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Home Newspaper of Hills Page SECTION A THE HERALD WriQeiday January A Division of Canad an Newspapers Company Limited Guelph Street Georgetown Ontario WILLIAM Publisher DAVID BEATTIE Advertising Manager PHONE Second Mall Registered Number Chrysler crisis Surely by now It must be clear that neither all the kings horses nor all the government loan guarantees are going to keep the Chrysler tomaking together In the past year the US government has provided more than million in loan guarantees to help bail Chrysler out Ot tawa kicked In million In loan guarantees on agreement that Chrysler Canada would Invest billion In Its Canadian plants by The United Auto Workers union made unbelievably huge concessions in a desperate bid to try to save its members Jobs And now that seems exactly what the entire exercise was desperate at best and perhaps futile Chrysler in the US says it needs another million In loan Just to live up to Its promises bf costs were underestimated In the process It proposes to trim million from the promised l billion Investment In Canada and thus could kill the loan guarantees promised by Ottawa It all was done In the name of saving jobs 14500 of hem In Canada and many more In the US But the more It goes on the more futile It seems It Just seems to he pouring good money taxpayers money after bad Frankly we think Its time to say enough to let Chrysler live or die the va It started as a private enterprise It be sad even tragic But It now seems inevitable Brampton Dally Times West vs East A Western Canadian MP had some reassuring words for area audiences last week when he told them that westerners have focused their anger on the federal government and not Canada as a con federation There were some disturbing In late last year that the emphasis of western dissatisfaction was beginning to take on some separatist overtones Arnold atone Conservative MP for Crowfoot the man who ousted Jack Horner after he defected from the Tory party for a ministers Job In the previous Liberal cabinet said thai separation was last summers talk but hardly anyone brought It In conversation during the Christmas holiday period Albertas dissatisfaction with Eastern Canada generaUy and Ottawa In particular Is a deeprooted complaint It does not find its beginnings In the current oil resources debate which Is soaring relations at this lime In our national history Freight rate immigration policies and central bank decisions of the past century have long been thorns In the side of the West home of the Kiel rebellion the closest Canadians have come to actual fighting over Confederation It Is to be hoped that Mr Malones comments about the anger of westerners now being focused on a heavyhanded government and not the nation are more than partisan political rhetoric Mr Malones observations about Interdependence of eastern and western Canada are something few Canadians think about but ought to The Alberta MP noted that while we in the East grumble about the West getting rich from Its oil revenues we forget that development of those natural resources puts billions of dollars Into the Canadian economy particularly Ontarios The need for Industrial growth to service the growth of the western economy will mean a flow of cash back to Industrial centres in the East As westerners look to eastern markets to spend their Income there will be what Mr described as a communion of wealth There can be no denying that the prosperity of one part of Canada should translate Itself Into wellbeing for all Canadians That was the principle of In terdependence that prompted the Fathers of Confederation to come together In the first place Dally Mercury Child at Risk Spreading the word Ottawa Barean of Tbe Herald SECOND OF TWO INSTALLMENTS Child it Risk makes recommendations recommendations says Sen Lome Boonell which are better for children and or society Among Ibera are suggestions that municipal provincial and federal health agenda mike greater efforts to tell the public and women of the Importance of nutrition on growth and development of children courses in parenting be promoted by ill levels of government and nongovernment agencies concerned with the welfare of children the federal government pay a prenatal child allowance to a pregnant woman to she can feed and care for herself and her unborn child during pregnancy the prenatal allowance be paid on condition the pregnant woman continue to receive nutritional guidance and medical care health agenda physicians and drug companies caution pregnant women about he potential danger of many medication drugs tobacco and alcohol to the mother and her unborn child hospital boards and administrations encourage breastfeeding as soon as possible encourage contact between mother and child as soon as possible and allow parents maximum contact with their baby in the hospital and provide special accommodation for parents of premature babies to encourage as much contact as possible the Unemployment Insurance Act be amended to give reduced maternity benefits to a parent who adopts an infant and to allow the mother of a premature baby or a baby who must stay in hospital for some time to Interrupt her maternity leave after childbirth and resume It when the infant comes home from hospital provincial