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Santa set to pay first visit Saturday From The Herald North Pole bureau we have news hat Santa Claus is headed or Georgetown due to arr ive Saturday as a special guest of the local Lions Club and the star attract ion of the Club annual Santa parade Its the year in which the club has sored the event and a ew twist is being added The normal parade route will be reversed wilh the floats bands and other marching from the Georgetown Market Place at ra to downtown Georgetown Main Street Incloently hell return Nov for the Acton parade sponsored by the V Men association When the parade is finished participants and youngsters are to enjoy hot chocolate at the Hall on Mill Street behind Memorial Arena Many old favorites have returned for this year a event members of the regional police the Georgetown fire brigade and the Georgetown volunteer ambulance service will Join Lions standard bear and Mayor Pete Pom eroy to lead the parade The Acton Citixens Band in their bright red uniforms will add sharp musical talent the march also inviled to play are the Enn Mills Meanwhile at the Legion hall If you re planning to head out for the Santa Claus parade In Georgetown this Salurday why not stop by the Legion Hall on Mill Street end browse around at a wellstocked and fun- filled bazaar Tbe Legion Branch tidies Auxiliary will have all kinds of crafts knitted goods baking and even palm sale and youngsters are especially invited St himself is expected to drop In between noon and 1 to have a chat The bazaar starts at 11pm and continue until The Legion Hall Is located on Mill Street above Main Street Drum and Bugle Corps the new Air Cadet Band and the ever popular Georgetown Girls Pipe Band There arc also a Urge number of groups enter floats this year and following tradition prUes will be awarded accord ing to various categories including most angina float best commercial float best overall best service club entry and best theme float Other groups entered for this year parade are majorettes group the Georgetown Fireflies a camping organisation Kinsmen Halloa Hills Jills gym nasties club the mists Chicken Club the Newfoundland Club the Georgetown Figure Skat Club the Rotary Club the the Gemini hockey club theUonettes and a number of coram entries On leaving tbe George town Market Place the parade will head down Guelph Street Highway to Maple Avenue turn left to Main Street and along Main to the parade finish at James Street Despite promises to the con the post office is still a little slow with its deliveries to the North Pole best bet for reaching Santa Claus with Christmas wish list is still Hie Herald Address all letters to San tas co The Herald 45 Guelph St Georgetown L7G Well not only print the letters we print Santa personal replies Santa shouldnt be so surprised about the reception he gets in Halton Hills he always here whether we re adding to his chubblness bake sales or waving to him along the parade routes this Saturday In Georgetown and a week from Saturday In Acton Herald file phots 8775213 I EXCELLENCE AWARD IN CUSTOMER RELATIONS the HERALD Home Newspaper of Halton Hills Established 1 WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 1982 866 mkaV FORD SALES LTD 8776928 BEST DEAL Is A CAPITAL DEAL Management makes an o Smith and Stone takeover imminent A LAST GLIMPSE OF LOCAL HISTORY Interested area resident stood in line for up to minutes Sunday afternoon for a chance to tour Glen Willi mi historic Beaumont knitting milts Hundreds look Doug and Diane Penrlce up on their offer of guided tours through the sock manufacturing mill founded In knowing full It would be their last chance to do so Toe machinery moves this week and next to Hull Quebec following Beaumont a merger with Mills Though Beaumont Gltamont brand name will continue to appear on work and sports socks the local firm will be no more its employees relocated where possible and machinery churning out socks for Hansen Mohawk The historic old mill structure itself a buyer More photos Inside Herald photo by Pan Senior employees with Smith and Stone Inc have made an offer to purchase the company and it has been conditionally accept Friday Georgetown employees of Smith and Stone were told the present management group had nude an offer to purchase assets of Smith and Stone with plans to continue to Present owners Duplate Canada and Canadian Genera Electric are ex to close the deal Dec the announce ment said Both general manager Stan Tooke and vicepre sident and secretary Harry Wakefield declined to comment on the deal or to say how many people are In the management With Its sole employ another ten He declined comment on Iff P town the American More details concerning j- attributed company has sales office the deal currently being in Montreal Toronto to a slump to residential Winnipeg Calgary and Dec 20 Mr Wakefield housing and major said Vancouver where they Surrenders to police after murderthreat Tie pay hikes to productivity Mulroney A man who phoned Halton regional police Saturday threatening to kill himself and his ex commonlaw wife a shot gun surrendered after three and a half hours Charged with convey fog a threat by telephone Donald Keith Nicholson 34 will be appearing in Milton provincial court Dec IS Police said the call at l from the Georgetown Motor Inn on Guelph Street where the man claimed to have been