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Home Newspaper of Halton Hills SECTION A IM1 A Division of Canadian Newspapers Company Limited Street Georgetown Ontario WILLIAM Publisher PAUL DORSEY Editor DWIDBEATTIE Advertising Manager PHONE 2201 Second Class Ms I Reg Number Questions arise with onslaught of rising floodwaters Winter scenes like could still all upon us as the com Hilled for some unseasonably balmy weather last week The above pict ure were taken during lie Feb to snowstorm which dropped a blanket of snow over urban and rural Hilton Like the first snowfall of the year the first spring break up perennially gets the phones a ringing down at the public works department on Trafalgar Road The number of ratepayer complaints seems to rise along with the floodwaters Spring Is thus an annual test of municipal planning and forethought not to mention its readiness and abilities Storm back up thawing road surfaces break up and the river Ice Jams up and the town must act often in assistance to or In conjunction with conservation authorities and regional agencies to stem the tide of spring thaw runoff and taxpayer alarm We d estimate that nine times out of ten these agencies the town work crews In particular do a great Job quickly and effectively then monitor the situation adequately later At the newspaper we ve received a handful of calls from readers concerned about neighborhood problems this past month usually they ve already been In touch with the right town depart and are either expressing frustration at apparently getting nowhere there or else are alerting the news media that problems exist and the town Is supposed to be resolving them Given the fluctuating weather con it s no surprise that a call about snow plied high along Guelph Street sidewalks forcing pedestrians to use the highway lane should be followed only two weeks later by another call noting how deep Remembrance Park pond is getting with the runoff thus offering a tempting hazard to local youngsters This week Herald reporters watched town and Credit Valley Conservation Authority workers move quickly on two problems created by spring thawing but then keep a cautious distance from a third A mini mudslide on Georgetown Day foot Drive warranted some rapid at February is Heart Month Risk factors can be tentlon late last week but even more serious was the rising Credit River In and around Glen Williams As is well documented elsewhere In this Issue flood control measures undertaken well before this season are having their desired effect and although some Glen residents perhaps thought those measures would eliminate he need for dynamiting see a safety concerned letter opposite page the overall evaluation Is a positive one Back In Georgetown meanwhile a recurring problem at Remembrance Park on James Street awaits solution and only the town budget knows for sure when that will come Situations like this seem to In dicate that when town engineer Bob Austin works superintendent Frank and their staff fail to respond as quickly to a call as residents would like It s a matter of financing if not priority and just something they t control We ve criticized municipal budgets in he past for what we considered improper prioritizing of necessary projects In eluding the re grading of the Mountain view Road River Drive Intersection and Remembrance Park may fall Into the same category A water hazard in the spring and fall a mosquito breeding ground in the summer the Remembrance Park pond just can justify Its existence on periodically good looks alone Residents have long asked the town to fill It in and be rid of it but town officials lately have referred to some long range plan that they hope will solve all the related problems The master parks and recreation plan notwithstanding engineering problems like these demand quick solutions this one s been crying out for one for years and we like the town to move In just as soon as Is practical and thus maintain a virtually sterling record of good municipal service Placing the constitution before the Supreme Court By Stewart MacLeod Ottawa Bureau of The Herald S nee the government has never displayed much of a hankering for compromise in ts pursuit of constitutional there is probably little point in even mention his But it seems to me thai the prime minister would have a good deal toga and nothing to lose In the long run if he placed the package before Supreme Court of Canada It going to end up there anyway as the various provincial challenges work the way laboriously through the lower courts The net that the Issue will eventually come before the Supreme Court in the way of a provincial appeal as opposed to a direct federal initiative really t change anything The Supreme Court will at some point make a decision on whether the governments unilateral approach to pair is constitution a And since there is every reason to assume that the British Parliament which must ultimately approve or reject the Canadian resolution will want to hear the Supreme Court decision before taking any action I don sec why doesn t simply refer the matter to the NO DOUBTS The government official tirm is that there Is really no doubt about the legality of the resolution which is entering Its final ry stages And the first provincial challenge in the Manitoba Court of Appeal has upheld that view even if It was a t dec Other provincial appeals arc In various degrees of progress In each case federal lawyers are In there on behalf of central government while their Ileal masters stoutly maintain there is to refer the matter to the Supreme Court As Justice Minister Jean Chretien explained