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Home Newspaper of Hills A Division of Canadian Company Limited Main SI South Georgetown Ontario iubllshtr BOB 7 Clan Mail Rig Nut Please watch out for our children The big day has finally arrived and all across Halton thousands of students will be making their way back to school Some will be dragging their feet reluctant to draw an end to the freedom of summer holidays while others will be walking eagerly ahead chattering about their new teachers and new courses Whatever the case the odds are the last thing they will be paying attention to is the traffic As they step out into an intersection to cross the street their lives are in the hands of every driver on the road Students tune an excellent safety program In the schools They learn caution common sense and the safe way of getting from place to place And they practice what they learn But ail it takes is just one moment of forgetfulness that moment when you see your best friend across the street waving at you and you start across the street without looking to see what scorning Just one moment and it over It up to the drivers to maintain extra alertness particularly during those times just before and after school and during lunch hours when children are on their way to and from school Every child on the side of the street should act as a signal of danger to a driver Children are predictable and It is the driver s responsibility to be prepared Perhaps the best suggestion to any driver is to drive as if all the children you see are your own Watch over them as if you were their parent and return them safely to their real parents at the end of the day to talk about the exciting day they had at school And or all those who would disclaim any responsibility for watching out for someone else s child ask yourself when a child dies as the result of a moment of forget fulness does it matter that he or she ran out in front of you and it t your fault Election will make or break region Statistics report forecasts better employment situation When by critics of regional government Ha I on regional chairman Morrow to recall that It took Mctropoli tan Toronto ten years to develop its strained Interborough relationships Into a successful relatively unified format It usually goes without saying that Mr Morrow predicts the same future or regional government in Halton which Is now losing out Its fourth year of existence But Mr Morrow is leaving politics as has McKeough architect of regional govern men voters who will have no direct say In choosing Mr Morrow can only speculate and In most cases hope hat the new chairman of regional council displays Mr Morrows optimism about the future and the and drive needed to make hat rosy future a rcalit While most members of the current council cither actively support regional gov or are reserved about openly con demnmg there are those who have no qualms about pulling their parochial attl tudes on record As evidenced by council recent rejection of a third plea for uniform water rates the majority or members regard regional meetings as something akin to an international policy conference where ihc delegates arc empowered by their country men to hold out for the best possible deal for the motherland regardless of ihc cost to one One regional councillor Carl of recently laid It on the lino when he announced his opposition to regional govern to his colleagues I m only here to keep the monster in check he told regional council there Is one new candidate for regional council who is confidently brandish his Intention take care of none but his own constituents If it comes down to such choice Hills voters and particularly residents arc about to sec Coun Fat retire from the regional scene after four years spent Imploring his Oakville and Burlington colleagues to vote for the good region as a whole Parochialism continues divide citizens Those the north see the south its back on their needs and conclude that regional government won t Work And while there arc still a few years to go before the growing pains cease Morrow would have us the forthcoming municipal election will decide whether a continues to its inevitable or whether internal boundaries can be forgotten and the rifts scaled closed Only when south Hallon embraces the needs and objectives of the north will regional government start to work here ByJUItAlSHfrFD Burlington As of July the seasonally adjusted figure for menl in Canada was or tor Ontario the seasonally adjusted figure was per cent Against In is background of nation wide unemployment a recent re port by Statistic Canada Is The report Into the Labour inccms trends and prospects for enrol ment school leavers and the labour force in Canada the 1960s through the 1980s It provides a overview of expected changes In the mm powers supply from Canada s education systems and pos slblc implications Declining enrolment has been the norm rather than the for elementary schools since 1970 secondary schools are now experiencing thesamedecllne which will be fell at the post secondary level in the 1080s The sequence of the postwar baby boom the subsequent precipitous