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Home of Page THE HERALD Wednesday AuguJt 1I7 A Division of Canadian Newspapers Company Limited lOJMalnSLSoulh Georgetown Ontario Publisher Editor Second Clan Mail Red Cross urgently needs blood In the midst of the light hearted spirit of these holiday summer months Hills residents are again being called upon to help out those in need Many Hills residents have already opened their hearts to the plight of the Boat People and now the Reel Cross have made an urgent appeal for blood donors at a special summer clinic Because of a serious blood shortage in this part of Ontario Red Cross units throughout the area are organizing clinics to try and bolster their supply of life giving blood Already hospitals in Toronto have been reduced to delaying elective surgery and Red Cross spokesman could regional Wood supplies Locally the Red Cross clinic will be held next Monday from 30to8pm at the Holy Cross auditorium Dozens of volunteers will he involved in the preparation and running of the clinic While the Red Cross does not usually hold summer blood clinics the current blood shortage crisis has prompted the breaking of precedence Its more important than ever that Hills residents get out and give blood at this clinic If local residents don turn out In significant numbers at Mondays clinic Halton Hills may find itself in a blood shortage crisis thats especially dangerous during this season of numerous traffic accidents SOME CREATIVE EXCUSES ON WHY TO GIVE BLOOD cZt s jZSHffHnS a a a a a a a a a a -i- a Br a a fJi a Conservatives are surprised poor economic situation By Stewart MacLeod Kelso Roberts memorable man Oilawi Of The Herald Since I have never understood econo mics or financed perhaps But layman think those economic heavy weights of the Conservative government are beginning to sound a bit Billy when feigning surprise they complain about the sorry state of the nation a financial health You would think they had expected to Ithoughlhat Board President Sinclair looked positively pained fell it necessary lo go before the cameras and say that the economic situation inherited from he defeated Liberals was even worse than we expected The Implication was that Canadians expect the Tories to implement nil their campaign promises right now Finance Minister John is peddling a similar message It will he says lake two or three years of disclplin ed restraint to pull the country out from under 10 years of Liber 1 mlsmamte ment He too seemed pained Now I am not for one moment suggesting the Tones I inherit a sorry iconomlc and there are many who feel the I iberals wen masters of mismanagement ECONOMIC In fact for the last few years I had led to believe we economic collapse led by misguided government gallop ng down the lo ruin For a time I was measuring our survival in terms of weeks not years And where did these dire messages come from They came from ihe same Conservative politicians who now are telling us that surprise surprise we t expect all those campaign goodies because the horrible Grits left them an unexpected mess Inthccircums tances I think It s fair to ask just what the Conservatives did expect to inherit when all the promises were made Well we have this view from delivered to tie Commons last October Economics is a dismal science but that science has become much more dismal in the last three or four years of this government It is now so dismal that one does not even like to refer to the economic statistics because the is so terrible that I do not think the people of Canada can stand much more of it Things were so bid Crosbie suggest he found them cult to I will only refer to one forecast because I cannot stand to refer to any more It was the considered opinion of the finance minister hat the Canadian economy was in shambles About the same time Stevens was Canadians tint their economy was in chaos lie used such words as terrible to describe the situation SUNSHINE PROMISED A days later Conservative Lead Joe Chrk offered the view that lie governments handling of the economy would be laughed at if it so sad Ik the world pitiful What is necessary he said is o lime a government of Canada tint is trepared to trust the people of Canada more than this government docs After the next election we were told a new government will break that bad habit and let the sun shine in on the five yeir forecasts and projections on which tuition economic policy is based The messages were clear and tent Our economy was In ruins things could not be worse and our only hope lay in promised incentives such is billion tax cuts No it being suggested that the incentives have lo be delayed because the economic situation Is worse than incoming government expected If the situation had indeed dclenorat shambles chaos and ruin I think these new ministers at least owe us the of some new words to describe the current state of our economy But as I said I hove never really understood economics s History From our files Queen a Park Bureau Of The Herald Of all the characters of the In and around he legislature and provincial politics one stands out In memory A Kelso Roberts Kelso Roberts of course eventually was twice a contender for the party leadership attorney general and minister of lands and forests and wound up with a career of some distinction Kelso who had been born In Belleville moved lo the north after graduation from Hall and built up a big mining practice He was a tail lean man with a map of Ireland of a face and like many Irishmen he had a besetting love or politics and a strong personal conviction that he was bound to lead and rule HecontestedTorontoSt Patrick for the Conservatives In 1937 and lost lo the sitting Liberal but he ran again in and won In those days there was practically no chance for the government back bencher except for one speech a session in the Throne debate There wercn the question periods estimates private members hours freeroaming debates on legislation that keep a member tightly occupied today This was quite all right with the other members me was ion normally only lasted from to days anyway and this was a lime which could be occupied congenially Toronto members carried on with usual lives while the owners would do a lot of pleasant lobbysitting this was ploying and some quite mild though perhaps continuous carousing But such a life was not for Kelso Roberts His own opposition be established him self as still another opposition to the government there already were the CCF the official opposition the Liberals and He became as ardent a critic of some of its measures as anyone on the the government generally laughed with It as Just Kelso though It obviously irked George Drew a stern believer In army discipline to whom any breaking of ranks was close lo treason And he finally broke on the closing day of the IMS session the last of that legislature and of the Drew government There was an Important Dow bill dealing with compensation for automobile accidents Kelso had tried to block it at Its first two reading stages he had a