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mrchab and andrew macdonald poke at the last traces of ice and help them on their way down the unusually placid credit river through glen williams on the first day of t arrived officially on- sunday afternoon skipping ropes which rank with robins and crocuses as w calendar cot cooperation from the- weatherman who provided the first heralds for the greenup season were very much in evidence w balmy enough for a fellow to catch forty winks on a georgetown park bench in school yards friday the herald photographer found one sign of spring in more abundance than any other pot holes ads that pay you can place an ad in the heralds classified pages by phoning 4772201 buying or wiling the herald it whtnt yau will find the mutts you want georgetown herald the home newspaper for georgetown and district printing publishing the georgetown herald has mnrtd georgetown and dis trict as printer and puwhheni sine 1867 offering the beat fei fin printing and news c p authorized as secend class mall post office dapt ottawa and for payment of postage in cash georgetown ont thursday march 24th 1966 5 00 per year single copy price ten cents road impassable 3 homes isolated in nomans land three men bob bruce jacob striken and gerry carrier seem to live in noman sland with esquesing saying it is not their toad that it is a private road and the men contending if it is a private road can they take it over as their property the mat ter came to light at a meeting of esquesing township council itonday night the three men all residents of a road or a right of way on the fourth line just north of nighway number 7 told esques ing council that the road was impassible with no deliveries having been made for three beeve george leslie pointed hat the road was never tak p by the township tonknewthetownship had not taken it over when you stated the reeve you couldnt get a building permit there today interject ed coun george cume the point is we are there md a council in the past must luve given permission since we all had building permits stat brnee t feel you have responsibility you taking our taxes i g carrier pointed out that k fire truck or ambulance eould get in and we re still paying for fire protection also claimed the insurance com panies who had the fire insur t on their homes planned to investigate beeve leslie explained that any work done on the road would receive no subsidy c whose land is it then de landed coun tom hill clerk kc lindsay stated out as far as he knew the land ithl belonged to mr coles who 1 the lots to the three men fai the first place when mr coles started to aell lots of all different depths said the reeve we decided to bring in a by law restricting the re of land t when i bought nine years uor retorted j kuiken there e no restrictions why did the township want a 66 road allowance before we could build if nobody was go ing to do anything about asked j carrier in reply clerk k c lindsay explained thai acton has asked that a proposed extension of peel street not be blocked so the council of that time went along replied r bruce this shows some responsibility on the part of the township i feel they have a right ad nutted coun tom hill if we take something from somebody they expect something in return we have to find out who owns the road and if it is a road if you find it belongs to mr coles you 11 have to go after him added coun pat patter son maybe so retorted jffeiik en but somebody else is tak ing our taxes now he added that mr coles was still trying to sell lots if you don t plan to do anything he should stopped he concluded mr carrier was issued building permit only a year and a half ago stated coun tom hill if the township building inspector issued it and we took his money where does that leave us why was that allowed when there is no road at the suggestion of both coun pat patterson and george currie the men will bring the deeds of their property to the clerk to try and find out if it is a road or simply an easement aftertnat the matter will have to be pursued further lambert to stirling as high school principal j leonard lambert who re tired last year after thirty years as principal of george town district high school returning to his profession september he has accepted a position as principal of stirling rawdon district high school in stirling mrs lambert who has also been a member of the qdhs staff will also teach in stirling mr lambert is presently com pleting a year of postgraduate studies in english at his alma mater mcmster university he taught three years in mimlco before succeeding th late ralph ross here u principal and was the youngest man in the province to hold that office at the time mrs lambert also a hcmas ter graduate taught for a year at richmond hill before her marriage and returned to the profession here several years ago she has been head of the school s library department mr mrs lambert have been active in town affairs they have lent their talents to drama and musical organuat ions service dobs and women s service groups mr lambert has been chairman of the library board and was director of the choir of st george s anglican church he served as a captain with the lome scots overseas during world war 2 suggests craft course plan library many stimulating ideas for craft courses including crewel and antiquing were out i by mrs a m nielsen when the arts and crafts georgetown met at the home of mrs john mills mrs nielsen craft convener a library of literature on var crafts is to be accumulated plans for the arts and craft ex t and sale at the nerval i in october were discm- and mrs john agg is to be convener plana an excurs- dttring the summer similar the trip taken to stratford year mrs hp clarke gave an iu address on san nr castle e the late william ph hearst in california esquesing okays tax agreement or apts oldest citizen still confined 100 on april 1st there