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Mile FailteA hundred thousand welcomes If you haven begun to practice your bun- yet you better start practicing now The first annual Highland Games are only days away and youll definitely feel at a disadvantage if you can pronounce the caber properly this Saturday in the Georgetown Fairgrounds With an ever vigilant eye on the sky members of the Games organizing com will proudly tell you that they have got one planned for the debut of the Games here In Hills Having worked vigorously to move the games lo this area from Brampton the organizing committee have spent an equal amount of effort in putting together a full schedule of events hat should Dm teresting for Scoto and nonScots alike In any Game Scottish dancing and pipe band competitions will be the centre of attention The Speyside Games organizers presently expect close to entrants In the dance competitions and some bands in the piping and drumming But thai not all There be tossing the caber a wee bit of pole similar In size to a fair sized telephone pole putting a contest called a farmer walk As well there II be war com petitions including a match which has been dubbed the Wind Versus the Sawbones contest pitting the might and muscle of our local councillors against a team of local doctors A sheep dog competition complete with live sheep will also be taking place throughout the day long Games Although the day will begin bright and the opening ceremonies will take place at 12 following a small parade from Remembrance Pork to the The Games Chieftain MPP Jim minister of transportation and com will officially open the first Games Programs on sale on the grounds will not only provide notes local interest plus history of the Scottish Games but will also of it three lucky holders opportunities to win To help as many people as possible see Die Games the organizers have distributed free tickets to all senior citizens on record in Georgetown and area as well as all elementary school age children in Georgetown Acton and area the WEDNESDAY JUNfc Home Newspaper of Halton Hills Vandals hit EFCO as strike enters its 13th week 2 worth of plate glass windows il strikebound Economy Forms Company last This scene is For the second time since local the Steel Workers walked off the job at Forms Corporation In March 12 to back contract demands vandals have struck he plant Following talks which broke down lost Thursday nine plate glass windows win smashed Friday morning As well black paint or tar was splattered on two windows Plant manager Tom estimated the damage at about he said In an I don think strangers broke the win nor do think the action represents the majority opinions of union people he d The vandalism represents a small minority with malicious intelligence he Lot a I president id in i interview Hint the broken windows were nnliuous I hope its not of our group he aid but the w fall of course on hi I don like teeing any of it he added The first incident of vandalism occurred at the strikebound pi March when vandals broke into plant and caused in damages According to Benolt three issues art at Ihe heart of the inability of the Union and management to come to in acceptable agreement wages length of the contract and foremen working The union is sticking to its demands for a an hour across the board increase In both years if a contract it is seeking The average wage at the time of the strike wis per hour The morale of the men is extremely ligli t noil said don I want lo bend to a Ihrce year programme I what Moines wants said refemi g to the head office of in the United Motes we re slaying firm on a two programme Hut we are open proposals by the company he went on We re looking to Smith and Stone inside workers ratify contract Office workers represented by local of the Auto Workers ratified by a vote a three yeir contract with Smith aid Stone Ltd list Friday The biggest breakthrough in the contract the union team told the bargaining unit wis the elimination of merit in wages on management The member until will get wage in creases on a schedule beginning with three months seniority and ending at months in their three year contract There are nine classifications which will be raised 4 percent in the first year percent In the second year and percent in Hie third year plus a cost of living allowance In that translates to between to BOpcrmonth increase he first year to 45 the second and co the third year Ihe old pay rule went from minimum of 467 to i m of 92G per month covering positions from typist to draftsman industrial engineering technician The cost of clause is based on a per increase on each r in the Consumer Price Index starting with PI for May 197C and following the previous to the term of the According to the settlement Smith and Stone will incorporate per m nth into the monthly salary cost of living paid quarterly In the first year the cap will be 65 per quarter In the second and third years of the contract the cap will be pa quarter and not to exceed by the end of the Other highlights I the contract which was worked out in eight meetings beginning May 7 and ending i i morning in in of tour a hill urs wh brings office workers line plant workers llercavcmenl to kith i grandparent Shift premiums