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Halton East Snowslide Buries Three Candidates Jubilant Jim Snow supporters whoop It up at the A commanding majority of the Halton East vole has swept Progressive Conservative Jim Show back into Queens Park Snow a minister without portfolio turned a narrow 19CT margin of votes in a landslide over votes ahead of his nearest challenger liberal Bob Blake He won every poll in Georgetown and Esqueslng and all three of his opponents corn- almost all of the ridings and Environment Minister George Kerrs even larger sweep The incumbent easy victory In neighboring Halton West came as Halton East voters went represent the first clear cut to the polls In record numbers majorities In County since The percent turnout is the 1929 and the largest majorities biggesL voter response In more In the county since Con- than a decade federation BIG MAJORITIES The Halton riding was split into Snows margin over Halton East and West In IBM and despite large Kerr pluralities In both and neither he nor Snow have ever won a clear majority A plurality is simply the number of votes over the closest challenger while a majority is more than SO per cent of the total vote From a few minutes after the a closing of the polls the outcome was never in doubt CRUSHING DEFEAT Indeed despite Blakes second place finish the Liberals suf the most crushing defeat Blake fell to per cent of the vote after former Liberal candidate Robin Skuce had won lightly over per cent In Where won of Iho possible votes in 1967 Blake trailed with of a possible 33 ZOO Both Snows sweep and Blakes poor showing puzzled Snows own campaign manager Bruce MacKinnon I thought Blake was belter organized and had more support than he actually did MacKinnon said We expected a large majority but not twice Blake election Is GELOKS SHOWING Also while New Democrat Ken increased the NDP vote by about 800 over 1967 he fell to 18 per cent as compared to former candidate William Gillies per cent in 1967 Independent candidate Richard McGrath who had admitted he had no chance of winning before the voting even took place came In a distant fourth with votes or leas than one per cent of the total McGrath was the first In dependent to run In Halton since 1943 and won twice as many votes as any Independent In 104 year provincial history Ads That Pay You can place an ad la The Heralds Classified page by phoning Buying or selling The Herald Is where you will find the results you want GEORGETOWN HERALD Second Class Mall Registered Number Return Postage Guaranteed The Home Newspaper for Georgetown and District PrintingPublishing The Georgetown Herald has served Georgetown and district as Printers and Publishers for over a century offering the best In fine printing and news coverage per year Single Copy Price Fifteen Cents RETAIN HALTONS SEATS Bank of Montreal Opens The Bank of Montreal has established a new branch in Georgetown Market The branch which Is located at 294 Street will open for business on Friday The new of features convenient banking hours for Market Place shoppers On Thursday and Friday it will be open from 10 a m to 8 pm so thai customers con shop and bank at one stop Banking hours Monday to Wednesday will be 00am to 300pm The modem B of M is fully- equipped to provide a complete range of banking services It has four teller two private coupon booths for safety deposit box customers and an around depository unit There are good parking facilities as well A Place to Walk is a new sidewalk from Park Avenue to Maple The cement was no more than dry when area residents were strolling on the walk when an uneven narrow shoulder had made such casual travel almost Imposs ible for so many years An overlay of pavement on this section and paving of the portion of Main South low Maple arc Included In the work OHS on Job Dogs Three Week Holiday All Over After a three week period with no dog control the Ontario Humane Society know officially the dog control agency in town Last Thursday night council fave the third reading to the by aw appointing the Society as their agents D Bracket of the Humane Society answered questions raised previously by Crs Levy and Hyde He said the dogs are held at the pound for a minimum of M hours and the Society is not involved in the sale of licenses In reply to a Question from Cr Hyde he said the dogs can be reclaimed till every night on Saturdays He said there was also an emergency M hour service Bracket emphasized the Society does not want the dogs and much prefer to find the owners of dogs around their own area We will go to a fair amount of trouble to find an owner before we pick the dog he added Turkey Shoot Eleven ah a rp shooters were winners at a turkey shoot held by the Georgetown Anglers and Hunters on their property near October They are W McCormlck Cliff Grace Gord Shoebrldge Doug Hills Green McCormack Doug Logan Dave Shoebrldge Tom Miller and P Like East Halton West Goes for PCs Progressive Conservative George Kerr In Halton West steamrollered to one of the largest political victories on record in Thursday provincial election Kerr took percent of the total vote leaving opponents Liberal Bob Walter Mulkewtch far behind McNutt slipped Into second with B444 to Mulkewichs 6 West includes thai part of Esqueslng Township north of the limehouse Every area of the riding went solidly for Kerr who topped over 300 