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Georgetown Herald (Georgetown, ON), June 16, 1966, p. 1

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ads that pay you mn placemen ed in ne heralds classified petes by phonhif t772201 buying or tolling tho horam is where you will find tho result you georgetown herald the home newspaper for georgetown and district printing publishing th o hanm km j oarvod goorgtlawn and dmitti as printers and pwbllshara sines 14 offering tno boat hi flna printing and news cwvorasja authorised as socond claso malt post offuadop ottawa oad far paywo of postage a cosh o ontario juno 16th 1966 w00 par yaw single copy prion ton cents fete aussie visitors with seed house tour and barbecue nursing graduate st josephs guelph georgetown botarians feted six australian visitors lastwed hesday at a steak cookout at bud bishop s farm at glen wil liam the men voting canada as guests of rotary in an exchange project were staying in guelph they came to town in the after noon had a tour of dominion seed house and were entertain ed at the home of mr and mrs thomas dillon glen williams prior to the evening joining members of the rot ary club headed by president ed burman were district gov ernor jack hughes toronto a number of rotanans from guelph and acton and several local guests representing van oua parts of the community following a meal of steak and salads the barbershoppers entertained around a huge bon fire and guests later joined in an old fashioned canadian sing song the visit was marred by sad ness for one of the visitors law yer spencer bock who receiv ed word that day of his mothers death in australia the sue attending the barbec ue were john nathan optomet nst from wrighton beach lead er of the group geoffrey bird of williamstown victoria grad uate student on business admin istration at the university of melbourne peter bourchier denelequin ns w farmer robert fordbam maidstone victoria auditor michael hef fernan kilda physician and ronald hugo chatham victor ia mechanic a similar party of canadians is being chosen for a visit australia next year heather arnold one of 24 graduates of the school of nursing at st joseph s hospital guelph is heather ar nold 14 guelph st hiss arnold a georgetown district high school graduate received her diploma friday at graduation exercises in war memorial hall also a member of the gradua ting class is clare snoddy of guelph her brother john 45 sargent rd georgetown is a member of the glen williams public school staff white black letters is choice forwater tower the water tower win be spark ling white with georgetown in black letters it was revealed at council monday night but there will be something else that most of the citizens will never see except perhaps the birds on top of jfce tower an arrow pointing to the nearest airport in this case toronto international airport wihbe painted this is recommendation of the dept of transport if required by the dept a light wall be in stalled on top mayor j gibbons claimed it was ridiculous to ask a firm of engineers what colour to paint the tower defending his action speight stated that the white would keep the water cooler but more important he said noone could tell me if we were contravening a by law by having no light on top he suggested that failure to put a light if re quired could run into expensive litigation both cr hyde and reeve hun ter commended cr speight for his actions in looking into the matter but the mayor stuck to his position it is simply ndic ulous he stated when the mayor of a muoici pality cant give guidance it is ridiculous retorted cr speight the motion to have proctor and redfern advertise for tend era for painting was finally passed thieves speed off with 300 in loot decide pond improvement enhance memorial p spokesman for the visiting australians john nathan of wrighton beach thanlfs hosting rotanans cubs gather litter beautify highway the no 7 highway boulevard between maple avenue and hountainview rd loo thly day because of a worthwhile project undertaken by 8th geor getown lions cub pack under the leadership of assis tant cub master mel jarrett the cubs weat litter picking sat orday they swarmed over the boulevard starting at maple avenue end worwnglbward the delrex market centre leaving behind them an attractive litter- free green swath the cabs had two ulterior mo tives for their good turn the project enabled them to pass tests as part of their five star program andat the same time take part in the georgetown dis trict s centennial effort quests from down under listen intent ly to an explanation of how the dominion seed house operates during a tour of the local industry town engages kirewski i as full time engineer a new town engineer nick i klrewskie was hired by coun- i eft monday night he was inter 1 viewed privately before council i meeting he was hired at a sal i ary of 8500 per annum plus 1 a 500 car allowance his duties i will begin july 18th only cr hyde opposed the i hiring not of mr klrewskie but i of any town engineer he eon- i tended there was no monej in budget for this you re i hiring the head of a depart i ascot and its just the begin- anng of a staff said o hyde cr f harrison stated that the i consultants were all busy and st was hard to get things done i se claimed that engineering fees on a consultant basts would tnt to more than the town i engineer 5 salary in addi- cr harrison pointed out wedont have a building in spector when we have a