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Georgetown Herald A Division of Canadian Newspapers Company Limited Main Strttt South Georgetown Ontario RICHARD CAMERON I Page GEORGETOWN THURSDAY AUG 16 1971 COST OF LIVING Its Time For Some Action If anything is fated to topple the minority Liberal government In Canada then it should be the rising cost of living especially the rising cost of food Canadians from coast to coast are caught up in the rising tide of food prices Some areas are hit harder than others but the overall picture is one of bleakness Food dollars buy less and less every day The problem of course is a complex one Economists tie Canada troubles into a host of causes from high exports of foodstuff to delays caused by transportation difficulties No one area of responsibility has yet been levelled But some responsibility must be attached and since the price rise crosses all provincial borders the problem then is laid at the door of the federal government One area which could see improvement is agricultural policy Pork is an example Canada exports of this meat have created an artificial shortage at home and a consequent rise in prices It must be possible to strike a balance between needs at home and demands abroad The matter is one of solving agricultural problems with short- term solutions just ask any far mer which do not accumulate into long term answers In the United States some stringent measures have been adopted to tackle the high cost of living there and some of the fects have spilled over into Canada We re not advocating measures as tough as wage and price controls which only give way to another big jump in the cost of living when they re removed but we do advocate more federal responsibility and even attention pa id to the very real problem of the growing cost of living in Canada Can we say our federal leadership has been alert when a body such as the prices and in comes commission is caught by surprise by a big jump in the price of bacon The situation is such that already in Canada its impossible to shop for cheaper items of foodstuffs It all costs more much Hitting Dairy Farmer The price of bureaucracy and the indirect blindness of govern ment were never more apparent than in the case of Lome Augustine a yearold dairy farmer who wants to be left alone to pursue his version of the capitalist dream but who isn t being allowed Mr Augustine you see is thumbing his nose at the Milk Commission of Ontario and the Ontario Milk Marketing Board by selling his milk directly to the public He and his two sons run a dairy farm near Port Colborne They believe they can run the operation efficiently for the benefit of themselves and the public and at the same time eliminate the government Imposed middle man This way the can sell milk to the public for a couple of cents less than their com petition although they are allegedly breaking the regulations The commission wants the to sell their milk to them They will then resell that milk to the with an appropriate mark up and minus commission operating ex penses without the product ever leaving the Augustines premises Result A higher price What else The commission and the board have told Mr Augustine to discontinue his direct Belling tactics and have suspended his license But Mr Augustine is defying them He cant understand why he cant sell his product directly to the public without government linked interference The marketing board says Its illegal for the to bypass regulations by selling milk to themselves This must be done through the board although the product never leaves the dairy farm The government is trying to keep the large dairies from moving in on smaller dairy farm operations the rationale being that combines and monopolies must be stopped from reducing farmers to mere employees at a time when government policy is aimed at maintaining private ownership of farms In 1972 the grossed After expenses they divided up Had they sold the milk to the commisssion they would have divided up about between the three of them The governments policy is from a theoretical and practical point of view probably com But in the case of Lome Augustine it is leaving some scars Hes trying to make a buck but the government doesnt approve of his methods the overall policy must be adhered to There can be no rebels to upset the equilibrium of the policy So he must go Its all legal all proper Its part at the price were paying for our government dominated democaracy Its quite a price Brampton Daily Times ID Yt AGO An informal tour of county towns was made by provincial opposition leader John and Owen Mullin Liberal candidate in the fall a Ontario election Designed particularly to meet merchants and businessmen the day started with a breakfast meeting in for the press continuing on to Georgetown for a noon luncheon at Acton and Milton and finally a reception at the Brant tnn In Burlington A trial period of controlled dally burning of garbage was advocated by Mayor Ernie Hyde during a council discussion when concern was expressed about a stubborn fire which was burning underground and resulted in several calls for the fire brigade Eastend residents were par ticularly bothered by smog and the town engineer brought In equipment last week to smother the fire Council appointed A as town solicitor to succeed George who resigned after serving this capacity for 10 years A town resident since 1991 Mr graduated from Osgood Hall In 1657 and Joined Mr and John in a law practice which they operated under the three names The partnership was dissolved and Mr since conducted his own practice Graham Gllhooiy administrator of Hospital College of Hospital Administrators a professional society as a nominee at Its annual convocation ceremony held In he Imperial Ballroom of the American Hotel In New York City AGO Serious fire damage was averted when smoke from a smouldering chesterfield chair was noticed at the home of Mr and Mrs George Louth Edith Street Jim Ford walking past the house at supper time noticed the smoke No one was In he house at the lime but luckily the door was open and with the help of a neighbor A M Baxter the chair carried out side The fire brigade wan called the scene The engineering firm of Philips and Roberts