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jims jottings by i i m dills ft the bank act have cartabnly tatroduced a general round of increases pint of all the service charges on chequing accounts was hiked 90 per cent from 10 cents to 15 cents for an entry that was followed bya jump in interest from the previous cell ing of six per cent to seven per cent on operating and business loans and now there s a proposal hut the service charge for cheques on savings accounts will go from 15 cents to 20 cents safety deposl boxes too i understand have been hiked most of the word weve had on banks is increases on interest rates to depositors aut theres quite obviously a more drastic side to all that perhaps cash may even become popular again there are some pretty steamed up north burlington residents after the burlington council gave three readings to a bylaw imposing a set of required frontages for the 10 acre parcels of land that can be sold without approval of the committee of adjustment while the councils action was perhaps nec essary to control for the future the development patterns of the country side most of the very vehement oppos ition i heard was because council re fused to listen to suggestions from the individual property owners there was also the complaint that after being told they would be informed of planned dis cussions they were never notified this they regarded as sneaky and thats the way councillor bill green felt about it when se got mad enough to throw his glass of water at the mayor i was glad to see the public school board grant its approval for the use offts ball diamonds at the martin st school by the minor baseball league it was a practical decision and i hope the youngsters who play in the league will respect- the boards propert it would have been completely foolish to build a third diamond in rotary park when two perfectly good diamonds were going unused at the school it under lines the importance of a broader use by the community of school facilities at both the public school and high school level when there is adequate supervision and responsibility i noticed the senior citizens making use of the shuffleboard court that was installed at their request last year in victoria park it was a pleasant sight for two reasons one was simply that they seemed to be having fun the other was that it portrayed the renewal of victoria park where the parks board r has been valiantly striving on a limited budget to make it a pleasant place for a lunch or a few quiet minutes some day more extensive flower gardens and shrubbery may exclude some of the road noises perhaps too a band stand might be built for the occasional concert if youre homlng your breath waiting for a big centennial birthday party here to highlight canadas cen tennial dont a number of groups have been quietlv organizing single events which are loosely arranged ar ound the centennial celebration dates but there is no indication of any single big allinclusive birthday party mind you with the lineup of events expand ing almost weekly perhaps you won think anything of it because there may be all the activity you want downjs in this corner with roy downs some history writer 100 years in the future should have some fun writ ing about the present department of municipal attain this department a governmentappointed body with more power to rule the roost than even prem ier robarts must hold could wind up as the laughingstock of the piece if someone in 2067 decided to do a hum orous historv of ontario notable and recent examples- in clude the oakvilletntfajgar and the burlingtonnelson amalgamations mil tons annexation attempt and the plun- kett report oh there is more that would make fine reading but lets deal only with those which affect milton and district the amalgamations annex at ion and plunkctt will do for starters dr lome cummlng special advisor to the deportment the minister and the department- all powerful ontario mun icipal board would seem to be the vil lain his name is mud around milton anvwav in an interview last week or cum ing made some more typical state- ments about the plunkctt report which slnuld rouse a chuckle hereabouts asked when the report would be acted upon he said there can be no fast decision due to the fundamental importance of the report the depart ment vou mas recall has been sitting on the report since the start of this year and from all indications plunketts hot potato mav have to be sat upon for a long time vet the department released the re port to the municipalities concerned halton and peel counties last fall and gave the local administrators three months to bring back a written replv to plunketts call for two new counties which would split the present counties laterally across the centre it was quite a rush but all muni cipalities got a reply in on time except oakville which seems to be the apple of the departments eve and got a two month extension of the deadline now the ball is tossed back to the depart ment and mr camming admits the department s moving fairly slowlv with the report could it be the department is afraid to implement the plunkctt plan follow ing all the severe criticism but it hasnt got an alternative yet is plunketts proposal to be scrapped as too large cur unwieldy will all that money they paid plunkctt and co over 65000 go down the drain will the department hire a new expert to come up with a new plan to cure the municipal ills of halton and peel or do you suppose well be able to carry on govern ing ourselves as we have for over a century without a big brother type of administration sitting over us and pulling the strings who knows dr dimming we think not his rush to get our reactions to the needs study and his own reluctance to either implement it or toss it in the wastobaskct where it obviously belongs makes us think the expert of all experts has found himself on the horns of a dilemma the answer mav never be found bui doherty whose cottage north of coldwater was levelled in a lightning- sparked fire last week lost seven years of hard work and a considerable amount of monev when his cottage was burned but bill is thanking his lucky stars that he and his family were safe at home in milton when it happened thev had returned home the da before the fire to attend a familv birthdav partv neighbors who witnessed the carlv morning cottage fire said it was for tunate there was no one in the building for the flames ripped through it so fast thev would never have survived despite the loss bill is optimistic hes starting right avva to rebuild the cottage because his children yet such a kick out of being there peeking into miltons past r r 1 has