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Georgetown Herald A Division of Home Company Limited 22 Main Street Georgetown Ontario WAITER C Publisher Page HERALD THURSDAY J EDITORIAL COMMENT Seems Utile Interest A vote this Saturday on whether But with sale of alcoholic beverages residents favour sale of liquor in so firmly entrenched both in our day dining lounges appears to be drawing to day life and in the tax economy of little interest among the electorate our province an idealist could Not i manv back there rtot envisage its disappearance It SZ sSJSS for and against but so has to those in fact this can be some advantage for there is less harm in a with a meal than to require a drinker to do nothing more than that as has been the case in beer parlours Readers are reminded that that the drys once spearheaded by some churches and the Women Christian Temperance Union have almost disappeared from the scene Although we favour an en of liquor lounges it not because we are unmindful of the are two ballots on harm caused by excessive use of which an opinion is to be expressed alcohol Ideally we would be better One asks an opinion on sale of liquor off without it and we are sure that in premises where food is available those who can take it or leave it The other asks opinion on sale of would willingly be abstainers if this liquor in lounges A two thirds would help the unfortunates who majority is necessary for the vote to succumb carry Much More Harmful With the knowledge that the world would be a better place without the consumption of alcohol proponents of a tolerant attitude to the of drugs are off the beam in using as an argument that because we have alcohol we should have drugs Two wrongs have never made a right and to argue that because many people drink they should also be allowed to use drugs Is a trap into which many are falling One has only to read the daily news to realize how much more dangerous a situation we have with a generation seemingly bound to destroy itself in a fantasy world scorning the work Foolish Ideas The theory that students should be allowed to attend the school of their choice and to select the teacher they want issorldiculous that we wonder why county board officials waste their time in discussing it Heaven help the next generation if we assume that youngsters know what s best for them And even assuming that they do what good could come from such a system Our schooling is meant to equip us for our role in the adult world And even more important than the specifics we acquire is the training in self discipline the ability to make the to work not always under ideal conditions ethic and a moral code which has taken centuries to evolve Some of the eastern countries seem of the dangers and have imposed the death penalty for drug trafficking Unless we are prepared to deal with the drug question much more firmly than we nave to date we may be phasing out our world as we know it A nation can have the best of everything but if its are unhealthy it is doomed to eventual destruction And that appears to be where we are heading Should this freedom of choice become popular look ahead to a young person entering the working world He would want to select his boss decide what job he would do in the organization And business just doesn work that way The pendulum must not be allowed to swing too far in the doyourown thing philosophy which has per mealed today world We must count on our politicians and our educators not to allow the theorists to go too far Evolution cannot be rapid and changes should be made only after the utmost consideration POLISHING THE ELECTION YEAR SMILES In the Mali Bag Residents Are Not Getting the Health Services They Pay For THE DISTRICT AT A GLANCE Bomb Threat Empties School BRAMPTON Approximately 192 children were evacuated from Central Public School following an threat that a bomb had been planted In the building Principal Wood said the call was received shortly after Bam The children were evacuated to adjoining school grounds and later sent home Police made a search but found no trace of the bomb The caller was described as an adult female Pilots Remarks Start Furor ACTON Statements by Acton pilot Dave Muckle have unleashed a new barrage of publicity and press furor over the location of the proposed new Toronto International Airport Muckle has charged unscrupulous real estate agents and politicians with putting their own Interests ahead of airline passenger safety and causing trillions of dollars to be spent unnecessarily for a new airport in the Toronto area He said the present Toronto airport could handle more flights if all the runways were used and not restricted because of noise complaints by homeowners Seek to Veto PO village are far from completed post office many believe falls far short of a building in which he residents can take pride Thai the way It was described prior to construction Built of red channel plywood it has been compared to a barn by some residents Government public works officials at one time said it Erin Post Office an attractive brick and glass building built five years ago Salted Snow Into Harbour OAKVfLLE A suggestion by Environment Minister George Kerr that lake front municipal Irs refrain from dumping salt lade snow into the lake has gone unheeded by the town of After the most recent snowfall town crews cleared streets and sidewalks and trucklond after truck of snow was being dumped info Bronte harbour Town administrator C Needham said the town Is at tempt to keep the level and use of salt down Seek Snowmobile Solution discussion January 19 when Milton residents police and snowmobile dealers gather lo try to iron out their problems seek solutions Snowmobile nuisances noise and electrical In lerfercnce also promise lobe near the top of he agenda A petition has been presented to council urging them to remove the menace from town streets Okay County Building Addition A addition will be built on to the ferln County Building County clerk treasurer Harry Bake said it is hoped tenders will be called In February with work to start in March in an effort to get benefits from the government s incentive programs The square foot addition will go on the of Ihe existing build This is the f rat addition to the building since it was erected in 1G80 Dear Sir Many people have been hesitant to discuss the appalling lack of community health services in North llalton After read a recent board of health report feel a responsibility to speak out and Mould hope