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THE HERALD Home Newspaper of Georgetown Acton and A Division of Canadian Newspapers Company Limited Wain Street SoOth Georgetown Ontario RICHARD CAMERON Publisher THE HERALD Wednesday November pa fie SAVING ENERGY Its A Matter of Dollars Last week The Herald carried an editorial about the wise use of energy resources Several suggestions have come in from readers Halton Hills must have a large percentage of technically minded people how more energy can be conserved on a long term basis without undue hardship At the same time there can be a dollar saving Most of the suggestions deal with electrical energy which in Ontario takes a lot of fossil fuels to produce besides water Use high watt ordinary light bulbs rather than low watt long life bulbs One lOOwatt bulb produces more light about 1 lumens than two 60 watt bulbs about lumens each And ordinary bulbs are more efficient than long life Costliest of all items to operate in the home is the hot water heater If costs seem high ask your utility or question neighbors about their costs The problem may be an old tank with worn out insulation Many heaters in homes are guaranteed only five years Newer models are more efficient and are guaranteed 10 years You can cut costs also by avoiding overheating and by careful use of clothes washers and dishwashers Another big eater of fuel gas or electricity is the cooking range You can save by using the oven for more than one cooking purpose at a time and don open the oven door unnecessarily Twenty per cent of the heat is lost each time Shine reflective surfaces beneath heating elements but don t polish pan bottoms Use your clothes washer spin dry cycle to remove excess water from clothes and don t clothing With refrigerators you can save money by manually defrosting Fully frost free models cost almost twice as much operate as those that are frost free only in the refrigerator section It nice to know that many of our readers in Hills are energy conscious and we re glad to pass along these suggestions to all of them Big Stake in Your Life Do you drive a motor vehicle There are more than licenced drivers in Canada Safe Driving Week sponsored every year at this time by the Canada Safety Council is an attempt to alert Canadian drivers to the traffic accident problem These drivers are involved in a half million traffic accidents in one year As a result of these accidents over 200000 people are badly in in one year Still worse close to people are killed in one year Because they hold current drivers licences these people arc considered to be qualified for the driving task It is taken for granted that they know all about the methods of controlling a vehicle that is to say how to go forward go back turn and stop These procedures might be called the mechanics of driving to which are added of course all the rules and regulations governing such movement Upon receiving a licence far too many drivers lull themselves into a belief that they can compete in today s traffic environment But can they There is a useful analogy that can be used to make a point here A professional athlete acquires that status after many years of learning a great deal about his specialty under many instructors in many different places and under increasingly demanding con ditiont What does our professional athlete do after he has arrived He still practices practices the fun damentals of his trade Why Because he knows that he must remain perfectly conditioned for the demands being made upon him that he must do all the right things instinctively every time or sooner or later his ability v ill diminish and his professional status will suffer The driving task is no different from this and is even more at stake Your life Old Dogs But New Tricks Another myth has bit the dust old dogs tan learn new tricks John W Taylor Pittsburgh executive development expert says the only thing holding oldsters back ia negative attitudes and failure to try Taylor blasts the notion that creativity and the ability to acquire new skills dimmish rapidly after middle age On the contrary the capacity to think learn and innovate continues to grow Even learning rates don t slip until long past And then the rate shrinks a minisculeone half of one per cent a year until it reaches the level it was at age 16 Tests show lhat the scope and range of life exposure enables the older worker to more easily avoid fads and pitfalls thai entrap the young The mature person s rich background of experience is especially useful in the field of creative problem solving Contrast this with the short attention span preoccupation with status and advancement proclivity for re inventing the and grasshopper pursuits of the young Proof Jules Verne produced his more imaginative stories at George Bernard Shaw won the Nobel Prize near Winston Churchill directed a war in his seventies Voltaire did his best philosophical work between and Konrad Adenauer was of West Germany from to Kenatta they say is past the dying ige and so for that are Chairman Mao and Premier Lai More thin per cent of the world s great achievements have been produced b people over YF Al William Smith announced thai a public meeting was planned where citizens could gather to express ideas or a municipal birthday celebration Coun Smith had been appointed chairman of the Centennial plan observance of the community lOOlh William Carr of the Georgetown Public School Board was named board representative o Ihe district high school board He replaced a former chairman Fred Masterman who left the for Vancouver Coun George Currie of Township waa named township representative at a meeting In Milton discuss proposed amalgamation of Six teen and Twelve Mile Creek Conservation Authorities Vandals attacked the community playground adjoining the Community Swimming Pool and damage was estimated al Arena manager Don