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Home f Hills Decembers A Division of Canadian Newspapers Company Limited Main SI Ontario Publisher mil Second Clan Mill Number restrictions are necessary the number local residents reacting to town council recent endorsement of trapping operations on municipal land in Hills What started out as an almost routine stamp of ap proval for a practice rarely challenged in Canada has turned into one of the hottest Issues of council current term At least so it would seem judging from the number of letters The Herald has received con the practice of trapping in general and specifically the use of leg hold traps While clearly divided between those in favor and those opposed these letters variably raise many good points alternately suggesting that council approval was either a righteous and well advised move or else a serious blunder which warrants reconsideration Elsewhere in this issue The Herald presents an outline of pros and cons which we hope will enable readers to draw their own con elusions We however indicate here and now that we have made up our own mind on the issue From the emotional gut level reaction to photographs being circulated by the Association for the Protection of Fur Bearing Animals elsewhere in this issue through the leg hold bans sup ported by Great Britain Denmark Greece Hungary West Germany Rhodesia the Scandinavian countries and two American states to the sheer logic of the fact that trappers and trapping cannot be adequately policed we have been drawn to what we feel is an inevitable conclusion at least as far as Hills is concerned While we are told that trapping is a way of life for many residents of northern Ontario such is not the case in the populous south and thus few livelihoods would be seriously affected if the practice were to be banned in this municipality Clearly though to extend a ban north to Hudson Bay would be an unwarranted in upon the rights of many hunters particularly any native people still partially dependent toon trapping Now an outright ban on trapping in Halton Hills or southern Ontario would be equally irresponsible several times each season in numerous locations throughout the area certain wild animals particularly the beaver create dangerous ecological problems in terms of flooding erosion and crop depletion At such times the province ministry of natural resources assigns nuisance trappers to reduce the population of the of fending animal in the carefully specified area To advocate a halt to this practice would be to place the welfare of these animals ahead of man s An ideal situation then would involve routine checks of potential problem areas by ministry or conservation authority Where necessary a small number of fullyqualified nuisance trappers would be deployed to do a job outlined in great detail by those with the expertise and authority to delineate the task The entire scenario would be co and policed by ministry employees to ensure there ib no room for con tention among critics of the practice Outside a tightly controlled program operated through the ministry trapping in any form should be binned outright Those who wish to trap for pleasure or profit would then be forced to go elsewhere thus the possibility of animals being un necessarily injured After ail the bottom line is this in an area such as Hills where problems created by overpopulation among wild animals can be easily controlled by the appropriate authorities there is simply no reason to allow other instances of trapping for as long as there is even a chance that an animal may be left too long to suffer in a leg hold trap set by some irresponsible hunter then private trapping cannot be tolerated Literature circulated by the trapping lobbyists paints an all toogruesome picture of what leg hold traps can do experienced trappers point out that it is the exceptions among them who spoil the trade for those responsible enough to check their traps frequently The lines are clearly drawn We maintain that trapping which is not necessitated by environmental problems must be prohibited in areas like Halton Hills where most trappers are seeking to either catch their day meal or else augment their regular earnings by cleaning a few pelts As long as even one animal could suffer and ministry policing outside occasional spot checks is simply impractical the practice remains deplorable Y campaign deserves help The Georgetown YWCA is slightly less than half way toward Its fund raising goal of with only a week and a half left in the campaign This is one group we WILLIAM Publisher General PAUL Managing Editor definitely don want to sec fall short of its objective With a host of profit and charitable organizations making reasonable use of the Christmas season to forward their causes and most are worthwhile one might hesitate in contributing toward a group whose bis is is largely recreation Why donate to support a ladies keep fit class when a child with polio might be aided by Christmas seals We believe the most valuable virtues of the YWCA are not readily detectable to the eye Whereas an infrequent visitor to Y classes sees the superficial benefits of exercise and cultural interests there is simultaneously nourishment of mind occurring which