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the georgetown herald wednesday sept 12 195 the mail bag burlington protests share of their county assessment burlington out september 6th 1951 gentlemen 1 am instructed by the council of pny municipality to write to you ro- garding the new county equaliza tion of assessments burlirtgton has good reason lo believe that the new equalization is not accurate if this conclusion is correct this error could arise in one of two ways either that the rules as laid down by the coiniy assessor do not achieve the desired result or the rules may not have been followed 1 am instructed testate thatso far as milton georgetown acton esquesing and jnrissagaweya are con- cerned we do not seripusly differ with the composite reduction of 5306 per cent of the county assessment which has been made with respect to these five municipalities in the north end if the county under the 1950 equalization 3212 per cent was the share of these municipalities and under the 1951 equalization this is irii tn 9rqi4 we are not in a position to express any opin ion as to whether this total reduc tion of 5206 per cent h- e equitably distributed among the five municipalities in question but tq totnl result as between the norh and south ends of thecouuty would not appear to be open tu serious question as to the southern en1 of the county ivnich is now to pay 73086 per cent of the county taxes we believe that this percentage has not been equitably distributed among the four southern muncipalities a judicial equalization is not only very costly bul it also inevitably leads to illreeling which should be avoided if at all possible and bur lington will do everything in its power to see that an equitable ass essment is agreed upon without lit igation in order to pcotect our position we must almost immed iately file an appeal this is unfor tunate and would not have been nec if the county assessor had olidfashioned tent meetings september 16th to 23rd milton fulton and main sts pastor hugh horner ba thd special music sundays 3 830 pm week nights 8 pm childrens meetings 415 sponsored by bowes baptist church flowers for every occasion design work a specialty bonded member tds telegraph delivery service flowers by wire anywhere in the world i fit lorton floral phase 315w georgetown i mukfins afw work quality at tv t une alce w kemac range oil burners reg tprice 9000 our price 7500 fess space heaters our price large 10500 small 8000 bfmurfini works heating 3 h w ffr given to all municipalities a months notice of his report as requiredn by the actjr as that amount of time would have permitted the mutual exchange of information and dis cussions we do not know who is to blame for this neglect but would add that if there ever was a time when the full period of advance notice should have been given sure ly it should hae been done this time when such drastic changes are being made burlington is prepared to give any information which any other muni cipality in the county would like to have relative to assessments and actual selling prices of properties also any municipality in the county is welcome to send their assessor into our municipality to check our assessments since we are primarily interested in the assessment in the south vc would like to have a copy of the registry oitice sales lists for 1950 and 1951 of all sales in nelson trafalgar and oakville with the actual assessments of these properties as to both lands and buildings extended after the selling price of each siie the assessment act section ii clearly states that land is to be assessed at its actual value and land of course includes buildings the only reason that un iform rules are sot up is that if the 1 rules are good ones and if the rules aie accurately followed they should result in a uniform assessment com pared to actual soiling prices there is nothing contained in tin- assess ment act whiclrsays that jii rules of assessment aremo limit in any way the assessment of npert 1 actual value maltnn county is fortiinile mat this problem of equalisation of as sessments has occurred at a time when the actual sale prices of so many properties are available arid we believe that if the above refer red tp information is supplied by the four southern municipalities it will be possible for our olticials to determine the percentage which the actual assessment in each munici pality bears to actual value we sug gest that after this information is compiled and fully studied that a meeting should then be heid 0 all four municipalities to reach agree ment upon an equitable equalization of the assessments of these munici palities we are informed that in the nor thern part of the county that geor getown is not satisfied and we would suggest thiit a similar ex change of information followed by a conference to reach agreement should take place there yours tiuly m m hush clerk and treasurer town of burlington hnkrai iikkk kkiow latimer bingham a georgetown native who died 111 saskatchewan will be buried hiie 111 greenwood cemetery on linliy the mm vice will be held at tt oclock notice to creditors in tiik kstatk of john f sinclair sr farmer deceased all persons having claims against the estate of john k sinclair sr late of the township of esquesing ilirmer who died on or about ths 28th day of june ad 1981 or hereby notifie i to send particulars pf same to the undersigned on or before the 12th day of october 1951 after which date the estate will be distributed with regard only to the claims of which the under signed shall then have ncftice and the undersigned will not be liable to any person of avhose claim they shall not thep have notice dated at georgetown this 11th day of september ajj 1991 j tried sinclair jr arid don ald sinclair executors of the estate of john f sinclair sr by their solicitors date and bennett georgetown on t 926 theres dancing delight in royal wedding in the persons of fred astaire and jarrthpowell teamed for the first time in mgmi new technicolor ntusical coming to the roxy next monday for two days region notes had a number of the boys ask us why the dearth of news in this corner just now well its like this there just doesnt seem to be a great deal to write about the branch these days everything is going quite smoothly and that does not make for a great deal of news in case youre wondering as we did who the visitor this week around our branch is and havent noticed the resemblance to one of our members its rene martins brother from callander where he is president of the legion branch there hes visiting with rene this week and we hope to see more of him in the near future the branch at callander is only three years old but has made excellent progress in that time down to see tom allen last week fie is slowly