it to a national television audience there is some abnormal about taking legislation to he courts There is a danger that if you mix the wo the court becomes caught in political debates he said A responsible government makes Its mind does what It thinks is right and if it Is constitutionally wrong its for ha court to decide What we seem to be quibbling about here is who should refer the matter to the courts And while I am not a lawyer I can see much difference between a federal initiative and a provincial initiative in the Supremo Court The arguments are go ng lo be the same Had the government referred the resolution to the Supreme Court when It was originally brought before Parliament the court a decision would have been handed down long before he parliamentary committee became bogged down In legal arguments And if the government now had be court opinion hat It is acting legally then much of the stem would go out of opposition The arguments basically Involve the process not he contents and if the court upheld the govern ment a approach there would undoubtedly be a marked Increase In public support And such a court decision would certainly lake much of the heat off British parliamentarians who will undoubtedly want to delay the measure If he federal Tories don t do It for them until such a decision Is handed down Consequently a great deal of potentially disastrous bickering could be avoided But what if the Supreme Court rules hat the government process is not constitutional Well If hat happens the whole business goes down he drain anyway and would be ludicrous to have all this political bloodshed over an illegality It would have been far better If the Trudeau government had sought an opinion from the Supreme Court at Ihe beginning of this marathon exercise but It Ian t too late Even at this stage the government could save Itself a good deal of time and trouble with a court reference However I am not holding my breath Election odds not decided alleviated by awareness opinion I net in LaBt in a series With the identification of the risk factors associated with cardiovascular disease the way is open to preventive action which could lead to he reduction of premature death and disability due to heart attack and stroke This would be a tremend step forward in view of the tact that over Canadians have some form of heart disease and half of the total deaths In Canada each stroke and other forma of cardiovascular disease Some risk factors age heredity and sex do not lend themselves to modification but the others high blood pressure elevated blood lipids smoking diabetes are more amenable As a result he Canadian Heart Foundations have expended considerable effort on making the public aware of these factors offering information on the means of risk reduction and more recently developing community programmes to persuade Individuals to make Ihe necessary changes In their lifestyles Recent actions by federal and provincial Departments of Health have augmented these activities and demonstrated government concern of the risk factors have been generally accepted with little or no gurnet controversy has arisen over the relationship between diet and obesity and between exercise and cardiovascular disease Most of he controversy over diet revolves around he dietary Intake of cholesterol Proponents of cholesterol Intake restriction feel that diets high in saturated fat and cholesterol result in high blood cholesterol levels and a high incidence of mortality from premature coronary heart disease They state that blood cholesterol levels can be lowered by appropriate modification of the diet and some studies also suggest that lowering these levels In this way can prevent or delay the development of atherosclerosis and coronary heart disease Their opponents quote studies which suggest that dietary cholesterol may not be Important to the majority of Ihe population and that restrictions on intake of dietary cholesterol are only necessary for those predisposed toward hypercholesterolemia excess of in the blood However there Is ample ground for agree ment apart from this subject as Illustrated In he recent recommendations of the Committee on Diet and Cardiovascular Disease amended and adopted by the Deparnien of National Health and Welfare and the information on diet available from the Heart Foundation and Canada Food Guide The addition of a programme of regular physical activity to welt balanced diet embracing sound nutritional princ pies would be on effective method of obesity and reducing risk The controversy over fitness and exercise has mainly concerned the amount and kind of exercise to be performed by patients with heart disease Insofar as healthy Canadians are concerned there is no disagreement that fitness and exercise ore good for one provided that those over forty yean of age seek medical advice before embarking on any exercise programme The fit person looks better feels better and enjoys life more In addition to these benefits an emphasis on fitness helps one control many of he other risk factors such as smoking diet and obesity There is also evidence to suggest that here is less chance of death If heart attack should strike and that recovery is better and more rapid if the patient is fit and has been exercising regularly It has long been felt that exercise reduces the probability of heart attack but It has been prove his contention However the results of a major long term study In the US A dealing witha large number of subjects released In November 1977 at the annual scientific sessions of the American Heart Association may provide About Harvard alumni who entered