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Georgetown Herald (Georgetown, ON), May 27, 1971, p. 1

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Ads That Pay Yon can place an ad la The Herald pages by phoning Buying or The Herald la where yea trill find the retails yon want GEORGETOWN HERALD The Home Newspaper for Georgetown and District Printing Publishing The Georgetown has erred Georgetown and as Printers and far over a tt beat In floe and Second Class Mall Reglitered Number Georgetown Ontario Thursday May Return Guaranteed 50 year Copy Prion Cants Bigger Boys Take a Liking To Biking Bike license t weeks ago and the war weather has made I ous to all George town adults have cycles More and more grown ore around town by peddle power these days and ng the r cars at home A way of keeping in shape appears to bo the reason for But the use of kes by moms and dads on the in Georgetown the I cense sales are ng last year To date 325 cycle plates have been sued less than a quarter of the number of I censes ssu ed last year The plates are good from October to Octo ber A good example of how the I censes can bene f the bike owners was at at the station week Of bikes turned in there nee the of the season all but four have been returned to the owners The remaining four were the only plates FOG RAIN CANCEL FIREWORKS A dampish display of fog and mist by the weatherman preempted scheduled reworks show at the fair grounds Monday night It was of the few times that tho annual sky extravaganza has had to be postponed A steady stream of cars flowed through tho park from eight clock on Many fa milies who had brought their own collection of fire foun tains Roman candles and sparklers stayed anyway of tor discovering tho tlon and let them off Others stayed to watch the miniex hlbltions Branch 120 Legion res id cnt Norm Ward and Mayor Bill Smith will meet later thla week to decide when to touch off the over 1 worth of fireworks assembled by tho Legion and town Reeve Ric Morrow even to council meet ngs Damage Totals Three Car Collision A car accident on tho 10th Line north of caused no Injuries to the driver Wilfred Walker of Orangeville May 19 at but dam aged his 1969 Beaumont to the extent of CI posts on 17 near tho line May resulted in damage to the grill and right front fender of a driven by Kent Korzack of Georgetown A three car rear end collision on line north of high way May caused a total of damage Tho Dodge driven by Doug Toronto was damaged in the rear to the tune of the Mustang driven by Doug La Riviere Maple Ontario was damaged front and back totalling and tho Valiant driven by Wray Button suffered to the front headlights and grill Dr r arrives of office on a twowheeler Served Community as Hospital Board Chairman Legion Officer Chairman of tho board of Georgetown District Hospital and prominent in Canadian Legion lodges and political organizations Leslie Mark Clark died suddenly in Georgetown hospital on May 18 following a brief illness Mr Clark who lived at Main Street South was a past president of Helton Riding Progressive Conservative as sociation and of George town organization In ho was master of Cre dit Masonic lodge belonged to Chapter Royal Arch Masons the Scottish Rite Vic toria Guelph and Rameses Shrine Toronto A World War veteran he served overseas as wireless operator with the RCAF Squad and was attached to the Royal Air Force transport command After the war ho became president of Branch Canadian Legion was a Legion zone commander and served as public relations of Deer Son of the Mark Clark and Margaret Alice bo was born in Georgetown at tended Chapel Street public school Georgetown high school then Joined staff wboro be had been em ployed for years as a lino type operator He had a Legion column to Herald and later wrote a on hospital affairs For past few years ho had also held a part time position as a justice of the peace in Georgetown Ho leaves his wife for Beatrice Anderson two children Pamela Mrs John Stepper of Georgetown and David a student at York a brother William of Burlington and a grandson id Stopper Funeral service in St Geor ges Anglican Church on May was conducted by Rev V Pallbearers were Gar field MoGilvrny Walter John T Armstrong Charles Harvey Garvin and Crown Attorney Douglas Burial was in Greenwood Cemetery Georgetown Police Association formed o guard of honour at the church and GRASS FIRES Two small gross fires quickly extinguished by George town firemen Saturday after noon One was at Ann and On Streets and the other be hind Saunders gas station on Guelph Picket Purchase Sets World Record Price A Georgetown farmer paid a world record price Monday for a purebred heifer sired by a longdead champion bull bred by Armstrong