recommended an extension Georgetown a water system in a report resented to the council by Mr Roberts lain point in the report was a recom that a second source of supply be found to augment the present million gallon well which was located by the firm in IMS near Cedar vale School The report also suggested a storage reservoir Mr Roberts was confident that more water would be found In the same Leu Caruso scoring star forward of Georgetown and Gs was the only lacrosse player to make either the first or second all star team for the southern OLA group who amassed an point scoring total with goals and assists was chosen as first string forward along who had 100 points and of Sarnia points YEARS AGO Ration book number three was to be issued in Georgetown from the Water works Building from Aug to in elusive Twenty workers volunteered their services and would work from to Km dally except Saturday when the ours would be extended until 10 at night The new ration book was to be good for a period of eight months The Herald had several tomatoes of unique shape brought Into Ihe office One tomato grown by J R Williams grew Into a shape like a doughnut and another grown by Harry Knight was very unusual alio A Mrs Preston brought In a split potato In which several little new potatoes were growing without the benefit of soil from which to draw nourishment On display in the office window were three Japanese Beetles which Mrs WllltamCameyfoundonthenlnthllne As their names implies these bellies came from Japan originally and only in recent years have they Infiltrated lo the United States Canada was supposed lo be free from them but apparently they were working way north BILL SMILEY THIS SUMMER KEEP ONTARIO BEAUTIFUL READERS FORM Litter Education Often Required Your editorial on the including children do not subject litter was most stop to think that every timely you nay many Mick every candy people require education bar wrapper every piece of regarding proper disposal of Kleenex and brands litter As well many people tool every cigarette box every em ply bottle and every bottle lop is litter In Terra Cotta each summer women of the Thursday Thimble Club make an effort to encourage Clarification Correction ECHOES FROM THE PAST Sir Kindly permit mc to state a few ideas and statements made while I was reviewing lo reporters the two years in office as president of Ihe Secondary School Teachers Federation in Hal ton at the end of June 1973 and in response to comments made at the board or education meeting on July 20 First I want to make a correction due to an error in the statement issued to your reporter The statement more than 1 classes with more students should have read more than 100 classes with or more students and more than classes with or more students The source of this information is recorded in Board of Education Fact Sheet dated Dec S My regrets to all concerned for this error In reference to the flight of leathern did not refer lo present situation but the statement made was a future prognostication of the next two to three years because of the newly passed Boards policy on staff reorganization which will demote up to ten teachers who are heads in schools such as Nelson M M Robinson Georgetown and A The heads who are In the main specialists in their Melds will be replaced by the new chairman system who may or may not be specialists The board was told on mure than one occasion that the teachers were In favor of staff reorganization but a vote the teachers showed that as per cent of the teachers were opposed the directors scheme and In fact teachers filled the board room in protest on more than one occasion when Ihe trustees were discussing staff reorganization and differentiated staffing After the passing of the staff reorganization and differentiated staffing staff morale sank to a new low level and 1 know of two department heads who have gone to other boards education since the passing if the board policy on staff reorganization With the over supply of teachers and the late passing April 1973 of the board policy on staff reorganization there was very Tittle teacher movement at the end of the current school year The future will probably tell a different story as good experienced specialist Telephone INI RICHARD CAMERON Publisher GAHHELDMcGILVRAY Production Manager TERRY News Editor HANK MULLIN Advertising Manager BRADLEY Accountant Anne Bob Graves Valerie Caruso David Hastings Myles Gllson John Mara Nelson I A THIN Mr ami Mrs teachers Bet demoted in Hal ton Their choice will be lo look elsewhere when the presents itself and in my opinion the students and parents will become the true losers I- With regard I now ask Ihe trustees and the director investigate the situation where one para professional was hired at Trafalgar High School and that individual taught at the school Both the teachers of thai school and the CWQE Conditions of Work for Quality Education Com mitlee reported this fact ton recall both the principal and Ihe super in of Instruction acknowledged this fact when asked by the federation about a teaching at Trafalgar High School I may point ml that at Lord Elgin High School instead of hiring the full teaching staff of teachers based on IBS 1 pupil teacher ratio only teachers were hired for 1972 73 Five fewer teachers were hired and the money was used to hire para The students to be taught and the parents may well ask these questions Who taught the approximately students Whose workload was in creased What happened to the classsizes How did these conditions affect the students In it Interview and statement issued at ihe end June I pointed out lhat progress was made In several areas during the 1972 1973 school year and these received little attention in the press I felt a better rapport was developed at the staff board meetings an increased involvement in the educational and develop ment leave plan two amicable salary settlements the exchange between the elementary and secondary panels for a period of time and the participation in program councils and professional development projects These arc exam pics f positive in relations between teachers and the board I would like to that ihis was a review of my iwo years as president if Ha I ton District and some