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georgetown herald a thomson niwspapers umjth puhkatkn serving the communities of georgetown glen william norval limehouse hornby stwwarrtown balllnafod alhgrovo terra cotta thursday december ttrh 1959 editorial comments how municipal government operates questioned by a resident who comas from western canada last week about the status of he towns reeve and deputy it has occurredre us that tome of georgetowns newerresidents might be confused about how peal government operates in ontario ri georgetown a 9member council is elected to conduct the town s business sep arate elections are held for mayor reeve deputy reeve and six councillors the mayor is the head of dvic govern ment he acts as presiding officer at coun cil meetingss when any formal motion is placed on the table the mayor calls for a vote after discussion on the subject on hand he does not himialf have a vote except on occasions when any councillor might eak for a recorded vote if such is asked the town clerk whocacts as secretary at a council meeting records the vote ofeach council member including the mayor and this bcomes a permanent voting record of that particular question the reeve and deputy are fullfledged members of the town council sitting at the head of the table on either side of the may or irt addition to these duties they have in extra task as members of the county council georgetown is part of the county of halton which comprises eight town and rural municipalities certain matters of government are entrusted to the county council including county roads administra tlon of justice conservation health unit and home for elderly people to mention a few there are no elections for members of the county council it comprises the reaves and deputies from the various municipalities presiding officer is known as the warden and he is elected annually from among the councils membership it has been cus tomary to pass this honour from municipal ity to municipality and this year george towns reeve doug sargent has indicated he would seek ir returning to local town government at the first council meeting of a new year a slate of committees is arranged under the mayors guidance to deal with all phases of town affairs each council member includ ng the reeve and deputy is chairman of a committee and members alio are selec ted to serve on other committees town committees include finance police public works property water etc committee meetings are held at the call of the chairman and discuss matters which subsequently coma before council for final decision a committee meeting has no legal status and only motions passed at a council meeting become law for several years council members have received remuneration for their ser vices the mayor gets a flat yearly honor arium of 1500 other council members are paid 13 for each council meeting they attend there is no fee for committee meetings echoes horole dec is 134 mr omar diggtns testes tomorrow or st johns and will tail friday for the old country we thank mr williams driver of rr 4 mail route for a bunch of holly and mistletoe just received from england an ottawa dispatch on monday aaya canada s first silver dollar will be mint ed and circulated as a comme morative token of kins geo rges accession to the throne en may b 1936 it will be died tbtfgeorge dollar and bear to bis majesty a strain on the family tie m va a dm bailed nata 33c 1 lb chocolate drops ue 1 os pitted dates 15c dotaii ar ansas sse lbs mincemeat 2c pure jersey sulk delivered any where in georgetown 10c a quart at the gregory theatre the glamour and romance of old kentucky in the gay 90s judge priest starring will rogers days tf get organised after the hunt by this time theres a toot of snow on the ground and iey experts who sud- teem to make up half the tlon are telling me no body but a dam fool would build a chimney in that kind of weather then the meson tatd he eeumnt wertt with wet bricks and it was reining er snowing only p in the country who entered december with pile ef toteks about the sun ef buckingham palace airline in i the laundry ream drying out i men earning in to cot your waekly newapepor from the carrier bey georgetown herald published by thomson newspapers limited ss main st south georgetown ontario walter c feuehn managing editor garfield l mcollvrey production superintendent office staff aileen bradle terrv harley john ollivier advertising plant staff dave hastings cervdle tdm curran of the canadian wkbr1ewspapers association and the ontario division of the cwna ling in te got dry thats whore ho stoops and that mausoleum ef bricks con- fronting bar the old girl was about reedy te have herself bricked off into a quiet cavity in the cellar or other elected and appointed offices besides an elected town council geor getown flas two more elected groups the hydro commission ami the pjblic school board members of these two are elected for two year terms the hydro commission has only two such members elected on alter nate years with the mayor as the third member of the commission the mayor by virtue of his office is also an exofficio member of every appointed board in town the school board has six members three of whom are elected each year both these boards appoint their own chairman from their membership a number of other boards