Halton Hills Newspapers

Georgetown Herald (Georgetown, ON), January 27, 1966, p. 1

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jpws that ay t en piae an ml in the- classified ptfn by 1772301 luylns r pbn the harm b where i will find the ratvht yaw georgetown herald the home newspaper for georgetown and district printing publishing arwaf qambahqwn mm dis elaca 1la7 amarlna tfca aaat in una ps mil lm ana an eeaal i as lacand claaa mall fart ofilea darrt jjttawa mi tar payment a aasraaa in eas i or thursday january i7rh 1964 sjx par yaarg sasgta capy men tan carta and mrs george arnold park avenue couple wed 55 years uary 17 was the 55th wedding anniversary for a park avenue couple mr and george arnold they were married in 1911 and have been georgetown residents i of their married life they have three children nine grandchildren and one great iild lant in richmond hill mrm opens office here i an unusual move to beat problem of commuting brothers owners of l laboratories of canada opened an office in the building while their is located in richmond lfac borden swim both oh rexway drive while cyril lives in acton 1 it became obvious none of families wanted to move a brothers decided to open an here saying the plant lai dose as the phone i they plan to move operations i eventually but feel it will i i year or two to arrange t transfer the brothers operate a labo- producing phannaceuu i and animal biological pro- a large part of their iness is the manufacture of products for which large export market export to britain conil europe new zealand ralia and some african mtriesri canvda they sell to iquibb itexau and ida and to feed producers such as canada packers looking after the drug needs of both man and beast the brothers started the busi ness seven years ago in toronto then moved to acton then bought out a plant in richmond hill h was the acton location that brought them up to this area and brought about the opening of the office here we have elected to live here says mac swim but hastens to add the separation at office and plant is only possible with a highlytrained staff county bureau 3 departments winners in fire prevention the halton county fire pre vention bureau and three of the five fire departments in hal ton county were named winners in the 1965 fire prevention con test sponsored by the national fire protection association on tario fire marshall m s hurst announced today the halton bureau which is formed by firefighters from the acton burlington georgetown hilton and oakville fire bngad s was awarded a special re cognition for an outstanding countysponsored campaign by the judges renfrew county was also voted a special recognition norm shorts hydro line tuts town power 1v2 hours tjnless you were a lite-stayer- saturday night you lot have known that the as hydro was out that is the electric alarm clock i count on to get you up for sounded an hour and elate i iv problem started at 10 30 whet smoke and sparks s visible atop a hydro pole the water sthighway corner b fire department was called their services were not ded i the pole is one carrying the mam hydro supply to town and is serviced by ontario hydro rather than the local commis sion the trouble was believed caused bjt heavy snow which apparently caused a short cir cuit but the trouble was- not so severe that it interrupted service the heavy snowstorm inter fered with the brampton hydro crew getting here as fast as they might and it was after midnight before they began repair work during this period power was off all over town light school fate to be kscussed by board night school and whether or fit should be continued will l under examination at an up- meeung of the night committee under chair- 1 e h gorth with the prfn i donald f turner itixtmeeting to scrutinize all t of the current program night classes came about mr turner told a joint of the high school i and advisory vocational littee monday night that l doe not believe georgetown i capable in number to support ihrge night school he sug 1 night classes be restrict- 1 and quoted attendance fig ha which showed fifty per cent lib current night classes hr an average attendance of 10 or lower mr turner said he objected to the combination of some clas ses because of small regiatrat ions and the hiring of teachers for such small classes he said he thougnt some courses would draw a sufficient enrolment- if offered every other year instead of yearly finance committee chairman b h breckenndge estimated it would not be economical to operate a class for less than fifteen people donaldg lawson ihe boar chairman said the entire sub ject of night schools u dot for at review land shortage facing high school board will meet with inspector on ultimate building size mrs jean lockhurst new president legion ladies mrs jean lockhurst is the new president of the branch 120 legion ladies auxiliary for 1966 she was named to the post in an election of officers thursday other members of the new executive are mrs grace har nson first vice president mrs vi colburn second vice presid ent mrs j kemshead treasur mrs alma capperauld fin ancial secretary mrs mae har ley recording secretary and the five executive members are mrs hazel preston mrs myr tie purvis mrs jessie hayes mrs msrg hedley mrs greua stoddart the sgt at arms is mrs marg hale sports convener mrs ber nice emond standard bearers mrs bernice erwin and mrs marion beatue mrs greua stodlart is bingo convener mrs jessie hayes banquet con vener mrs nellie mcdennott sick convener and mrs flo schleicher kitchen