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x l ads that pay ife yg cat placemen m in km e haraktv classified peg by flmnit 17701 buying or allintb vm htram is where yw will tw the results you sr v- t he home newspaper for georgetown and district printing publishing tha georgetown herald haa served geo and district s printer and pvbllshert for over a centiiry offering tha best in fine arintlns and new coverage smtmui class man iteflistexvd numbor 0943 return postage guaranteed gaorgotown ontario thunday july 24th 1969 500 yoar single copy prfcac ton cent l i weston man drowns sunday in quarry pool a 28 jrear old weston resld nt drowned sunday afternoon at the quarry section- of water falls playground slsvho bulet ie was found in five feet of w georgetown volunteer amb- nlanee corps answered the call t 345 pm rushing the man to georgetown memorial hospital but he was pronounced dead on arrival bydr boyd hoddnott slsvho fluletlc lived at 37 gayden avenue wefcton ac cording to the milton 0pf who investigated the drowning then it english plastics suffers 25000 damage in fire a brampton plastics plant suffered 25000 damage in a recent fire the fire started in the rooi of english plastics on queen street east and was caused b an industrial oven used in ma nufacturing plastics that was itoo close to a roof joist four sprinkler heads par of an automatic protection ss tem went ojjf causing flood in of the building and water da mage in the office the loss was covered by insurance i max english- 5 weber drive last weekends sidewalk sale at georgetown market centre had perfect cooperation from georgetown owner of the firm rne weam giving merchants a chance to enjoy a bit of the outdoors while shoppers praised the brampton fire and were gj a bazaar atmosphere for the sizzling weekend there were some good bar- police departments for th gains offered by participating stores and merchants and public agreed that it was firm were norseriouly dlrupt success john stevenson of stevensons mens wear takes a look here at some of the mer- 19 to french school to halton county board of edu- catidn agreed to send j10 geor getcwnand 3 burlington stud ents to metros first french- language high school despite the objection of trustee r e goodin who termed the move a step towards separatism and disunity the move followed north york trustees decision to esta blish the classes in york mills collegiates portable classrooms this fall french parents had wanted a district school the halton board will pay north york an annual tuition fee of s60o to 300 each for the 22 students it will also pro vide free transportation rector of education- said the french fee was similar in prin ciple to fees paid the hoard for studenst taking courses else where not offered by halton county he pointed out the ont dept apollo trip equivalent to 100 miles on horseback 1 dll my my how times have tlip kill changed was the comment of lillw trill 103 year old joe martin 9 un douglas lawless assistant di- ion s georgetowns oldest of education would pick up bkdown 42 percent of tuition costs for the french students and 60 per cent of approved transportation costs resident as he watched the his toric moon walk sunday night his soninlaw george glass- ford said mr martin was quite aware of the events and repea tedly asked where are they now and when will they get born in 1866 one year before confederation ijoe martin has witnessed almost every modern day technological advance ex- georgetown high school this fall it would add another tea cher and 10000 lawless said sending the students to north york might actually rep resent a saving he reasoned if 22 students appeared at ccpt the invention of the steam engine and the telegraph in his day a hundred mile journey on horseback took as ions as todays mans trip to the moon he recalls a trip from caledon to toronto as a big ev ent there were no cars at the time of his birth and for many years after they were purely experimental well timed sidewalk sale first august monday is civic holiday the usual civic holiday for years back there was usually the first monday in august was some sort of local celebration awe the moon and earth hie 103 year old patriarch must have realized in his youth there was no communication to the next farm he ws ten years old when the telephone was invent- ted and much older before he probably saw one far less actu ally talked into one as for flight he was 36 when the wright brothers flew a few feet off the ground at kittyhawk north carolina in 1902 and he has no idea when he saw- his first airplane perhaps the most surprising thought is the two elements to bring this awe inspiring event into his living room were not even in common use electricity and the camera far less a tel- vision camera electricity had not been put to many uses around the time of his birth or even much lat er while the camera was in its infancy 0 ed acton woman prominent in political affairs chandise which rapidly changed hands red 9 acton woman who played a prominent role in the progresi sive conservative association there died in hospital in guelph last wednesday she retired last month after workj tag forty years at mason knit ting company mrs stapleton held various offices on the executive of act on pc association and was a ward chairman for many years she was a member of knox presbyterian church there her husband olaf ollie stapleton who was a george town native and operated a plumbing business in acton died in 1962 funeral service on friday atthe rumleyshocmaker fun eral home was conducted by rev gordon turner and bur ial was in fairviqw cemetery discuss municipal reform when cabinet ministers visit here proclaimed by council last week phase of history since georgetown stores have been closing on mondays for mdjot lofltrdct the last few years the holiday does not have quite the impact it once had but it affects such businesses as the ban s and a number of the industries when mr martin was 34 years old the horseless buggy was still a rarity and something not to be trusted with the world listening in to conversation between but this too belongs to a past man standin on the surface of at the turn of the century at 10 joc wants lo a i know where the astronauts are going next and plans to see it too four ontario cabinet minis ters will meet area municipal officials in norval on thursday