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Home ntawapapor of Hahon A Division of Canadian Newspapers Company Limited Guelph Street Georgetown Ontario PAUL J TAYLOR Publisher and General Manager Editor PHONE DAVID BEATTIE Advertising Manager Cusi MjD Rtgute rtd Number OF IT Art you Page SECTION A THE HERALD Wednesday My at Halton region Its always rather mteresting when a Motor official from the provincial govern ment drops by to visit municipal poUUciant Last Wednesdays addreu to Halton regional by homing minister Claude Bennett something of a minisummit Inside the council chamber was no Jut like the world leaden economic summit at Montebello last weeks visit here had share of diplomacy bat Just like in it seemed Hut every word spoken widened the distance between the parties Having already visited the joOy green headquarters In Oakvllle last year ostensibly to sign Hiltons new official plan Mr Bennett retamed last week ostensibly to mtroduce Ms new portfolio municipal affairs which hell handle for the Davis government along with the bousing beat Having done so Mr Bennett then In vited questions from the coanclUors Im mediately the discrepancy between the publics expectations of municipal government and the municipalitys to meet them In the face of reduced provincial support was tossed on the floor The minister was boring bat sincere when he reiterated the provinces com mitment to regional government and stressed its unwillingness to consider structural change But when he began defending the provinces failure to meet municipal financing needs the lines were clearly drawn Councillors who take the brunt of public criticism every time a planned project or gets dumped for lack at funds nailed Mr Bennett down time and again with questions about gap to the flew of money from Queens Park Time and again the minister praised die provincial governments success keeping pace with inflation and the mtnkfpaHUea for not doing the same Backed Into a corner by Mayor Pete Pomeroy Mr Bennett showed little recognition of municipal tax assessment inequity promising to ahem look Into the level of provincial apportionment grants designed to cover those Housing minister Bennett la typical of the Ontario Cabinet ministers who forge ahead in turn on projects they con sistently defend as being for the good of the province white ignoring the short- term effects theyll cause at the municipal level in specific areas Conversely Queens Park will often sit back and watch a planned project idle while municipalities suffer In the long run Yes there are Instances when the municipalities cause the province soma undue grief But these are few and far between especially to Halton and other areas of regtonnllsed government the province holds sole responsibility for providing or helping the towns provide some basic services Inflation and Its associated evils hare seen these services falter and no amount of diplomacy en ministers part can right those wrongs Letters to the editor Referees official challenges recent soccer column To the editor of The Herald I want to correct come error of fact which appeared in Alex Tough soccer column In of June Mr Tough writes about the referee assault problem and state Referee assaults seem to be increasing in spite of the CSAs determination to dish out heavy sentences Tills statement is not cor the CSA Canadian Soccer Association deal only with referee assaults in pro fessional soccer It is the Ontario Soccer Association which deals with all assaults la amateur soccer All sentence handed out are based on minimum standards set by the CSA Mr Tough then goes on to write Tbe ref can caution yellow card and eject red card coaches managers players and others spectators also from the field As an registered referee Mr Tough should know that this statement is completely erron eous and therefore very mis leading especially to younger and Inexperienced No referee can caution or dismiss from the field a coach manager or any other official of a club or team and most certainly never a spectator The FIFA lws of the Game Law provide for tbe referee to caution or dismiss from the field ONLY players en the field and player sub tit on the team bench Then Is absolutely no provision In the laws for showing a red or yellow card to any other person whether or not that person Is associated with a team and to repeat certainly not a spectator The correct procedure which again Mr should know Is that in the case of general misconduct by team officials a yellow card to a player the referee reports tbe to the appropriate authority league ion in the case of continued misconduct or an assault by a team official red card to a player the referee shall re- that the offender leave park and the Immediate areas and on a refusal to do so the referee shall inform both teams that the game will be abandoned The referee can also request that a spectator leave the park and this the responsibility of