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Home Newspaper of Halton Hills Established 1 866 A Division of Canadian Newspapers Company Limited Guolph Street Georgetown Ontario L7G 326 TAYLOR Publisher and General Manager PHONE 2201 BOB Advertising Manager Mil- Reentered Page 4 SECTION A THF HERALD Wednesday August 1 Hockey players need our help Ticket sales are steadily pouring in for the Acton s Rock Roll that is being held Saturday at Prospect Park While organizers are happy with the response theyre quick to remind us that a sell out is required if enough funds are to be raised to send hockey players from the town to Norway The idea of holding a concert is so much more fun than being asked to buy chocolate bars or a crate of oranges Top marks should go to Carol Robinson and her hard working team for showing the initiative and foresight to bring some musical entertainment to town The star studded concert featuring names such as Ronnie Hawkins Bo and Long John Baldry should make Saturday a memorable summertime event A fresh approach to fund raising often brings out a responsive crowd thankful for a change of pace and some variety in their yearly schedule We also hope Georgetown residents will see fit to make the worth while trek up to Acton and support minor hockey a strong link that binds our two communities together Buy your tickets today and enjoy an outdoor concert where you know your dollars are hard at work helping to make a dream come true for two teams of anxious hockey players Is it time for a woman The New Democratic Party was trying hard for one but it took the Liberal Party in Halton to select a woman as their candidate in the federal election Not only is Onena Curne a woman but she s also from the riding north With over Liberal votes winning her the coveted candidacy last week Mrs Curne has tackled traditions and shown local Liberals to be flexible and progressive Longtime Liberal Whiting can remember there ever having been a female Liberal candidate for the riding but he recalled the Progressive Conservatives selected one who went on to get elected Sybil Bennett overcame what some may call two strikes against her she was a woman and she was from the riding s north Georgetown Miss Bennett warmed a seat in the House of Commons from to 1956 She died before her term ended In the past Liberals and Conservatives have more of ten than not selected their candidates from the south end of the Even Mr Whiting was living in the south when elec ted and it was only when he was defeated in that he moved to Georgetown It will be interesting to see if businesswoman Curne is able to repeat Sybil Bennett s success story 20 years later We think she 11 prove to be quite a handful for PC candidate Otto Jelmek and candidate Kevin Patronage issue troubles leaders Ottawa Report Stewart Prime Minister John Turner Is not the only leader who ft having a spot of trouble with patronage Tory Leader Brian Mulroney without ever getting his hands near the trough must be wishing he had never heard of the subject least certainly be wishing he had never talked about the subject If only he were now uttering his first words about ft But he has been talking about patronage since he successfully ran for the party leadership last year and one of the quotes that stands out relates to the possibility of him as prime minister continuing to hire Liberals for patronage plums Only after I been prime minister for IS years and I can t find a living breathing Tory in the country was the reply His Tory audience loved It One member of that congregation had earlier shouted that you re going to be prime minister You replied Mulroney are going to be a senator That of course all when patronage enjoyed a relative respect ability before former prune minister Trudeau in one of his final and more unforgettable political pirouettes decided to reward just about every cardcarrying Liberal of his acquaint LOSES GROUND The unpleasant whiff from this precedented porkbarrelling continues to bang over the Liberal party and there is understandable concern that Turner will have trouble dlsosslclattng himself from the whole mess But Mulroney Is certainly doing his best albeit unwillingly to pick up some of the overflow And in the first week of a federal election champaign Ihis must be the only time that an opposition leader without ever enjoying the power of patronage has actually lost ground on the issue to a prime minister who does have such power Turner managed to look better by merely keeping quiet with perhaps just a hint of embarrass Mulroney additional troubles piled up when on his campaign plane he chatted to a group of reporters about his apparent contradictions regarding patronage In the wake of shameless handout of good ies it has obviously become politically rewarding lo denounce the practice and Mulroney has been doing Just that referring to the