Georgetown Herald (Georgetown, ON), January 8, 1970, p. 4

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Georgetown Herald Published by Thomion limited Main St South BIEHN THURSDAY JANUARY EDITORIAL COMMENT Needed Changes As Georgetown grows the need for tome street name becomes more apparent J Newcomers particularly are confused when it comes to locating someone on a Street which starts in the park area as Young Street becomes Mill Street I tthen Water Street then John Street When one proceeds under the railway culvert are on Street briefly then en John Street East North and South with house numbers is most fusing as is Road a id Ma n Street itself each of which have a double set of numbers To add to downtown con tie even numbers are on the east side of Main Street but when roaches the four corners the even numbers start on west side There could be serious delays mat of urgency concerning such services as fire departmant police and and town count would do well survey th s and sea what measures can be taken We do not dropping any tain name particularly when it has Young and John Streets for example were named for early town res dents and if that street one the nana should be placed an another Chapel East and West which run parallel to each other another puzzlemeil We have an Ann Street and a Anne a Victoria Street a Victoria Avenue and Victoria Crescent There a Charles Street and a Prince Charles And there is cenfus on be Delrex Blvd and Rexway Drive I A Glossary for Newcomers A MAN moon- expo AMP OUR TRANSPLANTS rice expos CAMPUS WFtATION UNO WHY One of our newer residents told us the other day how confused one can become in a town still retains traces of past days Asking directions we was told to turn at I the corner where the monument used be It started us thinking how often one l has I ved here for some time is inclin ed to slip into the vernacular Hence th glossary of some of the pitfalls no resident may face THE WHITE BRIDGE recently re placed overhead railway on Man Street north originally named because a family named lived nearby THE OLD POST OFFICE at the foot of the Mill Street hill now an apartment building THE GLASS GARDENS fading from popular usage now hut still used as an al for the th and plant by some of our old timers MACIARENS FLATS late Alex property now site of the plant once popular for skating and Names are New of staff have made it impos Bible for a few years for the Herald in clude a social and personal column of the type was so popular when the town For the past few years we have con on this at Christmas time with a of half a dozen housewives who Have made calls to as many homes as stble in the town Last week and this readers will a plentitude of these nwiy little Hems and this will be continued in our next weeks edition We to thank the women who J so hard compil these and res dents who so courteously the in format on THE OLD PAPERMILL at the foot of where paper was manufactured by now Deltacrafts Man ufacturmg and ROAD renamed River some years ago THE GIRL5 a Un ted Church sold to the town after it and now known as Com Centre THE PARK old or park not to be confused with or the new east Lions Park THE SHOE FACTORY on John Street West where for years the family produced qualily footwear particularly not for their ski boots later a boat works and now converted into a number of town COLLEGE VIEW the area north of the railway culvert which got its name from a private school located there many years ago HUNGRY HOLLOW the end of nv Road south ac part of ng or gn of name unknown OUR ECONOMY much r itoms a way of important than they see ught the surface they people together who came from the same community or have mutual ends ere They people up to date on children s ad names and where they I ve g ve the home of former res dents men on a new young member of a ly or sad reverse thai a sen or member of tha ly has died when one notes that only Mr or Mrs as case may be has sited this year It is our hope to have a regular aid personal column in the Herald al a later dan- le we remind readers that we are always pleased when you phone these items us Free Trade Auto Agreement Benefits Both Canada U S by Frank Flaherty 1 mill off ils inn arguing annul the an mil of fit r in between the of the op This effect put a id nit prod The rj i r I the hint floor is no longer Mar Is to it Can id do an I the fl should be hid tl f keeping it alive are slump all the I of he n line more on transport than ith or The Canadian caw for puis or the floors under prod iclion is thai the no lo ensure aim workers are hit harder than in the of an indusiml slowclown The ase for tikinj them off is that the ire no nee The in iustrj hit r thin for Ihe United real sense It men to do bile tin EXPANSION SOUGHT c pert he I feel the for hindl i of tin It llir CANADIAN ANCLE the the and tin the in drsiined to in it ill it rk i aid pin id tin I of el to pi volume if In Canada inufiplurcrs could sill of the in th if they an I with r could loner prlies Ml iue t the automotive II even more in the ihei thin it his been in the This ikis it in i mort imp am tin that Tan i I ii i an I industry ins de its borders It not meins more fiood jobs for imdnis but more for Canadian in mi liilc past when ess is In the ewnl of a si how r free tride without floors nuan in ire in fin less in the United St ites It I ruled Stiles to exports to Canada CAR PRICES Ip to now however the hetn fiood for all in Canada the big lpanica the parts material sup pliers he futory hands and users Cars thr did five the I hey still THE DISTRICT AT A GLANCE Bull ration one vote to lose by Jive ballots to Judge Fire of known origin early claimed the life of Henry Thompson old resident of Mr Thompson who lived alone died of xiation in floor bed room while to escape The fire is discovered re 1 am fium a New J Year party I- POLICE CHECK MOTOR SLEDS USING R RIGHT OP I WAY I FERGUS Town police have been asked the Canadian Pacific Department of I J lo cooperate in cheek j the rail way of A CP spokes man old police thit seines are a hazard to i rati traffic in ikdon in lt an long string of acclimations ACTON Us f told council he is really about the possibility of a mi being constructed on the Line of Esq a few cast of Acton lie objection lo a driL strip aaid the 1m con about Ihe lhe town The fringe accrue are mist undenlnbli Police are corned about the number of animals in the fields and Die ISth dead fox since summer inspected to be was found week by children Hie children were Iossiok it until stopped by an The tail