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YOUR MORNING SMILE A know ir all u one who pretends to about everything but realty nothing about any thing the HERALD Home Newspaper of Hills The big with the I big circulation read I first by everyone I Reaching more than homes in Halton Hills blaze leaves two dead Arson is suspected in fatal Acton fire The Georgetown Raiders celebrate with the ceremonial shale around the A title Saturday night at Arena The Haiders victory gave them the final over the Port Elgin four games to two Georgetown will now bailie five other teams at the Eastern Championship at Tim mini That tournament gets tonight This Week Tough training Becoming a pilot takes lot of training but there are a lot of rewards too BUI In this weeks Halton s People describes his job as a pilot for Air Canada and the training It took to get there Page The Word is back The Word a page of and views prepared by the students and staff at Georgetown and Dis School makes it Brat final term appear In this week Her aid GDHS students give their impressions a international field trips in the latest edition Page 10 Sports groups plan protest oppose towns arena rent hike Herald staff writer The furor that has arisen over town council decision to Increase ice rental rates at Hills three arenas Is being transformed into an or ganized protest that could call into question the entire spec I rum of municipal spending All sports and recreational groups affected by the recent decision to boost rental rales next September are expected to be represented by a Joint delegation that will confront council to officially protest the move probably early in May Faced with an ever operating deficit at Georgetown Memorial Arena Gordon Alcott Memorial Are and the Acton Community Centre council voted last month to increase rental rates by as much as an hour in some cases and levy an additional 10 per cent tan on the admission charged by some sports groups IMPORTANT ROLE Assuming an important role in the controversy brewing over council decision is the newly formed Hills Sports Council which is aimed at initiating and developing athletic activities in the area Sports Council spokesman Bryan Turner told The Herald this week that the organization has already begun ga the ring information about municipal spending by council in general and by the town recreation department in particular Ma questions and concerns have been raised by Sports Council members and support crs Mr Turner said about the allocation of town funds to various interests and lies The Sports Council will hold its next meeting May at the Cedarvale Community Centre where the organization con involvement in the ice rental rates issue will be dis cussed The ice rales question could become the first major issue tackled by the council which currently claims local soccer fastball Softball ten nls and cricket groups among its members and anticipates a forthcoming alliance with the town hockey groups DEBTS Mr Turner said the new rental rates which become effective Sept could mean the end of the Georgetown Junior Gem In is financially trouble history Already sad died debt the hockey team will be among the groups required to pay an hour or HO an hour more than this season to use Arena Also like the Georgetown ysler Intermediate A Raiders the will have to give the town 10 per cent of their Police commission drops sweatbox van The Halton Regional Police Commission plans to replace the patrol van which figured prominently in the socalled trial which look place earlier this year but only after consultations with experts on specifications for the vehicle which would prev a repeat of the incident The police commission has requested a report from the Ontario Police Commission and from Professor Alex Allan of the University of Toronto on the Ions f insulation ventilation and seating which would pre vent a repeat of the conditions which caused one prisoners to faint and others to show signs of heat exhaustion after being transported to Metro West Detention Centre from the Milton provincial court house August 14 1978 Two Regional police officers were acquitted of rgeslaid in connection with Incident after expert demonstrated thai the van was not suited for carrying large numbers of prisoners on a warm day because of a poorly d heating em Inadequate ion Professor Allan was one of the expert witnesses called on to testify at the trial He is an associated professor or engineering at the of Toronto Commission chairman Har ry Barrett said ion expects to receive the specifications in two or three weeks a will then issue tender calls for the van Bids hove already been received on tenders issued for new police cruisers and a van which will serve as a mobile Identification unit nightly gate receipts The Ac Ion Junior B Sabres are in a similar situation Raiders president Bob Hoo per estimates that the new rates will cost his team an hour during the regular sea son with the 10 per cent of admission receipts added to per hour rental fee Unless council can be per to reduce its charges he said the Raiders may hove to increase own a dm is charges and possible dis continue the practice of admit ting senior citizens free of charge One way or another he told The Herald additional revenue will have to be found Mr Hooper conceded that the town may indeed have been forced to increase ice rental rates in order to meet rising operating costs at the arenas but questioned the need to charge hockey teams share of their gale receipts as well The Raiders he said in a column in last week s Herald depend on gate receipts to cover Iheir own operating costs Another reason cited by both Mr Turner and Mr Hooper for ihelr opposition to the rote Increase is the suddenness with which it was approved by council The fact that the new rates gained council approval immediately following a session lost month continues to cloud issues surrounding the increase RENTAL RATES REPORT The town recreation tor Glen Gray explained this week however that Ihe sion