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GEORGETOWN Second Ctat Mall Registered Number The Home Newspaper For Georgetown and District fiFriRGETOWN HERALD THURSDAY OCTOBER n Guaranteed ft per year Single Copy Price Fifteen Cent Public Library Extension Building Bylaw Gets Nod HER SUGGESTION BECAME COMMUNITYS NAME Hills had a nice sound to it It beat out Esqueslng in the vote but she one step further and submitted it for official consideration No Changes In The Mail Halton Hills has special meaning tor Mrs David Weldon Baylor Cres Georgetown She submitted her name to the Georgetown Herald In the and her suggested name for the northern municipality in the new region of Halton was one of three placed before the electorate Mrs Weldon though claim lull credit or the name although she does consider it kind of an honor Some other thought the title Caroline Doesnt Like It It not quite two weeks since the name Hills was chosen for the northern region but already someone has ex pressed criticism of the selection The critic is 11 year old Caroline Browne of Centennial school In a letter to The Herald she made these observations I would like to publish this n your paper because although it seems small it says a mouthful for many people especially children As you know we of Acton Georgetown and are called Hills 1 would like that there are people who don t like the name Hills and Ihere are others who literally hale It What 1 would like is another election for the name and to let the children vote in it because it is children who occupy at least one quarter of the growing community And sure it would grow better if we all liked the name know also that there are people in this community who agree with me Siddall Queries Action Without Specific Plans Georgetown council has the bylaw should be appended approved a construction bylaw with an estimate of cost to provide for Issuance of NO HANGUP in debentures for an Reeve Morrow was quick to addition to Ihe public library reply that he dldn really see The bylaw was given three the hangup readings Tuesday and now No final design or cost is goes on to to the Ontario being approved he declared Municipal Board for approval and repeated his assertion A 20year debenture issue is that it was belter be specified prepared to deal with Increased Discussion about the bylaw cost before any such increased prompted a short verbal ex cost was encountered change between Reeve He Siddall Morrow and Phil Siddall saying the councillor had cast Reeve Morrow requested a his vote In favor of a municipal change In the wording of the recreation complex without bylaw to Incorporate a figure of plans to get capital approval to take into account The reeve left the meeting higher building costs should briefly to consult with some they develop This would members of the library board eliminate a need to pass a who were at the town hall The further bylaw if necessary if reeve is council finance com Ihere is a cost over run he said mlttee chairman The reeve said he was In a recorded vote all prosched by a member of the members or council voted for library board to bring the the bylaw with the request before council figure Incorporated Slddalt said the bylaw Harry Levy said he was a construction bylaw with thought the architect may have debenturing to be provided at included rising costs as part of some future date It didn matter what figure was in extension eluded In the bylaw he said Coun Roy Booth said he was Coun Siddalllateraskedhow of the opinion Ihe architect had council could be asked to pass a considered rising building bylaw without something costs Let get it passed he regarding plans before it He said of the bylaw suggested the municipal body Only deputy reeve Ernie was stepping into an area of Sykes who is holidaying was irresponsibility and suggested absent for Ihe council discussion and vote endearing to the board Under federal fundi coat of Council decision to pass the which la Known to have looked the extension would be shared bylaw and to send it on for favorably on the idea of winter by all Canadians Through a Ontario Municipal Board works and federal fundi to get debenture issue Georgetown may not be all that the extension built residents assume the cost Under Region Firefighters Will March To Church Acre Price Tag Sparks Council Debate Georgetown council is taking time to look at an industrial commission land sale recommendation The recommendation came before council at the first regular October meeting Council put off a decision until members of council could took at the property The low price of per acre for acres of land irritated some members of council Coui Phil Siddall said the suggested price con policy because it had become practice to charge IS ooo per acre He said the inference amounted lo and he t see why we should donate nearly on this piece of properly Bill