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The Herald Home Newspaper of Hills Second Clan Mall Registered Number THE HERALD WEDNESDAY JUNE 1174 Return Postage Guaranteed IT SO per year Single Copy Price Fifteen Jury Accepts Insanity In Acton WifeSlaying Not guilty by reason of in sanity was the verdict handed down to a yearold MlssUsagua man here Monday after a Jury deliberated minutes on the charge of capital murder Thomas Gilerest Bourke of Council Ring Rd pleaded not guilty to the charge of stabbing his 21 year old wife Colleen to death on May 1973 In her Acton apartment Both the crown attorney Larry Owen and the defence lawyer Edward Greenspun summed up his case to the Jury by noting that I hope you will time of the killing and Colleen was seeing another man On a number of occasions they were suppose to get together again but she always backed out Until Colleens death tried to convince her to return with him and forget the other man He visited her on May with the other man but later returned to discuss their problems After the killing turned himself in at the Milton station and gave the statements The first statement when he admitted the killing Aim In Life Lost SUMMERTIME GAL Herald Photo Bonnie Bryan of Drive loves to spend the summer soaking up the sun After working in all summer Bonnie plans to take a trip down through the southern United States and relax on an Island in the Gulf of Mexico Improve Recycling Plans GPP Requests of Council Halton Hills landfill sites have a gloomy future unless town council begins an improved program to recycle paper glass and tin wastes reported the Georgetown Pollution Probe last Tuesday John Mitchell of probe presented a brief to council outlining a number of proposals and recommended that council circulate flyers containing details of preparation of materials for recycling Landfill cannot remain the method of disposal of garbage in the proportion that it la now This la a problem which not going to disappear its getting worse each year he ex plained Mr Mitchell also noted that a works department report suggested that council en courage residents to begin recycling certain products You refused to institute a paper pickup with the garbage collection and have disc on the pickup of cardboard from commercial establish ments he complained The longer you adhere to the disposal by landfill the more you contribute to the degradation of this scenic area and the reduction of Its amenity value to the residents Mr Mitchell added However his comments did not agree with the thoughts of each councillor Coun Em Hyde noted that often with this type of proposal economics l NEWS IN BRIEF MRS DOROTHY CALDER of Prince Charles In Georgetown called police and requested assistance In removing a small dog from her swimming pool The dog had made its way into the pool and could not get out again Police were successful in their at tempt to help the dog out A PUMP ACTION Winchester trap gun and a calibre Remington Nylon were reported stolen from a house on Delrex Blvd In Georgetown The thief apparently gained entrance throughabasementwindow The approximate value of the stolen items is KT5 TORONTO DOMINION has alerted police about a Cbargex card believed to be stolen which has been used to make purchases from several stores in Georgetown The card was originally issued to a resident of Toronto LETTER OF RECOLLECTION formed the final decision Its highly impractical at this time to do the things that arc proposed tonight he remarked the collection of bottles we can afford to get involved in the collection Coun Morrow was upset with the works committee for dropping the cardboard collection He wanted to know why it was dropped and why now a private firm does the collection Was it because It was making money he asked If the municipality was making money we were on the right road Council agreed to discuss the matter of waste management policy In the committee of the whole No Inference Meant In Article An item in The Herald last week may have left the In Terence with some readers that not all Georgetown automotive dealers are sincere No such inference which may have been drawn by the fact of omission was Intended The Item in question was carried as a supplement to the advertisement of one automotive dealer in the Hills Review The Herald apologizes to oil Georgetown automotive dealers not mentioned In the Item for any embarrassment however unintentional which may have been caused find him not guilty by reason of Insanity it our only defence Do not feel he 11 walk away a free man but hell be taken to a where be treated he explained By rendering a verdict of not guilty by reason of insanity you re not only rendering mercy youre fulfilling your duty as Jurors Mr said Mr Owen also asked for the same verdict He noted that Bourke was not mentally responsible for his actions I suggest accept the evidence of the three doctors he said The crowns psychiatrist Dr Basil Orchard outlined to the Jury the procedure If Bourke was found not guilty by reason of insanity He told the court that treatment for s depressed condition was usually a long process of treatment for depression and tension As the depression Is released Bourke will become more aware of what he has done and as he becomes more aware hell continue to slip back into a depression The whole treatment could take five years perhaps longer he explained Orchard added that the treatment would be carried out at the hospital in He described it as a prison where the security such that weve only had two escapes in 30 years The doctor agreed with statements Issued by the two defence psychiatrists ding the state of Bourke s mind prior to Including and since the killing He told the court that he had examined Bourke on May 13 1974 While he is fit to stand trial I found him very depressed with no ability to project his thoughts on his future He lost his aim In tire and his feeling of love Orchard