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Home Newspaper of Hills Page THJ Wednesday May A Division of Canadian Newspapers Company Limited Main South Georgetown Ontario Publisher Second Mall Number Of Court ruling threatens board A recent Ontario divisional court ruling has serious plications for the Halton School Board as well as school boards across Ontario The court upheld a previous County Court ruling suspending two Toronto school board members from participating in board business for one and two months and also ordering them to pay the court costs incurred so far So much for democracy The crime the Toronto trustees Bob Spencer and Bill Fisher are supposed to be guilty of is voting on a contract for high school teachers while their wives are employed by the Toronto board as PUBLIC school teachers So where the conflict Neither mans spouse will be directly affected by the contract the trustees voted on Neither trustee stood to benefit directly from the matter they voted on and neither did their wives Certainly when conflict of interest legislation was drafted it was meant to end the days when politicians granted contracts to their own firms along with similarity blatant acts not to muzzle democracy And that s what happening in Toronto and as a result across Ontario The Toronto school board is currently in a high state of politicizatfon Until the court rulings the board was almost evenly split between left leaning members supporting the NDP and right wing conservative members Any doubt that the conflict of interest charges were politically motivated was removed last week when David Moll the man who filed the charges admitted in a Toronto newspaper that he took the trustees to court because of their left wing beliefs Mr Moll s charges came immediately after the boards closest vote of the year on the high school contracts which had ended in a 13 tie The court ruling depriving the trustees of their vote now ensures that the vote will now pass in favor of the right the group Mr Moll supports Surely this type of manipulation of the courts cannot be considered in the best interests of the democratic process We think that trustees like Mr Spencer and Mr Fisher are countable enough to their voters The voters should decide whether or not the two men are voting appropriately We believe that the muzzle being applied by the court ruling will deprive future boards of valuable trustees For if a teacher student or spouse of the same knows that he or she will be unable to vote on many matters of board business what will be the point of inning The Halton board has already suffered a reduced level of service from Noel Cooper simply because he is a teacher with another board Mr Cooper decided to withdraw from the Halton salary committee because of the ruling Certainly it seems to us that the input of a teacher into salary proposals would be worthwhile Who can better tell the board of the needs and desires of teachers than another teacher We trust Halton voters to tell us at the ballot box whether or not they feel Mr Coopers voting is influenced by feelings of teacher solidarity Using the conflict of interest thinking students should not be eligible for board positions terall who has more to gam than students of a school board them selves In Ontario many school boards now have valuable student members serving on their boards Taking Mr Moll s conflict of interest thinking to its logical extreme taxpayers would also be disqualified from board mem Certainly the voting to set taxes to represent a direct of conflict of interest wince the rates will directly effect those who vote for it Of course depriving taxpayers of a right to sit on school boards would Be ridiculous but not much more ridiculous than the court s ruling The school board should pass a motion expressing their opposition to the democratic court ruling and expressing their support for the muzzled trustees If they don t and the ruling is allowed to stand unchallenged the make up and democratic nature of our local school and those across the province will be greatly effected tabloid is a falselssue A false issue has been in into the Brampton Georgetown federal election campaign Last week supporters of Conservative hopeful John Mc filed a complaint with the Canadian Chief Of ficer office claiming that Liberal candidate Ross has violated the Election Act They charge that a campaign newspaper published by Milne and distributed with two weekly newspapers in the riding on April constitutes a violation of the Election Act ban on newspaper advertising until April Mr Milne denies thia saying the tabloid was distributed with the newspapers simply for con venience sake He said the tabloid is similar to any other piece of campaign literature published during the race and adds these may be distributed at any point the Conservative candidate Mc argues that the tabloid is like any other supplement with a newspaper like a brochure a store etc be Bays Its advertising and therefore candidate Moulton has the best comment on the affair he says its not important He argues that the real questions that must decide this election are the candidates stands on the many serious issues facing this nation Mr Moulton We feel confident in saying that whether or not he did violate the election act Mr Milne and his campaign workers did not pur posely set out to violate the act He is not a stupid man and we don think he would consciously jeopardize his campaign simply to have a one week advertising head start on the other candidates So at worst the Milne cam made a rather stupid mistake at best he