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Home Newspaper of Hills Page THE III- Wednesday November 1978 A Division of Canadian Newspapers Company Limited Mam St South Georgetown Ontario Will lAMtVDOKIMOtr Publisher Editor HIT Second Mill Rg Number Governments pass the buck not bucks The provincial and federal governments are currently involved a same of passim the buck rather than bucks that will leave Ontario municipalities short changed Restraint tax cuts and fiscal responsibility are all catch words that the current crop of politicians are convinced will guarantee their re election Since California voters foolishly voted to cut their throats in a bid to cut taxes passing Proposition Canadian politicians are now trying to head off rebellious voters by cutting budgets as fast as they can In order to save Canadians money last week the federal government cut sales tax The feds also recently took steps to cut income taxes Both moves will result in close to million being chapped from the Ontario governments revenues So while it looks like the Liberal federal government is practising good management they are to a large degree simply slashing wildly at provincial revenue Meanwhile the provincial government also chose last week to announce their latest bit of fiscal responsibility The provincial government has chosen to pass on the Federal government budget slash along with a slash of their own on to all groups funded by Queen s Park in the form of a five per cent ceiling on grant increases this vcar While some groups may get a little more or less than the five per cent figure Ontario treasurer Frank Miller Told Ontario municipalities last week that school boards and municipal governments will get no more than the five per cent budget hike With an inflation rate of around nine per cent the municipalities budget hikes will reality amount to a four per cent budget cut if present levels of services are maintained So both the federal and provincial governments have dealt with restraint easily they have simply passed the cutting along to the municipalities Now municipal school boards and councils will have to find a way to live with the five per cent hike None of the options are likely to win municpal with the voters They could cut services something that is unlikely to please many since vices have been cut back regularly since when the Ontario Tories first announced their new policy of restraint The other option is to raise taxes again a choice guaranteed to raise howls from the voters At a time when Ontario municipalities arc madly competing for business and industry it seems unlikely that much of the tax increase option would be directed towards the industrial or business sector Instead if municipalities are forced to hike taxes to meet federal and provincial cuts the lost revenue will probably be raised through increased taxes a taxation system which many people are now challenging the equability of So voters shouldn t be fooled Our taxes haven been cut and the two top levels of government really running a tight fiscal ship They are simply passing the costs of their cuts on to the municipalities NEW APPROACH TO BUDGET CUTS Grits problems not medias fault John Evans states position Ottawa Report Parenting course is a good idea We applaud the school board s executive committee recommendation to support in principal local public School prin Eric proposal for a course in the theoretical and practical aspects of being a parent Certainly in these days of seeking relevance In education nothing can be more relevant than instruction in the art and job of being a parent School age youngsters are now given instruction in cooking metal shopand physical education we think Instruction in good parenting is the HERALD Phone equally important Perhaps abuses and problems that many school children become adult parents can be avoided with the proper in struction at an early age We do not see parenting In struction as an infringement on the responsibilities of a child parents anymore than school sponsored sex education and mathematics in struction is an infringement The school system s role is to provide the basics in education whether that is in arts and sciences social relations or parenting While children will be taught basic elements of parenting if the proposal is approved if will still be up to a child parents to add their personal in struction and guidance to supplement a child in school Instruction If the school board must din into its funds to set up the new course we think it would be money well spent however details of the parenting course will not be known until the board investigation of the ways and means of implementing this course are completed We look forward to the report By Stewart MacLeod Ottawa Bureau Of The Herald Prune Minister going to have 1o lake John aside one these days and him gel in step with modern day Liberalism Dr Evans you sec Is being a of a radical He came out flatly and declared thai not all of ihe Liberal party problems can be blamed on the media And if this bad enough al the best of limes he did this right the prime minister suggested lhat med a was responsible for not only mosl of the parly problems but mosl or the country problems as well vans you might recall Is a former university president who was defeated by former Toronto Mayor David Cromble In ihc 16 He Just defeated cither he was trounced With a remarkable display or Evans turned up thai