living the past four months brought out six members of the tactical and rescue unit trained negotiator Don from Onkville Residents and employ ees of the Inn were cuated and thanks to Ihe Onkville detective the man was persuaded to surrender He was ad mitted to General Hospital for psychiatric evaluation and released Police said Mr Nlcbol son had been living with an Ac ton woman for three years and la from New Brunswick Domestic problems are believed re sponsible Police reported there were no weapons in the motel room and roan had been alone By MAGGIE HANNAH Herald Special Pay Increases for Ca workers should be tied to Increased produc rather than hikes in tbe consumer price index to revive the nation eco nomy Brian told Halton Progressive Conservatives last Wed nesday Mr Mulroney onetime contender for the party federal leadership and president of the Iron Ore Company of Canada says It should become a natio nal objective to reduce and eventually eliminate and outlaw indexed con tracts and benefits Any Indexation should be tied to productivity Increases or the rate of gross national product growth and not to the rise of the consumer price index We need a national commitment to civilizing labor relations In da Mr Mulroney says since the adversarial system Is rooted in lack of proper twoway commu nication and result Ine vitably in mutual ignor ance hostility and mis trust Tbe carrot to induce the new system to work will be tax ensure that measurable improvements are rewarded regularly be says Mr would also create a national tri partite productivity com mission Immediately establish a fair manner of measuring productivity Increases according to industry sector and launch a national Information program to educate parti clpants on the fairness of productivity enhancement programs Mr believes It will be equally Important to double our commitment to research and develop ment by As a resource baaed economy we must look at mining forestry agricul ture and fishing as well as energy Objectives could Include processing and manufacturing supplying machines and technology for resource Industries and to continue the present extracting and primary production approach Conthuted on page At Herald Christmas Carol sheets inside Acton highspeed chase Six people led Halton regional police in a highspeed chase through Acton in a reportedly stolen car Sunday at 2 a m A 17 year old Georgetown man was charged Monday with dangerous driving and public mischief He bad reported his Pontlac firebird stolen from the Shell Station overnight Saturday Travelling at limes at up to HO kilometres an hour the driver shut off the cars headlights when pursued by police along Highway 7 east of Sixth line and disobeyed four stop signs before coming to a sudden stop on Churchill Road Passengers and driver disappeared into the bush after having led police kilometres in three minutes The Georgetown man will be appearing in Milton provincial court Dec Youll get Fotomat films with your Christmas mail Processed Dim at Belle vue Photographic Ltd lab will be sent to Canada custom era through the mails divisional con troller Philip ann ounced this weekend to outlets customers Georgetown Market Place be receiving their photos is one of 174 retail cash on delivery but will outlets dosed Oct not have to pay postal Bellevue picked up pro- charges and dellvt ceased a delivered film many envelopes of NEW SERIES STARTS Grace McKnlght proprietor of WUUanu Charts Pottery b presenting her Fall weekend has welcome la to aVopmaadpcriu start saoc far Carbtouu The Oreyear W salt the Glen Is this week Herald a series articles members of the North Tourism a aewry formed wMch to the area Stay mere Herald paste by Chris Aagaard Driver 47 critical after car hits two trees A year old man la critical condition in the surgical Intensive care unit of Torontos Sunny- He was transferred there by ambulance from Georgetown Memorial Hospital following a car accident Monday night at John Berry of the Cedar Sprite Hotel was driving alone on tbe Eighth line sooth of Sfass- when bit car left the road and bit a tree head on In the west ditch vehicle struck anoth er tree broadside firefighters extricated him from tbe vehicle and be was rushed to Georgetown Hospital with major Injuries in cluding severe loos There no estimate of damage to me car but there was damage to a fence bordering the road work don t have address es staff will be contacting customers by telephone to get that infor mation Since there are several thousand envelopes con taining the photos Belle estimates It may take weeks to dispatch all the customers work and asks customers to be pati ent BeDevue is not in a pasl- tion to provide customers work over tbe counter at its EtoUcoke office and asks customers not to mate personal visits to the laboratories Undeveloped film or completed ffaushag beM on a premis es at not Bellevue re sponsibility and the company states it assist customers in this ALREADY ON THE JOB Elected Monday Bight as trustee for Ward 2 Dk Hewitt was a aad already sentag co by last Wednesday night The tyear Georgetown lawyer was sworn la by board education director Beevor taking over he seal left empty la September by the death Betty Walker Tbe board tedded to allow the recent vacancy I be fiBed by be electorate rather than by month November board new trustees their threeyear term la December HiraUplMtobyAriPeaerfaa