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Georgetown Herald ECHOES A Division of Canadian Newspapers Company Limited Main Street South Georgetown Ontario WALTER C Publisher GEORGETO HERALD THURSDAY FEB 1973 EDITORIAL COMMENT Not All Good Theory and practice are not always compatible Regional government as announced last week for Halton County has one decided drawback for this area inclusion of two established urban communities in one area government While this is not unique we question the wisdom of operating one municipality with two sizeable communities eight miles apart In most cases where a larger region has been created such towns are much closer together geographically and can be fitted together with a minimum of in convenience Nof So New Examining Haltons new look it would seem that a region could have been created with less fanfare and less fuss by phasing out Haltons two remaining townships and making a few boundary changes Nelson and Trafalgar town ships disappeared into Oakville and Burlington some years ago with opposition and Nassagaweya could have gone the same way at the same time altering boundaries where needed as has done in the new plan Essentially Haltons regional government sticks to county boundaries and we have had a two- tier regional setup for decades Others Could Help Councils creation of an in dustrial commission composed only of town council members is a backward step in industrial promotion To our mind municipal councillors are quite busy enough as parttime public servants without loading more meetings and more decisions on their shoulders We agree that appointed boards should have a councillor to provide liason between that board s duties and council But independent members can In Halton other major towns will be the only urban centre of a new area Surely an extra area would still fulfil requirements and accomplish the aims of a larger region Georgetown and a portion of could be one area Acton and perhaps a small portion of Esquesing could be another This would eliminate most of the infighting which Is bound to result when the four portions of North Halton try to get together on the makeup of a new area council All that needed doing was to turn over more powers to county council have five area councils instead of seven and we would have a new look As noted above the new North Halton area comprising Georgetown Acton and the nor thern parts of and Nassagaweya will be unwieldy A rose by any other name as the poet says but it is quite a tug to see historic names like Georgetown and Acton disappear Administration will be a problem too Locations of a central municipal office combining staff solution of problems not common to both towns will be difficult decisions contnbute much more in time and interest to any board when they can concentrate on the job at hand without the multiplicity of other chores which being a councillor entails Often too communityminded people are available who have specialized skills which can be particularly helpful to a certain board Without minimizing the talents of councillors we believe that an independent appointed board can do a better job because of this In fhe Mall Bag Student Says Cutbacks Lead to Drastic Action Trent University Peterborough Ontario Dear Sir I am writing to you as an attempt to inform the citizens of Georgetown and County of an ap palling situation that has developed recently In On tario I am talking about the recent and proposed cut backs in the provincial Governments spending on universities and colleges This has led to drastic action by the administrations of several Institutions throughout the province At Trent where I am studying this has meant a general cutback in operating ex of roughly annually and has resulted in about faculty and staff being told there will be no room for them In the future It also means that the departments of German Spanish Chemistry Physics Biology and Geography have been drastically altered or completely destroyed The Government has also raised tuition fees and the student loan ceiling for all postsecondary students in the province This has come about as a result of recom mendations made In Interim report of the Com mittee on Post Secondary Education This report while calling for easier ac cessibility to colleges and universities effectively prohibits this accessibility by also saying that students should pay proportionately In Mall Bag more than they already arc for Iheir education This is just one many glaring contradictions within this and shows that the government tends to phase out universities as an marketable product Surely they realize that it is not the fault of Ihe schools that enrolment is lower than five years ago There is I feel somewhat more to the problem than just the institutions them selves We must look at the policies of the Davis regime since they have taken power Generally they have seemed reluctant to raise taxes on the middle Income groups directly but are equally reluctant to further tax large business corporations who at present pay roughly percent of all taxes in the Province of Opportunity Furthermore they have cut back on hospital and social services in the last year The ministers concerned are very unwilling to listen to the problems of Ihose who legislate about The Minister Colleges and Universities Jack land before htm George Kerr has been approached several times by the Ontario I of Students who represent over 100000 students and has been totally unresponsive to our requests Every action the Progressive Conservative Government has taken in the last year shows that Ihey are more concerned with the large business interests than Exterior brickwork and precast roofing and flooring were completed January 31 1903 on the administration building one mile north of Stcwarttown Timber wolves were reported in North Halton Packs of wolves were reported from the district and six were shot In Mono Township in Dufferln County during the six weeks One kill in Terra Cotta