consul tant this corporation requires the service of a full time engineer stated cr speight mr carr has done a very efficient job but he just has too much to do now we take our chances as any other client but sometimes we just can t afford to wait- over the warning of cr hyde that they were creating a def kit the motion passed tech directors o w robb georgetown dist rict high school s technical dir ector attended the ontario tech niral directors convention atl fern resort atherley may 26i to a mrs ray conn wins radio plaza draw mrs ray conn 34 mill st was winner of a philco transist or radio offered as a lucky draw prize in a carnival week in delrex market centre last week attractive amusement rides were provided in the plaza for the week including a merry go round and rockoplane and the rides were well patronized mer chants offered special sales features and free ridestoi pre school children a look at the weather max mhv juno tuesday 7 wednesday 6 thursday 9 friday 10 saturday 11 sunday 12 monday 13 79 u tuesday 14 68 57 precipitation 213 inebes rain mipimii 7ft minimum 38 alicia f scott 90 44 66 78 debate twice weekly summer garbage pickup jha question of twicaweekly garbage pick up during the sum mer months was raised by may or joe gibbons at monday nights council meeting tve bad lots of calls said the mayor and the people should know one or way or the other we haven t decided yet re plied cr harrison it would ei ther mean shift work or another truck wa are also m the middle of negotiating a union contrac and we were waiting to see what would happen cr ern hyde maintained tha the town if duty bound to provide twice weekly garbage pickup in the summer it can not binge on a labour contract cr smith agreed with cr hyde saying our garbage by law pro vides for two pick ups starting june 1st cr harrison assured council it would be discussed at commit tee and an announcement made at next week s meeting 139 births this year in the local hospital thirtyone newborn came in to the world at georgetown and district memorial hospital in may bringing to 138 the number of babies born there so far this year the information is contain ed in a statistical report on the hospitals may operation releas ed this week a hundred and seventy adults and children were admitted to hospital during the month and 205 emergency visits were corded the daily average of patients in hospital during may was 56 5 and the daily average of new born occupying bassinets was b adults and children stayed in hospital 102 days and newborns went home after 7 1 days on the average there were 73 operations performed dunng may 17 of these classified as major and the x ray department made 453 xray examinations the physio therapy department treated 29 individuals accept2200qfferfor princess anne property council has accepted an offer of 2200 for lot 12 on princess anne drive from joseph pacbol- ok of scarboro this offer was raised one hundred dollars from mr pacbokaka offer of last week only reeve w hunter oppos ed the sale a second offer from charles dykstra for lot 3 fronting hyde park drive and prince anne of 2200 was turbed over to the utup committee there was no commission mentioned in this offer as there had been on mr dykstras previous offers a motion to hive the works department narrow the second pond in georgetown memorial park to encourage the flow of water passed at monday night s council meeting but over the ob jections of cr f harrison cr harrison was the main moving force in establishing the park some years ago cr william smith explained that the algae forming in the second pond has becomajmsigh ly and contended tht byv nar rowing the pond to al run- off stream for the first pond would be more attractive any scum on top is only through neglect began cr harrison if you put two boards at the dam to raise the level then pulled them out quickly the scum would be taken away he claimed that any narrowing down would lead to jumping across and then cries of danger its the thin edge of the wedge he added it is a lovely spot agreed cr hyde and i give cr ham son credit but the second pond has become a frog pond i think if it were narrowed landscaped and a rockery it would be more beauhful the motion passed with reeve hunter cr harrison and cr speight opposed troop cotour lome scots trooping of the colours will take place brampton fair grounds sunday watches jewellery taken in middle of the night robbery three hundred dollars worth pf wrist watches costume jew ellery and gift items were ta ken from the display window of a downtown georgetown gift shop in a smash and grab type robbery early sunday morning thieves used a large rock to break the window in the front of barber s jewellers at about 4 40 am the sound of breaking gli woke a hills of the hcgibbon hotel however by the tune he reached bis window the perpe trators were making their get away in a blue latemodel car at writing time police had not apprehended anyone in con nection with the erune con stables dave bell and william koeslag are conducting the in vestigation police feel there is a connec tion between the break in and imilar crime in which a mil ton store lost a number of cam eras the same night promises high school addition ready sept 1 addition adds 50 space to interchem presstite an expansion program cur rently underway at interchcm presstite ltd 30 armstrong ave will bring that firm s flooxarsa to 31 500 square feet when completed work on the addition to the south side of the sealant