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Ads That Pay Ym tan place an ad la The Ileralds Classified paxes by phoning Baying or Tbc Herald Li where find the malts joo want GEORGETOWN HERALD The Home Newspaper for Georgetown and District Printing Publishing The Georgetown nerald baa nerved Georgetown and district at and Publishers far a offering the la tine and mew coverage Second Cltu Mall Registered Number 0943 Georgotown Ontario Thursday Juno Postage Guaranteed 50 par year Single Copy Price Fifteen Cants MAYORS PORTRAIT WILL HANG IN SCHOOL NAMED FOR HIM Joseph Gibbons Public principal Logan MacDonald and Mrs Gibbons with portrait of the former George to which was presented to the school the opening last week Elementary Teachers Settle Get 72 Per Cent Pay Raise salaries range to 20 to 000 res Consultants get the appropriate teacher salary plus unchanged from last Elementary School teachers settled for a wage Increase last week but the Secondary School teachers and the County Board of Education are stalled In an Im passe following Monday nights meeting The secondary school teach ers now plan to refer the neg to the executive of the O S District Monday nights offer to the secondary teachers was a 37 increase Including benefits according to Ernie What was Said About High School Pay Offers The Halton County Board of Education has obstinately re fused to consider any at the facts that are currently govern ing salary settlements in educ ation and industry George town high school teacher Tom has charged He Is president of Halton Dis trict Ontario Secondary School Teachers Federation who are stalemated In con tract talks with the board He made the charge in a press release Issued this week He said many teachers In surroun ding areas hove achieved set in the percent range and a large number of Indust rial settlements are in the percent range The board s present offer is less than five percent stated LOWER PROPOSAL In order to demonstrate our continued faith the executive of District has decided to re quest negotiations assistance from our provincial organiza tion said He sold the Ugh teachers have put before the board an offer below Us original prop osal Ernest Georgetown a trustee on the Halton board and chairman of the salary negotia ting committee said In a press release that the teachers had broken on agreement not to make public statements about salary negotiation and since the areas of disagreement will now become public board salary committee is concerned about putting Its case to the taxpayers He said the Increased cost to the board in sal Is estimated at percent not Including Increases of fered in the fringe benefit pac kage Increased board contrib utions to hospital and medical plans makes the total board of fer 7 38 percent The board Is aware of the need to pay air and reason able salaries to Its teachers It fa also aware of Its reeptnQs fiitlcs to the of this county said It Is the opinion of the boards salary committee that its gal offer Is fair and responslblo to all concera- chairman of tho committee The increase to the ele mentary school teachers sees the minimum through tho en levels unchanged from last year but the maximums up varying amounts The differences between the existing agreement and new agreement are shown below EXISTING AGREEMENT Level Minimum Maximum I 1 300 7 800 BOO 1 8 800 100 NEW AGREEMENT Level Minimum Maximal 300 200 12900 8 300 BOO 500 MERIT PAY COMING noted few teachers ore rated in the top three levels so few will earn more than 12100 Although board did not improve its twothirds OHSIP payments for teachers it creased hospitalization from and extended health core and group insuran onethird of present costs from nil last year A increment niter two years when the permanent tea certificate is issued will help those close to the bottom of the schedule Tho Georgetown trustee said the jump after two years Is a preliminary step in shap ing the schedule for possible of some kind of merit pay PRINCIPALS GAIN A major gain for principals as the change from their tra ditional four classifications to three Principals of schools with to rooms get salaries ranging from 15 to In increments Principals of schools with be tween 14 IB rooms get up to 18 and principals with 19 or more rooms get up to Vice principals get a salary as outlined in the teacher sche dule plus provided the total is not less than Their salaries range to a mum of in incre ments FOUR MONTHS and assistants Teachers and some other classifications can also can extra for a post graduate degree The elementary school teach ers wage settlement came after four months of negotiations 8YEAROLD BOY DROWNS IN ABANDONED QUARRY