the town and the proposed county landfill site near Salford. The tour will conclude with a ride along Whiting Street,. in Ingersoll, where a road widening project has been proposedand a stop at the controversial Waterworks Curve outside Ingersoll. Pratt said some councillors could be in for a few surprises. "We always hear complaints about the streets in Woodstock but many have never seen county roads axle deep In mud," he said ... The vastness of the county boggles most people's minds — many relate in varying de- lgre•es to their own.. streets or the towns they lire in and don't know much about the rest of Oxford County." -The tour will be a good bit of background — and good promotion for the county,' Pratt said. lie said once -a -year county bus tours were a -,fairly regular thing" prior to 1970 but have died out since then. The last tour of the county icas taken by the public works committee la't ccar Prm Press Woodstock Bureau W'OODSTOCK — Oxford County councillors wIll get a glimpse of everything from trees and shrubs to garbage dumps Saturday during a county bus lour, county engineer Don Pratt said Wednesday. The county arboretum near Innerkip and the Holbrook landfill site are among the sites to be visited during the day -long excursion which is expected to cover about 160 miles of county roads. The tour, suggested in February by public ,corks committee chairman Perry Sibbick, I':, been arranged "to give councillors the feel what is out in the county," Pratt said. We're trytg to point out that this is a great county and we want you (council) to take �i,re notice of it .... We hope the tour will --.� councillors a better feel of Oxford, .plus .one background," he said. " h will cover areas where there has been some controversy and will show areas where money is being spent in the county," said Pratt, tour tide for the trip. He said all M councillors from Oxford Coun- ty's eight municipalities have Indicated they will attend. First on the Itinerary Is a visit to Wood - stock's sewage treatment plant. "This is probably the biggest thing of the whole day," Pratt said. "It's the only time we'll get off the bus. We'll look at what's there and discuss plans for what is proposed." Construction of a major addition is expected to begin later this year. Pratt said the tour will cover Zorra, Zorra- Tavistock and Blandford-Blenheim townships in the morning and will travel. through Norwich, Southwest Oxford Township, Tillson- burg and Ingersoll in the afternoon. Councillors will view County Road north of Embro, where a major reconstruction job is planned, and the site of a new $150,000 bridge near Innerkip, to be completed in July. They'll also travel the section of Highway 97 to be swapped with the province as part of a truck Plan background papers e in Oxford sponse to the papers has been "tremendous." "Many people are asking for them and most are taking them out If they can gel them — we could do with another set. The demand is that great." Matthew Schultz, librarian at Tillsonburg, termed the demand "quite surprising." Mary Evans, head of the local history sec- tion at the Woodstock Public Library said 14 people have used them since they were re- ceived 10 days ago. The papers cover resources, economics and physical structure. Meetings with municipal and various inter- est groups are currently being held and will continue into the summer. The plan which is scheduled for completion in mid-1978, and must be approved by the province. JAMES GRANT SUTHERLAND Oxford County warden i n 1951, township reeve Former Oxford County He was Oxford County warden warden James Grant in 1951. Sutherland of RK 1, Lakeside fie was also a member, of the died April 6. He was 68. Upper Thames River Con - I fe was born in the former servation Authority for 28 years, "fuwnship of East Missouri an executive member for 26. where he spent his early years. years and vice-chairman from fie worked for the Ford Motor 1975 until his death. Co. in Detroit in the late 1920s He was appointer] a com- and returned to Canada to take missioner of the Blanshard up farming. Municippaul Telephone System in Ile returned to the home farm November, 1968 and was elected in 1938wherehe farmed until his chalrman in April. 1974. retirement two years ago due to - �.„ , . �' ill health. ,�..`- Sutherland was first elected to E s - East Nissouri Township council -� s in December, 191K1. He was elected deputy -reeve in N'. December, 1945 and reeve in December, IAA He served in a t that office for four years, beingthe first reeve In the township's " history to serve four years in the ' Oxford take to get trip panning Council tour of Oxford applauded by warden Free Press Woodstock Bureau WOODSTOCK*— Bus tours of Oxford coun- ty, such as that taken last Saturday by count} council, should become annual occurrences. Oxford Warden Ken Peers said Tuesday. Peers, mayor of Norwich township, ealled the 160-mile tour of county roads and facilities "very educational for old and new council. lore." "Forty per cent of council are new members (his year ... the tour certainly brought all of them up to date Anyone I've talked to really appreciated the trip. "Two members said they didn't realize how'' many roads are in the county or its (Oxford's) size. A result may be that members of council will be more sympathetic to the public works committee," Peers sold. Peers said another results of the tour may be more intelligent debate among menib%rs of council during meetings and better back grounding for the 20 members representing Oxford's eight munielpaliliess. He said fnlure lours should Inspeel lie nun iclpal waterworks systems and should cover noire of the cuuty .s nearly 300 miles of roads. " Mo.%t councillors don't get out and set, lenongh of other areas in the county. — moot know their own bafliwlck pretty, well but On,% don't know, what's out there" said Stewart 1h'+its, deputy county enghiftor, Siciren members of council attended fhc Inur. powers By RANDY RAY Free Press Woodstock Rare" WOODSMOCK — Oxford County council has accepted a housing minfstry proposal which will see Oxford become the first Ontario coun- t-t to be delegated authority to deal with local planning matters, The proposal will take six to eight months to implement. It is in line with a provincial gov- ernment commitment to provide greater local autonomy over "essentially local planning concerns." G. M. Farrow, executive director of the ministry's plans and administration dr,- War, told council Wednesday. "We ... are prepared to recommend to the minister thatlie delegate some of his approval functions to. . . council," Farrow said. "You are the first municipality, outside re- gional governments where weare prepared to make this recommendation ... and as such �% ou will be observed by as and the rest of the province with interest." he said. "Howyou perform will set the direttim for the government in future delegation matters. - Oxford's new planning powers will include authority to: • Grant subdivision approvals: • Comment to the Ontario Municipal Board (in whether certain zoning bylaws of munici �palities conform with the county's official plan. Farrow said the ministry will continue to comment to the OMB on all zoning bylaws ini- tiated at the county level. Council now must indicate to the ministry its willingness to assume the powers. set a dare for assuming them, indicate its commitment to the province's housing goals and show that appropriate staff will be available to carry out the functions. County planning director Peter Atcheson said two more persons will be required in the planning department — a secretary and a planner. Farrow said Oxford county had been a lead- er in the past by becoming the first restruc- tured municipality in Ontario. "I hope that you take this opportunity to be- come the first won -region municipality to as- sume greater local autonomy:" he said. Eight Ontario regains have been given the planning powers. Farrow said the main advantage is that planning decisions will be made by people who know the local situation. He said the powers wIll also speed planning business. -It may take more time in the beginning, because it's a new situation which takes time to set up. but fl (the comny) is the right place to have the function. "Eventually the county can delegate powers cAiwn through its senior administrative staff. We think you will get better, faster decisions Warden Ken Peers said: -We always bear complaints, that powers are taken away but this kooks like an opportunity for us to get some responsibility back. These are quite large responsibilfifes and they will cost us but decisions will be made locally," Peers said the county would likely "move pretty slowly" in taking over the authority. He Predicted the quality of planning in the county would be improved and the operation would tk` mare efficient. BLUES CHASER Ifhr it it a,kr a n:+rr rife, th,•n .a hu..b rrd atter vnµifiaul ao :ehir rn mww.xc, u, hook like M,iast nnrdus/ rfe.uun,� damhafe houGe" Extra staff being hired in public works shuffle By CHRIS NIXON Sratinel-Review Staff 14riter In a major reshuffling of the public works department, county council will hire an additional engineer and a construction supervisor. Through the move approved by council Wednesday. the county engineer title will give wav to engineering director and his salary increased to $M,000 to $34.000 a year from about $26,0110. New positions created will be an operations engineer, con- struction engineer and con- struction supervisor. The county now has two engineers, Don Pratt, and deputy -engineer Stu Watts, Pratt will probably get the director title and Watts either that of operations or con- struction engineer, a council source said Wednesday. The changes were discussed behind closed doors and ac- cepted in open council. They were recommended by public works committee. THIS YEAR Committee chairman, Court. Perry Sibbick of Blandford- Blenheim Township, said it is noped the new system will get under way this year. The additional workload created since the county took over reatxrnsibiIty for water systems and more county road mileage has spurred the need for additional engineering staff, Sibbick said in an interview. With the extra manpower, the county will be able to conduct many studies it now contracts out to consulting firms, he ad. ded. In 1976. consultant fees were $146,709. Thev were $108,525 in 1975 and $61,262 in 1974. Expected expenditures for consultants in 1977 is $202.000. "I'm not suggesting we won't be using consultant services in the future but jobs such as pre - engineering on bridges and roads can be done by the ex- panded engineering depart- ment," Sibbick said. "We can make some real savings in that part of our budget by hiring additional people." The salary set for the operations engineer is $25,W0 to $29,000 and the construction engineer's pay will be similar. The construction supervisor Will earn between $14,000 and $17.000. 'NEAR BOTTOM' Sibbick said the existing engineering staff's salary schedule was compared with that in surrounding municipalities and Oxford "was County council cool to support of tourism group County council took no action on an offer Wednesday to join the Southwestern Ontario Travel Association. The offer will probably go to administration and finance committee although council; passed no motion steering it to that body, Warden Kenneth Peers said. Bill Morgan, representing the association, said six of eight southwestern Ontario counties participated in the program involving distributin of brochures advertising the counties in the United States and Canada last year. The cost to the county would be about $3,500 for the year. The costincluded theprinting of about 70,000 brochures. About 10,000 of the brochures could be distributed in the county itself, Morgan said. Council turned down a similar offer last year near the bottom." He predicted the engineering department now will be "much more efficient.." Sibbick added that while working conditions in the courthouse now are cramped the additional staff members will be accommodated in the exisiting facilities, maybe the west end of the ground floor. Aid. Walter Hulme did not take part in discussions held on. the issue in -camera. The alderman attempted to have the matter brought into open council but his motion failed. Hulme did not stay for the discussion. Dairy plant to close After 49 years of processing powdered milk, poor market conditions have forced Silver - wood Davies Ltd. to close its Canterbury Street plant. Fresh milk shortages have forced the April 28 closing af- fecting ten employees, manager Tom Burtch said today He said fresh milk — a necessary Ingredient in processing powdered and condensed milk — is not available. "Farmers are producing less milk and we only get the surplus milk ... milk not used for ice cream, cheese or butter," he said. Production foreman Keith Tupper added that operating at one quarter production has forced Silverwtwds to discon- tinue powdered milk production and Purchase it etsewher.0. The 10 employees will be relocated within the company probably at Silverwood'a ice cream manufacturing plant in Landon, said Burtch. He added that the 75 to too - year -old building will probably be n id. In 1922 local farmers established the Oxford MBk Products Ltd. operation at this site. Sllverwoods bought It six years later. County building wash suggested By CHRIS NIXON Sentinel -Review Staff Writer The county courthouse has been hiding behind a layer of black dirt for decades but it could be restored to its original pinkish color for about $185,00(1, county public works committee was told Thursday. Bill Roberts, manager of Ontario Restoration Ltd., told the committee the job would bring out the building's beauty. He proposed cleaning all the stone and brick masonry in the building with chemicals, cutting all stone mortar joints, repainting all the joints, ap- plying methyl methacrylate base masonry sealer to the stone and brick and caulking the perimiter of all stone and brick surfaces. - Mosquito spraying again in Oxford area The county will participate in a mosquito control program this year despite opposition from Aid. Ken Batten. Bullen told county council Wednesday he believes the $4,129 program has "many harmful effects." The program started by the province last year when a possible outbreak of en- cephalitis was feared "shouldn't have been started in the first place," he said. It's a great waste of money." Warden Ken Peer said the spray the county used last year and intends to use this year is toxic for only four hours and then its effectiveness is reduced. He said the county sprayed only municipal propertyand private property when reauested. Housingauthority chairman named I Gail Puddicombe of Wood- ' stock has been appointed 'chairman of the recently 'inaugurated Oxford County ,Housing Authority. With its office in Woodstock, the new authority is responsible !for managing public housing in George Rolfe of Tillsonburg, Doris Body of Tavistock and Lorne Parker of Norwich Township. The authority was inaugurated April 5. "There's no other )ob I'd rather do than this building," he said. "It's too bad money has to be involved in this type of work, really." Replying to a suggestion bqq Coun. Perry Sibbick of Bland - ford -Blenheim that the work be done in stages over a four-year period, Roberts said the cost would increase substantially. He also requested an ad- ditional $10,000 be allocated in the event of damage near the top of the building. The committee took no action on the proposal. Roberts said the work isn't necessary as a maintenance item. "If we don't do it, you will have leaks here and there, but nothing major," he said. County engineer Don Pratt said dampness is getting into the building. No major work has been done to its exterior since the building was built in the 18%s, he said. He agreed that the cost of the work was high. "It's a fairly staggering amount of money but it's an amount someone is going to spend eventually," he said. Warden Ken Peers agreed something should be done to the outside of the building. "It would really make this building stand out," he said. "We should do something. It's a landmark in the county and I think you would be real proud of the building after it was done." g managed by the includes 475 senior d family rent -assisted units in Woodstock, Feet in brackets East 'Luna-Tavistocvistock i, Tillsonburg and Norwich Township. An additional 43 senior citizens units under construction in Tillsonburg will also fall .under the authority's jurisdiction. The authority — ppaart of the province's plans to decentralize rent- assisted housing management — takes over a ,rule of the Ontario Housing Corporation. Other members are; Rev. 'Wilfred O'Rourke and William .Downing, both of Woodstock; ,Len Johnson of Ingersoll; Tillsonburg zoning to get metric touch TILLSONBURG — The number of feel of frontage you have won't matter after the town's new comprehensive zoning by - low Is enacted by council tonight. All measurement in the revised bylaw will be given In metric units, but with old units in brackets to help those still stru$ gling with the maw system, town clerk - treasurer Ken Holland said Monday, lie said after council enacted the bylaw ,April 12 it found standard measurements would have to be converted by Jan. 1, 1978, to comply with the federal metric program. Council decided It would save a "sub stantial" amount of money and time to convert the Wpage document before 3,500 copies of it are published for circulation to property owners, said Holland. The conversion was handled by the Ox ford planning board, he said. Holland, who admitted he doesn't on derstand the new system very well, said he Is considering attending a special me- trics presentation Thursday night at the public library. The program, which Dart, at 7;30 pm.. Includes a film and spetch by Dan MacDonald, general manager at the Better Business Bureau's Hamilton region, 0 • ABOUT 300 people at- right, minister of correc- memorating the event. tended the official opening of Bona) services, (top photo) the new Elgin -Middlesex and Government Services Detention Centre in London Minister John Smith un- Friday as .Arthur Meen, veiled a plaque com- The Daily Sentinel -Review, Tues., April 19, 1977 Woodstock fail prise moved without inci About 20 prisoners from the Acting jail superintendent J. Woodstock jail were transferred R. Newell said a bailiff bus Monday without incident to the picked up the inmates at 10:30 new Elgin -Middlesex Detention a.m. for the half hour drive to Centre the new.centre opened in London Box lunches given prisoners in transit Two prisoners, box lunches in told the Woodstock Police hand, became the first inmates Commission Monday. returned to Woodstock from the He said the police had set a Elgin -Middlesex Detention schedule for the transportation Centre for a court appearance of prisoners between Woodstock today_ and London. The detention centre. provides Police will pick up the inmates every prisoner transferred for a in London between 6 a.m. and 8 court appearance with a box a.m. and make the return trip at lunch, Police Chief James Miller 4 p.m. TAX BREAK If you're scurrying to get your income tax forms in the mad by April 30, lake a breather, Revenue Canada officials have extended the deadline to May 2 because April 30 falls on a Saturday. GRANTBREPERRED Grants totalling 19,0oo to the University of Western Ontario were referred Wednesday night by county council to budget sessions next Monday night. ENGINEERING APPOINTMENTS County council Wednesday accepted a public works com- mittee recommendation making engineer Donald Pratt director of engineering with a 113U,000 annual salary and deputy - engineer Stewart Watts con- struction engineer at f26,000 a year. BUDGET MEETING County council meets Monday at 7:30 p.m. for a special budget session at the county courthouse in council chambers. A correctional services officer locks a cell door at the Woodstock jail prior to the jail closing. Prisoners were transferred to the Elgin -Middlesex Den- tention Centre. Most jail officers are also working at the London centre but others requested transfers to other jails, The Daily Sentinel -Review, Wed., April 27, 1977 Retaining existing Oxford utilities gains support at 1st public hearing County joining travel promotion Oxford County council decided Wednesdny to join the South western Ontario Travel Association this year at a cost of about ta,slw. Having rejected tire offer last year, council supported an ad- ministration and finance committee recommendation to join the association that will print about 70,000 travel brochures on the county. An association spokesman has said about 10,000 of the brochures should be circulated in the county with the remainder distributed by the association throughout the province and in the United States. There was some hesitation from councillors in joining. Coam Jack Warden of Ingersollsaid council might be "putting the cart before the horse" by agreeing to join without seeing the brochures first. But the committee's recommendation suggested county of- ficials have some say on the brochure's desiggn "We have to do a lot more than have brxhures to improve tourism. Warden said. "We need to be competitive." Conn. Kenneth Webster of TilLsonburg said council should consider the expenditure when it deals with its budget Monday night. But .Aid. Walter Hulme of Woodstock urged council to accept it and suggested the committee be responsible for the brochure's design. 42—THl L01,100N FRU PRESS, Friday, April 29. 1977 Committee's safety plan favored over petitioners WOODSTOCK — The county public, works committee Thursday rejected safety measures for the Intersection of County Roads 4 and 35 pro. paved In a 2,800-name petition presented to county council Wednesday night., Instead, committee mem- hcrs recommended to county cuunell their own suggestions — an overhead nashing light and a northbound left -turn lisle on County Road 4. The public works committee has already proposed similar measures in Its 1977 roads bud - go, but the petitioners want Immediate action to prevent further accidents at the cor- ner. Two persons have been killed In separate accidents there since last June. Safety measures in the petl� than ppresented to council by Blandford-Blenheim councillor Don Harder Included Installa- tion of a Bashing stop sign at the southeast corner of the two roads, and a speed limit reduc- tion to 35 m.p.h. from 50 m.p.h. on County Road 4 from High- way 2 to the north approach to Blandford Mall. Harder says two curves on the county road are not de - Woodstock ja i I empty after colorful history By BRI.A.N. McANDREW Sentinel -Review Staff Writer The Woodstock jail stands empty now. Its future remains unknown. The jail housed many pprisoners during its 123-year huslory. Some of them left, never to return. Others came back time and time again. And still others spent their final days within the jail walls. While most completed their sentences by walking out the front door others ended their's with the opening of a trap door. Five persons were hanged at the jail, the last in 1954. The provincial ministry of correctional services saw fit to close the jail and moved the prisoners to the new Elgin - Middlesex Detention Centre in London. SAVING MONEY The detention centre was built in the interests of economy according to the government. It replaces smaller jails located in Woodstock, London and St. Thomas. One large centre, apparently, is cheaper to run than a number of smaller centres. Reaction to the closing an- nouncement last January was furious. Most local officials were not questioning the government's reasoning that large centre's were more economical than the smaller ones. City and county officials agreed the new detention centre would save money for the province — but were concerned about the added cost of running prisoners back and forth bet- ween London and the courthouse in Woodstock. Local police are able to transfer a maximum of three prisoners in a police cruiser. Two police officers are required to make the trip for each cruiser. Despite a cost -sharing program with the province to offset the added expense police officials were concerned the London trips would tie up men and equipment vital to local patrols. PRISONERS REMOVED Prisoners were removed from the jail following the official opening of the London centre April 15. Correctional services officials said they expected prisoners from all three jails to be settled at the new centre by April 22. The jail, with a capacity for 27 prisoners, is now as quiet and empty inside as it always ap- peared to anyone outside its imposing stone walls. Loral residents held a certain affection for the jail even though most people never required the use of its facilities. The jail was a part of the city and the province's decision to abandon it met with hostile reaction much the same as when the same government decided to close the local public health labratory a year earlier. With the closing of the jail the city lost a bit of character, a bit of personality. The jail was situated in a block containing the county courthouse giving the area the aura of a centre of justice. Ironically by becoming part of the area served by the London detention centre the county is returning to a situation it broke away from by a decision in 1839. Woodstock councillors at that time saw the need for a "goal" and courthouse separate from the larger city. When the newly formed District of Brack (now Oxford County) began council sessions high on the agenda were the ,jail and courthouse. With the formation of the County of Oxford in 1850 priorities for a better jail facility were high again. A bylaw in August that year authorized the spending of £ 5,000 for construction. Two Hamilton firms were given the architectural and construction contracts In 1853 but it wasn't until 1855 that the jail was ready for occupancy. The county was convinced by a group of local ministers in 1956 to provide worship facilities at the jail and £ 5 was approved for starting a library. Ten years later the library funds was increased to £ 150. More recently the jail provided prisoners with a wide assortment of books available on rotation throughout the jail system. The future of the county - owned jail stands as a big question mark. Some county councillors have kicked around the idea of just tearing the jail down. The Jail was declared a historic building in 1976 and any changes must be approved by the city's architectural con- servation committee and by council. The building is also protected from any destruction plans for six months under the Ontario Heritage Act. Other speculators have suggested using the jail for additional county ad- ministration offices but that idea doesn't seem to sit too well with county employees. But one Woodstock city councillor seemed For with the idea, if only for personal reasons. "I wouldn't mind seeing some of those county representives in jail," the councillor said. signed for 50 m.p.h. traffic, In rejecting the petition pro- prrenl, works committee mem- hers said they felt the existing stop sign at the Intersection Is adequate since it IN clearly vi- sible from a distance of 1,000 feet at night and 1,5M feet dur- ing the day. With a stop warning sign 750 feel from the Intersection, mo- torists have 1,750 feet of ad- vance warning before stop- ping, said Don Pratt, county director of engineering. "If people are paying any kind of attention, they should be able to atop. I don't know why a couple of people haven't stopped," he said. Pratt said lengthy observa lions at the intersection have shown It is "nothing out of the. ordinary. We did not observe any problems with the atop sign or advance warning sign. Everyone knew It was there and seemed to obey it. "it is not a dangerous inter- section .... Accidents there seem to be the result of dnccr error or miscalculation. Things that happen at the in- tersection have nothing to do with its technical design," he said. "It's safe, but what people do with a safe Intersection when you give it to them is a problem." Pratt said accidents at The corner since 1975 have been no different from those at inter- sections with stop lights, with the exception of the two fatah- hm, `and these are not related b} cause," he said. "We're concerned, but wedon't know what to do." Coun. Perry Sibbick of Blandford-Blenheim Town- ship, where the intersection is j located, argued that installa- tion of a Bashing stop sign light would result in drivers coming to rely on flashing stop signs and Ignoring the stan- dard type. - "People would have the Len - deny to ignore normal stop signs," he said. Pratt suggested the county may have overdone the use of action to stop Mess things flash and light up." he said. Installation of such a sign at County Roads 4 and 35 would have people from all over Ox- ford County demanding flash. ing stop signs at intersections, he said. Pratt said there is no techm. cal reason for lowering speed limits in the area to 35 m.p.h. because "theoretically the safe speed works out to be So m.p.h,. Just because it says 5o m.p.h. doesn't mean you. have to drive it at M." Sibbick, who also opposed the reduction, said, `:anyone who can't drive those curves at 50 miles an hour needs another drivers licence." Peers said the speed prob. lem appears to be from driv- ers approaching Blandford Mall from the north, rather than those driving north to. ward hmerkip. Conn. Barrett opposed the public works committee's pro posals, saying, "If there an. good signs not hidden, people will pay just as much attention to them as they will to Bashing lights. I don't think any flash- ing light at this intersection would help." Sibbick, chairman of the committee. favored the fiash� Ing overhead light because it would mark the Intersection and at the same time be out of reach of vandals. County council will discuss the recommendations at a spa- cial budget meeting Monday night. Should council approve them. Pratt said work would begin later this year. County joining travel promotion oxford County council decided Wednesday to join the South- western Ontario Travel Association this year at a cost of about $3,500. Having rejected the offer last year, council supported an ad. ministration and finance Committee recommendation to join the association that will print about 70,1100 travel brochures on the County. An association spokesman has said about lo.q)0 of the brochures should be. circulated in the county with the remainder distributed by the association throughout the province and in the United States. There was some hesitation from councillors in joining. Court. Jack Warden of Ingersoll said council might be "potting the cart before the horse" by agreeing to join without sating the brochures first. But the committee's recommendation suggested county of- ficials have some say on the brochure's design. "We have to do a lot more than have buuuuhures [o improve tourism." Warden said. "We need to be competitive." Cam. Kenneth Webster of Tillsonburg said council should consider the expenditure when it deals with its budget Monday night. But Aid. Walter Hulme of Woodstock urged council to accept it and suggested the committee be responsihte for the brochure's design. 