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BILL SMJLEY Georgetown Herald Is Broadening Before You Ever Leave Home A Division of Canadian Newspapers Company Limited Main Streat South Georgetown Ontario RICHARD CAMERON Publisher Page GEORGETOWN HERALD THURSDAY AUG 1973 Big Business Regional Council Pay Not much public attention seems to be paid to the fast- approaching election for regional government In North Halton One point that probably hasnt crossed many minds is the question of stipends or salaries for elected officials This point is going to be raised quickly on or immediately after the election Regional government is big business so electors in North Halton had better prepare them selves for substantial pay schedules for their elected representatives It isnt possible to predict now what pay scales may be set but it Is possible to predict that the political workload Is going to be greater under Thus it stands to reason that municipal politicians are going to be realistic in their appraisal of stipends and they can be expected to act accordingly This is not to say of course that we expect our politicians to delve deeply into municipal funds for their own benefit but we do expect them to want and to get financial reward that reflects their political involvement At the same time we expect the voters to elect the best persons for the job to get their moneys worth all the way around Political service can be an expensive business as many politicians or wouldbe politicians nave learned at the municipal level Such public service may appear to be glamorous but ft often results in long hours of meetings many outofpocket expenses and a financial return that rarely measures up Nominations Draw Nearer Continuing on with regional government nomination forms will be available soon for selection of candidates in North Georgetown Acton and No nomination meeting will be held The provincial government has laid down the rules and regulations and nominations for the Oct 1 vote will consist of paperwork Nomination forms and in formation will have to be filed at town and township offices Responsibility for correct nomination papers lies with the candidates Newspaper advertisements will be appearing outlining the procedure for nomination As well hours of nomination will be listed Electors In North Halton will have to choose a mayor who will be elected at large four regional- nayot foul area councillors and eight area councillors Nominations will also be held for the divisional board of education and the separate school board The election is close so close that It will be here and gone before the leaves fall from the trees in the fall It is of growing importance that voters in North Halton start giving the matter of regional government some serious thought and to decide now who they want to represent them They have to provide the nominations and then choose those who will serve Several persons already have announced their intentions to seek nominations Voter interest must rise as nomination time draws near Sidewalk Sale Charming Shopping malls on downtown streets are interesting places Georgetown held a successful one last week to mark George Kennedy days A sidewalk sale was in progress for three days on two blocks of Main Street where barricades kept cars out but allowed people in Some observations come to mind The sale was popular with people who liked the freedom to peruse and browse along the street without interference from cars But these same shoppers insisted on driving to the sale and parking areas in the perimeter of the weekend mall were crowded Portions of the street mall were a little more popular than others depending on what mer chants did to attract visitors The more that was offered the busier the area Malls are popular with thieves as well as shoppers Some pilfering was reported and even some decorative trees disappeared All in all it a busy and colorful tribute to the Kennedy name Shoppers apparently like the hum of a market scene of which the mall was reminiscent and the sidewalk sale committee judged the popularity well As a continuing feature such sidewalk sales have a flavor all of their own 10 YKAItS AGO Days of musical glory returned to Georgetown when the citizens band placed second In class three competitions at the Canadian National Exhibition It was the first time In many years that Georgetown was represented in the competitions A band tram Delhi placed first The Georgetown second place finish was worth to the band Georgetown bandmaster Art Milliard credited a high school music course with providing the incentive for many young persons to take a more serious interest in band music Band president was Clyde Stewart Ray or turned his hobby into a profit when he opened the Credit River Boat Co His son Bill turned his attention to boats fulltime and the company began producing approximately IB craft from 11 to feet in length each year Merchants in the Del rex Market Centre agitated for Thursday night business hours At Wilson Beamish store manager who presented a petition to council said surveys had shown Georgetown was losing business because residents were going elsewhere to shop His group asked for a closing bylaw amendment lhat would permit business hours to m Thur sday in ward three