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Tom Mill Is Halton Hills Mayor Township is the mayorelect cl Hills today fallowing Mondays regional vote He owes his success to substantial Inroads made into the Georgetown vote Hill polled votes in a seesaw battle with Georgetown Mayor Bill Smith who polled 3 Other can didates In the four way mayoralty race were Georgetown councillors Phil Slddnll 1 votes and William Hunter 1 votes Voter turnout in Township was only 1 per cent although the township was solidly in support of the Hill campaign This contrasts with the voter turnout of per cent in Ward 4 a Georgetown ward Reeve Hill drew votes from the two Georgetown wards to put him over the top In Acton Ward most voters again went solidly behind Hill Voter turnout for that ward was per cent In Ward of Georgetown voter turnout was 47 s per cent The official average voter turnout Is per cent There were eligible voters In the four wards Reeve Hill who was at home for most of the vote count after until the last poll reported That was a Ward poll and It gave him 174 votes to for Mayor Smith The margin assured him of a plus 100 vote lead Then he allowed himself to receive congratulations from supporters and campaign workers And he even lit up a cigar In the council election voters generally stayed with the ex peri nee of present members seeking election to regional and In Ward Georgetown Michael Armstrong who polled 1 322 votes lost out to Coun Harry Levy who polled 1 votes and newcomer Graham Ripley in Ward Coun George Maltby of Township who polled votes lost out to Richard Mow fit of who polled 1 votes and Russell Miller returning to the municipal scene who polled votes A close call came in Ward 1 regional council where Garnet McKenzle with votes defeated Peter Marks 872 votes In Ward 1 for area council where there were five can seeking the two seats outgoing Acton Mayor Leslie led the polls with 1 votes Also elected was J Hurst who polled votes Drinkwatter votes Barry Inscoe votes ana Orval Chapman votes In Ward 3 for area council Georgetown councillors Roy Booth and Hyde were elected 1 and l votes respectively Unsuccessful candidate was John Hole 922 votes There were a number of acclamations to office Georgetown Reeve Morrow was acclaimed regional councillor in Ward 4 Georgetown deputy reeve Ernie Sykes was acclaimed regional councillor in Ward 3 and Township deputy reeve Len was acclaimed regional councillor in Ward Also acclaimed to office public school trustees Ernest Wards 3 and and Tom Watson Wards I and Hartley was acclaimed separate school trustee for the municipality GEORGETOWN HERAED She Home Newspaper For Georgetown and District Class Mall Mini Mr OTll ft urn I stage Guaranteed SO per year Single Copy Price THURSDAY OCTOBER SUSAN ABBOTT 11 and Jiggs took part in the pet show during Saturday pet show part of the 127th an nual Georgetown Fail Fair is a Boston terrier and he obviously thinks Susan is a great pal a dog best friend More fair pictures are inside today edition 127th Fall Fair Rousing Success Recount Requested Of Ward 1 Tallies Peter Marks deputy reeve of polls closed at p m gave Acton has made an official Marks 872 votes to for request have a recount Garnet The two men conducted in Monday regional were seeking the one seat election in Ward 1 available as regional Tabulation Monday after Popular Choice Is Halton Hills Township deputy clerk Knlhy Bouik had a big hug for Reeve Tom Hill Monday when became apparent that he was he of the new mun of Hal on lis She was one of many persons he township hall who extended their congratulations to the reeve who conducted one of the most aggressive election campaigns Sargent Road Residents Ask Major Improvements A Georgetown boy who went on to perform in the National Hockey League Bob Goldham was back in town Saturday to open the 127th edition of the Georgetown Fall Fair He made it short and sweet After a few words of preamble after an Introduction by a former Georgetown mayor Jack Armstrong Bob declared the fair is now open Among a host of elected of flcials present for the opening were MPP Jim Snow and MP Terry Connor plus civic towing a Vote Tom Hill sign circled the fair grounds fill went on to win Monday mayoralty race The fair drew about persons who came to view the many hundreds of exhibits The fair board which staged Its own display of Old MacDonalds Farm awarded several hun dreds of dollars in prizes and Some form exhibits were down in but there were increases in other exhibits such as sheep and domestic science There was a host of nor semanshlp classes taking place Saturday afternoon and morning including the ever popular pony hackney teams and road horse specials Georgetown Deport had a special booth erected for the fair Its first and distributed fire prevention literature Scouts of the first Georgetown troop constructed a rope bridge and a large parabolic hyperbole the weird looking thing string and poles The troop is looking for more leaders and anyone interested can contact John Tost at The fair also featured a midway and even a rock band Its Halton Hills was a popular second choice but Hills won out this week in regional election balloting for the Georgetown Acton and municipality