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HI I EH IHb JMifc fa B09SBX Home Newspaper of Hills Pant A Till- A Division of Canadian Newspapers Company Limited Street Georgetown WILLIAM Publisher PAUL Editor DAVID Manager Class Mail Registered Who is planning administration for arts com It with some relief that we read of a new committee being set up in Halton Hills to coordinate fund raising efforts for the new library theatreart gallery complex being built in Georgetown It Is with increasing alarm however that we hear dire warnings from in divlduals within the arts community to the effect that inadequate or late planning for the centres administration could turn this 2 million facility into the regions biggest white elephant We do not wish to dwell on a distrincijy negative possibility the Rotary Clubs Rex cochairman of the new fund raising umbrella committee told The Herald last week that the centres ad ministration is a matter to be considered by the new town council following the Nov 10 election Seven weeks into construction and three weeks from the election we believe so great an issue should be topic of discussion for council candidates right now Mr Heslop admitted last week there are still no estimates available for the new centres operating Some members of the local arts community are very con that rental fees for the centre 300- theatre will be far too excessive for profit groups like the Georgetown Little Theatre to use the facility outside its actual performances in other words GLT rehearsals may still have to take place outside the complex Concern has similarly been expressed In record interviews with The Herald about the continuing lack of any plans for the centres administration Will an outside professional be hired to run the facmtyWfllscparateboardsbesetup one to run the theatre one for the library and one for the art gallery multipurpose room Will town council or recreation director Tom Shepard run the show Will select individuals like Mr Heslop and Whiting stick around to form the nucleus of an administration committee Clearly so sophisticated a facility demands a trained professional ad we doubt that any Hills resident could step into that position without some preliminary additional coaching from outside experts Of even greater concern to local ratepayers in general is the total lack thus far of any clear indication as to how much the facility will cost them Theyve been told the public fund raising drive in which they 11 be asked to donate some small amount but what will the additional charge be next year when council boosts taxes to cover its share of the centre cost Once an administrator is chosen an arts centre staff must be hired to help operate the facilitys often complicated lighting and sound facilities theatrical backdrops etc With a mere handful of exceptions there are no properly trained individuals among the various groups which will use the complex Finally there is some concern about the extent to which architect Keith has managed to incorporate recommendations given him by an advisory committee Largely through the Halton Hills Arts Council all concerned groups had their chance to suggest what kind of equipment and areas should be featured in the new facility and their suggestions were numerous Has Mr covered their needs in his final design or as lias been indicated to us privately have there been many such Items deleted for lack of space and funds While occasional progress updates from the building committee are reassuring and even encouraging we cannot help but share the concern of others because substantial shortage of key information The arts complex could become the towns finest community showcase accommodating and inspiring generations to come Or it could become our most embarrassing example of poor municipal planning We sincerely hope that candidates in the coming election address themselves to these questions and attempt to bridge the credibility gap that has grown to divide factions of the arts community and to challenge ambitious plans for fund raising ex Government is a big business employment book shows Making French equal would be a disaster to Canadian society Ottawa Bureau of The Herald For those who may be having difficulty coming to terms with the sheer sue of he federal bureaucracy I have came across this handy little booklet called Federal Government Employment Being a bureaucratic document which doesn manage to clear up all he intricate differences between federal government statistical universe and general government employees It still leaves a few unanaweredquestfons but nonetheless It offers convincing evidence that government is big business small wonder thai the govern ment occasionally misplaces a letter or that one branch of government Is not aware of events In another decor Unless you travel by bus in an Ottawa rush hour it very difficult to comprehend the Immensity of govern The fact hat there arc general government employees as opposed to the employees in the entire federal government statistical universe is not a mind numbing fact because its difficult to relate to numbers like this But what struck me was the fact that the National Arts Centre which Is admittedly a fair sue theatre has em ploy I ve been there doiens of limes and have seen only three ticketsellers five ushers and one parking attendant I can only assume that half the employees ire slacked like behind the stages CIVILIANS ABOUND Another statistic that surprised me was the number of employees in the Ottawa Report Defence Department 118 Since the strength of our armed forces is understood to be I thought the department could get by with fewer than civilians But then I hnie no way of knowing what most of them do for a living Have you ever marvelled at how quickly the Revenue Department can catch in error always in the govern menlb favor In your income tax return Well it may be due to the sophisticated computers they use But on the other hand it may be because the department employs people in the spring season people armed with the latest computers can do a good of figuring Actually its not the big depart that surprise me with their numbers although I did stop for breath when I realized that the transport department employs people That means thai If they all travel by bus requires