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Georgetown Herald A Division of Canadian Newspapers Company Limited Main Street South Georgetown Ontario WALTER Publisher Pa GEORGETOWN HE It ALP THURSDAY MAR 22 1973 EDITORIAL COMMENT 70 Year Milestone Not many organizations can boast such a long history as Georgetown Womens Institute The local Institute marked its seventieth birthday recently It was one of the first branches farmed after the inauguration of Womens Institutes Since then it has been an established force for good in the municipality The attractive entrance to Greenwood Cemetery and the stone and wrought iron entrance to the fairgrounds park are per manent memorials installed by the Institute The WI has given help at various times to the hospik1 During the thirties members occupied themselves with helping victims of the depression when Hurricane Hazel struck in 1954 they rallied again to aid flood victims And quietly behind the scenes they often give a hand to someone in trouble Despite its three score and ten years Georgetown Womens In stitute continues as an active group dedicated to community service not spectacular but steady in its public service work It is one of the many such organizations which make Georgetown such a good town Jet Age Seems only a few years ago that a trip to Toronto was a days excitement a weekend in New York an experience and a vacation in Florida reserved only for the fortunate few who had the money and time to motor there Today we are truly in the jet age and the world has shrunk to pocket size Take this week when schools are closed for the spring break Groups of nigh school youngsters are off on skiing ex peditions to Switzerland visits to Spain and France Hundreds of families are basking in the warmer climates of Myrtle Beach and Flights to the West Indies and Hawaii are heavily booked The travel revolution is due We All Do It The horror of a Sunday ac cident which took nine lives and sent scores to hospital is food for reflection for motorists The multiple crash on Highway near Barrie was one of the worst ever in Ontario It happened in a blinding snowstorm and mushroomed from a minor accident which stopped traffic only to have a truck ana bus crash into other cars a fire and victims trapped in their crushed cars We are all guilty of foolish driving at such times We think it so important to In the Mail B High Praise For Hospital Staff mainly to the advancement of plane travel plus a higher living standard which Canadians enjoy today It is a wonderful world par ticularly for the young Aside from the personal benefits which accrue from seeing other countries and other customs perhaps it is the start of a breakthrough to better un derstanding in tomorrows world Fraternization with people of other cultures no matter how brief cannot help but strain the bonds of fear and distrust which hamper true world peace If the jet age promotes un derstanding and releases national tensions the airplane may someday be hailed as a dove of peace Dear Sir May I take this opportunity through the medium of your newspaper to express my deep appreciation for the exceptional treatment I received while spending an unavoidable weeks slay Georgetown hospital My thanks also to the personnel of General Fireproof ing for the fast work in the effort to get me to hospital Your Volunteer Turning Back Time Ambulance Service cannot Ik forgotten for the fast but levery pothole which is normal everywhere this time of the year trip to the hospital In particular I mention Macintosh and each professional par excellence Now I come to the main reason for writing and I am going refer to your nursing staff as The Florence NiBhlinitalos of Georgetown At this moment 1 can recall a few reach our destination regardless of weather conditions and trust in providence to guide us never realizing that it takes only a minor break in the traffic chain to bring disaster We have made a resolve that given the same set of cir cumstances we will get off a super highway as soon as possible stop wherever it is safe and wait out the storm no matter how urgent we think it is to get where we are going The life we save may be our own or it may be some luckless victim of circumstances names Mrs James II Mrs Neald Mrs Mitchell Mrs Hamilton and so he list would go on If I could remember them all I wish I could The care at and concern given to me Is something never to be forgotten To the people of Georgetown I would like to say Take good care of these people whenever the opportunity occurs They may have to look after you To the crew of the Brampton ambulance which has since transferred me to General Hospital for the next two weeks and Nurse Giles hook you for making the trip an enjoyable Thank you Mr Editor for having given me the op portunity to show my up unemployment GET You- INFLATION WW ALL DAY SUCKER ECHOES YEARS AGO THE IMPORTANCE of tree planting which was promoted by town during the three previous years was outlined Monday March ID when a tree cutting expenditure was passed by council Twelve of the towns forest beauties were slated for the axe of Tony Martin in various parts of town far trees like people reach their appointed life span and must be replaced GEORGKTOWN AND DISTRICT Memorial Hospital would be managed by a 12 member board