champion has been loaned two identical postcards of this photo of six young l boating on livingston lake now the mill pond tot miltons oariv days h tht two owners mrs harry richardaon of lowvslk and mrs ada hjd of palermo names for the six people the names supplied are mrs h richardson mrs william scott mrs waterbury mrs ada hill mrs john wilson mrs christenson and miss may kelly sugar and spice by bill smiley laura secord on her way to warn the british 1813 by the spring of 1813 the americans had finally won a cam- patenin the war of 181214 they took fort george at the junction of lake on tario and the niagara river severing upper canada from the east now seem ed within easy reach but a 700man force of canadian and british regulars followed the americans to stoney creek near hamilton there they routed the american camp and pressed on to beaver dam near queenston the americans decided to finish the canadian force at beaver dam and 600 men were assigned to do the job however before the plan ned attack twe american officers com mandeered a meal at the home of loyal ist james secord while the uninvited guests ate they talked of the beaver dam plan at sunrise the next morning 38- yearold laura secord slipped out of the house and casuallv drove a cow past an american outpost then she hurried 12 miles through the backwoods to beav er dam where she was taken tattered and exhausted to colonel james fitzgib- bon laura blurted out the story of the planned attack but as it happened fkz- gibbon already knew of it the ameri cans were ambushed by canadian in dians before they reached beaver dam 1 vthampion pw cctvaclativte well the inevitable has happened smiley couldnt make up his mind about his own contest as so many of the con tributing column fell into the excel lent category- so smiley declared a draw allowing two winners each winner will receive 25 here is the first column to be followed by the other winner next week by bllen armstrong stourffvfbe ontario maybe the comments of a middle- aged canadian female dont constitute a column but there is only one way to find out so here goes i am sick and tired of the assumption that canadians are inhibited and inarticulate the cele brations in ottawa and in every little and big town and city in this our year of jubilee shout a resounding mo to this idea oh sure we have to have a ood reason for letting our hair down a good reason may only present itself once in 100 years but when it does brother we can holler with the best and better the claim that canadians have an inferiority complex down here in the grass roots where i and 999 per cent of my fellow canadians crawl around we are proud of canada and of being canadians we are ashamed only of the wouldbe intellectuals who claim they are inferior because they are canadian they are inferior all right but for other reasons unfortunately they scorn to have the ear of ye editors and so get theii views aired in the papers with nauseating frequency the bland statement that the church has failed failed to do what may i ask i may answer to in fact i will failed to do whatever the speaker of the moment thinks she should have done i suggest we find out what is the true mission of the church then try to assess success or failure go ye into ll the world and preach the gos pel said christ this is the churchs mission in this she has succeeded and is succeeding and even critics must admit she has not failed in another sense she has endured and survived name one other nineteen hundred and sixty- seven vear old institution transistor radios in public here i feel like busting into poetry which 1 have entitled lines on trying to have a picnic at a roadside table on the shores of a once- peaceful lake where once the song of birds was beard and wind in trees above a crass transistor radio emits a cro waning low his cheap synthetic love the gentle murmur of the waves is drowned in noisy chatter buy whiskey soap and cigarettes buy pills and soup without regrets sublimities dont matter some day ere long well conquer space ah mournful tho and bitter mid stars that sang creations birth the crude cacophony of earth mans pestilential twitter the use and abuse of the in words as in all else this is the faddy word image there seem to be fad words of the moment every man wo man organization is concerned about his her or its image may i suggest in fact trv to stop me that if we are concerned with integrity decency and honor in personal social and political life our public image will take care of itself it will be a favorable one too the availability of filthv lit erature particularly for the vouth of our country some excuse this by insisting young people must learn the facts of life manure is a fact of life too but if we see our children eating it we res train them forcibly if iecessarv trying to write a column admiration for vou mr smilev has leaped into the stratosphere how do you do it week after week after week there are two conclusions which re main with us after general de gaulle took his early leave of this country without any demonstrable regret on our part or apparently on his first and foremost our admiration for jean drapeau and prime minister lester pearson reached a new height drapeaus statement of faith in cana das future and his eloquent rebuke to the visiting french leader gave many of us the encouragement to get on with the job of trying to understand the fact of french canada that leaders in the province of quebec keep talking about prime minister pearson diplomatic ally and yet sternly rebuked the french visitor without hedging it was a re sponsibility without precedent and yet it was done effectively with a correct ness that could only enhance canadas image the only improvement on it could have been if the other canadian leaders had directed letters of commen dation to the prime minister rather than trying to make political hay out of the situation the other conclusion that remains with us is that however unwittingly general de gaulle prepared a launch pad from which to send canada into its second century with a new resolve to make confederation work in his overdone statements in his unforgiv able intrusion into the internal prob lems of the country he became the vil lain we suspect that those who have been passively observing the fringe ele ment of separatists in quebec may de velop a new will to resist more actively the line they preach we have talked with french can adians who recognize their slower de velopment and more important the reasons for it they are far more anx ious to get on with the remedy than to chart a new and impossible course through separatism it is from these people we may