university between IB 16 and 1950 were followed over a six to ten year period They were asked about their dally physical activity from stairclimbing to sports The study showed that those who expended less than calorics per week in physical activity had a per cent higher risk of heart attack than those alumni who exceeded that caloric expenditure It was also found that the risk of heart attack was lower for those who got their exercise in Intensive form running rather ban walking or playing tennis aggressively to win rather than enjoying a friendly lobbing match The Canadian Heart Foundation believes hat sensible diet and exercise activities consistent with age and physical condition can play an important part In reducing the average Canadian risk of heart attack and stroke from the Heart Fund Queens Park Queen Park Bureau of The Herald Free elections are like fair horse races No way exists to predict the winner short of a hot line lo Heaven That mean you can give odds for who the probable winner and who the long shot When comes o politics the equivalent of the pony player tip sheet Is the public on poll which records how people would vote as of the moment the poll taken On those grounds the lives will win the election the Liberals come d and Ihe last in terms of popular vote But votes elect people not odds or polls and there arc anomalies in his campaign that could change any pred along hose I Even so It should be remembered there exists a between possibilities and probabilities and the chance of certain results is much more realistic than of others NO WAV For example neither the nor the Liberals can form a majority government barring earthquake and revolution during the campaign But it is not Impossible for the Liberals given he right split by the Tories and to form a minority regme Becoming the at all seems beyond reach for now but In certain circumstances the party might edge the Grits for second place The reason and the key anomaly of Ontario politics Is thai all three old line parties of Ihe Progressive Conservatives Liberals and NDP have solid provincewide cores of support For most of the post 0 years the Conservatives have taken to SO per cent of the vote the Liberals to per cent and the NDP and its CCF predecessor IS to per cent A party may have no chance in a rid but how its followers vote can the r ding to one or other of remaining two main parties DIG HOPE A class case is northern Ontario where in or so of the IS ridings the Liberals run a distant third and win if they stuffed the ballot Vet Liberal Leader Stuart Smith was in Ottawa a while back trying to line up federal Liberal MPs from that area behind his campaign The standing belief Is that Tories and Liberals In he North do a deal every election Liberals disappear ing during provincial contests and Conservatives during federal That way Grits beat Ihe federally and Tories knock them off provlnclally WHY THERE If federal Liberals work this tune they likely split be vote and see New Democrats elected So why was Smith trying o drum up support The simple answer Is hat every seat the take in he area means one leas Tory In the Assembly and Smith best hope of taking power is to do so with a minority Every one the ConservaUves lose means one less victory he Liberals must win overhaul and pass what ever the Tory total may be Another anomaly his time around appears o be he lack of an emotional issue such as he separate school question that voters In or Ihe antl Davis tide that hurt the Tories in 1873 That kind of vote Is soft or not overly committed and can be swung as the Tories learned to their sorrow in 1967 by a good opposition campaign Dont forget Election Day is March 19 POETS CORNER Nuclear haste makes waste A chain reaction we have to ace To our scientists a serious It would be better mine the coal Ships could sail and rains would roll They can do more than shake their head Chemicals have made our lakes and riven dead Why do hey let industry ileal our prime land Food supply for tomorrow I don understand Man Is not sure has done many a fool thing His experiments are bound Disaster In the air on and and sea Smoked and burnt who will be Education and science has done great Families tricked out of borne and growers off farm were born to fresh and clean Trees and lowers and grass so green Lakes and rivers where fish did teem Today It foul and dirty a pitiful Look at Hiroshima a disgrace It was to attack that place Nuclear it much alive multiply a million fold Become a great monster gets very bold This world become a burntout place Just like dusty moan way op la Reactors world over sooner or later one will explode It chain reaction would be the end of the road We must Insist that they drop Nuclear reactors have got la stop By Albert Breaks Haltons History From our THIRTY YEARS veteran Georgetown bus neat man who bad from small beginnings created one of the largest and most modern clothing stores in this part of Ontario Hyman Silver died In Toronto Monday In addition to the Georgetown store Mr Sliver owned a men I clothing store In OriUla Both have been managed by his son Sid since Mr Silver suffered a serious illness In 1M3 Clifton Tat Patterson the referee who of tea handle games In Georgetown has purchased a farm near Nerval Mr Patterson who Is sales manager for the adhesive products division of be Self Company has bought the old Joe Hunter farm at the top of the cemetery hill from be present owner James Emslie and intend to move out from Toronto later this year Delmar French a former Georgetown man who has been working for the past three years for a automotive simply has recently joined the