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the Founded nlSTS by Mtrtroajnd PubinMnQ at WiBow Acton Ontario Subtcnphona S17 par year in Canada in at than Canada Don Ryder Director of Advertising Ken Bellamy Hartley Coles Managing Editor raoajtmton Tha Acton Praia a of group of suburban which Tha Aurora Banner Now Advertiser Bolton Emorprba Tha Brampton Guardan Tha Burfinoion Tha Waaaand Post Eiotxcofca Mr Guardian Tha Georgetown Independent Economm Sun Tha Mtion Champion Mufettuga New Tha Newmarket Era Tha North York Maror Beaver Friday OahawaThtavVaecOihawThtiWaakond Richmond ThomhiB Liberal Tha Scarborough Mirror Tha StouftvUe Tribune and Wood- Metroiand Publkning a a division of Entarpnaaa EDITORIAL Editor Gord Murray New Editor- atari Murray Sport Mark Holmes Dw Nancy Tod grown ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT AdvertMng Manager Cook Sale Kirk Davy McKinnon Sandra Ctaastfled Carolyn Artam MacOoogal BUSINESSACCOUNTING OFFICE Office Manager Jean Shewn Local councillors trustees deserve raise That sticky wicket of councillors pay popped up briefly at Mondays council meeting and was quickly put back on the rear burner with no decision at all one way or the other for this year It might come up again it might not The mere mention of it is more significant this week because of Councillor Mike Armstrong s recent observation that dollar for dollar a local councillor is worth more than a regional councillor A report staff prepared comparing Halton Hills councillors pay with those of trustees councillors in other municipalities and the region lends credence to Armstrongs view If one compares pay che ques for councillors and trustees with the amounts of our tax dollars they con sort of dollar for dollar it certainly looks like a Halton Hills councillor or a school trustee is a bargain A regional councillor on the other hand costs us a lot Hills spends about 30 cents of each of our tax dollars A local councillor is paid A school board trustee helps spend about 54 cents of each tax dollar A school trustee is paid Regional councillors spend about 16 cents of each tax dollar But they re paid this year Other councillors in Halton make from Miltons low of to and Burlingtons One councillor per ward sits both at Hills and region so these councillors draw pay from both For mayors and chairmen of boards and councillors the pay range is more dramatic The mayor of Halton Hills is paid 17490 a year while Miltons Mayor gets Oakville pays its top politician and Burl ton This year the regional chairmans job pays while the school board chairman gets just The region spends the smallest portion of the local tax dollar yet it pays the best Trustees spend the most and have a bigger system and budget to support yet they are woefully underpaid Local councillors too would seem to be under paid though not as much as trustees considering work impacts so strongly on citi zens lives as compared to the region and its pay scale The regional councillors pay has already gone up for this year according to the staff report Wed like to see a rollback to 83 level and freeze in pay for this post for a couple of years to allow other positions to catch up In fairness the region has been restrained with pay hikes recent years but that post started out far ahead of the others At the same time as as this may sound we thuik a five per cent raise for councillors and trustees would be in order in Raises for both have been restrained or skipped altogether in recent years for local councillors and The mayor and board chairman also deserve a five per cent pay boost Actually both councillors and trustees probably deserve more but in this day of restraint five per cent will have to do Older people face layoffs better Losing a job is probably more of a blow to younger workers than older workers according to a University of Guelph aging expert Older people are likely to have ess trouble adjusting to being unemployed than young people be cause they re usually in a more stable social and financial position says Joe There a good chance that peo ple who lose their Jobs In later life will be unemployed for a longer period than younger workers not be retrained for other work and re tire prematurely But they are likely to be rooted communities where they own homes and have accumulated social support from their families friends and neigh community and social ser vice agencies and unions Younger unemployed people are more likely to move from the com munitles where they were last em ployed bo as to be closer to their families Financially they re apt to be in worse shape than older unemployed workers because they don have as much money saved don t own homes and are not pension contributions for later life is law a study of the consequence of unemploy on families Ms research will focus on finding differences in the Impact on the families of younger and older workers About GO job less people will be interviewed in Guelph which have high levels of unemployment As part of the study will examine the role of spouses as social support