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Georgetown Herald A Division of Canadian Newspapers Company Limited 22 Main Street South Georgetown Ontario CAMERON GHHU THURSDAY AUG 1973 ANOTHER STEP Rushing Into Regionalism It may be the time of the long hot summer when things just naturally slow down But regional government continues to roll along towards its inauguration in Halton County Latest step has come with the appointment of a regional chair man for Halton Last week Allan Masson of Oakville was given the appointment in an official ceremony at Queens Park He is one of four regional chairmen named to the new posts Congratulations are in order on the basis of his appointment Further plaudits will have to await his tenure He taking on a big job and because of the newness of regional government in this part of Ontario can expect to have an abundance of headaches and teething problems His chance to show his mettle and worthiness will start in January when regional govern ment officially arrives Mr Masson already has said he plans a program of public relations initially when he will tour the region to meet with councils and municipal representatives to elicit their co operation Elections for regional government are less than two months distant Some of the campaigning has started already for the Oct vote as persons already in public office avow in tentions to seek nominations for regional positions Inaugural meetings are tentatively scheduled for midOctober And it Is expected also that a referendum will be held during the October vote to choose a name for the north and central Halton municipalities As we said regional govern is rushing upon us In fact its coming faster than that in visible GO train An Honor For The Town People make a community and when people accomplish something their accomplishment is reflected in community pride Georgetown has reason to be proud of the Georgetown Volunteer Ambulance Service Recently a four member team representing the group and a makeshift one at that because of traffic com plications won the Ontario Am Operators Association first aid competition The win was something of a real accomplishment for the local team It was its first time in any competition and the entry in the Hamilton test was preceded by just one week of practice And ail but two teams in the competition were representative of fulltime paid services Only Georgetown and sent teams of volunteers For the Georgetown team its on to Omaha Neb later this month for participation in an international competition The team has plenty of spirit and a great determination to win especially with an Ontario upset of sorts in its pocket It will add to the towns pride if the team can come back with in ternational honors whether first second third or honorable men Good luck to the team Something For Deep Concern We do not share the shrugoff attitude of those United Church officials who refuse to view with alarm an annual statistical report showing denominational finances continue to go up and membership down We agree that statistics are not important to the Lord or to a communion But what statistical data reveal about a church s life and work is And we are appalled at what the United Churchs latest statistics show They show that United Church membership which rose every year without a break from 1965 has declined steadily during the past seven And the rate of decline has accelerated They show also that while the amount of money contributed for the church work has gone up the number of contributors has gone down Our efficient and con centra ted emphasis on the stewardship of money has inspired the faithful to give more while the indifferent give less The chief cause of decline is failure to recruit the baptized children of the church into membership during these years when the teenage population is high Between the years to numbers received on profession of faith were never below and sometimes ex ceeded a year Last year they dropped to about 12000 of them teenagers Yet 12 to years ago the United Church was baptizing over children a year This means that only one in five of those children is being confirmed And last year we baptized only 000 Somehow in our programs of evangelism and Christian nurture we have an nually lost or at least failed to about of our young people A vigorous and affluent church should when faced with these facts undertake a sustained and massive effort to discover and initiate effective ways to minister to its youth United Church Observer ECHOES FROM THE PAST in AGO rivalry between Georgetown and Alton in band music was to be revived this month when Hie I wo compete in Class I competition at Hie Canadian National bxhiblllnn Toronto They an of the six winch will play on August The competitions start at 30 p m Bandmaster Art Milliard is confident thai numbers of Georgetown Citizens Band will showing against the more experienced com pet tors And music lovers are an a return to Ihe days when local bands publicized decreet own far and wide with exhibition music George A Kerr