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Georgetown Herald A of Horn Newspapers Company Limited Wain Street South Georgetown Ontario WALTER C BIEHN Publisher PAGE THURSDAY APRIL 1970 OPINIONS OF OTHERS END OF SERVICE Acton Fraa Press There is more than interest on the part of some Acton people In the public hear held in Guelph regarding discontinu ance passenger train service between and Toronto If the railway suc cessful with Ms application to cut off train the town of Acton will ba ilout passenger rail service claims It is losing apparently has a how of SI and i The on the of In 1968 Travel habits Canadians are I They are travelling more and more by and airline and less and less by rail The National Transportation Ac of recognized that railways cannot ale effectively in a competitive environment while bearing the financial burden of i economical passenger train services Unfortunately the Nat Trans Act only recognizes the plight of the railway It does not outline reason for the decline In passenger service For Southampton mayor Bill Todd told the first public hearing in Owen Sound last week that passengers on tho three and half hour train trip between and Toronto have had to ride in baggage cars and stand Bruce Win told the hearing thai many of the passengers on the tram last week had to stand from Toronto to These are the circumstances which do little to attract passe for the railways Judging by the outcry across western On follow nq notice of hearings Hit continue service it is general The rail ways have made no real effort to modernize travel between the small centres of Ontario are not set up to correspond to needs Trains are almost the same today as they were before the war outside of a diescl pull ng now instead of a steam en Can you picture any private business making money serving the public with the same fncililes today as they had years ago SAFE AT ANY SPEED Journal Record A slick looking Annual report issued this week by Ford Canada opens with com men Is to shareholders by company presid ent Karl Scoff In the final six lines of this report Scott says The company alio supports federal government plans for Canadian motor vehicle safely standards Safety equip ment designed to meet Federal standards is installod in Ford cars pro both countries Its always good to hear auto industry executives pay lip service to highway safe And in in recent years have also added many safety features to the r new vehicles However we suggest that as long as the automakers continue turn out souped up brutes are go to have a difficult chore convincing the pub lie of their sincerity in safety These modish gimmick loaded cars have become the darings of I and they have been promoted with all race And this resulted in the whole love for style as against safety Under the sleek glamorous exteriors of the attire models with their snorting tail pipe are power plants belter suited for low flying than safe driving In fact msur a nee- companies In both Canada and the United States are socking It to muscle car owners with prcm urn increases of up percent It was Ford in Detroit that broke or he etc The worshipped the one Imp God worshipper Bill were confounded with a agreement among to keep the brakes on the horsepower And this resulted in the whole try zeroing in on the fast car market Safe ty be damned As long as sales are racing along auto firms feel safe at any speed A combination of rising insurance rat tight money and a maor revolution in personal transportation is faith worship ot to cause the carmakers lo shift down on lions is in my estimation spirit worship of other nations It led to much disaster when they their God The founding father of this great country were believers In the holy Bible This country hai prospered came through two world wan and a mj lifetime To teach our children the Nonetheless production of the muscle il is market t vis a vis a sense or safety thai will motivate the change Mean me above lie of assembly lines turning out the latest generation of status symbol we hear the voices of company pros dents cause of safely The br to Canada chartered banks as they promote tight and interest with one hand and easy consumer credit th the other In the of car firms it is a matter of promoting speed over safety Just in pass what ever happened to that package auto safety standard which Ottawa was ballyhoo ng a few months ago Now you see it now you That politics ual adulter times Cod the tea the were ad I tresses because had turned to the worship of their when he hid been a band unto ihcm He had fed clothed and pro ided their wiiit when were in the wilderness ji I band provides the ILL TIMING Guelph Daily Mercury The Canadian Broadcasting Corpora showed ill timing this week when it Interrupted the National Hockey League playoff telecast between the Boston Brums the New York Rangers to broadcast fairly lengthy on the Apollo 13 mis sion While many hockey fans are also in in the plight of the three American astronauts as they battle for