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Landfill fight page 12 Home Newspaper of Halton Hills Sweat box testimony page 15 Wednesday January lOIB Page SECOND SECTION HALTONS PEOPLE Developer wants hamburger housing By MAGGIE HANNAH Herald writer Builders and developers arc blamed for all kinds of housing problems in Canada by public and by some politicians as well but if you listen Ihe developers you 11 hear a differ Georgetown developer Pi would like lo see the government make some sort of survey showing the high cost homes Is contributing modem social If our government can spend more than a million dollars Tor Judy La Marsh to us lhal violence on lelevi sum is not causing social I cms Dion I think they could afford do a survey that shows whether or the break up of homes and related social problems are related I high of homes in this country Mr says Speaking in parables which is his natural way of explaining himself he says lhal he is quite concerned about how ihe high of homes forces wives to go out to work and what are the kids up to On lop of lhat the situation where husbands drive to Toronto in the snow and ihe blizzards to get salaries Thtnwhenthey bring home Iheir and wives xpeel I for a new dress or something they I m sorry dear mortgage comes firsl and I hero any money for your dress Providing a lesson In adaptability the swans at North Golf and Country Club find shelter from the snow and wind a culvert links ponds on either side of Mo pic Like Iheir feathered cousins on Fairy Lake the swans evidently find enough food lo warrant year round residency in the colder climate this side of the sunny Caribbean which Is fine by the Georgetown who hove come to appreciate the picturesque sight of waterfowl at leisure Herald photo by Paul How many times docs that happen before Ihe wife begins him he working hard or he a failure And how many times docs she run him down before ihe bund turns to j secretary or someone in his office who mikes no demands on him and eventually he stops coming home and the family breaks up Developers don I need go vernment subsidies he says What they need Is a clear cut of type of housing is needed In a com muitity so we can build accordingly The Canadian food industry docs a far belter job than the building Industry of providing for people he continued If you go to meal counter of any super market you find great piles of hamburgers some roasts and chops a few steaks and maybe a of filet mignon The housewife looks al the meat and wishes she could buy the filet mignon she knows she con I afford it so she goes back to tht staples buys hamburger In the housing industry got all kinds of filet homes and no hamburger There may be 20 homes in southern Ontario but none or hem arc low cost I go applicants for low condominiums two years ago he says so other had to reach for high cost homes 1 ford If anyone in Southern On expects new construction of rental acenn with nut government subsidies then ihey re just kidding ihem selves he says Rental units arc ihe hamburger pile As a developer 1 like in fuluro to be able lo go to the politicians and say Tell me what the average workers income is so we know whit he afford Acton war museum owner reminds public of past By MAGGIE HANNAH Herald staff writer In the years since the end of World War II a whole generation of Canadian young had time to grow up with no real understanding of what their country contributed to the war Among those who would like to sec something done lo correct this situation is Hill Gregg a former university professor and medical re searcher who now farms west of Acton Ills interest is in acquiring Canadian military vehicles and restoring them for display purposes While Dr Gregg was too young to sec service in the war himself he has memories of what returning veterans had lo say and his father was in the artillery during World War I Gregg has military vehicles which are restored or in lion as well as about dozen other part vehicles Since his budget Is too small to stretch around all the things he d like to do he has set his priorities on acquisition rather than Tie says and he is investigating more vehicles he knows about with a view to buying them There s still a lol of around in service If you know what lo look for he says and points to things like the Dodge aircraft refueller which just gave him couple of weeks ago when it was retired from active ser vice or the 1944 Ford fire tender originally used at Tren ion air force base during World II and retired from active use by the Alton fire department in November Dr Gregg has set up the Canadian Military Historical Society Inc in the eventuality that his collection might one doy be turned type of museum and lis directors will meet soon to consider opening the society up for membership We need members to do the restoring and see lhat the vehicles are properly looked after he says They are simple vehicles mechanically and don t require Ihe finishing upneccssaryforanoldcar