convener oakville fire department won two- awards in their- competition with municipalities of 25 000 to 100000 population the brigade was awarded third prize for all of ontario plus an honourable mention in the canada wide sec tion of the contest kitchener and brantford won first and second in this class milton fire area brigade re ceivod an honourable mention in the contest for communities of 5 000 to 10000 population and acton fire brigade worran honourable mention for com munities of zjsoq to 5000 popul ation another winner from the county was oakville plant for the ford motor company which placed third in the industrial division for all entries in both canada and united states judges based their awards on scrapbooks submitted by the various fire prevention agencies there were 301 canadian and 230 united states municipalities competing in this years con test the halton fire prevention scrapbook included 144 pages of photos press clippings news releases and literature samples beef night pepper upper for kinsmen members find it was beef night monday for members of the kinsmen club the uninitiated might take this to mean a roast beef din ner at their meeting place in stan s restaurant banquet room but in- reality thb is yearly event when members can air grievances suggest improve- menls in club procedure activities and bring deef before the membership predict milk price hike for georgetown an increase in the price of milk was predicted by both georgetown and steen s dairy today irwin noble owner of georgetown dairy stated the price would rise but wouwn t state whether it would go up one or two cents a quart mel taylor of steen s dairy wouldnt make a definite com ttuttal either but admitted that be wouldnt be surprised if it jumped two cents courses speakers added interest to craft group a busy and interesting year was shown in reports of conven ers presented at the annual meeting of the arts crafts of georgetown on january 20 at the home of miss gladys fra ser several members had taken courses in rug hooking and un oleum block printing the group had been addressed by john syme of hockley valley art school john sommer of gallery house sol paul bennett of the ontario art institute and miss flint of the dept of ag nculture extension branch in addition a pleasant pil gnmage to the stratford festi val took place at the july meet ing officers for 1966 are mrs george ironside presid ent mrs leslie clark past pre sident mrs thomas beer 1st vice president mrs h bessem 2nd vice president mrs cynl brandford treasurer mrs s hahn corresponding secretary mrs john mills recording sec retary mrs h bessem social convener mrs a m jcjsen and mrs denney charles crafts conveners mrs harry clarke program convener plans are being made for the annual exhibit and sale at the norval riviera in october the business of the meeting was followed by miss flints in tcresting talk on colour and design as related to crewel it is an opportunity to get things off your chest instead of talking behind the scenes says a member and it helps make a better working club by bring with their contractor just three weeks into work on the georgetown district high school s new wing the high school board looked to tbe next addition monday night and the next and in fact won dered where it would end if there is to be much house building in the next year or two we should find out now what the dept of education now considers maximum size mg problems out in the open one item of business was the monthly draw for the suitof the month and the january winner was russel taggart 46 shelley st hntellectual beatle topic winning contest speech it was another victory for the beatles last t ek when marion burt won first place in the high school public speaking contest with a humorous ad dress entitled john lennon the intellectual beatle quoting extensively from mr lennon s poetry to prove her point she drew gusts of taught er from the audience her impromptu speech on summer jobs which ranged from clipping poodles to clip ping flowers was also warmly received by the audience second prize winner was christine tost who chose chin ese customs for her topic acting as judges for the con test were mr t fitxmaurice pnncipal of holy cross school mrs j l lambert and mr john ord the winner will now go on to represent the georgetown lions club in the lions public speak ing contest nd also to present the georgetown hydro commission in the ontario hydro public speaking contest for a composite school com mented trustee b h brecken ridge m touching off the dis cussion near the end of a joint meeting of the high school board and advisory vocational committee we should enter into imme diate discussions with the de partment to see just what they have m mind for georgetown board chairman donald g law son commented t would like board will deal with afterhours supervision the multi million dollar build ing and equipment that is geor getown and districts high school on guelph st will have better supervision during school hours now that the lack of it has been brought to the board s attention principal donald turner told a joint meeting of the high school board and advisory voc- bellamy will head red cross campaign the georgetown chapter of the canadian red cross has set monday march 14 as the ten tative date for their annual blitz in a news release to tbe herald tuesday it was announc ed that mr j r bellamy of the georgetown district high school teaching staff has been named campaign chairman and local design consultant james warren