Right from the start it was apparent that Hills was going to be the favorite I tally was 3 votes for Hills 2 931 Tor Esquesing and 574 for North Georgetown voters mode the difference Acton area voters tended to favor North voters went for but Georgetown voters ganged up to push Hills through In Ward 4 for example the name Hills enjoyed almost a threeloone edge over Trie takes effect with the advent of regional government Jan 1 1974 The new municipality will be under of newly elected mayor Tom Hill present reeve of Township The mayorelect plans a holiday trip where he will mix business with pleasure by attending a roads conference on the East Coast He plans to appoint com mlttces from the 13 man area council and also plans to seek the advice of professional advisers before making major decisions He plans to cham public appearances before council No one will have to have his name on a list to ap pear before council he said It wasn t my choice but that s what it s going to be and we re going to have to live with it reeve Hill told The Herald Tuesday referring to Halton Hills GO Service Is Delayed But Construction Is On Delrex Developer Dies In Hospital Startup of GO Trains bet ween Georgetown and Toronto has been delayed but con goes on apace at Georgetown CNR station to prepare for Its eventual arrival Construction is busy installing a drainage system and excavations ana mounds of sand mark the railway property EnSan of Toronto is the subcontractor installing the drains The new GO service will extend westward from Metro Toronto beginning at Union Station It Is planned to have stops at Street Weston Road Malton Bramalea Brampton and Georgetown Strike by Hamilton steel workers is blamed for the delay Ontario minister of transportation and com munlcatlons Gordon Cor ton said this week He said the 30mile service originally scheduled to open last month or this will not open until next year A partial service is expected to begin sometime January or February Mr Carton said a three and a half month long strike by United Steelworkcrs union members at the National Steel Car Corp has delayed production of wheel and truck assemblies for coaches for the commuter trains Hawker Slddleley of Thunder Bay is building the commuter coaches Additional locomotives are being obtained as well to power the service Augusts national rail strike also has been blamed for holding up production of auxiliary power control units being built in the provincially owned Ontario Northland Railway shops in North Bay Diesel electric locomotives recently retired from service are being modi fad for GO Train use Mr Carton reveled the status of the GO service in a prepared statement issued to newsmen in Toronto The man whose development plan tripled Georgetown population was buried yesterday In Glcndale Memorial Gardens obi coke Flex lies lop died Sunday in Peel Memorial Hospital at the age of After making a successful venture of building the community in then the biggest residential development in Canada Mr in 19S4 turned to where was planned as homes on 1 He completed more than homes in Delrex before selling out and retiring to his Court home In Georgetown He Wall To Wall Pertinent observation was made Saturday by MP Terry Connor during opening of Georgetown Fall fair Part of official group he noted that he was surrounded by wall to wall politicians He appeared before Georgetown council Tuesday to make riquesl and agreed He had to make the request of the local council because Pritchard served as returning officer for the election Deputy reeve Marks said there appeared to be some variation in techniques of counting rejected ballots Coun Phil asked Mr what degree of ballots was handled properly and Mr Pritchard replied that in two polls 105 and 100 a total of 15 ballots was rejected entirely for partial spoilage It appeared whole ballots were discarded erroneously he said without the good part being counted decided a recount was desirable and in the public good Deputy reeve Marks made his request to have the recount conducted by a Judge and Mr will Initiate the proceedings At the conclusion of the Headon Crash Sends Three To Hospital Three people wire taken to Georgetown hospital each suffering fractures after a collision on 17 Side road just cast of Georgetown limits Larly Sunday morning Neil Taylor of Ookville and his passenger Nancy Parry of Georgetown were in an car and Harvey of Orangeville driving west when their vehicles collided on a curve North constable John Hicks put the total damage at Georgetown firefighters were called to the scene to wash pools of battery acid off the road and stand by in case of fire III- lit HI OP remained president of Ilnmc Ltd and Development Ltd In his retirement Mars hi devoted some of his tinu to development of a process to treat liquid waste that would replace septic tanks Kith government operation he produced a pilot plant that was in operation before Jits death He Is survived his wife daughter Marilyn and son Rex council meeting Georgetown Mayor Bill Smith who was an unsuccessful candidate lor Hills mayor publicly congratulated all of the members of the present Georgetown council elected or acclaimed to a new period of The people going back are all