of the ridings 214 polls The Tew polls which went to Mulke wlch and McNutt were scattered Voter turnout was over per Clocks Go Back It has been a six months wait but this weekend you will finally regain that one hours sleep you lost last spring Before retiring Saturday night remember to turn your clocks and watches back Standard Time replaces Daylight Saving officially at oclock Sunday morning Favour Council Salary After Bitter Hassle Vacuum The Front Lawn The autumn leaves drilling down from the trees may look beautiful they are a head to the works department Since the Department of Air Management banned the burning of leaves no one seems to know just what In 4a with them At a recent committee garbage bags by the town to rate payers at cost price was one suggestion The leaves would be packed in them and picked up in the regular garbage pick up COMPOST HEAP Deputy reeve Art Speight wondered about vacuum type unit said there was vacuum unit which attached t the back of the regular garbage truck which was much cheaper than the big vacuum ruck used by Toronto Hyde offered some land or his for a giant compost heap Council asked the engineer to investigate the cost of a vacuum attachment Propose Pay For Recreation Board Council members will be paid a salary of a year instead of Ihe present a meeting If a decision made at committee meeting Thursday night stands up at the next council meeting Along bitter hassle ended with the Inclusion of a clause which wilt deduct a meeting for every meeting missed Cr Era Hyde pushed for the or more deduction while Cr Phil Slddall and Reeve Morrow felt deduction would be fairer Cr Ernie Sykea opposed the whole an Increase which would average out to a meeting Reeve Ric Morrow stressed he as trying to set a fair maximum so the budget would not be exceeded He admitted the 500 was an increase compared to the amount paid councillors in 1970 but said it was less than was paid In when only one councillor made less than Averaging those two years makes 2 Do a reasonable maximum said the reeve ATTENDANCE Ern Hyde challenged the use of 1969 as a comparison pointing out councillors were paid for sub committee meetings then Since then a motion has been passed making that possible so it Is useless to com pare 1969 with now he tcrcd Pulling a list from his pocket Cr Hyde read attendance figures during 1971 till the end of September He claimed Reeve Morrow was absent 24 percent of the time deputy reeve Speight percent Cr Sykes percent Cr The members of the Parks and Recreation Committee will be paid per meeting beginning January 1 1972 If a motion passed at Monday nights committee meeting Is endorsed at the next council meeting Council members appointed to that board will not be paid Finance Chairman Morrow emphasized This Is part of the idea behind paying councillors a salary said the reeve one will not make more than the other depending on which committee they alt Donna pointed out Wat Si that council members on Con servatlon Authorities are paid while Cr said council members of Planning Boards ore also paid Reeve Morrow pointed out these fees are controlled by provincial legislation POOR TIMING Cr Joan Smith opposed the payment suggesting Ihe liming was poor She felt many people would ask why hey should be paid when the many volunteers In recreation are not Has anyone asked the Recreation Committee if they want to be paid asked WONT OPPOSE Hyde pointed out ho was paid as a member of Planning Board wont to be In the position of op posing other council members being paid on Ihe Recreation Committee even if he opposed the whole Idea of paying all recreation committee members The motion was then broken up into two parts first the paying of Ihe members a meeting and then the clause saying council members would not be paid The motion passed In this form but must be formally passed in council SeventyFive Percent Voted East voters took ad vantage of Thursdays perfect weather to go to the polls In record numbers According to figures compiled by Halton East reluming Officer Percy J Cowan this years turnout nearly equalled the total number of eligible voters in 1BS7 provincial election There were eligible voters in Thursday vote represented 75 per cent of the total eligible voters While enumerators listed another were added by the court of revision The per cent turnout com pares with per cent In and 1963 BIG INCREASE The or per cent In crease In he total number of eligible voters was credited to both the new group of voters between 18 and 20 yearsold and the ridings natural Increase In population Jim Snow the Progressive Conservative Incumbent was re elected with a 56 per cent majority Liberal Bob Blake was second with 25 3 per cent and New Democrat Ken Getok was third with 18 6 per cent In dependent Richard came a distant fourth with per cent Snow swept all 13 polls In Esquesing Township with l votes all polls In Georgetown with 3 all IB polls in Milton with 1 votes and 106 of 108 polls In Oakville far 13 Snow also won all he advance polls 992 BLAKE SECOND Liberal candidate Bob Blake finished second In all five areas votes in Esqueslng 1 COB in Georgetown in Milton and In Oakville with votes In the advance polls New Democrat Ken followed a consistent third with votes in Esqueslng 1355 in Georgetown In Milton and with 87 votes at the advance polls percent and Cr Em Hyde 8 percent I feel anyone