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Home Newspaper of Hills WEDNESDAY SEPTE I A Division of Canadian Newspapers Company Limited 103 Main St South Georgetown Ontario WILLI Publisher PHONE Second Clan Mall Registered Number Continue efforts to improve cores Businessmen in Acton and downtown Georgetown must be commended for the decision taken last week to seek municipal assistance for the improvement of the downtown cores in both communities It is the first step in what may ultimately be a long and uphill battle to improve the image of the downtown cores and save them from a slow death experienced in downtown areas in many communities across the province But the first hurdle will be the designation of what is the downtown core in each of the communities Hopefully all businessmen will be when looking at the long term costs and possible results from the proposed program Acton businessmen who have been seeking off street parking for more than a decade may very well see such a development completed within the concept of a business im Itcan only add tothe service and convenience of con sumers using the downtown core But the effort now started must not stop Agreement must be reached on a progressive scale in order to provide an over all plan for development and a proposal for the resulting image of the two downtown areas Georgetown and Acton which are now in the midst of urbanization must act or face the total loss of Identity felt by many small Ontario towns which have lost their downtown business districts Fergus which has for many years attempted to find a solution to me same problems facing Halton Hills two years ago promoted a contest sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce for a plan for the eventual redevelopment of the core area which abuts the Grand River It is an impressive proposition with much credit but the piemen Hon of any of the ten plans accepted as prize winners in the contest has been stalled or become buried in constant debate over how when and at what cost to implement the proposals Prior to any action being taken for the town to designate both downtown districts as improvements areas under the authority of the Municipal Act which stipulates that improvement costs may be added to assessment merchants in both communities should seriously discuss what the future holds What the businessmen proposed last week can not be taken lightly and all merchants must agree to the improvement Although the Municipal Act places a requirement on objectors to raise a petition sup porting their position and requires onethird of the affected persons opposing the plan core businessmen should consider seriously the plications of ANY opposition whether or not it is strong enough to defeat the proposal Downtown cores have provided an identity to smaller town that can not be replaced by contemporary business practices such as plazas They represent a vitality and a part of our own heritage which must be preserved Possibly consideration should be given to redeveloping the Georgetown business district to reflect the Pioneer Days celebrations on a year round basis instead of only annually And maybe Acton can exploit a vital part of its history in any downtown redevelopment The ball now rests in the businessmen court and the next move belongs to them On Parliament Hill- Tom Cossit a thorn in the side of technocrats By STEWART MACLEOD Ottawa Bureau Herald With the bureaucrats busy trying to convince Canadian they are being served by a penny pinching government Tom Cossltt continuing revelations must be driving them up the wall Mr is that angry Tory member of Parliament from Leeds a Liberal who has taken dead aim the the extravagant spending around Sussex Drive the official residence of Prime Minister Trudeau Although I cant recall Mr Trudeau ever saying anything about this particular Con sen alive I think we can safely assume he doesn I exactly worship him But Ihe bureaucrats must find him even more dls tasteful Here they are churning out hat propaganda about how he government cutting all unnecessary expenses and along comes Mr Cossltt with another tale of big league bills at Sussex Drive This time It seems there arc some minor electrical repairs being carried out at a coat of And as usual the straight talking Mr Cossltt referred to the expenditures as ridiculous costly and worthy of suspicion Furthermore he suggested Mr delayed Ihe work until Parliament had ad so no questions could be asked In House This was denied by Gerry Baker chief of building maintenance for public works department The current electrical repairs be are just one of many thousands maintenance Items the department lakes care of Just like you would in your own residence Well not quite Mr Baker Most of us don spend to install a new circuit breaker panel and replace some basement wiring Perhaps Is not out or line for connecting the swimming pool electrical system with the tame transformer that supplies the house but few of us are In a Not many of have swimming pools MORE TO COME An Information officer for the works department has said that some 111 might be spent on rewiring over the next three yean I don t have the detailed breakdown of expenditures on electrical work at Sussex but many thousands or dollars involved And the additional put things In pretty good shape Mr Cossltt seems to have been close to the mark in saying that wiring leading to that controversial swimming pool was installed contrary to Ontario Hydro regulations Mr Baker confirmed thai they Hydro to make a temporary connection when the pool was built last summer so we could gel the pool in operation Nice chaps at Hydro Of course this renewed controversy over Die pool provided a golden opportunity for Mr Cossitt to renew his demands that the donors be Identified It will be remembered that the pool was provided as a gift by a group of Canadians whose names have never been revealed Do these donors really exist Mr Cossltt asks again It long overdue for the public to know where the money came from whether any favors were expected In return and once and for all it should be cleared up as whether any conflict of Interest exists in the KNOW Mr Trudeau maintains he know the donors nor does he want to their If I don know who they ore I can t very well owe Ihem any favors he has remarked But this is getting away from the point we were trying to make thai with all the em on spending restraints It must be rather embarrassing for the bureaucrats when Mr keeps coming up with in spending details Someone in the works