others will do the same According to the report Chamberlain Medical Officer of Health made a reasonable request for on adequate staff of community health nurses and an administrative assistant since regjdcnlH who arc competent Library Would Be Unique Erin may library rill h be unique in Ontario Clin iltleld academic superintendent tor te 1 ST Wellington County Board Education explained the library den la 1 jui lied In with plana to expand Erin DlEtrlcl High School The I that the area which would be the school new resource Shneighbortag professional staffs more inservice educational programs to keep heir staff up to dote more Halton Region Projects Make Winter Works Jobs program One urgent could be home care enabling many people to be cared for in the r own homes and he cost covered by In surance plans The cost of such a program would be covered by provincial not money but would be complex to set up and require operation and understanding from the board of health Mrs Mac Arthur reeve of points out that public health nurses arc no longer in the schools and follows that by saying an administrative assistant would leave little or the OH to do It incredible that the county council seems to I little insight into community health vices and I con well imagine Chamberlain frustration at this point The board of education hires registered nurses In the high schools only and in Acton on a part time basis Elementary schools arc virtually without care except for immunization hearing and Us on tests Council members have only to read their copies of guidelines for the M O and boards of health to realize the overwhelming carried by Chamberlain It becomes increasingly clear why county is noted far a high turnover of health professionals and has hod at least five M O II s Forty five men will work for Region Conservation Authority Under a provincial winter works program Eight men started work in December and hiring of more started last week The provincial grant for the six authority projects Is Eleven men will cut dead elms and Improve woodlots for id geeks at a cost of The Kelso program will employ 10 men for weeks at a cos of B61 Fencing at Mountsberg con area and the west end Kelso conservation area will be erected by four men over an eight week period forte Four men will work for 12 weeks at the Sixteen Valley Conservation area on on prevention for Two men will renovate authority buildings for 12 weeks for 810 Four men will repair and re finish 300 picnic tables and waste containers for 12 weeks for 383 The authority will also hire a student technician to assist the conservation planner for four months A superintendent for the winter works programs will also be hired for four months DID YOU KNOW The cost of motoring In Britain has risen appreciably in the past year A Rolls Royce costs about a mile to run on the basis of 10 miles annual mileage The Ontario Safety League says that at the other end of the scale a Mini costs about lie a mile have assistant medical officers and Peel has an administrative assistant This is much too broad a topic to cover in a letter to the pressor to of health but we must begin somewhere if residents arc ever going to start receiving the services they are already being taxed for I propose the following a Investigate the feasibility of setting upan advisory committee to the board of health as is done in some counties provide press coverage over a period of time to explain community health care the various programs that should be operating These could possibly include pre natal classes better pre school programs addiction services school health home care and others too numerous to mention everyone with criticism or ideas for improvement call or write one of the board of health members We hear plenty of talk and it would be nice to see some action Sincerely Mrs Alma Swctman Copies of guidelines respecting Medical Of fleers of Health and Boards of Health may be obtained from Provincial Department of Health Special Services Branch Queens Park Toronio BILL SMILEY And You Can Be Part of All This This Is the time when pundits across the land speculate in type about what Ihe coming year will bring forth If Ihere in one thing we don t need more of in this country it is pundits We have political pundits economic pundits sports pun Mast of them spend most their verbiage disagreeing with other pundits In the same field What Is a pundit It is a person who knows a little more about practically nothing than we WINTERS COUNTERPANE BUSINESS DIRECTORY OPTOMETRIST LM Brown R0 OPTOMETRIST ft Hamilton pundits Having unburdened myself of those sour sentiments I now propose to leap Into some pun con Read carefully now so that you have a clear picture of what we shall face this year Most parts of Canada will have lots of snow I hope nobody will give me argument on that one Right now outside my window it looks like plucking day at he chicken factory The population taxes your fuel bill will increase This statement Is not based on fact but on pure Intuition Especially the part about taxes According to some of the rosy statements In the new tax reform bill hustled through parliament I will pay lesB taxes this year about enough less to buy an overcoat from the Salvation Army But they can t fool an old tax payer like me know with sickening clarity that if one level of government hands me a few bucks some other level will be digging three times as much out of my back pocket The wage price spiral will continue though perhaps not as rapidly The reason We re all greedy as pigs at a trough And the biggest pigs the strongest unions and Ihe most firmly en trenched will get more out of the trough than the runts the ordinary Joes There will be a federal tion and whoever wins there will be promises galore new brooms being waved In all be going straight the The churches will continue lo be one third filled and scram bllng for enough money lo stay alive But here will be a con search for some sort of spiritual experience by our youth Thousands who in son luck to mi complex world Thousands die and lets just hope you and I are not among them 1 don want lo go until get my mortgage paid off Isn that the supreme purpose of living Thousands of kids will ex perl merit with drugs and some of them will end up tragic figures human beings But Correlai Bu For Appointment GEORGETOWN OPTICAL BARTON Dispensing Optician Main Street South EYE EXAMINATIONS ARRANGED Fast Repairs the chance continued if becoming 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