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Georgetown Herald A Division of Horn Company limited Wain Street South Georgetown Ontario WALTER C Publisher Page GEORGETOWN HERALD THURSDAY APRIL EDITORIAL COMMENT A Go Go Town Announcement that Georgetown will be linked to Toronto by a GO train system later this year or early next spring was last week headline news The government announcement gives Georgetown planners something more specific Our in elusion in a slow growth area in the TorontoCentred regional plan has been somewhat vague With GO brains to ferry commuters to and from their city jobs it would appear that we are to become a satellite residential community Until the present tax system has an overhaul this is not all good news for local taxpayers For as long as a As A Stranger Have you ever pretended you are a stranger in Georgetown To see the town as an outsider would Sometimes we do And our con elusions always happy We are particularly not pleased with what should be Georgetown show window the stretch of high way from the high school to Water Street and the turn there uptown A stranger sees the river flats once deeded to the town for a park now filled with commercial en terprise On the other Bide the partly burned out old building which once housed a garage and creamery now a repository for old cars The once community depends on industrial assessment for the larger portion of its profitable tax revenue it is more important to have more new in buildings than It is to add houses A GO train service will tend to encourage residential demand with consequent pressures on the municipal council for release of building land A GO train will also tend to en courage more shopping for and for pleasure in the city It can be an added threat to stores in town And it can be a discouragement to development of local en tertainment attractive old Speight house recently gutted by fire The old Arnold glove factory later Canadian Tire now abandoned Rounding the corner on one side is the burned out site of Beaver Lumber on one side The burned out site of the Theatre on the other residence and what was once a log cabin insurance office capped with the empty Brill building at the main downtown cor Might it not be possible to get owners of these various properties together and devise some plan which would spruce up this main approach to the downtown area be to et at MINDS INSTEAD OF EACH Throats were wm In The Mail Bag Many Laboured Behind Scenes Greetings to the Folk of For the twelfth consecutive year Georgetown played host lo ihe many participants of Ihe Kinsmen In Bantam Hockey Tournament who on town from many centres in Canada and the U S A Old friendships were renewed and many marc started I know they all returned to their homes with glowing praise Tor the people or Georgetown As one who helped in a small way with Ihe welcome Ihey received I would like to express my deepest i hanks and sincere appreciation lo Ihe many who laboured behind Ihe scenes It has been a great pleasure for me to work with the following In the long task of preparing the food for healthy young The Glen Lad es Georgetown Si John s United Church Auxiliary St Andrew s United Church Auxiliary St Georges Anglican Church catholic APurctt Jw I I I FOR TODAY WE HAVE A DOITYOURSELF CARTOON Dont Need This Oak Mushrooms have nothing on the Planning Board when it comes to rapid growth Someone had the idea that in stead of a part time secretary for this board another for the Committee of Adjustment and another for the In dustrial Commission council look into one person for the three It should cost no more maybe a bit less and would have the ad vantage of one secretary familiar with the three townappointed boards whose work often dovetails The three were contacted by council The Committee of Adjustment is satisfied with the status quo Don burden taxpayers with cost of a full time position they say The Industrial Commission has no secretary They would like someone to take minutes of their meetings a girl from the municipal staff would be fine The Planning Board wants a full time person He could coordinate assist in gathering data prepare reports on technlcalsubjects at a suggested salary of Plus retaining part time secretaries as at present From little acorns Valley BisectsHaltonsProvincial Park The variety In types of natural areas was one the reasons Queen Park chose this site In Hal ton county lo be developed as a Provincial Park Bronte Creek Provbc Park lies between It way 5 and the with Highway forming part of Its eastern boundary Area I A good example of upland dry forest Area includes a particularly rich rim with prairie spec The area is an excellent example of overlapping communities A fa r of the dry upland lorcst type The bordering prairie along Ihe rm Natural Zone 111 is valuable for interprets on A ralher disturbed forest frequently cut and dissected by a A good example i f forest transition Area includes a trad of forest types ranging from dry to mesic Area ft A good example of the dry upland forest type It has been logged A rich species diversity characteristic As the area is in belter condition than area 1 it might be considered as a natural zone Buried valley area with seepage slope forest tree It- Is an excellent example of the upland mesic forest Large trees and rich arc present Area Contains a moderate upland forest ns a heavily logged ipland forest of little natural value It A moderately disturbed upland forest on gentle slope The area is of moderate natural value while providing easy hiking access to ihe valley Area 11 Contains an excellent example or erosion on the n w side The slope supports a dry oak forest Contains a gently sloping valley forest A variety of associations of moderate natural value are illustrated Spanish conquerors of Mexico dubbed the armadillo or little fellow in armor BILL SMILEY Cracked Eggs And Rich Farmers Not loo long ago I wrote a n suggesting what would happen it housewives went on strike A long in and often witty letter from