42—THE EONDON FREE PRESS, Friday. April 29, 1977 Committee's safety plan favored over, peti 0woff WOODSTOCK — The county public , works committee Thursday rejected safety measures for the Intersection of County Roads 4 and 35 pro- posed In a 2,ol-name petition presented to county council Wednesday night. Instead, committee mem- bers recommended to county council their own suggestions — an overhead flashing light and a northbound left -turn lane on County Road 4. The public works committee has already proposed similar measures in its 1977 roads bud- eet, but the petitioners want Immediate action to prevent further accidents at the cor- ner. Two persons have been killed in separate accidents theresince last June. Safety measures In thepeti- tion ppresented to council by Blandford-Blenheim councillor Don Harder included Installa- tion of a flashing stop sign at the southeast corner of the two roads, and a speed limit reduc- tion to 35 m.p.h. from 58 m.p.h. on County Road 4 from High- way 2 to the north approach to Blandford Mail. Harder says two curves on the county road are not tie - Woodstock ja i I empty after colorful history By BRIAN MCANDREW Sentinel -Review Staff Writer The Woodstock jail stands empty now. Its future remains unknown. The jail housed many prisoners during its 123-year history. Some of them left, never to return. Others came back time and time again. And still others spent their final days within the jail walls. While most completed their sentences by walking out the front door others ended their's with the opening of a trap door. Five persons were hanged at the jail, the last in 1954, The provincial ministry of correctional services saw fit to close the jail and moved the prisoners to the new Elgin - Middlesex Detention Centre in London. SAVING MONEY The detention centre was built in the interests of economy according to the government. It replaces smaller jails located in Woodstock, Landon and St. Thomas. One large centre, apparently, is cheaper to run than a number of smaller centres. Reaction to the closing an- nouncement last January was furious. Most local officials were not questioning the government's reasoning that large eentre's were more economical than the smaller ones. City and county officials agreed the new detention centre would save money for the province — but were concerned about the added cost of running prisoners back and forth bet- ween London and the courthouse in Woodstock. Local police are able to transfer a maximum of three prisoners in a police cruiser. Two police officers are required to make the trip for each cruiser. Despite a cost -sharing program with the province to offset the added expense police officials were concerned the London trips would tie up men and equipment vital to local patrols. PRISONERS REMOVED Prisoners were removed from the jail following the official opening of the London centre April 15. Correctional services officials said they expected prisoners from all three jails to be settled at the new centre by April 22. The jail, with a capacity for 27 prisoners, is now as quiet and empty inside as it always ap- peared to anyone outside Its imposing stone walls. Local residents held a certain affection for the jail even though most people never required the use of its facilities. The jail was a part of the city and the province's decision to abandon it met with hostile reaction much the same as when the same government decided to close the local public health labratory a year earlier. With the closing of the jail the city lost a bit of character, a bit of personality. The jail was situated in a block containing the county courthouse giving the area the aura of a centre of justice. Ironically by becoming part of the'area served by the London detention centre the county is returning to a situation it broke away from by a decision in 1831). Woodstock councillors at that time saw the need for a "goal" and courthouse separate from the larger city. When the newly formed District of Brock (now Oxford County) began council sessions high on the agenda were the jail and courthouse. With the formation of the County of Oxford in 1850 priorities for a better jail facility were high again. A'bylaw in August that year authorized the spending of £ 5,000 for construction. Two Hamilton firms were given the architectural and construction contracts in 1853 but it wasn't until 1055 that the jail was ready for occupancy. The county was convinced by a group of local ministers in 1856 to provide worship facilities at the jai] and £ 5 was approved for starting a library. Ten years later the library funds was increased to £ 150. More recently the jail provided prisoners with a wide assortment of books available on rotation throughout the jail system. The future of the county - owned jail stands as a bog question mark. Some county councillors have kicked around the idea of just tearing the jail down. The jail was declared a historic building in 1976 and any changesmust be approved by the city's architectural con- servation committee and by council. The building is also protected from any destruction plans for six months under the Ontario Heritage Act. Other speculators have suggested using the jail for additional county ad- ministration offices but that idea doesn't seem to sit too well with county empl0yees. But one Woodstock city councillor seemed Pleased with the idea, if only for personal reasons. I wouldn't mind seeing some of those county representives in jail," the councillor said. signed for 50 m.p.h. traffic. In rejecting the petition I posal, works Committee no hers said they felt the exis, stop sign at the Interseeto adequate since It is clearly Bible from a distance of 1 feet at night and 1,5M feett frig the day. With a stop warning sign feet from the Intersection, torists have 1,750 feet of vance warning before s ping, said Don Pratt, cot director of engineering. "If people are paying kind of attention, they sit be able to stop. I don't k '9iG,a 1M/wnrvLaLLwr i�na+ 96alloo ami 'Isille uopuo-1 bul,puelsj, luam O9Z$ to @ZUd PUCK; uom yolilm 'LL6 i loellsq! spieme PE UEUUOpkio -- ssaJd oaid W41 Lo W"La"r. - Embro county roads to get `guide rails' Free Press Woodstock Bureau WOODSTOCK — The demands of 90 Embro and area residents for safety barriers along sections of County Roads and 33 south of Embro received the support of the county pub- lic works committee Thursday. The committee recommended the county in- stall three -cabled "guide rafts" along the east side of County Road 6 and on part of County Road 33 near the Intersection of the two. In a petition to Don Pratt, county director of engineering, residents expressed concern over deep drops bordering the roads. They claimed that during periods of heavy snow and drifting, road conditions force mo- torists to drive on the shoulder, dangerously close to the drop and often in zero visibility. No accidents have occurred in the area. The committee agreed that steel cable barn. on, attached to posts with fluorescent markers would bit the best possible solution. County construction engineer Stewart Watts ruled out installation of solid metal barriers. savingg Ufay would trap snow. Causing greater problemifortraffic. Ile said posts and cables would be "cosmet. ic," functioning more as warning devices than barriers. "They won't stop the snow but they won't slop cars either. The real function of the ca- bles will be as shoulder markers — In a bliz- zard drivers can pick out the posts." .,More, and more tests are proving can can drive right through most barriers put up these doss," Watts said. fim%vi •r, Wmv, cmillond ronunillec nnem Incc, 111,11 ., dr 111100a of sire such barrier. can be installed should be drawn up for the county. "We have to define what the rules should be — they may just be necessary on these two mads but everyone else may want them in now." He said ministry of transportation policy calls for installation of guide rails only where the drop exceeds a certain dlstaneo. Coral. Robert Blair of Zorra Township agreed with Watts. "There should be a pofiv> for the comity. We can't do it for everybody that boilers." Following the committee's recommends don, Donna Rinser, a spokesman for the per Itioners, said in an interview everyone in tine atea would be "very relieved" if the proposed guide rails are installed. The County engineers' department will study the two sites to determine the total length re- quired before presenting its recommendation to County council May It. Total cost of the project, including labor, will be about 39 OK In other business, the Committee approved a $2 ,752 tender from Wray-MarConstruction Ud. of Paris for reconstruction of three miles of County Road 3 south of 1Fashfnp;an. III ork is c,\pcctad to begin to tale NUN 0 0 is County council votes 10 per cent pay hike Increase to charity, Jack Burn pledges By CHRIS NIXON Sentinel -Review Staff Writer County councillors Wed- nesday night voted themselves a 1,0-per-4cent pay increase — but one councillor said he won't accept it. Coun- Jack Burn of Norwich Township said in an interview he will give the extra money — SSW — "to a charitable organization." The increases raise coun- cillor's salaries to $5,500 a year from $5,000 while Warden Ken Peers' salary will increase to $16.500 from $15,000. They are retroactive to Jan. 1. Councillors also voted to in- crease their mileage rates to 22 cents a mile from 20 cents. Convention and seminar rates will increase to $30 a person from $85. ,NOT WORTH IT' Burn said he will not accept the additional pay because he doesn't feel he's worth it. He calculated his council salary now averages out to about $13 an hour "not counting my homework". "I don't consider I'm worth the increase," he said. "I can't justify the increase." On the other side of the coin, Mayor Douglas Harris of Ingersoll said the increase — council's first since 1975 — was justified. "There is no question about myself being worth this amount of money and there is no question about other members of council," he said. "I think I'm worth it and I think all members of council are worth it, too." Burn was the only one of 17 councillors to oppose the in- crease. NO ACTION A request by Coup. Kenneth Webster of Tillsonburg that councillors regularly serving on commissions and boards be paid extra didn't receive any action. Council voted down a proposed eight -per -cent in- crease last year. County treasurer Howard Day said he believes councillors were actually entitled to a 14- per-cent increase because of last year's rejection. The new salaries are subject to anti-inflation board (AIB) approval. Jack Burn ... won't accept it Hazardous corner ff getting signal light ' - Free Press Woodstock Bureau traffic. There are right-hand lanes to carry pe- WOODSTOCK — County council accepted a ople into the mall. We feel the road is not a Its - public works committee recommendation xard at 50 m.p,h." Monday night calling for installation of a Conn. Leslie Cook of Woodstock said the Bashing overhead light and northbound left overhead flashing light may be better than a turn lane at the intersection of County Roads 4 flashing stop sign light. and 35. Cook said he has noted that most motorists The overhead light will Bash red to east- and travel at less than 50 m.p.h. on County Road 4 westbound traffic and amber to cars travell- in the area of the mall, except those coming '0 ing north and south. The turn lane will be In- south from Innerklp stalled for northbound vehicles turning west Conn. Wendy Calder of Woodstock, who vot- on County Road 35, ed against the public works recommendation,. j In accepting the committee recommenda. said installin the overhead light without re Bon, council rejected proposals presented last ducing speed limits was looking after the main week by Blandford-Blenheim Township Coun- concerns of Oxford residents but "was not do- cillor Don Harder calling for installation of a Ing everything." Bashing red stop sign at the southwest comer "I can't support this; it's not fair to myself of County Road 35 and a reduction in the speed to say we have done everything we could to, °i limit to 35 from 50 m.p.h, on County Road 4 trek after the Intersection If we don't lower near Blandford Mall. speed limits." Harder appeared before council with aL,6W- In voting against Harder's flashing stop sign name petition to back his plea for more safety proposal, Conn. Phil Poole of Woodstock said: �_ measures at the Intersection where two per. "Once we start to Install this kind of light, ma sons have been kilted since lost June. ny corners In the county will fall for the same ' lie called for Immediate action at the car- treatment." }„ ner. which is slated to be Improved later this year. The public works committee proppousal will be implemented this summer, according to Coup. Perry Sibbick, chairman of the committee. Slbbick sold the committee rejected a speed i_ limit reduction because members felt a 50 m,p.h. limit on curves near Blandford Mall was reasonable. - "Couuly Road 4 has the purpose of carrying Doug Harris ... we're worth it Oxford to start count of voters Free Press Wesdslsck Bureau WOODSTOCK — Enumeration of voters fo the June 9 provincial election will begin in in ford riding next Monday. W. David ichard- returning officer for The electoral district of Oxford said Monday. .Enumerations will last until May 14. Rini: ards said, when voters' lists will be posted in all polling subdivisions is let residents maI . sure their names are Included. The returning officer said 416 enumerato7,. will be hired to knock on doors and another I,, persons will be engaged as poll clerks and dep my returning offtaers. BLUES CHASER The government is a .strong believer in ESP extra spending power. MEDIC ALERT MONTH Warden Kenneth Peers thouse Thursday. During the visit schools to promote the and medic alert month co- month, committees from the bracelets or necklaces which chairman Doug Ruth deft) Oxford Life Underwriters contain an individuals. examined a poster Association, which is medical problem inscribed following the warden's sponsoring the program, will on the back.. (Staff photos proclamation at the cour Use of surplus funds cuts Oxford tax rise By R NDY R AI' Free Press Voodslock Bureau WOODSTOCK — Oxford Counts council ap. proved an Ilit-Wmillion budget Monday night calling for a 34.6-per-cent spending increase for 1977. The increase, originally to have meant a net tax levy increase of 32 per cent over 1976, was reduced to 7.73 per cent when council agreed to transfer $M,000 from its surplus fund into revenue. This reduced the net levy to the county's eight municipalities to about $1,380,000 from $1,731,645. About $40 r000 remains in the county's sur- plus fund, which has built up over the years through money placed in the budget but not -spent. The only sizeable cut in spending was a halving of the $50.D00 expenditure for the county's contingency fund, one of the main contributors to a surplus. Court- Perry Sibbick of Blandford-Blenhiem Township said council should consider using part of the surplus as "a service" to the peo- pie. "We've accumulated a considerable surplus o} er the years and we've asked the people during the last two years for more money than we have needed— let's do them a service by using some of the accumulated surplus we've accumulated since restructuring." Warden Ken Peers, who called Sibbick's suggestion "a motherhood -type resolution," said: '-There will be expenses over the next few years and we will have to pick up the Add- ed costs." One minor spending addition to the budget was made at the suggestion of Court. Jack ii'arden of Ingersoll. Council added SM to the ,i board of health budget as added remuneration for county public health inspector Michael Bragg. A move to allocate funds for the Woodstock Women's Emergency Centre was again reject- ed. Coon. Wendy Calder of Woodstock had moved that Oxford donate $1,000 to the centre. Council had earlier denied a request for an in- creased per diem rate to the centre, a move organizers says will force it to close. Coon. Harold Vogt of East Zorra-Tayistock Township who has compaigned against in- creased funds for the centre, which provides shelter for women and children in distress, re. fused to budge from his earlier stand against funding. "We've dealt with this many times before. Woodstock had 18 occurrences to use the shel- ter, East Zorra-Tavistock two and Norwich and Blandford-Blenheim townships none. if Woodstock Is so strong on this (control, why not take the money out of its own budget In- stead of the county budget," Coun. Jack Burn of Norwich Township would not support the motion for a grant until the health and social services committee fur- ther discusses the matter at Its meeting Wednesday night. A delegation from the Lawrason Street cen- tre will appear before council May 25. Other highligghts of the budget, to be ap- proved Dually by council May 11, Included: an increased county roads budget, up $1.2 million to about $4 million over 1976; a 6.8-per-cent in- crease in general government costs including a 10-per-cent pay raise for council; a I6.8-per- cenl Increase in general welfare spending; $206,000 over two years to help finance a new psychiatric wing at Woodstock General Hospi- tal. Other Increases in spending include; a 41.5- per-cent increase in assistance to old persons; a 25.6-percent increase in day nursery spend- ing; a 21.7-percent increase In the libraries budget; a 9.4-per-cent increase in the rec- reation and community services budget; and an 11.4-percent increase for planning and de- velopment in Oxford. The eight municipalities are Woodstock, In- gersoll, Tillsonburg, Blandford-Blenheim Township, Norwich Township, South-West Ox- ford Township, Zorra Township and East Zor- ra-Tavistock Township. Councillors may attend county meet Free Press Woodstock Bureau WOODSTOCK — The county adminis- tration and finance committee has asked oxford council to denote May 25 as "local council day at county council;' — in order to familiarize area councillors with the workingsof county government. Coon. Doug Harris of Ingersoll, who suggested the special day, said it would give councillors from the county's eight municipalities a chance to talk with coun- ty councillors and ask questions about the proceedings. Harris said a visit by former Oxford warden Perry Sibbick to Ingersoll council Iasi year proved valuable for town cou t- cDlors. "If nothing else it gave them a chance to meet the warden and ask him :some questions," he said. Carter will receive Woodstock man's art F revs Press Woodstock Bureau ' WOODSTOCK — Artist Ross Butler of RR f, Woodstock is to present U.S. President Jimmy Carter with his painting of the first battle flag of the republic during celebrations marking the anniversary of American revolution bat- tles in Rome, N.Y., in August. Butler, a descendant of a colonel who parti cipatcd In the war, did the painting front a nag he saw engraved on a powder horn while he was researching the life of his great -great- grandfather. - Several thousand reproductions of the palm- Ing have boon made and ure sold at Fort Star nwfx in New York. After the painting is presented to Carter. It Is to be sent to Washington to be hung In Ohc White House. a During August's festivities, Butler will +o play the part of fill, a icestor Iba re-creation of the battle of Orlskuny. In which Col, John Bill ter demanded the surrender of the fort. More than 1,000 revolutionary soldlers died In ihr ensuing battle, The Butler painting, along with another Ono of his paintings and 50 scutpturfs, will be on display In Rome In August ailing with a collet lion of revolutionary war artifacts from other sources. The value of the total exhibit is esihnated at more than $i million, and about 750,000 vini ton are expected to see it. Warden Ken Peers said Treasurer Dar- cy McKetntgh has suggested that county and regional heads visit local councils. Oxford County is made up of Wood. stock, Ingersoll. Tillsonburg, and Norwich, South-West Oxford, Zorra, Blandford-Blenheim and East Zorra-Tav- islock townships. All are represented by two members of council, the mayor and a councillor at large, except Woodstock, which has six representatives on the 20-member county council. Count. Phil Poole of Woodstock suggest- ed the agenda of the May 25 night meeting be fitted into a specific time allotment to allow for discussion following council's business. County council will consider the propor - al May 11. Oxford granted funds to create nature trail park WOODSTOCK — Oxford County has re - seised a $3 000 Experience '77 grant from the ministry of culture and recreation to him, two students to set up nature trails on county - owned parkland between Woodstock and Beachvllle. County clerk Gerry Staples told the adminis- tration and finance committee Tuesday night ads will be placed in local papers for the -stu- dents. They will work in etroperation with ar ea recreation authorities to design nature trails, clean up brush and show people around parts of the 2a0-acre park on the north side of Illghway 2 between here and Beachville, The county has contributed an additional $tiDo to the project which Is expected W start In .tune and end August 27. Staples said a leader, preferably' a unI erst• ty student In a parks related field, and a sec, ondary sehtwl student will be hired, Development of the parkland to a plan pre pared by the ministrryy of natural resources Is to include trails, wild areas and foot brldg- es across the Thames River. ,This sum kir's project is the first of three phones of development. 3Z Help Wanted 1:W* COU117Y OF OXFORD TECHNICAL PERSONNEL The following technical personnel are required to fill new positions in the Public Works Department of the County of Oxford: OPERATIONS ENGINEER — Responsible for maintenance and operations in County roads, solid waste management, buildingsr sewer and water, drainage, traffic engineering. The County requires a registered professional engineer (civil) with a minimum of 12 years' responsible Canadian ex- perience, not less than 6 years of which to have been in Federal, Provincial or Municipal govern ment service. Starting salary $25,000 per annum, ranging to $29,000 maximum over a minimum period of 5 years. CONSTRUCTION SUPERVISOR — To assist the County Construction Engineer in design, layout and supervision of construction of all new public works under County jurisdiction, with major emphasis on roads and bridges. The County requires a person with ten years' progressively responsible ex perience, five years at supervisory level, in the related fields, and a minimum grade 12 education. Starting salary negotiable within the range $15,560 to 518,86a. depending on the qualifications of the successful applicant. Both positions offer a full range of employee fringe benefits. Ap- plications will be received, and considered in confidence, until Friday, May 20th, 1977. Donald L. Pratt, P. Eng. County Engineer Court House P.D. Box 397 Woodstock, Ontario N4S 7Y3 • • • 0 Heritage official lauds courthouse area study Free Press Woodstock Bureau 14OODSTOCK — Oxford County counell's decision to undertake a feasibility study of the 1:nurlhause square was an excellent move, a director of the Ontario Heritage Foundation .aid here Monday. "it you're going to spend millions, pall might as well spend a few thousand to look at Alernatives," said Anthony Adamson. tie was referring to an earlier council decision to ommisskm a study before deciding what to do with the square. The six -week study, which might cost be, wcon $6,000 and $10.000. would focus on possi- ble uses for the abandoned jail and other buildings in the square, renovations required and a proposed architectural design. The jail, wms vacated when the Elgin -Middlesex Detem; i ion Centre opened in Landon in April. The county and the foundation will split the ,tudy's cost. Council hasn't decided who will ao the study or when it will begin. The study's cost can't be calculated until the terms of reference are decided, Adamson .a ad, He said Woodstock and Oxford County have .� complicated problem caused by the empty jail and the cramped county offices County offices are in the courthouse at Hin- ter and Graham streets, and Adamson said it -would be a pity" if the council abandoned its connection with the courthouse. A major result of the study would be discov- ,-ring what Woodstock residents want done with the square, said Adamson. "Council must find out what the people are Interested in In Woodstock. Do they want the jail torn down — used — one wall kept stand- ing?" Adamson said In an interview. "The space needs of the county council must also be taken into consideration," he said. Council has agreed to undertake the study before drawing up plans for a new administra- tion facility. Adamson said: "it would be a pity Up aban- don the square and to go out and buy a farm with plenty of parking and space for snowplow* - Art Hardy appointed as acting fire chief WOODSTOCK-Deputy Fire Chief Art liar dy has been appointed acting city fire chief while Woodstock searches for a replacement Fur former fire chief William Martin, whom- resignuton became effective Monday. Citv officials said some applications haca hat n received fur the position, which hag been pnstc,(Laicity hall and advertised in newspa- per.. The new chief will double as county fire co- ordinator. - Martin announced his resignation in Febru- ary because he said the city failed to live up to terms of his contract. lie had been city fire chief since 19T). BLUES CHASER Patient to doctor: "Well. which is it this time =:something I have to lire with or some- 1hing1haletolip2 without?" women'S Emergency Centre - council changes attitude A decision Wednesday by Oxford County council to in- crease funding for the Women's Emergency Centre was Drumbo unveils described by centre officials as an encouraging change n at- titude on the part of the majority of council members. Councillors, who last month village founder ' turned down an appeal for '. additional funds by an over- Free Press Woodstock Bureau whelming majority, voted 14-5 DRUMBO — A plaque honoring the founder at the May 11 meeting in favor of this village, Squire Henry Munia, was of increasing the daily rate to unveiled here Sunday by his great-grandson, $10 for adults and children from Howard Wilson, a Drumbo resident. Squire Mums settled in the area about 1834, $7 for adults and $5 for children. and made the first survey of the village in The additional funds, sub- 18u. His great -greet -grandson, Robert Wilson, sidized Ba per cent b y the also of Drumbo, talked of the founder's histo- province under General Welfare ry during the unveiling ceremonies, held at Assistance, will make an the site of Muma's first home. estimated $6,000available to the The home was later turned into a general centre for the coming year, store by hip son, and was known as the Muma . which runs from June to June. Block. During his lifetime, Muma both saw the vil- Under last year's agreement, lage prosper and be seriously damaged twice the centre was eligible for a maximum by fire, once in 1862 and again twodears later. Inolustrlal of $3,000 in daily lie lost his home and several and support payments, with the commercial buildings in the fires. comity paying 20 per cent of this I The 1862 fire destroyed 50 businesses in the total, or $600. Under the new village, Later he was appointed government land agreement, the county will contribute about $1,200. purchaser, and was governnenl represenla- Eligibility regulrements and tive in closing the land deal for the purchase of property for fire first Wellund Canal. the five-day limit on support Afterethe unveiling, a display of artlfaets payments remain in the new and pictures of early Drumbo. Including a poo contract, which requires that trait of Muma, went an display In the agricul residents housed at the centre ntre Imilding at Drumbo raifgrounds. be eligible for General Welfare Assistance in order to receive the daily support payment. The County of Oxford Invites written applications from Secondary and Post Secondary School Students to supervise and assist in an outdoor recreational and nature trail program, in the Beachville area. This Student Summer Employment Project is sponsored by the Ministry of Culture and Recreation Experience '77 Program 40. Duration 8 to 11 weeks. Forward applications to MR. G. R. STAPLES, Clerk, County of Oxford, Box 397, Woodstock, Ontario N45 7Y3 Monday, May 9, 1977 THE WIDE-EYED WONDER (t's hard to tell whether .l)oil g m to Chambers, 3, at Wnodsluck was caught off guard by the holugrapher or his feeding during the lunch hour of the open house of the tlxford Developmental Centre. Dougie wastit otu� hp eat everything in his w until Oxford County Warden Ken Peers came along to convince him by helping him down his food in the traditional manner. Over 100 peopI e attended the open Dose. including people hvm Oxford Regional Centre, Oxford Health Unit and Blossom Park School. tSlaff Photo by Anne Valavaarat COUNTY COUNCIL Surplus fund -use to reduce budget called 'mistake' Ry CHRIS NIXON Sentinel -Review Staff Writer County council's 19n budget was formally approved Wed- nesday, but some councillors believe paring down a levy in- crease by using surplus funds was a mistake. Expenditures for the year are estimated at $8.8 million, a 34 per cent spending increase over Iris costs. The levy increase was reduced to 7.7 per cent last week by council after it voted to use 5850,000 in surplus funds to cut it down- Coun. Jack Burn of Norwich Township said bringing the surplus into play was a mistake. "I made a mistake... I made a serious mistake by spending that amount of money... I don't blame administration and finance committee, I blame myself." DEFEATED Burn's motion to send the' budget back to administration and finance committee to take out the surplus funds was defeated, but not before he got support from other councillors. Aid Wendy Calder of Woodstock said she was more concerned about the over-all budget increase. i probably didn't do enough thinking at the last (budge) meeting she said. "1 did Mc too quickly and I think we should look at it again." Mrs. Calder said cutting the levy increase with surplus funds "is not really showing a true picture to the taxpayers." She said too much of the county's $705,000 surplus was used. Coun. Wallis Hammond of Zorra Township said using half the total surplus "was a great mistake." His words were echoed by Ingersoll Mayor Douglas Harris who added that council's move signals "it is only a matter of time before deficit spending." Harris said it's becoming evident restructured county government is starting to cost more. SURPLUS Warden Ken Peers said council could do little about the spending increases, but added the surplus funds should not have been brought into use. "As you know, I'm just a farm boy and I like to have some money in the bank," he said. If unforeseen capital ex- penditures arise, the county will be forced to debenture the costs. With luck, Peers added, the debenture cost will only be double the amount debentured. "I agree we should take some surplus funds, but I hate to see $350,000 taken." Dump -site expropriation OK'd despite opposition By CHRIS NIXON Sentinel -Review Staff Writer County council voted Wed- nesday to expropriate 150 acres of farmland near Salford for a landfill site despite opposition from South-West Oxford Township Mayor Lou Barrett. Barrett, who twice last year as a citizen presented briefs to council against Its choice of the site, called recorded votes on all three readings to a bylaw iauthorizing the expropriation. The mayor — once the operator of the land and until recently holder of a mortgage on it — said he firmly believes landfill on the site will pose environmental hazards. He told council and reporters later his prime concern is the danger that seepage from garbage will leak into nearby creeks and eventually con - I taminate the Thames River i watershed. But his motions to reject the Salford site and to defer final reading on the bylaw pending further investigation into recycling waste methods, were defeated 16-to-2 and 15-to-3 respectively. He was supported on both motions by the other South-West Oxford representative, Court. Cecil Wilson. Wilson didn't offer any verbal support during the debates. Coun. Wally Hammond of Zorra Township voted against shelving the proposed site but voted for Barrett's motion to PIERRE KEEPS CHILDREN Trudeaus decide 40 on a separation OTTAWA (CP) — Prime Min- ister Trudeau and his wife, Margaret, have agreed to a le- gal separation, formally ending iheit volatile and sometimes controversial relationship. The prime minister's office is- sued a terse statement late Fri- day saying the two "shall begin living separately and apart" at Margaret's wishes. A member of Trudeau's staff said the wording of the state- ment constituted a formal sepa- ration. It was not known if a divorce will follow, "Margaret relinquishes all privileges as the wife of the prime minister and wishes to leave the marriage and pursue an independent career," the statement said, "Pierre will have custody of their threes" g W ing Margaret generous access to them. "Pierre accepts MaTZ'tt.s decision with regret and both pray that their separation will lead to a Wier relationship be- tween themselves." Margaret Trudeau ... seeks career The breakup followed an in- creasing estrangement of Trudeau, 57, from his 28-yearold wife -during the last three months, Trudeau, Margaret, her fam ityy and friends were all unavail. af�le for comment following the announc•ement., Pierre Trudeau ... announces it Lou Barrett ... protestiost hold off the third reading. COSTLY Coun. Perry Sibbick of Blandford-Blenheim Township, chairman of public works committee, said recycling methods still appear too costly. "Public works has taken the feeling that at this point in time, as far as the county is con - earned, it would cost $5 a ton to take care of garbage with a landfill site and with recycling it would be about $30 to $35 a ton," he said. Despite the obvious benefits of recycling, he added, a landfill site still is needed to dispose of non -retrievable waste. Before the votes were called, Barrett told reporters he was expecting the lopsided outcome "because other councillors don't want it (landfill site) in their area. either." The county already owns about 50 acres adjoining the property. And while preliminary testing by consultants is showing the site may be ideal for a landfill spot, provincial environment ministry approval must be given before a site is developed. Wally Wells of M.M. Dillon Consultants, told council the Salford property appears to be the most suitable area. OTHER AREAS He said other areas east of Woodstock have been eliminated because of potential higtiway routes, road access and land availability problems. Southern parts of the county were also ruled out because of land availability problems and the substandard condition of County Road 40 to accommodate heavy trucks. Wells said access and topographical problems eliminated areas south of Ingersoll. So far, boring has shown the site is suitable for landfill pur- poses, but consultants have been denied access to the property which will be expropriated to expand drilling operations. More drilling is necessary to obtain enough information for consideration of the site by the environment ministry, another Dillon spokesman said. He told Barrett his Curt and the environment ministry would not recommend the Salford site if it is determined en- vironmental damages appear possible. The consultants estimate the county's total garbage output will increase to 93,647 tons a year by 1991 from 62,213 in 1976. PROTECTION The criteria for a landfill site includes the maximum protection to the environment, minimum disturbance to the surrounding area, closeness to the centre of the servicing area, access to highways and paved county roads and enough .available land to handle gar- bage for 15 years. "-The area best fitting the criteria is at Salford." Wells said. Barrett also charged that the site is relatively open and winds will toss garbage throughout the nearby countryside. Aid. Philip Poole of Woodstock asked why two smaller sites weren't proposed instead of one large one. That move would cut down the distance travelled to carry waste to the site. Wells said it would be more feasible to operate one site because — regardless of size — the sites must be operated under strict provincial standards. Oxford to speed budget planning Free Press Woodstock Bureau WOODSTOCK — Osford County council has .wcepled recommendations from Its adni ni., ration and finanve committee to speed up ntnly, budget deliberations and give the coin ,i i i l tee more Input into county spending. Council agreed Wednesday night to have all .is departments submit preliminary budget, i,> Dec. 15 and have the warden's committer ,•commend all county staff salary adiust- mcnts for the fallowing }% cur by the same date. Council also agreed that a special budget meeting should be held no later than Marsh m rnch ycar and that all departments) spending rsilaiates be presented to council by the chair man of the administration and BnanM' C11111 ulitlee, This iwar's special budget meeting was not hold until May 3 and, as In past years, ouch rununiuee chairman has presented his coalr miltev's budget to council, a sweet adminis Irmlon and flnanea eonimillee members have called frivolous. Cbuti. 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U y E V W w F 6 Y vtl 9 :J Michael Casselman •SOWS �• John Macdonald 50,501 eligible to cast ballots Harry Parrott Norwich arena in Oxford opening May 27 Free Press Woodstock Bureau WOODSTOCK — Oxford County returning NORWICH — The town's $1133,,000 arena and Stdyt871on hall complex will officially open officer Dave Richards announced Sunday 50, Stil personswill eligible to vote In the pro- •Inn complex, which contains an aai-sent ec ante June 9, June vlThis arena and a 500-seat community hall, replaces This Is is increase from the 1075 an arena demolished last summar which did net meet ministry of labor safety standards, when a ell h were eligible and 72.Ja officials said anew stage for the hall will be pelectionc" per eetlf stoat their balled. their ba The Ilat was Increased 2111 by the 9 p.m, suturday deadline for addby itions to names added and a public address system will be In. ',stalled In the arena, turned in by enumerators. LEGAL NOTICEI NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR APPROVAL TO EXPROPRIATE LAND IN THE MATTER OF an application by The Corporation of the County of Oxford for approval to expropriate land being part of Lot 12, Concession 9 formerly in the Township of Blenheim, now in t6 Township of Blandford-Blenheim, in the County of Oxford, for the purpose of road widening and realignment. