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Georgetown Herald A Division of Canadian Newspapers Company Limited Main Street South Georgetown Ontario C This is the time CANADA PRODUCES BALL6T Page GEORGETOWN HERALD THURSDAY JAN EDITORIAL COMMENT Two Sides The question of conflict of Interest is much to the fore in government these days Minor scandals in the government have led to Park demanding that elected provincial politicians disclose any private holdings which could make them vulnerable to charges that these conflict with their public duties Members of the new Toronto city council have followed suit and made public some or all of their investments At least one metro mayor went further and disclosed the whole fortune of his wife and himself At Georgetowns Meet the Candidates Night last fall per questions were asked from the floor of candidates Halton Board of Education is discussing banning teachers from serving on boards of education Some board members claim that because teachers are paid by legislative grants they cannot be impartial as elected trustees Nor should a member of the teachers federation be able to take part in salary negotiations which can indirectly affect his own salary Teachers cannot be members of the board which engages them but can serve on another board Still Room Here Georgetown can be thankful that for at least a few years we can dispose of our own refuse Metro Toronto is having major problems in waste disposal and has been seeking solutions such as carting it by train to rural areas Each prospective site meets with violent opposition A new landfill site in Georgetowns industrial park if approved will serve Georgetown for at least a decade But Georgetown too may someday be faced with the same problem It is to be hoped that govern While one can argue that those who oppose teachers serving on education boards are justified in their claims of conflict of interest it is a tricky question which cannot be dismissed in a simple way One could debate too whether a member of any union should be allowed to hold office as a coun cillor At some stage of his service he will be taking part in discussions which set salaries and employment conditions for municipal em who are members of unions And the same argument could be used here as in the case of teachers If all possible interest conflicts barred men and women from fiubhc office the end result could councillors and members of appointed boards to a very small segment of society We could end with only retired or unemployed people housewives whose husbands had no conflicting connections and students whose parents ditto It appears that it is impossible to set absolute standards and we must continue to rely on the honesty of those who serve or if subterfuge is being used on fellow councillors and the public to act as watch dogs ment will be seeking more per solutions to a mushrooming problem in metro areas Emphasis on recycling of paper metal and glass waste must be intensified Methods of compacting certain wastes into usable products must be studied And an affluent society must be encouraged in every way to discard a minimum of garbage We cannot allow desecration of lovely rural areas in the name of waste disposal if other solutions can be found More High School News to two enterprising young high school students The Herald will keep readers better informed about interesting events at the school Larry Broadfield and Larry have volunteered to con tribute such news and their first efforts appeared last week Their items were well written and informative and we look forward to many more Contributing high school news is an excellent way for young aspirants to an editorial career to get practical experience The Hei aids news editor is a case in point It was his contributions to a Heraid high school column which led to Terry joining the newspaper staff here in what we hope has been a mutually beneficial exchange Writing in the school paper gave Mr experience and confidence and attracted the at tention of The Herald at a time when we were expanding If one or both of the two Larrys aspire to a career in we hope that their experience as columnists will be helpful ECHOES imiMlsMO council went on record as op posing the colouring of margarine Monday night January I their council meeting They endorsed resolution prepircd by the Cream which read strongly oppose any legislation that would allow manufaclurers to colour margarine to resemble Advertising proclamations for special weeks and local events might be eliminated by a coat conscious council of for several years councils have often acceded to requests for service clubs and charitable groups for insertion of proclamations supporting Tuna drives When the Kinsmen club asked Monday January 1963 that the week or 9 proclaimed March of Dimes Week council did so but delayed a decision on spending money on an advertisement until next week The principle of community enrolment in a medical and surgical benefit plan received endorsement by Georgetown council Monday January 1963 Hut vote back to the previous year when a split was almost the rule The week of the nth Physical Services Incorporated representative Gerry I asked council blessing on a local selling campaign which his firm would undertake and council him they would wait a week think it over A cleaning machine ordered by council on Monday January ijfi3 would go a long way towards avoiding back according to public works chairman Charles whose committee recommended the purchase The North Halton Urban Hoard consisting of representatives from Milton Acton and George town town councils was about to meet representatives from the Hell Telephone Company to discuss a unified telephone rate for the north end of