department Is obviously telling him what s going on at the big stone residence on Ottawa River And all his publicity was not what secretary of the Treasury Board had In mind when he wrote to deputy minister that departments and should use their own initiative to improve he visibility of restraint in government spending whenever he opportunity arises the secretary also suggested that when expenditures are an that would be useful to Indicate more expensive options which have been discarded In favor of restraints it me puonc works department was on the ball It would have announced that rewiring pure gold wire and pearl inlaid circuit breakers would have million nut by using cheap materials the Job is being done for That would get Mr Cossitt off the backs of the bureaucrats A tongueincheek look at our world from Jaws to water beds to sex bias By GERRY It time again for potpourri a regular feature of this column Here we travel Ihe globe to bring you a sometimes serious mostly not so serious tongueincheek look at this wonderful wacky world live upon were off o Seattle Washington where a great white shark sank his vicious teeth yearold Everett Johnsons leg while he was lying in bed How so you ask Well it appears that friend of Jaws was mounted on aboard above Everctla bed The board fell and the result Boy attacked by shark while In bed Can you believe If Off to Edinburgh now where our friend the dashing Prince Charles known as froggy to his friends has done It again If you recall from before he gained his nickname because he Ian always as bright as can be This lime he asked a beauty queen at he welcomed her aboard the minesweeper Bronington I hope you have taken your pill Beauty queen blushes and aide rcplys later the Prince naturally referred to sea sickness pills naturally I mean to say Princes don fool around with statements like thai Back home to Kingston Ontario where four enterprising young women have come up with an unusual solution to the old mice In the cupboard routine The were staying cabin in he Bon Echo provincial park Mice were a problem and they tried rat poison to no avail One night one of the girls left her purse ajar with a new package of chocolate coated laxatives in It In he morning the laxatives were long gone and so were I con see the commercials now Bothered with Mice laxatives arc nice Who knows maybe It really works Here an pip from Ventura California It From here and there appears that the lire department had on unusual rescue to attend to when Eleanor water bed sent a great wave crashing throwing poor Mrs Youngs ton out of bed and the 1 lb mattress on lop of her II husband unable lo lift the mattress did the only decent thing and called the fire department Those indoor tidal waves can be very dangerous Hard lo explain too The latest from Chicago that swinging town is a plant stand that comes complete with a recorded message that begins This is your plant talking I really don t know what else it says but this is your plant talking Is enough for me II hard enough talking to those funny littler green things without them starting to talk back You know If you prepared for it If someone planted such a device in your plant you could permanently dent your can or worse even Away to Georgia now where is about exchange marriage vows with Little Stinger Officiating at the ceremony is Sky Pilot normally known as Rev Hubert Heaven else Included French lly Lee County Wallygntor Lady Teapot Skinny Mlnny You guessed It paradise wedding vows ripping the air First a 10 stop transmitting then Do you Little Ripoft take this woman to be your lawful wedded wife to which he replied will Oh how romantic Like I ve always said different strokes for different folks HI- BIAS Over to Hamilton now where a handsome young vessel can t work in the castle Translated Ray claims sex bias because he can t get a job as a maid In Castle He claims only women arc hired tour guides These girls wear Ihe clothes of the period of maids and cooks say much for our friend Mr gamble A daring young man from Castle As a maid he wanted to hassle But he still And definitely annoyed Because he won lassie that vassel Stop everything as we bring you a special bulletin from Van California If your ping pong balls are smashed don throw them out Drop them in a saucepan of boiling water and guess what Why they bounce right back into shape The only problem I forsee is explaining to someone what your doing if they happen along while your boiling your ping pong bails and what your Idea of a fun thing to do on a Friday Well thai about wraps It up for this week minute I think 1 sec Idosee its that strange and mysterious Sometimes Yogi he caught up with me again And if I know the Maharlshi he s bound to want to Impart words of wisdom on us Take It away Remember that though It is written that the foot of the rabbit Is a source of good luck remember the rabbit who originally owned four and was not so lucky I know don tell me he s done It again Oh such profoundly such wisdom such a pain Why can he find his own column somewhere Surely someone out here needs a profound and clever Mahariahf Its something every home be without Till next week keep on smiling On The Home Front Dreams of youth By SUSAN I would really like to write something whimsical poetic and beautiful but ap proaching the end of the summer holidays and the end of my rope at approximately the same speed my mind has blanked out Moon June and Spoon would be about the greatest heights I could possibly aspire to this week and apart from that I believe those words became outdated about two decades ago ihey beautiful though is it Just the passage of time hat makes them appear that way Maybe there are always a few nostalgic tears lo be shed for our youth in whatever decade It may have occurred Mine was spent during the era of Stan Kenton and the big band sound and the heyday of my first love Johnny Ray ThereShels and The White Cloud That Cried Oh The weekly allowances I spent or records and all u adolescent tears 1 shed with him during the million or so times I played his recordings how it must have driven my mother to distraction I shall never forget the important occasion when my parents announced we were emigrating to Canada and my first single thought was that I would be on the some as Johnny Ray It la funny and rather sad how one priorities change He did come to Toronto though within a year of our arrival here merely confirming my belief that Canada was wonderful and I watched him perfor every night for week he appeared Do you remember falling In