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that application has been made for approval to expropriate the land described as follows: All that portion of Lot 12, Concession 9, formerly in the Township of Blenheim, now in the Township of Blandford-Blenheim, in the County of Oxford and Province of Ontario designated as PARTS ONE (1), TWO (2), THREE (3) and FOUR (4) on a Reference Plan deposited in the Registry Office for the Registry Division of the County of Oxford as 4111-1569. Any owner of lands in respect of which notice is given who desires an inquiry into whether the taking of such land is fair, sound and reasonably necessary in the achievement of the objectives of the expropriating authority shall so notify the approving authority in writing, (a) in the case of a registered owner, served personally or by registered mail within thirty days after he is served with the notice, or, when he is served by publication, within thirty days after the first publication of the notice; (b) in the case of an owner who is not a registered owner, within thirty days after the first publication of .the notice. The approving authority is The Cofincil of the Corporation of the County of Oxford Court House Woodstock, Ontario THE CORPORATION OF THE COUNTY OF OXFORD G. R. STAPLES, Clerk NOTES: 1. The Expropriations Act provides that, (a) where an inquiry is requested, it shall be conducted by an inquiry officer appointed by the Minister of Justice and Attorney General; (b) the inquiry officer, (i) shall give every party to the inquiry an opportunity to present evidence and argument and to examine and cross-examine witnesses, either personally or by his counsel or agent, and (ii) may recommend to the approving authority that a party to the inquiry be paid a fixed amount for his costs ofthe inquiry not to exceed $200 and the approving authority may in its discretion order the expropriating authority to pay such costs forthwith. 2. `owner" and "registered owner" are defined in the Act as follows: "owner" includes a mortgagee, tenant, execution creditor, a person entitled to a limited estate or interest in land, a committee of the estate of a mentally incompetent person or of a person incapable of managing his affairs, and a guardian, executor, administrator or trustee in whom land is vested; "registered owner" mean an owner of land whose interest in the land is defined and whose name is specified in an instrument in the proper registry, land titles or sheriff's office, and includes a person shown as a tenant of land on the last revised assessment roll; 3. The expropriating authority, each owner who notifies the approving authority that he desires a hearing in respect of the lands intended to be expropriated and any owner added as a party by the inquiry officer are parties to the inquiry. This notice first published on the 18th day of Iday, 1977. c20-3t 300 at official opening of new Norwich centre NORWICII -- About 300 person, allonded ;llwul $S5.000 has .been dtmaled or pledged the official opening of the Norwich Township touard the $W.177 arena, fund chairin.m community centre here Friday night. Fred Thompson said Friday, The new centre, with an arena and audited, If the community can raise an additional unt, n+pplacax the old fuelitty demolished last $MAGO, Wimarie, will match tin total with a your ages the labor ministry ordered it elm*d grunt, hesaid la,cuuse of .si rncturdl defects, 'rho ao^ua has tweu in u9u amee January. 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'�: H C o o w W nA `3ac o�E°�� c3 64o1vapo Ew O i % 7g1=- h Eooa�o"E ESSE— ?OEM HE BLUES CHASER �vhenvver you see a man will) a handker - nwr sock,+ and He in mulch, You may be sure on ucn rnr4 a prc.rnt Boundary changes unwanted Six of Oxford Courdy's eight municipalifies have answered a directive on future boundary changes and most don't want .changes, county clerk ferry Staples said Monday. Staples told county council's administration and finance committee most of the, municipalities are recom- mending no boundary ad- justments are required while Woodstock and Tilisonburg are looking for land in surrounding townships. Zorra Township and Ingersoll have not submitted their j boundary requirements. County municipalities were asked to submit all possible boundary adjustments to be sent to Ontario Treasurer Darcy McKeough. Taxes rise in Ingersoll by $50-$66 i Free Press Woodstock Bureau INGERSOLL — Home owners with resi- dences assessed at the average $4,900 face tax increases of between $50 80 and $rib a year, In- gersoll deputy clerk Marion Knott said Tuesi- dav: ROAD WORKERS GETTING RAISE WOODSTOCK — County council Wednesday approved eight -per -cent pay raises retroactive to Dec. 23 for 28 outside road workers, all members of Canadian Union of Public Em- ployees, Local 1589. The increases, which require federal anti-in- flation board approval, increase hourly rates for laborers to $5.33 from $4.92 and truck and backhoe operators to $5.48 from $5.07. Grader operators' hourly rates will increase to $5.58 from $5.17 while repairmen -operators jump to $5.73 from $5.32. County engineering director Don Pratt said the settlement is a one year pact. Oxford council plans seminar for councillors Free Press Woodstock Bureau WOODSTOCK — About 48 of Oxford Coun- Ig'S 73 municipal councillors are expected to ;,fiend a county council -sponsored seminar June 18 in Titlsonburg, Cont. Keith Latter of Woodstock said Wednesday. Speakers at the all -day seminar in the town's community centre will, include Lawrence Close, director of municipal fi nances for treasury, economics and intergo- vernmental affairs, who will discuss taxation. and Edward A. Horton, a special advisor to die federal anti-inflation board. Latter, co-organizer of the seminar with .John Armstrong, mayor of Tillsonburg, said r arious county councillors and county admiro)e istration officials will also speak on planning, the county waterworks and sewage system and the duties of county councillors. He said ample time will be allowed for ques- E tinn and answer periods following speakers. Latter said such a seminar allows. In let all councillors from Oxford's etght municipalities io meet their counterparts and provides infor- mation by "discussing things weareall Is q with.^ -•The net result of the day we hope will be better trained councillors who will be able to do a better job," Latter said. •'Arid any function of council which brtng� members together has the effect of making the county and council a more cohesive group," he said. Conn. Armstrong will chair the public semi- nar which will run from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. A ,imilar session was held last Sear in Ingersoll. McKeough clears Oxford's spending County council has not shown "reckless behavior" in spending ,and this year's 35-per-cent spending increase is a result of mitigating circumstances", Ontario Treasurer Darcy 'McKeough has told an Ingersoll man. Or a May 26 letter to D. L. Cole of Ingersoll, McKeough says the spending increases are due lorgely to the $500,000 cost of expanding Woodingford Lodge and a $1-million hike in road construction and maintenance costs because of increased county road mileage. Cole wrote to the treasurer early in May requesting he look into the county's spending practices and intervene If necessary. McKeough 'a staff investigated C:ole's letter, but says he will not .intervene into county spending. "It would be highly improper for me or for my ministry for that matter to intervene, as .you 'have urged me to, in the affairs of your county council," McKeough says. •'Fur me to do so would jeopardize the entire structure of our local government system in Ontario and make a shamble of the concept of local autonomy and accountability. "i personally do not sue Darcy McKeough , .. Out. treasurer spending on homes for the aged and roads as being as irresponsible as you imply. particularly when these can be accomplished with modest in- creases in Property taxes,,. McKeough also says council hod to — by law — use at least $20o,ot10 of its surplus as revenue In this year's budget because it wits generated last year, • • Oxford to request pipeline along road Free Press %oodstock Bureau WOODSTOCK — Oxford County will ask t, man Gas Ltd. of Chatham to consider build- ing a proposed natural gas pipeline on road al- luwancas rather than farmland. The decision came Wednesday following a rt"mmendatlon from county councilos plan- ning committee which last week expressed concern that valuable farmland could be af- fected it the 2I-mile litre is allowed to cut across farms en mute to Tlilsonburg from In- Orsufl. The project, which would cost about 52.5 millhtn and begin in midd978, would travel from Ingersoll through South-lfes1 Oxford Township, west of the Derehani-Norwich • tnw'nfve, and through the southwest corner of Norwich Township before joining a pumping Compam officials say the h(gh pressure line Will follow lot lines most of the way end clubs Installation of pipelines neat to roads is against company policy. On Wednesday, councillor boss Livingston, of Blandford-Blenheim Township„ a member' of the planning committee, questioned placing'.. the line near roadways. "I have a lot of reservations about about a Son -pound pressure line running close to a' road. There is danger of pipeline damage. I' wish it could be done but I really question It, he said. Coon. Louts Barrett, Mayor of South-West Oxford Township also argued that putting the line near roads would pose more problems than location an farmland. . It wdll disrupt roads, entrances to farms and the front of farms;' said Barrett, whose council entertained a delegation from Union (vas on Tuesday. 'There is no harm in asking the company to 'consider the feasibility of following the road, but if the line is located there it could cause more trouble." Coun. Ken Webster of Tilisonborg, chairman of the planning committee, argued in favor of locating the line on a road allowance because it would cause less disruption. -'I'd like to see a utility corridor established rather than helter skelter utilities all over the place;' he said, reminding council that the proposed route would require eight land sever- ances. According to Union Gas officials, the line is needed to provide naturalgas for growth in Tilisonburg and nearby tobacco curing mar kets in Delhi and Tillsonburg. the project. public Best Oford meeting opinions a IDr. Harry Parrott with wife Isabel watching. results. Meanwhile, the company has planned a se Pmeetings P vied Tuesday in the community centre in Fol- den= nt C ill p_ni_ _ (Staff photo) PC GOVERNMENT... ...STILL A MINORITY... ...SMITH TOPS LEWIS Parrott, Nixon W-1--n i n Oxford- Three in a row for PC member By CHRIS NIXON Sentinel -Review Staff Writer The provincial election sweep in Oxford riding by incumbent Progressive Conservative Harry Parrott Thursday left his previously optimistic opponents disappointed and disillusioned. For his third consecutive election, the colleges and universities minister won a clear majority of votes, picking up about 51 per cent of the popular vote —or 17.702 votes, Liberal candidate John Macdonald finished with 12,658 ballots cast in his favor, or 36.3 per cent of the popular vote while NDP runner Michael Casselman tallied 4,420 votes, or t2 7 per crem of the popular vote All throe candidates though failed to pick up much ground from the IW5 election. A slight drop in NDP votes was reflected in slight increases for the Tories and Liberals. Vole Percentage Total of Vote Parrott (PC) 17.7W2 51 tlfacdaualdr[.ih.1 12,w :f53 Cambrian (NE)Pt 4,420 127 Liberal Itobert Nixon with his wife Dorothy, after victory. (Starr photo) 191 Innerkip drain project not approved by OMB By CHRIS NIXON Sewttael-Review Staff Writes TAVISTOCK—East Zorra- Tavislock Township council was "led to believe" the Ontario Municipal Board TOMB) would approve its request for capital financing on the Innerkip drain, township Mayor Harold Vogt said Monday. Vogt said in an interview OMB officials had told township clerk John Killing approval for the draim, costing lust under $.'t00,000, would be forthcoming. Council March I accepted a tender bid for the project from Blue -Con Construction Ltd. of tAndon and construction started March It - Vogt said councillors un- derstood OMB approval would be obtained when they voted to go ahead with the project. But in a May 13 meeting with OMB officials, Killing was told funds wouldn't be provided because a start on work took the project out of the board's jurisdiction. At a special meeting behind closed doors with Oxford MPP- elect Harry Parrott, council asked Parrott to investigate the procedure of steering a private member's bill through the legislature. A private member's bill would SALARIES APPROVED The federal anti-inflation board IAIBI has approved 10 per cent pay increases county councillors voted themselves in March. The increases raise a councillor's salary to $5,500 a year from $5,000 a year and the warden's to $16,500 a year from $15mo- The salaries are retroactive to Jan 1. provide alternae fina ncing for the project being Itaaid for now from the townships current funds. Parrott has said he will take the bill to the legislature but "will not lake sides." UNDER FIRE Council has come under fire from an Innerkip ratepayer's association for not properly handling the drain's develop- ment. The township's application for capital financing dated back to June, 1975. Appproval still wasn't given for debenturing of about $ri4,(100 this spring, but an OMB spokesman said Monday the two-year time lapse is not unusual. Board clerk Dennis Daoust said in a telephone interview from Toronto the board during the two years corresponded with the township on many occasions. Correspondence included general information on the drain and reports. Daoust said it could not be determined how close the financing request was to being approved because objections to Its development had been filed. "With objections, you never know how long it might take," he said. Daoust said it's not the first time a municipality has proceeded with a project before approval is given. It doesn't happen that often. APPROVAL LIKELY While a provincial treasury solicitor said the failure of the private member's bill to pass PUBLIC NOTICE COUNTY OF OXFORD Summer Business Hours 8:30 A.M. to 4:30 P.M. Monday to Friday J une 20, 1977 to September 16, 1977 G.R. Staples Clerk, Court House, Ingersoll worker Loto millionaire INGEIISOLL — A 43-year-old Ingersoll ba- chelor won $I million In the Loto Canada draw Sunday night, a lottery official confirmed John Brown, a machine operator at the Kel sey-Hayes Canada Ltd. plant In Woodstock for the past three years, was told he was the only Ontario winner in the draw. Carol McDonald of Loto Canada's regional office in Toronto said Brown's first reaction was that he was "going out to buy the biggest Cadillac going" and was heading to a friend's boom- to celebrate. He Bald he was going to To- ronto today collect his winnings. Brown, who lives at M)A Thames St., wa+ in a group holding 20 tkkets but bought two more for klmsclf, one of which was the winner. He said he watched the draw on television and had written down all the numbers but didn't realize he had won until the person who sold him the ticket at the (loyal Canadian 1w Lib,n brmeh In Ingersoll called hhn. Asked if he planned to travel with his new found wealth, he replied that he was just going to visit his father and sister in Windsor and otter relatives in the Toronto area for now. Oxford -area officials gather for seminar TILLSONBURG — Forty-two members of oxford County and municipal councils gath- v red at the THlsonburg community complex Saturday to get acquainted and exchange ide- as at the second annual councillors' seminar. 'Phis yyear's day -long seminar, co-chaired by I ilhi inburg Mayor Jack Armstrong and Wood- slork city councillor Keith Latter, featured guest speakers Ed Horton of the federal anW inflation board; Lawrence Close, director of municipal finance for the ontario ministry of treasury and intergovernmental affairs; Pet- er Acheson, county planning director, and Ox- ford engineering director Don Pratt. through the legislature could leave the town's councillors personally liable for the cost of the drain, a municipal affairs spokesman said the bill likely will be successful. "I've never know it (failure of a private member's bill of this nature to Pass) to happen," the spokesman said. "There could always be a first time but I'd be surprised. "It's a recognized out for municipalities that accidentally did somethingthey shouldn't have done," he said The treasury solicitor said the degree of personal liability on councillors would depend on "whether it was more than a goof -up... a more flagrant refusal to go through the or- dinary procedures." $2, 750 FOR CREST OTTp RVILLE Norwich township council has agreed to purchase a design and transparencies of a township crest from Ross Butler, a local artist. Robert Watkins, clerk- treasurer,said today the cost of the design and tran- sparency is $2,750, The crest will be used on township stationery and on councillors jackets. Watkins said the design, 16 inches by 20 inches, depicts all aspects of the township, including the tobacco, far mmg and dairy industries. WIZ County council upset over debenture policy Burgess Graham Securities officials may find themselves in the hot seat at county council's July 13 meeting. Councillors from at least three county municipalities want answers to several questions, particularly, on sale of county debentures on the U. S. market. Council Wednesday night failed to endorse a resolution from South-West Oxford Township asking for the issuance of debentures on a higher number of occasions each year, but will ask Burgess Graham Securities —its fiscal agent —to attend council's next meeting. The township's resolution also criticized the length of time it 'takes for debentures to be released on markets once issued. Township Mayor Louis Hickson farmer gets vacated council seat HICKSON — East Lloyd tock Town, naird to ship council has appointed council to replace Gerald Campbell who re- signed June I. Kinnalyd, a Hickson area farmer, was rust runner-up in the December municipal election. DEBENTURE ISSUE County council Wednesday .night authorized its ad- ministration staff to issue a debenture of $39,400 for East Zorra—Tavislock Township under the Tile Drainage Act, ACCOUNTSAPPROVED County administration ac- counts totalling $59,338 were approved for payment Wed. nesday night by county council. COMPUTER LEASE County council Wednesday accepted an administration and finance committee recom mendatlon that the county rent a Quartet System 5M computer on it three-year lease. The cost will probably be between $1,559 to $1,002 a month., depending which I of two quotations the county chooses. Barrett said selling debentures before restructuring was easy. but it now appears to be "more involved and time-consuming." Since restructuring in 1975, only the county has had the authority to issue debentures. Barrett said debentures should be issued more often so municipalities would not have to pay for projects out of current revenue while debentures are being held off the market. He added that more deben- tures should be sold locally. "In our area we have a lot of people who looked forward to debentures as an inxestment," he said. "'They haven't made much fuss but they're wondering where the debentures are... they're the people paying for it." Debentures were sold locally in a recent issue, but county officials say the sales were disappointing. In an August, IW6 issue of $2.7 million on the U. S. market, local municipalities —including Woodstock —later found themselves paying the exchange rate on their debentures because of the decline in the value of the Canadian dollar. T1Hsoliburg was hit with a similar situation and Coun. Ken Webster of Tillsonbutg said the county should be picking up the "The local municipalities shouldn't be suffering because of something the county thinks is a good idea," he said. Aid. Walter Hulme of Woodstock also had second thoughts about the issue onto the U. S. market. All Canadians should have the first opportunity to buy county debentures, he said. Woodstock had to tome up with $10,000 this year because of losses in the Canadian dollar value. • 9 Profile By Jessie Robins Interviewing Gordon B. Henry, former mayor of Ingersoll, is reminiscent of watching a well-known Gordon Henry the only king Shakespeare ignored in his writings as not doing anything either good or bad worth writing about." Mr. Henry's father owned a dairy Jessie Robins, convener of Gordon Appreciation Night and Gordon Henry look over a pamphlet on Ingersoll, television commercial for a certain beer. He is effervescent, mellow and "proudly Canadian." Born Gordon Bower Henry to Irish descent parents, he traces his genealogy back seven generations on one side and five on the other. "I was Henry the Sixth", quips the former mayor. "There were eight children in the family and I was number six -- which many would say would not he a very promising start in life because the original Henry VI was farm where the young Gordon learned the intricacies of milking cows by hand, a knowledge which stood him in good stead decades later when he won the milking competition in the latter 60's at the Woodstock Fairgrounds. "I didn't tell them I was brought up on a dairy farm," Henry chuckles, "son "I didn't tell them I was brought up on a dairy farm," Henry chuckles, "so no one thought of me as serious competition. My strongest competitor nothing to fear from Mayor Jim Hutchinson of Woodstock when I saw him grabbing that poor cow's udder the wrong way. Why, Jim was pumping the milk back into the cow instead of out! And what little he did get from the crow, he shot it into his shoe instead of into the pail,„ Gordon went to school at Nepean in Carleton County. In 1930 he entered the Ontario Agricultural College with a T. Eaton Company scholarship. He graduated in 1934 with a Bachelor of Science and Agriculture degree, specializing in dairy science. His Cult employment following graduation was with Canada Packers Limited, in charge of their cheese department and in 1939 be was appointed plant suDerintendent of Ingersoll Cheese Company Limited, a, position held until 1946 when he became manager, the post he still holds. Taking everything he does seriously, and always giving his best to the task at hand, Gordon Henry credits his early farm training with his acceptance all his life of the work ethic to which he has adhered. "I learned very early in life what Eternity is," he remarks with a reminiscent smile. "My father grew 10 acres of turnips — that was the farm "tax money" — and when, as a young boy, one looked down one of those rows of turnips, hoe in hand, believe me, it looked like eternity to the other end!" Firmly grounded by now in the cheese industry, Gordon Henry became chairman of the cheese Trade Committee, representing the trade in negotiations with the Ontario Cheese Producers' Marketing Board and acting on an advisory committee on all things pertaining to the cheese industry. During this time, a number of briefs were presented by the committee to both the federal and provincial Departments of Agriculture regarding marketing and exporting Ontario cheddar cheese. When the Ontario Milk Marketing Board was formed in 1965. Mr. Henry was appointed a member of the Advisory Committee for Cheese on the Board and still serves in this capacity, Young Gordon was a married man by the time he came to Ingersoll, having chosen Aleda Rands of Shelbourne as his bride. Two little girls eventually arrived in the Henry household, Jill and Sue. Today those daughters are married and have added grandchildren for a (Continued on Page 2) 0 LJ 0 p Page 2, The Ingersoll Times, June 15, 1977 Gordon Henry always a good sport (Continued From Page 1) something is hidden in the stomping. Of that win, t,e Mr. Henry has warm praise. "I When the Ontario Milk Market- ground, we do not tend to think of one-time Greatest Stomper fae- doubt if two men, one the head of ing Board was formed in 1965, it as one of our assets, but our tiously observes, "That was to council and the other the clerk - Mr. Henry was appointed a sewage system is one of the most only year there were honst treasurer, ever worked better member of the Advisory Com- important assets we have," he judges!" together in all of Ontario. While mittee for Cheese on the Board observes. "Best of all, this Bill never presumed to invade and still serves in this capacity. updating did not increase the MEDIATOR my municipal territory, he was Young Gordon Henry was a indebtedness of the town." always availabe with a word of married man by the time he Mr. Henry has praise for Always a master of the touch)f advice when I asked for it. I will came to Ingersoll, having chosen Ingersoll merchants who co- humor, Gordon Henry credts always be grateful for Bill's Aleda Rands of Shelbourne as operated so well with the town's humor and his concern about aid unfailing co-operation and assis- his bride. Two little 'girls planned removal of overhead understanding of people for Is tance." eventually arrived in the Henry signs. An ardent advocate of successful mediation of t7o Of his wife, Aleda, the former household, Jill and Sue. beautification, the coming into prolonged strikes in the area. mayor speaks with pride, and Today those daughters are being of Dewan Festival Park Two successful mediations tok wonder at her patience. "Her married and have added grand- was one of the joys of Gord place in 1969 and 1970. loyal support was always there. children for a ninth generation of Henry's career. In the one instance it was a She would encourage me when Canadians. Jill is Mrs. Glen"Removing the old St. Charles local industry and feelings wee things went wrong; she never Simpson of Agincourt and the Hotel building with $55,000 in running very high. As he sought the limelight herself; and Simpsons have a daughter, assistance from the province, conflicting sides of managemat she had that wonderful knack of Susan,11 and a son, Jimmy, nine. was one of the high spots of my and labor filled the room, alof bringing my feet back on the Sue is Mrs. Erik Kralik and they years in office. This soon was from one another, Gord Heny, ground very quickly whenever I have two daughters, Christine followed by the demolition of the upon taking the chair, remarled tended to go into orbit over some - almost three and Heidi, three Skinner building and the creation that in that room, town couril thing. Without her I might have months. of the park. It is a town corner of usually opened the meeting wth achieved, but with, I aenieved a which we all can be proud." a prayer but noted, "On tis lot better!" Civic Involvement The acquisition of 100 acres for occasion, I wonder if we have a . Mrs. Henry, rarely at a loss for an Ingersoll industrial park in prayer..." Laughter followed.A words, is fiercely proud of her Now calling Ingersoll their 1970 "is the best asset Ingersoll distribution of Gordon's famus husband but admits that home, the Henrys soon became has at present", Mr. Henry "calling card candy bar" -- Gordon's political life left little involved in community activities. remarks. O'Henry chocolate bars -- to. time for private life. "But I am In 1939, Gordon joined the "We bought 100 acres for a sweeten the situation" broubt very proud of the contribution then -flourishing Y's Men's Club, mere $80,000 through our Indust- more chuckles, and before he Gord has made, and the fact that was District Governor for rial Development Corporation -- a day was out, an agreement vas he worked to make things better Southwestern Ontario for four handful of men looking to reached. for many, has made up for any years and an Ontario Regional Ingersoll's future -- one of the Questioned about his penclint sacrifices we made." Director for two years. wisest decisions ever made in for quick wit and a clever turrof Aleda Henry is aware that The Y's Men were a hard- Ingersoll, because today we have the phrase, former Mayor Hery there were occasions when her working men's club who put a valuable property which we agreed it was part of its husband agonized over the fact countless hours of effort into the could not purchase at $25,000 an philosophy of life. that he had to make a choice old Charles Street Arena. Gordon acre." "I took my work seriously -- lut ` between the good of the many and Henry recalls how he coached a If the former mayor has any I tried not to take myself oo • the wishes of the few, particular - Squirt hockey team and one of the regrets about "things which seriously. I found that almst . ly when "the few" sometimes players was the to -be -well might have been" it is that the invariably, a bit of humor or vit included friends. "I am proud to known hockey player and coach, town was not successful in helped in serious situations." • say that Gord's first thoughts "Goose" Land. acquiring Smith's Pond some Looking at his photograph • were always for the good of The Public School Board years ago and making it a beauty which will appear in this isle, Ingersoll and he always gave claimed the interest of Gordon spot. "It could have been -- and Gordon Henry's humor tuned anything he did his best effort -- for 20 years, eight of those as still could be -- a real gem in the effortlessly toward himself -- ' and I don't think anyone can ask chairman. He recalls that the heart of Ingersoll," he_remarks. "Look at that face! Like a reie£ .more than that from a sincere total budget in 1947 was $65,000 Gordon Henry was always a map of sand dunes after beng man." for Victory Memorial and good sport, ready to go along with furrowed by a rainstorm!" ind Then, turning from the serious Princess Elizabeth schools, and anything which promoted Inger- then he added with justifiale to her own ready wit, Aleda that seemed a high amount in soll. This writer remembers well pride, "But I've earned ev.ry jokingly remarks, "And don't let those days. During his term on the board, the evening in 1968 when, as chairman of the Cheese and Wine line!" IN RETROSPECT there came the building of Westfield and Princess Anne Festival, she phoned Mr. Henry who was at a council committee The decision to leave politcs, schools, two extensions to meeting, to inform him that the for a man as busy in the loal, Princess Elizabeth school and the Festival committee requested he county and provincial sphere; as gymtorium at Victory Memorial. agree challenging mayors of was Gordon Henry, was a gig Politics called and in 1968 other municipalities to stomp step in personal change of life Gordon Henry became mayor of he grapes. and pace. "I made my announcement rot Ingersoll. That same year brought home the first place. After his initial gasp of incredulity, he agreed, and went to seek office again on Setpemer trophy from the International along with this and any other 5, 1976. I realized that this wa a Plowing Match although Gordon promotional ideas dreamed -up departure from tradition, bit I had not been on a plough since by the committee, each time knew I had to get an early sart 1930. putting on a memorable show. on conditioning myself to a iew There were 30 in the compet- As a grape stomper, Mayor way of life. , I know I have surpraed ition, he recalls, among them the late Ab Campbell who was Henry was careful not to do too well. It wouldn't do for the host everyone, most of all my wife ind chairman of Metro Toronto and mayor to beat out his guests. myself, with how rapidly ind former Mayor William Dennison Everyone understood except easily I did adjust." also of Toronto. Leaping aboard a tractor with perhaps the children who were his ardent fans. In their opinion a Speaking of the numenus councillors with whom he wored "all the new-fangled gadget mayor who could milk cows, throughout his nine years as such as hydraulic lift" an , churn butter, plough and snow- mayor, Gordon Henry has prise ploughing triple faultless furrows shoe, ought to bring home the for all their efforts. "We didnot left Gord Henry the most trophy every year ---but it looked always see eye -to -eye, but inthe surprised to discover he had won like he couldn't stomp grapes final analysis the wisest deciion over old hands at the game. worth sour apples. But there was usually emerged -- and tha is Then came the milking compet- always another year and they what municipal government i all itions, followed by a Pinto Rodeo kept hoping. about." in St. Thomas and a 1971 In 1974 Mayor Henry did win. Speaking of Ingersoll's clrk- snowshoe race. Just as milking the silver wine cooler for treasurer, William MacInyre, was learned on the Carleton County farm, so was the snowshoe a familiar means of travel during his boyhood years. Naturally, he won. DURING HIS TERM As Mayor of Ingersoll, Gordon Henry had a big role in the restructuring of Oxford County. "My main goal was to get Ingersoll, then a separated town, back into the county structure", he recalls. "Informal meetings started in 1969 and former Mayor of Woodstock, Bill Dutton, and myself were the only two who were there throughout the entire procedure. "It is no wonder we have been dubbed The Two Fathers of Confederation!" Mr. Henry re- marks. Although minor controversy was stirred up over Ingersoll's role in the restructuring vote, Mr. Henry is confident that people now see the wisdon, benefits and tax savings for Ingersoll. Pointing to Ingersoll's being relieved of the responsibilty for finding a solid waste disposal site as a prime benefit, Mr. Henry then turns to the much -needed Pemberton Street bridge for which, by being a member of the county, Ingersoll received $60,000 more than a separated town from the province -- a savings of five mills to Ingersoll taxpayers. When it came to the rebuilding of Whiting Street, Ingersoll had to pay only one tenth of the county's share. With the county paying only 30 per cent and the province 70 per cent, as a county member the town will ;;et a new street at nominal ;_test. Another town benefit of which the former mayor is proud is the expansion to the sewage treat- ment plant and the new trunk sewers in the VVonham and St. Andrew's Streets areas. "The town can pay for these updatings over 40 years instead of debenturing for 20, as would have had to be done in time past. When Gord give you any line about why he decided not to run again for the office of mayor! He may tell you he wanted to retire, but I'm telling you that when the price of