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the HERALD Home Newspaper of Halton Hills Established 1 866 A Division of Canadian Newspapers Company Limited Strut Georgetown Jf PHONE DA VII Advertising Manager Ctm Page SECTION A THE HERALD Wed tin day July mi Staff kept quarrelsome Halton united Although we don expect Renaissance Canada con tributlng to the current em brogho involving Halton s medical officer of health MOH Peter Cole Milton Coun Bill Johnson and Acton s Cher s Rest Home will have any effect on how fast par ties reach reconciliation we have to argue with at least one point Renaissance leader Rev Ken Campbell raised a recent letter to regional coun cil While the letter questions the morals of informing high school students about birth con something Cole ad five years ago when he was with Metropolitan Toronto and which we support we believe it takes an un warranted swipe at the currtnt role of the region and for that matter any civil vice Rev Campbell maintains that Halton s civil servants should keep the elected representatives informed but they over step their duties when they begin to advise on items of regional business This is a rather narrow minded regard for the coun try s democratic processes We suspect that without the region advise oriented civil servants Halton residents might have what former town councillor Pat Patterson often described in his barbed references to Halton representation as nment by a bunch of drunken sailors lacking direction and stability Ultimately deciding STAFF COMMENT- what best for the region s residents lies with its ciilors but whether forging major policies or acting on relatively minor items of business decisions are most of ten based on recommendations from senior civil servants When councillors entrust staff members to do the foot work and come with some direction which council can follow it s done with the under standing that the civil servants are the people qualified to do the job In fact an elected representative who plows ahead with a regional matter without the advice of his civil service is acting recklessly and doing nothing for his con He usually ends up looking like a fool We don disagree that bureaucracy particularly at the federal provincial level is getting out of hand and contributing to government inefficiency It still too early to tell whether or not hiring ad ditional senior management civil servants after last year s HicklingJohnson review has improved effiency in all regional departments Nor do we welcome beligerent civil servants of whom Rev Campbell suggests there now are a number in the regional fold But one should be reminded that it has been the outspoken more heavy handed members of Halton civil service which have kept the region together for the common good against councillors who would have it torn apart without giving it a chance to work By Chris Aagaard Hello Hello if Canadians are among the world biggest talkers as Bell Canada frequently reminds us then we will soon have plenty to grouse about when Bell presents its case before the Canadian RadioTelevis ion Commission for yet another rate Increase Our continuing responsibility to prov service to our customers obliges us to seek an increase in rales reads an article in a recent special Issue of Ihe Bell News and goes on to lament the state of economy and how Inflation is continuing to push up its costs When somebody called to Inform Bells administration that the federal government battle plans to fight Ion called for restraint Bell must have rudely hung up The application filed by the company June to be heard at public meetings Oct calls for a 15 per cent Increase In revenues next year rather extravagant by todays standards Without renewed rates Bell president J C Thackray maintained current rev won keep pace wilh the rising costs of providing service In the Toronto area the overage rale for a residential line may rise from a month to For business individual line rales may rise a month lo S51B6 There are also substantial changes proposed for Bell long distance service particularly If you are making operator handled calls In the same breath Bell moans about the economic crunch and then contributes toll From offices towering above Toronto and Montreal Bells chieftains appear oblivious Jo the fiscal soundness of general restraint Perhaps they re giddy In the rarefied unpolluted atmosphere rounding the market ihey have skillfully monopolised Bell has plans to spend S3 billion world wide over the next five years SI billion of that In 1S83 If they get their increase and there Utile reason to believe wont as bully our wobbly kneed CRTC Ihey can offer shareholders a per cent rote of return on common stock holdings If not the return may well slip to eight per cent right down here with other industries trying desperately to weather the slump One must ask the same questions which have preceded other Bell rate increase applications Will customer vice Improve Who wants another anyway How Is this going to affect small business supposedly the backbone of our economy which Is already generally faced with financial problems When Is the finger wagging government so fond of telling Its civil service and other Canadians to adopt more modesl financialsecurity goals