Raccoon Responsible for Major Hydro Interruption A raccoon that tangled with a kilowatt Ontario transformer bank threw hundreds or Chinguacousy residents into a for up lo 1 hours Friday Tl e raccoon is being listed by the Ontario Hydro as the cause of a fire in two trans No Permit No Water Says New ByLaw The town will not connect water sewers to any building being erected or tercel without a building per according to a motion passed by council Monday night The motion was to amend the building by law passed some years ago The build ing inspector would be mora powered to stop work on a building lacking a permit and have any municipal ser vices disconnected With the approval of council ho could also have the building The amendment would also up the maximum penalty from to and bo con as long as tho viola exists Phil pointed out he felt it was lime teeth were put in tho by law Cr Em Hyde suggested the matter bo discussed in committee while bylaw Is being prepared DOT Gives Green Light To MapleGuelph Signals Department of Transport has finally there Is enough trnffk at the corner of Maple Avenue and St to warrant traffic lights Council received the word with enthusiasm so much so that Cr Donna was prompted to wnto in verso to let Ccc Davidson who wrote in verse when ho complained the corner know of the happy turn of events poem reads like this The Department of Transport hoi surveyed day and night And now as told council Let there be light At main intersection of Maple and Countil ecstatic and as for yourself We re sure you be pleased with council a endeavour For soon there be lights and controlled traffic for ever former units at tho distribut station located north of Brampton The fire quickly extinguish ed by Chinguacousy town ship fire department caused a power which ted to 300 homes in the townsh for up to hours Charles Macintosh Ontario Hydro public relations officer said the Brampton office dis patched a crow to tho dlstri Luting station and managed to transfer the electrical load to the and distributing to re store power around 30 He said extensive rural area was affected by out but there was little da mage to the transformer tion The body of a badly burned raccoon was found in the de bris The matter is still investigation Wayne Thomas of It 1 Georgetown drowned Saturday in small abandoned quarry near his home Ho was eight ears old in January An autopsy report ruled his death accidental due to drown ing though no water was found in I Is lungs It is believed the shock to his system when he jumped into the cold water Cut by Rock Dropped From Rail Overpass Playing on Canadian Nn Railway tracks is a dan gerous past time to start with but dropping rocks from the railway onto people and cars using the John Street culvert makes it more so One woman who uses John Street underpass told The Herald Tuesday she had to have stitches to close a cut in her head when hit by one of stones dropped by children She said cars have also been bomb ed by the kids who obviously don realize the seriousness of their game Petitioners Protest Restrictions on Building Residents of Ontario Street Anne Street River Drive and Mountain view North made their objections to the recently passed by law denying a build permit where no municipal water and sewers are available abundantly clear to Georgetown council Monday night In five letters one with 100 signatures attached Tho letter with the petition attached from Pearl Kerby North stated by lav was unnecessary since tho Health Unit controls septic tank and of lots She claimed it was an infringe ment of the rights of owners and sterilized unscrviccd property BASIC RIGHT Mrs Kerby pointed out that some owners had paid taxes on their land for years in the of selling it at a profit which is basic to the enterprise system in a free country Tho letter maintained by law was so stringent no alter ations and Improvements could be made to a house already built Mrs Kerby pointed out the by Law would cause suffer to minority of taxpayers who had uncomplainingly paid taxes toward municipal water and sewers while they ves had wells and septic tanks REFUSED In another letter objecting to the by law Fred Bolton North termed tho by law unfair and inconvenient Lome Hunter also of Mountain- view North in his letter any lot with a house ready on it should be exempt from the by law Irony of the situation la the fact wo ed for sewers before tho tout was built and were refused as the concluding sentence R sold he had purchased acres land on Ontario Street and wo3 there would be no problem in obtaining a building permit G Horklns stated tho by law was too restrictive as it prevented him from adding a bedroom