the home team The alternstlve is again to abandon the game In all cases of assault by any person the referee must submit a report to the and tbe hope you can find room on your sports pages for this letter since with increase of referee assaults and general misconduct by players and officials and spectators it la most Important that alt refe rees fully understand tbe cor rect procedures May I just say that matter of referee assaults is of concern to all sportsmen and the are very pleased that your columnist gives it tbe local coverage that la needed to attention of all concerned at the grass roots level Yours sincerely Francis Secretary lams 1st Ales Mr Clayton takes a sledge hammer to a Ml In tat case at radars Use ActiVan- reader pleas Tatheerfltsraf The I yea weald say tali Is letter to the editor sat Im the editor weald slat this letter where it weals get mast review My letter to The of this are as fell see tail service tag without fan Im afraid this will Ike tab PerseaaUy I service and weeM hate to lose it I can now go to the or whaeet rdyteg the ef Meads and I led It nuke me a I your seta la Jus without Ike a tot t people win again be highly of the good service drivers the f kekg rktlag the With respect Janes Nowhere in my official copy of Laws sad Case docs it state thai ONLY players can be cautioned or elected In deed the aside specifical ly names plsyers Sad team officiate la the yellow card and red card disciplinary process The OSA also refer to club member spectat ors In tab category Tbe purpose of the color to simplify for the general reader AM aware of correct a I Tsar have I bee advised wise by or that not have I have has any ether referee to my aawwledga ejected or have bad ejected person ether lata pUytri Is pleasing thai the comma of a purely Weal newspaper mars to be so widely read is token seriously to raise iatoreit stmbkUI level A Tonga Georgetown climb to office would be fight from scratch Ottawa Report Ottawa Of The Herald The conventional wisdom that Jim Coutts the elfish adviser to Prime Minister Is seeking Commons seat for the express purpose of becoming the next leader of the Liberal Parly Why else it is asked would be want to quit being tbe second man In Canada There is no doubt that Coutts has clout Since 1S74 when reorganized his office around tbe energetic little has bad enormous Influence on events In Ottawa It was Coutts who more than anyone else engineered decision to remain around to fight successfully the general election It was a native who talked Tory Jack Horner into Wrong the Liberal cabinet If the little fellow is academically brilliant he also a pragmatic politician From the time he sat across from Joe Clark in a university model Parliament has displayed a singleminded determination to grip the reins of power His grip at the moment is firm STEADY RISE Jim Coutts has experienced few setbacks since he arrived in Ottawa as a 33year old to become appointments secretary to the lata Pearson He has bounded from one success to another stopping to study at Harvard University and becoming an Influential Toronto con sultant And since he Joined the team his rise to the top position of Influence has been smooth and steady Now Jim wants to be an MP and presumably a cabinet minis ter So his boss decided that the moat suitable riding would be Toron to Spadlna partly because Coutts owns a home there and to create the opening the sitting MP Peter was shoved off to the Senate where he can enjoy blissful years In that institution As I mentio ned earlier liberals don fool around when they want to Juggle personalities Anyway It g widely assumed that Coutts has his eyes set firmly on the Liberal leadership since he would scarcely want to slide from his present perch of power to a nondescript sea on the backbenches And Trudeau himself helped fuel the speculation when although with tongue in cheek he hinted In tbe Commons that the manoeuvring was done with bis retire ment in mind It is well known that I am planning to leave public Ufa and I am hastening to put a good man like Jim into Parliament WORTH WATCHING Well perhaps Jim Coutta win some day be prime minister of Canada but even if he gets himself elected to Parliament on Aug IT it going to be a hazardous route to the top There la no convincing evidence that even tbe personal of Pierre works any magic with ambitious politicians The names of Pierre Juneau John Evans and Gordon Gibson come to mind along with many others And there Is no evidence either that employment In the prime minist er office represents foolproof cation for advancement Energy Min ister Marc used to bo the prime minister aright hand and while be has done reasonably well in Parliament he is not perceived as a leadership material Fisheries Minist er Romeo bad also been have levelling influence on Its occupant And If Coutts Is going to make It to the top he will have to do it on ma own starting from scratch the moment he enters