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Home Newspaper of Hills 17 A Division of Company Limited Georgetown L7G Ontario Willi Publisher Police chases a gamble with our lives Such a waste Such a terrible waste Slowly Acton is pulling itself together after the shock a week ago Saturday that sent waves of sorrow washing over this town The sight of a funeral cortege slowly winding its way through the own by itself tightens throats and catches one staring remotely Such a waste Such a terrible waste Who to blame It s a natural reaction to such a terrible loss of seven young lives The police No for they were merely doing their duty But the police system that states that pursing a young man at 100 is a proper method to preserve and protect our property ana lives that is where the guilt lies There is the culprit at which a town needing some means to ensure that such a useless wasteful incident need not happen again may point its finger of accusation Police chases should be used only in extreme cases armed robbery murder and only then it a senior officer weighing such things as road weather and traffic conditions ap proves and directs the chase via radio To put so much at stake merely to recover a automobile is a tremendous gamble with not only innocent victims lives but with those of the pursing police officer and yes the fellow driving the pursued vehicle One life saved far out balances the material loss of one very replaceable automobile Put in the shoes of any fellow who happens to suddenly see a flashing red light in his mirrow He may be driving a stolen vehicle He may be just out for a drive in the family car He may be drunk He may be stoned He may be totally under control He s got a split second to decide whether to pull over or run He doesn think about the situation He could merely put his foot to the floor and the chase is on 50 70 80 mph And all the time that flashing red light is in his mirror Imagine instead if the pursuing police car slowed down to the legal limit be it 50 or GO miles per hour The pursued driver pulls ahead until he sees there no sense in driving at athat break neck speed He eventually slows down or heads somewhere to hide He finally begins to think about the situation If he s driving a stolen car he likely ditch it but how many police chases eventually end up that same way If he s driving his own car he realize that through his license plates he probably already caught Nothing good can ever come of that fiery instant on Highway late on the evening of March 13 However we hope that Helton Police will be critical enough of their own procedures to at least consider alternatives to their pursuit present methods Help the Red Cross take care of its own Last year in Georgetown the Red Cross Society spent 19 Through lis raising campaign it collected The difference was mode up by other Ontario communities who spent less than they raised In other words we lived off their surplus This week the Bed Cross is trying to raise til just to maintain the same level of service it did last year The society knows it won t gel all the money this week but they hope to get it by the end of March The society knows also It will spend every penny it gets so that volunteers who contribute over 10 hours per year of their lime have what they need to work with If you hove ahead for figures that approximately Si more days than there are in the year What you get for your donation of a couple of bucks or a five or even a ten can be seen on anyone of it information sheets which have been distributed lo each home in Hills the volunteers could If your house catches ire or is flooded and have since involving people it Is your neighbours representing the Red Crow who help get you over those first few days If you have a backyard pool or visit the beach and have confidence thai your youngsters cm handle In the iter it likely they were trained lo swim by Red Cross Last year more than children and adults in Hills were taught to swim and over 1 participated in water safely prognmmis presented by the Red Cross Should you need for a brief period a wheel chair or a pair of crutches you have the fret loan of such equipment from ihe loon operated by the Red Cross Or if you have a medical ippolntmcnt you tan reach on fool or on public transit a fled Cross volunteer a neighbour of yours will drive you there The elderly in Hilton Hills who are losing their strength and ability to care for them selves are helped daily by Red Cross volunteers Whatever it is you need the lied Cross tries to supply it What Red Cross needs Is a few dollars from your If you I give on Night you still have an opportunity to send in i donation in the envelopes each Information sheet It time this paid its own way for the servnes it freely receives Years Ago Hyde wants combined liquor store downtown From File of he Herald Mrs A Boyd of Georgetown was guest of honour a surprise party held by her family and friends to celebrate Mm Boyds Birthday The parly was held in the home of Mr and Mrs Maurice Hillock The Interested CllUens Group of Georgetown which haB been investigating the possibility of bringing lo town seems to be making favourable progress Members of the group before town council Monday evening and their goals to He council received favourable and positive comments from all the councillors present at the meeting Mr Jim Walsh has taken over ownership of the local Dyson Sewing Centre which was opened four years ago by owner Dyson who is moving lo London where he will continue In the sewing machine business Farley of Howard Wrlgglcaworth Public School Georgetown and Pamela Norton of Glen Williams Public School were winner and runner up respectively In the Inspectorate final of the On tarlo School Truslecs and Ratepayers Association public speaking contest final here Fridays Ten schools were represented in the contest Monday door to door blitz by he Georgetown Red Cross canvassers netted about above last year vvnos with Lord Godiva SI a Viewpoint Gerry This week Viewpoint takes a look three individual topics that will prove to be somewhat related high speed police chases rights as applied to the families of criminals mil government cutbacks The recent tragedy in resulting in Ihe