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Home Newspaper of Halton Hills WEDNESDAY A Division of Canadian Newspapers Company Limited Main SI South Georgetown L7G Ontario WILLIAM Publish BOB Editor A time to come together This week will mark the begin rung of a new phase In the life of Halton Hills When the second council takes its place it will have a long and difficult job overcoming the parochialism created by regional government three years ago Now is he time for residents of Halton Hills to set aside the parochialism evident during the past three years of regionalism and strive to make it work Looking ahead to no change To say I97fi was loss than quiet year as predicted by a Herald new year editorial in 1975 is an understatement There can be no room now for divisions or of what has occurred in the past Now is a time for action to make government work for the needs of North including Milton We need strong leadership on both councils to make Halton Hills a community where residents enjoy living working and playing It will be a difficult job because of the attitudes which now prevail Mayor Tom Hill according to one Ward resident was elected to sup port the rural need for a fourth vote on council His opponent Harry Levy attributed his defeat in part to a mistrusting attitude of Acton residents for someone from urban Georgetown And now residents of have initiated a study of Ac ton role in regional government and the benefits the community has achieved Many of the issuer which became news In Its all a sad commentary on 1975 are still tht Site F hangs as a attitudes Isnt it now the time to continued threat to of the Britannia make this thing called regional Thequcstionof the municipal government work The prospect of complex addition unanswered And f that matter North the need or an mdustriol commission Haltm dlV0rclng ltse regional havea government isreW The new year will bring more of the same Politics will continue to be predictable the community will continue to live day by day and everyone will feel con cem over the living and the effect of wofie and price controls Taxes will certainly go up again as the provincial and federal- austerity programs continue Energy will play an important role in the community in the next year Rates are expected to increase- partly the hydro ex perls because of the delay some of it from Hills to construction of a new power corridor from Douglas Point to Toronto But then daily living is a pragmatic We make no prophesies but do say will not be a quiet year Have a happy and safe New Year On Parliament Hil Larry Zolf for senator Maybe BY STt V MACLEOD Ottawa Bureau Of The Herald The trouble with big lovable Larry is that you can never be sure when he la deadly serious when his tongue is pressing firmly against his check or when he Is taking part in an outrageous spoof Certainly I am vinous about my new undertaking for 1977 he now was saying as he sat on the other side of the discussing his forthcoming campaign to become a Un it was a novel conversation Who else has ever mounted a public campaign to become a senator Thousands have probably written to various prime ministers confidentially suggesting their own appointments but no one has ever gone out there to stir up a populist movement What Mr wants is for Canadians to inundate Prime Minister with letters and telegrams demanding that the year old caster Journalist become a senator And on Jan a billboard is scheduled to go up Toronto and Queen Streets with the first public proclamation of Zolf or the Senate or something like that A group of friends at the Toronto Press Ciubdecided to make this initial contribution The candidate wants similar billboards in all provincial capitals NO SPENDING I dared to ask how much money Mr was prepared to spend on his campaign Are you joking My own money Never Not a sou But he plans on writing book on his campaign which will be published in lime for Christmas It will he called Running For Senate and the author has already generously committed all profits to The Trust Fund Ami If I am not appointed to the Senate by Christmas that book will have a Vicious last chapter When Mr sits down to talk about a project like this the words spew out like machine gun fire and lacking a tape recorder most of his campaign platform But at various times he seemed speak in lavor the Senate status quo and Senate abolition lie also described himself as a provinenl centralist or was an central provincnhsf And Ihe most absolutely outrageous piece or pernicious legishtlon he his the bill forcing If 1 am appointed to the Senate I II speak out for those things I believe In inslmcc I believe in the abolition of punishment except for the odd guy I would win to hang Mr wasrcmlndcdthatanaldctoMr said recently that here only one criterion for appointing senators They have to be friends of the prime minister This the candidate