confirmed that the wolves oc casionally moved south into Caledon Townshlplnthedirectionof Georgetown The first of six wolves shot that season proved to be rabid A baby a day keeps the doctor away from home that is and almost a baby a day during January were making thefr debut at Georgetown and District Memorial Hospital YEARS AGO At the annual meeting of the Agricultural Society the treasurers report showed a deficit of The largest prize list In the history or the Society was paid in 1952 S3 60 with additional for races The catchy slogan Georgetown District Earns a Living was In every store window plus a dozen displays here and there in the downtown district made everyone aware of Industrial Week February a 1951 The various projects associated with the conversion of Georgetowns telephone system to dial operation were progressing according to plan Miscner Bell Telephone manager for the region said week of February 1953 The conversion was scheduled to take place in September OTTAWA Everyday Language Worse Than Woodstocks Edward Street Georgetown Ontario Dear Sir When reading the column High School Insights in your Issue of January I hod to laugh I feel Gary Glover was quite right In resigning his position Mr Furlong was being extremely ridiculous In his reason for vetoing the film Woodstock Mis excuse of the use of profanity in the film was very feeble If he thinks that the showing of this film would seem to condone the use of profanity he Is wrong because with or without condoning it worse language Is being used everyday by almost everyone In We see grams with bad language in them at home and Tt is not because our parents condone it It is because this kind of language is in common ana nothing he can do Is going to protect our so called virgin ears Yours Lynne Bail He with the people who put them power In fact the whole Government is a business Ihe Davis Machine I sincerely hope thai the people of Georgetown will look more closely at this and many other examples of this nature and to ask the Hon James Snow whats going on in Queens Park I ask what answers will you have come next election for the you ignored now nice form letters dont solve a thing Respectfully Paris In fhe Mall Bag Writes to Make Clear His Comments 10 Garnet Drive Georgetown Ontario Dear Sir I would like to take this opportunity to clarify some of the comments attributed to myself on the front page of last Thursdays Herald il I did not say Board also gets rid of ex perienced teachers because their wages become to high I actually stated that a few Boards get rid of and expressed my concern that may be swinging In this direction To my knowledge this is not yet official Board policy in County Regarding the words would not help the Image or the cause at this stage I expressed the belief that to appose the motion meeting would in no way alter the concepts of the Board members and would merely delay the Board from getting down to the tasks they were elected to concern themselves with I did not refer to County having the highest studentteacher ratio in the province I stated at the time hat It had one of the highest but since I do not a report of oil Boards in On tario for the school year I was unable to give as specific an answer as was quoted Yours lanC Barrett M YEARS AGO Two independent valuators should be appointed when there is evidence that property owners ore ganging up to demand high prices far land being bought by the Government a House of Commons sub committee said In Its report tabled in the ftausc Wednesday February 1943 The sub group of House war expenditure committee was asked to obtain Ihe views of valuators on purchase of airport land at Manitoba after the question was raised by the Winnipeg Tribune The request to the subcommittee headed by Hugh Cleaver the Liberal representative for went from acting Transport Minister In the Fall of The annual meeting of the Breeders was held in the Palermo Community Hall on Tuesday January 1943 Not withstanding weather conditions breeders were in attendance The secretary- treasurers and fieldmans reports revealed club to be n an excellent financial con approximately worth of cattle were sold by Messrs W H Itabinson and Edgar Lyons In the County of Feature Item In the February 3 edition of The Herald reads There are all kinds of jokes about people who listen in on rural telephone lines and no doubt most people in town least think they are exaggerated Here is the latest contribution on the subject taken from The En terprise Next to the Enterprise the best place to advertise Is on the rural telephone says a local merchant He tells us that raisins were scarce commodity but he got in a shipment One day a farm woman in placing an order for groceries inquired if he had any raisins He said he had so she told him to include a pound in her order Within five minutes after she had hung up half a dozen other women on the same line called up and ordered raisins Vintage That was the concensus House of Commons after his recent speech sat just a few seats behind the former Prime Minister as he thundered cajoled and berated the hapless government With his fierce scowl and a finger jabbing his points right across the aisle to their desk tops they dared not rebut such fury He used humour often the best debating weapon with devastating results Even same government ministers were laughing at themselves and their alleged follies As a young member trained in the modern style of reasonable but often dull argument I experienced a sense of history walchlng the master One could envision Wilfred Lnurler or Sir John A standing exactly where saying exactly the same things and in the same grand style It was an excellent argument for TV in the House of Commons WHICH AIRLINE A number of people In the north part of the Riding particularly in Georgetown connected with Air Canada have asked me which of our airlines would be awarded reciprocal landing rights In Milan Italy and when the award might be made Alitalia the Italian National