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the HERALD Home of Hills Page THE Wednesday January A Division of Canadian Newspapers Company Limited Main St South Georgetown L7G3ES Ontario PETER Publisher BILL JOHNSTON Editor PHONE 8772201 Second Mall Registered Number Wrong number Gee Doc sorry about that We didnt realize that you not only didnt make house calls but wouldnt take any as well Doc our man in Ot tawa was upset at lost weeks editorial dealing with his stand on the percent pay raise for MPs He has mellowed a bit Hes now saying that 33 percent will be the answer A couple more weeks of constituents comments and who knows what our federal representatives will agree to Doc however wasnt upset about our comments on the raise but instead he was quite angry that we gave his home phone number Unfair claims Dr Phiibrook People who wish to contact him can do so through his constituency office during business hours His personal life and his familys personal We are separate from his business life he told us Actually weve seen our error Doc We unfortunately were thinking back a few years and not in this area of a fellow whom we sent to Ottawa He was there to express our voice and actually liked to hear what we thought about different issues so that he could speak with the cer tainty that he expressed his con stituents point of view He was a great guy He didnt mind if we called him at home he wasnt there his wife would usually jot down a message and pass it along On a quiet afternoon in tact he wouldnt mind if we dropped in to see him Dad and I used to nave some interesting discussions with him Actually it was a matter of us listening and him talking but occasionally we got our chance Anyways he was reelected so often we kidded him that he would eventually just move to Ottawa lock stock ana barrel He didnt though So in case you havent given Dr a call yet concerning the percent pay raise to contact his constituency office number In Oak- ville just call the operator and ask for Zenith 89110 Theres no charge Were not certain of what the office hours are but theyre likely 9 to They pay we work Our finance and personnel committee may not have made an easy decision last week when its members decided to put thumbs down on the provincial governments home The decision however a wise one Our councillors fortunately are not taking all that the province keeps shoving at them The planproperly titled the Ontario Home Renewal Program- will hand out million in loans to people wishing to Improve thelr update their wiring or carry out any other Improvement to their home Sorry no additions Hills decided not to take part In the program as Halton had decided earlier The plan actually sounds very seductive a nice preelection tidbit to catch the fancy of the people But theres a snag The province pays the bill and then leaves the municipality the task of collecting it All payments and collections are carried out by the local municipality Hills by fact would become the collection agency for Queens Park without the benefit of a fivepercent or tenpercent com mission As committee chairman Harry out over years of collecting monthly payments town employees are going to have to ex pend a fair amount of time keeping things in order Its unfortunate that the program was set up in such a way The plan could no doubt have been a big help to a few people here in Halton Hills We being a relatively new community probably would not have received as many requests as others but a provincial plan to assist in renovating old homes could probably have come in handy for some Renovations being very costly these days Pity however the communities that receive a lot of requests for assistance under the program and thus are backed into a position of having to take it on The more money the province hands out all the more work for them Thumbing through the column Pardon me if my typing is off this week You see Im working under a terrible handicap a badly bruised thumb Now bruised thumbs may not be a major disaster in your line of work fella but in this game we call jour nalism it could be deadly Athletes have their torn tendons and their pulled groin muscles Construction workers have their slipped discs and crushed fingers Farmers have their hay fever But for a journalist a sure sign of a painful injury is a loose band- aid slipping off one of his fingers This typewriter just does not seem to have any mercy It never could spell properly Here I am limping through this column and do Meet a Halton Hills audiovisualizer While Im a fairly optimistic person at heart I dont hold out much nope for my profession Its all because of a guy in Acton Hes not a member of my bo thats not the reason for lack of hope Hes one of those whizkids whos going to put us print- people out of business with lenses and wires and tapes So whats ray profession Simple A publisher publishes What else would he do In fact what else can he possibly do And why is this Acton individual getting on my nerves Simple again He has a better way of communicating with people than I have He doesnt need typesetting machines or even typewriters ana presses He simply pulls up with his minimotorhome loaded with elec tronic gadgets of all kinds jumps out sets up his microphones clicks his cameras with long lenses and short lenses returns to Ms shop to put it all on cassette tapes and bingo Instant communications Peeler Saxon of Acton why the two ees Im really not sure because there are a number of in terpretations Is the fellow who has me worried Hes in the business of audio visual as they call it And what Saxon does with this thing called audio visual has me stumped On the weekend this Acton vlBualizer showed me for example that there is so much to a sewer pipe I was beginning to wonder whether I ought to go back to school Here he had a sewer pipe a National Sewer Pipe at that in a ring with George And the sewer pipe won Because it was called Clay That is Clay as in Now If youre a fan of boxing you know about George Chuvalo and you will be as surprised as I was that an Acton man can about a bout In which a Clay pipe out performs real live Chuvalo Anyway Saxon is in the business of making commercial audiovisual presentations for companies and institutions Just recently he finished a series by PETER for the Addiction Research Foun dation and Ill bet that a few shots of this thing at the right time in the right place would dry up the other kind of shot so quickly the govern ments of our time would have to tax us all to death because of the lack of revenue from the sale of booze Saxon has also made a gorgeous audiovisual thing on recreation and what it is really meant to be This one he produced for a Toronto borough and would recommend something like this for all our local and area politicians If we would ail understand a little better that theres more to recreation than an arena and a few organized programs under the recreation directors guidance we could improve our lives considerably In fact Saxon why dont you make an audiovisual on recreation and what it means to Halton Hills Why am I saying all this Because Saxon found is one of a dying breed Hes basically working a very small operation Does all the work himself Why Dont people go big if theyre really good because then theres a lot more money to be made Not Saxon He likes his work And he does It well Hes a craftsman in the true sense of the word And he doesnt want