mcreised cents cents for day and shifts re spec llecognizcd holiday include Dominion Day Labour Day Thanksgiving Day and Christmas week Weekly i dcmi ily for sickness and I 80 same plunl workers I 1 per month of Negotiating for the on were Harry local president unit Scott Mike committee members and Bur llirg intern representative of the I V or the company were W I- and G Stephens The was the fourth negotiated in Ihe pasl ten years TWO ACTOrs Andrew ind Gordon were presented with the special District Commissioners Award by retiring DC Gord Douglas it last Thursday nights North Awards Nigh held in Andrew and who ire both memhers of 1st Cub were acknowledged by Mr Doughs to lead very involved lives their family torn and Scouting activities We all like ice cream You scream We scream We all scream for Ice During Pioneer Days kids of all ages may bo screaming about end for ice cream as a old fashioned Ice Cream Ealing Contest on the agenda Sponsors of the event a first for Pioneer are Dairy Bar Keen Dairy up in Erin and the Herald Meres how ft works Eliminations will take place over the next couple of weeks at on Mill Street timer ore Sunday June 13 from to Sunday June again from 1 to A pjo ana Wednissday June from 7 to 30 The elimination tines shall be the elapsed time from the starter signal until contestant swallowed a threescoop Manilla ice cream cone Including the cone Am- taimev contestants will be divided jot die categories depending upon their age and sex The categories are Female under 10 and males under 10 to la and over 18 The holders of the best times In the eliminations will then get down to Homo serious ice cream eating on Saturday June as part the downtown Pioneer This time they lace the challenge of gobbling down one of Dave Kentner sundae delights in as quick a time as possible Adding a little excitement to the event will be a special Invitational Ico Cream Eating Contest details of which will be revealed later Besides a lot of fun the event Is also going to be a fund raising event as there will be a cent charge to enter eliminations which will go to a Icoal charily Oh In case of a tie there II be a further Eat Off An entry form for Iho contest will be found elsewhere in today s Herald After being served expropriation notices last week from Ontario Hydro and hearing from a local councillor and a lawyer who represents a similar groun of ex landowners what to expect in heir dealings with Hydro affected property owners proposed along the strip in Hills pledged financial support to lire a lawyer to represent them The action took place last Wednesday the second day Ontario Hydro had published expropriation notices in local papers it a meeting held by the Interested Citizen Group of Hilton Hills at the community centre in 7 were present Councillor Dick wholivcs near the trip told residents it was no use in refusing to icccpl the notices expropriation because hey could be sent by registered letter and deemed to have been served two lays dale i mailing He said thai landowners served with expropriation notices had days in which to request a hearing determine if the of the land was folr sound and reasonably necessary Whether you send it in or not is up to you Mr said However the ministry energy which is Ontario Hydro to expropriate is not bound to follow the recommendation of tic hearing officer he added Supporl or the demand of the Interested Citizens Group dial there be an independent of the line from Bradley to Georgetown is increasing William Mann chairman of the ICG told the Hills chapter I Wednesday that die Ontario Liberals and the New Democratic Parly had pledged heir support for an independent study of line along the affected strip of land Hydro ib ex in Hills heard Mr Mann llsl the growing number of supporting ICG imong them Central Ratepayers of Agriculture Probe the University Women Club agricultural Wade associations and some municipalities He said the ICG was keeping pressure on Dennis minister of energy and On lario Hydro The ICG questioned the legality of the decision which allowed Ontario Hydro to proceed In the construction the line and caused the notices to be delivered lo irea residents along the strip II may be the first time people along the route here have been exposed to a large forceful group such as On Hydro he said Hydro people arc running ip and down the corridor Contd page some agreement As for the issue of foremen working said thai the old contract allowed farcment lo spend only five percent of their doing work which could be done by union workers It works out to two hours per week The article in he former contract has been abused said The foremen were working four or five hour shifts two or three times a week Ihe place of a labourer or machine opcrolor job he said Talks are at a stalemate now said There no future unless Ihcy are prepared meet out demands However in my opinion said Tom we re not that apart Vie vc offered more than vc for he said They want their worst fears taken core of and we tried give them guarantee for their worst fears He said that a month the union wanted wage increases of 1O10 percent respectively in a hrec year agreement The company s offer is a percent increase in the first year and 7 percent in the second and third years with a guaranteed