The change from a 15 member board to 12 member board endorsed at the annual meeting Thursday March in belief that a smaller board would prove less GEORGETOWN AND DISTRICT Memorial Hospital would not be limiting visitors to members of a patients mediate family during the Asiatic Flu outbreak unless things locally got worse than they were then lhat some other Hoi ton County hospitals restricted visiting for an indefinite period due the heavy incidence of influenza A CLAMP DOWN on illegal basement apartments was indicated Monday March 1U i96Jwhen Major do asked assessor J if he could bring these to the a l tent ion of the zoning administrator in Ihe course his duties FRED CHAPMAN manager of the Bank of Commerce was elected president of Georgetown Chamber of Commerce when the annual meeting was held Wednesday March 1953 in school DEVELOPMENTS DURING the week of March 18 1953 changed the picture regarding the location of the proposed new fire hall for Georgetown Council had previously called for lenders for the wrecking of the Old Town Halt but in the meantime a tender for the purchase of the hall has been receded along with an initial payment of Council decided immediate coll for tenders for the purchase of the hall and appertaining thereto the name and amount of the tender until all have been received COST OF A properly acquired from Darwin for the site of the new Acton high school would be increased by ooo became a power line thai would have to be moved Norlh Hal ton high school board decided to stand the expense at their meeting Monday March 1JSJ in Acton as was felt the seven acre properly was the best location for the new building SOMETHING NOVEL FOB Georgetown is lacrosse on ice which would moke its first appearance Saturday night March lJ5 1 in the arena This now sport had been catching on in various centres that season A team from would be opposed by Georgetown Glen Williams combines TO A statement by Colonel Ralston the Canadian Womens Army Corps had increased in numbers from the vear before from 000 to THE GREGORY had the following shows playing Friday March Northwest Hangers with James Craig and Patricia Dane also My Favorite Spy with Ellen Drew and Kay Kaiser March Pardon my Sarong wilt Abbott and Costcllo plus Freighters under Fire Tuesday and Wednesday March and Invisible Agent Cactus Makes Perfect of Mexico and Rhapsody in Rivets GEORGETOWN AID Russia Fund had a grand lotal of Since the report week before the following donations were received by Mrs Preston Smith and Stone Punch Press War Workers Thursday Afternoon Knitting Club preclatlon Georgetown is fortunate to have a medical facility and staff of such high Sincerely John Taylor Ma the best teams win In the hockey matches this week between our two cities Farm Editorial Rural Residents Can Clean Up for Prizes THE P SAW MILL This flaw mill operated by Note Hotel and stables Georgetown founder George P was on the site Just above the mill To the Kennedy the first brick of the present Georgetown left of the smoke stack may house in Die Hydro Commission building be seen the house of picture taken about 1009 was contributed the Turning Hack I line Scries by Hen Case It Georgetown McNeill Agricultural Office Everyone has heard a great deal lately about the state of our environment in one form or another Far mors have come up against the problem in the disposition of animal waste products Therewillbemany suggestions as to how best to control the smell of manure No doubt an eventual solution will be found that will be acceptable to all concerned The stuff is a necessary evil of farming and it does smell I have no answers the problem of manure but I do have some answers to another aspect of our environment and that Is eye appeal Farmers and rural homeowners in are being encouraged to think green red vellow blue name the colour in the next two The Halton County Farmstead and Home Im provement Competition in cunjunctiun tne in ternatlonal Plowing Mulch in Is seeking the cooperation of all residents of the county to plant up paint up and clean up for The committee will have considerable prize money to stimulate IhlseffoN However I would hope that the citizens of County enough pride in their homes and farmsteads that this process would lake place regardless of prize During the actual plowing match there wilfbe thousands of visitors in and while this Is one the most picturesque areas thai I have ever lived in can lie made much mure attractive by the of all our homes and farmsteads Many of these improvements do not need to cost a lot of money Paint and painting would in all likelihood be most expensive Cleaning up the Junk and renovating old plantings or selling out new plantings can be done with a minimum of cost It will however require little time mid effort Old plantings renovated this year will be in good shape by next summer and look many times better New plantings put out cither this spring or next will still look small and in significant in 1974 but some petunias and marigolds interspersed amongst them will make even these look like a million dollars Simple but neat is all lhat is required people have only so hours In the day so do not plan elaborate plantings that there is no hope In maintaining This is often worse than no plantings at all So is encouraged andrcd