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Georgetown Herald A Division of Canadian Newspapers Company limited Main Strati South RICHARD CAMERON Page SO LABOR A Pause That Depresses 777 BILL SMILEY This is Labor Day weekend across Canada and labor is very much to the fore this holiday period People are concerned from coast to coast about labor its unrest and strikes Canada has almost a hundred labor disputes in progress and about a third of them are right here in Ontario Its a very confused picture that labor presents us this weekend The economy has been shaken by a national rail strike which was preceded by rotating work stop pages and there are a host of smaller strikes such as municipal which involve fewer per sons bat sit heavily in the of those involved Against the ranks of labor are ranged such problems as the rising cost of living the goals of security even public pressure far governments to get Involved and a general hesitancy to do so Yes the picture is confused But one thing must become clear to all of us whatever our position our philosophy We have sot to learn to think things through with And not because of any demands of labor but because of the demands of commonsense And common concern for each other BackToSchool Safety Next week thousands of children across the province will be going back to school Mothers will heave a sigh of relief Many of those children will be attending schools other than the ones they left last year necessitating new routes through unfamiliar streets New teachers new classrooms new friends will add to the excitement of their youthful exuberance Many other thousands will be journeying to school for the first time They have yet to be acquainted with the Ontario Safety League s Elmer the Safety Elephant and are perhaps unaware of what is expected of them as they join the lines of tiny commuters The Ontario Safety League reminds motorists to watch for the unexpected where children are concerned The majority of ac cidents involving children are caused by the child running onto the road Take extra care when ap proaching a school zoneslow down At school crossings and in major centres pedestrian crossovers yield right of way to in the crosswalk ember it Is dangerous and unlawful to pass a vehicle within 100 feet of a pedestrian crossover Watch Hum school buses Don overtake a school bus which is stopped on the highway Its red signal lights flashing It is receiving or discharging passengers If you meet a school bus picking up or discharging passengers on a highway other than one with a median strip you must stop until the bus resumes motion or its signal lights are no longer operating Almost half of the pedestrians Injured last year in Ontario were In the 14 age group children were Injured and another 108 were killed on our roads and highways The careful and wat cm ul driver can help reduce this senseless toll says the Ontario Safety League Gift That Saves Lives John Matthews William Scott Mary Russell Who are they People who received blood and because they did were restored to life and health Last year along more than a quarter of a million Canadians shared the same experience They received the gift of lifehuman blood And all because someone else took half an hour of their time to give For John Matthews William Scott and Mary Russell the ex perience was a dramatic one They realize that the generosity of a person they will never know restored them to health or even saved their lives They understood what it means to have to depend on other people They even took a closer look at Red Cross and blood transfusion service and what they discovered The Canadian Red Cross Blood Transfusion Service is the largest and costliest Red Cross Service It has 16 Blood Depots from coast to coast founded 28 years ago it provides hospitals across Canada with all the blood and blood products they need It collects nearly a milium units of whole blood annually The highest standards of testing research and storage are maintained Many vitally useful blood components are produced cryoprecipitaterich in the dotting factor required for treating haemophiliacs gamma globulin a plasma fraction containing an noodles which combat many in fectious diseases and platelets used extensively In the fight against leukemia The blood transfusion service offers free factor laboratory tests for pregnant women and operates rare Wood banks which supply all of Canada For people like John BUI and Mary the blood transfusion vice it more than one of the biggest most efficient blood programmes in the world It a lifeline and as more and more blood is needed each year a lifeline that most grow Be a blood donor on Sept 10 ECHOES FROM THE PAST 10 YIAK8 AGO Grade 11 student Georgetown High School cadet Larry judged the cadet at the Central Com which wat held at He received the a medal In com pell ion with from all parts Ontario Cousins Wendy Marks of Georgetown and Donna Bell took first place