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Georgetown Heraid A Division of Homo Company 22 Main Sfreot South Georgetown Ontario WALTER C BIEHN Pago THE GEORGETOWN HERALD THURSDAY AUGIST lU Wn EDITORIAL COMMENT Lets Hope municipal council has taken the lead in petitioning senior governments to replace the present municipal tax base with something more realistic And Georgetown councillors arc full agreement In endorsing the request to have property assessment become much less important in setting the taxes which residents pay to maintain their town The idea would be to have Queen s Park contribute greatly increased unconditional grants to municipalities Sueh action of course would be reflected in higher provincial Income taxes to raise the necessary grant money And it would have the over all effect getting taxes from those who can afford to pay them those with working Incomes or large Incomes from In vestments In an age of increasing socialism and increasing government participation in every phase of activity senior citizens living on fixed incomes have felt the pinch of taxation Such a person owning his home and with no income from employment is hard pressed to keep paying more and more property taxes each year Let hope that the new lax concept will find receptive ears and our politicians will get busy computing new tax bases Thought Into Action Everyone is touched by tragedy but not all of us do something about it Not so one local woman When Mrs Katherlne Cordaro saw a poster in a bank saying For God sake help Pakistan she sprang to action And with help from her sister in Brampton and other willing workers she converted some plants and other articles around her home into cash over which will go to the Relief Fund Mrs is not a newcomer to the helping game During World War when she was Mrs Preston she was a diligent worker for servicemen overseas and for the British War Victims fund Still remembered with nostalgia is a Summers Waning Opening of the Canadian National Exhibition tomorrow is always a reminder that summer is on the wane School children are having their last two weeks of summer holidays Vacationers have had or arc concluding their recess from the year s work The daylight hours are beginning to shorten And there is a soft fall feeling in the night air The grass doesn t grow as fast Gar deners are losing interest in weeding flower gardens Television reruns arc gradually petering out and the odd new show is making its crazy quilt containing signatures hundreds of district people The idea was to sell space on the quills and Mis Preston then embroidered the actual signatures The money went to a good cause The quilt never reached its Intended destination in England It was lost in transit and probably rests today somewhere on the Atlantic floor one of many such relics of a ptnod on world history It is people like Mrs Cordaro who help retain faith in humanity goodness Despite all our frailties as long as there are people who will convert good thoughts into action it won be such a bad old world appearance Canadians are lucky Not for us the days that are the rule in warmer climes There is always anticipation our Canadian weather We always have mixed feelings Regret that the beautiful warm summer days are ending anticipation for those soft fall ones with the tang of autumn in the air And as autumn fades comes the first snowfall the crisp winter air fading in April into spring and the rebirth of an endless cycle of growth and rest in nature s bounty Yellow Lines on Ontario Highways Yellow instead of white lines will separate traffic going in opposite directions on On highways White lines will still be used to separate traffic moving in the same direction The announcement was made by the Hon Charles MacNaughfon Minister of Transportation and Com in June The changeover on the 13 000- mile King and Secondary Highway system will begin next spring and take proximately one year to complete On two lane highways the centre line will be yellow and pavement edge lines will be Yellow centre lines will be put on multi lane undivided high ways while lane markings and pavement edge lines will be On freeways and other divided highways both lane markings and pavement edge lines will be white Painting pavement markings on the provincial highwaj system costs approximately S million per year and require more than gallons of paint plus pounds of minute glass beads to provide refleclorUalion It is expected that municipalities throughout the province will change their pavement markings con form to the new standard Everyone Read it Except the Files The horseless carnage will greatly reduce death rate In cities Janus J Walsh foretold in l9o ih reasoned thai like to I is the r eggs in horse coming of carriage would risnli in this tun is glitn in look The id Is this comment to pud this tit statement except the mon which seems to be anoint around lighting hen litre layirg Us ips spreading infeili hi horsil flourish prod 1 oust is Hint us SUMMER RERUN BILL SMILEY TENTING ON THE COLD DAMP GROUND I don know how you ve fared but so far its a rotten summer In these parts Instead of the sunny with scattered showers It has been day after day rainy with scattered sunshine Usually by now municipal councils arc begging citizens lo go easy with their lawn sprinklers or flally threatening householders with a fine if they use them at nil Brown lawns arc common by mid August Not at our place this year We haven used our sprinkler since the first week in Jul and the lawn is alarmingly verdant and growing like weeds which of course a good portion of ours Is Not much one can do about it But my heart goes out to the poor devils who are tenting Tenting is great fun under ideal conditions It about as close we can come to really getting back to nature There s the pleasure of finding that campsite with a mere list the solid satisfaction of getting the lent up on the fourth try the adventure of exploring new camp and its adjacent waters There s the long of put about the sun fishing swimming gathering for the men it is re the long iv of puttering ihout with si is eH mi fooling with stoves ad ministering first to scrapes cuts and biles for the lady tew a omen like tenting But even for them there arc joyful aspects When the last pot has had its black bottom cleaned sand when the last child has been tucked milady can perch her weary tailbonc on a stump or a stone by the look into the blue redorange flames and dream of the glorious day when his ghastly trip is over and she II be back in her castle with proper stove refrigerator and automatic washer She sits there counting on her infers with a dazed smile When the is dying Mom has her supreme moment of the day She can crawl into her damp pyjamas craw the huddle of blankets on the camp which Is tilled low her head and shudder far hours with a combination of and tear of the things lhal go bump in the night What tops It all is that ibout she diseuv that she has to go to the bathroom It purely psj etiological