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Georgetown Herald A f Horn Newspapers limited Main Street South Georgetown Ontario Page THE GEORGETOWN HERALD THURSDAY JULY EDITORIAL COMMENT Not Persecution Ad antltoltcring bylaw la not a new device designed to persecute members of the younger generation It Is a sensible way of giving the police department authority to deal with potential trouble before It starts When we were a teenager In a Urge city it was common for young men to gather on a street comer And it was common for a policeman to appear and tell us to break It up Whether the city bad a formal by law or not we never knew Nor did we question the policemans authority We dispersed grudgingly perhaps and not realliing why That knowledge only comes with maturity Just as we must have laws for the police to apprehend reckless motorists for the safety of the majority we must protect pedestrians Crowds of people on public streets can sometimes be a nuisance and this can particularly be true of youngsters sometimes who In their exuberance forget to allow a rightof way to others Today youngsters are more knowledgable than In our teenage days and if a constable is not backed with the law a moveon command could be Ignored Georgetowns police department t a bent on making life miserable for any resident It Is here for the protection of every citizen of every age And safety In the streets is a precious thing we want to retain In Ontario Younger Voters Drinkers Proposed lowering of the age for voting and legal drinking of alcohol In Ontario to IB is a complex question which could be debated from now to eternity Those who favour it ssy that It Is wrong to deny these privileges to young people who legally are adults when they reach IB They can serve In the armed farces drive a car join the work force and many are married and parents Maturity is something which cant be measured by the year of birth so whatever age Is set for voting will never be perfect Perhaps there Is a compromise Voting could be extended to those of age 18 who are on their own In the world employed fulltime Only on Television If Herald readers spotted story after story which had appeared In winter editions of the newspaper there would be reactions If their favourite magazine started repeating fiction stories and articles a second and third time there would be complaints Yet we are amazed how television viewers calmly accept tbe summer policy of pushing any old rerun at us And even more amazed that national advertisers pay good money for this Summer Is a tough time for all media At the Herald we scratch our heads for two months finding interesting copy to fill the news pages when there is a paucity of the usual Items If still students dependent on their parents or the government for financial support the franchise could be denied until age As for extending legal beverage drinking to lByearclda there can be no objections too valid In a province which derives large revenues from taxes and operates its own stores for their sale A much more Important matter Of lu crack down much heavier on drinking drivers of all ages put more teeth In our laws and educate citizens of the dangers of alcohol and automobiles other than in the radiator Organizations suspend meetings Municipal councils meet less frequently with those who supply information away on holidays Yet somehow we manage to stagger through the news doldrums and give readers original if not sensational stories and value for their money We dont object to a good TV reruns of outstanding programs which we missed last winter But we do sigh at tbe volume of pap which nightly nils the screen The sooner advertisers realize that they are paying good money for poor value the sooner those who watch summer TV will get better entertainment In The Mall I Summer Jobs on Own Farm An Idea McGUvray Crescent J Hay I please make use of your In the column for the following item Last night I read in the paper the article about those students in Misslssauga running their own farm on borrowed land as a summer Job very successfully Coiling from Holland I am deeply Interested In this Idea All through public school any child that could handle a shovel could get a school tumtje which means school The was supplied by the town A teacher who was especially interested In gardening was in charge After school hours you beaded right for your garden Thats where tbe wooden shoes came in handy and were waiting for us a small building where we could take shelter also if It would rain really bard A Dutch man does not mind the rain its good for your garden and your hair different kinds of vegetables radishes and of course strawberries and lota of flowers to take home to Mom or take to a sick person The supplied seeds etc You were in charge of that piece of earth and kept it healthy from the beginning to the end At the end of the season there was an exhibition with prizes for the best garden If a kid would go on holidays his friend would also care of his garden Weeding was main concern and if you were a fisherman that was time to get your bait High School summer holidays were often spent at farms or on bicycles hiking from one youth hostel to another Youth hostels were run by Interested and res couples who were called Mom and Dad by the students Before you took off for your next destination you helped the youth hostel parents with whatever Job bad to be done Several languages were spoken and at night there were camp- fires songs and guitars All through Holland and other European countries believe there are special bicyclepaths so no cycling on highways I do hope that the right authorities will read this letter and