Gosling spotted the damage during a park Inspection Seven Provincial Mill employees qualified lor membership in the com Quarter Century Club They were Jim Dobble Ivan Crab tree Norm Mar Floyd Ward Norton Jack Hooper and Bert Tuck AGO It was a happy day for Mr and Mrs Don Parker when Mrs Parker six yearold daughter Margaret arrived from The little girl crossed the Atlantic by plane and was met at Malton Airport READERS FORUM Reader Says He Supports Boycott of Table Grapes and Nell Benton received Niver iate Never Absent certificates for S3 from Lakeside chapter Acton High School commencement exercises The two at tended Aclon school from Lime house After a season Tern Inn proprietors Mr and Mrs Ham closed up shop and departed for a six week visit England Expansion work was planned to begin while were Reeve Kenneth serving 10 tears on louncil announced he did not plan to seek re election in the December municipal vote George was awarded pionship trip to Chicago in Achievement for farmers after two of service in Gcrmanv with Highlanders was Jim Gordon of Annie Enow Jean Given and Frances Given placed first second and third respectively In a Junior home garden brigades contest Webster of Alton was first In the senior division Mayor Joseph Gibbons announced in a letter to The Herald that hi planned to reilre from political lite But he promised to maintain his In civic affairs is a private citizen A comment in Notes was made that four nice support wire being or foro room table because the way Harold Sua I ford and Saxon Chapman pound on the tables playing euchre reinforcement ore si ON THE WATERGATE BILL SMILEY Canadian Winters Making Us Madmen Canadians take perverse pleasure I 11 swear in the perversity of their country Give Ihem a sunny open winter an we had last year and they scowl Yeah a Rood winter bul well probably have a cold wet summer G a beautiful hot dry summer as we had this year and ihcy grumble We need ram Country sail dried up It likely rainall fall Give Ihem a line warm sunny fall us c had this year and hint darkly Sup but well pay font Hi l the shovel And when finally docs begin to snow and blow as it has around here without tease for past thirty hours Ihire a sort of weird pride in the remarks Well expect Haven even got muh snow lires on But I got the snowmobile all luned up Tumble about ECHOES FROM THE PAST UP There no increase In oil unfortunately only in oil prices This winter we may go back as a nation to long johns with collapsible scats There sort of obscene triumph in the way your average Canadian stomps in nut of ihe first or the vear hacking Suiting running the nose roars cheerfully a torker Looks like wi re Weatherman ihircs norc coming Indians gonna be the worst winter in in indless series of get this morning never thought I d make Ihe hill chuckling with pride t iven got damned storm on This wirpid and diabolic in face of whit is bound Io be one of most rushing possible for five months or stork staring winter makes New Offices Are Opened of offices In com of senior slaff hove been announced for the me shudder for the sanity of my compatriots Pakistanis and West In dians who shiver and turn purple every day months must think nation of madmen when first arrive in Canada arc among moat vulnerable people in the world when comes to the vagaries of nature And I am one of most vulnerable people Canada when It comes to winter 1 hate it and it hates me There arc some people who love winter Rotten little kids for example They Ihe first snow sheer delight roll around In it and the more it snows the happier they are I can scarce forbear from belling them when they chortle Wow Wasn t thai a dandy snow Mr Smiley And then there are the winter sports idiots When the skiers and the snow mob Hers look out the window and croon Just look at that lovely white stud I could kick them in ihe groin without com punctlon HURTS On the other hand there are the elderly Winter is almost literally murder for them No gardening no flowers nn gentle walks In the sunshine Instead it mean holing up with Ihe iver present spectre of pneumonia or a slip on Icy streets and a broken hip or Just the long savage nights and the short bleak days Nol much fun then are the ordinary sensible people like me We know lhat winter is a vicious brute with as QUEEN S PARK much of the quality of mercy in it as here was in Attlla the Hun Take curling It Is my only winter outlet aside from shovelling snow and scraping off the wind shield with my fingernails and cursing winter Last night after taking a year off the curling with a broken toe I returned to Ihe game Early November Looked forward to a pleasant game Good weather good skip Had io curl nine p m instead of seven Drove to Ihe rink In a Nearly cracked up on the ice in Die parking lot Lost the game Got home at midnight every bone In my body screaming Rape Take my leaves There arc four inches or oak leaves in the back yard covered by dit inches of frozen snow My lawn chairs are still out looking like forlorn relics of an ice age And my storm windows aren I on This is the mosl unkindesl cut of all And don t think my wife t culling me up about it Most unkindly A politically astute political party which wishes to perpetuate Itself in per as it were would introduce a bill In parliament packing all the old people and the sensible people off to South Africa or somewhere every winter The savings In fuel alone in these energycrisis days would pay for the Jaunt Leave the whole barren waste to the kids and the winter sports fiends And let THEM pay the taxes for a change Conflict Builds Over Oil and Gas minister James Snow says that accommodation for the commission miin office has been leased 12 Si in Georgetown Sub ifficcs will be established In and Clarksburg of James Gilbert formerlv with the of the environment as planning director and Walter vlth the midu item development information