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Georgetown Herald A Division of Canadian Newspapers Company Limited 22 Main Street South Georgetown Ontario JIMW Publisher Page HERALD THURSDAY MAY 1873 Reduction in Town Mill Rate Welcomed as Costs Increase You A WATCH Oft Queens Park Although provincial funds were greatly responsible for Georgetown being able to reduce its mill rate credit also is due members of the town council and the administrative staff Municipal leaders face almost insurmountable problems in their attempt to provide the services which citizens demand and at same time attempting to hold property taxes from sky rocketing which would put a great financial burden on many homecomers especially the elderly and those on low and fixed incomes Council has planned several programs for this year and as was pointed out when the budget was presented it is important that these programs do not lag especially with regional govern ment slated for next year The introduction of regional government is going to result in many drastic changes and it is important that programs planned by the Georgetown Council are carried through as a situation may exist following the implementation of regional government in which the Georgetown programs may not be as high on the regions list of priorities Although most people have come to accept the fact that taxes will continue to municipally and federally it must Be realized that the level of taxat ion must be kept within the ability to pay of everyone The recent controversy surrounding the provincial government proposed energy tax was an example of what happens when taxes are introduced which will place an undue hardship on some segments of the public But citizens must realize that the tax rate is in direct relation to their demands for more and im proved services If we want governments to hold the tax line we must also be willing to hold the line on our demands for services Many municipalities try to operate by satisfying a champagne taste with a beer budget It doesnt work and will only result in higher taxe Georgetown apparently is well aware of what the taxpayer can pay in attempting to provide the best services possible The tax decrease should be welcomed by everyone Public Still Has Power The withdrawal of the proposed seven per cent sales tax on energy from the budget of Treasurer John White will un doubtedly be welcomed by everyone and will also raise a question as to Mr White s future The proposal ignited widespread concern and opposition throughout the province and within the Conservative caucus Although the government believed that the tax would not result in a hardship on citizens much of the public felt otherwise The fact that the government responded to the public reaction indicates that public opinion is still capable of bringing about govern ment action at times other than just prior to an election In- toddys complex society citizens generally feel that government is far removed from them and their opinions are only sought during an election cam paign While this is often the case with any government it is most pleasing to note that when the public does raise a strong voice regarding an issue the govern ment will respond Probably one of the fortunate aspects of the energy tax proposal is that over shadowed most other areas of Mr Whites budget And many of these will be of benefit to citizens and municipalities of Ontario The fact that Georgetown has been able to reduce its mill rate for 1973 is partially due to some of the proposals in the provincial budget which provides greater financial assistance to municipalities As the smoke over the energy tax clears one cannot help but wonder about the advice given the treasurer Surely someone in Queen s Park should have realized that the public would not accept such a proposal Possibly a closer liason bet ween the thinkers in Queen s Park and the thinking of the general public is needed Although the government has a mandate to run le affairs of the province that mandate does not include authority to proceed on a course which is unacceptable to the majority of citizens The energy tax obviously was unacceptable and the government acting in a responsible manner moved accordingly The situation should not have been allowed to develop Candid Comment We note by the Financial Post that Vancouver is contemplating neigh borhood pubs and personal liquor dispensers in hotel rooms The next thing we re afraid we might hear is that refreshments will be served following the sermon in church on Sundays ECHOES TEN YEARS AGO In a report to the Georgetown District High School Board Monday night Principal J Lambert estimated a Jump in enrolment next term of up to students Such an increase would put the total registration at 1 slightly more than the schools designed capacity But that was the maximum figure in his educated guess His minimum was A direct phone line from the town office to Toronto Not feasible was Reeve Elliott opinion when the subject was briefly discussed on Monday April 30 1963 by Council The matter came up when Cr Jim Young noted that the town spends a con amount on such calls and thought a direct line should be investigated The pie wagon purchased some years prior for police department use Is being offered for sale May 2 The three wheeled motor cycle once a familiar sight around the town had not been used as extensively since a second cruiser was added Monday council decided to sell TWENTY YEARS AGO At their meeting Monday April in Milton North Hal ton High School Board were informed by their architects and that detailed plans for the building program should be ready within the next two weeks A special meeting would be called to view plans for a new Acton school and ad ditiona at Georgetown and Milton and It was expected that tenders would be called soon after the meeting The highest average at a dispersal sale of in Canada since 1950 was realized when the herd or S Roman King was sold at the head bringing a total of for a general individual prices since the fait of 1951 were paid with the top figure of 000 being reached twice at that time With over donated to the Christmas