appeared to have been made in camera more by accident than by design Council was about to consider a report on the rental rates prepared by Mr Gray when attention was drawn lo a con Continued on Page Police suspect arson as cause of on early morning fire on a farm south of Acton Good Friday in which two people died Two bodies found in the debris Hie fire have been identified Mary Jones molher of the prop erly owner David Jones and Jones to his son A post mortem was to be per fi yesterday the Cent re of Sciences in Toronto make more posit identification but the res were not available at press tin fighters on the seme minutes after receiving call at about M a m Mrs Dons Jones wife of the owner managed to escape from house and rail out to the highway where she flag god down a passing motorist who drove her to a neighbors home to the Fire depart Region raises Acton taxes for 1979 Thelhrrerecogniiable Haiders from left to right are Jurl Kudrasovs and J din For more on Raider win see Sports Week Raider coach Gerry InglU says that win or in the alders battle for the Hardy Cup this will be his last year coaching hockey For more on thai see Sports Beat Herald by Tony Panned Hera Id staff writer The expansion of Acton s treatment plant last year has been blamed for a per cent increase in the com munitys mill rate for 1979 pari of a million budget approved by regional council last week The cost of expanding the sewage plant for which fundi were debontu red as well as its operating costs for the past year have been lacked on to Acton region bill for creating what regional Don Farmer colled An extremely large increase in the mill rate the largest in the region The overall regional budget of 703 represents an increase over 1978 of approxi malely eight per cent in budget dollars and about per cent in the average mill rate The latter has been offset some what in some areas by changes in population and assessment and reserve funds earned over from previous years The final mill rates for each area municipality are to be set by local treasurers based on budget requests from the reg According lo Mr Farmer ry Georgetown ratepayers can expect a 1979 mill rale of reflect a mill or per cent increase over last year Acton s mill rate will rise by mills or 47 per cent to a new rate of mills For general regional purpo ses Hills taxpayers will be required to contribute about up by 17 3 per cent over 1978 Added to this amount are sewer servicing costs totalling Acton a 1 per cent increase over last year and in Georgetown up per cent tax hike of per cent means the average Acton ratepayer will be an additional this year while those in Georgetown will pay about more A number of factors were taken into consilient ion when the taxes were being for Hills an area which faces a very difficult situation according to Mr Farmer With a rue in population of only CO or people during a corresponding is increase of less than Mr Hills faces a larger lax increase than any other area municipality in ting per cent of amount of Acton water bills and about per cent of those In George town along with expansion costs to sewage plants in both communities served to double Acton mill rate and boost Georgetown The George own rate Is lower this year because much of the were accommodated last year and interest earned from rese rve funds that were set aside in 1973 is being Included Mr Farmer speculated mill rates will rise again next year but by Ihcn the In south will be on Page two Mrs Jones suffered minor burns and was admitted to Grctown and Me morial Hospital for treatment HI When firefighters arrived on the scene they found a car parked across the loneway blocking their trucks A spoke for the fire department said one of their men had to climb under the car and disc the drive shift to moe Both the house and barn on the properly were fully ablaze en arrived Mr Jones was at work in Toronto at the time of the fire Another son Allan 18 was also In Toronto at the time The family had lived on the farm for 1 before the fire Mrs Jones issaid to have been awake time the fire started She heard a loud noise md when she went to fire was iently well underway to make it impossible for her lo go to assistance of her mother in and son Tie Ontario Fire Marshal Office detectives from District 1 Georgetown and of the Police Force ire the cause of the blaze Ivan Hunter of Milton is is coroner Powell is conduct me the investigation for the tire Marshal office SUSPICIONS Police declined to disclose line of their investigation or what led suspicions that the fire was caused by arson but Sgt Keith Robertson said he expected a breakthrough in he Investigation by the end of the week Damage In the fire is ted as being in excess of Firefighters were on the scene for 1 hours and the fire was so fierce that they gel inside the farm house for two or three hours The town of Halton Hills a Gradall and a backhoe assist in the search for the The the property has been blocked off with a car since the fire and signs have been hung on the locked gates warning off those who might hive wanted to take a closer look Relatives have been on the property since the fire chasing away sightseers and clearing out the buildings 12971 ELIGIBLE GEORGETOWN VOTERS to preliminary lists 12 Georgetown en Is will be eligible to vote in the Current federal election There are another 370 voters In Brampton plus other eligible voters bringing the total number of eligible voters the Georgetown riding lo People not finding themselves on voters which will be mailed to urban voters for the first time have until May to appeal by contacting the chief returning officer at PM BRAMPTON Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trud was In the local federal riding lilt week he accompanied BramptonGeorgetown Liberal hopeful Ross Milne right on a tour of Shopper World Mall In Brampton Tours day The prime Minister delivered a fiery Clark speech to the targe crowd assembled at the mall theatre For detail 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