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Esquesing will hire professionals to fight Indusmin proposals Council has come out strongly opposed to proposals to dump dried Toronto garbage bales into the Indusmin between the Third and Lines We fought against the Milton proposal to put garbage in a pit at Milton Brick so I don think mil change our minds now Reeve Tom Hill told council and over SO residents crowded Into the council chambers Monday evening The reeve said the township Official Plan on the threshold of being approved would protect against garbage being trucked in from outside the township We will have to give permission before it can happen he predicted Council decided they would retain professional help to prepare a case against the Indusmin proposal recognizing that emotional reasoning would have little effect on the Ontario Municipal Board where the proposals might be put before the issue is solved The meeting with was disappointing in the lack of Information from the company aid Councillor Dick Howltt Ira not convinced the dumping won t They talk glibly about rectifying damage but I can believe them I d like to see the township retain an engineer and get Independent advice IfltgoestotheOMB we have to be prepared with technical reasons as well as others Onus on township Deputy Reeve Coxe said he took a negative view of the proposal no matter what the might say complaining the onus was always on the township to prove the proposals were detrimental Instead of on those who make them He said It was the same case with blasting Why waste money lust tell them we dont want it said Councillor Wilfrid Leslie The deputy reeve said he felt the township had two strong points to fight the proposals withthe water table and emission of gases from the bales of refuse Indusmin says no methane gas would be produced because there was little oxygen but I would like to get other opinions on this said Councillor Councillor George Maltby reminded those present that they could be overruled at a higher level and he was glad they had such strong popular support for their stand Much support Popular support for council s opinions was forthcoming at Monday meeting with little urging Artist Dorothy Stone suggested council get in touch with East York where landfill proposals were once considered the be all and end all but now the municipality was experiencing difficulties with sites where fill had been put and now were eroding due to methane gas Ex Deputy Reeve Russell Miller who Is taking an active part in fighting the garbage proposals suggested council consider passing a by law barring outside garbage from the township He said he talked with George Kerr who said the township was foolish not to allow the garbage Industry to locate In the township He was alarmed the proposals might have much similar support In higher circles Replying to Miller the reeve said a by law might be helpful If it agreed with the Official Plan but could create difficulties with present garbage collection where collectors tried to split the loads between and dumps since they collected In both townships The reeve said It was his Impression the quarry would have to be If Indusmin wanted to dump bales of garbage in but other members of council wondered whether the Industrial designation would not serve for garbage landfill as well If It requires rezonlng we will sufficient chance to argue said Councillor but he was unconvinced The reeve thought the official plan would provide adequate protection and ho predicted It would be approved by the province In the near near future probably within few days He also predicted an Increase In truck traffic If proposals were accented prediction which found ready agreement from Mr Miller Should plan Malcolm Freeman who last by one vote to George In the last election asked what plans council had In the event opposition was overruled He suggested that regional govern ment could mean the region would decide to dump their garbage In the Indusmin quarry I be making some provision for the possibility He also wondered what the township was going to do when their landfill site on the Fourth Line was filled The reeve replied that thanks to advice from the Department they had another three years of use from dump and county retained some consultants to study wnste disposal which did not necessarily have to be the sanitary landfill method Mr Freeman suggested wrapping garbage bales In sealed Elastic might be one solution If icy were forced to take the garbage think ahead If we ore stuck with It ho said We must prove conclusively the quarry Is no place for garbage declared the deputy I think the powers should make Toronto look Its own said Councillor Maltby ft PIWW Sheila Rourke another member the deputation suggested damages to the company might result If the water table was polluted such as had happened along IS Highway where she lived It cost Beard more to construct a pipe line to residences along the high way she noted and could get stuck with plenty more It could oven the water supply in Georgetown and Milton the reeve suggested Mrs also noted there was a difference In the way people in the cities looked after the refuse from dogs and cats In the country they allow them to run out on fields but In tho cities they bag It and It could conceivably be part of the refuse she said to luughtcr They ve gat the Battle of Wounded Knee In the United States but It might be