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7 ff ht fvftfft i fr y y v v i fc v i f t j v i v- etown published by hem nwtpapn umhttl 22 main stiw south georgetown ontario w c biehn publisher page 4 thursday february 27th 1969 editorial comment fallawthe leader sharp increases in the cost of cjovern- rnent which have spread from senior polj- ticians to the grass roots as we are prone o refer to our municipaj officials are caus- irtg mounting concern oh two points in a smali way we wonder just how far those in authority can reach into a tax payers pockets until- voters rise in righteous wrafh jj and in a much larger way we worry about how politicians expect to curb ihfla- tionary spirals when they talk economy with one breath and inflation with the next in ontario the provincial government has been consistent in this respect the legislature has voted itself salary increases which even the strongest union would be hesitant to suggest and it has created the means for other smaller units of government to follow the leader so it is that while our town and coun ty salaries have left themselves open to ex treme criticism with staggering salary in creases last week theyjwere only acting as human beings will yielding to the theory that because the law allows it is justified while it is worrisome enough that georgetowns taxpayers must cough up an extra 10000 this year to pay nine council lors alone plus an extra 10 per meeting for the two who are county council mem bers plus the 3000 yearly fee for a county ooard of ducation representaitve this is orjly small potatoes compared with the problems being created- in what position has this placed our town f athers when it comes- tobargaining r with an employees union and a police association where do our county officials stand in similar negotiations with works em ployees and health unit nurses and does this not automatically lead to substantial increases for department heads and office employees and how long are men and women who devote their afterhours to serving the community as unpaid firemeh ambul ancemen members of parks board ceme tery and library boards planning and indus trial commission members going to con tinue knowing that others are drawing sal aries of several thousand dollars a year for other facets of public service all about those students my mind is so scrambled social thats because they are right now that ill bo lucky if idealistic want action and are i j to see things in blacks i can write three understand able sentences ive been trying o explain to my daughter in an hour or so such things as- marxism and communism why the russians and chinese types are different where fidel castro fits in why where and when the nation of israel was ceated and why the jews notably nonbelliger ent for about 15 centuries have a chip 4he size of a brick on their shoulders these days from thara w wandered to mahatma ghandi tha congo nationalism in africa separat um in canada tha jjuck pow er movement in the states growing negroes and whites or today blacka and reds but the fact remains that the universities over the years have become the ojrily truly free oenuterratbeltumidj of sound crticism of society and its ills in addition to their normal function of leaching people to think andor learn a profession atskill and another fact remains the universities on the evhole under pressure from within and without have made a tre mendous effort to rous6 them- selves from their stately torpor and scramble into the twentieth antisemftlsin among j century even though its twd- nd her biology test i thirds over on the dissection of rs which j in the process they have takes place tomorrow morning i leaned over backwards to free i themselves of the rigid puritan golly it would be nice to i traditions of even 2b years ago have once again a little girl wh i was there living in the who asked such simple ques tions as dad does god have to go to the bathroom if you cant lick em token payment only i r f t ij for several years since salaries became common for councillors we have argued that these should be token amounts only a council member we say receives his main payment in the knowledge that he is contributing his time and talent to one of the most important ways he can serve his neighbours and in the prestige of guid ing a towns destiny to this should be added any out of pocket expenses for outoftown trips time lost from work if a councillor is an hourly employee and a yearly fee for service perhaps 500 to cover other expenses which might occur a higher fee for a mayor is in keeping and we consider 2500 or 3000 for this a more than adequate remuneration it will be argud that only by paying higher salaries wijl we get the calibre of person we want on our ruling bodies not so our town mae progress and was efficiently governed for years by men who didnt receive a penny it got equal service from councillors who were paid 5 a meeting 8 a meeting 12 a meeting 20 a meeting nor was there ever a dearth of candidates for office in any of those periods of time haltonmp irudlwhitino m reports ffrom in the mail bag radicals exemplify best in todays youth 8 campbell or in their advertising campaign if not then all the way it all bgain with a discussion of the student militants at un iversities she is appalled at the violence of the hard core of pacifists who lurking in the forefront of all the young idealists and the middleaged liberals deliberately resort to more essential to our future as violence in their efforts to catch a nation is the preservatipt and headlines be martyrs and de- strengthening of the unity of stroy an idea which has taken canada j almost 1000 years