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Home of Hills Pact July A Division of Canadian Newspapers Company Limited Georgetown It Ontario I IVMI Publisher MIL 11 1 HOI I lTT HI Second Mall Registered Number serving Region council While it interesting to see regional government continuing its to make Halton a haven for new industry along with the twin blessings of jobs and tax assessment it is also distressing to hear of yet another study being launched using taxpayers dollars to appraise the situation Somehow as the middle ground or no mans land between the pompous but longestablished provincial government and the earthy but amateurish municipal government the region has become a wasteland of planners statisticians and speculators both privately hired and elected As the new kid in town the region has been prone to the ego- inflating influence of its provincial father as much as worrisome prod ding of its municipal mother Yet the child remains airy headed and slothful in the midst of nearcalamity Two images come to mind while searching for metaphors one sees regional chairman Jack attempting to calm council members who are angered over reports of sewage sludge contamination by assuring them everythings under controf Another image presents Itself readily to any passing motorist on Highway the regional headquarters itself a sprawling factory of functionals and contemporaries that reflects in Its water filled moat the kind of modern aesthetics which characterize regional government The building is like an automobile bought as a gift for a child much too young to drive officials felt that five years was too long a time to wait for the new headquarters when It was opened earlier this year We however reel differently The great accomplishment of Halton regions firs t half decade was the completion of the first official plan a comprehensive guide for municipal planners which will supposedly remain In effect for another years But the official plan has yet to receive provincial approval it is in stead being passed around the ministry of housing while civil servants employ their bureaucratic tools to try and pry off the barnacles of dispute dissent and dissatisfaction that have already attached them selves to the plan in its infancy The official plan was itself borne out of numerous public meetings and lengthy studies which to a great extent are necessary but only when the final result pleases the great majority It is however a strong and vocal minority many of its members farmers whose liveliehoods might be challenged by certain aspects of the plan which s keeping the plan in ministry hands still the subject of some intense If Intermittent con The region or Halton must be something a record wnen it comes to the numbers of studies launched into a single issue the issue is landf tiling and trie regions failure to simultaneously resolve outstanding problems and satisfy the taxpayers continues to make headlines We predict a solid waste nightmare in Halton during the next two to live years as region desperately tends off challenges from discon voters and continues to its case In courts of law And this week comes news of a questionnairetype survey by which the region hopes to evaluate the size of its labor force and the skills available The information collected will be presented with unabashed pride to corporate investors who express interest in Halton as a site for industry Asked whether he feels the region is correct in inviting new industry to urbanize predominantly rural Chairman expressed confidence last week that the taxpayers are willing to trade a slice of their abundant farmland for much needed industrial assessment and additional jobs This is probably true as is the contention that survey results like those being sought here will assist regional officials selling to the big money investors But It s a bitter pill to swallow when we must give our infant children money they haven t earned so they can buy gas for that car they never deserved Blackwell let Ontario go wet editors Note The political Ingenuity Involved in the 1915 revival of the open bar in Ontario is described today by Don O In this scries looking back over his years Queen Park yDONlllFRN Queen Park Bureau The Herald Mention Lei to anyone today and you pet a blank stare Even in his own time his real importance was known only those few quite close government and the legislature As the unusually strong second man in the Drew government Politically the boldest move of the Drew regime v as lo introduce the su of hard liquor by the glass after he 1M5 election This was almost entirely a production Drew was involved in setting Ihe original policy In fact it well could have been his Idea But then it was left to to put it through devised the approach of giving bars automatically to municipalili of over population which then covered the province five major cities and only and requiring a local vote for all other municipalities For years votes and eventual ly the- province became almost entirely wet But the worked Liquor never really became an important issue SETTLED STRIKE was Influential in many other thing One was very bitter strike in the auto Industry in Windsor shortly after the The United Auto Workers had the whole area Windsor jammed with car and there were hundreds of standing by The situation looked both hopeless and potentially dangerous tackled by first getting Labor Minister Charles a good minister in tins field but in above his head on this one off to Europe on i sudden trip which hid come up Thin went to Detroit called the leaders of union and the company Hut most of him were his intefritj and his toughness In the IWOs there was still a lot hanky and greedy hands in politics This particularly ipplied to racketeering in liquor