In senior jumping pairs at the Canadian National Wendy 14 and Donna IS lopped the 12 teams entered riding Wings of the Morning and Debatable respectively In a targe class for novice Jumpers Wendy made a good showing for sixth place A space problem at Holy Cross School was solved with the cooperation of the public school board Children of separate school supporters were to be enrolled In the publicrschool system in September The of In kindergarten classes was at George Kennedy and Park schools Twentynine boys of 1st Georgetown pack attended a weekend camp at Terra Cotta conservation area Their Akela Mrs J Layman planned the camp which a program of games and a Sunday service conducted by the cubs Scouts David Glenn David Shrubsole and Dennis Wright assisted AGO Four choir Gardens In Toronto Theday mark the triennial conference of the Associated Country Women Of The World Taking part in the choir wen Jean HuUBrpwh Ann Industrial committee of Georgetown council beaded by Sargent was asked by council to look into the mailer f industrial land in the own Georgetown councillors were of he pinion lhai a plebiscite should be held In Ihefall determine If voters favored land acquisition by the own to protlde for future Industrial expansion Georgetown boys MscKenzie and Boss completed a trip after a tart A year ago they set Irlp and had It hailed Ross was by a truck and spent several weeks in hospital Thisjear in company with Mr and Mrs Sam MacKenile the boys got to Manitoulih Island fishing and returned home Watches Young Birds In Old London Town A MANS CASTLE READERS FORUM Setting Record Straight On Ice Time Requirements Sir Reference Is made to your Aij report of my presentation to the committee and letter which you Aug it both on the subject of Ice time at the arena I had not Intended to make tfaia public Issue at this stage bat In of the In correct Imp that has been made I am taking tout the record and most Im I did not recommend bantam tournament be dropped supported it strongly when the subject was brought up before tbe committee and I would also be very unhappy to see It dropped Our mendation was that it make use of mm or two Sundays Instead of Saturdays gives up per cent of Its total years Ice tune allocation to tbe bantam at J to a as per cent by the support group and per cent by figure skating even one Saturday were changed to a Sunday we would each gi up a even proportion of our tout allocation to this we need another arena In Georgetown but until ft is built why not all suffer a little Instead of forcing one group to stand the fufi effect of earlier decisions GOOD REASON No one has yet given me a good reason why a boy playing hockey with our should get about one as much Ice time per week as a boy who plays for support group and about of what be would get Offer Thanks To Ball Team Sir I wish to congratulate through newspaper our tin ice girls rep ball team six games in a tournament at Malton Aug 18 they v n their semi final game Georgetown team lost 1 in its bid to win the championship by a 17 13 scire Thla va seven inning game which- ended under he lights and the last innings in These girls 11 and 12 years f age were a credit to our softnall league on the playing Coaches Pat Butler and Bill Hewitt are to be commended for the time and effort they gave In forming a team and putting it into shape one weeks lice plus a Job well done through all six games The girls returned to George tired but happy and the coaches voiceless but proud Harold Gilmer Georgetown If be chose to take up figure skating This would be the situation if we played every week but at the time I made tbe presentation players In the Saturday league were faced with getting no hockey at all for six weeks In a 10- week period In midwinter The extra Saturday Is due to the fact that this is the one year in four when the Tournament will be In Georgetown I also do not like to rob Peter to pay Paul which Is the reason I recommended we fill almost all of our extra game time needs at some other arena The way it works now other groups take time from bouse league for their special events nut do high allocation of available Ice time I asked for a half hour per week of figure skating time plus a delay In tbe time of an adult group on Wednesday to allow us to have a 17 to 18- yearold league which got no hockey last year Turned down In this we have bad to settle for a time on Saturday night from 10 is to 12 15 which is unsuitable but better than nothing Because the support group and figure skating already make use of large blocks of Ice time on Sunday I think It was fair to assume that their constitutions did not forbid Sunday participation In fact both hold a portion of their special events on Sunday at present Our recommendation was simply that they make use of more of their own allocation for their special events and to take less from the House League If It Is not practical for their special events to avoid Saturday I