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One commission for town town rates up rural down The two existing hydro commissions one in Georgetown and one in Acton will disappear and one commission will serve Georgetown and beginning January I960 if a draft Halton Hydro Electric Acl is passed by the provincial government Under the new system Georgetown users will pay per cent more Acton 3 1 per cent more but Esqueslng users formerly serviced by Ontario Hydro will get a break with a reduction of per cent The households In the tiny portion of Halton Hills formerly in will be hit the hardest with on increase in rates of 17 1 per cent The news was broken Friday when repre sentatives of all the Halton Hydro commis sions met at the offices of the Ministry of Energy and in the words of Councillor Roy Booth were told what would happen regard less of the study by the Hydro Restructuring Committee of which he was a member The restructuring committee had suggest three hydro commissions Acton George town and or alternatively two with only Acton and Georgetown plus a rural representative This was turned down flat by the Ministry staff The Hills commission will have five members with one being the mayor The first transitional committee whose term nt coun cil will be appointed by council After that council has the authority to determine whether the commission should be elected or appointed Booth said the commission will probably be elected with one from each of the four wards The Ministry staff who drew up the Hydro Electric Act had recommended the commission candidates run at large all over the town but when the large area and the cost of campaigning in It were explained the staff agreed one from each ward was logical The transitional commission according lo the proposed legislation will see two mem of the present Georgetown Hydro Com mission and one member from the present Acton Hydro Commission plus one appointee from the area as well the mayor The retail assets of Ontario Hydro in each municipality will be transferred to the new commissions at their original cost minus depreciation and equity and will be financed by Ontario Hydro over years If a price cannot be agreed upon it will be determined by arbitration Marie Murray Introduced public to a sample of and milk a one day demon sir In he Hank or Montreal I- rid ay One Hundred and Fourth Year No ACTON ONTARIO WEDNESDAY MAY 30 Twenty Four Pages Twenty Cents Lots to enjoy at Summerfest being held this year at Acton high school both indoors and out offers a variety of entertainment Sotur day June well as exhibitions art crafts and hobbies Opening ceremonies with Julian Reed MPP Mayor Pete a representative from the Ministry of Culture and will be pm on the lawn if Mother Nature Derates or in the auditorium if she t Square dancing by the AUun Stepcltcs music by Acton Citizens Band comedy by George town Little Theatre are nly part of the program Bill Ken and J a nine Proust will entertain with folk music as will the MacKenzic Smith and Hubert Utile school choirs and Georgetown high school folk singers Continued on Page Many Acton and area residents are finding the successful this particular day but they said theu fishing at Fairy Lake this year good David Mitchell have been reeling them In on occasion Most fish Is only one of many who spend spare time at the caught In Fairy Lake are pike or bass Photo by lake David and friend Steve were not very Robin Inscoe Medical Centre closes doctors pull up stakes The Glenlea Medical Centre is closing its door permanently June The decision came yesterday after attempts by the three doctors In volved Joseph Vukovich Brendan Smith and Hans to get some one to take over their practises failed In a letter to their pat the doctors ex plained that costs of run a clinic rents sal arte and equipment were rising faster that the Ontario government was increasing fees In order to make up for the balance of costs and Income the Ihree physicians have been working many extra hours Including every third night and every third weekend in ad dition to their dally office This has Increasingly interfered with our per son and family lives the letter states The doctors noted Dr Smith did not feel they were being remunerated adequately for the time ihey devoted to the job for every dollar they earned he said over head costs were ab sorbing 40 lo per cent For these reasons and after o great deal of thought and con si deration the three men have decided o pursue other areas of medicine Grundmann will be returlng to university in lo specialize in obstetrics and gyn ecology He has been in Acton for one year Smith here for two years will be looking for a position as a family phy with more regular hours and here for eight years is heading for Iowa where he has accepted a it ion in a hospital department He will be working regular hours and able to spend more lime with his fam The doctors at no time considered following ihe trend and opting out of Vuko vich pointed out the people of Aclon deserve good medical attention and feared hat having lo cash for a doctor s visit would discourage those who sincerely need the and gel Smith said he felt opting out of mid not solve their problems heavy workload but merely antagonize pat Advertisements medical journals and lends around the pro vince failed to produce anyone interested in Ink ing clinic If hud round anyone willing it would have rem lined upon Meanwhile patients are asked to consider who llic want to eon llicir medical needs in be released and Iran Smith said that hi ugh he has no definite plans for the future he is considering few Iters He said he and others li iv been very happy w irkine in Acton just could nut keep up ihe pace Ihey have been keeping for post two years 11 was not work ng out financially tak ing into consideration Ihe type training and Ihe salaries of those making ihesame or more money in other pro fessions Smith believes there is going to be a real crisis in medicare In the country if the govern ment does not do some thing soon He cited Ihe case in Queens way Hos pita Toronto recently where patients were sleeping on stretchers in halls because there were not enough beds Although this has never happened to him in Ihe hospitals the possibility is there should mi re cutbacks be granted Party may face charge Qove ffred Halton Chief Reluming Officer Joe Anderson will wait until after the official vole count is taken before deciding If charges will be laid against an of one of Ihe major parlies However Mr Anderson said he doesn anticipate that charges will be laid against Ihe overexuberant agent since Ihe claims of voter harassment can be defined I don t think charges Will be laid he said I ve found nothing Several deputy returning officers complained of of voters last Tuesday by one of Ihe agents from one of the major parties Mr Anderson would not disclose which party the agent is associated