county Probably the company would just tell us the reasons they tan t set a uniform rate for our area sold a board spokesman but wc would like to see if it can be done It would probably take agitation on the part of subscribers before the company will consider it seriously Charles Herbert Best codiscoverer Insulin and one of the world great medical scientists was presented with the Alpha Omega Achievement Medal during the dental rfity 45th annual convention dinner He had recently returned to his country home near Georgetown After a mile world lecture tour Best told delegates hat Hurt Is still much dental work to be done in parts of the world Chairman Robert Saunders announced that BILL SMILEY Too Timid Perhaps We Are C0UU THE WINTER BALLET Farm Editorial Get Involved in Land Use Planning Is there anything new under the sun despite the old adage Not much I ve just been reading a year old essay by Henry David Thorcau and it could have been written last week by anybody who dislikes nay despises government and what it stands for The author says that that government is best which governs least Many Canadians who arc sick 10 death of government and Us agents poking their inquisitive snouts Into every aspect of the Individual life would agree heartily Most businessmen would not only concur but would raise a cheer for the sen tlmcnts expressed Ask any man who runs a small business if win lo get a blistered ear what he thinks of government suggests that the first purpose of govern ment is not to seek out and abolish agree We should not necessarily cultivate a respect for the lou hut for what is right says Thorcau He uses the illustration of an undue respect for the law of soldiers marching to war against their common sense and consciences This has been happening for years Vict There three types of men he says arc those serve the state with their bodies such a soldiers Next are those who the stale their arm people art- of urban and technological sprawl Urban sprawl Is evident along the of our County with the multitude of rural farm homes Technological sprawl is the spreading of hardware across our beautiful countryside hydro telephone and gas lines and high ways Choice land is a constantly diminishing resource being consumed each year for agricultural purposes Thus the questions Should we be concerned about the future of our land Should farmers gel involved in Iand Use Planning Most farmers arc confused about this topic They never really get involved until an Official Plan is presented to them and a meeting held to discuss it Most farmers feel that it is useless to try to change he plan at this stage and don even bother to gel out and discuss the plan people should and must become involved in these plans from the start they are being drafted Land suitable for agriculture can then be set aside as such at the beginning rather than hat which is left aver when all other uses for land have been filled Many feel that Land Use planning must be done at provincial or it the rep ran I level Municipal land use planning will not likely result In the best use of land as many of OCONNORS OTTAWA the municipal councils have come under the control of the farm residents Many farmers fear the possibility of lower land value if their land is frozen for agricultural use This eliminates the speculative potential which has always been looked upon as retirement income On the other hand others look upon this freezing value as a chance to have reasonable farm taxes in the years ahead and an opportunity pass on the farm to the next generation without having to pay high succession duties agree that there is to be an agricultural industry In Ontario in the future then wc surely must agree that land use planning is essential likewise if the former is to remain in urban areas he must have assurance or lower taxes This means a uniform assessing base regardless of where the farm is located The whole question of compensation to the farmer for the removal of his land from the speculative market needs much thought Should there be compensation How could our government nils These ire only a few of the complexity of questions and thoughts involved in Land Use planning The Land Use Conference organized by the Ontario Soil and Crop prove Association December 12 and brought many of Hies to the fore Now is not the time to Just forget about this question Now is the time for farm people to get in or accept the consequences SB in all Tom Job of assigning us to committees seals In the house offices etc has required the diplomatic skill of an ambassador As a result of winning our elections arc perhaps all guilty of becoming somewhat self important prima donas used to royal treatment back home There is nothing like a gaglc of me firsters to drive a man right around the bend Hut Tom has managed to make everyone think he has been fairly treated iy event we arc now all too Ontario Hydro would provide improved service with the construction of a new TOcycle former station nd associated distribution facilities just outside of Brampton at an estimated cost of SI OCX To more than double the service in he area the new equipment would supply power the towns of Acton Brampton Georgetown the surrounding rural district known as Brampton Operating Area and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporations transmitter it Hornby Construction was scheduled to start In late spring of Completion would be timed to coincide with Hydro frequency standardization nf the area from to GO cycle operation ten scheduled to start August The station known as Pleasant Transformer Station lakes its name from the neighbouring hamlet of Mount Pleasant and would be located near No Highway miles west of Brampton AGO An editorializing