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The Herald Home Newspaper of Hills Second Class MallHegisleredNumberWU WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER ItH Retain Pottsie per year Single Copy Price Fifteen Cents A view of Tent City at the 61st International Plowing Match taken by Richard Forster aboard the plane of Ed Brown of the Dog Suds Drive In Membership In Transit Body Next Link Soon In HaltonMetro Transit From Toronto Baresn of The Herald Another link In public transit between the Region and Metro Toronto will be established In the near future Halton Region along with ana likely Durham will soon have full formed Toronto Area Transit Operating Authority One of the first Items discussed at TATOA Inaugural meeting Friday was the status of and HamlltonWentworth Presently the two regional chairmen Allan and Anne Jones serve as associate members without voting powers Both are anxious to give their regions full representation on the authority which designs and operates Inter regional transit service Mr Masson reported that regional councillors now support Joining Peel York and Metro Toronto In which was established by the province In June The Halton chairman said he has favored the regions Inclusion form the first stages of discussions Council opposed it though The mayor wanted to have the city alone on It he told the meeting Mrs Jones said Hamilton was anxious to Join the Toronto area regions the transportation field She promised to urge quick support of the expansion proposal which would require provincial legislation at a council meeting this week TIED IN Were all tied in as a transportation ration whether we want to be or not she said Cameron McNob chairman of ATOA also proposed that Durham be asked to reconsider Its decision last Juno not to Join the charter members There a been every In dlcation they will reverse that decision given a chance he reported The members also urged the provincial government force municipal bus lines now operating within the regions be abandoned and left the responsibility of the authority Mr Masson supported the move although he predicted there will be a political out cry Routes In Burlington and OakvUle would be affected ONLY METHOD Metro Toronto Chairman Paul Godfrey explained that full reglonalliaUon of transit services was the only method by which the body could properly regulate and Improve systems The only reason why we Metro Toronto have the beat public transit system In North America is that the province of Ontario shoved aside some of these local concerns and said the needs of the public comes first he said Other discussion touched on the use of a fleet of Dial A Buses no longer In service In several Toronto neighborhoods Mr Masson suggested some be assigned to the Milton area to provide a shuttle service for Georgetown No decision was reached on the fate of the vehicles The authority meets twice a month at its offices In north Toronto Colleen Darbean all covered En candy floss and of other bad a at the weekend a fall fair In Acton Tina Gatano below was named number one baby and there were downs of other prise winners More details Inside Crossing Guard Shortage May Cause Serious Accident Halton Hills council wants a Bromley safety officer for the crossing guard for the comer of Halton Regional Police have a Weber and Duncan Drives crossing guard at the in before some child is Injured tersecUon Immediately while crossing the road to go to Coun Roy Booth requested school council approval after noting Council decided Monday to that the comer does not have request that Peter any type of safety feature for 39903 Wasted For New Arena Council has agreed Tuesday to pay the architectural firm of Lee and Beckstead GO for its services in designing an arena for the town Coun Les noted that he agreed to pay the firm the money In great pain referring to the fact that the town had dismissed the com after the plans were drawn Council rejected the drawings from Lee and Beckstead when It estimated the cost of the building at million Several councillors argued that cheaper prices were available The firm of Whitney Con Ltd was hired to construct a design build arena for a coat of Work on the building will go ahead shortly after the site on Guelph Street in Georgetown Is prepared the children neither a safety patrol from the school nor a crossing guard Either we have a police officer or a school crossing guard there now he said or else one day some kid is going to get killed We need some type of stop gap until the children at the school are trained Coun Ric Morrow noted that the principal of the local school was not Infavor of allowing the Grade S children to be used as crossing guards I support her stand against having these children trained as crossing patrols he said This whole damn town waa laid out to have community schools and now the Board of Education has transferred children to every school He called the board a decision to transfer all pupils In Grades six to eight to one school nonsensical Its stupid he added Coun Hyde argued against the verbal attack on Sgt