officer was announced chairman George II of member commission was announced Premier William Davis on Nov and held its inaugural meeting in Toronto following lav eon frontatlon wllh over nil and gas is building up as potentially perhaps the most important the country has had since confederation or once in long of conflict between the provinces and the federal government the background of lye issue Is clearcut and well spelled The BNA Act gives rights to resources to ihe provinces And il gives responsibility to extra provincial commerce to Ottawa This is nol health Or education where the con dilution gives responsibility to the provinces but where Ottawa can ease into the fields through the backdoor of giving assistance This is matter of fact Control over the oil and gas which the country needs Is vested In Ihe province Ottawa holds complete control over how dispose of it outside of their boundaries haven t had a situation such as this before And Sir In 1970 after years of struggle the United Form Workers Union of Cesar Chaves signed con tracts with more than California grape growers These contract gave Ihe workers the right to negotiate with their em ploy about conditions of work most important being hours of work availability of drinking water rest periods toilets In the fields controls on Ihe use of pesticides which kill workers each and the right to run a hiring hall When these contracts expired in April of this year growers Ignoring the wishes of their employees refused to re- negotiate they were angered at the loss of control over what had been a virtual slave labor force and were resolved to crush the United Farm Workers Union When workers went on strike to force the growers to re negotiate the contracts their pickets were attacked and beaten The union which adheres strictly to a policy of nonviolence decided after two pickets were murdered to suspend the picketing and concentrate their efforts in a consumer boycott of farm workers left their homes In California and went to many of the major cities in North America to rally public support for a grape boycott 31 of them are In Toronto and are determined to stay until the boycott la successful and the growers will again negotiate 1 personally support their efforts and want to urge others to do so by not buying California table grapes and by urging your friends not to and asking vour grocer to Faba Beans Tested For Protein Crops Variety trials are con tinulng at KemptvlUe College of Agricultural Technology to determine viability of beans or horse beans as they are sometimes called as a homegrown protein crop for eastern Ontario farmers If the trials are sue beans could be ihe homegrown homeled high protein feed grain source we been looking for suggests Robert Mlsener an agronomist al College of Agricultural Technology encountered obtaining clean seed suppliers abroad he ex plains He said he feels this is the reason that some of foreign varieties have not performed well In the trials An advantage of beans is that they do nol have to be heat processed like soybeans before they arc fed to livestock They can be fed lo all classes of livestock without further processing Mr Misener comments and so far we have en countered no palatablllty problems Moreover beans cannot In Ontario major soybean producing areas Eastern Ontario cool moist growing conditions are suited a faba bean crop unlike the comparatively hot and dry conditions of the south centra I sectors of the province Faba bean yields have varied somewhat in two years of testing This year 14 varieties produced an average yield of bushels per acre Last year nine varieties planted in wider rows generated average yields of bushels per acre Silage yields and protein levels have varied as well last year silage yields averaged 15 tons per acre at TO per cent moisture while Ihis year yields were 12 tons per acre at the same moisture level remove California table grapes from his shelves BobMelcombe MLnagttoneCre Georgetown Last Days Explained Sir Kindly allow me space in your paper to reply to Paul request for meaning of the phrase last days which appeared in letter of a previous edition appear in Genesis verse one Also In second Timothy third chapter verses one to and again In second Peter chapter three and verse three If Mr will read these passages in the light of the fact that the Bible Is Gods holy word which Is established in Heaven and cannot and will not ever be changed lo suit the thinking of any person then he may seek the truth and the meaning of these writings Ed A Peters 31 Byron St Georgetown playing is viewed as a Northern urea lis lopiiol tthilehorsc capital in Canada Uhiiehorse Is mm miles farther wist lis Minister McKeough savs he an idea the answer might hi and neither ap parentis does else it could be good For it finollv might force us to son out the cluttered or federal provincial respon OCONNORS OTTAWA One of the chief Waterlooa of the present government during the election last year other than the election it self was the unemployment insurance plan II was widely criticized for its loose and sloppy ad ministration for the to work it provided for the inefficient and arrogant way in which Its administrators dealt with those who were genuinely unemployed but mostly for lis cost lo the country a whopping one billion deficit Needless to soy it also cost the Liberals a significant number of seats and properly so Very early in the first session of the new Parliament on January Robert Andras the Minister of Manpower ana im migration introduced a bill designed to tighten ad ministration make qualification for benefits tougher and generally cut abuses and costs under the plan The bill received wide publicity and general plaudits across the country Then a strange thing happened or didn t happen That is nothing happened Bill received first reading Period Members of the Opposition asked the Minister