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Georgetown Herald A of Horn Co Utnifd 22 Main Street South Gorelown Ontario WALTER THE GEORGETOWN HERALD THURSDAY SEPTEMBER EDITORIAL COMMENT No Individual Santas The provincial government b plan to keep green belt areas around major cities Is commendable and still possible But it will lake more than legislation to a force It It Is unfair to farmers to say they must reserve land tor farming in a day when fortunes are theirs for selling for residential or Industrial developments Just last week a SO acre farm near Milton changed hands at a reported price of As farm land it could be worth a tenth of this A solution would be to value rural land at a fair price that it would bring for such purposes acquire the land then rent it for About Pictures Occasionally in the past Tew years two pictures of the same size have been In lerswitched in a Herald issue Once or twice a blank has appeared where a picture was intended Andlastweek a picture was reproduced in reverse For those who wonder here the ex The Herald is composed at our George town plant Until recently the final printing done in Brampton Originals of pictures were sent there reproduced in plastic on a machine then glued to the metal plate for the final printing There was a margin of error One week a shipment of pictures went astray and could not be located in time The Bramp ton staff were not familiar with local Fall Fairs Coming School s in next week daylight hours growing shorter and warm summer days fewer But there is still one big attraction before we settle in for winter Georgetown annual fall fair is coming October to be specific It Is an eagerly awaited event in town and country alike and only on a few caslons has it been hampered by bad weather Last year was one A heavy rainfall that day made it almost a fiasco The park ended up a sea of mud many events were cancelled and fair board directors and public were cheated of the results of weeks of preparation This year we hope for a return to a fine fall day farming or sell it with the buyer knowing that he buying it for agricultural pur poses Such a plan would need some Ironclad rules and a sharp eye to ensure that the public would not be hoodwinked But it t be impossible One cannot expect individuals to be Santa Clauses for the greater good of Ontario s future Farm land as a buffer tone and green belt between cities is hist as Important as conservation areas like Terra Cotta and Kelso used strictly for recreation And just as the public pays for conservation land it should pay for farm land as well names and despite identification on the back of the original pictures sometimes pasted them in the wrong slots The error margin still exists with one new hazard In the new offset printing process the original pictures are rephoto- graphed and the printing Is done from a negative And It is possible to reverse the negative Such was the case last week when a picture taken at a Liberal picnic showed party leader Robert and local Liberal Doug Fendley shaking hands left hands while four others at the picnic looked on The identification lines below the picture named those In reverse order to the way they appeared in the picture This week we are reproducing the pic ture as it should have been There Is nothing which te equals a small town fair when the weather has just a tang of autumn with that soft fall air tinged with a hint of cold It s a visiting day as well when former residents return to see their friends and there is a reunion atmosphere in the park Attractions may not be so glamorous as at the bigger fairs but to a youngster a merry goround or a wheel have to be giant site And hall exhibits are much more Interesting when you know the man who grew the vegetables or the woman who produced a knitted article We urge every district person to reserve October for a visit to the fair BILL SMILEY FAREWELL OLD CAR MAYBE THEY OUGHT TO CONSULT THIS THINKTANK Pork THE DISTRICT AT A GLANCE Moll Bag Doctor Not Patient Decides When House Call Necessary Main St Dear Sir With the recent constant bickering between the medical profession and Its critics the public must be tiring of the same old arguments However I feel that your recent editorial Emergencies Most Important must be answered I object to a number of your comments but to save space I house calls working hours of doctors and lack of an emergency call system In Georgetown Doctors still make house calls today but there is a subtle dif Today unlike the good old days it Is the doctor who decides whether a house call is necessary not the patient Virtually all minor problems and most major Illnesses are best seen in the doctor cilice or the hospital The facilities available are known quantities resulting in a more accurate diagnosis ant higher quality of patient care The only real disadvantages are patient inconvenience and lack of transportation If a patient has a major sudden Illness such as a heart attack it It still much to his benefit if he Is swiftly taken to the hospital In such a case usually there little real other than psychological value of the physician going to the house The ambulance system In Georgetown Is so efficient that often the ambulance could be at the house before the doctor House calls are Inefficient They take more time and much of the doctor a time Is spent driving rather than practicing medicine House calls cost 0 H I more money percent more than call Numerous surveys have been made on the number of hours doctors work each week It all depends on the method of Government Erred Reversed Names of Two Townships Dear Sir 1 believe that a correction should be made in the wording of the article appearing In your issue of August regarding the names of the townships and their Indian meaning I had referred to a list of the rivers and creeks emptying Into Lake Ontario from the Niagara to the Trent This list was compiled in 1796 by Augustus Jones the surveyor who did much of the early surveying in Upper Canada He was married to a Misslssauga woman and would no doubt be familiar with their language and his list of the Indian names and their meaning Is altogether likely to be authentic The list reads in part as follows Mile Creek last out creek that is toward the head of the lake Ne y IS Mile Creek having two outlets that Is having an