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THE HERALD Hone Newspaper of Georgetown Acton and Esquesing A Division of Canadian Newspapers Company Limited 103 Main St South Georgetown L7G Ontario RICHARD CAMERON THF Thursday Jan Page MAN OF THE YEAR Hill Heads Halton Hills There s no official Man Of The Year contest in Halton Hills but if there were we would like to suggest that the title go to Tom Hill for Tom is the first mayor of this new municipality Hes the man who is going to be much in the news as the year progresses He snot the entire council of course but he is the chief magistrate of a municipal governing body that is starting off on year one It s going to be a busy year and a tough one and the task of being mayor will be hectic It will take a man with strong shoulders to survive and Tom is just such a man He has to help guide his council through a year of reorganization organization and preparation all operating under the mantle of a regional government that colossus of administration that is also in its beginning for Mayor Hill he adopted that title in full Jan 1 heads a council that serves a much larger area than his former home base of Esquesing Township Halton Hills is an amalgamation of the two former towns of Georgetown and Acton plus The new mayor begins his service knowing that his selection was popular in all three areas Yes it will be a big year a big year fop- accomplishment and probably a big year for problems Because it is a year of beginning one won come without the other Good luck to Tom and his council and if we might make just one request let the media remain informed about council and its conduct Time To Save Time One of the first items of business among many facing the new council of Halton Hills will be the question of daylight saving time Do we or don t we The issue is being created by the United States That nation has decided to turn to daylight saving time to help ease its energy crisis The period of change will come this month when clocks will be set ahead one hour The move as it does in summer will provide an extra hour of daylight in the evenings Ontario has been watching the United States situation with in terest but it is not yet clear if the province will follow suit automatically or leave decision to switch to daylight saving time to each individual municipality For the sake of uniformity the entire province should make the change as should every province in Canada There should be no need to be nettled by the U S move It makes more sense to alter the daylight hours in winter when evening falls about supper time than it does m summer when sunset lingers on until well into the evening Hills council should waste no time making a decision to adopt daylight saving time It is a moot question of course whether daylight saving time will save much energy They system was used during two world wars in Britain and North America ostensibly for the same reason It has never been recorded how much energy was saved then but saving was claimed for its beginning Daylight saving time now however makes sense simply for its realignment of daylight to the general trend of our lives which revolve around the nine hour day from to p Energy saved is a bonus Easy Credit Easy Doom A copy of the October report of the Peel Family Services bureau should be sent to every easy credit pusher in the country The easy credit advocates should shift uncomfortably their chairs at the realization that 32 new cases of families needing credit counselling were opened by the bureau during October Not only that of these families owe an average of and that s not including mortgages Perhaps we can all stand on the sidelines and tell ourselves that these people are simply being irresponsible but that is not the whole story The fact of the matter is that we have allowed these people to get themselves into debt far beyond their ability to ever see the light of day Are there no limitations on credit today Are we not aware of the effect such practices have on individuals and on society as a whole Firstofall the fact that people are seeking the help of a social service agency is good indication that are suffering That only part of the tale Such agencies tell us that the root of most marital difficulties is in finances The easy money game is destroying society and our economy Suddenly everyone READERS FORUM wants what the fellow next to him has No matter that the fellow next door has worked years longer to acquire his fine house and good car we all want the same thing without the effort or responsibility As a matter of fact we would be willing to bet that more credit is extended on a per capita basis today in any given period than the average person earns in the same If anything is destroying our economy it is this fact that we are producing and selling goods at an enormous rate to consumers who worth a cent in real monetary value We are in complete sympathy with the merchant or the manufacturer caught in this spiral we must produce more to offset rising costs and costs rise because we produce more The chain has to be broken somewhere and we suggest if it was broken at the point where we said no to those obviously unable to afford luxury items on credit this step would make more sense than any wage or price freeze Credit is obviously a necessary part of our lues today but it has never been worked into an exact science which specifies who may or may not have credit at a specific time Brampton Times Resident Likes Article Dear Sir This letter will confirm my congratulations to Gordon Green for his Interesting article re THE LAST DAYS I too firmly believe we arc indeed living in hose last days by reason of world events which parallel the signs given to us by our Lord in Matthew Luke I was a little apprehensive at the photo of two Jehovah witnesses on the same page selling their magazines which proclaim the same message but hardly prepared by the violent bombshell which landed on my doorstep today Mr Editor forgive me if say you made a colossal blunder In putting those people In Ihe same category Christian Clergy How could you Even if they arc proclaiming the same