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Home of Halton Hills Page THE HERALD Wednesday April 1H0 A Division of Canadian Newspapers Company Limited in Main Ontario I I 1- IublKhrr I 2l Second Clan Malt Number Mayors gift accomplishes much for town It the kind of politics you only see in those idealistic old movies from the a local mayor gives away his current pay raise to kick off fund raising campaigns for two major projects which now more than ever will symbolize community spirit and municipal progress Giving us the best example at his own brand of community spirit Haiton Hills Mayor Pete has split his raise for I960 between the new public subscrip tion fund for the planned George town cultural centre and the two- year old but newly revived renova lion fund for the old Acton town hail Making a dramatic move with precedents few and far between our mayor has with two personal cheques accomplished sever things at once garnered important public attention and empathy for the twin fund raising projects most in the news demonstrated by personal example the need for the general public organizations businesses and industries to financially sup port one fund to refurbish an integral part of Acton past his and present community iden tity and another fund for a facility destined to play an enormous role in Georgetown s future dropped what may someday be referred to as the hint heard round the world for his colleagues on town council and perhaps even those other levels of government who enjoy the casual affluence of automatic annual pay hikes enhanced his Image as a sincere public spirited politician acutely aware of how important such concrete examples and tive diplomacy can be Exactly how much of Mayor Pomeroy bankable gift was moti vated by sincerity and how much by election year diplomacy is a matter of speculation but the available facts show an elected official living up to his campaign promise of to reject or give away his annual raises during his first term The first two years he had reasoned should be simply a learning experience and Rex Heslop members of the cultural centres building committee havecalculat that Georgetown residents will have to donate some to ward the facility million cost with the balance coming through provincial government grants and the town itself That figure is at the low end of Mayor Pomeroy estimated pro jection of several months ago and appears readily attainable to all concerned We agree and recall with civic pride the rapid single- minded fundraising drive which saw the community old arena restored a few years ago With budget cutbacks and tionwide austerity programmes continuing the mayors donation goes a long way toward boosting public optimism over the future outcome of the Acton and George town projects Their success ap pears more than probable after all and yes even the much ma ligned Acton town hall project seems back on the right track again Our good mayor set an ex ample letsailfoliowsuftandlenr our dollars to revive Acton past and cultivate Georgetown s future Letter from the Editor Paul Dorsey Goodbye to all that The average reader may have problems empathizing but it was a rather poignant moment Tor myself and Other members of The Herald staff when we made our final trip to tbe newspaper a old Main Street quarters at the end of the moving operation last week Despite a couple of false starts enthusiasm was maintained over the Big Move the longawaited switch to a modem building at Street opposite the Carpet Barn and Silver Creek Towers There wo knew would be spacious clean facilities awaiting our energies and ambitions with an eye to What we ve left behind Is a structurallysound but badly worn two- storey office which staff long ago outgrew Limited renovations I sure will whip the old building Into shape to serve a retail operation below and perhaps once again living quarter above Also left behind of course is the tradition legacy and heritage that was aa obvious to the casual visitor as It was to the seasoned employees therein as plain as the rackety breathing of the Job printing presses still housed in tbe back shop alter nearly a century A late as Thursday those presses sUll chugged along as they had for decades cranking out with mechanical regularity the last orders of business cards and printed programmes Elsewhere In the vacated building the empty rooms which once bustled with various production operations were quiet occupied only by leftover and ends scattered on the floor or broomed Into the corners The editorial office cleared of desks and filing cabinets took on tbe appear ance of the residential apartment It once was cleaned out for benefit of prospective tenants and suddenly lys quite abruptly despite our lengthy wall Tor the move witness to the commotion that gripped tbe premises each Monday Mixed feelings over the move itself of course are quickly being edged aside by staff pride and enthusiasm over the new building carpeted and clean with the biggest bonus newly housed in the basement a four unit press which means Tor the first time since Its infancy that The Herald will be printed on ita own premises rather than being shipped off to affiliated operations in Cambridge or All this and more will be on view for the general public during a grand opening While friends and customers can of course pop In anytime to visit or talk business a big open house Is being planned during which all Interested parties from carriers to contacts can drop by and watch The Herald launch a new era Several weeks ago I took it upon myself to bring The Herald History up to date with in article on the newspaper tatter years mentioning by name the various editors and publishers who succeeded Walter Biehn as managers In doing so a name which will be familiar to many was omitted and I like to amend my article accordingly here and now Terry Harley was an integral part of The Heralds development during the later years serving many yean as editor while Waller was publisher Tbe name and the contributions came back to me In a flash recently leaving me all more embarrassed about the oversight became Mr Harley Is also a