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Southern colonel defrauded Convicts offer to share a smile fools Herald reader Herald Editor At least one Hoi loo Hills resident was conned The He rald was conned Good Samaritans In North Carolina and apparently eral other southern states were conned a well When The Herald published a letter to the editor but October from Georgia State Prison inmate Dennis Dangar at least one Georgetown rest dent responded to the clally sincere Appeal for pen pals The six month exchange of letters which followed between Georgetown and Georgia ended abruptly last month after Mr defrauded a North Caro lina benefactor and was subse quently arrested for parole violation The benefactor a retired army colonel and former mathematics professor re ceived word that Mr Dangar was also corresponding with others Intercepted mail from these would be benefactors and advised them of the fraud through which he and several others had been conned The Georgetown resident who like the North Carolina gentleman does not wish to be Identified told The Herald Monday he stopped short of sending gifts money or offers of accommodation to the In mate as others have done THRFE According to a recent report In the High Point North Caro lina Enterprise Mr was serving a three year term In Georgia State Prison already done lime for various crimes including robbery when he appar enlly concocted the scheme to gain monetarily as well as socially while still in prison The North Carolina colonel and his wife responded to a letter printed In the Enter prise their hometown weekly newspaper feeling sympathe tic toward the convict as did hundreds of other readers In cenres scattered around the eastern seaboard and Canada In each own and city Mr letters were Idcntl except hat in each com munity he described himself as a native To he prisoner who had never felt more lonely in my life a Kansas Stale student malleda radio and to he orphaned young boy who lurried bad but who offer to share a smile the Colonel and his wife offered money and a roof overhead Upon his parole Mr took the colonel up on his offer accepted room board and MOO worth of clothing But soon after his arrival in High Point the excon confessed to his fraud the following mom he gathered his newly quired possessions and fled In a tetter to his fellow victim In Georgetown On the colonel reported that Mr Dangarhad been captured and would appear in court on a charge of violation of parole We re both heartbroken a il as he d become very close the colonel wrote The Georgetown resident similarly moved to sympathy by be prisoner apparently sincere appeal for friendship exchanged four or five letters with Mr Dangar between tober and March Although the convict hinted in a later letter to hot be could use some money there as no appeal for gilts or donations There was correspondence about the possibility of a vis to George town after Mr re lease The prisoner was reticent about his background the Georgetown resident commen ted choosing instead to write about activities he sold he was taking a course In prison and keeping the subject matter According to the North Caro lina colonel Mr Dangarlledln his original letter to The Her aid when he said his parents arc dead and hat he has no other relatives The convict told his Georgetown penpal be si on of marijuana Last week The Herald re ceived a phonccall from a newspaper reporler in Fort Lauderdale Florida who is investigating similar offences by other Georgia Stale con One other name that or inmate William Brinks has been mentioned in connection with the matter The Georgetown resident ex pressed surprise at the failure of the prison authorities to curtail such crimes at their institution and noted The Her aid failure to check the valid of Mr Dangar claims with prison officials EDITOR S NOTE The fortunate reader Is correct In his remark that this newspap er should first check the back ground of letters soliciting re sponses of any kind before pnnting Ihem we too were conned by ihesuppos sincere plight of Mr We regret lbs error and urge any other local peo ple who nave corresponded with persons under similar circumstances la contact the proper authorities If anyone else has corresponded with Mr Dangar Georgia State Prison officials should noli at Georgia If yon responded to this letter to the editor which appeared In The Herald last October 31 Georgia Slate Prison parole board has some dismaying news for you The writer an Inmate of the prison sent identical let ter to communities through out the easier claiming to be a native of each one Some who answer his appeal gave the oner more than their friend ship US prisoner wants letters a I be fourth lm n ma 1 thai nd lh It J I I 1 railed 5213 FOBERT Home Newspaper of Hills Wednesday May 1M0 THE BIO PAPER WITH THE BIO CIRCULATION COVERINO GEORGETOWN ACTON SURROUNDING COMMUNITIES Get nothing for taxes rural residents charge COSTUMED CARDINALS Spring In the Forest was the tide of the spring play presented by students at Public School Wednesday and Thursday These three also known as Angela Sarah and Jenny were Just three of the beautifully costumed students who took part In the play Thrsor flower Ins wis birds and trees In the and how they can be endangered by pollution and Uttering By FROST Herald Staff Writer Claiming that Ward 2 residents do receive any benefits for their lux dollars ratepayer Ralph Denny has presented petition asking town council to grade widen and resurface the Fourth Line between lots Mr Denny claimed last Tuesday that residents In the area paid a total of last year in taxes No major improvement or construction has been done on the Fourth since regional government was formed Mr Denny said It needs ditching culverts and a large amount of gravel The petition claims that all 13 Halton Hills council members live on road and perhaps do not understand the cost of maintenance to vehicles ing on roads that arc In the condition of the Fourth Line Ward Pat Pa tiers on has always been telling the poor farmer Mike Armstrong said It not hard to see why Judging by Ihc taxes they pay I will admit we have had complaints about the Fourth Line this year and obviously some thing has to be done about it Patterson suggested that some of his fellow council lors should take a drive up the road and sec just how bad it is We vc got to do something for these people be said Hurry Levy took exception to Mr Denny claim that Ward 2 ratepayers don receive the same es as Wards 1 and 3 Do you live on a dirt road r Denny asked Wc have no garbage pickup and no side walks either CROSSING GUARDS You forgot to mention lhat you don I have crossing guards or street lighting Coun Levy said All those services are paid Tor by urban residents as extra taxes so actually you receive exactly the same as other people except for the services they pay extra for George Maltby claimed that living on a hard top road is not real I an asset I did come up the Fourth Line today and you re righl Ralph it is a horrible mess Coun claimed I m going to push like the devil to see that more gravel Is put on Ihc road than was originally intended for this year Coun Miller also from Ward told council there is worth of ditching In the works budget this year none of which is to be done on the Fourth Line Maybe we could find some