trust they win be contacting me soon to advise what Ice time they repose giving to the house in return for the Saturday we are forced to Rive up to each UNFAIR DELAY I now realize my request to delay public skating by one hour on Saturday would have been unfair to younger children and I commend the recreation committee for its consideration of this factor which I had over looked This age group already loses out to the Saturday tournaments in the same way as the house league and my proposal regarding tournaments if accepted would have given them three or four days of extra skating each year I feel thai Mr Perkins should be applauded for taking the time to write to you and express his viewpoint I understand he has for many years been a tireless worker on behalf of the youth of Georgetown and I look forward to being associated with him during the coming hockey season I nope all persons in terestea In House League hockey In Georgetown in eluding parents will attend the General Meeting of the Georgetown and District Minor Hockey Association which will be held on Wed Sept at 7 SO m In the gym of Centennial Public School This will be your chance to let the new executive know your feelings on our plans for the coming season Don Johnston president Georgetown and District Minor Hockey Association Todays Parks Become Consecrated Grounds 10 PARS AGO There were new ration books issued by volunteer he Georgetown Ration Board during the last week if August Headquartered In he building under the super vision f distribution chief Mrs R Watson and distribution chief Mrs Clarence Hayes volunteer work dispatched the books speedily and Despite price controls Imposed during Ihe war years Ihe cost of living in late I943vai cause for concern In The Herald a ad shotted Ihese prices IBounce evaporated nine cents WanLI 40 cents a grade n eggs cents a coal Telephone an mi Publisher GARFIELD Production Manager HARLEt News Editor Manager BRADLEY Anne Bob Graves Valerie Caruso David Hastings John Mars Nelson limit it mini unit Mm fi Sir In passing con venation with an occupant of a property adjoining the Park on Delrex Boulevard I was asked If I objected to the newly erected signs which edict No Active Sports In This Park How can I gather the Park la not a park The land does not belong to the town and the signs are therefore redundant monuments to Politics neatly packaged and half baked Which provoked a few thoughts Disregarding Masters and constitutes an active sport If the land is private land and tbe signs mean No Trespassing why not say so and fence it off My provocative dlaloglst ventured that really the signs are merely a deterrent by whom and from what and at whose expense Presumably the same party that provided funds for the signs also funded the landscaping Who he Do little old ladles walking their dogs fouling the petunia patch constitute an active sport Controlled the solution to the pollution If I found myself the owner of a property adjacent to land which became a park after I had purchased I believe I be annoyed to have a car dinged or a window broken by a ball annoyed at the planners and not children assuming a distinction On the other hand if the land was always pre ordained to be a real park people who do not like people and especially little ones the Guards and my w looking out the wrong side of the bus when we went past Buckingham Palace But we did have breakfast In bed on Sunday and ched a dandy American Western on TV so you might say we re having a swinging time In London town This still has to be one of the molt exciting cities In the rid despite its basic ugliness I rather expected to be disappointed I rem em bered war lime London hub f the empire streets alive with young men In the uniforms of fifty different despite blackout and air raids great theatre despite Ihe bombing It not the same of course but it still tremendously alive at least in the downtown core I know there are thousands of acres f bleakness and ugliness and even squalor outside that but the old heart of the city is still thumping away as strong as ever Despite all her there our travels Her first Impression was one of horror as we drove in from the airport 1 never seen such a dirty place And It Is pretty drab in the suburbs rows and rows of grimy grey housing In by grubby little shops and pizza Joints I couldnt blame her No wiman Is ecstatic about anything after miles of travel and about twenty six hours sleep I exactly reeling like myself But shes almost fallen in love with London She uldn want to live here Nobody in his right mind uld But I could spend a month each this ancient pile of stones and never tire of it London has something for everyone and perhaps that why everyone and his wife and kids seem to be here From everywhere Walk along the street and you II hear ten different tongues Go into restaurant and the only English ynu 1 hear is from he waiter and vou Jazz Buff Association Probing Into History should