island at its mouth The letter from the Lieut governor to the Surveyor General dated April 1819 naming the upper townships by the Indian names of the principal rivers draining them was parently In error as the names were switched It named the westerly township drained by the Mile Creek instead of calling It Esqueslng Similarly the centre township the present should have been called This shows that mistakes In government offices even In those days In any event the Indian Iran of the two names as shown In Mr Jones list would appear to be correct and the township names should have been reversed Also means Last out Creek Instead of Land of the Tall Pines Yours very truly Ben Case calculation but it varies between and hours a week Today when a doctor works he is usually working steadily Twenty years ago he often worked sporadically 21 hours a day with no specified rest period Today he can rest between working hours knowing that there are probably some hours of unln sleep Even so most Georgetown physicians are on hour week long call for their obstetrical patients This leads me to my last and most Important point This is where I fee that you hove let the doctors down Ever since the hospital opened there has been a doctor on call In the emergency department He Is not required to be in the hospital at all times but It is expected that he should be readily available With perhaps one exception all the doctors in Georgetown In the past five years have arranged among themselves an emergency call system This ensures that their patients are covered when they are on free time or away on holiday There may be the odd occasion where there Is a mix up as to which doctor Is taking another calls but there is never any problem as to which doctor Is on call at the hospital I realize that you might have obtained your Information from a usually reliable source which waswrongon Ido know hat it was not from either a local physician or the hospital administration If your com ments were left unanswered the people of Georgetown would just go on thinking that there was no physician available in cose of emergency I feel that either a retraction or suitable explanation Is In order Yours sincerely A W Ashenhurst D FARM PONDS Most farm ponds serve a number of purposes They provide water for livestock Irrigation spraying and fire protection And a relatively low investment can Increase the recreational value of farm ponds by providing good fishing cording to agricultural engineering specialists J Myslik of the Ontario Depart ment of Agriculture Stern Gradual Approach to The Quarries Quandry by Don There have been few more troublesome problems before the government in the past few years than control of pits and quarries On the one hand sand and gravel ore very vital to our booming development But on the other there Is no question that quarry operations have scarred much of our landscape and contributed noise and dust pollution and other nuisances which society won t stand for today POTENTIAL DANGEn The problem has been how do you go In and stop these overnight and how far da you go A drastic immediate action by government could have been seriously imenta to the economy A sharp increase in the cost of aggregates could have jeopardized much building and had a serious Impact on employment Yet the same time there had to be control for the future Common sense called for a stem but gradual approach and this essentially Is what the government has ended up by adopting FIRM POLICY The new Pits and Quarries Act makes clear that firm policy for the future will be that protection of the nment Is an essential in pit and quarry development There will be insistence that this development Is planned and that there must be rehabilitation so that it t scar the landscape Since the act went through the house there have been two Important develop One Is that Mines Minister has announced that by this time next year he will have a dozen Inspectors on the road policing quarry develop An essential of course of any good control policy The second is that In Is to be taken or the sand and gravel resource of the province One development out of this could be that In the case of more highly built up areas aggregates would have to be brought from greater distances to protect the quality of life In these communities DERNIER PROBLEM Incidentally new Mines Minister Leo was handed quite a bit on his platter when he was given this field to administer It Is a complex field for any minister to try and grasp and then to defend In the face of the political complexity which has surrounded it To Mr credit It seems that tie is getting on top of the problem PREDICT GROWTH MILTON Milton will experience the greatest growth period in its history within the next three to five years That Is the time It will take to complete a new lot subdivision bounded by Main On tarlo and Steeles avenue and the Third of The new subdivision will provide homes for an additional people almost doubling the town population With the exception of one spurt back in the 1950s the population growth in Milton has been almost iglble Municipal Planning Consultants project the population as in and 13 in 1BB8 CI1PLTEN1IAM TV SETTING CHELTENHAM This picturesque little community on the Credit River has become a television setting as TV property people and actors have transformed It Into a typical hamlet In the area just after the First World War Members of the CBC crews arc on the spot filming instalments of the eagerly awaited series SPIN OPERATION CONTINUES NASSAGAWEYA We weren pleased with the results but weren disappointed cither Mrs Len Andrews of Campbellville said of the result of the recent SPIN Stop Pollution in collection All the glass collected by SPIN during he August campaign will be trucked to Burlington as soon as the glass strike Is over The collection was the project of a number of bellville Women Institute members During September we plan to advertise the project more extensively and further educate the public this is not Just garbage we arc collecting said Mrs An TOWER JUST A MEMORY ACTON Acton lost another lofty landmark last week when wreckers toppled the foot water tower overlooking Highway at the town a eastern outskirts Redecorated last year with aluminum point and red Acton tetters on the turret the year old tower packed it in within