who doesnt attend myself included throws an extra load on the others said Cr Hyde He then claimed attendance at the County level dropped when the County changed to salaries Instead of being paid per meeting Hyde cited figures claiming Reeve Morrow had been absent from the county meetings percent of the time while Reeve of Burlington had been absent percent NO QUORUM Continuing Hyde contrasted the attendance at the county In the first quarter when members were still paid per meeting to the 2nd and 3rd when they were paid a salary In the first quarter there were meetings with absentees said Hyde sometimes they havent even been able to get a quorum he added provided there is at least deducted If I cant make the meetings he concluded I glad I set out my at tendance record In the paper Reeve Morrow began I can do no better I have a Job which everyone knew about when I ran for CONSISTENCY Morrow pointed out that he moved a motion at county council that deductions be made for meetings missed but the motion was defeated He said he would never stand on attendance record but on the fact his responsibilities were carried out ana his cooperation with the rest of council Many times Im down here In this building during Ihe daytime and while I have encountered most members of council here I have never met Cr Hyde retorted Reeve Morrow This is reminiscent of an election campaign commented Cr Slddall as he said he would vote for any amount of deduction as long as it showed consistency In policy I going to oppose the salary whether with or without deductions stated Ernie When I was elected I knew the pay was a meeting and thats the way it should be till theendoftheterm Continuing Cr said he would go for it If it became effective January 1S73 when a new council would be in power He stated flatly councillors have to be at the meetings This Is where the work is done and where the legislation is passed he con eluded HOLIDAYS Hyde again pointed out 2 was an Increase saying By the number of meetings set this year the most we could earn Is and remember we had summer holidays this year so It would be less Cr Harry Levy agreed the was an increase but did not agree councillors were paid to attend meetings We are paid to fulfill a function he suggested If we were paid or the time we put in It would be in the thousands he added The salary of with a deduction of a meeting missed was carried Driver Passengers Hurt in Monday Crash A two car crash at corner of Street and Boule vard injured three people Monday afternoon Sharon of Drive the driver of one of the cars was treated at hospital and released Three year old Bruce Watterworth in same car suffered injuries other car Diane Koopman of Hllbcrl Koopman the driver of the other car was unhurt Police put the damage at 800 to 1967 Rambler and lo Koopman 1964 Pont lac Another I wo car accident the Chevelle driven by Ronald Ar thur Giroux of Brampton Ihe same amount to a 1971 Pontiac driven by Michael Armstrongof Gibbons Place The Giroux car was entering Street from Edward and the car driven by Armstrong was on when they hit An accident Sunday did a total of damage to a 1968 Dart driven by Harry Hayward of 60 King Street and a 1966 driven by Robert Taylor of Glen Williams was west bound on Delrex and Taylor on Guelph according Mayors Coming To Talk GO Was the announcement GO transit service to George town and area an election promise Mayor BUI Smith is taking Premier Davis at his word and will host a meeting of mayors and reeves from alt affected municipalities Council in committee en dorsed the idea but set no definite date KbRRWINS In West per cent of the voters turned out to vote and gave Environment Minister George Kerr a resounding vie His opponents Liberal and Walter got 20 and per cent of the voles respectively The turnout was out of a possible voters Kerr received voles compared to 844 and for McNuit and The West riding grew in voter from 38 DOC eligible voters to this years In 1967 turnout was per cent Kerr won over of the riding 214 polls including all five advance polls Acton and parts of Nossagaweya and Townships are in Halton West along with Burlington Spooks Will Roam One Night Early The Halloween celebrations In town are back to Saturday so council decided Thursday night The on again trick or treat night was switched to night after a delegat ion from the ministerial assoc iation appeared before Itlee asking for the change association said several chur ches and Individuals did not wish Halloween held on Sundays because of their religious con Mictions or personal convenience Rev A Van Pol said many churches nave evening services or meetings on Sunday evenings Some children would be unable to participate If Halloween Is on Sunday he added Harry Levy said he had backed Sunday as the date because he thought I C endorsed that day but now he found this wag not so Cr Em Hyde said he felt there would be confusion with children out both nights but he would go along with the switch I am not changing my mind because something a certain reverend gentleman said to me on the phone said Cr Hyde The reverend gentleman told me people would remember things like this In the next election Hyde remarked Rev Van Den Pol said ho deployed that approach and called It Unchristian Council officially stated they considered Halloween to be Saturday and schools papers and radio would be informed of this