story entitled More about appeared January January third a sad accident happened the Fergus Arena when a bright young boy an eye the desirability of having a rink In a town may not have seemed so obvious to anxious parents but that sort of thing happens in all active and speedy sports and is better than having children falling through holes In the ice on the river or on mill ponds The subject of skating rinks In wartime was In Palm erst on it appeared that the council operated he rink At least one councillor had been appointed to act on the rink committee In mid May an open air rink was being operated on the mill pond rink the Confederation Arena as it was called in better days has been rented for military purposes An open air rink on the High School campus was to be operated by pupils of Ihc school who would charge admission for ska ling and hockey In where the roof of the rink fell in it was decided to have a skating rink on the Public School grounds The idea did not work well According to Ihc Imira Signet young people left laps running broke off door handles threw Ice at the skaters and generally made nuisances or themselves they broke Into the school at night and the prohibited skating after six clock A plea wan being made for service club or some other organization to take over he supervision of this rink Arena was operating that year for and curling but there was no It was being well by hi rs fully involved with the of work involved in being an to consider our own self importance If you have a problem or comment please call my office at ltd Oak vlllc The parly Whip Tom Bell the sometimes disliked member for Saint John respected enigma of a fellow is i New Brunswick generally lillic known outside He is a good strategist with an of party circles extensive knowledge of by the leader from among the parliamentary procedure With party backbenchers and the large influx of new PC cording to tradition is members elected Inst October responsible for rounding up the g members when a vote is called mm THE DISTRICT AT A GLANCE The term Whip derives from British parliamentary tradition Mil TON Trustees of the Martin Street Ire l- have closed and originates from the whip the fund and distributed the final cheques to the five families used to round up the hounds burned out of heir apartment building in the pre fire during fox hunts said the fund reached Donations However the job ntalh much accepted the hanks union and trusl eompany and more lhan keeping labs on the displayed collection boxes Trustees said one comings and goings of fellow MlltonliiO TheDec fire MPs and Iterating them into nine adults and four children homeless the House for Members of township council He must have good political p jsscd three readings of by law last week allowing horse racing sense and be a supreme at Mohawk on Sundays The by law follows a successful diplomat He is usuafly in plebiscite In December when residents voted solved in party Sunday racing the impbellvllle track organization the appointment Council decided lo send a letter to the Ontario Jockey Club of members committees the reminding them they promised station traffic patrol at the allocating of delegations to mum intersection In during peak race i traffic represent Canada abroad and hours sometimes the stickiest job of all the allocation to members National station nil be sold of their seats in the House of A glass enclosed structure Commons and their iwll In redid there is room for tram offices His word is and will probably is a final and the wary member the bus service running to do train knows that slaying on the good Miyor explained of Ml had said side of the Whip Is a necessary the station Kill be available to the town or anyone else when it prerequisite lo advancement In advertised It could rial be moved without dismantling Ottawa There are many stories about KWOOI iramosa Township councillors have voted past Whips the lengths to themselves a J Km across the I ward increase despite opposition which have gone to from new councillor Betty lark for the reeve guarantee maximum party was raised to SI fl per year deputy reeve SI KM and councillors strength in the House Once in each Council have a minimum of meetings per year and he distant past it is illcged a further meetings will be on additlonol Wt for each member of Whip for the kid council napping of an opposition unless It Is on council business member thus ensuring his absence during a crucial vole HI believed to hove started from a defective In during the tense light socket In a downstairs closet left a young family Mackenzie King Arthur homeless last week Mr and Mrs Barry and two children struggle a hired were victims of the Monday morning blaze which charred the a whole train to transport a inside of their brick residence and ruined furniture and other single member to Ottawa And belongings When she smelted smoke Mrs grabbed her it was a Whip who once had an Che igc one and Hi ion six and next door lo ocean liner stopped to retrieve phone the Ire department while the right side of the house up a member back to parliament Inflames Firemen saved the other hoi therewas for a vote Present d much water and heat damige shenanigans arc somewhat less dramatic being usually can IMlrV01 pel dogs been destroyed and two others fined hiding members behind quarantined by the Department of Agriculture He llth of Animals curtains and pillars so as to Branch wing a whirlwind our of lncIewood by a suspected keep from opposition Whips the rabid fox for the branch the five I ad exact party for definitely been bitten by the fox and were destroyed at upcoming vote request of their who in most had small i Our present Whip Is Die fox got away and so no positive diagnosis was affable and