Airlines has been landing here under the agreement for several months But our government has not yet made up Its mind as to who will be awarded return route Accordingly I asked Jean the Minister of Transport some questions in the House Commons last week To quale his less than informative answer as it appeared in Hansard Mr Speaker I hope that we will be in a position to answer that soon So do our national and a lot of people in North JOINT BRIEF The Progressive Conservative and Liberal Associations have joined forces to present a joint brief to the Redistribution Com mission in Toronto on February The NDP may also be Joining hem Although the chances for any major changes in the boundaries arc quite slim an all parly presentation should add considerable weight to our remarks If you have a problem idea comment criticism or if you simply wish to get in touch with me please stop by or call by Hiding office at Road East In Mall Bag Angered When Seconded Ban Motion io Garnet Drive Georgetown Ontario Editor The Georgetown Herald Main Street Georgetown Ontario Dear Sir I sincerely hesitate to write this letter since I firmly believe that politics should be left the election cam paign and not dealt with subsequent to It However to sit back and express no comment during this present conflict would indicate a lack of concern and this Indeed is not the case On Thursday January I attended the Board of Education meeting held at their offices on the Guelph Line During this meeting trustee Richard Goodin made a motion to seek legislation preventing active teachers from running for election to the Board During his extremely lengthy speech Mr Goodin accused teachers of contributing to road traffic and pollution by in areas where they do not teach He even went so far as to quote from the Bible as proof that teachers should be prohibited from serving on Boards of Education However the part of the that angered me the most was mat which followed Mr Ernest Bodnar Georgetown a present representative seconded the motion of Mr Goodin As the people of Georgetown are aware I am a high school teacher In and ran against Mr in the last election coming a very close second I dlsap pointed lhat Mr would resort this of trick In order to ensure his continuation in office Is ihe time coming when the electors will not be given the right to determine who is elected The two or three times that I have conversed with Mr at length subsequent to the election he has appeared concerned about education In County and has been polite and courteous on each find It unfortunate that he should conceive taking this political manoeuvre Mr In his speech mentioned that legislation prevents municipal em ployees of which he Is one from serving on town councils and therefore teachers shouldnt be allowed to sit on Boards He mentioned that the OSSTF had common goals and lhat interests were to divide and conquer In speaking of teachers he stated it was unwise to arm the enemy Once again he mentioned that teachers have tunnel vision and can only of their own subject Surely something is drastically wrong when the teachers of children In schools arc considered ihe of the Boards representatives Where Is this spirit of cooperation for common goals that Is sup posed to exist No one can me that the electors of County made their choice In December with the concept of teachers being their enemy In education we must e one sale he benefit of Ihe child When members of the Board consider teachers In this light the student Is one eventually suffers I must congratulate the Hoard in their wisdom of defeating the motion a vole of Tom of wasabscnf Board members in speaking against the motion men tioned that to eliminate teachers might necessitate many other professions such as ar chitects since they may be considered to have conflicts of Interest when contracts come up for school can I would go a step further and say that if teachers arc eliminated from running then so should caretakers engineers might be involved in school even the members of labour unions some of their colleagues might be hired by the Board If this was the case could end with only retired or unemployed housewives whose had no conflicting connections and students as The Herald editorialized last Thursday The Provincial govern ment already has conflict interest legislation banning teachers from seeking election on Boards that employ them A teacher can gain no benefits by working for another Board He or she runs with concepts of belief as motivate other candidates Basically a desire to Improve the education system though we are members of the we are not employed by them I would like think that Mr would never sacrifice principals even under pressure from the Professional Engineering Society Surely he must believe other human beings are capable of equally high ideals In the Mail Bag Cheaper to GO To Toronto As stated in your article wc will soon be able to go to Toronto at the proposed cost of 10 per trip Due to the lack of local transport can go the East End of Georgetown to downtown Georgetown arena doctors dentists hospital park stores etc at the cost of si so up by cab and who knows what to the station to catch the Go Train Thats progress it you t much of us downtown during the week you know why Yours truly Mrs For those citizens of Georgetown that would like to attend future Board meetings they could do so by taking Trafalgar Road south to 5 follow this west to the Line about miles west of and then following the Guelph Line south for about i mile The Board offices ore on the west side of the Guelph Line The next two regular meetings are on February the and Priorities and Expenditure meetings are on the 1st and 15th 1 would like to express my thanks to The Herald for allowing me to take a stand and reply to comments directed at myself and my recently I regret aving to do this but the time comes when you either hide head In the sand or stand up and get counted It actions like this Unless the Board gets down to