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The Herald Home Newspaper of Hills A Division of Canadian Newspapers Company Limited Main SI South Georgetown Ontario PETER BROUWER Publisher HERALD Wednesday September 1914 HOMEMAKER SERVICE Casualty Of Our Times Homemaker service of the Georgetown and district branch of the Canadian Red Cross Society will be no more It is a dead end to a Tine service that the branch just cannot provide because of the cost involved and attempt to elicit municipal financial support fell through at both the regional and local level Only last spring The Herald editorialized that the service was a boon to the Halton area and should be supported with some measure of public funds Neither regional nor Halton Hills council and now as tbVbranch is curtailing service Rather than berate our politicians whose negativism is in part responsible for the loss of service we think it better to echoe the suggestion of Red Cross bfanch president Richard He thinks the service could come under the wing of the province through the ministry of health or perhaps even the ministry of social and family services Such a move of course spreads the cost of such service over everyone all taxpayers When a valued service becomes unavailable through volunteer agencies then it is time to assess its importance to the community and take steps to keep it alive The Red Cross homemaker service should not be reduced to that status of begging which it was in Hills last year and previously when it sought financial support That is a shameful reflection on our at titudes Just Color Us Blue Following the above look at fashions lets continue with another look at color This time weve singled out the new cars of the Halton regional police force Theyre a blahblue and a blah- white in color The paint scheme is reminiscent of the former Oakville police cars which were a lighter blue and white In fact the new cars look a lot like turnedin taxis Even the Ontario Provincial Police has a more eyecatching color scheme based on black and white or allblack or allwhite Being a provincial agency we might have expected something like committeegrey but the OPP has sufficient identity to have an identifiable color scheme Still police cars except for the unmarked ones dont have to look ugly In neighboring Peel police vehicles are painted a nice bright yellow as are fire trucks Even the City of Toronto opted for yellow as the color of its police vehicle Adding to the melancholy look of the Halton cars are the blank doors It still isnt been determined what crest will be applied to the doors With the money that has to be spent on new vehicles regularly perhaps our police department can give some thought to a brighter color scheme Or does this current case of the drabs reflect feeling towards regional government A Case Of The Drabs Done any girl watching lately We have Hills has some of the best girls to watch and we cant help but notice that fashions for women this fall seem to mirror the current economic gloom The sparkle of last falls vivid colors has been replaced this fall bv dull browns and pur ples Dull brown green and purple is a good way to paint the economy It looks sick Also adding to the sombre look are longer skirts and dresses and skirts nave traditionally gotten longer as the economy falters Anklelength styles were popular in 1929 and we all know what hap pened in that year Perhaps there is some sinister foreboding in the fashion colors which just happen to match some of the colors of Canadian dollar bills But designers assure us that fashions go through color cycles There are predictions that the dull browns greens and purples will shift Into lighter by spring ostensibly so that people can build up wardrobes more easily the economy follows suit At this point even a sudden upsurge in the hemline might do a lot to ease our pain ECHOES FROM THE PAST 10 YEARS AGO More than 100 teenagers attended a meeting at Georgetown School to take part in a Youth Forum They heard Cpl Ted Scott of the town police department discuss driving and accidents A second forum was planned for October Ron Clarke of Georgetown an avid stamp collector was one of the sparks behind a drive to organize a local club for stamp collectors which held its first meeting A 000 debenture Issue to meet cost of construction of an addition to the high school miffed some Georgetown councillors because they learned It through the news media Jim said he thought the school board should have consulted with council first before proceeding with plans and then asking for debentures Lome Ella of Hornby was high scorer in County 1964 tractor safedriving contest held in conjunction with the junior plowing match Competition was held at the of Claude Pickett Mr and Mrs J M of Ashgrove celebrated years of married life while Mr and Mrs Fred Nurse could look back on years of marriage YEARS AGO A former Glen Williams couple Mr and Mrs George Dennis marked their wedding anniversary during celebrations held at Delhi A business established seven years earlier In Georgetown was taken over by Mr and Mrs Ernie of Colllngwood They took over Floral operated by Thomas an Alliance Paper foreman Donald son of Mr and Mrs Walter Lawson of Stewarttown was chosen one member of a team of four persons to represent Ontario Agricultural College Guelph at International dairy judging contest at Waterloo Iowa Most valuable player In the Brampton Fastball League for the season was a Georgetown man Scotty Patterson He pitched wltha local Legion fastball team until the league waa discontinued Roy Thompson a young Union farmer and the son of Mr and Mrs Vera Thompson won calf club honors at the Brampton Fall Fair Rural teachers of Township met In public School