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32 million school budget up four million from 1968 halton education trustees were told last week that the county school bill has increased by almost 4 million over last year but the preliminary budget did not include provin cial rants total education spending this year will be almost 32 million as opposed to about 28 mil lion last year accounts for 709 per cent of the increased budget the other major factor ac counting for the 13 per cent increase in expenditures is the rise in costs per pupil over last year by 604 per cent the cost rose from 882 per pupil last year to 724 this year major llama der its control 45000 students trustees were told that it was still too early to determine the effect- on the ratepayers finance and business super intendent bruce lindley ex plained that this first glance showed only an outline of the boards costs for 1969 and did not bring into account provin cial grants that have still to be released march 12th he said that reliable informa tion from the dept of educa tion points to on or before mar 12th as the release date for the new grant system the expenditure side of the budget does however show that casts have risen over last year by about 13 per cent tho hike is attributed to the gene ral inflationary trend that has driven prices up in all fields and the gtowth of the school system more students mean more costs two major items that appear in this years budget that did not appear in last years are canadian pension plan contri butions on behalf of teaching staff at 180000 and extension of fringe benefits to all emplo yees at approximately 35000 total budget in comparison with the total budgets of all the boards of education in halton last year the board will have to spend another 3087652 this year last year all the boards spent 15691210 on clement- kvans sch costs figure that jhree separate units to moot to- lewis mission band mrs marv mrs b harley mrs a hayes ijfjlt 11j 0r the first dm- livingstone cgit mrs kva mrs catherine iewis mrs mary 12393 952 spent three norton explorers the pianist livingstone mrs newhouse z tr f the board has 8jj schools un- percentage increase of ir its control with bo these two major hems accounts for the 13 per cent increase in expenditures- in 1969 see how you laugh the light comedy see how they run starts a three night run in the high school auditorium tonight the georgetown tittle theatre production in cludes in major roles ron hunt as rev toop vera mcdonald as hjis wife ron hill as corporal winston gord hunt as the bishop bob thornley des nicholls john bew cathy spier and edna ferguson the play has been staged all over england and the united states since its premiere in england in 1947 abovetrva scene from the show are- edna ferguson the spinster bob thornley a vicar and cathy spicer a cockney maid baptist womens organization mas three groups of workers group iii mrs dorothy robson mrs bates mrs marion beattie mrs pam biggs mrs n cole first baptist churchs new kvans flowers mrs m thomp- mrs l cook mrs lila david- womens organization first bap- son junior conrrcration mrs son mrs e ellison mrs luc- tist women will operate as n robson nursery mrs c ille easlen mrs elsie gether quarterly iier meeting was held weeks ago and since then is mrs groups 1 2 and 3 under dir ectors mrs ruth buttrey mrs audrey duff and mrs dorothy robson have held- their own jneetings a mrs stv w townend social committee w rreen mrs mrs wendy haslukcd mrs bes sic peck mrs millie porter includes mrs raymon1 mrs tv r h cump- irs s mrs w town- mrs levans mrs u en- end mre v yerxa slen mrs d peck mrs m the board made no recom mendation on the 32 million budget which lindley describes as providing for continuing the policies of the former boards from january to june any changes to be implemented as a result of board decisions will be done in the period between september and the end of the year the 1969 budget was prepa red in a different manner than usual in cooperation with rec ommendations made by the de partment of education and the ontario association of school business officials for use by county boards the budget is broken down into major responsibility areas to which all expenses are at tributed as outlined more clearly in former years ex- penditures were broken down into actual cost of objects ra ther than grouping them into responsibility areas this budget was combed over very thoroughly educa tion director james singleton told reporters later some of total budget 20 million be allocated to pay salaries of academic and administrative staff largest portion of the money will go toward paying salaries of 1083 elementary and 738 secondary school teachers for a total of more than a 15 million supply teachers alone will account for almost 300000 and special education at the elementary level will cost more than 600000 estimates on the salaries of secondary schools are not final since the teachers have yet to sign their agreement with the board however the board feels