doing the work it was elected to do you might find other people expressing concern BILL SMILEY A Sell Out by Any Other Name Recent news stories about fuel shortages In New York city and a number of north eastern states must have been a real shock not only to many Americans but to every thinking Canadian 1 know it shook me when 1 considered the implications It was first strong warning of whats to a worldwide shortage of fuel and energy And thats a frightening prospect Experts have been issuing warnings for years but these usually consist of an article in the Saturday supplement easily forgotten or ignored Im no expert but any school child knows that there is only so much oil and gas in Ihe earth and here is only so much water power to be harnessed and when thats gone Its gone For good Already ports of the US especially the heavily in dustrialized and populated east arc on the verge of a crisis in the fields of energy and water What happens in the States will inevitably happen in Canada though it may lake a little longer because of our much smaller population and much greater reserves But unless science can come up with some new cheap means of producing energy and fresh water things are going to be pretty shaky by the turn of the century Perhaps as always it he only way man can learn anything by having It shoved down his throat Perhaps wc wont stop wasting energy resources until were reduced to the point where were cooking dinner over a fire of buffalo chips as the pioneers did Except that there wont be any buffalo to provide chips Wouldnt you think Canada having witnessed at first hand ravages Ihc Americans have made on their own resources wuuld have learned a lesson you think wed be hoarding carefully with an eye to five hundred jears from now our resources you think that our called leaders could see more twenty five years ahead Many of them seem to be thinking no farther ahead than next election One of fine years unless we begin conserve and preserve therell be an Old Mother Hubbard story that will wreak untold of humans Hut thats an old talc of course in this country Through a combination or human greed short sighted leadership and plain In he Mail Bag Election Might Have Been Livier Street Georgetown On The Editor The Georgetown Herald Dear Sir I read with interest Mr comments about teachers as members of Hoards of Education Would Ihc recent election to the Board have been any livelier I wonder if we had recognized that we were choosing between the tunnel vision of teacher and he pipe dreams of a sanitary engineer Your sincerely John Bel lam v In Mall Bag Seek Public Support for BantamHockey Dear Sir Time waits for no man and whilst it Is still six weeks away it will seem like no lime before the Bantam Hockey Tournament is with us again The of what is rccogniied as one or the finest tournaments In he country gets under way on Friday evening March continues through dally except Sunday to Saturday March A great deal of prepar atory planning has been going on since last October and the active organizers are looking for another suc cessful tournament this year To dale 103 applications have been received for the openings a lot of Interest in participating The International flavour is retained with the inclusion of five teams from the States and the return of two referees from Chicago who made their first appearance during 1B72 tournament Georgetown and district residents have supported Bantam Hockey Week exce edingly well in the past and we look forward to continued support for the 1173 tour nament Heading up the various departments this year are and help stupidity Canadians have been content to continue their centuryold role as hewers or wood and drawers of water and to sell anything hey could to foreign In British American and European Theres a great lot of red- hot nationalism in our country these days But ninety five per cent of it is words words words The people who make the real decisions are not the writers painters students but the cold eyed grey- haired men who sit in the board rooms and would sell grandmothers into slavery if the interest rates 1 the babies who mines and are currently pawning our energy resources And theyre the birds with same notable exceptions who take off for the Bahamas or Switzerland when the taxes get rough and theyve made pile To most of them the unemployed are an un fortunate statistic the poor a necessary nuisance They know where every nickel of government handouts is They know every tax dodge They are the real and only secondclass citizens of this country Holy smokes Im beginning to sound like a communist agitator I not I just get sick at heart when I sec whats happening to the country I love Talk about being sold down the river Were being sold down all our rivers and all our pipelines as well Canada might be com pared to youth Youth can and does burn up energy without a thought for the morrow He can dance and drink stand all day in the rain hitchhiking sleep on But imperceptibly and then suddenly ihe youth is middle aged The luxuriant hair falls out the belly thickens the pace slows and the joints begin to ache The energy has been burned up much of It uselessly and the cupboard grows progressively bare Is that what were doing today In our comparatively youthful country Are we going to wake up with no hair arthritis and a pot belly with nothing to put In It And while this is taking place before our eyes the politicians chatter like parrots jockeying for position their eyes fixed on the past Ive no solution The only thing I might suggest view of the energy crisis is that all the politicians in North America be laid end to end Theyd make an ad mirable pipe line of just the right girth And theyd produce enough natural gas in one session to stave off the crisis for years GEORGETOWN HERALD AILEEN BRADLEY Accountant Anne William Arnott Valeric Caruso David Hastings Myles Gllson John Joan Davis J ii J ce VnnDclmder CARRIER 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