of course But its quite an ordeal The flashlight doesn I work and the little house with the facilities is yards across ground that is with snakes and spidirs with a bear behind every trie is where she gets her rev and whim si 1 rousts her spouse 11 sweet slumber and in malum either lit up jots with her hi 1 1 hi r ill the way or THE DISTRICT AT A GLANCE she starts packing and they head for home right now This Is m In some circles as wedded bliss But nothing could be better calculated to put another nail in the coffin of their marriage portrayed so far only the good side tenting when the weather la fine But put yourself the boots of the miserable male who has rented a tent for his two weeks with takes the fe and three kids and gets one half sunny day the rest cold or raining On the third day the teed water proof tent begins to leak The firewood even smoulder The kids arc going hairy with boredom There isn a piece of dry clothing to be had The wife has stopped speaking The lent is full of ants ho arc smart enough to get In out of the rain What to do If he packs and goes home It is obvious that the sky will clear and there II be a heatwave If he Insists stick It out he will earn- the undying hatred of his wire and the sullen contempt of his kids Give me tenting life any day the of frying bacon he scent of wood smoke the clean cool air for sleeping the murmuring talk by the But don t give me tenting on the cold dnmp ground as Stephen Foster put it I rather spend my holidays in jail OLD NO ROLLS IN Milton Mlllon famed as Ihe home of the Steam Era show became home of an antique steam powered locomotive last week Old No im an year old engine which was the oldest operating CPR locomotive when that fine retired Its steam trains in I960 was trucked into Milton tender and all and unloaded onto the rails at the Main St Eyard of Hume Equipment Co It has been leased by the Toronto Train Trip Association from ita owner Toronto Nell McNish BRONTE CONSERVATION AREA Bronte A provincial grant of Hi to the Hal ton Region Conservation Authority for the purchase of land to be faown as Bronte Conservation Area has been announced by The Hon George Kerr Q C Minister of Energy and Resources Manage ment The Parcel to be acquired comprises 117 acres and is bor deredon the south by the Queen Elizabeth Highway and on the east by Bronte Road Outstanding feature in the parcel Is a deep gorge cut by the TweWe Mile Creek TOUT ACTON fOR GO ActonMP Rud Whiting and Mayor Duby said this week they have been right on op system proposal being discussed now by federal provincial and Metro Toronto representatives It was their joint feeling that the service should be extended as far as Guelph so It would reach the rich market that gravitates out of the Kitchener Waterloo area 1 sure if ihe system were available to Acton people they would use it said the mayor POT CALLS KETTLE BLACK NassagaweyaResponding to a complaint from the Halton Region Conservation Authority Nassagaweya Township building inspector W Savage Investigated a small new confectionery stand situated immediately In front of the entrance to the Keleo Conservation Area complained the operator had no license and paid obtain ess tax The pot is calling the kettle black Mr Savage told council His investigation showed a confectionery stand operated for several years on the conservation property had also been ignoring the payment of business tax APPROVE RECREATION AREA Roc wood council gave approval for Keith and Bob Hamilton to setup a privately owned recreation and camping area on property adjacent to the Rockwood Conservation area park at their August meeting The owners produced a drawing to illustrate the development they proposed noting the entire project would be below the bluffs that line the Eramosa River Two hundred campsites would besprcadover 100 or 125 acres SMASH SHOPLIFTING GANG Guelph police have smashed a gang of juveniles responsible for shoplifting from at least nine stores In the down town area Constable A Hall who has been working on the in ligation for some time arrested four boys and two girls last Wednesday in connection with the thefts The juveniles stole from The Brothers Store Tomblyn The Together Shop Walkers Marshall Woolworlhs Starr Men Shop and Kelly Music Centre YOUTH CFNTRf FINGERED OrongevilleOrangeviMo Police Chief Jack Kent said in a recent Interview that Orangevllle Youth Centre is directly related to the rising crime rate here He claimed that of the 19 arrests made this year on such charges a majority are known to frequent the centre A member of the recreation committee Barry shank said he would endorse a full scale investigation to prove whether the allegations were right or wrong I would be surprised if centre was the main cause of the crime wave Cruikshank said WRAP UP SUMMER Oakville Bathtub races ethnic dances and an artists workshop will be part of a threeday community festival In Coronation Park August 19 to wrapping up summer youth activities in the town The festival is organized by the Ad Hoc Youth Com of the Social Planning Council a committee of rep agencies in working with youth In The Mall Bag Referees Oppose Hike In Arena Fees Dear Sir This letter to you regards the recreations commissions ting to charge more money for ice time far Legion Kid Hockey As only one person out of many who put many hours Into this work I am deadly against it Branch 120 has been the best individual sponsor any one sport in Georgetown ever had The Legion spends many dollai every year on this hockey If loose them who will take then It would have to be the Recreation Commission and you must realize this will cost a few dollars extra for equipment As I happen to look after all referees for hockey In Georgetown I know for a fact that the majority of towns in and Peel charge for all house league hockey We have roughly referees In Georgetown and we ore very much against charging a fee for this service as it Is a training ground for our younger officials As you will see the point I am trying to get across that this could get to be a very expensive thing with equipment ice time and officials service Many coaches when they practlocat630 am pay some of the Lost out of their own pockets therefore you would be charging them more just to give my boy and maybe yours more recreation To the Recreation Com mission urge you to give this very serious thought as It could very much backfire on committee Thank you for your time and space In the paper Yours truly Gerald Perky Perkins BUSINESS DIRECTORY OPTOMETRIST LM Brown RO MAIN ST N 1 For Appointments phono Health Insurant Card OPTOMETRIST R Hi South Building For Appointment lease present Health Insurance Card For A CATTIE PRATTLE PHONE Georgetown Herald G O RL BARTON Ills lag Optician Main Street South fast Repairs For Information CARPET CLEANING CARPET CLINIC Professional Carpet and Upholutery Cleaning In Your Home or in our Modern Plant Pickup and Da 1 1 vary CARPET CLINIC 10HN BOUGHTON 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