appointments as scandalous and vulgar About his earlier apparent support for patronage he was quoted as saying on the plane that I was talking to Tories then and that what they want to hear inlkingtolheLanadianpubtlc during on election campaign Is some thing else Ho was also quoted as saying that if he were Liberal MP Mackasey he would also have accepted the appointment as Canadian ambassador to Portugal If I d been In position I d have been right In there my nose in the public trough like the rest of them It was all splashed across the front page of The Citizen the only English language dally In the nation capital His aides Jumped quickly into the fray by claiming that Mulroney s remarks were made In Jest He was not having a serious con versa lion said press secretary Bill Fox He had gone to the back or the plane to wish a reporter happy birthday and was Joking with other reporters The touble here Is thai in this particular context an alleged Joke docs virtually nothing to lighten the load The fflcl is contradictions exist and did leave one Impression with Tory delegates and another impression with campaign audiences If he was only Joking in explaining he was telling Tories one thing and Canadians another thing what Is the non joking version As Jokes go It seems to be on par with Mark MacGulgan claim that when being Interviewed during the Liberal leader ship race he was merely joking about firing the Governor of the Bank of Canada and out of work Queens Park By Derek Nelson TORONTO Youth unemploym was one of the big issues in the recent sitting of the Legislature All three parties came up with Ideas of how to help reduce the numbers of young people not working And some of them bad On the other hand none of them will be any good unless youth them selves show a few brains In approach the job market Judging by the quotes in an article entitled young and out of work in Canada self professed weekly news magazine Macleans many of them I thinking at all These are a minority of all youth mind you Of all those between 15 and it should be noted that per cent arc employed More important those with university or a high school diploma are better than B0 per cent employed whlli those with Grade 8 or less are only per cent employed FEW QUOTES What is a person to make of the following statements by unemployed From an 18yearold There are a lot of Jobs out there If somebody wants to work at just anything but you have to have your standards From a Grade 10 dropout who dr Its from job tojob What happens is that you get fed up with the monotony of It all The job does not go anywhere You arc actually working harder than anyone in the restaurant You are required to lake out the garbage wash the dishes and close up From a 17 yearold Grade drop out and runaway from home who has been In Jail twice You are bound to someone careless walking around with his wallet half out of his pocket The stores do not have the best security And people leave their car keys In the ignition NOT ALL Thus he linked unemployment to Employment programs Tor youth with those kinds of altitudes are a waste of time yet Ihey were almost half the youth quoted In the Maclean article Youth unemployment partly be cause the baby boom generation Is now at working age and partly because of the recession Is a problem There are people who want to work who can get Jobs Bui there arc also a lot whose strange v of reality is caught by those quoted above What sort of chance docs a Grade 10 dropout think ho has to advance in a world as technological as the one we live In SCHOOL CONTACTS And there are too mony youth today and when I was thai age also who won I go anywhere or do anything for a job They won I want to leave the those from smaller centres who ve learned the delights of the big city when at post secondary school those bright lights But that aside there Is a further aspect of some youth unemployment that is almost totally ignored As Saul who has studied youth Joblessness said in the Maclean piece a lot of young people Just do not fee like working at that particular lime They would rather travel or take it easy And why not Levlnc asked It is one of the joys of youth Amen to James Menzies 1843 Disciples met in EDITOR S NOTE Noted local tan Rev Rlc will be writing of tor The Herald each week about the history of and the people who have helped the town develop Many of the group who applied for land in 1819 with Alexander Stewart were located in Esquesing township I hate not yet discovered whether any were successful in obtaining land that fronted on the Credit and no record of any of their number building a mill survives But they began immediately lo put into practice the religious Intentions they outlined in Ihelr petition In IBM they organized wnat was probably the first congregation In the township calling themselves simply the Church of Christ In The leaders of the