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Turning Down The Heat Insulation Now Hard To Come By For Your Home by DAVID LEEfl Area homeowner who at tempt to follow advertised battle plans to fight the energy crisis will find It difficult to do so and if they succeed It will cost them considerably more than It would have a month ago Insulation Is In short supply at local building stores Stocks of Insulation have been for more than a month almost stores and vermlculite the loose In sulation that can be blown Into hollow walls will Jump In price by per cent Suppliers have warned that although shipments re beginning to come In It too will soon begin to climb In price probably before the end of this year A spokesman at the Build All Lumber yard In Acton said the store has been without insulation since early in August He added however that shipments are office In Georgetown Sandy MacKenile a part owner at that store said a supply of vermicullte is ex pected next week and that Those stocks he said have been on order for more than two months In stark contrast to procedures In the past You used to be able to get nextday he said The last shipment of ver micullte which arrived at the store he added was of bags The order was sold out In a week and a half PAPER SHORT Mr MacKenile said that vermlculite supplies were easier to come by than wool insulation He explained that the paper backing that holds the chemical wool together Is unavailable because of strikes in the paper industry The urgent national demand on top of the general shortage has aggravated the situation the paper itself has in creased in twice he said and will be reflected In Insulation prices He noted that some stocks have already started to climb and predicted the rest will follow in December At the Beaver Lumber store In Georgetown store manager noted that so Tar the insulation prices have held steady at a carton for sixInch insulation For that price a homeowner could cover about square feet of his attic roof or house walls to he sixInch depth recom mended by the provincial government Mr Castonguay said the major price increase he has noted has been with ver- which will retail for from to a bag That price Is a sharp increase from the cost as recently as one month ago when the price stood at per bag The Beaver store more fortunate than most others in the area has just received a major order of rockwool In resorting to suppliers In the United States through Beaver offices In Toronto OUT OF STOCK He said his store was out of stocks for more than two months before the shipment arrived last week The delay he said resulted from the abrupt Increase In orders We usually order on the amounts we bought In the past year be said and added that only minor fluctuations alter the quantities from year to year winter however the worldwide energy shortage has prompted the enormous In crease Mr could not estimate just how significant that Increase has been so far this winter There been a lot of demand he said But we dont know how much because we havent had the product to meet it The Beaver store Is without vermlculite at the moment but expects a shipment soon Mr however added the qualifying clause that turns up frequently among area guarantee It he said The Herald Home Newspaper of Georgetown Acton and Second Class Mall Registered Number turn WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 1973 Postage Guaranteed Copy Price Fifteen Cents Norval School Gets Axed Democracy Given Its Day No Changes In Policing JULIAN REED turns from the board table at the Hal Ion County Board of Education administration offices in Burlington following his 10 minute presentation urging Herald Photo that Norval School remain open Following his presentation the voted 3 in favor of a recom to close the school Fond Farewell Paid To Acton month away from reality no deadline or timetable has yet been set to move It into Acton Both Judge William Warrender chairman of the regional police force and Glenn Magnuson Georgetown representative on the com mission refused to set a date for the phasing out of the OPP detachment located here Earlier estimates have set two or three years as the period required to replace the but both commissioners implied the time may even be longer than that When the phaseout does begin Judge Warrender said it would be a gradual process Ceremonies were conducted last week to install Burlington Police Chief Ken Skerrett as head of the new force On Thursday Mr Skerrett was sworn in as a constable have a habit of stabbing one in following his resignation from mScpalhSory were sum the poflce Minute marited at Appreciation Night banquet in Acton by area Mr democratically Mr Skerrett said be intended wan kick BullhasprahlhatMr Hunt gave was a final a mmiinlly minded in A Ill According Mr Hum audience tad romedlheltoka em tint recorded In the joining the registry office referring P iiKLffHSJhj Amid concern that the Aclon were J so hack the