recuperating nfter a serious operation and while not coming along just as fast as he wants to he hopes soon to be able to get around again hurry up and get well tom the boys miss you about the branch as we write tins the ball team have yet to play tuesday nights game but leading two to one in a seven game series scotty says his boys will take the next two straight if they do we believe they have a little project on tap to raise some money to buy themselves wind- breakers very shortly so altho its not definite yet keep an eye on tho bulletin board kriday ami saturday for an nnrtouncemnt tho ball team have had an excellent season losing very few games the only fly in the ointment has been the lack of support from the legion members in turning out to see the team so lets jrr a lost of mem bers on hand for thursday nights game ani speakivo of hall two f our members harvey gnar and bud j am aitmg wiui w41fhrftv have been looking after a new- kids ball team in town that is well worth a lot of supixrl they have been spending a lot of time with this team and the boys are really good but have not been receiving any support to date which also means that there has been no real financial supiort and there again you cant run a ball team on air if vou votklv a bingi booth at the fall- on saturday being run by hianch 120 bingo- experts dont get the idea that the branch is sponsoring a booth the boys mere ly are helping the i ions club out who have a iiimhii of concessions ml the park on fair day tiik leading topic around the hianch these days of nurse is the sale of the wartime mouses most of them seem to have been bought by the owners it seems that there will be very little change in occu i t at cohvwail a i the l7l li biennial convention of the ontario ommand of the canadian legion central mortgage and housing corp oration came under heavy fire ac cording to a report published some thtie- ago in the oiielph mercury highranking legionnaires among them ray mann well known local ly charged that cmhc employed agents who had used various fornis ot duress to enforce sale of these houses rental charges were crit icized also hoy mann who heads the legion housing committee de manded legislation covering the fol lowing points federal government rental controls a home building and building material subsidy low er remits for cmhc houses special consideration for handicapped pen sioners who are app for the houses an immediate iprobe into the cost ot home building in can- ada and placing housing emptors national defence as a major project georgetown this year did not send a delegate to the convention how ever maybe next years dominion convention will be different we hear its being held in montreal who is coming along woodbridge legion we be lieve its called major mackenzie branch is opening a new wing to their legion hall on friday night with a big dance a cordial invita tion was extended to branch 120 members to attend and starting this month the regular meetings commence the first one will be held on the regu lar night thursday september 27 lets se an excellent turnout for that night how about it comrades m as promised last week here is some of mike lorussos letter from korea august 20th 1931 korea hello le thank the legion for me for the cigarettes they are really apprec iated well i guess none of us will be home for xmas but however in a couple of weeks i am getting my leave to tdkyo so there is going to be a bit of fun in that five days note here mike mentions some thing about getting hold of some canadian club at 500 per bottle in japan of course we dont expect any of the memliers would know what that was say i just mio ed back to base from one of the rifle companies wfiere i had been working and i met another fellow who lives right near the glcn his parents just moved there before he went over and he only spent his embarkation leave out there his name is pte d g mcdonald b8o07r5 h q comp 2nd btn rcr we saw ai edmunds quite a bt as they were loth in a company n r gaverrtrri a couple of the heralds i had received i sure would like to thank mr biehn for sending the paper they are coming through real good and it keepa you right up to date that donkey ball game must have been pretty good i expect to see lou israndford in the next day or so hes going on an ncos course here and will probably stay here for a couple of days well be good and please say hello to all the gang around the legion for me mike iorusso there might be one error on this letter as the name lou bran- was smudged and the last few let ters were obliterated except for a d which led us to think that it was- brandford the letter had been damaged in the mails and this had caused the smudgev flash what happened last night the boys went down to look mothers now the only home permanent specially designed hard to- wave children s hair the richard hudmut childrens home permanent r takes better m babyfine tins hardtounroe hair milder than any adslc home permanent proven safe for ems m fcoaflw hair gives every little gbl naturally pretty curls huttonville park grand closing dance this saturday music by the clansmen s sunday community sing amateur finals ah weekly prize wro tiers be on hand at 7ogvprru for rehearsal vivian mccracken trophy special feature erno- and jrlia-clown-bana- this is the last community sing for the season defeat before the glen to tie the scries twoall next game will be thursday night stewarttown five beginners as school reopens school opened here last tuesday when our teacher miss jean frank returned for another year with our children beginners were carol mc- clean carol devereaux maralyn murray gary johnson and robert armstrong john and bill bouw- man were newcomers st johns guild held a meeting at mri j fosters home last week the next meeting wll be at mrs c a grants home september 18th- a good attendance of members is requested ib make final plans for the bazaaf being held on the 24th of october the wa meeting was held at mrs cecil smiths home last week the service at st johns church has been cancelled for sunday september lftth to make way for harvest thanksgiving services that day at st stephens hornby and st pauls norval miss annie brown of toronto was a visitor last week with mr and mrs mortram wins speaking contest john douglas son of mr and mrs ryerson douglas of toronto and formerly of georgetownl won thp public speaking contest at the canadian national rxhlbitlon streetsv1lle fair friday and saturday sept 21 and 22 friday stock car racing new floodlit track fastest drivers speed trials 7 pm midway admission 100 send for prize list todayl w arch president saturday pony antf horse show ann mays miniature rodeo old time fiddlers contest band concert dance fixeworks admission 50c mrs v pinchin secretary w z s