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Ads That Pay You can place an ad In The Herald a Classified page by phoning list Buying or telling The Herald where you will nndnhef nulla you want GEORGETOWN HERALD The Home Newspaper for Georgetown and District PrintingPublishing The Georgetown Herald hat Georgetown and at Printers and Publishers for over a century offering the beat In fine printing and newt coverage Second Claai Mali Registered Number CMS Postage Guaranteed THURSDAY JANUARY 13 SO per year Single Copy Price Fifteen Cent Beware this grumbling old moneyeater A tired eld furnace will Steal your money and your comfort tool SWITCH TO COMFORT Install a new Furnace now Pay Nothing till October 1st 1 No payments till October 1972 No interest or carrying charges till October 1st 3 Our own low- Interest financing Up to 10 yean to pay oil furnaces OIL GAS ELECTRIC You Name If INSTALL AIR CONDITIONING at the same time and take advantage of the same low interest time payment plan January Special Discount for Cosh with the In deliberations a com of the whole Wednesday council agreed to support recommendation that a new format be established In the administration of municipal business Under the new system council will meet each Wednesday at as a committee of Ihe whole to discuss business The sessions will each be two hours in length and chaired In turn by each councillor Regular council meetings will continue to be held twice a month The endorsement by the council committee follows a recommendation from the legislation and administration committee Reeve Robert Williams said he new system should speed up work in the municipality especially with the rapidly in creasing workload being created through expansion CLOSER LIAISON He sold that the councillors will have a closer liaison on the projects The recommendation from the legislation committee had called lor the meetings to begin half an hour earlier Councillor Jack Wallace uestioned the need for having meetings every week and tney be held every second week Since Branche at Kitchener Gait Stratford and Georgetown Armstrong Ave Georgetown Advertise It Pays This Council Hopes to Accelerate Business Terry Miller deputy reeve and chairman of the legislation and administration committee said that his committee already met twice a month and was facing too heavy a workload He said that the addition of Items now carried by other committees would provide a full workload for the weekly general committee meetings Council Wallace then ex pressed concern about the amount of time he and councillor Jim Yarrow would have to take off work In Toronto to attend the municipal meetings I take what I need but I don like to push It said Councillor Wallace The reeve then suggested that the starting time be changed to NOT DISCUSSED The recommendations from clerk Ken Richardson governing format of the council meetings was handed to council members only and with the exception of one item was not discussed openly The item discussed publicly was referred to as item 12 and concerned news coverage It stated that If the press present Is asked not to report an Item the press will refrain from doing so was further indicated that any reporter not wishing to do so will to leave the room Suggests Special Areas Just for Snow Scooters The Region Con Authority may expand snowmobile trail areas within its lands in Ha Hon County Authority members agreed overly restrictive bylaws and bans of snowmobiles would cause all operators to Ignore all regulations Richard Day said Oakville is trying to give birth to a snowmobile policy A consensus Is coming forward that If we make the laws too tough alt will Ignore them Day suggested an Increase in conservation area facilities for snow era might assist in alleviating municipal problems CANT CATCH He said a possible county bylaw against snowmobiles on county roads would Just force Into the back where no one could catch them The authority must be ready for nowmobllers and the worst is yet to come He said snowmobile sales were in reusing regularly Allan Wright said 1 dont understand what happens to someone when he gets on a snowmobile but something does happen It is very dlsap pointing UTILE Manager Murray Stephens said moat complaints coming to authority attention are about snowmobiles on the Bruce Trail Don Cloverdale said banning snowmobiles from county roads would be futile There Is no way a cop can catch me on a road I can outrun him on my snowmobile against his car CONCRETE BUILDING SAND ROAD GRAVEL FILL and TOP SOIL GARNET BUD HAINES Miami Attention FARMERS NOW THE TIME TO GET NEW YOUR BUILDINGS ASPHALT SHINGLES NEW STEEL ROOFING BARN PAINTING REPAIRS CHIMNEY REPAIRS RON FISHBURN ROOFING ADRIANA GEORGETOWNS NEW YEARS BABY January 1 Can Choose Their Schools Next Term Outline Safeguards to Prevent Students from School Hopping students will be able to attend the school of their choice next September regardless of where they live but there will be strings attached to the new freedom to prevent a case or musical schools The Hal ton County Board of Education last week adopted a new policy allowing elementary and secondary school students to transfer to a school outside their home school attendance area The same measure had been rejected by the board last April and was finally poised last night by a Wo 7 board vote PUBLIC FEARS Education administrators now expect their biggest problem with the more flexible at tendance system to be public fears that students will be allowed to switch schools at the slightest whim Safeguards to prevent abuse of the new freedom In schools were outlined to board flexibility for some students alter rational consideration The student cannot move where and when he wants he It is not one of these musical chairs situations with idom schools and some In discriminate number of students showing up some sunny Sep tember morning The board will not provide bus transportation for transfer students and the policy will not to kindergarten children ir students of General Wolfe in or General Brock high school In Burlington educators do