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Georgetown Herald A Horn Company Limited S reel Soulh George own WALTER BIEHN THURSDAY MARCH EDITORIAL COMMENT He Loved the Glen No better tribute could be paid than the llttto poem which a end composed on learning of the death of Harold Wheeler A merchant and postmaster in hi birthplace of Glen Wtlliamj he spent his life there Everything I ever warned I found right here he said surely the of a happy life And he passed this on in every way possible Anything that was good for Glen could always count on Mr Wheel ers support He was a favourite par with the village children Rarely did a youngster enter his ore that there a little bonus in candy from merchant There no such th ng as a bad kid was credo His fam ly roots were anchor in Gien Williams where he was the third general on to operate the store and post office His musical lily as a member of the Georgetown band was passed on and son Marty is an bands man The Giles family it this way We hod some bad news the other day They told us Harold had passed But wo can believe it it Numbness gr is what we feel To us he really will never be gone For our memories he will live on And perhaps there is another Wheeler Store Where ail of us shall meet once more Opposing Philosophies In a brief on development of the area presented to council by Richard on behalf of the Concer Citizens of Georgetown group the theory is proposed that as the town en large it should become a group of areas each its own community core This gives residents an identify to which to instead of being lost a larger mass of humanity It is quite possible for people to have loyalty for Georgetown in general while also fostar ing community spirit for their own era part of town Even in a small town older dents will tell you that is a good thing In the towns earlier years John Street residents had a fierce loyalty for their area College View the park tftct Queen Street over the white bridge had their individual boosters Residents of any area would stand up for their neighbours and their neigh but in larger matters of com interest it was Georgetown that counted A disparag word about Georgetown from any Acton or Milton resident and the larger commun loy elty appeared The concept of twrn loyalties is a proper one and we agree it makes for a good town Surprisingly one publ c authority the school board is work in an op posits direction A vital part of our smaller commun development has been the elementary school It is there that last friend ships are formed and adults n mem ones of the r school days throughout lat I Call a school reun on and peo ple will flock back years later to relive their old school days Today we a complete reversal with introduction of a senior c school system And worse still spec lahzafon has reached even to the km level Children are fled by bus from their home hood attend a few years here a few years there and the sense of belonging is Is the supposedly better education wheh the new system com pensaton for th community spirit which feels to be so vital for a persons happiness An interest ng question to pose to our school sis TRY FOR SIZE HOW GREENE WAS MY VALET Canadas in Safe Hands Belated tlnns to And about hi he I our Prime Minister and his pulled out he purple bride one or the bin and and told that he upset In March The others Is coloring In were Mohammed All taking he on In short his arc In or his lifetime and their baby winning an argument swim It really IN THE MAIL BAG Claim Weedkiller Mutilates Country R 1 Dear Sir The Comity Committee has placed a ne order for the weed killer 2 our county roadsides this com this community council summer I members ire unable to fulfil County plans to pro- this function they should make with the wcedsprayin spile the fact that overwhelm injj evidence of Its tal effect on the ecology been and even though the ma pose danger In humans Italian County should be re minded that Its numbers have In order to once ogam mutilate been elected to serve not to THE DISTRICT AT A GLANCE GUNSHOTS FIRED AT HOME BRONTE Bronte residents si and and arm themselves a recent incidui Gun shots from a passing car ripped two holts in the front door of one homo where four persons were arrested in a police raid Rumours circulating say speed and heroin dealers the area are starting to use guns and knives MAYOR PROBES DOUBLE DROWNING BURLINGTON A closed inquiry was held Thursday in Mayor George Harrington s office following the drowning Wednesday of two preschoolers Barry Sharpc four and Ca rol Albert three fell through thin ice covering a construction site excavation It contained four feet of water A fence around- the site has been in disrepair since December FLARE UP REOPENS OLD SORE MILTON An old wound almost healed was reopened at Mil tun hospitals annual meeting Wednesday when a woman asked whether the three month trial period covering nursing supervisor Mrs Lucille VcrNl was up The question sparked angry words from outpoint house and a corporation member Menefy objected to hiring of supervisor to determine Mrs Vcrrall competency Mrs was fired and then rehired in a hospital controversy last year QUARRY WINS OVER The Ontario Municipal Board overruled Nassagaweya township council and is allowing overleaf Quarries to open and operate a quarry just north of Campbellvllle The decision handed down lost week a twoyear battle on the part of the township council to stop the opening A so objecting were the Jockey Club which operates Mohawk Raceway and several private citizens TOWNSHIP BUDGET 13 MILLION CHINGUACOUSY Council brought down a capital budget for 1071 last Wednesday approving a record high In capital spending of It the total amount budgeted for capital works Is spent it could mean a tax Increase of from f8 to per household Largest single expenditure Is the budget la million for development of a municipal complex In the city centre CHILD DROWNS IN FAIRY LAKE ACTON The body of Scott Lloyd Post age was found Saturday March in Fairy Lake a few yards