Halton Hills Newspapers

Georgetown Herald (Georgetown, ON), January 29, 1970, p. 4

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Georgetown Herald A Division of Horn Nvwipapor Company Limited Main Strait South Georgetown Ontario C 1 1 BUN Publisher THURSDAY JANUARY 29lh EDITORIAL COMMENT Could Be Safer The long awaited traffic lights at the dangerous Road highway crossing should improve traffic conditions despite an inauspicious debut last week when several minor ace dents were registered The corner should dent Improvements The lack of a traffic light warn sign on the east bound approach is noticeable And still adding to the traffic hazard Is an increase speed limit at one approaches the crossing Parking Persecution Enforcement of parking regula is tricky A police officer is demned if he does and damned If he t when ll comes to ticketing an offending vehicle Meters were originally installed on lit on of merchants who wanted a law to save themselves for most spaces In the downtown could end were being ak en by merchants and their employees They have served their purpose to a large extent and now that they are so well established even original opponents like the Herald editor can see their value But at timet too rigid following of a by law is not too good for merchants who as heavy contributors to the tax treasury deserve consideration We speak of times when a shopper just few minutes over due in a metered zone finds he is getting a ticket just as he arrives to drive away The police are only doing their Job and one can be too critical And yet one A Job Well Done In his 37 years as superintendent of Greenwood Cemetery Harry Savings can be credited with creating one of Ontario most beautiful memorial sites In his time a new addition has been carefully planted with trees and shrubs and the care given to grass cutting and boa leaf ion by Mr Savings and his staff Is always evident It good to know that he will not be completely divorced from the cemetery where he has given such faithful service He will remain a member of the cemetery This came about last year after yean of complaints from commuters about a mile limit extending to Norval hill Motorists felt and rightly so that an In crease to miles would be justified along a highway stretch which contains few resi donees But when the highways department finally listened they went too far The mile limit should start east of the shopping plaza entrance where traf fie flow is relatively unobstructed To In crease a speed limit before a major intersection which now also has a traffic light is asking for trouble should expect a reasonable of lea way There are two solutions From a motorists standpoint if he in tends to stop for more than a few minutes he is wise to ether use a metered area of there are many w thin easy walking distance of the stores Or still there is a large free parking area behind block of stores where one can always find spot to park all day From the public standpoint the day Isj long past when men who command the training and salary of police off should be burdened with the chore of ticket cars end making out nor traffic It would be cheaper to deputize a healthy retired men or woman for this ob Such an employe be given wider scope to use udgmen than a uniformed police man Prosecution for minor offences should never become persecut on board and hold the position of secretary treasurer where he can be of to the new superintendent with his store of knowledge Mr Savings is of the old school of public service In his years in town he has served the community the important post of fire chief has been warden of his church and served as a men of many public organizations If men like him who have made Georgetown the prosperous fine it is THE FIGHT AGAINST INFLATION Surely it was in the that today violence revolt drug addiction sexual free disgust with the lishment and all the goodies of The tiixlici their roots SIXITIES WERE PURE BOSH Thinking r l reports of the 1960s I realize that all the experts I On second painted a picture of a decade of violence and change unequalled history What is especially embarrass is the thought that did the same ought It pur poppycock If true thai Sixties Included but 1940 In rt make I960 look children birthday par disorganized THE DISTRICT AT A GLANCE from saying goes I do not find difficult to talk to the Prune Minister or any of the Cabin Ministers on matters which concern and our people and have done on many A Member of has a Job lo do and when he goes about it in a positive way there is much he can and much he can accomplish COMING BACK to Ottawa after the Christmas Recess ma Members of Parliament see- to feel they were at the There are problems facing the people and the Government which have no easy solution MY DESK WAS piled high I with letters expressing concern especially about the White Pa per on Tax Reform and Members of Parliament from the west were besieged with mail about surplus wheat and the plight of the western farmers There were letter from all across the country on Then the question being asked was our method of Government changing and we headed for a republican and breaking away from tradition IN PARLIAMENT the debate Is centred on pollution Whenever a Bill like comes before the House an attempt la made to create a sense of urgency and imply neglect Statements like the following one by the Member from Grey lustrate this