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Home Ne of Mills Till October A Division Canadian Newspapers Company Limited lOSMainSt I Ontario PHONE CUii Mi Its now time for action on Focal ask Gee thought you We re referring to town councillor Marilyn Serjeantson s questions at last weeks planning board concerning the status of the Focal Properties negotiations Coun Serjenntson expressed her disillusionment with the status of negotiations concerning the con troversial subdivision She reminded the board that many of the town councillors ran their election campaigns almost a year ago with the promise to resolve the long debated issue Board chairman Mike Arm strong told her the ball Is now in Focal court and maintained it is up to the developer to get back to the town with another proposal for the subdivision While it may in deed be Focal a turn to come forward until the issue is resolved it will always bang ominously over the heads of the town council and planners Council must find a way to press the negotiations to a con elusion To let the Issue remain unresolved makes any kind of planning in this community vir tually impossible Serjenntson is right when she advocates re opening discussion of local sewage allocation and the Focal issue in general While Armstrong says the towns position has not changed during this term of office it is this very position that has lead to the issue remaining unresolved Perhaps the board should take Coun Serjeantson advice and hold a serious discussion of the Focal issue This would help the current councillors add new input to the debate and even possibly come up with a solution It is also certainly time for an indepth updating of the complete status of negotiations with Focal Considering that Bruce McLaughlin recently went on record saying the Focal issue was on the verge of being resolved we wonder why there has been so little said about the project recently And if behind the scenes negotiations are taking place certainly cpuncillors like Ms Serjeantson should be aware of them The time has definitely come to clear the air once and for all around the issue A planning board meeting might just be the best place to start Hockey ban is a mistake We re sorry to see the Georgetown Minor Hockey Support Group restate their ban against two little girls Alison vine and Carolyn from playing hockey on boys teams members argued that if they allowed the girls to play the local hockey association would lose its affiliation with the Ontario Minor Hockey Association and thus be banned from tournaments and other inter province play This was given as the main reason for not allowing the young girls to play at a level of hockey and coaching most suited to their abilities on a boys team While we can understand the parents concern by simply using the OMHA as a reason to not allow the young girls to play m effect shows support for the associations position Otherwise the should have at least said they would only ban the girls under protest They could take steps available to them as members of the OMHA to try and see the policy rescinded They should also file a protest with the provincial government stating opposition to a recent court ruling upholding the legality of the ban As the Toronto Star said in an editorial about this issue if its the law then change it Others have argued against girls playing on boys minor hockey teams saying the girls would likely be injured playing against the boys Yet if the girls are forced to play in the girls league they be playing girls up to years of age We think they re less likely to get injured playing against boys their own age And we re told the two girls certainly held their own against male players last year or boys teams Both and Carolyn are talented enough to play in the boys league We think that talent should be the only criteria in question Boys hockey in this country is better organized with greater access to ice time These young girls deserve the opportunity to play at a level which most to the development of their hockey skills as well as be the most satisfying for the youngsters If the GMHSG will not let the girls plays they should at least try and get the rules changed for the future A warm welcome to Boat People Halton Hills cc In Vietnamese that means welcome and we send out a warm welcome to the first Vietnamese family to arrive in Georgetown Tasan his wife and his ended their exodus from their homeland this month arriving safely at the home of Reverend and Mrs John Jong of Georgetown file Jongs are just one of many local families and groups involved in sponsoring the Viet refugees and we also congratulate them on their hard work We suspect few things could have been more satisfying to the local see the faces of the refugee family when they were reunited after their treacherous safe at last in the De Jong home The Halton Hills Boat People sponsors still need help They require funding furniture station services among other things For those unable to sponsor a family but still interested in helping in some way call Don Long at 7010 for details or To CoiMCit- Approval PM Clark should consider backing down on PetroCan Ottawa Bureau of The Herald Considering the difficulties by Prime Minister Joe Clark in the implementation of his campaign promises Israel embassy move and proposed billion lax cut being most notable perhaps isn t surprising that dctermlnd to pursue