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ysgy FLORISTS FOR ALL YOUR FT FLORAL NEED the Home of Halton Hills YOUR MORNING SMILE How do you know an elephant is under the bed Your celling get WEDNESDAY AUGUST TORNADO STRIKES THE CAR THAT and spun around three times and smashed Into Colin Gibson Herald editor view the of a parked car Susan was unhurt car the tornado picked up six feet Colin escaped with minor Injuries Couple uninjured during the ride of a lifetime A tornado Saturday lifted up a sporta car with Herald sports editor Colin Gibson and his fiancee Susan In It and flung the car 12 feet across Main Street Witnesses said the car was swung twice around about six in the air before lung Intoan unoccupied parked cor across the street Gibson who Is getting married STORM COMING sday was treated for cuts to face I bow Miss was shaken but Susan said We d better hurry Gibson otherwise unharmed said here a a storm We were Gibson said coming Once Inside the convertible recalling the incident that took from three to which had Its top up heavy downpour four seconds Reel Noble was an eyewitness ten feet sway from the Gibsons car he said When I looked the car was In mid atr said about three feet high I saw It turn around about three times round and round and round Ranjit said that at the time he did not know anyone was In the car He said that he and his wire and small child were huddling In a doorway next to a plate glass window We got worried the window t break said The tornado touched down at ap proximately 30 p in the vicinity Ann and Ontario Streets and travelled in a south westerly direction to the area of Maple Avenue and Parkview Boulevard before It disappeared leaving damages in Its wake estimated at up to police say Gibson said he had parked his in the centre of Main Street to buy a paper and he and Miss were on the way bock to the cor when the sky got very very storied and I though we re lucky Gibson said Then heard the wind pick up and saw birds and leaves going up In It It was really strange Gibson said describing his first sight of the tornado about halfway down the hill between Main Street South and Street There was a blackness In It he said It was funnel shaped Just like you see on TV he said We sow a big tree pulled straight up In the air a few feet then a woman thrown I figured at first when roof went off thatwewerogolng to by something or but luckily we Miss said At the top of Main Street hill the birds were blown straight up into the air she added FINE DIRT An odd after effect of the brush with the tornado was fine black dust which covered both him and Susan Gibson said We had to wash our ears out three or Tour times to get them Freak baby tornado a rarity Weatherman The tornado which ripped through Georgetown Saturday was Just a baby compared to real tornados says Michael Newark a supervising with Environment Canada He said wind spec for tornados travel from to mile per hour but he could not say what the wind speed was because would only bo a It not often a tornado posses over awn measuring device said If it does it usually it out Saturday tornado are not he said The motion was from north east to south west and tornados usually travel in the other direction he said It was left handed rather than a right handed tornado a uncommon occurence he Newark who came to Georgetown Saturday evening to view the tornado damage will write a report on the unusual tornado for a Journal Newark Hcrnld sports lor Conn Gibson who while In the eye of the glanced up and saw the streaked white interior Newark said people who have survived the eye of tornado Its like coming back from the dead Newark He said there is no ex plana why the tornado is white in en ire Newark said it is usually Impossible to warn Individual places of the onset of a tor mi lo Predictions of tornados si lade county sized area he said A severe storm warning was out that day for the Niagara Peninsula said was monitoring a cold front from to Lake lo the Malton weather station The top of the storm was low Newark said On that particular day wc did not out of the one you had w the way the wind was in the upper moiphere Newark ex At lower level the air was circulating in a north easterly direction and above that it was circulatin In north westerly direction be said Higher still It was going In a south westerly direction It Just seemed to optimize over your part of the squall Newark sold He said the tornado formed about three mites outside of Georgetown and its total path was about four miles before it off and blew away Newark said that compared to he United States tornados are Infrequent in southwest Ontario because of the cool water of the Great Lakes jour can usually expect a few Environment Canada does not keep official records of tornados he said Stories and Photos by George Evashuk and Lynn Rhodes MORE PICTURES ON PAGES 2 AND 1 across the street he said Then a telephone pole snapped and then next thing we was the sound of crashing glass The funnel shaped thing was there The car began vibrating and then there a reeling of weightlessness Gibson said tOOKFD UP AND SAW WHITE I looked up and all I could see was white Thenext thing bang wehil the other car The unoccupied car Is owned by Bill On their way to cover after leaving the car saldGlbson were blown off our feet Into a doorway Then someone pushed