with president Douglas Copeland of Norval presiding 30 YEARS AGO First meeting the fall of Chapter IODE held at the Legion Hall in Georgetown with persons attending Regent Mrs L J Bell presided Fred and Newton put their heads tosether to beat the labor shortage and created their own corn loader building It out of things mechanical such as old car parts and mowers Georgetown Rehabilitation Council met at the municipal building to elect an executive Col B Cousens was named chairman with Roy Norton as vicechairman Acton and Vicinity War Service League completed three years of operation and during that time administered receipts totalling treasurer J M MacDonald reported to the fortnightly meeting Rally Day was observed at church with stories presented by Jean Sin and Jimmy Kirkwood Halton County Council approved a township nurse plan as part of a rural health plan Reeve Alex Nair chairman of the com mittee which made the necessary The lead editorial on September 1044 ended this way But no matter how much Georgetown may grow It is to be hoped that we will keep the features of a small town which make country life attractive A cheery hello to friend and stranger alike an Interest in the welfare of our fellow citizens a civic pride which makes everyone ready and willing to do their bit In community enterprise la what makes small town living worthwhile Georgetown Is growing but lets grow from a small town Into a big small town and not become too ur banized A number from here look In the Acton Fair and all report a good time Rosa Davis Jack Handy and Beverly Hyde won the Grade penmanship award in Georgetown Public School Dr J Milne won the war savings certificate drawn for through the purchase of War Savings Stamps at Robbs Drug Store BILL SMILEY COME TO THE PLOWING MATCH This Is International Plowing Match Week in Halton Hi 11a Visitors and competitors from near and far will be In the region to visit the match south of Georgetown Wilfrid Leslie a Georgetown area resident will be at the match aboard his steam tractor Mr Leslie Is a long time area farmer and stance above is representative of the rugged Increase In Minimum Wage Taking Effect Next Month A minimum wage of an hour for employees In general industry will become effective throughout Ontario Oct I The current rate of became effective Jan The minimum rate will apply to all employees ex students under the age of 18 The student rate will be an hour The minimum rate for cons true Hon employees will Increase from to Guards on construction sites will receive the same rate The purpose of the minimum rate la to give workers whose bargaining power Is limited a measure of protection against ex ploitation This is the second increase in the minimum wage this year and the minimum wage will be continually under review OTHER CHANGES Domestics and to coverage under all provisions of the Em Standards Act Domestics employed by a householder to work in the householder home will still be exempt from provisions of the Act WAGE SCHEDULE Current Rate Oct 1974 General minimum General learner rate during first month of em Construction rate 225 Guard on cons true 250 projects Student rate 190 under IB years of age whereweekly hours are not In excess of 28 hours or where student is employed during a school holiday Ambulance industry rate 00 a weekly rate b where employee hours a week As well the minimum wage and vacation pay provisions of the Act will apply to embalm ere and funeral directors Changes effective Jan Overtime pay of one and a half times the regular rate will apply after hours of work Up to Jan 1 1975 the rate applies after hours holidays will be Day Thanksgiving Doy and Victoria Day bringing the total to seven statutory holidays with pay The other four holidays are Good Friday Labor Day Dominion Day and Christ mas Day SWEEP Study Is Rewarding Authority surveyed students who worked for the authority under the Ontario govern summer work program SWEEP The survey showed that the majority of these students agreed that the work had been a rewarding ence A number ex pressed Interest In a career in conservation and Inquired about permanent em ployment with the authority The students worked in oil phases of the authoritys program SWEEP Students Working In Environmental Enhancement Programs Is sponsored by the con authorities branch Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and It Is part of the Ontario governments Experience It was designed to encourage young people to become Involved actively In work projects of an environmental nature Book Worth Reading On Depression Days my opinion it should be required reading for every Canadian under IS and pleasantly occasionally bitter reading for everyone over The rest are too old to care and too late to save With another depression coming up and remember you read it here It might serve as some sort of vivol chart for the young people heading Into the next depression and a Justification for the older people who are so hymle about such things as electric lights that arent turned off food scraps thrown out ana clothing that Is perfectly good but 10 years out of style EXPERIENCES Its impossible to tell young people about your own experiences the Great Depression And it deserves the capital letters When you try to tell the rising generation about your own Depression experiences they merely groan roll their eyes and think Here goes Dad or Grandad again whining about what hard times are really like What a drag Thats why the young people should read the book They simply cant realize as they scoff their twobits worth of french fries that grown men worked ten hours a day for that same during the Depression They cant realize as they shoot a quarter Into the pop machine for a Coke capital