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etown herald j published by thomson newspapers limited 22 main st south gedrgetown ontario w ci biehn publisher page 4 december 4th 1969 4 editorial comment no pltice to go impending action to raise salaries of members of parliament in ontario by 50 jpthleh will include a 6000 tax free allow ance leaves the voter nowhere to go in tho next provincial election coming on the eve of a federalprovr incial conference to discuss action to com bat inflation which could include restric tions on price and wage incomes it is a masterpiece of bad timing entirely indef ensible and a blot on ontarios three major political parties at a time when pay raises are the rule when the cost of living has skyrocketed perhaps one cannot expect politicians to hold the line completely a modest increase of five or ten percent would pass with link comment and no serious objections but fifty percent and retroactive to aoril the raise is cleverly devised first hav ing agreement among the three party lead ers who then got approval of their party caucuses before it became public brings honours rlere and while rthe government will have to take the brunt of the criticism havino initiated the raise and could and should be voted out of office at the next election this will have no bearing on a fait accom- pli v would seem that while political lea ders can be at each others throats over such minor issues as medicare educa- tion costs and indian affairs when it comes to a really important issue like whats in it for me is isnt hard to agree the federal government of course did the same thing not too long ago and hava just boosted their mileage allowance fromv ridiculous 7c a mile to an equally ridiculous 16c so they are on equally shaky ground when they talk about inflation curbs if canadians are becoming more and more cynical in comparing what politicians say with what they do we can hardly be blamed a georgetown man brought fame to our town when he won the international sheep shearing championship at the royal winter fair bill wilson who has been been stnv- irg for the honour for eighf years defea- ll last years champion and 13 others li i q the trophy back to canada it has i n held by americans since 1963 bill learned the art of shearing from his father clare wilson who is also well- known in the county for his prowess in this field he now has hopes of competing in big american show next spring where h will be pitied against another group of ex perts they earn rteiiugeep this column la dedicated to this is one of their haitflijk my wife was rightit isnt surveyor after all tfing competition a quiz for elementary school pupils a feature of book week at the library pro vided interesting and informative to thoe who watched tiie questions were more difticult tcr adults perhaps than for the students con taining information particularly historical and geographical which many of us had forgotten it was interesting to watch these bright youngsters doing mental arithmetic with ease while we adults puzzled it through with furrowed brows seeing them snap out answers to science questions some of which were too much for us and display ing a good knowledge of canadian history and world geography cne thing which we think might be dropped in this day nt progressive educa tion is a concentration on dates and we wore somewhat surprised to find that these a psn of the school curriculum to us it is not too important that columbus sailed to america in 1492 the latter part of the fifteenth century would to our mind be a sufficient answer but dates we sup pose are good mental training and serve a purpose in that way today when we worry about our teenagers not having enough to do some competitions like this might fill some of their slack times and participating quiz svws cculd al fv itreti i adult too our economy drop in price of gold could be inflation curb an informative program for those who tire of a bland diet of tv situation comedies we recommend a radio program which comes on at lupper- time on sundays it is cross caviada checkup a cbc feature from montreal with batty shapiro as commentator mrs shapiro chooses a subject invtes one or two guest experts then receives telephone calls from all parts of canada hearing peoples views and commenting with her guests on vhat they hear this sunday the discussion was on whether ve should aim for a shorter work week and if it comes how can we prepare for larger amounts of leisure time listeners had a variety of opinions from the woman who quoted the adage the devil finds things for idle hands to do to the man who wants a three day ten hour work week so he can enjoy four days of hunting fishjng and the outdoor life there was a suggestion that if three or four work weeks come there should be stag gered if not the traffic jams to vacation spots would become hopelessly jammed there were some who say our gov ernments should be providing more recre ation others who feel this is a personal responsibility one opinion was that we tend to think we must be on the go in every leisure hour while contemplation and just plain resting can be important too changes in our system of educatior with more stress on things which would be helpful in our future recreation group were suggested by many concentration on pub lic service work with groups like the red cross more emphasis on physical fitness were mentioned were mentioned the problem of more leisure time cost ing money was to the tore also with some opinions that even with the same pay for less hours of work the average man would not enjoy the extra hours off as much as as he thinks the district at a glance set for satur ay polls t iampton the municipal of fice ncryc centre for the big gest election in bramptons jilstory is preparing to operate with militarylike precision sa turday december 6 the town has at least 18901 eligible vot ers this year about 2600 more thin for the last election in 1836 and 91 polling stations instead pf 83 in 1966 