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ao i Senior Citizens Plant Tree In Greenbank Community Park "Greenbank residents are not just waiting for the big project, official opening of the Reach MM on June 16. meantime work goes on apace and on Saturday 'a tree was planted in the adjoining community park by two of the older residents of the vill- Township Centennial Hall, In the ceniennial and os, Mr. Thomas Sharpe holds the tree while . George Matthews handles the shovel. Both wiki, have shown keen interest in the along with many, many others have contributed greatly to the area's project for Canada's birthday. United Church Women Hold General Meeting The regular monthly meeting of the Port Perry U.C.W. was held in the Sunday School room Tuesday, May 9th, at 8 p.m. The President Mrs. Sam Caw- ker chaired the meeting and opened with a poem -- "What Counts", followed by Prayer. All present were warmly welcomed. Instead of the usual worship period favourite hymns were sung with Mrs. Wes. Lane at the piano. Reports Regular reports were heard during the business period. The Corresponding Sec"y Mrs, G. : 'Suggitt reported on cards sent to the sick, and Mrs. W. Chap- man on the Flowers. Corres- pondence included thank you letters, also an invitation to at- Would all members of the Exe- 31st at 8.15 p.m. The guest. speaker will be Miss Ruby Wilson, Missionary home on furlough. She will show slides to illustrate her talk. Will as many as possible try to attend. Mrs. Sam Griffen has kindly offered her home for a meet- ing of the Executive, to be held May 29th, 8 p.m. We have many items of business to dis- cuss before the summer recess. cutive please take note of date and try to attend. The U.C.W. members are very pleased that Mrs. Lois Whetham has consented to take the office of Stewardship and Recruiting. Don't forget the Hospital Aux. Fair May 27th, in the Ma- tend an open meeting at|sonic Temple. The U.C.W. are Greenbank U.C.W. Wed., May in charge of the candy booth. Sie Sffec Safe Sifiee - DANCING - CLUB ANNRENE "SATURDAY, MAY 27 Music by the ROYAL AMBASSADORS 985 - 2581 For All Your Plumbing and Heating Needs CALL - ARTY'S PLUMBING and HEATING R.R. #1, PORT PERRY Operated by ART (Pete) PETROZZI Licenced Mechanic. We are looking forward to the--June meeting which will take the form of a garden party on the church lawn, followed by a variety entertainment in the Sunday School room. We are expecting a very full evening of fellowship and fun. We feel |: this will prove to be a.delight- ful interlude in our church ac- tivities,. and the girls on the {| out of proportion (Continued from Front Page) I could say here that these costs are not really increasing with other costs, and this actually, in the over-all picture is correct, for the cost of education to-day as a percentage of our total weal- th has changed little over the -past ten to fifteen years. Each of us as property owners sees, 'however, about 409, to 55% of our local property taxes allo- cated to meet the costs of edu- cation, 'and naturally we find rit difficult to believe these costs are not greatly increas- ing! The changing climate in i which we live demands that our | young people be given much i better and more sophisticated J | reparation for life than even i the last generation required. Al this has brought about in { part increasing costs and has made necessary the building of ew schools, and additions to | existing ones at an unprecend- ented rate. In the past 20 years 1946 to 1966 we in Ontario have added 1,110,775 pupil places in Elementary and 360,000 in Sec- 'ondary schools to accomodate ; the tremendous growth in our school-age population. The tot- al cost of these alone has been $1,656,999,000. This is greater | expansion than in the previous fifty years. This is undeniably a huge Capital Investment the people of Ontario have made in the future of our Province and Nation. Incidently, this al- one has done much to stimulate the economy since it has pro- vided a large number and var- iety of jobs for people. .: There appears to be abroad a belief or feeling that the Provincial Government is not doing much toward relief of the growing cost of education. I wonder just how well-inform- ed we are in this regard? - this present year the Provincial government will provide to school boards in Ontario $452,600,000.; more than 67 times the amount given in sim- ilar grants in the year the sec- Constituency the figures for 1962 and 1966 are as follows: The Capital Grants to just three of the' District High Sch- ools, Brock, Uxbridge and Port committe are working hard to | Perry since 1963 amount to make it a success. Will as many as possible dress in old fashioned costume. Mrs. Merlin Dowson convener of Co-operation in Christian and Missionary Education spoke on her duties, and. stressed the need for more Sunday School Teachers, also assistance is needed with the Vacation School held during the summer. The date hasn't been -set-yet. Any- one who would offer their ser- vices, either to teach Sunday School, or assist with the Va- cation School, will they please get in touch with Mrs. M. Dow- son or Rev. Alec Rice. A mo- tion was passed at the meeting that lunch be supplied by the § Units for the Vacation School, also two members would serve from the Unit. in charge of the lunch. More .information will be given to the Units at a later date, We appreciate Mr. John Tris- tram taking time to attend the meeting, and it proved most en- lightening to the U.C.W. mem- bers. Mr. Tristram explained the plans for the new extention, and answered many questions pertaining to the . proposed building. Many of the members were a bit perplexed, but now have a clearer idea of what the new extension will be like. Thanks so much John, $3,068,329.00. The increase this year in gov- ernment grants to the operat- ing costs will exceed $72 mill- ions. Add to this the legislation just passed which will permit councils to pass a By-law for- giving taxes on property of those over age 65 to a maximum of $150.00 per: year. Of course this is not a "gift". If it were it would mean that the taxpay- ers of to-day would be subsid- izing the heirs who would come into possession of property per- haps in a community to which they themselves had never con- tributed. anything. The "forgiv- eness" of taxes will be a lien against the property to be re- er owners. In the meantime it is a'great relief to those am- ong our aged living on fixed in- comes, : A look at the card which accompanied our local tax bill will show that the Province provided $297,734.00 while the municipal levy was $300,291.00, so had it not been for Provin- cial aid our taxes would have been almost doubled! There are those who - state that "Government should take over more of the cost of Edu- cation". There may be much merit in this and indeed the Government of Ontario comm- issioned a searching study of In|. ond World War began. For our | 1962 1966 1966 GRANT Operating Cost GRANT 1965 ; ELEMENTARY $652,245. $1,864,317. . $1,234,703. SEPARATE $ 19214. . $ 62620. $ 53,689. SECONDARY $418,984. $1,661,499. $894,155. Grand Totals $1,090.448. $3,588,036. $2,182,547. -people;--this has cost the tax- costs; covered upon its passing to oth- all tax matters to determine the merit or otherwise of such be- liefs. The report of this study is expected soon and it may well bring about great changes in the entire taxing structure. This withall, I think we should always remember where any government gets the money it spends or distributes. There is no "magic formula" for govern- ment financing; the money all comes from the pockets of the Tax-payers; this is often for- gotten when we cry for govern- ment to take over this or that cost. If government were to assume across the board, 809, of the cost of local education, first, some boards would have their grants CUT, since some now receive more than 809%. Next the $300,000,000. addit- ional required would mean eith- er; An increase in Personal In- come Tax from 289, to 449; or An additional 49, Sales tax raising it from 59, to 99, OR; an additional 17 cents Gasoline tax raising it from 16¢ to 33c a gallpn. These are but a few of the ways the money could be raised BUT HOWEVER IT IS DONE IT COMES FROM THE PEOPLE OF THE PROVINCE! There is another way; the government of the Province could revise the present system of grants to municipalities. Some years ago, for instance, it was the year I was first elect- ed, the Province provided an "Unconditional Grant" to. help municipalities with Welfare costs. This has just this year been INCREASED in our case to $4.60 per capita. But in the meantime the province has as policy, taken