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fehelHERALO Home Newspaper of laKrl Tilt IS J A Division of Canadian Newspapers Company Limited till Main si I Ontario l-MJOMMOrl- Publisher IM I I IliOM Second Mall Numbtr Crisis tamers deserving of our praise As in afterthought to the past week evacuation crisis in one reader who honed to discuss the situation rought up an interesting ind worthwhile point about both the victims of the trim derailment and the gas threat that followed and the many emergency workers who struggled to bring tin crisis under control We agree more with the caller suggestion thai the many policemen firefighters ambulance drivers and other workers ailed into the of an accident that made headlines around world should by now become the subjects of it least national acclaim Special citations anda round of sincere thanks from the public are clearly in order ifnot went on to suggest a monument to at or near the accident site The same caller admitting Ift is a rulway hobbyist also con tended that the evacuees are wrong to seek financial compensation for their lost week but should in steid be sitisfied that their homes and jobs are still there to return to ifter the crisis was tamed cannot agree that CP Rati responsible for the emergency to be appe bit regardless of how accident and ill fated the was should be to emerge from the crisis without having to some retribution to those affected by its apparent of the deficiencies which led to the derailment it such one after mother carrying deadly gases solutions should be to piss in and out of densely populated areas is in itself deplonblc The situation about which politicians it several levels must liso answer some questions is one which invites altermtivc suggestions At this point indeed many questions remain to be insuered as officials struggle to come to terms with the reality of their city evacuation To what extent CP Rail and the federal government ire to be held responsible is one question the courts will likely have to decide Let us agree though that our first duty is to respond in kind to the efforts of the men and women who tamed the crisis during six tense days nights when the holocaust seemed too close for comfort into COBCie Mo s History from our files The Great NonConfidence Vote was quite an entertaining show Yes Virginia we must help As approaches our thoughts turn to the practice of giving and receiving gifts among the ones we love on that special day There arc times however when our thoughts should turn elsewhere and consider the poor and lonely of Hills Yes Virginia there are those among us who have little to buy toys for their children or few friends with whom they can share the spirit of Christmas Hills then is fortunate to have people like Roma Timpson and her good neighbor volun teers who must wear themselves out in the weeks before Christmas each year gifts and food An example from generous donors and delivering them to those in need Tins week Mrs Timpson is again for aid in her worthwhile cause the Georgetown and District Good Neighbor an annual demonstration of goodwill compassion whieh provides us all with a shining example of the most basic Christian ethic For after all there can be no better symbol of Christmas than tht free and iltruistic sharing of genuine affection with someone who until the moment of sharing hid been total stranger They will be strangers no Ottawa Report By Stewart MacLeod Bureau Thomson News Service TIil entire cist of characters inns alt up with a sparkling die perform in the litest vole Cast members raced onjL from half way around the world jus to like part those already here talk about tilt possible fill of the iovernmentmak il sound like the fall of the Roman others fearfully predicted lb it our Christmas would not only be iiiilcd by commercialism but with i in i election We hive i government which has the role of government di lured Liberal Lender Pierre Trudeiii lie justified Ins confide rice motion which would bring down the minority government of Joe Clark and send the country reeling into a By condemning the govern I for lis dhi of the energy crisis Hie motion attracted he support if the New Democrats although Hi leader rd didnt think much of the Grit motives behind it For prior to the vote the performers worked up to an emotional pitch The round up of voting MPs extended to finwiy Korei and Tory Robert Co Colchester had to hurry home from tl I 1 attended the stale funi It ted president One Tory MP del yd operation others in t trips Prime Minister Joe CI to Ott Just for the vote itself but for the week surrounding it TOO Liberals were putting together the some promising that all 112 of them would be in place in a valiant attempt to bring down the government With promised support from the it would be close Dramatically Social Credit Leader Hoy a set of demands which he said must be met if his five member band support the