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Home Newspaper of Halton Hills Page THE HERALD Wednesday February A Division of Canadian Newspapers Company Limited MainSL South Georgetown Ontario WILLIAM Publisher Editor PHONE Clan Mail Raiitrj Number- Nothing to lose in Focal study Its nice to know that McLaughlin and the town are still talking in terms of settling the contentious Focal Properties dispute Last Monday night former regional councillor Morrow made a surprise visit to the town council meeting where he com munlcated the latest state of negotiations with the determined developer Over a luncheon date vntti representatives of Focal Mr Morrow helped hammer out a deal under which the developers will pick up the costs of a feasibility study aimed at redefining the boundaries of the Georgetown urban area The terms of reference of the study will be defined by a special committee of council and the study will look at the entire Georgetown area rather than just the Focal land Hopefully the report would serve as some form of master plan outlining the growth capacity for the town While Focal have not agreed to drop legal proceedings entirely it s sate to say hey will not be pursuing their lawsuit against the town with the same while the study is in progress It sounds like the town has nothing to lose with the deal The study will cost them no money yet they will be totally responsible for determining the terms of reference for the report If the study is well done it could provide the town with a comprehensive look at growth potential for the town and may even help solve other issues lacing the town including the library and theatre complex questions If the does turn a wav where a compromise development could take place to the satisfaction of all parties it may once and for all end the dispute it we sway recommends not be allowed to develop as Roy Booth said the develoners will have been put in the of financing arguments against their own project Either way the town appears to have nothing to lose They will be handed a free study by the developer with no guarantee that it will be favorable to Focal s position Agreeing to the proposal cant hurt the town Regions idea could save lives regional council voted last week to temporarily shelve a proposal to begin using a simple three digit emergency number throughout Halton We hope the proposal doesnt remain on the shelf too long is already using a three digit emergency number and the experiment has been proven a success in London Hamilton Wentworth and Kitchener Waterloo Its a good idea and one that would probably save lives In Oak ville dialing the number gives the caller immediate access to police firefighters rescue crews ambulance dispatchers public works employees and other emergency agencies For people in an agitated state requiring emergency service children the simple three digit number makes for much needed simplicity With flames engulfing one home or an unconscious relative looking for the correct emergency number in the phone book or explaining what you want to a confused operator can be difficult The short easy to remember number would cut through con fusion and speed one message to WILLIAM MICHAEL Managing Editor Phone the proper person when time matters most during an emergency situation While the plan is a sound one and one that should be pursued there are some problems to be Ironed out It would seem that the region should have one standard emergency number to making publicizing it easier However the emergency operators on the other end of the line would have to be different for each community within the region Certainly any time gained by the use of the emergency number would be lost if the same operator was handling calls for Acton ana Georgetown Let hope that regional council acts quickly in establishing the emergency number every moment they delay increases the opportunity for tragedy Blue February Somebody was thinking when they declared February 14 St Valentines day After all it comes dead centre In the middle of February to many the bluest bleakest month of the year And so far this February has been as blue as ever with a record breaking cold spell and too many an even chillier bit of news the demolition of the NHL AllStars the hands of the Soviet National team in the Challenge Cup series For these reasons it s kind of nice that two local groups have taken a cue from those clever folks who started Valentine and have opted to nold pleasant events in the midst of the winter doldrums The Lions chose last weeK to announce winners of their annual of the award when they announci the selection of Irwin and Noble and last night the local Hotkey Heritage Council honored spot Roy Norton with their hockey heritage award at their annual dinner Now if we can only arrange for some 20 weather for this month wed have complaints at all Haltons History From the Heralds files The special status concept is gaining new respectability Ottawa Bureau Of The Herald Now thai the Tones act together on sovereignty association ihe word is thai I hey arc going to negotiate It they can begin concern ra l on a unified approach