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the HERALD Home Newspaper of Hills Established A Division Canadian Newspapers Company Limited Ontario Page A TIIE HERALD Wednesday May Showdown at River Run With the construction of the Morley Mills Coop in Glen Williams weve witnessed an outcry by neighboring townhouse owners Their worries are based on concerns over the calibre of people ex pected to move into a low rent area This siege mentality represents a formidable mind barrier of prejudice against the new residents who have not yet moved into their new homes The unit co op townhouse development will be completed by the end of the summer Currently there are 17 coop developments in Peel and Halton with Georgetowns project being the first one in Halton Hills Much of the confusion bet ween defenders of the coop system and their opponents on whether the co op inhabitants will be owners of property The townhouse residents feel the co op inhabitants will only rent their and therefore will feel title inclination to maintain their units It is true that individual units are not owned by coop inhabitants they instead hold a share the entire develop ment Therefore it is in the in terests of each and every in dividual to make sure their en tire property is kept in a well maintained order With a stabje type of cost structure through arrangement and a democratic management the neighboring owners should be happy that this system will en courage inhabitants to stay for a long time in their dwellings considering it very much a There are many residents in coops whose rents are sub sidized by government programs but there are also many who pay the full monthly amount because they are at tracted to the concept of co operative living Nevetheless low income families who occupy coop units cannot and should not be pre judged as different than any other inhabitant of a home in Halton Hills Safeguards are more than adequate finding the type of residents with the right attitude towards coop housing This should be explanation enough for owners fearing that their property will be overrun by their new neigh bors Residents are carefully screened through application forms personal interviews orientation meetings plus a second review by a member ship committee and a board of directors One comment was made about fears that children would perhaps invade the playgrounds of the townhouse owners Hopefully the children of these townhouse owners will not be apprehensive abdut the new coop inhabitants and will warmly welcome their peers whateve their socio economic class Kiddie porn Legal in Canada Citizens Against Violent Pornography That children are being used lit tenuity scenes la and video tapes I the concern or Ciliieni Against Violent Pornography Al present Canadian law doe not prohibit the use or children In dial ed sex In sexually or as observer of adult sex This article the In a three part series deals with BUI CM The Child Exploitation Act and the need to have It pa lied Into law Immediately Kiddle Pom Child pornography is a very real and present problem In Canada today It is a IV billion dollar business in North America It Is readily available In video and magazine formats at retail outlets and through underground networks It uses children from six months to IB years age Our existing laws do not stop children from being used In very real simulated sex scenes Only beast kilty actual penetration and violence with sex are outlawed Many people including some poll feel that we should wall for the findings of the Commission a national committee studying sexual abuse of children Badgley wants another to IB months to study Wo already have a Federal Justice Department study from 1978 which recommended Immediate legislation against child pornography No such have been passed The US passed the Protection of Children Against Sexual Exploitation Act five years ago and 38 states are now adding their own tougher legislation Scandinavian countries have also toughened child pornography laws Our Federal Government has a record of using only 5 per cent of the findings of commission studies any way In the meantime Canada with Its weak and outdated laws could become the headquarters for the making and distribution of this material There are also many powerful organizations philosophically opposed to Bill CM the North American Man Boy Love Association which now has a Toronto chapter and the Rene Society whose slogan Is Sex Before Eight or it Too Late are lobbying lor the repeal of all ag of consent laws and the leg limitation of adultchild sex Bill prohibits the use of those apparently under the age of eighteen from being used In the production of pornographic visual presentations Where children are concerned pome graphic describes material whos purpose is sexual arousal It would provide a ten year sentence for those found guilty of the production or distribution or such material The bill needs public support to be being distributed through the churches for public signatures There are also clip and mail coupons in this and next week newspapers Simply sign these and send them to Justice Minister under whose Jurisdiction this falls No stamp Is needed You may sign the group petition and send a coupon as well Please do your part in helping to protect kids from the horror of child pornography POETS CORNER Happy Day HAPPY DAYS The sleepy morning looked around blew some of the unfriendly clouds and eagerly made the effort with the rest of the day Some dawns are more full of fun always helps and happy plana make the beginning worth the effort Have a happy day everyday ByMARLQWEC DICKSON Beefa Haltons History From our files Clsis Hal TlllllTY YEARS AGO Georgetown Lions Club will net about for welfare work as a result of a successful Peanut Day Saturday This was the third year that the club had brought the Planters Peanut float to town preceded by an extensive sale of tinned nuts A new feature this year was the sale of Mr Peanut banks and attractive green and red banks were In brisk demand