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Home of Hills I THE HERALD Wednesday January a ills A Division of Canadian Newspapers Company Limited Main St South Georgetown Ontario PETER Publisher BILL JOHNSTON Editor PHONE 8772201 Clan Mall owl Speak now or forever pay bill A simple question How would you like to be earning per year A not so simple question How will you enjoy paying someone else that figure Well if the idea of handing your MP Dr Frank Philbrook a pretty sizable raise In pay does not strike you as being a warm and generous gift then speak up now or forever hold the cheque Dr is reportedly spending his holidays here in Halton You are within a telephone call of telling him exactly what you think of his stand in support of the 50 percent raise in salary for our elected representatives in Ottawa His home phone number by the way is in The percent figure says Dr is not really a 50 percent figure On sure should the bul pass MPs salaries will jump from to annually and their non taxable expenses will go from to Figuring that out it comes roughly to percent But and here lies our MPs logic when you calculate it over eight years the past four since the last pay raise and the next four for the lite of this parliament it really doesnt mean very much at all Balderdash Who in all the world of negotiations has ever taken such a point of view when asking for a raise If you are in fact the wise man whom we elected last summer Doc then you knew exactly what your new job as MP for uncalled and paid Even If you didnt and that we wouldnt believe at all after all how many jump into a new without first asking whats the pay like then you sure as heck since that hot and muggy victory night laBt summer havent had time to see what your expenses are going to be and not you are going to be able to make a living from the salary You Doc have jumped on the bandwagon There are many people who are sending their children to university on YEARS 1DYEAR8AGO A Georgetown Police Sergeant James died after a second heart operation at Toronto Western Hospital Mr Joined the Georgetown force in 1955 and was promoted to corporal within a year Lewis will serve a second term as Georgetown Fire Chief He was elected to office at the annual meeting at the Murray McMullen of Mclntyre Crescent was rushed to hospital following a accident that occurred on his way home from school slipped from a snowbank where he and a Into Simpson Scars delivery van was operated by a Toronto man The boy was treated and released from the Georgetown hospital YEARS AGO The recent annexation of lTZB acres will double the present size of the township ac cording to officials Survey work has begun for toe new development and a railway line Is underway provide access to the Industrial park planned for the north side of Highway Seven Bob escaped Injury when his car was struck by an CNR passenger train Mr was crossing the tracks located at the station on bis way to the Provincial Paper Mill The car braked to a stop at the station with the rear end still on the tracks damage was done to the car This week at Carrolls Peanut Butter cents Margarine lbs for cents Salmon a half lb 37 cents As of this year the fulltime teaching staff of Georgetown will reach an all time high A total of teachers are currently employed to if the children of serve the education a Harvey Nurse took first prize In the Corn Husking competition held during the fall Mr Nurse was one of contestants for the prize offered by CIL The announcement was made at a special banquet In The Georgetown Herald Soldiers Comfort Fund has a new total As of this date has been raised for the fund County children have collected bags of milkweed pods The pods contain the silky material that will replace kapok in the manufacture of life Jackets Kapok Is available normally from Java but with he Japanese seizure of the Island it Is impossible to gain access to the product This week at Carroll Tomato Soup A for cents Mustard J cents Cof fee S3 cents This week at The Gregory Theatre Seven Pays Ashore with Welly Brown and Gordon Oliver and as an added feature Jungle Woman starring Evelyn Ankers and Stone an annual salary much less than your present one Doc Certainly they have to scrimp and save and cut ends to do it but they nevertheless do it Here we are beginning a year already filled with talk of dire economic trends Ford right here in your own constituency is predicting a far from rosy year for its workers Other automobile related industries groan right along with them There you are asking for more Considering the governments stand on belt tightening shouldnt you as our representative practice a little of what your partys preaching As we said at the start if you as a normal citizen reading this feel rather displeased with the pay raise for MPs express your views Thus far this holiday Dr Is quoted saying hes had only a small amount of feedback from us Where we dont hear they agree he added Thats not what we hear Doc Let him hear the majority Wont work What has happened to the good old fashioned work ethic You know do a job and do it right Seemingly in these days of 40- hour weeks time and a half double time nine to five coffee breaks the whole idea of working til a job is done and making sure its done properly have gone by the Way i Is it any wonder that few people today really take any pride at all in their final product be it a plastered wall or an insurance policy When you have cut and dried it to the point of being totally meaningless and unfulfilling then a persons job is no longer an important part of his life But a job should always be an important part of someones life complete with headaches and hap piness Its something he spends his day doing Its something he gives a fair amount of effort to day in and day out week after week year after year When Its done right he should draw a great deal of satisfaction When its done wrong he must share the repercussions Only through a total relationship with a job does a person achieve total satisfaction To liken it to marriage mav be a bit extreme but if a person Is going to give to a the commitment should be just as strong as marriage Why these thoughts now Well we were talking to a good friend who works for a funded organization in Toronto all descriptions sounds really in teresting and involving During these past Christmas holidays he was en titled by all rights to four dayB off Well through a number of mixups and schedules mainly through a result of poor management la civil service she turned out spending only three or four days working Even at that when she was at work she was usually the only one there so really didnt bother