Hunter climaxed discussion to put Mr ike out above para Harry Levy chairman of the commission said he was not in agreement with the selling price Bill Hunter climaxed the discussion lo put off a decision when he said he wanted to look at the land in The land lot Is one of last pieces of industrial land remaining Coun Mike Armstrong pointed out thai the land in question is of uncertain typography which will require a grea deal of 111 material The commission considered this preparatory work a noted that in past land sales not as much site preparation was required He suggested the town needs industrial assessment and it cannot afford lo be narrow minded when It comes to development and provision of Jobs The land has been Idle for years he said Mall service will remain the same under regional govern ment In North at least for the time being Georgetown postmaster Harold Marshall said he has not been approached about any changes and he does not expect any lo occur certainly not for a while Postal boundaries don t change with municipal he said He used as an example the village of Hornby which has a post office Most of its service is lo the south whlchwillbelnthe new municipality of Central while Hornby itself will be in North Similarly post offices will continue in service In and Glen Williams Mr Marshall said It Is possible to predict that changes might have to be made In the distant future bul there are no immediate plans for any at the present Georgetown residents will continue to receive their mall addressed in care of Georgetown Mall service will remain the same until we hear dif ferently the postmaster said FAMILY SPANS FIVE GENERATIONS firefighter will mark Fire Prevention Week displays at Ihe fall fairs are on with a special church agenda parade in Milton Sunday Her birthday was an opportunity for Mrs Lillian 28 John St to pose with five family generations From the left are Ricky Louth Mrs daughter Mrs Edith Hlllier Mrs holding Michelle Marie Louth six months daughter Mrs Jane Norton and her daughter Mrs Betty Louth Mrs Alcott has been a Georgetown resident since Study Traffic Lights For Norval Prevention Bureau About firefighters of the fire Jim Snow MPP for Halton traffic light be installed on of the problem and that a study the need there departments in the country are East and minister of govern Highway m the village of this intersection is un Snow stated that he feels expected to march from Milton ment services advised this Norval at the main in As soon as the new the Increased traffic Fire Hall to St Paul United week that he has held located at the post bridge Is completed turning iume mat me Church for the am discussions with Gordon office volumes will be taken with warranted con service with a band leading the carton minister of Iran Snow lo any miction is completed andthat parade and com traffic Dal terns that mav t n ii u Thia parade is held annually proposing that lhat his regional staff is a to draw attention to Fire ssffocW Moved Too Fast The bureau is also sponsoring its annual country wide fire prevention poster contest for grade five children during Mr said he expects traffic oil completed patterns that may again with the after the construction Is whe the results are Calling Recount minister when the results a received to urge early in On the basis of this new in stallation of controls formation a decision will be made as to whether traffic lights are warranted at this WALK WAIT location Mr Snow said that for Georgetown council moved a Mr said he expects or pedestrian who was picked up bit l Turaday the recount could be doney a me residents of have walking against a red gffiWJgss an manoeuvre calling for a ail Georgetown Headquarters Ask Police Chiefs Opinion On School Bus Resolution General committee of Georgetown council has referred to police Chief Floyd Schwa nil for comment on a resolution from the Town of Misslssauga is seeking support for a resolution calling for a change in provincial high way regulations thai would allow bus drivers to operate flashing signal lights when taking on or discharging passengers in speed zones below 3S p In Ontario traffic must stop for school buses picking up and letting off children in speed zones above m p when bus tights are flashing The 35 p cutoff rules out slopping for such buses in most municipal areas where top sppeds usually are no higher than m Coun Harry Levy said he thought the ministry of Iran and communications should take a look at the situation regarding school bus operation and rules for traffic Coun Phil said he felt he could endorse Ihe resolution if a municipality could regulate where school buses may or may not stop Commlltee chairman Hyde said he could see long traffic lie If motorists have to stop when meeting or overtaking school buses discharging or taking on riders in municipalities Most drivers are cautious about