life the CBCs interruption of the game for a specal port which included a lot of background and very little in the way of real news wasnt necessary Brief letins would have sufficed Those who preferred the Apollo in formation over the hockey game could have received it on other channels and on the rado while hockey fans had no alier native but to wait until TV coverage of the gome resumed ants of family of trouble the nations desert the God our fathers We hut look lo the US and what his happened there since the banned the teaching of the relit ion in their school I that the is not oppose religion in schools but lhe do oppose stand tint the holy bible used as a for our Christian faith Thcv wish implement the Report with on all tilt religions of the Wo agree Be thou faithful unto and will thee a crown of Hugh Broke His Middle Finger Gin ioii whistle a Bach pre touchy point in April none and fugue without a mem it Is deductible That what It slip tan you hum a Bee has cost me the years without sliding proude musical into falsetto or Iiini for my Darn right you cm can And it only about Trouble is and this After all that can and hum both of which I could do before There something I wrong hire but I cant quid figure out what It NEWS ECHOES From the Heralds of 20 and Years Ago I wish I had the In bonds at eight per cent But my wit We could have taken a trip around llc world for that she t igrec As far as I concerned I could hevo taken that thrown It off tho end of dock and been jutt at far ah ad Once again tho only one who agrees with mi Is I Both my kids recs In piano Both litre talented Near but not quite it the con In el Both chewed like tint word career in music because they wanted to be first And they to be still as friendly an It op and a Mormon lay preacher The adjudicator i still rot ten giving the first place cer tificate to the who played the wont Except when It your daughter or your pupil Then he or an In sight into music that the kids arc still sailing into their pieces at breakneck which they can Jilj and breaking down In the middle their mothers and teachers turn purpU it the fumble and throw up their hands and burst into tcirs But perhaps tho old Lady It right Those moment at the t hi I Down To with the possible exception of Jama Infirmary few bum notes I think Kim could play The Happy Farmer with a couple of days practice But perhaps its all been worth it rhcyvc learned Hugh has realized that cant practice the piano when your waiting table at tht Chateau or on lop of It hootlng at a concentration of German tanks which were fir back at you with bigger gun had I stopped breathing for as much as long two minutes while my son or daughter sealed through a so I hove one out after Bellini wards and a complete And Kim has in Inn that her piano won quite fit into a three room in Tor less want to sleep brilliant of music What brings all this to mind the old is and without bitterness Is the right it was worth fad that my wife former I can piano teacher has become tie three bars of hocked once again after a something or other of couple of year on the local faitival go Ing every day and llttenlng In tensely to her former students Though she a bit miffed that of them era doing ex fremely well fact that they con lessons from her anymore But her reports cheer me Things arc just the same they went through of Ihrm and I know the scene Intimate ly The festival mothers arc Nursery Ltd mile north of 401 on Road 15 THE PLACE FOR ROSES BUSINESS DIRECTORY H CARR Profeulonal Engineer Consulting Engineer Ontario Land Surveyor Office Home Mrs IN THE MAIL BAG TEACHING OF ALL RELIGIONS SPIRITUAL ADULTERY WRITER Street JiDear Sir Once again feel to you to grant me the of a reply to a letter in your Mall Bag from B Moore of the ii of Halton County To set the matter straight for them and your reader I point out that I and those who came with me arc opposed to the recommended changes in regard to our schools We therefore presented our for continuance present religious Instruction in schools and our opposition a conglomeration of worldly religion The Is at we under- It are in favour of Report and the teach Jng of worldly religions and thus were opposed to our stand In which we confirm our belief In the first Command Thou have no God a but me Ala itf I faith accepts the Moses Abraham Jesus but also the teaching of etc If any encyclopedia is correct Irian Ism the religious system of ancient as founded by worship ped the sun moon and the earth he waters the wind a Next have sect founded in I century by a prln later became a Monk In place of God there was emphasis law and order He believed in transmigration and rebirth Countless peoples bow down and worship his Image Then again we have Mob am etc all humans exalted to the status of the almighty God who created this wonderful verse and who has said I am the Lord Jehovah that Is my name and my glory will I not give to another neither my praise to graven images Isaiah And I appeared unto and wto Jacob by the name