going to start feeding some of the same medicine to obese government agencies and crown utilities Tike Bell Canada Finally how deaf Is Ihe CRTC7 What kind of public outcry what amount of personal expense sweat and ears does it take before Commission barks a firm No to Bell continuing demands for more money It a about time somebody in Ottawa pul Beit On hold for a while The Oakville Art Society la holding Its annual IN THE PARK show and sale on Monday August 2nd from 10 am to7S0pm In Coronation J 3rd and Lines In Oakville About so participant will be selling paintings poltery sculpture photographs embroidery batik wear Jewellery leather mined glass and crafts This Is one of the major events for the OAS a prom which provldesmanyeducallonal programs especially In painting poltery and sculpture Admission for Art In The Park will be BO cents for adults children under and senior citizens free Our tough economic climate forces foes to bury hatchets By Stewart MacLeod Amid all the gloom and doom of the current economic crisis we finally caught sight of one glimmer of light Finally It seems government and labor are beginning lo bury their hatchets at least have stopped the namecalling Perhaps cooperation Is too strong a word have been struck And considering the acrimony hat has existed in the post this Is quite on achievement It may also say something about the stale of the economy A breakthrough of occurred last week when the Canadian Labor Congress Executive headed by dent Dennis McDermolt entered a Parliament Hill committee room to talk with Prime Minister and key members of his cabinet about the government a wage restraint program What everyone expected and I suspect this applied lo the participants was a short angry exchange of disagreements before the airwaves once again reverberated w the trad tlonal exchange of insults NOT NASTY We all knew what Dennis McDer mott thought of he govern ment and lis wage restraints program A few days earlier he had called Finance Minister Allan MacEacben a son of a And now that the government was going to ask for McDer cooperation in holding wage increases down to six per cent we expected to hear some new original adjectives It was perhaps even shocking when ihe meeting broke up and the President emerged without one nasty thing to say about the Trudeau government except hat there- was still a fundamental disagreement Instead he talked of he serious situation facing the country Our members ore badly frighten he said almost echoing Ihe words The hell has been scared out of all of us Who l happened behind those cd doors said was A good exchange an open exchange in a cord atmosphere He had learned that the governments restraints program has not etched In stone there was still the possibility of changes It seems that both sides were open constructive and relatively cord quite unlike ail previous meetings between the two groups COMMON ENEMY What happened apparently was that both sides came to conclusion that Ihe common economic enemy was too threatening to be handled by divisive forces and despite mental differences between labor and government a truce had be reached With mare than I million Canadians out of work this was clearly no time for unnecessary squabbling After his meeting with the CLC president the Prime Minister said this I think Canadians are beginning to say Well lets set aside our quarrels for a while and see if can pull up our socks and act as a nation for a change forget that we are provinces and federal government and labor and management let See what we can do together to create a better climate here a belter economic climate and political climate There were certainly Indlca lions of such when Trudeau recently with the Premiers and more predictably there was unrestrained enthusiasm when business was asked to embrace the wage restraints But It was at this latest meeting the that the biggest break though occurred and although the truce may be temporary It good to know that in these critical mes thai such as and can sit down together and actually find com ground York South bid may prove tough one for NDP Leader Bob chances of losing the York South autumn lie somewhat between remote and nil But then that a what the media thought too about Jim Coutts In theSpadlna federal byelection It is that slim possibility hot makes what otherwise would be a cut affair Into an interesting In theory could have troubles The York South seat has been represented by the patriarch of the provincial New Democratic Party Its former leader Donald MacDonald since 1955 when he won with votes Interestingly although the riding boundaries have changed over the years and MacDonald a victory In has climbed as high as last March MacDonald again won by only 1 votes The Liberals ran second with the Tories a close third The rumor mill already has popular mayor of the local borough running tor the Conservatives while on alderman of Italian extraction In a riding per cent Hal an is being touted for he Liberals The other side of he coin of course was best by recent Hamilton Wesl The candidate won easily in a seat traditionally more favorable to the other parties Most opinion credits the victory lo unpopularity of the federal Liberals In general with voters taking It out on their