the House In a few months It will have been forgotten that be ever worked for Trudeau Just as few people remember that was once the key adviser to tbe prime minister a mind be is a good speaker a marvellous storyteller and given Liberal Partys traditional fascination with bachelors be is obviously worth watch- But then there have been many who were worth watching as they entered Parliament and have scarcely been seen since Pulling strings behind prime ministers back regardless of how brilliantly If s done is a far cry from facing the enemy every day in the parliamentary trenches Furthermore anyone who is perceived to be leadership material invariably faces heavier tire than your less ambitious cabinet ministers And there will be days hen Jim will wish be was back in tbe relative tranquility of the prime ministers office Feds pay raise takes heat off MPPs own salary goals THIRTY YEAR council has asked North High School District Board to defer any action on building new schools until the new county assessment system is stabilized A delegation of board members looked over tbe new Idea of building costs Its believed that new schools can be built at a cost which will be equal or teas to the present debenture costs of tbe district which expire in two years Change of ownership of a local business was announced last week with the sale of Bradley Brothers Meats and Groceries to Walker Cleave Mr Cleave took over operation of the Main Street business last Monday He has been working with Mr Bradley for tbe past Five hundred bens a bull some pigs and hay crop were lost in a fire caused when lightning struck the barn shed and silo on George Jennings arm during an electrical storm The bolt of lightning struck the centre of tbe building which was Immediately engulfed In flames Mr Jennings farm is located between Stewarttown and Speyslde The new Georgetown phone directory to be issued to subscribers here In early November will contain several important changes due to the steady Increase in number of telephones in service The new directory will no longer contain listings for Aurora Roche Point and Sutton These changes will provide subscribers with a more convenient directory for local calling TWENTY YEARS AGOGeorgetown will need a sixth public school soon but where go won be until a study of available sites is made by town council The school board favors a site on Boulevard and presented figures to town council proving necessity of another school They stressed their preference for the location as their choice after having conducted extensive Investigations The Georgetown and District High School Board has been given tbe green light to proceed with tbe proposed million dollar technics whig Approval from the federal government will mean tbe new wing and tbe for new equipment will cost tbe town practically nothing The federal government grant will cover 75 per cent of tbe cost while Ontario government pay their n per cent The Georgetowns girls pipe band has had a full agenda this season with appearances in Malton Kingston port Credit and Grimsby as well as tbe fecalscene They gave their first performance when they marched with the Lions dub parade in Malton Tbe pipers made first local appearance at the Georgetown Lions Rodeo Parade TEN YEARS commuters came one step closer this week to being served by a new commuter train The prospect emerged after a closed meeting of federal provincial and Metro officials who agreed on terms of a federally financed study TbesttidywMchcouldresultinfour more services strongly recommended service for Georgetown A petition is being circulated in Georgetowns east end by parents of high school students affected by the termination of tbe but service to the high school HaltonCounty Board of Education cancelled the bus service for tbe students last June Tbe service had been started several years ago when students bad to wade up to miles through mud and heavy construction Since those conditions no longer exist the service was cancelled committee of management of Halton C Manor for the aged has voted to make a bid for part of tbe Barracks property in as a site for tbe borne for the aged Tbe committee wants eight out of a total 11 acres and all members agreed after touring tbe site that It would be ideal for a home for the aged second in HUbj of Acton Lakevtew subdivision are disputing the right of an Elizabeth Street resident to fence off a walkway which connects the Prospect Park The residents were involved with the owner and police In two separate incidents last week No charge were laid but some adults and children threatened to tear down the fence A Terra man is convinced that tbe provincial government has allowed development of a pit next to his home Mr Symmes said the company received a permit from department of mines and resources in September 1B70 and began dally operation The area be said used to be a small and seldom gravel pit and has now become