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the HERALD Horse feathers to minority govt Home Newspaper of Halton Hills Established A Division of Canadian Newspapers Company Limited Guelph Street Georgetown Ontario GARNET Publisher and General Manager DAVE Editor SECTION A THE HERALD November IB Geography bias Should a Simcoe firm have won a contract to design a municipal complex for Halton Hills Two councillors wanted the town to delay a vote for three weeks We wonder if a threeweek deferral would have made the decision making process any more fair Nov 10 C A Ventin Architects of Simcoe was given the contract ahead of an Acton firm Sanky Partnership Ar The real issue is whether or not local firms should be treated any differently than companies outside of Halton Hills Certainly there are advantages dealing with a local architect Transportation phone bills accommodation and other costs would be less naturally Because they live in town the architects would be more accessible to coun town staff and local contractors Local firms know their reputation is on the line when they design in the town where they live and work They can just pack up and forget their mistakes But should local firms be given a second goingover We think not To do so would make council give in to favoritism based on geography Rightly so council has to first weigh a company s ex the costs its references and its presentation Councillors have an obligation to be fair to all who spent time preparing submissions If there are no clear differences between offers council should choose local firms It would be unfair and tent for council to favor contracts to local firms based on geography A majority victory Though small in comparison to other housing projects Acton won a major victory last week Plans were announced for new homes to be built in the spring The housing development is the psychological boost Ac ton has been looking for ever since June when Beardmore workers received news their plant would close The persistence and hard work of Councillor Rick Bon finally paid off Because three new water wells in Ac ton were opened in the late summer the Ministry of the Environment gave their okay The significance of the project t be undermined It the biggest building project in Acton up for approval inl3years Coun Bonnettesaid The development calls for semidetached units and 32 townhouses along with two separate homes This type of housing properly reflects the needs of potential buyers Townhomes and semidetached dwellings make it for young families seniors and single parents to afford their own home In addition the town of Acton will in crease in population by more than 300 people when the new housing is completed That s a positive shot in the arm for local businesses In addition it restores faith in the political system it shows Acton isn being ignored Progress albeit slow is being made A place in history for Georgetown gyro How many times hove you rtad heard or even said that minority government is good government Horse feathers Look no further ihnn he current Liberal administration In Ontario for proof we governments to govern whether the arc good or Indifferent And minority governments make it very difficult to govern effective ly Look what has happened here The Liberals are the government of Ontario They have an agenda Ihcy are pledged to implement They campaigned on It The New Democrats signed the Accord with the Liberals that brought the Grits to power In change Tor Implementing that Liberal agenda most of which the also supported Natural ly the Accord was a broad brush instrument outlining the general ideas of agreement but without the details More Important the Accord was not a coalition documcnl it did not Editor notebook Each discovery made Ken Kuibclls eyes light up like that of a 5yearold Scrunched in front of a Herald microfilm machine this Mlsiiissauga father of three talked excitedly about the secrets of the past Georgetown made aviation history back in the early sixties About as good looking as a Volkswagen Beetle nevertheless the Avian gyroplane was a dream machine built by 17 former men Also called an air car and gyrocoptcr the machine In corporal the aerodynamic of both the helicopter and autogyro Mr Kulbell wants to put a Georgetown made gyroplane In the Ottawa Aviation Museum was here In town that ex employees of formed Avian Aircraft Ltd The Idea of the gyroplane was to develop a machine cheaper safer and easier to fly than a helicopter Although the gyroplane eventually took to the air the Idea never did quite takeoff as too creators had hoped It was so far advanced people accept It said the bearded Mr Kuibell The Ford Edsel was ahead of Its time and was too far ad vancedtoo Mr Is a truck driver for the City of Mississaugfl whose pet project Is to have Ottawa accept a gyroplane in Its aviation museum Id like to put the first one In the Avian brand tiesald At The Herald to search for clues he Iwirled his body with after finding not one not two but three pictures of the gyroplane in Eyes popping with excitement he praises former Herald photographer Peter for being on his toes The gum chewing yearold Is a member of the Toronto Club and he Is building his own in his basement It has taken film four years to put together his air car Id have it finished by now if I had the money Its a two- seater and I hope to have it out by spring that my goal As long as he could remember Mr has been interested in four years on and off Club members meet In Etoblcoke and use the airfield on