doing her job Yet there was work to be done The change has not been hard to notice When she started her work there she was all energy and en thusiasm Now she couldnt really care whether she goes in at all On the other hand we know of someone who Is working for a small company whos working his heart out He works until the job is completed and correct If it means a little extra work without pay then he does it He loves It He looks forward to Monday Its nice to see t have guessed Ask me about August 22 Go ahead just ask me about it Well its a Friday Its in the fourth week of the month Its the 234 day of the year and there are days after it What day is the middle day of the year Well Im glad you asked There are actually two of them Tuesday July 1 is the 182 day of the year with 183 more to come Wed nesday July 2 is the day of the year with 1B2 to come All right I know youre won dering how I know all these really interesting facts and figures Youre also wondering why Im wasting your time and mine telling you about them The reason you see Is my desk I havent seen It for a couple of weeks now A flood of mail covers what I presume is still my desk I say presume because there have been others in this office coveting my desk They had a perfect opportunity over the holidays to make a switch without my even knowing it But dont tell them that Anyways filling a great deal of the space on my desk are calendars Not just two But well lets just say a lot of them I hate to start doing it but it has got to the point where Ive begun throwing them out That really hurts because I come from a family that every year got two calendars and two calendars only One was from our neighborhood grocer and the other was from our oil man These two calendars had im portant places reserved on our kit chen wall where day by day the Johnston clans activities were chronicled First thing to be marked were the five birthdays Not that anyone ever forgot them we were very liberal with our hints it was just a matter of making sure they were recorded Then would come any annual events such as the first and last days of school the church picnic the Boy Scouts bean supper the start of baseball season Well before you knew it that calendar was filled with pencilled in notes Always with a pencil because you never could tell what might happen between now and then Thats why it hursts to throw away some of this years flood of calendars We used to get the ones that only had one picture on it After looking at that freckled faced girl with her cat for 365 days its no wonder putting up a new calendar wasablgthing Any ways these days calendars are really something Those folks who make them are obviously sharp cookies Besides they really stick together The On tario Ministry of Correctional Ser- vices calendar says today is Wed nesday January 8 Burns Transport agrees as does this silly little calendar some fan sent As for Miss January she Is definitely in agreement The award this year they all agree that its for the most appreciated calendar goes to the company the heating ah conditioning and construction material folks who located one of their branches hero In Georgetown Boehmers is marking years in business and as a means of marking the event commissioned six artists to depict scenes which Its customers might recognize or would recall with Its an exceptionally fine one which Im tempted to do something extra with such as framing a few of the 12 sketches Particularly worthy of note are three by Marlene Jotfriet A graduate of Canterbury College of Art England she now lives In Guelph For the collection she has drawn Hall on the campus of the University of Guelph the old school at West Montrose and the century old Mill at Rock- wood Well done Its nice to get something like that in the morning mail Speaking of odd Christmas This I borrowed from the Mercurys notebook Strangest Christmas present In Guelph this year was a lighter which when the switch is pressed down doesnt burst into flames but instead a little red arrow pops up and points to the nearest person who has a match Another Dig selling Christmas gift idea in Guelph was a bottle of a new chlorine deodorant for people who want to think they have a swimming pool Nothing like doing a full job Seems some thieves in Oakville werent just satisfied with siphoning gas from a car owned by a fellow by me name of Rodney Rondeau They took the entire tank from his car which was parked in his own driveway Hey did you know Victoria Day Is on a Monday this year promise not to promise to promise not to promise During all the years I have fan cied myself a columnist Ive made it a practice to start the first column of the new year with a long series of New Years resolutions Ive always felt this was a great way to commit myself to my own resolutions After all make a resolution and tell nobody about it and in the end you dont have to believe in your own mind that you really made the resolution Notwithstanding all that I wont let you in on too many of my resolves Instead Ill repeat the best of the year- end jokes Ive picked up If anyone out there wishes to send it to the Readers Digest and pass Go and collect thats fine with me The joke Little Elizabeth age five is telling littly Joy age six a joke has learned from a tv program It goes Adam and Eve and went on a picnic They arrived at a river and sat down to nave their lunch But was not allowed to swim so soon after lunch So Adam and Eve went by themselves together And guess what a big wave by PETER came and swept them under So who was left Thus far Elizabeth The answers from Joy Who was left God and Satan Thats who was left said Joy who escaped a pinch and showed she had been i paying attention to the Bible All of which reminds me of a publisher I once worked for who said Brouwer keep writing news stories Youll be able to make a living doing that please stay away from the humor Now for the resolutions I promise to maintain the delicate balance required of any newspaperman with two wives Ive been marritd to one for years and to the other one only since September and Im not which of the two will be giving most headaches this year With a little bit of luck the Helen will understand when the Herald has a headache and the Herald will understand when the Helen is at the point where has lost all respect and understanding and compassion for her rival I also promise not to make any more promises I cant keep Just a few editions back I promised to tell all about our Herald staff party I doit Except to say that both Herald and Helen had a very good time in- deed and that the giant frontpage that hung in the Heralds front office for a few dayB really true