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Georgetown Herald A Division of Home Newspapers Company Limited Main Street South Georgetown Ontario WALTER BIEHN Publisher PAGE 2 THURSDAY MARCH 1971 EDITORIAL COMMENT A Happy Medium Now that Prime Minister has mouthed an obscenity In parliament end even the staid old Globe Mail lowed a columnist to put the four tetter word in print we seem to be entering an era of goes Obscenities new of course What Is new is a trend to popular ize words in public which for generations have been thought to be the prerogative of the illiterate for those whose educa or mental powers allow any ubieties We are increasingly aware that to day we are rapidly departing from the old adage A place for everything and everything in its place Our socalled society our seeming inability to set limits on any thing has created a field day for the fast buck operators who dispense pornogra phy and filth in movies and books A glance at the entertainment ads in any newspaper end difficult to choose a movie which any self respecting adult would want to attend let atone let children view Human society will never be perfect But while there is some merit In not covering up all man excesses there must be a happy medium between the puritan and the libertine hope that we find It soon How Far Can We Go The Ontario government is paying heed to a study which reveals that at the current rate of spending on by the year 2000 our total gross in come would be spent on and social services The difficulties which lie ahead are obvious It hard to cut down on system once established Last week the new minister of edu cation announced cuts in grants to post graduate university students which lev a million and a half Hardly had he spoken when Metro Toronto school board revealed a merit rating plan for teachers to add six million dollars yearly to that boards expendi It is evident that if a government to exert any control over education ex pendttures it must go much farmer than such a token saving The whole field of physloal facilities curriculum and res must be reviewed A super educated population will be a very unhappy one rf It can some of the physical benefits this education should provide Various politicians are propound the idea of a minimum income for every Canadian This is nothing new We have never willingly let any Canadian starve or freeze Cut some would raise the mm mum income to the point where only pride wrft keep a minimal person working when he can be equally as well off with government assistance This brings the problem of a break ing Wrth more people being kept by less a point of no return must bo reached Perhaps the economic council can come up with some statistics here for government guidance Serves in Many Ways The fll Order Daughter of the has been a Canadian or ganization for years And for almost half this time an actrve Georgetown group Countess of Strathmore Chapter has contributed to its national and inter national work It plays an important rote In educa tion the arts and services For instance over half a million dollars is spent annually such services The assisted victims of Peru earthquake and the Pakistan flood last year The physiotherapy department of a hosprtal for handicapped chil dren was equipped Clothing layettes were sent to needy people here and abroad Assistance to new Caned help ing them adjust to a new environment help for our Indian and popula tion assistance to schools in the West comes from the The local Chapter gives awards to high school graduates while supporting larger projects such as training doctors In Indw end Nigeria and strong sup port to schools in needed supplies isolated Newfoundland and Northwest Territories locations Countess of Chapter has proven to be a addition to George town in its three decades HRCA Puts Maple Tapping On View for the Public by Brian Ward In the Oakvllle Journal Few traditional aspects of Canadian life remain undis turbed these days but Helton Region Conservation Author is keeping one very pleas ant tradition flourishing With spring the maple sap flows and tapping of the trees gets under way Its a tradition that goes back to the time when Ind were the only inhabit ants of the continent DRAWING SAP Sap fs now being drawn from 150 trees in Crawford Lake Conservation Area und the watchful eye of Emit ten Currie an annual of his since he was a boy During the week the op eration is for school children and teachers as an educational feature but on the weekends the public is come FEW INNOVATIONS uses the traditional method with a few Innovations All trees are tapped with plies or spouts and the sap drips slowly into a pall hanging on the end of the empties the pails Into a lor container on the back of a The sleigh la pulled by bant a year the CAULDRON The container Is pulled to a clearing where there a large cauldron over a wood fire The sap Is emptied into the cauldron and allowed to bubble and steam into a mass of syrup Water in the sap slowly boils away and be syrup which left can either be processed further or eat en right away Currie also pours some of he syrup onto the snow where it hardens