Highway 9 between Highway and Highway In his club there about gyroplanes but In there I think in the homebuilt category there Is a future for the gyro but I dont think otherwise it will take off hesald The rotary wings make the gyroplane ultimately much than ultralights especially In winds of more than miles per hour he said lies looking for people who were originally Involved In the project Mr Kulbell would only have been 3 years old when the Idea was first conceived Looking at our microfilms he was able to confirm the earliest starting date of the company It looks as if In February 1957 the former men made their first attempts to build the short takeoff and landing gyro for business and pleasure You can t help but get caught up In Mr Kuibclls enthusiasm I hope he comes back to the newspaper soon Ho makes me feel like a kid again moke the NDP part of the govern Essentially the New Democrats traded away their right to defeat the Liberal government in exchange for having that government guarantee to do what it campaigned on doing anyway Queens Park And the Liberals never promised that every nuance of their policies would faithfully reflect the line After all they are Liberals not New Democrats Take a couple of specific rent control and pay equity Housing Minister Alvin Curling rent control bill is complex ment that breaks the Accord pro hibition of rent increases greater than four per cent The government claims the average will now per cent although other estimates suggest in creases will range as high as 15 per cent depending on type of building age and so on It was a compromise document that a number of tenant activists and landlords hammered out over ths of negotiations In theory It allows landlords a bet return on their investment in ex change for which It will stimulate developers to again enter the rental housing market they abandoned a decade ago because they t make money The point here is not that the bill Is great legislation A measure of Curl and his ministry own is that his people have had to It Is the government s Opposition threats to gut it as opposed to improving it were ab surd Fortunately the Conservatives eventually backed down and said d let It go through but this Is ALL PREPARED TOR THE CONVENTION AND CIGARETTE Citizens forum Steps to prevent head lice school now and so arc the head lice The medical term for head lice is pediculosis and it Is a universal problem It Is Important to realize that these tiny creatures show no respect and ore not selective They love human beings male female poor rich clean dirty silly or sensible The louse has no idea whether your house Is welt kept or whether your child shampoos regularly Therefore a case of head lice Is not a problem to be ashamed about although It Is a nuisance The adult louse is a tiny brown in sect about long The female louse lays eggs or nits which arc tiny white ovals They are firmly Inched to the hair shaft with a cement like substance Hie eggs hatch in about or days become adults produce more eggs and so it goes We can try to prevent outbreaks Nits and lice do not fly or jump they can only hitch rides from one head to another The usual vehicles are hats baseball hats knit cops hockey helmets combs hairbrushes scarves headsets and dress up clothes at school and home Teach your children not to share these Items Watch for signs that your child has head lice louse survives by feel on blood Ihrough the scalp and this will cause Itching You should suspect Infestation when your child is continually scratching Nits are most frequently seen above and behind the cars and at the nape of the neck Examine children hair weekly for nits Sometimes despite your best Torts the lice will win the battle and set up shop on your child ahead All is not lost 1 Notify the school Then consult with the school public health nurse about treatment Use the special shampoo recom mended by your pharmacist andor physician Follow the directions very carefully 3 After shampooing ALL RE NITS MUST BE from the hair shafts by picking them off with your fingers and with a finetoothed steel comb Check all clothing and bedding which might harbour lice or nits and launder or dry clean Brushes and combs may be washed in the special shampoo Check all ihc other members of your family to see if head tohead contact has spread the problem Children must be excluded from school until treatment Is complete that is all nits and lice arc removed This is the only way the chain of transmission can be broken Head lice arc not nice but they do not transmit disease and they are not a health problem If we control them effectively Yours truly Lynda Seller Communicable Disease Coordinator Halton Regional Health Department Car insurance study needed Dear Sir Very recently Derek Nelson a Queen Pork columnist for your paper wrote an on the con trovcrsy between Ontario Consumer and Commercial Ions Minister Mr Monte and myself Mel Swart on auto insurance Spcciflcol Mr is defending On tnnos private system and I am pushing the alternative of a publicly operated system similar to the systems initiated by the NDP in Saskatchewan Manitoba and British Columbia I am writing to make one lion and some further necessary ex planalions Either through a misprint or an in advertent mistake Mr Nelson quoted as saying that a public plan In Ontario would save Ontario motorists as much as thousand annually It should have read million annually In fact the state ment which I normally use is bet ween and billion annually With total auto insurance premiums in Ontario