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THE HERALD Home Newspaper of Halton Hills A Division of Canadian Newspapers Company Limited Main St South Georgetow L7G Ontario RICHARD CAMERON March 19J1 A COMMUNITY SPIRIT Phoenix Among The Ashes You all remember barn raisings You remcber reading about those things how many of us have ever attended one They were the social events of the year Members of the farming community would arrive at a neighbor farm and by day end behold a barn would stand The men aided by the boys would raise the timbers while the ladies rallied round with food and beverage and the girls vied for the most colorful clothes And following the raising was a feast often set on long tables outdoors with the host presiding over the assemblage proposing a toast to the new barn and the community that built it It all sounds like a fairy tale doesn if The spirit that brought these people together the com munity feeling and respect for one neighbor todav seem like the magic of or Winnie the Pooh enchanting and imaginary But take heart The spirit that once marked the barn raisings yore is and living the country It has just taken a form and a different timing A barn owned by Mr and Mrs Dave Anderson of RR 1 Terra Cotta was recently destroyed by fire Now the destruction of any building by fire is a terrifying spectacle by any standard but the loss of a barn is a terrible blow to farmer The barn houses feed and animals and these make up a farmer s livhhood Fortunately for the Andersons the head of cattle housed in the barn were removed without injury before the roof crashed to the floor And it was through the efforts of the neighbors that allowed the animals to escape the burning barn the silver lining of a very dark cloud Its something that happen in the country Mrs Anderson said Farmers know the loss of a barn is a life and death affair and they pitched in tremendously The men all helped fighting the fire and moving the animals out of the barn and women prepared food and drink for the firemen Of course re unhappy about losing the barn but its a nice feeling to know vou can depend on your neighbors for help As I sa it something that happens in the country Feel like selling vour city duplex moving to the country What About Norval Water Spring is fast approaching and some people of Norval must be wondering what progress is being made to solve the problem of water pollution in their community The matter rests with the regional council whose works committee is looking into it The committee will have to come before council with a of action In the interests of public health the committee should waste no time deciding what the road to solution should be Because much of the pollution afflicts wells for drinking water solution is bound to involve municipal distribution and in that regard the committee will to determine how best this can be brought Residents were vociferous last fall about their problem they were told the rcgioml government would tike care of them They expect some answer and soon It should be forthcoming with haste Theyre Off And Running Streaking It could be the rust on car or the coloration in your wife hair but this spring its something else It s a new college fad or a reworked old one where students dash naked across campus or through the streets or into dorms or lAhit have vou Whatever the psychological implications and personally we believe it s nothing more than youthful exuberance the fad is on and rapidly But we don expect it to spread to our local high schools or schools College age seems to be the time when the are determined to make their own decisions and prove thev can re decisions of maturity thev re setting out to reveal the truth And if it appears to be old hat voung people why not contemplate something a little differenf Pierre Ins an idn Put clothes on and race through nudist colony Support This Tourney For the week of March 16 through March Georgetown is the location for one of Canada finest hockey tourneys the Annual Georgetown Bantam Hockey Tournament Some teams from Canada and the United States will compete for top honors in this Kinsman sponsored event which brings only good publicity for Georgetown And good publicity for Georgetown is something that will become increasingly harder to find these next few years High taxes regional government the GO train system all are among the most mixed of blessings but a rip- QUEENS PARK Army Infiltrates Into Government Queens of The Herald TORONTOHalf a league halt a league Half a league onward There has been mention ere is the past of Ihe gradual infiltration of the army into the government service On retired service officers who have been landing up is cushy Jobs with the province The infiltration has now reached new depths It has worked its way into the premiers office Itself The announcement has been made that Col James A McPhee Is joining he personal staff of Premier Davis With the apparent capacity of staff officer In charge of Ihe press WHAT TO DO Just what Col Is to do has been a matter of considerable curiosity In eluding one can suspect by colonel himself There has been no definitive word on the