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Home Newspaper of Halton Hills SECTION A THE HERALD November I9S0 A Division of Canadian Newspapers Company Limited Street Georgetown Ontario WILLIAM EVDOKlMOFK Publisher PAUL Editor DAVID BEATTIE Advertising Manager PHONE Second Class Mail Registered Number Room for optimism caution Election results good bad news Mondays per cent voter turnout at the civic election polls in Halton Hills Is comment enough on the extent to which apathy over municipal politics has been carried Two years ago local voters outdid themselves by chalking up a highly respectable per cent turnout their attention clearly fixed on the allimportant mayoralty challenge of Peter and the related election issues of Focal Properties and regional authority In the young incumbent mayor remains unchallenged but the same issues are with us one ostensibly on its way toward some form of resolution the other still very much a topic for debate and heated controversy Although no ones able to pin down precise reasons Acton voters were the only ones in town to confront the regional government issue by evicting their in cumbent representative Businessman Ed Wood departs after a single term on regional and town council a term marked by quiet participation in otherwise rowdy regional meetings but strong and sincere representation in matters of prime im portance to north taxpayers A councillor who worked hard from the outset of his term in to improve his own knowledge and understanding of municipal ways Mr Wood seemed to progress more swiftly in council matters than any other rookie in recent memory quickly adapting the timetested emotive speaking style of council veterans to urge support for causes as diverse as the Acton town hall restoration and the equalization of regional sewer rates He shall be missed this coming term we hope he can return again Despite his appearance in two Ward elections Actons Dave Whiting remains on unknown quantity He hasnt sat back in defeat however but instead studied harder to make the grade Clearly impressed by Mb improved comprehension of municipal issues Acton voters this time gave him top marks If Mr Whiting can match his predecessors rate of progress as a coun cillor hell be a formidable spokesman for a community still obviously concerned about its role in the overall regional scheme of things We wish him luck for there are those around the regional council table in Oak vi lie who would offer even greater resistance to the less parochial ambitions of their northern colleagues Elsewhere were sure incumbents John McDonald Walter and Miller successfully returned to office in Wards 3 and will carry on their good works on behalf of supporters whove given them yet another vote of confidence Of their acclaimed colleagues we maintain our reservations theres a little exaggeration in Pattersons com ment about these acclamations promoting carelessness among the unchallenged councillors but we couldnt endorse his warning to Ward and voters more the Incumbents youve returned so easily must be watched more closely than ever before Their acclamations should not be viewed as the blessings of the electorate so much as privileged signs of endorsement for which they muat pay a higher price they must work harder to earn that generous support Ward Pam Sheldon replacing retiring Pat Patterson is for us a signal of some fine things to come for old As brought out during the campaign shes been endlessly entangled in many facets of municipal planning for the rural area has obtained a unique perspective on meeting traditional needs in the modern world and perhaps knows better than most whats best for the rural area that is so integral to Halton Hills character The 198082 council room for optimism and a need for some watchful caution A History From our files If budget stumps Joe Clark what can the media say Ottawa Report By Stewart MacLeod Letter from the Editor Paul Dorsey Starting out with a bang The new man in The Heralds sports department has only been on the job a week but thanks In a generous informant who shall remain iii m el ess at least for the time being has already stirred up quite a furor for himself with a tasty little journalistic bombshell about the Georgetown Raiders interest in Derek Sanderson Dave comes to The Herald staff from Ontario Place where hes been helping the site operations manager coordinate staff employees for special projects among other duties He been there every spring and summer for the past five years while pursuing degrees in English and Journalism at Carleton University and he University of Western Ontario Hes years old and this is no empty boast hes burning with enthusiasm All three Toronto dally newspapers perked their cars up last week when Dave revealed that the Raiders had approach Sanderson with a deal to join the Intermediate club Sanderson of has been one of the brighter stars on the usually dim NHL Oldtimeri circuit following two Stanley Cup seasons with the Bruins and word had to leak out somewhere when he Georgetown connection was made Its cither one heck of a publicity or Georgetown Raiders are serious about their offer to Derek Sanderson to play the rest of the season for the team Robert MacLeod wrote In