those chocolate bars he handed out so lavishly went up, he had to quit because we couldn't affort his chocolate calling cards!" HOMESWEETHOME Although a corner of his heart will always remain among the traditional "hills of home" of his boyhood Carleton County, Gord Henry's roots are firmly planted in Ingersoll. "We love Ingersoll and will continue to make it our home, even after my retirement from the cheese company this fall," he states. "It has been and still is one of the best communities in the Dominion for raising a family. We have good schools, recrea- tional facilities and cultural development. "Now our grandchildren come to Ingersoll and think this is a wonderful place. And they are right! There are not many places :like Ingersoll where kids ,can go downtown on their own. Coming from Toronto, to be able to walk downtown alone is a never-ending treat for them." The Henrys live on Duke Street, in a home built 110 years ago. Busy with their non -political activities of home, church and friends, they are both looking forward to a relaxed way of life, some travel and the highlights of visiting grandchildren. Yet one must wonder if Gordon Henry really means "retire- ment" when he says it. Like an afterthought, he adds, "However, the County and City of Peterborough have appointed me as consultant for their restructur- ing. They have the same problems we have in Oxford County, .so no doubt I can be of some assistance to them, "he adds in understatement. "They say they are aware of my contribution to Oxford restructuring and the practical knowledge I have about how it was done in this county, particularly regarding solid waste disposal, so I'll naturally give them whatever help I can." "Naturally" probably sums up Gordon Henry's life in Ingersoll. It was as natural as breathing for this man to give a total of 38 years of his life to his community. It was natural for this man to show deep concern for his fellow man, his environment and the welfare of the citizens of his chosen town. But this Saturday evening it will be the people's turn. They will gather in the Ingersoll District Memorial Centre, from all walks of life, from the town and across the province, to honor for one brief evening the man, Gordon Henry, who gave thous- ands of evenings to make Ingersoll a better town in which to live. As the interview closes, it is Gordon Henry who has the last word as his secretary places a sheaf of papers on his desk. "Well, back to work! Until I do retire, I still have to earn my bread and cheese!" And his eyes twinkle as you chuckle with him. Ingersoll residents say thanks Oh Henry Free Press Woodstock Bureau INGERSOLL — More than 600 persons turned out Saturday night to nay thank you to a former mayor — and to send he and his wife on a lwt> week holiday to Hawaii Gordon Henry, nine years mayor of Inger loll and a 4)o year veteran of the school board. decided no to run for re-election last year. "When a man like Gerd Ilenry decides to siep down, you just can't let him goon [its way unrecognized;" said Jim Robins, chairman of the Ingersoll committee which organised Sa- turday's farewell at the community contre. Henry said he decided to get out of politics because he had accomplished what he set out to do — Ingersoll was back to the Oxford County fold, it had developed all industrial park and It had built a sanitary sewer system that would handle many years of normal growth. Robins, a former mayor, called Henry the best public relations man Ingersoll has ever had. "Inc put its on the map, tad I sure tvonidii t wnot. ro try In fill his shoes." The htwnapenpic decided to give Henry and [its wife, Aleda, the vacation trip of their choice as a parting gift. Mrs. Henry said Sun day night they plan to take in Ila%ati In a two - week holiday next February. They've already been to the Caribbean, site said, and have been wanting to visit Hawaii for some tine. Henry, OL did not spend all his time in poli- tics worrying about Industrial parks and scw� ers. His office, he said, had room for llghkr moments. He campaigned by handing out Oh Henry chocolate ban and as a testimonial Saturday, Lowney's Ltd., makers of the bars, sent along. about 1,150 Oh henry bars free, for the people who attended. "I took work seriously," he said, "but I tried not to lake myself too seriously. I found that almost invariably; a bit of honor or wit helps in a serious situation." Ingersoll residents said thank you Saturday night to former mayor and school board member Gord Henry who used the well-known chocolate bar as his calling card during election campaigns. Residents gave he and his wife a va- cation of their choice and Mrs. Henry said Sunday night that choice would be Hawaii. (Photo by Williams) 1980 plowin northwest of Free Press Woodstock Bureau :. WOODSTOCK — The 1990 International 'Plowing Match will be held on on 1100-acre ;tract of city -owned, provincial and private farmland northwest of here. Max Steadman, president of the Ontario Plowmen's Association, said Wednesday the site was chosen over four others because it is near telephone and hydro services. The land, consisting of the Hartley and III - bury farms owned by the city and private and provincially -owned farmland, lies west of Highway 50 between Tollgate Road on the north and Governor's Road on the south. it will be leased by the association. "All sites examined were good but some were more desirable because of services," Steadman said. Other sites considered Included local plow- ing match committee member John Hofstet- SPECIAL! INSTANT COFFEE MAXWELL HOUSE'° °R 5.99 I COUNTY OF OXFORD To Honour Canada, home of over 22 million proud people I hereby proclaim the week of June 25 to July 1st, 1977 "CANADA WEEK" and invite the citizens of Oxford County to celebrate it by flying our flag Canada Week events. and by participating in KEN PEERS, WARDEN g match site Woodstock ter s farm at Hit 1, Platisville, the TIllsonburg airport, the m-acre farm of Jack Walther near Otterville. and a zoo -acre farm owned by Harr Zinn east of Hickson in East Zorra-Tav dsutek Township. Hofstetter said the match, scheduled for the last week of September. will consist of plowing competitions. farm machinery shows and la- dies programs. Most exhibits will be housed in a 1Lracre tent city. Ed Starr. assuciation seeretaryy manager. said the local plowing match committee, head ed by Ingersoll Mayor Doug Harris can look forward to a busy three years preparing Fir the event. "This Is an exciting annual agricultural event. Oxford will have to do a good job o, beat some of the others we've had," he said. This year's match will be held in F romenae County near Kingston. COUNTY OF OXFORD TOWNSHIPSOF BLANDFORD-BLENHEIM, EAST ZORRA- TAVISTOCK, NORWICH, SOUTH-WEST OXFORD, ZORRA, TOWN OF TILLSON- BURG, TOWN OF INGERSOLL TO DESTROY NOXIOUS WEEDS Notice is hereby given to all persons in possession of lands and property owners, that, in accordance with the Weed Control Act, Chapter 493, R.S.O. 1970 as amended, unless noxious weeds, growing on their lands are destroyed by July 1, 1977 and throughout the season, the Weed Inspector may enter upon such lands to cause the noxious weeds or weed seeds to be destroyed in the manner prescribed in the Regulations, the costs to be charged against the land in taxes, unless paid otherwise, as set out in the Act. The co-operation of all citizens is requested. BURNICE McALLISTER Area Weed Inspector COUNTY OF OXFORD Oxford branch leads per capita donations The northwest branch of the Oxfoni Coumv unit of the. Canadian Cancer Society was national leader in per capita amount raised in this year's campaign. provincial chairman Ron Calhoun said today. In a telephone interview, Calhoun said the branch, which includes Thamesford, Kintore and Uniondale, collected more than $8,000—a rating of $2 for each of its J,olo residents. Over-all Oxford had the highest residential rate per capita in Ontario collecting about si,25 per person ex. eluding industrial and commercial donations, he said. The provincial average was about ai cents. Oxford has already surpassed its campaign objective of $92,500, he said. So far SwoW has been collected and Calhoun expeets the final tally to exceed $1ou,000, He said money from the Great Ride for Cancer, which started in Thamesford nine years ago, as still coming in. Thurs., June 23, 1977 Page Chamber of Commerce goes to jail but only to learn about historic site About 40 innocent people went t0 jail Wednesday. Uncomplaining, the gwllless men and women of the Woodstock chamber of commerce, entered the Woodstock jail at noon and emerged two howl later the first public group to tour the 123- yearold building, which was closed in April by the provincial ministry of correctional services. The visit also included a luncheon and regular monthly meeting of the board of directors in one of the barred meeting rooms The purpose of the visit, said chamber president George Calder, was to enlighten chamber members so that they will be able to take an informed position on the building's fate. "There will be a lot of discussion about the fate of the jail in the future. We want to let people in to see it," he said. "When it's turned back to the county, when the lease expires at the end of 1977. I hope they will let people look. They can then make abetter decision whether it's worth preserving after seeing It." Calder said following the half-hour tour he would like to see the jail owned by the county but leased to the province —turned into a tourist attraction, possibly an art gallery. "We need a major tourist attraction in Oxford County to attract people whether it's an art gallery or whatever," Calder said, The building is interesting looking and historic and should be preserved in some way." He added he is happy a feasibility study to determine the fate of the jail and courthouse is being undertaken by the county and Ontario Heritage Foundation. Following the director's meeting, about 15 members of the ladies auxiliary of the Woodstock Art Gallery joined the tour. With television cameramen trailing, members of the group spread out over the building seemingly caught up in the drama of touring a detention centre. The cells understandably drew most of the attention but items as the six-inch jailhouse key also caught curious glances. One man spent considerable time poring over initials carved into a finch table by former inmates. Ontario Environmental Assessment Board NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING PROPOSED WASTE DISPOSAL SITE AND LEACHATE COLLECTION TREATMENT FACILITY Township of South-West Oxford BeachviLime Limited The Ministry of the Environment has received an application from Beachvitime Limited, a subsidiary of Dominion Foundries and Steel Limited, for approval of a waste disposal site for metallurgical waste together with facilities for leachate collet non end treatment proposed to be located in the west end of the South Side Ouarry in the Township of South-West Oxford west of Beochvllle. The Environmental Assessment Board will conduct a public hearing to obtain information and to hear the views of the public, so that it con make recommendations in rei t of the proposed waste disposal site and teachers collection treatment facility. Written and oral submissions may be mode to the Board at the hearing. The Board will not consider any submissions regarding the proposal oiler the hearing has been closed. The hearing will be held on July 21, 1977 of 10:00 o'clock In its morning, local time, in the Royal Canadian Legion Hall, Beach. villa. Ontario. Plans of the proposed waste disposal site and treatment facility will be available for examination and inspection during normal business hours le the office of the Clerk of the Township of South-West Oxford, BY, I, Mount Elgin, Ontario, in the office of the Clerk of the County of Oxford, Court House, Woodstock, On- tario, and In the office of the Environmental Assessment Board, 59h Floor 1, 51, Cloa Avenue West, Toronto, Ontario, M4V I K7, STATUTORY REFERENCES The Environmental Protection Act, 1971, (S.O. 1971, Chapter $6, os amended) and The Ontario Water Resources Act, (R.S.O. 1970. Chapter 332, as amended). T.M. Murphy, Secretary, Environmental Assessment Board, Public Meeting in Innerkip on June 28 SAOp SEDO SUBBDIVISIIOGI BENEFACTOR on Controversial What probably irks residents most is that they are being asked d - which benefits Drain to pay fora ram the proposed Matika subdivision, Issue on one hundred acres of land to the rear of New Life Feeds, than it does them. While Innerkip residents and East Zorra-Tavistock Township council will meet face to face at an open meeting in Innerkip Central School at 8 p.m. Tuesday, June 28th. Topic of conversation will be the controversial Innerkip Drain, and according to several residents interviewed by the News last week, council will be sitting on the "hot seat" with manv questions to answer. Under discussion will be a S300,000 drainage works project in Innerkip, first talked about in 1972 and installed this spring. Several things have happened in the past five years, ranging from objections by Innerkip residents to the works to failure of the Ontario Municipal Board to approve financing for the project. STARTED IN 1972 According to a brief prepared by Jean Watson secretary of the Innerkip ratepayers group, the issue first came to light on November Sth, 1972, when township council called a meeting to discuss drainage needs and problems in Innerkip. In attendance was H. M. Gibson, professional engineer, who But Thine Own". Mrs. Daniel Kave another reading "Honey Bees Without Stings" and led in prayer, followed by .the hymn "Take My Life and Let it Be". Mrs. Muriel Laine gave a humorous reading on A Bee 'SLinq" and Mrs. Perry, introduced the new study book' ,in the Phillipines, and told of Ralph and Joyce Burt of New Brunswick who are missionaries there. Mrs. Edna Pipe, Mrs. Beatrice Mackie and. Mrs. Joyce Middleton read an interview of Ralph and Joyce Burt.' Mrs. Perry closed the netting with a benediction and a cielicous lunch was served by Mrs. Varey, Mrs. Rhoda Perdue and the hostess to conclude a pleasant evening. It was moved by Mrs. Harrington and seconded by Mrs. Peggy Goodwin during lunch that the U.C.W. donate `a25.00 to the Vacation Bible School which will be held In July. ore presented preliminary studies residents say the new drain is and findings. These were viewed not doing for many what it is by the over 100 present, supposed to do, it does drain the discussed, criticized 'and given proposed subdivision lands. alternatives for. The council and To help cover costs, the engineer promised to assess average ratepayer whose proceedings and suggestions and property is passed by the drain call a meeting in Innerkip with will be asked to pay $300 to proposals for scrutiny not later $400 each. An exception is Mr. than February 1973, said Mrs. Matheson, who owns several Watsoin. But these promises were acres of vacant land was notified not kept, she said. he would have to pay $17,375- From this point on, council He appealed this assessment.. "ignored everythingand claiming the assessment classed+ everybody and went ahead" his property as development ==aims Mrs. Watson. The events land, rather than farm land. A that followed resulted in a judge ruled in favour of fvlr contract to build the drain being Matheson on January 24, 1976 let by council to Blue -Con reduced his assessment to and and reduced Construction, London, on March 1st of 1977 and work beginning March 11th. Finishing touches COUNCtL 11VILL BE AN "HOT are now being put on the drain SEAT" by the contractor. - A big question facing council COUNCIL AND ENGINEER from Mr. Matheson and others is COME UNDER FIRE — without O.M.B. approval, will Both township council and council be able to force them to P. Smart, now the engineer, pay the assessment levied against came under fire by residents them for costs of the dram? Council will also be asked how talked with by the News. Both Mrs. Watson and they could go ahead at all, life-long resident Carl Matheson, without O.M.B. approval. 66, claim council ignored ASK FOR MEMBER'S BILL objections to the drain in the Meanwhile Oxford M.P.P. form of a petition (with 142 ratepayers' signatures) submitted to a council meeting May 7th, Harry Parrott has been asked by rY 1975. Recent failure of the council to present a private O.M.B. to approve the project member's bill to- the Ontario financing (a - debenture of legislature so the township can $114,000) because a hearing for get capital financing and objectors was not held, seems to subsidies. Although he has not back up the residents' claims. directly become involved in the 'Paril Said Mrs. Watson, "We were issue, has said he will deprived of our constitutional introduce the bill to the rights to have a hearing held legislature. because the drain was almost complete without knowledge of COUNCILLOR RESIGNS the O.M.B." Ili the midst of all the action, Charges of "aver -engineering" township councillor Gerald against Mr. Smart have also Campbell resigned June 2nd. surfaced. Carl Matheson showed Campbell was reported in a News reporter John Schmidt Woodstock pa er as saying part eight ditch catch basins within a of the reason for his resignation 1,010 foot stretch of the gravel was because development of the surface street he lives on. "This Innerkip drain was surrounded is more thap found in most new by irregularities. Campbell's city subdlvisidns" quipped Carl. place on council will be taken by Residents also claim the drain Lloyd Kimnaird, a RR 7, was put down the highest street Woodstock I'mmo (Balsam) in the village. Some suggest that the drain brings water from one watershed into another. %a. 9 • (0) TOURIST BOOTH INSTALLED An information booth for nesday and was to be of- the Woodstock District tourists at Brock and Dundas ficially opened today at 12:30 Chamber of Commerce by streets was installed Wed- p.m. The booth was built for WOODSTOCK'S the Woodstock Homebuilders Association. (Staff photo) HOMECOMING JULY 1st = JULY 10th Most local motels, campgrounds booked by Homecoming visitors I INC C CD CD CD a 9 dG-T t!0 ?va wu3ov u o c E M ,,cc .�pop����C4jS a�c3cp,O L god 6Aa Ci"a�, via Cpp �.o,�c° c 3�,5a�ffi�°r; GCooHvg.33 .'gaep�`ySEm�j��oea�o �e-d C>°"-''^�a o",v'9.c°_ea�.- A ".°. a'E .y Qv:,p,"'>9a°=`�. omM� c�vc S�wA$ a.^�=..oE W fi A 4c Q! yC.�L�C•.a O�°°.... �i `cc 0 . �'?'xa°at'?°�•�`- $ E88 gs s<o12 +as8u:�-'V'J0 CAS � 0 to o 1977 l,J!'��C WELCOME BACK Former Woodstock and Area Residents - to 40MECOMING 1977 Township given OK for mini -annexation HICK.SON — East Zorra-Tavistock Town- ship -has been given permission by the trlario Municipal Board (OMB) to annex a small por- tion of South Easthope Township, towmship clerk John Killing said Monday - Killing said two strips of land measuring 12o In Imo feet and 75 by 100 feet, making up f of 'I. Concession 5, of South Easthope. will be- come part of East Zorra-Tavisloek. in Septem- ber. He said the application to annex the land was made to bring all land within the McTav- ish subdivision in Tavistock into East Zorra- Ta vistock Township. No objections were fled in connectiitn Frith tin• sppliruien. County parkland cowed up The obstacles in the obstacle course at Beachville Park are a little bigger and more vocal than anyone expected. Mary Pierce, supervisor of the Experience '77 program developing the park, told county administration and finance committee Monday there are close to 20 cows on the property all the time. The committee recommended the county attempt to share the cost of installing a temporary fence, possibly electrical, along the property line to keep the cows out. Warden Ken Peers said the fence would have to be tern- porary because the property, 6atween Canadian National and Canadian Pacific railway lines near Beachville, was subject to flooding in the oaring. A permanent fence would be gone in the spring, he said. The park is being developed as nature wails and orienteering trans. THE NORWICH GAZETTE, July 5, 1977 flfred Bishop passes was received this of the sudden death in of Wilfred Bishop of otwich. shop, farm writer, was a tour group to that i given long and valued to farm organizations he United Church and lanizations. He was recently honored at the Ontario Pork Congress in Stratford where he was presented with a plaque as outstanding pork producer of the year for Oxford. With a handful of other dedicated men, he was instrumental in for- mation of the Ontario Pork Producers Marketing Board and served on the board for 36 Years. He was the board's first secretary and was vice- president in 1961-62. This year saw publication of his book, Men and Pork Chops, telling the story of the founding and development of the OPPMB. Nir. Bishop also gave long service to the Ontario Federation of Agriculture, both at the provincial and county level- He was secretary of the Oxford Federation for 20 years. He had also been active in the Ontario Concentrated Milk Producers Association, and in the Otter Valley Milk Producers 4%W �.Mic4 _ _WILFRED BISHOP BLUES CHASER The man who said tllere's no use crying over spill milk hadn't priced if lafely. CONTRACT GIVEN Capital Paving Ltd. of Guelph has been awarded a contract of repave Highway 59 from County Road 13 near Holbrook south for 5.8 miles to the north limits of Norwich, transportation and communications minister James Snow has announce& The contract, valued at $327,ODO, is for - grading, drainage, granular base and hot mix paving. Construction is scheduled to begin later this month with completion in early fall. Co -Op and later the New Dundee Co -Operative Creamery. Mr. Bishop was widely known throughout rural Ontario. He served as a member of the North Norwich Council from 'a 1944 to 1952 and as reeve of the township and member of Oxford County Council from 1950 to 1952. Planners to tour county A van will be travelling around the county in October but the occupants won't be on holidays. From Oct. 21 to 20, a van containing county planning officials and consultants from Marshall, Macklin, Monaghan will travel around the county outlining the county's draft official plan to interested in- dividuals. "We hope to get citizen input," planning director Peter Atcheson said today. "Planning consultants, when the draft official plan is together, are proposing to have. a vehicle for one week in various' locations around the county so individuals around the county can go through and talk to planning officials," he said. Stopping in each municipality for a day, the van will stop at two locations — one in the morning and one in the af- ternoon, consultant Mary Rose told county planning committee Thursday. There will also be evening sessions in mayor urban areas "to get businessmen" and two meetings with special interest groups and municipal planning advisory groups, he added.. The two meetings will beheld between Oct. 15 and 21. Former councillor dies at hospital Funeral services for Harry Little, 92, Salford, were held at the Mc Beath Funeral Home on July 9, 1977. Mr. Little died at Alexandra Hospital, Ingersoll, on ,July 7, 1977. The Rev. John Huether offic- iated, interment was at Ingersoll Rural Cemetery, Mr. Little was born to the late Mr. and Mrs. James Little and lived in the area where he worked as a farmer. He was affiliated with the Safford United Church and Zenda United Church, was a Reeve of Dereham Township for two terms; a member of the (Oxford County Council, the Upper Thames Valley Authority )and Dereham Lodge 624 AF and AM. Council not enchanted with tourist brochure H all tourists are as picky as local councillors, oxford County isn't likely to be stampeded by vacationers. At a meeting Wednesday, county councillors were presented with copies of the county travel brochure. And some were not enchanted. Blandford-Blenheim mayor Ross Livingston led off the at- tack by questioning the front page description of Oxford as "the dairy pasture county of southwestern Ontario." Ingersoll Mayor Douglas Harris described it as a "terrible piece of wording". He too questioned the description, saying he thought the producers of the pamphlet, the South- western Ontario Travel Association, had been instructed to describe the county as the dairy capital.. The front page photograph of the Springbank Snow Countess was also criticized because a garbage can was included in its composition. Ribbon -cutting ceremony held to open Pemberton ;St. bridge Ed J. McCabe, director of southwestern Ontario region of the ministry of transportation and communication, cut a red satin ribbon held by Mayor Douglas Harris and Marion Coyle, chairman of the town's Put works committee as the trio stood on the new Pemberton Street bridge Friday, The ceremony marked the offic'a' opening of the town's new $2.17,1xx1 bridge. The bridge has been open to traffic since mid -June Harris pointed out that the town actually paid only a small portion of the total cost An 80 per cent subsidy was received from the, mmmtry, he said. Former Mayor Gorden Henry, who was there to watch the ceremony, was congratulated by Harris for his efforts in getting the bridge built. Loa y Construction of Dublin, began construction of the bridge October 15, 1975, And, in spite of the severe winter, had it finished two weeks ahead of schedule. 85-FOOT SPAN Springbank Consulting ngi veers Ltd., Woodstock, Sdesigned the reinforced con- crete bridge with pre -stressed F beams, It has an 85 fool span, and a hearing capacity of 80 tons. 'rho old bridge had a capacity Of only four foam, McCabe said the new Pem- berton Sl.reet bridge was par- ticularly significant. His ministry, he said, is this year making a study of bridges across the province for the purpose of updating them. The new bridge opened in Ingersoll that day is typical of what will be happening throughout Ontario, he said. Town so sneer Steve Kovacic gave a short history of the former bridge. it was built in 1855 by the fruit Work Co, of Stratford at a coal of $25 to $35, he said. It was in use until October 1, 1975. It was closed alter being severely damaged by a tractor -trailer, The new bridge had to be built tat feelhigher than the old bridge, to meet ministry of transportation and com- munication requirements for clearance, This meant a hump on the new bridge which limits visibility of motorists on bridge approaches to 250 to 300 feet. ONE-WAY STREET To meet ministry requirements, Janes Road has been closed at Pemberton Street, and Wilson Street is now a one-way street for westbound traffic. Ingersoll has three bridges across the Thames River. A fourth has been proposed across 11lg 111. Street which will eventually take traffic from Highway 401 through the Industrial Park, to Bell Street (Highway 2), Harris said after the ceremony, that nothing has Yet developed on another new bridge, for the town but, "we are still hoping —still writing let- ters." East-Zorra-Tavistock Mavor Harold Vogt also expressed disappointment with the front cover. But he was more upset because the back page displays a daffodil instead of a list of county events, particularly the Sauerkraut Festival which is held in Tavistock. The inside contents of the 12- page brochure weren,t to be left unscathed either, as Aid. Phil Poole criticized some for giving over-all views instead of 'something definite." Although only 50 of the W.OW brochures have been delivered to county officials the rest are due to arrive Friday. Total cost of the pamphlets is about $3,500. And even though it's too late for changes this time around, Harris said all the councillors should compile their complaints in a letter and forward it to the travel association immediately. But as Conn. Leonard Seegmiller said... maybe the tourists won't even notice. Veteran captain named Woodstock fire chief WOODSTOCK — Capt.. Charles Young has been appointed chief of woudslock fire depart- 'tiannounced Monday. Y`omtg y48, a capta or inie the department wr the past five years, has been a member of the Woodstock brigade for 14!9 years. Ito replaces William Martin who resigned in May. Young, w ho also assumes the past of county fire co-ordinator, said he foresees no major changes in the operation of the department, bill would like to see a new, w'o t-bay substation buih in Ooe northwest part of the city to re- placr ow vvrrc Sirvt%( Aitiun. is 0 • 0 FISCAL AGENT AT COUNCIL Debenture on U.S. market said sound fly JANICE VANSICKLE Senllnel-Review Staff Writer An Oxford County debenture issue of $2.7 mill Ion on the U.S. market should prove to be a "sound" investment despite kisses this year, John Hughes of Burgess Graham Securities Ltd., the county's fiscal agent, said Wednesday. Hughes was before county council to explain why his company, among other things. put the issue on a foreign ex- change. The August, 1976 issue found l(w:al municipalities, including Woodstock, paying the exchange rate on their debentures because of the decline in the value of the Canadian dollar. Hughes said his company was attracted to the U.S. market because of lower interest rates, eren though the company was aware of the danger of foreign exchange fluctuation. However, he said the finan- cing should prove to be sound because it is for a 20-year period. "If we were dead wrong, then every other major municipality in Ontario will have been wrong too," Hughes said, citing examples of other municiplaities that place debenture issues on the U.S. market. Woodstock had to come up with f1a.009 this year because of the drop in the value of the Canadian dollar. Hughes was asked to attend the meeting following presen- talion to council of a resolution from South-West Oxford asking for issuance of debentures more often each year and for their sale on a local level. The township also criticized the length of time it takes for a debenture to be. released on the market once Issued. Since restructuring in 1975 only the county has the authority to issue debentures. Hughes said the cost of issuing small individual drains "would far exceed the cost of debenture issues." The only convenient and effective way to market these things is to incorporate them into a ma or issue." He mig one alternative to large scale debenturing would be for the municipalities to go through county council and sell them locally. South-West Oxford Mayor Lou Barrett had said at an earlier meeting he wanted debentures sold locally, but county officials sold them locally recently and said the results were disap- pointing. Another alternative, Hughes said, would be for municipalities to go to the banks for short term loans. Hughes had asked for the meeting to be held in closed. session but Aid. Ken Bullen raised a motion to keep the meeting open, which passed. The debenturing debate was turned back into the hands of council's administration and finance committee following a resolution by Conn. Ken Webster of Tillsonburg to have the committee investigate the possibility of the county ad- vancing money to the local municipalities with all charges for issuing debentures and In- charge back basistrrnalional or national markets terim financing being charged The county could then sell the acr_ording to the best advice back to the municipalities on a debentures on local, In- available. Taxpayers in Woodstock, Tillsonburg only municipalities making annexation bid Woodstock and Tillsonburg are the only two Oxford County municipalities requesting boundary adjustments to meet future land needs. In reply to a county council directive, all six other municipalities have indicated by letter to the county they are satisfied with their existing boundaries, county clerk Gerry Staples said Thursday. Woodstock has proposed taking land from surrounding townships that would almost double its existing size while Tillsonburg has taken an an- nexation request for thousands of acres from South-West Oxford Township and Norfolk Town- ships in nearby Haldimand- Norfolk region to the Ontario Municipal Board (OMB). The Tillsonburg request ground to a halt though after Ontario Treasurer Darcy McKeough told county council to notify him of boundary change intentions of all county municipalities in one package. McKeough has said he wants to avoid costly and repetitious OMB hearings on the subject. Boundary changes could instead be made through an amendment to Bill 95, the act that restruc- tured Oxford County in 1975. The treasurer has also slammed Oxford County for proposed boundary changes since boundaries set in 1975 were supposedly to meet the requirements of all eight municipalities for about 20 years. TOWNSHIPS EYED Woodstock city council — whde steering clear of the word annexation — has proposed changes that would take large chunks out of Nor- wich and East Zorra-Tavistock townships. The proposed northern boundary would extend north of Pittock Lake to County 17 in East Zorra-Tavistock Township, while on the east, boundaries would be stretched to County Road 9 (Innerkip Road) west of Blandford Square Mall. Boundaries on the west would Innerkip plan to sue townshi p t East Zorra - Tavistock r on carpetover drain W N 6n ZI a 0 L. N 5E '14— if- 0 bite into South-West oxford Township while on the south they would penetrate Norwich Township to Concession 3. County Warden Kenneth Peers, mayor of Norwich Township, has come out strong against the changes. Staples said county council has two initial decisions to reach on the subject. Council will have to decide if there are sufficient boundary changes requested to spark a Bill 95 amendment and how to go about implementing the changes. Proposals such as Wood - stock's won't necessarily be .supported by council, he said. I suppose the county could say, in total, 'we don't agree with these boundary changes',' he said - Staples department has been commissioned to prepare a report on the issue for couneil's administration and finance committee. Staples said the topic is slated for discussion at the com- mittee's next meeting. BLUES CHASER No matter how smali the town fs, yvu can al- ways find someone at the gas station to gh, you the wrong directions. w,!� «moo «urom«dpWoc53 .'='cEw 32Av«c°cj A_EaoEc3 $_«Y oj'w^ tT m v "5..S--c_ tiw av m�•3 cr wa',o uw" wo c..cc �'E`ai�"wc `o y�`. F.O °-'E o dw Ao n., 3 .Eo c.,.'a uco uow C tti.. yryryy++ o- a>QS_ >,$�+ t cs °cv._9- �+"�c u_E x m 00i''sM'O f`"�i 5'• 1 Qyy'"q ao. 3ww wPwyEiC"dC_v`�3mE`Sm E.4 m,�c w Ua d WM c a'9 JG3 w m>E�d�m�vi�E�aaoo^kOH�Q�Ema.ay8c—g-Aoo_M$ o5�°�W"N 3;o ELg 3gE>=waE.mE '>s 9Hmo2E Ed9R8i:. ,Jj4if wvd'�0L•• avN NNdm >.W 'm CidCL L tA:. 