the Battle of Dolly here she predicted Ninety Year No ACTON ONTARIO WEDNESDAY MARCH 1973 Pages floon Lent begins Mayor maintains open mind on waste proposal Today Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of the season of Lent the time set aside by the Christian Church to commemorate the days Christ spent In the wilderness In times past It has been a period of selfdenial and penance but today regulations among Christians who observe the season are less demanding with more emphasis on personal decisions days of Lent precede the feast of Easter which falls each year on the first Sunday after the first full moon after the 21st of March The ceremony of blessing and marking them on the forehead of Christians tot which Ash Wednesday Is named goes back into antiquity It was Instituted as a form of public penance for Christians who committed tone grave public sin and was necessary before reconciliation to the church would be accepted The practice watt extended to all the faithful in the century and has continued to this day in the Catholic church where the priest marks the forehead with EXTENSIVE DAMAGE was done to Ibis fork lift tractor when accident last week at Acton Wood art dust and unto dust thou shall Mam st N rf la rf wood Mayor Duby maintained his open mind position on the Indusmin landfill site proposal after hearing the presentation for the first time ana viewing a film of a similar operation In San Diego California The mayor attended last Wednesday night public meeting in Stewarttown along with Pat and Councillors Bill Coats Norm Elliott Orv Ctapman Barry Inscoc and Bill Members of town council attended fur information purposes Is was a meeting culled by Indusmin to do just Esquesing councillors raise pay to council voted themselves a raise at Monday night regular meeting In a recorded vote all five members of council voted to raise the salaries to per annum from the previous onethird of which is for expenses incurred in the execution of duties A penalty of 30 per meeting Is provided in the by law for non attendance The salary will be paid annually on December The reeve s salary is set by resolution at the end of the Crisis in tanning industry Imported shoes cause grief Along with other Canadian tanneries Acton major industry faces one of the most serious crisis in its history as the result of spiralling hide prices and large imports of shoes from other countries Beardmore president and general manager Peter Dunham told the Free Press this could have a serious effect on employment and production at the large Acton plant unless some control is intro duced to curb the numbers of Imported shoes Beardmore with over 400 employees Is Acton s largest employer and the largest tanning operation in Canada The Jobs of Acton employees and 2100 other men and women working directly In the industry and workers in related industries could be affected if the situation does not change Leather and shoe all- Canadian companies have noted that In I960 imported shoes retailed in Canada amounted to five per cent of the pairs produced in Canadian factories By this figure had increased to approximately per cent Almost half the shoes sold at retail in 1872 were imported causing a critical situation for the Canadian shoe and leather Industry and resulting In substantial loss of Canadian workers Several layoffs at the Acton plant have already occurred as a result of the slumping market The Tanners Association of Canada blames much of the current trouble on unfair competition from socalled developing countries Substantial govern ment subsidies to exporters in these countries coupled with low wages and modern equipment often provided at government expense make it impossible tor Ca products to compete against lowprice imports The situation is by the high price of hides generated by a world shortage which the Tanners Association says has been artificially created by the Argentine governments almost total embargo on the export of hides In Canada hide prices have risen per cent In the past year resulting In increased leather prices and increased use of lower cost substitute materials much of it Imported This has resulted in loss of shoe leather volume vital to the economic operation of Canadian tanneries Some per cent of domestic leather sales goes Into the manufacture of footwear This has been helped by the current leather boot fashion but shoe and leather manufacturers wonder what will happen when the trend diminishes They foresee shrinking sales Studies have shown the Canadian tanning industry as almost totally dependent on the Canadian footwear industry for its existence If present trends continue the domestic sales of shoe leather will be reduced by at least per cent in two years and the Canadian tanners would have to cut back by at least one third The Tanners Association of Canada made a submission to the Antidumping Tribunal last May asking a restriction on imports cient to allow Canadians to compete in their own domestic market We are not in the least concerned with fair competition from abroad Indeed we welcome It said the president of the Tanners Association but subsidized com petition of the kind we face is impossible to meet successfully The Association asked that Canadian producers be given the opportunity of supplying per cent of domestic require ments of leather footwear by but so tar they don know If the Tribunal ever reported to the federal government The