Globe and Mul Saturday MacLeod and his fellow Toronto media jocks were alerted to the possibility of year old Sinderson ending his financial and personal woes with a low key start to the Big Comeback by a wire service item gleaned from the Brampton Daily Times a Herald affiliate The Times of course had picked up on Daves original story direct and in turn it with tho wires as is its duty as subscriber And once that wire story hit the other dailies and radio stations Raiders manager Dave other team officials found themselves beseiged however briefly by a flurry of frantic from Ihe Fifth Estate told The Globe outright that his hopes werent high about signing Sanderson but stressed the teams sincerity in the midst of a singularly publicity conscious season for the intermediate league of the outcome the whole episodes a nice feather Dave cap to kick off his tenure at The Herald and it docs me proud because I saw the new kid on the block respond quickly and effectively to what amounted to an Interesting rumor With or wilhout super stars I our Daves going to make the local sports scene shine Phone Okay okay I know every office worker In North America and virtually all their cousins are sick to death of endlessly xeroxed pop culture morale boosters that amuse while they encourage In the midst of the nine drudgery Circulated hand to hand among fellow employees and smirked over during coffee breaks these N irroverant reassurances thai Everythings going to be just fine cause we all feel the same way as you do other management and routine Insist on turning up like junkmail on my desk The following was recently discovered lodged between Columnists and Correspond en Is YOU KNOW ITS GOING TO BE A BAD DAY WHEN see Minutes waiting in your office Your son tells you he wishes Anita Bryant would mind own business You want Input on Ihe clothes you wore home from Inst nights party and there arent any You urn on the TV news anil theyre showing emergency routes out of the city Your twin sister forgets your birthday You wake up to discover thai your waterbed broke and then realize you dont have a Your car horn goes off accidentally and remain stuck while you follow a group of Hells Angels on the freeway forward all similar lists warnings reassurances jokes to Office Overload care of Ihls newspaper Ottawa Of The Heroin Its probably inexcusable that an Ottawa columnist paid to interpret current events in the nations capital cannot offer one intelligent item of insight into budget brought down by Finance Minister Allan thats the way It is And Heavens knows I tried this time because for once I was deter mined to get an Immediate grasp on the budget something that has eluded me in the past For weeks prior to the budget tabling I read all the newspapers accounts of what it would likely contain Yes wrote one reporter export tax on natural gas was an absolute certainly Yes said another MacEachcn would be forced to put an export Lax on electricity Another said that personal incomelaxwouldbcdcindexed Taxes will certainly have to be increased wrote still another All these valuable hints were care fully filed away In some obscure brain cells I even talked to economists about the budget something Ive always like a fresh outbreak of lep rosy As usual they confused me but nonetheless I was mentally prepared What the finance department does on budget day is to make the document available to reporters in a huge confer ence room nine hours prior to pre sentation That room is guarded and no one Is until ihe budget is presented in the Commons There arc no telephones or other means of outside world For nine hours its you and the budget Interrupted only by background brief by government officials JEW APPROACH This year for the first time I decided not to take advantage of this long study session I would enter the lock up for only the last hour and become fully familiar with the men Its like receiving your ion by meeting oilier kids coming home from school Its a disaster was the first comment I solicited from a Television It could hove been written in the Kremlin says a western reporter Is giving Premier Peter an easy was the What this budget does is create a confrontation offered another He has avoided a confrontation countered still anodic After minutes I was more con fused than If I had read the document mjsclf We rushed up to the Commons for he debate and while MacEachen was speaking to resounding from the Liberals and hoots of derision from the opposition I talked to a half dozen MPs all of whom had a different interpretation of what the budget meant One Conservative said It was an absolute copout another said It was the most sweeping nationalization In the history of Canada By now I had decided to wait for the early morning newspapers to let others straighten things out for me I started and for all practical purpos es ended with the Ottawa Citizen Allan MacEachen has accomp lished nothing said on editorial It emerges from MacEachcn first budget that he may be the first finance minister in two decades who knows what hes talking about said a columnist STORIES And another columnist said When he has doubt he does nothing Thats what he did last night nothing But still another decided that Allan MacEachen invaded