be more selective In their purchases For maximum quietude adjacent to a graveyard la always a good spot where little guys with pitifully Inadequate recreation areas wind up prematurely a morbid but Incontestable fact As an alternative planners might put parks next to city nans where the kids cant Interrupt anything of The proximity of a to senior citizen and even the semi retired like some school teachers must be a pain Who will enforce the commandment Don t tell It would fall to the police who though often maligned believe do a magnificent Job under ex traordlnarlly difficult cir Recently 1 bought a beat up set of bagpipes at an auction and since only dawnlamenteachSunday at the slow march Moving targets are harder to hit as many small town politicians will testify Our reminds me of a corpulent small town mayor who had his minions for two days erecting a sign The activity precipitated considerable curiosity When complete it read It Is Prohibited To Throw Stones At This Sign And they thought George HI was thick two short boarUa Peter H Secretary chapter Flat Earth Society by VINCENT EGAN Thomson News Bervtce MONTREAL Jan records like still wines and Stradlvarius violins seem to have a special virtue They Improve with age More than iso members of tbe International Association of Jan Record Collectors recently gathered here from all over North America for a J a Utile listening Canada contribution to recorded music was a major theme of the convention the first IAJRC meeting held outside the United States since the 1967 convention In Toronto Ed Moogk head of the recently established recorded music section of tbe National Library In Ottawa noted the scarcity of Canadian recorded between 1930 and IMS the period In which awing developed flourished and waned in the United States Up until the Great Depression virtually wiped out the record industry however Montreal Herbert Berliner son of Berliner Inventor of the disc record war a prolific manufacturer of records for the Canadian market His story Is related In Moogk forthcoming threevolume history of Canada a recor ding business Convention keynote speaker was 79yearold Ben Selvln the violin playing leader of a top US orchestra In the BROAD SPECTRUM Obviously Jan la a relative term to a 790 members Such danceband leaders as Hal Kemp and Freddy Martin figured almost as prominently In members discussions as did Jazz start Louis Armstrong and Benny Goodman Each member has his own specialty and when he Is competing for rare material against another similarly inclined collector the at moephere makes a pool of look like a bubble Gene Miller a Toronto teacher who is secretary of the nine year old in association la compiling a collection and a history of the first Canadian group to work overseas the direction of Hal Ontario Scene Swain It went to London in 1924 and recorded there as New Prince Toronto Band and in Germany as Toronto Band Canada Another Toronto member of IAJRC Joe Showier Is generally conceded to have the collection of recordings memorabilia of Jack His passion for music of the late trom whom he never saw in person led him to branch out into collecting film Starting with footage of Teagarden in action Showier has widened his movie collection to include priceless performances on film by Tommy Don Redman and scores of other greats During a screening of Artie Shaw band playing Lady Be Good con applauded as enthusiastically as they would have at a live per forma nee HOW HI THE FIT Because early recording techniques were usually primitive the quality of the sound on most collectors records falls far short of their historic interest But John Gill a Chicago- area buff who deals in sound equipment professionally demonstrated the electronic wizardry that he employe to re record year old material His process not only eliminates most of the surface noise from old rpm discs but enhances tbe presence to the lifelike standards of today LP recordings Gill and a fellow Chicagoan Bill Mikos have achieved the dream of every serious collector They have compiled in exact chronological order tapes of every record made by tbe orchestras of Tommy Dorsey and Artie Shaw during the so- called golden age of swing 193542 That more than hours of nonstop listening In the case of and six in the case of Shaw But Gill Is concerned about his fellow collectors con centra on on the glories of the past in music and neglect of the present To show them what they are missing he staged a demonstra tion of tapes In stereo multiplied by two of Jazz and dance bands he has recently recorded on location It was so life like said one listener that he could never be satisfied with stereo again won t understand him until the third try because he a speaking West Indian English It your kick is history it a right here whispering tales and old names Hampton Court where Henry vlll pressured Sir Thomas More to help him get a divorce so that Henry could shack up legally with Anne The