licences It was well known that a licence cost Toronto in Sud bury and so on These were tight payoffs And they going into party funds but into the pockets of top officials This drove wild and finally he lake it any longer One morning he called me down to his office and said Don I calling them in this afternoon and telling them if they don I stop 1 will jail them And I mean It That afternoon I watched the four top PC party officials In the province stride in the attorney general office and half an hour later I watched them glumly file Blackwell of course Jail them and I can lay for sure whether the toll Rate was ended but you hear about again Press kept at maybe its a good idea Or The Herald Prime Minister Jot Clark has had his trials and tribulations during his first das in office but he can pause and give thanks for one blessing he had to endure tie fontll and fawning of in overly press I researched this project back to Confederation but so far is modern history is concerned Clark may well be the first prime minister to assume office without in initial period with the press And while this apptar at first glume to be painful problem t suspect it mjy work to his the lone term We all remember our honeymoon with Pierre in 1J6B was in full flight and we wrote glowingly about dawning in Ottawa The new prime minister walk across the lawns of lit without a horde of reporters in his wake We loved his vigorous he dated it was a monumental event His news conferences were cultural happenings His every word was curved in stone But from the beginning Trudeau recognized the dangers in his journalistic honeymoon The media he on more than one occasion have a habit of devouring their heroes That swinging hero of I960 has I suppose been devoured least for the time being No one seems to pay much attention these lys is he drives to his new to leader of Her Majesty Loyal Opposition Five years before Trudeiu assumed the prime ministers mantle Lester Pearson came into power a genuine hero the man who brought Canada the Nobel Peace Prize perhaps the most likeable and approachable human being to occupy that high office There was honeymoon alright good deal different than the one we had with but nonetheless a real honeymoon Mike Pearson was one of the boys and we all loved his down to earth self depreciating humor Like Pearson enjoyed a highly positive press during his first years in office his bungling is forgiven on the grounds that he obviously meinl well And if you go back to 13j7 there was a similar altitude toward John when he wrestled the government away from the St Laurent Liberals who most people agreed hid become too arrogont removed from the people the man whovoud restore sense of pride in Canada I the average Cinadian would have his day in cowl By 19G2 cabinet wis splitting in all directions and he was gelling journalistic roasting for every thine from ids to devalued His honeymoon ended with a resounding crash Pearson honeymoon end with any dramatic suddenness but his image was clearly tarnished through a long il scandals the divisive debate and continuing over and The nitty of domestic politics had clearly taken its toll ROtki START Joe Clark looks on his predecessors he must be grateful lhal he t swept Into office with a similar blast of journalistic euphoria There is something to be said for starting at the and working correspondent who on Clark campaign rennrked seen such an anticandidate sentiment among the accompanying press There were even antiClark jokei being pissed and since Clark tended 10 follow a set speech reporters even I him finish sentences in unison the press or his performance in the television debate and since Ins election as prime minister he Ins absorbed a severe pounding for his ill conceived policies on the Middle Las for his unpopular promise lo privatize Pelro Canada and for certain cabinet appointments When you think of it Joe Clark reallj got off to i rather rocky star 1 suspect he is grateful Right now with a new minority government and with most obviously willing lo give him i net to prove himself it millers little whit journalists sty about the new prime minister And by the time it does matters the cycle will probably have td Clark people see it any change cm only be for the belter Ombudsman poses question occupies the middle ground in llueen spark llure TORONTO There tricky pie involved in the existence of an ombudsman to look into ifnnst actions by the provincial govern While piid for by the 1 it payer the Ombudsman is in the unique posit it n of directly to the legislalure creature or House louse parliamentary jargon than in instrument of Hit the tin power to lake to fix errors and it is the government has to respond to Ihe ombudsman complaints about wrong doing against pmitc citizen To help resolve it difficulty Pal I NOP tf select committee on the nun lure just I rt the session recessed He presented a special report of seven recommtndalions were now here against the opposition of the minisl rus or boards involved Ml- The committee is composed of 10 members four of them Conservatives and Ihree each Liberals and Their views were unanimous In all cases one dealing with the health ministry and six with the Workmen Compensation Board they felt the was right wanted the legislature the ombudsman boss Otherwise there is no sinttion for office Ombudsman hi said Willi Iawlur on the key problem for in Ombudsman If all his investigations he a govtrnment minis ry or agency made in error with a citizen he goes to the bureaucracy and It Us them t rLi- in four whin the ombudsman office was first lit over the North ickering expropriation question Tht resulting productd a lor revolving ombudsman government conflicts included setting up the select to hear arguments from both sides The