august 14th to discuss the prov incial reform program for loc al government james w snow mpp mem bcr for halton east announced today that the provincial trea surer charles macnaughton education minister william da vis municipal affairs minister darcy mckeough and energy and resources minister george kerr will attend the meeting at the riviera club norval ont mr snow added that he would be present at the august 14th meeting along with r d ken nedy mpp peel south john root mpp wellington duffer- ir and a w downer mpp duf- ferinsimcoe and there is a possibility that premier john robarts may also attend if he can fit this into his schedule the meeting will be a two- way dialogue the cabinet min isters will discuss and answer questions on the new assess ment act and other municipal reforms at the same time they will ask local officials questions to find out more about their local needs and views municipal representatives of the halton peel wellington and duflenn counties arc in vited to attend the meeting mr snow said the meeting is one of a series- being held across the province to further establish useful two- way communication between queens park and municipals wont rezone reeve says owner hamstrung a planning board turndown of a rczoning request for a caroline street property brought criticism from reeve wm f hunter at last weeks council meeting i dont know what industry would be interested in locating on this small property he said- the owner is left hold ing the bag she is paying tax es on something on which she cant build the building lot is owned by mrs lena johnston and is ad jacent lo a house she owns on the oneblock street which runs behind the abitihi provin cial mill it is zoned industrial and mrs johnston has asked for rezoning to r4 so a house could be constructed cr ern hyde disagreed with the reeve it certainly could be sold for industrial use but she probably doesnt want to he said i know of one industry which is looking for just such a prop erty we dont have that much i gasoline trail school fire deliberately sef an alert passerby saved cen tennial school from major da mage monday night when a fire alarm was turned in about 10 oclock gasoline had been poured on the ground in a trail up to the front door of the school then lit theres no way this could be an accident commented fire chief jack cunningham ironically no damage was done to school as the firemen were on the scene before the gasoline had burned up to the school the remainder of the fire calls were all grass fires and one false alarm saturday after noon when a call reported a fixe on stevens crescent saturday a grass fire behind the norval united church brought the brigade to the scene tuesday afternoon was a busy m for ihe men with the firei men chasing to three grass fires two almost simultaneous ly at 215 a grass fire on 20 sideroad at donald lindsays kept the men busy then at 345 a grass fire behind rockwood sales arena had them hopping before this one was extinguish ed another grass fire in norval had to be fought credit teens with rescue three teenagers are credited with helping avert a har di ow ning on a recent sunday after noon at rosslake when a scadoo flipped the driver and some children into the water the three reached them on a raft and saved a possible tragedy- gay daly 14 john brown 17 and sandra walsh 14 the lat ter a y junior counsellor were credited with the rescue available industrial land in town said cr wm r smith some firm misht want to buy this and the houses on the street too cr hyde said that if the a cant lot was rezoned this would leave a situation where the houses on the street would be industrially zoned and the lot would be a non conforming use council took no action tow ards solving mrs johnstons problem coulter family loses business home in fire fire loss estimated at 100- 000 occurred in campbellvillc on july 1st when the coulter general store was razed william coulter 70 owner his sons bill and gordon and their families lost the store their apartments above it and most of their possessions in the five hour blaze less than half was covered by insurance bill coulter is a well known county politician and was hal ton warden during a term as reeve of nassagawcya residents of the village have started a fire relief fund which had reached over 3000 earlier this weck visitor from california mr and mrs steve nprrie of 331 dclrcx blvd have had their granddaughter from california with them for a visit vicki bouskill travelled from the coast by plane and after spending some time here with her grandparents left on the return trip on saturday 1 ties prime minister johr rob- arts announced the tour prog ram june 25 at the annual con ference of the association of ontario mayors and reeves the prime minister said the four major thrusts of municipal reform provincial taxation provincial aid to murrcipal- itics local taxation local government structure would be better understood following these meetings mr mckeough said that re visions of the assessment act which he introduced in the leg islature are designed to create the cornerstone of reform for our system and structures of local government he added that the changes which he described as the most signifi- i cant revision in 65 years are intended to simplify and to provide greater equity and fairness both for municipalities and among taxpayers municipal officials through out the province will be per sonally invited to attend the dialogue meetings during the next few months by mr mc keough volkswagens collide church edith corner two 67 volkswagens tangled at the corner of church and edith streets at four oclock in the afternoon of july 15 re sulting in a total of 800 dam age five hundred dollars damage i was done to a car driven by ed- ward a maher 18 stevens crescent and 300 to the volks wagen driven by floss ruddoll 7th line esquesing later in the same day around 820 pm a 1962 ford driven by david gareau 147 raylawn crescent stirtcd from a parked position in the plaza parking lot backed irfo a 1957 corvette driven byy anthony boildroau 49 maple avenue west 50 da mage was done to the gareau car and 450 damage covering the left front fender hood and grill was done to the corvette i two cars travelling in the same direction on main st- north at kennedy collided do- ing 150 damage to 1963 valiant driven by lion rodriguez of