message the chain reaction to the inquiry by Paul Egerton re THE LAST DAYS brought a letter from me and one from Ed Peters This in turn prompted on Inquiry by Gordon Green Into the beliefs of several Christian Clergy who oil agreed to the Last Days for Your photo brought violent reaction the form of what is nothing short of hate leaflets and this at lime when most people are striving to remember the glad tidings of peace on earth goodwill to men Since God s word does not ell us the exact date I feel he most important thing about it is that we do remember the miracle of the son of God coming as As well as His redeeming blood being shed for us on the Satan himself could not have devised a better way to disrupt the glad tidings than a leaflet with the Question Has religion betrayed God and Man It very first Item reads Religion be a real force for pence on earth My answer is peace Is not gained by hate leaflets Oh Yes 1 agree there are a few rotten apples In the barrel among our Religious leaders as in other organisations and who of us can claim am without sin Or I am infallible Intelligent people v ill soon the phony for they always themselves sooner or later In 7 re read Beware of false prophets which come to you in clothing but in they are ravening wolves much suspect hat leaflet v ill prove to be more harmful to the writers than to those they aimed at Safety Act Labor Minister Fern said today that changes In The Construction Safety Act a revision of The Workmen Compensation Act and amendments to The Employment Standards Act marked the major of 1973 for the of Labor The year has not slipped by without its share of strikes lockouts and other labor problems he said However I am sure when statistics are complied at the end of the year they will show the number of man days lost compare favorably with last year Beat Squirrels To Cone Crop Teams of boys from ministry of correctional services St Joseph s School in Alfred have saved the day and thousands of future Ontario trees before red squirrels made oft with an entire crop of red pine seed cones from and Russell Counties acre La rose Forest St home for more than so called problem boys from all over nro luce was given Job of picking the cones after no one responded to the contact offered publicly by forest supervisor Merrill Rush The boys ages 11 to started picking just In time Hordes of red squirrels had struck and the Cornwall District of Ihe ministry of natural resources eastern region was faced with losing Its entire seed cone crop from a special seed production in Cam Happier Holidays Are Safe Holidays DONT GO BARKING UP THE WRONG TREE BILL SMILEY A Reading Newspapers Becomes Addiction Reading newspapers is an addiction with some people If paper boy is late ihey start and trow If for some he show up it all nth a happy is a boozer if a barrel of bingo Holding weeklies is different matter You only read front pae tooth This ipplics lo readers weeklies is well as dailies Weekly newspaper readers ire a mild and untie on the But when heir paper doesn arrive on time they urn into roaring lions or lionesses as case may be weekly editor will me up on this When 1 wis a weekly editor I regularly rccived ferocious letters from dear old ladies staling flatly that paper wasn t worth cents a week but since they had paid for a year I d darn well better sec hit it was delivered on time I know how they feel I m one of those addicts men tlogcd in my opening paragraph I take two daily papers and half a dozen weeklies If even one of them doesn arrive on time not fit to live with NO PAPP The only time I inn get along without papers is when 1 m camping in the wilds hen the first morning or two I m greatly tempted to leap Into car and drive thirty mites to buy a paper It takes me couple of days dry out Its not thai there is anything particularly in the paper The front page of the dallies Is junk and can be scanned in three minutes Then I jump which is only about per cent junk Then I read a couple of columns leap to the en critics scan the sports page and It all over I ignore the financial section and the women pages which I think are on Insult to WORDS In half an hour I ve skimmed several thousand words and am no better off or happier than when I began Stupid t If But you might as well try to tell an alcoholic that drinking is stupid He agree and soon as your back is turned have a couple stiff ones to steady his A rcadoholic too will agree that he need that morning pick me up And taemnmentyaur back is turned he s peering the window for the paperboy twitching in every nerve he s got his head in the garbage pail absorbed a story in ihe newspaper the garbage is wrapped in I tried lo get the monkey off m bock First step was to shut m eves while brushing teeth This meant I would not be reading the directions on the toothpaste lube in French and English during the operation I lasted two davs before I was sneaking peeks Last summer in England I thought I might kick the habit After ill I Interested in Britain disasters divorces ind football pools which took up most of space I read a single paper morning having breakfast in bed I felt as helpless and frustrated as a man who has just lost both arms Second morning and thereafter I sneaked down to the lobby before breakfast arrived bought an armful of papers went bock to room and lav there reading slo but nth slight addition to his toilet in the of tor and feathers This demonstration of wis iccompinled by request that greater interest There names of old friends Ihcir ehildrens in irnates dealhs that There pretty running account of wants in the old home town No sen little stories People helping people Inside the paper the classifieds make good reading That because you know half Ihe people who are seeing i lot or buying baby carnage or advertising that they will no longer be responsible for their wifes And then there the writing of the country e no n dents Some of it is priceless and personal Here an item my brother sent me and I d like to share it It appeared in the Mi doe Review in the Years Ago Rev of the Apostolic Church was tendered i warm though not unexpected reception on Tuesday evening when