explained psychiatrist pointed out that during the almost four hours of examination Bourke showed signs of a agitation depression and anxiety He added that the accused tended to jump from one topic to another At the time of his killing believe Bourke was unable to appreciate the quality of his acts Orchard said He was suffering from depression not just sadness but depression so bad that at times he became psychotic and lost touch with reality He added that was able to relate details of the actions to police during the night because the Immediate Impact of his act brought him into an awareness of It The crown used evidence by Inspector John McPherson of the Ontario Provincial Police Criminal Investigation background Information and allowed him to read three statements which Bourke gave during the night of the killing inspector explained the Bourke were separated at the I killed my wife I stabbed her In front of the children the inspector read She cheated on me and she deserved It I Stabbed her so many times in front of the children She kept screaming and screaming and screaming and kept digging it In A pathologist s autopsy report confirmed the belief that Colleen died of multiple stab wounds In the upper body with wounds were completely through the body Two of the defence witnesses called by Mr Greenspun were psychiatrists Dr Peter Rowsell consulting psychiatrist at the Trafalgar Memorial Hospital and Jerry Cooper chief psychiatrist at the York Finch General Hospital Dr Rowsell told the court that he Interviewed the accused twice once May 1973 and the other on February He said he agreed with the findings of the crown psychiatrist Dr Orchard Cooper believes the breaking point was the night of the killing when Bourke had visited his wire with the other man and realized that didnt want him or did not want to return to him Ml ALL CANDIDATES MEETING fiSffefli ft THREE can didates spoke before the Georgetown Council of Women at St Georges Anglican Church lost Friday afternoon at an all can dldates meeting Seated left to right are Archie Brown Terry OConnor PC and Frank Lib Prop Not Sticking To Procedure Two regional councillors were upset at the lack of procedure last Wednesday when a number of works committee by laws for projects and tender acceptance were rushed through council without time for the members to review them Coun Rlc Morrow and Mayor Tom Hill of Hills suggested a motion that council not deal with anything which Is not in the councillors hands at least 48 hours prior to a meeting unless an emergency We went through stuff here today that I didnt even have on my desk to look at com plained Mayor Hill Its not fair to anyone here the councillors the public or the press Coun Morrow added that be could not agree with the mayor more What we did here is improper and not legally constituted according to our procedure bylaw be added In no way shape or form were we carrying out our duties as councillors by doing what we I hope all members of council support the motion Flexible Controls After Wage Price Freeze Halton riding residents were talk with representatives of the spending If the economy is to provinces industries unions Improve He pointed out that i Progressive Conservative and the farmers to provide cuts in government spending day wage arid price freeze type of flexible controls would aid the economy in explained that the rushing of the by la emergency for a projects Milton and the area staff CAMPAIGN TRAIL LIBERAL Candidate Dr Frank greeted early morning workers at the Georgetown GO train last Friday morning and then attended the all candidates meeting In that evening Philbrook was with Eugene minister of agriculture in Erin on Sunday and then In Georgetown again for the all candidates meeting on Monday Today candidate will visit Trafalgar Hospital to meet patients and then attend a gathering for senior citizens at the Manor in Milton before attending the all candidates meeting at Martin Street Senior Public school Dr will be at the Trudeau rally at Varsity Stadium Thursday and at the community hall on Friday CONSERVATIVE Candidate Terry O Connor attended the all candidates meetings Oakville Acton and Georgetown last week and then stopped In at a senior citizens lawn party In Milton last Saturday Yesterday Mr O Connor was canvassing in Acton and Esquesing township and then attended a workers meeting in Oakville in the evening Today Mr Con will be visiting senior citizens in Oakville and in Milton Tomorrow the Milton Curling club will be sponsoring a public wine and cheese party and Mr OConnor will be ail day Friday In Oakville Candidate Archie Brown attended a Rotary club dinner in and an all candidates meeting last Monday and then travelled up to Acton for the all candidates meeting at Robert Little Public school which wsapreceeded by a parade Mr Brown spent last Friday Georgetown visiting industries and speaking before the local council of women at St Georges Anglican Church Candidate Brown has been busy meeting citizens and speaking throughout Acton and and tomorrow and Sunday he Friday Mr Brown will be In Georgetown all day would be replaced by almost restraints for our second This government has never two years of flexible controls phase of the program he said made any effort to save to cut and restraints The C leader who to to practice restraint but it did Progressive Conservative the riding to support incumbent make an attempt to reduce the Sff hJ leader Robert candidate Terry OConnor effectiveness watchdog visited the riding at the Oak added that the freeze would not on government spending The h tf vllle Trafalgar High School to affect present contracts even if Auditor General Offices Mr flUf tell a packed auditorium that wage increases were included claimed the 90 day freeze would allow itU not our intention to negate the government time to prepare contracts presently in effect other measures he said During the days we 11 The