Burlington councillor and Progressive Conservative candidate Tor County the news that an agreement had been reached between provincial and federal governments In respect lo the proposed municipal aid legislation VI- AGO In a I sweep almost as powerful as in Crime Minister Units Si government was returned power In a federal election The 1 ibernls picked up seals in parliament W t 23 Social IS and there wire six miscellaneous members for a total of In party standings after election were I Conservatives Social Credit id and miscellaneous five f- Kneeled use of axiom Kalians wutrr dally In Ihe new Smith mid Mom plant aimed town to milling lo hi tit wait r in own Tin suhkil it nunc meeting mill lute r in tin Hip will r In MiulftHialfl with Mr fbthiirin it the firm Urn II in In of bonking motor cars followed new member of Sybil Burnett in a victory parade mound town when word was Progressive Conservative liiadqu that Murray MePholl had defeat Miss Burnett election if more than usual interest in Georgetown for it was the first time in In story I hat Georgetown resident sat in federal house She succeeded Hugh leaver of Burlington who has represented is a Liberal for several to As the of Wednesdays lections Progressive Con party obtained Hie largest number of legislature scats with Harry Nixi I iberal eminent going down to defeat and balding only 15 seats The I- made strong bid for power ob loming of Ihe Ontario seats and became the lal Opposition in next Aircraft manufacturing history In marked a new milestone when the first bomber lo be built In this was christened The British designed built heavyweight lincaslcristht spearhead of night continent It weighs and Is cupuble of tarrying Us eight Ion bomb load farther and faster than any oilier bomber In service Mrs Power the minister officially christened Ihe plane and launched il on Us way At meeting of icorgclown linn whs inktn on ihe Main Street stwiigt tills lias long been a if In Street when tin overflow From he virlninlul siwir pipes flood Iiusi i very nil While tin mini grilled Hint laid four rn muni it wsih fill Hint ik Dim when KuimtlmiK In mi work to omiiKtiii noon on I In labor was OCONNOR SAYS Safeguards Are Required In CanadaUS Auto Pact OUR PROTECTION AGAINST BUG BILL SMILEY Summer In The City Is Time For Madness There no place like home as some wise man or woman once said 1 think most likely For a woman home means washing clothes and dishes eternally scrubbing dirl making beds and all those other rotten jobs that make home making a dirty word a man it means a good hoi tea instead of lukewarm coffee a meal that tastes like food instead of wet clean sheets smelling of sun and going around his underwear and bare feet if he jolly well feels like it That s exactly I m enjoying today after four days in The City I just had a decent cup of tea a great bacon and tomato sandwich and I in my shorls and bare feel We ve just had our annual splurge in The City and even my wife gave a groan of pure pleasure as we pulled into our driveway last night and he eat came running to greet us flinging herself her back and rolling her belly ecstatically Thai the cat not my wife VN HI- Till- AT I haven the slightest idea why but every summer when sensible people are fleeing like lemmings from The City the old girl and take off from our sylvan retreat in Ihe heart of tourist land and head for con canyons of that same lity There no intelligence lei alone common sense in il We can I afford it don t even like it But We e0 1 I ask mi for a logical explanation It would be like aiding caribou why lie runs back and forth with wolves snapping at his heels And the wolves are there InThcCily waiting Tor us caribou Unfortunately Ihey don t look like wolves so you don know who I happening lo you until you re hamstrung They look like cabdrivers and waiters and bar lenders But one can blame the wolves can one That what they are for lo weed out the cripples Well I can tell you that if you arc not crippled at least financially after a few days in The City you ve been slaying with your relatives For some reason always stay in the best After oil it costs only about three dayi pay for each night swank joint This is pari of the whole mid summer madness And what the heck it only three dollars to sec a movie And what the shoot room service charges only Si for a pot of coffee and a meagre SI for a sandwich And of course you can lake it with you so spread it around a little And then there swimming The big hotels have a swimming pool Of course only the common people swim in the pool That tell ourselves every time wc remember we forgotten our swim This is about Ihe point where I to pound my head thinking of the mile long stretch of clean while sand and clean blue water back home But there one thing I II say The City In sum It cool Oh not out wilh the rabble on the stcecls They I derstand sweat like the a reconditioning has worked miracle Or something You can go into some of them without in of art so the waiters don even have blue lips Bui in most of them the customers arc sitting around