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Georgetown Herald A Division of Canadian Newspapers Company Limited Main Street South Georgetown Ontario UK HARD IublUhrr TOWN HMO J 111 1U73 AUTO LITTER Attacking the Problem If Ontario really has half a million abandoned motor vehicles lying about the province then the new derelict motor vehicle regulations should have come a lot sooner The regulations went into effect this month But enforcement measures will be applied gradually says James Aula en vironment minister to establish control over private and com mercial accumulations of junked automobiles The regulations will apply to anyone with two or more derelict vehicles on his property When regulations are fully enforced owners of these collections will have to choose proper disposal or establishment of proper waste management Unfortunately the regulations still hit at only half of the problem derelict vehicles on property whose owners can be traced What about those many other junked vehicles that repose on Crown land or the land holdings of others not responsible tor the abandonment such as mining firms and lumber companies Ontario needs a more com policy of junked vehicle control While the South with its development and widespread population may hove more derelict autos in yards the North has a large percentage of derelict vehicles residing in bushland Anyone from the South who has hunted or fished in the North will appreciate the extent of auto litter that exists It is possible to find at least one junked vehicle along each sideroad What cleanup has been done has been small scope and the litter of old and derelict vehicles remains largely untouched as the province own figures attest Stringent an ti junking measures have begun and the province is to be commended for going as far as it has But some measures will be required if a continuing attack is to be mounted against the growing numbers of old cars deposit fee will have to be instituted Buyers of cars and even trucks will have to pay extra getting the money back when the vehicle at the end of its working life is disposed of properly The system would be not unlike the returnable and recycled soft drink container Children and TV Ads So the cheers go up for the which as a matter of high principle is going to drop ad vertising directed at children Of course someone else meaning us will have to pay for the cor s display of principle to the tune of 2 million extra a year Who to begin with has urged that children s television should be ad free A few MPs led by Jim McGrath whose bill is now before a committee the Canadian Broadcast League which in dealing with the principles of radio and television broadcasting can nicely overlook small matters like balancing budgets and some self styled If well meaning defenders of children such as the Citizens Committee on Children But Parliament in its wisdom has not yet voted to ban ads aimed at children and there has not so far as we can perceive been any great outpouring of public distaste at the practice Why then has this minority of moralists decided that for our and our childrens good we must be protected from the evil influence of toy and cereal advertising How can especially those who are parents themselves think that children are so gullible that they will be conned by the claims thrown at them on television or suffer traumatic experiences if their parents don t buy them everything being advertised Do they really believe it will serve the maturing process to protect children from all manner of pressures And what good will come of banning advertising if it is only replaced with an extra episode of a 13th re run of a Hercules cartoon show For all the well clucking about the horrorsflf TV advertising there has been no convincing evidence produced to show the ill effects on children of the hard sell technique It should also be said that much of the ad vertising is the softest of sells some of the commercials being at least as imaginative and en as many of the programs Of course there is often disillusionment the gap between the ad and the reality may be painful But that alas is life Not only can children never have all which they survey on TV or off but that which they survey is not always what it seems to be The better answer to childrens advertising on TV and to the contents of childrens programs is more strict control far far more strict than the insipid vague voluntary guidelines adopted by advertisers and broadcasters in 1971 That is what the parliamentarians and especially the broadcasting authorities should be working on not telling us that we and our children are so gullible that we must be protected from reality for our own good Ottawa Journal Kids And TV Ads It is an increasingly saddening spectacle to watch the Watergate scandal as it unfoIdB week by week For it demonstrates that many men in high places people in public positions of trust are gradually forgetting the meaning of plain honesty The Watergate is so much more than a series of monstrous mistakes and serious crimes emanating from the White House The Watergate is a symbol of our times Certain men are prepared to go to extremes to gain either wealth or power and indeed both for power equals money and money usually can buy power The fact that Watergate and the sex scandals in Britain as well as the monumental money frauds now coming to light in different nations capture the headlines is significant For it indicates a yearning among the ordinary people for good and true men to lead them An honest man is QUEENS PARK Price of Housing Is Reaching Crisis READERS FORUM Heaven Help Halton County DUN III- Hurra Tlie Herald is action On no question recently has there been such widespread protest and criticism as the price or homing and of lane It has come from all and It has been steadily It seems that almost every day there Is new statement