way of diverting funds from that budget to do some ditch ing on the Fourth Line he said Obviously there may be Battle of the bugs set to resume Herald Special The town general commit tee has asked the engineering deportment for a report on mosquito spraying following a presentation from an Acton woman requesting reinstate ment of a program discontin ued by region three years ago Christina Houston of Churc hill Road North told the com mil tee Monday night she allergic to mosquitoes and re quires medication each spring and summer Neighborhood children also suffer from the same problem she said Since they live the edge of Browns Pond near the high school they are close the source of the problem and were requesting a resumption of the regions spraying pro gram Mrs Houston supplied coun cil with the name of a Univer sity of Guelph professor who would be willing to suggest sprays which were environ mentally safe if the town need ed such advice Roy Booth panted out that in and Burlington regional bad seen this as a program that could be shelved to cut costs There was no way could get it through their thkk skulls that there was a problem here bo said I guess they werent getting bitten As long as we had Mr Morrow as chairman we had Ihe sup port we needed for the pro gram but when he left we lost it Booth suggested that Hills could undertake a program on Its own but there would be no funding or help for it from the region Town engineer Bob Austin said a report could be prcpar as soon as his department had the information sary He noted however that supplies of chemicals left over from would no longer be of any use that there no one on either town or region staff licensed to spray insecticides and that he tuts no idea how soon someone could take a refresher course and get such a licence again When asked If these things could be accomplished before the mosquito season ended for 1900 he could only shrug Coun Pat Patterson sugges ted that Mrs Houston and her neighbors could invest in some martin bouses as protection for future years comments might sound face tious be said he was quite serious in Ms feelings that the birds would probably be her best defense against the pests in future He agreed was too late to help this year but offered to help anyone interes ted in martin since he has had them for year and has found the birds very help- MI around his own pond New regional review sought to improve local government By STEFHFN FROST Herald Sun Writer Regional council will ask the provincial government to con duct and finance a sue review of regional govern ment in Halton including a took at cost effectiveness or to January The recommendation came last week from the lion and finance committee member Steve of Burling ton who suggested thai after seven years of regional go vernment it Is time the pro vince and review their relationship We don t want to see a report explained We want details from each municipality in the region as well as Input from councillors here at the region All the treasurers in Ihe four municipalities will be queried We hope this type report will help us achieve a better re gional government We should know whether or not the province intends to share municipal costs that are disproportionate Burlington Coun Joan Allingham cau tioned The province should be asked to make a clearcut statement on disparities in the regional system and whether they intend to share in costs Coun Ron Plancbe supported Coun All ngham recommendation noting that Halton Hills wont endorse Miltons regional attack Herald Special The town general committee has declined to support Milton continuing efforts to evaluate a I terra lives to regional government in The committee received and rued a town council motion Monday night which sought Hills input on the proposed formation of a special committee to study altera lives The group would prepare a report on various laves available by amend ment to the Regional of Act trior otherwise to equitably reflect Milton only paying its fair of the cost of regional government and to provide for increased accessibility to regional government Coun Roy Booth whose motion to receive and file the Milton correspondence was tee commented that Milton is now paying its fair share he said Ihey have never done before Milton councillors bare abandoned their initial ambition to pursue the town secession from Ha Ion region but want Burlington Julian Reed to take their cause to the floor of the Legislature Milton Mayor Don Gordon remarked last week that regional government has never actually been debated at Queens Park Milton argument is with the province rather than the region he said Milton council has also discussed the possuality of withholding payment an its share of the regional levy until the province has recommended improve men Is to the region lira t ion payment program while there was financial help from the province this year to area municipalities there is no guarantee the same help will be forthcoming next year The province made a one- year financial commitment to us this year but next year there be no provincial tion or municipal election said All of a sudden we get no more from the province and area municipalities hit by dispart ties in the regional system get it stuck lo them Coun of said he thought the whole idea of a study on regional government done by the provincial government is ludicrous I can see it now he said In January of next year the region of Halton will be dump ing raw sewage into the lake Chairman Rafus will call a council meeting and no one will show up the police be on strike and Milton will have seceeded from the region Then we II get this report back from the province who gave us regional government in the first place telling us that regional government fine and working very thank you Why ask the prov to look into areas thai can put up without extra this Mayor Pete asked council approve a motion lo have town engineer Bob Austin prepare a report on the road condition He would also find out what intermediate steps are needed to alleviate the road problems Also coal estimates on Mr Denny entire proposal are to be presented to council I must tell you Mr Denny that here is no possible way can accommodate the complete project this year Mayor Pomeroy said We will be able to accommodate part of in Ihis years budget however and reftr the rest for review in he 1981 budget PARKETTE SALE SEEMS UNLIKELY Mary Street residents who have petitioned to reject advice to sell their neighborhood community park will see wish granted according a opinions expressed at Monday a general committee meeting Roy Booth It was gratifying to see that resident agreed with what council for the former town of Georgetown did in setting up the park and quel Honed whether a any action belag taken on the master park plan In which he sale was suggested Committee chairman Harry Levy assured him that no action would be taken until plan Is adopted by council and daring on plan deletions and amend can be made Conn Levy noted thai Friday la the deadline for public Input on the plan and no decision would be made prior that day PRECOCIOUS PERUSAL seek sale attracted readers of all ages to Kan Caarch hall Weak Reiner and Leslie Scarth picked a rather c when were the tables of books available Perhaps were getting a ahead BeraM photo fry