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The company wants to move the dust, which comes from its mill and Mast furnace opern- Unns, to Its whotly-owned Beachvilime Ltd. subsidiary in order to expand its present oper. ations. The company estimates it will take five years to mote the stockpiles to the local quar- ry via Highways 401 and 2 at a rate of eight truckloads an hour. It) hours a dad, or three an hour over a 24-hour period. After five meats, the company estimates it would have caught up to the accumulation. Then it would have to move only what it col- lects in a year, an estimated 3%,000 tons. Webster suggested the board recommend to the environment ministry that Dofasco use ex- isting CNR and CPR rail fines to, move the [ton -recyclable waste material. W. R. Rombough, Dofascoi s environmental BLUES CHASER One nice thing about going home is that you don't home to make a re., ri arfon. • Oxford clerk appointed to position in Ingersoll Pree Press Woodstock Bureau INGERSOLL -- Gerry Staples, Oxford County clerk and defuity treasurer, was ap- ipointed Ingersoll clerk at a special town coun- ell meeting Tuesday. Staples, an employee of Oxford County for 10 years,. will resign his county post effertivr StipC 0 when he assumes duties with the town. An Ingersoll resident and former member of town staff, Staples replaces clerk -treasurer William Maclntyre who has beet[ pingued by ill health during the past four months. Council appointed Maeinlyre. as chief administrator, It(, will oversee and assist Staples at his now post. ! Marion Knott, acting town clerk, will as sume duties of tax collector Sept. 6, 'Mayor Doug Harris said after the announcements. Ile said the town hopes to hire a new ireasurer within two weeks. Staples worked for the town for nine years before joining Oxford County in 1997 as deputy clerk -treasurer. He was elevated to clerk and treasurer in 1971 and tank over his current du ties in 1970. Ingersoll between Woodstock and Thamesford is to be re-routed to County Road a in October. Preliminary engineering on the bypass is ex- pected to begin later this year. Beachville and Ingersoll residents oppose Dofasco's dumping plan because they say it will increase noise and pollution and threaten their water, which comes from deep rock wells around the quarry. Ingersoll PUC representative C. V. McLaughlin expressed concern that Ingersoll hadn't had enough time to study all possible contamination effects of the water runoff from the waste material. Presentations were made by several con - suiting engineers and geologists to allay the fears of area residents that water contamina- tion would occur. Pat Lee, an engineer with Garner -Lee Asso- ciates, a Toronto consulting firm, said ground water contamination was impossible because water around the quarry could only flow into it and not from it. "The water can't flow up the gradient. We feel the Beachville site is suit- able because it won't affect water in the area now or in the future." W. Hammond, an Ingersoll farmer disputed Lee's assessment saying, "How do we know where our water supply comes from?" He said the technical measures to seal the quarry floor would not be good enough to stop the leakage of contaminated water into the wells and water table. John Franklin, an engineer with Franklin Trowe Associates of Toronto, said a cracked - grouting method would be used to seal the 7 y,- million-square-foot quarry floor. The sealing operation would involve pouring a molten sul phur mixture into fissures in the floor to pre- vent the runoff water from escaping. An environment ministry official said the sealing proposal was "technically sound." Maurice Benjamin of Beachville presented a personal brief to the board with a long list of complaints and a petition signed by 82 area residents opposed to theplan, He citicized the environment ministry for its failure to allow time for local residents' submissions to the en- vironmental board. The company was given one year's grace while we were only notified on July 2," he complained. Mrs. Glenn Millson of Beachville said the village would one day completely lose its plant life and resemble Sudbury.. "We'll fight this to the bitter " s said end, he .aid to RomMrugh. "All Dofasco can du is buy ow. our property and then you can have every- thing for yourself." The environmental assessment board will now consider the presentations and within a month make recommendations to the environ- ment ministry. Two weeks later, the ministry will announce. Its decision on the Dofasco plan. control manager, told the bourd that rail transport was unfeasable because of "space ilmitatious" in Hamilton. He said It would also be necessary to bkv a rotary car dumper, at tremendous cost, to unload the oxide. Webster disagreed with Rombough's conten tion that Woodstock traffic would only in crease by 2.8 per cent (from a transport min- istry study) and added that if a truck bypass was completed in the near future, the city would have no objections to the company's trucking plan. The existing stretch of Highway 2 through Harris sold Staples was selected from ?n plicant.s and W91 M� paid "IJ) rn r nnq ili,, ,Feasibility study funding sought for courthouse Free Press Woodstock Bureau WOODSTOCK — The Oxford County public. lworks committee has asked county council to Iapprove an immediate start on a $25,000 feasi- lidity study to determine the use of buildings in the courthouse square. Ina report to be considered by council Aug. to. the committee recommends that Leonard Dickson Architects, Ltd, of Woodstock conduct I he study in conjunction with Trevor Garwood Jones Consultants Ltd. of Hamilton. A final report would be submitted to county council no later than Nov. 15 by the two firms. They were selected over two other firms inter- viewed by the committee. Dickson said the study will take about 10 .weeks and will include preparation of a de- tailed site plan of the square, measured draw- ings, including the buildings' structural, me- ( hanical and electrical adequacy, historical studies, efficiency of the structures, meetings with Ontario Heritage Foundation representa- ives, a study of county, provincial and com- nunfty requirements with respect to present buildings and a study of the interrelationships of the buildings to people, vehicles and public I ransit. The square is bounded by Hunter, Graham, Light and Buller streets, and contains the county courthouse, Woodstock jai and an at Cached house, the old registry office, the fami- Ic and children's services building, the county library and the county health and social ser- ices department. The study was recommended by the Ontario iteritage Foundation and approved in princi- ple by county council after foundation officials urged Oxford to study the square before mak- fiad a decision on a new administration build- ing and eventual use for the abandoned Woodstock, jail. 0 Foundry dust dumping plan under attack Free Press Woodstock Bureau BEACHVILLE — An Iran oxide dumping program proposed by Hamilton's Dominion Foundries and Steel Co. Ltd. (Dofasco) would mean 80 trucks would drive daily along High- way 2 for five years, an environmental board hearing was told Thursday. Ross Webster, a lawyer representing the city of Woodstock, said the city is "very con- cerned with present truck traffic going through the city centre." The additional 35-ton trucks would increase congestion in the city and surrounding areas to an "almost unbeara- ble" level, he said. Dofaseo now has two million tons of the dust sitting on a M-acre Hamilton Bay site. The company wants to move the dust, which comes from its mill and blast furnace opera- tions- to its wholly -owned Beachvilfine Ltd. subsidiary in order to expand its present oper- ations. The company estimates it will take five years to move the stockpiles to the local quar- ry via Highways 401 and 2 at a rate of eight truckloads an hour, 10 hours a day, or three an hour over a 24-hour period. After five years, the company estimates it would have caught up to the accumulation. Then it would have to move only what it col- lects in a year, an estimated 350,000 tons. Webster suggested the board recommend to the environment ministry that Dofasco use ex- isting CN-R and CPR rail lines to move the non -recyclable waste material. W. R. Rombough, Dofasco's environmental BLUES CHASER One nice thing about going home is that yfu t hacr to make a recerration - control manager, told the board that rail transport was unfeasable because of "space limitations" in Hamilton. He said it would also be necessary to buy a rotary car dumper, at tremendous cost, to unload the oxide. Webster disagreed with Rombough's conten. tion that Woodstock traffic would only in- crease by 2.8 per cent (from a transport min- istry study) and added that if a truck bypass was completed In the near future, the city would have no objections to the company's trucking plan. The existing stretch of Highway 2 through Ingersoll between Woodstock and Thamesford is to be re-routed to County Road 8 in October. Preliminary engineering on the bypass is ex- pected to begin later this year. Beachville and Ingersoll residents oppose Dofasco's dumping plan because they say it will increase noise and pollution and threaten their water, which comes from deep rock wells around the quarry. Ingersoll PUC representative C. V. McLaughlin expressed concern that Ingersoll hadn't had enough time to study all possible contamination effects of the water runoff from the waste material. Presentations were made by several con- sulting engineers and geologists to allay the fears of area residents that water contamina- tion would occur. Pat Lee, an engineer with Gartner -Lee Asso- ciates, a Toronto consulting firm, said ground water contamination was impossible because water around the quarry could only flow into it and not from it. "The water can't Row up the gradient. We feel the Beachville site is suit- able because it won't affect water in the area now or in the future." W. Hammond, an Ingersoll farmer disputed Lee's assessment saying, "How do we know where our, .0mes_fr '" He ay 111 l pup LaegJIW col Jatulo I ] tit .{ei3nl ,,asue,c�g v-le"d%OH s,gdasof IS le a,: :,,a'Wd. [ttr_'9ut Alnf uo •aapuexaly FRIDAY, JULY 29, 1977 Oxford clerk appointed to position in Ingersoll Free Press Woodstock Bureau INGERSOLL — Gerry Staples, Oxford County clerk and deputy treasurer, was ap- Pointed Ingersoll clerk at a special town cnun icil mectingTuesday. Staples, an employee of Oxford County for �10 years, will resign his county post effective ,Sept. 6 when be assumes duties with the town. An Ingersoll resident and former member of town staff, Staples replaces clerk -treasurer William Maclntyre who has been plagued by ill health duping the past four months. Council appointed Maclntyre as chief administrator. lie will oversee and assist Staples at his new post. I Marlon Knott, acting town clerk, will as some duties of tax collector Sept. s, Mayor I Doug Harris said after the announcements. lie J said the town hopes to hire a new treasurer 4 within two weeks. Staples worked for the town for nine yearn before joining Oxford County in 1967 as deputy clerk -treasurer. He was elevated to clerk and treasurer in 1971 and took over his current do - ties in 1976. Harris sold 5 aples wa r 1 t til farm ',a p phcant, and will bf pr,id + t tlq:,r1:,,,,:.ii, Feasibility study funding sought for courthouse Free Press Woodstock Bureau WOODSTOCK — The Oxford County public works committee has asked county council to approve an Immediate start on a $25,000 feasi- bility study to determine the use of buildings in the courthouse square. In a report to be considered by council Aug. In. the committee recommends that Leonard Dickson Architects Ltd. of Woodstock conduct the study in conjunction with Trevor Garwood - .Jones Consultants Ltd. of Hamilton. A final report would be submitted to count% council no later than Nov.15 by the two firms. They were selected over two other firms inter- riewed by the committee. Dickson said the study will take about 10 creeks and will include preparation of a de- tailed site plan of the square, measured draw- ings, including the buildings' structural, me- hanical and electrical adequacy, historical ,Iudies, efficiency of the structures, meetings tcith Ontario Heritage Foundation represents - lives, a study of county, provincial and cmm- mmnity requirements with respect to present buildings and a study of the interrelationships of the buildings to people, vehicles and public transit. The square Is bounded by Hunter, Graham. Light and Buller streets, and contains the county courthouse, Woodstock jail and an in - ached house, the old registry office, the fami I% and children's services building, the count library and the county health and social set mires department. The study was recommended by the Ontario I lei ltage Foundation and approved in princi ple by county council after foundation official. urged Oxford to study the square before mak ing a decision on a new administration build Ing and eventual use for the abandoned Woodstock jail. Plight of Amish dairy farmers probed LONDON, Ont, (CP) — The Ontario Human Rights Commis- sion offices in London and Kitchener began preliminary in- vestigations Thursday into the Plight of Amish dairy farmers who cannot meet impending On- tario Milk Marketing Hoard regulations because of their re- ligloux convictions. Catharine Burr, human rights officer in the London office, said that although no complaints have been received, the com- mission offices may initiate investigations under a commu- nity relations aspect. An estimated 44 dairy farmers in the Amish communities of Tavisnlck, Ont,, 12 miles north of Woodstock, and Giants, On[,, abort 40 miles north of Strnb ford, are selling inch, herds, milk quotas, farms and equipment and moving to the United States, The Amish, or old order Men- nonites, reject mechanization. Under marketing board regu- lations that take effect Oct. 31, all dairy farmers must use hulk tank coolers, which require use of an electrical motor, Instead of milk cans for shipping. stilt is awaiting correspondence Agriculture Minister William on the Ontario Milk Commis - Newman said earlier in the sion's rejection of an appeal week he has prepared a list of from the Amish, exemptions to the new regu- The Amish had proposed tak- tattoos that he will ��rrropose to ing their milk in cans to a cen- the marketing board but he was tral bulk cooler but the idea was non -committal about the Amish rejected bocause of concern situation, from the commission that the A spokesman in Newman's of- milk quality would deteriorate fire said Thursday the minister during the trip. • 0 Gerry Staples will start as Town Clerk on September 6, but is not new to the area or to the job for that matter. Staples has lived in Ingersoll most of his life and held the position of Deputy Clerk of the Town from 1958 to 1966. Gerry Staples, the new Ingersoll clerk On September 6, the Town of Ingersoll will have a new Clerk and Deputy Treasurer, but he is by no means new to the area, or to the job. On September 2, Gerry Staples will terminate his job as County Clerk and Deputy Treasurer and do basically the same job, on a smaller scale, in Ingersoll. Staples 51, was born and raised in Ingersoll so he is certainly no stranger to the area. In fact he has lived here practically all his life. Staples, held the job of Town Clerk from 1958 to 19M so the job is not a new one to him. In .January of 1967, Staples be- came Deputy Clerk Treasurer of the county. In 1971, he was made Clerk Treasurer, until the job title was changed to Clerk and Deputy Treasurer in 1976. Staples says there is no particular reason for his change back to the town level. Although the jobs are on different levels of government they have many similarities according to Staples. A clerk position is one of many responsibilities. It is a clerk's duty to prepare council agenda, committee reports, to act as a liason between department heads, prepare bylaws and to see that the policies of the council are carried out. As well, a clerk prepares reports and acts as an advisor to members of council. Staples, lives with his wife and two sons, age 11 and 13 at 156 Sutherland Avenue in Ingersoll. $1,000 is urged for Cobalt fund County council's ad- ministration and finance committee wants to help the fire -torn town of Cobalt out of its financial jam. In a unanimous decision Tuesday, committee members recommended council send the town devastated by fire May 2:1, a $1.000 grant, The money will be taken from municipal grants. Damage as a result of the fire in the town of 2,000 was estimated at $5.3 million. About $2.2 million was covered by Insurance with a net loss of sa,1 million. The province has declared Cobalt a disaster area and will give the town $4 for every $1 raised. County clerk Gerry Staples said the grant is "qulte legitimate and authorised". He said It works out to about 12 cents per capita in oxford County. V.B. King, 74, died in hospital, ( Photo by Cavouk Portraits) City industrialist V.B. King dies Woodstock industrialist Vernon Bickle (V.B.) King died at Woodstock General Hospital Wednesday. He was 74. TJ,e past chairman of the board of Eaton -Yale Ltd., president of Truck Engineering Ltd. and chairman of the board of King Seagrave Ltd. had been in poor health for two years. A spokesman at Truck Engineering said Wednesday the three plants will close for Friday's funeral. Flags were at half mast at his plants after it was learned the in- dustrialist was dead. His companies employ about 450 people in this area. King also was president of Pneuveyor Systems Ltd., a director of King Truck Equipment and Ltd., chairman of King Hydraulic Power and a director of Davies Truck Equipment. His first "plant' was located in temporarily available space in the old Massey Harris building, now the site of Towers depart- ment store. He was born in Woodstock, the son of the late Mr, and Mrs. George J. King. His wife, Eleanor (Nei), died in 1976. A brother, Herbert S. King, also died last year. Engines design a 1,009-gallon pumper ordered from Toronto. He started his first business, Truck Engineering of Canada Ltd., in 1934. "I'd always wanted to be in business for myself and build trucks but I didn't have the money," King said in an interview September, 1976, King got into the fire engine business in about 1967 with King Seagrave after the new owners, who had bought out his uncle's business, went bankrupt. Of the King Seagrave plant constructed in 1969 on Devonshire Avenue, King said in the 1976 interview: "We've made money every year since and expanded about every year ... I think we build the best fire apparatus in North America. Some are over $100,000 but municipalities continue to buy them." His stately home is located on Highway 59, about rive miles north of the city, Surviving are his daughter, Mrs. Elspeth King Woods of Toronto, his son, William G. S. King of Woodstock, a brother, Robert G. King of lnnerkip and four grandchildren, He will rest at the F. E. King graduated with a Rowell Funeral Home on mechanical engineering Riddel Street until noon degree from the University Friday, The funeral service of Toronto in the mid 1920s will be held Friday at 2:30 and worked for a motor truck p.m. at Central United company in Cleveland before Church, returning to Woodstock to Burial will be in Oxford help his uncle at Bickle Fire Memorial Park Cemetery, Ingersoll clerk given top administrative post INCERSOLL — William Machilyre, who has been clerk -treasurer for more than to years here, will become chief administrative officer under a new fop administrative align. I n nt as of Sept. 6,. . Wally Ted of Elliot Lake, cierkdreasurer of Massey, will become town treasurer, while a former Ingersoll administrative staffer G. R. Staples, who is clerk of Oxford County, be comes town clerk. Tornado rips into area farms, buildings and crops hit hard Ily' JOHN LECKIE `ratiael-Rn•kw Staff Wrller PLATTSVILLE— More than a dozen narrowly escaped injury when an isolated tornado touched down on three farms ap- proximately three miles east of here near noon Monday. 'tobacco workers on the farm of John Vernooeyy of RR 3. Bright. had just finished fillea tobacco kiln and left for their lunch break when the tornado demolished the kiln, moved another com- pletely off its foundation and damaged a third beyond repair. On a neighboring farm, at RR 4, Bright owned by Stephen Szucs, the twister demolished a barn which had housed 10.(I00 turkeys until they were shipped to market two weeks ago and tore the roof off a section of the main barn. A section of the barn roof landed on the tractor which Szucs had parked in the building 10 minutes before the storm struck. A third farm in the area, owned by Blandford- Blenheim township Mayor Ross Livingston, had a number of uprooted trees and some crop damage to corn in the fields. Monte Facey, a worker on the Vernooey farm, said he had begun to eat his lunch when he saw the funnel cloud approaching, The wind picked up his motorcycle, which was parked near the work area, and flung it against the side of the kiln. Mrs. John Vernooey said the wind sounded like a low - flying airplane as it went through. She said the tobacco in all three kilns was destroyed and there was a lot of damage to the crop still in the field from flying debris from the Saws farm. The twister went right through the area where most Oxford travel brochure defended by official Free. Press Woodstock Bureau WOODSTDCK — Any criticisms or sugges- shopping in Kutore, Hickson and Beachville, which councillors felt was non-existent. Mor- ,despite milk tions county councillors have for this year's gan said they were not misleading but were fit - Oxford County travel brochure, the county's tended to sell Oxford County to visitors. first, will have to wait until next year, an offs- cial from the Southwestern Ontario Travel As- "Someone who lives in these place may gel a laugh out of it but it's meaningless to tour- By B JpN[CE Sentinel -Review ew vANg1CKLE staff Writer sociation said Tuesday. ists ... I don't see the significance of it." NORWICH—Residents of the local Amish community have no plans to sell their farms Bill Morgan appeared before the county ad- Morgan said the reference and dates of ma- :and leave Ontario, despite Ontario Milk ministration and finance committee to re- ny county events were left out because the Marketing Board (OMMB) regulations which ,pond to numerous criticisms from council brochure is a "lure book" with the intention of may force them to quit selling milk, a when the all -color brochure was delivered Ju- encouraging people to come to Oxford County. 'spokesman for the community said. 11% 14- After considerable debate on everything Although Amish families near Tavistock Visibly upset with council's harsh criticisms from picture quality to factual accuracy, Mor- and Gorrie have decided to move back to the of his asseelaon's brochure, Morgan defend- gan said: "I make no apology — I think it is United States rather than quit dairy farming,. ed the green and yellow garbage can in the excellent and have had many compliments Eli Swartzentruber said the Norwich Amish booklet's cover photograph saying the can has about it." will find an alternative income. "no bearing" on the picture. "I don't really feel it is significant. It is ap- He said events which were left out will be in- eluded in a travel paper to be distributed in fu- Dairy farming is an integral part of the Amish way of life, but the OMMB regulations propriate to have IlLter cans in any public "It ture. which take effect Oct. 31 will force them to ship their milk in bulk tank coolers, which ark." he said. doesn't take away from the P' Y Next ear, if council secs is the brochures Y P require use of an electrical motor, instead of Picture." _ a second time, they should be distributed in ' shipping their milk in cans. The can, which appears in a photo beside the March or April, Morgan suggested. The Amish, old order Mennonites, have Springbank Countess, had several councillors County council earmarked $3,500 for the shunned mechanization. questioning the professionalism of the bro- booklet which will be distributed in Canada, Swartzentruber said his community of 35 chure. Europe and the United States. About 10,000 of families will wait and see if the OMMB Morgan also defended references to window the 75,000 brochures will be distributed locally. Province wants more information on county industry land resolution The provincial treasury wants more information on Oxford County's request to change the Oxford Restructuring Act to allow the county to purchase industrial land for its municipalities. And in a letter to council's administration and finance committee, George Mclague, parliamentary assistant to Treasurer Darcy McKeough, says the province would be reluctant to "chapge legislation in any way to dilute what is essentially an important planning tool available to the countyy, McCague says in the letter received by the committee Tuesday the ministry is puzzled by the Bounty's resolution. He said it would be "a more direct approach" if the county requested area mumelpa7itleus be allowed to buy industrial land. Under the Oxford County Restructuring Act, oniy the county can buy Industrial land, The committee is recom- mending McCague be asked to look doewr into the iarne, A background letter describing courted's reasons for requesting the amendment will be provided. The letter drew fire from Ingersoll Mayor Doug Harris. The reason the county is not requesting that area municipalities be given the authority to buy industrial land is the recognition that the county must retain control over where industrial land will be located. he said. Study on courthouse passed by councillors Oxford County council Wednesday voted to spend $24,000 to study future feasibilities for the courthouse square in Woodstock but some councillors questioned the cost. Council supported a public .vorks committee recom. niendation and hired Leonard Dickson Architects and Trevor ,arwood-Jones Consulting Architects to perform the study la determine potential uses of the square that includes the courthouse, jailhouse and old registry officer, all designated 1 tinder the Ontario Heritage Act for their architectural or historical signiffcance to the conrmumt�. 'ITIf, slur y is expected to take about 10 weeks to complete "I find it a little bit insulting," Harris said. "I wonder if he (McCague) has read Bill 85 (the Oxford County Restructuring Act)." BLUES CHASER Middle age IN when,vou will)[ to -see how lone our car will last histead of,sooing how fast it mill go, of the men had been working only 10 to 15 minutes before, she said. Szucs estimated the damage to his farm at bet- ween $30,000 and $50,000, which is partially covered by insurance. He said he was standing In the kitchen of his home when he saw the funnel -shaped cloud approaching. He could see not when It hit the barn, he said, but the next thing he knew, his barn was destroyed. The whole thing lasted about two minutes. No estimates of damages to the other two farms were available. Direct dialing to be expanded in Oxford Free press Woodstock Bureau ivOODST'OCK — Subscribers in six Bell Ca- n.:ula telephone exchanges near here win be ,1 ble to dial their own long distance calls as of %19 20, Stu Rolfe, local Bell Canada manager Friday. �if] r'he exchanges are Bright (454), Drumbr. 1 Iht), Eastwood (467), Hickson (462), Innerkip i las) and Princeton (45B), The Burgessville 424 exchange ; ;.;�.. `' 7. south of Woodstock, owned by the North Norwich Mon Icipal Telephone System, will also be hooked into the system, known as Direct Distance Di- .--`:' - a q- aling, IDDD). Implementation of the system Involved in. - Vallation of new equipment in all affected ar- eas, Rolfe said In a news release, When a customer dials long distance an op- erator will cut in to get the number of the call- er before the call Is placed, he said. It will go into Operation as of 2 a.m. Aug. 20, Rolfe add- ed. Ile said the number for directory assistance If i II he 411 In Bright,_ Drumbo and Princeton. Norwich Amish will stay board ruling changes its mind and, if not, they will switch to pigs or beef cows - "But beef prices haven't been very good lately, and pig prices are up and down, milk provides us with a monthly income. It will be too bad if we can't ship milk." Seven Amish communities appealed the OMMB decision but to date the board has held its ground, Instead it has suggested the Amish consider cream production as an alternative. But cream production carries a subsidy and the Amish refuse any govern- ment money - Like Swartzentruber, the Tavistock Amish came to Ontario from Pennsylvania and that is where most of them plan to return neat spring. said can't ssure eesa soler utiontothe AAmiart issh problem. But the Ontario Human Rights Commission offices in London and Kitchener have announced they will lock into the matter. COUNTY OF OXFORD REQUIRES COUNTY CLERK DEPUTY TREASURER ird (Re- appBca- of Coun. vears aInI once will be given to appRRli, cants who have successfoily cnnieleted the A.M,C.T.O, Bursa. his Is a senior admintstra- nve and managerial position, :WPllcatlons may be submit- ted In confidence to the under ,coned. Please provide outline of experience, personal data,. nualifications and references. Closing date September 15, J 77. MR. HOWARD DAY TREASURER COUNTY OF OXFORD P,O, Box 397 WOODSTOC k, Ontario N457Y3 r. Board of Health under fire by County councillors i The Oxford County Board of f Health was the subject of a disagreement among several county councillors at their ' meeting on Wednesday. The dispute arose over the k proposed hiring of a business administrator for the board, a raise in salary for one of the board's senior officials and the new programs being operated by the board. Councillor Ken Bullen of Woodstock questioned the need for hiring a business ad- :- ministrator and expressed 2 concern that council may end up paying for the extra programs. Councillor Walter Hulme said the health and social services is committee felt that someone i was needed to handle the financiaal matters of the board. :i Ingersoll councillor Jack Warden pointed out that the Oxford County Health Unit is s receiving a 75 per cent subsidy from the Ministry. "There are a lot of new programs and they're good. The Ministry is going to pay for them and we have got to get off our butts and get them going," i said Councillor Warden. "Right now we have the money and there is no reason to cut out the programs. If the subsidy is cut, then cut the programs," he said. Councillor Bullen said thev r should be operating the same e whether they get a 75 or a 25 per ` cent subsidy. Councillor Warden stated that it comes down to whether one is health conscious or not. The proposals were accepted - by council with the report of the health and social services committee. In other business council decided to donate $1,000 to the Town of Cobalt which was F{ partially destroyed by fire in May. They also awarded a grant of $200 to the Woodstock > Community Services Council to assist in the preparation of a Directory of Community Ser- vices in Oxford County. Council appointed Charles Young. fire chief for the City of Woodstock. to the position of X county fire co-ordinator, ef- fective July 11, 1977. The :i resignation of county clerk and deputy treasurer, Gerry staples. was also regretfully accepted. effective Sept- 6. - Mr. Staples has been em-ployed with Oxford County for 10 years and will be taking on the duties of town clerk in Ingersoll. "We were elated when Mr. Staples applied for the job as we've had an opening for quite some time. ingersoll's gain is the County's loss," said Councillor Doug Harris, mayor of Ingersoll - A $24.000 feasibility study to determine the best use for county buildings in Courthouse Square was given approval by the Council. Several councillors questioned the cost of the study and the need for it to be con- ducted. "The price for the feasibility study on the Courthouse Square is very high and I cannot justify in my mind the need for this kind of study to be undertaken," said Councillor Harris. Councillor Bullen felt that written assurance should be obtained from the Ontario Heritage Foundation that they will cover at least 50 per cent of the cost of the study to be completed by Leonard Dickson Architects Ltd. of Woodstock. Tillsonburg Councillor, Ken Webster, thought a more reasonable figure should be obtained for the study. "Twenty-four thousand dollars is so unreasonable I cannot support that," he said. The proposal was approved by a vote of tl to 5. Present for a large portion of the day's proceedings were Victoria County councillors who were present to take a first- hand look at the operation of a restructured government. Victoria County, north of Peterborough, is considering the adoption of restructured government next year to avoid being splintered by regional municipalities. Oxford County was restructured in 1975 and Victoria County was interested in how the new government was functioning two years later. Many councillors offered advice to the visiting councillors during a question -and -answer period and warned them of the pitfalls In establishing a restructured sysrtem. Warden Ken Peers advised them to "work for what is best for the whole county." Lodge residents active Age no bar to seniors' skills Free Press Woodstock Bureau WOODSTOCK — Clarence Tripp may have retired from the tool- and die -making trade, but the tool- and die -making trade has yet to retire from Clarence Tripp. Tripp, who retied after 53 years in the busi- ness, is a resident of Woodingford Lodge sen- ior citizens' home here and is one of a number of active seniors who won't let old age stand in the way of their interests. At 78, the Woodstock native is the youngest of a trio of senior men who can be found work- ing away morning, noon and night, most days hi the lodge's craft. workshop. Tripp specializes in metal work, concentrat. Ing on the construction of ornamental glass and steel flower tables, end tables, flower pot. holders and candlesticks. All are made and painted in the lodge's craft workshop, using the tools and tricks of the tool -and -die trade. And. according to Tripp and shop, supervisor Ellen Montgomery, finished products, along mth other works turned out in the shop, are sold faster than the hobbyists can produce hem. 