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TTi Home of Tilt Aprils A Division of Canadian Newspapers Company Limited Main smith 111 It- Ontario IM I il Registered Number new sense of cooperation For weeks at a time it was the kind of issue that commanded public reaction frequently of the emotional kind We too were several times motivated to angry comment by the frustrating stance of the provincial ministries of natural resources and transportation whenever news came of a new quarry site being selected in Hills Last week on what some may consider a momentous occasion opposing forces in the battle that rocked the Sixth Line and Sideroad through much of 1979 and the years prior at last reached something of an understanding With a final juggling of trucking hours town council finally found itself at the end of a long dark tunnel and on the verge of better intergovernmental relationships Councillors noted that the terms of agreements reached following months of negotiation and bickering will get the ministries their aggregate appease the production and shipment requirements of the quarries last week case the lndusmln operation satisfy the truckers who took much of blame for inciting residents to near not and yes even soothe most of the homeowners who sought tense confrontations with two levels of tax supported government That quarry operators and truckers ore satisfied with the final agreement was generally acknowledged last week At the same time a spokesman for the Sixth Line residents group which formed to protest round theclock crushing and hauling high truck speeds along ruraf roads and potential depletion of well water supplies formally thanked council for providing a satisfactory and equitable solution to the multi faceted problem To the more cynical of the municipal scene It may appear that Ontario s ministries one by one are coming to terms with the town of Hills Where strong armed single minded antidiplomatic demands for municipal cooperation failed to make the town jump in response the ministries of energy tran and natural resources have slowly gradually come to apply a gentler touch Officials from Queens Park visit the council chambers and attempt to defend decisions regarding town and private lands they indicate their willingness to operate and negotiate Ultimately the province gets its way albeit in a scaleddown less offensive package That such political wrestling is even necessary is terribly fortunate for taxpayers across the province By a slow painful process an air of cooperation and mutual trust is being born between the two levels of government which represent us most It s long overdue but a change we sense is becoming more noticeable all the time and one that deserves our full support The triangle research is a sided effort In one side there ore the basic the scientist trying to find uut what mvMery of cell makes normal cells go lid reproducing endless he bod housing them On another side of the triangle Iherc are tram medical scientists to better Ihe prevention diagnosis and cancer In alt re than SO per cent of cancer from their Illness Such successful cancer control has tremendous potential lor laving more as we search lor angers the triangle are the epidemiologists scientists using and maps and Interviews to larje population groups These scientists hue been able to pinpoint industrial dangers of cigarette smoking question of family background Influencing cancer incidence role of our dietary habits There Is the question of viruses We know that certain viruses can cause cancer In animals but it has not been proven in humans although suspicions run high The basic researchers arc busy with that one while clinical research teams are Irving an exciting approach called immunology seen as a complement to standard arms of treatment such as surgery and radiation and cancer drugs 11 Is paramount importance to keep scientists In all areas informed about what going on to speed results of research to the cancer patient as soon as possible side the triangle has to be in contact with the others to make work And all takes money millions of dollars support scientists funded by the Canadian oncer Society Re generous during Society April campaign Letter from the Editor Joan Gillespie who becomes rapidly acquainted with new arrivals through affiliations with Newcomers Club of Georgetown and the HI Neighbor Welcome Service phoned us last week to mention a particularly relevant column by Gary mo recenl edition of the Toronto Mar Mrs Gillespie pointed out that a local gel together recent arrivals found eight ex Montrcalcrs among the ten women who a meeting at the Wilh tongue much In cheek columnist lautens drew parallels between the plight of southeast Asian refugees now living in Ontario and that of former Montreal residents who are switching provinces In droves for a variety reasons mostly political While would be inappropriate for us to reprint Mr Lautens column verbatim In The Herald some of lis humorous ideas certainly deserve quoting Much to the chagrin of Argos Blue Jays and Make- Beliefs fans for example the writer noted that these ex Mon treaEers must be warned their attendance at Toronto sporting events la not an occasion or rejoicing and celebration Learning how to be a gracious loser Is just the beginning of a new arcs training Take crossing the street are taught at their mother knee that the only way for a pedestrian to cross the street Is to wait for a break In the traffic then run like hell In Toronto thanks to the crosswalk system a pedestrian is expect to point finger to his destination and Paul then run tike hell a subtle difference yes but a d fere nee nevertheless Do Montrcalcrs with pregnant wives know where to find a corned beef sandwich and a dill pickle at a m now that they are miles from Bens del Has the local academy or medicine looked into the possibility of our newest residents suffering withdrawal pains when Ihey lurn on the 11 clock news nod dun I see a film clip of Jean Drapeau another million spending program Has any good person taken them aside and them to say eh and Baby Duck bo they won slick out at a social gathering and be subjected lo cruel laughter Has the Toronto Star run an indepth story on the economic Importance of Montreal refugees to Toronto a economy the Globe and Mall an editorial on their predicted voting patterns and the Toronto Sun