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the HERALD Entertainment news page Dealership attacked page 13 SECOND Home of IIHlAII October Is J PEOPLEl Father started councillor in career By MAGGIE HANNAH Herald writer Inn lime when teenagers are allowed lo choose I heir own school courses and have a Iheir life seems incredible parents once controlled their children so well they could buy a business for them and expect them go give up careers to run that business Georgetown councillor Walter did just that when he became most trades with the Georgetown Herald in 1940 Mr Biehn was learning accounting with a firm in when his father tele phoned him to say he had heard he Herald was far sale and lie wanted to buy it and expected Waiter to run il I mare or less told him I was in accounting and happy at It and I dldn t want to run a newspaper Mr said So he old was going to buy anyway and if I t run it thin he re omebody That was in February Mr put out his first edition of the Herald in March Ho retired Aprils 1 aspired to be a millionaire Mr laughs The Herald was a very personal paper for the town The coming of tele phones was probably the big boost Before hat the opt rotors heard Oil the news so people bought the paper more to find what we had missed rather than to see what we knew Icr that ihey got the paper to find the news When he first arrived in town he was a new boy and totally green to the community and the news gome He credits his people and Garfield Mclvrny in parlicu lor with breaking him In so that he to carry on for years at a Job he never really wanted but eventually paper when Mr Moore the Herald former owner look sick and he knew it will he says lit helped me a great dial and wen still good fne ids Breaking liimm to paper game I all done hat neatly Son things he eked up by end error one point he ays he used to do a sort of news d of world ivents and national too Then I got loo busy for a few weeks and I do it Nobody noticed he chuckles when I learned that In world outside Georgetown I exist as far as tic paper was concerned All that mat for us was the own and the ale surroundings III Herald ton of four people Mac the Clarke and Rig Broonihead took care of the back and the job LIONS PRESENT Herald photo I lot of the Georgetown Mom Club made a presentation on behulf of the Lions to Scoutmaster Hank Martin of he Georgetown Cubs and Scouts list Tuesday as part of the club celebration of World Day of when Lions Club around he world do something In recognition of another community group In his case the I Ions Club held a barbecue for he cubs and followed It with evening of fun anil games The club also donated a number useful items the boys Including a com pi Love tint and a flag flag pole No allergy cure Actonians told Once a person has been diagnosed as allergic he can never be cured His may change and the allergy may seem to have been cured but II It has simply exchanged the first for a new and different said the president of he Alter Informal ion Assoc in lion Mrs sold hat the only common thing about is their is liar ties No two people have exactly he same reaction he same circumstances While one per son praises the benefit he has received from herbs for ex ample he next person will blame herbs for causing Allergic reactions arc really immune reactions Mrs Dag explained The cells In he allergic human body produce much protective mucous to combat tar foreign substance and as a result allergic Individual suffers for the over reaction The excessive mucous swelling and this results in the puffy red Itchy often associated with allergy RAGWEED REACTION Ragweed Is the most king then is Mrs said It is native to North America and his is why many European people deve lop allergies here which they have in he old country Once ragweed has triggered the reaction other substances also tend to cause it Mrs said he suffer begins by being allergic to ragweed Then he finds he is also allergic to grass pollens Then tree pollens rigger his allergy And moulds Finally he becomes allergic o house and he suffers from a conslanf allergy ralhcr ban seasonal thing which comes with certain substances ami goes when their season ends Mrs said thai many ailments have been attributed Including arthritis bursitis migraine fatigue co litis sinus chancre growing pains crooked teeth ulcers menial aberrations bed wetting earaches dear and Certain substances ore con as specific which all people with allergies are warned 0 avoid They art animals house dus tobacco smoke air pollutants and odours such as point and perfumes One doctor Mrs knows of tells I is patients he wont even treat unless they gel rid of any of these ich may be in their homes One of his pi complained that she I rid I of tobacco smoke in her home since her husband smoked and refused quit Tl doctor old her tct rid of her husband then if she was really serious about controlling her allergies Allergies are considered to be a threshold disease Mrs and allergic peo ple have a lower threshold than others when they came In contact with Ingest or irritants The irritants which cause read ions arc reoliy harmless substances to most people trigger ly severe reactions in people Foods cause many allergies Mrs said thai per cent of tie members of their while percent what Pork choco late nuts milk eggs wheat and corn are among the most common allergy causing foods although other foods such as strawberries and tomatoes can under certain circumstances Mrs said Hat aver certain foods may be a clue he body should ovoid them Cravings can also hint that the body should avoid a food If a person cats an excessive amount of a food while its In season such as strawberries its no wonder hey become allergic to it she said While they may always be to the food they may be able to build a il If hey drop it entirely for a turn then cat only small quantities and rem ember to space out the times when hey cat it Allergists may not want to for food Mrs since lostshavea degree of Accuracy The most reliable way to test for an allergy food is by a die he lid If a suspected II rg hat In family doit f hill a all I I gu Id t no npl i rule po I that I m mo lines than an all Tl d i pi a mpl I f pa tient trace any patters that may ind what he Is will be an elimination diet which most substances so thai the allergy clears up Then dually one food a lime the person has ilcms added to his del As items ore added it can determined foods cause reactions Mrs Daghsh warned eating too much of any one substance once it has been determined that a food is safe nee over indulging in il may eventually bring obi reach with thai Determining what is cause IhL reaction lo food can Iw she since reailiuns may appear but may also be delay by as much as hours is an allergic reaction 0 certain substances found in foods such in artificial colourings and and also in tin Mrs said that the Information Associn passis out information nays handle problems or of allergies and also offers