purpose is to provide a period when the demands upon the economy can be con reduced Mr Stanfield continued We hope to defuse the constantly in creasing inflationary ex pectation Mr touched on the SITTING PRETTY HIGH price and wage freeze He noted that the controls should be used on the input costs of farm production Regardless of other market conditions until that is done prices at the farm gate cannot be stabilized he added The Progressive Con Party leader pointed out that leader David Lewis only wants something done on the price side and the Prime Minister insists that alls well with the economy Something has to be done on both sides of the issue if anything is to be achieved It the responsibility of good citizenship to respond to the challenge to accept the need for restraints and discipline when the national interest requires he remarked Mr Stanfield added that the government should control its Award Contracts Varlan Associates of Canada Ltd River Drive Georgetown has been awarded a 30 000 dollar Metro contract for the production of electron tubes In addition Beaumont Knitting Co Ltd of Main Street Glen Williams will be paid dollars for the manufacture of socks GERRY GETTY waves from atop his flagpole at the Optimist Club annual flag pole sitting contest last weekend The purpose of the contest was to raise money for the optimists to use in helping the community From Friday evening until Sunday evening various sitters spent four hour terms on a wooden platform feet above the ground School Closing Is Seed Of Destruction For Community Dear Sir When I attended high school several years ago I wrote a speech on Norvaf a small of 300 nestled among the banks of the Credit river How very different my speech would be today Now I am not sure if I live In Hills Georgetown or is It Halton County or perhaps township Today the Credit river is polluted and so is a good per centage of our drinking water but before any thing can be done about our polluted drinking water a study must be done by whom I am not sureand could take up to two years Meanwhile we drink polluted water June 21 was a sad day for a few village residents thanks to regional school board Our little three room school closed Its doors to our children Come September Instead of riding a bike or walking to school students will now catch a bus to several different schools splitting our village even more What becomes of our school now We would like to have the use of at least part of It for a community centre but our regional school board wont say Will our children have a playground now or will they have to hit chhike to Georgetown for en tertainment As If the closing of our school wasnt a slap In the face before the doors were even locked our Regional school board made arrangements to have the old school bell removed from Calm on the front lawn of the school for safe keeping they said The womens In had that cairn built as a Centennial project and the stones were collected from local farms local men removed the bell from the old school and a local man spent many long hours building the calm The man who built the calm waa my late father Fred These are third and fourth generation children of the people who first attended Norval school Mark Cun ningham Dwayne Cun ningham Karen Cun Marilu Davis Derek and Robert Reed Joanne Hunter who was not present for this photograph is a fourth generation Norval student Fendley and I was among the first students to attend school when it opened in My daughter left that school for the last time on Friday and we are all proud of that cairn as it is certainly a personal memorial to us of her grand father What right do a bunch of men sitting on their butts In an office have to destroy a community Today my five year old daughter asked why she couldnt ride her bicycle to school next year Could a member of the regional school board please answer that for her because- 1 certainly cant give her a good explanation This year students collected sap right In their own school yard and they had pancakes and maple syrup that they had made themselves They went on a trip to the sugar bush and saw syrup being made in larger quantities Can they make maple syrup at George Kennedy school of course not- there are no maple trees to tap During the course of a year at school the parents could develop a personal relationship with the teachers but at George Kennedy I only saw the teachers at Interview time and at open house Unless I had time to be a Parent Volunteer Bus children cant stay or extra help after school or or extra activities as they would have no way home If you live In country you would expect to have your children bused to school but in a village on a main highway with a school and room to add on How ridiculous can some people get After having my daughter in an open concept kin dergarten class or a year I can only hope that the wise men on the board of education dont have any offspring attending this type of school system as I feel that our country will be In a terrible state If these children are the adults of tomorrow I realize that In this free and democratic country of ours we cant fight the system but cant people start respecting the feelings and concerns of other people before destroying a community truly DtanneL Taylor Halton Council Views Budget Regional Councillors had a chance to look at the first draft of the current budget estimated at almost million last Wednesday Regional treasurer Don Farmer prepared the draft to allow each committee to review it and make suggestions of any additions required Morrow chairman of the ad ministration and finance PERIODICALLY by means of a telephone atop the pole the sitters could be heard on Brampton radio station committee suggested this be CHIC A small booth at the finished before next v base of the pole provided onlookers with refreshments and supplied the alttera with hot coffee which waa sent up to the breezy perch In basket