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HERALD Home Newspaper of Halton Hills THE 1IFRALD AUGUST 1B75 A Division of Canadian Newspapers Company Limited 103 Mam St South Georgetown L7G Ontario WILLIAM Publisher Second CI Mill Registered Number New riding strikes out on 3 counts So you thought you were having trouble somehow feeling connected even remotely to the political scene In Oakvllle Well how would you feel about being Involved In a campaign to elect an AAP for Thornhlll Maple King City Bolton or Caledon Those from right to left are gome of the larger centres In the newly revised federal riding as proposed last week by the Federal Electoral Boundaries Commission of Ontario In which Georgetown Is Included The composltlln of the proposed riding Is In two words utterly ridiculous Another perfect example of bad bureaucratic blunder This proposed new riding from uat west of Georgetown north through Caledon and King and over to the eastern edges of the town of Vaughan For those who may not be completely sure of where Vaughn Is It lies north of and North York Once again we are seeing how little government take into consideration we the people when It comes to decisions Their total premise behind their few misdirected swipes on the else toral map seems to have been to come up with a certain population total In this case They forgot to consider such things as distance social and economic similarities and historical development of each area On all three of those points the new riding falls By rough approximations calculate the distance from west to east to be about miles Head north to Include Caledon on your tour of this proposed riding of Ha I ton Peel and you can tack on another IS miles We pity the poor federal politician trying to provide close contact with the constituents of Hal ton Peel would be to say the least extremely difficult As far as a common economic and social basis Is concerned we can only ask what does the rural populace of have In common with suburban Thornhlll What does Georgetown have In common with Snowball a small village In King Finally the historical growth patterns of the three different areas- Georgetown and King and Vaughn are widely different We have been connected strongly with Caledon with Peel and King and Vaughn with York The provincial boundary change brought about by regional govern at least Identified that In of Interests This proposed change totally Ignores It Have we not had enough of this governmental re shuffling our political setups In the past two years In two years weve seen our municipal riding structure totally eradicated our provincial riding grossly altered and now theyre trying to slice our federal riding And for whose benefit Not for those of us in these slower growing pockets around Toronto no sir Were changing to allow rapidly expanding urban centres such as Brampton and Burlington gain better represen left Is nothing more than those areas that dont fit Into the suburban centres Lump them all together and you have the Imperfect solution Peel The federal riding of Halton is not the epitome of a good riding but at least If workable Halton Peel Is not even that October Is the day that Halton residents can air their dissatisfaction before the commission We urge you to do so Good time We hope all you Doubting Thomases were around Main Street sometime during this past weekend If you werent you missed some good times good food good people and plenty of good fun Our proverbial pat on the back goes to the Downtown Business Association for organizing the whole affair plus a specially hearty one to all those people who took part Never let It be said that this town cant lump when It wants to As always we have to throw our two cents In How about getting a few more of the town service clubs Involved A bingo game Is always a great attraction as are a few games of chance The purpose In future Pioneer Days we hope will be to draw more of the town Into Its planning and By the tremendous response shown this year Its obvious that Pioneer Days could be with the Fall Fair one of the annual highlights of town life In Georgetown it should grow to be more than merely another downtown promotion and the way to do that Is to get the entire town Pioneer Days 1975 was an obvious display of how many people would be willing to visit downtown Georgetown If there was an enticing gimmick to draw them here Once here were sure they found that the people along Main Street can be very friendly THt Queens Park Comments Big Blue Machine running quietly BY Queen Park Bureau The Herald The Big Slue Machine has decided to don a mask for this election The Tory s powerhouse organization which got so much publicity in both for the premier and itself his time apparently has decided that both should be more low profile On the campaign tour there is no gaudilydecorated bus or aircraft as in other years Commercial flights are to be used where possible On other occasions planes and buses will be chartered by the day Also there will be no bonds or girl cheerleaders along with the leader This of course is partly a bow to inflation In these times of high prices and high government spending a campaign such as the party conducted In would look It would also would be aimed at reflecting the government claim that it has been prac Using economy FIGHT SUBSTITUTED The party election council apparently decided that this time fight would be sub stituted for flair In this election to date the premier has been very much in a fighting mood Bob Nixon of course gave him an opportunity to get publicly mad with his crack about integrity and he has maintained the impetus that opening gave him The contrast to is strong Then the premier was Mr Nice Guy This down t mean that the Blue Machine it also has added a touch of yellow this hard at work and as potent as ever It is its just that the strategy has changed After Labor Day we probably will see more evidence of he old methods and be more aware of its presence The campaign is expected to really peak following the holiday and by then the wraps will be off advertising under the new Elections Act vertlsing is rettrlcted to the last three weeks of the cam palgn Problem Stephen Lewis has a tricky problem in devising his strategy The NDP leader aim has to be to become the official op position He has no dreams of winning the election This means undermining the Liberals But if he does too good a job he could be defeating himself For the Liberals are ex peeled to take away Con votes And this will include ridings In which if the PC are cut down the could win So just how far can Lewis go in tils own Interest In attacking the Grits Election notes Stephen Lewis is playing a very cosy and subtle cam He is very cool on the surface almost taking the election tightly But behind the front he Is getting in his shots For example he says he intends to concentrate his whole attack on the govern ment And does attack it in various fields