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Home of Hills Page THE Wednesday Jannary IT A Division of Canadian Newspapers Company Limited Main SL South Georgetown Ontario Clm Mall ReglitBfKJ Number McGibboris sale may help town We are sure many local residents greeted news of the sale of the infamous Hotel in Georgetown with a hearty cheer Once the grand showpiece of the town business area back in the 1800 the hotel has been allowed to degenerate and decay to a point where many town residents feel unsafe venturing inside Considering the s dominant location in the centre of downtown Georgetown it s state of disrepair reflects badly on the whole business area The sight of a boarded up imposing building with the paint peeling off the window frames does little to inspire area residents to head downtown But the new owners assure us they plan to change this They say that once their renovations are complete the hotel will be one the entire community will be proud of Certainly its possible Despite the buildings poor shape it is basically an attractive example of the finer points of Canadian architecture in the If someone were to invest a sizeable amount of money into repairing the cosmetic problems with the building sandblasting replacing rotting wood and removing the boards from the windows the could in deed become a showpiece maybe even a tourist attraction The new owners assure use they do indeed have the money necessary to revive the once proud hotel We are sure that downtown merchants and local residents alike hope they will succeed Halt ons History From the Heralds files Congratulations to Arts Plus committee Selfemployed businessmen dominate Ontario legislature Halton Hills Arts Plus com have proven once again that nothing is more effective for swaying politicians than a well thought out argument backed up with statistics and equally a roomful supporters to drive the point home Last week the Georgetown Little Theatre released results of a survey showing overwhelming support for expanded theatre facilities within the town The survey idea was a good one on the part of the GLT Since a significant amount of tax payers money will be involved in constructing theatre facilities or even conducting a feasibility study it is imperative that the town council know if the idea has support in the community And it does The Arts Plus Committee was also wise to mobilize their members on Monday night The large turnout of theatre supporters at the council meeting undoubtedly helped sway some council members into sup porting the groups request for a feasibility study or the crowd at least helped speed up the decision making process The Arts Plus Committees success should serve as a pointer for other groups hoping to get things By Derek Nelson Letters to the Editor Angry student charges abuse queen Park Bureau Of The Herald TORONTO Ontario Premier William Davis is a lawyer So are In legislature five of them in cabinet Two of Ihe New Parly leading lights Jim and arc also lawyers The Liberals can produce six lawyers including former leadership contender Roy In fact lawyers hold 17 per cent of the 125 seals in the legislature PC liberal Cynics have suggested thai lawyers ore so common in because have a vested interest in laws The more morcwork have More likely its because lawyers find it achieve a status of financial Independence as well as finding the lime needed to play political garni SEI EMPLOYED But even with high profile lawcrs the represented occupation in the house Perhaps not surprisingly people from Ihe business community are in particular selfemployed small businessman Tog moke up nearly per cent of the legislature If one adds in farmers who tend think of themselves as selfemployed small businessmen the figure Jumps to nearly 40 per cent These figures are necessarily appro MPP Julian Reed for example is both an actor and a farmer by profession Do you count him twice or ignore one of his jobs And how do you MPP Donald who has been a teacher journalist political agitator naval officer political organizer and college lecturer In hi- career TEACHERS NEXT But what is surprising is the group thai stands second behind businessmen In membership In the assembly They are public sector almost per cent of the lotal and of those about threequarters are teachers think they have a conflict of Interest when it comes to voting on government spending The next largest identifiable group are trade who number from 10 per cent depending how you count membership and of course excluding the public service and teachere unions If they were included unionists would be right up there with businessmen in numbers PARTY BREAKDOWN There is also a scattering of profession other than lawyers including four doctors two of them psychiatrists interest enough a dentist a pharmacist a firefighter and j Journalists Those promiment by Iheir absence from he legislature Include women In general capitalists or big business men and jour average office or assembly line in all cases being few or The party breakdown isnot unexpected among ihost silting either Almost all the business community graduates and the farmers are with the Conservatives or Liberals Most of the trade unionists and public sector employees ore with the NDP although a sizeable bloc of teachers sit in the Liberal ranks To the editor of The Herald I m writing this not only to get some of my own anger off my chest but also in case It might be useful toother teenagers hoping to get a Job by applying through our local Manpower office I went down last week hoping to get some part lime work at rank When I went In the first time Ihe place was so I Just took an application form and went home fill it out I went back day prepared wait because really want a part time Job Not only do I need the money I also need the experience so 1 can get work as I get older and need Jobs pay for university I waited an hour half wo classes before the girl who was screening applications for the Vetere Interviewers called me She took mj papers and