drop in births and the upturn since 1973 has created a trough effect in population figures which is seen to move through the education system Into the labour forci For example who were per cent of the total in 1971 will decrease to 1986 while age group will rise from I percent to 1 percent School enrolment closely follows po pulation trends of the compulsory nature of much secondary school education at the Ihc sue of the IB group is i factor It has been project that this group will grow approximately 1 percent annually to million by the 1980s when It will diminish million by the mid 1990s n percent drop and increase Tl projected post iry enrolment In the Canada Report is based on thL the enrol rati will decline from per cent lit 1976 to 17 4 per cent in 1966 because of Da m of post Provincial agencies could be axed BY Queens Park Bureau Of The Herald Recent stories out of Queen s Park speak of some fascinating ways the provincial government is thinking or saving money One of them listed five provincial agenc that might get the chop In any tough restraint program They were TV Ontario the Ontario Institute for Studies In Education the fabled OISE the Criminal Injuries Board the Provincial Savings Office and the Ontario Economic Council In an interview before his resignation as treasurer Dorcy pooh poohed the necessity for making such massive chops And neither the Liberal nor New roc tic Party opposition have ever carried complaints about the point where they 11 d make If they were in power But still there a germ of an idea there TV Ontario ran us million last year most of it a waste of money DUPLICATION TV Ontario Is the broadcast network for the Ontario Educational Communications Authority which produces and socalled educational programs There arc endless hours of French uagc programming which simply duplicates what has the CBC French network for There are the usual oversea progaganda films such as to pick the last one I saw Development In The which coupled a hymn of praise for socialist Algeria with a violent attack on capitalist Morocco The last lime hit the headlines was over a Richard Nixon styled enemies list that circulated In their and lumped provincial politicians Into friend or foe categories Yes TV could be basically cancelled with few even noting its passing would save another to million if it And hat good OISE has long chalked up a record for producing esoteric this world reports and programs Ivory tower Is one of the kinder epithets applied to it Their latest escapade is to produce a journal of underdevelopment studies call Two Thirds which appears to follow the usuil chic Marxist line on the Third World This nonsense is In a lime of restrilnl The Ontario Economic Council another million produces a number of highly economic studies but the trouble is noone In government appears to pay any attention to them They re for increasing economists salaries but otherwise seem have Out with them too Tilt The Province of Ontario Savings Office which cost K million to operate actually makes money for the government and depending on how the accounting is done It could reach quite a few millions annually But should government even be In the hanking business That leaves the Criminal Injuries Board which cost million Ttgives financial awards victims of unprovoked crimes of violence Of five agencies lis the only one serving useful social function II should be kept The others d hardly miss secondary graduates in some disciplines with consequent ment and decreasing wages a diminishing demand or leach in to the 1980s as enrolment con inues to decrease and Continuation of the recent drop in the total proportion of gov expenditures o education from 2 per cent in 1970 17 per cent in 1975 A slow increasing 1824 age group combined with a falling iment rate resulls in more or less stable post secondary enrolment between 1977 and 1982 of about students The subsequent decline in the 18 age group is expected cause enrolment to drop to around by This is likely into the early 1990s Part time enrolment been excluded from study it must be remembered thai pari time students const a significant proportion of post secondary enrolment an estimated per cent in 1975 Phenomenal labour force due emergence of the billy boom from la system has been by a rapidly increasing percentage of work women per cent pari rate in 19C5 per cent In and high from to 1975 the labour force increase an aver age per cent year sub stantially above other Indus tallied nations including the The annual influx of job- seeking school leavers is est mated to have peaked in 1977 Assuming 100 annual net migration and a moderately rising participation rate la force growth should fall from a average of per cent in period to 7 per cent during 197580 per cent during and 1 per cent during 198590 For the purpose of ihc Can Statistics Report every one enrolled full lime at any level in the education system during one academic year but not the next is a school leaver This includes all dents who leave school for any reason graduates or not Those remaining In the try and eligible to work are referred to as potential la force entrants