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MORNING SMILE The personnel director of a large firm received a government questionnaire which asked How many employees do you c broken down by sex He replied Liquor more of a problem ItIT Home Newspaper of Hills two pages The paper reaching more than homes in TWO ACCIDENTS AS SIX INCHES OF SNOW FALL Storm causes chaos FINISHING TOUCHES Georgetown Utile Theatre actor Ron Hunt prepares makeup for Susan who plays the part of a clown la the Straw Princes a children Christmas play opening tonight at Howard Wriggles worth school auditorium Tickets for all but the performances tonight and Thursday Picked Up In Passing have been sold out wishing to attend the form a nee and purchase tickets at the door should contact Bob Lee at bit to book them Children are reminded to bring to the performances their coloring pictures published last week McDonald s Restaurant Is offering a far he pictures In spite of a severe snow storm which dumped an mated fl to Inches of snow on Hills Monday night there were only two car In Hal ton Hills and urban Milton Two works crews from the I la I ton Hills works department worked all night keeping the main roads clear Regular crews started working at 3 am the roads Frank Moretle works superintendent said the prob lem with abandoned cars had lessened this time People are getting better educated I guess he said The regional road crews had more problems with cars bloc king snow plows But works crews worked all night keeping regional roads clear and sand cd No additional crews were needed Go Transit reports that three or the four trains scheduled to run from Toronto to George town on Monday night made the trip The fourth train was cancelled because according to Go Transit spokesman Tom Henry the lost train t reidy to leave until after p m and the engineer was needed elsewhere The first train suffered a mechanical ADAPT meeting Second annual meeting of the alcohol and drug addiction program in will be held at Milton District Hospital Dec The public is welcome to attend Holy Cross teams compete Holy school will be sending both boys and girls volleyball teams to the finals at Ernest C ichool in Milton on Dec 10 The m Girls coach Cynthia To bin said 20 learns may be competing in the tournament Blood donor clinic A Canadian Red Cross blood donor clinic will be held Monday at Holy Cross Church auditorium on Maple Avenue from m p years of service James Fisher of Georgetown has been a member of the Georgetown Agricultural Society and a director of the fair board for years Last Thursday evening at the Georgetown Agricultural Society annual dinner Mr Fisher was presented with a plaque in appreciation for his service to the agricultural society and the fair board He and his father William served as president of the fur board Parents form group Parents Without Fanners a profit organization for single parents is opening a new chapter for Georgetown Parents who ore single because of death divorce or separation or who arc unmarried are eligible for membership Custody of the children Is not a requirement For more information call Margaret Gordon at during the day and Joan Eyre at 1696 during the evening Opponents make proposal of four month route study llylOHITAYlOR Herald staff v rller The Interested Citizens Group ICG has suggested a four month review of the pro posed Bradley Georgetown corridor route in com with the Bradley Kit Milton route and has agreed to abide by the findings of such a study The ICG has proposed that an independent agent accept able the ICG the govern and Ontario Hydro carry out a study of the two routts originally proposed when hydro corridor issue first arose The agent would be given data already accumulated in the Bradley Georgetown study conducted by Ontario Hydro which includes access lo Kit The ICG wrote to both Pre mier William Davis and Energy Minister James Taylor asking meeting to discuss their proposal before making it known to the public Premier Davis ofice replied hat the premier would be too busy lo hold such a meeting Mr lor office replied that the meeting would not be before the new yiar In the view of the ICG the matter is too urgent to be delayed and as a result they have decided to mount a massive publicity campaign to bring their pro posal to the public attention The ICG has slressed that the proposal doet not contain any new studies and will be limited to existing data The ICG says ihai In his way the time allotted to the study can be kept to a period of four months Other routes in tion to those mentioned such as the Bruce to route would not be included in the this time In a news release published last week the ICG said that Ontario Hydro public Image is suffering as a result of the conflict over the corridor Ac cording to the ICG Ontario Hydro appears the public as a huge Insensitive bureau attempting to ride roughshod over the righti of a group or people This image has been en by he fact that local newspapers and other