'rripp's works are made by bending soft ,leel strips into shapes, circles or right angles and riveting them together Into structural dc- ,igns each precisely -measured unit is then sprayed with gold or black paint and -shipped to the lodge's second craft room where it is priced and sold to Woodingford residents or outsiders. TO hold his works have been bought by peon a from as far away as Mississauga slid Brantford. A four-year veteran of the lodge workshop, 'Tripp spends most of every day and some evenings In the shop. Most articles take about a week to make, sold Tripp, who worked am a lon6and-die maker in Woodstock, Windsor, Uclroll and Ingersoll. All work is sold on a non-profit basis, with mvcnue going toward materials and shop sup- plies. '9 spend so much time In the shop because ors an extension of my life as a tool -and -die maker," Tripp said. "I do it to put in the time :md because [ like working in metal." Tripp has ulso experimented with plexiglass and wooden picture frames but has no plans to change from metal work. Tripp's two able-bodied assoetates in the workshop are Walter Davis, 88, it former far. mer and assembly worker, and Bill Long, 00, a former halslon Purina employee. Davis specializes In colorful wooden novel ties such an turile-shaped childron's chairs, ehildren's table and chair oohs, slant shine box. os and others. One of his mast privod creations Is a mints. ture wooden man with a Mewl on his head and chest and armh and legs mude of Ida battle expo atu0d wfollber. Bol((rt DOYIx and Tripp's works were entered n the recont Woodstock Fair and took ribbons m the craft exhlbitlons in the Fulrvlow Centro, Other Woodingford Lodge creations were also on display. "It's therapy. I'd rather be doing this than sitting down," said Davis, a native of London, Eng. "It keeps me occupied and it's a bit of a challenge." The third member of the craftshop is Bill Long, who constructs and paints wooden toys, including rocking horses, tricycles and broom- stick horses. Long, who had a workshop in the basement of his home before moving to Woodingford Lodge threemonths ago, also does craftsfor a bobby; admitting like the others: "I'm here all day —every day." Tripp said the three, who are rarely joined by others, gel along just fine despite spending so much time together. "We all get along good. We know enough to mind our own busi- ness," he said. "We have to get along — I can't ran or fight," quipped Davis. "Our only arguments are at the dinner table." Crafts supervisor Montgomery, who also oversees work to the crafts room for lighter bobbies such as sewing., macrame and paint- ing, said the three are next to impossible to keep from the workshop. "They're there Sundays, Saturdays„ all the time. Theyre not content with just one day,' - she said of the three men, describing them as "most interested in what they do." She said the craft room is also a very popu- lar area with seniors, often accommodating 30 men and women at a time. "H they lose inter- est in life they'll give up living," Mrs. Mom- gomery said of the seniors. "They have to have interests and they find them here." Woodingford Lodge has a capacity of gas seniors and at present houses 210 people. Elvis Pres ley, 42, dies of heart attack Council to try it alone 0 Oxford rejects border help Free Press Woodstock Bureau WOODSTOCK — Oxford County can solve it, boundary problems without the help of On- tario Treasurer Darcy McKeough, county ouncil decided Wednesday, in a recorded 13 2 role, council rejected Mcdeough's suggestion that a hearing officer deal with a number of realignments proposed `ine a last December. instead, the county planning department was instructed to study the situation and make recommendations to council. Council decided it might reconsider McKeough's offer if it is . unable to solve the boundary problems. Council also agreed that a report examining the feasibility of shared assessment in Oxford he undertaken. Debate on boundary realignments in Oxford was sparked last year when Tillsonburg an- nounced plans to annex 4,300 acres of nearb} oath -West Oxford Township plus large part, of Haldimand-Norfolk region to the east. McKeough blocked the town's application to the Ontario Municipal Board (OMB) and asked Oxford's eight municipalities to compile. ',aft proposed municipal boundary changes into a single package for consideration at one im quirt' rather than at a series of OMB hearings. Other proposed annexations which have sur- faced include a Woodstock plan to take land ,from Blandrord-Blenheim, Norwich, East Zor- ra-Tavismick and Zorra townships a four -acre .South-West Oxford Township appheation ask- ing for four acres of Zorra and several small iparcels of land sought by Ingersoll on its boun- daries. All were to be forwarded to McKeough for consideration and probable appointment of a hearing officer at the suggestion of the county finance and administration committee. But on Wednesday, several councillors said 'boundary changes now are "premature" and an deliberations should be handled by counts Personnel. Coun. Perry Sibbick of Blandford-Blenheim Township expressed amazement th wat Oxford, restructured only 2y_, years ago, could possibly require boundary changes so soon. tie criticized Tillsonburg for going directly to the OMB far more land without consulting (he county, "Whatever their annexation rea- sons they are umlaeceptable to the county .. . I take a dim view of any municipality which asks for changes without coming to the county two years after restructuring. I can under- stand the minister's concern.' Sibbick also argued that boundary changes now, while the county official plan is being prepared, would jeopardize its last few months preparation. "Oow the consultants can bring it to culmi- nation when they don't know the boundaries, I don't know. These realignments are prema" lure. Sibbick's concerns were shared by Conn. Louis Barrett, mayor of South-West Oxford 'township, and Court, Jack Burn of Norwich. "This council should recommend boundaries remain unchanged except on mutual consent," said Barrett, whose municipality has been able to handle its realignment with Zorra Township that way. "I suggest to council that we are not doing out job by asking outsiders to solve our prob- lems,'• Burn said. Court. Ken Webster of TilLwmburg, who la - voted McKermgh's one -hearing concept. shared the minister's concern that many OMB hearings would cost thousands of dollars. ,,It (annexation) boils down to one fact. a; long as we keep burying it we'll never result the situation-" Oxford Warden Ken Peers repeated his "hard line" stand against annexation, arguing it never solves a thing. Sibbick suggested the planning report should answer such questions as how much land does each municipality have under devel- opment and how much area is zoned industri- al, commercial and residential in each. 3.2 CENTS A GALLON Heating oil, gasoline prices will increase County Of Oxford PUBLIC NOTICE The Denby Landfill Site will be permanently closed August 31st, 1977. As of August 31st waste material now going to the Denby Landfill Site shall be taken to one of the following three locations: a. from the Ingersoll area, Sweaburg and Foldens, the material is to be directed to the Holbrook site of Superior Sanitation, 2 miles south of Holbrook, east of County Road 13. The site is open B a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday to Saturday; b. from Beachville and Embro, the material is to he taken to the Zorra Township site, which is 2 miles west of Cody's Corners on County Road 6 and north on the second concession one-half mile. The dump is open Saturday from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.; C. Materials from Innerkip are to he taken to the Blandford-Blenheim landfill site, which is 2 miles north and east of the intersection of County Roads 29 and 22, The site is open Monday to Saturday, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Owen Sanitation Service will continue to make collec- tions, however some changes in collection times may be required. Residents will be notified of any change in collection time. EW r so `L MO L O X O 0 WN LLJ Z V 04=0 M Noma M L �.60F omo4A min a y �m y5.c'gi m oCgv� guy mbd e� V 9 C _� �ft OCay, (3eO d�A O'F cw,C G o c� o K, mV m,p�jzp Y y °'u E o'csm gr� a�m W�P.e e+�cv �.53 a3 us .a o'p q2'Ce a h9 ���yym80.c��cL =camp �a3aman�' �c'Eai�c tasGo,��. •0p9atla`Cooyryy. :. a.c et', ego y. ag9'JK LyY 4.�� - -40 urvr Gordon Gregory, Zorra 65, wlttn ill retireend d a u of rho year. Gregory, clork-treasurer er since the on:2 4 oxford County restructuring In 1975, bell the kc E m. = A N € a me position in the former East Nimuld u, yy township for 15 years. vp m m 2 V Zorra clerk retiring • 1XV, • Oxford wildlife centre Students high on park idea Free Press Woodstock Bureau WOODSTOCK — In the heart of Oxford County between Wood ,tock and Beachvllle lies a 260-acre truct of land will) potential to becomes hiking a nd wildlife centre, At least, that's the opinion of Woodstock students spending the ,ummer wandering the county -owned land, developing nature 1 rails, investigating plants and animals and showing school chit- ,lren the sights. Co-ordmatur Mary Pierce and assistants Stephen Harvey and Sharon Mime were hired by the county In May on a $3,000 Expert ence'77 grant to investigate the property's potential as a park and lantiliariae the public with the site. So far they've developed 1 l,i miles of nature trails, an orienteer- ing trail and a playground and marked trees and shrubs with ex- planatory signs. They're working on a brochure listing plants and animals in the area and offering directions to the park, located immediately north of Highway 2 between Woodstock and Beach - "With a little more development and a few trees planted this could be a really good county park — the centre of the county," i Harvey, a Grade 13 student at Woodstock Collegiate Institute, said Wednesday. "It's a place where people can go and see birds, fish and ani- mals," Miss Pierce added. "It's especially great for kids. They an spread out and do things on their own and not have to be en- ertatned all the time." County council has approved the idea of a three-phase $175,000 ministry of natural resources development plan, but according to Oxford clerk Gerry Staples no definite action has been taken on the proposal. . Presented to council last summer, the plan would first develop the central area with access along a lane over the Canadian Pacif- ic Railway line. The second stage would emphasize east end wild- life areas and the third, a footbridge across the Thames River. Staples said Wednesday -the county took advantage of the Ex- perience 17 program this summer to determine the land's poten- tial and to see how 'a nature -type recreation area might be adap- table and accepted." "Nothing has been done More this," Staples said, "It's an ex- periment or a pilot project if you like." The land was purchased from Canada Cement in 1975 for $50,666. Although the students admit their work so far is a drop in the bucket toward overall development, they are satisfied with their accomplishments to date. The project concludes Aug. 26 and it will be up to county council to decide if similar work will continue next year. Working from a home base in the northwest area on the south banks of the Thames, the students have cut paths through ib, bush with a hand trimmer and built an adventure ppl1ayggrro,nd complete with rope bridges, swinging tires, and wooden ladder. for cllmbing. Home base consists of two picnic tables donated by Woodstock, an outhouse from the Tevlstock sewage disposal and a tarpaulin borrowed from Mary's father. They chose their base and 20 acres for development after inten- sive investigation. "We walked all over and cruised the river In a boat before pink- ing It," Miss Pierce said. "It's central and not too swampy and is hidden from traffic." The property consists prlmarll of floodplain land, the majority of which is open fields dotted with two major forest areas and nu merous clumps of trees and bushes. The site's main feature is the Thames River which meanders across the land. Harvey estimated the property could be used as summer park- land from May to October, explaining that it Is wet and, in some places, water -covered in spring. Miss Pierce suggested the site would be ideal for cross-country skiing in winter. This summer's activities have Included visits by children from various day camps and schools in the Wogdstock and Ingersoll ar- eas. A day camp is planned for children In Beachvllle and the Dor- land subdivision in mid -August. The visitors are treated to hikes, games, fishing, wiener roasts, scavenger and treasure hunts, insect and plant collecting and na- turelessons. Harvey, whose father teaches biology at a Woodstock high school, says the property has many tree varieties, including black willow, maple, hawthorn, ash, oak and dogwood, and more than 150 species of plants. He said there are 20 varieties of birds, including great blue her- rons, meadowlarks and sparrows, and many fish and turtles in the river which ranges in depth from one to 4 h feet. Plants and animals have been recorded with the help of the Woodstock Naturalists Society and Woody Lambe, co-ordinator of the Oxford County board of education outdoor education centre. The lists and other paper work are compiled on rainy days at the Oxford County courthouse where the students are given full use of equipment. The students would like to see development of the park continue as a nature area, but they suggest more picnic areas and trees and possibly a bicycle path as useful additions to the site. "Nothing has been done so far. We hope our work gets things rolling," Miss Pierce said. "We really didn't know what was ex- pected of us when we took the job, but we feel we've been success- ful with what we've had to work with." Miss Pierce will submit a report with recommendations for county council's consideration at the end of the summer. M N 0 0 03 c: 5� COMC O C C O 'Oa = O R C 0 ID L 3 W in m t C n T Do�+UU at m m at N C C in 42 L O Y N are r n 0 in N_ 0-0 N`y2m—° U Y M 010 C 0 0 0 ro a> N O m x C O -0 U Y C ? W m � � C tl�00 a O C ` 0 c 0 0 0 0 �4O U�rz P 0 y, tmN U a1 id G Y 4z in Qy U 'O VCC lL 0 G E �Ngaw m � m r u t Development freed ,,of Woodstock freeze Free Press Woodstock Bureau If the Scanit subdivision north of Devonshire ter as specified by the ministry, he said. WOODSTOCK — A development freeze Avenue is not held up by an Ontario Municipal "If I city Is to grow there can't be more which has limited growth in Woodstock since Board hearing, about 2,500 lots could be than a one-to-one ratio between sewage and 1975 is about to be lifted, city engineer Carl opened up, 1,000 of these immediately. Heve- river water," he said. "In other words, If we Hevener said Thursday. nor said. pump nine million gallons of sewage into the Following a meeting in Toronto with Envi- Hopefully, this wilt also open up some of Thames nine million gallons of water must ronment Minister George Kerr, Hevenor said the smaller subdivisions and the (old) Wood- come over the dam. By Increasing the flow it was indicated that the housing ministry stock golf course site when we agree to a plan over Pittock dam we could maintain the ra- wouid be instructed immediately to begin ap- for it," he said. do," proving draft subdivision plans for Woodstock. The sewage plant addition is expected to Aid. Ken Bullen, who accompanied Hevennr Development has been frozen the past two take upwards of two years to construct, de- to the meeting along with Aid. David rears while the city awaited an addition to its pending on the delivery of mechanical equip- Matthews, Mayor Leslie Cook and representa water pollution control plant. The contract for ment. lives of the Housing and. Urban Development the 55.1-million addition has been signed with Hevenor said ministry officials also said Association of Canada. Woodstock branch, Cnvtrge Wimpey Construction Ltd. and work is several studies are being undertaken on the said the group left the meeting with a "good expected to begin Tuesday, paving the way for Thames River and agreed to discuss the possi- feeling." further development here. bility of increasing water flow over the Pittock "I can't comment on whether house prices Hevenor said an end to the freeze should al- Lake dam during periods of low river flow, will go down or not, but this should allow met( - low development of the Scanit and Broos sub- This would allow the city to continue pump- houses to start making for a market of a more divisions, two major projects which have ing eight million gallons of sewage daily Into competitive nature, a factor which may at made little progress so far the river on a one-to-one basis with river wa- least stabilize prices," he said. o � + Mine drilled in Blandford-Blenheim By TERRY CRAIG Sentinel -Review Staff Writer The quiet countryside of Blandford-Blenheim town- ship is not known for mining operations. But since the end of June a drilling team From Nacogdoches, Texas has been drilling a shaft to be used for access to a gypsum mine, owned by Westroc Ltd., of Mississauga. John McKinney, president of McKinney Drilling Co., says the shaft will be drilled in two stages. The first will be 15 feet in diameter drilled to a maximum depth of 240 feet at which time a lining will be set. It will then be drilled at 12.5 feet diameter to a total depth of 480 feet. The drilling operation is utilizing the blind shaft drilling technique developed by Hughes Tool Co. of Houston, Texas, The new drilling technique allows drillers to economically and rapidly excavate large shafts for - access, ventilation and de - gasification. McKinney said the operation, a mile north of Highway 401 on County Road 4, is the second largest at- tempted in North America. Previous methods of drilling included hand sinking shafts but McKinney said; " Hand sinking is fast becoming a thing of the post " McKinney said the drilling has been running smoothly but he added; "We have to contend with your weird Canadian earth pressures," Despite battling the earth pressures McKinney is finding the job in Canads one " Construction crew mans the blind shaft drill- ing rig at the gypsum mine on County Road 4 of the more pleasant operations he has done during his 35 years in the drilling business. He has drilled around the world, most recently on the Trans -Alaska pipeline. BLUES CHASER Another sigh( of ndddle age is that after painting the town red you have to rest a week to give It a second coal. "Alaska is a brutal country and everything that could go wrong did but we finished the job," he said. The drillin rig was iransrrnrted to the Blandford- north Highway 401, "tiff photo, Blenheim site on 23 trucks. "This rig can be taken down just like a carnival ride." McKinney said. But the drilling rig has a higher value than a carnival ride — S2 million. The drillers are working around the clock, seven days a week. The mine shaft is expected to be completed ter September. • L • NO TRUCKS ... ...UNTIL BYPASS COMPLETE Quarry dumping bid gets approval By DEREK NELSON contamination of the town's Toronto Bureau water supply, can not, The Daily Sentinel -Review As well, Beachville TORONTO — The Environ- ratepayers, and the municipal mental Assessment Board has dumping more than councils which support them in approved of opposition to the dumping two million tons of metallurgical cannot file an appeal with the waste from Dofasco's Hamilton board. plant in the BeachviLine quarry Three main enviromental west of Beachville, concerns were raised before the But the dumping cannot board, the report said. proceed until the Woodstock One concerned possible bypass is completed for truck pollution of the ground water traffic, unless Dofasco wishes to through leaching from the move the waste by rail instead, waste, which then might con - the board said. taminate local wells, including However, ministry of tran- Ingersoll's water supply. sportation and communication. Another concern was that run - officials, here, will not release offs from the dump site might the proposed completion date of the bypass pending a formal announcement by Oxford MPP Harry Parrott, The board decision, made two weeks ago but released Thor - pollute surface water, including the Thames River. But in both cases the board said it is satsified that Dofasco has proposed "an engineering design that would eliminate the possibility of contamination ..." This would involve coating the quarry floor with liquid sulfur to act as a sealant. The scheme will be monitored. TRUCK TRAFFIC The third enviromental concern related to truck traffic through Woodstock, which is now the main truck route to the quarry. Up to 56 more trucks a day which would increase total slay, is at the enviroment BLUES CHASER ministry awaiting approval, which can be expected within Husband painting house to neighbor washing the month. windows: You're lucky you only get a two nsfl-- ..eel wrwk vnetinnf set three. decision is made to the Environment Assessment Appeal Board. CAN'T APPEAL The city of Woodstock, which was represented by a solicitor at the original hearing July 21, or the Ingersoll PUC, whose representative at the hearing expressed concern over possible i Report urges ministry to leave service alone Free Press Woodstock Bureau WOODSTOCK — The ministry of health ,huuld not disturb Oxford County's ambulance dispatch system it it is working well, Oxford's ,oeial services administrator says. Instead, the ministry should work with areas that are Ixlow standard, Gerry MacKay says local service is "excel. lent and efficient." In a report to Thames Val. ley District Health Council, be expresses court. it, council's displeasure with a ministry pro- posal to centralize ambulance dl@patch In Lon- don for Elgfm, Oxford and Middlesex counties. lie says local services should be left alone, or at most updated with the help of the minis- try, The report will be forwarded to council for consideration Wednesday. The health council, � Wit has met next Thursday as the deadline lnr submissions, on the proposed system, will a tau receive a copy. If the system is implemented, all emergency ells for the three count!" would be bundled in London before being relayed to the nearest +ulbulance. The proposal is still under study ,nd a startingdate has not been set. MacKay argues that London dispatchers may encounter difficulties sending ambu- lances to areas with which they are not funill• i iar. "One would question whether persons dls- patehlag from London would ever become ac. quaimod with the area," he said, Ile notes that when persons are taillnil for ,fiuh,nr,.<- tht arc and i It -...tail u,,it "For example. in Ingersoll there is an Ox- ford Street, Oxford Lane and Oxford Avenue which could cause a problem for a dispatcher and could cause a lengthy delay in the antbu- lancearriving at the correet location." MacKay says there are also a number of townships in Oxford which have the same concession and lot numbers because of re- structuring. Other concerns raised In life report included residents' worries that personalized service may be lost, loss of jobs, and the number of dispatchers to be needed If the switchover is Implemented. "rhe general public in Oxford art, very con- fident in the services being provided by thost, present operators ... people are not conli dent with the suggested change ... they hart, not been assured that they will still receive flit, prompt and kffielent service they have bern accustomed to," MacKay says. MacKuy says flit, ministry has not said what the new systetn will cost, addhig: "In the p;r,t when services have been changed and t emrd Ized there has never been a reduction In rust, but rather a sharp Increase In cost to the taz payers of the province.'" She information that was presented at Iht, public meeting (in July) was not Sufi'! clent and the ministry was nol. prepared ;i, one would have expected .. it would be unit cipaled that Ihev would hold more pubht meetings al whicli they should have all It laets find figures available," he says. L C N 0 t00 an Woodstock traffic by 2.8 per cent, would rumble through town if the dumping went ahead. The board considered that "this increase is excessive" because of the nature of the traffic. Dofasco intends to move the waste from their present Hamilton location over a five- year period along with an ad. ditional M,088 tons of the material yearly from ongoing operations. It hopes eventually to recycle the material, which is mainly iron oxides, once it becomes technically and economically feasible. Continued support urged for parkland wumy tvunut ww zee asxeu et, - allot up to & W for construction - of a building at the Oxford County Park, the administration and finance committee decided Tuesday. The request came from a group of students providing recreational activities at the r park during the summer under I an Ontario Experience'77 grant. 44 Project co-ordinator Mary L Pierce said in a report to the committee a structure was oneeded for equipment storage tt� and protection from the rain. The park is located between Woodstock and Beachville along the Thames River. The committee also suggested council continue supporting the program which is guaranteed funds from the provincial government for the nest two years. - Woodstock Aid. Philip Poole suggested one of the area high schools be asked to construct the building as part of a class project with the county footing the expense for materials- V N O m m 79 y?p,Q�"clm Yc,c a°�iG3A p� a,EU a .o w Gw '8Z um & E V 9 T Ui 0. E E C.,Z C E w a0 m y=,, cFy,ru `° mL y ca c.i c o e.a to is02W uEcu s >1 �WM �co, Sid E�_ Z�"'•F cox c ow U ss yyit - 3 of yO Sda� E6 w TU Tts CL'c'i1 ' i' L o�td W9t�3~� a,� Metric reminder Americans entering Ontario from the Blue Water Bridge at Sarnia are warned by this sign that Canada has gone me- tric. The metric conversion sign indicates that 50 m.p.h. is Free Press Sarnia Bureau the equivalent of the new SO kmh posted along highways. Police say the education program is working and that driv- ers are aware of the changes. Darcy praises county's action over annexation Oxford County council's decision to try to solve its boundary problems on its own has prompted praise from Ontario Treasurer Darcy McKeough. In a letter to Warden Kenneth Peers, McKeough said the county's decision "is an avenue of discovery and response which I want to en- courage." He said it was a "responsible approach toward resolving boundary issues." rouncil, instead of following McKeough's suggestion in August to have hearing officer appointed to consider boundary ansitu decided to tarn over t h1 g applications made the situation to its planning department for study and recommendations, for county clerk j o b McKeough asked that the. county study be done by December so his ministry can About III persons have applied 'rhe deadline for applications introduce legislation on for the county clerk's job left was Thursday. Tillsonburg's attempts to annex vacant since the resignation Day said the names now will a large part of South-West earlier this month of Gerry go to administration and finance Oxford, Norfolk and Bayham Staples. committee for consideration and Townshipa. County treasurer Howard Day then to,county council for o final confirmed that figure Friday, decision. Staples left the administration after In years to hecnmr Ingersoll's clerk. DAY CLERK An administration and finance committee recommendation that county treasurer Howard my be. appointed temporary clerk was endorsed Wednesda) by county council. PAVMFNT%APPR0VF0 County administration payments of Se1,072 were ap proved Wednesday by county council. Oxford County honors clerk Free Press Woodstock Bureau W OODSTOCK — Oxford County's loss is In- gersoll's gain, Warden Ken Peers said Wednesday, as council bid farewell to former clerk Gerry Staples. Staples, a to -year Oxford employee, re- signed as clerk earlier this month to assume duties as Ingersoll town clerk. An Ingersoll resident and former town em- ployee, Staples replaces clerk -treasurer Willi- am ytaclnlyre who has been appointed chief administrator for the town. "Ile was a big help to duffers like me," Peers said. "Any time of day or night and on Saturdays and Sundays he would come to the county. Ile was dedicated." Staples received a plaque from the county, a desk from county council and a leather brief- case from the Oxford County Ex -wardens As - so, iation. BLUES CHASER After the government takes enough to balance the budget, the taxpayer ha the Job of budgeting the balance. County receives power to approve subdivision plan's The restructured County of Oxford will receive the power to approve plans of subdivision, October 1, Housing Minister John Rhodes announced today. Authority to approve sub- division plans has already been delegated to Metropolian Tor- onto, the District of Muskoka and the regional municipalities of Halton, Hamilton- Went- worth, Ottawa -Carleton, Water- loo, Peel, York and Niagara. Rhodes said that Oxford County will be the first municipality outside of regional government to receive dele- gation powers. As such the province will be viewing Oxford III its new role with interest. in addition to approving plans m suodtvislon, the county will Ile responsible for commenting I the Ontario Municipal Board ()MB) on restricted area zoning) bylaws approved by municipalities within the re- structured county. The province through the Ministry of Hous- ing, will continue to comment to tilt Ualh on;ill h.I;m., iintial"d at the county level, and all bylaws received prior to October 1. This delegation is in keeping with the Ministry's efforts to encourage more local autonomy III the planning process. In considerinlf applications for approval, the county must take into account such factors as the health safety and convenience of future inhabitants who could be affected by the proposal. Applications for subdivision approval submitted prior to October 1 will be completed to registration or closing of the file by the Ministry of Housing. Anyone applying on or after that date should contact the County of Oxford. Under section 44d13) of file Planning Act, decisions made by the delegated approval authority on a draft plan can be appealed to the Ontario Monies pal Board. Housing staff will continue to offer assistance to Oxford C'.ounly officials during the I ra uwtfon prr u,d 0 • E NATURE TRAILS TOURED A group of Oxford County Wednesday night. Here, acre park which has been are Sharon Mireeon the right residents toured parkland some of them discuss Indian partially developed under an and Mary Pierce, second between Beachville and folklore on the nature trails Experience'77 grant. Two of from the right. (Staff photo) Weodstock off Highway 2 that make up part of the 260- the workers on the project 9 Planners approve Devonshire plaza By CHRIS NIXON Sentinel -Review Staff Writer A city planning committee —- recommendation Wednesday night: night approving a shopping pro JUST ARRIVED plaza in theDevonshire- apringbahe Avenue area may spell the beginning of the end to New Oxford County a civic controversy that has spanned more than a decade. Committee members the Community Services Directory unanimously recommended site plan for the 50,000-square- foot plaza be approved by — Produced by — council with a condition that a development agreement include The Woodstock Community Services Council dedication of land on property owned by the developers, I — and — Intergrated Financial Cor- poration, for the extension north Information Oxford of Springbank Avenue to service future Scanit subdivision growth- HARD BOUND $g o0 AvailableaT _ ARCINDUSTRIES-WOODSTOCK INFORMATION OXFORD -539-4889 fast=Zorra Township Mayor WOODINGFORD LODGE REQUIRES HOME PHYSICIAN Woodingford Lodge, Oxford County's 260 bed home for the Aged re- quires a Home Physician to be responsible for the medical, paramedical ano nursing care and services provided to its residents. In accord ante with regulations stipulated within the Homes for the Aged and Rest Homes Act. This position requires a legally qualified medical practitioner keenly interested in the needs and care of the elderly and offers the oppor tunity to continue the responsibilities of a private practice while as. suming the duties of Home Physician. Additional information regarding this position is available by contact- ing l.A Wood, Administrator, Woodingford Lodge. 423 Devonshire Avenue, Woodstock, Ontario. N4S 7X6. Telephone 539-1245 or Mr. Cecil Wilson, Chairman, Woodingford Lodge, Committee Of Management, Telephone 485-3446. Interested persons should submit their applications in writing to Mr Cecil Wilson, Chairman, Woodingford Lodge, Committee of Manage ment in care of the above address not later than October the 7th, 1977. 6 wins Lrape stomp second year in a row Mayor Harold "Big Foot" Vogt of East Zorra Township managed to stomp his way to victory last Saturday morning, retaining his grape stomping title at the tenth annual Mayor's Grape Stomp. Although the Ingersoll's Mayor Douglas Harris was a blur of motion, as he squished his quota of grapes, the eventual winner was defending champion Mayor Vogt. The Mayor's grape stomp was the opening event of the llth annual Cheese and Wine Festival. Bill Brady of CFPL radio was the master of ceremonies for the second year in a row. Competing against mayors from nine other municipalities, Mayor Vogt took the other contestants by storm. While other participants stomped frantically, the former policeman crushed a few grapes at a time, waited for his slave -girl daughter Trudy to clean the drain, thereby allowing the juice to flow through, then stomped some more. Throughout the entire three minute competition the mayor kept this unusual stomping method, which proved to pay oft in the end. Contest judges Harry Parrott, Bruce i Halliday and Ken Peers carefully measured each of the milk vats containing the juice. The three were barely able to hold back their surprise when Mayor Vogt's vat showed that he had produced 4.75 pounds of juice, over a quarter of a pound more than any of the other contestants. This is the first time in the grape stomp's history, anyone has won two years in a row. PUBLIC NOTICE COUNTY OF OXFORD Return to Normal Business Hours 9:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M. MONDAY TO FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 19, 1977 To JUNE 16, 1978 H- G. Day, Deputy Clerk Court House, Woodstock, Ontario BEACHVILLE QUARRY County supports clumping protest By CHRIS NIXON Sentinel -Review stair Writer County public works earn- mittee recommended Thursday that council support Beachville area residents in opposition to a ns to to it haul BeachviLime quarry. The recommendation was made without Woodstock Mayor I,esfie Cook's support. Ilia motion to accept county engineering director Don I'ratt's suggestion not to support the ratepayers failed to get any hacking. in a report, Pratt recom- mended no action be taken on the resolution from South-West chemist says, they don't need to While Dofasco plans to seal Oxford Township, asking for go through all these processes." the base of the quarry to prevent county support. Pratt said. seeping of waste deposits below PROPOSAI, 'But they turn around and its surface, Barrett said, Pratt. said the proposal by come up with all these schemes recurrent blasting nearby will Dofasco to deposit two million and it's just muddying the whole eventual y open some of the tons of metallurgical waste at situation." cracks in the quarry. the quarry near Beachville "will have no demonstrable effects of The engineering director said the county shouldn't get in- County Warden Kenneth Peers of Norwich Township said the county's areas of concern volved and added that South- he has heard similar fears ex - with respect to roads or West Oxford Township can take pressed. waterworks." any stand it wants on the issue. Coun. Perry Sibbick of But, he admitted, while South-West Oxford Township Blandford-Blenheim Township, Dofasco officials have said the Mayor t.ouls Barrett made the committee chairman, said he waste poses no environmental motion the ratepayers' briefs be could understand nearb hazards, it's odd that they will supported in principle residents being concerned with spend up to 1100,000 to satisfy Ile said itwould be difficult to the establishment near them of environmental concerns. vote against a resolution that a potential environmental ,,If it's (waste) Inert as their came from his township council, hazard. New fam Crown Attorney Fred Porter welcomes newly -appointed Family Court Judge Ronald E. Stauth, left, to Oxford County. (staff photo) sworn IAN MCANbREW Itevlew Staff Writer maid E. Stauth was ruesday as family t for Oxford County, tauth assumes the •t duties from Judge on. rnom, appointed to in the mid-194os, will n his position as court judge in the vision, uth will also handle rt matters in the •ea. Guth, 42, a lawyer 'turn Toronto, has i ly court judge in for Oxford specialized in family court In for the past la years. He is a graduate of Assum tion University in Windsor wit a bachelor of commerce degr e and of Osgooda Hall, the la school at the University o Toronto. He received a genera bachelor of arts degree from th University of Toronto and currently working on a masts degree in business ad ministration. He was made Queen's Counsel in Ig74,,and is married with three Children, the eldest a boy, an two girls. Township approves Salford subdivision UEREHAM CENTRE - South-West Oxford Township has signed -an agree- ment paving the way for construction of the Salford Heights subdivision at Sal- ford, township clerk Helen Prouse said Wednesday. Mrs. Prouse said the agreement for the li-lot single family unit project was sighed with Woodstock developer Len Reeves after more than five years of ne- gotiations. The subdivision is to be built on the first concession of Dereham Township in the southwest corner of the hamlet. Mrs. Prouse said installation of storm sewers is expected to begin shortly after Reeves signs the agreement. AW,6S2>X a:; � ».....,. ..