about la reaching a If It la not already at u problem of the noblest work of creation And there are countless millions of honest men around the world But too often they are deprived by lack of educational op by mere circumstance of the chance to attain positions of leadership Then there are others so disgusted by he fact that men who are but common criminals can gain such power and wealth that they keep away from public life and politics altogether No amount of modern technology can replace the basic ethic that has been established by mankind over Ihe centuries The morality that guides good men along right paths has many names It is to be hoped that the tragedy that is Watergale will throw for ward men with vision not south of the border but in various lands and regions where honest government today is lacking Unchurched Editorials now announced that the report will be studs will studied 11 l MM 1SSI I- In vie of Ihe for study if a looks inipl or lemhly insensitive to public feel in c wide con said the icvnw which would Include expressions of public pin i would take long lo which mo i an mil why goodness sokes why Sum urn In the Hindis report might possibly nki a while In stud mid iall for expressions public opinion Hut its basic tenets if land luitd been thrown I In from many sectors and now for Hint Why has it not studied Hum or lias IP And if it t why must two am lo do ll is going In hove a study a year study It is In fact going to have a study of a study A short while ago a report wan released on a study torn missioned by the Ontario of provincial land use policies study was somewhat critical of governments rtcord in Ihe field And it made certain proposals among them that Ihe should get more Into land banking mid should launch program In provide serviced land lor housing litusunr bos ECHOES FROM THE PAST 111 SI mis the ilarm raised in the recent book Silent Spring the Credit Conservation Authority criticized Hie practice if roadside spraying in a Idler to council Monday night The authority eels the detrimental effects far outweigh the beneficial ones The spray is turn discriminating said the letter destroy everything leaving no food ind enter for wild life and killing all in sects which in turn control many pests flic letter wis filed with the niayer lotiuncntint that Ihe town ever sprays ind it is the domain the townships and counties No longer will Hit dome light and the lull talc Ictlcnnc the police cruiser warn would be speeders the long arm the law is reach me out A plain un marked car equipped with radar will be used it was revealed at council Monday pigeons were Jokingly by nun Walter Gray as the answer lo criticism of municipil telephone hills In a lengthy rebuttal of recent newspaper criticism Hyde stated Tins latest bill for the majors is WTO or about four or five linn the regular amount first five in of the year the long distance mm the mayors office were only He on to explain lhat Ihe large wis for cull lo which he on behalf of ihe to help bring Co here He claimed the talks were almost stalemated until his talk with a Mr of Tools which Mr committed himself to the It cost the town said the ind it was money iddili been called also for four it Georgetown and a Milton The lender was the of five submitted ind is foi Jill WO M council nutting M iv Armstrong financ in differed on whether ilk Progress on County loronto If this is a progress report then heaven help Whole Matter Mismanaged Lawrence Buildings Toronto Ontario Dear Sir 1 recently attended a milting at lo the alternative routes proposed by Hewlett Industries for the K V line from Middle port to dickering I would like lo in ike some comments as citizen input has been has been lie environmental id objections thiriL Is iiicjiiieruic feasibility ippc i if the sort by Mr i f the points iscd the Hydro in early meetings was ihe lines ichl iht enormous cost involved in any Now we propositi iwful pi dce of rig lines lhat would look much worse than the original proposal example one urea on the Northern route from llalh or other Mint In my opinion any high sell student who has had as a project the subject of and it disposal could have written a belter report instance ihis progress report refers lo sanitary landfill and quotes a definition put forward by the American Society of Civil In fact there is no such thing as sanitary landfill The depositing of garbage In the ground causes soil and water pollution encourages vermin They breed gas who questions this statement should go to the local dump and see for him herself in mind that such pumps are policed by health and environment officials High school students know to cut down on garbage you first bit the source ban returnable cans bottles and other containers Secondly all recyclable material must be recycled Hilton is illy suited for a I me ratine recycling program as there are nearby Bight imtirnvcminls should lie paid mi or by up for for out of nit when al of a for building i room high school Acton w the firm of J ind Son when tenders wen rth Hilton School Hoard IlllOk opened by Thursday i Stewirttnwn Tenders had r iree which bis Church umi The m said there was not funds in the road to den cut a tree down and the possibility of sidewalk repurs made in a debenture issue which would also tour further sidewalk mi may was supported by oun Norton who said there are particularly bad stretches on Victoria Street and behind ihe public school which should be dealt with this year With the majority if council favoring it the municipal board will be asked for ap of i debenture in Si- MIS UI Willi Ihe election date only tw weeks iwiy August things arc beginning take form wirm up on the political front locally I with 14 toy as county have scl up he idquarlcrs in the and hour of the parly supporters will be found frequenting rooms to i ihi calls made by the himself Thomas A Mr is ihe only contestant