and territorial governments establish or expand inhome support services for parents the Canadian Radiotelevision and Telecommunications raise the question of excessive violence on television when granting or renewing television licences and that the private television and cable companies reduce of violence shown on television at times when children might be watching all levels of government cooperate with the private sector in providing registered day care centres in areas not adequately served now by day care and that a Canadian Institute for the Study of Violence In Society be established funded by the federal government to determine causes of violent behavior and recommend practical methods of reducing the incidence of violence in Canada Were not recommending much compulsory legtolaUonforchlldcaresaysSen Bonne I What were recommending is that these services be available and that they make every effort to contact young pregnant girls or young married couples to give them advice and give them encouragement It would be almost compulsory that the society provide the services but not compulsory necessarily that people accept the services In other words you can tell these social workers to go home you dont need them you can tell the public health nurse to go home you dont need her Seeking the cause of crime Child at Risk is the result of one senators desire to know what makes a criminal a criminal Credit for Child at Risk a study Into and earlychildhood factors leading to possible criminal behavior goes to New Brunswick Sen Frederic says Sen Lome chairman of the committee which produced Child at Risk Sen McGrand suggested at the height of the death penalty debate that the Senate study the causes of crime That could take years felt the Senate so Sen McGrand with Sen support returned with a suggestion he Senate study a more specific ores That more specific area was and early life experiences as factors In criminal behavior Sen became the chairman of the committee to those factors Sen repeatedly emphasises that committee which produced Child at Risk does not think there is such a thing as a natural born criminal What the find he says Is that a child with many of the risk factors is more likely to have criminal or antisocial behavior Even having one or mora of the early childhood risks Is no guarantee of future criminal behavior A child can have many or all of the risks identified In Child at Risk says Sen That child should have been the worst criminal in the penitentiary says Sen Yet that child would come through life unscathed strong able to cope with society cope with life The committee found It amazing says Sen that children with only one two or three of the risks would end up in penitentiary I think that needs a lot of research says Sen Why can some children come through all these risks and end up a normal Provinces struggle on BNA weakens Ottawas credibility By Stewart MacLeod Bureau of The Herald When Justice Minister Jean Chretien tabled thatenormous batch of amendments to the governments proposals for the constituti on he seemed to be suggesting that this should satisfy the complaints that have been echoing through the land The government has listened to the views of Canadians he declared And later be was to add that there will be no further negotiations with the provinces They have made thelr poinls and we have responded We are not negotiating any more You know we are doing what is right 1 think Its reasonable for us to conclude that the amendments which require a fair amount of digesting do Indeed Improve that hugely complex package that has now been fore Parliament for three months Certainly so far as proposed Charter of Rights and Freedoms Is concerned the improvement is obvious And Chretien was right to say that the changes are a sensitive response to the representations made by various groups and individuals to the Joint SenateCommons committee studying the proposal But thats really not the point NARROW VIEW The committee has not been getting the over all view of Canadians It has before It the governments proposals along with terms of reference which enable the committee to examine the proposals The committee has no authority to go far beyond this Consequently uU groups that have come before the committee have concentrated on trying to improve what was on the table not to suggest that the entire package be scrapped What the committee has heard Is obviously not representative of what Canadians are thinking Gallup knows more about this than the committee docs It is clear from various public opinion surveys that Its the govern ments approach not the fine print of the package that bothers most people The question Is not whether the Charter of Rights and Freedoms now Is much improved but whether it should be in there at all There is every reason to believe a majority of Canadians would prefer Initially to have a barebones const tu lion established in Canada and then have a charter of rights added as an allCanadian undertaking When people went out and asked Canadians whether the constitu tion should be amended by the British Parliament to incorporate a bill of rights before being a measly per cent agreed with what the government is doing But when they were asked whether the constitution should be brought under full Canadian