staff at Ken McMillans Implement agency He will be there Hugh Leslie champion Canadian tractor plowman arrived home by air last Tuesday following a tour of the British Isles Denmark Belgium and Holland which he won In competition at Internationa Plowing Match last fall Hugh had the honor of winning Ihe Festival of Britain Cup for the best work done In any class by entrants from outside Britain at the International Plowing Match near Belfast TWENTY YEARS possibility of a recurrence of the flood which threatened Glen Williams homes for two days Is apparently unlikely According to area residents the combination of abnormal weather conditions which froze Ihe water of the Credit to the riverbed were responsible for the natural freak which developed early Friday morning Friday morning the huge chunks of Ice locked solidly a few hundred yards upstream from the old lower paper mill had created such a pileup that he water flow diverted from the regular river course and split into two branches just above the bridge at he comer of the Ninth line and Guelph Road What could be a nicer present for a new mother than a washer and dryer While In Humber Memorial Hospital where she has just become the mother of a new baby daughter Mrs Frank Spingola learned of her good fortune She had filled out an entry form at Ihe IGA store In a Heinz baby food contest and was chosen winner of a washer and dryer from Westlnghouse Representing Ihe Telegram a former own man Jim was member of a panel who interviewed leader Donald on a CBCTV show hut week Many local viewers watched the show and were impressed by Mr performance Alarmed at report hat the Niagara Escarp ment in the district between Acton and Milton may soon be destroyed by quarrying In teres ts members of the Sixteen Mile Creek Conservation Authority are determined to take Immediate steps to preserve the face of the escarpment and the Impressive natural beauty of the area The town office received a major improve ment Monday when council okayed major expend lures The town office for which a computing machine was recently purchased will have another a Burroughs cash control machine Total coat of he wo machine will be somewhat below 17 The Credit Valley Conservation Authority notified council that Georgetown s share of this year I 111 budget will be Though hampered by unfavorable weather runway tests being conducted on Georgetown Avian which will lead up he gyroplane a initial flight has o far progressed without a hitch TEN YEARS a George town high school student who represented Ontario in the 191pound wrestling class at the Canada Winter Games in Saskatoon brought a Broom Medal home with him Tuesday Llewellyn another wrestler representing the province in the 136pound das gained a fourth A crowd of snowmobile enthusiasts jammed the council chamber Monday night to oppose some of the amendments to Ihe proposed bylaw governing snowmobiles and to ask for a meeting with the Recreation Commission to discuss It On the whole they agreed with most of he suggestions made at committee last week but took issue with the complete banning from Community Park A daring daylight robbery at Smoke Shop in Ihe Georgetown Market plaza Saturday involved a haul estimated at in cash The money to of it gas company receipts was in a purse behind a counter at the rear of the store It was discovered missing when one of the proprietors went to take It home with her at p A public meeting of those Interested in keeping Norvsl public school In operation was held in the school Thursday with Peter Hughes as chairman The main purpose of the meeting wsa to elect a committee to represent the Nerval district ratepayers at future meetings with he Hal ton County board of education or any other officials necessary Those nominated to the committee were Norman Guthrie Joanne Frost Bob Crawford Julian Reed Wray Youmans and Norman Shea Another petition from residents of Mountain- view RoadN be location of a cannery on the Meadowglen Mushroom property 100 feet back from the road has been received by council This brings the number of properties represented to IS and according to the letter more signatures are forthcoming The towns Cadillac ambulance was sold he highest bidder at Monday council meeting W Francis offered for it The Caddy will be sold as is and without licence plates Hicken Shell Service at the Maple Avenue and Seventh Line corner will change hands next Thursday Proprietor Ted Hicken is retiring and has sold the business to a Toronto man Wayne Tucker The business was established some years ago by Mr art his brotherinlaw ONE YEAR AGO Hallon secondary school teachers have almost unanimously rejected he board of educations final offer for their 197W0 contract A negotiation session has been scheduled for today Wednesday but if no progress Is made the teachers have be option of requesting the Education Relations Commission to conduct a strike vote next week There has never been a strike by teachers In A nineyearold Acton boy will receive recognition from the Ha too Safety Council for his bravery In saving a friend life but he 11 have to wait a year for the award Kevin Fabian pulled Jennings io out of Fairy Lake Feb 13 after Robert fell through be fee while trying to pet some swans birds were swimming gave way plunging the boy up to his cheat In be water Wlthsomewcrt from at Acton High School the Acton Chamber of Commerce should have an updated more complete Information booklet to offer new or prospective The new booklet expected to be ready for by will list businesses of all type including homeoriented service such as housewives who girt lessons or do dressmaking