now In excess of SI billion yearly a per to per Mr Nelson scoffed at both my pro jection of the savings and Mr attempt to show that in rates in Ontario were below those In the three western provinces enough even though our figures are supported by dent surveys and the Minister are not The columnist could expect that the might be biased toward the public plans in Ihc west and Mr to yard his In company friends here Unfortunately Mr Nelson did not state the main thrust of my conflict with Mr Kwinter during the past many months It stems from my demand and his stubborn refusal have an indepth up-to- date independent study done com paring the roles efficiency and policies of the public systems with the private system here Now we have in he last few day an indication by Hit Minister that he s going to do an study and report on the Slater and report Yet he still refuses to do the In depth comparison with the Mr Kwinter and Mr Peterson have repeatedly paid lip service to the public right lo know pie Given the crisis in insurance fairness and efficiency there Is no plausible reason to refuse lo do that com prchensive comparison Simply con to all the government rhetoric they don t want the public to know the true situation If they did British Columbia model would be resistible Yours truly Mel Swart MLA Critic Consumer and Commercial Rtla In your opinion Looking forward to winter IE J1C No QUE Oh ye I already more than two years after the legislation Is supposed to be fectivc Then there Is pay equity The Liberals have broken the Ac cord here by splitting pay equity into two segments a bill that will apply to the civil service and another that will cover other government agen cies as well as the private sector In the Interests of administration and keeping Ontario economy competitive they said It had to be done way Maybe Maybe not Again the point is that the Liberals are the government and carry the respon sibility Tor whatever it is they do If they put through unworkable legislation under opposition pressure the resulting mess will be on their doorsteps And it Is the genera public who II automatically suffer The two opposition parties because of the minority situation have tht power to fundamentally change the Liberal legislation But they don t have the right because they arcn t the ones who will have to live with the conse quences nice winter 10 I en Not QUE Oh yes I WE Yea I am Indent the or clear joy the winter tx loo I m not like winter I like but not a lot 1 bright ami crisp driving con t00 of the ice he snow as long d dont like It down I t I n and the it snow v Baling in the sometimes years ago Sybil Bennett MP and s first member of parliament was buried In Greenwood Cemetery following a funeral service in Milton She represented the county since 1953 Georgetown s postmaster from 1940 to was buried in Greenwood Cemetery with full military honors Col Gordon Couscns was a former commanding officer of the Lome Rifles Scottish now the Lome Scots The third man to announce himself as a candidate for the December council elections Is John Elliott of Cres Mr Elliott has been a resident of Georgetown for two years since he succeeded Scarle Chessel as the CNR station agent Quick action by workers of the Beaumont Knitting Mill In Glen Williams prevented disaster One of the company largest knitting machines caught fire Nobody was hurt years ago The Most Reverend Joseph Ryan Bishop of Hamilton blessed ana of opened second para school During opening ceremonies of the new St Francis of Asstsi school Bishop Ryan said Religious outlook Is most in separate schools but religion has to begin in ihc home Kay received a watch and on cake for years service for the Department of Justice tor her a party at the North Golf and Country Club was hosted by Judge Kenneth The executive for the Georgetown House League Hockey Association was in The president Is Rick vicepresident Don Jar vie secretary Sheila and treasurer Mike Mooney Georgetown is part of a Zcllers ex pins ion program which will bring one of moa than a dozen new stores to town Don Harris central Ontario sales operations manager for spoke the Georgetown of Commerce 10 years ago After two years of losing to the Canadian and World Match Snooker Champion CI ff Acton High School student Brad Martin wants a win Mr was In Acton to demonstrate some trick shots and lo defeat all comers Next lime 1 want to break That it I can gut one shot Mr Martin said Debbie Wilson of the Red Cross Youth received an award at youth appreciation night sponsored by the Optin Club Optimist Club dent Ax ford and Optimist Larry preen ted the award Richard Burton was In Georgetown to film the United tisls movie The film was shot at the Ilalcx Building the Soup Pot Restaurant and The Herald A candidate entered the race for school trustee Barry Shepherd 31 will be running against Don Long 5 years ago Michelle IS was nam the Optimist Club Junior Youth of the Year for her music public speaking and participation in com Heather Gibbs a Grade student at Georgetown District High School was the Senior Youth of tht Year because her athletic tnltnt and volunteer work Diane Pcnricc was named the of the Year for the second time Past president presented the award to Ms POETS CORNER SPEAK UP When you at night Your thoughts 1 When you re moat In need I be there When you ill and ponder Which way to head When you seem moat alone Think of me Instead When yon finally tee the light Understand which way to go If you re sure you want me let me know By MARLOWE C DICKSON Ontario