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the HER ALP Home Newspaper of HattonFObSinco 1866 A Division of Canadian Newspapers Company Limited Guelph Street Georgetown 3Z6 Ontario PAUL J TAYLOR Publisher and General Manager PAULDORSEY Editor PHONE DAVID BEATTIE Advertising Manager Second MM age TtltHEKALU Wednesday September Little Miss bows to Super Sundays Our heartiest congratulatio is to the University Women Club of Georgetown for demonstrating last week the extent of public interest In what amounts to a landmark cultural activity for local youngsters All 500plus tickets for the club forthcoming Super Sundays Series for children sold out as soon as they became last week indicating two important things that there is widespread community Interest in semi professional sophisticated shows for kids that combine entertainment and education and that the new librarycultural centre should indeed be commercially viable Involved in fund raising for the arts complex from the start the club was among the irst groups in line for to use the new theatre With inspiring speed its members mounted an ambitious triplet of shows by performers from out of town each one carefully chosen to benefit its young audience The stories that will be told by the National Tap Dance Company Nov 22 and the Lampoon next April reinforce some of humanity most noble virtues per courage and determination in dependence creativity and true frien In January multi instrumentalist Eric shows the small fry how they can create music using any old object at all We have to admit that much of our delight over the immediate success of the Super Sundays concept stems from our view of the Little Miss Hills pageant held at last year s Georgetown Fall Fair It looks as though the pageant will not be part of this year fair because of a lack of volunteer organizers and that suits us fine As we ve stated here before competitions of this nature even something as superficially harmless and fun as the Little Miss pageant tend to bring out the worst in human nature and widespread public accep tance of contests which collectively foster inter personal comparisons and the exploitation of young Innocents should not be tolerated It reassures us that local apathy always an unfortunate problem tor the fall fair board has this time chosen Little Miss Halton Hills as its target McDonald study aftermath a whopping anticlimax Letter from the editor Paid Doney Georgetown 1919 back in 1919 Georgetown council still met at 7 Monday evenings still beginning sessions with minutes and correspondence and still spending most of its time with minor matters of concern to individual citizens Copies of the Georgetown Herald da tad April 1919 came across my desk last week after a daughter of The Heralds present shop cameraman Mylea discovered the dilapidated fourpsgera inserted as padding or the clothcovered lid of an antique toy box The subscription tagi name dm O McKay I ve talked about old Heralds hers before but never had a good opportunity to peruse one so old The Herald own back files go back aa far that same year earlier Issues to IMS having been destroyed In a fire but these bound copies are also In a bad slate of repair and we threaten history each time we open the book Here some interesting tidbits from the April 1919 copy Messrs John and Long asked for the privilege of building a sidewalk In front of their homes on Union Street Other typical items involved water service and protection for Maple Avenue a water pooling problem at Main and Wesleyan Streets and a request from the Citizens Committee for funds to purchase watches tor local World War I veterans Council response Moved by Date seconded by W Bradley owing to the financial and legal aspects of the situation feel that they cannot respond to the wishes of the Committee to raise to procure watches for the returned soldiers by direct taxation This Council feels hat any gin or subscription given by the people should be of their own free will and volition Carried unanimously Reeve The issue contains more of those wonderful old editorial comments probably by publisher J Moore There is no doubt that a great amount of the degradation ruin and crime among the young springs from the habit of night prowling comer loafing and kindred acts by both sexes in city town and hamlet all over this broad country Any person who keeps his or her eyes open knows this Hundreds of boys and girls ere out at night and we alt know that many influences for evil and few for good surround them continually The curfew restriction may be derided as oldfashioned and puritanical but the fact remains that there la vastly less night prowling in town that have a curfew ordinance and enforce It The Herald then examines the annual police report out of Toronto an illuminating document on the status of public morals There a notable Increase In all aorta of theft and other crimes This includes 1 1H stolen a comparatively new Industry in the predatory world and the substantial sum of 103 collected for breach of the Ontario Temperance Act Defaulting husbands were very unwillingly forced to pay to their dependents and no comfort is obtainable from a decrease In nouses of 111 fame of various aorta Altogether It la not a consoling document from moral viewpoint On the contrary it uphill work yet ahead for those laboring on behalf of fallen humanity For you discerning shoppers out there of course the old ads are something else a room frame house on John Street with a fruit garden for bed couches with springs and mattresses from Jackson son Main Street for acres of workable land with a solid brick eightroom bouse for or how about 100 pounds of granulated sugar for at Bamhlll of A new face on staff Anl from officially piped aboard the Herald last week to take over the Junior reporter Job which includes police fire and newt among other odds and ends A Carleton University journalism trad Just spent three weeks writing researching end directing a video film for the North York Board of Education on technical training During bar own school years the freelanced for Ottawa a CFGOAM radio and last summer served information officer for the Youth Secretariat