totally mi lawyers office alders but not with their consciences there arc the very few martyrs reformers patriots in the real sense who serve it with their consciences also and arc commonly treated as enemies by it The trigger for essay was strong disapproval of ihe American government of his day on two issues the Mexican War and slavery The Mexican was one of flagrant aggression in which the Americans moved in and conquered vast territories In the southwest It has always been a source of pleasure to me when Americons decry British colonialism to remind them of Cuba Puerto It Hawaii Philip pines Panama and Texas They have conveniently forgotten in most cases that In the Mail Bag Best in Small Town Opinion Of Library Dear Sir a citizen and homeowner In I would like to renew the in I crest of your readers in is probably Georgetown first and most spectacular asset the library staff who run it All of us know Ihnl your scarce resources should be treasured and encouraged to erow The library and its staff is one such resource As a scholar and a writer and researcher of Georgetown s past and present development may I soy that none of the practical ispects of my research over the past seven years would have been possible without the patient ind willing help extended by the library Some of the world leading scholars have been guests at my home over the past two years and their visit is not complete without a lour of inspection of the library which I show with pride It has been called by one them the worlds leading expert in the development of communities The best small town library I have ever seen Not only is it superb from this perspective but it is also superb in that isa vital and important centre for many community activities both formal and informal that we sorely need to encourage for that majority of our community the young people and the citizens The presently provided to these two important groups of citizens go well beyond any outsiders expectation of what library is supposed to do Where else In Ontario docs one get children story hours film shows a wan relaxed itmnsphere pli expert advice and creative assistance and above devoted care and concern for the enrichment of the leisure hours of large numbers of people Only I would In would urge your readers I Board and the Town to give the library and Its staff every encouragement mediate strong support in the hold and Imaginative plans cherish and our community s valuable and outstanding library Sincerely yours It Powell lecturer In Sociology I uf Toronto many these acquisitions were a result of direct and violent conquest spoke openly of revolution when a sixth of the population of a nation which has undertaken to be the refuge of liberty of slaves and a whole country Texas is unjustly overrun and conquered by a foreign army I think it is not too soon for honest men to rebel ind revolutionize Ihc situation almost exactly the same today Blacks are not legal slaves but they are economic ones North Viet Nam was not exactly overrun but not for want of trying And what would happen to Thorcau if he expressed such sentiments today Probably not much because there is a growing swelling anger against the stupid war among of all walks of life But if he d said it ten years ago Or in the era of Joe McCarthy Hod likely have lost his job been harassed by attacked by some segments of the press and generally driven like a fox before hounds It speaks much for the growing lack of freedom in the US land elsewhere I that nothing serious to Thorcau at all when he uttered these inflammatory remarks He did spend one night in jail when he refused to pay his poll lax on the basis that his dollar might buy cither a man or a musket to shoot one with But somebody paid his fine and he was released Today we have the prospect of men spending years in jail because they refuse to go against their consciences have thousands of US draft dodgers in Canada forsaking their home and native land for reasons of common sense who wants to be killed or conscience Joan the folk singer and and war individual tried to take a similar stand by refusing to pay her in tax The government merely deducted it at source from the record companies who paid her royalties advocated that if there were an unjust law we should break it What do you think What would happen to an ordinary Canadian who said will pay to have garbage collected and the streets repaired But I will not pay one penny for national defence I don want welfare insurance medicare so I won pay a nickel toward them The answer Is obvious That bold Canadian would spend the rest of his life in the law courts being punished by his govern Instead of being allowed the simple sensible alternative of opting out Life Is too short But are being governed to death Oh for a few Thoreaus in these timid days CORRECTION Mrs was one of the Georgetown Liberal Association representatives at the Toronto and District I Annual In Toronto The Herald apologizes for misspelling her name in a news story last week Zcch man president of the County liberal Association was a special guest at the dcorgetown groups January meeting where members discussed the pros and cons Wellington riding which would include George lown after redistribution aspiring vocalist had Just completed a lesson Professor she asked do you think shall ever be able to do with my Voice Well replied her in structor it might come in handy in case of fire Anne Valerie Caruso David Hastings Myles John Joan Davis Joyce CIRCULATION BUSINESS 1 DIRECTORY OPTOMETRIST Brown RO MAIN ST Julie For Appointment phono Health IniuranceCard MASSEUR KARL J STREUTKER REG For appointment CHIROPRACTOR OPTOMETRIST 0 Hi South Bultd For 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