and then con be sampled by visitors REPLACES COLLECTING Other maple products for Instance refined syrup and maple candy are on sale at the Crawford Lake which is located a mile south of on Line A newer tapping operation has also been set up by HRCA staff It consists of a scries of plasticjtlpes ted to the trees and running back to a central cauldron This method of tapping re places the arduous task of collecting sap from each in dividual bucket YOKE I can remember when we dldn t have even horses to draw the sap and we had to carry yokes on our shoulders Tho palls of sap would be hanging on either end of the yoke and wed haul them back to the cauldron Cur ri said The maple syrup site will open every weekend until he IN THE MAIL BAG first or second weekend of April when the sap stops run ning It will also open to the public for a full week from March 22 to March while county school children are on holidays WINTER WIND WHIPPED Photo by Jones T Others Troubles Bore But Here are Smileys March Is a time for madness Herald Helped Army Recruiting Brampton Ontario Dear Sir behalf of the Lome Scots I would like to extend our ap preciation for your coopera tion In supporting our recent recruiting campaign The drive was the most we have held In recent years with more than dents applying We feel the success of the campaign was due to the sup port we received from the municipal councils boards of education local Canada Man power agencies and the news media in Halton and Peel counties Thanking you again I remain Yours truly J Information officer HOT TIRES Tests by Goodyear have ihown that tires operating adverse conditions reach temperatures substantial hotter than boiling water At speed under inflated tires 111 degrees centigrade la this country I have Iain on the grass with a In March studying for exams And I have waded through snow op to the belly button In the same month This Is enough to make Canadians a bit more psychotic than other nations March Is as unpredictable as a pregnant female as as an eccentric old man Mad as a March hare is no flight of the imagination You don have to be a hare to be mad in March All yon have to do Is look at he body of your car at what the salt and sand have done to It and yon get mad All you nave to be is a moth er with soaking muddy small children tramping In and out and you get mad All yon have to total your fuel and yon know you are out mind to live In such a clime All It takes Is a note from friend in the south haw high the snowbanks are and says he expects come home about the Drst of May All you need to do Is think of next month and realize that the average Canadian gives up third of his Income taxes and you con go right around the bend Our nerves are stretched lie mapping point by the goon of last four months ft down take much break as Even a little thing tike forgetting to get your car plate before the dead line or forgetting to pay your hydro bill In time for Ike dis count can make the most Me of as crack and go roaring after the nearest bloat instru ment I haven quite blown a gas ket yet but I can feel the pres sure building up My wife has been off her oats since Christ mas Having two kids in Unl verslty la like walking around with two largo leeches clinging to you Half a people wont mo to speak to Similar number of completely dlsslml lar groups all over the rnphy I have a hundred letters to write My boss Is bugging me for a detailed plan for a new charge of two public peaking contests and two essay tests both with looming dead lines The cat did it again on the floor last night and Is going to the glue factory If it hap pens once more The CNR has phoned five times to tell I owe them which their mistake In the first place The guy who shovels my drive with his plow has put his rates up fifty per cent I have sixty essays seventy five testa and one hundred and thirty exam papers to mark have stubbed the second lit tlest toe on my right foot the nail Is dangling by a pain fol bit of gristle or something I missed two crucial shots and lost out on the big prise In tho last curling bonsplcl The lock on the bathroom door has been gone since Christmas and people keep gelling locked Instead of locked out all In all If you bear a small POP one of these days won t be the wax In ears cracking Itll be little Insignificant me There I know there more boring than other peo ple s troubles But 1 ve got ab out half of thorn off my chest And you must feci better to know that someone in the world has as many troubles as you And of course there are some tklngi on the black Ink side of the ledger too There winter break as they now call what used to be the Eas ter holidays A whole week la which to do nothing bat mark exam There the prospect In ab out six weeks of getting the leeches off my back and into tho unemployment linos And theres the sheer pleas ure of not getting up In dark every workday The shines and occasion ally There a glimmer of hope that the peculiarly Canadian winter having vented his orgy of rage is be ginning to die of sheer emot ional exhaustion Unless the old brute throws one more senile but devastating blow at us ECHOES 1961 Bonnie