take action especially on roads for bicycleriders as there are going to be many in the future I dont know what they ride during the winter with the thought on antipollution I would say Inventors get busy Mrs Connie Nleuwbof Five grade students from the Weston area who planned February to beat the summer Job shortage by setting up their own farm on borrowed land are up to their ears in work and loving it Harvesting at least 10000 tomatoes from tomato plants starts next week Wore their crop of cucumbers melons beans and corn comes in The students have avoided spraying their crops because they wan the produce to appeal to health food stores Donald Todd the farmer who lent them five of his ISO acres on Base Line and of fered them more acres If they could handle It Is amazed at their achievement I was convinced they were hard workers when saw bow thoroughly they did the weeding be said and now tomato crop Is at least two weeks ahead of tbe usual time In Miss- students are George of Steve Bolton IT of Graoey West way Roger West 17 of Dr ail of Kipling Collegiate and Paul IB of Ellis Ave who attends Weston Collegiate Three of and also have fulltime summer Jobs farm idea was launched In a restaurant near Kipling Collegiate when Zancola told his friends of the heavy yield of his fathers home garden and his mechanical cultivator was available At first tbe group thought of putting off the project tutu next year but Oldreive insisted on Immediate action Eventually the students talked to Todd and obtained the five- acre plot they needed Three weeks after their first meeting the students went back to Todd with a CO deposit on the rent but the farmer wouldnt take So they offered to help with my farm work in lieu of rent Todd said The farmer also let the boys have an ample supply of horse manure and lent them his tractor and tools The five of them paid as for seedling tomato plants that had grown to about eight Inches In nurseries He also examined their com and peas And they are A l The boys who invested In their project plan to share the profits equally BILL SMILEY A Catalogue of Summer Spacls VACATION POSTCARDS In The Mall Bag Keep Terra Cotta Scenic Writers Aim Dear Sir I have written the attached material to inform your local subscribers in the Terra Cotta area on progress In the fight to stop Consolidated Sand and Gravel Many dont know why the trucks have stopped Unfortunately if they wait until they start again their last chance to stop them will be past Please help us In this I will be mo than pleased to supply supplementary formation and clarification Terra Cotta area residents have won first round in their fight to prevent a fifty acre gravel pit operation and potential dump north of the village Mines and Northern Affairs Minister Leo Bernler announced in the legislature July 10 that he had revoked the permit held by Consolidated Sand and Gravel Ltd In lot just north of the Terra Conservation Area The permit could be reissued following hearing by the Mining Commissioner if the government is not convinced that the pit would be contrary to the public Interest or a danger to recreation value or character of the escarpment and vicinity The Mines and Northern Af fairs Department first received objections to the operation in the fall of 1B70 when Consolidated was granted lis first permit Opposition gathered momentum as loaded tractor trailers rum bled down the narrow twisting rural roads past the Con servatlon Area forcing pedestrians into the ditches and rattling windows In Terra Recently the Credit Valley Conservation Authority passed a resolution objecting to the pit operation J A Turner Peel County Director of Education wrote concerning traffic and adverse affects upon Board Field Study Centre next to the pit His letter was promp ted by a near collision between a large gravel truck and school bus loaded with children Residents depend upon the Niagara Escarpment Protection Act Bill as a means or stopping the pit operation The Act was intended to preserve the recreational value of the Niagara Escarpment and vicinity Unfortunately for miner and resident alike what is in the public interest depends entirely on opinion of the Minister of Mines So far the Minister has been Issuing some permits without hearings consultation with municipal councils conservation authorities or superficial In of the site There pears to be some recent change In attitude and increased Interest In residents rights The second round in the fight to stop the pit and the trucks will be difficult The resident com mittees must convince the MlninnCommissIoner and the Minister of Mines thot there are some places where It is in the public Interest not to mine and lhat Terra Cotta is one of those places Fortunately the residents are not entirely alone Professor Leonard Gertlers celebrated report basis for Government purchase of land from Catedon- Mountain Estates now under Investigation suggests he area should be set aside for recreation and residential purposes The residents are counting on local MPP George Kerr They expect Mr Kerr will support his Credit Valley Conservation Authority in opposing the pit operation The Credit Authority is part of Mr Kerr Department of Energy and Resources The local action committees hope that residents will write their MPPs or Leo Bernier Minister of Mines and Northern Affairs to convince the govern that a large scale pit would be against he public interest and need for quiet recreation areas Should the residents fail convince he Minister of Mines the gravel trucks and trailers will rumble through Terra next spring Ah this is a grand time of the year entirely Once tbe heat wave Is over you couldnt