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the HERALD Home Newspaper of Ha Hon Hills Established A Division of Canadian Newspapers Company Limited Street Georgetown L7C Ontario TAYLOR Publisher and General Manager DAVID BEATTIE Advertising Manager PHONE HOI 4 SECTION A THE HERALD Wednesday September IS lie Croatian confrontations Unfortunate circumstance Its an unfortunate series of misunderstandings and mistaken assumptions that again brought town council into rathe tense confrontation with Spokesmen for the Croatian cultural centre near Norval Monday night Unlike the Yugoslavian Canadians who get together at a centre south of Acton and in variably have problems con trolling their more rowdy celebrants the Croatian Canadians strike us as a cohesive enough community of mostly Metro residents whove made sincere and sweeping ef forts to meet Halton Hills ex of them There has however been one serious shortcoming one which led to the confrontation at Mondays general commit tee meeting Almost a year council asked the Croatians to publicly state their long range intentions for the social recreational centre on Winston Churchill Boulevard they have not done so The comprehen site plan which the town requested during its con of a proposed Croatian cemetery has not been submitted The request was not out of line The site plan seems just as relevant now mat the are completing a secondary ac cess road into the grounds even though simple driveway construction wouldnt normally necessitate such elaborate background before receiving approval To their credit the have had to quietly accept councils negative rulings first on the massive recreational complex once en visioned for the pastoral site and second on the nineacre cemetery proposed early this year It appears from many ac counts that the Croatians also readily accommodate requests from neighbors and civic of ficials to keep festive weekend celebrations relatively quiet although a serious problem still exists regarding amplifiers nor have they complained as was originally feared about noise or odors from adjacent farm operations Now theyve complied with a fire department request to build a strong entranceway into the site able to support firefighting vehicles if needs be It seems to us the are indeed good neighbors a runin with police over misuse of firearms notwithstanding a basically internal squabble with employees subsequently ironed out by the courts Nevertheless councils need for a comprehensive site plan is clear and not negotiable Apart from the fire depar tmenta request is there any further use planned for the ac cess driveway that might entail bigger and more disturbing events at the centre ted from erecting an Olympic style recreational complex what do the Croatians plan for their centre beyond its curren tly passive format ELSIE NOT EASILY Among the dairy cattle Judged at the Georgetown fall air these com were to milk the event for whatever price they could get They were concerned with the competition taking Liberals 6and5 wage plan may be Trudeaus ticket out Ottawa Report Ottawa Bureau or The Herald Rightly or wrongly the Liberals are convinced that they have a winning issue in their wage restraints program And since Prime Minister Trudeau has cancelled a scheduled Asian promote the program we can assume he Is equally convinced Trudeau like cancelling Asian tours But his closest advisors which Include Senator Keith have told him that the party political fortunes rest on the restraints program and that it should be carried to the people with the intensity of an election campaign And as the party leader must lead that campaign So with unusual haste he rattled off apologies to the governments of Indonesia Japan the Philippines Thailand Malaysia and Singapore and said lhat domestic economic conditions are forcing him to cancel his scheduled two- week tour to these countries His trip was to have begun on Sept 19 Many of us felt the timing of the trip would have been unfortunate said Liberal Party President Norman MacLeod The government program Is beginning to come across to the people It would have been unfortunate to lose momentum PLANS INCOMPLETE At last reports people still haven decided exactly how the prime minister would campaign on behalf of the restraints program There had been talk originally of an elaborate crossCanada tour which would take into every province preaching on behalf of 5 But some of his advisors favor more limited appearances in major centres such as Montreal Toronto and Vancouver And MacLeod is fully convinced lhat despite the public opinion polls which show the Liberals trailing the Tones by a whopping percentage points that Trudeau is still the best thing the party has going for it I travel across the country on a regular basis the prime minister is still the most popular Liberal in the country MacLeod described the prime minister as a positive political force wherever he goes This may come as somewhat of a surprise to many Canadians particu larly those in western Canada But the top party strategists arc obviously convinced themselves otherwise they would not have pressured into cancelling lhat Asian tour a trip he had been thinking about with a great deal of enthusiasm Under normal conditions