anonymity of IKS and IBM and up jean Into Joe Hunt area The original hamlet localed councillorelect has predicted here was called Danville The and of our diat Acton may dominate the mini fathers Co that their sons ynnfmed said Directed and tutored by the the Hunt who worked as a Night on Saturday clerk Sat already the province is established wito great talent and to Acti for leadership Green MaUsenttomayorelectTom SENTENCE after he was accepted as a Even though I am a sup- constable Mr Skerrett was porter of regional government appointed chief of the regional predicted the town conditions and to meet the area still has much to look forward personnel He did not say when partially because of the the tour would begin Delay Is Asked But Not Given by JAMIE LAMB reluctant to bring him back The axe fell on School school Assistant last Thursday evening as the director Lavender said in Halton County Board of response to Mr Reeds Education voted to accept a presentation that the effect of recommendation from the optional attendance on Norval assistant director of education ha Meant Emerson Lavender that the students walking to school be closed effective June J hidents being The trustees voted in bused to school He also favor of the recommendation to Mr Reeds accusation by a 12 3 vote gerrymandering Present the meeting held Garry Morton said in in the board administration to presentation building in Burlington was J tarries Norval resident Reed have made I have not detected who pleaded the cose for of opposition to keeping the school open Jt You are voting on the Oakville Dick future or ending the possibility v Mr Reed told the trustees I across the province is see so urge you to look all the op- 5 that produced many good Mr Reed asked the board not He went on to say that to make a decision Thursday answer evening but allow him time to educational problems and organize so he could present opt J alternatives to closure problems closure Burlington trustee Helen Howard Loch urged that the recommendation be tabled in response to Reeds request but there was no seconder and the motion was lost GERRYMANDERING In his 10 minute address Mr Reed accused the board of gerrymandering with the have often wondered J- Hill has been received at the the name was not Greenville fallen of the day and municipal offices here ad M IE ted AKer due dressed to The of Halloa I have concluded thrm Mill Si AC- that that would not been soon chafed wW READ HEN fr red t fij Hauser of the In W office was for the small com people shall be it a sunburned penguin and it was upon a motion made the first postmaster a Mr Robert Swan a nathe of Nor thumberland that the name was changed for the second time on that occasion in honor of the borough of Acton in Pretty Saunders was crouned Miss Snow Queen of the Georgetown and Area OPEN AND CLOSED ACTON CREST Some years later said Mr Hurst the town was presented with the crest of Acton in England and liked it enough to retain it changing only the oak leaves to Maple leaves The still the official emblem the town From 1B44 to im the hamlet remained a part of Esquesing but during those said Mr Hurst A solid foundation was laid for the industrial centre we know today with the establishment of a grist mill in the into the first tannery in a glove factory id ISM and a plow company in 1B75 In response to the need for services to provide for industries located here Acton was incorporated as a Tillage in by the Halton County council In the finally moved from to town status Mr Hurst called the town one of the most cosmopolitan centres to be found anywhere because the mixture of nationalities that have added to the origin Scotch Irish and settlers It would be to rest on our laurels for a said Mr Runt bat be added tins government Is This is a chance to say something that wed really be proud of Mr said He also asked for a recorded vote Trustee Doug Wood said his community north had reluctantly decided to give up its oneroom school and never regretted It though the school had once been the nub of v community In the vote Norval school He noted that only trustees Howard Loch the school was paid for that Dick Goodin and Milton students were able to walk to trustee Ivan Armstrong op- school and that the Decreased posed the closing of the three- enrolment figures were due to room Khool the boards own decision to Following the meeting Mr remove several grades from Heed said the case was now in the hool the hands of the i not here to campaign residents Democracy has for a forced repatriation of had its day here Mr Reed studenuhesaid The board quipped If the residents are has removed kindergarten and not willing to fight he said he grade one from the school would probably exercise Isnt it logical that if a child options which he starts at one school his parents declined to disclose NEWS IN BRIEF FIRST BUILDING of a provincial agricultural museum will be complete by spring of next year W associate director