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Georgetown Herald A Division of Canadian Newspapers Company Limited Georgetown Ontario RICHARD CAMERON Publisher I GEORGETOWN HERALD Thursday Oct 11 VICTORY PARADES Show Of Municipal Pride Georgetown has a league champion softball but the mode of celebration of the victory recently has produced not a few complaints A victorious girls team was given a ride on a town fire truck bending tradition slightly by not being provincial and some residents were not convinced that that was a good and proper way to celebrate One of the objectors makes a point in this week s Readers Forum At issue is the use of a municipal emergency vehicle as a victory wagon In a large city use of such vehicles in victory parades is prohibited because of the large number of such celebrations But in a community this size of Georgetown albeit still growing there t enough such celebrations to make for over use of a fire truck in a celebration role There are always backup vehicles in case a fire really should break out and the cost of use is small A fire truck after all is an expensive vehicle Yet it spends 90 per cent of its life sitting still doing nothing It is a municipal vehicle and should perform a municipal service Isn t a show of municipal pride a service There s a about a victory parade that can be seen only in Canada s smaller communities where the people like to whoop it up and show appreciation They dont believe have to be staid and lifeless There a myth about Canadian conduct that perhaps some of us really believe We shouldnt Winning a softball league championship is no bis deal unless you re some way involved When a Georgetown team wins a title we re all involved if we have any civic pride Come to think of it would there have been much fuss if the girls team had been carried around town in a garbage truck READERS FORUM Reader Protests Abuse Of Emergency Vehicles Sir This Is a copy of a letter that I have forwarded to Georgetown council Gentlemen at 10 on Sunday Sept 30 a fire truck with lights flashing the occasional burst of a siren followed by a number of motorists honking horns was observed by me as It went along Mountainvlew Road Book Ready On Airwomen Sir The WD Association of Hamilton after several years of planning and research has published a book about the Women Division of the We would appreciate It very much if you could give us publicity of any type as vie would like to reach for mcr personnel and the general public This book Is the first story of the Airwomen serving from to the current air clement It is a factual humorous illustrated hard cover book selling for per copy Prepaid orders will be mailed through Association Book South rhe fire truck pulled into Eden Place and stopped A number of young people could be seen on the truck and leaping off it Curious about the carnival atmosphere surrounding an emergency vehicle I ap proached and asked the volunteer fireman who refused to identify himself the following questions 1 What Is this truck doing here Who authorized the use of if What If there Is a fire How much does It cost to operate a fire truck around Georgetown for an hour I was told that the BAD DRIVERS celebration was In honor of a victorious team The authorization to use a fire truck had come from the mayor of Georgetown There are three backup trucks available in the event of a fire It was probably costing the town about Frankly I am astounded that an emergency vehicle Is used in this manner As a resident of Georgetown I take great exception to this practice I personally consider It a flagrant misuse of public funds and trust Carole J MacLeod Georgetown Learn Automobile Drivers Cause Motorbike Crashes mittei HANDS ACROSS THE SQUEEZE Anonymous Householders bill smiley If there one thing that remains unregulated in this regulated life then it has to be the way people identify their homes with numbers Most such identification is poor or existent In Georgetown every home has a street address but not every home has a number displayed To a stranger or a newcomer it can be a confusing experience locating an address It makes for a sense of wonder at the accomplishment of mail carriers and The situation is even worse at night when most home numbers are unhghted Anyone who spends the many thousands of dollars required to obtain a home today should be willing to put out the few extra dollars that would be required lb erect large readable numbers in a vislbirTocallon Why stick your address number three inch numerals over a garage door when your porch light is 30 feet away Or why put the numbers in a vertical position on a wall is it 91 or 19 House numbers should be at least five inches high to be readable and they should go where most visitors expect to find them next to the front door They should be under a light which can be turned on when company is ex pected or at least in the early evening hours when you re home The Moore Park area of Georgetown has some numbers painted on curbs in front of homes That makes location finding a snap But the practice is not