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Ads That Pay You can place an ad In The Herald Classified page by phoning Buying or wiling The Herald Is where you will find the remits you want GEORGETOWN HERALD The Home Newspaper for Georgetown and District PrintingPublishing The Georgetown Herald baa served Georgetown and district Printers and or over century offering the best In fine printing and news coverage Second Class Mail Registered Number TOWN HERALD THURSDAY AUGUST 19 1971 He tarn Postage Guaranteed SO per year Single Copy Price Fifteen Cents Gairey Dr Girl Gets New Kidney No Major Highway Job But Maybe Surface Coat Wanda Bryan who a successful kidney transplant operation in the The Bryan home at Gairey Drive is a happy one this week Daughter Wanda ailing with a kidney infection for three years returned home on Monday She had been a patient in the Hospital For Sick Children Toronto since Hospital For Sick Children Toronto leafs through the family album with her dad July Wanda had been for almost two years for a kidney transplant A successful operation was performed by Jeff using the kidney of a year old Vancouver man at the Bryan home Gairey Drive arrived home Monday Now Wanda is looking forward to the day when she can return full time to her classes at George Kennedy School Last she was able to attend only an hour or so a day with tutoring tie rest of her education GRC Doubles Ice Rate To Local Minor Groups While a major reconstruction on Highway 7 Is not in the im mediate future there is a good possibility that it wilt get a smoother surface between John Street and Maple Avenue This narrower portion was left for future decision some years ago when the east highway was widened and improved ending at Maple Council was shocked earlier this year to I cum that the high ways department would only approve a lane stretch if It is reconstructed This with possibility of major changes the John Street intersection and a new entrance to downtown parking area Is a major expense which council Is hesitant to incur LETS DO IT However a better surface is urgent and town engineer Eric Willis told council at a coram lee meeting last week that he has approached the department and believes they would concur Expectant Parenthood Sessions at Centennial Childbirth and parenthood sessions will be held in Centennial Senior Public School on Delrcx Boulevard every Thursday beginning September and ending June Five sessions will run from September October December January 13 ruary 17 March April and May The sessions are provided by Ihe Ballon County Health Unit through the Public Health Nursing Service under the direction of J Chamber lain The program is designed to involve Ihc participants with fundamental and essential In formation so the expectant parents may increase Iheli acceptance and awareness of the emotional shifts of pregnancy It Is also assumed that parents might gain further insight Into their expanding relationship with each other and their children Also we are hopeful Ihut through the exchange of feelings and reactionary behaviour hat we may assist parents to round out their Information about pregnancy childbirth and the new family Chamberlain told The Herald We provide time for practice sessions in the techniques of relaxation relative to breathing techniques and comfort positions Chamberlain said The growing registration within each area together with Trapped Under Tractor Elderly Farmer Dies An year old Acton area farmer who was trapped under his overturned tractor for two days last week has failed to survive an operation to remove a leg Ben Tuck went into shock following the operation and died late Friday The leg was not broken in accident but circulation was cut off for so long gangrene had begun to set in For a man who has endured two days trapped way he was he is In surprisingly good con dition a Guelph General Hospital official said just before the operation HUNTER Tuck was last seen leaving his barn on his tractor Saturday evening August at about 7 clock Monday evening August a hunter came to ask his per mission to hunt groundhogs on his property Finding Tuck not home and the dog tied up he went searching and found him lying under the tractor Neighbours Mr Masson and Mr Williams were summoned and to lift the tractor Tuck was taken to by ambulance Initial reports said he was not seriously injured but taken Tor observation Funeral service was in the chapel of Rum Icy Shoemaker Funeral Home Sunday afternoon being And Maybe Matching Fire Trucks Let show them Is progressive enough to break with tradition Councillor Dick Howitt said grinning widely as his cohorts agreed to have the new township fire hall painted white with green doors and brown flashing at Monday council meeting You paint red boomed Reeve Tom Hill but he didn make an issue of it The colours were chosen to match Ihe nearby works garage and roads super of flee an active interest of group involved is a significant and relative factor of the expressed within this particular group The registrants arc referred through the attending physician by a signed request form In order to register for these classes expectant parents should contact the local office of the County Health Unit Seek Income As Basis for Municipal Taxes Council members attending committee last week favoured endorsing a resolution by the municipality of Barrie which would ask the provincial government to establish a program of massive un conditional municipal grants In their 1972 budget Barrie politicians say that this would relieve the heavy tax burden on real estate In municip alities and place taxes where they properly belong on an In come basis They say that administrative costs would decrease in various provincial departments where auditors ore checking on auditors engineers on engineers and accountants on countants VARYING NEEDS Conditional grants now vogue provide tor specific things in a municipality they say and do not take Into account varying needs One could quite possibly have need for a civic prove men which few others need and for which there Is support from senior government An unconditional grant would allow a town to proceed wllh this REGRESSIVE But mainly Barrie Idea Is to relieve the tax on real estate which it claims is regressive and does not reflect the state of the province economy Cm a hundred percent in favour commented Cr Em Hyde People with fined in comes are in a tough position when property is taxed so high providing no lurttter work Is contemplated in Ihe next four or five years id road Hampering possibility of a highway bypass In future which could change the thinking of both town and