west ern provinces without even the court esy of a war But that didnt jibe with another view that budget was socking Eastern consumers Then I see that Alberta Energy Minister Merv Leltch has declared the budget to be a massive and discrlm ma lory tax on the resources and people of Alberta However on another page Lehr president of the Alberta chamber of commerce was breathing relief We were a little afraid federal government mighl intrude on the provinces on the surface the budget doesnt seem indicate that turned on he television and there was a rerun of Tory Leader Joe Clark being hounded by excited reporters amid the hub bub of budget night on Parliament Hill No comment he was saying perhaps the first opposit ion leader ever lo be speechless on budget night That did It If he leader or the opposition cant come up with a const ructive comment on budget night I thought why should I keep trying Well just a day or two Attention to disadvantaged points to job quota trend Queens Park Derek Nelson queens Park Bureau of The Herald Slowly but surely Ontario is moving towards society where jobs will Deallocated on the basis of quotas reflecling peoples sexual ethnic ling uistic color or other origins The latest illustration of the shift in direction was an Illuminating exchange In the legislature between Leader Michael and Education Minister Belle Stephenson It is just one of an increasing number of incidents Cassldy complained the ministry skill training programs sponsored by employers have registered only four womcnandlMOmen Thats compar ed to five women and men year The program Involves essentially Industrial workshops such as those for parts manufacturing or tool and die making and Stephenson said the training programs arc equally open men and women In response took the quota route The statistics meaning the percentage of those in the programs who arc women do not show he said He wanted places or quotas for women NOT GOOD Stephenson rejected quota approach but her reasons for doing so leave room for concern She said no quota had been set for women because unfortunately In many Instances selling a quota estab lishes a maximum rather than a minimum The implication is that if one could surmount this hurdle quotas would arrive tomorrow Is she accepting Cassldys premise that taking head counts is the way to determine if discrimination exists Thus move from a society thai ideally offers an Individual equal opportunity to chase success to one Dial tries to guarantee equal results Tor groups of people In this case women but It could be any designated group To be fair also did tackle the equal opportunity angle when he noted women applicants to pro gram had a higher rejection rate than menand blamed it on negative chauv inist thinking among male officialdom If true thats a different mailer and one that Stephenson rightfully said she would look Into rather closely OTHERS TOO But the trend is are coming as few other recent examples demonstrate Last weekend the National Black Coalition conference here was told affirmative action programs should protect the Jobs of disadvantaged minorities during periods of high unemployment Translated that seems to mean males whose ancestors were skinned Europeans should be laid off work first Then there was the recent Ontario Status of Women Council report which demanded historical Imbalances in the occupational and salary status of women employees be rectified by affirmative action REAL ISSUE That s a kind of an end run endorsement of quotas for how docs one know there Is an Imbalance unless one has an idea of what a proper balance The definition Is usually given In terms of the percentage of women who hold certain Jobs or receive certain Incomes In other words it Is an attempt once again to secure equality of results But probably the surest of the road down which we are going Is in the new Liberal constitution where preferential treatment through affirmative action will bo guaran teed those who belong to aged groups Charter Rights of Section 15- THIRTY YEARS of he largest crowds in history attended the Remembrance Day service A parade led by the Lome Scots Band marched to the cenotaph where after an by Mayor Harold Cleave local ministers look charge of the service Curling is due for a revival In Georgetown tills year Last year the local club did not function very effectively because of a poor season for At a last week the club decided to use the artificial Ice in the mam rink this year and arrangements have been made for Its use every Thursday With ladies groups from four churches selling tickets a total attendance of registered at the cooking school which was held a week ago Tuesday afternoon and evening In St Johns Church Auditorium It was first cooking school held here In years Pic Earl was home on embarkation leave last week with his parents Mr and Mrs Ed A member of the special service force he has completed his training at Petawawa with the Princess Pals The regiment is slated to go to Korea but Private was not able to say whether further training would be taken in Ihe S before leaving for the cast TWENTY YEARS AGOThe Georgetown and District High School enrolment will be doubled by 1968 according to a recent survey The report which projects