opinions as to Ihe future In conclusion may I state that the federation lives have never been geared to image building and economic or political ex but on the con irory to represent the l cachets and to serve the best possible needs in education for ihe students in I la ton I hank you in advance for printing his statement of clarification and correction Tom Post President District FRUSTRATING Sir The patience of citizens of Georgetown has been sorely tried awaiting council decision to begin the recreational centre The delays coming one after the other are frustrating An an prior to the next election that work is to begin will not win as many votes as they might expect Ripley Georgetown Ministry of Transport has embarked on a 7 million program to upgrade air navigation facilities in the North The program in part calls for the Installation of very high frequency range and distance measuring equipment facilities at Yeltowknlfe Resolute Bay Bay and Cambridge Bay In history were he Inhabitants or what is present day Greece Debate On Ice Time Sir As one who will be starting his 20th year in minor hockey In Georgetown I would tike to answer Don Johnston I am fully agreed that we need more ice time for house league hockey but am one who does not rob Peter to pay Paul The international bantam lournament Is only lo give boys something to do during Ihe winter vacation This is Ihe greatest tournament of its kind anywhere In Ontario Being one the originators Ihis I would be very disappointed if It were dropped after years of hard work by a lot of people In Georgetown If you are taking on more all ihe organizations so don try take from them With a little less bickering back and forth maybe we could have our already lorn arena before 1975 season starts It is gelling pretty darn when Georgetown people have lo go to Alton lo III time for our boys to play Your own constitution states that Sunday hockey should not interfere any Sunday school or church and yet you want to have all tournaments to run Sunday to Sunday When you spend 14 to IS hours every day for seven days In a week It is nice to have Sunday off for the people who work in Ihe tournament If you get the Ice time from a m to a Monday in Thursday hope that it Is practice time because I will nol ask referees to go the arena at 5 30 a for so many mirnlngs In a week When docs Mr Johns Iron think lhal any child seven or eight years of age should go Bight clock at night is pretty late for The boys in Saturday in hockey had the best year as far as ice time la concerned lasl year They had re hockey lhan ever before and wc still had our tournament Gerald Perky Perkins Inchief Referees visitors and inhabitants of the village place the above terns in rather than on the edge the road and in the ditch Brightly pa bins are put and arrangements made to have emptied each week And it has helped Unfortunately there are some persons in Ihe area who in a spirit complete selfishness use these bins to dispose their household garbage and when no one is matching large green garbage bags are left in the litter bins This means there is little room left for the kind of litter bins are meant for It is true that there are no signs posted but surely any person with ihe smallest degree of Intelligence would know these Dins are not meant for Ihe resident householder The question in mind of course is who pays fir the disposal of their garbage in the wintertime when he bins have been On a happier note I should like to commend the people who attended Ihe strawberry social put n by the Township f in the little park at Terra tta Both last year and this year upwards of persons attended and in spile of using disposable plates and cups and forks and spoons and serviettes these were all in the bins provided and the litter was almost existent My congratulations In these visitors Miss Mary Cassidy Terra Cotta Centre Help Sir Time Is of essence Help could be as close as ur telephone Several m re volunteers ore needed before a contact centre training course can begin need your support Think for a moment while asking yourself these questions do y enjoy people do you feel good when re returned a just an honest smile can Ihcrs confide in you without fear of exposure or ridicule are you concerned for your fellow man predating his good points all the bad If you have answered yes tt Ihe above and you are age 17 or over Ihen you probably possess the understanding nature qualities and In sight necessary to serve as a centre volunteer This could be your chance for a new sense of purpose In your life subsequently ex ended to others If you do care and you are Interested please enquire about the volunteer forms which are available now through the office or for further Information call Connie or Fran at 2238 We expect the first course to begin In mid September and Ihe hopeful establish Is still being sought any suggestions would be appreciated Gall Williamson Publicity Consultant for North Contact Ccnlre So then everyone of us snail give account of himself to God Romans 14 12 The old saying of no one thinks anything about anymore f change things In the least with God We will be judged by what God has said rather lhan what people think Bosom Buddies Are Forgotten There a nothing llku seeing old friend Or old fiends as comesout sometimes when the linotype operator Is not on his toes ha ha I have a couple of old fiends who managed to drop In while was getting ready to go to England Between them they almost aborted trip Its not that they bother me I wouldn say thai 11 Just that they cripple me for about two days each by time we finish reminiscing and get to bed as the robins begin to chirp Thai not so bad A chap must expect that sort of ruin But they brought with them a couple of other old fiends their wives That what really put the tart on the griddle as Lord said while he was roasting a well known street walker We have all sorts of friends eh There are the close chums of public school with whom there Is nothing in common by the time you are in Grade except the fact that Old Lady Williams beat the hell out of you every second day when you were in Grade BOSOM BUDDIES Then there are the bosom buddies of high school This is an eternal yearning often depending on type of bosom