recent meeting of Ontario federal Liberals in time to hear prime minister designate the media as public enemy No 1 And by cleverly linking the Liberal party wilh the very fabric of Canadian society Trudcau seemed happy lo suggest thai media is really an enemy of the country itself TWIN ENEMIES lie clearly Id it nil hong out The press and parliamentary opposition he said arc twin enemies of the Liberal government This means that society Itself Is under attack thai may sound a bit exaggerated I suggest it Is not I suggest thai it Is RALLY TROOPS Obviously Trudeau has been under enormous pressure since his was humiliated in those October byelcctions and I suppose he can t be blamed for grasping at diversion Hut if he is going launch a successful national onslaught against the press he should rally his troops first He needs unity In Ihe ranks There is absolutely no point In the prime minister standing there accusing the press of being In socially subversive one of his most intelligent lieutenants is in a state of mutiny To the cheers of his Ontario followers Trudeau said part of the problem rested with a Watergate envy which makes the press so mew ml in search of scandal We have to as Liberals reintroduce a rule of reason Surely ton fair hearing when we speak the language of intelligence We must return to the conviction as that if wo do what Is rifht It right and that the end of it The prime minister strategic attack against the media should not have taken the enemy by surprise since many other an governments had adopted mil pos Is lends to be the final line of prior general elections But scope of the was rather startling By ihi of Canadian not to minium bung the authorized outlet for it that media is not only a full scale enemy of stale but it is also Ouch And he stop there The prime mm suggested by implication that mod a is against national unity since we attack only parly that stands for a united Canada He went on say lhat our wo the Liberal way for a strong Canada is not shared any other parly I am to fly into a tangent about at this point Right now It seems that tile prime minister may have his hands full converting Dr Evans to the cause doctor We would be deceiving ourselves if we felt the solution to our problems really rested with the media Only when the parly becomes united on this particular can he begin plotting defensive strategy Letter to the editor- YMCA says thanks for local donations To the editor of The Herald The YM greatly appreciates the efforts of the people of Georgetown and Glen Williams who contributed their valuable time and energy In the recent canvas We also wish to thank the community for generously responding lo the financial needs of our organization To all we say thank you for helping lo moke this year s a successful thus enabling our to continue la service the needs and Interests of citizens of Georgetown and District Sincerely Joanna Dobbin Cheryl Thorn More letters on page five Queens Park Report By Derek Nelson The decline of English language in Ihe school system has reached a preposterous stage 1 mean If you or I receive a six per cent hike we d call a raise or an increase In income When colleges and universities receive an almost six per cent increase in govern funding the Ontario Federation of Students calls that a cutback It hard to know whether to blame this find of failure on the English or mathematics faculties Or maybe both But maybe it Ihe OFS Itself The organization has a tendency to follow its own brand of logic They believe and its true that upper in come families are over represented In a university system that is mainly paid for through the taxes of the less affluent Now one might think therefore both because benefit from system and because they can afford It should pay a little more in tuition fees Yet OFS concludes Just the opposite INCREASED TAXES They want tuition fees frozen or even reduced which will mean Increased taxes for most of us to pay for the desires of the privileged few This year Ontario taxpayers paid a subs post secondary school student of Next year it II be That not enough for OFS chairman Miriam was even shown on television saying universities don t have the money to pay a living wage Since the average university academic salary Is 370 and community college academic salary Si lhat gives you some idea of her scale of values Recent Or agitation has included cut back weeks on campus and a poorly attended demonstration al Queen Park One encouraging note Is that some student groups especially campus PC buying the cutbacks sense and are fighting back own signs and pamphlets Not that the position really means much any more They re acting like with heads in the sand trying lo Ignore unpleasant realities WITH RESTRAINT As post secondary enrolment declines the percentage of the provincial budget devoted to colleges and universities Is going lo hove to decline Increase are going to hove to learn lo live wtih restraint Just like rest of us Students as the mosl privileged in a privileg segment of society are going to have to abandon selfish dreams of endless goodies They should be studying the Report whlchsuggcstswaysforcoUcgesand universities to adapt to restraint and make appropriate amendments were needed The current OFS position of total ion is a waste of their lime And our money Haltons History From the Heralds files Affluent families over represented in Ontarios universities CANDIDATES ACCLAIMED THIRTY YEARS