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j georgetown herald the home newspaper for georgetown and district tke herald 1m71m7 canada 1m71967 authorized a second can mall port offioa dopt ottawa and for payment of poslase fai cash georgetown ontario february 16th 1967 500 per year single copy pride ten cents certificate of merit blood clinic head gets recognition i ioss tfcwham of the ontario division of the canadian red cross society congra- i folates mrs edna ferguson and presents her with a special certificate of merit in rec- lognttion of her seven years of heading the the georgetown branchs blood donor cltn- lic- mrs ferguson received the award at the georgetown branchs annual meeting at line north halton golf and country club iformer pastor returns to preach church dedication members oc the christian re- church held their first isbnday worship services in tteir new church on the 7th cn sunder services had i held in the high school liar several months during unatfuction of the church i replaces the old church 0 main street i an impressive dedication ser- i vie friday was held when the fter djt los of grimsby re- 1 to his former church to ipreaeh an inspiring sermon the service included an org- m solo by a member of the congregation george dekleer kwho is organist at st gcor- fes anglican church sacred elections by the ehoirand if fiweu pipesmrjrharowcrwp ule quartet william bra am was organist on the occasion the rev j joossc minister the church conducted the ceremony of dedication john isehenk building committee h chairman unveiled a memorial istone and presented the keys to the church a pulpit bible was jplaccd by sylvia rocffe first child to be baptized in the ge orgetown church and clarence l presented two hundred bibles gifts of businessmen in the congregation and other do lors p weststeyn outlined the istory cf the church since its inception ten years ago the church serves a present rogregation of 142 families in community smoke water damage when mattress ignites a bed mattress springs and blankets were consumed in a fire at 46 ewing st saturday morning the home of mr and mrs donald agnew fire chief erwin lewis aid fire damage was confined to the bed but the room suffered some water and smoke damage smouldering insulation had to be doused by firemen late monday afternoon when they answered a call to terra cotta the tire resulted from work that morning at thawing phoned firemen when her house hilled with smoke firemen stripped the insula tion from the wall and doused it with a portable extinguisher council briefs the s girls are getting in the for the first time council aimed a combined girl guide and boy scout week i february 19th to 26lh jotil now the boy scouts have 1 this week to themselves j an offer of two hundred dot- s from walter magdy for old wlice radios was accepted by monday night j o georgetswn minor hockey pport group was authorized to hold their annual tag day iturday february 18 a motion passed three or weeks ago limiting the pmmbcr of times any councillor old speak to a motion was re- jdnded monday night there was no discussion but toung and ballentine op- 1 the motion water rate at cedarvale aity centre wore set at r 4iura year i raspberry vinegar on menu for 4h girls sixteen members of ashgrdve 4h hotnemaking club met at the home of grace bird on sat urday february llh for tnc first meeting of the new cenleii- nial project a world of food in canada they centred their attention on food in early canada and the leaders mrs h rentcnanr and mrs j bird showed them how to make blueberry buckle bak ed indian pudding and succot ash at the conclusion or the meeting they sampled these dishes along with raspberry vinegar atangy pioneer drink officers of the new club arc mary mcgee president jean wilson vice president debbie may secretary beth laidlaw treasurer at the next meeting three of the club members will be pre- paring some typical french canadian dishes i painful facial cuts as car plunges in gully charles day 49 ontario st and albert neutel glen willi ams were taken to hospital from two of four automobile accidents on georgetown streets over the week end seventy stitches weretequtf ed to close lacerations to days face and left ear after the car he was driving skidded off ew- sat and plunged down an cm- day and plunged down an em balmment coming to rest 53 feet south of the roadway police placed damage to the 1960 anglia at 150 neutels accident occurred monday at the corner of john and mcnabb streets where a huge pile of snow hampered vis ibility police said neutel was driving north on john and turning wt al hp fqrjtc and town office staff gets ten percent increase an across the board 10 raise to all members of the of fice staff excepting department heads whose salaries have not been dealt with as yet was una nimously endorsed by council monday night in- addition one and a half days sick leave per months ac cumulating to a maximum of sixty days in five years was authorized in the original motion the lunch hour was cut from cne and half hours as at present to one hour however after much discussion the lunch hour was set at one hour and fifteen minutes both cr r francis and cr w smith opposed the cut in lunch hour time council dissatisfied want claims rechecked dissatisfaction with the settle ment of two insurance claims was expressed by councillors monday night the two were those of oliver hunter and hugh wylic mr hunters was not dealt with as notice was received by his soli- citors dodokin and sopinka that here would be a court case however reeve w hunter no