high light of the election will be the race for the nayors chair in volving james archdjkih wll- ham bryotn- and russell prou- e investigate town police mifiton the ontario police commission has been asked to investigate the operation of the milton police department there have been nine resigna tions trom the milton depart ment in the past two years and it was fel council it could be either choice of constables the operation of he department working conditions or salaries council decided to call the on tario police commission at a closed session last week follow ing the submission of the latest leee r of resignation from an officer tennis club tumbles acton constructiqivfcs to begin shortly on a new good land supermarket on the site of the old acton tennis club workmen have been busy dem olishing the old clubhouse slch was used by both tennis ycrs and lawn bowlers com plction dale for the construct ion of the supermarket is mid- april 1970 owner john ed munds already operates browns cood foods an independent supermarket in hamilton seek to join village erin a number of rate payers of mountalnvicw sub division now part of erin township intend to ask for an nexation with erin village the ratepayers arc angry over the rates of their privately owned water supply which have been hiked from 36 to 84 a year at a meeting last week 93 per cent of the ratepayers in the subdivision met with erin village council and the town ship council ao discuss annexa tion which if approved would give thom the service of the erin village water system santa coming this saturday december 6th will be the day st nick arrives in town ho will be in a parade witrimany colourful floats and bands byrank flaherty from the viewpoint of in flation watchers around tho world the best news lately concerned the fall in tho price of hold on the free markets at tendon and zur ich although the event may appear remote from the price of eiis in canada it carries a lesson to anyono who has been s culating on conlinui4 prico increases anywhere in the free world it is particularly rekvant to britain and gonuiny because their national currencies the pound and the mark were felt to be in danger of de aluation devaluation of a national currency is a sort of lastre sort weapon against rising prices its accepsd when all all other devices such as re straints on public spendiivg have proved ineffective that was the case with the french franc some while back ind mhce it was devalued the pound and the mark have been exposed to pressures- its also good news for the mom iary authorities of the worlds main trading nations including canada who have been working in rerent years- to establish more stability in exchange rates between nat ional currencies widespread hoardink f cold by specula tors has withdrawn a lot of money from circulation and so contributed to higher prices for other commodities some of that will now be re leased as the speculators sell their gold and look for profits in other ventures the free gold market came into eing in 1968 when mon etary authorities found themselves unable to hold the former fixed price of 35 us per ounce it freed central banks from the nec essity of dipping into their reserves to kerp market de mands supplied with gold at 35 the free market price roe to a high of s44 but last week dropped to a range of 350 to 3670 at zurich with paris and london prices only a little higher at those levc- theres no danger of the big national gold rcs- the major world currencies erves which form the baso of being again exposed to a run down money certs also see the change as an indication that the special drawing rights set un in association with tho international monetary fund last september are working the rights are a substitute for gold and oro made available by tho fund to tiny member country which finds itsqlf temporarily short of metal and whoso curren cy becomes shaky effort mainly vocal meantime in this country the main effort nt restraining inflationary price increases continues to be vocal and by all accounts only margin ally effective the newly cre ated prices and incomes commission keeps preaching restraint on tho part of peo ple who have the power to increase the prices of the goods or the labor they have to sell for the record organized labor holds aloof although there is reason to believe that some union demands may be less than they would otherwise have been because of an awareness of the resul ting effect on prices mem bers of parliament are vocal in denouncing price that af fect the average man such as those in gasoline prices consumer and corporate af fairs minister ron basford admits hes powerless under the law to interfere and ech oing prime minister trudeau says the government is con sidering further measures if voluntary restraint doesnt work reliable clues as to what these measures may be and who wih decide that res traints arc not working and jby what criteria are still lacking about the only thing that is clear is that from here on any big business which boosts prices on its products will get t fair am ount of publicity badly timed at least a few onservers think finance minister ben sons disclosure of the tax reform program was badly timed from the point of view of the current urgency to check inflation they think it will upset the bond market and divert investors from bonds to stocks and commod ities thereby pushing com modity and share prices up faster than is either desir able or warranted prices on lowcoupon bonds have been dropping the near certainty of a capital gains tax on the buyer who holds them to maturity mak es them less attractive the lower price on the bonds themselves has little bearing on the general price trends but it does mean that funds which would have gone into sucn bonds will go into some other investment and there by help push other prices upward news echoes from the heralds of 10 20 and 30 years ago 1959 with 34 deer taken by a large party hunting in the mag- netewan area georgetown and district men took