the so- called privatization of He probably feels he can enter another election campaign without some of his major promises being Implement and it a sure bet that such commit menis as the embassy move and the tax cut wont be In place by then But the privatization or least the partial privatization of Canada Is a practical possibility and the Clark government will probably pounce on il And if decision is mode there is no doubt that he government can succeed Both the Liberals and the New Democrats boast that they will fight to he finish to prevent such a move but we all know where that finish line is It Is on the safe suit of an election that where As popular is their cause may be neither Hit Liberals nor the Nov Democrats want an early election an election which would almost certainly see return of the Tory government perhaps with a Before another election is called the New Democrats desperately need an Infusion of cash and Ihere are a good many Liberals who feel their party before going back the people needs a new infusion of leadership worth noting that shortly after Liberal energy critic Marc said his parly would fight the Tory proposals with every means at our disposal that 10 Liberals found it necessary to miss a crucial commons vote on Hit question will happen again and if necessary No there is no doubt Clark despite all the brave challenges from the opposition has a fret hand do prelty well what he wants with Canada And now that he has a task force report recommending partial privatization he probably will follow this course Originally Clark had pledged to dismantle Canada a crown agency he once described a turkey But ler this he organization began gaining in popularity as Canadians some good reasons worried about overseas supplies being left in hands of national corporations And besides was becoming in some worthwhile oil discoveries Public opinion polls indicated overwhelming majority of Canadians wanted the agency left alone The Clark government established a task force on the subject jusl as it appointed a one man commission to find an escape route from that dumb proposal move Canadian embassy In Israel The task force lo the surprise of no came up with complicated scheme that would permtl the government lo implement lis privatization pledge while maintaining Crown agency negotiate slate to contracts for oil and to promo exploration in high risk areas of count would be split into two Canadians being given shares in Ihe profitable side while the government the necessary funds into the other Id t to encourage exploration research and other immediately unprofitable venturer We wouldn t even have to buy shares In the profitable side of Canada the task force suggested lhat be Canadians free of charge Actually the task force provides the government with a remarkably easy method of Implementing its campaign promise with little fear from the opposition warnings Prime Minister Clark will probably go along with the recommendations It could be a massive blunder as it blonds seems be a highly efficient and popular entity effectively and profitably on behalf of its present shareholders which happen to be lie taxpayers of Canada from fulfilling a questionable campaign promise it difficult to see how the dismemberment of PelroCanoda could fill any useful purpose Since there is some renson believe lhal Joe Clark campaign promises had little to do his electoral success might even hove been a liability and since seems to be doing Ihe way il is prime minister miht well be advised to swallow his pride and move more important things Energy conservation gets lost during current fuel crunch Park By Derek Nelson Queen spark of The Herald TORONTO Energy debates in Ontario a kind of ethereal quality about them as Ihough politicians were shadow boxing rather coming to grips wilh he real problems Often debate policies and Issued over which Ontario has no and limited influence such as Can Olhei limes attempt to defend positions like opposing world price for oil per cent or so of Chicago price by almost everyone All ihrec provincial parties do it anfl on world in particular they sound like Tweedledum and Twcedlcdcdum Yet the same day Ihis week subjected the legislature to six hours of such debate on energy policy the real decisions were being made overseas Two more OPEC countries announced production cutbacks and since Canada imports per cent of Its oil we arc bound to be affected eventually DAVIS VIEW Premier William Do vis can make moving and valid pica Tor a national distribution of oil and natural gas profits ralher the parochial selfishness so obvious in Alberta But Davis did not talk about the province own energy document which Worse with OPEC nations not just jacking up the price of oil but restricting its flow we likely don ha until to slop increasing use This lime next year the stern world could be facing severe oil shortages and Saudi Arabia Is unlikely to rescue us wo winters running All Neither Davis nor Liberal Leader Stuart imilh nor Leader Mlclae Cnssidy even touched on that threat We musl restrict oil consumption in while it miht be nice to do It radually over the next twit decade in fact we might have do It fast and quick Only two methods of come to mind being wartime kind of coupon sysiem even though that produces corruption and Ihis summer of oil supplies in ihe US an illy failed The other means is raise prices While some