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Georgetown Herald A Division of Canadian Newspapers Company Limited Main Street South Georgetown Ontario WALTIK BIEHN Page2 HERALD THURSDAY APRIL 12 1973 EDITORIAL COMMENT Theres Been Changes Every few years we used to review Georgetowns business area as it was when we first came to town in 1940 Its been some years since we did so and it would take some real head scratching to itemize every business as first glanced by a young newspaperman a stranger to town But doing our bestat total recall here Is one last review Starting on our side of Mam Street South Harry Chu had the Chinese restaurant There was an alcove for dancing and parties later changed into a small store now the Grass Shack Gallery The present Herald office was empty as we recall last occupied by a bake shop Next door was Readys to l Store managed by Clarence Bain Then Harold Clures Furniture store in one section of which was his funeral parlour Bill Kings butcher shop came next then Magloughlen s barber shop and poolroom ending with department store The Hotel included an empty store in the corner where Ernie Alcott had had a mens store Sienkos shoe reoair shop and MacCormacks Drugs Bell Canadas business office and switchboard was later remodelled into the Stedman store The Herald office now Henrys Clothing came next with the Misses millinery shop upstairs and Frank Watson dental office above the Bell Then came Dominion Stores Licatas fruit market with A Nielsens chiropractic office above beauty salon in which Bill Huff man also had a barber shop Long restaurant and bus stop and the Lee Sing laundry Silvers store has had several additions since those days and last was the old factory building with Prestons Fish Chip store in part of it Milk Products since torn down was the old suburban radial station originally And in what is now the Norton Building Norm Brown had his bakery Crossing the street Mackenzies lumber and coal company was in its present location up the side street with Sinclairs service station beside the municipal building In the next was Wright s meat market Hugh Lindsays radio shop Russell clothing store George Chong s Georgetown Cafe Dr J B Milne upstairs dental office Starting down from Wesleyan Street Garage was on the corner Walter Riggs flower shop then Carroll s food market Chapman drug store jewellery store Anthony s Hard ware Blackburn mens wear Robb s drug store Dr Jim Jackson s dental office up stairs and the Bank of Montreal The then Bank of Commerce was in its present location general store next s hard ware Jim groceteria Smiths shoe store Richardson s hardware and Farnell food store An older building now razed for a new block of stores was empty at the time as we recall The office moved in a few years later Up Mill Street from the Bank of Montreal corner was Elmer Thompson insurance office Dale Bennett s law office Ivan Hay s beauty parlour Muckart s and heating And down the Legion Hall Frank Golden had a barber shop and Ken McMillan a coal and wood business Buck s food store recently closed had a building next door where Dick had a small grocery store The Gregory Theatre was a popular spot down the street with Ken Langdon law office and Francis Beauty Salon in the same building then the post office and Dickenson corner store Maple Leaf Dairy was the present Stecns Dairy location The old Arnold Glove Factory on the far corner was empty then ThesiteofW Kentner and Son lumber and coal office was destroyed a fire a few years ago Reg Paul s home and medical office was further up the street And Ab Williams pool room was the side part of the Brill building There were a few other businesses here and there in town Scott Motors at the top of Mam Street hill with Alger Cnpps Ford agency across the way Mrs Loud s corner store at Main and Saunders grocery at Victoria and John Hill Store at King and Union and Mrs Arvilla Wright Exchange Hotel near the station The Armstrong father and son operated a highway garage still in the family Jack Cain had a garage on Victoria Street Art Speight s Georgetown Creamery and Motors were on the highway Claude Williams medical office and home were just down Mam Street and Dr Jim Bateman had his home and medical office on Market St Dr Learmonth was the veterinarian L McGiIvrav had a sheet metal shop on John St And the Barber Floral Company was opposite Hill s Store on King Street Dominion Seed House had a popular retail outlet in its building then too In the Mall Bag Tell Us the Advantage of Halton Region It 1 Terra Colta Dear Sir Last week reported that Georgetown favoured moving the boundary of the Halton Region one at cast so that all of Terra Cotla would be included in And today on editorial page you advocate this