government remains silent while the industry frets and ducks from further blows occasioned by the devaluation of the US dollar and the Pound Sterling which have made export In shoe leathers unprofitable Exchange rates subsidies controls and developing tanning industries in other countries again compound the problem Clearly before 1975 unless something Is done to rectify the situation the Canadian tanning and shoe manufacturing Industries will be on the ropes and also the Jobs of those Canadians who are employed in these industries says the president of the Tanners Association The first attempted bank robbery In the history of Erin Village was oiled Wednesday of last week An apparently intoxicated man fled from the Royal Bank without a cent Maps to be marked Res dents of the district wishing to Indicate areas they feel should be avoided by Ontario Hydro volt transmission corridor can mark the map in the Simpson Sears order office on Mill St Acton The map was placed there Friday to enable people the district to fill in areas of local significance which should be Included in the inventory for the study by Bruce a consultant retained by the Solandt Commission to find the path of least environmental impact for the 610foot wide hydro corridor Later that afternoon a suspect was picked upbytheOPP Orange wile hotel The resident of Cambridge was charged with attempted robbery and later released under his own cognizance The man demanded money from teller Sandy Marshall who thought he was joking The man then threatened to shoot and grabbed accountant Brian Hanna by the After a scuffle including manager John Veals the man drove off but license number was ned Although this was the first such Incident in Erin the Royal Bank in Hillsburgh has been robbed several times most recently on July 1970 The three men were en and convicted Robin seen A robin is reported in the Eden Mills news and crows are plentiful The weekends warm weather was noisily by the turds Vikings vie for title Robert Little School Vikings face Georgetown Centennial at the Milton High gym today Wednesday at for the North Halton schools basketball championship Vikings who were undefeated insix conference games and have lost only one game In 14 doubled the score on Stewarttown yesterday Tuesday to advance to today big game Matt Spehar team scoring leader accounted for of the Robert Utile points Rick Van J Jennings photo shifted when Frank Unternahrer was unloading it from the truck and swung out causing the fork lift to topple over with it Luckily no one was injured in the mishap Foil attempted bank robbery Hold third seminar Mayors reeves and deputy reeves from Halton seven mun clpalltlcs will meet for a munlc pal seminar March to discuss proposals for regional government the county Two llor seminars were held last year under the rect on of Warden Jim Warden Anne sad a decision had been made not to te all councillors because it ends up In an unworkable situation with so many people and members often are frustrated In waiting for their turn to speak Currently the Warden Select Comm ttee on Regional Govern ment is studying regional government implementation and visiting places where It Is already implemented The county has until the end of March to make representation at Queen Park It Is anticipated the regional chairman wQl be appointed this summer elections will likely be held In the fall and regional government could be Implemented by Jan that It behooved us to sit In and listen Acton putting some Input Into this In the future he said Show concern Personally I more concerned about this garbage being Metro garbage than I am about the proposal itself If It s a feasible thing County should be looking at its possibilities the mayor continued Councillor Coats said he Is quite prepared to await results of the study which he said will be done by professional who know what they ore lklng about Two particular aspects of the proposal are causing Reeve Pat some concern I ve never read anywhere that they vebeenabletomakea study of the underground water table and what if they do pollute all the water in North do they have that kind of money to put a bond up to cover that he asked Have right The reeve concluded that anyone living in this area has a right to be concerned about the proposal Councillor Norm Elliott was the only Acton representative to speak out against the proposal during the meeting You cannot tell us In good faith your detection devices will give you the answer he told Indusmin officials All this poison will be in the most concentrated form possible Elliott said he thought Indusmin was being In to the project adding It not a question of whether or not can afford it but one of whether the people of this area can afford it Fleet Dan Webster and Brian Lsrsen netted four each A win today would earn Robert Utile the right to compete for the County championship along with the champions of Burlington and county separate schools next week We beat Centennial twice early in the season but I m sure they ve unproved Well be in for a tough game today coach John reports Vikings will have lots of Robert Utile supporters cheering them on today Gibbons photo Basketball ballet ROBERT LITTLE cagers Rick Van Fleet 4 and Jim Matthews left battle players for the ball In a recent North Halton league game Vikings defeated Stewarttown Tuesday and will play Georgetown Centennial for the North Halton championship in Milton today