C to wash down their fries that if you took out a girl during the Depression and had a quarter in pocket you were rich According to the book the hardest hit areas were the Prairie Provinces the Maritlmes and Quebec Ontario and B C were the only provinces in those davs which werent In really desperate condition and they were bad enough CREDIBILITY This Is a very credible book to anyone who lived through those Ten Lost Years The author went out with a tape recorder and Interviewed hundreds of people who went through them The results are funny tragic and extremely Canadian It could never be misunderstood as a British or American book though these countries suffered equally Canadians then In their pawkish stubborn and often stupid pride would go to almost any lengths to avoid going on relief This was almost a sin and always a last resort And relief could be ten or twelve dollars a month for a family A nickel had to do the work of a dollar After three years of drought and grasshoppers many prairie walked away everything house ana machinery The average cash Income from farmers In the Maritlmes Including the wealthy ones was something like a year What a modem kid from a middle class family would spend In a month on clothes and treats People died not of star vatlon but of malnutrition Oh remember I was only a at the time but I remember It all happened sort of gradually My father kindly a man bless him crunch people who were hard up He gave them credit He lost his Duslness He had too much money on the books and not enough In the till to meet the mortgage Stunned In his late forties with five kids he sank Into depression There were no jobs for anyone let alone Land Value Disclosure Under Land Transfers Under the Ontario Land Transfer Tax Act a person registering a deed or similar documents Is required to pay transfer tax which Is based on the purchase price or other consideration given for the land To establish the purchase price an affidavit of value must be attached to thp deed when It is registered This affidavit la at land registration offices and is available for perusal by any person who examines the registered Instrument to which the affidavit Is attached It Is however possible under the act to avoid filing this affidavit by paying the tax directly to the ministry of revenue In Toronto The affidavit disclosing the sale value of the property is not then needed at the land registration office and the sale price is not thereby made available to the general public The policy of paying transfer tax directly to the ministry and thus obtaining a degree of privacy with respect to the transaction has been under review by the minister for some months as the result of a request that such information be held in confidence by the ministry In that time he has con a number of viewpoints on the subject Including briefs from In terested professional groups and individuals Opinion fa not unanimous on the topic Arthur Meen minister of revenue said We have tried to balance what we felt to be the legitimate need of many to know the value at which land changes hands against the equally understandable desire of some to have he price paid for the land kept confidential It Is Increasingly clear however that property transactions must be mat ters of public record A recent Illustration Is a decision by the Ontario Land Compensation Board which indicated that where available comparative value of land sales within a reasonably close area and middleaged men My mo her took over She took in boarders In the summer we rented rooms to tourists A clean bed and a huge breakfast for She sold home made baking She was an Avon lady And we went inexorably into debt the butchers the grocers the coal man But there was no way WE were going to go on relief It was shameful Somehow we staggered through My older brother got a job in the bank at a week My store sister got a Job in a store at a week They kicked moat of it back to my mum That was the deal in those days everybody pulling together Butitwas mighty the young workers who today would be going to college on government grants HUNGER We never went hungry A lot of hamburger at three pounds for a quarter A lot of baloney A big perpetually simmering pot of soup If the porridge wasnt finished in the morning it went into the soup pot And I remember the odd time when we had something Ive never tasted since This was when the butcher would advance no more credit and there wasnt a cent in the house Potato skin hash I wouldnt mind a good feed of that tonight You take some baked potatoes and put them through the meat grinder With the color of the potato skins It comes out looking like meat and potatoes Fry it up in a pan with some onions dirt cheap and you had a pretty good dinner Top it off with homemade bread and raspberry preserves and youd had a gourmet dinner It beat the hell out of the modern frozen TV dinner both for nourishment and flavor and was probably better for us than most of the garbage modem kids eat No we never went hungry and there was always a bowl of pea soup and homemade bread for the hoboes who arrived at the kitchen door half frozen and halfstarved But I never realized what miracles my mother and father performed in those days and I wish I had sooner QUEENS PARK Additional Taxes Ease Revenue Bite BYDONOHEARN Queens Park Bureau Of The Herald TORONTO Taxation of natural resources is a moot question across Canada these days With the value of minerals and other raw resources escalating and the profits of the harvesting industries escalating with them there has been a demand for and action by provincial governments to get more money out of them Practically all provinces where such resources are important Including On tario have done something