for election who took pari in last election in and is Ihe present sitting member file others are newcomers lo Iht political in ich party has its slogans criticisms promises reviewing lltakclicks he says he is the proven working in His criticisms smash Drew point program and he promises nothing but the same sane which I ibcralsbae tried to give in the post He has been Dillon s representative for years BILL SMILEY Bigger They Are Harder They Fall llns is Mime to lie a column wiilc I in in my s beautiful summer lint but not miifty ind I is as the who is tutted up in her chair In winter she s like becomes repulsively fit In summer she subsists principally on bees ants and butterflies and slims out tipess stalking her domain Ihe back underwent a lug this week old friends died saj they were cut down in their prime They were twin lofty and graceful Ivc in hour slumped in a lawn chair watching the birds and the squirrels i elm the whispering of the as ihev leaned toward each other and each other with their limbs is Mating pretty sex IjisI spring Ihev came out in leaf mil mid summer were dead f the Dutch ilm plague which has blighted part of the lounlrj 1 was to them I down this summer but plans wire spurred i bit whin small limb off and iicihbi r lie and then llun mid foil This was nonsense as horror so often are I localed a tree surgeon who works for the hydro His istmntt is wife queried and I kicked her sharply on the She is always worried any deals I make She thinks I have no business sense and will be diddled at turn She is rlghl about the first premise hut I have never been diddled because I trust people She ind has been diddled scleral times that was firm price for both trees and I shop iround because 1 llmuthl it was reasonable and there s nothing I detest more than to beat down on a price Will it was ex citing arrived with chain saws and four assistants Instead of liking Ihe ircts lown in pieces he was jolng lo fell in the back yard low the house I hill It a a pleasure to see an expert work He sized up the trees by eye and icekoned they hit house I had lake his word for If he Ml I s assured it would cost me a couple hut dm isjitdgcd one Iree would hi slimmed through be he nth righl oui lit ink i torn He up tin tree like i inoiikcv and fastened topes The other ends the opes were in mind house the boys stood by ready to pull Snail win Iht iluuri saw Heave Ihe boys VIII Down came number one where lined up few minutes later down came number Iwo almost missing the peony Then they went work like so Ik avers some wieldniL chain saws ihe others brush In three hours from the trees were down sawed into fireplace length and everything denied up Ml I have ceased worrying about the energy crisis In this I have enough elm blocks stacked in wood piles all over the yard to see us through until at least Ihe jtnr and after that somebody else can worry about it There something snug and homely about a wood pile Now instead of looking and seem flower beds thai need weeding I cm sll and look at m wood piles hut I fed as smug and satisfied when I look all lhat wood as any pioneer did when he finished cutting and stacking his wood for winttr There only one cloud on the It too to he true 111 bet thai right some bendy eyed bureaucrat in the int of lltvcnuc is some f collecting wood Hi liclternot succeed pr there II be rouble He can snlthtaxmc Income tax me tax me If he Its in mv wood pile particularly in this area where the rainfall is over 30 inchcsnerycar It is Juvenile lo consider using garbage dumps over long term periods a tiii n Ihe brink yel I si larkit for ictal lhat Township and fTiinucous now it makes a id in scicn miles and involving no less than thirteen direction this one primarily I suspect lo avoid area win re there was the would cost in neighborhood of seven million doll nie for the other two routes also Involve many of direction parent ly to avoid every tree hush and slrcuin In fact it is very difficult to maki any sense of the proposed routes which seem designed for an elaborate maze rather than an utility line bach jog in Ihe line besides the enormous extra also necessitates the use of bigger Surely Mr must have been sideralions If the Govern mint Hydro approve these proposals and the lines cavort across Ihe lounlryside they will be the laughing stock of every utility in the world I fear that it may take months lo figure out Ihe complex routes while we residents in he area involved continue to live in a state of suspense I would now lose my property than have any more of this uncertainly Wherever the lines go impact and angry objections These endless enquiries ore merely dumping the problem in people s backyards lor instance hundreds of residents in Georgetown signed a petition put by the Coalition of Concerned itlzens against the original route ind will now find the northern proposal runs through their township on the edge of Georgetown rather a stab in the back and might serve as a warning to other misguided souls who rush in to support causes such as this without knowing what they are signing I think this whole matter lias grossly mismanaged the delays have been costly Hydro has had to install a Mop gap line at in extra cost of len million dollars consultants fees at JUKI a day plus ex must have mounted up considerably in the last year and a waste of money its been add to this he increase in land costs tabor and materials in three years and people of Ontario have had to fool a big bill lo pacify a few concerned property owners While it is unfortunate lhat some will suffer we do have to have Electricity and I think the interests of all the residents of Ontario should be taken Into consideration as they will ultimately pay the bill in some way or another greatly Increased Hydro I you make an early decision and put an end to these expensive futile enquiries Yours cry truly Mrs Hampshire MIS