change and slate that it would be to the benefit of the residents I would point out that the greater pirt of Terra old is at present in and so far as I know ihe question of joining Hilton has never been discussed with the residents Moreover hat the id vantages would be to us I have no idea It is tint I look to Georgetown or shopping and I prefer to lie of the Peel region part of those for the future of the Hilton He won to tell us if idvinl ikts in i wi join llicm This photo by PIONEER STUDY in which Pioneer Village provided the subjects Nuk is a student it Dumber under Iter photographer ECHOES 10 SCOUTS enjoyed Tried chicken during a weekend when ihey and their leaders spent rnday night and day it their campsite near Terra Cold There was just one catch to the fried chicken however the had to start yvilh live chickens hill pluck clean and git them ready to cook Tins was pirt of a test they to pass They also hiking and using their tricking knowledge to rot it down the enemy patrol MOTION WHICH would dose hi town park to vehicles except on big days such as the ill Fair was withdrawn for further study 13 I- fingers crossed In hope that there no recurrence of the jus record number of griss fires that si ison The answered four tails I fires th it week however none them up iliem im equipment in draw conducted and Hunters I ivmcstoni The at sot afternoon on I 19 the issouatlon s clubhouse Hickory falls rekardink an extension of Charles Street which is being made thru to Street said he like i pinion how it should be property he sijs elaims the roid is being made too high and loo much fill will Ik needed to put building lots in proper shape did not think he road should be up higher than the nimiei 1 idsons is it would only trap water OMIT NT was for it 11 to im eonsidcnng Hit bylaw if the Municipal Corporation of hi Town of to thange the name of street to Avenue and fur idiot and opposing the which he made Sircenl said is no pro in till Municipil for I by to force sub tost of st nuts when sell property is a mutter of policy ninth have been to cnmpllsh the sunt wink Toronto unship a bargain with in dividual HI- VIP W of Walt Disney movie in The Herald IJ11 Tlie beautiful is well as the most mature of Wall Disney s fi pro luetic la ft uses the the Woods at all the varying of the to tell Hit ippeahng story f birth lift lovt pnnn tragedy of hi Die Muni deep win Is I were secured i skdtbnt photographing tup the It is It which was photikr in Multiplane V Hie Herald in riounced tin in less than weeks the Kiln tin was in be I ited by he people of Dial Job the raising of KM mo the fourth victory lo in ll was i tremendous job that faced the loinmniiKv and to of very w is r it the tools of w ir would be supplied he boys on the publish I conetrning I HI rations that you have your IJ1 gasoline ration Ixn k it if up it all times in safe place If it is lost stolen you will be deprived which will not he In the Malt Bag Suggests Collection Bins for Glass Tin lllll inly to save en virdimtut by papers i the ind joined to I now horror struck to that I to be inntxed to Ihllon Vi bottles fur seems such wish time imemlcrof fiinilv said to me he seniu I in do 1 mikes if its vwrlh rouble Kill here re Mill lot of people hurt win do believe tiny don t know wiierc to It to Some of us take these hick to Ihe factories some is Li my but id rips ire being whereas if disposnl bin were up in the west and ist end of own the pass would while on i trip 1 1 he either or lib then leklv Hie inker t of of IT WOULDNT BE SO BAD IF I WERE ONLY COUNTING SHEEP Is mldum ind with our rising UK buildings wi e in jusiifv this cost rttjthnf will o in accepted In and other areas much snialltr thin ours the lias stepped in and the sale of no dtpisit no return hollies llus in i lie If is in indication that reciclink or returning It for refund and not simply economical In long run kcl kduK here in ind for once he ahead the situation If disposal bin is the majority our concerned citizens will make use of and therefore encourage others to do the same I mdiWinterburn Member of St Ctt eorLilown Council Mr Morrow ltd I 1 BILL SMILEY They Think Bills A Rich Tourist Any day now it will be cheaper to fly to Europe and back than it Is spend a couple of days in Ihe city Air fares are coming down as rapidly city prices are taking off This was borne home to as they say during a recent brief visit to Ihc Big Smoke And I don t mean New York Just an ordinary Canadian city in the true north strong but far from free Our relatives always kindly invite us to stay with them but we visit Ihe bright lights so seldom that we Ihrow caution to the wind let ourselves go deliberately decadent and plunge for the hotel room and all the extras It used to be grand feeling