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SECTION Wednesday May 1981 A noname spirit for GDHS students Herald Correspondent Georgetown District High School Is having a No- name spirit week The activities started Monday and will continue all week to celebrate the coming of The council felt that with Christmas Week and Spring it be nice have a week to the good weather It no name week because students arc not honoring any thing in particular except the time it being held Tourism study From consultants region pared it lo Peter Barnard Associates to undertake the Hal ton Tourism Study at a cost up to The study is due by the end or the year and will include Tour public meetings or workshops Activities the school during the week include a slave day a hot dog citing a 10 cent donul day and a Slae day is when students put 1 him selves up for sale There Is a and other students buy their services for the day The slave lias to do his master ask him within reason The will tie held Iridiy night it the high school Standard Products Car window stripping for domestic cars made in Georgetown By AM Herald Staff If you like black lico rice you II be frustrated when plant superinten dent Bill Weir takes you on a tour of the square foot Standard Products Car a da Ltd building on George town Street There scads of what looks like fresh black licorice coming out of khaki colored machines or lying on wooden racks just waiting for the licorice lover But a squeeze and sniff quickly show the tempting strips to be black rubber a key component of the weather stripping pro duct Standard Products makes for car like General Motors and Ford Motor Compiny Ltd Weather or seal stripping makes up per cent of Stindard Products business But that t always the case Tor the company that has a 25year histo ry In Georgetown a involvement in glassworks If you drive a Cen Chevrolet Celeb ri Its likely the the car doors and about the window frames were mode by Standard car windows would rattle have it weather stripp ing and they would break because they be hitting against the metal Mr Weir said To licorice like rubber arc added a steel core and a dust ing of polyester fluff called dacron flock The dacron flock helps keep car windows clean and opening smoothly The 131 Standard Products employees also produce stampings or body cushions again a product used by the automobile Industry Body cushions are bolt lo the car trans mission and sit beneath the motor Basically they take the vibrations Her feature years of business in Georgetown peak of in Mr I sec it dropping further in the now we re to keep our loy to a minimum Pro viding there s not too trcat a fluctuation in the auto industry we re doing to try to maintain the staff we have now We re happy with them Mr In the last seven nearly million has been spent by Standard Products on new machinery and tooling keep up with he demands of the car industry Its meant less machinery work especially with the move to rubber on moulding Other changes have been made in terms or safct around he plant There are car plugs loves aprons coats glasses supplies to workers Running shoes sandals rings and watches aren I allowed and safety features have been added to machinery The safely faelor is 100 per of whit It used to be plant fore man John with the company since 1042 said Back in the sixties the company used to make rear windows for station wagons vent windows and door frames for Ford How ever with the consumer shift to hard tops door frames were no longer needed and by 1980 Standard Products had also gotten out of mak little half win for cars We had lo change with the times Mr Weir said explaining the end of the com pa out of a moving car Mr Weir explained Being closely led to the automobile Industry has Its problems Our market really fluctuates Mr Weir a year veteran of the company said Since last March wove been doing exceptionally well but when the big guys go down we go Although staff has decreased from the Motors main stomcr is another challenge Standard Products is facing Right now they have a rating on a scile of 5 Five is the poorest Standard Products employees are working on a system called statistical process con to match the quail work of competing Japanese companies Machine operators arc inspecting the parts they work on to make sure they meet the company s guaranteed size specifications Weather trip pings get clipped by Trudy of forge town as foreman Johnny Resume looks on The automatic clip machine 1 one of many machines that produce the weather stripping Standard Product Canada Ltd General Motors and Ford Motor Company Ltd students bus to site for commercial acting debut CONSTRUCTION OF SCHOOL ELEVATOR UNDERWAY Thanks to the Initiative of Dob and he fund raising leadership of Jim as well us generosity of the community George town District High School have accomplished a major goal for The school managed to raise with the help of the Optimist Club and others so that construct I on has now started on the elevator for the handicapped Seen here left to right are workmen Robert Millard and Doug Moore teacher Bob teacher Jim and principal Don Baker Herald photo Liquor okay in some schools trustees By IIOIUN Herald Staff After a close vote at lust week meeting or the Board of Education It was dec id that could be bold it functions that were taking place at some schools on a trial basis in the Region of Hills trustee Dick who was originally opposed to the Idea thought it better to control the situation and added that if it didn t work out he would be the first to oppose Mr also staled that as a resident of the north area there is not as many licensed premises as there arc in the south schools in the more northern part of Hilton form a bigger part of the community Many members argued on the basis that they were an example to tnt students when selling alcohol on school premises Oik trustee Pat Hill house said she realized he txumple the was but night the students could distinguish between the use and of By ft Herald Staff Georgetown District High School students look part In a commercial for the Ontario Youth Secrcta ml yesterday day The students were bussed out the bluffs overlooking the Credit River near Terra dressed in white track suits and filmed from he li cop era in Ihe air above them From that distance the in their white track suits were to appear like a giant the provincial flow The commercial filmed by Bonguard Films is to encourage the employment of CONTACT principal Don Baker said the school had been contacted just before Easter by the film company and Fost Advertising We re trying to have program relevance he said explaining that the opportunity to take in the filming wasn t thrown open to the hole school Instead linns media and drama tie iris classes were Riven first choice fallowed by Grades 12 and students It was fell they would benefit the most from the experience PERMIT Close up shots were taken of about a dozen of the young people requiring they have work permit from the Actors Guild for the afternoon Mr Baker said He said the actors union requires it for performers can be recognized The advertising will be making a sizcible donation to the school which will give the a boost Mr Baker said Students arc now sell me magazine subscrip tions to raise money for up the GDHS courtyard getting a new for the school and bleachers in the gym Mr Baker said Foster Advertisings donation will go a good way towards the purchase of the bleachers He noted one set of bleachers the only high school in Italian without bleach ers for spectators LOW PRICES EVERYDAY VALDI PRICE PRICE 7 Rd N Georgetown HOWS 1H SAT M