group were John and Isabella Menzies natives or Perthshire combined farm with just outside the village of Norval He denoted himself pastor of the Infant congregation and allowed a log meeting house to be erected on his land on tbe east half of Lot Concession 10 While working at the forge Menz memorized vast portions of scrip ture and gained a reputation as a living walking concordance The church grew slowly in 1B24 Duncan was added to the roll as a deacon in 1828 Mary and Grace Robertson were added James pastor appears in 1835 along with Alexander Anderson and William Trout pastor was added in 1838 Like Menzies Anderson was native or Perthshire On coming lo Canada in he Journeyed lo where he was impressed by Menkes preaching After his baptism to mark his new way of lire he consigned his riddle to the flames with the comment There that will never trouble me again Where the Methodists appealed to people emotions the Scotch Baptists emphasized Ihc place of and Will am Trout wos a millwright who had resided in Erin He had tried without satisfaction the mourner bench where repentant sinners were invited to display themselves at reviv meetings But the approach of the Baptists impressed as It had Anderson and he became active In the congregation In the 1830s the ideas of on American Thomas Campbell began to gain popularity amongst some of the Scotch Baptists of Upper Canada Campbell was discouraged by the number or different denominations on the American frontier and urged a restoration of the unity of the early Christians People should not be divid by denominational allegiances but should simply meet together as Christ ions Ills Ideas reflected those of the congregation who had ply described themselves as the Church of Christ Preachers from Ohio and from came to and Eramosa lo spread Campbell s mess age and found ready listeners Instead of attracting the masses as they had hoped however the ents of the new Ideas in fact fostered the development of one more They called themselves Christ Ions or Disciples and others often referred lo Ihem as Campbell The Canadian branch later split Into two groups the more liberal group has recently wilh the United Church and has a church In the more conservative group has a church at One of the Johns sons James had become deacon of the church in and acted as secretary for the congregation Although the adoption of Disc pie principles seems to have been accept readily enough within the tion there were tensions between neighboring churches despite the per sonal and doctrinal tics lhat should have bound them together James Menzies was Instrumental organizing the first Cooperation meeting of Disciples which was held in in At that time there were about congregations in Upper Canada andthconeinEsquesuig with 46 members was the third largest Another gathering was held in to organize a Canadian branch of the American Bible Union Disciples were reluctant to support the already existing because of their insistence lhat the Greek word for baptize be translated as Immerse The Sabbath services or the Disc of the period were the communion service Without needing to support a full time minister or lo spend much on the upkeep of the simple chapel the main expense of the congregation was for port wine and 3d a gallon In 1843 They also seemed to provide relief for a needy family and ten shillings was spent that year for pounds of flour for Sunday schools were or glnally regarded with some suspicion and the congregation did not begin one until Some of early leaders of the congregation likeAndersonandTrout hud soon moved away John Menzies died in and his family sold the farm on which the chapel stood In 1870 lo their neighbor James Early an Irish bom convert Though still listed in the census James Menzies moved to Toronto thereafter The church record book stops in 1873 and about that time the congregation ceased to function Members of the church had planted a congregation in Toronto township But their appeal was mainly people of Scotch background some of whom had already shown sympathy lo Bap ideals Locally their Influence wis almost confined family and neighbors and as Ihe died out or moved away the died with Emissions damaging soil From the Ottawa Bureau OTTAWA Heavy metal and chemical con lamination or Ontario farm soil Is a growing concern and more live control measures are needed If the pro blem Is to be overcome according lo a special Senate committee re port on soil conservat ion The Investigation of farm soil degradation by Ihc Senate ture committee has suggested that the dis posal of sewage sludge on farmland especial ly In Ontario is a growing practice which should be more closely monitored Although it Is a vol uable source of nitro gen and phosphorus sewage sludge contains varying amounts of such heavy metals as mercury cadmium arsenic lead urn nickel copper and zinc All these can be retained