very qualified he said and I feel our problems are In bo lookeduf You re going to do a good job To the losers he said no one should be ashamed of losing There has to be winners and there has to be losers t very body tried hard New Actions His Concern Phil of Georgetown is concerned about he statutory Implications of some actions of council Tuesday he drew attention to the situation that has occurred because of the recent regional election A majority of the present will not be serving the community of Georgetown under regional government Both Coun and William Hunter were un successful In a bid for mayor the new municipality or Hills as was Mayor Bill Smith Reeve Morrow and deputy reeve Ernie Sykes were claimed to posts as regional councillors and Coun Michael Armstrong was unsuccessful In a bid Tor election to area council in Ward Only councillors Harry Levy fcrn Hyde and Hoy Booth arc returning for service on the area council Joined by Graham Ripley newly elected Siddall said he Is concerned about what if any business present council can Initiate that will fall within the realm of responsibility of the new area He cited provincial Bill IjI creating the region for his concern NEWS IN BRIEF KEITII A Georgetown won the Ontario senior plowing championship title last week at the International Plowing Match held at La on County near Watch The Herald next week for a picture of Keith at the com petition tOLNUI is asking for more information degree of diversion of Silver Creek and authority granted by Vallej Conservation for apartment complex on Water Strict Discussion of a bylaw amendment prompted request for more information TVHIth of bridge were In play this week at Georgetown Duplicate Bridge Club Winners were NorthSouth first Sandy Dawson and Enid Ash worth second J KalllondW third and fourth tied Turton and Ron Jones and Adams and Terry Hansford fifth Mike Lorusso and Trust and sixth Peter Gilford and Carol East West first Dave and Bob second Catherine and Ray third J Coats and Lyanna Kwel fourth Tom Del Wallace fifth Mrs TyersundR Dickson and Two petitions came to Georgetown council Tuesday and one of hem ran smack into a counter petition Residents of Sargent asked council to make the thoroughfare a completely reconstructed route and paving and failing that to put off application of a surface layer of asphalt until the road is reconstructed In another presentation Ross Dr petitioned council to remove slop signs at Delrex Boulevard and Court and Chelvin Drive Flamingo Road Mr who said his petition was signed voluntarily without door to door said he encountered a general feeling that erection of the stop signs was one of the most stupid things He complained about inaction from the public works com and requested removal of the signs forthwith Reeve Morrow presented a petition of his own bearing the opinion and signatures of residents in the area of the Jessop intersection Petitioners claimed Ihe speeding traffic was reduced and so was the hazard to neigh children He said a similar petition would be forthcoming from residents of the intersection About traffic on he said the intent of the stop signs is to break up through traffic We want through traffic on Street Highway declared the reeve In defence of the public works committee Hyde snid committee chairman Ernie attempted to have the matter discussed but got little cooperation from com mittee members primarily because of the upcoming regional election Now the question of the slop signs has been put over to an Oct 22 works committee meeting when Mr Ren nick will be invited to make a presentation Phone For Herald The Herald wishes to notify its earrlcrs dialers and sub scrlbcrs that effective im mediately all calls pertaining to circulation should be made to The Herald office at close to decode of service Mrs Audrey Eyre has stepped down is circulation supervisor of The Under Mrs tyres seven circulation showed substantial gains and The Her expresses its regrets at her leaving while wishing her in new line of work Ml pertaining to circulation should be directed to The Herald office at Main SI Phil Siddall drew at ten lion to an obscure stop sign at which is difficult to see He wondered If there a hazard of rearend collisions He agreed that was not a through street but a suburban artery The councillor also suggested that a check be made with the ministry or transportation and communications to learn If it to extend its authority provincial highways Largest delegation almost four dozen persons represented Sargent Road residents Spokesman was G Mcllole longtime resident of the road Coun Michael Armstrong agreed that Sargent Road was a problem and he urged the new area council to give the problem of reconstruction every consideration Reeve Morrow said the people should be aware of why the town undertook what public works it did There was no money for a major overhaul of the road he said but the town wanted something better than a tar and chip Job It was an attempt to do something for the residents or the road he said within the confines of funds available Coun Siddall agreed the road merited major work and said It should be a priority item of regional government Mayor Bill Smith called for a revamping of the