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the HERALD Home Newspaper of Halton Hills THE HERALD MARCH 4 A vision of Canadian Newspaper Limited Main St South Georgetown L7G Ontario W1LI Publisher Ij Mall Number 1 Calculators must be studied The Calculator Crisis or What s 2 and Good titles for books in vestigating the short and long term affects of allowing students to supplement their own thinking facilities with those pocket calculators However there are no such books and there are no such studies Yet Halton students are racing headon into the computer age For a board that so generously supports studies on almost all aspects of education including that very fine document on the affects of television on school children we find it amazing that the Halton Board of Education has not considered an investigation of how calculators should be utilized in classrooms But there hasn been any such research ore now being allowed to use the machines in math classes We feel that educational ches like that are detrimental to students They re not being fully challenged in handling problems when they re allowed to turn lo an alternative means of thinking This matter is almost as serious in its long term affects as those resulting from values education In fact one seems to be weighing against the other One is teaching students to rationalize more competently while the other one is supplying an aid so that they don have to Yet we don hear any cries from parents about the introduction of those 98 calculators into the teaching methods of Halton Mar WITH Who can you trust Viewpoint Many people really don t un derstand some of the strange deals that are going on down at the region That the region for you is about all the comment that our reports and stories about Halton region really generates If anyone should even remotely believe that a single tier form of regional government that idea keeps cropping up at the region is going to promote a closer relationship bet ween people and government they had better talk to Halton Hills citizens But that off the topic which is some of the conniving that goes on at the region Like the request last week that be spent on acquiring land for a new operations centre for Oakville and Burlington works departments down and how much more to come Think of the savings one suggested Into one facility could be combined all the personnel that are presently struggling along in seven different locations in alone Putting up one super southern centre would provide a facility into which all of those poor disbanded souls could go After that initial pitch with visions of savings dancing before their eyes councillors were beginning to see the need tor such a building But then thanks goodness Oak ville Mayor Harry Barrett hap pened to point out that of the seven Oakville facilites four sewage plants waterworks would still have to be staffed Who would be going to the new operations centre A small fact but one that made all the difference Council voted down the 10 There no moral to all this It just goes to show you what kind of leadership we are getting down there If you can trust your councillor who can you trust Geisha boy for hire Gerry Its lime tor potpourri a feature of this column In potpourri we travel the globe o bring you a sometimes serious and more often than not not so serious longue incheck look Ihiswonderful wacky world around us First we re off to good old London where we find a strange and fcrcnt group of Individuals The Royal Society of Birds has hired a nw assistant manager Mr A Bird If that a not tacky enough for you he Joins a staff which In eludes Barbara Buzzard John Partridge Cello Peacock and Dorothy Rook I have a deep down feeling that he personnel manager for the Royal Society is or the birds Now let us trip over to a country with a long history of where a woman place really should be Japan Is the home of the famous geisha girls whose purpose in life is to bring pleasure to the male the species Are you ready for this has gone On The Home Front Happy Canada Goose Day by Susan DeFacendls However cynical and disbelieving we may be spring is undoubtedly hovering on the brink of making Its shy debut It is visible in the first tiny cracks In the wll heralding the first growth of a tulip bulb a whisoer of something In the air prom promising It is In the Increased frenetic activity of the birds arid in an occasional lost or wan ray of sunshine that vividly and briefly alights upon dirty window panes and bestows a beneficent although as yet fickle kiss upon your face should you venture outside for a the However I have yet to Years A Hardware moves from Main From the file of the Herald Five Years Ago Council plans to have a plebiscite on liquor lounges In May will face a delay and the earliest possible date tor the vote will be September According to finance chairman Reeve Morrow the cost of the vote has been budgeted at Georgetown Novice A hockey team became Tri County League champions Friday night in Preston The locals scored a victory over Preston Novices to gain the crown In two straight gomes A hardware store for close to a century on Georgetown Main Street Thompson Hardware made its last sale In Its old locale on Saturday The store purchased In October 1969 by Howard Is being combined with his Lumber Mart business at the 17 Sldoroad and the Tenth Line Two new doctors hove set up offices In town over the past tew weeks Dr Phillip Mead and Alexander Fumes Mead opened his office recently at Young Street and Dr hag set up his practice at 3 Maple Ave the same location as Dr J Martin Ten Yean Ago J Leonard Lambert who retired last year after 30 years as principal of Georgetown District High School Is rcturing to hla profession in September Ho has cepted a position as principal of Stirling Rawdon District High School in Stirling Minister Georgetown First Baptist Church for the past seven and a half years Rev Lloyd Whan B A D announced to his congregation Sunday that he has accepted a position with the Ontario Deportment of Reform Institutes as chaplain at Mi 11 brook a maximum security prison south of Peter borough Whistling Buoy the horse on which two Smith and Stone employees Fred Dickenson and Don held a