about more revenue from them According to treasurer John White Ontario has however taken the fairest and most practical approach to collect this revenue The other provinces have in effect used a hatchet They have all increased royalties This means in the case of minerals or oil and gas that an additional bite la taken out of every dollar of revenue that the resources bring There is no relation to profit and In effect it is a direct tax on production The consequence has been that in areas of the west margin for development and some have already with drawn from or curtailed J exploration while others are threatening to ONLY PROFIT Mr White however posed an additional tax rather than a royalty and this has definite benefits In the first place it Is im posed after production ex penses have been deducted Aside from being more equitable this does not discourage the mining of low- grade ore as a royalty plan does Then the tax is scheduled progressively Thus there Is no tax on the first of profit Bet ween and the rate is per cent And then It progresses until it reaches 40 per cent on million or more This of course is an en couragement to smaller companies which might be tempted or forced to fold under a royalty system Then there are further Incentives to encourage in northern These are in the form of allowances for processed minerals with the rate of allowance tied to the extent of processing Whether this allowance would be sufficient to entice a steel Industry In the north which so many people have been looking for cant be said But at least It will en courage more processing at home VIEWPOINT Taking A Look At The Lighter Side Of Things This week we re going to look at the lighter side of things with a potpourri of small items gathered to amuse and possibly confute you John 42 years of age won the title of All- Ireland Live Frog swallowing championship He managed to gulp down five live frogs In seconds Thats certainly one way to beat Inflation saves on one of the competitors was disqualified for chewing It seems that some cocktail lounge patrons have been giving the telephone com a hard time In Atlanta Ga Guests at the Hyatt Regency Hotel have been feeding four large macaws and parrots liquorsoaked cocktail cherries The drunken birds shrieked at the same frequency the com used to disconnect ilephone lines The chboard operator had a difficult time convincing her superiors but truth did prevail and noisecancelling microphones were Installed Now the drunken birds can yahoo at the top of their lungs or beaks the case may be and the telephone service la continued without interruption BIRD We have another bird story for you from the city of St Catharines It seems the community still has a bylaw on the books that makes It Illegal for pigeons to fly in St Catharines My heart goes out to council members who seem to be without recourse to enforce this bylaw Looks like the pigeons of St Catharines have just given the city the bird Leigh Powell of Regina was fined and coats for harboring a dangerous dog He pleaded guilty after a complaint was made by neighbors The dog Is a four ana a half pound Chihuahua In all likelihood Mr Powell will have to post Beware of Dog signs 1 Just hope that would be trespassers dont step on Tlgoi before they discover how he is Another dog story comes from West Germany where a saddened housewife mourned the loss of her pet She offered on ecstatic night of lovemaking to the finder of her missing Yorkshire terrier Among the many offers three fellows showed up wondering if they could share the reward however the dog they had was not the missing one A baker whose 13yearold son found the right dog wondered If he could accept the reward instead of his son The topper of this little tale comes from the womans husband who felt his wifes behavior since the dog disappeared was breaking up his marriage so he agreed to the offer to that can only add his was certainly a unusual method of keeping am ROUBLE Our new too seems to be plagued with nothing but trouble First they lost baboons that had to be recaptured when they Jumped their enclosure Shortly after that they discovered that the lions could do the same thing and they had to make other arrangements for the lions den This past week three armadillos were killed when some unknown visitor threw them In with the alligators along with a few turtles The zoo is spending an additional 400000 on safety featured we didnt realize were needed said Walter Gray zoo director Personally feel that they ought to round up the experts that built this little wonder and charge tbe animals to go and see them probably be a lot less vandalism and security risks that way and definitely a much cheaper solution REMEDY It seems that Aid Hope has a solution to the plague of oriental cockroaches that have in vaded the west end of Toronto He has a mysterious old Chinese potion that Is so powerful only one per household Is required Alderman Hope will give it free upon request A strange wltted friend of mine suggested that If it doesnt work he alio has a solution We could find a way of making all cockroaches mentally depressed then they could all commit In secticide I did mention that my friend is a little strange but if Aid Hopes remedy falls he is welcome to the above solution The latest In clever crime is a team of bank robbers one male and one female They seem to have come up with a sure fire way of temporarily not being recognized The man drives the getaway car while the woman in a sheer blouse and without a bra robs the bank The teller a man was unable to describe the bandits face I wonder why Well one might say that that sort of wraps it up for this week DID YOU KNOWT The amount of blood In the average man weigh about seven pounds