a Experience SO program s fluent In English French and Armenian and has already moved to Georgetown We hope you greet her warmly Anl replaces Astra the Georgetown girl who astounded us veterans on staff by signing on us a mere summer employee then doing a fine professional Job of writing and I told her she dldnt need to return to Journalism course this fall but she decided to anyway Something about wanting to take over Sharon Dunn a or Valerie Ella a Job on the CBC evening Best of luck Astra and thanks Contact Centre needs you In a recent article concerning a shortage of votuntacra needed to run the North Contact Centre In Georgetown It was Incorrectly stated that Centre a taking for people to man the crisis phone for a single three to fourhour shift each month Actually volunteers are needed at the centre to take three fourhour shifts per month Since J Centre spokesman Petttngil says about eight people have offered their servtcee While the response la welcome at least volunteers are needed to ensure that enough workers are ready to help striferidden callers Hon Information concerning the Centre activities la available by calling Ottawa Report Ottawa Perhaps it a a simple case of being in the wrong business but Just cant get In the spirit of Boa party thats In full awing over the report of the Mcdonald Commission on wrongdoing And It snot for lack of trying loot only skimmed over the 1800 word report itself bat also buried myself under the avalanche of news paper stories which seems to have swept away everything in its path Including the Kent Commission on Newspapers Does somebody out there really want to read 10 words about the McDonald Commission a findings At the risk of exposing poor personal Judgment I think It a the most over blown event since Prime Minister a on The Just Society It a a whopping anticlimax to the commission public hearings It was at that all the Juicy stories were told about alleged wrongdoing Including Illegal wiretapping letter opening barn burning and surreptitious entries And It was at the hearings that we heard charges and counter charges about how much if anything the prime minister and bis cabinet knew about the incidents There were exciting suggestions of coverup of approval In the highest offices of complicity Those were some of the questions that gripped us in the commission heyday of bearings FEW ANSWERS There aren t many clearcut answers in the commissions final report What the prime minister and hut ministers were told about the illegalities If anything and how they reacted remains very much a matter of personal memory or opinion Atone point the commission report says that Trudeau and some of nia ministers were told that the bad been committing Illegalities for years but that there was no evidence the ministers were given specific details of any Illegalities In other words it a Just a rehash of everything we heard over the last three years Former Tory solicitorgeneral Allan Lawrence says be could give specifics except that he is prevented from doing so under the Official Secrets Act And that too a rehash It now patently obvious that we In precise details Just what Information was exchanged between government and officials But short of the government advocating terrorism I am not convin ced this was an issue that gripped the nation anyway DOUBLE STAND And I am equally convinced that many of the other specifics that seised the commission were not subjects average Canadians discussed over their breakfasts Even that overriding question of whether our security service should be run by the RCMP or civilians was not something I much about in social conversation White It now ia fashionable to criticize the for overreacting to Quebec separatists and the McDonald commission Joins tins chorus Its easy to forget the uncertainties that existed years ago when he FIX was In full flight and mall boxes were being bombed You hear many complaints about police overreaction In those days It seems to me there Is a double standard at work On the one hand we are highly critical of the police for being under Informed about political movements and parties and yet we are exported to be outraged when they use questionable means to collect the necessary Information If the wants to infiltrate the liberal caucus which apparently it did I dont see much cause for excitement We don t seem to object when they Infiltrate the Communist Party Despite its length and its general ly harsh treatment of the lam surprised at the scarcity of real revelations in this report Further more despite all the incidents cited I am left with the Impression that the RCMP is doing a pretty good Job RCMP report rekindles provincial Trotskyite case Queens Park By Derek Nelson Queen Park Bsrcaa of The Herald Under the Canadian system of Justice the federal government is responsible for writing the laws and the provincial governments are responsible for enforcing them So Attorney General Roy has a tough decision to make as a result of the release of the inquiry Into socalled wrongdoing during counterintelli gence operations He must decide whether to charge officers of the force whose conduct was Judged unacceptable and illegal by the Inquiry The McDonald Commission itself ducked the question of charges any such decision In provincial hands McMurtry has so far given only one hint as to nil stance on the question of charges and that when he twice stayed criminal proceedings against two RCMP officers by two members of the now defunct League for Socialist Action Id the carry WO the RCMP mounted Operation Checkmate an attempt to sow discord in Trotskyite ranks by such methods as alleging a leader was emotionally unstable When the methods were revealed in 179 two tried to lay charges of forgery and later extortion against the Mounties only to be blocked by McMurtry Partly the minister refused to proceed on the grounds an Ontario Provincial Police investigation said there wasnt enough evidence to win a conviction and If the Mounties won their case they might take It as Justification for their actions That would Indicate McMurtry fa not going to prosecute unless the evidence Is airtight On the other hand be also partly stayed