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the HER ALP Home Newspaper of Hills Page SI A Tilt Wednesday January A Division of Canadian Newspapers Company Limited Street tZfi Ontario WILLIAM Publisher DAVID PHONE Second Mail Registered Number Lung association sees pot threat Marijuana smoking constitutes the greatest single new threat Id the health of our lungs and the next ten years the potential exists for an enormous worsening of the health of all unless we do something about it now says Robert the former director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse While most new drugs are considered dangerous until proven safe for marijuana the assumption has been the reverse as it has been assumed to be safe until proven harmful It is pointed out that marijuana smoke contains more tor and known cancer causing agents than tobacco smoke He presents the findings from a stud showing that a single marijuana cigarette smoked for 15 minutes produces as high a level of carbon monoxide In the blood as do to tobacco cigarettes smoked in the course of day American young people are literal the only population in the of the world In which large numbers of an entire generation have smoked marijuana he in a recent Christmas Seal publication The use of marijuana in other countries docs not involve an entire generally its use is limited to either religious groups or social classes that are Isolnted and generally looked down on in society He believes the lung health of this generation is in The most bizarre thing that strikes me about people is that so many are lomenied about pollution worried about environment believers in eating natural foods crusaders against the problems of nuclear energy and yet thc lontinue to smoke marijuana cigarettes lr says There is a growing body of information about health risks and we tired to get that across To find out more threats to the lung contact the Ha I ton Lung Association the Christmas Seal people Its a matter of life md breath Submitted the Lung Association Demand for blood takes no holiday After an incredible 1980 Canada deserves a better year Well the holiday season now is over for another year and its time we all got back to thinking about bleeding more than Just through our eyes as the hangover saing goes The usual concentration on enjoying the plus the cold weather and the flu bug currently felling us like Hies have meant that people have not been donating blood as frequently as normal As a result the Red Cross Society is now operating on a perilous low blood bank holding about a The poor reserve means thit he is Issuing blood only on an emergency basis Red Cross officials are worried and need all tvprs of blood Watch for announcements of clinics being held at schools and industries or call the I nit of the Red Cross to see how 0U tan Please Brampton Dally Times Book riev The faceless elite that runs Canada Since Canada as a nation survived last May Quebec referendum what sort of state wilt emerge In our preoecupation with this question it might be well to spare a moment to consider the type of ship of slate on which we sailed into this storm In the first place One view of this sorry vessel is provided in State Elite McClelland and Stewart US pages Ill by Dennis a professor of sociology at Ottawas Carlelon University who professes to view the slate from the perspective of a former workmgman Among other things was a construction worker before returning to university The author examines by class definitions upper middle and lower or working class the elite who run the instruments of our slate including legislators the judiciary and bureaucrats lie notes the proliferation of regulatory boards run by the bureaucrats from the National Energy Board to Ontarios Pregnant Mare Urine License Review Board GROWING RULE seems concerned about the ever growing role of the stale in our lives which he says one of the most prominent features of advanced capitalist societies Governments accounted for five cents out of every dollar spent in Canada at tin lime of Confederation but today it nearly cents One third of all Canadian now derive their incomes from the stole in the form of either wages pensions or welfare payments He is also concerned about the massive shift of power from the federal to the provincial governments resulting In Inequalities in income taxation and standards of education health care and other services The rational Canadian suggests should shop around sec in which province it would be moat beneficial to reside But most of all he is concerned about our alleged class system of government with nearly all thepowerand privilege reserved for the middle and upper class of French and British origin to the exclusion of the working class and those of other ethnic origins Our middleclass legislators work in league with the upper class The judiciary sustains a system of class Justice with economic inequalities and Inequalities In Justice The bureaucrats meanwhile provide an important mechanism far the renewal of the dominant class Such analysis anchors his conclusion on a mind numbing array of statistics 02 per cent of the bureaucratic elite hold university degrees versus eight per cent of the labor forcei which he interprets with the aid of quotations from Karl Marx the more the ruling class is able to assimilate the foremost minds of ft ruled claw the more stable and dangerous becomes it rule He has examined he Canadian state he says In term of whether It has reduced inequality or extended democratic participation My effort to find being improved by the Canadian state was unsuccessful he reports It almost sounds like the conclusion Adam Smilh reached in The Wealth of Nations years ago I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good The diagnoses may be similar but the ia not The disciples of Adam Smith todays neo conservatives prescribe less and more regulation by a competitive market economy proposes more government Hie fmors nationalizing the oil industry or example and an alliance of the middle and classes to bring about a true democracy The fact that there are few other societies offer greater opportunity for upward mobility where i working man for example can become a of The Stale we arc told follows the honored Iradition of two earlier studies