matter There already Is one press officer In the premier office In the person of Don Don is remaining with specific relations with the media So Col presumably comes in somewhere above this He will handle relations with higher eminences Say when Mr Davis feels need speak to God he will line this up NO JOB who is and retired a few years ago us head of public relations for Ihe services in the Toronto area is known at a pretty good person As such be probably deserves sympathy For while Davis and the cabal around from he start have fell they should have some form of super r In their ranks they have never seemed too certain as to why Initially C Cam McDonald was seconded from Western University at a to try and fill this job Cam tended to find it was a job and has now moved Into Ministry or Industry and Tourism Mr McPhee takes his whack at it His perhaps not to reason why But Just to do and ro hockey tourney is something to be appreciated The name Georgetown appears on sports pages all across the country and from cities and towns get a chance to sec what Georgetown has to tiffer in the way of sport Georgetown is fortunate enough to have a Kinsmen Club that cares about sportsmanship and people that care enough to organize the event and players from two countries that have enough to compete for top honors in high level competition Let hope the people of Georgetown care enough about their town to get out and support the tournament Ontario Leader In Drug Packaging Ontario is the first North American jurisdiction to enact law requiring child resistant pickaglng for prescription drugs The new Ontario law became effective January 1 and requires package manufacturers to have their product certified as child resistant by the Canadian Standards Association iCSA Packaging must pass a rigorous scries of tests to qualify The Associations Committee on Child Resistant packaging for Drugs is made up of mem representing the federal government the provincial governments of Onlario and Manitoba and he Toronto Hospital for Sick Children pharmacists have been informed which packages ore certified but may supply regular packaging If customers ask for it Persons who suffer from arthritis or other physical handicaps or do not have children in their homes may find packaging advantageous The committee Is currently Investigating child resistant containers for liquid medicines and other household Items such as cleaners and aerosol spray Power Shortages Could Lie Ahead fj FIRE DESTROYED THE ANDERSON BARN s BILL SMILEY The Old Bandits Were Colorful Have noticed the big change in the world of big capitalism in the past couple decide The personnel In Inner sanctum hiah finance is just as piratical as bat of baron djys but the things the heel and deal in ire different The bad old boys he Fords and the Rockefellers the J P Morgans and Carncgies were of finanet and a unscrupulous lot from accounts dtalt with solid tangible islets steel and coal nil and Their techniques were roughly similar Get hold of something is as possible and dispose of it for as much is possible never pa working man more thin the absolute minimum A simple formula hut it piled up mil ions then billions their names are connected with philan but when they were their names produced more curses than blessings They fought he unions bitterly Tncy bribed and bullied and stole Thev laughed a he idea ill at their depredations wire destroying he ecology They d have had apoplexy if someone suggested something as ridiculous as It probably just as well the gont though ihey were colorful lot of bandits Today entrepreneurs seem to be as arrogant greedy ruhless things they deal in have changed almost completely Dinks ind railways and airlines ire still highly profitable but they arc no longer the financial playthings of a Tew men They hive become ex tcedingly dull huge bureaucrat les with little life or color m them Oil The new breed of banditti clear of hem Oh modern whctler might lake i flurry in oil but its more likely to be floating a stock issue than getting the stuff out or the ground Todiy financial magnate- is far more interested in half sports and entertainment than he is in just old things like mines ind such Ik still goes where the big buck is but the action has changed Nowadays he more likely to own a prize fighter or a string of horses than a chunk of a copper mine Todays big money is in publishing radio and television andsports And the really big money is time financier would have been stunned ind envious tould he see the doubling and tripling of money in he and selling of plain old land So in he areas men honed that find the modern sharks in large schools gobbling up little ind regurgitating hem for all he slightly large big change is in the publicity involved The magnates of estoryear were very close mouthed They kept their private lives as secluded is possible retreated to vast homes and tried to keep he press irms length Today maggots oops a re ltd tan slip gh ry In Ihe limelight Tiny ire never happier than when they hive Hit media speculating about They manipul lie press ill tvery story pic drives up the price of whaicverlhey reselling is also great or the ego