moral fellow and Anne a m of the library Self as a a for more hi Allergy Information Associn Ion She said she can be con by call ng the library durinf the even print Herald did while Mr wrote what copy then was proof read it sold the acts answered tie phone kept tin books sent out the and assembled most of the paper on printing day In I bit Herald was produced on an old Camp bell flatbed press that printed four pages at a lime I I We ran our pages through 11 en htm over and ran he next four rough Mr Behnsoys Then we lliLm on our cutter and folded hem all by hand When we got enough aheu thai the in the back could manage then 1 start in on the mailing Finally whin their got up around the 11 ark it loo bad and farmed the actual printing of ll paper other papers It has printed in Oakulle Brampton and even Gait various We were up to about pages then so you can imagine what i was kc in thai back shop with pages in one pile jnd in another and somewhere ilsc he says You I turn a round in hire so we hid go to different press Mr sold the paper to the Thomson chain in 1959 and remained as the 1 slier unlil 1J73 By hi time he sold he paper he hid added office and part time report staff The only change Thomson made was to In an manager he says John was ad manager and the whole ad staff that had ad person Ihe whole tim I was there Mr was born in Cheslcy Ontario he son of a school dentist Although he family mocd to Windsor when he was six they returned to the own every school holiday and each summer because Mr partner in a Ford car dealership there Mr attended ihc of Western be cause it was expected of him a business with Toronlo firm after he gradual from Western In those days the kids who went university were mostly ones whose parents ad money to send them I soys There wire no then so a lol of tht students were because expected of them than because hid my turning ambition some field that required a degree The others wen who had sir mped and and Ihcmsilves the bone to i money Mr says at col point he enter law but changed hi mind and opted for accounting Instead was bout that lime his father decided the publisher of tie newspaper led a good and was well respected in the nity MijIh thai would be field for Waller to There were a lot of news papers up for sole In 1J39 Mr remembers He and his father looked papers in Grimsby Tweed and Smiths Falls and slopped in on Heir way orders speed up II during the noon hour rush has become a regular for councillor Halter Here he lakes an order from Bill Cook through one Mr Moore ill then hut Mr SLnior ell it might be worth keeping an eye on the place in case hi to sell it in Hi near future Mr married Mary from Georgetown In 1H0 and jo ned army tie year Mrs took the piper and ran it while her was ns well is looking after their infant daughter Carolyn My wife was one Hell of a smart Mr people tell me her Chiltini column was Ihi one decent thing in Ihe whole paper SI 1 was a polish wntir I not I m what I call wnlcr I need pressure but she could worked for any daily Id to council Monday night Then Tuesday Id out my council stories with Mae screaming in my ear for more copy and yanking out of my hand is I tori of the In between 1 he mis Ihe phone and lo plug my ear to heir the over he noise of press n the side of the partition The shop was much smaller then It would do today paper was a very personal of the then We were supposed come clock but we were almost By it the people would be coming Into he office looking for it We hid carrier system in the beg so the people who wanted their paper would stop in to buy it at the Then be a great deal of good and some nted ps about I d be fold papers and answering the pi one and money and trying to get the muling done all at the same lime When we wire really late the line might In Ihc street waiting for us if tht office got too full were the good old days ads were news in Ihi f days of Mr Biehn s acquaintance with George 111 thought of tie ads as news did you Mr Biehn laughs I found ho 1 10 read them so were to I was part of what Ihey called the kitchen gang Today the Green Dragon There were a bunch of us who got meals regularly at rani and Mrs Long just fed us all together al a big I able in the kitchen sort of like a boarding Anyway right after what sic culled Ihc hitched match and d spoiched columns Mrs would go through the classified ads and I heard her to daughters things like I II ere won be any more babies the so and jo They re selling their carriage Or the so must have somi new I they re selling Iheir A lol of people pul their names 111 ads In those but if they d dn I numbers weresotmallit look a number up in II book find out who was selling what The classified ads were what sold then because the town was so small that I the time we got on street everyone all Ihe ilrcady as gossip If renders need an example YOUNG PUBLISHERS These students from Howard ttrBl I School distinction tender age of beinj published along some present when Ihe picture taken are the creators of called The res of Stuffed which written and as a school project The anUi are left to Bellinger Norton Greg Peacock Robert and Spencer with people Mr any honest Job It keeps I Hern Id photo of I small ihe was have only to hear Mr say he many Hems for the pergonal by driving around on i Sunday and who fthd strange cars in front of their house Then Monday led call them up and find who visitor was for the personal The The Herald lovired in his years with it was ihe coming the Mr Biehn says The wlole affair was shrouded In secrecy and no one knew council and Mr were ready to announce it thai such a move was planned It was even bigger than end of World War because It was local I found out strictly by accident that something was toing on with council and II involved of he says Then I I know what to do about It If I spilled the beans and there was a big outcry that stopped it would I man Dial stopped I spent a or sleepless nights over Mr says thai I need bribe council or use ihe underhanded tricks rumourcredils him wilh using He was a very smart business man and could flatter into what he wanled between the thrill of being involved in such a big deal and the Immor of having streets named after ihem Mr soys upon on a he a terribly He was always afraid of hurling someone he l cover all ihc events others might have done In his place JURY Mr wife died in 1977 and he became a councillor in the municipal election that year He is also involved in ihe Chamber of Commerce and a couple of hours help ing out at McDonalds most He has three children and four grandchildren He began taking order on Day when McDonald raises money for crippled children and found he enjoyed being out with people again so he has carried on I kid thai he going to have watch out In about iBycars shoo in for mayor when all these little kids grow up They all associate me with McDonalds and you see them nudging their mothers on the street and whispering about me he chuckles