to build tha university i believe the people of can ada want a strong federal j thankfully we agreed that government empowered to violence begets violence and act on behalf of the wholejthat neither of us wants any country j part of the whole- stupid busin ess strong provincial govern ments capable of fulfilling admittedly the universities tsdent activists endorse any- their constitutional re ponsi- are sitting ducks over the years mb p tohie burning of bilities they have grown as buildings they are scared tm sleepy and fat and insolent as j tn get a police record a division of power adopted an old tomcat who has been j which would be a aarioua detru to present day needs fixed i ment when they try to get a a constitution which defines job in the system they are try- ami cuarantees the funds- they hae almost taken pride i ing to destroy in their administrative ineffic- j solution7 j t y lency their moribund trad rhnosed boys end girts for taons their cosiness with the i 7 p t i whom democracy is a sham any- establishment write a letter i c t t tf m i way sock it to them with the to a university three weeks disturb later you will receive a reply i m conimi v t back to the business of educat- i ing or teaching to think the vast majority who want those and admittedly students things universally have always been so now im a fascist and a mens residence we were al lowed to bring girls into the place once a year on a sunday afternoon for a heavliy chap eroned cocoa and cookie party in the common room now wow tm not advocating a return to those days when university men and women were treated like bright juveniles who were basically sexfiends and alco hol ics but i am dismayed to see these once great institutions cowering and cringing under the attacks of malcontehted marx ist wolf cubs who represent a fraction of student opinion as monfecai richler pointed out recently the real yuk of the whole affair is that while the mental rikhts of its citizens either a form letter or someii i thing completely alien to what you asked ml if paid councillors and school board members have become the rule then there is only one thing to do make municipal politics a full time ob there is no argument which can sup port paying an individual 60 a week or mere for his spare time rather than getting better men for the job as the pay proponents will say it possible that we are heading for poorer and poorer quality by putting a price tag on the position to justify this kind of spare time in come a councillor must put more hours more effort into the job than he can spare if he has a responsible position in private life the salary then can discourage ra ther than encourage those better people we are always talking about who should be running for office bad for everyone to sum up we consider the present salaries paid to council and school board members exorbitant inflationary and un necessary it places an undue burden on taxpay ers in a growing town which by councils own estimate should spend over a million and a quarter dollars alone on necessary capital miprovements this year it creates problems for men who want to run for council and for men who once elected want to retire from office i it sets a scale of pay for afterhoufs work which even in this inflationary age is completely unrealistic it was generally agreed mcnts anh human rights and lhat the constitutional confer- language rights are important etitr hrld laft wck in ottawa an essential to individual ii was success canada is well but even more impnrtanl ntd and we can be partculary crtcal of utlnchri on constnutiona re- a town council which after only a few form ahch wjll safeguard the weeks m office decides that they are not amzy of the nataon satisfied with the already inflated pay scale altflolgil few concrete which they knew was in effect and decide d- i reached ii i i c ii should be rrmembered that it they are worth 50 per cent more f any 1 took several years and many of these had this in mind at the nom nation meetini o hammer out the 8 campbell gate the time their door was open nesting there was no mention of it mere druls of confederation to dear sir cd we ere made welcome the fahrjs of confederation it seems that evenlinie e the disravon of those vears pick up a daily paper one of the boys asked us to come in aming the vanguard of rebels tool of the imperialistic press bui oflrn have seemed frustra- the first things we read about and and then went to against the system political or i knew it at heart tnz and terminable nut in is something the youth of to- lhe trouble of ne the the ptprcnve of history i da has done 01 does not meet car 9tartcd think e must ajpee that the with the approval of the eld- we had started out ot aloag tune as wi invested ers so i would like to take w dut it turnc ou tobe a mix r somc of your space 0 k very interesting and rnligtrienj tift tonstttttlon confer i nr a hanie nine piaise ior a iiianit ln experience race- tool these suarded yet is cauaht on a treadmill whatever his significant anions before ad on our way home one night we wou like to take this 60 a week is a lot of journment o appoint commit- last week ve had car trouble opportunity to once again thank tcs of federal and trovinnal and ny w fc and i along with a tne young men of the radicals ministers jo undertake the fol iriend had to leave the car and car 0 georgetown for loams lasts start walking home ncir hclp ana cou consider the constitutional the road luckily went past a aspen of linguistic matters local car club so we went in to and mrthods of implementing see if they could assist us from language policies 9 a second fact and perhaps the most crucial one s