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"Haileyburian- . ESTABLISHED 1904 U2O) iY, C6, Cobalt Post -- Vol. 56 -- No. 44 Haileybury, Ontario, Thursday, January 5, 1961 5c COPY Bucke Township Bucke Township Ratepayers will have a chance on Friday evening to learn something about modern assessment and its application to their own municipality. : The Northwest Township of Bucke Ratepayers Association made arrangement for the use of the New Liskeard Council Chambers for a general meet- ing of Township ratepayers, and have invited the 1960 Reeve and Council and the 1961 Reeve and Council to par- ticipate. The meeting, slated for Friday evening will com- mence at 8 p.m. Also invited to the meeting is assessor Louis Major, and all members of the Court of Revision. It is the plan of the Associa- tion to air all sides of the con- tentious question, and for that purpose, all Bucke Ratepayers are -invited to attend. TB Clinic Days At Local Hospitals Temiskaming Tuberculosis Asso- ciation released. the final. figures for the mass 'survey made in the district early in the fall of 1960. Tn the 17,421 residents of Temis- kaming who were tested or X-ray- ed ten active cases of tuberculosis were found, and 215 persons were found to have chest abnormalities and were referred to their physi- cians for further check. Slightly over 40 per cent of the residents. were. tested or X-rayed in the district-wide clinic, and with the. addition of school children -tested earlier- in the year, and 'miners who are checked regular- ly, this means that a high percent- _age~of the population know that they are free from TB. The Association is starting its regular clinics at district hospitals at once. The next clinic will be held as follows: New Liskeard and District Hos- ~pital, January 27; Englehart and District Hospital, January 25; Misericordia _Hospital in Hailey- 'bury, January 13. All clinics will be held from two p:m. until 4 p.m. on the days in- - dicated. These clinics are held free-of-charge -- all costs are paid out of your contribution for Christ- mas Seals. Latchford Separate School was destroyed on Monday afternoon by a fire thought to have started in the furnace room. School Board plans an immediate start on a new. building and has made arrangements for the pupils until it is built. The Children of Latchford Separate School realized the dream of children all over the continent when their school was burned to the ground on Monday afternoon, and their Christmas holidays will be extended while their elders solve the problem of where they are to go while the new school is being built. Fire broke out in the furnace room of the four-year-old Latch- ford Separate School on Monday afternoon and wasn't discovered until too late to save the building. A volunteer citizen force were able, however, to save the fifty-year old Holy Cross Roman Catholic Few Highwa ln Ini - town District With two exceptions the Tri- Town district was free of mejor mishaps, and car acciderts con- fined to minor property damage. . Most serious was an accident. in Haileybury where one driver is still in hospital in serious condi- tion, and the driver of the second < car was released the following day 'after treatment for cuts and ee bruises. ; = Police Chief Roy Feeley said 5 'that James Price was travelling north on Georgina Street (Highway _---~-: 41) ~ when his car was in collision 95 with a car driven by Hector Gir- "e ard of Haileybury. Mr. Girard was entering Highway 11 from View Street when the accident occurred. His car plunged down a steep --embankment, smashing into a large culvert. The car was dam- aged to the extent of $1,200. Mr. Girard suffered a skull fracture and severe cuts about the face. ARS y Accidents Mr. Price was cut about the face but was able to go home after a night in the hospital. Another accident occurred in Haileybury when Paul Rouse, nine, suffered cuts, concussion and shock when his sleigh hit a. snow fence. The boy was treated by Dr. Paul Joyal and it is expected he will spend several days in hospital. Police Chief Roy Feeley says that Haileybury parents should train their children not to ride the sleighs and toboggans on the streets. : He said he has been chasing children off the streets with their sleighs since the snow came. "The courthouse hill is the safest place for the kids to play," he pointed out, '"'and they are in no danger from cars. The snow fence on which Paul hurt himself has been fixed and made safe."' Latchford Separate School Completely Gutted By Fire Church, just.a few yards away. Damage to school and contents is estimated at 50,000. Residents and communicants of the old church carried out -pews and sacred vessels. when :the church was first threatened, and. they were spread across the snow |: covered ground until the danger was over. 2 The Ontario Lands and Forests equipment was used by department personel and residents to control the fire in the south end of: the school nearest the church; but the rest of the building was completely destroyed, and there will be little salvage. None of the equipment of the school could 'he removed from the inferno. Quick thinking on the part of the volunteers in the early stages of the fire controlled what could have been a major danger. Water was poured into the oil storage tanks from an outside vent, and removed. the menace of a sie spreading ex- plosion, Some excitement eames when a fire extinguisher took off in the interior of the burning building, battering around the wall and sounding like the build up to an explosion. A spokesman for the School Board said that a meeting would be held on Monday evening to chart a course of action. He said that the damage was covered by insurance. "The school was built in the win- ter, and I see no reason why we cannot start immediately to re- place the burned building," he said, "and there is a mixed blessing in this, that it will give employ- ment to some of the townspeople while it is being rebuilt." Latchford is a small, but active community, about 20 miles south of New Liskeard, dependent on forestry and tourists for its liveli- hood. It has the distinction of hav- ing the first lady Mayor of Latch- ford, Miss Irene O'Shaughnessy. Liquor Loss The Temagami Liquor Store received more than usual at- tention during the holiday sea- son. The tourist centre liquor out- let was broken into twice dur- ing December. Dogs! ! . Dogs may yet run at large in Bucke Township. Reeve Harry Groom's new administration is casting a jaundiced eye at the costs of the Tri-Town Animal Control Association which pro- vides dog control services for Bucke. At the Tuesday night meet- ing Mr. Groom opposed con- tinued payments to the dog catcher. He complained that it is costing the Township $200 a year more for dog control than (Continued On.-Page Eight) Reeve Groom Trying To Kill Assessment Reeve Harry Groom of Bucke Township is spearheading an all- out attack on the recent re-assess- ment. He called a full dress meet- ing Tuesday night when the new council was inaugurated and im- mediately plunged into the contro- versial assessment question. About 75 persons packed the Township Hall, and two petitions were presented asking for the as-! sessment to be set aside. The peti- tions carried 110 names. Mr. Groom reeled off a long list of alleged discrepancies in the re- cent assessment. He charged. in- justice and incompetence on the part of the assessor. "An assessment of this type might be alright some places, but in Bucke all we have is bare hills, poinsoned rivers, no shopping cen- ters and no industry," he said. "We cannot set a dealine on justice. There are many persons who did not appeal to the Court of Revision for a variety of reasons, but now they expect this Council to do something for them." Mr. Groom stated that he will never attempt to set a mill rate on the basis of the new assessment. He charged that the Court of Re- vision has largely failed to do any-} thing for the small taxpayers, but! has made concessions to big cor= porations, including a $3,110 tax rebate to the Wabi Iron Works. "The assessment is casting a blight over the Township. People are afraid, many are talking of moving away," he said. Mr. Groom said that the whole assessment should be thrown out. He urged that the Council go to Judge Robinson and ask for a judicial order cancelling the as- sessment, and granting permission for 1961 taxes to be levied on the basis of 1959 assessment. Councillor Ollie Shaver, who was the only member of the last Coun- cil to survive the Municipal Elec- tion, said that he agrees that there are many things wrong with the assessment, but could not agree with throwing the whole thing out. He said that it cost the Township some $7,000-and warned that in the next year or two the government will almost certainly force the Township to reassess if the new assessment is dispensed with. He agreed with Mr. Groom that the assessments on bathrooms and toilets should be reduced or elim- inated, and that the assessment. on two wire hydro service should also be done away with. (Continued on Page Eight)