They 11 call press con Terence to discuss i pending Deration for an incjown toenail I- the greatest man of them all would with jealousy if he could sec the way some f modern ton artists use trick he ever knew and some they to people watching bird rale sporK team r third rate prize fight There one of grtal scramble or the that has drastically That the relationship wilh the people wi for the big dealers In the bad when fain supreme it was he ic custom to grind me worker down indsweit the lift blood out him to wring the las profil the worm has tumid particularly in sports ifyou i prett good athlete is i boss through the wringer on he face of J Morgan if someone could tell him hat athlefes mere bodies were pulling in salaries In six figures This last aspect would seem lo be a matter for sheer jov for most of us watching tin bosses being squeezed tin workers It won dous iny fellow sucker The boss will raise the price of There Is certainty of power shortages for Ontario If Ontario Hydro continues run into delays and con difficulties in filing approvals of its system expansion program J Gordon Hydro general manager told the Ontario Energy Board Mr Gordon was appearing for second time before the board In the first of three stages of hearings in Toronlo He was being cross examined by two special groups Pollution Probe and Sierra Club of Ontario and by he Ontario Municipal Electric Association Replying to questions about he conservation of related to hydro forecast of electrical needs in the 1930s Mr Gordon suited that the cannot be developed on what some people may like to sec happen but on what Hydro believes from ill available information demand for electricity will be by 19B2 general manager stated hat public hearings will be held on each in dividual generating site that has been included in Hydro proposed program He safd purpose of the public participation process was to endeavour to get public input for facilities which hydro requires Earlier in the week hydro witnesses explained the need for immediate approval of several transmission line routes Smith hydro director of system planning said hat delays of up to six months could cost hydro as much as million Arthur Hill manager of hydro generation concepts department called for mediate approval of the generation program He told board that because of world wide steel shortages firm commitments for equipment and material are required by mid year He estimated that the contracts which will have to be awarded by summer will be in excess of million The first phase of he hearings may end late this week Beginning April 1 the second phase of hearings which deals with hydros financial policies and will begin Phase three hydro rale is expected to June 1 OCONNORS OTTAWA n and nickel of his own Sounds like the govern it When costs htm more the raise taxes to pay for the increases When every costs us more raise the taxes as a curb against inflation in line sucker for the next increase in price of with all heir hulls I like the old bandits bitter Indian Education In Need Of Change Do American In duns have educational opportunities to become self sufficient independent and able to function in and Indian major problem facing hose interested in Indian iduntlon has been the lack f information on what has accomplished in his fit Id Three years ago he Ontario Teachers Ftdcration helped to fill the gap with the publication of first He lev of Indian Education in North rtscirched ind wnttm by social Hope ttilh considerable ntw informnlion on Cimda now available thetidcrallon has published a revised edition The section of ihe book is unchanged In the book Miss McLean analyzes the success of educational programs for Native people on ihe basis of tommunit and parental involvement flexibility and choice of learning methods relevance of curriculum motivation inspiration and lung term commitment concludes radical change is necessary if In dians arc become in dependent and self sufficient rather than merely main taming or slightly improving present of education Indians must ihe right to moke their iwn mistakes and win their own iMoncs Miss McLean says The cannot be any more wrong than whites have been READERS FORUM Regional Feelings Sir Hit annus f Hilton Hills ina nut issumi Hit ilintion was in Hid an vU Hit public i new system untried and untested with the imprissini lint this is i It isbicominjncrtasin v that are a great man shortcomings and some of us who sid a thought if losing should express our feelings Tin change is nol irrevi cable although it hit ininaingl dif ficult change is timt We in I ifford the sivinswi arc nuking under the Si stand up lountcd if you would like to lo Georgetown or Hit Piter Jines Georgetown The Parliamentary Intern Program on Parliament Hill is successful experiment which provides annually to en young Canadians a unique look at politics from the inside The program gives university graduates most often political science students an opportunity to supplement thur theoretical knowledge of Parliament with the practical experience of the day today work of while providing selected backbenchers with research and constituency work assistance In the