produces positive growth of a much longer lasting kind And while individually pre schoolers young people adults and senior citizens are growing in many ways through Y program they are together absorbed in a community project unmatched among fund raising causes Lets keep an eye on the big thermometer at Square and make sure it pops its top before the December 15 deadline lacquey Grits potential leaders too busy to comment Ottawa Report MacLeod Ottawa Bureau of the Herald All of those leading Liberals lights now being as likely successors to Pierre Trudcau must hive had some enormous preoccupations in the last six months Incredibly no one has time to i passing thought about the new Liberal lender 1 i given it any thought says Vancouver MP Art Phillips who has been consistently mentioned as a possible lender since In come to Ottawa in May I thought running MP Lloyd Axcworthy an Winnipeg representative who must hove read on at least a dozen occasions that hi might be future I Invent had the opportunity to think ibout what said former minister John Turner And here ill were assuming that Mr Turner hid spent the lust decade thinking of nothing else No I about it said former I re usury board president Liberal critic Herb Gray said he now will begin const tie the until now the thought liadn occurred to him former agriculture minister while saying he t thought about the leadership now Is joining the new thinkers group THINKING Never hove so many 1 ibcrals been immersed in separate think tanks former finance minister who has isked about his leadership intentions on a weekly for the last two years is beginning to rethink his earlier thinking As he put it think it is fair to say hot I will to stop and reflect tiler confessed thinkers include former finance ministir Jean Chretien and onetime trade minister Jian Luc Pepin Naturally they like all the others Invert had time to think about the leidership up until now And the same obviously holds true for I the former solicitor general who felt obliged to resign from that law upholding office forging i name on an abortion application his keeps cropping up only person who seems to have the matter a fleeting thought is Liberal House Leader Allan he says he has decided not to take a second crack the leadership Mokes you woiukr whit immense conn have Imprisoned the minds of all other hopefuls in tin last six months HI THOUGHTS Since the May general election most Liberals hove generally been pre occupied with the parly future leader ship And cm recall one story on the subject that in one or another to mention the name John Turner or Donald It rather strange then that both Ihesi tintlcmcn seemed somewhit sluck for words about their own futures And since MPs like Art Phillips so vocal advocating new leader with western sympathies its passing strange they hiven I thought about heir own leadership aspirations Here I wis thinking tint most MPs ire imbltious looking for tint top run j I thought that if elected saw the possibility of a possibility of a promotion they would grit it with Jot furthermore I thought that if media mentioned someone is lender if th it in had previously sought the tint he or she would have the m just teeny thought But as it seem there stem to be oni who his given the multir even cursory consideration I d just to know whit lias preoccupied them with sueh lotillty during the list six motilhs Halton s History from our files Basic agreement among parties defuses political Queens Park By Derek Nelson the Herald is the topic of interest in the legislature this session the opposition parlies are having trouble getting their hooks into the government on the issue true discussion in the House on oil prices Ins quite a bit of iity but all threi provincial parties if rot m opposing rile bikes That tikis a lot of sting out of the politic il in lighting The I and hive also tried o capitalize on fears that Ontario could run short of home heating oil supplies this Hut so lung as the supply situation remains as government says tight but in mineable any real in the rimnns only the issue Ml the ingredients in ere Ihe difficulty is in getting the soup to mix The reison is tint Hie opposition like the government I hive a it policy on how to de with the key element of energy crisis people use of the automobile Tin two opposition energy critics Julian Heed ind NOP do their slronj mind you is an expert on generatu from scale water power plants he even has one it home and other forms if renewable energy And nobody in the legislature knows is about the technical side of nucleir as who ictually reads Ontario Hydro documents thai no else understands POINT tiut none of this addresses the oil consumption problem directly yet hat is our only real energy problem Vie access to gas electricity and In abundance Too much electricity in fact accord nig to the opposition who keep complain ing Ontario Hydro expansion pi ins If nil is tin point then gv eminent stirgctof sloppup i in per person oil by 1985 Is worthwhile opposition Hut one is saying how to go about It TttOIDES wont work because while Ins been highly in tinny ire is most of the energy sivcd so fir has been which is in surplus supply anyway True substitution is bung id eas to oil for home licit electricity to oil for