man ufacturing plant started last winter with the lading of 11500 feet of concrete flooring since then a materials holdup has delayed construction but plant manager boy h sage in a con venation with the herald on monday said the addition will make noticeable progress from here on tho new space which is about 50 per cent of that of the ex tstlng plant willbeused for- manufactunng and warehousing purposes mr sage said the addition is phase no 2 in the company s fourphase expansion program the next stage in its growth will be an addition on the west side of the building which will incorporate further manufactur ing and warehousing facilities plus a development lab and lar ger office quarters new union smith stone workers vote 70 for uaw the main wing of the addition to georgetown district high school will be ready by the first school day in september mr barnett of the architectural firm of barnett and reider told the high school board monday night mr barnett attended the meeting to discuss the progress of the addition during the meeting the board also viewed new floodlighting at the front of the school which was turned on for the first time introduced a policy of re stricting the operation of the school s auditorium sound and lighting equipment to high school personnel from now on groups renting the facilities will not be allow- ed to operat thee but will have the operators available to them council decides interview two prospective policemen united auto workers received 70 per cent of the ballot in a representation vote among smith stone limited wage earners last wednesday mom in g the vote was ordered by the ontario labour relations board after receiving application from the united auto workers to re place of the united mine work j ers as representative of the 475 non staff a jotal of 444 ballots were cast the defeated umw now has a seven day period ending today i in which to lodge any protest or argument with the board i an auto workers spokesman told the herald that the uaw will be issued a certificate by the labour relations board this week authorizing them as new representatives of the s s wage earners he said the district 50 united i mine workers agreement vith the company ceases with the is suing of the new certificate however the provisions of i remain in effect until a new contract is negotiated the law spokesman said the auto workers will communicate with the company immediately following the issuing of the cer tificate he said an election of a new bargaining committee and local executive would also be proceeded with three more police officers would you believe two council evidently believe two since they approved the interviewing of two prospective police officers at monday night council meet ing after turning down the same motion last week to add three police officers to the force this week found only mayor joe gibbons and cr em hyde opposed last week reeve hun ter and cr harrison also oppos ed it cr smith was absent from last weeks meeting but voted in favour this week the motion did not actually sa they were approving the hiring of two additional police officers but stated the police committee be given authority j to interview two potential offic ers and submit their findings to council i cr hyde stated that it was still the intent of the motion to hire two more policemen would go along with one he maintained and repeated his contention that the number of policemen per capita was com parable to any municipality in the area the mayor too said he would support one but not two if this were changing the administrat ion that would he different he remarked there ia lack of supervision on main street where we need men walking the beat he concluded to do an adequate job of any kind you have to have tools stated cr a speight in this case men then we could have men on the beat he told of orangeville force being equipp ed with walkietalkies when they patrol on foot saying thats the kind of protection the officers need in view of the fact one of our men is incapacitated we need these men all the more he added the vote found all in favour except cr hyde and mayor gib bons a unthad auto w napp mrs tnorea harrison boosts war a her 45 ontario st horn prior to rjm martin signs on dirt storing warehouse ensures free of weeds with most people trying to keep dirt out of their buildings it is unusual to have a new buil ding erected just to house dirt that s exactly what meadowglen growers are doing the large 60 ft by 60 ft steel building rising behind the mush room farm will hold 800 000 cubic feet of earth when it is completed the 24 foot ceil ing will permit trucks to dump the earth at tho second floor level why does anybody want to store so much earth the earth is worked for two years out in the fields to nd it of any weed seeds then a whole years supply is stored for another year m this build ing to insure no contamination in the soil the steel structure will serve for future expansion when it is no longer used to store earth order bylaw no loitering two rare occurrences happen ed at council meeting monday night a motion passed unani mously and it passed with ab solutely no discussion the motion to prepare a by law to prevent loitering on town streets was the one which occa sioned this event loscs lkknsv a brampton man who led pol ice on a 120 anile per how chase through georgetown a few weeks ago was qned 200 and lost hts aceoea for three years

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