a quarry Both tbe September permit and a renewed permit in March were issued without Inspection of the alto by a department official teens Derek Nelson Queens Park Bureau Of The Hera Id That idiotic pension scheme and 31 Per cent pay hike federal MPs voted themselves has had one good sloe affect so far as provincial politicians are concerned It has kept the heat oil their own search for more bucks The Legislature this session raised the bask pay of an MPP to In addition the member receives an annual ax free expense of up from which is probably the equivalent in taxable dollars of another income So the real base rate Is about Not too many members take home that little of course If they sit on a committee during the six months the Legislature not in session they receive an extra tax free day If members of cabinet as MPPs are an additional or depending on responsibility flows into their pockets The premier makes plus the tax free allow LOTS MORE If parliamentary assistants to ministers as Conservatives are theres more The Speaker picks up JO0 extra the Opposition Leader and the Party Leader 111 700 Chairmen of committees bank between and J00 depending on type party whips acquire to depending on status and two opposition bouse leaders take home and respectively As well a number of MPPs keep their civilian jobs going and have Income from them too What it totals Into Is a respectable pay package that makes one look with a sceptical eye on daunt by some MPPs that they are grossly under paid On the other hand with two exceptions It is difficult to quarrel with the current amounts they receive since the jobs does carry certain important responsibilities NOT GOOD The a day allowance for summer and winter committee work is In essence double pay They are alreadypaldafalraanualtalary Why this extra And the HO expense allowance Is no such thing it straight Income and treated as such by None that I know of has ever returned a tingle perm of this socalled expense money because it wasnt used do have genuine expense accounts in addition to tbe These handle an their accommodation costs In Toronto travel to and from Queen Park as well around constituency printing and stationery mailing pottage longdistance tele phone use translation secretaries and assistants and office accommodation and expenses Picking one member at random I added these expenses together and found he a spent nearly last year NEED CHANGE do have a raw additional and peculiar expenses For example when aloes drive hits a member for a donation he literally cant refuse But that should be handled by the federal income tax department like any other system of deductions avail able to people who work in occupations that have unusual allowable expenses The present expense allowance system Is a sham and morally dishon est aa two freshmen Bill Wry and Sheila Copps rightly sug gested in debate here before being slapped down by their alders Wendys president to officially open Georgetowns newest to hamburger chain The Georgetown Wendys franchise was open to dignitaries and press Monday night It it managed by Dave Mead and already employs 7s people on varying shift A furor has erupted over the clearing of trees from a property above Glen William action which the homeowner say Residents say developer hat broken the law by proceeding the removal despite lack of approval and it threatens to create an erosion problem along area slopes A spokesman for the firm a that they are within their rights to proceed theyve been granted permission to construct a borne on Regional Road Halton region has launched a study designed to Improve the delivery of child services In the region yearlong study which will cost being sponsored by tbe region and tbe Services Group AH tbe available on child service will be gathered and collated The Board of Education baa rejected a proposal that it recognize tbe need for a speech to work with the trainable mentally handicapped chikiren Halton Hills trustee Barry Shepherd said tbe motion was only a suggestion for tbe board to consider for inclusion in a long term plan and they could still examine tbe concept without having to hire someone Acton didnt get funds for its new separate school because the Separate School Board listed or to the minister of education Bene Stephenson ssld tbe board had given OakviQe toe top priority rating and therefore tbe ministry gave I minion dollars to board for a new school in She also that the entire situation would be reviewed In September POETS CORNER BaUertaps As the Utile It was a fasdnaUax streak of lack Ob what a that say to see This UUle gat then happy and free that It wss a great Time stood came the night Buttercups She was wtth flavors far her Mather her a flaw reus a the past Aad the things way like ttva CUUren get larills a happy way Nature makes the best of play TUsgs of pleasure that we keew Help thetr Utile to grow Bard a pap Bat the sawferrew ike By Albert Breaks