of class barriers In power and privilege in Canada John Porter The Vertical Mosaic and Wallace Clement The Corporate Elite Perhaps it is time fur a fourth dealing with the Academic Elite Meanwhile we can look elsewhere In our search for he type of state that may emerge in the Canadian nation Or the type of state that might hold the nation together I a ray h When you stop to think about really was quite on incredible year in Canadian politics It seems lito an eternity ago but the actually started off under the of Prime Minister Joe Clark Pierre Trudeau was being dragged into the froy trying convince himself he was eager for another campaign but publicly telling his troops they had better produce His Liberals were denouncing higher oil prices that bad been proposed by the Tories They were also denouncing high interest rates high inflation If only they could get the dreaded Tories out of office Trudeau was promising that if given one more crack at the prime ministers office he would quit before the next election No Canadian leader had ever run on such a platform In Quebec you may recall Premier Rene riding high confident that his yes forces would win a forthcoming referendum on sovereignty association He hadnt heard about western alienation but none of us were sure whether Quebec would remain within Confederation Everyone was preoccupied with Quebec TIME FLIES And it was less than a year ago that we were being told that the Alberta government and the federal Tories wcrewilhina whisker of an agreement on oil pricing Premier wasnt saying anything critical about Ottawa Its difficult to believe that these conditions actually existed within the last 12 months But It was an amazing We not only had the resurrection of a Liberal government coupled with the defeat of the long suffering Tories we actually went through that historic Quebec referendum which sent vibrations of fear across the entire country before we oil settled back to forget about it There has been unprecedented federal provincial bickering involving everything from oil prices to human rights British Columbia is withholding federal taxes as part of Its financial feud with Ottawa other provinces arc taking the federal government to court over its constitutional proposals More lawsuits arc threatened over taxing And Ottawa and Alberta remain deadlocked in a state of economic war with Alberta planning to cut back oil production as one or Its powerful levers In the dispute GETTING WORSE In the wake of the Quebec referendum this was to have been the year of great constitutional accord And as the year ends the bottle rages as never before The Liberals who were so quick to criticize rising Inflation and soaring interest rates now we ore watching them climb Still higher And our dollar is foundering in i n I mark And just a year after a confident prime minister Joe Clark was plunging election campaign with obvious glee he now is facing a party convention that will put his own leadership on the line At Clark could be looking for work Even New Democratic Party Leader Ed flroadbcnl cant consider True he picked up seats in the February election but in a majority Parliament he doesnt enjoy the clout he had when Joe Clark headed a government In fact it was an motion that brought down the Tones And as for the federal Social Credit Party It was wiped out II was indeed an incredible year But by no stretch of the imagination was it a great one The country deserves better in 1981 Fuel conservation campaign fell short of objectives Queens Park And the government worries that conservation has been downgraded in peoples minds there is a wide spread belief no energy problem actually exists In the first survey this year per Our ens Park Bureau Peoples ambivalence on the energy situation in Ontario Is nicely illustrated by the Just released results of an Energy Ministry poll of their const habits Consider these findings Ontario is especially vulnerable lo oil per cent believe Agreement hit per cent for the statement if you are at all concerned about doing the right and proper thing youll use less gasoline and heating oil Yet in contrast per cent argued I do more than my fair share to conserve gasoline and heating oil already And per cent said they drive six or eight cylinder ears while rejecting public transit per cent and car pools 63 per cent general what seemed evident from the survey as the ministry noted is the greater the personal effort required for conserving energy the less likely consumers would do It FIRST SURVEY What Is disturbing about these results is that they mirror attitudes revealed In another ministry survey earlier this year Tho expensive preserve it conserve it advertising campaign by the ministry appears not to have mode any fundamental difference In people a views since then Dont forget our policy on unsigned letters The Herald hi received a letter to the editor regarding parking in Georgetown but cannot print It became I la author bat opted to remain anonymous The Herald remind Its reader that letterwriters can retain their public anonymity and letters WILL be without names but he editor must knew the authors Identity All Idler the submitted for publication MUST be signed although the writers name will not be published that la their wish cent said Ontario is facing a real energy crisis but in the latest per cent said Ontario Is not facing energy shortages now Part of the problem drawing a conclusion from that kind of survey result of course Is that the questions arc vague and misleading OIL ONLY To start with there is no energy crisis and never was The problem is oil to be precise the 30 per cent we Import from insecure sources of supply There is no oil shortage as of now but thats liable change If the Iran Iraq war continues or spreads most of the detailed questions on the second survey do deal with either automobiles or home healing the two heaviest uses of oil by Ontario consumers Naturally enough as befits government that has long advocated cheap oil policies the surveys contain no questions seeking to discover how oil price hikes might affect consumption 1 eve to NEW PLANS Ontarios goal Is to slow the per capita growth In oil consumption to zero by 1985 a target that is going to be tough to reach without the deterrent affect of much higher