death of seven young people has brought what we consider a somewhat response It Is always sad to watch our reaction to tragedy It is usually too far niching one way or another Today given so many Ighls to individuals who break our laws that wc seriously hamper the of hose who enforce them A police officer on the lob has to make a split second decision It Is some thing he is trained to do integral part of his job It is fine for our lawmakers and the general public lo sit back in judgement when a tragedy results but unfortunately don t sit in patrol cars or walk belts or make their Judgements with the split second liming that officer on Ihe scene has to If the police chase in question had resulted in ihe prevention of loss of life an equal number of people would arise to proclaim the validity of police chases iast year in Metro a high chase by the police was aborted The car meed on and eight minutes later hit and killed a pedestrian The public Ihen com plained that the police were negligent in duty Police chases are dangerous that is true but a far more dangerous course of action would be to remove the decision making authority of an officer at the seme of It would be impossible to say whether or not the accident would with or without the chase It Is unfair that the officer involved has to bear the brunt of public criticism After all he was pursuing someone had broken the law and allegedly stolen a car Who can say what stale of mind the driver of the stolen car was In Very often in Rights police work it second count To change the of or not lo pursue will take more thin seconds Our deepest fillings or sorrow sympathy for those killed should not be illowcd to cloud our judge mini blame Ihe officer involved in Ihe chase The hist solution would be one of moderation not to lot illy ban such methods but to use the system already in practice In mnnj cities in including Metro Toronto If the chine is becoming hazardous the senior com municntlons officer on duty would loll the officer In chase to back off Not ill police chases such speeds in tragedy my result in the sivingi lives liking in driver the road or stopping i of teens with drugs or booie To give chase or not should left In the hands of the officer involved whether roadblocks should be set up or the vehicle pursued should hi his a different sort recently when llojdHolly rf Don Mills is irrestid in connection with the strangulation of two His iddress the name of his family and two little children who in in nocenl of any crime wire phslered all over the front pages of the Tnron papers It cannot sorc Justice or carloads of morbid thrill seekers lo drive the home of his Again it Is his wife or children who ire accused or ire guilty of any crime His two children have to pay too high a price for something they have no control over Is it in the of news lo publicize such information house address and and ages of children What the rights of the mnocenl family has happened in some cases that the iccused is found innocent what happens Ihin when the papers have already tried and condemned the criminal should exercise of more prudence in assumed criminals who have not The of such persons arc innocent victims of i society Ihit demands sen nationalism unnecessary Information at any price Our last topic also involves the com subject of human rights The bell tightening policies of Ihe Davis government seem to appear innot deny need lo curb government spending We do feel however that It was the lack of restraint by the Dms government that created some of the present problems Cutting back on Children Aid seems a Jin I low way of controlling over spending Queen s is forcing Metro to cut welfare We arc all fed us free loaders what we look on with concern are the priorities What kind of government or takes from its neediest in order save precious dollars Dollars lost by a free spending govern mint that now has to pay the piper cm continue without change We continue to spend what we don have without drastic hinges taking place Out whj the burden on those lensl able to handle it either imotlonally or financially Those who ire leist able to fight any such Rights can cripple us economically socially if we can maintain a balanced In the face of tragedy or crisis some feel the need for action any kind of action whether or not In the home stretch It becomes a case of priorities Whether people come first or dollars Whether the right of the Individual to i life that offers hope and true Justice for ali enists or is it just another foolish Illusion Queens Park Commentary Throne speech pounds home restraint Mr and Mrs Gerald Davis lost their furniture and most of their clothing in a fire at 68 Main Street North Friday morning The house is owned by Mr J Alexander of Toronto The fire started In the upstairs bedroom destroying all contents In the room and burned through the roof Extensive smoke and water damage was done ihrmghout their half of the Projected removal if the liquor store from Its present Mill St location has prompted Councillor Hyde to urge that a second be established in the downtown area At council committee meeting Monday night Councillor Hyde said that he intends to bring a motion before council to petition the province lo hove a combined liquor and beer outlet In downtown Georgetown area By Queen Park Bureau Of The Herald TORONTO Throne Speeches never give much comfort or political ammunition to the opposition Normally they area list of promises and promises expressed so vaguely that they arc not open to any sharp attack The almost automatic reacilon of op position leaders to Throne Speeches is that they are uninspiring or that Ihcre is little that Is new in them This standard reaction was the respons of the two party leaders lo Ihls year Speech here But actually with this Speech they were probably even more frustrated usual For It t even have monv of Ihe customary promises And It must lave set a new high in vagueness For men leading major parties facing a minority government and champing to get going at It the document must have been a terribly annoying one More lhan annoying it could have been a worrying one For to unusual degree the government used It to put the ball squarely In the op position Normally in