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SfiWIERALDI Home Newspaper of Hills TIIF October A Division of Canadian Newspaper Company Limited 103 Main St Georgetown Ontario WILLIAM VIXIKIMOt I- Publisher Editor Ill Clin Ml I Uniform rates mark big step for Region At long last it appears that Halton Region will be getting uniform water rates thus moving one step closer to making regional government a working reality rather than an ab stract dream Surely when the concept of regional government was developed by Ontario Tory government uniform coats and quality of services throughout a region had to be one of the hoped for benefits While there arc those who will dispute the quality of regional ser vices for north residents uniform water rates are certainly a step towards equalizing costs for regional citizens Next year s water bills should be a little easier for Acton residents to swallow because of the uniform rates Acton citizens were already set to be hit with a hefty water rate hike next year because of improvements to their water system and now with the uniform rates the increase will be a little less It is disturbing to watch the flailing and somewhat desperate attempts of Oakville representatives on regional council to stop the move to uniform rates Fueled by hardline parochialism on council have fought uniform rates from the outset The move will mean higher water rates for their constituents but supposedly this cost of belonging to the region is made up by benefits to Oakville reaped from other aspects of regional government Perhaps the most hopeless at tempt by Oakville councillors to stop uniform rates is a plan by Oakville Mayor Harry Barrett and Coun Carl Erikscn to appeal the region s decision to the Ontario cabinet This action can surely be nothing more than some pre election showmanship by the two gentlemen in an attempt to woo Oakville voters disgruntled with regional govern All shuffling aside the cabinet they hope will overturn the decision is basically the same one that com mitted Ontario to regional govern years ago They are extremely unlikely to roll back one of this region s most significant steps towards making regional government a reality And it disturbs us to see elected officials behaving with so little regard for a council of which they are members Surely majority rule is a basic principal of democratic representation If the Oakville representatives feel the majority has ruled in an improper manner they should be taking this message to the voters on November not to the provincial cabinet Writer takes a new look at some old sayings NECs long overdue Nobody can deny that Ontario beseiged Niagara Escarpment Commission has taken it on the chin fairly regularly since the com missions inception in 1972 but this week we have to offer them a pat on the back Finally with last Wednesday s commission meeting held in Georgetown NEC has decided to open their meetings to the public and the press Almost nothing can be more guaranteed to get a journalist back Up than a public body holding in camera meetings and NEC s old closed door policy was no exception it never sat well with us and we are glad to see its end Perhaps NEC is ning the lesson we would like to see all politicians learn once a door is closed to the public and the press the assumption is something is being kept from us Needless to say this type of thinking breeds a mistrust of the offending public body and we arc sure that NEC s previous closed door policy has helped foster some of the mistrust many members of the public feel towards the commission The new open door policy will help the public to judge the com mission on its policies and actions and eliminate fears of closed door dirty deeds By 1- A liltle Fun with Ihe sayings of past generations Ihli week as we take a In check look words wisdom taken from a book of quotes printed in 1902 I think my family had a head start an this sort of thing with an Irish grandmother tint had a saying For everything Probably many came From her mother and her mother before her I particularly enjoy the one that you can repeal times and still not make an sense out of So with old grandmothers In mind yours and mine I hope you enjoy following IF young nun had wit and old men strength then everything would be well How about He who takes eel by the tail and a woman by her word rrny say he holds nothing Definitely not jour liberated statement right girls TltOimlt Let us enjoy the present we shall have trouble enough with the here Amen to hit one Here a pip God help the rich the poor can beg And from the other direction cry and liltle wool quoth the devil when he sheared his hogs If you re not squeamish Mention not a rope In the house one whose father was hanged Good thinking tor the hrecn thumbs among us Plant the crab tree where you will It will never bear pippins Whul a pippin Or flay women and wine make a man laugh he dies No one bothers to mention thai play women and wine hasten the Jo irnei wisdom From yours truly Here a remarkable thought There art great many asses without long ears The old still advise No one niinttons then us to do yours truly Hire ire s I always pondered Never look a gift horse in the mouth Why not