oil prices Still perhaps because of the recession the preliminary figures indicate gasoline consumption in Ontario levelled off In 1980 And conversion of homo heating equipment from oil to natural gas is in full swing The government has also pledged million towards stimulating the development and marketing of alternative transportation fuels over the next five years Propane powered cars already exist and gasoline laced with per cent methanol is a real possibility by New car engines arc much more fuel efficient Halton s History From our files THIRTY YEARS AGOAt a meeting In the fire hall Sunday at which Mayor Harold Cleave was chairman members of the fire brigade their officers for Harry Savings continues as fire chief and William Hyde dcpulychief Erwin Lewis is truck driver with William Ritchie Bob Wilf Walter Richardson and Don Bnrrager assistant drivers We must be as economical as possible in as long as it is sane economy said Mayor Harold Cleave In his inougural address to council Monday night Mayor Cleave said that been an extremely happy year for him as mayor There had been no petty politics and he had felt council and town employees had cooperated to make It a banner year Murt Allison has taken over the Mnssey Hams dealership in Georgetown Mr Allison began business here last week succeeding Doug who will operate a farm near Brampton Fear of the worst flood In years is giving residents of Glen Williams much concern today At present the river Is Jammed with Ice from the Ninth Line bridge down past the William Davison farm and the houses which fringe the Glen Road along the river Cellars arc flooded in all the houses In the district TWENTY A GO George town may set a first in tax collecting this year if plans hinted at by Mayor Ern Hyde in his inaugural address to council on Monday work out He hopes the finance committee can come up with a first In Canada- monthly tax Instalment payments He said it would be an advantage to individuals and a distinct advantage to town financing Tentative approval was received at lust weeks Acton council meeting for the construction of a waterworks project The project includes a 1000000gallon reservoir and the necessary walcrmoins lo connect with the present town system A local octogenarian Is one of air travels best advocates Nellie took to plane again last week bound for Tampa Florida where she will spend three weeks in the sun One of the pioneers of air travel for women Mrs enjoyed a flight lo Winnipeg In when the airplane was still considered a male mode of transportation Excessive speed was the major cause of accidents in Georgetown in 1960 In a statistical report issued last week by the police department speeding played a part in more accidents than any other single factor Of the people injured in accidents were children under the age of 15 There were no fatalities within the town limits It was the first time in years that police were able to record the accident total at less than 100 Still busily engaged with the task of finding accommodations for the hundreds of youngsters who will invade town Easter week for the Bantam hockey tournament the AilStar Support Ladles Auxiliary set phone committee at their Monday meeting TEN YEARS A GO- Georgetowns CN Station and train yard will pop up in a Warner Brothers movie to be released this the sequence filmed Monday ends up on the cutting room floor The station area was swarming with actors crew and equipment Monday morning for the shooting of a scene to be used in the Warner Brothers movie A Fan Notes The cast includes Burgess Meredith Jerry Orbach Rosemary Murphy Pot coll ins Conrad Bane and Julia Robinson to name a few Georgetown is making its name in the world of amateur wrestling Tiger Joe Fobert just returned from Europe as part of the Canadian wrestling team and is now the unofficial junior freestyle wrestling champion of Yugoslavia He cant be the official champ since the team Just happened to be there and let them participate on an exhibition basis but Joe did win the championship The award was given to the next best Yugoslav Countys Crown Attorney Douglas Latimer of Georgetown has becnappointcd Queens Counsel by the Ontario government A native Reed Hunter now practising law in Toronto was also a appointment Speed buffs who throng to Georgetown Jaycees International Snowmobile Races next monlh will see a better show than the one that thrilled spectators at this past weekend and for a cheaper price The event at Stewnrttown this year Is an Ontario Snowmobile Racing Federation A sanctioned project which means the world best drivers will be participating in a grab for points ONE YEAR by the Childrens Aid Society CAS that unique servicing problems encountered In this region should qualify it for funding beyond provincial guidelines have been endorsed by a specially appointed Child Welfare Review Committee If accepted by the Ministry of Health the committees findings could see the societys deficit of for 1979 reduced to Members of the Optimists Club or Acton will again be pi in alongside hundreds of similarly charity minded volunteers and of internatio nal entertainment celebrities for the Weekend with the Stars telclhon for cerebral palsy this Saturday and Sunday The Ontario Municipal Board has ruled In favor of a proposed retail garden centre to be built on Concession 10 in Glen Williams noting that objections raisedabodt the project might have been avoided had there been better communication between the objectors and the town planning department Poets corner My old car has seen Its day If I ride 1 pay The tires arc smooth they grip no mare Some are split and some arc tore The wipers wont work and the doors dont The engine and It has no gut If I gel started I have to keep going Horn got stuck and kept on blowing Steering Is loose and the brakes are weak Once in awhile the transmission does squeak Hole In the top a draft In the side A wire In the teat makes a very rough ride She bums up gas and loo much oil Gas tank leaks and the rod does boil Radiator blew a cloud of steam To me it was like a very bad dream Insurance man demanded a thorough test The poor mechanic did his best I drove straight to wreckers shop Keep on going for fear shed stop Then It drops In a heap 1 will walk and It can sleep by Albert Brooks