Campbell year old daughter of Mr and Mrs Bill of lirnehouse is rooking some progress towards recovery from serious bums suffer ed three weeks ago at her home She was getting reedy for school one morning her nylon dress I caught fire from a heater Her mother rolled her in a coat to put out the flames receiving some bad burns to her hands A teacher at Chapel Street Public School for years Miss Laura Scott died March She was Miss Scott was the grade three teacher at Chapel I Street from until she retired Georgetown will be on the main Montreal to the Nia gara Peninsula route when the bypass around North Toronto and double tracking through George town to Burlington completed The better freight end passenger service will improve Georgetowns position in the competitive Industrial field Mr Alfred Barker has accepted a call to Georgetown Baptist Church He will start his duties here some time In May following his graduation from University Georgetown council has set the tax rate at on an assessment of with to bo raised In tax money Georgetown Recreation Commission has resigne Decision to disband organization came at a called Sunday following action by the town council in not including any fund grant to the in the 1951 budget last foil requested a grant and voters En a plebiscite in December endorsed this two to one Three men are appearing in the county court in ton today charged with wounding and disturbing the peace as the result of an attack on Harry prop rietor of tho Golden Gate Cafe It was about 00 fast Saturday morning when the three strarv entered the cafe and after walling until other customers had left one of the three produced a ra zor and attacked the local man Noise of the- scuffle aroused Main St residents and Chief Bill Marshall was called to the scene he arrived two of Attackers had fled but the third was In the dutches of a number of local men One of the fleeing pair was picked up later on the highway between town and and the third was arrested next morning in Toronto Chus injuries were superficial back wounds Investigation proved case of mistaken identity The three men were really seeking the proprietor of another Chinese restaurant Georgetown Cafe who had testified in a trial which sent one of the men wives to jail for months for theft BUSINESS DIRECTORY Wallace Thompson 3rd Small Claims Court County of Hilton Clark Ontario Land Surveyor Duncan Drive Georgetown Residence Limited Consulting Engintre Ontario Land Surveyors Planning Consultants Orangey IM 8773211 There on new vehicles each year in Ontario and ZOO new potential drivers There are more than half a million changes of addresses recorded by the Department Transport every year THE DISTRICT AT A GLANCE WON T JAIL CELLS ACTON Acton council last week turned down a proposal which would have renovated their jail cells In the old town hall for emergency overnight accommodations Councillor Peter Marks who sponsored the resolution sold the Intention was to use the cells as a hostel for overnight accommodation for travellers or youth who had been kicked out at home SUBDIVISION STARTING MILTON Within the next month services of a lot sub division north of Drive and west of Ontario St will be under construction Peter president of Focus Developments sold a contract has been awarded James day Construction of for Installation of worth of services AHlENA FUND COMMITTEE ORANGEVILLE A committee to coordinate the tics of nil organizations taking port in the fund raising drive for the town new arena complex was established lost week Lions Rotary Kinsmen Legion Recreation Committee and council were represented at the meeting building Includes an ice arena a banquet hall and other rooms for the tion of all citizens FEWER BAD TRIPS BRAMPTON In a report to the Mayor Youth Commit cc Rapport House stated Thursday that crisis intervention demands have reached plateau Young people become more sophisticated in tho non medical of drugs and they choose the setting in which drugs are used more carefully to avoid bod trips the report stated Over three and half months period young people used the facilities provided by rtnpport House which was formed by Mayor James Archedklns Youth Committee to help with the drug uso in Bramp ton OPTOMETRIST LM Brown R0 47 MAIN ST N Suit For Appointments phena present Health Insuranc Card OPTOMETRIST R R RO MountelnvJew South Building For Appo Please present Health Insurance Card Income Tax Return BOOKKEEPING SERVICES coll KENNETH BURGESS of Associate Tax Consultants BARRAGERS CLEANERS Shirt Laundtrera IS Main St Pickup and Dallvary All work done on premises CHIROPRACTOR Corbett DC Mill Street Georgetown For Appointment PHONE Georgetown O L BARTON Dispensing Optician Main Street South EYE EXAMINATIONS ARRANGED Fast Repairs For Information PHONE CARPET CARPET CLINIC Professional and in Your Home or in our Plant Frta Pickup and CARPET CLINIC 4594140 MONUMENTS POLLOCK CAMPBELL DESIGNS ON REQUEST Inspect our work In Greenwood Cemetery PHONE til TWO Street North I Accwtran tarries Canto The portion of the In testine of a lobster Is known as tho mother of a lobster B0UGHT0N JIWILLIM Main St I lit A