provincial cousins and lo the provincial Tory budget in particular Moreover the can concentre tc their dedicated workers during In a way they cannot during a major campaign And is running as party Add all those factors together and it Is highly unlikely that Roa can lose Still the NDP did not spend several months of internal Jockeying In an attempt to find Rao another scat without reason And Ihe obvious one Is that the party wanted the safest possible seat BEST BET fn thai regard tho logical home for Rae would have been in Ihe provincial equivalents of his former federal seat In eastend Toronto But tho silting members Jim and Marlon refused to resign So most of drama over the past few months has been centred on whom the party could convince lo step down so would not have to take one of the more chancy seats beyond core country MacDonald a was a likely choice and so It proved to be A belter location atleastfromthe point of view of his constituents would have been Tony s downtown Toronto scat For medical reasons Luposella has not been doing his job as an MPP all thai well HIGH PRICE However what should not pass without notice is the high price MacDonald exacted from the party establishment lo give up what In essence was his lifelong career The caucus will odd more than 000 to MacDonald annual pension so that he 11 continue to receive the basic salary He also becomes chairman of caucus In addition he head up two task forces for the party on his areas of special interest namely agriculture asphalt farmer the Tories called urban MacDonald and Ontario Hydro And he has been designated spec advisor to whatever hat means With MacDonald at his tide Rae should keep the seal but one should never be overconfident about these things Aristocratic parachutists like have been known to crash in elections before H0RNIY CLUIS 34TH ANNUAL from our files i THIRTY YEARS AGO A radical change in retail business hours will come into effect Aug l From that dole stores will remain open Friday evenings until and close Saturdays at A petition signed by 35 merchants was passed by council Monday bringing the change Into effect There were no complaints at the meeting about the new hours although there arc at least ten ants who not the petition TWENTY YEARS AGO -orge- road budget look a beating Monday when five tenders were accep ted calling for an expenditure of somewhat over 000 for a number of major projects A local rm Lyn Dale Contracting will natal Dclrex Boulev storm sewers at a price of and reconstruct parts or Valleyvlew Road Charles and Market Streets for Other contracts went lo Peel Construction of Brampton for surface treatment on a number of roads W to Godson Contracting Toron o f surface coat on Main Street S3 850 and to Bra ma 11 and Co for a new Ontario Street bridge Concrete culverts on Mam Street South costing SB will also be installed TEN YEARS AGO Substantial revenue will accrue to Georgetown capital fund following passing of a bylaw Monday The bylaw provides for fees ranging from S300 for a bachelor unit loSSSO family dwelling when a building perm is taken out A twounit residence is assessed per unit three units or more S650 per unit One bedroom apartments pay and two or more bedrooms Coun Ernie Hyde led a spirited attack claiming the bylaw penal lies the builder of a single home and that It may only apply to the older part of ONE YEAR AGO Sewer and water servicing will remain a regional responsib llty councillors maintained last Wednesday but the provincial government will be pressed for more grants to Iron out alleged rate disparities among municipalities Councils support fortuity servicing along v Burlington proposal to squeeze at least million from the province subsidize sewer and water rates quashed Hills Iwpes for a ministerial rev of the recently completed sewer and water study before endorsing Its recommendations Urging councillors to reject moves aimed at pressuring the government take a greater share of sewer and water servicing responsibility Pomeroy suggested the Burl amendment lacks solid financial calcu lations needed to support Garden Party Saturday pm mtt pits nd ciuntry music POET S CORNER Summer The humid weather brings to all a pain In the bead I do recall The burning big and bright We re all up until at night The morning comes In no time at The birds are driving me be We chased them off Into the the decide to wash their hair Into the lake we start to ran Ob we are having to much fun Until the time I Dearly drowned And after that lo the beach 1 Love Love Is like a bird that glides through the sky Heading far Into the clouds with Its wlngipan spread long and II reaches fur the stars As goes of sight By JULIE Alls student Dreams The canoe moved slowly across the lake I see the wilderness all around My troubles are gone when I am awake With all the life and the sounds of the free The water I calm and ever so clear With the wind that ta moved through my Tnis place Is so great with nothing to fear That when you see a bear you don t even care The campflre burns so big and so bright The warmth li good and so retail log The moon out and affect your tight As everyone else continues to slag Too bad that tomorrow we 11 be back home Maybe the future 1 be free to roam By DEREK HODGSON student