asked my age- When she heard I was Just 14 she took my forms crumpled almost in my face and threw them in he garbage I had gone In quite prepared hear I I be hired because not old enough work In a licensed restaurant was also prepared to hear they were taking Save our CN station To the editor of The Herald I have read with interest Ihe notice posted op the Georgetown Railroad Station indicates an application has been made to remove the Station Agent and Railroad Mat Ion Building It is somewhat ironic lhat at a time when tfiestationarea now accommodates several hundred people each working day probably many more than ever has used the railway system In Georgetown that such plans are underway Perhaps IheCanadian National Hallways Go Transit and VIA Rail could negotiate a reasonable agreement which would not only retain Ihe station building but also make it viable once again If such a meeting had been held prior to the inception of Go Transit perhaps the aluminum and glass structure could have been avoided This letter Is request Ihe author lies concerned lo please give consideration to an Important and unique piece of architecture which represents several hundred railroad stations lhat have disappeared over past few years throughout Canada J McDonald older kids first because they needed jobs worse and my turn would come when I got to be or 16 But I wsn t told anything except that 1 had to be at least 15 She simply ripped up my application and left me reeling so humiliated as well as shocked thai I didn even get over it enough o be angry until I was hair way home When my mo l her phoned the office to find out if was some special age requirements forbidding 14 year olds from getting part lime jobs the office director said I should hive created a slink and demanded to know why II happened so people in the office would know I was getting rude treatment If I had done thai It would have been a complete waste of all the years my mother spent training me to polite in all situations Of course ihe woman denies ripping up anything but my s application and says I was I was too young to work in a licenced even thought I was looking for a kiichtn job like dishwashing I could her to people higher up than her boss but it would be my word against her since I I raise a fuss and alert or so witnesses so I don t think I will She mi without a run in with higher inpower management The director says ihey would only ripped up my Velcrt application yet for some unknown reason can I find the other I filled in My malicious streak know it should missing if they only destroyed my Vetere applicat ion Why should quickly if 1 speak up and s I was looking for any work I could get and lhat I would leave my name on if anything else came up What would the point be lady Yoihad already crumpled and tossed Ihe form before 1 could even say anything So maybe I have learned a valuable lesson Maybe ihe only way to get anywhere is to be as rude and ignorant as Ihe people who run system Adults tike knock us for bung too lazy to look for work but If how we re treated by adults who are supposed help us It not much wonder if teenagers like myself hesitate to face let alone prospective employers Now I have to go in there and do II all over again and 1 am doing anything but forward loll lamsocmbarr sscdl tuuld just forget whole idea except that experience may help someone so I hope you will accept my signature us a Hi Name withheld on request Clarks New Years interview fails to impress our columnist By Stewart MacLeod Bureau Of The Herald Smct rightly or wrongly Conservative Leader Jot Clark is stud rusty future prime minister lam such issues as I know regards the economy as over issue for the next campaign hut Prime Minister Trud is ji inj In n the unity issue no political lender can avi il hi id on Si fir irk has nded In just a bit misl n Ihi issue The Tory leader d little to assist his cause when he suggested III he as would be wilting to talk association Rene Lcvesque providing some Co per cent of favored this course of action Perhaps as his aides were quick to claim Clark comment was taken out of context but nonetheless idea was planted And i comes one of his top drawer MPS David state flally lhat anyone who refuses to negotiate is Furthermore Cromble added he was more concerned with Quebec Liberal Lead Claude Ryan as a negotiator than he was Ml mil Clark should not be losing too to clarify his party position on this delicate sphere The federal in certainly indicated that ihe Tories will have a major sales Job facing as Ihcy fight for a respcclabk of federal Anyway when the newly firmed Unit Press Canada confronted Clark a major New Years interview would expect Tory leader clear misunderstandings misconceptions and miscalculations associated with ihe and Quebec Quebecers facing thai sovereignly association refer to mention a federal election it would to be a good time for I for I gel it What we have lo do in rtlation to a is demonstrate fnth in the systtm dcclartd Clark I don know about you but after 111 years of Confederation this particularly I impress me a The Conservative It idir onto talk iboul j stage approach lo tht problem thai tht system can work thai il I broken down Again wilh a separatist ilrtady elected in Quebec thai struck as less than innovative And so did this Follow up The much tourer question Is going to be to lake a fresh look at nature of Canadian community and whether or not there hove to be changes that the existence of trie two principal cultural communities I frank I don I think rt ready fact those questions yet think that before we face those there has to be some rcsinration of faith in ability of the work I don I wanl lake Clark out f ti in any way it seems me if we yet ready to accept changes which recognize existence of principal cultural communities we haven come very far in our 111 most part Clark seemed to blamcTrudcau for the difficulties thai now exist One of he things that has has been thai a lot of have reacted excessive centralization in Ottawa