tow deficit financing Bel i still ihey might consider drop ping ihe whole confusing proposal and instead opt Tor surplus financing It would al provide Tor a real fresh start And I foronc conservative Leader Joe Clark before a notional and said a Tory government would Increase the I hive been In a stale of convoluted confusion Up until then had understood the Co lives to be violently opposed to ihe massive Liberal deficits In facl trim various Tory comments I had impression deficits were leading us on a rampage to ruination Andre the lory MP from Calgary Centre who is his parly Board warned us thai Finance Minister Jean Chrehen wis being overly opiimisiic In predicting deficit of only billion Our projections indicate that we would have a deficit this year of some ilyng like billion maybe even higher thai which Is After this dire warning along comes CI irk with this televised Conservative platform plank We re going have to run the risk of a slightly higher deficit now but it will be a different kind of deficit It will be a stimulative deficit that will cause people to go and do things And we ve got now is a dead weight deficit one that is having no effect on the growth of the country Then he went on confuse mc about increasing ihe deficit In short run to reduce in the long run and he said he would def anyone reduce without increasing it Orsomethingtothal effect In any event most people ing Conservative MPs were hard pressed to offer a full nation about Ihe party economic program Bui I guess we should give Sinclair Sterns some credit for trying Stevens is ihe Tory finance critic and if Clark discusses economic policy with anyone It would likely be with this gentleman According in Sicvens Ihcre is nothing confusing about what has been said on the Surely the press and the public will there is us ion in this party Perhaps so but I am just about convinced ihai ihls time has yet armed Vvhat convinced me was Stevens tint Clark bad never advocated increased deficit While Clark was explaining thai he dldn I have lime to go into the matter In detail Stevens was claiming thai his leaders proposal for stimulative deficit was out of context by reporters who wanted to discredit to year basis Clark and I and the Progressive Conservative parly stand for a lower deficit That will be great news for the former Ontario treasurer who said he sincerely hoped Ihai Clark was misquoted about advocating a bigger deficit But hold on a minute While Stevens sild everyone stands for lower deficit on a year loycar basis it s not quite clear where everyone stands on a month monih basis And we- haven even begun to consider a decade basis Temporary to me Is monthly and temporary to Mr Clark is monthly said Mr Stevens The increased deficit would show up in statistics for one to three months after the first Tory budget he explained and then It would disappear statistics were led I II need some help on this one Meanwhile Clark entered the discuss ions again by explaining to reporters he know Jusl how long increased would last There is some quest i in as to whether It would be a matter of three months or months or five minutes I want to assure Stevens that I am not trying to discredit his party but I humbly he and his leader have a few loose ends lie up here Oppositions silence on grants demonstrates complexity tt Queen Inrk Bureau if The Herald Perhaps the best of hivernmenis massive grant scheme lo help modernize the pulp and p industry the reocllon of the Wide the Liberals expressed serious t about grants which in be as much as million they oppose them Ned a couple or i on under which Ihe grants should be made mainly ensuring that Ihe money will be spent here mom is necessary to maintain this vital indu in our province then grants companies to spend money on ing their plan They are just us liable to pack corporate bags for areas of cheaper labor and faster growing The provincial grants would be incent ive grants For every taxpayer dollar expended by the companies must spend three That might be the edge keep the industry humming here The pulp paper sector Is vlial lo Ontario Ii is sixth largest employer with jobs affected our third largest f largest manufacturing MID III- MTU iihir grand or by remain government On balance it probably best to adopt iheopposliion viewpoint of general appro- vat an insistence on certain being imposed on the companies In particular any money spent on new especially pollution control machine must be spent in Canada r long term health of economy it probably best thai Ihe grants go ahead That begs ihe question or long rateofre but Stuart Smith though that II appears even if it irrelevant government is acting in an ad hoc fashion rather with an overall Industrial There is no force ine Ihucvtr lire the Liberals hey certain conditions to Ihe gaining equity in the No inc is quite sure will interpret the as ihe which would be n mi j I response or whether Im seen is 1 necessarj part of keeping Ontario in increasingly tough rid trade markcis In industry owns of northern there Is considerable anxiety pulp paper future thcplani becomes noncompetition heals up The Is strong throughout