to which appointments are made conduct various specialized aspects of community business georgetown district high school board to which appointments are made by the council and public and separata school boards it in charge of high ichool affairs a public library board comprises a similar sot of appointments georgetown planning board ts composed of three council mem bers plus four appointments made by coun cil the industrial commission has four councillors and four appointments for its membership the cemetery board is a 6 man appoin ted group the board of parki management which confines its activities to operating the arena has six appointed members the community centre board in charge of the swimming pool also is a sixman appointed board new service has its headaches a switch to carrier boy service for the herald in town has not been accomplished without headaches and we are sorry for any inconvenience caused the past few weeks to subscribers who have not received their papers on thursday the boys and girls who are delivering the papers are an enthusiastic group and have done a fine job in their new careers as young businessmen 5ut for one reason or another some houses save been missed we are anxious that errors d- not oc cur twice and any compfafnrs have been relayed to the carrier boys but we realize that it will still be a week or two before anything near perfection is reached and there will be disappointment in delivery for a ttma the comer boy should call sometime after school each thursday if he has not arrived by supper time a cell to tr 74156 which is distribution headquarters will rectify your problem state of alarm and confusion chaos and open warfare far rm getting a bit wtary of frenzv about the first of dec- wooks and everybody foals irs hearing people sa they re iick embtr etr jear and were more ilk old times of christmas us becoming fi- tor it hionable to emit such senii i ba qu time getting a ments as it s so dam com on year it was a now sink man to build it final found merciahzcd or chnmmas is in th bathroom by ma time the right fellow but he was on juit a bag pain in the neck or wo ware through wa had a another job this week and ht i don t enjo christmas any compute now bathroom and a had to go deer hunting next mori lm absolutely worn out bill for over 500 another week then he needed i year sh decided wa d sand all piffle and poppycock its not tha floors and wa still have christmas that is commercial humps and hollows in tha hard- laod ik our society dont bet wood to show for h still ano- there won t bo a sharpio out thcr christmas wa got into the rharo sailing souvanir buttons painting and whan tha family or cold drinks on rha day of would moat at meal time it me second coming looked lika a wargathering of its not christmas thit s a bis pain in the neck us some of during the he period ining the socalled christians who wlth lho q trouble n strife cekbrate it orrrng com l5 llke liung wlln a cobra nurs plaining grabbing sweating mg t a thats why 1 pushing whining in pcrful ui k on lhe anm project as frenz of seir interest as the a challenge it s a sort or cotn- glonous daj approicres bination between custers last stand and the charge of the for myself i find christmas ught brigade in domestic and the weeks approaching it ntis a demanding but exhilarating oxporianca each christmas anrf wkn fh fin season around our bouse pr- dowfl w 11 h v h 9- hn the last snarl of the r me and don t mnjr fa- or whn m mt anybody plaasa y tho bast fpmtr h uing ts none too good oenhned off i know that chrlst- mas and poaco on earth and reason is thtech yar jut fcw kuh bout the unte other people j p p beginning to wrap gifts or ad dress christmas cards re plunging into the projccl most tim ear moved by who people do their major over knows what obscure feminine hauls in the spring ror some balkines she crossed me up reason we git into tht mom and wmt on a painting and stupendous domestic upheavals cleaning jag in oclobtr two just before the festue season months ahead of schedule and each year its not m doing tture we were facing decemb- the old house looks pretty ir with nothing to do but get good to me but the chief en readv lor christmas like nor- gineer goes into some sort of ma i people the thought of it completely unnerved me and i knew shed bo upser by all the peace and quiet in the weeks before chris tmas soj i decided to build a chimney im happy to say it the air as the alwajs do we worked weve boon in a normal have the longest chimnej this however the project cleared i side of pittsburgh that makes three chimneys on the house and i hope santa claus doesnt get into the wrong one one chimney will drop him right into the toilet and if he jumps into my new one hell drop like a stone about 50 feet and into the furnace and that will be the end of father const- min0 millw0rk doors sash cabinits stairs frames scr1ins prompt service free estimates 11 watlr st tr 79771 business directory ralph dav1ks a ci s fa accountant and auditor 133 guelpb georgetown tr 73351 office hours 9 am 3 p m mondays to friday wauacf thompson 3rd division court curk a commissioner tr 73e3 tf for ixfctt fyk care consult o t walker oculist prescriptions filled hearing aid glasses 12 main st s brampton gl 14474 res gl 16243 hours i am 4pm daih friday am to i p m evenings bv appointment