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Georgetown Herald A Division of Horn Newspapers Company 22 Wain Street South Georgetown Ontario WALTER C BIEHN Publisher THURSDAY APRIL 1 EDITORIAL COMMENT Costly Government The mounting cost of bureaucracy is hi such high figures in senior govern ments that a taxpayer gets lost in figures he cannot understand So gigantic are fiascos tike the Bon- so steep the figures which fe deral and provincial governments amass for the increasing personnel so heavy the payments for politicians salaries expense allowances that we shrug them off s something beyond our compre hension But when it comes to a local ques tion with the millions reduced to thou sands the duties better defined we can get our teeth into it assess what we are getting for our tax dollar The Milton Champion pointed this out clearly in an editorial dealing with county councils adjustment of pay Thirteen of the fourteen council members composed of reeves and dep uty reeves from the countys seven mun icipalities have been working on a fee schedule of per meeting and Full Time Jobs With salaries for elected politicians now amounting to or more weekly becomes obvious that a decision should be made whether we as taxpay ers expect full time service If so then present payments are hardly adequate Perhaps we have reached the stage where municipal business cannot be han dled by other then full time elected people If this is the case we cannot expect a man to suspend his normal em ployment for a five to six thousand a year Job Perhaps the best solution is to give salaried employees much more authori ty in the day to day operation of munici pal business and have elected officials devote their time to major decision mak ing In the business world a company board of directors take little part in a firms routine operations This is the per committee meeting plus payment for certain boards on which they the county Payments last year varied from down depending on how many meeting an individual had attended A total of 1954B was paid from the tax Jreajury for this an average of 1500 per member Council has now adopted a policy of a flat yearly salary While some members will only have an increase of in total the salary bite from the tax treasury is exactly dou ble Add to this a 3500 increase to the warden who now gets and Hal- ton taxpayers will contribute 23000 more this year to their elected repres entatives This plus the fees these councillors also receive from their individual muni cipalities as members of local councils which average in the 1500 to bracket of the manager and his as sistants There is no reason this cant work in municipal field Politicians will argue that a great deal of their time is spent on behind-the- scenes discussion with taxpayers and at public functions for which they receive no pay These things go with a councillors position But if office personnel have the authority to solve minor problems the public would soon adapt to the new system of contacting the municipal office instead of the individual councillor As for public functions an individual can use his own discretion as to which he will attend Whichever its to be the fish nor fowl system which has grown up in the past decade is highly unsatisfactory to public and elected officials alike IN THE MAIL BAG Agrees Charities Should Be Own Choice Not Forced Byron Street To the Editor I add my voice w thai of con tributor D in lost weeks issue of the George town Herald regarding county grants to charities I am not opposed to charities or being charitable but I am opposed to anyone else deter mining what my contribution shall be or to whom it is made It may be that county council In voting its warden a hefty raise In salary of can seek to Justify their action as well In regards to the grants charities It may surprise them to learn that many taxpayers In this county do not agree with them It Is about time that at least a vestige of desire to serve on the basis of public service rather than money be found In any fu ture aspirants to seats on coun ty council Along with this must be the realisation that the Individual taxpayer will make bis own charitable donations as he sees there to help Collecting food and clothing Is no big problem but because Kasabonika such an isolated area the rates for having anything air lilted in are high fifteen cents per pound I wantto do something about saving these people but I am only one person 1 need help Your help If this country con fly food and supplies to lafra why then are three hundred of our own Canadians stuck in the middle if the bush with no one to help them or even care what happens them Im asking all the different clubs and charily flt Yours truly Ed A Peters Seeks Help to Assist North Indian Community Georgetown This letter Is addressed to all the people In Georgetown who have any feeling In their hearts at all for the other fellow Some of you may hove read an article In the Saturday March edition of the Tor onto Dally Star written by Mr