a page a female refugee In skimpy bathing Well never mind John Georgetown own Pete seems to be budge I conscious enough to provide a harsh contrast to Big Spender Now if our good mayor could only work out an arrangement with Premier Bill so we could buy our beer at the IGA our new neighbors from La Belle Province might feel a lot more at home To the ex Montrealers now part of the local scene a big hello andblenvenueo Georgetown ALL Levesques demands for F16 campaign funding insolent Ottawa Report By Stewart- MacLeod Ottawa Bureau of The Herald f am having deuce of a time coming up with the right word to describe the latest two pronged performance by Premier Rene Perhaps you can help First to the stage Here is the premier riding high In the public opinion polls with his fuzzy question about sovereignty association telling everyone within earshot that his nation should get a divorce from rest of Canada with a decent alimony arrangement Federalism docsn he says Ottawa lakes more out of Quebec than it puis in Quebec can survive quite nicely without any help from Ottawa etc etc And in one or those two pronounce ments we are talking about the Quebec premier goes so far as say It would be odious and Illegal for federal money to be used in the referendum campaign If any federal politicians who also happen to be wan I to become Involved he said they t use federal money And that includes the honorable gentleman over there he said in a reference lo Prime Minister What the premier Is saying is that federal money can be used to keep the country together Up until now I thought that was a pretty good cause ANOTHER VIEW Anyway we will switch to the second of the two prongs Forsevcral years it seems like an eternity three successive federal governments been trying to select a fighler aircraft to replace the vintage models that now rattle through the skies in our defence The replacement program will cost billion and will be single biggest purchase In Canada history It a complicated business buying a new fighter It not Just a question of best plane It also involves the cost factor the industrial benefits and assorted other considerations that have kept the issue under scrutiny for years Its all very complicated but the choice has gradually been narrowed lo two planes the singleengine F made by General Dynamics and the la made by McDonnell Douglas The military people prefer the 18 Among other things it offers the safety of the second engine The corporate lobbying as you can imagine has been fierce MPs have been swamped with material brochures have blown around in blizzards the Industrial benefits have been described in countless advertisements many of Ihem In family newspapers According to the Ottawa grapevine the previous liberal government was on the verge of selecting the IB when it was defeated last year Then the Conservative government was on the verge of selecting the IB when it was defeated this year Now Defence Minister Gillies is studying the purchase again saying he hopes for decision by April 15 His Job he says is o choose the most suitable aircraft THREE VERGES But a new consideration enters the picture On the eve of the referendum debate Quebec MP Jacques Olivier has made a pilch for the 16 based on the industrial spinoff to his province His Information Is lhal cent of the Industrial benefit package will go to Quebec while Ontario will be the chief beneficiary of the IB program That fair ball All federal MPs have Ihe interests of their province at heart and Olivier is no exception But we also hear from Premier Levcsque the man who wants lo keep federal money and probably federal politicians out of his campaign to break up Ihe country He loo wants the 16 It not a favor we re asking for he says It is Ihe absolute right of Quebec to have a fair share Now you can understand my problem in finding right word So far I ve gone through audacity effrontery gall greed Insolence cheek nerve and crust But since I can find the right word I don I think 1 11 bolhcr writing about it Too many regulations prompt attitude Queens Park By Derek Nelson Queen Park Bureau Supremely confident Maybe even That the way lo describe how those at Ontario Hydro involved with nuclear power feel one year Ihe infamous Three Mile Island accident at Pennsylvania They don I openly brag about It of course That neither good politics in the current climale nor in truth the affected by most people connected to the engineering world Bui it is both In private and public conversation with a variety of Hydro people lhat instead of having their confidence in Ontario reactors shaken by TMI they have if anything had enhanced They reason this way At TMI equipment failed en masse with instruments going offscale pumps switching off when they should have stayed on fuel coolant lost fuel sheaths melting and so on while the operators messed up their response and made accident much worse VFHYSArt The result was no one killed no one injured minimal release of vity the maximum radiation exposure would be equivalent to moving to Denver and flying by Jet across the country a few times In other words it Is not much of an exaggeration to say that almost every thing that could go wrong did yet the system was able to absorb the impact of combined human and mechanical errors lo minimize the consequences Hydro people then turn to the CANDU which they believe lobe a better design much more resilient than the American Pressurized Water system As one Hydro employee David Mosey wrote Us not that TMI cant happen here but if it did happen here the consequences would be very much less nous In fact they believe the chances of a TMI accident in a CANDU reactor are so small as lo be insignificant if not impossible And if an American could survive everything going wrong then how much more reason feel confident about the better designed and operated system No wonder they arc almost smug There also one additional reason which has lo do with the belief of many that the basic cause of TMI was too much regulation of the nuclear Industry rather than commonly supposed too little APPROACH The U S method is lo look at every detail in a plant in the process losing the big picture while the Canadian method has been to say the engineers do what you want as long as you get this and this result As Hydros Design director Bill told the Hydro Affairs commit lee here last September when