in the soil so there is a danger of incremental buildup to levels which are poisonous to plants through repeated cations of sludge the senators 129page re port slates Even more heavy me tals and troublesome chemicals can be to atmospheric fallout This Is fre quently a problem for farming areas down from Industrial operations the commit tecs under Senator Her Sparrow found taurine contain I tint Ion has been reported In the soil of Cornwall Island near on alum in urn smelter and metal contamination has been noted near a cobalt nickel smeller In the Ttmlskumtng area and near two nickel smelt era at Sudbury they reported EMISSIONS Ontario is threaten by large quantities of industrial from within Its own borders as well as from the United States Fur therm ore he fuel con sumption of con centra t numbers of motor vehicles also contrib utes to atmospheric emissions or lead This whole aspect of soil contamination Is one where more effective control measures are needed he senators recommend A related problem arises from the fruit and vegetable production in such areas as the Niagara region where large amounts of chemical pesticides have been used lo crops THIKTY AGO Widow of a Georgetown bailiff Mrs William Ward Is celebrating her birthday today at her home on Jone Street The Lome Scots Band under he paraded as a feature of the Dominion convent an of the Canadian Legion in Toronto in Sunday A presentation of lawn furniture was made to Archdeacon and Mrs W O Thompson last night by mem of the junior altar guild of St Church Bill Hard man a young George town army cadet who was chosen to spend the summer at the train school at Banff will have a further thrill when he is one of a guard of honor for Ihc Duke of Edinburgh at the British Empire Games in Vancouver A Georgetown former who ret red recently Den Lesl e is sailing aboard the Scythla today to spend oral months In Brit Ian and on the continent It forty days and forty but the torrent which dropped something like three inches of water on Georgetown and district Monday afternoon put residents in the mood for ark building The unusually heavy downpour result in flash flooding in some areas of town where storm sewers and natural ground absorption handle It Miss Doris daughter of Mr end Mrs Fred Armstrong MNabb Street was awarded her M A in nursing education this spring at John Hopkins University Baltimore Maryland Neil Walsh formerly with Imperials has opened a new music shop on Mill Street in Georgetown Cliff 14 yearold son of Mr and Mrs Roy La dlaw caught a inch five pound carp his bore hands near the construction site of the new fifth bridge just cast of Gordon Warn of Terra Colta went to county council last meeting with a problem he found he hud It his house on a public roadway TEN YEARS AGO Frank Phil brook was officially sworn in Thurs day on Parliament Hill as the new MP for The situation at Cemet worsens with each rainfall Graves in the may be disturbed It any more of the land Is washed away Jean Variety will be closing Aug Gerry Getty and his wife the stores owners arc looking forward to a holiday after eight years of work Parishioners crowded Holy Cross auditorium last Wednesday night to say goodbye and thank you to Father Pierre Wood who Is leaving on Friday to take a new post at St Philip church In Toronto FIVE YEARS AGO Jim France of Georgetown encountered an unex surprise and a lifefulfilling during his recent holiday in England when he and his wife met Lord Mountbattcn a man Mr France has admired since his youth While North Halton residents have been busy giving home hospitality to overseas Kevin wasoff to Sweden to attend a jamboree there David is the first male skater the Acton Skating Club to receive his Gold Dunce Medal at the University of Gueiph last Wednesday POETS CORNER Leaders out of hand The earth should he of love and good tor all Innocent creatures and ong like the birds they Man brings hit gun and f res la the air Destroys the song and beauty God put there Now I on I In li oil we have to share Man has destruction he alms for the foe He builds its wrong we One of these days one will go with a blast It could be like the moon earth great last All our lender with power just pain With force of dictation love don reign that they can trust Coax Ihem along Ihelr human we Human get angry with tattles and tales Like a train wreck file off rails Hem ember It someone daughter or By your kind way a soul could be Never give up for the world Is great Chances will come they could be This world has greatness Our leaders have failed our patience Most of our leaders want to belter their might To ruin the earth with a destructive sight There Is plenty for all If people wrro fair Remember God the way it was there If you have a good conscience makes you free The pleasure earth tor you and me Earth was meant be a wonderful place The greed of man made a serious disgrace