George Gamester It Is a very sad story but true one There are three hun dred Ctm Indians living In an Isolated area called Kasabon ika between Lake Superior and Hudson Say Now you may be saying to yourself this is all very inter esting but what the point The point Is these people are hungry They need food bad ly also clothing The govern ment wont help them I am asking fill of you out sanitations hero in town to please get in touch with me al so anyone who has any Ideas on how to help these people would like to work with me in trying dont do something who will Yours Iruly Glorlo Warren 877B169J Have dentist check for unusual conditions one of the Seven Safeguards against cancer which have been devel oped by the Canadian Cancer Society School Project Parents Beware Take my advice your kid comes home from school and lays brettlly ID dad have this project to do take the bait Dont say word beyond a you flip your newspaper a shield or better still head for the bathroom and lock your self ID Never ever reply Well whats it all about or Is there anything I con do to help II you do youll discover inevita bly that you have a project to do Projects are all the rage these days ln education Give a kid a project and hell learn everything there Is to know ab out the Persian Gulf the or igin of sandpaper or the sex life of the blow fly He may ne ver learn anything else In school a strong possibility but hell always be an expert la one field For tho rest of their lives these kids will find some way at cocktail parties or formal dinners in casual conversation drag in the Gulf tho sand paper or the blowfly Which Is good Most people know practically nothing practically anything Thus they can easily be put down by forthright statement like I thats what Ive been saying The whole thing Is In direct contrast to the solemn sedate secretive sex life of the blow fly They simply cant field that one if its properly delivered And you can always change your adjectives to suit tho situ ation It could be wild exotic orgies of the blowfly which comes in heat only on leap years Actually projects ore noth ing new although some young teachers act as though Moses had Jost been op the mountain again and come down with a great stone slab inscribed Pro jects We had projects when I was a kid I remember one in agri culture I chose to build a mo del of a henhouse Wisely as perfectly aware even ot hat tender age I couldnt nail two boards together with out making sandwich And equally aware that my father was master crofts man Even so It took a lot of time had to spend about five evenings In his basement work shop rati Ing admiring and fetching caps of tea before the Job was done It was a Utile henhouse with win dows and a swinging door I it an ApIas Despite my experience of the whole fiasco of projects I got myself hooked recently Daughter Kim was home from university Dad I have to do project in anthropology Sounds interesting Warily ready to run I asked what It was fairly secure my utter Ignorance of the sub ject It turned out to be project on folklore any area I breathed easier I was still free She let out a little more line toughest lumberjack in the Val ley reputed to have killed four men in fights I got excited nibbled the bait and began spinning yarns ab out Mountain Jack She respon ded with the appropriate Wowl Thats really great Dad Then It emerged that she had to go direct to human sources not the printed word and realised there wasnt time to round up all tbc relatives and talk to them Both downcast Suddenly under the Influence of the excitement and too many coffees I came up with a new project and tossed It at her The Curse the Great Lakes She raved That was IT She had been born and raised on their shores of I know all sorts Interesting old- timers dont you Dad We talked long and feverishly and it looked better and better had swallowed tho bait she had to do was set hook Next morning the thing looked Insane But when I started to swim quietly away I found I still had the hook In my month And the line was tint Hundreds of miles and a cou ple of weeks later we had tal ked to regional historians com mercial fishermen I keep ers and lake captains Kim had a stock of stories ships sunk without trace Indian legends mysterious murderers and ex otic anecdotes like the pianos floating ashore at Duck Island Most admit I enjoyed every minute of It Old friends were generous with time and able with memories that rea ched far back Into the century But its my last project least until my first grand child sidles up and says Uh I have this project at school ECHOES DID YOU KNOW The remains of mammoths that roamed Alaska thousands of years ago are so perfectly preserved in tho ice that scien tists can Identify In their stom achs summer plants on which the huge animals last fed THE DISTRICT AT A GLANCE 2000 ON CAMPUS GUELPH Slightly more than undergraduate stud ents will be on University of Guclpli Campus for spring term university officials announced Friday There is a Elgin increase in the number