Brothers ABC farms of Brampton Picket of Plckland R Georgetown paid for the heifer which is believed to bo of the lost daughters ABC Reflection So vereign a champion bull from the ABC herd that died years ago Previous record prico was FOUR OTHERS The animal was purchased at the dispersal sale held in Mr Picket over opera lion of business from his fa thcr who had bred since about He said the farm has four other daughters of Sover eign purchased in recent years but that Monday purchase price was the highest paid by them for an animal He paid for ABC dough ler In IMPORTANT Mr Picket said the bull has been of more importance to tho breed thin almost any other animal in its history He said daughters and sons of the bull arc spread over almost every continent of the world Breed in is artificial Insemination Tt farms ore pri marily a ling operation and have a herd of more th SEPARATE SCHOOLTEACHERS APPROVE NEW PAY SCALE Lince Retiring Egan New Lome Scots CO Two former commanders of Georgetown C Company will ex change command of the Lome Scots PDH Regiment on Sunday Col Earl of getown has completed his three years as the regiments com officer and will command to Col Don CD in a ceremony Brampton Centennial Second School Inspecting officer during parade will be Brig General J ED CD QC comman der central Ontario area Oak vlllc RECEIVING CLASP Lt Col Lince will be Ing his clasp to tho Canadian Forces Decoration tho cere mony representing years of service Lt Col Egan a Brampton res ident also Joined the militia In general public is invited to witness the ceremony In the event of rain it will bo sh to drill hall of the Ontario Training Centre Blind Partners Feature North Halton Golfers The combined hole of Irene and Dorothy Young 193 took low gross ours In a Blind Partners comp etition for the North La dies Section members Mny Jo Coups and Inez Crichton had best net a 155 and C Carters putts were best in that department Maxlne Linton and Gage combined for a to win the nine holes division Kathy Koul back had low putts Forty two played when section opened their season Bet ty Chamberlain and Marilyn Worrall hod first low net Vic Clnpp and Kathy Knulback sec ond low net Marg Flnlay third low net Irene Macintosh had putts and Cunningham and Monckton tied for second low putts a business girls Match Play Par competition May IB Kylll Golinskl was first Peg gy Betty and Gloria Sinclair tied for second MarJ Gilmer was third Jean Chop pel fourth Plunge in Ditch Causes Damage Eight hundred dollars dam age was estimate after a car driven by Robert Heron of Langs to no Crescent left Guelph Street and plunged into a ditch near Armstrong Avenue shortly after midnight last Wednesday Police said tho Mercury was westbound on when the accident happened to a sign levelled in tho was put at 100 A rear end smash on Street near Water Street traffic lights damaged a 1934 driven by Phillip Gal lent of It R 1 Georgetown to the tunc of The other car a JB71 driven by Poluszie- of Drive was undamaged The was stopped for cor coming out of Canadian Tires lot when bumped from behind by the Vauxhall COURT CONVICTS FOUR Four persons were con vlcted in Georgetown court Tuesday three of them on liquor charges and fourth on a traffic char Eighteen persons were scheduled to appear on charges Twenty charges wero remanded two with drawn or dismissed four convictions registered Seventeen of the charges were laid under the criminal code of Canada six under the Liquor Co Urol Act three under the Highways Traffic Act Fines In posed totalled Of that was for the tor offences Settlement has been reached and a new contract approved by tho Halton County Separate School Teachers and the ate school board The Board approved tho pro posed contract upon the recom mendation of tho negotiation committee headed by chairman Hartley Sherk Georgetown representative on County Separate School Board The salary schedule sees little change In starting salar ies but and increases In maximums above level Tho following ore minlmums and maximums In present and newly signed agreements EXISTING AGREEMENT Level Maximums NEW AGREEMENT Level 1 5500 3 5 300 13 Both Hartley and a spokesman for tho teachers ne gotiating committee described negotiations as amicable with no problems at all majority of tho tea in Halton County ate schools arc in levels and 2 Principals salaries were sod 000 and vice principal Vice principals now re ceive and principal re ceive 17 or depending on the of the school New Conservation Area On Credit Gets 500 Trees Initial development began this week with planting of largo foot trees in the Meadow vale Conservation Area Maintained by tho Credit Vol ley Conservation Authority th lie acre parcel of land the Credit River