open the door of Sewing and pulled us In we man think we had been In the air Gibson said It was only later after talking to an eyewitness that he and Sue learned their car had been about six feet off the ground and had spun around twice It happened so fast Gibson said You hod a feeling of utter helplessness There was nothing could do He said if the had not hit the parked car owned by Bill It would hate gone through a plate glass window Damage to the Gibson car is estimated at between and The soft top of the sports car was torn off and found feet down Main Street sold His guitar with its neck broken and the case completely torn open was found 100 feel up Main Street he said Two vegetable that were in simply vanished lost was a baseball score book It could be Cuba Gibson said When the tornado struck there were few people on the street It was practically deserted although afterward they came out of the woodwork The street being deserted saved people from being cut to ribbons by lying glass he said If anybody had been standing out there they would have been cut by so much glass hat was lying around The tornado was the weirdest thing I seen In my life he said I I want to sec a thing Ike that again On Saturday night we were shook up he said It really hit us then as to what we d gone through the utter helplessness the bona then he Susan said she not going to the Ex or a roller coaster ride this year he said Iflt had been feet away it would have WOMENS CONFERENCE InSiahl a conference ex ploring alternative lifestyle for women will be held Oct at Sheridan College Oakville campus One of the special guest speakers is Laura Sabia former chairman of the On tnrioSwtus of Women Council This week Miss Sabia meets with oilier conference it to plan the daylong program was sheared off by the tornado when it struck downtown at Saturday LETTER TO THE EDITOR Ford dealer comments on Herald news story JAMES To the editor of The Herald I have never known a disagreement which dldn t have two sides Mr Beeney of the Rusty Ford Association has skillfully publicized his However as the Ford Dealer in Georgetown and a former employee of Ford of Canada I believe it Is time for a little perspective to be brought to bear on the rusting of cars which Is of interest to all motorists I will trade In facta rather than emotion because facts arc stubborn things Fact one Is that nobody as yet baa In vented a car that won t rust The more salt which la spread on the highways the sooner Yet the amount of salt we put on Canadian roads has almost Calcium Chloride which Is used liberally on secondary road during the summer to control dust a con more damaging thin salt Therefore we have little relief from the chemicals which aggravate this ruit situation Fact two comes from Federal Ministry of Transport study by Mr Roger which ejaculated that corrosion caused by salt cost the average Canadian car owner per year If that I true all motor are facing the same problem Mr Beeney not Just Ford owners So do some cars rust faster than other For fact three let me quote an article from The Toronto Star relative to rust Costcs their Automotive Writer laid in his column on July 1976 A consumer maganlne survey or almost readers Indicates that Fords are no worse even a bit belter than other North American cars The magazine was the April Issue of Consumer Reports and I have copy In my office to examine Or quote from the July me sue oi the specialist for dedicated auto en thus I nil Ford has been taking a real kicking with claims of premature rusting and thanks to an automotive illiterate press is In the rust doghouse right now Chevs Apsens and Volvos nisi just as quickly folks Of course some cars rust more quickly than others but It t a matter of make it Is a mailer of care Fact four is that the owner who looks after his vehicle will have a belter chance of keeping It nisi free My advice to whatever car they have is to waih it frequently taking care to hose down the underside as well as the ex terlor keep it polished touch up paint chips from lying atones sure the holes are not blocked Automobiles are ex posed to the environment continually a little care will add years to their life expectancy Having now troded some facts permit me to add one opinion This Is the age of the Preaiure Groups and I worry sometimes about the way In which this New Power Is used Mr and his consumers group have performed at least one userul social service They have helped to get some Government attention to the damHge which salt causes not Just to cars but to bridges highways vegetation even fresh water I am sorry that to achieve this Mr Beeney and his fellow consumer picked Ford as a target and In fact have ridden over the reputation of a Company which I am proud to represent In Georgetown It Is a pity that their actions could risk lowering the Resale of can If they continue their publicity campaign as they threaten 1 believe that the great majority of people arc still fair minded enough o judge for themselves based upon their own ex and will do so in this case grateful that The Georgetown ha controversial but just seeks o put the Yours Sincerely North Motor Sales Limited J M President INDIAN PAINT fa being left to right Laura Everett planhid on Andy Tim leek by leader In training Sue Doem friends at Park playground back and Kathy during Indian theme week