__........ p- e d w While in Toronto Judge stauui was active in the coin , ty with various service h - organizations, charities, and ee sports, including minor hockey w and football. f HE'S THIRD Judge Stauth is the third I family court judge appointed in Oxford County following Judge is Groom and Judge L.M. Ball. r who recently retired as a York county court'judge. Chief Judge of the Family Court H. T. Andrews said the true significance of a judge "is in the dedication to the highest ideals of justice." He said that the was the aav Judge Groom served the county and was "sensitive to the needs. hopes, aspirations and inadequacies of those who ap- peared before him." Judge Andrews said the family court is increasingly dealing with "human respon. sibilities.,' Family court handles mainiv Young offenders under the age of 16 and problems arising from disputes between husbands and wives. Judge Andrews said the ideal family court judge is "a person who demonstrates sensitivity to the community and understands People, not just the law." He said the family court deals with special cases that sometimes cannot be compared to the criminal element. "Sometimes the badder they are, the more you love them," he said. Judge Andrews said he recalled the case of a nine-year. old car thief who only wanted to take his girlfriend for a ride. "He wasn't bad," Judge Andrews said, "he just made a mistake." Council helps centre; Oxford warden bitter By CHRIS NIXON Sentinel -Review Staff Writer Warden Yen Peers fought hard but lost the battle Wednesday night as county council agreed to donate $8,000 to the Women's Emergency Centre in Woodstock to help it through 1977. Council — in a drawn -out and emotional decision — voted 12 to 5 to provide the funds either through its almost -exhausted contingency fund, provincial per diem grants, or a combination of both sources. For Peers, mayor of Norwich Township, it was a bitter defeat after making the strongest stand he's taken on an issue since getting the warden's seat in January. The emergency centre, which provides temporary shelter for women and their children in distress situations, asked for $10,000 to offset expected debts of more than $9,000 by the end of the year. Most of the costs are for em- ployee wages. Peers came out strong against approving the donation and was one of five council members opposing.it in a recorded vote. "It is not county council's fault they (emergency centre) are short of money, it's not anyone's fault," the warden said. '•A group of ladies started this thing with good intentions, but it's gone be find that now." Peers said it was up to council to decide if the majority of county taxpayers support the institution that operates out of a Wilding M) Niwrasfm Street BLUES CHASER Sign an it display of pine, boards in a Inmhe•r store knoin Rut Niry Oxford names Harold Walls county clerk Free Press Woodstock Bureau WOOMMOCK — Harold Walls, tuwn administrator and clerk -treasurer at Goderich for the past six years, has been appointed Oxford County clerk. Walls, 46, who has spent IS years in th.. municipal field, assumes the post Nov. 1, replacing former Oxford clerk Gerr> Staples who became Ingersoll town clerl, in September. Walls' experience Includes live year, as clerk -treasurer in the village of New bury and seven yearn its clerk -treasurer !I for the town of Essex. He was selected ti%vi i+ other appl; cants and will earn boss ren $23.1100 and >w7,000 it year. • Oxford citizens -form By Randy Ray Free Press Woodstock Bureau WOODSTOCK — A save -the -jail com- iii ice has been formed in Oxford County to suggest future uses for the abandoned Woodstock jail. Helen McDonald. RR 3, Woodstock, chairman of the fledgling citizens' group, ,aid Friday the committee was organized at the suggestion of architects studying courthouse square in Woodstock, which includes the 123-year-old jail. Zorra Tp. appoints new clerk -treasurer INGERSOLL — Wayne Johnson, Norwich Township deputy clerk, has been named clerk -treasurer for Zorra Township, it was announced Tuesday. Johnson, 44, clerk -treasurer for the for- mer township of East Oxford for 3!§ years, and Norwich Township deputy clerk since Jan. 1, 1975, replaces retiring clerk Gordon Gregory on Dec. 1. Gregory, 65, has been Zorra Township clerk -treasurer for about three years, savemthemj0ail group , flivy've asked us to submit some pos- sible uses for the jail as part of their re- port but we haven't come up with any yet and when we do they won't. be made pub- lic," Mrs. McDonald said. "Our ideas will go to the architects only." Trevor Garwood -Jones consultants of Hamilton, in conjunction with Leonard Dickson and Associates of Woodstock, have been commissioned to study the en- tire courthouse square including the jail, courthouse, old and new registry offices. Oxford County library and the headquar- ters of the county social services depart- ment_ BLUES CHASER It's easy to find a parking space. Just circle the block four times, put the ear In it parking for, look down the street again, and there it is. New clerk eyes Woodstock as location for new home By CHRIS NIXON Sentinel -Review Staff Writer GODERICH — Oxford County's new clerk is casting his eyes towards Woodstock as his new hometown. In a telephone interview from his office at Goderich town hall, Thursday, J. Harold Walls, who becomes the county's clerk Nov. 1, said Woodstock probably will be his new home. The 46-year-old clerk - Oxford studies plan treasurer of Goderich fills the vacancy created by the resignation of former county clerk Gerry Staples. Staples now is Ingersoll's town clerk. Walls — father of one boy and one girt — said he's been looking for a new home in Woodstock, but so far has been unsuccessful. He also wants to see how he. progresses selling his existing home before taking on another. "I think I'll be living in Woodstock or a mile or two out in the country," he said- "Woodstock looks like the place to live." Walls said Woodstock is "a fine town." Walls has 14 years full-time experience in municipal ad- ministration. He has worked in Goderich for seven years and was in municipal administration in Essex for the same amount of time. 33 more mobile homes sought Free Press Woodstock Bureau W'OODSTOCK — Plans for an 83-lot ex- pansion of Forrest Estates mobile home park in Blandford-Blenheim Township will be circulated among county agen- cies, the Oxford County planning com- mittee decided Thursday. The proposal by Ken and Marie Hughes, owners of the present 89-unit park, requires changes of agricultural zoning to suburban under the official plan and mobile home park residential under the township bylaw. The proposal will be sent for comment • to various county departments and agen- cies, such as school boards and public utility commissions, before county plan- ning staff prepare a recommendation on the project. The Hughes' proposal, presented by planner Allan Ward of the Planistics Group, a Hamilton consulting firm. fill for 83 modular home units on. a 36-acre site bounded by the fourth Concession of Blandford-Blenbeim Township on the north and Highway 401 on the south and cast. Ward told the committee all homes would be on 12,000-square-foot lots with water and sewer service. They would sell for about $25,000 each. As in stage one of Forrest Estates, residents would own their homes and pay taxes plus a service charge of about $60 per month on their lots. The expansion would include a 5.5-acre park. "The project is an alternative, cost - wise, to the standard subdivision," Ward said. "We have followed the require ments set out In the official plan and the criteria in the local zoning bylaw. It more than conforms to all requirements." Ward said the expansion Is designed to nmke the site more interesting than the usual mobile home row parks. Curved roads and varied orientation of units would spruce up the appearance. Hughes, who has recently battled Blandford-Blenheim Township over a de- velopment agreement the township wants him to sign before granting build ing permits, said he would meet with township council soon to iron out the mat- ter. The township won't grant Hughes 11 permits to finish phase one of Forrest Estates until he signs an agreement gov- erning roads, drainage, services, park- land and lenaptcontracts. Hughes said expansion of Forrest Es- tates will put low-cost, quality homes on the housing market. Coun, Ross Livingston, mayor of Blandford-Blenheim Township, noted township council Is on record as opposing further development in the area of the prglect. Attorney -General's office announces two promotions The Ontario Attorney- at it duputy aherriff, tool supreme court, deputy county General's office has announced registrar o the supreme court, court clerk• and deputy the promotions of two women in deputy county clerk, and deputy surrogate court clerk. the Supreme Court office for surrogate court registrar Ms. Powers has worked in the Oxford County Carol Elixaheth McAllister of supreme court office as clerk. Lois Margaret Powers of Huntingford has been named secretary, and bookkeeper for Admiral Street has been 'up- deputy local registrar of the the past 26 years. This area isn't new to the clerk -treasurer. He consider himself a London boy and worked this area with CNR for 15 years before going into ad- ministration. He has degrees from both Queen's and Windsor univer- sities. While he has no experience working directly on county matters, he said learning the system in Oxford — a restructured county — shouida-t be difficult. "I've always been at the town level but I'm fully aware of county, systems because we deal with the county here," he said. Walls said he has no plans for streamlining the local system becasue he hasn't seen it fir- sthand - ..But f imagine it's already been streamlined since the county was restructured only about three years ago." Walls said he's looking for- ward to his new duties at the county courthouse. His sal1r, will be between $23.000 and $27,000 a year - Staples left the county .in September to take on the new - post in Ingersoll after 10 years in the county's employ. He has been Oxford Countv's only clerk since restructuring, Until Walls cones onto the scene Nov. 1, country treasurer and deputy -clerk Howard. Day will continue to headman county_ administration matters. Day did not seek the clerk position_ BLUES CHASER :110ist oolnens magazines have M pro es of revipaas and 50pages aaf diets; Oxford trailer park given OK to expand DEREHAM CENTRE. — South-West. Oxford Township council has signed a de- ceiopment agreement with Shardell Es- tednesday tes Ltd, permitting a 10-unit expansion a mobile home park in Brownsville. Township clerk Helen Prouse said the expansion will increase the park to about 41 units. The expansion must be rezoned to mobile home park do -ignation from commercial and ap- proved by the county planning depart ftnent before construction can begin, she sand. Council also signed an agreement with the Bailak subdivision allowing the dev- rloper to apply for a registered plan of aibdivision from the housing ministry. Tor 35-unit development is in the south- t�e-.;t part ,I Pcachcille. Ingersoll Collegiate students to build park storage building Free Press Woodstock Bureau WOODSTOCK — students at Ingersoll district Collegiate Institute will build a movable storage building for Oxford County's 200-acre Bemchville-to-Wood- stock park, school and county officials ;tgreed Monday. Neil Fishwick, head of the school's echnical department, told members of the administration and finance commit. we that technical students should be able to build and paint an eight -by -12-foot building which will withstand vandals, for $500. the amount approved by county council for the project. With the students' aid. he said, the ceunqwill get it, bulldin;t for the price of materials only. The strlteture will be built in the school shop during winter and assembled at the site next year. As requested by committee members, It will be built on wouden skids to allow for movement to higher ground in spring and winter If the park floods. The building will be used to store equipment and administer activities at the park as suggested by Mary Pierce, a Woodstock student who began develop- ment on the site this past summer with two assistants. The trio was employed under an Experience'77 prgiect grant. The county has agreed to hire more students next summer to continue devel- oping the parkland between Governor's Road and Highway 2. In other business, the committee agreed to budget 56'00 to buy trees for the county arboretum on County Boad I south offnnerkfp. Before assembling at the county court- house for their regular meeting, commit- tee members met at the 19-acre site for a walking tour and discussion with Leslie Dickson of Burgessville, who maintains the site. Dickson, former mayor of Norwich Township, noted that only one -quarter of the arboretum is covered by trees and the property could support hundreds more. There arc now about tub trees plus a number of hedges at the arboretum, which was started in 1076. Dickson and ministry of natural re- sources officials will oversee the piant- Ing, committee members agreed. County council will consider the expenditure Oct , 27. The committee also recommended that council support a resolution from Char- lottenburgh Township near Ottawa which asks that a national referendum on capi- tal punishment be held during the nt set election. The resolution asks that "the people of Canada be able to decide the issue ac- cording to their own collective consci once and ... relieve the elected people from the responsihiliry of interpreting the wishes of their con,otuents," PLANNER IIIRED The Oxford county planning department has hired a planner to deal with subdivision ap- provals, county planner Peter Acheson told the Woodstock Real Estate Board Tuesday. Acheson said James Hill. graduate of the University of Waterloo and formerly em- ployed with the York Region planning department, will begin next week. PROVINCIAL CONSIDERATION The province has informed the county that it will consider the county's request for an amend- ment to Bill 95, the act that restructured Oxford County, to permit the county to buy in- dustrial land and sell it to its municipalities. PEERS' MEETING: County council Wednesday night endorsed a recom- mendation from its ad- ministration and finance committee authorizing Warden Ken Peers of Norwich Township to meet with natural resources minister h1 ank Miller to discuss proposed amendments to the Trees Act. A meeting date hasn't been set. SII,\IL F: tT)STs County councii decided Wednesday night that each municipality absorb the costs incurred during a regional firefighting school in Woodstock June 12 to June 15. MORE TREES Les. Dickson, former mayor of Norwich Township, was authorized by county council Wednesday night to spend Sow nn trees to be planted at the county arboretum near hmerkno r 0 9 Group gives trees C6, L. �� )',r /IV" Free Press Woodstock Bureau Thanks to the Oxford County administration and finance Innerkip will receive $600 for trees. With them is former committee, represented by Councillors Ken Builen, left, Norwich Township mayor Leslie Dickson, who tends the and Phil Poole, right, of Woodstock, the arboretum near t 0-acre site as a hobby. • • Ingersoll contented with present borders INGERSOLL — Town council decided Monday night it doesn't want to annex ar- eas of neighboring municipalities, except for a small subdivision in Southwest Ox ford Township. The decision reversed pro -annexation recommendations by the town's planning committee. The decision will be forwarded to Ox- ford County council, which has asked municipalities to submit plans for, future development by Oct. 30 so the county can consider them when drawing up an offi. iial plan. F BLUES CHASER Ingersoll plaza gets county OK WOODSTOCK (Bureau) — Oxford Cmmty council on Wednesday approved an official plan amendment permitting development of a $1.5-million shopping plaza on Thames Street North In Inger- ,nll. The 30,000-square-foot plaza, proposed by Ingersoll developer Mike McHugh, will be built on the former Morrow Screw and Nut factory site. It requires Ontario Municipal Board approval and an Inger- soil zoning bylaw change from industrial to commercial. Ingersoll council earlier approved a plaza on Charles Street on the former Shelby Knitwear property. County coun- cil approved the Landawn Shopping Cen- tres Ltd. project about two years ago. The only objection to the McHugh pro - Save for a rainy day and a new tav comes along and soaks you. C v E v L V posal was presented by a Toronto lawyer representing Landawn. Stanley Stein said it would be "premature and inappro- priate" to permit a second plaza with a food store in Ingersoll in light of recom- mendations made by the county planning staff. Stein said planning commissioner Pet- er Atcheson has said Ingersoll can sup- port only one plaza. But he noted Atche- son also recommended approval of McHugh's proposal after the Landawn plaza was given the green light. Atcheson said as planning commission- er for Oxford County and a consultant for area municipalities he sometimes wears two hats. He said one report was presented to the town dealing strictly with local problems. "In the second report (presented to the county 'planning committee and county council) I looked at two plazas in the town related to the county as a whole and I saw no county -wide significance." He called the plazas a local issue. "I saw no reason for this body tq over- rule Ingersoll," he said. McHugh refused to comment on the ef- fect the Charles Street proposal would have on his development. The plaza will be built in two phases, the first including an A&P foodstore and six smaller shops. Phase two to be developed within five years would include additional retail space and a junior department store. Lin C°Y'i _n •pG 00 '/�?. 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Box 397, Court House, Woodstock, Ontario. N4S 7Y3 Nw, IS 3: C O am t� C am • V • am L d C am C W u—E Yum '!9t9 uu E 31 G OR F C�7 m o o o0.-6 y t 3�uu um�5gc Q�+y� 5yi y`ry- uCV W:�u C ° Rf YV o•W �. 5 Q y •-y u nyE Ci ULG2g5= LE 4 m C� P 4 m cd. o�-yyp'^y3aa'� ZEE `c�c3FxNuy o�"m New By C'HRIS NIXON seutlael-Revlew Staff Writer .1. Harold Walls moved into his new quarters in the southeast wing of the county courthouse this week where he'll direct much of Oxford County's administrative activity. The 46-year-old former clerk -treasurer of Goderich became Oxford County's new clerk Tuesday. He succeeds Gerry Staples who now is town clerk in Ingersoll. Despitethe high prices, Walls has managed to buy a home in Woodstock• a semi- detached on Vansittarl Avenue where he'll reside beginning Nov. 15 with his wife and two children. But, in the meantime, he'll be focussing his attention on running the county's ad- ministration. "The basic function is the same (as in Goderich)," he said, "but I don't know the regular routine here. "I expect to be in a lear- ning position until the first of the year." Walls will make between $23,000 and $27,000 a year in his new position. He has 14 years experience in municipal administration, a graduate of administration courses from Queen's University and the University of Windsor. He worked with the Canadian National Railway in Ingersoll and Paris, among other places, for 15 years before jumping to administration. His first duty as Oxford County clerk was being familiarized with out- standing correspondence and files- Since County Treasurer Howard Day is authorized to handle clerical work in the clerk's absence, the backlog created since Staples' departure hasn't been great. Walls likes what he's seen of Woodstock, but he says he'll miss the setting sun on Lake Huron that he could watch daily in Goderich. Qcc. Ci E a�go�8 ED'E WIN-' J,��^° vw3 clerk takes charge "1'm going to miss that been a sailor," he said. Nnndclock chools when the•. lake even though I've never Walls' children will aftend arrive here, J. Harold Walls officially took over as Oxford County clerk this week. ( Staff photo) PUBLIC NOTICE The County of Oxford is currently in the process of preparing a county Official Plan, The Oxford Coun- ty Planning Committee is holding a Public Meeting for those residents of the County who were unable to attend the meetings scheduled earlier in Oc- tober. The meeting will focus on the draft Official Plan, with particular attention being given to the Land Use Policies. All residents of the County are encouraged to pat ticipate. The meeting will be held on: Monday, November 7,1977. 7:30 p.m. Woodstock Art Gallery, Graham Street K. Webster, J. P. Atcheson, Chairman Secretary -Treasurer. Oxford County Planning Committee 0 • • h -1 U Im C 4M em C L �• iA .� C C o Z OLLI V N w C V LJJ J o CL f� V � f 1 L�J 0 LL a 3 Z Rental begins County residents next week ++-ill he receiving letters :1:ommg the province's rental housing program and asking housing needs in county next study week them If they wish to participate, porotion tOH01 on a request The letters are part of a from county council. housing study being conducted After results of the survey are by the Ontario Housing Car- known the municipality involved Aam > �G3 o cS oLo'c3.°�e� YW ice'... C� O G L°+9m mT bin 88�m w r3O UaG E.��L m� S�Eaao w Z. =Coo WV�S €C8`"�7�maSoe V.24.'.`c.e1 d 1 w«�w538 o°ov$er'aoa 0.0 .yo ww�^«�w Ew'�.w_ev alma moD�g 4d CG a 'J pat y yms`gg�.�_R-�wm'u^o�m'° 3.M ;it EF'd s.,2g2S7;M;ois8 - W wt:a mow.. 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U.0 non 0 E u U U c.a w fA u 3 w mom. aoi$�i -a;o t0 cc. 5Z o, oa °zc con mE W V N bDO E ,Q a L U Q a O'7 ° tN N,O ML >g ° Y o- ya "dues Yg3s nc000 oo.me�acim�vY±�i o E3c ��.ccm °u�uW�Om'WOny ouo.5E9�,,ec°d.` ag"a�yaswn'wvy°am x4c`c..3o'mru W n c.c wm° mt. m 2� v `ter oa m 5s o.°u .ca. `a'E $Q ffi> nW22 3m m•d��a' eat 0 5 . - � Cg,o .3C _ can initiate housing programs by asking the province to provide the needed ac- commodation. The study will include an assessment of economic trends, rowth factor's and current and uture housing needs in the county. A research analyst will estimate the number of families and senior citizens living in the county whose housing is inadequate or who are spending more than they can afford on accommodation. The demand in the area far oHC accommodation on a rent - geared -to -income basis will be.. determined from information gathered through advertising, the questionaires, interviews and applications already on file. Council grants plan amendment County council Wednesday granted an amendment to the official plan, permitting the redesignation of three lots to highway commercial from residential in Tillsonburg. The Simcoe Street properly is on the south side of the street between Pine and Oak Streets. Rene Covey, the applicant. has told the planning depart- ment he has no immediate plans for the land. A spokesman for Covey told council the change is, a natural Lim S raj m v� _g.ccc w4 avo.E a0+1�ogmacg s �$$a$$sUp Zm �53 L� °O~ao am .E . o�' U'3acm 0 3 «y'p NFL NG't" C to. "a m 3 •, « a . mae` sM5rQ •5� 9 €frf «o- �om` .� m scut wow 0.8 Q� :yq. V � AGO coaaa°o 'ea c°. hY Oyu E�So�°8 ',°�,'aE.'J'�`°"EF�°"i �C�Ev$'co • a� m_$�e o, aniil�cc w �',=.9 So iz t°msvom"F move for the land, located on a street said to have a higher traffic count than Highway 2 through Woodstock. He said two-thirds of the 12 persons living in the affected area either showed their support for the application by appearing at Wednesday's meeting or by letter. The change, was recom- mended for approval by County Planning Commissioner Peter Atebeson and planning com- mittee. Tribute planned for King The Oxford Men of the Trees want to erect a stone cairn in memory of city industrialist Vernon B. king at the coumy park between Woodstock and Beachville along Highway 2. County council's ad- ministration and finance committee Monday approved the request which also includes planting tress and handling donations for the pproject. sub:�sct to a report tram its chairman, Aid. Kenneth Bunten of Woodstock. Ingersoll Mayor Douglas Harris suggested Warden Kenneth Peers of Norwich Township notify Oxford Men of the Trees that the county ar• boretunt near Innerkip mot be a more suitable spotfor the tribute since the cairn - twpw with a plaqque - could be Clow road to the ad and nmrc visible to the public than at the park. King died earlier this yyeeaar. An000g his corporate holdings were, King Seaggrove Ud. and 'truck Engfnerring ud. Building of gas line ,,approved for Oxford M �t By Randy Ray — --- t'.i Woodstock Bureau WOODSTOCK — The Ontario Energy Board hits approved construction of a 21: 5-mile natural gas pipeline from Inger- soll to Tillsonburg. The line, to be built by Union Gas of Chatham at a cost of $2.5 million, will fol- low a route south from Ingersoll through South-West Oxford Township, west of the Dereham-Norwich Townline and through the southwest corner of Norwich Town- ship before connecting with the Potter's Road gate station in Tillsonburg. The line will be built to provide addi- tional gas supplies to Tillsonburg and to. bacco curing operations in the Delhi and Tillsonburg areas. It will cross about 75 farm properties and will not follow road allowances as proposed by Oxford Coun- ty. In a report sent to the Woodstock office of Oxford MPP Dr. Harry Parrott, ener- gy board members D. M. Treadgold and S. J. Wychowanec said their decision was based on the fact that construction of the pipeline "is in the public interest." The line, to be built next spring, was the subject of an energy board hearing in London Sept. 20 at which Union Gas; `Ox- ford County, the ministry of the environ- ment and one county land owner present- ed their cases for or against the proposal. In their report, Treadgold and Wy- c•howanee indicated satisfaction that there is a need for additional gas supplies in the Tillsonburg area, and also that the project is economically- feasible. In addition, the board said construction procedures outlined by Union Gas meet board guidelines. These, the report said, include topsoil removal and replacement, tile drain restoration, sodding of lawns and clean-up procedures. -'(These) will be monitored by both Union (Gas) inspectors and a board ins- pector," the report states. Union Gas has pledged to bury the line a minimum of three feet below ground and will cover it to a depth of four feet if requested by land owners. Any drainage tiles cut while the line is being built. would be repaired and guaranteed against leakage, the company has prom - iced. The boards report points out that the major environmental hazard in the pro- ject is the crossing of Big Otter Creek near Tillsonburg. it slates that the com- pany must consult its planners on specif- ic construction methods to be followed and restoration procedures once the crossing is built. A Union Gas inspector and company consultant must also be on hard, the re- port says. The report discounts Oxford County's view that the line should be built on road allowances, rather than through valuable farmland. "it appears that a route in or adjacent to the road allowance to the east of the applicant's proposed route is not physi- cally either practicable or desirable ...- . The board recognizes that it has hall. cated in certain instances in the past that it is desirable to locate pipelines adjacent to road allowances, but it has also said in other cases that it. is not advisable to con- struct transmission lines in areas where Foundation donates to study of square A 82,5,000 feasibility studv on uses for the courthouse square in Woodstock is to be partially funded by the Ontario Heritage Foundation. Oxford County council received a letter from foun- dation chairman A.H.R. Lawrence Wednesday stating 1112,500 or half of the study coal will be forwarded when the foundation receives a copy of the final report. The study is being done by I Noaard Dickson Architects tad., of Woodstock and Trevor ,.,arwood Jones Consultants lAd. of Hamilton and is due tri be, presented to council soon. council commissioned the study in August to determine the best roue for buildings in the ial u re, including the former Koodsloc,k Jail, the county courthouse, family and children's services centre, the county library, the courthouse custodian's home, the old and new registry offices and the health and social services department. The heritage foundation recommended council have the study done before making a decision on the, use of the jail and a new administration building. included in the study will be space requirements with respect to present buildings, site plan aril &swings giving Ihe building's structural, electrical and mechanical adequacy. vormer Woodstock alderman Phillip lifting presented his plan for a redwd ned square in Woodstock city council :V t cloher urban development Is likely to take place." County officials had expressed concern that valuable farmland would be affect ed if the route cut across agricultural ar eas. Union Gas officials at the hearing and during presentations to Oxford Coum ty assured the county the route would fol- low lot lines, fence lines and property lines wherever possible. They also said the land would be completely usable for farming following construction. A final condition in the report requires Union Gas to inspect the pipeline during and after the next growing season and submit to the board a report on the effec- tiveness of cleanup and restoration work. Dick Hudson, pipelines engineer for Union Gas, said Tuesday that company officials are satisfied with the board's re- port and all conditions specified. Hudson said the company will proceed ttrfinish its survey shortly and will begin negotiating with land owners. Centre gets rate increase from Oxford WOODSTOCK (Bureau) — The daily rule paid to the Woodstock's Women's Emergency Centre was increased to $ri from $10 Wednesday night by Oxford County council. The increase, retroactive to April t- cc as part of a two-part recommendation I noun the health and social services com- mittee. The permitted length of stay at the centre was also increased to seven days from five as of Jan, 1, 1078. The new contract, approved by a 12.8 vote, will run until the end of next year. The contract, suggested following a meeting of provincial, emergency centre and health committee officials, replaces the centre's present contract which ex- pired May 31. 'file centre, on Lawrason Street, 0110-s temporary shelter to women and children in distress. Per diem funds from Oxford are 80 per cent subsidized by the pro - ince. Walter Hulme or Woodstock, chairman ,rt' the social services committee, said the oc rease would allow the county to recuc- ,•r about $1,600 of the $8,000 grant it gacc he centre in September. The grant, nliich Ifulme, called "panic financing" for the centre, was not subsidized by Ihr prinince since it was not part of Ube per dirin rah• structure. Ilulme urged council to support the new dead "because it would give the cam tar more reasonable funding and giro ie,idents a couple more days to get Uamtselves established." -It will provide a little more solld Ii- nanrial footing for the centre, although personally I don't think It's enough." t nun. Ken Webster of Tillsonburg op posed lengthening_ the stay to seven days Inm five, "What's really happening here is lhts eenlre Is becoming a department W ..o riul services In Oxford. I've heard all [Ill - stories or women being kicked out of their homes and gettln� bloody nooses but %khm Itboils down to is we're being hoist ;•d wilh another department through do I�.o k door . It's unother full-fledi;ed bu rr.iucr;u r brine sal up in Ihr eoullh .. County Of Oxford RENTAL HOUSING — If you have one or more children or — If you are sixty years of age or over — If your present accommodation is inadequate — If your income is modest This Is Of Interest To You! Your municipal council has asked the Ontario Ministry of Housing to determine the need for new rent -geared -to -income accommodation in your community. If there is a need, rent -geared -to -income accommodation will be developed by the Ontario Housing Corporation at the request of your municipal council. Questionnaires are being distributed to tenant families and senior citizens as part of a survey to determine the interest in this type of housing, ONLY BY COMPLETING A QUESTIONNAIRE CAN YOU HELP TO DETERMINE WHETHER THERE IS A DEMAND FOR RENT -GEAR E D TO INCOME ACCOMMODATION. For families and senior citizens interested in renting an Ontario Housing unit, additional information and questionnaires may be obtained at: THE CLERK'S OFFICE County of Oxford Courthouse Woodstock, Ontario • • • Health unit enjoys new quarters after years of separate existence Ry TF:RRV CRAIG business in three separate of- permanent horne located behind Woodstock health unit requires a large area Sentinel -Renew staff Writer fices around the city, the Oxford The board recently moved into General Hospital. which was hard to find ,%fter years of conducting health ixHrrd has finally found a the former nurses residence "Our former offices were like "We fi ll d - being in a cell," medical officer of health [it. William Butt said in an interview. "We had the reputation of having the worst accommodation of all the boards of health in the province." The three -storey building has room enough for all 48 staff members of the bealth'�rd. Butt said the former ac- commodations were so poor, staff members were forced to share desks, not just individual offices. "Our staff had to take their work home and complete it there," he said. "The at- mosphere wasn't conducive to good working conditions." Butt claims morale among staff members has risen since the relocation. Dollene Ram- persaud, supervisor of nurses agreed. "The facilities are great," she said. 