control without amendment a whopp ing M per cent said yes When you think about it this is overwhelmingly decisiveparti when you remember that managed to elect majority govern ments in this country with only a percent popular vote ONCE MORE In arguing for one more round of federal provincial negotiations something Ive done on five other occasions in this column I am not even particularly concerned about the contents of the package For all I know Prime Minister Trades may be absolutely right when be says that once the constitution Is patriated as he proposes Canada will be a much stronger more united and proud country And again for aU I know may be when be says the provinces are not Interested in improving his constitutional they simply want to scuttle them It seems to me that If opposing provinces can claim percent support for their actions Its difficult to dismiss them as a group of discontented And you know what really strikes me as a curious Irony Its the fact that despite an apparent opposition the government is still determined to give us a bill of rights that can be demonstrably justified In a free and democratic society Davis the sole beneficiary in debate over bilingualism Queens Park By Derek Queens Park Bureau of The Herald One suspects the two big losers were men who werent there Liberal Leader Stuart Smith and Leader Michael Theres a widespread media assumption that an French vote exists in much of Englishspeaking Ontario and all that is needed to the lire Is to mention In that theory official bilingual ism in any of lis many guises Is as the red flag to the bull and translates loosely In many minds as forcing French down our throats On those grounds Premier Bill Davisahould offer Quebec Liberal MPs Celine Payette Eva Cote JeanClaude Malepart and David Bcrger honorary memberships in the Ontorio Progressive Conservatives The Quebec MPs traipsed out to Toronto airport to urgo Davis who was returning from vacaUon to apply Section 133 of the British North America Act what some official to Ontario That section already makes In Quebec and Manitoba courts and legislatures and those areas only official In the new constitution New Brunswick but not Ontario will join them DAVIS REPLY The MPs were given the same answer as Davis always has to the Section 133 question Ontario has Increased services for its Francophon es over the years In many areas without confrontation or unnecessary symbolic gestures and will continue to In truth Ontario is far beyond Section In areas such as education and behind only in lacking province- wide bilingual civil and family courts But the MPs couldnt have expect ed anything else which makes one wonder why they staged such a media event in the first place unless It was to win points with the folks back home in Quebec The big winner again accepting that there is wide French feeling In Ontario Is Davis who looks like the sole defender of Anglophone purity It also doesnt hurt Davis to be attacked by federal Justice Minister Jean Chretien for a mythical reversal from supporting Section 133 for Ontario last summer to now opposing It- TV IMAGE Where it really counts on Id e vision screens at supper time details blur and all that remains clear Is the imsge of Davis holding off the Francophone hordes Meanwhile Smith and are trapped The Impression is abroad reinforced by Tory campaign literature that the Llberala and would force bilingualism upon Ontario And while that obscures their true positions they do favor more Francophone services than Davis has so tar been willing to provide which helps the Conservatives paint them into a political corner The do support Section official bilingualism for Ontario and want It done by the legislature not Imposed by Ottawa But that would hardly affect the average Anglophone at work or play since 133 simply extends constitutional status to French In courts and the legislature like the The Liberals Conservatives oppose Section as unnecessary but argue that Franco phones should have their right to various services spelled out in law The services would then be avail able automatically where numbers warrant rather than as a government gilt The Liberals believe the Conservatives have gone per cent of the required distance In the range of services provided Francophones the main fallings being In municipal health and social services as well as education Haltons History From our files THIRTY YEARS AGOA Canadian National Rail ways for forty and a hall years Mike Lorusso has retired on pension Mr was honored by fellow employees on the railway Saturday when they gathered at the station in the evening and presented him with a leather wallet containing a generous sum of money as a farewell present The local firm of J Mackenzie and Son were successful contractors for the general building contract for the new Public School Thcfirm one of four bidders was given the contract at a meeting of the school board a week ago Saturday Contract price Is Corporal a CNR constable from Kitchener visited the various classes in the school on Thursday afternoon addressed them on Railway Safety His very impressive talk was accompanied by enlarged photographs which revealed to the listeners tragedies accompany railway accidents He urged the children not to walk on the tracks and not to cross where there