mechanisms for unemployed pi U5 If one person my secret hole I may as well tell everybody From the editors desk Dull Grit race not over the only ones to quit after the first vote the end result I think would have been different Clark support slipped on both the second and third ballots Crosbie coming from much further back after the first ballot picked up more votes on the second and third than second place and had the momentum However that when John ran out of time But I wonder if Clark could have kept his second and third vote slippage from being an avalanche If instead Pock ton had dropped out after two Crcmbie after three and Wilson after four votes Anyway the above what might have been Is the way the dash from third has to play out For someone to execute this play this June In Ottawa field must expand by two or three fringe or even just weak players to extend the ballots or better yet Iona must enter field then both Chretien and Turner must stall after the first ballot like Clark did last year I think the latter is a very real possibility I m with Otto when he says Turner peaked the day he announced Except out west Turner has looked rusty on the stump He doesn seem to say much new or significant except when he putting his foot in his mouth and he short on details I believe that his reputation is winning him delegates now not his current performance He may have all he can get after the delegate selection process is completed All those committees thatll be in Ottawa andsoftTUTnersupportcrstoo will assess him on this show and find him wanting Where will they all go To Chretien No to the others Chretien I think will also have trouble growing after the initial ballot His performance so for has I don t know about you but so far the Liberal leadership race has left me pretty cool Considering this process will elect a P M not just a new Grit leader tho campaign has been pretty dull with a capital D I not exactly sure why either IS this the much vaunted Liberal civil coming out Or is this just a dull field Does it seem tame compared to last year Tory heat because there no beleagured leader In It struggling to hold on Or Is the party as out of steam and enthusiasm as It should be after all these years in power For whatever reason and until some experts tell me differently 111 be content to assume a com of the above four theories is responsible for the current state the campaign I don think it going to remain that way to the end I noticed a few weeks back Hartley predicted on this page that Turner will probably win though his pick would be Chretien I won say at this Juncture Hart not right he 11 probably turn out to be on the money but with five or six weeks left before the convention I still think there a chance for another scenario speaking of one of the other four in the race challenging from third spot after the first ballot Joe Clark did it actually Joe was in fourlh after vote I In a bigger field John Crosbie didn Last June on the eve of the C conclave I picked the laughing Newfie to come from third on the first ballot to top spot on the sixth ballot I still think the way it would have worked out too if there been a fifth or sixth ballot What went wrong then was fourth place Michael Wilson and sixth place Peter both quit after just one vote reducing the field from eight to just four If fringe dates John Gamble and Nell had been been superb likely he 11 be magnificent In Ottawa But hell have trouble winning because he represents a con of the Trudeau era a maintenance of the status quo not just within the government but also the party So who 11 be number three Back at the start when I figured on a one ballot Turner sweep I have said John Roberts Now m picking Donald John He running a Gary Hart style new ideas campaign with real bold ideas and not just a new ideas slogan However Johnston working under the burden of a decided lack of style He s not well known he rather dull too His black eye staged 1 believe did the trick last week and got him some media attention when he talked about It at a press conference on TV he looked sounded and laughed like Joe Clark If ho wins he might well be Don who But he is a reformist and liberalism and in a party trying to figure out where to go and what to do to keep from dying his ideas might must catch on This candidate at least has fresh content Of course if Iona enters ail bets are off If she goes shell have a strong third on the first ballot locked up and I suspect have little trouble moving on up to challenge for the P Job Our readers write Local firms help drive Dear Sir You may be interested in the following for publication The Acton Council of the Knights of Columbus has taken over the raising of funds for the Arthritic Society As part of an ongoing effort to raise funds for the Society a car draw will be made at the Royal York Hotel in Toronto on May 19 ISM Five cars are to be raffled They are a Cutlass Dodge Caravan Wagon Plymouth Ford Mustang and an Alliance Acton L L Ford and Canadian Tire assisted Acton effort in tag funds for the Arthritic Society