the estimated high school registration for each of Ihe next eight suggests the number of pupils attending will surpass the 1000 mark in and wilt Jump lo700nexl year It currently stands at 578 A new contract has been signed with the National Union of Public Service Employees which calls for a ninecent an hour raise retroactive to April 1 A classification of employees has been established with rates of pay or operators for semiskilled and for laborers Acton Theatre will be closed on November 26 Roxy manager Murray Harrison was Informed last week The has been losing money for two Perhaps the first person to use a telephone In Chlnguacousy Township was also the first one local on the new dial system Mrs Herbert Taylor of Cheltenham who was the township first telephone operator at the switchboard Installed over her fathers general store in dialed Ihe frst call using no letters for the exchange Mayor Em Hydes Rambler was stolen Friday night and driven over a steep embankment near Hickory Falls According too police report the car was taken from its parking spot near the Legion auditorium about m and its whereabouts remained a mystery for about five hours Finally a phone call police up the Glen mountain where the cor was discovered a part way down a steep bank on the Eighth Line The president of Smith and Stone Limited Brig C Wallace MC has been elected to the Board of Directors of Canadian Food Products Limited it was announced last week Wallace is president of Canadian Pittsburgh Industries Ltd and a director of Canadair Limited Salada-Shimf- Limited as well as other companies The Georgetown Raiders will emulate chameleons and change color part way through the 1961 hockey season Because of similarity of appearance between the Raiders and Dundas who also wear red and white the local club has ordered new blueond white uniforms and will be alternating their colors to contrast the opposition Advance poll arrangements may be establish ed for future municipal elections in Georgetown Town legislation does not now allow for advance polls but council con amend bylaw permit it TEN YEARS AGOThe department of highways will traffic lights at the intersection of Maple Avenue and Highway but It will not subsidize them council was told Monday A traffic survey the second in three years docs not show enough traffic to meet department specifications for a subsidy Township will dispense with a long time practise of printing the minutes of all council meetings and the bylaws passed throughout year In the past the printed copies were available nominations meeting The decision Monday was based on cost and the fact that all other municipalities discontinued the practice years ago Five downtown stores are still closed at press lime as a result of smoke damage suffered in a fire Nov Some of the stores hope to be open today Thursday The closed at time of writing arc Buck Fine Foods the restaurant in the McGibbon Hotel Holmes Five and Ten Cents Store The and Barbers Jewellers The fire started about 11 p m In a pile of garbage in an enclosed loading dock behind the hotel burning the roof of ihe loading dock losome extent Little actual fire damage was done Its not often provincial judges arc physically attacked In their courtrooms But Judge M J Cloney was attacked last week by a wasp AH summer wasps have been darting around the courtroom doing little else but making those on trial their lawyers and police a IHUe edgy Judge Cloney is the first casually having been stung on right side of his face The new post office opened on Nov 3 with Mrs Carter in charge assisted by Mrs Robert Crawford Sr The post office was moved from Carters to the former Carney Hardwarcstore The system now in use Is for each family or own a box with a key The mall can be picked up from the bo at any time ONE YEAR management orders return to work Monday employees of Smith Slone Ltd In Georgetown arc continuing a wildcat strike launched Sunday night to protest recent changes In their new contract Members of United Auto Workers amalgamated local 11 arc unhappy wllh a recent agreement which will sec skilled workers receiving an additional an hour over the next eight months but will offer nothing new to office employees and other members of production staff MP Otto Jclinek has expressed hope his new private members bill which suggests a reinstatement of the penalty In the form of a poisonous Injection for convicted murderers will come before Commons early In Ihe new A fire at Georgetown District High School Thursday forced ihe evacuation of building shortly after a series of planned fire drills was cancelled because of bad weather The fire was set In paper stuffed In one of the toilets In a girls washroom Principal Mike Furlong said there- is no estimate on the cost of cleanup regional councillors may be by opponents of the regions plans to a major landfill site In rural Milton whose lawyer has charged public funds arc being spent Illegally on preparations for site approval David lawyer for lho400member tannin Citizens Group has written regional council pointing out thai any efforts to proceed with the project arc illegal until courts have decided one way or another on tho citizens appeal against an Ontario Municipal Board OMB ruling