a Throne Speech there is some mention of the state of the momcnl But in Speech the dominant theme was economic The government used the Speech to restate at length its position on restraint This properly belonged in the document But It also was highly political For It has been becoming clear the main division between the government and the opposition lies in this restraint program and that probably in some form or other It will be at Ihe core of the next election It probably also has been becoming clear to he and the Liberals particularly the foi mer that for them it may not be the best of issues For there have been some distinct signs that the public believes in restraints and may not have too much patience with those who them The government saw this at the first stages and endorsed restraint boldly But the opposition parties were caught The still is through its tie with big labor The Liberals had drawn back but still have the name of being opposed The leadership of both parties must be forced deep thought whenever it sees the government again pushing forward restraints as it did in the Speech News Service Ottawa Things are bound to he a bit distorted when you Hi in bed with newspaper and try to view events through the healed of a devilish flu bug That nny explain it hut in any event recovery has been slowed through all these recurring irguments with women I don like arguments with women But it seemed that every time I turned a page some women wis saying something to me or confuse me And this never happened during international Women There was little in the ibout Conservative Leader Joe Clark his wife Maureen Mcfecr was speiking her mind she was saying that any future with Margaret Trudeau would be within the confines of the nest election in other words she a political enemy Struck me as i bit he ivy Surelj if John and Paul Martin were able to maintain I manlhon personal friendship slashing to bis on Hi hustings spouses of politicians should be ibk to manage Afteroll politics is i garni Page Anyway I turned the page and thire huge picture of tractive New Member of the Ontario for Last She was making a speech at the Ottawa Women Centre in honour of International Women s Day Women arc still being legally discriminated and it may tike too long for pohticnns to realize the things should be she vas quoted as saying And the next of the story went on Ms her political tact early in the evening when a male photographer arrived at the Centres door asking to be admitted so he could take some photos She explained to him men ire not allowed in the Centre he left smiling That fine not long ago a woman wis refused admittance to an Ottawa men only club and she laid charges under one of Ontario antidiscrtmination laws Anyway am not convinced it require much political tact to inform someone that his or her entry is barred So much that page Here was another story about Betty Ford and how she has suddenly become Gerald Fords No 1 asset as he seeks another term as S President And what has helped her most said the story was her and honesty when she said among other things she wouldn t object to her daughter Ing an affair providing it was with a nice boy No Logic But even after this I can I grab logic of Mrs Ford statement I can fully deratand importance of a daughter set down with a nice guy but for purpose of an affair I can I get excited ibout per And it could lead to problems for the parents of other teenagers Hew Mom 111 be sleeping out tonight but don t worry he studying to be a missionary I put down the newspaper picked up a magazine And a women convention in Chicago was being told that throughout history great contributions from women were systematically forgotten while men were being placed on everlasting pedestals for lesser contributions To check the authenticity of this I phoned Mark whose mother Nellie Mc Clung was once Canada most famous first one elected to legislature But that not why I phoned him it so hap pens he has a sense of humour It not entirely true that men arc always remembered while women are forgotten said Mr McClung himself hoarse with the flu He paused briefly Then there was Whistler Father And he thought for a few moments longer And Joseph of Anmaihea Time for another aspirin On The Home Front By Susan Don Jail How I envy those fortunate people who bear the classically pure names of Smith Brown and Jones If Mr Smith wishes lo complicate his life by adding an Incorrigible little or lhat is his privilege his reasons for doing do elude me It has been asked What In a name Well If your name happens lo be the difference amounts o about half the alphabet 1 always believed my children would have to be university before being capable of writing their full names Sur two maae grade J while the little one Is still valiantly working on It No matter how many times 1 have written correct spelling when paying my gas bill after it is still being mailed to someone living at our address called which sounds remarkably Greek to me When I reach desperation point and can no longer put off ordering catalogue mer I settle dawn for an entire morning at the telephone as though gearing myself for a full season of hibernation I prepare coffee and a sandwich put my feet up and start dialling It takes three minutes to order the required Items and three hours to spell my name Dec as In Donald No Not Ronald Dee as In Don Jail Don River Yeah Lady Don River as in pollution Now when it comes to re away to the races No trouble hero at all as In Right after all everyone know that By the time we get to en I am getting list a weary and therefore must be excused for any slight spelling mistake that might occur Intact by this lime I even have Difficulty In remembering my name En as In I bravely continue When we reach the final ess I am In a tfale of exhaustion My throat la parched and mentally I have become a basket case Heaven knows what la happening to the lady on ihe other the telephone l hope she is being compensated for dedication above and beyond he call of duty Ess in sock it to I murmur finally When the hard worked for goodies eventually arrive on my I am too relieved lhat the ordeal Is over for another six months to even care that they are addressed to Mrs Pluto