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tl costly evening adds over hali million town debt fre of mw debenture debt for couple of years george town i tax indebtedness tbok a sharp upturn monday a series of by laws processed debentures to a total of over half a million dollars for four major civic projects included in debentures to be i issued are 260640 for a high school addition 199204 for a lneir7tooni public school 140- 1 000 for an elevated water stor age unk and 455 000 for the purchase of cedarvale centenn ial project debentures vary fromfo to 20 years with most bearing an interest rate of 6tt the debf is not as startling as it might appear while the town issues the complete deb enture for schools a share of this comes back in yearly gov eminent grants and according to information submitted last year by the towns water com mittee and auditor a large share of the water storage deb entures will he offset by savings in operating costs 4 bk 120 tons of steel going into high school skeleton workmen secure a steel beam being held in place by this lofty crane during con struction work on the extensive addition which will give georgetown district high school more instruction space this fall the steel work is being done by a georgetown company ferro structural steel armstrong ave some ten men are involved in this part of the ob steel structure work started two weeks ago and will continue for another ten days or so an estimated 120 tons of steel will go into building the skeleton of the new wing enrol eleven in class for expectant mothers eleven motherstobe enrolled in a newest series of expectant parents classes which got under way m knox church hall thur the classes formerly called pre natal classes are a service of the halton county health unit mrs anne french of the geo- rgetown branch office is conduc ting the local series of nine weekly classes the course runs to april 28 one innovation in this latest series is that fathers are invited to attend two of the classes in stead of one as in the past they will accompany their wives to class tonight dealing with the development of the baby and again on the final night a georgetown office health nurse described enrolment in this latest series as fairly good it compares favourably with oakviue where the attendance averages 12 and milton where it in burlington 66 persons are registered in the same classes the poor attendance in oak ville is giving halton county health unit officials some con cern we don t know why the att endance is so low in oakville stated miss grace leavey hal ton county director of nursing we feel the classes are wor thwhile and for the size of the population there should be larger attendance the series is held twice each year m georgetown dog controller now tax collector too dog controller george herr ington and his assistant were empowered by council monday to collect dog taxes in town they will receive a fee of 25 of the collections the move came following re signation of milton harker who has held the position for the past few years protestant women combine for world day of prayer st john s united church was the host church feb 25 for the world day of prayer women from each protestant church a ttended the service to hear mrs tom forgrave grve the medita tion on ye are my witnesses the following ladies particip ated in the service from each town church st george s angh can mrs s walker mrs t parry knox presbyterian mrs j colter st pauls baptist mrs l mallabon mrs r fell ows first baptist mrs mcneil mrs k mccosh st andrew- s united mrs storey mrs n wodhams christian reform mrs namink mrs w braam st john s united mrs r mac arthur and chairman mrs d maclaren an offering of 35 was sent to the women s inter church council of canada toronto and with other moneys collected will help various groups of peo ple and organizations in eastern countries an offertory solo the lord s forged cheque woman remanded by court a 22yearold georgetown wo man who yielded to temptation in the words of defense coun sel was remanded until march 14 to appear before magistrate john ord for sentence the woman mother of three small children pleaded gmlty to a charge of knowingly utter ing a forged document georgetown pc henry van dersluis told the court he had investigated an unemployment insurance cheque for 50 and made out to another resident of georgetown which had been cashed at the iga store it had been countersigned m mrs smith s name said she had spent the money i groceries pc vandcrsluis said the ac cused woman had told him she had taken the document from her mail box where it had been placed by mistake douglas latimer counsel for the accused said unfortunate ly she yielded to temptation it is a serious charge she has done it but i think she regrets he asked for leniency mrs w macpherson spent girlhood in norval mrs walter macpherson the former marjorie gollop died at queen elizabeth hospital to- onto following a lengthy illness on thursday march 3 in her 70th year she was born in toronto the only child of the late ell gollop and hannah kidd following the death of hermother when she was 4 years old she was raised in norval by her patera al grandmother and her aunt and uncle the late dr samuel and mrs webster she attended norval public school and geor getown high school and was a member of st pauls anglican church norval she mamed war veteran walter macpherson and was predeceased by him she work ed for many years in the office of patterson candy co toronto and later for several years for the star bedding co until she retired thi oeoroitown hbrald thursday march 10 ifm page b when confronted with the cheque the accused told p c vandersluis she intended to uij t c p the won bs iterw ss si il georgetown baptists visit at st pauls in st pauls baptist church on sunday morning there was present in the congregation a company of visitors from first baptist church in brampton mr robert neave read the lesson mr clare burt offered the prayer and mr cameron baits contributed a solo next sunday morning a slmi lar group from acton baptist church will visit st paul s and will participate in the service prayer was sung by mrs w baxter choose your spring wardrobe now and receive a free gift at free nylons with any 5 purchase this thurs fn sat march tq 11 12 2 pair free with a 10 purchase 3 pair ree with a 20 purchase a pair free with every purchase or 30 or over tfcas ffr 4hu any imckau m wfc hi any mn- and atyf wear w u w opbi tkuksdat and today nights until 9 pja paul s anglican church norval conducted the funeral service held at turner proctor fun eral home roncessvale ave toronto at 10 am saturday morning march 5th interment was in prospect cemetery be side her husband pallbearers were harold gol lop norval frank hull toron to aldo fern norval bert car ney norval and joe baren of toronto death ends marriage of almost 72 years death of mrs frederick char les freestone at her home 23 temple rd last friday ended a marriage which began with a shipboard romance almost 72 years ago mrs freestone who was 88 and her 96year old husband would have celebrated their 72nd wedding anniversary on april 7 the former margaret toyn bee rawlings she was born at lands end cornwall her par ents moved to australia when she was a girl and it was when she was returning to england by ship that she met the young purser whom she later married they lived in london later in cornwall and came to canada in 1930 where they settled in georgetown eleven of a family of fifteen children survive john of ply mouth england stanley of cornwall england james of kent england mrs clarence phillip alice william thorn as clarence mrs robert mart in margaret and ivy of george town frederick and mrs d gorulk mary of toronto she was predeceased by sons char les and harry and two daught era in childhood she also leaves 20 grandchil dren 30 greatgrandchildren 5 great great grandchildren rev john mcmuikln conduct ed the funeral service on mon day at the harold c mcclure funeral home and interment was in greenwood cemetery pallbearers were herbert brown bruce harley philip hayes and three grandsons dan martin robert and kenneth freestone burned out engine in 100mile chase a georgetown youth burned out the engine of his car dur ing a 100milean hour chase on highways 10 and 7 on septcri ber 5th magistrate john ord of georgetown was told at county court wednesday trip accused pleaded guilty to driving while impaired georgetown pc william koe- slag told the court that the youth s car had reached speeds of over 100 mph on a stretch of road between georgetown and brampton he alleged that the accused was driving quite erratically magistrate ord told the youth this is more serious than the ordinary impaired case because while your faculties were im paired you were driving at an extremely high speed on a crowded road which is prec isely what you should not have been doing he fined the youth 175 or 80 days in jail and suspended bis license for six months a second charge of danger ous 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