There will not be a dissent voice In this House or in the country in respect of set ting up in adequate water policy However there will much resentment if this Bill Is not amended to that it Is meaningful and effective In a few words it lack teeth and direction IN A PERIOD such as this both Inside and out- aide the House express a frus tration with their part la the ct of Government and the manner In which things on I received one letter from a retired ing in Burlington who Is a friend of longstanding He ask what I was going to do about it all AS IT SO happened during the Christmas Recess I started to read a book on the life of Sir Wilfred and I buna out that the same criticisms are being made today especially from Ontario and Quebec were made In over seventy I years ago I took heart because today Sir Wilfred is revered as one of Canada a Greatest Statesmen IN THE ABEA of taxation I think Mr Benson has done a lot in the past week to allay the fears of many people by again staling that the White Paper is not law and its main purpose ia to state a suggested policy on tax reform and to elicit pub lic opinion on these proposals He has assured the people that this is not a plan to Increase Government revenue and that taxes could be reduced HAVE SEEN the end of the civil war in Nigeria and jwe must pray that law and or will aoon be restored and that the distribution of food and relief supplies properly or and distributed THE CANADA Water Act now in Committee stage is re itself as one of the most important pieces of legls lation to come before the I House and I plan to talk about this more fully in a future column I do not share the frustration talked abort by certain members of the House Ve cannot all be Chiefs an the Township Ratepayers Form New Group About ratepayers register as members of Ward Three Ratepayers last week in United Church The groups first arc high taxes and zoning con trols Elected lo the executive were Keith Squires chairman Vic tor Wagner It R surer Mrs Bowers and Mrs Etta River Road cosecretaries Mrs Margaret IIH Brampton inform chairman I Several neighbourhood con lact officers were also elected to provide neighbourhood ton tacts for the ratepayers arc Bob May Mrs Ruth Cecil Sanderson Mrs Margaret Sanderson Manuel Marques Carl R Manlcy Charles A Beamish John WH helm von Alf Scolt Philip Bird and Dour ACTON Acton fourth bank a of the Toronto- Do nil In a new on the site of the old post office if committee of accepts planning board recommendation and ma a tuning by law change The new bank would have a ft frontage on Mill Street Chinuacou boar proposes to abandon its small branch at Claude and establish a new one in the Municipal Offices In fanei The of ficcs will bo by the council this week Tic Claude branch has about holders but many more would be in Snelsrove Some kindergarten arc not to school and others are coins kept home during the winter months The Wellington County school board closed the kindergarten at in September when they decided to have area kindergarten pupils bused to schools in and bane Mothers complained thai the bus route of miles per day wis unreasonable for five olds and some protested by keeping their children Georgetown Herald A Division of Hem Company Limited Georgetown Ontario Welter Blhn Publisher Garfield McGilvray Production Superintendent Advertising Manager Frank Mullln News Editor Accountant Terry Ailcen Bradley Valeric Caruso Anne Cume Reporter Leslie Clark Dave Hastings Myios John McClements Young BURLINGTON Reversing their earlier decision vith draw Burlington wants rem in Hie Milton Area lire Departments coverage area at least until regional govern dears up the future of services in the rural area Milton The Kilbride fire station pro posal was one of the hottest el controversies in the Do Ward election In lliiMoii gawevd deputy reeve Cordon took a verbal at from Campbeilville Milton lost week and labelled that section a death atrip It the most dangerous atrip of highway in Ontario he com There have been sever 1 bad accidents on that piece of highway some of them fa Council sent a resolution lo the Minister of Highways asking him to look into the poor design of this section of high aj we Township an area of acres in the northwest corner of Halton County could from the county if a Peel form of regional is adopted The dratic action was last a regular council by Cr Alan Ackman He asked council lo study the iblllty of joining Wellington Count His uKRcstion surprls the support of the other four members of council PLANT TO SHUT DOWN OAKVILLE About the hourly paid workers Fords operation will be laid off for one neck A lord spokesman said the car plant mil not operate for a few days tn an Kempt to with stock on hand Employees will ml per cent their salary through benefits FIFTY SNOWMOBILES FORM ORGANIZATION ORANGEVILLE The Or and District bile Association has been form following the police depart recommendation to that the machines be ban tied from the towns street Fifty owners tgrecd to observe an It cur few travel at slow speeds ln to to kcop the noise slay off the towns ma arterial roads SNOW BUGGIES BUG BUFFALO STAMPEDE HERD Region Conservation Authority have on employee in a Jeep patrolling Ihe Itattlesnakc Paint area to keep from Ihe herd fain there hearing other wildlife in the area Resources manager Dive Murray said the Authority may also have to hire a traf fie policeman