Georgetown DID VOll KNOW largest mining area the world Is the rsand old field in iles iasl and west of I South Afrlcu will lie Ihe final straw and there II be murder done The wi ipnn will he a two foot elm block from the window paper Mass Why re cycle Garbage collection disposal cost Ontario residents 000 per year We bury or burn resources worth closs per Ian paper metals per ton all prices quoted In this report under the heading Processing Costs are some figures that should be challenged ie hydra pulping JIB per ton heat recovery til per ton etc and thin landfill per ton Maybe it costs per ton to dump garbage into valleys ravines and quarries hut one cannot assess llie damage to soil and dollars and an properly devaluation in landfill areas be assessed with thai per tan On pom suggested that quarries in county be utilized as dumps It is noted that if these quarries were used Ihey could lake care of s or the next 10 years If are used in conjunction with existing landfill sites could be taken care of for the next years It is insidious to even think of putting in quarries special consider given lo this crisis in this report have on file statistics of a plant that burns tires and creates energy The calorific value of scrap tires can be calculated as 12 1ST U lb This particular plant generates 10 lbs of steam per hour and it is my in formation that in Canada discarded lires arc a main problem in garbage disposal In my opinion Ihis report is anything but a progress report It is about 10 years behind the times today technology with the assured markets for reclaimablcs and he supply of gar there should be no long term policies for landfill sites Due lo he hind sight of our political representatives the provincial level and the bad advice given to politicians at the municipal level we arc racing a crisis years is time enough for lindfill This will give ample time lo allow modern technology to be applied and ensure that is issurcd of a crecn belt in the future and not a garbage belt A Johnson MAKE IT LOCAL Sir Ihe benefit of Ihe local ted Cross and volunteer organizations who have their yearly campaigns for in Georgetown and district I would like to ask who received the vinyl cover for the telephone directory wilh the valuable loupons sponsored by our 1 ie il businesses to read the strip Support lied Cross ive the United Way Support Itcdt ross and Give in own Community where you cet all the free moneys civen work fur Appeal etc I to so please save that money for local so that he organizations can continue Iheir volunteer work Yours sincerely onnie Public Relations Chairman Georgetown and District Canadian Cross Society OCONNORS OTTAWA Marjan and Christine Sinclair are dead cold murdered In a spray of machine gun bullets fired by soldiers Nothing can be done to rectify this fact but much more can and should be done by Canadian external affairs minister Mitchell Sharp to clarify the situation and assist the families of the murdered girls Most people arc familiar wilh the events The girls were travellers visiting the popular Victoria Falls tourist attraction on the Ithodesian border They were on the side of the fast flowing crocodile in tested River The soldiers who fired across the river killing and wounding these girls and other sightseers claimed they thought they were sabatcurs attempting to blow up a power project Canada immediate response to this flagrant crime against two of her citizens was to send a note of protest A nolo of protest Mitchell Sharp not wanting to ruffle feathers forever the smiling diplomat has failed the families of the girls and the Canadian people by and commission he should have contacted President Kaunda of Zambia directly and demanded a full in vcstigation by neutral perhaps UN authorities received acknowledgement of Ihe total culpability of the soldiers If the Investigation established same a public apology from President Kaunda and compensation although admittedly money Is not adequate compensation for loss life Instead after offering Mr Oscar father all the assistance the Canadian government could provide officials of the External Affairs Department tried to dissuade Mr from visiting thesite of the shooting to carry out his own investigation because neither Canada nor Zambia would And next Mr Sharp should mil have approved a loan last week for to Zambia until the above steps had been taken That right Mr Sharp made this loan and further he said we will continue with our aid program lo this country which murders our citizens In the process Mr Sharp expounded an incredible new theory of international law When questioned by Alf Hales the Member for Wellington who has vigorously pursued the matter over the past month he said The loan we give is not to the government of Zambia it is to the people of Zambia II is a fundamental concept of international law that the government is the people that it represents speaks acts or fails to speak or act on behalf of Ihe people it represcnls The people elected their government for better or for worse To treat Ihe people of a country as a separate entity from its government is ludicrous In any event the loan in was not made Ircctly to the people of Zambia How could il be What people Who would administer it It was made to in Ihe government who were responsible for ex pending funds to the benefit of Ihe people It is unworthy of Canadas foreign minister to such tripe Mr Sharp and Canada have badly handled this international incident We should slop further aid to Zambia until we get to the bottom of he two murders The families of the girls are suffering unnecessary anguish and Canada Is tooting like a palsy In in Icrnattonal circles TOWN Established Telephone KOI RICHARD CAMERON Publisher GARFIELD McGILVRAY Production Manager TERRY News Editor Advertising Manager BRADLEY Accountant Anne Currle William ArnoU Valorfe Hasting Mytef John Joan Nelson