several citizens of the town and district waited on him at ihe close of evening service with cars and treated him to dnvC in the country Ian ding finally at Andersons Island where they treated him lo still further generosity by making i It his jot making tricks the heels toward Stirling or i still display of feeling I by nil present Mr could to be taken by surprise as he had been warned of what might happen to him and in faet on evening of list week some little was mode to earry out this same program but the generous use of firearms prevented the iffair being pulled off Mr has been in Stirling for a couple of years and claimed lo be i filth Now there is the kind of style elegant but incisive that you II never find in daily paper Bible Verse But rose up to flee unto from the of the lord ind went down to Joppa he found ship going to so he paid the fare thereof ind went down into it to go with them into Tdrstush from the presence of the I Jonah Most of us usually hive better idei or a substitute motion when surprises us with an assignment not to our liking Obedience is better than snerifice The officers stationed at Milton detachment of the Ontario Provinciol Police and staff extend to everyone a wish that this will be best and safest holiday season yet and that the Joys of the season will last throughout the coming year In an effort to make sure that we happy and trouble free the officers offer a collective assortment of safely tips Drivers Snow sleet and freezing rain mean toss traction When you add that to the other hazards of the winter driving season you ve got problems So take it easy Reduce speed especially when curves intersections all bridges rnilwoy crossings and other critical spots Remember you can t make i fast stop on a slippery road Now that the winter season is here many motorists wilt or should be mounting snow tires on their cars The OP reminds drivers for safe driving fit alt four wheels with the same type of tire bias don t intermix Nursing Home Rates Rising Ministry of health has announced that nursing home operators ire being idvised of approved rite inereiscs effective Januiry l The need for the increase is related to the new minimum rates Jin l and to other increased operating costs The per diem rates paid to nursing homes become from present and for homes for special intermediate care residents They from present ill Ontario Health Insurince I Inn will cover Si or the increase in nursing home rates the eligible resident over years of age will be responsible for the additional 50 cents per tor children under years of age pays the entire SI per day rate In addition accommodation rates tiny up to cents per or an allowable limit of per Private for famine ind rehabilitation in the Sdel region of West Africa Senegal Mall Nicr ind hid ind wis innounccd today by the Division World Outreach The United Church of ECHOES FROM THE PAST 10 A year veteran of the Georgetown volunteer fire department lewis was elected fire chief for Mr Lewis served as deputy chief under Bob Bon field who held the post for four years fulfilling an election promise Georgetown Mayor Joseph Gibbons said in his Inaugural address that he would serve his council term without accepting annual mayoralty stipend of Nuclear arms opponents staged silent march into Georgetown and Acton protesting icquisitlon of nuclear wcipons for Gary Moffat publicity director the area of protest en compassed the region that would be devastated by fire if an atom bomb were to fall on son of Mr and Mrs Georgetown was included in a list of persons who would receive awards or from the Canadian Humane He and niece Kalhv of New I rescued a four old from lower paper mill dim Members of Ihe North Halloa Club took to indoor racing it the home of Keith Hunter top course for grand racing was laid in the The four I me track v is fee in length of a Nona Motion native inidnii to the Soviet is soon involved itson minister to Mr hid experience as a affaire in Moseow hton it was i pr jiuert A Brampton man Dive Corbelt is chosen as vice president Harold Henderson gave Ills surprise present when he irnved home In Georgetown from Korea Just in turn to I in is dnv on Normnndv Tpi arrived In Canada with other members of William and Jack Harlow were elected chief and deputy chief respec lively of the Georgetown volunteer fire department Clarence ipence served is secretary of the man brigade Economy was the keynote of an Inaugural address by Georgetown Mayor Jock At the same lime the mavor said that necessary civic provements would not suffer and he referred to a addition water sewer extensions and a continuing program of sdewalk improvements II- Record crowd attended he annual fireman s Ball at the arena in Georgetown Don 1 Harry Smngs William Hyde Walter Hyde Jack Ritchie Jack llurlow Jack Tost William Jnmcs and Robert looked after he preparations Training of Canadian paratroopers by Kemshead of Georgetown stationed at Man hen he spoke to Branch of the Legion He was visiting in Georgetown with his sister Mrs G Norton introduced uniform rural rates begin in and advertising In The Herald proclaimed the revised structure which meant a saving in electricity costs for farm operators Inboard of since the fall of Singapore in 1J42 Jock sent word to his parents in Acton Mr and Mrs that he wis a prisoner of war in Thailand Bell manager or Georgetown Clay Products Ltd enlisted in the Royal Canadian Air He began In raining in Dell was elected chairman of the hoard of parks management a council appointed body in Georgetown Dor nine was retained as manager bias belted bias or radial ply tires This applies to snow tires as well If your regular fit bias snow tires on the rear wheels Tests have shown that Ihe intermixing of tires can cause a fishtalling weiving condition Remember for safety a soke never intermix tire types on your car Drivers When driving in falling snow after dark turn off those high beams Alwiys ase the low beam instead The low beam on your headlights lights the road ahead below the falling snow High beams Ml Hie white snow flakes create a vision reducing dazzle effect So remember in falling snow at night always use