nearly vehicles just to Irons port the transport people The office Department employs they arc scattered of Canada As I said these big employers arc not the shockers it little known operations such as the Privy Council Office thai art surprisingly large The for Instance is more or less an extension of the prime minister office and it employs people Then there Is the National Capitol Commission a federal agency that coordinates the physical development of the Ottawa Hull area It finds employment for bodies And how about the Public Service Commission Its chief task la to hire people for the public service and It not doing badly for Itself It now 684 There Is also the National Assembly which looks after our tidbits of history I had thought of a handful of elderly working in a musty basement there are people preserving our past I saw it terms of the 10or so board members who decide when someone should be paroled from prison It had never occurred to me that there were employees behind the scenes Wllh years having passed since the Second Vi War it surprised me just bit to sec lhat the Veterans Land Administration still required employees This work force Is not lobe confused the people who labor for the Department of Veterans Affairs And lest you think that these DVA the department paid out in over lime during the first three months of this year This may not seem like much when compared with the earned in overtime by transport department employees but it snot bod or shrinking department By PETER JACKSON wants the French language and culture to be made official for the whole of Canada equal to English in every way and Davis and the others seem ready to agree This means that only people who are and blcultural will get the Jobs anywhere business education various levels of government etc and the other people will be secondclass citizens The stampede to learn French and be has already started for the ambitious who want good jobs The people from many lands and cultures in English speaking Canada over the last years built like our American cousins one of the two greatest societies on earth in history where freedom progress and opportunity for all who joined the society were raised to great new heights This new society in the new world is different in many vital ways from that of England France and Europe The French Canadian nationalists did not join or help to build our great new society in the new world They spent their efforts trying to preserve their old European culture and society This great new flexible innovative vibrant society will be destroyed by giving official and equal status to the backward French culture where society is much more rigid elitist repressive and authoritarian and where in France people feel they have to vote Communist if they want even minor social change to copy the great American Dream There must be only One Canada one national language with a regional language in Quebec one common Canadian culture not English or French with subsidiary mosaics or no Canada It is better by far to be a firstclass American with full equality and op portunity in a firstclass society than a secondclass citizen in a society as Canada will soon become English and French speaking Canadians can only be united in one way by building together on top of our new society in the new world a still newer and greater society civilization culture and language for the whole world as previously done by the Americans the British and the French of years Vandalism report due soon but prospects of cure bleak Park Bureau of The Herald One awaits with interest the publi cation lale this year of the results of a study on vandalism by a joint provincial municipal task force According lo Attorney General Hoy McMurlry office here no other subject produces more letters tele phone calls and municipal resolutions to his ministries than vandalism The hope one has for the task force Is that for once blame for vandalism will be laid precisely where It belongs on those who commit the act and their People arc responsible for iheir actions and to some degree their children The worry is that the task force will do exactly like most other such studies accuse society with the result blame be attached to any individual for the damages caused A hint of that comes in the first publlcitlon from the task force an unofficial piper labelled some preliminary findings The key sentence suggests that voting people nets of vandalism are a natural consequence of living In an environment that docs not provide other ways of enjoying oneself NO WW So vandalism is a natural act lhat the lads and lassies indulge in their environment Is not attractive enough Tripe The task forces own student survey revealed Queens Park the two most commonly silted rcisons for vindallsm were boredom and fun Not that blaming society will necessarily be conclusion drawn in final task force report but it Is the first signpost points that way preliminary findings other wise do contain some informiillonfor Provincial Court Judge of Toronto wh heads the task force to ponder In Children from homes parents were strict children who liked and did well in school uiuilly a consequence of the hornet children who expressed fear of being caught also derived from the were all less likely to be Involu in vindallsm VUlYSTItANGF The most striking statistic s that only per believed Ihe damage Ihey caused cost anything just per cent saw vandalism as quite or very serious Can one then perhaps indict parents maybe schools for failure to point out to who really pays In our society and Ihe necessity for respecting property rights as the backbone of our human rights The preliminary findings note loo lhat due low rate of apprehension per cent for vandalism It Is unlikely penalties cither on a juvenile or a parent would reduce the Incidence any Which may or may not be true MAN TIMES The problem with vandalism is that it comes In many different forms and the nature of the crime can change dramatically depending not Just on whether it occurs in a rural urban or suburban but even on the lown So does the severity The task force survey found most young people have com ml tied acts of during the past year as many as per cent of all high school students Much of ihis was In the order of breaking bottles on the street or