relation pointed out that the town had been notified of the claim within the mandatory time and the adjusters were claiming the time had run out cr fred harrison told coun cil that the sewer had backed up into mr wylies basement ruining the washing machine motor and the oil burner this is a just claim said cr harrison when we protect ourselves with insurance wc dont mean to rob people i a motion was pwt that the claim of mr hugh wylle john street be reinvestigated using ajjifferent insurance adjustor peak hospital occupancy january statistics show patient occupancy at george town and district memorial hos pital for the month of january continued at a peak for the first month of the year as the follow ing comparisons show percentage of occupancy in jan 1967 772 jan 1966 724 jan 1965 756 in medical and surgical wards occopancy averagetf 88 per cent in childrens ward it was 574 per cent and in maternity 41 per cent january and february arc normally busy months following the december lull hospital ad ministrator f whittaker ex plained many patients put oil being admitted until after the christmas and new year sea- i sons he said however the waiting list for medical cases has once again been eliminated so it is too early to tell if the higher occupancy will continue or if it is just temporary a report on the hospitals op oration in january shows 17 births 162 adults and children admitted plus 57 in residence as of dec 31 there were 74 operations 25 of those major and 279 emerg ency visits accidents in area kill two mayors wife convenes bake table for bazaar the 1967 bazaar of halton centennial manor womens au xiliary will be held in honour of georgetown on may 10 mrs j gibbons- wife of the mayor will convene a baking table assisted by a group of ge orgetown ladies a draw will be held to decide the winner of a quilt an oil painting and a hooked rug high school hires second vice principal gcoi golow n district high school will add a senior mem bcr to the stair in september i last week the board hired neil turnbul presently head of the knelish department at south wood secondary school gait for the newly created post of administrative vice prin cipal a m balcr w ill also continue a a vice principal in charge of atlmdancc and slud ent discipline mr turnbutl ho is also a specialist in vocal music is married and father of three daughters a native of leam ington he served during the war with the rcaf attached to the raf radar division in india and burma and was awarded the british empire medal he was an employee of tho domin ion bank before joining the air- forcc after the war he graduated from the university of toronto taught at lisgar collegiate ot tawa and has been on the gait staff for five vcars he has also been a church oryanist in gait georgetown brampton teenagers in hospital after highway 7 crash a georgetown girl linda mac- millan ago 17 is in satisfactory condition in the intensive care ward at peel memorial hospitil in brampton recovering fnin mutiple injuries suffered in a fatal twocar collision on no 7 highway west cf no 10 high way saturday nighl the driver of one of the vehicles john carmichael ige 42 dien monday afternoon he had received rib and chest in juries i miss macmillan a passenger in the other car operated hj spencer lee amos ago 20 sle- fcred a fractured leg and frac tured ribs and head lacerations l amos wns released from hospi tal sunday also still in hospital re the dcid mans two iccnage daugh ters terry ae 15 and marilyn age 14 a third daughter in the car h not injured amos is a brampton resident and the deceased lived at itlt 1 cheltenham the accident hanpencd short after 7 pm and tied up traf fic en the highway for half an hour both cars were total wrecks miss macmitlan is the daugn- tcr of mr and mrs duncan mae millan 49 king sl e freight train station wagon crash takes life of driver council decides on new police cruiser purchase thcmas sams 26 victoria was rounding the blind comer turning right when they hil neutels 1962 volkswagen suffered 300 damage and sams 1961 ford s350 accord ing to the investigating officer cst david bell neutel received bruises to his nose and ribs a truck operated by bob ger- ardus 65 mountainview rd and a parked car owned by rcbert d cost ley 93 sargent rd were involved in an accid ent saturday morning on main st s damage here was 200 to the 1967 fargo and 60 to tho back of the 1967 meteor a collision on prince charlrsl drive friday did 50 damage to a 1958 pcntiac driven by robert bouskill and 125 to a 1959 simca operated hy archie roberts 17 bairstow cres pol ice said bouskill was backing out of a driveway and roberts was easthound i over the objections or the mayor the reeve and cr fred harrison council voted to ad vertise for a new police cruiser on monday police chairman jim young explained it had been the poh cy to trade one car in every two years this car the 1965 pont- iacasj2j0jmncsonit cr harrison felt it should be held up till the budget is struck once the money is spent we cant say youll have to cut back on your budget deputy reeve arthur speight pointed out that council was only calling for tenders with no action taken till the budget is struck anything thats spent ahead will come off the budget for the year is it really necessary to trade every two years asked cr smith maybe we could get another year out of it after all we keep them in pretty good shape and they have only been used in town added cr smith 72000 miles of town driving is ejual to a hundred and fifty thousandon the- highway rej plied cr young the recorded vote showed only reeve