did nothing wrong Either way we don t really think the move reflects that strongly on the candidates ability to serve as Georgetown s Member of Parliament What does matter as Mr Moulton has said is Mr Mllnes stand on the that concern local And the same goes for all five candidates vying for the Brampton Georgetown seat So let get back to the cam paign and let the CRO deal with the peripheral Issues of- To CxT owe roc Joe Provinces record worst in manpower training park The Herald TORONTO Probably in no ana of responsibility do the Constra lives have worse record than In the field of And an advertisement in an English has gcn the opposition here in pirlicul the New Parly limit to rake hay from their The ids arc seeking skilled for i General Motors plant in Windsor Tint same is the location of posed engine plant winch the rovincc granted million so it would IocUl I in and for which skilled v rkers will be needed Democrats feir that there won I enough until mad for jobs ford will steal people small business firms already in MINISTER pi ice much of the on the programs which an the responsibhly of Education Minister Belle Stephen on and before and Universities Minister irry Pirrott the recent Throne Speech iIlsilii Labor Minister Dob Elgio as ind manpower minister signify ii some kind of shift in his role As ho himself said he be assuming me guiding and eoordimtini roles with regards manpower activities but unfortunately nil that been done to date is together information for further study riat Which brings the questions to Stephenson and Cooke Windsor Riverside hid a few pert NO Why ire there only people in programs at Gencnl Mot rs Windsor plant Why isn t any auto manufacturer represented on an advisory community industrial training committee in Windsor why are there more applicants f r apprenticeship positions in Windsor Hi in there ire openings considering existing industry in the area and Ford moving in as well Stephenson put as good a face on it as she could considering the obvious inade the government programs over In 1J77 or example Robertson Group Association filed a re port with federal government on the ex sting status of apprenticeship prog rims icross It e country the fog of rhetoric iiil and posturing one finds their use in industry to be practically ml It just that lime two years that Parrott began the studies intended to shift emphasis towards lonil training Now Stephenson says Just our weeks ago an employer sponsored train program involving people and connected with the automobile industry up in Windsor Still leader Michael Cnssidy put it there s a quality of too little loo late about the whole business Education ministers speech raises nitwit question IMJONOIlt Park Of The Herald TORONTO I don know if you happened to catch up to the most recent little tempest over Minister Belle Stephenson But if you did you may have been bit bewildered by it The education minister a wide ranging bit of business in she talked about the need take a fresh and broad look at the educational system and bring our thinking on it up A typical point was thai the present school year and classroom day id been designed for a society and I tin we should at least like a look at NIT WIT The next diy it was a bit of shocker lo of us who had ready the speech to sec lhat the reports of it sold the minister had been proposing longer school days larger classrooms and a return to the red school house to meet the problem of declining enrolments A thing she didn I rend that In i She might have been in damter of drowning As for you the reader you well would hive had reason wonder if the much respected Stephenson had suddenly turned into a nit wit She hidn of course But she had lived dangerously In lalking about the hundreds of things that miLhi be considered she had given 1or she said that perhaps the need to close some schools might be avoided if classes were combined this had been done in little red school house and it been all hat bad Then perhaps there t be rigid on classroom sue a history class could without suffering be larger in science class for example THOO This was breaking the number one taboo in political communication today You don t mention specifies unless you want them talked about and only then For it is one of the facts of the media tint if there is something concrete to be reported this is what will be reported perhaps not to accurately reported at that Yes this can be a bit disconcerting perhaps but the real pro politician let it bother him He plays the game the way it Is and in fact if he Is good enough takes it by stick handling his pet projects with the medio the way he knows it will go for them NO PRO But though Stephenson is quite a she is not a pro politician And it s doubtful if she would ever want to be for she can see the foolishness of so much of it And take this as a reassurance For though the game of politics always has and probably always will be occupied with a lot or nonsense it Is pretty important stuff to us underneath and calls Tor some from time to time People such the education minister who don run with the herd and the blanket of its conformity can stimulate this Letter to the editor Good clean fun warms readers To the editor of The Herald It gives great pleasure to write to you with good news about a group of young people So many times we forget to talk about our young people and give them a pot on theback for a job well done Most of the time it is the bad newa that makes he press On April my wife and I attended the 2nddown Credit River Race by the 1st Georgetown Rovers It did our hearts good lo see