for example Really they re Tor collectors The story of ihe develop ment and production of mill tary vehicles In Conda Is virtually untold he says In September 1939 had about so 000 military ve hicles motorcycles and impressed When escaped from Dunkirk they had to leave of them behind The ve hides left Included 2 mo torcycles No other common wealth country had the motor industry we had so was that we were the ones they turned to Col Cirrwas with National Defense in Ottawa and saw il coming He had no budget but he managed to import a of Gun Traders in 1937 One went to bord In which a Amer lean subsidiary in those days ind the other General By the time the war broke out a structure had already been set up to get things going produce hides for From a standing in the foil of lo the end of 1344 Canada produced an excess of ooo military vehicles We supplied only the mijority of British army vehicles also a large number of the vehicles used by India lu ind New Wealsi sent nearly too vehicles to Itussia Although many of the vehicles were furly nearly of them were specialized ones designed in Canada and known as Military Pattern INkNOWNSTOitY nigh Ihe hides were extremely successful n super r vinous using them the sli ry is almost unknown in Can he I to j pits of history here and lei il be section if inadlan vehicles The museum in DM covers the broad of military artifacts but re is still room for private linns just there is in other of interest Our chapter gives as Ihe right to a museum hut ire administration prob lems pre venting it the present he says Gregg houses his in a square foot building which he bought manlled and reconstructed on his property It was the sheds used to shelter of families driving it Dornoch a small tomminiily north of Durham It saved ind it worked ideally storage he says the vehicles he has stored arc an airworthy Tiger Moth lex No used in flying training school in Windsor the Dodge aircraft refueller re cently retired from Malton the ex Trenton air base 1944 bord fire lender a Otter light rcconnatsance car which was the first attempt at wheeled irmnured vehicle a Ford Held artillery tractor type I a 1917 munitions earner built in Kitchener He dreams of Ihe day com ing when he has enough of his vehicles restored In be able to exhibit small groups of Ihem at local events like Steam En Show In Milton 1 like to be able get in touch with local ind lmlividuils who used these vehicles so lhat it we put on such i display we man It with ex scrv ice men who had used the same type of vehicle during Ihe war he says You d be surprised how ex tiled some of fellows when they see these old ve hicles they remember II far enough away now that a I of the Second World War velcr are beginning to look at the thing romanticallv now The bad arc fading and the nostalgia and romance is coming forward In addition to his own venture Gregg is a shareholder in Quad Ltd of Ontario the publishing behind Magazine Tins is a Interest migizine a v in shops advertised in the Royal Can Legion magazine Tht Quart is also producing a should be available in says which all the vehicles used in the Euro- Vehicles In Europe is illy reprint of a hand hook issued by Canadian headquarters in don b ngland in and be in excellent re source book for collectors II will be distributed by moll orders rather I Inn through hook stores he says ind interested tan make inquiries directly Quad Pub ions or to the Canadian Historical Society Inc 2 If stiff cienl interest is shown in this book a second more detailed book based tin notes from the of Munitions and SuppK in be published Quid is also interested in tnudnn militiry human in teres st from anv branch of the service Dr Gregg Were not a venture he soys of his society d like get i disphy set up that Legions bring tours to r sihool children benefit from vuwlnfi whil we need Ibis point Is a little publicity so people will know what were looking for sociclv would welcome my in is well is any stones i mihtiry and vehicle in in he You me what the house is going to sell for or what he iparlment rent will be and 1 lellvouwhat tor that Il frusirallng because finger is us when It shouldn be came to Canada his in 1951 Since lhal lime he has started his married a dian woman raised three daughicrs I iken up in Georgetown Although he quickly refused in give iny of his age he ibout leaving school to working as a photo assistant in Milan at ihe age of He lied and said he was 16 so he could the Mr left school after five years in his Italy ind two days in Canada I sitried n schiol to learn English and I was amazed the amount of nine were spending try to me lo spell spelling is now one of his pet peeves and he jokes ve simplified our system by inlro meinc we should now hire to sort out our spelling system so given sound can be produced by only one combination of Ititers Jusl think of ill Ihe icjchcrs we tould lay off if d dn have to w iste ill that time to spell all the mtney thil move Then winked ind