Ten years later you meet and here snot much to say after exchanging the number of children and wives or husbands you have had College friends are even closer I was looking at a picture of four of us the other day We had in jokes We were inseparable We would give our left arm for each I haven t seen one of them for twenty years One Is a drunk a second is dead and the third is an accountant Not necessarily in order Then there are the friends you make on summer jobs These are so intimate you can hardly wait to separate so that you can write each other Once And If you were in the service here are all sorts of friends There Dutch the ubiquitous Australian Jack Ryan the unmitigated Canadian Singh Thandl sinful Indian and so on A few of are still around and you see them every five years but that means only a couple of days of ruin OTHER And of course you have made friends since you married There are Shirley and Bill and Joan and Dick and Jack and Jill and Humphrey and Ursula Not to mention Humpty and Those named are last two can figure out themselves who they are Nor should we forget professional friends the people we work with In my case they range from someone like Miss S who weights pounds after a steak dinner and has a laugh would knock your fillings out to Mrs who Is the sexiest broad In the school according to the kids As a gentleman I car only agree with Yes a chap gathers a lot friends over a few decades But the two I mentioned earlier on are a little special Bub and Trap We Joined the air force together drank beer together sang bawdy songs together and pursued the fair sex together We learned to fly together On one leave we hitchhiked to New York together and I can still remember Bub after a bit of intemperance or something spewing all over Broadway from the window of a taxi Broadway has gone steadily downhill since We went our several ways during the big conflagration and managed to stay alive during various hairy in When we got home from we got in touch We were all going lo college and funds were pretty slim but we d get together ion ally Tor some of old riotous living of the rude soldiery We all fell in love about the same time and got married about same lime We each have two children and have shared Ihe woes and glows of raising kids The three girls chose Peg Ruth and Suse are still married to us something of a record these days We ve all been modestly successful in a material way and modestly unsuccessful in a spiritual way S Our wives tell us in that we are rotten husbands and fathers but we don t see them reaching Into the grabbag for substitutes When we meet a couple of limes a year we compare middle aged aches and Earns but were young at as you would clearly see if you dropped by about am Wc II probably wind up in Ihe same Home for Senile Veterans If we do we keep lively Yes a man acquires a lot of friends in a lifetime But many of us have two old fiends like Trap and Bub to drop around and turn us Into living skeletons when we re trying lo get ready to go to England QUEENS MARK Stature Of Province Is Growing Greater by DON Queen Park Bureau of The Herat TOHONTOMost us more or less realize that in Ihe past decade there had been a great growth In the stature of provinces as compared to the federal government With the increase In such matters as planning urban develop and the environment and the steady expansion of the provinces have Increased tremendously And with the growth there has been a significant change in Ihe position the provinces in the Canadian family of government The former teenager one might say has become an Ana though ihe federal is still Ihe J parent and exercising strong I6p5 influence is re following its own ftt course and is resisting the parental Influence more and The former child now has a much stronger voice in the affairs of the family What more it Is a valuable voice in at least some mailers it can mean more harmony If for instance the provinces arc able to reach agreement or regional development approaches If the provinces thai might be hurt still are willing to go along ihen there could be the chance a practical and fee live development program Much more so than If Ottawa Iricd to dictate a program Or if it tried lo work one out through consultation a which the provinces tend to read as dictation HANG There is a graphic Illustration of this in the current annual conference of premiers at Charlottetown Ihis week When these annual con were started years ago they were In nocuous affairs The agendas were very carefully designed They comprised subjects that were completely exclusive to provinces mailers such as uniform highway laws The conferences dldn come to decisions as such or agree on action The limit was to agree to further operate on trying lo work out solutions And it was un dcrstood that nothing in federal provincial reiaiinns would come before meetings and that the relations themselves would not be discussed There was a deference lo Ottawa in the whole exercise VAI I- VOICE But now The Tour main subjects before conference are energy policy health care regional development and offshore fishing rights With alt of these there la a strong federal And with all a main point In the considerations will be whether and how to put pressure on Ottawa Nearly per cent of all farm accidents Involve persons under 19 years of age Many of these cidents involve small children who provide no physical Input Into the farm operation are Just along as passengers says Don Brown of Public Relations with the Farm Safety Association Children should not be allowed on farm machinery particularly when the machine is in operation You may think your reactions are quick but accidents happen In much less time than you realize says Mr Brown It takes only seconds for your child to fall under a wagon or Into the path of a mower or baler much less time than It take you to stop the machinery By the time you stop it could be too late Point out the dangers of riding to your children and refuse them Keep them off moving or operating machinery Farm machines are not playtoys They re the machines of a competitive and demanding business a business agriculture alio requires alert and ex workers Keep your children out of harms wayobserve No Riders policy