Tories And the lories ith members needed that support to survive So Prime Minister Clark sit down and rote threepage letter to Mr Hoy which satisfied Ins demands on oil supplies for Quebec and the And Tory House idcr Walter linker undertook a scru of negotiations as a party but Mr iker decided They ire more thin a indepcnaenls and lie went to bat on be of those live votes I suspect he was doing so but that neither here nor there Whin the of the vote arrived the Commons g were full MPs paced floor nervously like actors awaiting their call for an opening night drama Do you think the government will fill people kept I MPs answered witii determined enns the Torus answered with inspired i Conservative whip Bill the MP charged with ensuring ill the voters were in place added his own touch of dramatics by carrying a suede whip J MPs stood to vote and 1 II draining process had d d yonc voted exactly as 1 led Clark government had by 140 to 138 said the t close call slid the Liberals And for Pierre v is proof that his MPs are not afraid to into in election under my leadership Every ounce of drama was drained from the alleged near miss But out in Alia Tory MP PAul an 11 year veteran of tin Commons was busy cutting the ribbon to open a new bank Despite enormous party pressure he decided that my constituents come first Anyway he said 1 knew the would support us will be called on the carpet for his behaviour but he actually displayed a of the most of his colleagues Yes it was a good driimtie performance while it lasted but horrendous there w is never any real danger of a Christmas election With Roy given almost no chance of rewinnmg his own seat did inyono think he would force an And even If he lost his and innounecd his Intention of g against the did anyone really think that nil 1 would be In their scits reidy to hit the hustings under Trudeiu eldership Or if the pressure the final valve would ill New Democrats be willingjust five months ifter an election campaign de pleted their war chests to another fray in which the main Issue would probablv be a majority II pr get a repeat perform budget is down in a w weeks The scenario might be different but 1 suspect the results will be Davis defends proposed town to all as westward growth the HERALD VILLI AM ft General Our Lions to Cunninglnm of Georgetown selected last week is the Optimist Club Youth of the ear no feat for a 16 year old grade 11 student Nevertheless fills the bill with energy to spare dividing her spire hours throughout the year interests in athletics the students council the Calvinettes it the Christian Reformed Church and such charitable efforts as CFTO New Year Day telethon and the walka Even with all these credent pointing to Lynne as the apparent winner of the prize the Optimists those venerable patrons of youth must have had a hard job narrowing down the list of finalists Also in the running and equally worth our community respect ind admiration arc Karen Doug Corinne Vande Wetenng Carolyn King and James Queens Park By Derek Nelson lluein Park Bureau TORONTO Once upon a time there was Then there was North Pickering Now there is Seaton That latest name for lh same the province wants to build of Metro Toronto was a pioneer resident of the area on it rolls living proof of why gov should never have got in the housing business in the first Opposition Leader Stuart Smith won in the legislature why the project wis still going ahead when it would be to encourage growth in existing towns nearby like Ajax or lie noted how the government stumbled into trouble with their other land banking schemes such as South Cayuga Town semi and dwardsburih Premier William Davis hid an inj answer for Smith IMGIIPt He mien ted the longtime Consent live position tint east of Metro had to be to provide some balance with the subdivisions ex plodlng to the west of the city And he took a dig at the opposition by recalling how they used lo urge the to into the land banking business back in the late i960 Itut lie volunteered that the province has a modest investment in the York sewer That massive sewer which is big enough to drive a vehicle into at its terminus on Lake Ontario is costing millions and Is being built handle a certain volume of Smith made the somewhat exaggerated statement that the sewer was the mam planning instrument in the province which denied WHY SAY But that llie premier would mention the Big Pipe at all in connection with going ahead with Seaton is a bit of an Originally Seaton was lo be a selfcon community of souls on acres linked to but separate from the fcdiral governments Pickering Air airport and after considerable local criticism the project was cut lo 17 acres and people But the Big Pipe went ahead Unaltered Mike INDPOshiwa who was a regional councillor in those daji believes They have to proceed with be to pay for the pipe NO GOOD He probably right And that about as d mining a criticism of Seaton as