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Georgetown Herald A Division of Home Company Main Street South Georgetown Ontario WALTER C BIEHN Publisher Page GEORGETOWN HERALD THURSDAY DEC Long Service to Community A milestone was marked one recent day at the Herald when a staff member started his year of service to the firm and the com When shop superintendent Garfield McGilvray started his apprenticeship with the late Joe Moore the Herald was in mid Main Street the present location of Henry s Clothing store The paper was a four to eight page sheet with type all set by hand The commercial printing department had presses the building was heated by a pot bellied stove the printed four pages at a time on at newsprint sheets As years passed he has Been the Herald grow to its present or more pages weekly He mastered the typesetting machine which replaced Supreme Test We predict that a movie made years ago and opening in Toronto this week will be one of the new year biggest hits Invited to a press preview of Charles Chaplin s Modern Times last week we attended with mixed feelings We never seen Chaplin except for a few smpets in movie anthologies We expected a few laughs some nostalgia a camp type reaction from the mainly young audience conditioned to the current fad for W C Fields and Mae West Instead we found the movie as fresh as if made today the antiquated hand setting learned the operation of automatic printing equipment And just this year he has shared in another printing innovation when the Herald converted to the modern offset method of reproduc Besides his printing skills he has contributed to the news department particularly in the and 40 s when he was active with the hockey club executive And outside business be has served his town as a councillor and as a member of the fall fair board He is the type of person a town can be proud of a dedicated man who puts his best into his work whether it be his daily job or extracurricular activities The Herald is fortunate to have him as a member of the staff We laughed and laughed and laughed almost from start to finish as Chaplin portrayed man s foibles never unkindly and poked fun at industry s assembly line mass production politics trade unions Mr Leslie Alien owner of Bramp ton s radio station has scored a bulls eye in securing distribution rights to Chaplin films We re looking for ward to seeing Modern Times again as a paying customer and anxiously awaiting other films which will be re leased later Meanwhile we recommend that everyone see this fine movie Con You Keep Christmas Are you willing To forget what you have done for other people And to remember what other people have done for you To ignore what the world owes you And to think of what you owe the world To put your rights in the background And your duties in the middle distance And your chances to do a little more than vour duty in the foreground To see that your fellowmen are just as real as you are And to try and look behind their faces to their hearts Hungry for joy To know that probably the only good reason for your existence Is not what you are going to get out of life But what you are going to give to life To set aside your book of com plaints against the management of the universe And to look around you for a place where you can sow a few seeds of happiness Are you willing to do these things even for a day Then you can keep Christmas Adapted from Henry van Dyke I to show her mother and that she wu no slouch of a house wife Her eyes were darting everywhere making sure that everything was in order The atmosphere was about ihe same as that at Cape Kennedy when re going to Are at the moon inally the supreme moment She ushered everyone to the table and rattier grandly ordered me to take the turkey out of the oven 1 did but the dam pan was red hot and I dropped the whole works gravy grease dressing and Turkey on the shining kitchen floor spare you the details but I ve never come closer to sudden death even daring the war In parting I have three wishes for my loyal readers that your Christmas tree fall over Just after you ve finished decorating that you don drop the turkey and that you have the best and happiest Christmas you ve ever had with people you Whatever else is lost among the years beep Christmas Its meaning never ends Whatever doubts assail us or what fears us hold olose BILL SMILEY The Ghosts of Christmas Past THE DISTRICT AT A GLANCE Sue for Rock Expense The Ontario government has launched a suit against Orange Productions Ltd to recover 102 It says it spent at a rock festival near more than a year ago The suit is or the expense the province said It paid in providing extra police patrols near the site and medical services to thousands of young people who attended the weekend festival Studying Site for Hospital CHINGUACOUSYOfficlala the Ontario Hospital Services Commission Friday confirmed In principal a hospital to be located in the northeast section of Chlnguacousy Township Howard Kralft administrator of Peel Memorial said two or three sites were con In north east He said confirmation of a site Is expected by the end of this year He said the hospiial would be built after Peel Memorial In Brampton completes expansion on Its present site Police Union Review Approved and Slreetsville The committee will operate on a budget of lib Drugs Found In Post Office ACTON Canada Customs has shrouded Investigation of a parcel containing drugs in secrecy Customs officer Murray Harrison discovered six and one quarter pounds or Moroccan in a parcel mailed from outside Canada to the poll office The Is estimated to have a street value of to Harrison said he could not discuss the find as to arrests source of the package addressee Track Coaches Gather CAMPBELLVILLKMore than track and field coaches Ontario clubs universities and schools attended a coaches con at the Mohawk Inn at Campbellville on Saturday Sponsored by the Ontario Track and Field Coaches Association the seminar concentrated on training techniques Mark Year