were No Trespassing signs A motion to build a new school in the northern part of and loadda gymnasium to the Milton School found little favor at a meeting of the North Hal ton School Board In Milton Monday TWENTY YEARS AGOExpected increases in student enrolment next term and suggested school additions to take care of any Increase came under discussion last week when the Esqucsing School Board met in the Stewart own school Nothing was finalized but tentative arrangements were reviewed and board members will be requested to delve into the situation at a later meeting An represents live he George town and District High School board Clarence Anderson was named chairman when the board chose Its officers and named its standing commit tees at the inaugural meeting last week equipment of all fire departments will be controlled by radio if the necessary approval can be obtained Halton Mutual Aid Fire Services at its annual meeting in Burlington last week decided to request County Council through Emergencies Organization to undertake the project One Acton district farmer OW Manes of Acton can scoff at the superstitious who dread Friday the This months Friday the 13th saw his twoyearold heifer give birth to triplets The chances of it happening are one in 50 Councillor of Acton was chairman of the North Urban Board at a meeting held lost week here in Georgetown Retiring chairman Deputy Reeve John Elliott welcomed the members to Georgetown and gae a brief summary of past Urban Board activities Rev Moses pastor of the Evangelical Mission Church in Logos Nigeria was the speaker at tbe Grace Baptist Church in the Oddfellows Hall on Market Street on Sunday Pastor Is the father of five children and has served as a native pastor for the Sudan Interior Mission to his native African Republic of Nigeria The last coat of paint was put on the new womens normal care wing in the Centennial Manor last week and the future occupants prepared to move in This completed the lost phase of the addition construction TEN YEARS AGOSIx people left homeless Saturday when fire partially destroyed a ranch style brick house on Sideroad between Main Street South and Senior Public School Mr and Mrs Bob Devolin and their three sons are currently s toying with her sister in Georgetown and the owner of the house Bob has moved an apartment here Cause of the blaze and damage In dollars are still not known Ninety students from Harrison School had an outing turn Into an adventure Tuesday night when stranded them The three Grade classes went into Toronto by bus before the storm began to visit the McLaughlin Planetarium and found they couldn get back This winter has been a boon to but a bane to men who battle the snow and ice on the roads The Georgetown works force hat spent twice as long out battling the snow as they did last year and have cut deeply into stockpile of sand According to Works superintendent Frank the roads have been covered with 1 tons more of sand than at this time last year Only Deputy Reeve Russell Miller at the moment has accepted the challenge thrown out by Mayor BUI Smith of Georgetown to compete In a race with Georgetown Council Feb and 7 The race for township councillors will be held at the Jaycecs International Snowmobile Races to be held at Polar Bear Traits on the Seventh Line Meadowglen Mushrooms Growers Ltd is planning its own canning plant on their Mountain view Road property Building Inspector Doug Sargent turned over a building permit application by the firms president Ernie to council for their opinion ONE YEAR AGOWllh the Interested Citizens Groups ICGs application for a hearing before National Energy Board NEB still under consideration the battle over Ontario Hydros volt transmission corridor has escalated Into a series of tense policesupervised standoffs between affected landowners and Hydro construction crews Hills council has turned over the site for the new Georgetown police building to Regional Police and the police commission hopes to hear proposals from architects at its next meeting After months of uncertainty area sponsor groups awaiting the arrival of Vietnamese refugees families expect to hear further news any day Although no one Is giving specific dates govern ment spokesmen contacted about the delay have indicated that more boat people can be expected to start arriving within a matter of days according to several wouldbe sponsors who attended days Operation Lifeline meeting In Georgetowns St Johns United Church Responding to requests from area farmers whose crops are being threatened by a rapidly rising deer population Hal Ion regions planning council committee has advised council to ask the minister of natural resources to approve deer hunt for next Nov 3 Poets Corner A boys little dog BOYS LITTLE DOG The catcher stole my little dog My heart Is full of pain I have no money to pay the fine Ill never see Toby again Id give my sleigh Id give skates If someone would free ray dog from those prison gales Toby and I our love was great To see Rim again I Just cant wilt Why should my doggy stray He didnt mean to run away Please let my little dog go Or the rest of my Hie Ill hate you so he asked hit poor old dad For the only money th All bylaws do not pay Hurt someone in some way are only bluff Loving men couldnt be so tough Albert Brooke