conceded could raise a problem I am neither a friend nor enemy of the current prime minister because I am no fool Hi AVI MANAGE- Thin is another problem When you are relying on volunteer help you can I afford to say No loony offer That why at latest count 1 have 120 campaign managers doubt be In charge of New York based campaign where the hopes to rally Meanwhile he Is doing research for his planned book which ho says will Include a comprehensive took at the Senate along with details of his campaign Other books have examined Just of the Senate I am going lo describe the Chamber Itself and even Ihc washroom facilities If appointed what would Mr do Well which prevents Individuals from drawing money from two Crown bodies such as the Senate and the CBC think It would be in the national inkiest to change legislation forthwith As 1B77 unfolds we will learn more about other campaign promises And I hope Mr Trait will keep us informed about the number of letters he gets as a result of Mr oils efforts o3fc Another year slips into the void and becomes it might have been lit Grrrv ljndiborou This week Viewpoint sh in soon In by those who care secret jour rt twill be mother diy or loo Tin iruill be with us lire mother his pod us mi is to ilipirl lo tin land it light hivt bun our idity Most of while hire in North tint shows up ivtry Jin is We sit tth im person do ink Hut in for striving the is Tin mi it of Hit in is in tin striving It is in our person nth 1 side saw the Olympus it is mil repetition of tin Id heme us in the sum old their games eruwds nipping nut wheriver ill ilk ilm it 111 fr iLilit of tin 1 rid together Irudeiusuig i simple itirmt iround tin world So suih simple spontaneous xpirls us will ok i i I for in kindness of us as individuals make our own s every hour Choices of acceptance or hardest choice of all of or front row but everyone ike contribution Wi nil lucn over the yeirs is on a treadmill Poor mice go round and round and gel no whore been londitioncd lo believe that only the experts know the answers yet the same old problems from year to year pissing drilling away to the land of it might hive been When you iccept things as they are haw m i This old world of ours in In far from perfect but its only world le ard lo iran a I life hints will hi Itt r ire In It my is entering golden ilways Ih end Santas resting Ik ill young lioys girls who did not hive their loiters answered during the past three weeks hut he hopes were not disappointed Christmas Day king himself for mil To lions thi North will continue hi and girls Ihe world will la illy surprised what will eumi next year Rudolph eviryone for kind thoughts they received ind for met sn li I fur to enjoy hopes everyone had viry Merry Christmas and will have a happy and prosperous 1977 From here and there a fighter vein Pass it on In a moment of petulance a supper Units had given Cardinal lllchc lieu a in the face return it was impossible lo rest under 11 a disgrace and any serious response the insult would hive forced Richelieu retire from the court Without a mo- nt hesitation the cardinal turned his neighbor slopped his face saying fill King wishes you to pass I on ire proud people let us show re as we shown world in the post us stand out even stronger In the future keep our country together In unity for ml is divided never stands Ifw nil tried with even half an effort 1977 would stand out as a year among years fl hours In which it happen as imiiwdinls for our families and for our Dont forget Ontario We vc been so engrossed in studying the monumental bloopers In federal government spending by Auditor Genera J J hat a similar report on Ontario spending is almost second rate But federal revenues are much larger which accounts for the sie of expenditure On scale Ontario errors role right up wilh Ottawa Mr Maedonell concluded that Parliament has almost lost control of the public purse Ontario Auditor General Norman Scott draw that conclusion but one in sec thai Ontario legislature is it point In an en win the is for a close on sptndmy for trio out million more than It should to welfare HUP It appears has more people on Ms list than live In province There arc only us here and its assume thai many families an listed under one number thus fewer linn million In files has nearly million names in Ihe health ministry fills Mr Scott unearthed a doctor who was overpaid During laTi 1st il year the issued 91 board orders spending orders Hint authorize expenditures that do not pass through legislature They accounted for spending totalling almost million The government will be on the griddle for rem under of this session and hopefully for much of the next The Item rnmg mint orders alone would sustain a good favoring more opin government Cabinet Do you really want government that In amounts ranging up million in whack without having to Ihrough the process of taking Bitch expenditures