Seal Campaign County led the province last year said Donald Stevens president of TB and Health association at the annual meeting Monday in Milton April Council approved the sale of part of lot 15 concession 10 in a recom to the of Planning and Development Under existing law sale of less than 10 acres of farm property cannot be completed an owner without such ao Highway cast and 13 owned by Sinclair It adjoins properly on which several homes hove already been built The Joint appeal to encourage tree planting sent out to the public schools of the County by Skuce Public School Inspector and J E Whitclock agricultural representative has brought a magnificent response as a result of the splendid cooperation received from the public school teachers of the county To date slightly over 100 trees have been ordered The County Council has agreed to pay the express on the trees and deliver Ihem to the respective schools placing the orders after the Easter holidays early in May The executive of he Liberal Association met at Oddfellows Hall in Milton on Tuesday evening April 1943 with the president Dale in the chair The main Business of the evening was the appointment of delegates to represent at the Provincial Convention to be held in Toronto on April and to choose a provincial leader The following delegates were chosen Hugh Cleaver P Thos Blakclock M P P Dale D Robinson Norman Gilbert Pour alternative delegates were also chosen Robinson Dills Paul Fisher Hen end THIRTY YIAttS AGO The Navy League Tag Day held Saturday April netted to help take care of the lads In navy blue This was a substantial raised In 1942 executive of the local Navy League wish to express their thanks to all who made It possible Georgetown Public School stands second In the county in the sale of war saving stamps and certificates according to the report of the county school Inspector The pupils under the leadership of Principal C Wrigglesworth and staff have invested well over one thousand dollars this term and since the inauguration of the campaign in January a grand total of has been given TheTCAF Women s Division held a recruiting drive In Georgetown Thursday April 1B43 Headquarters were In the Municipal Building A number or local girls made enquiries and evinced interest in this branch of the service Government Secrecy Becomes Big Issue HOT DOG FORUM FOR READERS ARTICLES STOLEN The Herald To my mind one of the most salient features of Georgetown has been the honesty of its residents Now that illusion has been shattered Last Thursday April 19 after inspecting my home some items which I hoped to sell had been walked off with an camera and box of flash cubes To the person took these 1 say would you please lessen the impact of your crime by returning in the mail the roll of film con pictures of my two babies Ruth Georgetown BAND FUNDS Editor The Herald I am sorry to report that the Georgetown Citizens Band Is no longer in existence Because of lack of support from musicians and general public apathy toward the Band in Georgetown we have moved our organization to Bramalca We are now supported by Township We will therefore not apply for the Band bylaw this year but would suggest that another fine musical group representing Georgetown use this money to advantage namely the Georgetown Girls Pipe Hand If this dots not meet with approval we then suggest that Band Grant monies be placed in trust until such as another Citizen Bund Is organized David Hastings Band President Georgetown SCHOOL ISSUE The- Herald t would like to make use of your Mail Bag column regarding the controversial the open concept manner of leaching math at school I must be honest and say that when I heard my daughter was to be In a class or over students with only two teachers I was very math not being one of her stronger subjects MARKS UP Since being at hove now completely cliinged my way of thinking she has never been so happy and her marks arc up I cannot speak highly enough of the two teachers Mr Gardiner and Mr Zanders 1 would be sorry to sec the system altered and feel Mr should be com for the way school is run J Davis Georgetown Crews Clean Insulators Why do Ontario Hydro line crews spend hundreds of hours every year washing insulators Dust road salt and grime accumulate and can form an electrical path when dampened by fog or mist Resulting high leakage current may start pole top fires and black out local power supplies Most insulators In areas of high contamination are cleaned several limes a year with a concentrated effort in the spring The work is done on live lines to eliminate any in of power A water Jet is deliberately broken up into a spray so that it won t act as conductor between line and lineman Insulators located In critical areas such as near the Gar diner in Toronto get special attention they re cleaned after every OCONNORS OTTAWA The comprehensive overhaul of Canada social security programs an last week by Marc Lalande the Minister of National Health and Welfare was welcomed by all parties in he House of Commons The approach taken Is practical overdue It replaces the ad minlstrativc monstrosity known Family Income Security Plan of the last parliament and seems to embrace the concept of an incentive society However we should reserve further praise until the legislation necessary to implement Ihc changes is Introduced the total cost is known Cost has been estimated at about million more we now pay for our multiplicity of social assistance Marc has emerged from the sceptre of the emminence for Trudcau into major in in his own right I have found him to be an intelligent humorous approachable man and one of the few ministers of quality In the present cabinet The document tabled In the House colled Working Paper on Social Security in Canada is remarkable in its frankness It lists six deficiencies in Canada Social Security System two of them are called major deficiencies One of the major ones Is that there is loo little in some cases virtually no Incentive to off social assistance Another section criticizes the failure of political authorities to inordinate Ihur efforts in developing and administering programmes The rem of these