checking in at the hole just like the rich people tossing the bell hop half a dollar as though you did it every day walking into the luxurious room and turning up heat and to hell with the fuel hill picking up the phone to call room service and loftily asking the Old Lady Wonder what the poor people ire doing today Hut that semi annual plunge is no looker into a warm bath of unaccustomed luxury like a dive off the town dock just after the ice has gone out of the bay Not refreshing jusl Things have changed Now there a car jockey o park your cor He can open he door with one hand and hold the like professional beggar alcutta Next is doorman If you have one small bag he there taking It from you with one hand and blonde totter across the capacious lobby and the bellhop relievos you of your Just before you collapse m front of desk There one think hat changed the room lies is snotty as he was ago in every and every country think he as he looks down his nose at your overcoat with the frayed cuffs jnd your big rubber boots which you wore from the country poor in who I have rtservidon He is the dissert for the mtal of his titular f hyena Someday when I im old enoukh ind I haven t hid my kicks on lonk time ind I driven hundred ind room clerk smirks a mi Sorry thing I m komg pull a gun shoot him right between his mein little tyes And I think a good lawyer with in dcrstanding jury would mi off free Next in the kauuttel i the liellboy He docsn luj your bags and sweat He slings them onto carl withaflounsh Hit old time dollir He Inblt to hand It hock with a nourish and snarl Here I think you need it more th in I do lit s probably right old before you flop on the bed don check the room rotes on the hack of door w flop voull swoon Holy Old must be in the wrong room or yvm you Hit Trudeiu suite your head look around the room make sure thai old room SIR for Same woman the tag i- This is not the time o say Oh well In for a penny in for a pound You know what happened to the pound Your dollar is suffering the shrinking Dazedly you toll room service order some ict and if you re yau II tell them dan want It ransportcd by air he Winter 1alace in St Petersburg It even though it will take as long tost as much Din order klasscs They cost you more than a pair at your favourite optometrist Drink out of hands is did when I i REPRINTS OF MOST PHOTO APPEARING IN THE HERALD be order at mult accompany your or to proceu ng to be picked up Her Id Oil If your wife has a yen for something sweet when you get back from he theatre or whatever don t call room service and order trench and coffee Two sad ittle pieces of stale Christmas cake or something and a jug of coffee will set you back four bucks plus tip Take a chocolate bar with you instead Don go to Ihe theatre in the first place We took our daughter and her husband to a show Four tickets New York wouldn have the Don cat out Dinner for four moderate restaurant with one cocktail can run from to Plus the inevitable you know what The only result is a nagging feeling which may be gastritis or your ancestors ghosts you in the stomach I- 1 rial disillusion I always spring for a shoe shine It seems a reasonable luxury as it sane of two or three limes a year my brogues gel brush Went for it this lime Halfway through I realized the poor shining my shoes was retarded I decided to help in my small way I had my quarter ready but changed it for a fiftycent piece Gave it to him feeling sort of warm inside He pointed to a sign behind my head It rend Shocshlnea It was then I realized of us was retarded as I fished for another two bits Established Advertising Manager Accountant Anne Currle William Amott Valerie Caruso David Hastings John Joan Davis Joyce VanDelinder CARRIER CIRCULATION THE DISTRICT AT A GLANCE Advises Shopping Mall Restrictions BRAMPTON Further expansion or construction of new malls in central planning area of Brampton should be restricted to town planner Leonard Lame This should be done to encourage redevelopment of downtown core ho told a public meeting It w as the fifth and last meeting in a scries being held to explain details of the Brampton official plan In various sectors of Brampton Held at Centra public school it drew more than people residing m Ihe Brampton central planning district The central planning district which Includes Ihe downtown core Is bound by the watershed on the east McMurthy Acnue3ndtheCPR way in the west and and Clarence to the Population of central Planning district estimated at will increase to li in full development said Mr Lainc Hold Tax Line Despite Arena ILLb The Orangcville mill rate will remain steady for 1973 Orankcvillo Town Council struck the mill rate for this year at for residential for Commercial at an meeting These rates ire constant