vicechairman as in the past march will be red cross month abonal committee monday night that at present it is possible for anyone to wander the school corridors until 11 pjn thafs the time the caretaking firm locks up after cleaning operat ions mr turner said the problem existed because no one has been authorized to supervise the building after 5 pm he sug gested either the caretakers be authorized or somebody be placed on duty until closing the matter was left with property committee chairman e e hall he u meet with the caretaking firm and discuss the possibility of their assuming the responsibility for supervis ion see a committee set up to deal with it one of the concerns or the board is the amount of proper ty space which will be required for a composite school of jhe ultimate size allowed by the dept of education at present the department allows a com posite schools teaching space to be sufficently large to accom modate 2200 students george town s enrolment is 1 050 and when tie wing under construc tion is completed the school will be able to handle over 1 400 students one thing is sure the prop erty on which the high school is situated isn t big enough for a building of the ultimate size in fact when the addition now being constructed is completed the property will be about 23 acres short of that recommend ed by the department for a school of that size just when house building on the recently released area of delrex subdivision and the moore farm property starts anl the extensiveness of it will in fluence directly the boards plans to add more property space but theyre not waiting until then a committee made up of the board chairman vice- chairman and tho heads of com mittees was named at the meet ing to meet with the inspector mr vickers february 14th ott the subject of the schools indultimateespacity library asks increase in per capita grant in explaining the probable price hike mr noble pointed out that the new milk market ing board has increased the price of milk paid to tbe farm er so the dairies have had to pay the increase in town the dairies are selling milk at 26c a quart at present but in hamilton kitchener and orangeville tbe price is 28c and in br it is 27c the jug milk stores say they have heard nothing of a rise in prim as yet bank teller visits relatives jn italy miss pit wiles has taken leave of absence from her pos ition as a teller at the down town canadian imperial bank of commerce branch for a visit abroad she left by plane a veck ago saturday and is visiting with her sister kathleen rovere and her brother in law arnold ro vere whose home is in st gcovanne de polcenego italy it is in northern italy about a hundred miles from venice prior to leaving the bank th staff made a presentation of a silver brooch jw earrings wish ing her bon voyage a request from the library board for an increase in their grant from 125 per capita to 1 65 per capita drew the sug gesfion from mayor gibbons monday night that all grants to boards be reviewed he stressed that council is not obliged to give any special amount to any board or commis sion this involves thousands of dollars maintained the mayor and deserves serious thought councillor ern hyde urged that the grants be considered in committee and the- brief sub mitted by john bellamy secre tary of the library board be studied also mr bellamy asked if a mem ber of the library board could be present but coun hyde who is chairman of the finance com mittee replied it could be dis eused better in committee and the library board be contacted if questions arose a similar request from the cemetery board for 8000 will be discussed at the same com mittee meeting nearing 100th birthday joe martjn in hospital only two months away from his 100th birthday georgetown s most senior citizen joseph martin injured himself in a fall on friday taken to georgetown hospital he is recuperating there after an operation on his broken hip mr martin whosnakes hu home with his soninlaw and daughter mr and mrs george h11 glajxford 9 union st is one of sbfloft mibuc speaking winners markxi burt grade i3b the town s best known residents and christine tost 1 3c at right with jyntor public speaking and us friends will be wishing winners maureen neety 10e end petti wright 9g tefobim a safe return to heatth complains running dogs nuisance in neighbourhood dogs running- at large upset ting garbage cans and ruining shrubs was the complaint of les gidman 18 langstone crs to council monday night he claimed to have called the dog control officer on occasion but admitted he couldnt pos sibly be there at ail times deputy reeve jim young asked mr gidman if he knew the owners of the dogs and if he could provide him with the names in conclusion deputy reeve young asked mr gidman if he would be willing to tea ja use of a police department the people do the policing them selves he demanded i wouldnt call the police about a doglconunented mr gidman i think the police have anore to do than chase dogs we 11 makea special effort to help you promised the mayor tify in court if the need arose what good would that do countered mr gidman at most that would get rid of one dog councillor fred harrison challenged deputy reeve young saying is every ratepayer who has a compuintsnpposed iikrwitimhinelfwhattb a look at the weather 19 wednesday 20 tnursday 21 friday 22 saturday 23 sunday m monday t tuesday max 25 18 33 30 26 is 7 10 11 23 s 1 precipitation tttt inches snow atin for week 1 abeva aero ax tor track s3

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