through legislation We will hi ir more of this government as Mr gels further study lOshawa Times Queens Pork On The Homo Fronts fry and raise a glass or two If in summon up enough energy after the hectic week or two it is time to ruse your glasses Lang Sync ind usher in a brand new year Despite the fact that I look and feel about as spaced out as the wretched turkey ire thai nudges me guiltily open lie refrigerator door I intend lo sec the y car in style It was personally a good one ind thus deserves a fitting sendoff Generally was a strange year scandals and earthquakes rocked out poor globe continuously countries on he verge of bank ruptcy and pa rmesan cheese hit a record high of WOO pound in Italy Our neighbours to he south elected a new President ind Idt declared his desire to become King of Hawaii Prince Charles wis linked romotically to how many And I ran out of fingers and toes when it came to keeping track of husbands and How Hughes last wills and testaments Our government lost ten million dollars know not where and I can sympathise because will be facing same problem on a slightly smaller scale income tax time However I do think purchasing an boil was stretching the gullibility of he public a Utile loo far money guar when buying anything larger than i Thanks lo the guru like philosophising of our own unloving Eugene Whelan we learned to carefully avoid antagonising all those vicious wildeyed people rampaging out of Ihc stcakhouses although I have to admit that I find weakenesses in Mr Whelan statement My family for instance pick on each other just as competently after a fish or chicken dinner as they do after a pot life White Ihe 1930s we learned crochet and cross and lo bake our own bread Macramed planl holders went up in homes across the nation faster than the price of coffee and wc were even exhorted to make our divorces Movies ind went along with the gime The I became a house hold word unlii fickle public went ape over King Kong who bee ime our new super jock Ihrough the of Gone Wilh The Wind only to be stopped short when fated the shocking stark of Big Brother world of the s as portrayed in One Flew Over The Cuckoo Nest and Network Yes frightening year I arrmlof it a strange restless citing I wish all of you a happy and prosperous New Year face it with optimism for after all if things become loo rough we always leave the country and move to Quebec Liberals frustrated by lack of press Queen Of The Herald do they have to do hit the premier a custard pie Frustrated Liberals are asking them selves these days just what they have do to get some attention in the press party has been coming on quite strongly in the Ontario house this session Among other things they brought out Ihcir iduiallon program which the government his following as faithfully as a hound dog But they can gel any real press coverage And In The Star and The Globe and Mail here which have an extra special relationship because they arc tht pipers the members read when are in Toronlo They just don I seem able to make the news Unless of course provincial Liberal leader Stuart Smith appears to reverse himself on something and then the press pounces A current Instance is the great bus line The Highway Transport Board has awarded certificates to Greyhound Lines to operate on Gray Coach routes between Buffalo and Toronto and Toronlo and Sudbury The eventually developed Into quite a hot Issue But the Liberals sweated away it for days could get It noticed Yet it has all the elements There was the great big American corporation Greyhound against the I public owned TTC Cray Coach owned by ihc Toronto Transit Commission There was high political overtones Acting for company were former premier John and big time PC backroom wheelerdealer Goodman And Transport Board apparently was reversing former policies if Stephen Lewis had introduced it the press would have pounced on it Of course Stephen probably would have managed to work in a few Indnns I But though the Liberals pressed it for four days at question period I get any lime until Toronto labor got into the act And then though this had been wholly their issue Ihey really got only passing mention What behind If One NDP has a lot of know how in making and promoting the news media Two a least a good many reporters tend to write off the Liberals as unimportant Reporters can gel thai way OViRTONFS As for the Greyhound Grey Coach issue whit would scorn to be mainly needed is clarification Greyhound seems a cast At present for example with through pasicngcrs from Toronto to the west they have to change from Gray Coach to Grey hound at Sudbury Gray Coach also has a case For inslnnce has built up an express service to Sudbury And now Greyhound would able to undercut this But above nil it Is hard to assess whether indirectly only through the power of the bodies appearing before It iho board Influenced politically