missing police are to learn the identity of the children In ease they need is lie ion of in rlidn fall a slip d ire to move so hat i led ins to consumers hive risen but t as fast they hive risen hid there been no free trade arrange Th spread between the price in Canada and the retnl in he United Stiles has but in mil there Given an extension of he deal it miy In IN THE MAIL BAG Says Dragstrip Opponents Lack Knowledge of Sport Sir the pal weeks Vtc have the strip which ii under in Township people have expressed Ihtir vuvvs some in and BRAMPTON In 1DII0 Inn ismed per mlu for worth of vv construction less than in 1061 year for issued compiled with permit for dwell year The village of In Calcdon made history last week when resldonli elected their firat woman trustee In her first at tempt at Mrs Mane Thompson reectved vole good for second plate the It the first CIHNGUACOtlsy A and Gordon Cation failed to be re elected lo Chlnguocousy seats following a recount last Wednesday of votes in the December township election hern gamed only one by a ballot to I llouunfl Corporation will call his week for a JO unit housing project to lie constructed in Milton The pro was- requested Milton council following a survey of living for Iheie Ihe survey revealed a need for cheaper housing for elderly people in Milton i I i A layoff at the J A foundry boosted In that area to a new high for this lime of the year a Canadian Manpower official said this week The of workers took place right aftei Christum hie to nil lets some of my own opinions ml on the sporl of riiinji I old and I in proud to hive been with drag rac foi the past years is both a and compel lor started in ma ilioul vein meil riised Ihe ime objeellons Unit wt in of the Nation Hot Hod Association INirfiAj it has into a great national sport in the Stiles and today tioru arc nonexistent racing has the best of motor sport five per of do happen are or the are not followed is not with and can be compared slick car racing sports car or go racing There no within sily Lb of The of those which do exist ire looted Ontario St Thomas Ontario and Niagara Now York I h ve been forlun lie enough to ltd nil Hie at Indlampolis for the three I cm only this event is one of tilt ureal spectacles In spoil with the World Se Super Bowl and the It is a fict the National brings more Into the ird each thin the Indhniipolis residcnls lake of this their proper Into lots ind camp sites for the racing fans Many sell coffee doughnuts and These people cerlninly do not object to lug some drag racing fans in the area each Labour weekend Drag racing Li a science Sue cess and improvement are only by with countless ad runts to varmiis of tho car aim of every competitor to IkUci the National fur his particular of competition There is a gen oral null among dric racers impossible his can tie Ihe fill tint about mitheniiUcians that would be Impossible lor a wheel tint en to irate to more thin In a mik diiiince now ore tcrmiml speeds of mph This Is the tjpi of thinking which has hi en resjKinsihle for ill of great leci mplishmenla such as the discover of and tho land ing of man on the The generation of to day his a deal of energy ambition and money rac ins is one of the best outlets for heir resources in rating develops in them of Die neeessirj for in the competitive and highly technical world wo live In I dare that he people who are Irving to stop the of a drag strip in area have no knowledge of the and Ihcy never attended an org nl They exhibited the same narrow minded pre judiced and aelfiah attitudes which the youth of world Is revolting todaj Yours j John C Burton Looking ahead with terror Many experts and a few nonexperts like arc pounding out of words these looking back over their shoulders with it The and loik ing ahead with terror at Seventies I don l know the decide did to but it about Or only els spent it leiehint school and surviving two will a few paragraphs of and change But ifl lived thro it yo through Iht ind you know 111 ranching chaotic violent oil It produced ugly and stupid vars a of in feeling of impotence and pair among people ind 1m with one foot in he grave other bein who don know bill know that wha they know is right have hid race riols strikes mirchcs in which a lot of people got clobbered a an the sundering of fundus of the socalled I could so on on paint a nm black picture But it not all black The yahoos hive not quite taken over The another lord his been forced to a good straight look at its If mil it was not A deal more js done for the senlly deprived i whole are concerned wih pomuitn at list churches have halting hut It produced new breed of music and i new breed of taken slo young people a bleed lb I icstioned everything bill Tin supplied few- answers i lurne I from church and turned on to di a breed suggested w a dirty word and dirty feet are a mini The decide produ d of new with dozens of new dictitors run them It brought forth the The Yank took two at pill and sexual revolution It Ithe moon and mad it both gave new hi sits or There a cartaln- of pornotrjph of minimum family raverv longer infallt Canada is intact after a decide of lalk about grtion is a have taken a as witness Alcorn on Stink Burke on Biaf ra and Bill Smiley on filmed experienced in tion and the black red liable with Its inevitable We saw Increasing ma it nut with a direction of all weird and fir out ilts We drank more and more desp the huge hikes in prices And the world like the Medicare protect the aged and on pollu tha poor from financial catas trophe The Hit It long 1 And must remember power lint cant make bread without vcast The young i pie the rebels hive provided the But there is all that that must ho produced And ihe rest of us make tha ind tho bread thin one I hue huh in human ace though goodness knows hv willing to give It an other decade if sou are And If I things Improve I will resign from human race igid edifice of edueilion at midnight December We and r from within and with 1070 BUSINESS DIRECTORY L MILLESSE Ontario Land Surveyor Duncan Georgetown Residence REPAIR SERVICE Centra JOHN BOUGHTON JEWELLERS Certified Main St Chiropractic Clinic SPINAL RAY SERVICE AVAILABLE By Appointment Mill St Old Pott Office A E Roglitered Heat Treatments i DRIVE CABR Professional Engineer Engineer Ontario Land Survayer Office Wallace Thompson 3rd Court Clark Commlttloner DODD CLINIC 120 St OPTOMETRIST M Brown RO Mam St Suite I For Appointment MONUMENTS POLLOCK A CAMPBELL DESIGNS ON REQUEST Inspect our work 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