with since at the present time no charges have been laid He said the issue has been temporarily dropped until after the According Mr Anderson the was questioning the eligibility of some voters which is an offence under the Election Act The blest unofficial figures on last weeks vote showed PC Otto winning with while runner up Liberal had 217 votes New Democrat Doug Black had B8I Libertarian Karen 146 Independent Robert Ritchie 130 and Marxist Leninist Charles Shryb- nnn lady union member Orange death part of loot About potentially deadly capsules were part of he loot stolen from on 1 Acton man s car Sunday The Diphenylnydantoin capsules are orange in color The capsules are medicine for epileptic conditions but if len or so are at once the can be lethal The hear and lungs arc affected Also taken from Ihe car which wos parked in the man driveway was a snapon socket set portable radio hunting knife and CB radio Superior Glove Works manager Frank Geng revealed the Ontario Labor Relations Board he knew one woman fired since unionizing at the plant was in fact a union member Until last Wednesdays OLRB hearing in Toronto the list fired em the plant included union workers The Canadian Union of United Brewery Flour Soft Drink and Distillery Workers contends Superior Glove laid off 12 workers because of union activities The company on the other hand holds the layoffs result purely from business reasons Under the union complaint wants all the laid off workers reinstated with full compensation Mr acknowledged to Ihe board that he knew Audrey Wheeler was a union member when he laid her off work in March Union lawyer John raised the issue because Mrs Wheeler received different reasons for her dismissal The reason written on Ihe Unemploy ment Insurance Commission slip was that she was missing loo much time an assertion union lawyer 10000 to fight hydro line McNamee suggested miejit interfere with her collection of benefits In a dismissal letter from Mr Geng to Mrs Wheeler m March the following reason was y have been given on extended training period of six months and since not much improve ment has been made we feel now that we cannot train you any longer The letter gave a week s notice According to the slip Mrs Wheeler worked Superior for six months In testimony Mr lumped both reasons together Mr Geng said he did not fill in Ihe slip He went on lo explain difference In reasons for dismissal by communications between Ihe plant and payroll is not loo great The Wheeler layoff came about seven after the bulk of dismissals from plant In February some junior employees were laid off Company lawyer William Phelps asked Mr if he had given raises lust year to employees he would later suspect of joining union These were mainly Idcr employees They all had increases not Inter than September said Mr Geng speaking Mr said Continued on 2 The town of Halton Hills backed the Interested Citizens Group another step in their battle against the hydro corridor Monday night when at a special meeting council decided to make application to the Divisional Court lo quash an Ontario Municipal Board decision They put a limit of town money to be spent on legal costs on the Divisional Court hearing Four councillors Walter Biehn Harry Levy Roy Booth and Mike Arm strong opposed the action a member of the ICG told council the group has already spent in legal costs and pointed out the line would bisect his farm leaving his house and buildings on one side and fields on the other He emphasized they simply were asking for an independent study of this route as they had been for years and had been refused He claimed the per cent surplus power admitted by Ontario Hydro showed that the corridor Is not needed He said impact studies have shown a 30 per cent devaluation of land near hydro corridors and argued the town would lose assessment Arc we prepared to have our land expropriated and assume the affects of nuclear plants to export power to United States he asked forcastlng the hydro lines as the beginning of the end of one of the best farming areas in the country Waiter Scott Safety Engineer for Massey Ferguson and Past President of Canadian Standards Association predicted far reaching affects on fire and police communications systems and on Ihe computer system which equalized the brakes on school buses He claimed a amp charge has been measured on a pipe line which would give considerable Zap to anyone handling it John Minns said apart from visual impact of storey towers cable television is adversely affected and cited where it was cut off He said the company took Ontario Hydro to the Supreme Court and won Ontario Hydro had assured everyone there would be no problem Minns said McLean Hunter with a tower on the Tenth line south of Steeles Avenue are also having pro blems which cut off some of and are suing for He claimed further there are biological affects not yet fully known but suggested studies have shown altered cell growth He claimed the existing stopgap measure as Hydro calls it has proven more efficient than the route through Hills He said the farmers in the area are simply asking to get back some of the more than in taxes by some support from the town In their battle Patrick solicitor for the ICG sold the members feel a sense of in justice in being denied an independent study as other hydro routes have had He said the real question Is who is running the planning process for Ihe town and whether Ontario Hydro has the right Is this all a charade when Hydro asks for zoning amendments He said costs so far have pushed ICG resources to the limit and now are asking for town support to continue fight Booth contended the decision was made and the Cabinet upheld it and wondered what would happen if at another hearing the OMB changed position said the Cabinet based its decision on the OMB decision He said the ICG wanted an independent study to open the question up again He said the Cabinet would be hardpressed to overturn an OMB decision Biehn contended Ihe answer has been given and there no place left to go Mrs Jo Schneider newly reelected councillor in Erin Township said the question of whether the Power Cor Act takes precedence over the Planning Act has to be determined once and for all Councillor Pat Patterson compared costs of other legal battles in town and claimed Focal Properties had cosi more Hum studies have cost more lhan and the study of the urban area will cost who knows how much He said only guesses for the library Ihcatrecultural centre put the cost at 1 million and the town s cost at the very minimum over 000 He pointed out the rural people are paying for all the urban items He contended Milton has paid more than of taxpayers money to fight the Site landfill site How would you feel if a group came in and took over any part of your pro- on Page 3 SI Church held their lice and wards da last Sunday prop I conducted for the day singing and ltid