Service ERIN Erin District Lions Club celebrated years of service to the community with an anniversary party in the Legion Hall Eleven of the club a original members were introduced Five of the originals have died Twenty year pins were awarded lo six charter members still active In Ihe club fee Carney Stan Bob Bert Smith Fred Steen and Fred Wilson Pigeons Under the Gun municipal officials have turned their attention to pigeons Solicitor Ray Plant told the legislation and administration committee that the Ontario municipal Act does not permit the prohibition of pet pigeons but can allow for the regulation of them Concern was expressed for home owners whose property may be in the flight path of a large number of homing pigeons The matter was brought to the committee s attention because a family had bought a number of pigeons for their children and a large number of pigeons could attract other birds to the community Form Group Opposing Line CHELTENHAM Several area residents have organized a group to oppose the proposed volt high tension line route selected by Ontario Hydro The group has been called the coalition of Concerned and extend Its membership to surrounding propose to circulate a petition asking for by provincial government to have Hydro Justify Its choice of route and employed of selecting It AWAY IN A Looking forward to Christmas has become something less than unadulterated Joy The thrice blasted cards the seventimes blasted tree with its inevitable crooked stump the ever Increasing cost of gifts these and other aspects of the festive season have turned the festive part of it at least into an exercise of hectic futility I think many will agree when I say that there a a huge sigh of relief on Christmas night when the last of the wrappings have been put away the last of be dishes washed and we can sit back lookatthelighU and listen music It a lot easier on the nerves to look back on Christm of the past They were probably Just as frantic but In retrospect they have a sort of rosy glow about them There s one that still causes me a pang of remorse and shame My mother was making the usual huge turkey dinner with all it entails We were to eat about four Around two pin my kid brother and I sneaked matinee A the same time my older brother and sister went for a long walk with a Mend None of us got Away in a Manger beautiful hymn is thefatoriteof young children and has often been called The Children Carol The simplicity of the words the picture they bring to mind the adaptability of the music these things have con tributed to Its popularity There has been great con over its An argument over who wrote this favorite of the children has been going on for years Away in a manger No crib for a bed The little Lord Jesus Laid down His sweet head The stars in the bright sky Looked down where He lay The little Lord Jesus Asleep on the hay The cattle ore lowing The poor wakes But little Lord Jesus No crying He makes I love Ihee Lord Jesus Look down from sky And stay by my cradle Till morning is nigh Be near me Lord Jesus I ask Thee to stay Close by mi forever And love me 1 pray Bless all ihe dear In Ihy tender cure And fake me to heaven To live with Thee Ihere home until about 30 and there was Mom stuck with the ruins of a magnificent dinner on which she had tolled for hours She dldn t say anything but I for one felt like a rat I was about ten and it was the first time I ever realized how thoughtless and selfish kids can be which reminds me that my own two thoughtless selfish brats will be home this Christ mas Hugh a vegetarian and will have his little bag of whole brown rice Kim a on some kind of a crazy diet By some strange coincidence the vegetarian becomes a carnivore and the diet goes out the window when they re home It tempting to think of making them a nice nut salad and cooking a small duck for their parents only Another Christmas 111 never forget was that of 1944 deep in the heart of behind barbed wire We dldn t have to worry about buying gifts sen ding cards or making long distance calls to relatives Maybe that why it was so much fun Not even a tree to wrestle with We exchanged gifts I gave a pair of gloves to one of the lists and he gave me a carle at of myself Someone else gave a pack of smokes and received a razor blade that had been used only one week And there was the Christmas dinner We had saved every scrap we could from the last of the Red Cross parcels We had two tins of salmon with delicious creamed sauce made from powdered milk There were potatoes we hung onto a hunk of cheese And there was that fantastic cake crumbled Graham crackers and mashed turnips held together by a bit of with two melted chocolate bars stirred in It was cooked on lop of the stove and weighed about IB pounds one pound per man With dinner went kricgle brew We saved enough prunes and sugar to make a potent potion just add water and let It ferment for a couple of weeks After scoffing the lot we lay around on our bunks with Ihe firelight flickering from the battered stove Did we talk about home and loved ones We did not We Just lay there and groaned like IB pythons who had aneously swallowed 18 goats Most of us were sick half the night but It was worth it It was the only time for months that we been hungry and the only time for months that we t be Other swarm into memory I not forget the one when my wife was having the family for the first time She fussed all day and had everything Just so She was going If he give up their to play with fun games a boy got for Christmas logical Is put In a call to Hani on twoway radio and a complaint Hello Santa do you read me We would like to thank you our loyal friends for your patronage this year It has been a real pleasure serving all of you CANADA TRUST JOHN A EDGAR MAIN ST N GEORGETOWN MM Have a Happy Christmas To our many friends Merry Christmas Greetings we send to you And our warmest wishes too BARBER AND HENLEY LTD INSURANCE AND TRAVEL AGENCY MAIN ST NORTH 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