'We have more space, better working conditions and all the nurses like the new of- fices." An added feature is a com- bination board room and con- ference room. - The health board spent over a year looking for suitable headquarters. Butt said the Alike Bragg, director of environmental health and Rita McIntyre go over some paper work in Braggs new health unit offices in the former nurses' residence. 1 staff ohoto) na y mac an agreement with the hospital," he said. "The new offices are ideal. We are close to the hospital and our location is handy for doctors." Only minor renovations were needed to transform the nurses residence into office space, "Other than those, curtains and carpeting were the only things needed," he said. The new location came at a time when more services were added to the health unit. A dental department is operating under the auspices of the health unit employing a director and three assistants. Ingersoll Coun. Jack Warden. chairman of the health board has been through the new offices and is pleased with the tran- sition. "You can feel the morale among the staff is much higher," he said. "There is a different feeling among the nurses. "The new offices are definitely an asset to health services in the county-" Warden said the locale of the health unit is "excellent". "We can now work hand in hand with the hospital." BLUES CHASER The latest new dance craze is called The Politician. " It's two steps forward. one step backward. then>sidestep. Board of health nurses sign new pact in Oxford WOODSTOCK (Bureau) Oxford t.uunty board of health and its 21 public ,health nurses have signed 1975 and 1976 contracts increasing nurses' starting sa- laries by more than $2,500 over 1974 fig- ures. The agreements, announced Wednes- day at a press conference at the board of health office, end a two-year dispute which has seen the nurses working with- out a contract since Jan. L 1975. Both j agreements are retroactive to that date. The agreements worked out at a three- hour negotiating meeting Monday night were ratified by the board of health Tuesday and the nurses Wednesday. Barb Stolk of London, president of Lo- cal 40 of the Ontario Nurses Association, said the contract brings Oxford County public health nurses' salaries to within $317 of the provincial average for health nurses. Wage parity with other public heath nurses in Ontario had been one of the main disagreements during negotiations "The nurses are very happy with the agreement," Mrs. Stolk told reporters. "They (health board) seem to be consid- ering us as an Important service and as professionals — they've recognised that in salaries." In 1975 starting salaries for public health nurses were $11,400 a year. The 1976 contract calls for starting salaries of $13,240 and in t977, $13,992, with a degree allowance of $300, Mrs, Stolk said. Registered nurses, whose 1975 starling salaries had been $10,700, will receive 1976 starting salaries of $12,540 and $13,- 292 for 1977. The agreement must be approved by the federal anti-inflation board. Also included lit the contracts was a mileage Increase from $50 per month and nine cents a mile to $50 per month and I I •,rots a mile In 1976 and $50 per month Mid 12 cents a mile In 1977, The nurses will also receive an allerna- m o Remembrance Day holiday if it falls on a weekend, Job posting within the Ox. lard Health Unit and fair recognition for experience. Mrs. Slink said. BLUES CHASER looflcit spending is %then you're at work earning $4 an hour and the washer repairman is of your house making $tu an hour, Electrical commissions reduced to 8 in Oxford TORONTO (Bureau) — A bill con, dating the electrical power commissi,n in Oxford from 13 to eight has passed through the Ontario legislature and uill receive royal assent before the end of the car. The legislation establishes a new commission in each of the area munici- palities In Oxford County, Woodstock, In- gersoll, Tillsonburg and the five town- ships. Energy Minister James Taylor said in a prepared statement that the bill is tail- ored to the specific needs of the county residents, and local officials helped to work out the new system. The five commissions in the townships will serve the built-up areas, and Ontario hydro will continue to provide direct sere tie to the rural areas of these. municip:.. nos, an energy ministry spokesman >a t, A new municipal public utility t ,tart operations next Jan. 1 in Tllk,i burg, and the other seven utilities will gin operating April t, 1971i; he said. The rural customers within Tlllsonbr MAN' being served by Hydra's rural do system will be supplied by the new uti1, next January. The bill PIso provides that whilst H\, will continue to serve rural customer, hcfore, the "interim arrangement" he reviewed every five years by a I unlmittee. Taylor said in hig statement that low population density and low gr, ,, r rate In Oxford dhtuaty required a spe, kind of restructuring to best stilt e, - one's need Ministry OK's 16-Lot Subdivision at Wolverton MINISTRY OWS 16 LOT WOLVERTON SUBDIVISION Blandford- Blenheim township was advised by the Ministry of Housing that draft plan approval has been given tc the development of 16 lots in Wolverton on the former Ron Brook's lands, subject to a number of conditions. The lots will be developed with individual, services (septic tanks and private wells). One condition of approval is the requirement that the wells be deep wells. Mayor Livingston questioned the quality of the water that will be obtained from deep wells in that particular area. The Township must advise the ministry when all conditions of approval have been met and how the conditions were satisfied. Agriculture staff ready to move to new offices WOODSTOCK — The local Ontario ministry of agriculture and food office will begin operating in new facilities Thursday in the former ministry of health laboratory at the Oxford Regional Centre - Don Taylor, Oxford County agricultur- al representative, said Monday the new office on the east side of Highway 59 will put ministry staff on one floor instead of two as in the old Eastern Centre building on Dundas Street. The office will house extension servic- es staff, milk industry branch and the Dairy Herd improvement Association's 20 employees. Taylor said the new facility will also provide ample parking and a large board room for meetings. "It will be more convenient for most farm people and should provide more parking," he said. "We realize it is off centre for people from the south part of the county but we feel must will adjust quickly." "91's one of the better agricultural of - lice facilities in the province in my opin- ion," Taylor added. The agriculture office had been in the Eastern Centre building since 1962. The ministry of health laboratory has been scant since it was closed by the pro- vince in April, 1976. Travel promotion scheme approved WOODSTOCK (Bureau) — Oxford County council decided Wednesday to spend $3,500 next year to include Oxford in a seven -county travel guide sponsored by the Southwestern Ontario Travel As- sociation. Association representative Bill Morgan told council the guide is a follow-up to a "lure" brochure in .which Oxford was featured in 1977. Similar brochures were also produced for the counties of Essex, Lambton, Kent, Perth, Huron and Middlesex, also for $3.500. .Morgan said the 1975 guide would fea- ture all seven counties, with the possible addition of Elgin, in one booklet. "It's something more specific to tell people where to go in your area. "People don't like a handful of tourist booklets but they do prefer a single book when travelling. It will be retained and hopefully not thrown away." He said the guide, to include color pho- tographs approved by county council. will include alphabetical lists of all Ox- ford communities, including their popu- lations and specific details, and maps of each county with symbols pointing out activities and their dates. It will be about 90 pages, he said. The guide, to be released in March, will be paid for by the counties, the associa- tion, public allvertising and the ministry of industry and tourism. County councillors who.were critical of the 1977 "lure" brochure when it was re- leased had no comment on Oxford's lat- est attempt to attr: 0 tourism. - IIUF'FERIN DRAIN County council Wednesday approved a request from Nor- wich Township to issue• debentures of $17,529 for the Dui'ferin Street Drain. The Ontario Municipal Board will be requested to approve the project and establish an interim quota. LIBRARY ADDITION A request from Woodstock that the county ask the Ontario Municipal Board to establish an interim quota of $75,000 for acquiring land for an addition to the public library was approved Wednesday by county council. TICKETED, TOWED Crown attorney 49 is not immune It was a rough week for acting Crown Attorney Doug Bovell and his car. Not only did the prosecutor get a ticket for parking in a spot he's entitled to at city hall, but his vehicle was towed away Thursday from the courthouse parking lot. Bovell, according to inforrned sources at the courthouse. apparently has been parking his car in Warden Kenneth Peersspot and despite a couple of warnings did so again Thursday. When Peers found his reserved spot taken he had the car towed away. . Although Bovell did get his car back no one is sure who paid the towing charge after the angered Toronto resident said he wasn't going to - Council rejects name suggestion WOODSTOCK (Bureau) — A Wood- stock Chamber of Commerce suggestion that the former Highway 2 between Woodstock and Ingersoll be named Thames Valley Parkway died before Ox- ford County council Wednesday. Council, acting on a public works core- mittee recommendation, decided the road should be known as County Road 9 — Ingersoll Road. Council's decision gave the works de- partment approval to install a directional sign at the intersection of Dundas Street and Ingersoll Road indicating this infor- mation and pointing the way to Beach- i ville and Ingersoll. The road was renamed County Road 9 in October after a roads swap between Oxford and the provincial government removed Highway 2 between Woodstock and Thamesford from provincial juris- diction. It redesignated Governor's Road between the two centres as the new High- way 2 DEBENTURES LOCALLY I' When county council next ;spring issues debentures, some 'will be sold locally. Council :Wednesday authorized its fiscal agent to market $2.3 million. WOODSTOCK DEBENTURES Requests from Woodstock for the county to ask the Ontario Municipal Board (OMB) to provide an interim quota for construction projects were approved Wednesday by county council. The debentures include $680,000 for a north trunk area storm relief sewer, $200,000 for sidewalk construction, $a10,U(10 for asphalt resurfacing and $180,000 for a south-west trunk storm sewer. BUDGETS APPROVED County council Wednesday .'accepted public works com- mittee recommendations ap- proving wtJ7 budgets of the Tillsonburg and Norwich public utilities, EXPROPRIATION County council Wednesday authorized its public works committee to proceed with expropriating 17-foot strips of land along County Road 6 from Embro north to County Road a. The county now owns a six-foot right of way for the road and wants toll feet. County council approves .hospital building An estimated expenditure of $885,100 for the proposed ad- dition to Tillsonburg District Memorial Hospital was up - proved Wednesday by Oxford County council as the county's share of the project. ! Council will raise the money ;5 by setting aside $:i0rl,ilai in the IM, 1979 and 1980 budgets to eliminate any long-term financing. There was some discussion river how the $3oo,000 ex- penditure would affect the 197g budget in light of an ad- ministrative and finance Committee recommendation that county departments use a four per cent guideline on spending increases in 1978. Councillor Perry Sibb)ck of Blandford-Blenheim Township said it looked as if the budget was being put together "piecemeal" and as id that it is a little early to commit council for $300,000 next year. Ingersoll Mayor Doug Harris pointed out It was very likely the county's share of the project could he "far in excess of $81145MA." He suggested a limit of $900,(M) be net. Councillor Ken Webster disagreed. He said the county's contribution should be based on a percentage of the total cost of the project, "if the cost is above the estimates, where does the other money come from?" he asked, Treasurer H.G. Day said Oxford's share of the cost was determined by a bed -usage survey at the hospital. The ministry of health will pay 66.6 per cent, or $3,539,11M, Of the $5.3 million total estimated cost of the project. Oxford County will pay 56 per cent of the balance, Elgin County 20 per cent or $.354,005 and the Reginn of Haldimand- Norfolk 30 per cent or $531,060, The project is scheduled to begin in 1979. In other business, council approved the marketing of $2.3 million in debentures as recommended by the ad- ministrative and finance committee earlier this month. Warden Ken Peers said a portion of the debenture issue, in Canadian funds and due in the spring, will be marketed locally. Council also approved the Tillsonburg Public Utilities Commission water depart- ment's 197H budget, capital forecast and water rate structure. Water rates payable to the Tillsonburg PUC by its customers will increase an average of 10 per cent in 1978. For the average reiidenti:0 customer who uses 3,000 gallons per month, the new rate will increase his bill by 70 cants pe, month to $4. Instead of paying V19.60 for a year's supply of water, it Will cost $48 -- a yeark increase of $&40, An operating budget of SM0A75 and a capital works budget of$155,900 for 1978 were approved, • • 0 0 Oxford considers own animal shelter The establishment of a county -operated animal shelter will be investigated for Oxford, county council decided Wed. nesday, Councillor Wallis Hammond Zorra Township, made the proposal, accepted by council despite the warnings of several councillors that the costs would be excessive. The county rejected an Ontario Humane Society shelter plan in October, 1976, because of cost. Zorra Township buys animal control from the London Humane Society, but this will be "practically cut off" in January, Mr. Hammond said. The society will continue to offer its services but the price will go up for control and pound services, As of January 1, the society will charge $20 an hour Plus 30 cents a mile for patrols and pickups in municipalities outside London. A $50 pound fee i will be charged to keep an animal five days, payable by the -owner if the animal is retrieved and payable by the municipality if the animal is not claimed. "in light of the high cost of hiring animal control officers, I think we should look at the possibility of operating our own animal control with a proper pound," Mr. Hammond said. Tillsonburg, which is currently without a contract for animal control, turned down the London Humane Society proposal earlier this month because of the cost. The town forwarded a suggestion to the county that it look into the possibility of a county -operated shelter with provision for the municipalities providing or hiring a patrol service of their own. BLUES CHASERS A private control service operates in the other areas of the county with the exception of Woodstock, which has its own animal control officer. Councillor Ken Webster of Tillsonburg suggested ex- tending the study to private animal control operators in the interest of saving money, The only shelter in Oxford County is a privately -owned facility on Governor's Road, RR 3, Ingersoll, which has been providing animal control to Tillsonburg on a voluntary basis since the end of October. However, the shelter does not meet the necessary Ivife, standing on a ladder and washing tLc ceiling, while her husband watches a loolball game on TV: '?f 1 fall off this !udder, will you eall an ambulance at half fin,(" " G�PSOk s o1`c� s t' d ON 3 V3 3 tl V gl0ep O61 be O%Ne V ire* 4%0 .4t �- requirements for a registered Pound and cannot legally enter into a contract agreement for animal control. Councillor Doug Harris of Ingersoll pointed out that the 1976 study showed the county would pay about $150,000 an- nually to operate its own pound. However, not many municipalities were concerned about the problem them, he said. With the additional concern now and rising costa of hiring outside services to come into the county, the county may be prepared to pay the high costs for its own shelter. The administration and finance committee will study the matter and report back to council. Controversy 40 is heating up on health body By TERRY CRAIG Sentinel -Review Staff Writer Ingersoll Coun. Jack Warden, Oxford County board of health chairman, has been joined by members of Local 40 of the Ontario . Nurses Association (ONA) in a battle to prevent the board of health from coming under the control of the county. Coun. Jack Burn of Norwich Township, who has made a notice of the motion to transfer responsibility from the province to the county said Friday: "Once the health board budget is approved it (health board) is no longer responsible to the county as long as it stays within budget." The board is made up of five councillors and three representatives from the ministry of health. Its budget is paid 75 per cent by the ministry and 25 per cent by the county. WOULD REMOVE Burn's motion, if approved by council, will remove the ministry representatives. But Barb Stolk, president of ONA Local 40, said in an in- terview Friday county council appears to be more concerned with dollars and cents than health. "The county does not un- derstand what preventive medicine is," she said. She defined preventive medicine as the best use of the health dollar. "it is less expensive to prevent occurrances rather than try to find a cure afterwards," she said. She cited the family planning department as an example of preventive medicine. "We teach birth control in family planning," she said. "Think of the number of girls who could possibly go on welfare, or the children who 'would become wards of the crown if birth control were not taught." Mrs. Stolk said she feels the county has ignored the board of health until budget time. "Members of council have been invited to accompany any member of the health board staff to acquaint themselves with the services provided," she said. "This invitation has never been accepted." The ONA has issued a sup- portative statement for Warden condemning Burn's proposal. "This board has taken the responsible position of in- vestigating services of other health boards and has at- tempted to upgrade its services to the community," the statement said. "Nurses who have worked for many years in Oxford County are aware of the difference in attitude of this present board," Mrs. Stolk said she could foresee cutbacks in servicesof the board if the county took over responsibility. In defending his position, Burn said: "I believe the health board is a county responsibility, but we don't have any control." Burn said despite the fact that 75 per cent of the board's fun- ding is from provincial coffers "it's a pretty weak argument. "It all comes from the same pocket, the taxpayer is the boss," he said. The board is currently operating on an $800,0W budget. N FINANCIAL BOOKS ISSUE Councillor charges county is using [delaying tactics' By CHRIS NIXON Bullen said he already has Sentinel -Review Staff Writer talked with two lawyers who say County coun6l was accused of it doesn't matter what body using delay tactics Wedrtesdey looks after the books. And the night by asking for legal opinion health board has received legal on the county health hoard's advice that it may take over the prnpc�sul to handle its own books, inf ancial books. Coun- Jack Warden of "This is a delay tactic... there's no question about that," Ingersoll, health board chair - Warden said, man, got nowhere with a motion Warden said he could "name to delete the recommendation all sorts of boards" controlling from an admmistration and their own finances and said the finance committee report, issue locally contains Warden told council there was "something I just can't no need to wait for word from a fathom." county solicitor because the opinion already is known. Warden's attempts didn't get "What the hell is going on. much support. the irate councillor asked ad- "There's nothing wrong with ministration and finance the county getting a legal committee chairman Aid. Ken -opinion," said Coun. Perry Bullen of Woodstock. Sibbick of Blandford-Blenheim "W'hy haven't we got those Township. books' We have permission "If the county is surrendering from the (provincial health) the books, it will be a decision of ministry, a lawyer says we can this counciland no one else d handle own [woks) and you're the turning around and saying we restructuring act isn't always can't?" clear, it usually is geared The health board has at- towards retaining as much tempted to take control of its power as possible with the own books handled now by the county. county. But the county has held - off, pending clarification of a section of the Oxford Restructuring Act, that says the crounty most account for health board expenditures. a BLUES CHASER hl,iay people will be giving money as prescnt.s this Christmas — it'll be the cheapest thing they can find. Others will follow Oxford's lead Peers County Warden Ken Peers of Norwich Township predicted Wednesday night other municipalities will follow Oxford County to restructuring — a so-called relief from regionalization — in future years. In a year-end address to county council, Peers said the co-operation of the county's eight municipalities in working for "a stronger Oxford" will set an example other counties may follow. "The eyes of the semi -rural - urban counties seem to be on us" he said. "We certainly don't have a perfect solution to all municipal problems but we are showing that the municipalities of a semi -rural -urban county can work together for a good, solid county. ' The county has been restructured for three years. It is the first restructured county in the province. "In spite of some reports you hear, there is a great interest across the province in what is happening here, and it would seem that the lead Oxford took a little over three years ago will be followed by other municipalities." Peers said. Peers added that a report on a feasibility study on the cour- thouse square — expected to be handed to councillors in two to three weeks — may pose council's most important decision for 197e. He said he may call a special meeting to deal with the report. 0 County of Oxford IIIn17= 11197 KEN PEERS Warden "Home (if the 19JY) International Plok ing lfatch " 9 THE COUNTY OF OXFORD INCORPORATED 1850 RESTRUCTURED JANUARY 1, 1975 AREA 500,608 acres 782 square miles POPULATION 84492 EQUALIZED ASSESSMENT $789,174,684. MILES COUNTY ROAD 300 TOWNSHIP OF BLANDFORD-BLENHEIM Formerly Township of Blandford and Township of Blenheim TOWNSHIP OF EAST ZORRA-TAVISTOCK Formerly Township of East Zerra and Village of Tevlstock TOWNSHIP OF NORWICH Formerly Townships of East Oxford. North Norwich. South Norwich and Village of Norwich TOWNSHIP OF SOUTH-WEST OXFORD Formerly Townships of Dersham, West Oxford and Village of Beachvflle I TOWNSHIP OF ZORRA Formerly Townships of East Nissouri, North Oxford, West Zaire + and Village of Em Ero 9 C 9 [ay yryp {q�yr 1m�O �m8p im�mpp {�q� N $ �py� t2 (q� W W 0 4 P Q N 10 b� b b 10 b Imp b 1� m ap n m w n m m q ry ry m y) m ¢ m a 4 < m C O m « Z «« y S C d z Z 9 p 9 p y $ Y p y 0 0 $ 3 r 3 3 h Y C $ roman and fppN 1fQq U' � > m (p3 m �• „ ^ r m � ry n O c c W W E a a c ro v s` • ° u E J I J p c c m y c � • s _n N ¢ y Z O 0 O J w o � z ° 3 TOWNSHIP OFFICIALS TOWNSHIP OF BLANDFORD-BLENHEIM Clerk -Treasurer & Building Inspector ...... .._,.. _ Keith Reibling Drumbo NOJ IGO, Office: 463-5347, Home: 462-2476 Tax Collector & Deputy Clerk ._._............. ........... Robert Hoskin Drumbo NOJ IGO. Office: 463-5347, Home: 463-6336 Road Superintendent ......... .... ..__....._.... Herb Belkwill Drumbo NOJ IGO, Office: 463-5347. Home: 463-6343 Mayor.___._____..........._.___... ..... I .......................... Roes Livingston R.R. #4. Bright NOJ ISO. Home: 632-7566 Date of Meetings — First Monday (day) and Third Monday (evening) Township Office. Drumbo, Ontario TOWNSHIP OF EAST ZORRA-TAVISTOCK Clerk -Treasurer ........ ._.............._._. .,..................... .. John V. Killing. Hickson NOJ 1LO. Office; 462-2697, Home: 462-28M Deputy Clerk -Treasurer & Tex Collector .._.._._. Welter Schaefer Hickson NOJ 1LO, Office: 462-2697,. Home; 655-2964 Road Superintendent .___..__.........___........__.. John S. Appleton Hickson NOJ 1LO, Offico: 462-2698, Home: 462-2345 Building Inspector & Drainage Commissioner ._. James Harmer Hickson NOJ 1LO, Office: 462-2697, Home: 462.2442 Mayor ...._.......... ._...__ Harold Vogt 57 Woodstock St., S., TeviStock NOR 2130, Home:.656.2941 Date of Meetings — First and Third Wednesday Township Office, Hickson. Ontario TOWNSHIP OF NORWICH Clerk _. _._... _. __..... Robert C. Watkins P,O. Box 100, Otterville NOJ 1R0, Office 879-OW-863-2709 Deputy Clerk Wayne Johnson P.O. Box 100, Otterville NOJ 1RO, Office: 879-6568 Treasurer .__.__-.........._..... ..___....._......._._._.... Fred Lowea P.O. Box 100, Otterville NOJ IRO, Office: 879-OW Road Superintendent ........_... .._.....::..........__........-,... Robert Butler P.O. Box 100, Ottervllfa NOJ 1RO, Office: 879-65N Tax Collectet....... ................... ..._........_.._........_.-.....__.... Fred Loaves P.O. Box 100, Otterville NOJ IRO, Office: 879-6568 Mayor... ..... ........................ .......... ................ __..._._....... ...._ Ken Pars R.R. #4, Woodstock N4S 7V8, Home: 467-550 Date of Meetings — Second Monday and Fourth Tuesday Township Office, Otterville, Ontario TOWNSHIP OF SOUTH-WEST OXFORD Clark ..._.____.__........._.__._.................. Mrs. Helen L. Prouse R:R. =1, Mount Elgin NW 1ND, Office: 485-0477, 877.2702, Home: 842-9468 Treasurer ... ......... _................... ..........._....._...._...._-. A. B. Forrester R.R. #1, Mount Elgin NOJ IND, Office: $77-2702, Home: 8424986 Road Superintendent _.... _._....-........... ___ .__._. Lawrence Rooke R.R. #1. Mount Elgin NOJ 1ND. Office: 877-2953, Home: 877-2944 Mayor... ._....._............. ........_._... .................. _...,._ __..... Louie Barrett Salford NO11WO, Home: 485-2768 Date of Meetings —First and Third Tuesday Township Office, Derehem Centre, Ontario TOWNSHIP OF ZORRA Clerk4reasurer ...__..._. ..__... ._.. .._..__.__. G. L. Gregory R.R. #3, Ingersoll NBC WS, Office: 485.2490, Home: 349-2255 Deputy Clerk -Treasurer ......... ............. _..... ..._............ M. J. Thornton R.R. #3, Ingersoll NEC 3J6, Office: 485-2490 Road Superintendent .... ........ .................... ......... ,. William D. Smith R.R. #3, Ingersoll N8C 3Je, Office: 485-2490, Home: 47BA274 Tax Collector........_...:....___................._.........__............ Donald Peach R.R. #3, Ingersoll NBC 3.16, Office: 485-2490 Drainage Commissioner & Building Inspector ...........E. G. flout R.R. #3, Ingersoll NBC 3J8, Office: 485-2490 Mayor......................... .................. ................... ......... ....... Robert Blair R.R: #4, Embro NOJ 1.10, Home: 475-4306 Date of Meetings — First Tuesday Township Office, 9.11, #3, Ingersoll, Ontario TOWN OF TILLSONBURG Clark -Treasurer . ... ..... __...,..._...... ............__.............. K. E. Holland Town Hall, Tillsonburg N4G 1Y4 Office: 842-6252, Home: 842-8127 Deputy Clark -Treasurer ___ _. .._.._. _... .___._. David C. Morris Town Hall, Tillsonburg N4G 1Y4 Office: 842.6252. Home: 8424188 Road Superintendent _.. ....__. ....... James Hornsby Office-20 Foundary St., 8425961, Home: 842-4657 Tax Collector ..,..,..... .__.. _. David C. Morris Town Hall, Tillsonburg N4G 1Y4 Office: 842.5252. Home: 842-4188 Building Inspector ........................ _.. __.._.__ Harry Seelens 304 Simcce StL, Office: 842-2211, Home: 842.67D5 Mayor ....._. ................... .......... John G. Armstrong 336 Broadway St., Tillsonburg N4G 3S3, Home: 842-3358 Date of Meeting — Second and Fourth Tuesday Council Chambers, Town Hall, Tillsonburg, Ontario 0 TOWN OF INGERSOLL Clerk -Treasurer .... .....__.__.. ...._..... Wm. A. Moclntyre Town Hell, Ingersoll NBC 31(6, Office: 485-0120, Home: 485-2303 Deputy Clerk -Treasurer . ................. ............... _.. Mrs. Marion Knott Town Hall, Ingersoll NEC 3K6, Office: 4854188, Home: 486-1302 Road Superintendent ....... Stephen Kovacm I�Office: 486-4930, Home: 485-2457 Tax Collector ......_....... Mrs. Marion Knott Office: 485.4186, Home: 485-1302 Y Building Inspector ................ F A. Hunt Office: 4854S30 Mayor ..._ ...... ......... ........... ._........_.._:...._..............__ Douglas Harris Office: 486-0120, Home: 496.1867 Date of Meetings —Third Monday Town Hall, Ingersoll, Ontario CITY OF WOODSTOCK Clerk Co-ardinator .....___.__..................... Kenneth Miller City Hall, P.O. Box 40. Woodstock N4S 7W5 Office: 539-1291, Home: 539.9048 Deputy Clark .................. ____ ....... _._........._ John McGinnis City Hall, P.O. Box 40. Woodstock N4S 7WS Office: 539-1291, Home: W9.3047 Treasurer _.........__ ..................... _......_......_..._.. Thomas A. Bertram City Hell, P.O. Box 41, Woodstock N4S 7WS Office: 639-1291, Home: 639-1760 City Engineer ._..._.. ........... ... •. ._._ _. Carl Havenor Officer 639-9808, Home: 5394222. Building Inspectors ..... ........... Garth Ede, Don Parker Office: 539-SM Industrial Commissioner ..........._.._... ....... ,.._...._......._ W. A. Reid Off -me: 539-1291. Home: 537-SM r Mayor ..... - ...... ._._. Leslie J. Cook Office: 639.1291. Home: 537.8379 Date of Meetings — First and Third Thursday City Nall, Woodstock. Ontario LAND DIVISION COMMITTEE Councillor Kenneth Webster Councillor Wendy Calder Councillor floes Livingston Councillor Wallis Hammond Mr. C. Wesley Dew, R.R. #4, Woodstock Mr. George Wilhelm, R.R. #2, Tavistack Mr. Mervin Hicks, R.R. #7, Tilisonburg TREE CONSERVATION COMMISSION Charles Allin ____...._._..__.. __._..._......_........ P.R. #7, Tillsonburg Phone: 942.3932 Rosa Calder _....__.......___.____. ..._..._.....__ R.R. #2, Thamesford Phone: 283.6264 John Mitchell, Jr. ......_._. __.. _....................._.... R.R. #2, Innerkip Phone: 469-3362 David Chambers ...... _._.........._ ... ............_............_............... Norwich Phone: 863.3149 WEED INSPECTOR Burnice McAllister . ...... .................... ...... ........... _.... Salford Phone: 485-1759 OXFORD COUNTY BOARD OF HEALTH M. O H ..__.._. _........ .........._.. ............ Dr. W. J. Butt Woodstock Office ..... .... .........__... _....._....,........... Phone: 639-6121 Ingersoll Office ..._..._..__. _......... _._._.._.___..._ Phone: 486-17W Norwich Office ....... _........ ........._. ._...... ........ _._..... Phone: 863.2330 Tillsonburg Office ..........__._ .................... ... ..... .......... Phone: 842-SM 9 COMMITTEES ADMINISTRATION AND FINANCE — Buller, Seagmiller, Harris, Poole, Peers L HEALTH & SOCIAL SERVICES — Hulme, Armstrong, Burn, Latter, Vogt, Wilson, Warden, Peers PLANNING — Webster, Calder, Hammond, Livingston, Pears r PUBLIC WORKS — Sibbick, Blair, Cook, Barrett, Pears WOODINGFORD LODGE — Wilson, Hulme. Vogt, Warden, Peers OXFORD COUNTY BOARD OF HEALTH — Warden, Armstrong, Burn, Hulme, Letter OXFORD COUNTY LIBRARY — Harris, Seegmillar, Peers FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES OF OXFORD COUNTY — Armstrong, Burn, Vogt, Wilson OXFORD MUSEUM — Balls, Seegmillar NORWICH & DISTRICT HISTORICAL SOCIETY — Burn VICTORIAN ORDER OF NURSES —latter WOODSTOCK HOSPITAL —Cook INGERSOLL HOSPITAL— Warden TILLSONBURG HOSPITAL —Armstrong COUNTY OFFICIALS Warden ._ .._............. __.....__.... _. Ken Peers 467-5565 Clerk ......_ .___._. . ____. G. R. Sta PIa3 537-3911 Treasurer ...._...................... __.,... ,... .. ... H. G. Day 537-3911 County Engineer ..._. _.....__...__._.............. D. L. Fruit 537-7961 Assistant County Engineer _................ Stewart Watts 637-7961 Administrator, Woodingford Lodge _ --- J. E. Wood 539-1245 Assistant Administrator and Office Manager, Woodingford Lodge .....___._. 6. 0. McReynolds 539-1245 Administrator, Oxford Social Services G. H. MacKay 537.3428 Assistant Administrator, Oxford Social Services .._ _......... H. J. McCulloch 537-3428 Manning Director . ......... J. P. Atcheson 537-5524 Librarian, Oxford County Library .. _.. _. _..__ Mrs. Jane Webb 537-3322 Executive Director, Family & Children', Services of Oxford County ._ Mrs. Jeanne Deans 539-6176 Court House Custodian Howard Pro 539.9710 Auditors ......... ._.......-...... _.. Monteith, Monteith & Co 271.6560 PROVINCIAL OFFICIALS County Judge ........... . ... ............... Kenneth Y. Dick 637-5811 Provincial Judge .- ---- ...-__._ R. G. Groom Q.C. 637-2369 County Court Clerk and Sheriff ...... ..:.. R. S. Beaudoin 539-6187 County Crown Attorney ................... F. J. Farrar 637-2611 County Judge's Secretary and Court Reporter __........ --- ... Mrs. Sylvia Raid 537-5811 Provincial Court Reporter .......................... Harry Morton 637.2359 Provincial Court Clerk, Criminal Division ..__.._...... Alan Gamer 537.2369 Provincial Court Clerk, Family Division .._........_........ Mrs. Jeanette Hill 537-3066 Lend Registrar .. ................... _......... ..... . R. Keith Thomson 537-6266 Provincial Police Stall Sergeant _......__. _. D. K. Ross 5399811 Probation Officer .., _........ .......... __._.. .. T. H. Griggs 5394803 Level Aid Director ...... _ J. 0. Carnwath 639.2381 - NOTES - 0 I k