can be After all it has been on the books for eight years and there is not a house in sight el which kind of dulls the argument about stimulating development east of Metro Worse there appears to be no means of preventing the town from becoming just another bedroom suburb of Metro which not even government wants And still dragging on at enormous cost Is the dispute over the governments tactics in acquiring land a battle that caused a major fight with the provincial ombudsman All this because the go decided it knew more about development than Ihe private sector Hate- pavers meeting urged all Georgetown taxpayers to attend the nomination inc on evening of this week in the Public Library Each of the members present were asked be there and lo as man more with them From Iht classified pages New four room cottage situated four miles from town on main road Lot x wo room for bath Hardwood floors Price S3 GOO Terms 100 monthly snow storm on Saturday was the first serious at of what miy come At that were fortunate as to the north they had 12 inches of snow and to the south had 17 inches many of them stating views pro anil con on housing request occupied an and of council Monday even ng meeting Making return visits were Rev Alix Mrs John ro H and John Henley who ruterated opposition to the release of any more to Two civil defenci organ I tat Ions joined forces last week for a scheme to give the men training and experience should the need ever arise y were the OP sponsored civil de fence auxiliary police ind Hilton civil difence WHIT The home i Mr Fred five miles southwest of Georgclown Is being as one of Canada examples of the use of While i in pioneer architecture The home Is one of the many examples that have been found in the search for old homes currently being conducted by the White Pine Bureau of the Canadian Lumbermen Association Earl Jacques of the bureau says the home was Lvon s headquarters in the Scotch Block area It was from here that was smuggled In the dead of a winler night across the border to save him from possible assassination by the The Massey a award presented by Georgetown council to Fit Hon Vincent when he visited this spring has been awarded to Thomas The CHS graduate son of 14 Union Street is enrolled this year as a first year medical student at the of Toronto A direct descendant of Georgetown founder yearold Martin Wheeler has been judged the winning essayist among Georgetown and strict school children who wrole on The Industries Which Work and in Georgetown criticism of council s move to freeze leach salaries cut school members pay and reduce senior administration s ilaries by per cent was expressed by J Furlong on Friday Speaking at the commencement exercises Ihe high school principal termed an motion passedlhrccweeksago as irresponsible in almost every respect I would fail in my position as principal if I respond tonight he told an ludlencc of parents and students He defended the school board as one who in on salary negotiations I can tell you they arc watching expenditures and his teachers I deeply resent derogatory of i staff which as a group ranks lift ilylf ded for school by IS 11 County mm F 11 t Rev K f Hill I Undid Ch I d f f n school tea 1 ked p their views M d Mrs tl program w I Id be t detiilid mi report on i whool und dy by II bo d ad hoc committee on religious was reported last week The which was formed only last invited interested parents to The commute is formed mbcrs from Ha on county g senior education officials to student was formed after n residents demanded the boa d bolisb compulsory religious FAR that the municipal over odds makers and poll tak region have begun on the identity of the man who p Morrow of Georgetown as the of regional council Wilh council set to elect Its next by secret balloton December four names have been suggested for the per annum post one which de mands a calm and patient approach to em no ly charged and Issues The four possible contenders for the position arc Terry Mannell of Jack of Burlington Walt of Burlington and McLean Anderson from JEHOVAH A Georgetown whose property the proposed site of a national dm I trail on headquarters for the Jehovah Witnesses failed to recruit town council a support Monday night to hive an Ontario Municipal Board OMB hearing into the project postponed Sid Heller informed council that he would appealing to the at ihe outset of its hearing yesterday for an adjournment based on his contention that Insufficient time was allowed for objectors to the project to prepare their submissions for the OMB prior to the hearing dote Hills library board has until March 1979 to come up with a to the Georgetown Library controversy or else face having its budget not passed by council If Ward three regional councillor Roy Booth prevails In a poetelection Interview with the Herald last week Booth accused the Library board of being Irresponsible In their of the library question