it unlikely that the prime minister would have altered his plans PLANS RETIREMENT But present conditions are far from normal and one of the factors that might have weighed heavily on mind is his own personal future He has already made It clear that he has no plans to fight another election so this Is not a preoccupation with him but ho is not the type who would want to take his leave while he appears to be a lost cause I think we can safely assume that he would be inclined to hang In there until the polls turn around and the Liberals are on the upsurge And the party brass feels that the turnaround can come through the restraints program not because it is necessarily popular but because it happens to be the only such initiative lhat the people can grasp The vatlves by keeping their economic strategies secret until the next election campaign are letting the Liberals have this field all to themselves In the circumstances It quite possible that Trudeau and his Liberals can reverse the trend In he public opinion polls and if Ibis happens there are a good many people wbo would expect the prime minister to make a fall announcement on his own retire ment plana perhaps leading toward a leadership convention early In 1963 While party officials may be preoccu pied with the next general election I suspect that Trudeau spends more time thinking about his own dignified departure Now perhaps be feds he has found the answer They did it Its Peterson vs Macaulay We had a feeling about this time last week that wed be ex- well deserved congratulations to the Georgetown Agricultural Society on its fall fair The fair board has earned the communitys praise and admiration with a huge jump forward in terms of the number and scale of the attractions of The key it became ob vious was getting more people Involved not just those saddled with the onerous job of running an event by themselves but those who pitched in a half hours time here and there Yes there were flaws even on an Indian summer weekend amid a crowd estimated at 12000 over the three days The Georgetown fall fair mustered all its resources picked up a dozen or more new attractions and did indeed make that big jump into the big time we can easily forgive a handful of tcomings and gaps in the proceedings they re just bugs to be worked out for next year And therein lies the crux of the matter by no stretch of the imagination will the fair board be considering retirement as was the case last fall There will be a Georgetown fall fair thanks to the success of its predecessor and the interest shown by the community Our thanks and congratulations to all involved on acid rain rights remedies Meet you at the Acton fair Now that the Georgetown fair board is breathing a little easier again we can ail just sit back and enjoy the fairs Halton Hills twin in Acton Theres no need to worry when it comes to the Acton fall fair coming Friday night through Sunday in Prospect Park This ones been a big threeday success story for years Maybe its something about the people of Acton and area because they sure dont need much coaxing to attend and en toy the annual event Maybe it has something to do with the fact that Acton is that little bit further away from Toronto enough to allow its rural character a bit more room to flourish and thus enhance the fall fair Then again maybe its just the astounding job the Acton Agricultural Society does every year in mounting a full roster of varied events and attractions Theres the Queen of the Fair pageant and the marvellous Variety Night showcase the everpopular beer tent the baby show pet show model boating on Fairy Lake the an tractor pull and just to get things rolling a parade into the fairgrounds never miss it our readers in Georgetown and shouldn either love to see Halton Hills get together again for the second weekend in a row this time at the Acton fall fair Derek Nelson Queens Park Bureau of The Herald Should Ontario Hydro be forced to install scrubbers on all its coal fired generating stations as part of effort to reduce emissions that to acid rain fall on our lakes and forests Liberal Leader David Peterson believes so Ontario Chairman Hugh Macaulay believes not And the Canadian Bar Association had the clever idea of having both of them make speeches at its convention under the formal title of acid rain- Canadian rights and remedies Insofar as coal fired plants are concerned scrubbers arc to acid rain as soap is to dirty Jeans Electricity generating stations that burn coal produce oxides of nitrogen and sulphur that combine in ways still unclear to fall as acid rain Scrubbers remove the sulphur dioxide although not the nitrogen Liberal Party policy is lhat Ontario Hydro must install best avail able scrubber technology on all its coal fired generating stations HYDRO QUIT Ontario Hydro likes to fudge its answers to questions about scrubbers but It seems clear thatbarring major growth In the economy in the next few years scrubbers are last on Hydro s list of priorities This means a committment to put scrubbers on two of such units has been shelved Nor does Hydro Intend to put scrubbers on its new twounit thermal slat ion in northwest Ontario To Peterson these arc examples of a monolithic out of control Crown