The number of potential labour force entrants represents the annual supply of new man power available to the labour force from the education ays tern While there are other sources of manpower and he household sec tor the education system is the principal one Due to the baby boom the annual man power supply from the Ion system has increased ra In 1976 percent more school leavers become avail able the work force lhan in I960 compared with This figure is expect to rise until 1930 when It will decline each year until early 1990s By the mid 1980s approximately the same urn of young people will be leaving school and seeking employment as in 1970s Secondary School leavers have been and will continue to than their Looking through our files THIRTY AGO Enrolment at Georgetown high school has been seriously a f fee led by the transfer of a majority of students to high schools at Milton and Acton This years enrolment is compared with 150 last year Under normal circumstances an in crease of about would have been expected so the net loss In number of students Georgetown Is almost Fire which broke out in a windbreak at Brampton Brick Company plant on the highway near the Georgetown cutoff caused loss estimated at a week ago last night A quarter of a million which would have been ready for market within Iwo days were when water used to Brick Company la the town oldest Industry and was founded in i860 Georgetown Lions Club will be sponsor the placing of waste containers in the Main Street district The subject was introd at the club dinner meeting in McGlbbon House last night by Walter who explained that the plan would be to containers made similar to those used in Toronto and approach merchants and others interested In cleaning up the downtown district Tor donations AGO A Georgetown man will be spending winter far from beaten path Paul who has been visiting for a few days with his parents Mr and Mrs Dick left town lost Thursday for Montreal from where he was to leave by air for a position on the Dew Line 100 miles north of the Arctic A motion by Coun Harrison and extend parking meters another block on Main Street south found only Coun In agreement with Ihem and the plan was defeated at last week council meeting A delegation of some concerned parents the majority from Park district flooded the Georgetown public school board meeting enquiries last night for almost two hours board room Harrison school but had to be adjourned of the because of Ihe size of the delegation Although few knew Georgetown had as visitor last By great wc mi in great in courage in human kindness ingenully and resourcefulness whose own personal safely was never considered when he was needed We are speaking of Jun Molcnnar a guest of Mr Mrs Hunk 14 Crescent from Holland who arrived in Canada in June Mr Mo was one of lhe top men in resistance movement against the Nails when occupied Holland being lhe director of displaced persons for the province of Simply the lltlo meant lhat he was the number man in helping the persons who were fleeing the Nails The Georgetown and Esqucslng schools swallowed up pupils Tuesday and at press time are suffering only mild on The record enrolments were general as the Georgetown public schools accepted high school Holy Cross and township schools I The is an of over last Septemb er figure Colonel land Saunders known best to northerners for capturing chicken lovers everywhere Inspected his Georgetown out post Saturday and found everything in finger lick In shape Armstrong Brother Construction Com of has started work on the death corner intersection at Hornby The corner been lhe scene of many major highway crashes and one coroner Inquest into Ihc fatalily at the Intersection urged that it be rebuilt The idWrsccllon is at the corner of Trafalgar and the Base Line The work Is part of a program by county to rebuild north south Trafalgar Road strip and develop It as a major traffic route post secondary counterparts But the real difference has been the respective rates at which output from lhe two levels has Increased Between md 1976 the annual of labour force entrants from secondary school rose only per cent from 294 to 372 while those with post secondary in creased per cent from to By the number secondary will have shrunk almost 1966 level and those lhe post secondary system will be more triple the i960 figure Variations in the past were caused by the ten for a larger proportion of young people to attend post secondary institutions In he medium term future the populations changing composition will increase the size of post secondary edu segment vis a vis those with secondary schooling This resulls in relatively more high ly educated labour force en t ran is fn approximately per cent of new labour force entrants hid postsecondary credent la Is or had completed part of such a program The percentage rose to 30 per cent In 1976 and Is expected to be more than per cent by drastic change In lhe nature of new manpower In only years More on this subject next week Beware of preelection nightmares By STFWART MscLEOD Ottawa Bureau Of The Herald The next time I take a vacation there will be no television