now begin to hear more mayor drapeau in his speech de tailed his pride in the cultures and language which france had given to many quebecers but he also recalled that when the french army in north america surrendered in 1 760 the edu- cated people all returned to france leaving 60000 frenchspeaking settlers tied to the barn with no outside help the mayor said french canadians had painfully and slowly built up their own school system and developed their own culture perhaps unwittingly general de gaulle has given us a new strength to make canada work perhaps separa tists will receive the backlash of public sentiment that has been most effective ly unleashed through the provocations of the french leader pages of the past from champion files a cmmuhitlf cchcern probably its quite natural for police chiefs and editors to share some com mon concerns but the other day as two of us considered one of the current concerns it seemed essential that it be shared because it is really a community concern we don t like to see children getting into trouble they have for years of course but that doesnt ease the situa tion nor is it sufficient rationalization to permit one to ignore it the last week of june a signal light was damaged to the extend of 300 on local railway property considerable damage has also been done recently to the signal shack to lens on signals and to parts that operate the signals at one point parts were actually placed on the tracks at the diamond that could derail a train naturally railway offic ials are concerned and the police chief and an editor are equally concerned but more important we hope par ents are concerned chief andress tells us that almost invariably when they find a child in trouble hes quite a dis tance from home and his parents dont really know where he is they may think they do but actually they rarely do the leisure of summer holidays per- mils a great deal of free time young minds are active and frequently time hangs heavy as excitement eludes youngsters but the chief urged that parents be asked to keep track of their children out of sight should not be out of mind if trouble is to be avoided and children kept from the difficulty of serious trouble the chief shared another concern sudden wealth if youve ever won dered about your child ssudden wealth woudnt it be wise to check t h e source these are community concerns no editor or police chief should be expect ed to consider them his alone they are every parents and they are every citizens if you see the signs of troub le brewing a call to the police could keep some youngster out of trouble if you see vandalism a call to the po lice could save you tax paying dollars but more important it could help inter cept more serious trouble do your bit by reporting problems to the police and by assisting in apprehending those who choose to destroy 20 years ago taken from the issue of the fatw champion july 24 1947 according to pete mcmullen man ager of the owls club softball team which is representing milton in the 0a sa playdowns they have been success ful in arranging an exhibition contest with the naticnal hockey league all stars from the toronto maple leaf hock ey team the game is scheduled for august 5 beg at 7 p it will be played in front of the grandstand at agricultural park where every person will have an opportunity to see the game in comfort several years ago a team from the maple leafs visited the county town and played the owls club in honor of the bwvf a large crowd was in at tendance to see their favorite stars in action on the ball held the july meeting of the mountain union wi was held at the home of mrs william hume there were twenty mem bers and fourteen visitors present after the business part of the meeting mrs mcarthur and mrs galloway plaved duets nd mr vfheelband gave vocal sel ections mrs lome dixon read an inter esting account of a trip her brother mr george prudham and his wife had taken to whitehorse mrs ernest rcadhead told of their trip through the eastern pro vinces at the close of the meeting a social half hour was enjoyed the halton hunting and angling club has assisted the game and fisheries department in placing shelters for phea sants in the nassagaweya district sev eral local farmers have offered to care for the voung birds 50 years ago taken from the issue of the ch august 2 1mt last sunday was hot the tempera ture recorded at toronto university was 98 degrees the same temperature was registered on monday and though the figures were a little lower on tuesday and yeiterdav humidity nude the heat oppressive today change to cooler weather is mov welcome the results of the middle school ex amination for entrance into normal school are published today the follow ing is the pass list for dulferin peel and halton c r brown honors g m crawford i davidson with us art j j garvery e p harmsworth m harrop honors v m kee j lindsay f c monkman honors b i mclaughlin honors with ls art b v sawn m e martin o i mclenahan p l mer- rett honors m e neeley f perkins honors a proud e b russell t t scott h m smith honors v a tay lor with is ge m i s wilson honors prisoners who have escaped or at tempted to escape from the jail have done considerable damage breaking iron cots etc and tearing up flooring dam age will be repaired or damaged articles replaced and the window bars some of which have been bent sufficiently to let a man through will be strengthened probably by extra crosspieces all work to have the previous approval f the inspector 100 years ago teltess from t ch milton august 1 187 joseph davis judge of this county expired at his residence near milton on the morning of the 26th ult aged 63 years he has been ailing for some time having experienced several premonitory symptoms of his disease softening of the brain accompanied by paralysis deceas ed wa appointed judge on the separa tion from wcntworth in 1853 a full muster of no 6 company is required for drill and parade on wednes day august 14 at six oclock pjn the adjutantgeneral in consideration of tine services of the volunteers last year has thought proper to pay the full amount of drill without any deductions for cloth ing in consequence of which the balance of 8 for each man has been received and those entitled to the same will be paid at the parade g t bastedo captain those wishing blank applications for enerin articles in the provincial show at kingston can obtain them by apply ing to the town clerks and secretaries of agricultural societies who will also furnish them with a list of prizes to be awarded there is a meeting of the central re form committee in milton today 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