people like Davis ana convinced higher prices will restrain consumption It seems unlikely that a basic law of economics can repealed so easily Smith made point if one opposes a price increase then one must support mandalory conservation measures and government investment In alternatives to oil Hut restraining oil consumption in that manner requires a long lead lime to Even the good ideas Davis lonal oil profits Smith Cissidy on tend lost when we face ar overwhelming need to curb our ItheHERALD ICHAELHOLLETT Phone 877Z2D1 s History From our files THIRTY flash fire which broke out in home of Wiggins on Victoria Street Saturday afternoon did extensive damage to Ihe interior of the house and endangered lhc life of a sleep baby in a crib beside lhc kitchen stove The lire when Mrs turned on the electric stove and is been caused by a piece of paper wind was blowing it the lime and fire raced through Uie one storey house with Incredible speed Mrs Wiggins received minor burns in re cuing her niece 17 monthold Linda Morrow from crib The local contracts firm of J Mackenzie and Son has started building in Glen Williams for lhc new ret room school which will replace 1 school which collapsed last summer during excavations for a planned addition The contract at a price of was awarded lo the Mackenzie firm by the school board The school will be ready for use in March Meanwhile classes arc meeting In St Alban Parish Hall and in United Church Sunday School room MUST SNOW population of 1959 stands a record 105 county assessor Rogers reported last week The figure is an increose of 10131 over last mil represents the biggest one year i the history of the he A skiff of snow on Tuesday heralded the lad that winter is fast approaching and the put cm on is with us again A few ears going through also showed snow signs from up country The new should not be looked upon in the community as a place for public semi public or private dances was lhc opinion of high school principal J L Lambert as Ihe high school board sought a stand on a request for use of the hall by local Hospital Auxiliary The North high school board in one of their final meetings before dlssolu lion look evasive action Monday night sidestep a precedent which opined would have every organization in town asking for hall The board particularly frowned on dances there by any outside group outside the school A hope was realized in the village of Nerval this past week with holding of Preaching Mission Plans first got underway in 1B57 for holding such a venture in faith but were off until serious consideration began In the present VICTIM CRITICAL VI- Prince Charles Drive will be the scene of a disaster Wednesday nigh October It will happen at and the Injuries will so and so serious thai hospital lies will be to the limit The hospital St John Ambulance and George town volunlecr ambulance personnel firemen police Lome Scots and hospital auxiliary will take part in the activity which follows It part of an Measures Organization exercise which is really a trial run for a similar be staged at a datt The difference is that one will be sprung on the hospital with no prior warning A Georgetown man was found apparently beaten In his Street apartment Monday but the es arc still a James Blair of Water Street is ma Toronto hospital In critical condition his wounds reportedly inflicted by a blunt instrument A steam locomotive pulling an excursion train loaded with railway buffs puffed and snorted its way through town Sunday The special train chartered by the Upper Canada Railway Society didn slop in passing through the local yard at about 12 lis shrill whistle were recognizable all who recall the pre- days The new Georgetown branch of the United of Ontario will be officially opened a on October Prescnl the unique chain saw culling ceremony will be Georgetown mayor Wheldon Provincial for Comity James Snow Fred Hamilton of 20year old charged with theft was saved from a criminal record when Judge M of George town pulled from his pocket and paid for the stolen gasoline A gas station attendant testified worth of gas was asked for but accused drove off without paying Judge paid he dollar and the charge was dismissed JAI1 OR SALE It Ait AGO Hills I Board began wrestling with Ihe problem of defining the library s purpose and objectives at a meeting last Wednesday night in an attempt deter mine the library needs and clarify its role in the community Hills council is right in turning down Focal Properties proposal to build 1 homes south of Silver Creek and letting lhe own grow by infilling instead according to a report on the Focal proposal presented to the Georgetown Area Ratepayers Association GARA Thursday evening In Centennial Middle School region has offered to sell a fool portion of the old Milton jail complex to the town of Milton for The offer represent the bottom line of a comprehensive proposal regional staff for the disposition of a cluster or old buildings In downtown Milton includes facilities for family juvenile courts the Children Aid Society and the Regional Health Despite the opinions of its Hills members regional council has rejected a public works staff by which no further consideration would be given lo using abandoned quarries as dump sites for a garbage Council voted II the suggestion instead endorsing a request for additional Information on the or using quarry sites for dry Inert or liquid wastes