Also the profits won page advertise ment In The Herald which was well supported by merchants and In dust who took advertising space in run it A local Ugh school student Sandra Scott daughter of Mr and Mrs Art Scott was peanut queen assisting the dancing peanut men who drew large crowds to see the float parked at the four comers on Main Street The float also loured and Glen Williams in the early afternoon Each person purchasing peanuts was giver a guessing slip to estimate the number of peanuts on the float The sealed envelope opened when the day was over and Tommy Henderson of Maple was within 39 of the correct answer 172 His guess won him a Tory popularity increases while Grit esteem crumbles Ottawa Report By Stewart l- ram the Ottawa Bureau of The Herald A month ago when the Gallup poll wed that the Tories had soared further ahead of the Liberals despite fact had no leader we alt made Jokes bout this new formula for success Never before had a headless parly increased its lead over a headed party Amid the was a widely held view that surge in popularity was an aberration It had to be There was no way a party could continue to gain popularity And next month we thought the Conservatives would begin reap tic havoc they appeared lo how at that Winnipeg Convention when one third of the delegates forced Joe Clark lo call for a leadership Well as we now learned a new Gallup poll has just been published and surprise surprise Now a full month Into the experience the Conservatives have Increased their popularity two percentage points This mentis that per cent of Canadians now support the party the highest level since the heyday of June IBM when a remark able GO percent favored the Tories What the latest poll also showed Is that the governing Liberals have slipped to their lowest level since these polls were begun In Now only per cent of Canadians support the Grits from last month The New Democrats who tend to bounce around like a short string yoyo climbed back to 19 per cent two points above last month level This Is where they were two months ago Meanwhile the level of undecided voters rose to per cent from last month per cent The figures when you think about them arc rather startling Apparently Isn a joke after all The difficult fact is that over the last wo months the leader less Tories increased their popularity at greater speed than in any twomonth period since the last election And this Is happening at a time when the party is not only searching for a new Messiah but exposing all sorts alleged dirty tricks in the process Amid charges and counter charges by squabbling leadership factions the Conservatives keep winning new converts Within the pari there are as many explanations as there are factions Generally Clark opponents say this proves that the Former leader traded the party In popularity and that the Tones would be belter off under anyone Clark attributes the party increasing popularity to his past good works In the last IS to 16 months under type of leadership I have brought to the party under the determination to be a modern moderate and national party we have been consistently ahead of the Liberals Theimportant thing he said Is the long term trend While the Tories dicker among themselves over the significance of the result the Liberals must be asking a few painful questions If during a twomonth period a leaderless party can increase the popularity gap by 14 percentage points what does this say about the public esteem for the Liberals Not much Not even the most optimistic Liberal could find any crumbs of comfort In this poll Don ask me to explain It said a harassed MP All I know Is hat this the easiest time to be a Liberal What he knows too is that the worst is still likely to come The leadership convention with its vast television exposure and the Inevitable display of unity which will follow this extravaganza Is almost certain to boost Tory fortunes still further For most Liberal MPs lis going to be a long hot summer Report favors a scheme to compensate all disabled By Derek Nelson Queen Park Bureau of The Herald Perhaps no Issue over the years has put the government on the defensive as easily as thai of explaining why the Workmen a Com Board has granted disability payments for some disease victims but not others These are not the break a leg kind of cases that are easy to determine or even the back pain kind of disability that is hard lo diagnose and Is sometimes badly abused by socalled Injured workers No these are the cases of people who develop cancers and other resplra lory disorders or suffer tho kind of symptoms they blame on years of exposure to various substances In the workplace Whenever the Issue Is raised In the Legislature particularly by the New Democrats the government is portray as heartless because It defends the current system of trying to find the cause of a disease before considering It for disability payments And over the years the number of diseases and workplaces that are recognized for compensation has continued to expand FIRST CLAIM First was coal tar exposure in I960 And the NDP successfully fought a tough fight in the early inns to expand the number of cancers caused by asbestos beyond the obvious asbestos Is But there la always a problem In this regard as Illustrated by the study published In of cancers among employees of the Dofasco Foundry in Hamilton The 10year study followed workers who in normal circumstances would have been expected to develop B cancers In fact they experienced IS which indicated the foundry process was carcinogenic But which were the extra 10 who contracted the cancers because of where they worked as opposed to the eight who would have suffered We malignancies anyway That Is the Inherent problem in separating the casualties of industrial disease In Workmen Compensation cases from those of the broken leg or back pain variety GOOD ANSWER Yet there Is an anger Paul Weller latest report to the Labor Ministry from which the example Is drawn points he disability scheme to compensate