he said They arc separatists because Ihcy they re against because way Mr Trudeau his made grow in Ihe last years Most of Ihem intend to stay as Quebec nalionalislswilhin Canada Ihcy are not to do that if they think that there Is no for their culture be strong the context of Canada Oddly of ihe chief Tory complaints he Trudiau government has decent ra Illation of power out of Ottawa And again oddly enough one of most persistent policies has been in turn Ottawa into a bilingual capital in winch I- rtnch speaking Canadians feel If Clark hopes to slay on I golnf to have to do belter in this the HERALD AN I LI WILLIAM EVDOK1MOFF General Manager MICHAEL Managing Editor EDPEARCE Sales Manager Phone 877 HOARD HEAD THIRTY YEARS AGO Walter who headed the polls in the December vote for Georgetown s first board of education was chosen chairman of the new board when the first was held in the high school on Wednesday evening The biggest show ever in Georgetown is booked into the arena on Friday January when Georgetown Girls Pipe Band sponsors the Skating Follies The ice show will be presented by members of the University Skndng Club of Toronto which has been rated as the second best such club in Canada A feature of the decoration scheme will be ihe use for the first lime In Georgetown of painted ice the Ice surface will be painted a brilliant green with harmonizing color used in decorations GLIDES GUEST TWENTY YEARS AGO Meeting Tuesday in Municipal building a group of downtown merchants and properly owners chose a fiveman committee to investigate all angles of a proposed parking area purchase A report from office of Assessment Commissioner Joseph Gibbons this week reveals that 500 people have taken up residence in Georgetown since Ihe end of September The new figure of end of December indicates that since 1954 the town has more lhan doubled In population and before end of 195 will have surpassed the 10 mark district commissioner Mrs EC Reed Llmehousc on January First Georgetown were guests for Ihe Candlelight enrolment According to a report from ton office of Dr I of the Health In Animals division on Friday the highest concentration of rabid foxes in County is in the Georgetown area Dr Twiss fold the Herald of nine foxes from this county confirmed by the Animal Disease Research Institute Hull Quebec as rabid five were killed In and around Georgetown When tin North Halton High School district board assembled at Georgetown high school for their inaugural meeting on Monday January Georgetown was represcnled by five members for the first time in the history of school director ate Attending ihe meeting for the first lime as a member was local lawyer Doug Latimer who recently received an appoint ment to the board by the FIRE FRIES TURKEYS TFN iGO Ed Osborne a farmer on the Line north of Georgetown has started to look skyward for he answer lo mysterious disappearances of pets and livestock from his property A year ago two small dogs suddenly disappeared and a couple of fallhfulmlccrs have also vanished without a trace Mr Osborne lies In disappearances with recent sightings of a huge bird which he said he originally took for an owl bul which his son Mark claims Tits he description of n Golden Eagle Sam who operates turkey form on Highway Just north of George own lost a new batch of turkey chicks in a flash fire Sunday morning that roared through he brooder barn at another location on the 1st line of Esqueslng Hampered by lack of water and deep snow Acton firefighters fought blaze They saved the front end of the by 40foot barn and kept the fire from leaping 100 feet to a smaller barn housing some older birds About county health unit staff members expect to find out In midJanuary whether or not they can organize hcmsclv as a local of he Canadian Union or Public Employees The decision will be made by the Ontario Labor Relations Board A union spokesman has Indicated that CUPE Is confident the board will grant Ion On January at a meeting called by the Georgetown YM the Georgetown Recreation committee was formed The com mil Ice adapted the following alms to investigate the recreational needs and in Georgetown to provide an opportunity for liason between the Individ organizations A George own lawyer Kenneth A Langdon has been named President of Halton County Law Association The elect ion was Monday nlghi at Milton The association has a membership of about Two of eighl man crew flying Canada only relief plane to arc Georgetown men Rolard Sparling Duncan Drive and Dennis Hughes Eleanor Cres cent The Lockheed SuperConstellation left Tuesday from Montreal begin he long flight In island of Sao Tome In Gulf of Guinea miles from From there it will carry tons of supplies nightly making two trips a night The night trips are necessary to avoid antiaircraft fire NURSING I10MF NEED ONE YEAR AGO The need for chronic nursing home beds in Hills Is clear former Ontario Leader Stephen Lewis said last week In a telephone interview with The Herald Mr Lewis said seems me based on information from he hospital administrator briefs and New Democralic Party researcher Mary Morr thai the case for chronic nursing home beds has been made and made well In he past months the Halton Hills Community Legal Clinic have assisted a fair number of people who need legal advice on a type of problem lawyers don handle clinic worker Peggy said J tall on Regional Chairman Morrow told about 100 Acton citizens Monday that heir community faces a substantial ax Increase If regional government fails to adopt a recommended policy governing payment of sewer and water servicing A lawyer hired two years ago to defend he rights of landowners in this municipality against plans for the Bruce Milton transmission corridor told his clients have less a 10 per cent chance of winning the battle in court Two days after the Ontario Supreme Court denied leave appeal last month a govern ment decision to approve Ihe of land lawyer Dick admitted the possibilities of slopping the corridor through he courts are virtually exhausted