responsibility for about 809, of almost all Wel- fare costs, so the unconditional grant is being applied to any local costs. For many years the provinc- ial government has paid grants of 509, toward Street and Road construction and maintenance. For Port Perry this year these will be $56,078.00. We provide 662/39, construe- tion costs of Hospitals and 1009, of operating costs. We have recently set up Med- ical Services Insurance at no cost to nearly 1 million of our payers about $50 million in the first year. So the government could hew closely and strictly to the Wel- fare Grants of 80% of approved Give no grants for streets, only for Highways or County roads through town and villag- es; and apply those savings to the local costs of education. I am certain none of us would want the withdrawal of any ex- isting grants. All this apart, however, ed- ucation does not end nor in many cases is it sufficient if ended at the local level. So now we in Ontario County see a new | Community College presently being built-in East Whitby Township, financed wholly by the Provincial Government. Wherever these Community Colleges have been established the LOAL COMMUNITY has had to provide all or a substan- ial part of the financing. This programme in this present year will call for the: expenditure of more than $23 millions. No College or University fin- ancing comes from municipal- ities now-a-days, and so the Provincial Government has to find more than $213 millions for this alone in the current -Cumulative Dr. Dymond Explains Cost Of Education cluded in the TOTAL COST OF EDUCATION and when it is all added up it will be found that government is providing a very substancial share of the cost of education, Having said all there is much more could be said) I hope I have not left the impression that I think taxes are not too high or that I have no concern about these things, Far from it. I have long main- tained, for instance, that Real Property taxes are and should be properly exempted from Personal Income tax, but so far the Federal Government has not accepted this. Yet I know that services cannot be provid- ed by government or by any other unless they are financed, and I repeat, GOVERNMENT CAN ONLY GET MONEY BY IMPOSING TAXES. I am more concerned, how- ever about the imperative nec- essity to provide the best poss- ible preparation of our young. people to meet the exacting de- mands and challenges changing world they will have to face. We wonder how we can afford the costs of education? that I wonder if we dare fail to afford them. 'The future of our Nation and World will be the responsibility of our youth of to-day. If they fail in that res- ponsibility, let it not be because we failed to do our duty to- ward them. M. B. Dymond, M.D. CM. LL.D Minister of Health for Ontario Oshawa Wholesale Shows Record Profit Oshawa Wholesale Limited recently made an offer for all the shares of Allied Towers Merchants Limited which oper- ates the 13-unit Towers Depart. ment Store chain in Ontario and Quebec. Oshawa, one of Canada's lar- est food distributors with inter- ests in department. stores, of- fered to exchange three Oshawa Class A Shares for 10 ATM 69 ~ Redeemable Preference Shares; one Oshawa Class A for 13 ATM Common, and one Oshawa Class A for 17 ATM Common represented by voting trust certificates. The offer which is contingent on Oshawa acquiring not less than 85 percent of all ATM shares, expires April 28th. At December 31, 1966, there were outstanding 436,000 ATM Pre: ference shares and 1,731,516 Common, including 1,507,500 shares in voting trust certifi- cates. Allied Towers Merchants Lim- ited, in the year ended Decem. ber 31, 1966, showed a profit of $1,135,702 on net sales of $36,855,560. ~ The Oshawa Wholesale Lim- ited annual report issued re- cently to shareholders, shows record profit of $3,002,067 for the year ended January 28th, 1967, a 39.07 percent increase, and sales of $180,312,823, up 30.39 percent over the previous year, ~~ Oshawa also announced a six cent dividend increase, bringing dividends to 26 cents. the seventh increase since 1960, Custom Made or Ready-to-Hang DRAPERIES * HOMES ® OFFICES ® INDUSTRIAL -- Since 1919 -- WARD'S Simcoe St. at Athol 725 - 1151 ~-- OSHAWA -- year. All of this must be in- > (and a : FJ * 3 of the » E 4 " A y ] 1st 1 A} 1 i 8 4 _» - { 4 } LJ R It was *