running some trains and transit systems There even hope that smaller cars ind improved engine efficiency will mean better milci the gallon over the next few But Ihe crunch is now And one the politlcil parlies has yet mine to grips with the reality that people ore going to drive cars and guzzle gasoline thalf our oil consumption and increasing veorlvl unlil prices lack of fuel or guvu lent mandate forces them to cut No wonder much of the energy debate is so tentaiive Christmas please 1 SUPPORT THOSE IN NEED For information Georgetown 8533310 Acton THIUTV AGONovcmber ll year was close to the normal overage temperature for the month as the max mum of was only one degree below normal the minimum of half degrees below normal even in Ihe when it registered below zero are almost a week Into ember winter is still us Quite fri the start of December last as the thermometer was up to decrees during the first week In a featuring short biographies candidates for municipal office Mrs Joe l candidate for council in Ward is e first lady ever to contest a si at on council SI is the mother of three lid en ind is employed lb and Stone She has appeared In several of the Apprentice Productions plays jnd is an enthusiastic Commission worker In a member of the fund raisuif Dun the four ir there has been a 72 per cent ist in Uie number of in Georgetown Dell Tele phone n an- W C Miiincr says There ire now I 471 telephones in use In compared with four viars average per day then and long distance tilling is reached a daily or thin in 1945 YFVHS Completing his term is mayor and his is number of town council Jiek his retire mint in i speech at a public meeting which followed nominations Thursday In auditorium of Wngglesworth school Juvenilis who dun gel along In school are i first to nuke themselves feel importint by smoking Magistrate said today as he reprimanded six juvenilis who pleaded guilty to violations of the Federal Tobacco Act The three boys three girls wen convicted of smoking The act pi any under the age of 16 from tobacco in any form It provides a reprimand or a first offence SI fine fur the second a or and subsequent offences Five entered and close to in money taken time Friday night when i sneak thief did his Christmas shopping at the expense of homeowners who were out for the evening One nijht s pilfering netted the burglar ilmost In cent pieces four rmf worth and some articles of clothing The break Ins all occurred and An investigation to see If the water mini flushing can be stepped up and possibly system wise was the result of letter to council by Mundy claiming the tow n is responsible for the loss of a number of items of clothing water Mr in writing slid thai several batches of laundry had been ruined by the dirty water and the wasli now being sent out to the laundry TFN Mis plan which would add two senior officials to the town stiff elevate one pari time position lo full lime wis iceeptid by Georgetown Monday The report suggests a chief administrative officer who would be for nil Staff activities and ipproie all Next in line would be a town engineer a clerk treasurer i full time wcif ire tor full time building inspector and fire chef IXircy Ontario minister of municipal affairs ruled out as a scpinti community and made It plain he lusnl rilinquishcd his original idea of a Peel region when he spoke at a dinner in Milton last week tin county council proposal for a region he sold I lot willnif to enact only those reforms tint preserve Ihe existing structure of county When hill operator arrived home shortly before 11 last Wednesday he got surprise reception Standing in the shadows car the front door was man who stepped out to confront him is he imved was bain his foot against the door which the would be hold up mm to like I A of a year for members of the legislature has been fair by East Jim a Tins raise puts MPPs on the level of their counterparts in Ottawi and Quebec Lily Snow said it used to be that the MPP did not spend as much time on govern men business as the members of parliament but this has changed Council has asked Ontario Housing to make a survey lo establish whether there is a need for low rental housing here OHC has been conducting sunilir surveys in various parts of the province this year ONI Dates have been by the Ontario Labor Relations Board to heir grievances filed last week by members of the Ontario Taxi Association unit Glen Taxi owners Denis Dcvlne 1es The association has alleged that the taxi owners tried to the formation of the union by Ihreatcnlng union members and discrimi nitmg against them and also that the union members were denied money owed idem because of their organizing t regional chairman Morrow and the regional councillors for Georgetown and were Invited to Georgetown Area Ratepayers Association meeting to talk about regional government but they wound up being quizzed on their views towards the proposed Focal Properties development The Education Relations Commission lias appointed Teplitaky lo act as mediator in the contract dispute between the board of education and its 1 100 secondary school teachers Mr was appointed at the request the board and the Secondary School association as negotiations continue in efforts lo reach an agreement in the for the school year