the regulators gel inside the power station and start working al Ihe tubes and fuel and so on that we designers have responsibility for and then set fixed roll dig rules j11 I tan say Is we are going down the wrong track That exactly what happened in the United Stales and that s why you had Three Mile Island he said To put It another way in Canada the regulators tell the operators what they want achieved and it is up to the InlheUS the regulators tried to set both the what and With the Americans now casting a favorable eye on Ihe Canadian approach no wonder Canadian nuclear people feel so good one year after TMI the HERALD WILLIAM Publisher General Manager PAULOORSEY Managing Editor Phone History From our files THIRTY YEARS one and threequarters inches of rain at the first of last week certainly started off some real floods Easier weekend was lovely and bright even If on the cool side The weather could stand to up some as the average minimum of this week Is ten degrees below normal average In April Georgetown Lions Club is sponsoring a Yard Beautiful contest this spring It is Intended to promote home beautlflcatlon in Georgetown and prizes of SIS and arc offered In one section open to home owners with similar prizes in a class for tenants When the flooding Credit RJvei wash into the basement of Glen Williams United Church one of the chief Items of damage was the loss of the church piano Considerable renovating will have to be done to basement including repairs lo the floor and redecorating and the church officials hope to be able to obtain a replacement for the piano either as a donation or at a nominal cost What havoc a flood can wreak Never have the waters been so high as were in Glen Williams and last week The rampaging waters caused discomfort Inconvenience and damage to all residents and buildings in their path Workmen at the new Glen School reported seeing a whole uprooted tree swirl by In the flood AGO Expressing dissatisfaction with council answer to their brief on salaries and working conditions Georgetown Police Association on Monday gave notice that arbitration is the next stop and gave such notice Last week council a four per cent increase police had asked for 10 per cent had granted certain other requests and turned some down A former man Mr J Percy Page was recently appointed Lieutenant Governor of the province of Alberta Mr Page was bom In the village of Bronte and later moved to Edmonton The night school drama class has taken first steps towards forming a Little Theatre Club In town wllh the election of officers at a meeting March Elected were Vera Macdonald chairman Mary secretary Marie Barrett treasurer Bruce Mack son arts and properties Bill Barrett publicity The club Is presently casting for a new play to be presented In May in support of the Georgetown Hospital campaign Following the cave in of Ihe curling rink roof Sunday March town works men have removed all sections creating a hazard and boarded up Ihe south wall behind the seating section To dale Acton council has not given any indication of replacing the curling rink section and the fate of the Agricultural Society displays for this fall fair Is not known The building campaign fund for Georgetown and District Memorial Hospital has passed its objective Tuesday night returns indicated a total of slightly higher than the announced objective for the milliondollar structure This exclusive of gifts from lown three major industries who have given assurances that such will be coming within the next week or two TEN YEARS AGO Fully furnished hotel rooms will be transported through parts of Township during the first week of July Systems Construction Ltd currently building a planl on Highway 25 onehalf mile north of the highway make precast hotel room modules and will be transporting of them to Yorkdale area to a Holiday Inn during July Two Georgetown District High School students Brian Leslie IB and Brian Wood 19 have a couple of thumbs which have platform ate beaten all hollow They took to Ihe hitchhiking trail Saturday March 21 and on Monday morning IS rides and almost miles later were enjoying the hospitality of Brian uncle Bob Salizcr in Miami Florida County ended with a deficit but it was smaller than the previous year deficit The deficit In 1969 was till compared wilh the 1968 deficit of The annual county audit also notes that Halton retained lis area of 922 acres and Increased its population by Georgetown baton twirling captured second place in two categories at a majorette con petition at Brampton Centennial Secondary School recently She was second In the Junior Princess class contested by baton in he 12 age group from oil over southern Ontario and second in a class or 22 girls in the Military Solo competition She missed the Junior Princess honors by Just half a point A jump of In Esquesing share of the costs of Region Conservation Authority jolted Esquesing council Monday night Last years share was 5 while this year the share Is YFAR AGO The Ontario Cabinet has rejected an appeal that would have slopped Ontario Hydro from constructing a power transmission line through the lown of Hills On March 7 the Interested Citizens Group ICG asked cabinet to reverse an OMB decision upholding the line Construction of the Bradley to Mil ton line is per cent complete Only 12 miles of the 133mile line which extendi from the Bruce generating station to Milton still remains to be constructed The town general committee has endorsed recommendations submitted by District Health Council which would see long term chronic care home introduced in Hills and the eventual construction of a 79 to lQObcd nursing home Outlined Monday night by Health Council chairman Terry Balnea of Georgetown therecommendatlonivrillbe presented to regional council April 24 for a similar show of support and ultimately to the provincial ministry of health for approval and implementation regional council la expected to approve lis operating budget reflect a fix per cent Increase over hist year a special meeting today Wednesday The draft budget was recommended for approval two weeks ago by the region administration and finance and carries an average impact six per cent throughout the region The overall levy increase is expected to average 10 per cent on amount that wilt be offset somewhat by Increased assessment ted to represent about four per cent of the budget