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' County, Municipal ""*~<" * * + ® ® «h y, | No Discriminaticn \ i In Public Health | Oa Sto et Urged by Salsberg | ce _ 1+ The Provincial Government | ] Ml"lon Ald ' was urged today to take steps m to ensure that "there is nc & Since 1930, the Ontario Depart-- discrimination against any rac ment of Highways has grown from| or color wishing to serve ir :nnl adf;\i;:'isil"ationt han}:iling 3-700i xA a 3 ns iles of highways to a huge organ-- 's,;(l's)'::::-);l:" h[f:")ln':. fielg;.()::(.:;i\[i i.;fat}ign res};l)on}fihle for 7,600 miles| \ | a fls c rILG e ing's highways (main arterial .(Tm'onto-bl'. '.\.'?(.hm-'s)' (."H l,l," rbutes).g 3.000g milgs of "secondary"f ing health services in the Legls roads and 6,000 miles of develop--| ]atl\l;lrf'Salshvn.: said he had re-- ment roads, Highways Minister] ceived correspondence from a George Doucett yesterday told the, voung Negro girl who tried to .'.egxsle}ture. * | enter an Ontario nursing school. : Outlining some of the operations| She was advised by a "Gov-- of his department, during consider-- ernment department," he said, ation by committee of the House Ofg to go to the United States. g;e $4dfi mllhl}o?-odd egperghturfi, anned on highways, Dr. Doucett! said that, in highways, "yesterday's fuxury had become today's neces-% * fity." He said that, in 1930, the| 41« department had spent $400,000 on' Bl"lal'd Room Ban keeping roads open during the win-- * ter; last year, this cost had risen On Mmors Sought to $2,300,000, mostly because of the First reading was given in need of maintaining vast quantities the Ontario Legislature yester-- rpd equxp.men't i e SHO\V-removal and ' L y€8 combatting ice formations. day to a bill providing that no Claims Criticism Flat person under 18 years of age Criticism by the Opposition of may "frequent" a billiard parior the amount tz be votgci) highways unless accompanied by a parent this year, he said, fell flat when or suardian. the investment in highway trans-- P oo , ; s portation, both on roads and motot ln",("m"d bs '\",("n"'\ en: vehicles used on those roads, was eral Blackwell, the bill is in the considered. Ontario had $670 mil-- form of an amendment to the lions invested in roads, he said, Minors' Protection Act, which and the public had invested more, * specified t hat minors must than a billion in trucks, busses andi have the written consent of a passenger motor cars. Considered, parent or guardian before fre-- as an agency with such capital in-| quenting such premises. vested, and as a provider of 60 e mescam million man--hours of work this§ Several weeks ago Sarnia year, the amount estimated for ex-' Council forwarded a resolution penditure was "almost small," he' to the Provincial Government said. and to each Ontario city asking In addition to his own depart-- :I.T;' 'i"'"""'l" be excluded from ment's work, he pointed out, $19 »mard parilors. million of the total to be voted went| in contributions to county and| municipal road construction and| maintenance. The Province contri--| buted 50 per cent to county roads} and 75 per cent to bridges; to municipalities, it contributed on a sliding scale bases. And in northern areas it paid 80 per cent or all of road costs. Considerable work, Mr. Doucett said, would be done this year in northern areas to aid in opening mining and settlement areas. Health Minister Russell T. Kelley earned the approving nod of many members when his introductory remarks on the health plans for 1946--47 were short, snappy and com-- plete. It was his intention, he P said, to seek to transform the serv-- § ices of the department more into an agency for disease prevention s than an organization combatting illnesses. This accounted mostly for $3 millions of increases in health + costs for the year, covering such things as more expanded anti-- tuberculosis work, examinations of all expectant mothers and similar efforts. The House spent a busy day, in addition to approving estimates for highways, health, Provincial Treas-- urer,' Provincial Auditor and legis-- lative offices. . Fifty--one bills were given royal assent when Lieuten-- ant--Governor _ Albert _ Matthews visited the Chamber and signified his formal approval of the legisla-- tion passed during the current ses-- sion.