from Derry Rood north wil be developed as a multipleuse conservation area First phase of the dev is budgeted at with the Ontario Government through Deportment of En ergy Resources Manage ment paying 50 per cent of the cost Tho north onethird of the area will be left as it is now with nature trolls and shelters for walkers The rest will bo developed for day recrea tion This year tho Authority intends to make soil tests buM a gate house internal roads parking facilities washrooms and utilities Picnic tables and barbecues will be installed Stream improvement along the old mill race and river bank stabilization ore also part of this year plan Access be from the Second Line north of Meadowvale Break Off Negotiations HydroUnion Stalemated Negotiations between George town Commission and Electrical Workers Local IBEW have broken off A spokesman for union negotiating committee told Herald this week they asked that matter go to conciliation Bob Ken Synott havo been negotiating for tho union and commission manager Graham for Georgetown Hydro OTHER DISPUTES There been no new de velopments in two other tract disputes Georgetown Po lice Commission lost week ap pointed Metro and Ontario As sociation president Sid Brown and Georgetown Police Com mission appointed Don Houck of a public and industrial re lations firm as arbitrators in an attempt to solve their contract deadlock And both County Urban Rural Exchange Local Farmers Asked to Open Homes to Children County farmers are being asked to open their homes to children living in the ur ban areas in the south of tho county For several weeks during ho summer tho children will bo coming to stay with farm i lies and I corn how their stylo differs from their own NEW PROGRAM The exchange program is be ing sponsored by Ontario government mental Committee on Youth and run by the provincial De partment of Agriculture and Food It is part of a new prov wide exchange program In close to children Coordinating the program for County is Evelyn hers ton STUDENTS IS TO 15 The exchange Is open to dents of senior public schools and high schools between and 15 years of ago Application forms for tho program limited to six pupils per school have been sent to the principals and it la up to em to select students said Preference will be given to children who never been on a farm If tho program is success ful we hope to accommodate as many children as possible hut for tho rst year it has to be at the discretion of the prin sold Miss Continued on Page NO DOUBT ABOUT THE CONVERSATION WHEN FOOTBALL MEN MEET You can be sure re not discussing the weather At left Is Dan Patterson head of the Georgetown District High School a physical education depart ment beside him Nick Board of Education director of cal education former Big Four Football League and at right Frank Coscnllno former quarterback with the Hamilton Tiger Cats Edmonton Es and Toronto Argonauts and now head football coach the University of Western Ontario London They were at he head tabic at the high school first annual athletic awards banquet last week when Cos woo guest speaker Board of Education and Hilton secondary school teachers have been silent since the teachers rejected the board final offer two weeks ago Ge orgetown member on the board Ernie is chair man of tho board s negotiating committee Boat Capsizes Hornby Teenagers Are Rescued Two teenagers escap ed with a severe chilling when the small aluminum boat they were riding in Lake Ontario Just off Third Line capsized ab out yards off shore Sunday morning They were rescued by David Cooper who spotted them in trouble Ho rowed out to where they were clinging to their over turned craft Herb and Larry Graves wearing life Jac kets when the boat capsized Mrs Shirley Smith of Third Line first saw tho capsized boat and notified ice Police alerted both a harbour patrol boat In Bronte harbour and TOWARF the volunteer water rescue unit harbour patrol boat got there unbelievably fast Mrs Smith said But by the time It reached tho overturned boat Mr Coo per already had the boys in his rowboat and was heading for shore Esquesing Cool to Landfill Site Plan Despite tho approval in prin ciple by tho Deportment En ergy and Resources of an ab andoned pit on Milton Brick property as a sanitary land fill site to servo Milton and Esquesing council remained at a May Cr tan termed It a backward stop when garbage from otter areas is brought in to the township Tom mtorW Milton would benefit the most I don think it bo much good to us down comer of the township he comma Sinco final cannot be granted until engineering plans are submitted and appro ved by department reave Tom asked who would pay for engineering

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