of God mighty but my name Jell was I not kuoMii to Exodus a V Today with millions era watched my telovlslon for tho safe return to America of three men who were thousands of miles from earth struggling with a crip pled craft not knowing if their equipment would them back to I listened he Instruction from NASA telling to use the stars the moon etc if all else failed For cent man has used the stars their navigational guide But who placed sun and the stars in vena Not Budda Zoroaster Mohammed etc It was the mighty Cod of the Christian bible and worship I witched as the Astronauts were greeted is they landed on board ship and heard the prayer offered to almighty God for their safe return by the navy chaplain Memory takes me back to a study I had of the prophet Ell 1st Kings 18 v27 And It came to pass noon that Elijah mocked them and said cry alottd for he is a God either he Is talking or he Is or ha la a journey THE AMAZING MR BURNS WILL TACKLE WALK ROUTE Byron Street Georgetown Mr Editor m writing on Burns of who will be again part in the Walk of miles from Brampton on May Anyone wishing to support Mr Hums In this amazing per fonnance and a worth while cause pic ise call and the full details will be taken care of Mr Burns Is conserving his energy for the long walk and will not be soliciting jour sup port personally but wo trust that the response will mirror a real desire on the part the residents of Georgetown to give liberally to the much nee help in providing food for those for whom this program was Initiated Yours trnl Ed A Georgetown Herald A Division Home Newspapers Company Limited Georgetown Ontario Waller C Publisher Superintendent Advertising Manager Frank Mull In News Editor Accountant Terry Harley Bradley Valerie Caruso Anne Reporter Leslie Clark Dave Hastings John McCiemcnts Georgs Voting 1960 of would be burglars wear ng crude masks fashioned from towels made on unsuccessful attempt on the mushroom plant early Thursday the morn ng after a vicious assault on the night watchmen According to police John Corn 71 of Glen Williams his face bleeding from wounds inflicted when one of the men pushed him to the ground made his way to the neighbouring plant after the throe fled He related his ordeal to right guard there who called police The elderly watchman had been held on the ground for almost en hour by one of men who at one point rubbed face in the cinders An electric motor and a large bar were- oil thai was taken Two men their faces wrapped while gauze robbed Van store at of Monday Hear ng the store door open Mrs Van who was n Ihe kitchen entered to wait on a customer to be confront with Ihe intruder hand in pocket as though he had a gun Ha warned her not moke a noise or she would get hurt His companion was heading behind counter Mr Van Hoorn entered from the kitchen ust then and one of the men picked up the machine and Ihrew it ust ng h m The pa r took the bills from till and fled on foot Ontario Land Surveyor Duncan Georgetown Residence REPAIR SERVICE Service Centre JOHN BOUGHTON JEWELLERS Certified Watchmakers Main St DODD CLtNIC OF CHIROPRACTIC XRAY 120 Guelph St 7333 Appointment BARRAGERS Shirt 877 2279 18 Main All work on premises OPTOMETRIST Brown RO For Appointments phone Wallace Thompson 3rd Division Court 877 2963 Clerk Commissioner 1950 Georgetown oldest lady Mrs Anna Nielsen who will be this September was honoured at a special show the Theatre last Thursday when a Mothers Day program had been arranged was emcee or a stage program winch included songs by Tom Jean and a quartet composed of Jim Burns and Charles Tyler Mrs Ncilsen received many gifts from merchant Perhaps our readers would be interested in how one in town makes his pay cheque go round The family prefers to anonymous so we shall call Mr and Mrs John Smith for purposes of illustration Mr Smith is employed by one of the local paper mills end receives a salary of a week He is not a native of Georgetown but has lived here for some years he end his wife are of buy a home policy They have Iwo Idren support their church and belong to one of tho local Here is how one weeks pay cheque is penl in town groceries 5 moat fruit milk bread eggs clothing SI drug store 50c and candy coal 50 small purchases 50c hydro church 25 telephone In addition lo these there is a bill of a year for a dog tax tickets on raffles and draws and dentist the doctor an Inp the lawyer tho occasional movie show repairs sils to opt and seeds far iho garden In addition to Mr Smiths salary ho rccoivcs a small pension which helps along the family budget Mrs Smilh has tried but finds thai some unusual expenses always crops up which upsets care fully planned budget figures Thus It Is Impossible to get away from the credit habit This unsolicited Mrs Smith wanted our merchants to know that she Is supporting them We would appreciate our readers turning in similar stories Its people like these who keep wheels of business fuming in our town OPTOMETRIST 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