Mayor Em Hyde promised action on the petition YEARS AGO A graduate of Georgetown High School where his brother J Lambert was serving as principal was appointed Elate veterinarian of Virginia Dr George Lambert spent a year on the staff or Ontario Veterinary College after receiving his degree He had his own practice In Lake Mills Wis until joining he Virginia stale veterinary staff at Warren ton His new position look him Richmond Manager Bill Leslie of the Theatre donated the theatre for a special presentation The Stars Are Singing to launch a campaign to collect subscriptions for a municipal swimming Kenneth Harrison was director for the program Mayor Jack Armstrong was chosen be master ceremonies Bill of Normandy Boulevard received the shield awarded to the best til D Company during summer camp He narrowly receiving the governorgenerals medal which Is awarded to the best cadet In tamp A second son Bud stationed with the bird Horse Regiment at Calgary was injured when an army truck overturned A classified advertisement In the Herald offered 13fl acres of land 22 acres sown in a well large barn and a nine room two storey house all for Hi MIS In the midst if the World War rdirgetown Fair Board completed plans for the annual Despite limitations prompted by a nation geared I a war fooling the fair organizers promised to make it me of the best in the history its sponsor Agricultural Board president this year was Craig Held with first vice president J Alexander second vice president treasurer Cleave and secretory Garfield A frequent visitor at the home oi his parents Rev Mrs Charles Williams while his father was minister at the United Church In village was Edward B leader or the Ontario CCF parl known to many local residents At the time his father was in Williams the future politicians was practising law in Toronto A brother and sister Paul and Frances attended high school in Georgetown from 1937 to British War Victims Fund was enriched by more than WOO when the postponed Community Garden Party was held at Hornby The party was the home of J L Local talent with some assistance from Milton provided the entertainment As the fighting in Sicily drew to a close Georgetown area residents were relieved that only one casualty among the Allied forces struck close to home Gordon Sutherland or was wounded by shrapnel while leading a charge and he was evacuated to a ho pi In I ship from the battle zone Two other Georgetown men solving in the same war zone were Karl Wilcox and Ed Shnrtlll My wife cannot understand why anyone wants to travel when he can sit his own backyard and commune with the gods Im beginning to agree with her Getting ready la kind of a pain in the arm If you must have a vaccination Obtaining a passport sounds easy Heck Its more trouble thon getting married or dying All you have to do is fill form The form is slightly more complicated than your Income tax form Then you must find someone who will swear that you are who you say you are This person is called a guarantor and can be practically anyone except your neighbor Then you must obtain a birth certificate This is fairly simple if you know where you were born If you You must have passport photos taken You cant Just use an old snapshot In which you look your best Passport photos are an old joke They turned out well We didnt pose for them because we knew they be gruesome so they came out relaxed Besides passports and birth certificates there Is a myriad of other pother to look after and you could use a full time clerk for a week two Air tickets money arrangements hotel reservations and whos going to feed the cat A travel agent is almost a must in these days when half the world seems lo be on the move He or she can smooth a lot of wrinkles and give valuable tips on how to win at least the occasional round In the game Many people go to big agencies in the city My ravel a Bent a personable local chap couldnt have been more helpful and efficient Aside to Bill everything by golly hod better be right after that He told me something about air fares lhat Is almost unbelievable A return ticket the can run all the way from Christmas charter at to regular night at under I wo weeks I shudder to think what a first class ticket would cost In Ihe latter category or course a business man can write off the 626 as expenses and to the little old lady going back far a visit after fifty years that special might represent of scrimping Even so something smells in the discrepancy Travelling is not cheap unless you want to swim across which Ive a couple of times as the bills mount Only I havent developed Ihe idea is that my wife is a good swimmer but only for a bout thirty yards Id hate to sec her go down thirty yards off the Halifax docks and have to do all the rest on my own with nobody to tell me was steering the wrong before we even left the house Air ticket photo 3 passport 10 birth Britrall ass 70 Those are Just the aslcs Multiply by two if youre a couple Then there are the ever- present extras new clothes expenses to get to city to get passports and the Inevitable sundries too numerous to On fa Wo Scene mention as Ihe auction sate ads put it Thais before you get on the plane You still have to cat and sleep for three weeks alter you get there However Ive cut the whole