SO to young people enjoying themselves and having good clean fun To hold this event took a lot hard work by Ihe 1st Georgetown Rovers who themselves art young people 1 thought It might be good for people of Georgetown and surrounding area to know about his hard working group of young people The result of their efforts was a lofof good fun enjoyed by boys and girls at this event Our tlont to the 1st Georgetown Rovers for a job very well done Hubert ijrncey Rover Leader 1st Hornby Rover WILLIAM General MICHAEL Sales Manager Phone Haltons History From our files LIONS HANDSTAND THIRTY AGO Construct ion has started on the new bandstand which Ihe Lion Club is erecting in Ihe park and Lane are handling the job and the old Judge stand has been wrecked The new bandstand will stand on this site It will stand four feet high with a sol platform mounted on posts with lattice work to ground Council discussed a new location for ihe town dump Monday after receiving a letter from a firm of Toronto solicitors on behalf of their client Ford who complained that the smoke and fl jmes from the present dump at the park were creating a nuisance and injuring shrubbery on properlj owned by him at the fool of Maple Avenue Mayor Joseph Gibbons said Ihe dump was a problem would hive lo be decided very soon js the present properly was almost filled The fire brigade was colled this morning when the tire on a Bell Telephone truck caught fire The truck had parked on the highway across from the Old Town Hall and burning embers from an old bonfire caused Ihe fire There was no damage other than the fire i TVUNTY Another of Georgetown growth will be reflected later this ear in inauguration of letter carrier service for all Georgetown The Herald was informed this week by Sandy Rest MP of Ottawa that Georgetown is now for ion of such a system Door to door delivery will be as soon as per cent of those to be served have installed suitable receptacles Tor their mail Mr Best said From Corner by Ian Case At the present moment much of Southern is in the grip of a price war which will probably be more vicious and more durable than any we have seen in the past No doubt many motorists will view this with glee at the same lime making sure that their gas tanks are always kept well filled Plans were finalized at Mondiy council meeting for greeting a guest on Thursday May 14 when his the Rt Honorable Vincent Canada governor will spend half an hour in town Mr ill by special train at the CNR stationat4 While Georgetown has hud many prominent visitors in the past it is believed that lh a is the first official visit of representative of royalty In The Herald classified columns under Homes for Rent Brick house for rcnl centrally located in Georgetown Available June 1 a month Ted McDowell of Erin had the misfor tunc to upset his car and hit the comer of the barn beside Smith store last Wedn night Apparently he was attempt ing to pass another vehicle when the car went out of control on the wet pavement He was taken to the Hospital In the ambulance Tor treatment damage to the car was at TEN YEARS AGO Water sewage systems arc on the horizon for Glen Williams Provincial MPP Jim Snow told The Herald this week that the Ontario Water Resources Commission has order design reports from Proctor and a firm of consulting engineers which has engineered many projects in Georgetown The report will Include plans for a complete water supply and system for the Glen as well as a sewage collection system Fourteen calves hay grain milking equipment stable cleaning equipment and a laic heifer were lost in a blaze which levelled a huge barn and two silos on the farm belonging to Jim and Hugh Clark outside Saturday afternoon Most of the world famous Clark herd were saved however by neighbors who swung into action when the ire broke out and led most of the animals to safety Municipal Affairs Minister Darcy McKeough has spoken out against an Independent regional government He said that he docs not believe can be reformed alone to create on enduring region He had defined an enduring region as a government area able to stand on Its own two feet In its own operations and its dealings with its neighbors All secondary schools in the county will now employ health attendants George town High School has had the full time services of a health attendant for several years but less than half the county schools were in this category 10CALSCHOOLS TWINNED ONE AGO Halton board of education twinned two pairs of schools In Hills with a mixed reaction from parents urged the board not to Effective September 1 school will be twinned with Joseph Gibbons school in Georgetown and school with Robert Utile School in Acton Lime- house parents vowed after the boards action that they would appeal the twinning to Education Minister Tom Wells perhaps Ontario Ombudsman Arthur M loney After years of service to the community of Georgetown the George town Women Institute has been disband ed The decision which was in March came alter years of work by the members to Ihe benefit of the comrnu nlty from donations to Georgetown District Memorial Hospital to the supply of food and clothing for the relief of Hurricane flood victims Friends and relatives of Jack and Hargrove of Acton helped the couple celebrate their Diamond wedding annive rsary Saturday at St Alban church In Acton Mr Hargrove and Mrs Harg rove were mrrled May 1918 In Toronto They have lived in Acton for 39 Superintendent Floyd Schwann t believe there will be much of a difference between his job as dent in the Regional Police force and his new position as chief of police in