widespread it may not even be legal and not everyone favors it In Georgetown there is something of a paradox in that lighted street signs arc provided at many intersections but once the streets are found the homes are not And some dark subdivision areas with no street lights add to the trouble as well Its questionable anonymity Algonquin Policy Support The Ontario Professional Foresters Association has en dorsed the provincial policy statement on Algonquin Park and urged the rapid completion of the master plan for the park The government s decision to accept a variety of uses for Algonquin Park is commendable This policy will provide recreational opportunities for many different types of people to use the features of the in a responsible way and to share the park with others association president S Bruce said in a letter presented to Natural Resources Minister Leo Bernier The letter supported the continuous production and vesting in the park of renewable resources such as timber and fish and indicated that the foresters are willing to assist in implementing timber management policies that do not conflict with recreational uses It is suggested that the tensification of land use management practices in the park calls for the provision of an adequate staff of professional foresters and allied and supporting slaff It was optimistic about the establishment of an Algonquin Forest Authority to assume responsibility for forest cultivation and harvesting The letter also of fers the association assistance in drafting legislation to permit mi authority to integrate timber production operations production of wildlife habitat and the im of forests for recreation The decision to lei cottage leases expire and continue the operation of private lodges until 1996 was also endorsed The association also approved of the continuation of youth camps and Ihc proposal to further develop the former Dorset Ranger School and Forest as a demonstration area ECHOES FROM THE PAST AGO Bill Alexander 17 son of Mr and Mrs Mac Alexander of was selected as the delegate to the United Nations lour representing Hal ton junior farmers as well as junior farmers of Ontario As a form of welcome for Georgetown newest industry announced plans for a Welcome Dinner for Eagle Signal Division of the Bliss Com pany locating In the former Sykes plant AGO For years a Judge in the science section of the Erin Fall Fair Mrs Walter Gray of Georgetown was honored at a surprise presentation and received a silver tray from the Erin Agricultural Society A district farmer topped the field In the first International plowing match held at Jim who farmed acres on RR amassed points todofeat Odd Brant of Norway with 151 Bob Timbers of Stourivlllc placed third with 150 points A Georgetown native was off to South America as a correspondent for the Toronto Telegram Jim let by plane for British Guiana Lindsay township treasurer and assistant assessor took over tin duties of lax collector from clerk I Bennett In assessment commissioner Joseph Gibbons The 1J51 population was put at up by over the 1952 figure Alice and Keith Huffman won Hit senior titles during field duv Georgetown Public School wire organized under the direction of principal Howard St George Church I held i field Walter Sargent honors w ith points Looking after events were Mr and Mrs Peru with George ind Brian Mrs Robert Hill of Glen Williams celebrated her in good health ind life lo Its fullest She was busy keeping house for two working daughters She could count en children eight grandchildren and lo great grandchildren Ladies Guild of a party mid it of mens score was Bud Hill while ladles high score wan Mrs John Hepburn Mrs Thomas Grieve and Mrs red a I tended Kith annual ion of Auxiliaries lo Hit I in lndnn Hit Huh who at hi or with the Highlanders wus reported now in Sicily will lh Princess IouIkc Dragoon Guurds Bob And A Barmaid And Even Brigadier Last week I was talking of the fun of meeting people when you are travelling l not that your friends are dull They re probably more Interesting than some the types with whom you become bosom buddies on short acqunntanco But the people you meet on holiday arc refreshing affirmation that the contains an infinite variety of creatures of the human species This week I like to ihese thoughts by in Irnducing you to three greatly different people we met in England a Hob a and a Brigadier Hurtling from to Chester on a train we up the ancient and loody old city of Carlisle iicir the Scottish border an to our com I mean that Carlisle is in sense of blood Bui it did hands scleral times in the bloody border wars And it was there tint William Wallace the Scots rebel was put on public view in a before he was hanged and his parts affixed on various pikepoles about city as a lesson Ho the Scots rebels in the fourteenth Bob Mitchell an trundling eompmion Hi was interested in icre sting and affable Wed been in the he on corvettes in the in force We mile red taxes housing costs com piralive incomes As rattled through the Lakes District he went to pains to point mil things and sights