thing down quite a bit by cancelling our two dally paper deliveries for three weeks Saved about riant there Our pass allows us to go anywhere in the UK may come in handy We may be riding trains all night every night to save hotel bills Ana we re taking along an eight pound salami ana six loaves of bread so we come through 1 have a vague idea this column will not go down as me of the greatest pieces exotic travel literature ever written But Is a little hectic around here Six hours tc takeoff my wife is just starting to pack I have to go down and sell my soul to the bank manager get up to the school and look after some Items for September see young Wilson next door about feeding the cat call the boy about mowing the lawn pick up drycleaning get books back to the library and somehow in there try to haveasnowerandshave We might make It bur 1 woman t bet higher than even money Ill try to do better next week when youll have a despatch from The Nags Head Middle Wallop England Feasibilty Study Begun Into Watts From Garbage THE SHRINKING HAMMOCK QUEENS PARK Find Foreign Ownership Is Often Not All Bad ECHOES FROM THE PAST byDOMVHKAHN queen Park Bureau The Herald In these times when we hear so much about U S ownership of our industry and of the many evils his infers and when foreign ownership ranks as one of the countrys Central Canada sector at leas main Numbers Up At Sheridan More than J00 full time day students are expected to register at Sheridan College in September a to per cent increase above last year said Dean John Bromley He tofd the Sheridan board of governors that will be new students and the remainder will be returning second and third year students Confirmations students who pay a 35 deposit are up per cent from Bromley termed the enrolment projection a very encouraging and well beyond the budgeted figures Each division there are nine post secondary areas is projecting an Increase In registered students The projection excludes the school of nursing which transfers lo Sheridan feclive Sept 1 Another students are expected to enrol at the Credit Valley Campus of whom will be new registrants Registration will be held at the respective daytime campuses during the week of Sept Divisional college representatives members of the Registrars Office and college counsellors will be on hand to assist new students with program selections In order handle the additional students this year a number of portable classrooms have been added to the campuses arid rcnovollons are under way to provide classroom space Sheridan President John Porter said the college can handle student in crease this year but In 1974 a significant decision would have to be made regarding addltionnl space A story which illustrates that all foreign ownership is not all had just because it comes from outside the country And that foreign owned or controlled companies can be corporate citizens The Ontario Paper Company is owned in the S by the Tribune Com pnny of Chicago and sup piles newsprint to the Tribune New York News and the Fort Sentinel Star and other Florida newspapers You have noticed a little news item a few days ago reporting that a three year million pollution abatement In the companys plant at was com pletcd with the opening of a million chemical plant The 9 million is a graphic illustration of the extent of the money is being poured Into pollution control today by industry And in mind here Is not the money being spent after government directives bill the spending being un dertaken voluntarily It is a massive amount However that isnt the The story Is that when Ihe hoard or directors of Ontario Paper had to consider this expenditure had to Telephone GARFIELD Production Manager TERRY News Editor Advertising Manager BRADLEY Accountant Anne Bob Graves Valeric Caruso David Hastings John McClemenls Mara Nelson Mi mill Mrs decide even net her they should keep this area mill open The plant is now old was opened years ago in 1913 not near the sources of its r A prime wtod source at in Quebec has been cut off for manufacture outside that province by on edict of Its provincial government The remaining source is in Northern Ontario lop of these two short comings all the companys transportation now has la be by roil The wood comes in by rail and the paper is shipped out by roll Former advantages of shipping by water dont exist There was sound agreement it would be gooA Environment minister James Auld week released the Interim report of his study team on the utilization of specially prepared refuse as a fuel in power generating stations The team on Watts from Waste was headed by Tony who Is currently serving In a consulting capacity to the ministry of the environment The study team consisted or representatives from Metropolitan Torontos works department the air and waste managemenl branches of the ministry Mlsslssaugas engineering department and Ontario Hydro One of the key recom mendatlons in the report was that a feasibility study should be initiated Mr Auld an nounced the appointment of the consulting engineering firm of Horner and Shifrln of St Louis Mo to conduct the study along with Canadian associates They will work tinsel with the ministry study team and will submit the report by Oct Mr Auld Lost Job Time Up In Ontario Labor Minister Fern