that its estimates will cover any increase in salary arid benefits settled upon pality of esqueslng lias failed do its duty and should erect o caution sign for driven to slow down and replace the mutilated sign with another which makes it clear there are dangerous thh georgetown herald thursday march 30 w page 6 curves in the road poor signs on road dismiss driving charge township of esquesing was severely criticized by a toronto judge in county court this weejt for not properly designating a dangerous curving hill near limehouse which averages an accident a week and claimed the life of a girl in a bad acci dent two years ago judge david vanek dismis sed a careless driving charge against a rural limehouse youth after his lawyer john r belleghem of georgetown es tablished that the one warning j sign there is insufficient and cannot even be understood the the requests were cut by 50 per sign indicates a curving road cent so that the budget this on sixth line hill near year is the same as last years limehouse but it has been shot plus those portions needed to allow for student growtn and rising prices included in the budget fi a 1 million item to pay salaries of administrative and supervi sory personnel at the elemen tary and secondary school le vels the money will pay sen ior officials coordinators con sultants clerical and secretarial help it is estimated that of the lml brown 0 d optometrist 47 main st north suite i just north of silver telephone 8773671 the house with a different atmosphere house tannenhof restaurant tavern miuiuauga rd formerly straersvilla rd hurtonvliu open 7 days a weak for busineasmana luncheons- dinners each friday a saturday beginning jan 24th dance to rudys electric accordion for resarvation desired call george at 8654610 out by hunters bullets there are no warning signs for drivers to decrease speed going down the hill although this is necessary to avoid ac cidents court was told one witness who lives at the foot of the hill said the one sign can not he inderstood by drivers and they come crashins into his fence on an average of once a week judge vanek said the munirl- the president and board of directors of the the childrens aid society of the county of halton cordially invite you and your friends to attend rhs annual meeting on thursday march 27 1969 at 830 pm in the auditorium halton centennial manor ontario street hwy 25 milton ontario special film presentation joey reeve a i ledwith president mrs james sproat secretary average daily enrolment in 1969 has risen from 41126 last year to 44041 this year and mrs joan mccosh ispresident mrs duff vice president mis norma thompson secretary mrs catherine lewis treasurer and mrs doris carter assistant secretarytreasurer llason officers are mrs l wilton visitors mrs j kelly missions and new mrs m mc neil mrs i hardinc and mrs a hayes white cross mrs k ashgrove two baptisms sunday j at hillcrest church j thompson mrs l thompson i members are group i mr ruth buttrey mrs jean barton mrs wilria breen mrs minda corhett mrs meryl elli son mrs diane kllison mrs i harding mrs marlenc harley mrs don harris mrs vi hew itt mrs joan mccnsh mrs kva norton mrs helen paynter mrs j robinson airs jean roshier mrs dianne stephen son mrs lena thompson mrs marcaret thompson mrs flos sy tracey mrs edythe peck mrs k warren mrs myra wild mrs kay winfield j group ii two baptisms were conducted on sunday morning in hillcrest mrs audrey duff mrs doris united church susan janet carter mrs helen cumpsty margaret daughter of mr and mrs jean hancock mrs jessie mrs james barnes and dawn harris mrs barhara hanman marie daughter of mr and mrs mrs lillian kudge mrs june kenneth houden mrs james ireig miss helen holmes mrs barnes was received into mem- doris lusty mrs madeline mr- bership of the church at tho neil miss brenda mcneil mrs now please remember church at the service the friendship init of the lcw of hillcrest united church was held on the afternoon of march 12 at the homo of mrs jm wickson with sixteen lad ies present we were pleased to have among us mrs walter brownridge from town who was a faithful member and wor ker in the good old wws days the meeting was opened by president mrs ward brown- ridge with a hymn and prayer worship service on china unity toy mrs fred ainsworth several items of business were discuss- 1 ed and roll call answered with the word unity followed by the study chapter from mrs arthur ruddcll on man and his family ill a communist country they seem to he a happy race work- ling social life and even managl ing to save on their small pit tance they receive the total ef fect of communism on the chinese family has been to modernize it courtesies were given and meeting closed with a social hour one saturday recently mr nd mrs tjt brownridge mot ored to stroud to attend the fortieth wedding anniversary of mr and mrs lennard they be came acquainted in the days when they showed at fall fairs i well tomorrow march 21st is officially the first 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