and and blue particularly in next two make Count even more than it is now Some time ago information was sent to on this program Dig II out and start making plans now before the spring rush hits Encourage neigh bours to do the same If jo BILL SMILEY Stupid Squirrels It Was Only 4 AM This week some random and rambling thoughts on a variety of topics A friend and colleague died yesterday and Ill miss him He was a free soul beholden to none with a mind and a tongue that paid obeisance to no man and no theory He was ill for a long time but fought like a demon and never gave an Inch to en death Since I joined this teaching staff twelve years ago six men teachers all in their and early fifties have died Five of them were World War It veterans Thats a high attrition rate There arc only six W 11 veterans left on staff including one iody and one v el of the German army and were sort of eyeing each other for signs of sudden deteriorolion Guess we should make a pool winner last alive lake all Dont worry I havent a morbid bone in my body Ive already had about thirty cars more than a lot of my old mates so me a thing Spring is more a time of birth than death And did we have evidence this week Saturdo morning I often grab the chance to sleep in or an extra hour Last Friday night the tem perature went soaring up lo about fifty About four word around among the black squirrels in attic spring had arrived and lhe went stark staring rating mad All winter they d been pretty quiet with only the occasional Saturday night part complete with drunken fights screaming females bawling kids and acorns rattling like bowling balls on concrete Hut this week they pulled oil the slops I started out of a deep sleep shouting something about the Yanks Invading Canada My wife was cowering head under the covers The males were bellowing like bull moose The females were chattering like well females The babies were shouting in unison Hey Ma Can wegoouf need a coal Wove never seen spring before Whats it like And all of them running and jumping and skittering and slithering and scuttling right overhead until it sounded like midnight at the Lumberjacks Halt This went on until daylight so did my wifes demands that I do something about it What would do wasnt going go up into the attic and take on single handed I was afraid to They sounded like Khan and his boys warming up for the raping and razing of a city There was nothing to do but batten down the hatches and hope that sonic over zealous little black rodent did not chew through ceiling and drop on my wife head lhat would have as they say lorn it At dawn the wild subsided a little and 1 pecked out window There Here about in the back yard stupidly digging Bui the little ones were baffled bewildered and belligerent They ran around In circles They sank lo their ears in we l snow They Indignantly They couldnt find anything to eat Had I not heard them talking so often Id not have wen able to understand But had And I did I distinctly heard one baby buck squirrel snarling What the hell goes on here Weve been sold a bill of goods THIS Is SPRING Where arc the luscious bulbs the green stuff the tender shoots Weve been had brothers Lets demonstrate And demonstrate they did loudly and shrilly for the next twelve hours back in the attic berating their elders Cant blame them It must have been a traumatic ex perience out of the warm womb of the attic into the bleak reality of a March day Some of Ihem hope will be scarred lor life psychologically But I cant kick Theyve been fairly quiet since aside from a tot of mumbling and lhat their parents betrayed ihem about life Dang it I run out of space I wanted to mention two baseball pitchers who have swapped not only wives but families present some startling spring poetry and discuss the abysmal stupidity of ihe Department of Education but theres no room Why do I let squirrels loom so large in my life GEORGETOWN HERALD the for The oldtin realized with disgust thai it was not spring at all and returned up Ihe big cedar flying leap to the vines scrabble up to the hole and back the attic for a long OCONNORS OTTAWA BRADLEY Accountant Anne Currle William Arnott Valerie Caruso Hastings John Joan Davis Joy VanDchnder CARRIER CIRCULATION An aspect of elected life of which the general public probably has little awareness at least it has surprised me in the few months I have been here is Ihe sheer volume and v of briefs and general lobbying politicians undergo The form varies from badly written and inexpensively reproduced form letters to mult I glossy brochures to film present- dm The ml the in formation Agricultural office and will be glad to send toi We do not profess bo the subject matter v a broad spectrum of Canadian life On in desk at this moment are briefs from two different groups arguing that tighter gun controls are not necessary an expensive batch of colour briefs from the Government of British Columbia explaining their oil carrying railway proposal a plain but hard- nosed brief From the National farmers Union reacting to the federal budget and no less than seven other special Interest group represent ations COCKTAIL PARTUS hi Ihe last week cocktail parties were offered to the Members of Parliament by The Retail Council of Canada the Electronics Industries Association of Canada and he