too percent living increase if the COLA exceeded percent said under a given set of circumstances our offer equals or exceeds demands They re afraid the cost of living won t go high enough he said Ah for foremen doing work which could be done union men an absolute prohibition opens a pandora box said We don want foremen working nor a bunch of problems Brrothcrton negotiations begun in Sep tember 1975 said but after nine months the positions taken are harder and harder to sustain he said Its harder to get together after you sep irate be said although no one has said b other side that we have reached the end he lint Meanwhile men are still on the line week in strike aid locals in Milton Pickering offered an Ihe line in lieu of financial support although fuanclal support Is coming to the even from inside workers at Ihe plant added 1 is been set yet for a resumption negotiations children poisoned In he past months ten local toddlers have had close calls They were referred to Ihe emergency departments of area hospitals for ingesting sons including motorcycle paint thinner perscrlplion drugs ind the like There were no fatalities reports public health nurse Tuck there could hive been She Ins observed thai incidents of ac child poisoning seem to run in a pattern there ire more in the spring and fall and warns parents to keep toxics and drugs iway from children before it s loo late The final word is out and that word Ouch Despite concerted efforts at utting back costs by the own the region and the boards of education Hills tax rates are going lo pinch a lot of pockets Ihls year Monday night town council meeting Hay King town treasurer presented the final report on the town budget and in it were sharp mill rate increases for all areas of Hills For an average home assessed at and Georgetown that increase will mean a jump of over lasl year lax bill a total of That a 14 mill increase and should cause Georgetown homeowners to look back fondly at last year s small I 13 mill Increase For in average home In Ward 1 Acton assessed at the mill rate be 15 mills That average homeowner in Acton will thus pay Last year he paid 04 One of ihe surprising In this tax comparisons homeowners having a higher m role than their counterparts In the area Hills for the first time ihcy won actually be paying more In taxes The nuD rale on the average home Ward2Esquesmg assessed 170 will be a 567 or on increase That 17 null increase is the sharpest jump i anywhere in town Last year homeowners saw thcirtaxbllls i up 5 mills For those oiks who in the part Onkvlllc that Is now In Hills their average mill rate increase will be to a total of 72 Thai an Increase of 17 nil Is One of the few bright spots in the budget is that residents of Glen Williams and Ball in of ad who are located special lighting areas will see a drop ir their additional charges for street lighting ranging from a 11 decrease for s residents lo for citizens The mill rotes on commercial properties located everywhere in the town will jump by relatively ihe same ratio as residential In down the reasons for the increase King noted that council hid held down municipal spending 4 2 percent However the Board of Educations levy on Hilton was an average of i percent last vearor the average Hit regional levy to for inireascd from nulls in 1 to nulls in 1376 in increase in IK Thai il represents an increase low i I to a maxim ng In id uig lo the ex hiving reused substantially at Ihe rccjon levy per capita and density gr relating I Hilton Hills the same is much portion be financed providing the final Is In the town coffers no Liter than September More detailed information of the town 1976 budget can be found on page Halton Hills gets its own badge 4500 fire at Domtar Damage In a fire Sunday afternoon at Damtar Fine Papers In Georgetown Is reports Fire Chief Ken The police and the Fire Marshal ore invcsllgatlng the cause of the the Chief Threequarters of the damage was a pile of lumber and balance was the building he said Volunteer firemen also fought Iwo blaies his past week On Juno l firemen were colled at to Waterfalls Trailers Park on the Sixth Line near put out a tractor fire said Chief Damage was One June al a m firemen put out a fire in an old school bus which had been converted to a camper was being used for storage Damages In the fire which occurred at 40 Main St were estimated by Chief at This is the new badge of Halton Hills as prepared by local heraldic expert Dorothy An offshoot of the town s official coat arms Hills badge can be used in much wider than the coat of arms which is legally to be used only as a symbol of town council vested authority and responsibility The badge may be used on cufflinks tie lacks flags town vehicles etc and thus will finally provide own council with a fitting souvenir to officially present to visiting dignitaries A white pine taken from the cent of arms is the central point of the badge Around it In gold ore oak leaves Oak Town or Acton and papyrus leaves for Georgetown a link with the paper Industry There ore such leaves In recognition of the town 10 small hamlets Sliver Creek Terra Ashgrove Hornby Glen Williams and chouse Used on a flog the white pine and gold leaves rest on a blue background Council Monday night approved the design