Mason Bailey President of the Huron County Federation Agriculture tells me bluntly that there is another species our society which if it wenton strike would make a housewives strike look like a box luncheon Naturally he Is talking about farmers tarmers arc like the weather everybody talks them hut nobody docs anything I bits from his letter and make some comments He asks tersely What If all the farmers went on strike Most of society and the majority of columnists seem to have forgotten that farmers continue lo exist And that is just what farmers are doing Existing Net farm income in Ontario has dropped over thirty percent In the last three years In 1971 Canadian formers received less than ten percent of the money that Canadian con spent on food Well Mr Bailey 111 your figures for a start And Ihey certainly don I make me want to plunge into farming w a thirty thousand dollar mortgage and the prospect of working six days a week in the other hand like all figures they can be misleading How many Canadian farmers grow coffee tea fish sugar pepper peanut butter oranges bananas and all the other items that beef up our food bills Another of your points strikes a sympathetic chord in me I was In a restaurant last week The menu said one egg Do you know what farmers got lor eggs last week a dozen for Grade A large a dozen for cracks This is utterly ridiculous and somebody obviously the farmer is being shafted The only solution can sec Is to demand cracks in restaurants Which is probably what we get in some places share completely your burning wrath at restaurant prices And now let sit back and hear a howl of protest from the restaurant owners who are starving to death The average one t and works long hours for a decent living But those room vice prices in hotels drive rightoutofmyskull a sandwich 50 for a pot of lukewarm coffee You go back to the war when sugar and butter were rationed and otherwise honest people would cheat lie or steal to get enough or more than enough Ana you say It would happen again it formers went on strike agree Some would but a minority in my opinion think ihe farmers would get a good deal sympathy and support lust as the coal miners did In England despite the hardships then- sir ke Imposed on millions In such on event you suggest that Bootlegging foodat inflated prices would become as common as drug peddling Tic bootlegging armors would start to snow a profit might even be able lo lire help at the minimum wage Surely right there is one spot where government could help by subsidizing farm wages practically everything else that even approaches work or simply pays people not to work Purely the next logical step would be to make farm work attractive rattier than paying farmers not to grow grain or spuds or whatever However we I mention government and logic in the same I reath You mention something that depresses me that the average age of farmers in Ontario is about that not many young en can start farming under today condltons and that even if con the liberated little woman lias other ideas And you also point out rather pungenUy that if the average age of housewives Was and no replacements for ng you would have something to scream about You re right The scream that would echo across the land would be apocalyptic Another point In your argument is thai cor rot Ion may take over food production If wealthy corporations ever replace lie family farm and hire organized labour there probably will be food strikes That is an appalling thought Would that mean that I couldn buy one of those chickens that taste no more like chicken than my old runningshoes unless you piaster them with some synthetic flavoring Would it mem that I buy any of that enriched bread that tastes like wcl klccncx Life just wouldn be worth living However agree with your premise that the farmer has been left sucking the hind teat In these years of in nation I think the chief trouble Is the same as that of Ihe housewives farmers are too stubborn and indivkJu to get really organized They should perhaps set up their own ops processing handling and sales organizations Thai of course would leave us with mobs of unemployed m men But my heart is with you chaps and will be even the next lime I pick up a a pound hunk of steak look at it wistfully replace It and reach for the Established 1B65 Telephone ry Kn Presbyterian Church The Friendship Circle Royal Canadian Legion Auxiliary the men of the legion tire Ladles Auxiliary the several ladies who volunteered their time on more than one occasion The teen age girls who gave up their vacation from high school lo attend the tables A special thanks to Betty McNabb John Jim Murphy Yvonne Thanks alto to the Royal lanadlan and the Oddfellows for the use of their kitchens and auditoriums plus the help in the setting up of tables The contributing chants deserve a big thanks for help and advice and last but not least a thank you to the executive of the Bantam Hockey Tournament for the lovely gift of flowers Sincerely Jessie Hayes Catering Supervisor Ion Ban torn Hockey Tournament Says Abortion Depends On Circumstances Georgetown Dear Editor In reply to the letter on abortion I would like to make the following remarks The world la only so large and will only hold so many what about population explosion It cannot be ignored it is a recognized fact Which is the bigger sin to have an abortion which is agreed upon between a man and wife or bring an Innocent child into the home who Is not wanted cannot be properly taken care of and very often deprives children already in family Also there Is the fact of undue pressure on the mother and father often causing a very unhappy home Therefore I cannot agree that abortions should not be allowed in Canada This is a decision which can only be agreed upon by the parties and circumstances involved Who are we to judge others Linda Dupuls Mrs Catholic and Mother of four Happy and Loved children BUSINESS DIRECTORY OPTOMETRIST Brown R0 OPTOMETRIST 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