scratching Initials on desk at school Less than one in five were apparent likely to commit more serious acts from windows to damaging vehicle tires Whatever solutions the task force deems wise let us hope the one rejected Is he build them a clubhouse route JtiSly From our files THIRTY Leslie Frost was on hand lo congratulate Hugh Leslie of Georgetown tractor plowing competition winner at the Plowing Match at He receives on allexpense paid trip lo the British Isles Forlhesecondycarmarow a Georgetown district farmer won top honors in the Irons Atlantic tractor competition at tho International Plowing Match at Alllston Opposition the building of one central high school to serve the five communities in North was forcibly expressed by Milton council at their meeting recently Members passed a motion which favored operating two schools one Milton and second which would be built in the northern part of the country A nan Keith Webb and his sister Mrs Murray Laird were greatly interested in a recent issue of the Montreal Standard which featured a story on their Edward Island home the house Green Gables In M Montgomery famous Anne of Green Gables books Green Gables where Webb family lived was directly behind Montgomery home and the known authoress was a cousin of their mother STY YEARS Haul of Hornby was runner up in Ihe first Queen of the Furrow competition held in connection with the Interna lion Plowing Match EXPANDS North detachment OPP will have more miles topatrol much larger force when an expansion program now underway is completed When Highway 401 opens westward from Highway at Milton the force will be adding another miles of four lane highway lo their patrolling area A one mill wide levy to cover the cost of a new combined courthouse and county building was advocated by Mr spokesman for a 14 man delegation from the Law at County Council in Milton last week The possibility of direct access to Highway 401 possibly from the Ninth Line was discussed at this months industrial Commission meeting With this in mind Stan MPP for will bo invited to the meeting In addition the possibility of locating the new police college here will also be discussed Construction on the new Church to be erected on Maple Avenue began lnsl week The of the church is to be colonial in style having a portico with four down the front OFFICIAL PLAN Graduate in conjunction with a course ihey are taking at the University of Toronto will be much in evidence in Georgetown for the next month or so Some twenty men and will be engaged in the preparation of an official plan of the town which will embody a wealth of Information They started to work on Monday following a welcome extended by Mayor Hyde and Reeve Sargent who with councillors and municipal officials met with group in the council chambers A number of residents on Crescent want plant trees to beautify their street according to Wjrrcn Smith who wrote council asking permission for the planting Council accept Ihe offer gratefully with Ihe proviso that the work should be done under the supervision of the town engineer Georgetown will have a new police cruiser soon Tender of Scott Motors for a Chevrolet was last week by council The cruiser will cost and will be the same color as ihe Toronto accident squad The present cruiser is being advertised for sole by council STRIKE AVERTED TF A0A threatened strike of George town works staff was averted Tuesday after an meeting between council and union tors A strike which would have begun Wednesday morning was called off when the men members of Local Canadian Union of Public Employees met and decided lo accept the town offer They will receive a ten per cent increase In salary retroactive lo April when their twoyear contract expired GoosleGandeI is dead The Toulouse gander owned by Mr and Mrs Frank Asbcck died early Saturday Mrs As said yesterday that at 47 years he was the old eat gander In Canada Wild geese arc considered ancient if ihey reach their birthday One fatality injuries and in property daimge lo vehicles was tho tally after a light plane flown by William Stephen Wood of hit high tension lines near Campbellville on Highway Tuesday evening The Toylorernfl singleengine with pontoons was following the highway east when it hit the lines and flopped on to Ihe shoulder of the highway The tangle of vehicles ensued when a bus had to stop avoid live lines and ihe others started piling into each other A rntcpajers association has been formed in At he moment the on consists mainly of residents adjacent to ihe but plan to merge with other groups who ore in improving local government accord lo a spokesman John Mlleham the Georgetown motorcycle Jockey who went to Spain three weeks ago as a member the Conadian motorcycle team arrives home Sunday The Canadian team was eliminated from Six Day Trial In El Escorial after one day running over terrain so tough that Milcham said in a postcard home he thought in the warm ups that his tires would Inst only a day Traffic on Highway was tied up for over two hours in Tuesday morning when a tractor trailer loaded wilh tons of gravel from Indusmin quarries flipped over spilling the stone its own fuel all over the road CENTRE Construction of the province a new Regional Detention Centre In Halton County should be underway by next summer The Department of Correctional Services hopes to call tenders next spring and have construction under way by May or June of uncertainty and speculallon hive ended with the here Saturday of two Southeast Asian refugees repre senting the first of as many as Vietnamese families who have found sponsors in Acton and Georgetown A petition bearing more than HO has informed the town In no uncertain terms thai the residents of Hornby do not want a drivein theatre built in their neighborhood as was proposed three weeks ago The town general committee Monday night referred the petition as well as submission by resident John to the planning depart ment for an inclusion in report being prepared on the proposal Georgetown residents will bo able ride an In lown bus service to do their Christmas shopping during he months of November and December thanks to ihc local Chamber of Commerce The bus system will service the town a major shopping as well as the residential districts and will operate Thursdays Fridays and Saturdays