client who would benefit if he could get it made tivel Finally he tried to do the unheard of and move a against It on third reading Drew scarlet turned for God sake SIT DOWN The rebel did and was so offended that he run in that year election But a few months later he was back contesting the leadership in the Frost BlackwelJ convention where he ran back In the pack Then In the early fifties Leslie Frost brought him into his cabinet hey had been in the First World War and had gone through together and he was a leading government figure until I960 As attorney general he did lend to pack the bench with magistrates whose party loyalty was perhaps stronger than their ability a practice which did him no harm at all when he nearly beat John Roberts for the leadership in 1961 But generally his administration was steady enough and showed a hit of flair But there was always a touch that was straight Kelso Perhaps had he been entering the bouse today he might hove become bored and quit after a term Members are generally coddled a bit and are tied to ihe legislative buildings for an interminable six or seven months and the whole climate today might have been too pallia for him But this is doubtful too he was not a eagerly awaiting study on mind development control Queens Park By DEREK NELSON Queen Park Bureau Of The Herald TORONTO One of the more eagerly awaited reports from the potpourri of special inquiries going on around here Is Dan Hill look into mind development organ rations It should be ready by October al though so far there no hint of how Hill thinking is developing He was commissioned to do the study a thorough review of all available information on the subject by Attorney General Roy los fall That included reading the govern s files as well receiving submls and interviewing members or the But he was lo do it privately to prevent the inquiry which is highly informal and doesn require swearing of oaths from becoming a circus Those who favor the inquiry hope it will lead some kind of control over those mind development groups thai ihey per mind bending and hence harmful NEXTSTEP McMurtrys terms of reference fcr Hill said the jzoVemment has received particular expressions of concern in rela tlon to the affects of mind development practices of sects and cults on the mental health of members apprehension of physical or coercion methods and business practices used by such groups need for an consumer protection ma in his area and the practice of dtprograming Perhaps Hill observations will be useful Or perhaps not There is a nagging doubt Under his of reference ho Is not allowed lo make adverse finding of fact in relation to any Identifiable individuals TWO TARGETS Which kind of limits the impact he might have especially since It is widely known the government main targets are People Looking Inward PSD and Sciento logy Hill can however recommend a full public inquiry or any other slips he feels arc needed Which Is plain worrisome We might end up with a bill like the one proposed by opposition John Sweeney Wilmct which basically hands some mind development organizations over control Not mind you because of the curious separation we make in this country between Godoriented mind deve lopment United Church and cults PSI yoga And It Is difficult to touch the God- fear of charges of religious persecution ONLY HOPE In Tact all such groups rely on the same principle faith To persecute one is to persecute all The one rial hope of the Hill inquiry is the man himself a long human rights and defender of minority rights With luck he II be able to draw the fine line between investigating thinking which is noone business but the partlci pants and actual physical practices that might prove unsavory such as the use of hypnotism Maybe WILLI AM Publisher General MICHAEL Editor LARRY MARTIN Sales Phone OUTDOOR PRIVY OUTLAWED THIRTY AGO The day of the outdoor privy Is almost over in Georgetown Progress has taken its toll and the installation of a sanitary system spelled the death knell of this relic of the horse and buggy days A new bylaw passed by council at the suggestion of Health Unit puts the kibosh on any future outdoor Installations and to new of Chic Sale will be as antiquated as oil lamps high shoes or the The lax rate in Esqucsing Township hns been set for mills for 1W9 on Increase of mills over the 1MB rate This does not include trustee rates for school purposes which are extra YOUTHS ON WANTED LIST TWENTY YEARS AGO On Thurs day August H Club Members and five Club Leaders travelled to Toronto on the annua County bus trip At the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation the members were present for the Farm Broadcast at 12 30 over The members were then introduced to The and three of them Margaret Law son Eugene Coulter and Russell Murray were Interviewed by Mr Harold Dodds to the CBC Local people will remember Mr Dodds as a former manager of the Georgetown branch of the CaOp Supplies Possibility of a camp of trailers locating In Esquesing Township was vet cod Monday when at a special meeting of the township council a decision was made to restrict such an establishment to a designated area The proposed area for the camp Is a motel location which does not allow for such expansion From the Herald Classified column For Sale bedroom almost new solid brick semidetached bungal Aluminum storms and screens fenced and sodded back yard other extras close to schools and shopping Full price FIRE COTTAGE TEN YEARS AGO Georgetown area family lost their possessions hut Wednesday afternoon when fire burned their rented cottage to the ground The blaze started In a barn located next to the Georgetown home of Mr and Mrs Wilgnrd The barn was also levelled Hay and farm equipment in the barn were lost There has been no estimate of damage County councillors will make a pitch for a separate regional government when they confront four Ontario cabinet ministers at a special meeting August 14 at the Riviera Club in Municipal Affairs Minister McKcough Energy Resources Minis ter George Kerr Education minister William Davis provincial treasurer Charles McNaughton will attend the afternoon meeting Premier John may also attend For yearold James Virgin of season never quite forgotten He saw man land on the moon and got hii first summer job And It the Job that s really different Jamie swims and performs with the trained dolphins at and Game Farm Niagara Falls Canada Canada Roy on a dolphin RABID FOX ATTACK ONE YEAR AGO A yearOld Toronto man was killed after he was struck by a Canadian National Railways freight train on the Georgetown trestle Thursday and fell about HO feet into the Credit River Ravine Two dogs arc under quarantine and a number of others also face the possibility of quarantine as a result of contact with a suspected rabid fox on the Line hat south of Georgetown An anonymous phone call tipped off Halton Regional Police to a cache of sticks of stolen dynamite hidden on the Church property The ile which police said was stolen three years ago had not deteriorated affect its explosive