Canadian Consumer Loan Associ ation Over the last iwo weeks we have received Invitations to have dinner with the Canadian Bar Association Ihe Baltic Association of Canada and ihe same Electronics group just mentioned rate a fellow could become a fat alcoholic However with most members find little time to attend little more lhan a few of these events In any case they are considerably less exciting than they sound and very few exceptions play a small part In members thinking THING As for the mailed material unless I hove a prior interest in the subject I quickly read or at least skim everything sent to me Thus a short concise to the point present gets read and probably belter remembered Mail from the Hiding on the other hand must receive first attention Politicians arent all that dumb They usually know enough to feed the hand ihut doesnt bile them If you have a problem idea comment criticism or if simply wish to get in touch with me please stop by or coll my Riding office at lukeshurc Road East Oak- HUOJiJ perls on painting or cleaning up junk bill ho will bo more willing to assist you In problems of land or renovation of old plantings The deadline for contest entries Is April THE DISTRICT AT A OUNCE Few Psychiatric Patients Trafalgar Hospital is looking for another stuff to help handle the ease load at its psychiatric out patient clinic Visits the clinic have declined since Bow psychiatric department head took ill a Tew weeks ago Every effort is being made to obtain an assistant for Bow John Worrell of the hospitals medical staff told the hospitals ward of governors Tuesday We don t know the status his Bow health We feel he will be back but hes going to need more help Worrell said the intention is to hire a part time assistant Iatienl visits to the clinic were below ex pectations in Though visits were budgeted for only rie patients came to the seeking treatment Says Land Payment Too Low A County cheque for in payment for land required lor widening Emblcton Road west of Hut- Ion ville returned to the county by Stanley and Ellen as a protest against the land settlement price will be sent again to Mr Count council Tuesday agreed without comment to return cheque to the with an accompanying letter stating that land settlements are made In good faith by he county under individual circumstances and the county is not in a position to give further consideration to Ihe agreed settlement Mr Ilarncll relumed the cheque to the countys engineering department last month with a request lhat the settlement payment be increased compare with todays values He also enclosed a newspaper clipping in which land values of land along the proposed reconstruction route from west to the Sixth lane were listed at almost doubled in the past three years and current settlements were being made for land acquisitions the county on current valuations Introducing Bike Licenses ACTON Acton Council gave two readings to a bicycle bylaw Tuesday which would require all cyclists residing in the town to obtain a license for their bicycle from Ihe O P Cost of the license would be Police would provide a plate which must be affixed to the bicycle in same manner as plates are attached to cars The license is not transferable and If lost would cost owner Si for another It would be renewed May I each year expiring on April the following year Penalty Tor failure observe the bylaw would be Council decided act on a licensing by law following complaints about Irresponsible behaviour of cyclists last summer and fall Solve Subdivision Snags ERIN Erin Township Council has finally come to an agreement with Glendevon Enterprises concerning Ihe third phase of the subdivision At Mondays meeting March council passed a resolution adapting the draft plan of phase three and submitted the draft to Queens Park for its approval The developers must still enter Into a subdivision agreement with council but all points of contention seem to hove been solved for the time being Council agreed lo compromise on phasing At prior council did not want to allow occupancy of any of the homes in 197J Michael project engineer tola council that unless some homes could bo started in 1973 Ihe whole project would fall apart Budget Down By 100000 DUFFEHIN COUNTYThe 1973 County Budget is over 100000 lower than in The budget accepted by County Council on March fl shows the total expenditures as with the figure being a decrease of 13913 The budgeted expenditures of however are higher than in which was The proposed Revenue of is G9339 higher than in which was 205301 The expenditures minus revenue less a County surplus of debenture of loads and bridges of Home for the aged and Ihe Wellington Health Unit of left a Budget expenditure of CM which has to be raised by levy Gravel Pit Under Fire BRAMALEA The lour In gravel pit In Peel County and the second in Chinguacousy has now come under fire from more than residents The pit concerned belongs to Sand and Gravel of Toronto and Is situated on 81 acres between Modoc and Woods Ernie Martin of Woods representing 300 residents said they would surely be sending down a petition to natural resources minister Leo about closing the pit Spokesman for residents on Heart Lake Road McLaughlin could expect a demonstration over 1000 people lithe pit is allowed to carry on operations