maurice manderson q c barrister solicitor 61 mill st tr 7j464 rosy theatre bldg controversial corner by ian cass conservation what can be done as the countoside lies ster ue and dormant under a coat ing of ice tst the local elect ions attract a wide interest as the bustle and eicitement of the festive season reaches a cli max tt is perhaps a bad ume for any columnist to try to at tack the subject of conservat ion when we are faced with i vast surpluses of wheat when we are urgenth seeking mark els for millions of pounds of extra butter how can one paint an alarming picture of m adequate land management and destructie agricultural polic ies it is difficult during the aftermath of hur rican hazel when this part of ontario was counting its dead and assessing the millions of dollars lost in property dam age when the bathing beaches around toronto were declared unsafe dee to sewage pollui ion when thousands of acres of cropaara lost doe to a lowered enter level and lack of rain i inn air in toronto or ause of the concentration of carbon monoxide gas during peak traffic periods and when i the fish disappear from jour favourite stream this is the ume when people might think about the merits of conserving what we have inherited or what is left of it it is andte easy te point te what is wrong it is easy to pre- serine the acbon required to put it right like this point one no further pollution of freshwater lakes rivers or streanuwill be permitted ex ishng pollution will be correct ed within five years point two lumber companies will op erate on a sustained yield ade quate replanting basis or will not operate existing stripped land unfit for agriculture will be replanted on a top priority basis point three misuse of agricultural land by excessive cash cropping or un wise cultivation methods result ing in land erosion wilt be pre vented by advice nonpayment of subsidies or bylaw pout f oar air pollution win be drasti cally reduced by metfa nt largely ignored due to commercial pressure a program such as the one described would undoubtedly form a sound basis for solving man of our conservation pro blems such a program will only be introduced when public pressure becomes irresistatue and such pressure can only come from an informed public at the moment the public is woefully ignorant and lament ably apathetic the extent to which our resources are blind ly destrojed wiii stand as a measure of our national aware ness for canada unlike most other areas of manmade de vastation it cannot truthfully be said that she acted in igno rance todaj the science and methods of conservation established the means to ach ieve wise utilization of land forest and water resources are available only one thing u lacking action until this act ion which must come from public tiressure is forthcoming we will continue to destroy our forests pour sewage into our rivers and give cancer to our children by polluting the air they breathe now one final barb directed at the christmas tree trade how nice it is to arrive borne triumphantly with the festive pine or spruce aatid the exchv k lever hoskin chartered ac 31 auln n brunpton glendil 1u24 44 vlctoni l toronto phoa esl 44131 s m faibish ro optometrist mcnamara jewfuem georgetown ttnyanskklerba barrister solicitor notary 36 main s tr 74531 dr w luiams bldg a m nielsen dc no doctor of chlroproctlc ad naturopathy for appoint tr 73613 lady attendant 164 guelph no 7 hwy robt r hamilton ro optometrist eyes examined for appoint tr 73971 60 llatn street georgetown tf 1 dale bennett and latimer barristers a solicitors lerov dale qc 191456 s bennett qc 193056t douglas v latimer triangle 73381 23 mil sj georgetown georgetown animal clinic c w swn dvm 106 guelph street cunlc open 7 pm 9pm mon tuis wid fri aflerymon by appelnfno d 1 1urns milne 1 dental sumlov xray 1 uill sl th 72871 dr- john r kerry dentistry xray twangla tm41 mala sl arnold rathbun late insurance at estate analysis sun lipr of canada is gower ct georgetown tr 7479 hewson ord and helson barristers a solicitors 39 main st s beside knox church 120 guelph st hunter bldg no 7 hj george c hew son john d ord rrederick a helson tr 7 2246 tr 79781 ed cries of tht jounkmers to set it up in the living room decorate it with tincl orna ments and coloured lights and draw back the curtain for all to see tach ear at this time millions of oung trtts are cut down to meet the public dem and a few dajs after christ mas the same millions of young trees are thrown away to be burnt if all the young trees destroyed in this manner over the past ten years had been i planted in the denuded areas of southern ontarfch much of the i haoc of land erosion would be under control the nvers would flow more cleanly and a vast source of lumber wealth would hae been available j apart from the aesthetic satis- faction and increase in wild life i regnt having to point a critical finger at a source of in- come for some of our excellent service clubs but i will be much happier when christmas i trees are made of plastic and the growing ones are left a dr p w w kuryllowicz prectwe of dentistry tr 7341 13 halo n georgetown frank pitch auctioneer service pa box 413 tr rsbsa georgetown w h c a rr professional e er a ontario land surveyor georgetown ont res 81 pr charles dr office guelpb st 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