part in hunts which accounted for some 75 deer this year with over 48 per cent of voters going to the polls georgetown elected a deputy reeve and six councillors monday a total of 2380 of 4941 registered voters cast their ballots walter gray was returned as deputy- reeve with john elliott tut harrison john d kellly william f hunter john gunn and ian cass the success- head table at the first anniversary banquet of the pro- med the office of mayor which jack armstrong has vacated is still to be filled and a second nomination meeting is scheduled for tuesday 1949 a large birthday cake with one huge candle centred the hea table at the first anniversary banquet of the pro vincial paper quarter century club on sunday at hill top lodge erin thirtythree of the fortytwo club mem bers gathered for the occasion members of the club have all been employed for at least 25 years with the company at the dinner martin cummins was wel comed as a new member and presented with an en graved watch by hugh dickie miss jessie leavitt read teletype messages of congratulations from other chap ters one minutes silence was observed for two mem bers e mcwhirtcr and fred laws who died during the year my namesake bill smiley a high school principal in sask atchewan he doesnt even read my column bad cess to him but his wife does recently she forced him to listen as she read a column in which i hurled a dart into the saw hides of school administra tors it made him write but it was a friendly letter and it is nice to hear from you cousin bill he must be a cousin the smlleys five brothers of them came out from ireland during one of hie periodic potato fam ines and with the skill end foresight that has always char acterized the name chose tome of the most meagre land in ca nada on which to strike it rich the crops were mainly ston es with an occasional bonanza of boulders most of them had enough dim irish wit to get out and move west but my grand father with nine kids and no wife stuck it out and the olj family 5jrm is still there in pontiac quebec pushing up its annual crop of milkweed bur dock and fieldstone cousin bill must be a descen dant of one of the smileys who went west and starved ruring the depression instead of stay ing home and almost- starving weve lost contact complete ly but i uid meet a chap bev smiley directly ahead of me in a lineup on a troopship coming home who turned out to be a son oic my fathers first cousin joe who went west isnt this fascinating however this is not a family history though i know youre intrigued it is a heartfelt ex pression of sympathy for high school principals like cousin bill a high school principal is usually a normal human being though not always who is caught not between two grind stones but four grinding from above are the school board and the parents from below he is whetted to a fine edge by tea chers and students either he emerges keen as an axe or ground to a pulp the odd one is smart enough to quit and go hack to the classroom before either happens but most driven by the insatiable greed of their wives keep at it until they are punchy i times of the year after thpae months of unbelievable chaos they have finally got the igg brutal awkward maniacal ma chine that is modern high school running with only the odd fit or start be thpe linotype operator i i the board has cut off alt ex penditures until the new bad- bet to trtrnrfc iltjanuary the students are becosing unruly the teachers are completely browned off with the board prlncipalstudents and other in- short everything normal then the poor old principal gets three or four resignations from his staff they are froml people who are ill fed up merely going out of their miners where do you pick up in december an ait teeohrwho can double in typing or german teacher who is a whh at german but weigh 200 lbs and must coach the basketball team or a history teacher wkpl can pick up a welding class wi- fhout doing a nero somehow they find bodiesto put in front of the kids and the show goes on and the principal takes another giant step not for mankind but to ward hisfirst coronary bless you chaps and have a hijiiw christmas its a job 1 wouldnt touch with a 20foot hungarian let alone a tenfoot pole georaetown herald published by thornton newspapers limited georgetown ontario walter c blehn publisher garfield mcgllvray production superintendent advertising manager frank mullin i news editor accountant terry harley aileen bradley i valerie caruso anne currie reporter leslie clark dave hastings myles gilson john mcclementi george young business directory lc millesse ontario land surveyor 65 duncan drive georgetown 8776275 residence repair ervice accutron service centre john b0ught0n jewellers certified watchmakers 5 main st r 8774313 1939 i no less thah five business places were entered in geor getown and district last weekend thugs enterecttne hardware store of j sanford and son at stewarttown friday night and blew open the safe they took about 40 in cash and a 50 electric drill a nurnber of nei ghbours heard voices and an explosion about 3 am but took no notice of it on saturday night the local hydro office was entered when thugs smashed a win dow to gain entrance but nothing was stolen it is thought the wouldbe burglars were interested in mov- irtg the safe but were frightened off the same night brills hosiety mill was entered and a quantity of socks stolen on sunday- night the thieves continued their rampage and forced their way into jack squires ser vice station stealing a radio antifreeze and a quantity of tobacco i cb dayfoot and co was entered on monday night and although a number of drawers were ransacked only a couple 6f pairs of shoes were missirfg the typewriter was carried outside but left bet1lrid chief yv g marsh all is making a desperate effort to track down the thieves and is being ably assisted bynight constable emmers c0rbett chiropractic clinic spinal xray service available by appointment 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