media hove clearly informed the pub lic that the Interested Citizens have never for a specific removal of the corridor but have asked only for in Inde pendent agency the general situation and have agreed to accept Ihi resulting finding with no further resist he report continues The ICG points but that all Interested of the ince have a and per sonal involvement with and dependence upon Hydro The Ontario government has also suffered damage to its public Image as a result of its role of responsibility for Hydro through the minis of energy As evidence of his the ICG points out that with the exception of one ding the ridings between Hal ton and the Bruce and rich areas are solidly Liberal The corridor problem has been an issue In each election Legal procedures still open to the ICG be used in defence of their rights and properly could delay the line from Bradley for eight months or longer the ICG said The citizens have amply demonstrated their lo defend their rights by legal action and will continue to do bo the ICG said ICG pointed out the Ontario Hydro has said In the past that there is a growing need for power In Kitchener and a risk of brownouts Ontario Hydro plans call for a transformer station at Kitchener by lff7B according lo their Bradley Environmental Study It Is evident that the Kilch is necessary feasible recommend by Hydro engineers and one that can be developed as read ily the Milton line the proposal said It has ample possibilities to ensure that no power would be bottled up Bruce It further provides for more economical construction costs and export A Thus It is a reason able worthy of with the Milton line The ICG said the type of review it is proposing would not be a cosily and lengthy along the lines of the one done by the for Ihc concerned Pickering ll would provide at least a the consideration given so amply over many months to mother group of people the pas concludes failure and had to be pushed from In Toronto by the second engine arriving an hour late The Brampton office of Ont Hydro reports no prob lems caused by the storm The Guelph office reported very little storm damage for the type of weather Some suffered power failures Bell Canada reports no prob lems with its lines In the wind Georgetown and District Memorial Hospital has not treated any serious Injuries resulting from the storm Most of the problems a hospital spokesman said were in the nature of snow shovels drop ping on Iocs people slipping and so on Hills council cancel led Its meeting lost night and the Registered Nurses Assoc iation cancelled Its Christmas meeting The Rotary Clubs Senior Citizens Christmas din at Holy Cross Church went on as planned A bus from Klrby Bus lines picked up residents of the senior citizens apartments and nine drivers from the Radical CarClub picked up the rest About senior citizens made It to the dinner in spite of the weather Despite Monday s storm all north Hallon a school but one were open and running pro gram of some sort on Tuesday morning Buses were not operating north of Highway yesterday but only the Georgetown tnct Christian School was clo sed public school re ported high absenteeism among staff members as a result of the storm When The Herald called shortly after classes began less than half the staff hod arrived for the Acton girl accosted twice A fifteen yearold girl In Ac ton was the victim of two attempted assaults over a per lod of five days The girls police that her daughter was walking home from school when the approached her grabbed her by the throat and knocked her to the ground She suffered a cut lip in the struggle later the attacker approached the girl again but this time she was able to elude the assailant Reed sees pitfalls in Expropriation Act A decision of the Supreme Court of Ontario to deny a request by an Interested Cltl Group in Durham to overturn an expropriation re port for the Bradley George town hydro corridor northern section shows the holes In the Expropriation Act Burlington MPP Julian teed The ICG went to the Sup reme Court to have the ex propria ion report set aside when a divisional court he court appeal ruled that hearings In would include evidence about alter nate hydro routes In the ham hearings no evidence was heard about alternate According the law the of the Expropriation Act have been fulfilled Mr said What showing up here is ihot he Expropriation Act amendmcnls designed pro tect landowners ex for public purposes arc no I working II shows thai the socalled protection mechanisms in the Expropriation Act are not pro tective a all he added All hey re resulting In is a delay Mr Reed said he Is getting very cynical about the process Obviously you have a sltua lion where he reason for decision is based on whatever ruins or untruths ore lent at the time he said Energy Minister James Taylor sold he was satisfied that Solandt had done the on the NanlicokcPlck hydro corridor and died the corridor as well but we found that just true The whole thing is madden Mr Reed added