comments is that the programs under such severe criticism arc all the con of previous Liberal governments developed largely during the Pearson 60s They have hitherto been sacrosanct Liberal policy defended ever so vigorously against at ticks particularly during the hat election Some of the comments read like excerpts from opposition party campaign eg patchwork guilt of programmes and maze of authorities with which people must deal In many cases the family would be better off if the breadwinner were to quit his job jo on wcial Wlint a difference a day makes especially when that day Is October 1972 The 1 Health and Welfare critic the ebullient Heath from fc I and the spokesman the ns rules Stanley Knowles from Winnipeg were both generous in their public of the govern initiative in this area All parties claimed some credit for the changes noted for his comprehensive the King Queens perhaps summed up the opposition parties attitude best with the simple words Iloldjouso pics of the working paper ire aiailable at my office call if you wish If have problem idea comment criticism or if simply wish to hit In touch with mi stop by or cull my office at Itoud fast Bible Today And us it is unto men once die but after this the judgment Hebrews Don be lulled into thinking that life is over with your last breath here There is a bug judgment waiting out there and Jesus will be the Judge So much depends on what you do with Him now Believe only Telephoned Accountant Anne William Arnoll Valeric David llostineH Mylcj John Joan Davis Joyce Mr Mrs N Telephone 40T7 Queen Park Bureau of The Herald TORONTO Secre The situation wi Nixon administratis of course has a stage of nearcrlsi With the federal vern in Ottawa It been a matter of growing concern for years A concern that added to a few weeks ago when a list or documents that were regarded as not in the public domain was tabled in the house One category In this which BILL SMILEY The Big Revolution Is Drawing Near almost anything as long they are left in peace They II take an Incredible amount of being pushed around without doing more than grumble But there comes a point when all the frustrations the cheating the bullying merge under some catalyst and the great public heart boils over with rage and humiliation When it does heads roll Tills is just little advance notice to some of our various governments so that any of their mandarins who want to take to the hills on the day of reckoning can get their bags packed and pick out the particular hills they want to take to In the French Revolution the Bastille was the symbol of authority and repression The people stormed it and took It The American Revolution or The War or Independence as our friends to south prefer also began with a symbol chests of tea A large number of these were dumped into Boston harbour In a protest that has resulted in the peculiar way in which the people of Boston have spoken ever since TAXATION In both cases the resolutions were produced by the same basic factor excessive taxation In the case of the the taxation produced extreme poverty and hunger With the Yanks it produced violent anger In the one case the result was the loss or a head for a great many people who had the same quantity of brains before the operation as they had alter it In the other the result was the loss of a half continent of incredible riches Both events- in history brought their advantages of course Without the French effort which spawned Napoleon we t have had Ihc Nopolconic Wars and the Retreat from Moscow and where would our history teachers bo Without the American Revolution western culture would have been infinitely poorer What other nation would have had the initiative and gumption to develop such monumental human achievements as Hollywood and the hamburger You may think this ex into history has no point But the more discerning readers of this column know that Smiley is getting somewhere in his own laborious way And the most discerning readers arc chuckling I IT bet he just made out his income tax The latter are right of course And as I sat there surrounded by papers sick at heart when I realized what a puny amount a year of hard labour bad produced I had only one thought When is the great Canadian Revolution going to start Thcn came other thoughts What symbol shall we at lock Do they need anyone to lend he attacks on the barricades Which of the dastards will I personally gun down I have news for those in power 1 not kidding If you don t get it with bullets you 11 get it with ballots You can faces In it only so long and then the hand that robs the cradle along with everything else that can be robbed is going to be bitten To the bone Our national Liberal party supreme In its power arrogance and scorn should have learned a lesson It Is still bleeding In province after province the people have had heir say ana have tossed out the old guard Ontario Is one or the few that have survived Here a prediction Check it later never been wrong Premier William Davis the most politician I vc ever heard and that ranks from deputy reeves up is in for a big fat foil along with his party Why It obvious from the recent Ontario budget The parly has lost touch with reality And hats death in politics An example The tax on energy sources It snot going to hurt me I can afford it It not going to hurt anybody except all those people who can already barely meet the arson City Nov was named for the famous Iron tiersinun Christopher Kit arson fuel and electricity bills Tax the luxuries Whack it an cigarettes and liquor and fur coats and there II be some grumbling But stick a tax on light and heat necessities In this climate and you are accepting the political kiss of death We shall not forget at election lime STUPID TAX It s the most stupid single tax that I have ever en countered and that is a big statement It hits the little guy the elderly those on welfare everybody else who is scrimping to make ends meet EPILOGUE My wife asked me as I paced a hole in the rug grinding my teeth What do we get for all this income lax we pay It was a typical woman question right on the nose For the life of me I t give her an answer that mode