of interest He suggested good reshunnt in london A writable gentle man in this if IIMi UI- He proved tins when we stopped to change or Chester started wrestling with our and an incipient Before I could sa Bob Mitchell he had whipped the two big suitcases off the overhead rack nipped out put them on the platform hive be a case for this lo happen to in During our earlier eon he old me he had i cousin in Man I told him iih column was in the Press So here s his message to his Ask if Crook remembers his visits the Wall Cum and Nor ihumberland and his walks along beach at South borne There arc Crook The Barmaid I been tilling wife for vears about barmaids of Britain Thev are NOT bust barmaids of fiction But area breed of their own with their Wot II it be ducks and Til Ti mtnns thanks But seemed to be a vanishing breed supplanted women with too much make up wearing slacks and a bored ex hi- I was beginning to despair of finding a real English barmaid But we did She was Heather in the Tudor Westminster Hotel Chester She is io per cent proof everything Id been telling the Old She riii I hat bar like ringmaster of three ring circus Fxccllent service a joke or persona word for all regulars Noplav for lips Peanuts or potato chips lor who looked as though he needed it Andall the time humming a song pirouetting behind the bar actually enjoying life A delightful And nobody but nobody got out of line in that pub was not a matter of rules or threats but of personality Then there was the Brigadier He was mother kettle fish a horse of different color or rather of number of different colors like in urn Icon He was either a Scottish lord or the biggest liar in 1 I lean Inward the latter We had a casual drink together and he was friendly I learned thai he is he looked had been in the Cameron Highlanders wis a retired Brigadier had been with British intelligence Bui musln talk about that of QUEEN S PARK Roumanian and Polish without an accent my suspicions deepened When I said in my blunt i tout When I asked his name he said Just call me Cameron seemed he was the I of I and he muttered and their feuds with the McDonalds He had an unnerving In bit of drinking six Per nods while I was worrying through two half pints Then bed get quite stoned and mumble an mid on I m drunk I m drunk I in as is a lord Hut of course I in a lord so its all right We parted ifler several cm outliers and I iskcd tor his address He wrote it down Cimcron and an in Then he thought above lie I of Then he thought again in front of that wrote HI Hon Only thing he I spell Lnehiil I iter thai week in 1 is tempted to thcik at the address he given but against I ml In spoil beautiful Well there are A Bob and Brigadier Hamilton Ontario Our association has been formed since and has always been Involved In charitable work Our many thanks for any assistance you can give us Mrs Kay Zimmerman Secretary Book Committee Ready Cactus For Blooming With leaves just beginning to turn color Christmas may seem a long way off But It not too early start preparing your Christmas cactus to ensure some timely bloom advises A Fleming horticultural specialist Ontario Ministry or Agriculture and Food The short day treatment is the first step and it should be taken now Do not expose Ihe plants to prolonged artificial light A cool tern is also essential In fact If the temperature is consistently higher than ynu II be lucky to get any flowers at all As well temperatures lower than 55o mi in poor bloom production Unusual Lethargy Has Hit The lit Qui ins Park III Thrill raid TORONTO In writing about I iberils il wus noted tint one of the factors in fn 1rlrpliiurM7iil Publisher IAHHHDMUILVHA ImdiKluinMinaker THtin II VMM IN dropping off pep in the One reason for this course was house wis on a three month break tin were not able lake of the platform it gives them ire at their Inst when have the forum of the house to raise their issues and launch their miasms so however the his appeared to be suffering from in unusual To be quite fair this well could have lelhargv which is hitting our politics themselves Individual members have been mute active But there has been an apparent to their efforts atmosphere of the some old Complaints about high prices Charges of corporate rip Accusations of but proposals of real iltcrnoiives 1 IMIAPIt- this there has been some suspicion hat Stephen Lewis may be gelling a bored with politics or at least the provincial arena Over the the young leader hot ana told on politics man with a strong instinct from time to linn In has a feeling that he is do enough point hi wive quill serious consideration to retiring to in Thin within pisl vear 1 1 deep thought retiring from leadership His position in the house man to Robert Nixon Hit official opposition leader is bound to be in one is perhaps just i passing phase Hut all these lend indicate is on a bit of a downgrade at the moment Bible Verse ersalu Mb and be i such as hive r be said I will i mi luu thee nur forsake ilici So tint a nit and I nil not fear what man shall unto mi Hi brews It for us when wc learn that real