senior government on the width of road needed on No CNT STALL Cr Em Hyde said the engineer as a modi lied plan for the high way which should be discussed And Deputy Reeve Arthur Speight pointed to the fact that Canadian Tire Is moving from the highway corner Beaver Lumber has left Its Water Street location and that firm wants to dispose of its land If the town Is interested In quiring this for a better high way entrance we can t stall them forever he said PASS 1RST Reeve Morrow said he 7 downtown commercial until a decision is made o can still discuss acquiring land for highway Improvements without planning action before the five year time limit set by the department Firemen pour wittr on empty house on River Drive which took second lxaling from fin in a ycjr No Date Yet For Shooting Inquest North 0 P say they have reached no definite con elusions regarding the death July area farmer Joseph Roger An spokesman said he expected an inquest would be called to attempt to determine cause of death but no date has been set Coroner Ivan Hunter Bald this week he has set no date for Ihe inquest RLLLETWOUND died mysteriously at the same time a bam on his rented farm near was razed and the farmhouse was partly destroyed by Ire His body was found lying on a bedroom floor In the farmhouse a calibre bullet wound through his head There was a 22 rifle found in the farmhouse by police after the lire was extinguished by Acton firefighters Ballistics tests were being made to determine if the fatal wound was caused by bullet from Ihis weapon It is reported no results of tests on the rifle sent to the provincial crime laboratory in Toronto have vet been received A report from the Ontario Fire Marshal office is also being awaited before Ihe date can be set a native of Manitoba had been a resident In the area for about two A bachelor he lived at limes alone at other limes he had families living in farm with him the time of his death he had living alone Georgetown Recreation Committees other shoe which local minor sports groups have been waiting to hear drop fell Tuesday and it may have a bomb in it In a press release issued to The Herald the GRC listed Its ice rental rates for the upcoming skating and hockey season as per hour for local minor sports groups and 50 per hour for all other groups 100 PER CENT In some cases it will represent town groups will pay per hour Last season local minor sports groups paid SO per hour through the day 50 after p Other local groups paid Guilty Pay in July Courts JUDGE A total of in fines were mposcd against people ap in Georgetown criminal and traffic in July Con vlctlons totalled 331 of which 913 ere for traffic offences Of the balance were criminal offences for and seven municipal bylaws Heaviest docket was for traffic court July 9 when the charges totalled 159 Criminal court is held Tuesdays at the Masonic Temple on Highway 7 Just west of the Georgetown limits Judge William Sharpe presides 17 SO per hour and out of towners per hour The press release said the new rates were the result of an in depth financial study of the memorial Arena operation which revealed It costs so per hour to maintain Ice OPERATING COSTS These figures were arrived at by using operating costs only capital costs were not included In arriving at Ihe cost per hour operation it stated Branch 120 Canadian Legion which sponsors Saturday Mor Hockey has gone on record as opposing any change In the Ice rental fee Legion officials have said publicly that on Increase may force them to end their May Pay All Serving on Town Boards Next year all people serving on Georgetown boards and com missions may receive At present some do and some don t And Reeve Morrow who is council finance chairman said he is of the opinion that if one board is paid all should be He was commenting during a committee meeting which a request by the Committee of Adjustment for an increase in meeting fee was discussed We pay Ihc Planning Board and Adjustment Committee yet the Industrial Commission and Recreation Committee serve gratis he said I Intend to review the number of meetings and the work In volved on various boards and come up with mendahon Cr Era Hyde said he doesn favour lump sum payments to board members as the reeve was suggesting INEQUITY Members should be paid for their work and their attendance if we do he said But I ve never heard arty static from those who paid and I think we re looking at a problem which t exist Cr Donna Denison said Ihere is an Inequity in paying only certain boards And who can judge which board Is most valuable she said Every one has a function Deputy Reeve Speight said there was a time when the town was smaller when not even councillors were paid NEED POLICY We have been very fortunate in having a lot of public spirited people who served their town without thought of rem uneratlon he said But to pay some and not others Is not proper and we should have a policy 1 don want to pay out money we don t have to said Reeve Morrow The Adjustment Committee is asking what amounts to a percent increase People on other boards are spending time on public business too and we have to consider them Cr Joan Smith said the In biatrial Commission is not paid yet does the work for which some towns pay an Industrial com ml as loner ALL SIDES We have to look at all sides said Cr Harry Levy There are people serving in sporting groups Saturday hockey baseball soccer who count this as their contribution to the community Reeve Morrow said he Is only Interested in reviewing boards which are officially appointed by the town Cr Joan Smith suggested that the easiest budgeting would be to pay a set fee for membership on aboard and make deductions for attendance at meetings racom yet does Will Provide Buses for In Town High Schoolers Georgetown Transportation Company will offer a bus service to Georgetown high school students living inside the town limits who do not get bus service from the Halton County Board of Education John Scott of the company told The Herald this week that GTC will Inaugurate the service on the second day of school at a cost of cents per student and cents per adult He explained he would not be able to start on the first day because the hours of school attendance would likely be irregular on that day We Intend to try It for month to see how It goes he told The Herald He said if an insufficient number of students have used the Continued on Page 10 Princess Pot Adams Photography Milk Board chairman Gordon Sinclair crowns Pat Murray of RR1 Acton Dairy Princess In on Murray farm Pat daughter of Mr and Mrs Ken Murray will sent this in thi Princess competition The Canadian National