minutes after Wolfond Construction men went to work with ropes and a bulldozer Visible for miles on Highway 25 south the tower was demolished to provide land for residential development HOSPITAL BUDGET UP ZOO General Hospital will likely need MO in 1972 to maintain Its present medical services an increase of over the hospital 1971 budget Harold Shantz administrative assistant at General cited wages and salaries as the biggest factors In Increasing the hospital budget He noted they comprise about percent of the total budget General has a bed capacity plus another bed unit to be added in January and a bed unit to be opened sometime after that TOWN TALLEST COMPLEX for construction of a storey building contain stores office space and 130 apartments on George Street South between Queen and the George Street shopping mall were presented to council general committee last week It would be the highest such structure in Brampton FINED Shell Oil Company of Canada Wednesday was fined by Judge William Sharpe in Oakville provincial criminal court on a charge of air pollution In violation of the provincial Air Pollution Control Act A representative of the company pleaded guilty to the charge The charge arose out of complaints early in the morning of April when residents of the area adjacent to the Shell refinery in Bronte started complaining about an obnoxious odour coming from the Shell plant which smclled like rotten eggs INDOOR SWIMMING This town will consider an Indoor swimming pool at Streetsvllle Secondary School council decided this week Mayor Mrs Hazel Mc Call Ion said that if the town agrees to proceed with the project It will hove to pay for construction of the pool on land made available by Peel County Board Education The pool would be used Jointly by the public and the school board JUGGLING PROJECTS Juggling In a business can mean trouble but for the Grand and River Conservation Authority It spells the completion of several projects At Friday meeting several projects were cut while others received financial help Conserv Park had added to Its to help with a road interchange In the park but the budget for Belwood Lake was cut by S3 Gorge budget of MO was untouched Wet it looks as though any more travelling I do before summer bids us farewell will be on foot KJm passed her driving test today It was a pretty tense morning for both of us She was afraid she might fall her test I was afraid she might pass It Justtocompllcatematters she turned up for her test at 30a only to discover that she was slated for 3 She claims It was their mistake but knowing my daughter I have a good idea who mode the error However the chaps giving the tests managed to work her In at a when someone else failed to show up So that meant I had time for only about ten cigarettes as I waited ding to read the morning paper But It gave me a chance to look at the people preparing for their tests Quite a crosssection They ranged from a skinny 16yearold boy who wanted a driver license for his motorcycle to an old chap with a hearing aid and almost blind in his left eye Both passed but I hope I never meet either on the highway Then a couple of former students of mine walked In They are the type who have probably been driving for several years without a license and have finally been nailed They are pleasant lads but while neither is dumber than an ox neither is smarter Their procedure was typical They filled out the application cards wrong and had to do them over a go In When Mike was asked by the officer where he lived he jerked his thumb at Peter and said Two houses down from him while the of ficer rolled his eyes He wanted an address Then the pair sat down at the long table to nil out the written test Ten minutes later they were silting brows furrowed with about three out or forty squares ticked off I tossed them a word of encouragement It might be easier if you could read and write eh Unfa zed they just grinned Peter retorted Yeah we ta gonna sleep in all them there English classes Fine physical specimens both they 11 probably make excellent but dangerous drivers I m not Implying that the driving tests are easy They re quite tough When I got my license the job of testing aspirants was a political The tester told me to arrive at his place of business at He locked up the store told me to drive him home about eight blocks I gave him two bucks and that was It When my wife got hers some ten years later it was the same The police chief had er pick him up at the office they drove around three or four blocks and she took him home to lunch At his place not ours Today there a a whole battery of physical tests written test on the rules of the road and the actual driving test A good many people are flunked and m all for that What I d really like to see is a compulsory test for every driver about every two years and a good stiff one Could you pass Jack with your colour blindness Could you pass lady with your total inability to parallel park Could you pass Grandad with your arthritis 1 think a great many of us would be put out to pasture Anyway Kim returned I expected to see her with a face as long as a foot She was beaming My heart sank There going to be a fight here every day until she gets back to school SMILE When a quiz master asked a contestant to name something beginning with the tetter M which you need to make mayonnaise the girl answered Mother Says Degenerates Have Found A Haven Here 1 Dear Sir The Georgetown police force must be exceedingly proud or It s record of only twelve charges of loitering It would seem that the much youth of today has found veritable haven In this town It Is sad that all the must collect along Main St Their obscenities can be heard anywhere on the street Georgetown took a much belated step in the right direction when it allowed more shopping hours Silver Deportment Store look the Initiative In having a retaining wall built Councillor with even a small amount of zeal should do something about cleaning streets Last week Billing In our car Main St I heard one young man shout an obscenity to another young man noticed a policeman standing nearby He did nothing 1 went to Brampton Mrs Barbara Jennings September Is Arthritis Month in Canada The Canadian Arthritis and Rheumatism Society seeks your support of Its 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