Bromley noting that If the principal agreed to school patrols the problem would be solved The problem here Is with madam principal he ex plained She thinks she knows a helluva lot more than all the principals In the southern part of the county He added that the children are not crossing guards and do not have to stop traffic before the children cross the road However Coun Rum Miller pointed out that Grade five children are too young to do the job as safety patrols I know that If I had a Grade five child Iwouldntwantthem doing this he said But I agree this should be left up to the works committee as soon a stop gap measure is taken on the Intersection Coun Sykes told the councillors he Uvea very close to the corner and realizes that a exists He added that a crossing guard was located on the comers of Weber and Duncan Drives This Is the busiest In tersecUon of any In town in regards to the number of children mat use It he said New Lawyer Joins Firm Of And Hyde No Council Dollar Support Homemaker Service Ending The law firm of Manderson and Hyde announced that Tudor A Is now Georgetown Firm Gets From Province To Help Guard Phone Homemaker service provided by Georgetown and district branch of the Canadian Red Cross Society will cease because the branch can t afford to provide it The branch has received no funds for the service from either the regional or local councils The service was started In 1971 on me condition that the society would receive a grant from county council to initiate it The branch found that the service was not selfsupporting and It had to approach county council for monetary aid In the following two years We had to beg for assistance to conUnue our service ex Richard Permit ranch president Quite lute In the fiscal year we did receive help to cover the necessary supervisory services entailed and to assist with some of the cases not covered by home care funded by the ministry of health or by the ministry of family and social services This year we approached regional council staling our needs providing an audited account of last year a expenses and asking whether It could help us continue this service which has covered not only Halton Hills but also MUton well The reply was to the effect that It could only fund organizations which were region wide It passed our request to the of Hills No funds have been forthcoming this being the case we are forced to ter mlnate this service Mr Perrott said Executive of the branch has undertaken this step most reluctantly and only after exploring other avenues for funding without success he explained it is our opinion that this service most rightly belongs under the aegis of the ministry of family and social services or the ministry of health Such would provide a much simpler control of this service It would also be more economical financially one agency being Involved rather mere Is much lack of Information on the part of the public as to what services they can obtain and from what agency Mr and the branch regret not only having to take this step but also the disap pointment we have had to bring to the many residents who have called us In the past two months requesting our help The local branch of Red Cross will continue with Its many other efforts for the welfare of the people of Halton Hills to the very best of Its abiUty aa It has In past years LAWYER CHECK NUMBER The Fire and Ambulance Service would like to remind everyone when requesting emergency service make sure your house can be easily Identified Resident living on re numbered streets or renamed streets are asked to make sure the number posted la correct and they use the new name and number when the need arises After being called to the Ontario Bar In March 1971 Mr Beattle practised law In downtown Toronto for more than three years During that time his practice was restricted to criminal civil and matrimonial Mr from Hamilton holds a Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of Toronto and a Bachelor of degree from Queen University at Kingston He Is married and Uvea with his wife Lyn in Georgetown The law firm of Manderson and Hyde was founded In by WUllam Manderson and Monty Hyde both of whom were raised and educated In Georgetown They both from Hall School In 1H9 After graduation Mr Manderson returned to Georgetown and practised In partnership with hut who had practiced law In Georgetown for 18 years prior to his death In 1973 After graduation Mr Hyde returned to Georgetown and practised Manderson formed their partnership in 1973 Georgetown Girl Is Acton Queen Miss Acton Fair Karen Hitfman 18 crowned before a record crowd of SOW at an opening night variety show In Acton Arena Karen is a grade student at Georgetown High School She Is the second youngest daughter of Edith and Lloyd 17 Slderoad She teaches Sunday School at Acton a Trinity United Church A member of the Joyce Car- dance group Karen la top Jan and tap dancer and a parttime employee of the Country Mart Her future plans are undecided between English teacher and legal secretary Queen Karen fa eligible for the Sweetheart of the Fain title at CNE Id