is still a possibility that georgetown s oldest citiz en will be out of the hospital in time to mark his 100th birth day at home on april 1st joe martin 0 union st sun ered a broken hip in a fall jan uary 21 and has been recuperet ing in georgetown and district memorial hospital since then a member of his family told the herald this week that possible mr martin will be home to celebrate his century but it s up to dr i h chamber- lam under whose care mr mar tin has made his remarkable re covery mr martin is able to sit most of the day and has been walking without assistance of tate i he mentioned last tuesday night that he felt better tharfhe ever had since the accident daughter mrs george glassford told the herald town stayed healthy through an easy winter pji wvywms l whan resigns baptist pastorate to be reformatory chaplain minister of georgetown si ion course to qualify as an ont first baptist church for the ano department of reform ins past seven and a half years ututions chaplain rev lloyd whan ba bj ann ounccd to his congregation sun day that be has accepted a pos ition with the ontario depart ment of reform institutions as chaplain at millbrook a maxi mum security prison south of peterboro mr whan will continue to preach here until mid april when he will go to millbrook for two weeks to familiarize himself with his new surround mgs at the end of two weeks i be will commence a twelve week clinical pastoral educat the winter season which just bowed out sunday was easier on georgetown area residents than the normal winter accord ing to figures from the george town and district memorial hos pital statistics on the hospital s op eration in february released no industrial commission town takes over funds think of future seek more water georgetown should be in vestigating further sources of water supply mayor gibbons told council monday he said he has been told that ground conditions have something to do with the iron bacteria which plagues the town supply and said other areas of town should be explored for possible new wells water chairman arthur speight was asked to handle the matter this week show the percentage of occupancy in february much lower than the percentage of occupancy in february of the previous year a check with three hospitals in the area re veal the identical situation abnormally lower percentage ot occupancy due in the estimation of hospital officials to better winter weather the georgetown hospital sta tistical report stated that there has apparently been less illness in the community and that the weather has been much more favorable for people with such recurring chronic sickness as bronchitis and asthma and there has been less pneumonia the percentage of beds in georgetown hospital during february averaged 687 compar ed to 803 in february of 1965 other statistics for february of note are 29 births 1 death 12 major operations and 122 emergency visits two of the few remaining hurdles to the georgetown kins men s senior citizen s apartment project were overcome at esqu esing council monday night when council authorized the reeve and clerk to sign an ag reement with georgetown re garding possible welfare respon sibilities and an agreement on rebate of taxes esquesing okayed the erect ion of the eleven suite building on land opposite park school which is owned by georgetown but is in the township of esqu esing it was this unusual land ownership which necessitated the agreement on welfare in this way tenants occupying the apartments will not establish residence in esquesing as far as welfare purposes are concer ned simply by living there ge orgetown has agreed to be res- peasible for other thap tenants who resided in esquesing be fore moving there tne second agreement limits the taxes to a maximu of 25 per year per unit or 275 per apartment building dean taylor representative council for their cooperation and added it s been a long hard struggle council gave no indication that new appointments to the industrial commission are forthcoming on monday when the commission bank account was transferred to a town trust fund cr era hyde explained that with no commission outstand ing bills cannot be paid last years members reap pointed last monji resigned in a group in a dispute involving having council members also sit on the commission cr hyde said there is 814 in the bank account and about 250 in accounts to pay does this mean we re not going to iurve an industrial commission and if so why asked deputy reeve young at the moment we haven t got one and this is the only way we can pay the bills said cr hyde if another commis- mr m zamikoff of moms and son construction requested es- quesingcounci s help in neg otiating with the town of geor getown for sewer and water connections to his proposed subdivision at the fifteenth side- road and the eighth line coun george cume stated we can t do that we can t neg otiate for a private individual you bring us an agreement stating that you can get water and sewers from georgetown then we ii know where stand added reeve leslie why should we pay fire calls for cars that burn on ourroads or highways asked reeve les lie as they looked over the fire call accounts sorely the insur ance companies should pay for this he added it seems to me the fire de partments are not tough enough they should bill the car own- of the ihenmn cub thanked era commented coun cume sion is appointed and i m not opposed to thai the money w ill be available to hem students compete in public speaking on friday evening march 18 two georgetown students rog er smith and bob kelr accom panied by mr t ramautarsingh participated in the lyrical verse speaking competition held at jarvis collegiate toronto the same evening david bla ney accompanied by mrs h blaney represented the school in the ontario hydro impromp tu public speaking competition held in whitby on saturday morning march 19th janet nurse and clifford levy