hunter mayor gib- ons and cr harrison opposed and the motion passed chairman jim young told i council the rear end had gone i out of the no 2 car it is only i seven months old but it went anyway the lowest price wc could gel to fix it was 97 i february h l s sun 8 wed 19 9 thurs 38 10 fri 36 18 11 sat 19 1 tr 8 12 sun 7 16 6 13 mon 21 10 2 7 14 tues 44 15 4 12 sun 7 eahr dnb high for the week 44 low lfi snow 3 a total hours of sunshine 40 56 per cent of possible sunday feb 12th had coldest minimum temperature for that date in 17 years roger smith high praise for herald editorial a recent editorial in the herald was praised highly by mayor joseph gibbons monda night at council meeting the editorial in connection with taxation was on of the best i have ever read in the herald said the mayor i hope we haw the guts to follow soire ol these ideas when we set our tax rate social and personal mrs pauline st juste from trinidad west indies is visit frig with her son in law and daughter mtfand mrv a m sutherland 10 hale drive i mr and mrs ted mathers of i callander were in town dir i few days visiting with her sis- tcr and brotherinlaw mr and mrs dick riddall 142 kcxway dr and with mr and mrs bob caldwell iff tycrs ave i mr and mrs harold hutchin son 12 edith st have returned from a six week trip south they stayed at st petersburg flon- a level crossing accident near limehouse took the life of the driver of a station wagon just betore noon yesterday at press time police had not released the name of the dead man pending notification of hit next or kin according to one source police were having some difficulty in locating nis family the fatality occurred at about ii 35 am at the danger ous railway crossing at the 4th lino of equcsing just west of limehouse where a georgetown man james gregg died in a similar accident two years ago the tram a way freight wat stopped for about half an hour the deceased is resting at the rumleyshocmakcr funeral home acton da and en route home visited with son don his wife and fam ily at osage beach missouri david barrager son of mr and mrs don barrager 18 mam st s has returned home to join his father in the dry clean ing business after a year over seas he worked at various job in britain during his stay and also had the opportunity to vis it france spain portugal and belgium during his year abroa4 use local improvement policy to ease taxes must pay if water hydrants on property all the old forty and fifty year old water hydrants on pri vate property will be made in operative or property owners billed six dollars per billing council decide mcnday night water chairman speight poin ted out these were not tire hy drants but simply one inch pipe sticking out of the ground with a tap on it its a simple matter to put garden hose on it and water the lawn or wash the car with out it going through the meter explained cr r fraocia choose mrs rundle as cedarvale chairman mrs jean rundle becamethe first lady chairman of a town appointed board last week when she was elected chairman of the cedarvale community centre board mrs rundle will also be in charge of twokings for the cen tre the two new members and the new council representative ron johnston jim warren and cr robert w francis were welcomed to the board y the new chairman chris walker is secretary jim warren in charge of public ity ron johnston heading the finance comitte r- francis checking property and dora sutherland looking after th inventory cr wm smith will act as centennial liaison man daring the years festivities a new approach to financing works projects was adopted in principle by council monday under this system all works which can be done under local imprcvcmenls will be done i that way i cr wm smith the sponsor of the motion stated he wast prompted by the major future construction faced by the town in sewers storm sewers side walks curbs gutters etc there arc three ways of paying for these things said cr smith out of current revenue in which everyone pays from taxes debentures which every one pays or by local improve ment whereby only those who benefit pay he pointed out that a portion would be paid by the town a portion by the benefiting ratj payers and by subsidy were all trying to hold tha tax una i and unless we adopt a local improvement we cannot afford i some of the projects he con cluded as long as each project is judged on its own merit ill go along added cr fred harris on he reminded council there was do subsidy on sewers cr roy ballentine agreed with the suggestion saying that people in new subdivisions are getting these things and paying for them in the cost of the house a little premature was cr wheldon emmersons ewnment wo could place the taxpayer in the position where there could be a general tax increase plus another one under local improvement deputyreeve arthur speight maintained that a taxpayer could object and if the object ion was valid the work would not be done would a valid objection be simply that they couldnt pay asked reeve huhter h the people petitioned for it first i would be in favour but not this way cr francis admitted it would i not be by petition but the pro- ject would be suggested to the ratepayers in the area if ono objected thats the end the motion passed with reere hunter and cr finmenoo op1 posed receive ashes as lenten season starts father otgeh de vent applies ashes to the foreheads of rrishionen during aa wednesday servke in holy cross roman catholic church kneeling to receive the tra ditional sign of penano from their rector ar young heather macdonatd and shelly nd darryel bond