joint Irish Sweepstakes tickets ran out of the money In the Lincolnshire steeple chase run yesterday The staff at the Royal Bank had no trouble Idnetlfying one stronger when he appeared at the teller wicket last week to cash a cheque It was Gordon Sinclair radio and TV personality Fifteen Years Ago CoOp sales exceeded the million dollar mark for the first time in the com pony history last year It was announced at the annual member dinner in Sic wart town Hall held recently The annual meeting In the election of directors and the presentation of six past president pins A total of accident two persons In and 10 In property damage v reported by North in the month of February To date the toll Li accidents six injured no fatalities In properly damages Glen Williams resident Myrle drove to Ottawa with Mr and Mrs Sandy Best to attend the Progressive Conservative convention held Thursday to Saturday evening Mr Held was one of the delegates definitive moment when I personally can say This is it That moment or me Is to witness the return of the geese It was really because of my feelings for them that I became a Canadian citizen It may be a totally Irrational way of making a decision but from the first time I saw them winging their way across an enormous charted sky they captured my Imagination and my heart A change in citizenship is unquestionably a major decision not one to be embarked upon lightly After all one can always change hoes hair colouring and husbands but how often do you change your nationality Comparable to the total dedicated sobriety of a reformed drunkard however nothing can be more nationalistic than a new Canadian and to me there is no other living creature that typifies Canada more As a new citizen I now feel legally en titled to pass an opinion on a suitable name far the mid winter holiday a name game that everyone seems to be playing these days and I would like to see It called Canada Goose Day Their unwavering flight southward marked by the sound of their mela honking warns us of the impending winter Time to put the storm windows up Time to dean the furnace Time to burrow down to the warmth of a fire and dream dreams of a summer past The Joyful long anticipated return north ward or the geese releases us all from the death like grip of winter into the fullness of spring Spring a season when every minute is precious because of its fleeting quality Unlike the beaver or the moose who remain in their northern havens these large splendid birds can by seen by the city as they travel over our territory Their long passage over cities and villages Is marked by the erics of the children calling heir parents outside to seo the flight of the geese The sight of tho strength beauty and freedom of these birds never falls to bring a lump to my throat Their strength represents l Li we need to make the vaitneas of his varied country one Canada Their beauty Is the beauty of our healthy growing children Their freedom Is our to pursue those things we believe to be They indeed typify Canada To me they ore a magnificent part of my Canada They should have their day women lib and is sporting over establishments filled with Re Una boys Can you believe if Vivo la liberation We ve oil heard the old maxim of the guy who would steal his grandmothers false teeth Well police in A are on the lookout for a devilish rogue who has stolen his girl friends glass eye and is apparently holding it for a ransom Felicia Williams claims that her boyfriend demanded money and when she refused he hit her and plucked out Iter glass eye sure that with her one good eye that left our friend wonders what she ever did see in him Now its time to go down under to where Australian rancher has a unique method of Identifying his spouse His wife apparently has his cattle brand tattooed on her buttocks One comment here is that If she ever rustled he s sure be able to pick her out of the maddening crowd And happy round up to you too Over to America now where In Boston we hear the sod story of Joseph who feels that life has always dealt with him from Joseph feltthat he just lake it anymore and decided to end It all He Jumped from the Broadway Bridge but you guessed It fate was against him again The tide was out and he landed In mud right up to his neck He is now In the Boston City Hospital where we hope for his sake fate takes a turn for the belter Here weirdie from Fort Wayne Fire Inspector William was making a routine check of a local pet store What he found however was far from routine The basement had some alligators and crocodiles rooming freely In cages were deadly snakes and hundreds of nils and mice The ire inspector had the store license revoked because the animals presented a threat to the lives of firemen should a fire occur 1 can see it all now The entire department Station No was devoured today be alligators as fire swept through a local pet store Who sold that truth was stranger than fiction Off to Washington where the Bolivian government wants to buy pounds of rabbit Hope you re ready for this one The hair will be used to produce hats by the Bolivian hat Industry You know the old hat out of a rabbit trick Our last bit of stuff and nonsense is no and dime matter It happened in Metro when Laura Conlgllo was charged with theft of approximately Forth thousand dollars stolen from parking meters over the past four years She made a regular deposit of between and of rolled coins a week at her local bank Can you Imagine what the net take Is from all the meters Nickels and dimes add up to an belie cable amount of money dldyou mokeyour We wilt close this week with words of wisdom from the Moharishl Sometimes Yogi who will be a new feature of this column The Moharishl has come to expense spared to offer words of wisdom on the riddles of life 1 m sure we are all dying to hear what he has to say This week he says Remember that as the wneel of life keeps turning it is wise not to get one lingers caught In the spokes T hanky Moharishl Till next week keep on smiling Thirty days hath Inflation has hit Ihc number of days In a year That old saying Thirty days hath Sep tember quite Jibe with a pocket calendar put out by the Toronto Dominion lank There In green and while li Saturday