accompanied by mrs livingston participated in the dramatic verse speaking comp etitions at jarvis collegiate toronto rev lloyd whan mr whan will take the course at the ontario training centre brampton his new position will involve counselling the millbrook pns oners as well as conducting sun day worship town drops purchase right to highway industrial acres whenthe town purchased an industrial acreage from delrex developments last year as part of an agreement which released res dcnttal land in the subdivis ion for building the town also received a nfjrst rth to pur helson said this does not mean that the town can pick up the land anytime at the 5000 price deputy reeve young express ed surprise at this when we made the deal with one of the senior of the georgetown ministerial association mr whan came here from norwich to replace rev alfred barker he gained his secondary school education at waterford high school and achieved his degrees at mcmast er university mr whan hirs been actively engaged in the work of ym yw ca since its incep on here and has always taken a great inter est in minor sports the baptist mm ster t s w fc pearl and children marion 16 allan 15 and grant 11 will move to peterboro after the chase on 70 members frontage current school term acres of h ghway delrex this was put in the ag reement to peg the highway police squash post game melee after raiders robbed the siren still hasnt gone to signal the end of the third game of the georgetown raider milt on merchant central junior c league semi final played here sunday and in the minds of the georgetown team officials and fans it still isn t over nevertheless the ontario hockey association has regist ered a 43 milton win and that s the way it will stand no matter what the true circumstances of the final seconds and confusing melee at the game a conclusion a wild scene developed at the end of the third period after georgetown apparently scored the tying goal with a second left on the dock the game time keeper however allowed the second band to run over the re gulation time mark in the exc itement and milton jnmped on the ahp to claim the game was over before the puck entered play in the mass of bodies on their nel the ice in the area of the offic ills box but georgetown s men in blue put the damper on it before it escalated they found support in one of the referees roger freeborne but his cohort ed dcnomc maintained the goal was valid so did the official time keeper for a few seconds both milt on merchants and georgetown raider players were leaping in jubilation as each got their own version from different referees when freeborne declared it a milton win incensed raider coach gerry inglls charged the officials box to protest the dec ision but be didnt make it un scathed a berserk milton fan inter eepted the georgetown mentor and landed a punch to the side of his head the action touched off a pushing and shoring dis- many of the crowd of 1450 lingered in the arena well aft er the teams had left the ice wondering if they d seen the game s conclus on or if they were going to see an overtime period on top of the other exc itemenl raider officials were stilt un able to disclose the outcome half an hour later since denomc and freebome were still debat jmg it georgetown can t enter a protest because according to ora regulations disagreeing with a game official s decision is not grounds frontage at 5000 an acre for ave years he said i under stood that if we sold land to an industry on the south side of todd rd and it wanted to exp and towards the highway we could guarantee them this ext ra land at the 5000 price cr ballentine said he was al so under impression that the town could buy at this price the land is being advertised on signboards and in newspap ers he said wouldnt this put us in a position to buy if we wanted to mr young says we have the right to buy and our solicitor says we haven t said cr hyde mabe youngs committee thought this was so last year but it boils down to the fact that the only nght we have is to queer a deal which the own er might make without reaping any advantage for the town with young and ballentine voting against two readings of goal they opened l to w by to releam interest in the property carried final reading was delayed a week at the deputy reeves re quest reeve hunter s vote was not recorded as he was absent from the meeting with purchase of the delrex interests by metropolitan halt on development co the pur chase right was assumed by the new owner monday council acceded to a request by the firm that this be dropped according to own solicitor fred helson it dldn t mean much anjway to ihe town he expla ned that the town could only buy the land f the firm firsraecidei to sell it the supulat on was that it would have a ceiling pr ee of 5000 an acre qucne i b cr harrison mr milton had a 10 lead after just 15 seconds on leon stick when joe hore and craig brush scored n ihe second per od but one of ra dejs walking wound ed paul robinson broke the bubble with a sizzling slap shot late in the middle frame brush made it 41 with his second goal early in the third period don norton notched georgetown s 2nd at 13 minutes and 3rd two minutes later to set up the fran tic finish georgetown actually scored two goals that were washed out the one y bill dwyer 19 59 and another earlier in the period which was killed by quick whistle game four will go in milton i brown street arena friday night and it a fifth game is re quired it will be back here on sunday afternoon held ticket on sweeps hote whistling buoy hbe hone on which two smith and stone employees tred dickenson and don cudney held a joint irish sweepstakes tickets out of th money in the lincolnshire stee ple chase which was run yester day the sweepstakes wen switched from u grand nat tonal to the lincolnshire a story onpage live written oe- fore the switch says the sweep stakes arfe n the grand nation al