racked with pneumonia arthritis I don t know why I complaining Nobody forced me to go the The City And if anyone irled it would be like attempting to force a mule to walk backward I wi t there if paid specially in the summer But I went I it was for my wife sake She loves a few days in big hotel No laundry No mi an lo cook No brains stupidity as 1 said home Ni ridiculous the and to Ik ore of that nil money i things priced seven limes No problems like that at here but the old cat and the new wood piles Let open the mail Might be a nice fan letter Town taxes I- ml bill from last winter S130 DO Bank manager wants lo sec me I it back to The Bible Verse Hut if any m in love Ihe is known of him i our with the lird is to our ft linn for Him Do you know the rd Canadian safeguards must be maintained In some form in the Canada pact Terry Connor MP for told the and District Chamber of Commerce Mr O Connor said Canada must recognize the seriousness of unrest with the agreement He suggests this nation must make an effort to sit down and negotiate towards solving some of S fears The MP says he believes the pact is vitally necessary in the long run to the maintenance of an automobile industry in Canada that Canadian safeguards must be maintained in some form to protcctproduction investment and particularly jobs In Canada in an industry which Is totally owned In the S Mr O Connor said the United Stales regards Ihe safeguards or he pact as transitional That nation now feels that the auto industry In Canada has reached a form of maturity He minted U President Hi chard Nixon from a speech made in of Ihis year The production requirements safeguards have been met and in fact exceeded removal of the transitional restrictions would not produce rapid substantial change in the trade balance existence of the transitional restrictions is an obstacle to full realization or agreement objectives One of chief demands of the U is for removal of the is per cent Canadian tariff consumer level imports At of higher prices in Canada Removal of the tariff Mr Connor said would result in many Canadians especially those living close to the order buying their new used cars south of the border QUEENS PARK Public Deal Coming To by DOS lit Quern Purk Bureau Of Herald return once more lo the Hydro committee with apologies if feci it is being over stressed Iherc is a lesson in its inquiry for everyone doing business or intending to do business with the encrnmenl The lesson that doing business j is iiuitt a different matter than doing with the unless there was an Immediate reduction in Canadian price a level competitive wilh S car dealers NO MMP1I- MATTtR Mr O Connor said it Is not a simple mailer to reduce car prices In Canada the level of those in Ihe United States Quoting argument put forward by the Canadian automotive manufacturers he said there are a number of factors responsible for no significant or quick reduction in prices There is a higher cost for warranties in Canada higher costs for transporting fewer cars over greater distances the cost of bilingual advertising and higher dealership costs due to lower volumes Mr Connor suggested Canada should approach for Incoming negotiations prepared lo accommodate the lo he extent of replacing current safeguards if so demanded but insisting on maintenance of some alter native typo of safeguards which will adequately protect the Canadian position Canada and the automotive industry basically are satisfied with the agreement as it exists now Mr O Connor said is the Americans who are insisting on changes and mediate negotiations He said Canada should approach he round of talks fully equipped its effects on both countries A car produced in Canada or the United Slates still costs more o buy in Canada but virtual wage partly has been achieved among automakers in ihe two countries The MP traced the initial development of the Canada auto pact a complex trade program which be said is essentially a free trade agreement between the two nations Under the pact nearly billion in trade takes place each year Economic prut Letor Pjrticulirly that you are dealing with public money that once ire your dealing itself is public Gerhard Mwg Canada and Gordon I ins pai licularly fought bitterly that certain details correspondence of Square dealing with Us of the new Hydro head office building should be privileged inally Conservative numbers who dominate he committee lei down and that the details could in a closed session But even with that a good deal of Moog s personal affairs came out in public And it is doubtful if on occasion similar circumstances he or Price Boost Is Help For Industrial Milk TORONTO- The one dollar increase to farmers for producing 100 pounds of industrial milk will en courage dairymen lo keep their milk production up says Keith Malthie second vice president Ontario of Agriculture is a dairyman from Industrial milk Is used for skim milk butter cheese and manufactured milk products Farmers were not given a pay Increase for table milk He says Milk production m io lias been declining