your low beams to give better visibility and help yourself to see boiler what Motorists your car has automatic transmission never leave children tended in he car with the engine running even in park or neutral position Remember a small child likes to imitate his parents actions and if your parking I t properly your child can start the car moving lowirds an almost certain collision tor safely sake turn the car off ind take your keys with you bridge Township Every year certain natural resources districts are called upon to collect seed cones from various conifer species and ship them in bags to the Ontario tree seed plant In Angus Here the cones are dried on screens until they open up and drop the seeds at the base of the cone petals After rcrlgcratcd storage the seeds eventually are to produce seedlings or the ministry massive tree planting operation across the province Armed with aluminum ladders supplied by the headquarters the St Joseph boys working In groups of two managed to pick nine hectolitres before the middle of October The group of pickers op proximately a dozen boys at a time was brought to by bus from the school every Tuesday and Wednesday afternoon and all day Saturday for a month The twoman picking teams then took urns holding the ladder and climbing up Into the branches The hard working boys nude a total of which Was divided among them according to their snare In the harvest and deposited In accounts kept for them at the school Jacques Tourangeau a St Joseph boys junior division supervisor welcomed the chance to get some of his charges out of the classroom and into a working situation where they were given responsibility Its not the first time students at St Joseph s have worked for natural resources Last winter they helped plan and cut a mile ind a half long crosscountry ski trail in the forest The school also brings out groups frequently for nature study classes and exercises in bush survival and woods lore We re Very pleased with Ihe boys work and are thinking of giving them a contract next year natural resources Cornwall district manager Richard Morin Hebicide Antidotes To Prevent Damages Today high crop yields depend on the selective me herbicides but there hove been problems in their safe use In sonic cases they have to be used at such high rates to control weeds that the crops arc or killed Research scientists at the Ontario Agricultural College have been studying his problem in order to find a selective antidote or be used safely a herbicide Working with and i chemical known as J- Chang and J Bin deen of the Department of Crop Science and G It Stephenson of En have found he chemical when added prior to seeding is i seed coaling or mixed with herbicide reduces I- PTC damage in susceptible crops The primary ad vantage of the antidote is that it removes the danger of herbicide injury and proves the effectiveness of herbicides savs Professor Ban dec In growth studies with corn sorghum winter rape turnip white beans and our weed species green foxtail lamb and rtdroot pigweed rates of PTC were applied both with and QUEEN S PARK without the protection or Corn the experiment was injured by all rates of 1- PTC but when used in conjunction with 25788 the symptoms were reduced or did not appear With the addition of the chemical herbicide injury was also reduced In sorghum Winter rape turnip and white beans were more tolerant to EPTC although severe damage did occur R showed no protective effect in these species The studies ilso showed that the did not reduce the effectiveness of EPTC on weeds Research is continuing but results so far indicate that herbicide antidotes may expand the use of herbicides on difficult weeds Higher rales may be used control semi weeds without gambling on crop injury The antidote will prevent crop injury with as well as with Eptam In 1973 some damage was found in fields using Sutan Trade names for the products containing the antidote will be plus and plus antidote All new Sutan plus slocks for 1974 will contain the antidote to prevent corn injury by this herbicide Criticism Helpful Its Freely Given TORONTO this time of good cheer a word for those manv critics who have sent ilong their feelings over he I It be sold that no matter whether they ire opposed they are predated they are valuable lor none of has omnipotence and writer certainly knows it We all can learn from each other and pro and con discourse is one of he great srtnghs of our system By for the greatest number of critics have been from he world of education Tcichers have not taken kindly o many of my remirks To this profession I would soy this time that the comment I have made has hopefully been from a detached viewpoint in the sense at least that any of us can be really detached Perhaps I have been wrong Many teachers have written to say hat their two months off really is not a vacation but Is spent following university courses or other improvement programs Or that their professional development days year arc compulsory This may be so But on my persona observation and experience It Bui if it really some convincing evidence would be welcome For the teaching world is made up of many fine people But I do believe it has built a reputation as a very self centered and selfish group And if I am wrong and have been incorrectly In pre ting for you then by all means give me the am munition to correct it Then there are the other people some of whom have pointed out errors which have been corrected and others who themselves have been in error In this latter group there are hose who have objected o favorable comment I have made on the Increase in indemnities for members These people rage at what they declare to be 10 per cent to per cent boosts In pay voted for themselves by the members They Ignore that this la the first raise these members have had in six years And if properly prorated In creases would be from one and a half per cent to a bit better than three per cent Let me only say that it is humanly impossible to be completely knowledgeable and fair When I am not I ap preciate hearing about It as much as any incidental compliments that may come along And happy holiday