love away bock when Not the painful agonies of puppylove but the first This Is It occasion That wonderful floaty of not quite touching the ground and where the whole world lo be looking upon you In kindness as though sharing In your feelings Do the somewhat worldly wise people of today still feel the same way and why is an apparently once In a lifetime gift only placed in the careless hands of the young never come again Foiling a poetic column I would like to write something very intelligent but with three children trapped Inside the house on a rainy day the most brilliant thought I can mister is Hang in there Susan It may only be 10 a m but it Is written In the stars hat bedtime must eventually arrive It would be so pleasant though after suffering through a day of Inter family warfare be able relax with the evening newspaper and not have to go through It all again on a world wide scale it be great if we could dig one huge garbage dump and pour Into it oil the corruption violence destruction and star vation existing today bury it completely As an obviously Incurable idealist and unable to write cither a whimsical or an In telllgent column due to circumstances beyond my control 1 would like to have at least shared an uproariously funny anecdote with you One that would have shut out the realities of life for ten minutes and had you rolling with mirth and gasping for breath However knowing that there are still approximately IM hours minutes and seconds until those school doors joyfully open again my sense of humour a precarious tittle flame that has be carefully fanned even at the beat of times has all but been extinguished by my continuous gusty sighs Maybe next week Recommendations merit thought Two of the recommendations of a New Westminister C coroner a jury call for more than passing attention and serious questions The jury was investigating the death of an octogenarian following Injuries he when hlBcar was hit by a police cruiser unmarked and in hot pursuit of another equally anonymous The driver of one cruiser instigated the chase whenacar passed Itathlgh speed The car to be followed was driven by an dercovcr officer engaged in narcotics surveillance A portable two way radio was used by the driver being pursued lo try and alert his colleague that pursuit was unnecessary There was a difference in channels and no contact was made What happened next is reason why no highway user can consider himself safe if caught In Ihe vicinity of a police chase The cruiser In hot pursuit slid sideways Into on oncoming in the resultant collision the elderly gent suffered massive Injuries from lie died His granddaughter passenger sustained only minor injury No one was to blame for what happened the Jury concluded a verdict may have raised some eyebrows but doubtless returned due consideration of all the evidence But what might interest everyone who may under certain circumstances become the same kind of sitting duck when police are forced resort to near Jetspeeds apprehend fleeing offenders ore these Jury recommendations thai polio belter That policeman should take pursuit skid training in driving Instructions And the questions to be asked are obvious 1 How can it be that any police depart which knows Its cruisers will at one time or another be involved in high speed driving permit the vehicles to be equipped with tires of a quality not designed for this purpose How docs It happen that officers called on to drive wilh the skill nerve of Indianapolis contestant but under ex weather conditions are not com polled to take pursuit and skid training before being permitted to undertake driving speed well In excess of posted limits We ore told that an Internal in vestigatlon Into the unfortunate and probably needless collision led to the Fomentation of several jury lions Well and good but what about the myriad police forces across the whose vehicles may even now be equipped run of Ihe mill tires and who drivers are not trained for spectacular and hazardous work on highways and roads The whole Issue of police chases is we know under review But mconwl lie buying proper Urea and training officers In special techniques Is something every force could do and immediately So that while more lhan passing attention to the aftermath collision police step further and give It their undivided attention IGUELPH MERCURY Queens Park- Ham report may affect other industry By DON Queen Park Bureau Herald The Ham Report on Health and Safety of Workers in Mines could have a great impact on working conditions and incidentally on industrial relations In province Although Ham a Inquiry was specifically centered on mining his and recommendations Inevitably will involve other areas of Industry In fact early in his report the com the problems of the health and safely or workers in mines discussed in ihls report are probably not peculiar to the mining industry MORF PARTICIPATION Generally the basic recommendations of the report ore that there be on obligation In industry lo be more open about working conditions and safely records that there be more worker participation in safety health matters Specifically Horn recommends certain records of pollution personal con lamination etc that should be kept by mine and be open to Ihe public lhat there be worker auditors who would monitor safety and health matters and that there be a new Occupational Health and Safely authority which would apply to all Industry government will almost certainly adopt recommends lions at least partially And the overall consequences will be an enforced further degree of public respon sibility on the part of Industry and a step into worker participation in management In in- WIDENED One dangerous development we may si and In fact probably will sec from the report widening of the present gap between management and labor If management takes a snap and narrow position and sees threats and other hosts In the report and labor and in turn gloat over their success the con sequence could be Injury to our Industrial relations which might more than offset any pins which result from the commission Dr Ham himself stressed thatadversary attitudes were most to be avoided there was to be good success In Improving health and safety But the first reaction was not en couraging Some press reports said com had accused industry and government of risking miners lives This he did not do The tone of his report was not accusatory Then there was a quick press release from the United Steelworken saying the reports was a horror story You can t get much hope from