that a councillor once elec ted private income oo a week is a money his standard of living is upped he becomes used to this extra and when elec tion time comes again it is only human fo consider an income drop what we are trying to say is this with token payments a councillor does h s best during his term of office and when the tme comes when the ob begins to pall when he finds he cannot devote the time to it cannot take the criticism he gets there is nothing to stop him from stepping out with present salaries no matter how council work might interfere with his priv ate life he thinks of that 60 and in goes his hat in the ring again business directory sincerely doris and eric clarke study fundamental rights and possible entrenchment of thesr in a constitutional chanrr look inln financial and ad ministrate arrangements to wards policies reducing re gional disparity j news echoes from the heralds of 10 20 and 30 years aoo c0rbett chiropractic clinic spinal xray service available by appointment 8776631 69 mill st old post offlca 1959 examine senate reform consider proposals regarding the conference also ord it converts public service into money ered its officials to study as a a most dangerous departure priority matter taxing and spen dint powers of both levels of it compares unfavourably with wages f federal and paid or fulllime employment in industry provincial this n ill mean when and in civic positions and will affect the implemented that ottawi and ii the provincesimust be prepared tax rate sti more when new union corv- y to coopere more meaningful tracts are negotiated ly with each other on their fli it places elected officials in the unhap- and economic plans py position of being employees rather than what is meant by langu- civic leaders not paid registration of 413 unemployed men and women to date was reported by kelvin brown at mondays council meet ing mr brown has headed a group of malton volunteers changes in the supreme w with council cooperation have organized georgetown court of canada and the jud- employment service where data about job seekers is avail- tclar able to potential employers so far only four people have been placed in positions azr rights has to a very large enough to deserve mten iwu misunderstood it 0 answering a letter from georgetown council asking con sideration for deferrment of mortgage payments by un employed home owners a letter from j s secord vice- president of central mortgage housing corporation was read at mondays council meeting mr second said cmha is aware of the present situation regarding unem ployed workers and added experience has proven that borrowers under the national housing act have been able to meet many forms of financial duress without seriously defaulting on their mortgage payments therefore we do not authorize wholesale waivers of mortgage payments optometrist r r hamilton od 116 mountainvicw south carretal building for appointment 8773971 wallace thompson 3rd division court 772963 clerk ml commissioner w h cam professional engineer consulting engineer ontario land surveyor offi 8 773300 home the criticism which public office brings but does not mean that every en lishspeakinx canadian must paid too much to shrug it off and tell a j 0 peak any moro critir to go to h when the occasion war- than it means that every french 1 speaking canadian must learn -i- rants in the mail bag appreciates support for planned airport oeorgetown airpi rosslake resort it r 3 jret and their unanimous sup pml r 1 might add a note concerning dear sir the airport that will be of in- on behalf of delegation which j ten t to those wishing to use approached the members of the our facilities the port can jc- terry harley f- esquesing council pertaining to commodate a large numbc of approval of erection of a hangar craft tiedowns the year round georgetown herald published by home newseepara limited georgetown ontario walter c biehn publisher carfiam mcclhrrey production superintendent frank mullin advertising manager l 1949 georgetown raiders captured the intermediate b league semi finals last friday night by defeating acton tanners two games straight georgetown goal lever def nash and patterson for currie storey m bradbury alt l letspeak english what it does ibradbury melanson chappel martin ferri junior beau- ihat every canadiin mont d beaumont ill have access to public edu optometrisy l art brown 0 d 47 main st n suite 1 fpr appointments phone 8773671 cation in either official langu age and will be free to use ei marlene bludd and diane hillock have just won first prize in an amateur talent contest in milton these young of the minority group justifies this recognition and granting a building permit please accept my appreciation of accuracy of the report add to the councillor who exhibited auch a keen interest in our pro- for any length of time it is my opinion that this feature is of pr ne importance to the fryer y us truly joe ross fher language in dealing with dancers won out over 33 other acts they also appeared tbe federal government and on ken sobles amateur hour oa sunday afternoon other public bodies in all areasf i of the country where the sizej 199 the inaugural meeting of the founding of a chapter of the imperial order daughters of the empire was held monday evening at the home of mrs r f barber the ac tivities of the organization are many end varied but deal chiefly with charitable enterprises and the furthering of in- trest in education work and patriotic endeavours first officers are regent mrs k d barber 1st vice regent mrs j b milne 2nd v regent mrs s j mackenzie treasur er mrs j wallace 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