from Acton arena The boy bod been watching bis elder brother play hock ey at the arena and apparently became bored and wandered outside After ha disappeared an eight hour search was mode Dragging located the child body where a fast flowlw creek or those who can decision of the County Council brush aside protest- my wife Not from the first have I been swept away by Mr dcau charisma though the women In my family were At I serious about his attitude and ions But when a man has enough sense to wait until he Is 51 to married I feel our country In safe hands Good grav if I had waited and I m not there yet I probably be able to ski and scuba dive And I be prime minister And a mil But when a man marries at bet bad It He has just thrown away he twenty five yean his life the see twenty die hot Is For the first ten or twelve irs against i had to catch them re I I l like see whit reit who are llL is diver he was if bed had with the protection of our en ne 1Ga l0 to so two rolten and and to listen to fmir of the gifts I hive squandered in nearly twenty five of marriage Especially when I think of Mr Were very much alike lies a Utile older and has a Utile lets hair Probably more teeth unless re failles About twenty five years were on equal Both excellent condition The only real differences are that he id lot of money And I chose to swim upstream while he chose Perhaps there one other minor difference lie does well and I do cm thlnft poorly But don cruet half decades to practise from chess while 1 rent free mansion while I labour over my heavily Let him hove his fitly or sixty thousand a year in salary have enough put bread the tabk paying Income tax and putting two kids through university not envious Ho earned it by being smart enough to stay until lie was At Irast I don t have to both with platoons of photograph and numberless newsmen when I take out Bar bra No I trade him en my old lady for his is for his charisma They to think mlt i charisma good enough for mel The only thing I get a Utile is Jul about Is not being ask to be Prime Minister And I still think I could beat him in a game of Russian industry pointed people is an affront to the residents of the county Yours truly Charles and his woman t mention doling with liaus him hours to stront m woman his don forget he goinj a line to divine the Kelt So where dies lion in every discussion ho Downstream Hut No wonder he was able tc where snatch up a beautiful in Thats why so many married Kent year old at his men of are washed up practically shore or otherwise white I an old alley cot GOT A PROBLEM have a problem but no solution these will provide It Use old face powder to apply shoe polish They generally fit right inside Slide piece of newspaper under plastic when you sew it It moves easily and sewing ma chine teeth wont tear It Spaghetti sauce won t get if you cook it with pot lid off Before pouring syrup cup oil the inside of it pours from cup more easily leaving little behind DID YOU KNOW SMI LI men of are washed up practically If he Washington Monument The nurse beckoned to one of shore or otherwise white I an old alley cat werc lengthwise of expectant others If he can keep his head snatch up aside grand cor at the hospital and announced above water during that my wl Station in Washington ou have a fine son period he mighty MM me Is a it would lack feet of Immedntclv another man swimmer But In the process wilh three divorces and Ihrcekpmnlng the root hall the up and complained he has developed of chins says Whits the Idea I was here his physical emotional and Don fir one moment think monument is feet tall he was mental arteries I Let him have eoniourse is feet long TURNING BACK TIME SCHOOL The teacher was Jennie Hutcheson and the enrolment was when this picture of the old school on the Fifth Us on was token April picture was submitted to the Turning Back Time series by Cedric Albert Street ECHOES 1961 A needed improvement program estimated was by library boord members Mrs George Hewsor and Thomas Van Sickler to I Monday The board wants more books and a renovated basement as well as improvements In ma I room Two are bo cons for new public school to be til At a special meet School Board last week mg I passed a mot on ng a 120000 debenture for a room school there Relocoton of the lown lory II site will bo made a new locvlon off Maple Avenue East On Monday I acre properly from ex Dovdoc mis for Tho property ns ire CNR I and borders on the Credit Branch of the an Leg on elected They are president Le I pre den James Be I 2nd Henry Shepherd secretary Wallace Thompson n ve Charles day Harvey Ifr d H II Fred at Jack Kerr bearers Henry Pre len Alva eve con G on Jack nor year old Acton star met death the of a I dump truck Monday no four of He was haul ing a ton try for use on Acton streets Pro east th no other vehicle in the truck y cut a path across the high way plunged down a four foot embankment into a line of boulders and finally came to rest on its jide between two trees on the edge of a field The truck was a rag ng in seconds with the driver trapped inside With returns from Georgetown town I and L to be compiled chairman Alex McLaren announced last week that Georgetown d had already exceeded its 2500 objective in the Canad an War Fund Drive A total of is reported of which 2 is In cash and the rest in pledges It is also announced that Mayor Joseph Gibbons has won his wager with lion Mayor Armstrong that Georgetown would reach its object ve before the County Town Cele- brat the completion of the drive a wire was strung from store to the Hotel marked off sections As chairman McLaren announced the results of the drive by districts over a loudspeaker system an aeroplane crossed the wire to goal Later in the evening a bonfire was I ghted on the old radial property behind Tyers Creamery and fireworks were set off BUSINESS DIRECTORY Wallace Thompson 3rd Claim Court County of A Commissioner LC Residence CARR Limited Consulting Engineers Ontario Land 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