an alarming rale One of Telephone RICHARD CAMbKON Publisher Production Manager News bditur Advertising Manager AILtrNHKADlbY Accountant Anne William Arnnil Valeric rutin David Huntings Mylcs I Mi Ii minis Ii an Davis Marc Allium won Mr and Mrs tyre Ii 4iooi 4IM7 the reasons is today higher feed prices tarmers can make more in iney selling their dairy cows for beef than by milking them Slaughtering of good dairy cows unnecessarily has and the only thing that will stop il is a higher price for industrial milk Thai is why this price In crease Is so desperately needed It Will amount to Ihe full dollar tor farmers who have enough subsidy quota lo cover their production The Increase effective Aug 1 is made up of a direct payment to producers a reduction of the export levy on manufactured milk products from 30 cents a hundredweight 10 cents and a Ihreeccnt increase per pound in the support price of skim milk powder agriculture minister Whelan announced the Increase following requests by the Of A he Canadian of Agriculture and the Dairy farmers of annda Hit ween Dec I and June prices of protein supplements needed in dairy feed tripled Grain prices limited between and SO in till Wildes for farm help which In in short hup nut rent increase was needed now in far mi lo mlits Mollhh Government and industry art working together In Project Working in an lnvlrnnmuitnl nhnntcnu nl Progrum which summer SWEEP CREW IN ACTION benefits to Canada have been tremendous he said and ne number of cars produced in Canada has risen from 855 in 1965 or seven per cent of North American production to 375 in 1971 or 13 per cent of such production More fobs have been created and a huge Canadian trade deficit of the mid 1960s was decreased lo the point where a surplus was reached in 1970 and 1971 In 1972 there was an almost balanced trade position ONE DAY WONDER anyone else would get the same break of privacy on the rest I tor in dealing wilh public funds there are certain fundamentals One is that there should not be excessive profits Par licularly when building projects are concerned for If anyone was making a big bundle nut of them the public would want government to on its own Then there should be good And anyone involved in business with government ideally should be prepared to provide bona on both points In his case bona fides means providing any in formation the public tlin uth its elected members may want Thai is the penally doing business with if penally it Hi compensate for it of course here is absolutely no risk whin you deal with the Incidentally it is easy lo see how Gerhard Moog would lie friend of Premier Davis Mr made it parent before the committee that he is not only very bright hut also has a great deal of employment for students and the same lime to Improve appearance of Ontario recreational ureas Mora Ihan GOO associated wilh the prnvlntinl sponsored urogram ore spending their summer up conservation areas shoreline and river hanks Herald Photo A one day wonder is Ihe cactus admired by Mrs Norma Tripp of Nerval After owning the cactus for Hilars it suddenly bloomed one day last week and Webb of Webbs Nurseries across the road said he had seen one like it New Library Not First In Township new library in vault at the old township hall is not the first library founded in township after jll former clerk K I reports lit hack township history Mr ljndsay points here was a library kept in addition lo the Bras school house which ixtrled real influence Ihe years it His information s fro the hook IU cords and Memories f Id sum Church OH which says here was no better selection books ulsidc elites than in hat library CJuit re Bras school was ihe fast corner of hue Side road and the fourth Line It has since been turned Into a residence The book says Thai some of the solid books of information in this library found readers In Ihe Scotch Block would in these days probably be a matter of surprise to many people The annual meeting of the Association was held in Ihe evening and Ihe school house was crowded memher was entitled propose a hook but a majority vole was necessary lo a purchase Many good books were contributed When Ihe Mechanics Institute in Milton was It was decided to close the library and divide the bonks among the members A regular patron of the library coming on one oc ens Ion o gel a book was old by he Librarian of a certain rk and asked if he would not like It He an it These men for Ihe most pari had decided opinions as lo whal constituted good bonks and good preaching They were very positive in their political convictions hut sometimes likely lo be prejudiced through partisan feeling It was ones own party always In a general election that could save Ihe country from ruin while Ihe candidates of the opposing parly were blind guides who should never be entrusted he reins of government They were at the same lime very conscientious As an illustration this they generally believed thai should Renumber the Sabbath day to keep it holy but with Die best of them it occasionally cost an effort Milton Champion