with those set in Total budgeted expenditures for are set at as compared within actual expenditure in of SI Mayor Victor Urge said even though they were able to hold he line taxation wise they were still faced with over Increase In total expenditure He cited the new arena costs as the major actor He said it was his hope that during the year the town could continue upgrade all services in the community Bus Service Starting Soon MILTON Milton full scale bus service Is to go into operation April was told recently Council approved a by law authorizing agreement on which ratepayers voted favorably in December 1972 Administration committee minutes of previous week indicated the bus service had been operating on a reduced basis since the first of the year Mr and Mrs told the committee they had covered proximaltly miles per day four days per week They suggested consider granting them financial assistance of far this service Residents Opposed to Speedway HUN Hon White appeared before Township Council on behalf of recently request a licence to re open Acton Speedwiy just south of Ospnngc on Highway Shortly before council 15 nearby residents opposing the application Reason fof the opposition were cited as noise traffic problems parking on the side of Highway dust and general intrusion on day off Reeve I Inyd Iing told council that while the track was In operation there were few complaints He added that it was there long before zoning bylaws were thought of and existed as a Half he residents had moved in before the track was opened and half after Believe Four Foxes Rabid Authorities are advising local dog owners to have their pets against rabies following an outbreak of rabid foxes in Burlington last week four foxes believed to be rabid hove been seen in the Kilbride area in the past few weeks and one of them was shot by a policeman near Kilbride School one morning two weeks ago Constable John Gibbons of Burlington Police was called lo the area after Mrs spotted the fox at her back door The fox headed towards he school and Constable Gibbons gave chase through a field with his cruiser When the cruiser got stuck In mud he ran after the and killed It with his revolver about yards from school Several youngsters were playing nearby Three Charged After Thefts between March and someone stole a 1971 boat trailer from Aquarian Boats and Products united Last The trailer was valued at states the OIP detach merit in its weekly report Two torches and three cutting tips were stolen from a far mer shed in Township sometime during the week Provincial Constable Isoseworthy is investigating this theft As a result of a routine check on March by Provincial Constable Wiles three men have been charged with possession Village Gets Seniors Units The villnge of Lost has received ipproval from Ontario Housing Corporation for construction of 15 senior citizens apartment units according to Reeve Gerry Proctor east had a survey conducted sometime ago that according to the reeve dldn go over too well Councils persistence resulted In a second survey which indicated the need for the units An apartment block will be built in the village but no ditt forslorlof construction has been set Proctor said he estimates it least a year before the first sod is turned are mov ink as fast is possible on it I said It Was Error Filled WeekEnd iill group of air cadets 758 squadron arc home after stumbling through an error filled weekend trip to Montreal The of errors began Friday night when a bus chartered to like the boys and three officers for a citizenship tour of the tin never showed up A quick call to Downs view Canadian revealed that no one knew of such a bus About two hours later a bus was acquired from a Gait bus company and the roup was off for a while anyway Near the group stopped it a roadside restaurant and returned to Ihc bus to find that the door had fallen off Repairs were Improvised quickly and the bus was off again with the boys taking turns holding the door on with a belt Soon bus and its occupants arrived at CFB Trenton where arrangements had been made for an overnight stay except someone had neglected to tell officials at the base This was a sample of more to come Extend to AC ON People In this area will have a new route to the north soon according to announcement made jointing by John Root and Gordon Carton Minister of will be extended from to connect with Highway The province w ill assume the road In April The new section of llikhwav ill start at Highway 24 and link up with Highway about midway between Mount Forest nd Mr Root salt the highway would benefit the whole area and tourists travelling north will be able to go through some of the most bea utiful parts of 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