help Is in Htm Whin we have confessed what Hi Ins promised we are in position all ihut He has Hi need of man with the abundant and eternal life HERALD CIRCULATION TELEPHONE NUMBER 8772201 The number of motorcycle drivers killed in Ontario in 1971 shows a marked increase over previous years Statistics recently released show that motorcyclists were killed and injured during the period September to August 1972 This compares with killed and in during the same 197071 period The number of motorcycle passengers killed in Ontario last year stands at IG and injured reports the Ontario Safety League Information concerning the surrounding these fatalities is not yet available but a study just completed by the University of North Carolina Highway Safety Research Center indicates that In most crashes involving a motorcycle and an automobile Ihe driver of the automobile is at fault Nine hundred and thirty five motorcycle crashes were studied and researchers round that about twothirds of crashes involved more than one vehicle and almost all or these Involved a motorcycle and an torn obi In per cent of the vehicle crashes the driver was found to be at fault In most Instances the car was making a left turn in front of Ontario Heritage Grant Helps Hall Restortation A grant of towards the restoration of Victoria Hall Cobourg was an by Jack Minister of Colleges Universities and John I- I chairman Ontario Heritage da Hon This substantial con said is in recognition of the historical importance of Victoria Hall the scope of hi planned restoration The Ontario Heritage foundation is an agency within the Ministry of Colleges and Universities involved In the conservation of properties of historical and cultural value This grant is in line with a wider effort of Ontario government to strengthen the historical cultural resources of the Province Officially opened by the Prince of Wales who later became King Edward on September I860 Vic Hall was for many the civic and cultural centre of the community James Cock burn one of the of Confederation had his taw office in the building Declared a National Historic Site in I9CZ sub sequent structural surveys revealed that extensive decay had occurred primarily in the wooden warns and the Hall was close to a state of collapse This discovery and a need for revltalization or the building resulted in the formation of The Society for the Restoration of Victoria Hall in October 1971 lis objective was lo raise I 74S To date the Society has received pledges and donations which including the Heritage Foundation grant total more than close to So per cent of its objective Its our hope this grant will stimulate Ihe Society private fund raising effort and ensure an early start on the actual work of restoration says the s John the motorcycle when the collision occurred The car pulling In front of the motorcycle was the second most frequent contributing cause The motorcycle driver was at fault in only 29 per cent of the multi vehicle collisions According to study In most of these cases the motorcyclist was following closely An important factor in motorcycle crashes seemed be the presence of passengers Passengers were present In 12 per cent of Ihe total number of accidents studied and in per cent of those involving fatalities Researchers also found that passengers were more often present in the single vehicle Occidents than In multi vehicle crashes In Ontario fatalities cured in per cent of all motorcycle accidents last year states the Ontario Safety League Less than per cent of all passenger car accidents involved fatalities Transportation Big Part Of Education School transportation costs in Ontario totalled million last year 2 per cent of the province two billion dollar education budget The figure Is contained in report number three of the committee on Ihe cost of education released by education minister Thomas Wells The report shows that last year more than per cent of Ontario 1 elementary students were transported to school More than per cent of the secondary school students rode to school on familiar yellow school buses While the yellow bus is the most popular mode of student transportation some Ontario students reached their classes by snowmobile boat and swamp buggy While total elementary school enrolment increased by In the past 10 years the number of children riding buses to school jumped by in the same period And the report states the greatest increase has not come about because of the consolidation of smaller schools in rural areas but in the number of children who are transported under two miles The number of students In this category has increased five times since The report contains number of recommendatir aimed at assisting school boards In developing their transportation policy tie Cars and trucks t very big when this grade separation was constructed THINK THIN Street underneath the Canadian National Railways line There t much room for a pedestrian when a truck of this size heads through so pedestrians are given the right of way The underpass is nicknamed the culvert and It Just about that size