Tower where the same Sir Thomas had his head lopped off for refusing to help And a hundred then Supposing you like visiting graveyards and such There are nine great museums are the homes of people like Charles Dickens and Samuel Johnson And there the greatest of all Westminster Abbey where you can tread on the tombs of some of the greatest names in British history and literature I t be bothered myself but every man to his own thing Maybe you are a bird watcher Well I am here to ell that here is no greater bird watching in the rid lhan London There are birds here of every race color and creed 1 Ihink I know now why Englishmen refer to young ladies as birds It because the girls constantly a very pleasing manner If you re a boozer thia is heaven There are pubs of every shape sle and sound and here are enough of them to keep every man woman and child In Canada drinking around the clock Speaking of the clock and boozers keep an eye on It If you decide you need a snort a four p and head for the pubs youll find yourself frantically rattling locked doors They were open at noon are now closed and won be open again until Bui all Is not lost Just go that department store go to the spirits department and the kindly clerk will sell anything from a cold pack of ale to an ex pensive bottle of giggly while extolling to day special Beefeater gin What a crazy country Till happen be a theatre buff which I am among other things you have arrived at the pearly gales From our hotel we can throw a stone almost any direction and hil a live theatre We hit a different Last night Paul Scofield a satire the night before Lauren Bacall in Applause a great musical the nigh I before Kenneth More in a comedy We are Just now debat whether we should go lo see Wendy Hiller as Queen Mary or Sir Alec Guinness In a new comedy Ho Hum Then there are about five big musicals The theaire scene here makes New York look which is and makes look like Hayfork Centre But perhaps best en lertanment In London is plain people watching The place is literally crawling and they come in every shape size color and accenl There too much in London Tor one column so brace urself for another But ynu must gentle reader that 1 have been fa Here 1 am silling in a hotel room pecking away a rented type writer when I could be in that lovely rain pubs are about to open and there rd natch to be done so I we nexl week Watch Being Kept On Rising Prices GUARD Speaks sir Apparently there are some uaed In tbe mayoralty contest in North Halton Although GUARD does not support any one candiate or any number of candidates In the forthcoming regional election we will not stand by and see our organization used against a particular candidate or candidates have been made that Reeve Tom Hill of Esquesing did not support GUARD and its alms and objectives during the recent QuarryGarbage Issue For those concerned Reeve Hill signed up In support of GUARD at Stewarttown at first public meeting Reeve Hill and his council gave us unanimous support as did the councils of Nassagaweya and Acton Reeve Hill and council have made available to GUARD photostat of documents they thought applicable to our cause In our fight against garbage A Johnson Chairman GUARD by DON O HEARN Queen Bureau Of The Herald TORONTO The Davis government has had so much misadventure and has been so freely criticized that at times we tend to forget that this government actually has qui tea good record for action and that It can be both aggressive and progressive ihe most recent illustration of this is its move on food pricing practices Ottawa was still fuddle and the other provinces were busy sputtering protest about soaring prices Premier Davis acted He announced that minister of consumer and commercial relations would make an Immediate inquiry Into pricing practices and what should be or might be done about them Mr Clement Immediately said he would have a report a week id he dldor at least in t days With the consequence that the province is now taking an active role in watching food prices and that soon perhaps this fall we will have new Fair Practices Act PROFIT CONTROL There will be the unin formed who believe tbe government should step In and roll back prices not realizing It doesnt have any authority to do this Actually the fact that tbe government will be watching prices in Itself should have some beneficial effect And on a long term basis one can see this new move as being of possibly great significance For It Is a first step in an entirely new field for government here that of profiteering And where could It lead Practically anywhere In the first stage the plan apparently is to try and curb practices and It is I presumed about any In cident of gouging that may be uncovered From publicity It Is not a very far step to price control by legislation and regulation And from there perhaps profit control This la something we probabty wont see for a loOf time And perhaps never But possibility