results from Ihe point of view of luwlor and past chairman Mich lei Davidson Centre who resigned on the issui not been good the commmitlees lasl report was produced in tin Hi use none of the inwhed even took Ihe to shiw up and listen ONI- Now report was before Ihe Haute ind bluntly said we want Ihis taken seriously It been up to this date and it is high time it was is really point If the government wants an man and makes him a of House then it should bow before decisions of that chamber expressed as committee recommendations Having all three parties agree it it p stuff suth us tie North Pickering dispute where the Tor dissented government will in fact respond to Lawlors plea is still up in the We II know by the fall the HERALD MICHAEL LARRY MARTIN Advert lino Sales Phone 877 I Round DrtT History From our files HOW INttOOI Hi AS GIFT Alts palatial home of Mr and Mrs JHC Wane Mam South in Brampton lias been offered to Peel Memorial Hospital a gift One of loveliest homes it contains rooms has a Urge swimming pool and beautiful rock and flower gardens cover the four acre property It is valued at In making the gift Mr Walte informed the hospital board of gov they could use the property a residence or sell it and the proceeds for other hospital purposes The new plastic glass boat produced in Georgetown by a new company formed by Leonard J Dell head of Georgetown Clay Products mode a good showing at the Civic Holiday boat rates in when it placed second in for to hp outboard motors In a Two cases of poliomyelitis have been reported in by James Mather Medical Officer of Health One is jcarold married woman from ind other seven yearold I from Campbelivillc Both victims have some Mather rcporle- Tht cases arc in widely separated points of tht county and give no Indication that there is danger of an epidemic Alts AGO Two Glen children ages and 12 have been charged with causing malicious damage to Glen Williams Public School Monday which according lo school board trustee may run close to Damage to the windows aloiw run Into hundreds of dollars AIL windows along the back of the building and in doors throughout the school were shattered Inside radios and clocks were demolished water color paints were upset liht globes broken and almost everything moveable was overturned In one room duplicator fluid was poured over the tiled and retihng will be necessary The Glen School is the fourth rural school experience vandalism in the past few months Edward James Rogers of 1 Georgetown became understandably an Monday afternoon when someone shot at him with a rifle while he was driving north on the Line shattering the windshield of his cor Mr Rogers was just south of corners when he was shot at and in his haste to back up to attempt to catch the gunman lie lost control of his car and bucked into the cast ditch Contractors who use water from lire hydrants during construction jobs should be subject to regulations and pay for iter used said Coun Hyde chairman of councils water committee when the subject was discussedat the July meeting Works superintendent G said there Is no existing town legislation which bars this practice and said he would recommend council levying a charge and establishing regulations BUILDING ARKS AGO It wasn forty days and forty but the torrent which dropped something like three inches of water on Georgetown and district Monday afternoon put residents in Ihe mood for ark building The unusually heavy down pour resulted in flash flooding in some areas of town where ilorm sewers and natural ground absorption handle it Town works super Frank Mo relic told The Herald his department had over calls from people asking for aid in water from basements and mopping When Bethany Margaret Hill was born in Georgetown Hospital April she weighed only one pound twelve ounces And a few days later she hod lost four and i half of those precious ounces On July Bethany arrived home at I with her parents Carl and a healthy roe- monthsold who now weighs almost pounds Phillip White of Georgetown was sent to trial for the murder of his father Robert While Phillip is accused of shooting his father May with a Re following an argument at their Georgetown home Total income lax paid by residents is soared by in one year federal lax departments on nual Green Rook shows dents paid in 1967 the latest for which figures ore available The number of residents in eating in 1967 compared with the previous year After debate about municipal ties sharing the cost of a plumbing inspector Georgetown has decided to go It alone County announced it would no longer carry out plumbing Inspections after Sepl ember Council on Monday decided toadvertisc for an Inspector with a salary of between W and and car allowance ONI- Ml Hills mayor Tom Hill set speculation flying July when he announced a planning board Focal Properties representative has approached him to try to arrange a meeting between council and Focal without town staff or legal present Hills Is seeking an injunction against Ontario Hydro to prevent Hydro starting construction on the northsouth power corridor which was the subject of Monday Ontario Municipal Board hear The hearing was adjourned but the town has sought an Injunction against the corporation saying construction on the line has started without wailing for the decision of the hearing Region Conservation Author staff faced the possibility of a dam failure the second In less than two months when water began seeping out of a toe drain at ihe Kelso Dam July Authority general manager Murray Ste phen told authority members thai the OSacre reservoir was lowered by four July 17 to case the pressure Testa done earlier showed that the dam Itself did not but no source for the water could be located Water flowed at the rate of gallons a minute