find a more wonderful place in the world to live The sun Is like a bronze hammer But at night you blanket The swimmers are swimming the sailors are sailing the golfers are golfing and the drinkers are drinking True the workers are working but they re just back from their two weeks with pay peeling gloriously and bragging about the sensational place they found with hot and cold running rata or they re looking forward to their two weeks at Camp Missevathlng So everybody is happy The children are delightful graceful brown little things with ice cream smeared around their mouths The mothers are strutting around In garments for which they have been thrown in the penitentiary twenty years ago And loving it I personally think some of them should still be incarcerated but personal opinions have no place In an objective column The dads the lucky ones who are able to be on holidays with their families are bubbling with Joy You can tell by the way they affectionately cuff their kids roll their eyes until the whites ecstasy when their hand them a oneroot shopping Hat and stroll trance like through the supermarket knocking down little old ladies The other dads the unlucky ones who have to stay In the city and work while the family Is at the cottage are pretty sad You can tell by the way they act after work Some of them just the odd one or two havent even the heart to go home to that silent lonely house They know theyd burst Into tears So they just head with a miserable bereft gleam In their eye to the nearest airconditioned bar Poor devils No one to talk to except gogo girls Some of the betteradjusted unlucky dads of course dont do that They go straight borne from work and straight to the refrigerator Then they tear off their shirts and shoes Then they look at the kitchen sink almost hrow up shrug manfully and turn on the television Waking with a start at 10 they phone and order some Chinese food Then they turn on the lawn sprinkler This Is the only known positive method to make sure it rains all night Then there are the happy Irrepressible teenagers You can spot them regardless of sex by their hump They have all been told all through their lives to keep their shoulders back and heads up As a result they walk with their heads on their chests and shoulders humped That not clothes or hair is the main reason you cant differentiate between the sexes How can you tell Its a girl if she isnt sticking her chest And of course In summer in Canada and everywhere I guess we have the summer animals Raccoon are cute buta pain In arm to campers Bears are sweet too but a menace in the provincial parks Tip to campers If you want to stroke a bear make sure you do it with your artificial arm But we can cope with these animals What concerns me Is the ones that walk upright They come In all sixes and intensities There is the mild little man who powermows his lawn every night whether it needs It or not He probably Just trying to get away from his wifes incessant babble Then theres the powerboat baby He can be any age from eight to eighty But with fifty horses behind him Kirk Douglas or Burt or John Wayne or somebody Hes trying to prove something And naturally summer spawns the motorcycle gang This Is the wolverine of the two- legged animal It destroys for pleasure and leaves Its stink everywhere But its a pretty good world Have a happy summer Seek More Farm Homes for Young Urbanites Demand still exceeds supply In an urbanrural exchange cording to Evelyn coordinator In Halton County The plan sponsored by the Ontario Department of Agricul lure and Food brings city young people to farms In the county for a one week visit The young people who have already visited she says have had a tremendous time and the host families have enjoyed their visits equally She Is hoping that more far mere will volunteer as hosts so all those on the waiting list can be accommodated before summers end Among area farmers who have been hosts are James Alfred Spence and John Van BUSINESS DIRECTORY The ground around Point Barrow Alaska Is frozen to a depth of feet At Thule Greenland the freezing extendi for feet The deepest per yet measured feet is in Eastern Siberia HALTON WELCOMES DUTCH STUDENTS Three college students from Holland touring Canada are welcomed by East MPP James Snow minister without portfolio From left John C Mlllenberg chairman DutchCanadian Entertainment Club in Holland Frank University of Gronigen Paul University of Utrecht Klusman University of Leiden Snow and Ontario Place host Kees Van They have expressed a keen interest In seeing as many facets of Canadian life as possible At present the three students are staying with Canadian families In In addition to visiting Ontario Place above the students will visit a northern lodge at Temagaml and will ride the Polar Bear Express to o get a firsthand look at Ontario northern regions Arrangements for the students visit to Canada were made by Snow and who Is legal counsel for Dutch Canadian Entertainment Club MILLESSE Ontario Land Surveyor 65 Duncan Drive 8776273 Residence OPTOMETRIST Brown MAIN ST N Suits Per Appointments present Health Insurance Card Wallace Thompson 3rd Small Claims County el Halton Clerk A Commissioner OPTOMETRIST R Hamilton RO South Carretal Building For Appointment Please present Health Insurance Card G O L BARTON Dispensing Optician Main Street South EYE EXAMINATIONS ARRANGED Past Repairs For Information PHONE CLIANINO CARPET CLINIC Professional Carpet and Upholstery Cleaning in Your Home or in our Modern Plant Free Pickup and Delivery CARPET CLINIC 4594140 Service Centre 10HN B0UGHT0N Certified Main SI N Income 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