information branch Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food told the Halton Regional Conservation Authority that the provinces more than IS artifacts are waiting to be housed in the museum The building is located in Milton Heights on property adjacent to the Kelso Conservation Area Ola farm machinery tools and steam equipment will be housed in a new home ILDFLOWER SANCTUARY is proposed for Crawford Lake in Township to be sponsored by Gardens Club of Ontario and Nature Conservancy of Ontario A fund of is proposed maintain the sanctuary POLICE IN ACTON are investigating theft of a black and white Board hearing at the municipal the present sewage treatment Asked by chairman television set removed Sunday night from the Eatons store on plant in Georgetown up whether a dual could be Mill Street Police said thieves gained entrance to the store by SMOOCHIN SMITH Snowmobile Club Saturday Georgetown Mayor Bill Smith was on hand to crown Miss Saunders and managed two kisses for the queen Kathy far right a contestant looks on as Mayor Smith demonstrates Herald Photo municipal lip service Other contestants were Lorte Boudreau and Jeanette No Objectors At Sewage Plant Hearing offices in Georgetown morning The hearing to handle 1 million gallons of installed in Georgetown called to hear objections to he waste daily He said the plant Martin replied that it was proposed expansion of the is handling about 1 highly unlikely because of the DAMAGESWEREestimatedatllJOObutthere were no injuries Georgetown sewer treatment million gallons daily sewer system in the older in a collision on Highway near Road Involved were plant heard two speakers John Martin of the ministry section of town and the lack of drivers Kathleen 37 of RR 1 Georgetown and no objections of the told the storm sewers in the newer Kendnck of Nova Scotia chairman the hearing that the new addition to sections He also mentioned municipal board D Jamieson the treatment plant would that there were no surface REGIONAL MEETINGS are scheduled for today This af- to the double the plants capability storm sewer drains in many- there were to be meetings of the Halton Regional Police ti ill ul Rt proposed expansion were allowing cened and resulted from the written ob jections The us the opportunity to crossexamine people with complaints Mr said If the people don come to the there nothing we can do kicking in the front door handle three parts of town but that this Commission n Regional Council in Milton Planning Puts Brakes On Population Georgetown Planning Board Sow the plan and bylaw capacity of the Credit River north of River Drive east and implementing population must be brought into line and Silver Creek to accept west of MounUinvlew Road by reducing density The planning board is seeking treated effluent from the Because no complainants The reason is environmental redes lion of an area around community sewage system J igstoo of the were heard at the the protection and quality of life the downtown core from high General concern of the board OMB approved the plant ex This evening the board has density to low density Such has been population iilL te Minion scheduled a public meeting at action would help curb The at the Of- J However the board did hear the high school to review Of population growth An ex- Plan controlled by control buihSng and to try to two speakers outlining the f Plan amendments The would be vacant or found that the destruction of proposed expansion amendment are required to deteriorated land where the community s population vttfeUOve cover Designation Sfl2KS Firemen Answer Three Calls HAVE SANTA WILL TRAVEL quite but the Georgetown are their annual service of providing Santa costumes to Interested parties for the Christmas season Proceeds from the rental costumes are for the Jacettes ways and means committee Above Bettry four left and Lon Marks four are in the unique position of having two Santas to ask presents from Santas are Mrs Madeline Marks left and Mrs Sharon hie a proposed in tun uk department answered three Essentially the board is designation of the region by the i calls dunng the course of the the Offtcia Plan up to proving limiULioc of board also is Interested past week date The plan dates to present sewage treatment controls in protecting the land known as On Thursday at a car 1954 and it was amended in population curbs are placed at SITUS new U was reported on fire at the As in any plan it is a about the SOW level until a By altering density wplUI would impose Mushroom KWtge treatment program is allowances tbe board has come that would prohibit the Growers Ltd A fire was ex controls operational up with towo nm firemen were called upon to was presented to town council Other areas are to known their objections or extinguish a bulldozer at August of this year Last Roger Frost of the lower density of support so such amendments were made explained that population some revisions upward to Ugh could part of