fornieriieigbborofminewllhwhoailwas acquainted years before lever considered Journalism as a career A Up of the hat to Mr Harley may his returns to Georgetown remain frequent be certainly has an open invitation to revolt The Herald and I personally hope he li take a special role In tbe opening ceremonies a tew weeks now TO iic liberal prediction accurate MacEachen in front line Ottawa Report C5 By Stewart MacLeod Ottawa Bureau of The Herald Last December just after the Clark government was defeated on that crucial confidence motion a backbench Liberal MP offered this observation about the looming election If we lose this one Allan will never be able to wipe the egg off his face If we win he II be the most powerful man In the country Well the Liberals won And I don t know whether MacEachen is the most powerful man in the country but there t too many ahead of him More than one political observer has compared him with CD Howe the glowering kingpin of the St Laurent government who like sat at the right of his prime minister It was MacEachen more than any other MP who orchestrated the defeat of the Tory government and Die lion of Pierre as prime minister of Canada While Pierre seemed to be wearily waiting for his successor to be selected and while the Commons bickered over the Crosble budget It was MacEachen the politician who decided it was the opportune time pull the plug on Parliament and resurrect a government WAS CONVINCING It was who following the defeat of the Clark government Pierre he should remain on and take another crack at the prime ministers office There were other prominent Liberals some of whom have paid Ihe who were convinced the Grits could never regain power with a leader whose main campaign promise was to retire Leadership hopefuls were already chomping at the bit for run at the title It was idea to leave them at the starting gate Without Ihe unbridled support of MacEachen who has been in Parliament for years and In cabinet for years It is exceedingly doubtful whether Pierre Trudeau would have remained In politics MacEachen virtually promised a victory says a high Liberal official I ve never seen such confidence and has a tremendous respect for hla opinions who spent untold hours debating tne issue with finally convinced his leader that Insttad of slipping out of politics in defeat he could vindicate himself and after fighting the Quebec referendum he could retire with his head held high Then a Liberal leadership convention could be held without the pressures of an Impending election Having successfully convinced Trudeau Ihen retreated to his Cape Breton riding to wage tils personal campaign for reelection Apart from occasional consultations he let others worry about the national campaign NO EGG Apart from the party whitewashing in the West things turned out well as MacEachen had predicted He have to worry about wiping egg off his face Now he sits at right hand minister of finance and deputy prime minister He probably had a wide choice of portfolios offered him but he knew the prime minister wanted him In finance And the veteran minister is above all a loyollsl He displayed this clearly back In when he agreed to give up the cushy external affairs portfolio to return to the thankless task of government house leader Now in addition to bis enormous finance responsibilities is serving on all the cabinet committees concerned key policies He Is vicechairman W Trudeau on the powerful planning and priorities committee he vicechairman of Treasury Board he son the social development and foreign and defence policy and he also a member of the Economic Development committee His power would be impressive under an upandcoming prime minister but under a soon toretire leader it awesome Some say that MacEachen harbors prime ministerial ambitions and while It a difficult to know how this curiously private person Is thinking I doubt he has any plans to run for the party leadership If he did he would surely hove taken a morepolltieollyprofitable portfolio And I also suspect that French not Gaelic would have become his chief language interest No I wouldn bet on MacEachen becoming a leadership candidate but I would be inclined to put my money on tbe candidate who manages to get MacEachen ipport That what you call clout Little support for reforms from Queens Park leaders Queens Park By Derek Nelson Electoral reform is the kind or thing books something that began with responsible government went through universal suffrage and the secret ballot and ended with women obtaining the vote in 1917 in On la no 1918 federally Since then changes to electoral laws have been slight the most rod cat being the lowering the voting age from to la In Ontario in 1971 But now the winds of change are in the air again The prime reason of course is the des re lo do something about the lack of representation from certain parts of the country by one party or the other in federal parliament The Liberals don exist west of the banks of ihe lied It vcr in Manitoba or the east of while the Conservatives have but one seat in Quebec Yet all the parties look more than per of the popular vote in each of those regions The result has been a spate of recommendations for reform most of them urging some kind of proportional r meaning that a party wira ing 10 per cent of the vote wins per cent of the seats ONTARIO VIKW The reaction of Ontario political leaders ihctc reforms for Ottawa and what they think of PR for the provincial level has been mixed leader Michael loyally supports federal NDP leader Ed PRsuggestion for Immediate PR appointments federally but for now t keen on system at the provincial level Liberal leader Stuart Smith likes the idea of PR for Ottawa but will only go so far as to say It might bear looking at for Ihe province And Premier William Davis is about It for either level of government taklngihe truly conserve approach that what we have now has served us well so why tinker Actually the hesitation by all three is conservative The recommendation of PR for Ottawa is an attempt to redress the upset many feel over the obvious Imbalance between regional seats and regional votes NOT 111 Interest the