or would you to A rolling gaihcrs no moss who cares I ask you when was the last time you needed covered In moss A barking dog does not bite not to my friends down at post The old s You dn not know someone until you mirry them Updated version not know someone until you divorce Many cooks spoil the broth not to be mentioned In front of the boys the Town Make hay while the sun shines now 1 ask you who do you know thai mokes hay In the ram An apple a day keeps the doctor away he doctor only comes for Set a IhicF catch a and rding to ferry you lose whatever the take IF you can still lake more on we go A watched pot won 1 boll oh yes It will People ill gloss houses throw stones or drive snowmobiles HOUSES The next are taken from Mark wonderful wit The old saw says let a sleeping dog lie Still when there is much at stoke it is bitter to get a newspaper to da Let us be grateful to Adam our tor Idleness and won for us curse labour Noise means nothing often the hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid Pity Is for the living envy Is for the Let us be thankful For fools Bui for tin rest of us could not succeed A truly wonderful wit hod MnrkTwain a wonderful wit and total insight Now this is one fool who feels she should quit while Till next week Health wealth and long life and may you be an hour in heaven before the knous re dead Looking Through Our Files YEARS AGO The first child core clinic held in Legion Hall Oct Clinics were to be held second Friday each month for infants and pre schoolers to have examine lions and Injections Hornby United Church celebrated Its 12j1Ii anniversary ire destroyed the Logan house in Glen Will An overheated stove was believed be the cause of the The Herald was running wo mini residents lo conserve as much electricity as possible he Georgetown Women Institute held shower for to collect Items for a parcel to be sent in the near future An estimated crowd of attended Georgetown tail Fair on Oct 3 and MP Sandy lies officially opened the fair Assessment commissioner Joseph Gib bons told council thai Georgetown lion had increased to from in 1957 Assessment figures stood at 11 industrial 13 commercial residential and farm assessment per cent increase over the previous year Eleven of night school courses had lo be cancelled Georgetown high school In 1958 It was announced thai Georgetown Alliance Paper Mill was lo expand with the installation of a new wide paper coaler a wide finishing machine a new steam plant and storage buildings for both raw materials and Finished paper The new coaling machine be the largest In and capable of coaling up to I feet of paper a minute Georgetown had I students in four public schools in 1958 and teachers Councillor Bob Francis announced his ducy for mayor He was the first candidate to announce his Intentions of seeking any position at the next election Lack of interest forced the cancellation of 14 of night school classes offered Georgetown high school in A suggestion that schools be used as polling stations in the municipal election had to be changed because Board would loose its rants if voting Forced the closure of schools council was laid Churches were being lined up instead and town clerk C received permission to advertise for volingday helpers volers were told Ihey would be electing representatives for a two year in They were also told Ihe polls toflpm Boththe twoyear term of office and Ihe new closing lime for polling booths were new ideas A child falling from a ride and being struck by i ride cor dumped falrgoers spirits as the 1 1 damped their bodies Fortunately the Utile girl was able to be from Georgetown hospital the next day after treatment for minor head Injuries Council supported planning board re- thai a thirty suite apartment building I permitted on the site of Berwick Hall building was to be demolished Escarpment group knocks government Ontario Hydros budget magic The Herald welcomes Letters to the Editor The on the t hove attacked the govern ment decision overturn A I INK mil permit ihe construction if multl million dollar convention re on the escarpment face near the Forks of redil the Sir million lonvtnlion centre known as untrakon in wis turned down by NK earlier his I Minister of llnusim overturned this In rcccm I ynn Mai Mill in OM- chairman said Obviously I remicr vis inusiiithcr hold and spirit F lhi I icirpment I lanning Hue Acl or repeal don I want it then It I give It a cent burial r us and il with this lingering death ONI ires the Cnledan Ititcpivirs Asioclntion who have already irlliuied the government approve The IhoUsunds of people represents rutcnti llielr concern that granting I of the proposal is a prictdint which may completely ilisiro long term planning for this Eugene US breakfast shows Canadian doublestandard Park Bureau OF The Herald A electric space heater causes Ontario Hydro Invest as much as or power generation transmission distribution and back up capacity to service one appliance That example of osl to Hydro is given in the Just released interim royal commission report nuclcir power planning chaired by Lr Arthur PorlLr His Full report on all facets of electric power planning is supposed to be in late 1979 The apace healer