no radio no newspapers I won t speak to anyone who has any contact wllh the outside world And hopefully I won t run anyone who has even visited Ollawa Then perhaps I can kick these res about the next election campaign Actually I thought my timing was Just about perfect this year Prime Minister had just gone on national television with rather humorous haste to tell us could all forget about an election at this lime because Canadians would prefer that their government deal with important Issues He made It sound as though It would be a quiet operation by his cabinet colleagues and the rest of us could relax for the remainder of the summer Ho ho ho What Trudeau did with his steelyeyed statement about our economic was to set off the greatest prcclecllon publicity blitz since the St Laurent government tried to win reelection bv raising oldage pensions to a month The only light relief during the past two weeks was watching cabinet ministers trip over each other as they raced to their next press conference And this of course contributed lo the nightmares FIGURES FRIGHTEN You ice for those of us who face some involvement in the next election campaign there is nothing more frightening than economic complexities which may have to be explained That why everyone has fond memories of Hint month increase In old age pensions we could understand It And that why we had so much trouble in as former Conservative leader Robert Stanfield talked about negative income tax and later in when he made a valiant effort to explain how price and wage controls would work While the rest of us looked In bewilderment Trudeau bought the entire package and implemented the Tory program But that was nothing compared with what coming As a result of those announcements over the last few weeks announcements lhat seem to remove all doubts about a fall election we are faced with a set of issues will reduce seasoned economists to babbling wrecks What the government has done after prime minis urged us to forget elections was to bring down a series of financial and monetary measures that make most budgets looked like petty cash vouchers And it has all been done on television instead of in Parliament This means we don even have lhe benefit of parliamentary debate to put things in focus Its no wonder the nlghlmnres became One of the things we are going to have to face Is that per cent in gasoline excise taxes It seemed straightforward enough at the time but two days later after the announcement the price of gasoline rose in Canada II seems that many dealers had already paid the excise tax and had to recover it from consumers Were totally buffaloed was lhe com menl from Shell Canada Ltd If that company is buffaloed where does it leave roe Then there Is that cut in family Heaven knows it s already complex enough with lax credits and the like But now wc find out the plan can be Implemented until Parliament meets and since we don know where this will be it impossible to measure the effects it may never happen I believe many Canadians wanted a reduction of family allowances said Health Minister Monique Begin It will be inlercsting but no doubt confusing to learn how this conclusion was suddenly reached after the Trudeau government has spent 10 years raising family allowances And of course all want to hear how It now Is possible to eliminate public service jobs being told the bureaucracy was already pared to bone While they ore at it perhaps Liberal politicians could also tell us how unemployment and Inflation the country two major problems will be affected by all these scatter shot announ cements Some unbelieving Tories say there will be no affect whatever Perhaps we never know The way the universe Is unfolding we will be swamped with statistics and choked by confusions before we ever get to the polls At least lhat what nightmares indicate Brampton school reunion Sept To the editor of The Herald As chairman of the Brampton McIIugh Public School Reunion Committee we shall be grateful you if you would publish the follow Information In your paper Any reader who has had any affiliation with McHugh School over Its years either as a student staff member or par Is extended a warm wet come to Join us on the occasion or our Reunion on Saturday September 1978 from 1 p to m at the school on Craig and Elliott Street The Committee Is collecting pictures yearbooks etc of former years to put on display for the day If you can help us in this respect please leave any materials with Mr Smith Principal of McHugh by September clearly marked on the bock with your name and full address so that all articles can be returned promptly to owners It will be appreciated if you would the news of lhe Reunion to any others who Just might have received word or It Thanking you for your co operation We remain Yours very truly Gordon i Arn oil Charlton Cochairman McHugh School Reunion i Bible Digest I am Ihc good shepherd good shepherd his life for the sheep Therefore dotii my Father love mo because I lay down my life that I might take it again John 10 II Our sins took life of Jesus our forgiveness depends on what we believe about it Christ died for our sins