Ontario legislature has a a milar reg disparity in representation Ihe d be very few people fell by Ihe tor example Conservative MPPs arc a vague memory in the Windsor Essex area Liberals barely represented in Metro Toronto and the North and members missing in rural areas But those distortions end to balance out in end results There arc 12S seats in legislature being a majority In the last election 1777 the Conservatives won per cent of ihe vote which would be seats under a PR system Instead they took The Liberals with per cent of Ihe vote should have had seats but won only while the IS per cent should have had and only narrowly missed with 33 I Alt RACK In the current minority situation those kind of are not terribly important Although Ihe results mirrored the popular vote even more closely the same was less representative In earlier years True the Conservatives would still have won every election from the time Ihey gained power In but at no time would they have had a majority admin We would have been ruled by minority regimes since with Iheir tendency to Instability and going to Ihe polls every time there is a ens Is On the other hand we would not have had a situation like when the Tories with 43 per cent of the vote won per cent of the scats while Liberals with cent of the vote look nine per cent of the seats and the ICCF had per cent of the vote and two per cent of the seals the HERALD History From our files thirty YEARS AGO At a dinner meeting of Associa last Wednesday at s president James Goodie was delegated to ask town council to change parking regulations on Main Street Several members reportea com plaints from the shippers about Ihe parking being tried as an experi The merchants arc asking for angle parking on Main Street except for the block between the hotel and Cardaros and for the establishment of a oneway street on II from the bank to the Legion Hall with angle parking on one side A few months ago the merchants agreed on a pm Saturdav closing provided neighboring towns could be to do the same So far ram pi on and have Indicated their oval and Acton and have it under consideration There Is no chants on in Milton and it Is d If cull to gel an expression of opinion from lhal town on easy victory over Inflect last Wednesday Georgetown Raiders took the series in Ihrec games and advanced to the semi final round of the In termed ate hockey playoffs It was the fourteenth straight win for the Raiders and the fourth team which failed to win a game against Georgetown The Roxy features M Joe Young a about a who raises a baby Terry Moare and Ben Johnson star in the picture with the 10 most tcrr f c thrills ever pictured TWENTY YEARS AGO Ford evangelist and associate of Billy Graham will appear in Georgetown to speak at a one night rally on April to be held at St John a led Church He will come to Georgetown as part of a preach tour of central Ontario following a two week evangelistic crusade he will conduct in Renfrew Ontario The local meeting Is being sponsored by Ministerial Association Against opposition of Mayor Hyde who thinks more Industrial land should be allocated Moore Park si on made Its first step towards building on Monday ordered prepare of a bylaw amending the official plan to designate land use In the Industrial commercial and residential from 1 a 1 Mayor Hyde claims there is valuable industrial land In the subdivision which will not be toned as residential and green belt A Glen Williams G Guide has been credited with saving another youngster from a watery fate in the icy Credit River Elevenyear old Joy Haines was on her way from school last Tuesday March when she noticed M chael Golden age wading into the river after his mitt near the bridge in the centre of Ihe village The child had apparently dropped the mitt Into the water while playing near there with a playmate Billy Robs on As Ihe current carried the mitt Into deeper water young Michael started to pursue It but was stopped by Joy shouts He was standing In water above his waist and having some difficulty in standing when Joy reached him A small gang of Juveniles ranging in ages from to 14 were apprehended by police In connection with a rash of thefts perpetrated against stores in Georgetown and Brampton TEN YEARS AGO If Joe Martin told you yesterday lhat he was 104 years old he wasn t April fooling Georgetown most senior of marked his birthday quietly at the home of his daughter and son In law Mr and Mrs George Glassford Union Street which has also been his home for the pas I several years While he confines his walking to Indoors now he t any of his mental agility The only thing wrong with me is old age he told one of his viMtars with the fa miliar wry smile Some people apparently think April Fool s Day is one date they can exhibit lunacy symptoms without being suspect Into thai category belongs the bomb threat callers One of them a girl according to Georgetown High School vice principal Mac Baxter who took Ihe call phoned the school at 8 a yesterday to a bomb had been planted In the building Classes were suspended fire men pol and teachers searched The Toronto Bantam Marlles used their superior sire to advantage as they fashioned a victory over Ihe D series champions from Levack in the finale Three hours earlier they dominated play In winning their semi final with Milton Legion In their first game of the day the A division final they swept past another city entry Toronto Firebirds Over the tournament schedule Mar lies chalked up eight victories and a tie the latter against another Metro team Toronto Red Wings A waier for was received by Marion Carlson Sargent Road last month She claims she is not In arrears and has paid every bill on time Until now her highest bill was which was In According to the bill she used 151 gallons of water from the time of the previous reading The water charge was plus sewer service charge of bringing the total to A police raid midnight Tuesday March on the Nerval property yielded no illicit I or drugs Milton slated however there was evidence marijuana had been used No seizure were made no charges laid Weve moved The Herald is now located at Guelph St Georgetown