such as housing and environment But then he says he t bothering about the liberals because they area worth it Which attack hurts the most and registers most with the public the leader visited This is one of the few areas In the province where the party is considered to have a good chance of making ad Michael Cassidy Is con sldcred a sure thing to hold his Ottawa Centre seat And it Is believed that Evelyn Glgantes has a good chance of dropping Liberal Paul Taylor in Carleton East Taylor defeated a CBC worker in the byelection last winter But she Is personable and respected and people on the scene say that this time around she will probably defeat him Another gain is in where Ellis Mornlngstar has retired Mayor Allan is to replace him as the Con candidate But he will be opposed for the by Mel Swart Swart has run in the riding twice and gave Mornlngstar who had an extremely strong grip on he riding close fights In ho came within a few hundred votes It is also said that John Turner the sitting Con member in Peter borough may have his troubles with the NDP He is being opposed by Gill Sandcman a wellknown and popular local woman In each of these ridings the Liberals are being rated as automatic thirds The two Tory veterans of the legislature have no inclination to get out Wally Downer who has been here since 1837 at tune of writing is after his Dufferln nomination again though he is being opposed by George McCague While Jim Allan in bis eighties Is In the field again In Norfolk Years Ago New seats for the towns arena the flics the Herald Perhaps one of the oldest buildings in town will be destroyed if there ore no In teres ted buyers willing to pay for the building The old blacksmith shop presently stands on the Beaver Lumber property on Water Street The by 50foot building Didnt they look nice One of the more elegant couples rolling Main Street Saturday happened say with a certain own reporter photographer Doris Llndaner and Richard While Richard was bny clicking the abutter to get the many photos you see elsewhere In today paper Doris lending a band In the Judging of the best which considering the many beautiful out flu we saw on the street through out the three clays could not have been an elect Ion was used primarily as a blacksmith shop for the Grand Trunk Railway and was believed to be built by Georgetown founder George Kennedy The Georgetown Public Library will be opening In the mornings on a rial basis beginning in September Until that time the library had conducted business In the afternoon and evenings only The Georgetown Citizens Band will be in competition with five other t this year Canadian National Exhibition The Georgetown band has not competed at the CNE since When school resumes in just a few short weeks students attending Joseph Gibbons Public School from the Anne and Ontario Street area will not have to walk up the narrow Ontario Street Hill but will be bussed by the Board of Education Parents of the area con with the safely of their children had hoped the town would Install a walk to assist those children who will not be bussed from their homes to Holy Cross School and Slcwarttown Two Georgetown lads Robert and Roger Street were sworn in as officer cadets the Royal Military College in Kingston Once they have completed their course of In struct ion they will become The County AllStar Baseball Association presented Marlon Biggs and Mrs Anderson with a television set and transistor radio Bob Neil also of Georgetown won a prize In the annual draw Lois McNabb of has won he Bursary in the amount of for eon Uniting education at any In of her choice TFNYfcAHSAGO Patrons of the Georgetown Memorial Arena will have the comfort of a theatre as the new seals were Installed this past week Altogether there arc seals of the molded wood Up up type complete with arms The new seals were pur chased at a price of cents each Con men have struck In ihc Georgetown area preying on elderly citizens by posing as bonk inspectors requesting cash be taken from current accounts and held at the home of the account holder A second man posing as a police officer picks up the cash to be red epos ted and is never seen again Police have advised that anyone receiving telephone calls from a bank Inspector are to notify the police immediately Tht the same deal as the other schools in Georgetown received when purchasing land for Ihelr newest school In the Del rex subdivision A letter read to council in dlcates that another school paid for five acres The current price for land that the school Is considering is an acre Georgetown area customers may be able to call Milton if the toll free dialing area is expanded as predicted by a representative of Bell Canada The fall of 1067 has been the date for introduction of the plan Joan Bealy Nancy Hunter and Barbara Evans will take part in the recitals held at the Canadian National Exhibition Music Auditorium The free recitals arc open to the public and will feature the girls In Irio duet and solo numbers FN YEARS AGO The final Grade 13 gradual ion list was released by the deportment of education this week On top of ihclist was Carolyn Bichn with an average of 3 percent for Ihc nine papers she wrote Miss Bichn also qualifies for Ihc scholarship offered by the Ontario Education pari will be entering the University of Western Ontario Council decided that Wcsleyan Street may be Gcorgetowns only one way thorough fare Discussion of the traffic pattern on Main Street and paking problems prompted the decision Over will be spent on a sewage lift facility to serve Ihe new industrial park In east Georgetown Approval for the expenditure must come from the Ontario Municipal Board before work begins Direct Distance Dialing or DDD equipment has been installed in London to cover Kitchener and Acton under the new area code of The conversion is part of the new system to be used by world wide to permit customer dialing of any location Its preventable Drowning in most cases is an event that should never take place Panic is probably the greatest factor contributing to lack of aquatic skill and knowledge There is really no excuse for such occurrences and here are a few Red Cross tips which If followed might waterproof vour family 1 Everyone Including mom and dad should take swimming lessons Not only do you learn swimming skills but at every level from to seniors self survival and techniques are taught When cottaglng boating canoeing skiing etc follow the common sense water safety rules such as wearing a Ufejacket supervising small children no horse play etc Write or contact the local Red Cross branch for pamphlets on water safety If you have never had the op portunity to learn these rules 3 Always set a good example for the younger ones follow Thcyaresuretoimitateyourbehavfour Plan ahead for emergencies Have the proper equipment available and know what you would do in various situations Don t wall until it happens to think about it IS Learn rescue breathing