to keep the machines out of Eden where thousands of skiers every weekend thou In to have working for lei than it colts today for a night on At Toronto lit Richard pointed the Great Depression not brought to en and by or politicians by Hitler War jobs wage up prosper began Sickening thought but true In The Sixties we In over Chicago cops for beating dissidents head And so should But in The Forties six million dissidents of all ages and both sexes vcra beaten gassed or sUncd to death And millions of others were obliterate I out even waving a placard How that for violence Revolt It wet In partisan group and naw nationalist organization And rotwta war juit long haired and bearded and dirty lot hungrier thin rbli They too of both at today they war fighting for thing not against eve thing And laying on th line not a clout on head trip In the paddy wag and a fin but vt The Establish me In IMS the British threw it out including that heroic but mlstakable member of it Sir Winston Churchill That as a far far greater thing than riot ing on a campus Atrocities We had on ap parently In Vletnim recently the Yanks villains for a change Vile Certainly a mar compared to the of The Forties On all aide Tell your about Lidice the bombing of Hamburg and Dresden an what the did at And then there was the one of all committed the Good Guys the atom bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki Today tics arc peanuts however in digestible Drug addiction Thar wiint any pot around Bui I how many alcoholic era wandering around today who got their start whin they IB and In uniform could list you personal knowledge Juit Sexual freedom Perhaps wasn t as blatant and self con and publicity as it is today but it was there lady it there Now for minute mean your band But those other guys Change Whole disappeared Millions of wandered homelets New countries sprang into being However just is The Sixties weren all rotten were The Forties They prod courage and sacrifice and a great sense of sharing loving amidst all the haired They produced a itineration thai sincerely believed that NEWS ECHOES From the Heralds of 10 20 and Yean Asa I960 Subdivisions hove been under on at practically every Georgetown council meeting for the past years and Monday was no exception A recommenda tion of the planning board for an amendment to the towns official plan would change the Moore farm Ma n Street into industrial commerc and residential land a first slop in a new subd vision A Junior Chamber of Commerce is a possibility here if i mm mum of young Georgetown men show Interest Formation of a organization was discussed at a director meeting of the Chamber of Commerce last week 1930 Council on Monday were told by the public school of the need for immediate planning for the erection of a new six room school take care of growing en rolment The entire board with chairman Edwin Wil son as spokesman attended the meet ng The school would cost neighbourhood of 180 of which to 50 percent would be paid by the government The board presented a survey showing the current rolmenl of pupils will grow to over by 1954 Mr and Mrs Albert Hills are taking over ownership of the Barker and Brown grocery and meat store on Mam Street this week Both are natives of Kent county Charlie Brown is remain at the store and will be charge of the meat department Another business change is the purchase of Ross Thompson shoe by Mr Thompson has operated th business here for four years He had purchased business from W Smith after selling farm near Slewarttown to Picket 1940 Georgetown is in the throes of a municipal election fof tho second time in order to elect a full council for 1940 the elect on held in December George W Davis was elected reeve but has nee passed away J Hall who was given an acclamation for I in Ward 2 has since resigned and Elmer Thompson who was led hydro commissioner could not qualify because of his posit on as Division Court Clerk A nomination meeting was held in the public I brary on Thursday Harold Cleave and Thomas L Leslie two former County Wardens will contest the reeveship James Costigar was given an acclamation for councillor for Ward and Hugh Lindsay and Grant and William H Long ale in the running for hydro world we not only id but could be built They produced new concepts world set the for the end of old Imperialism mind that these have been frustrated and warped since And as a sideline they pro duced the millions of kids who are now a mystery and terror and bewilderment to those lea of the frightful Forties said BUSINESS DIRECTORY MILLESSE Ontario Land S3 Duncan Drive Georgetown 8776275 Residence REPAIR SERVICE JOHN BOUGHTON JEWILURS Certified Watchmaker St DODD CHIROPRACTIC CLINIC XRAY THERAPY St No Appointment Necessary OPTOMETRIST L Brown R0 Main St Suite Fer Appoint mint phone OPTOMETRIST Hamilton South Carretal Building Far Appointment A E Phyiletharapitt Heat Treatments ElectroTherapy DRIVE Engineer Consulting Engineer Ontario Land Surveyor Office Home Wallace Thompson 3rd Division Court Clerk It Commissioner MONUMENTS POLLOCK CAMPBELL DESIGNS ON REQUEST Inspect our work In Greenwood Cemetery PHONE All Water Street North A reShirt Main 106 All dene en premise For all Your INSURANCE NEEDS JOHN R LEWIS CO CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS Nelson St W Brampton Ontario Reileton WILSON A HUGHES A A

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