all victims regardless of cause An Industrial Disease Standards Panel would be set up to develop criteria for evaluating disease claims and If link to a workplace was roved all employees so struck would The need of the victim rather than the specific cause of the disability would bo the determining factor in the s lie of the payment This is not to be confused with the clamour for a universal Insurance scheme which confuses Income maintenance for everyone with income substitution for those capable of work MONEY TOO And how would this general disability scheme be financed Here Is the beauty of Weller recommendations The method of assessing companies for Workmen a Compensation would be changed so that the more risk free a workplace the lower the fees This would give employers economic reasons for creating and sustaining less hazardous environ Also employees themselves would pay premiums based on the same principle Using tobacco for example would drive up one a rales For the political reason alone of stopping looking heartless maybe the government will pay close attention to what has to say case of Party Pack nuts TWENTY FIVE YEARS of the few remaining farm properties within Georgetown limits has been held for future subdivision Local contractor Harold acting as trustee for a company In process of formation announced this week that an portion or the Moore farm on Main Street North has been acquired by the company MIsi Isabella Moore is retaining a ten acre portion of the property including her residence on southeast comer of ihe property The company has long range plans for industrial and commercial develop ment of property Mr says there will be a residential area as well The farm has been in the Moore family since Its purchase SI years ago by Miss Moore s father the late James Moore Mr has been a Georgetown resident since 1954 coming here via Toronto from his home town of Tweed Starling here as a real estate sales man he branched Into contracting a year later and has built many homes in the area on Main Street North and In other parts of town Mr and Mrs and their four young sons Joseph Michael Eric and Patrick live at Drive TEN YEARS AGO Residents of the Water Street area made litle objection a proposed apartment complex at a public meeting called by Planning Board Wednesday night Paddy Woods of questioned the amount of parking in the McNally Construction complex and suggested Water Street be closed to traffic at the Main and Park Street intersection so no traffic would be coming down the sharp hill The latest plan revised several times has suites fewer than the previous plan and six ground floor shops with underground parking for cars an additional spaces In front and If necessary at Ninestorey seven fivestorey buildings now make up ihe complex A health club parlor cleaners a convenience store and an outdoor coffee shop also are planned for the complex ft would cover land now occupied by the old Kay building and apartment house and lakes in vacant land previously occupied by Beaver Co The Kay plant and the existing apartment building would be demolished ONI- AGO Halton Hi ill parks have only been open open a month and already there s been damage done to them by vandals Glass mirrors In the men and women bathrooms were smashed May at the Georgetown Fairgrounds At the Hornby Park bikers grass and left tire marks which will cost to repair At Acton Prospect Park ihe blockhouse door lock costing has already been replaced three limes by ihc recreation department Since the picnic tables were put out for the public enjoyment in April six have been smashed They each cost Last week a picnic shelter put up last summer had Its roof bent out of shape and three picnic tables were floated down Silver Creek at Cedarvale Park In Georgetown Facts like these con corn the town a public works and recreation departments It became a serious problem public works superintendent Frank Morette said Vandalism seems to be on the Increase Herald Special Computer invasion Computers have invaded everyday life for almost everybody changing our lives In ways unforeseen even as little Nowhere has the potential for change been as great as in the lives of the handicapped Over North Americans who are not retarded and cannot speak or use hand signals will soon have the ability to communicate verbally through hand held units now commercially on Ihe market Braille translators are being perfected Man pulatlon of remote objects such as windows door locks and microwave ovens through voice commands is becoming more reliable In researching this article I attended a short talk on computer application at the Ontario Crippled Children a Centre The most impress part was not concerned with any of the technology on display Sitting in the audience was a young man strapped in his wheelchair He could not speak and had limited control of his limbs His excitement at possible uses of this machine was apparent to all By pointing at series of symbols displayed on a board placed before him he asked To him the computer Is a door be can use to enter the world most people take for granted Micro computers are maps produced and are relatively lve General purpose machinea are not small enough lo be considered portable by the vast majority of the handicapped A truly rugged machine Is Still not on the market Special purpose units for speaking and ting are small but by definition lack the versatility required Micros are flexible Their range of abilities makes it unnecessary to design a special machine for the disabled Most handicapped people do not like gadgets It Is far better to use the same tools as everybody else if It means using them In a slightly different manner Everyone wants to feel Micros like glasses are one appliance with which the general public can feel comfortable Children are cautioned not to ask Why are you wearing a bracet It la permissible however Jo ask How did you break your armt Having the first micro on the street will elicit a very positive response frdm friends and acquaintances