freshmen scheduled to enrol in the bachelor of science program At press time that total was There arc freshmen students scheduled to enter the bachelor at arts program also slightly up from last year MILL HATE HELD Village councillors met In town hall to plan their budget for last week with a result that should bo satisfactory to village ratepayers Tho mill rate is un changed from iast years mills The population of the vil- ago is now Of the mills live go to street lighting five to garbage collection and to village roads and works CO TO WORK ON ELMS RAM ALE A Chinfiuacousy Township has applied for its share of a make work grant announced by the province recently and expects to put 18 men to work this week clearing dead elm trees It is expected grant will give work to the about weeks The men employed are for the most port from the township welfare the lured hum Man power They will make 3 an hour PROTEST COUNTY SALARIES MILTON Milton councillors have decided to lodge a pro test with County Council which will include a few unkind remurks about the salary increases county councillors recently voted themselves The countys levy on Milton this year Is up over last years levy MIGHT PERMIT DEER HUNT Township may have deer hunting season this year if a recommendation from the administration committee Is accepted by council The request to consider having a three day season between November and 3 came from the Dcpt of Lands and Forests district office in Maple The letter mentioned the growing problem be ing created by swelling deer herds TRACTOR CHASE INJURES ACTON A district farmer Jailed In Milton this week three charges and an Acton constable will be off work with a leg Injury as a result of a wild tractor chase that started in Acton and ended on a township road miles out of town OPP Constable Hoy Wood suffered severe leg cuts when hurled from the tractor scuffling with the driver The tractor went out of control spilling both passengers as it overturned in a field MAY RENT FORGE TERRA Peel County engineer Robert Knight has been Instructed by councils roads committee to work out an agreement on rent maintenance and repairs Involved in on offer from an antique dealer to rent tho old forge building at Terra The forge building and surrounding property was bought by the county last year In preparation for road recon struction through the village DEER FALLS FROM SKY CHELTENHAM Mrs June of Cheltenham aays she was shopping in downtown Orangevilie Wednesday morning when live deer fell from the sky us she was about to get into her car The deer had to be shot by police Shopkeepers speculate the deer wandered into mounted the roofs which slant almost to the ground at the back panicked Said considered doing one on the legends of the Ottawa Valley lumbering days with reference t greatuncle Mountain Jack Thompson reckoned to be the and off the front of a roof on a three story building NO A CLOSER LOOK Georgetowns Main Street will have radical new look when improvements now in the final planning stage ore completed by midsummer A major change will be moving of light standards to the centre of the street where small islands will be created At the some lime angle parking on the west side of the street will be eliminated The street will be resur faced and new sidewalks laid with grades changed to eliminate the present high curbs on parts of the street Between the poles space will be provided for truck stops for unloading but council eventually hopes for service roads behind ell Main Street build ings to eliminate completely the problem of trucks stopping for deliveries Lack of American priority ratings for certain essential material has the curtailment of operations a Georgetown industry Triplet Instruments of Can ada The news was made public this week by the firm which is e subsidiary of an American company Triplett Inslrument Co Ohio The com pany has been located in Georgetown for the past five years tost June the present building on John Street was purchased from B and the plant was moved from the Cordaro Building on Main Street The company employed during its peak production 1941 Word came through this week that the lorne Regiment has been authorized to mobilize bringing to fulfilment the growing rumours of the past few months The Lome Scots hove been drilling as a regiment of the NonPermanent Active Militia since a year ago when Major J Barber of Georgetown took command of the company working under Col Conover of Brampton After a two week training period in August battle dress was issued to the troops and it was felt only a matter of time until the call for active service would come Details of the regiments role in the war have not been an nounced A creditable number of the present members of the Lorne Scots have signified their in tention of volunteering for active service Barber told the Herald Col was quoted in the Toronto Globe and Mail earlier this week as saying he believes general recruiting will be 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