bathroom or swim ming pool if he wanted to add them to his house Lince Takes Last Salute At Change of Command In an impressive change of command ceremony Sunday of tcrnoon Col Earl Lince of Georgetown said goodbye to his regiment as he turned the command to Col D Eg Lt Col Lince commanding officer for the past three years stood alone on the dins as he took the salute far the last time while Lome Scots led I by the Lome Scot Pipe Band marched past A tradition of the regiment was upheld the CO claymore was taken from the I retiring CO and given to the incoming C O by Col John Barber who was substituting for tho CO of the 48th High landers Col Head Years ago tho CO of both regiments exchanged Highlander claymore for a Lome Scots dirk and trad has been carried on since UPHELD TRADITION change of command was held at Brampton Secondary School at p m an was witnessed by guests Brigadier General B J Leggc inspecting officer told tho Col Lince had upheld all best in Canadian military trad and asked the men to servo effectively under Col He told he men belong to a Scottish regiment is something special providing a special kind of military train ing Tho volunteer soldier is very important to Canada today said the Inspecting officer from a homemade diving board caused bis unconsciousness and suffocation which Is still tied as drowning HEARD SCREAMS North Constable Doug said the boy was accompanied to the- quarry by his sister Sherry and friends Paul and Gary When the boy failed to surface the others attempted to rescue him without success Sherry was almost pulled under by the weight of her bro ther while trying to get him to shore body was eventually loc ated by Andrew Spiece also of Georgetown was nearby and attracted by the screams of the children Ho dove Into tho water and located the boy within minutes GRADE THREE PUPIL Wayne was rushed to George town Memorial Hospital where he was pronounced dead by quarry is owned by Patterson of Missfssauga Wayne was son Mr and Mrs Lnvernc and a grade three pupil at Lime- house Public School He also leaves brothers Bob and Kevin as well as his Bister Sherry and grandmothers Mrs Olive Brown and Mrs Frances Louden UNCLES PALLBEARERS Rev Kelvin Johnston of Bid llnafad United Church conduct ed the funeral service Monday at the Funeral Home Burial was in Greenwood Cemetery Four uncles Lindsay and Winston Ray and Fred Corley were pallbearers Vlcki and Wendy Ekstrom Diane and Pamela VoRn and Tammy were flower bearers for their cousin he told tho men they would get much more out of the military service than they put In Col in his parting re marks said the regiment had faced reorganization and was down In numbers but wore lucky to be here and still strong and alive he commented FIVE OTHERS Retiring along with Col were five other members of the regiment Major A V Good man Brampton Major Ion Kirkwood Oakville Mailer Warrant Officer Ronald Hole- croft Bclfountoin Sergeant Harry Kerfoot and Sergeant Hugh McMillan Brampton At the conclusion of the cere monies the regiment marched back to the Brampton armoury where a reception was held Col and Mrs Earl CoL reviews old company Coy during of command Conservation Costing Too Much Money Says Hill Reeve Tom Hill blasted two Region Conservation Authority proposals to spend on enlarged ski facilities at Kelso and to acquire land near Bronte The proposals were outlined in a letter to council Tuesday night The Authority claimed the ski facilities to be paid of over five years at a year would bo self supporting through increased revenue The land ac quisitions would cover 117 acres of valley and tabic land near Queen Elizabeth Highway and Bronte Road NEVER Reeve Hill snorted never when the last sentence of the letter asked when a representa tive of the Authority could meet with council Cr Coxe a member of the Authority defended the pro posals pointing out the tow would bo self liquidating and would draw a lot of people from Toronto He claimed 35 used tho existing ski tow last year FAR ENOUGH This conservation has gone far enough retorted the reeve and is costing the taxpayer too much money Its hard for me to believe money is badly spent re plied Cr when I boo the damage done to land by the quarries SHOT MOUTHS OFF The quarries have been wor king there for yean and no body from this area said a word about it the reeve shot back Then the newspapers shot their mouths off and ev erybody got on the Fin council agreed to the Region Conservation Authority representatives neat Monday night JULY 1st FIREWORKS The Meat celled because rata May Ml win be held Day My 1 Mayor BID a committee at fMBBfili last The 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