lighting system as well Harry Levy urged the Sargent Road residents to make a presentation to the new council as soon as possible In the new year GARNERS GOLF GLORY Garner of the Board of Trade Golf Club Toronto captured Canadian Professional Golfers Association Ontario branch championship played at the Herald Photo Georgetown Golf and Country Club last week He beat out veteran golfer Norman by one stroke 136 to in two hole rounds Regional Police Department Is Under Scrutiny PAVING of is contractor for work being carried out at CN station grounds In Georgetown and Ihe sub contractor is En San of Toronto Checking plans for storm sewer installations are from the left EnSan foreman Frank En San estimator Shwe loader operator Joe and Luke McKenna In for the ministry of transportation and com munlcatlons Ontario which operates GO train service Two committees will make recommendations about in tcgratlon of police forces in Halton so that the Regional Police Department ill be an effective and unit hen it assumes policing duties within the region Jan 1 A steering committee is composed of Judge William Warrender of Burlington as chairman Brian Best of Milton George Harrington of Burlington Warden Reeve of Halton Reeve Tom Hill of deputv rceveOim Watson of Nassagaweya Coun Orville Chapman of Acton commissioner James Cowan of and commissioner Glenn Magnuson of Georgetown William Burlington town clerk is secretory to the steering committee A working committee which reports to the steering com mittee Is composed of Police Chief Kenneth of Burlington Police Chief Floyd Schwantz of Georgetown Police Chief Rav Andress of Milton Police Chief Fred Oliver of staff superintendent Vernon Welsh of the Ontario Provincial Police and Ontario Police Commission Assisting this committee is a working group consisting of deputy chief and staff sergeant Matt of Burlington and Harold Wilson chairman and Sat Halter Southward of opt nvrioNs The representatives ore investigating the operations of other regional police departments and obtaining Information about com municotlons records operation organizational structure and other information which will assist in the establishment of the Halton Regional This group Is discussing some of these same matters with specialists from the Ontario Provincial Police and Bell Canada In order lb arrive at its recommendations It Is also preparing a complete Inventory of personnel equipment and buildings and the procedures and systems already In and consultation with the chiefs of police will be making recommendations the steering committee for a suggested future organizational structure The members of the steering committee will give con to oil such recom mendallons received and in turn will submit a report and its recommendations to the Board of Police Commissioners when established on or about Nov of this year The four working representatives have been working utmost fulltlme on this project and meetings have been held with the Chiefs of Police and the Steering Committee to discuss the various recom One of Ihe most Important items was the location or the regional police headquarters After considerable In and study Ihe steering committee will be recommending that the Oak ville Police Building be used as the regional police headquarters building So that there will be as little disruption to the general public as possible there will be district offices located In Burlington Georgetown and Oakvllle It is expected that all police telephone calls will be received at the headquarters building In Oakvllle and then com municated to the relevant district There will be initial costs In formation of both the telephone and radio communications so that both are operational by Jon 1 1B74 Regional chair man Allan has been kept informed of such costs and arrangements will be made to issue necessary orders to make sure that both com links are In operation by Jan There will be three districts established district number one being all of the region north of Derry Road and the headquarters wilt be In Georgetown District number two will be all the region east of Burloak Drive and Road and south of Road with district headquarters in Oak ville District number three will be all of the region west of Drive and Trematne Road and south of Road with district headquarters In Burlington SERVICE Ontario Provincial Police has agreed to continue policing those areas over which it has Jurisdiction until such time as the regional police commission is in a position 0 assume the responsibility The provincial act establishing the Regional Municipality of makes It clear that every member of the existing municipal police departments who transfers to the region may not be Iran to another area more than 15 mites from present headquarters without his consent also states that members shall not receive any benefits of employment with the exception of ranks less favorable than those they were receiving from the local municipality The steering committee is expected to recommend to the Board of Police Com mlssioners that subject to the needfor efficient policing in the region and so far a possible that members of the Regional Police Force continue to serve In Ihe area In which bey are now located