to go big Its nice to meet someone today who has that attitude The world needs the craftsman No matter how many audiovisual or other gadgets we come up with Perhaps at that even my profession will survive werent any stairs to help the journey Looking in the back seat of the car there was large cardboard box In the front seat was a bag filled with large ginger ale bottles Why grocery stores are allowed to put JOHNSTON bottles in bags they know cant hold them Ill never know Once having managed to juggle the box and bag into some sort of carrying position I then had the tricky problem of closing the doors while and heres the catch still looking relatively cool calm and collected Nevertheless I did eventually manage to do it Then there was the walk down hill Have you ever seen someone whos life is in dire danger smiling and looking extremely cool etc Well I was that person I lost all stability as soon as I stepped away from the car Somehow while travelling at about totally out of control on a sheer ley incline I not only managed to stay on my feet but still held onto the bag and box Right up to and including the moment when I slammed into the front of the house lull tilt And all the time still smiling Fortunately the only Injury was this bruised thumb you think it would help out a bit Not on your life If anything this devilish space space bar is getting harder and harder to hit How did you injure your finger Bill you might be asking For tunately its not a long story It was the afternoon of New Years Eve I dropped In at a friends place for a precelebration celebration Shes a fledgling writer and had just received notice that her book is going to be published Anyways right in the midst of our festivities her daughter young at tractive and eligible pulled up with a carload of New Years Eve necessities Well always a gentleman I volunteered to give her a hand In bringing them in I have never needed a better challenge or a better opportunity to impress No these things will be in in no time With that she headed for the house which I should mention right now Is located about 60 feet from the road and down a sheer ley slope They built their home by them selves and so were more concerned with such things as walls and ceilings instead of walkways thus there iiiiinitiiiiiiiiiEi Buffalo to a North African country on the If thats not your cup of tea how about grounds that they might be used to carry this Number one on Ihe menu troops to Sinai Could that be the some government who Is Gelling Candu nuclear reactors like chewing gum to Argentina India not to mention negotiations with Iron and four other countries The same government that is resuming nuclear aid to India overlooking their little atomic bomb last year The same government who minister of energy Donald MacDonald was Bits pieces By Gerry What better way to begin the new year than with a potpourri of news Items which by the way is a regular now again feature of this column Little bits of this and quotes of that to amuse confuse least thats what they always manage to do to If youre wondering how I Injured my thumb in all this That came five minutes later when a car drove up and out hopped a fellow who was introduced as The Boyfriend While shaking hands I must have applied too much pressure He being a 600pound giant didnt seem to flinch at all as I focussed my entire strength into the deathdefying Johnston Thumb Press He needless to say mutilated my thumb I must keep reminding myself that Inside this sixfoot oneinch collection of sheer muscle and might is a 165 pound weakling shreds with celery at Lam Ki Restaurant In Kong Kong At their counterpart In Toronto you might want to try for a changecfpace meal How about tome sperm wine Imagine who baa the Job milking the silkworm You might want toy try tiger bone wine or new born mice wine e Then again war in corporating is such a hard way to go I hope NATO doesnt hear about this one Food prices got you down Walter Cornelius of Peterborough England has started the new year on a diet of grass and clover supplemented with milk Mr Cor nelius claims he cant afford todays food prices on his a week pay mention bile wine or tl common threesnake variety Pass me thankyou Keeping with the strange eating habits psychiatrists In Birmingham University made a study on the eating habits of ex pectant fathers They mention chocolates before shaving and trench trie with Ice cream But when they got down to nibbling bars of soap between meats I began to wonder If the whole article wasnt a lit He soapy Perhaps the good doctors conducting the have been into the fivesnake bile wine Thirty years ago a snowstorm made them stay in Brampton for the whole night From the Dies of the YEARS AGO High school principal J L Lambert will be replaced by Fred Turner his retirement in July Mr Turner holds a high school special certificate In Math and Physics He has also taken time to visit the school to be familiar with the needs of the students and the school when he begins in the An Arctic Snowy Owl appeared In town on his way to a warmer climate He perched up on many television antennas before leaving the Georgetown area Filming at the Roy Thompson farm concluded Thursday night for the television show Country Time For two days heavy cables lights cameras and microphones covered the farm making the animals feel unwelcome Georgetown and District High School was included ina recent survey which will be used to formulate educational plans for Canada One fact determined by the survey was that classes should not exceed students At present theavcrageGDHSclsss consists of students The report went on to say that a teacher should only teach no more than 30 periods per week Teachers now teach on an average periods per week With the variety of courses offered some teachers must prepare multiple programs for educational year The committee felt teachers should not teach more than four courses per week YEARS AGO A representative from the Georgetown IGA store will appear In Magistrates Court because of a infringement of the Thursday closing bylaw Members of the local police force entered the store and purchased several Items The Thursday closing bylaw will be considered In future council meetings Twenty boys signed up for the Georgetown Boys Band The bays purchase the instruments they will piny In ihe band The extension of Maple Avenue may be a reality If the predictions of Mayor Jack Arm strong come true The mayor also reported that the employment situation was good in town with only being spent for the past year YEARS AGO An encouraging report showing 1044 fire calls was submitted by fire chief Donald Latimer Only one fire the recent one at Fish and Chips Store caused any damage and was estimated at Other calls during the year were mostly for grass and chimney fires The rural districts about Georgetown were badly snowed In due to another heavy snowfall and high winds last week and many are only now getting out Limehouse Road was Impassable for several days last week Art Benton of the general store had provisions sent up on the train and used a toboggan to bring them from the station store Mr Howard May of Nerval was in quite a fix when he found his farm snowed in and the telephone out of commission on the day he headed tor the polls In council Several Georgetown citizens bad to spend A the night in Brampton on New Years Eve Snow prevented buses from Toronto and from getting through