to proceed with second reading The answers varied from Soon to a shrug Finally on November 7 the Minister admitted that the hill would be withdrawn completely The tragedy of the failure Referral Selling Banned Under Amendment To Act NOW The BNA Act was drawn up more than a hundred ago In keeping wilh the conditions of the time and what the fathers of Con federation in their wisdom could see as the possibilities of the future As a charter it has been out now for decades has meant that govern In Canada has been clumsy and costly fal Lines of responsibility and wilh Ihem spending have melded Into duplication of effort and Interest wilh the demands on the functions of the provinces always in creasing while the federal government has had the main revenue sources This to point where any fresh observer who looked at the federal provincial situation from another planet would hove lo it was insane Efforts lo correct this until now have fallen flat We have been trying to redraw the constitution since the early fifties and have not been able to cross even a T This principally has been because It has been a matter of no real urgency The oil crisis does and will give this for this it could turn nut be one of ihe better things thai has happened for as a nation New provisions in bill to amend the Combines Investigation Act place an outright ban on referral selling schemes and con prohibit pyramid selling schemes Section In the new bill prohibits pyramid selling when it involves misrepresenting the gains a participant may reasonably expect to receive Section prohibits anyone from inviting another to par in referral selling Offenders may be punished for either offence on sum conviction or on in dictment Referral selling techniques have been used by some door to door sales organizations The article be sold la frequently offered at an inflated price but the householder la offered the right to submit names of potential purchasers and to receive commissions when sates arc made The proach has great appeal when put forward by a skilled salesman who makes It appear easy to cover a substantial part or even Ihe entire cost of the article In this way Many purchasers have been disappointed by the results and some have even entered Into the commission arrangement without realizing that they had contracted for the purchase or an article pyramid selling frequently Involves substantial In vestment by participants While the sale of a product Is usually Involved the em is typically on the recruitment of farther participants and the Investor receives the right to share not only In the fees lhat his recruits will pay but In those received from persons recruited by them and so on Highly developed selling techniques have brought promoters of these schemes a great deal of success at the expense of those who received an exaggerated impression of the op portunfties and were able to recoup little If any of their Investment The geometric progressions involved can bring participation to the saturation point quickly and all but the earliest recruits may lose Ihe substantial fees Ihey have paid and get stuck with some or all of the products that cannot be do anything Is that the unemployment Insurance plan is now in worse shape than ever Information Is now coming to light partly through a massive personal investigation of the whole by Jack Ellis PC I as tings of a mess of far greater proportions than that last year For example it appears that the plan will cost well over two billion dollars In Administrative costs have risen from 119 million dollars in 1971 to 122 million dollars in 1972 and are expected to reach Ms million dollars this year Staff has increased from to 13 and a brand new B2700 computer identical to the existing one which Is causing so many problems has been pur chased Inefficiency Is rampant as evidenced by the fact that In the first six months of 1973 an average of 700 people per day received over payments such as more money than they were entitled to overpayments per day means 126 errors In this category along in only six months or goofs per year The cost of these mistakes was more than million dollars for the six months more than double Tor the same period in Back in 1971 the Government was warned by foul up could occur with the B2700 computer What has Ihe Government done or dered another B2700 To meet the increased costs employer and em ployee deductions have been Significantly raised as everyone who received a paycheck well knows Also the public treasury con ceiling previously BOO million dollars has been eliminated The taxpayers will now pick up any and all deficit which last year amounted to 1 billion dollars If you have a problem idea comment criticism or if you simply wish to get In please stop by my riding office at 326 Rd E or telephone Fran Balnea at POETRY NOOK Modern Man Preserves They re going lotry and preserve a group of primitives The stoneage Aborlglnea They say their culture must be saved And nol by modern man to be enslaved Don t push him back till there no more land Where he sits to waltfor death because he cannot understand Can my culture to be saved They pushed me back from dirty smoke filled cities Where great cement squares rose filled with desperate sardine packed pei used to sit by clear country streams to watch the fish swim by Can my culture to be saved Modern man a great civilisation I should be glad 1 That would I lay my dollars enter In to hallowed ground Where have preserved for all to see Great wonders plastic flowers and trees Once they grew upon the land But now preserved by modem man Can my culture to be saved Does mankind really listen Docs mankind really care Sheep like people going round and round On a treadmill world they ve worn bare But modern man preserves you see stop and look it there to see A plastic world of reality gase In awe then shake my head And wish to hell 1 too were dead