isks nail ml problems reporter wants him to s When decided lo jrtic Mr aunt and uncle in Toronlo sponsored and fnmd hem a place si Ih it they hid a couple of r live in when Mr I when In just how to swear and bit of eunltng thanks ihe he had list mi loo kilometres fvenici il i vimhir 1 j tw I Her living pines on const ructi sile in 1 The boss saw al figured that because he is he should go on tin fn f the line picking a f the pipes in the fr in will pick axe It lis md him his hinds bet use they were lludinj I a photognpher r he and my in I re rcilly soft After lie turn Ihe boss put me end of crew vhcre ihcj were fillint trench in loose diri over pipes il was easier in Cinida is a Mr says 1 1 in two by four joisis in 1952 on a job wesi of Toronto He worked yeirs for a subcon iractor Then he bought on old car and a skill saw and went into business for himself His first job was working for old on a project In Georgetown Gradually he be me a builder on his own wllh about 100 own houses and 120 apartments and 10 square feet of industrial space Over the year he been associated with al least partners he says only company he owns out right is a numbered com You don always have cap iial to do a whole project on your own he explains so I try slick people In building trade I find works Mr says he has si ven closely lo Georgetown of his speech ment Georgetown politicians and thus is the self confidence m ike his own presentations to council when he is planning development I know every election that least part of old council will In rcelecled and that me the courage to keep working here he said Id never again from square A wilh a proposal to before Milton or Missis sing council I just 1 lalk to them I d stutter so birth 1 couldn do it Mr makes his own presentations rather Ihan deal through a lawyer because feels politicians prefer to deal direcily wilh develop- nisi snes him money he feels to make Ins prescnta lions in person If a proposal required small change and asked a lawyer about 11 he would have lo go to Mr Pilulti and consult him before giving council an answer and money If Mr I makes presentation in person he can give an decision on Ihe eh luntlt requests He is not much on hobbles he says He likes fishing and and a bil of gambling since he owns of a few race horses but basically he finds sports and other things a It is Mr belief that cost of owning or renting a home across Canada especially in the industrial is one of our high unemployment rite I comprehend how and why in the United Stales even in the metropolitan a buy a lot to build a house on pay an average of around And it could be less than that How can 230 million the luxury of doing that and only pay a month in interest while in Canada cheapest lol you can buy to build on will cost the buyer 000 and interest lo carry it will run month Houses cost at least ore here in Slates In other words Canadians have lo earn a month more than Americans just to be even wllh the American standard of living Considering lhal Cano da is a cold country from border border our energy costs for heat are higher loo The of disposable income available to Canadians should be considered after the cost of food and shelter as well as income tax of just Income lax he says since Ihese have be lints ahead of other family expenses The reasons Canadians strike so often is because they need so much more money for a comparable job keep abreast of their American neighbours When he began as a builder in Georgetown in a house per square foot construe and lots cost Today houses a square fool to build which Is an increase of per Lots however run at each now which is an increase of more than 1000 per cent The land isn I making any demands tit says Itsjusta piece of cold ground lying here DISPOSAL You cant give me the irgument il plans have been Croat si of lots he I consider the per feci plan of subdivision In a suitable locution would be where the homes have town water and septic tank disposal systems like in Glen Wil Minis for instance which was built li was built in a where the water table was high and Ihe lots were square feet yet they had to support both a welt and a septic tank If you go 20 feel above water you will have eliminated at least per cent of pr they arc now after 100 years By increasing the lot a lie square feet you will have eliminated another per of the problem If you were to pipe In town water per cent of it Thais 120 per centoof ihe problem cured and ihe plant not involved at all All sewage disposal plants do Is pollute river down stream wilh hard chemicals II can I break up he sold What he recommends to cor reel ihe situation i a crash program lo improve the inslal lalion of septic tanks or other means of sanitation an open of the boundaries choking development in metropolitan areas consideration of each application on lis merits and the tailoring of projects to the income of people who would use 1 Doing these things would go a long way lo salving the problems he says