April 31 followed Immediately by Saturday May I One the Herald tales reps was trying fix up taring holidays using the calendar when he reallied alter many an argument over the departure dates that the calendar was wrong We ve all heard about those notorious bank holidays but two on one day Queens Park Commentary On Parliament Hill- Ottawa afire over the Judges Scandal By Stewart MacLeod Ottawa Bureau Of The Herald OTTAWA Prime Minister may hove committed an enormous political blunder in rejecting the resignation of but opposition parties t be too quick to predict the pending doom the Liberal government Assuming a general election Is two years away how many voters will still be talking about the socalled judges affair And with the government holding a solid majority in the Commons there is Utile the combined opposition can do to force vote At the moment Parliament Hill Is afire with more excitement than any time since the scandals of the mid 1960 politicians and commentators ore busy comparing the current case with the great pipeline debate of 1950 The Liberal govern ment of Louis St Laurent fell one after that debate But until there is some evidence that Mr Trudcau rejection of the resignation will send a wave of Indignation across the country it is difficult to draw any com pan sons Within the rarefied atmosphere of Ot It is all too easy to mlstakmgly predict what will be a national Issue In the next election But until we hear back from fisherman In Come- By Chance apple pickers In bus drivers In Kirk and Lake who really There are not that many voters In official Ottawa It was an incredible performance 1 Just can believe it said one loyal ministerial aide as he left the Commons and announced he was going on a monumental binge The resignation should have been While few people would question basic integrity and everyone would agree with Mr Trudeau when he talked of the minister s long and valued service to Canada the act is he acted with impropriety in pro aching a Judge about a case before him Can you Imagine what might happen truck driver if he approached a judge behalf of a buddy No Mr there can be standard Tor the influential and another standard for the non Influential at least in in a just society Should Be 1 tie This Is not to suggest the rejected resignation should not be an issue even stunned many of his supporters by arbitrarily deciding that Mr should stay in the cabinet the act he made representations to a judge behalf of cabinet colleague Andre Ouellet Although Mr did not do anything technically Illegal Chief Justice Jules of the Quebec Superior Court referred to the minister action as grave Mr took the only course open to him He stood In Ihc Commons apologized for what he had done and announced he had tendered his resignation And the personal tributes from opposition leaders were still ringing in his ear when Mr rose am announced he was rejecting the resignation Could Be Temporary The least the prime minister should have done was to accept the resignation and if he felt it necessary he could rcappolnt Mr to cabinet at a later dote It will be recalled that Ontario Premier William Davis accepted the resignation of former provincial treasurer McKeough in 1972 after the minister was questioned about certain land transactions Mr was re appointed to the cabinet within a year and there was scarcely an opposition mumu The principle had been upheld But while there appears to be unanimous opinion that Mr Trudeau did do the right thing the question remains can the opposition do lo keep the Issue alive until the next election It s going to be exceedingly difficult There can by boycotts filibusters and general parliamentary obstruction but only for a matter of weeks Otherwise regardless of the issue Involved there will be certain backlash against holding up parliamentary business Opposition parties would be placed in the position to justify their actions And without overwhelming public support filibustering tactics would fizzle I really don think he Mr will be able to slip away from this one says Conservative Leader Joe Clark We 11 sec but two years is a long time to maintain an Issue And if Mr now approaching is not a candidate in the next election haw many people will care about his brief resignation It will be Interesting to watch Aggregate industry an important business BY DON OH Queen Park Bureau most of us a sand or gravel truck Is just a nuisance that we meet along a highway Very few of us even If we bothered would recognize It as one of our major In tries In the province Yet the fact is that sand and gravel or aggregates rank right up there with the top products In our economy Last year more than 100 million tons sand and gravel were produced in the province With a delivered value of more than million this was nearly twice the dollar value of Canada gold production HACK Like so much else of the economy the aggregate Industry is In a bit of trouble these Unlike other industries it Is In constant need expansion For It is at he base of all our building program Without sand and gravel you simply don build And though the economy be lagging the building has been pressing ahead This has been a constant demand for more and more aggregate And the industry has been strained to provide it one reason being that It Is held back MUCH The hold back comes In that the quarries and pits which provide the aggregate are under municipal development control And a good many local planning authorities have been reluctant to authorize new pits Operators under provincial direction have much to clean up their act Most gravel pits today are screened and have ambitious long term plans for restoration when their mining has been completed Within the Industry in fact there is quite an enthusiastic spirit towards rehabilitation with some quite ambitious schemes being worked out But local authorities tend to keep In mind only the old type of operation Or perhaps some local citizens get alarmed at potential noise and make ob jections In any event there is considerable holdup at the local level Usually It Is overcome But this may take some years And in the meantime In an In dm try which must be constantly planning ahead this can mean seven drawbacks