and hard line stance could cost party electoral shirts of Ihe grants cent That the in making good profits and should Ik I ng their own money on modern COFFEE A POUND THIRTY AGO The tea for were prepared and a budget struck a meeting of the board of education In high school last Wednes day This year cost lo the taxpayer for education will be for the public school a decrease of from last year an increase or 500 The total budget for education is While educational costs have risen sharply these have been offset Ihis year by enlarged grants at the high school The this weekend was a thaw and no fooling This month so far we have had four days with a tcmperalure below previous to the date there have been only two days registering below zero A good description of the weather of the past few days would be that we are having winter during the night and summer in the daytime Dons made her first movie appearance in a film called Romance on the High seas also featuring Jack Carson Paige and Don The advertisements of the movie being shown decribesher as radios rave girl A Dominion Food Ad has coffee cents a pound head iwo head for 29 cents salmon grapefruit six for cents SERVICE TWENTY AGO I most happy declare Ihls motion carried unanimously laid Mayor Jack Arms Monday at council by a recorded vote decided apply to county and Minister of Education to withdraw from North Halton high school district The motion was made without comment by the councillors who had previously reviewed all angles of the question and had Indicated their desire lo have Georgetown exert a closer control over lis own secondary school affairs On Sunday evening a unique service for was held by the Presbytery of or the United Church of Canada The Presbytery chairman Rev MolrAJ Waters of Port Nelson United Church Burlington conducted the service of Constitution for the new St Andrews Church Seeing the season first crow day lends Mrs S Crescent to observe that spring must be just around the corner Bom five months before Confederal ion on February Col AJex Noble of Nerval celebrating his ninety second this week tor years he has lived in The Elms the home his father bought In 1866 As a miller he earned on business in until A cat which attacked nineyearold Rene al her home at Saturday has been sent to the Animal Research Institute al Hull Queb ec from which a call has been received morning confirming the cat is rabid The daughter of Mr and Mrs Albert and a number of her young friends were skating and toboggan near her home Saturday afternoon when the animal a stranger to area rushed at her and clawed her leg fire brigades entered under the name of the Fire Prevention Bureau received commend able honors in nation wide fire proven lion contest held last October and ted under auspices of National Fire Prevention Association Halton received tenth placed for Ontario and placed for all of Canada fa IN CREDIT YEARS AGO Georgetown Council delivered a jolt to the County hoard education Monday when refused to pay the February rcquisil Ion of Reeve William Hunter acting mayor for since Mayor was at a hydro in the city pointed out this would make a tola of JIM asked from Georgetown for the first two months of the year Former Liberal Cabinet Minister Judy La Marsh last week told a group of County PC s their party made mistake when chose Robert a its leader at last fall leadership convent ion Former Manitoba Premier Duff Rob in would better have reflected the views of Canadians after Centennial year she hold Ninety thousand salmon will bo placed in the Credit River as a part of a Department of Land and Forests program plant yearlings in tributary waters of Lake On Ian and Lake Superior his A OTUple who have spent all their married life in Georgetown celebrated their wedding anniversary on Sund ay Mr and Mrs James Costlgan were visited by a number of friends and relatives during the day to wish them further years of health and happiness a card system in which four chartered banks are com bin ing will be Introduced in Georgetown later thisyear probably in June Those attend dinner meeting of the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce last Wednesday at North Golf and Country Club heard Eric Latimer Toronlo regional manager explain Chargcx and how operates By coincidence Georgetown s banks arc all pari of the scheme Canadian Imperial Dank of Commerce Royal Bank of Canada and TorontoDominion Bank Ban que National is also in the plan F DELEGATION ONE AGO Hills controversial bylaw rest net ing year round roadside parking to three hours during the early morning was again under ire at works committee Monday Comp laints from residents of two Georsetown streets prompted words of empathy bin no action from committee which upheld last years council decision to allow parked cars lo be tagged or towed away so that streets would be clear for snow removal and street sweeping Energy Minister Baetz agr eed to study BruceMilton Hydro corridor after a meeting yesterday with members of the Interested Citizens Group Mr has staled that it Is hla desire improve com mimical Ions bet ween Ontario Hydro the ministry of energy and the people