initiative of Hates MP Wellington led to the of the program in 1M9 Currently fourth group of interns ire on the Hill Under the program ten selected male and female sludmtsof over 300 plicinls are assigned to an backbencher for months and to a government member for he other five months Actually because of demand for htm the interns usually do the from among four or five who hive applied am fortunate at present to a voung political science graduate from he of Calgary assisting me wilh an ever increasing volume of con stiluenc and parliamentary work He does specth departmental on riding problems draft replies to and anything else hat requires attention including occasionally getting the toffee On he other hand he benefits from intense in in he daily operation of M offices the House of Commons and he committees Well some people think that a benefit The interns arc also sent on annual trips to Toronto Quebec City Washington and I to observe he operation respectively of the Legislatures Congress and Senate seminars are held throughout the year in Ot with various per such as he Governor General the Prime Minister the Speaker of he House and Party leader The program lis financed by a group of ten Canodian Life Insurance companies donating a total of annually and the Canada Council which provides These funds pay expenses and small salaries to he students The idea has become so papular that several Legislatures in Canada will shortly commence similar programs including Ontario and Quebec Anyone wanting in formation about the program should write to anadian Political Science Parliamentary Internships University of Ottawa Ottawa Ontario If ou have a problem idea comment criticism or simply wish to in touch mi please stop by my riding office at Kerr Fran Barnes Georgetown Firm Gets Contract A Georgetown firm and a Milton firm have been awarded federal contracts totalling Associates of Canada I d Georgetown Will receive for manufacturing electron wink Hand Chemical Industries Ltd of Milton will be paid Tor he production of ammunition and txplosives The contracts were an in the latest weekly bulletin of business op portumtics published by the Department of Supply and Services The two orders are among 196 unclassified contracts inch worth or more awarded to Canadian Total value of these con track placed on behalf of various federal departments and agencies was 342 the bulletin says ECHOES FROM THE PAST ID force winds struck Georgetown knocking down a concrete block wail at Smith and Stone and demolishing a roof on a warehouse il Hilltop Farms at Georgetown Roman Catholics decided to go ahead with a new building Seven hundred scat building was proposed with a separate baptismal Rev wis chairman of the building com mil tee Steve Jackson won the Branch 120 Canadian Legion trophy for being the most player in he Saturday Morning Hockey League Earlier he had won the J Armstrong trophy for being the best goalie in the NHL Gerald Corbett was named campaign chairman for he Red Cross in Georgetown A Nassagaweya girl Jennifer Andrews of School Grade won the Canadian Ltgion trophy lop award in he number one Inspectorate public speaking held in the auditorium of Public School Beatles were the rage in the Hornby area A even arrived o pick up milk for processing He was Ken Barker who made blonde Boo tie wig and singing songs made famous by the group 0 mean dust and noise hey complained Council replied that the track itself would not be used for races and asked the Motorcycle Club ensure that cycles were cleared off streets as early as possible each evening School number nine organized a committee to the school grounds Names as chairman was Sheldon with Fred Biggs as vice chairman former in who became a feature for Toronto Telegram Jim was a of the W SO Club of St church Hi spoke about the political in British Guiana which he had visited for scries of irtlclei Terry reported from Georgetown High School thai rthearsils were progressing for he I0 and B production our tin Chnstini There was enough Giehc dialect with a Scotch twist to moke learning lines difficult Insp Bob of Ontario Provincial Pollcewasi guest of Georgetown Lions when he spoke about highway safely Traffic problems were the biggest problems facing the force in Its Ontario operations ho old the Pilot Officer McKeown of Acton received notice of his promotion to Flying Officer Promotion came through while he was overseas with the Mr and Mrs Will hosted the Terra Colin Federated Farm Clubs for March meeting Two hundred guests attended a social evening sponsored by Junior and held in the parish hall Jim Carney president of boys group was chairman John Bird led group singing Harris county organizer announced formation or a Canadian Schools Financial Corps for sale of war savings stamps to pupils of schools In Halton County Per capita goal was cents which would give receipts of from Georgetown and 108 from Acton residents of reported to The Herald thai robins were returning for ihe spring Council received six applications Tor position of night constable but decided to old a decision until a special meeting could be held In two weeks time THE CONSERVATIVE ALARM CLOCK