says lhat time lost due to work stoppages during the first six months of the year increased slightly over the same penotf of 1972 although the number of work stoppages remained almost constant and the number of workers involved decreased Discussing a preliminary repnrt prepared by research branch of the Ontario Ministry of Labor on collective bargaining In the province he said one of the bright areas on he Industrial relations scene was the favorable progress being made In the negotiations in the construction Industry Mr Gumdnn said that although this was one of the heaviest years for negotiations in construction a large majority of the agreements had been reached with only minor work stoppages He said a few agreements remain be worked out economics to build a new mill closer to the raw wood sources But there are 1400 em ployces at the Thorold mill They and heir families and the town itself are dependent on It The great portion of them have grown up In he company And company officials say Ihls was the decisive point They could not be a ban doned So plant will continue operate They also say frankly and presumably quite honestly that plant will not be a money maker and Is still a gamble if it will be economic But as a good corporate citizen the gamble is being taken The program will be under The direction of the ministry in operation with the other members of the team Funding or the construction and operation of this enterprise will be worked out at the same time as the feasibility study is being prepared Mr Auld said the feasibility study to cost no more than 24 be the first step and could lead to detailed design plans by June 1974 and construction completion by Ihe end of 1975 The final size actual location of such a plant would have decided upon after receipt of the feasibility study report It is generally agreed by members of the study team lhat the capacity of the plant v mid be In neighborhood of 1 metric Ions per day and location would be in the Mr that not only will the project cover the utilization of specially prepared waste as a fuel but It will also deal a large degree with the recovery of paper metals and glass In this respect he should be noted that proposed plant would be he largest recycling system un dertaken anywhere to date Mr referred his speech in March of this year where he announced that the utilization of waste as an energy source was one of the prime objectives of his ministry I believe this feasibility study is Ihe first step In achieving this objective and I am pleased with the com prehensive report presented by the study team he said READERS FORUM Thief Got Tree Bargain In Downtown Mall Sir This is on open letter to a tree thief We the downtown chants of Georgetown when planning our sidewalk sale decided It would be very nice and decorative If we put evergreen trees on Main Street In fact we obtained 20 of You Mr Tree Thief ap pa rent ly thought were too many so you stole two them Perhaps you call it borrowing permanent borrowing After all a tree is a thing of beauty and can be enjoyed by all even though It may be on someone else property Therefore Mr Thief it is consoling to think that our trees ones you stole will be enjoyed by others besides En self Your honest neigh for Instance who seeing them fresh In your garden at this time of year not a normal time for planting will ask Did you gel a good buy So Mr Thief have the courage of your convictions and tell them where you got them and admit that the now your garden are the cheapest you can get anywhere You CAN get bargains in downtown Charles Crimes Chairman Sidewalk Bale committee Flyers Placed on Cars Said Pollution Source Sir One recently 1 was doing some shopping at the Georgetown Market Centre when I noticed sheets of yellow paper on he windshields of cars in the parking lot I sow several people remove the papers read them and Ihrow them to the ground Littering is one of the worst forms of pollution and the shopping I re often has litter In abundance without adding more The flyer put by the Georgetown Chrysler dealership on Road was advertising a special deal inviting potential customers to call Coll in 1 did but not as a customer After spending several minutes talking to the salesman Involved nothing was resolved He said he fell he was not responsible for people who were tittering with his advertising He said Hint if he were delivered door to door he wouldnt be reaching the car owners only the home Does that reasoning seem valid to you It certainly doesnt to me I realize they have product to sell and they have every right to advertise it only question the means And the people who threw flyers on the ground shouldnt go unscathed you lltterbugs nut there the best pollution control device is the garbage can Why not use It the next lime Honey Pollution Probe Member Georgetown THE SETTLERS BEST FRIEND Oxen were backbone or farm life in confcdcratlon rural Ontario Hauling wood pulling a plow and carting grain arc nil part if a days work for Buck and led by Jack Cowan livestock man at Black Creek Pioneer Village These beasts of burden are real attention getters Willi sight seers to living outdoor museum complex Black Creek administered by the Metropolitan Toronto and Region Conservation Authority It Street and iKirthwtttM