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thi o 01 town hbrald thursday dktmbtr 24lh 195 c yuietlde greetings uw ihmtm thanki all our kind frndi for their continued patronage and our btt wishes for a happy holiday joe and vera greenwood the cottage inn maw street south georgetown georgetown s imaginative approach to industry mino millwork wilf mino f 11 water street- tr 7 9771 u written in the national builder one week in september more then 9 000 people turned out to sec the georgetown ont indu strial exhibition that number just equals the town s current population but virtuallv every adult and school child did visit the display of their towns in dustriat production and this unique exhibition of the varied output of ten local industries drew business and industrial people trom toronto 30 miles away georgetown i industrial lx hibilion was another move in the spirited efforts of this otitario community to create a 46 60 industrial residential as sessment ratio the joint effort or the local chamber of com megte and of builderdeveloper rex w rleslop whose delrex developments limited is pri manly responsible lor george town s doubled population since 1955 the exhibition was held september 1825 georgetown chamber of com merce had considered such a display for some months to ac quaint townspeople with just what their local industries were doing rex heslop who left a town of 35 000 people and more than 100 inrustrtes in his rex dale community of metropolitan i toronto to create delrex georgetown made the opening i of the si 1 million delrex mr- iket centre the occasion for the exhibition deferring one ten ant s letise for eight das he provided store premises for the exhibition and financed an esi conic for school pupils in connection with the in tiusli i slum 1 oral industries under comment aupms did the rst tor example li iiil iwns two paper mills viiiiikc taper mills and provincial paper limited showed the materials economics and technologj in volved in paper processing which made georgetown an in dust rial centre half a eenturj ago biggest eorjet mn em i plover smith and mom limit ed displavcd some of the hun dred odd plastic products that local effort produces for cana dian hardware and housewares markets p dnham bell ass ociates exhibited store from de signs that local ran materials make possible an electronic firm anan associatis of can ada display ed complex com pon enls that guide mivsilcs and machines in this mw ace and svkes tool corporation showed gears important to the funct loning of the nation s industrial machinerj we sincerely w ish our many customerpand f riehds all the blessing of this happy season and extend our thanks for their patronage through the yeari jacksons bargain centre 26 main screet north georgetown but possibly georgetown a enterprise was best epitomized by displays of a knitting mill and n aircraft company two years ago samuel pcnricc and gordon graham local mill men together with a third partner since killed in a plane crash took over the 80year beau mont knitting company water power from the credit river originally energized this mill but georgetown was the site of canada s first industrial hydro plant in 1890 and the beau mont mrfl bad long since been electrified pcnrice and graham found i ample opportunity to modern ue hteir equipment however and have expandd production even to some u s markets for their work and sports stock ings they met the industrial exhibition idea with enlhusi asm a five foot high knitting machine was rcmov cd from their production line and re assembled on the exhibition floor throughout the eight days of the show the two mill owners stood by with specially printed pamphels to explain their operation while the knit ting machine produced a con tinuous line of stocking george town families whosc members i have done mill work for three generations learned for the first time something of the materials economics and enter lrise that went into their lne li hoods the other exhibit of spinal significance t o enigdown people showed a model of the 10 000 aulogjro which the newlv formed avian industries will test fl in november for med b half a dnicn former a v roe engineers and technic i lans when the arrows demise hit georgetown s labor force avian industries has been fin anced b local residents del rex developments rushed a new plant to completion for the plane designers in two months avians president peter pavne and his colleagues have turned a drawing board con cept into a protolvpe autogro i town gaini labor skills i avia industries points up an important aspect of george town s industrial potential i ike other communities within a half hour of toronto s malton airport both us labor force and some of us industry de pended in considerable degree on avro the death of the ar row was a blow to georgetown which the commun t absorbed and indusirv fortunately div ersified look in its stride the gain to the community from an industrial potential point of iew was the highly skilled labor force which avro left behind toda among the 5 800 wageearners resident in george town and within a three mile radius are more than h00 draft smen machinists millwnghrs and tool and die makers 96 of them now locally employed 440 executives supervisors in spectors and industrial plan ning controllers 172 of them now locally emploved 97 pro fessional engineers 21 of them locally emploved 221 machine operators and stalionarj eng inneers 146 of them locally emploved 1200 semiskilled worker half of ihem locally employed and 1325 unskilled workers 369 of ihem locally employed following the arrows de- mise some new delrex home owners quickly sold out and moved off as the labor force i figures indicate the remainder founded other employment some of it as far or farther awav than malton some in metropolitan toronto but georgetown a rttv within walking distance of the coun try with its ndii valley beauty and recreali nal facil t les new school and low cost housing kept them residen new industries like standard products georgetown limrltd wfiich started up two months ago have found the workers they needed readilv at hand and onh too readv lo lake cm plovment right at home industries cooperate the industries themselves have tren drawn closer loqcth er to mutual advantage avians peter pavne contacted firms all over the conlinenl when he first started to order a complex gear assemhlv his search was futile until he mentioned it locallv svkes tool too ards awa ordered a special marh me rushed from england lo produce the gear component to meet avians crash schedule in opening the industrial e hibition jack crirhton gener al manager of the alliance mill assured his townspeople this exhibition is just one step in a continuing program to let th world know that george town is et the top of canada s most vital industrial region the triangle bounded by george town toronto and hamilton nght at the comer of the st lawrence seaway rex bealop soled that del rex plana alone have provided to each and every one of our customers and friends we offer our best wishes fcr a truly bob and bruce caldwell williamson and the staff and in proximih of no 7 hijh wav 1 think we would be less than realistic in georgetown if we did not lo k for a hundred industries h re before we arc much older nunily draw in this enlhumdstrc detirminat ion at the top is echoed al every level of the eommimilv with 150 in cash awards off ered for the hi si cssajs georgi tosrltsmiool pupils have written hundreds of cninposil ions on l he industries whuh create work and sirfllh in our town to gi i llttir mil crial thiv swarmed tfiruuili the industrial exhihiiion each da after school hours pencils and rolebooks in hand their quer ies were pertinent and concern ed how much does it cost to operate our plint for a single dav one youngster demanded of a plant manager industry isn i just a place to work here its part of the com munity stan iinlav chairman of the georgetown industrial commission will tell vou but he and his colleagues are not just telling their slorv at home on toronto s front doorstep at the foot of bay street where traffic swarms up dailv into town a billboard runinris the world 1 ocatt d in canada s vital tnanjlt delrex orjelow n 2 000 olhl custom ers wilhin an hours drive im fittek ft see may afl the delights hbjbk utohappy ihbsill chnttmasseasonbe hr tnjoyad by kfck you and your family streetsville dry cleaners 6 water street call 1r angle 7 4151 for free pick up and del very ftj w m to express our smctrt thanks for yom 9tme4 pmronagc mnd to wok fom of aw etv of the hobday j girdwood hardware mrs elizabeth mccrae 162 gueiph street tr 7 3561 m ave al motor sales international sales a service tr 73611 aglow with gboclwlsfces om todtfog mbnglm johns tv appliance service triangu 7 9453 merry christmas boughton jewellers main street north halton dressed meats td irwin ftsbeck hartiey cameron r r 4 georgetown