AGO Mayor Joseph Gibbons was returned for a 13 term at Friday nomination meeting He was to ihe position as were Jack Armstrong for the position of reeve and James Goodlet for deputy reeve There will be Ihree council candidates in Ward but all others were returned by acclamation Over guests called lo wish Mrs Samuel Webster of Norvata happy birthday when she held open house last Thursday lo celebrate her ninetieth birthday Mrs whose bright spirits and active life would do credit to a lady of GO has lived her whole life in the village Her husband who practis ed medicine In Nerval and Georgetown passed away years ago The month of November is nearly over and the weather still keeps quite open In fad up to date here have been only days wilh below freezing temperatures which is much better than November 197 which had below freezing point The lowest last year was 10 degrees while this year the lowest was a balmy 3 POSTMASTER VISITS TWENTY AGO Nomination night was quiet in Esqucsing Township Monday night The five man township council was acclaimed for lis third year in office with acclamations accorded to Reeve George Deputy Reeve Campbell Sinclair and Councillors Wilfred Bird Walter Llnham and George Leslie The local post office staff were surprised and honored on Thursday by a visit from the postmaster general the Honorable William Hamilton of Ottawa Mr Hamilton was passing through town on business but stayed long to meet the post office staff and discuss the local expansion problem with local postmaster Harold Marshall It was the first me any postmaster general has paid a vis to Georgetown post office An awird for the store with the largest sales increase in sales during was presented to and Bruce William son comanagers of local IGA on November 19 al IGAsupper and dance the Royal York Hotel It was the second time In years that the award has gone to the Georgetown IGA which has shown a sales increase of per cent since opening In June It looks like a big season on foxes in as se veral Hat ton gun and sportsmen clubs begin the contest to bag Ihe most foxes between now and County Game Warden Bob Held or Milton anticipating a flood of bounty hunters to begin the bagging operations in full scale this weekend urged to respect farm and public properly Many farmers will grant permission to hunt on their properties if asked in advance The entires of SG Bennett of Scolsdale Forms Georgetown swept the male champ ionship slate in the Shorthorn show al the Royal Winter Fair The senior champion male was Scolsdale Lucifer with his winning senior yearling Juggler In the reserve positions The remarkable safely record being established at Harrison Public School was recognized yesterday morning with the pres entation of a safety plaque by Provincial Paper Ltd In a ceremony at the school Rosa Duncan made the presentation for an ace free period from December 1957 to June 1958 BAKING PRIZE TEN YEARS AGO Thirty6U years of municipal service 22 of them as an elected official 14 as appointed one ended last Wednesday November when Mayor Joseph Gibbons died in Georgetown hospital following a heart attack in the early evening from which he failed rally The previous week he had called a press conference following a council meeting to announce that he would not be seeking reelection in December a special council meeting Thursday morning council appointed Reeve F Hunter lo be acting mayor for the duration of the year With only one year experience in ihe baking business Bill Sykcs son or the owner of Sykcs Scotch Bakery copped first prize In a cakedecorating competition against a baker dozen of seasoned experienced competitors A fifteen minute limit was placed on each contestant Possibility thai Georgetown may get its long awaited dam next year was voiced by Roy Monday told council that a group of officials had visited the dam site and being given lop priority The dam hinges or what development takes place on surround land owned by Developments said A bridge and four land road would bt pari of a dam project The executive of the Conservation Authority has been told It mtts raise about for maintenance costs ii 1969 or it will be in very severe difficulties BETTER READERS ONE YEAR AGO Extended care in are not located to serve the majority of people In Ihe region a public institutions inspection panel has found The panel recently Inspected a number of publicly funded institutions In Halton Georgetown and District memorial Hosp ital Hills has lost is or to the warmer weather and drier climate of Volley Doug has resigned effective December and will assume his duties as administrator of city British Columbia on January 3 197S Expropriations wilt take place along Ihe Hills Concession for the Bradley hydro transmission line In a decision approved November IS but not released until Thursday Ontario Energy Minister James Taylor found that an order In council setting as a crossing for of a hydro corridor from the Bruce generating station to the corridor to grid is binding on Ontario Hydro and determines the scope of its objective Milton In the expropriation ess By the time students in get to Grade they are slightly belter al reading than the average Canadian child Helton board of Education was told Thursday Kit Rankin an English teacher at Gordon Purdue school In told the board during special meeting on English language programs standards and expectation that is always a little ahead the rat of the country In reading