We ve been taken by the system In other words the government has used the system to their advantage to accomplish something of dubious merit Mr Reed said he would continue to stand behind the Interested Citizens Group in Mr Reed speculated that the reason the government may bo refusing to hold an study into the proposed Bradley Georgetown route is because they know the study will show Ontario Hydro is wrong in the choice il made and the government will hove to go through the whole pro cess again I believe that at the core of heir reasoning he said There still lime conduct an independent study Mr Reed sold he agree with all the positions of Ontario Hydro but in many respects Hydro is the fall guy of the cabinet In his Issue ICG becomes agressive 200 ATTEND DINNER In spite of bad weather conditions about The weather conditions meant thai some of senior citizens were able to attend the the entertainment originally planned was not Georgetown Rotary Club annual Senior shown but a number of entertainers were Citizens Christmas dinner on Monday night able to make It The Interested Citizens Group ICG Is going to be much more aggressive in Its conflict with the provincial government over the proposed Bradley Georgetown hydro corridor according lo ICG spokesman John Schneider We re going to treat the government decisions as they are evasive divisive and vague he said Mr Schneider said the ICG has been nice fair and open In their dealings with the government The ICG has started a pub- meeting them at their lenco he added Mr Schneider said the ICG has always been reasonable and rational In Its dealings with he provincial govern men It would appear thai the way you make yourself heard Is to say you re going to shoot some Hydro people and blow up some Hydro towers he said As time goes on the conclusion will come that If you wont to talk to the gov eminent you have to threaten We have no objection with hem campaign announcing their proposals for solving the conflict over the Bradley Georgetown hydro corridor since Premier Davis refused to meet with the ICO at all and Energy Minister James Taylor put meeting off until the new year We ve had these delaying tactics for four years Mr Schneider sold in reference to the meetings We want some kind of priority relative to the Importance they say the Issue has day The Sunshine School in Hornby was the hardest hit as all its students travel by bus and none of them shown up All the staff was present however Reliable Taxi in Acton says business began picking up at fl a m Monday and ucd steadily all day It was heavier than normal early Tuesday but began to taper off through the morning Vivian Shaw dispatcher for Flash Taxi in Georgetown found business heavier than normal from early early morning until on Mon day and heavier than usual again on Tuesday morning because busses weren t run and parents were sending children school by cab At one point calls were run up lo an hour behind she soys but that situation cleared up once regular school were done in the afternoon AIMcMUIand owner of Glen Taxi felt that business was probably triple on Monday and still double at press lime on Tuesday Library board chairman to retire at years end Hills library board will be looking for a new chairman next year because the present chairman has decided she no longer has the time to spend on such a time- consuming volunteer position Joan Lister has been on the board for the past six years and believes It is time someone else volunteered their time to serve on the board I don t think it good when one person stays in a job for years and years Other people should have a chance to do things too she says I served long enough Mrs to the library board by the board of education and she has already written to say that she does not want her term ex tended when It expires Dec 31 She Is not worried about how her leaving will effect the clans for the new Georgetown library don moke the she says We have good members on the board and we get a new library eventually Although she says the project is in good hands she admits that had construction gone as scheduled and the new building had begun In October she might possibly have stayed another term to finish what was begun Mrs Lister regrets that delays raise thecost of the new library because she feels lhat a new library Is Inevitable We ve outgrown the old one she say a Were so overcrowded we can do what a modern library should do for Her only hope Is that the school board will appoint another member who Is really interested In library when It fills her post During her term on the board she served as a regional representative on the Ontario Library Trustees Association and as the towns represen tative on the South Central Regional Board Part of he that filled the down town for the Santa Clans parade Santa arrives in Georgetown See page Santa is diligently answering hit mall So if your letter appear It will before Christmas of Real employee rilled MO Saturday to the Santa Clou parade