St L Ford loaned a car for display purposes and Canadian lire per mittcd the use of their parking lot during the ticket sale for the draw on Saturday April ISM Those citizens of Acton who supported the draw and the Arthritic Society warrant a sincere thanks Slipper Grand Knight Controversy weeklies dont mix Raise nearly 130000 Dear Sir The 1MB Christmas Seal Cain Is over We extend our sincere ap preciation to all the media for their excellent coverage of our cam Your continuing publicity both at campaign time and during the year certainly assists us in achieving our goals The Christmas Seal Campaign itself raised but thanks to our Supplementary Fund Rais ing Holly Day Book Sale Bingo Coins from Oakville Place Fountain etc we came within IS of reaching our goal of With the help of contributions from the community and from businesses in Halton we win be able to continue to provide our pr to help control respiratory disease Our cordial hanks to all Chairman years ago The Editor Although the essence of a free press is the ability of the press to reveal to criticize to condemn according to its lights and the I doubt that I shall in my lifetime see a weekly newspaper in Ontario which meets this stand Weekly newspapers in this Province of Opportunity reap awards for excellence photo for recording in a harmless fashion local events and local poll lies for neatly registered Interest stuff never for being gutsy never for defying local rules of conduct never for openly defying the powers that be when those powers are wrongly directed In Ontario at least genuine controversy and weekly newspapers do not mix What a blessed bloody shame Albert Atkins Chokecherry Crescent Mlishsauga Ontario Myl There were under Interested In the group of gathered In the M Z Bennett auditorium for the local meeting arranged by the Renaissance committee Hills council made a spectacular cut in the budget last Wednesday night slashing it by over per cent The original sub mission of was cut to mainly due to a proposal to finance a new Georgetown arena without debentures Six former members of the Acton parks and recreation committee met formally again Monday night as the newly In stalled recreation advisory committee for Ward of Hfllton Hills Diane is chairman vice is Barry nonrecording secretary Brendan Ahearne Others present wen Ed Wood and Gil Malcolm of Inst year committee Lou Bonnette was absent 20 years ago April mi Sunday morning 22 joined Knox Church by profession of faith They were Wayne Ait ken Patricia Beerman Lorraine Gel and Jane Cooper Gerald Dick Sally Dick Shirley Greenwood William Han sen Alan Me Ken Ronald Allan John NcNabb William Rogers David Watson Wendy Margaret Guthrie Janet Robinson Mr and Mrs Harry Robinson Mr and Mrs Robert and Kenneth and by certificate Robert Paul Thirty were confirmed at St Joseph s Saturday night They were Josephine Murray Murray Susan Gloria Marianne Coles Barbara Frost Judy Lorcne Paul Irene Severinskl Joanne Dianne Mary Dowling Patricia Holmes Beverley Howard Ann Marie Kathlene Michael Marchment James Mark Kowall Peter Marzo Josephine Petric William James Sloven John Newell and Robert Lindsay Confirmed at St Alban Sunday were John Frederick Courtney Susan Gail Elizabeth Hurst Anthony Derek Hurst Elaine Myra Johnson William Fredrick Laid Susan Radford Robert Leslie Radford Joseph Randolph Ridley Susan Robinson Beatrice Lynne Roy Sharon Smith Kenneth Allen Bennett Morris Frederick Courtney Peter Harm Herbert Albert Brafsier John Cossar Louise Ellis Gary William James Frank Funk Margaret Marlon June Hunter Jens Christian June Lewis Doreen Ruby Lindsay Dorothy Mavis Robinson and Florlo 50 years ago April re Ontario license plates for not pleasant to think about so early In 1934 will be colored orange and black it was announced at Guelph yesterday at Ontario Reformatory where plates are manufactured The markers will carry black letters on an orange background The breaking of a transformer at the Hydro station In on Monday evening plunged Acton and other municipalities fed through this point into darkness I Messrs Bruce Pargeter FJ Honey Wright and Alex McDonald attended a reunion and memorial service of the First Canadian Contingent and Old Contcmptibles last weekend at Toronto 75 years ago April 29 That there are too many girls i about the age of sixteen and under who are allowed to roam around the streets at all hours of the night la the opinion of the Humane Society Inspector Rev Mr Tovell Mr Tovell is now making enquiries Into the matter and it Is his intention to do all in his power to have the practice stopped 100 years ago May ISM Two years ago this morning the Scott more properly peaking the Canada Temperance Act of 187Bcame into force In Ms county and a review of its working especially during the year just closed will without a doubt prove of considerable interest to the public Revs Acton and Colling Georgetown exchanged pulpits last Sunday A tramp lodged in police We are inclined think beds provided are almost too good for tramps They seem to at tract many tMi way anyhow