not expect wholesale migrations from one ichool to another North York a similar policy and less than members by assistant director Lavender He said students will have to apply for transfer seven months ahead of September school Transfer fixations must be submitted by cbruary 18 for registration In September 1972 In following years the application deadline will be February IMPULSIVE SWITCH The seven month lead time will give students a chance to discuss the decision wilh their parents and school principals and avoid an impulsive switch It will also give the schools time to in corporate the transfers Into heir enrolment and budget The transfers will only be accepted where there Is room In the new school Lavender termed the new reform almost a procedural detail which would allow some Winter Works SALE HAVE YOUR ALUMINUM SIDING AWNIN05 STORM WINDOWS DOORS INSTALLED NOW AND SAVE 20 OFF No Deposit Bank Financing one half of one percent of the students apply for transfers Director of education James Singleton said he had permitted about half of requests for transfers in He predicted the transfer figure for 1972 to be about 100 students far the entire county LFGITtMATE Lavender said there are a number of legitimate reasons why a student would want to transfer from one school to another Sometimes school attendance boundaries are unfair to families living very near the division line Also many students and parents have indicated preferences for cither more open liberal curriculums at certain schools or There are flavors in schools that differ because Ihe people in them differ Lavender noted He said If students started to leave one particular school eh masse then there could be a serious problem with that school teachers GOOD AND BAD Some board members argued that the optional attendance plan would unnecessarily distinguish between good and bad schools within the county Lavender said that although schools may differ slightly In academic approach that doetn mean one school is better than another Not StrawChewing Hicks Ready For Handouts Says Official Agriculture needs spokesmen who can project themselves on television to news reporters and to legislators Evan Ea la brooks or the Halton office of the Ontario Department of Agriculture says in farm news editorial this month contends that legislators and consumers must be reminded that farmers are not strawchewing hicks ready for handouts but are knowledgeable scientifically trained producer- doing their best stay business despite higher costs without higher prices Are we in agriculture telling our story lo keep the general public Informed about agriculture or are we sitting allowingolhcr groups lo use For Free Estimate Call Delrex Aluminum Ltd 93S3 Main St j S Georgetown population declining and with fewer people coming from rural backgrounds the task of in forming the total community as to what is happening In Ontario and Canadian agriculture becomes larger The editorial states What can be done to gain greater public support for agricultures legitimate needs It is most Important that the public be kept Informed of our achievements goals and problems The con must understand that he benefits more than anyone else our accomplishments in agriculture AWARE Today the average family spends less than percent of its income on food Not so long ago It was percent Because of the efficiency of agriculture over percent of the population is Tree to in other business away from the farm Keeping our farms productive and solvent should be a concern of a country as a whole not just those engaged in agriculture Each of us 1 am sure is aware of the great dependency we have on others for our well being The public must be made aware of the Importance of a healthy agriculture to them Somebody must Inform the public that agriculture has made fantastic strides in feeding the ever increasing numbers in the world without leaving significant scars on nature A far better record than the growing cities can claim The record should be set straight as to what the farm population is doing to protect the environment In the case of pesticides we must tell the public that undue pesticide restrictions will not only lower the quality or food but will raise the cost This the consumer can understand DELICATE BALANCE In Michigan a group known CANADIAN CITIZENSHIP APPLICATIONS Applications for Canadian citizenship will be accepted every Wednesday and Friday from am to 3 30 at the Queens Square Building Queen Street East Lower level 2 BRAMPTON Ontario For Information regarding documents required fees etc telephone BRAMPTON 4591215 Wednesday or Friday only as Women for the Survival of Agriculture in Michigan has been formed in an attempt to tell the farm story Mrs Robert Can field a school teacher who represented WSAM at the Michigan Horticulture Society convention in early December stated that farmers are good conservationists who were concerned about the delicate balance of nature long before ecology became fashionable Yet farmers are being called polluters of the land Farmer need a new public image and they need to make their story known If we are to have a healthy agriculture in Canada which appreciated by the Country as a whole all of us you and I through our organizations and individually must sharpen up our communication with those outside the agriculture in Ashgrove News Well the celebrations and holidays are over for another year and It was clean travelling for relatives and friends to visit together Now the decorations are down and put away In their box the tree has disappeared and the new calendars are hung ready forthe brand new year So for a New Year resolution Think of joys instead of sorrow for today will be yesterday as soon as It a tomorrow Wo have 10 persons who have a birthday In the first month of this new year To them we say Carnation is your flower garnet is your stone That January a heirloom Is this glad month your own Then have a happy blr Enjoy it from the start May all the best of wishes come An denies the exist of ft God while an ag nostic neither affirms nor denies the existence of a God