proceedings because be wanted to see what new evidence and Information if any the McDonald Commission was going to produce about Illegal RCMP acts Now he has the additional data and once it Is reviewed he will have to make a final decision one way or another on prosecution OTHER POINT One suspects he won have an easy task making up his mind There Is after all more involved here than Just a simple question of an individual police officer breaking the being carried out It was a police force with a clear chain of command and a political boss called the Solicitor- Genera of Canada Is it Justice to prosecute the men who performed the acta wtdlelgnorlng the men who knew the acts were being done maybe not In detail but certainly In general outline NICE POINT A comment by McMartry on McDonalds proposal for a civilian security agency to replace counterintelligence touches the point indirectly McMurtry sees nothing magic about shifting counter Intelligence responsibilities from police to ana The two real problems exposed by McDonald could recur One was poor political supervision the Ottawa politicians were simply derelict in their responsibilities The other problem was inadequately trained officers be said Quebec has laid charges against 17 Mounties or ex In regard to their actions in that province in the 1970s but that may be the result of having a government committed to destruction of federalism What decision McMurtry finally makes will be Illuminating some idea the magnitude of the domestic science entries The oldest person present at the fair was Gollop 91 of who won the yearly Herald subscription offered for this distinction Georgetown baseball midgets are in the running for a championship They ousted Staynor from the finals when they took the second game Six students are enrolled in Georgetown High School for grade 13 re all girls The former head of the Ontario Provincial Police detachment in Georgetown Corporal Jack Sheffield is In Trafalgar Hospital recuperating from a bullet wound He was shot by his daughter 16 Thursday evening after a supper table argument Mr Sheffield was against her keeping her summer Job of telephone switch board operator and dropping out of school A Herald ad shows round trip bus fare to Boston costsf25 to Detroit Another ad shows men wool worsted suits coating boys socks at 39 cents and ladies at At a grocery store Schneiders breakfast bacon costs cents a pound and Nabob Jelly powder cents for three packages And to keep you warm In those cool September mornings and evenings Alberta coal Is selling at a ton TWENTY YEARS voted against hiring a town manager for a year We re much too small a town to consider a town manager said Mayor Em Hyde At least SO high school locker doors will have to be replaced for the new school year The school board Is looking for doors which are student proof and not necessarily foolproof Georgetown tal has been In operation for over a month and It has admitted a total of adults and children as patients And new youngsters can now boast that Georgetown Is their birthplace Until the new hospital opened the large majority of births took place In Brampton or Guelph hospitals As July 31 the hospital was employing 117 full lime staff and three port timers The Georgetown Anglers and Hunters Association hove announced the date for their full turkey shoot as Oct 14 to be held at their club at For the first time in the history of the George Dulmage ProJunior Golf tournament at Toronto a Georgetown golf team finished second In the tourney contested by Ontario teams TEN YEARS AGOFriday was the deadline for objections to a proposed rczoning of Maple Lodge Farms near Norval The application was that the farm be designated industrial rather than agricultural so that its present use as a poultry farm would be conforming One objector said that the proposed use would contribute to water and pollutlon in the area Alfred Elliott missing from Peel Manor home for the aged since Aug was found Thursday In a cornfield behind the Manor A policeman said It appeared he been in the field for some time An extensive search by Chinguacousy Police Peel volunteers Monorslaffondalocalfruit grower In a light airplane had failed A police dog was finally called in and only took one hour to find Mr Elliott A new service is added to the Georgetown library Movies all kinds are available for cents wlthanadditlonalUchargeifthe projector screen and sound system are needed At Sinclair and Duncan Streets the newly completed St Francis of Asslsl Separate School kindergarten to grade opened its doors Thursday to over students ONE YEAR AGOApproximutely workers at Maple Lodge Poultry Farms near walked out on strike Monday morning crippling one of the largest chicken processing factories in the nation Workers attacked the company policies on statutory holidays vacations and overtime and life Insurance They wanted a twoyear contract bringing the starting wage of an employee to fromKM Mayor Pete announced his intention Fridaytocampalgnforasecondtermasmsyor He said he Is particularly interested In having council complete urban boundary studies for Acton and Georgetown Saturday the Georgetown Junior Falcons defeated Chinguacousy 1 in the semi final of the Peel Cup They only tost one game In the league so far this season and their final game Is next Monday against the only team which they lost against Mayor and library theatre building committee Rex received a commemorative brick from Unllock Terry The Georgetown company donated 000 worth of similar bricks to be used in constructing the new arts centre POETS CORNER Penny Stamps My boyhood days penny postage it did Today they strike for too much cash Have a Job so they can be way hi Where the average man can t get to be Some folks live like Mr Jones Why starve someone else to bones T Most people Invest a lot of dough Have a bard lime to make It go the postal guys don spend a dime Except to have a special time Ask for more they cry and Tfaey are way above the line Inflation It will never end Those ways do not help it to mend Alt people want to live Greedy people do not give If I bad my way their pay Close the postage that day By Albert Brooks Acton