corporation thai leads Ontario govern than following it Moreover It damages our in the where scrubbers are seen as a of a uiil s commit There 221 for new I red plan- have reached the planning stage or better HYDRO VIEW Naturally sees things differently To him the aim Is to reduce total emissions The methods can vary He stands by the decision to get Hydro totals down to 000 tonnes annually by 1990 a cut of per cent from figures Peterson argues lhat the base should be which means the actual reduction if it occurs will only be per cent Macaulay notes scrubbers are costeffective only when used on new plants that bum high sulphur coal and operate a lot of the time that fit generating stations in the eastern S But in Ontario coal has diminish importance In providing electricity except peak periods as more and more nuclear generating stations come on stream And what coal is used will likely be washed and at least partially low sulphur Macaulay also claims major tech nlcal problems and high costs for retrofitting scrubbers as opposed to installing them in new plants where the boilers designed with scrubbers in So far as symbolism is concerned Macaulay thinks the promise to reduce emissions per cent or 37 per cent is as useful as putting In scrubbers In the attempt to forge an acid rain agree ment with Ihe He might be right It will be interesting lo sec the conclusions a coming tour of heavyweight S journalists make In regard to Ontario Hydro acid rain committment The best defence against acid rain is to use nothing but nuclear and water TERRYS SPIFT LIVES AGAIN Students at Holy Roman Catholic School were busy with crayons and recently making potters the Terry Fox Run la town Sunday Three of the winners In the school poster were left lo right Lee Anderson 12 K lratrr id and Yoa can see the poster la shops building around town The Terry Fox Ran If alto being held at Acton High School of beheld responsible for any damages or Injuries incurred THIRTY YEARS Anne and diehard were prize babies in the six months to one year doss in the Robinson Baby Show the Georgetown fall fair Little Jane Anne lives In Terra Cottfl and Richard was bom In Windsor Topping the three to six months class were Lorraine daughter of Mr and Mrs Tom Ledwldge and Thomas son of Mr and Mrs Alan A special prise for the best twins went lo Ronald and Donald Darch sons of PC and Mrs Ken Darch of Brampton Their mother is ihe former Violet Louth of George town TWENTY YEARS high school population in Georgetown has doubled in the last two years Records show there were students attending two years ago Latest figures from this fall registration point to a total attendance of approximately this year Public schools are teaching about 100 more children this year bringing the number of pupils to just under 100 Breakdown la as follows Harrison Chapel Street Pork 303 Kenne dy Holy Cross school has pupils registered to date Last year there were Total enrollment In Georgetown schools Is 3 TEN YEARS AGOHalton County seven municipalities took a big step forward Saturday when elected repre sentatives agreed on a regional government structure they would like the province to implement At a combined meeting of owns town ships the Idea of a fivearea second tier as recommended by the June technical coordinating committee report was rejected and creation of three areas was recommended North comprised of and Eaquesing Townships along with Acton Georgetown and towns and made up the northern area and Burlington made up the other two areas ONE YEAR AGOThere were IBB runners in Acton and 1H runners In Georgetown Sunday morning partld paling in the first Terry Fox run Together they raised over including approximately 1100 raised by Hal Ion Hills councillors As many as Canadians ran In the kilomelre marathon and between three and five million pledged money The run should raise a total of at least million for cancer research Held In memory of Terry Fox the young onelegged runner who raised almost million for cancer research before dying of cancer last June the run was attended by an eight member team from The Herald 1 Ibr Herald photo POETS CORNER Our Mother We look to our Mother with pride joy She has the same love far girl or boy Look to our Mother with high She gave as great care without any neglect As a child with your Mother you grow They are the beat days yon ever did know If you have a good Mother a great treat are she be Her greatest dream give Ihe world to me live and let as she would say Not lo be greedy but ate fair play Yon think of your Mother when the has pasted on And all thoie great memories they have gone We cannot return to those childhood days A treasured thought of her love By Albert Brooks Halloa Hilt Animal to Man Drawing blood from fang tank deep into flesh II turned It next victim of prey To kill Tor Jay and flee the bloody Hut II going to meet Us Judgement day To murder for no reason bat It It destroy its own and his no To lie on It back and Ian In the II life not end at end of time It hat no thought Nor does It have a affection II makes out to be what it not And trie to attempt It perfect It trie to cwutnict It Where time and space are concealed la sand This dream It a myopic Idea And this tormented bent called man By PAUL SMITH