sense Well there s the Armed forces Protecting us against Iceland there are the salaries and offices and staff of parliament Producing more taxes And uh you know welfare and icebreakers and uh royal commissions and uh well stuff like that Aux barricades Strictly Personal lly Jim Martyn As 1 come from the federal constituency of Prince Albert in chew an which is represented in the House of Commons by former prime John several people hove asked me about him and whether 1 expect him to continue in Parliament The Canadian Parliament will probably be a rather strange place when that booming thunder is no longer there but I don I think that will be for a while Die will definitely be a candidate in the next federal election If it comes within the next couple of years and I would expect even it it docs not take place for three years Of course it will depend on his health but I only hope that when I m that I will be in shape that is at least half as fine as that of Mr today at Although he probably would have to do little campaigning in order to be reelected In Prince Albert the former Conservative leader enjoys a campaign and ihc pace he maintained last Tall kept many of his campaign officials most years younger In a state of constant exhaustion I remember In particular a couple of hectic days that would have exhausted most campaigners but one in which the former prime minister enjoyed to the limit He spent a day cam pa igning by helicopter in his own constituency which covers more than 2 square miles arrived home late in the evening had breakfast at a then was flown to Calgary where he toured various functions and areas and spoke at a noon meeting on behalf of several Conservative candidates including Peter Bawden in Calgary South who defeated Secretary of State Pat Muhoney following an ternoon tour of Ihe Calgary railway yards he flew to the small Alberta community of Vegrevlllc where he gave a 90 minute address in a packed school auditorium then he was driven miles to Edmonton and a late night flight back to Prince Albert MORNING The next morning he was campaigning again In his constituency by helicopter Any anyone who is able to maintain that pace Is hardly thinking of retiring from active politics Many wonder why John Diefenbaker call quits and they find It rather strange that a former prime minister would want to continue as MP First of all John Dlefen baker first love Is and Canada He believes thai he still has much to offer his country and regardless of one partisan beliefs most would admit that he Is not to be Ignored when he rises In the House merited withering comment Senate papers Now there are indications that this problem may be creeping in here CT FRIVOLITY One surface showing of it was the refusal of the government to table the log books of Its aircraft The opposition has been asking for these logs for more than year The request was initiated by the flights of Premier Davis to Vermont Provincial Secretory for Natural Resources Bert Lawrence to Cuba last year There was the feeling that ministers and perhaps deputy ministers could be using the aircraft in the government fleet for frivolous purposes ROYAL STAND The government stalled off the request for the logs until some days ago Then it finally said it wasn t going to release them Most pertinently it dldn give any reason for not making them public Premier Davis just said that he didn t Intend to table them It sounded very much like President Nixon position when he wouldn t let White House personnel testify in the Watergate affair There were grounds for suspicion that the premier felt his government was above the public that he perhaps assuming the may have been this has to be regarded as a dangerous precedent tor once any government documents are successfully held back without reason we con be sure that others will follow It also or course could be politically dangerous to the premier For can the public now believe anything else than that there was some hanky panky As long as his health holds he will probably be a figure not to be taken tightly on Parliament Hill And the pace he maintains even more amazing when one realizes that he had an operation about years ago which cost him part of his stomach cats very little at a banquet and not because he Isn enjoying the menu The Prince Albert seat would probably seem rather peculiar to most interested in ministers and has seen the personal defeat of one In 189Q Sir Wilfred won the seat but at that time a party leader could run In two seats and as he had also been elected in a Quebec seal he chose to represent the latter When Mackenzie King was defeated in On in he ran in a in Prince Albert and won a rather easy vie tory One of his opponents was a young lawyer named John Diefenbaker who had to wait until 1940 before en termg the House of Com King was defeated by a candidate in 1945 in what was a surprising upset King actually won the seat in election night returns but when the service vote came in of Ihe CCF was the new MP What was even more surprising was the fact that nationally the service vote was heavily Liberal only served the one term and then the seat was held by a Liberal for one term won the seat in 1953 after his southern Saskatchewan seat of Lake Centre was eliminated in redistribution Few of Diet s opponents have been able to hold their deposits as his support cuts deeply across all party lines Although the former prime minister owns a house on a quiet residential street in Prince Albert when he Is back in his constituency he usually resides in a hotel or motel and can often be seen taking his morning stroll at about clock When his family moved west from Grey County In Ontario they homesteaded near Saskatoon where they later moved so that young John and his brother Elmer could attend university AW OFFICE s first law office was in the small community of Wakaw south of Prince Albert and he won his first murder case on his birthday It would seem that the accused was guilty but the Jury foreman said of terwards that it was the kid first trial and when we heard It was his birthday that clinched it After a couple or years In moved his office to Prince Albert