passing school buses he said Commissioner Graham today announced that the force will test the fourday hour work week com on or about Jan 1 In accordance with the memorandum of understanding with the Ontario Provincial Police Association four detachments of various sties will be selected for this study It is anticipated that the test will be for a period not ex six months Following this results will be evaluated as to the possible implements I ion throughout the force an allOntario fire prevention manoeuvre calling poster contest next spring judicial recount to Each fire department in Proceeded with as soon as is sponsoring its own fire prevention week programs Again council decision to For Escarpment Study program lire hall vote ai recorded I I Sn MPP l Niagara ana lo Terra Cotta Teen Si mSoiiiK Ward I East n escarpment and land In serve the residents realonalcmncllorvol services announced IMa vicinity a continuous natural southerly and northerly ex Is Fair Princess 5 Sod before leased premises have environment of the escarpment last week oblained In The premises com area An IB year old Terra r talnghl Niagara the whole the second girl Katrina Kulhay was aliened Escarpment Commission ftoor and part of the basement crowned Miss Erin Fair regularities In handling and totalling approximately Snow said that Ihe Saturday Miss Kulhay and her by legislature last June MO so ft space have been Georgetown location a logical princesses appeared during the council had The member commission leased Colossus choice or the commission s Monday 1 on hT lh Development Corporation man operations being ten fair and were Introduced from because lis W hlch owns and occupies the situated to the stand establish d perimeters of the escarpment is a student at J Mr Star or Dec 1 alzBGueiph will also be are extending between the secondary school lhe Hllll determine the use en lo determine the use established in vicinity of Niagara and Bruce peninsulas UNVEIL PLAQUE IN MEMORY OF GEORGETOWN SPORTSMAN Estimate Damage In Automobile Mishaps Eight hundred dollars liSAMountainviewRd damage was done to a car automobile mishap Sunday on driven by Eugene of John Street East Hamilton and to one A police report said the operated by Lome Hunter of car was east bound NEWS IN BRIEF HALTON REGION chairman Allan will be heading Tor western Canada the day after the first region council is sworn into office The chairman will be spending a week in Ed monton at a level conference to discuss federal provincial and municipal problems The Halton regional council inaugural meeting has been set for Oct IS In Burlington Central High School Council members will be sworn in by Ross Mac dona Id Ontario LieutenantGovernor COMMITTEE will recommend to Georgetown council thai Edward Nelson Real Estate be permitted to erect one sign atop a building at 106 Street and Movers and Storage not be permitted to erect a freestanding sign at 34B Guelph St The committee decided lhe DeBoer sign near High way would not be directly applicable to the motoring traffic TABLES of bridge were in play at lhe Georgetown Bridge Club Oct Winners were North South first Adams and Eric second Sue Sullivan and Nancy third VI and Fred Allen fourth Jim Hardy and Kwei fifth Sirred and S Keir East West tint Olive Logan and Flora Smith second Arthur Kwel and John Coats thlru Cam Sinclair and Campbell fourth and the firth Elsie and Don Covert and sixth Art orris and Del Wallace when the driver lost control of his Andrew Macdonald of Confederation Street Glen Williams suffered a lacerated hand in a single car mishap on the eighth line or Just south of Georgetown Saturdav morning He was a passenger in a car driven by Gary Glower of which skidded and hit an cm bankment coming to rest on its side Leonard of ft Georgetown and Olive of IS St drivers of involved in a collision list Thursday on near Brucewood A police report said Wilde car was slopped for traffic before making left turn when ruck behind Damage totalled Last Wednesday police in vestigated an accident on Main Street North Henry Street in which a car driven by Warwick Prince Charles Dr left road and hit a hydro pole Damage in this one was estimated MRS widow of Georgetown sportsman Patterson lifts the Canadian flag from a aim bearing a plaque In his honor The unveiling held at the Patterson Memorial Diamond in the fairgrounds John T Armstrong a member the lommittee responsible for arranging the tribute and Major Bill Smith addressed lhe gathering MEMBERS OF THE Georgetown Girls Pipe Band which Mrs Mart Patterson was instrumental in forming played at ceremony dedicating Scotly Patterson Memorial Diamond last Wednesday The ceremony a high point was the unveiling of a memorial plaqu on cairn built by Gerry who was a teammate of Patterson on the Georgetown Raiders hockey team and later played for him when he coached that club Adam Photography