strectsville and 50 damage o a 1968 chev driven by elizaj bcth jones of 1 chclvin drive a badly bruised knee and 130 damage to- his 1969 tri umph was richard todds 2 guelph streets share of the damage when a car driven by sandra fox 4 ontario street hacked into his car in the plaza parking lot there was po damage done to the 68 pontiac driven by san- to varian firm a georgetown firm varian associates of canada ud has been awarded a major contract by the dept of supply and ser vices the company will supply elec tron tubes to the value of s16043a the contract is one of 228 contracts awarded n behalf of the dept of national defence january target date for senior apartments school name honours towns mayor gibbons jim bowles new owner georgetown ford agency an official opening fyiday and saturday will mark the new ownership of dodge broth ers co on guelph street the new owner jim bowles tj 4n annual georgian has chosen north halton motor bav steam gas automotive sales as the name of the romp association is being any which has the ford -merc- he a cookstown fair grounds ury franchise august 2 3 and 4th at intcr- c section of 27 and 89 highirays jim and his wife sandra plan steam antique show at cookstown demonstration of various eng ines and machines free hay wagon rides pulled by steamer or tractor for the kids on dis- moved to town from port credit in may and live at 18 eden place in port credit he was sales manager of woodland ford ijtcr he was sales man- i x j- u u k plav also will be collections of agcr of dodge brothers before nioneer utensils and lmptem- assuming ownership in june h ents home cooked meals are he is a member of masonic available on the grounds and lodge 333 in flesherton his there will be entertainment by original hometown local talent the new moore park school scheduled for opening next fall will be known as the joseph gibbons school in honour of the late mayor halton county although georgetowns sen- soard of education approved ior citizens apartment is getting the name at last wec meet- closer it has not yet reached ing of y board construction stage a burlington elementary contractor fred zorge told school also scheduled to he co- the herald this week that cned september 1970 will be approval for final drawings is named after the late tom thom- but one stage and these must son famous canadian artist be completed and approved be- a now oakviue high school fore his crew moves on to the wil be known as general wolfe hvdc park drive site hi s whcn il j 1 1971 or 1972 he hopes to get underway in another su weeks q j target date for completion of the 24 suite building is jan- with ward counclllors uary i the first meeting of the 196970 executive of halton hills ratepayers association opened with a discussion of priorities these were agreed on an increased membersho there will be a continuing stan mpm who died this better communications and an spring has been established in improved financial basis a toronto public school methods of achieving these miss jessie mckay a district were discussed and it is hoped native who taught there for to have plans formulated prior several vears will be remem to the next regular general bered with wall plaque which meeting at the end of august will hang in the school office chairmanship of standing a small replica will be award- committees was allocated am ed each year to the child in ong the executive it was decid- the junior grades for best ach- ed that a closer liason between icvement in creative english the association and ward 3 i a letter to relatives school councillors is desirable regard- principal j ii christopher said that he felt this would be one way of keeping before the it was agreed a questionnaire school the memory of her de- should be prepared for distribu- votion to her pupils tion in the ward remember jessie mckay in award an award in memory of a ng the areas problems and to establish items of priority separate houses are big difference to city boys dra fox where s the traffic arthur williams left and donald miller found riding bikes easier in georgetown tham on new york streets when they visited fovn j two and a half weeks whh a group of 35 harlem children the brys are now back hme telling their familie all about their holiday in an ontario small town harlem is not all slums donald miller and arthur wil liams two hsrlcm residents visiting in town mphasized to the herald reporter the two boys were part f the thirtyfive guests from harlem of the christian refor- mod church who left this week for home the biggest difference the bovs noticed between their home and georgetown was the fact everybody seemed to live in separate houses theyre not all stacked un on ton of one another like they arc at home said arthur and you cant hear other noises from other families chimed in don ald they were surprised they could ride bikes without con tinually looking backwards for traffic ah the grass and space was another surprise you can lie down anywhere com mented arthur in amazement they admitted they miss the street noise and the number of people and stores but felt on the whole they would be do ing much the same at home playing ball only on the street watching tv or going to a show added donald who seem ed to miss the show quite spon taneously he remarked id like to live in a house i i the boys found the food and the people not too different from home they are very friendly here they stated hut they all talk with a dutch ac cent your reporter haster d to point out this was not o just that he bad met m y dutch canadians arthur in grade 7 and donald in grade 9 were guests of rev a j vandenpol and henry vandcn- berg respectively the 35 visitors stayed with families of the christian re- ormed church were treat d to picnics hayrides camping trips and swimming the hay- ride was the one venture none had tried before according to the boys delay education centre here until next year halton county board of edu cation will defay setting up an education centre in georgetown to serve the northern part of the county until next year the board decided last week office facilities for the nor thern area will be located in the former milton heights pub lie school an audiovisual cen tre to serve he milton area will be established in milton high school a portable classroom will be used for an audiovisual centre for the georgetown area