llluslrales why the price tag for power In Ontario is projected in the billions for the real of ihls century What it can t do Is tell us how many billions since we don I know how many space healers will be In use Nor can we lelUbout the oilier variables in our Future such as economic and population growth aval lab ility and substitutions for oil and conservation These nil add up In make us uncertain By WART Macl Ottawa Bureau Or The Herald IF an American comes to and offers the slightest criticism about Canada or Canadians we can expect a giant wave of protest to sweep across country Representatives of big powerful countries arc not permitted to poke Ihenecdle at neighbors But Canadian politicians being Utile neighbors freedom what they wont In Washington Big and powerful neighbors arc not permitted lo take offence And that brings us to Eugene Whelan break fast Eugene for benefit of urban dwellers is our minister of and has been since 1972 when ho coined the expression carte la blanche He Is a rather feasant Individual whose wil and waist can bo expansive and who keeps extricating himself from seemingly hopeless verbal by merely saying etcetera know things like wed like lo sell n ore refrigerators and surplus butter era Bui we re getting from the breakfast I- DISCUSSION I in an active Ontario farmer who knows ihing or about fending off famine went Washington lo represent his country seminar on world hunger those periodic gatherings where the have countries keep rnflirming the absolute necessity of more Foodstuff to the starving millions In ihe Imvenol countries around the world There was one of those meetings in not long ago and hammer home message legates were served with a typical meal consisting mainly of abowlofcoldrlceundan odd No one complained Not one solitary American rose in anger to decry the lock of hamburger And as well because our rice fill cd politicians would thing or Iwoaboul criticizing the hospitality if a poor Utile neighbor Bui at the Washington conference docs our minister do Well lo be ralhcr about It he made It amply clear that you don go round discussing hunger problems on an empty stomach And for the sake of Canada relations Is lo be hoped Hint Hie Americans learn the folly of iheir ways before hunger conference In Washington Imagine any host country expecting our minister agriculture In function Fully for an entire morning on a breakfast which he felt obliged a public ly evaluate as lousy made his evaluation while appearing on a panel with Agricullure Secretory Bob And the Washington I read said winced at the Ism While powerful neighbors cant rttiillulc neighbor criticism okay In wince Just ltd buns declared our minister in his ongoing evaluation of the Washington breakfast nutrition mil all I am a fat guy am not supposed to eat buns Yon would think the Americans would rcnlli this They had no scrambled eggs or is went on in brilliant analysis of of the rid s great hunger problems 1 thought was going be like the MPs lire ikfast Ottawa We get in the cafeteria there and you gel pick out your scrambled or you want And hilling the Americans where il hurts the most he capped his criticism with this Their en fee was lousy The wincing agriculture secretary being representative of a big powerful reply of course But would 1 to be ir what he might have said to his he went home that Phone how much demand there II be for electric power until the year For the nuclear program alone Ihe cost could vary between billion and billion depending upon which guess about future demand one accept as probably being accurate As Porter himself points out the key sentence of his Interim report it is extrem ely difficult to forecast with any degree reliability Future demand for electric Bui because he has to he makes a stab at it and comes up with what moat people will feel in their gut is an acceptable solution Porter recommends we build three more nuclear stations In addition to existing an planned projects at Pickering Bruce and Darlington NOT HAPPY The equivalent of an additional station would be supplied by water power hydraul ics coal and especially wood fuel led electric power That won make Ontario Hydro happy since their growth forecasts are higher than Porter The utility wants iwo more nucler power stations than Porter recommends The commissioner doubts about Hydro ability the capital to build many plants as well as whew Hydro might secure enough uranium to fuel them However Porter doesn give much solace to ibe nuclear factions either since he concludes that nuclear power bi relatively cheap reliable and safe TOO MUCH Many critics Including some In the opposition parties sound like they want to scarp Ihe nuclear option entirely Porter main worry is waste manage ment what lo do with the highly lethal spent fuel that reactors produce While exuding optimism that a solution can be found Porter thinks there arc still too many unanswered questions If no progress occurs by he d put a on ulure nuclear development at point His report also makes plain we use far too energy per capita In this country up to twice what some European countries use and even per cent more than the United States When It comes to conservation we haw a long way to go yet