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the HERALD Home Newspaper of Helton Hills Established 1 A Division of Canadian Newspapers Company Limited Guelph Street Georgetown 3Z6 Ontario HAUL TAYLOR Publisher and General Manager BOB Advertising Manager PHONE idCimMaUfleolsterenNi Page SECTION A T1IE HERALD Wednesday November Wouldnt it be nice Its hard to argue from strictly a dollar point of view that Stewarttown Senior Public School deserves a larger gym nasium to serve their students But on the eve of their 25th anniversary reunion the subject seems timely to broach The new addition at Stewarttown in 1967 brought to the school bet ter facilities more teachers and a system of teaching that differed from the past Both students and teachers benefited by the creative freedom by lower ratios and a gym nasium that was suitable at the time With the passing of years the smallscaled has been a in the side for the school the students and parents Because of the low ceiling and overall diminutive size sports teams have been forced to train elsewhere calling upon the understanding and time of parents and teachers to arrange for transportation to other schools It has been frustrating for the school but undaun ted the students and teachers have successfully leaped many of the ob stacles the gym has im posed Their athletic record and physical education programs are top notch The stumbling block in improving the gymnasium size is of course lack of money in a time of budget restraints The gymnasium is on the board of educations list of facilities that require ad ditions renovations and improvements Unfor tunately the school must wait in line not knowing what year the gymnasium will be enlarged of if it will ever be enlarged An early start to a Stewarttown gym renovation would be a nice anniversary gift to the school takes a giant step York County Court Judge Stephen took an enormous step into the unknown last week as he handed down his decision against two companies charged with distributing obscene material As the Globe and Mails Kirk Makin pointed out the decision is somewhat of a landmark its the first time a Criminal Code prohibition against the depiction of cruely and violence has been used by a Canadian judge Judge decision will no doubt be sharply criticized People will question whether he has Hie right to determine what most Canadians find socially acceptable and what they dont If judges can make such rulings on films will they also crack down on pornographic literature or even the violence viewed nightly on just about any television Letter to the editor channel The distributors and producers hard core pornography have up un til now operated smoothly The best efforts of police to bring offenders to trial are all too often nullified by a reluctance on the part of the judicial system to determine a social standard and apply the law severely Judge courageous decision is a serious concern to those who profit from the sexual and violent dehumanization of others for entertainment and have scoffed at the legal risks involved Hopefully the judge has set a precedent for his peers to follow While our politicians endlessly talk about crushing hard core porn its nice to know the judicial system is actually taking some action mailing hints To the editor of the Herald Each year we get thousands of requests for information on Christmas mulling May I offer your readers a few hints on how they can get their mail to Its destinations on time Remember to mail early Christmas cards end parcels for local delivery must be mailed by December Chris- Unas cards and parcels for outoftown delivery must be mailed by Dec- ember 13 If youre mailing out side Canada and the United States please check the deadlines This year weve introd uced a Christmas mall telephone hotline The number Is a Toronto number but customers in the region of Ontario covered by telephone area code 416 end living outside the direct dialing tone may call 389XMAS collect for in formation Correct postage will speed delivery Christ mas cards for Canada and the United States must be sealed and req uire 31 cents postage for Canada and cents for the United States Bates for other countries are available at all post offices or over the hotline Address your mall property The address should be legibly writ- and should Include the correct address and postal coda and your own address and postal code There youll also Few marchers really believe Soviet Union is a threat Queens Park By Derek Nelson Perhaps the most unwittingly reveal ing comment at the massive refuse the cruise rally here on tbe Queens Park lawn was dropped by speaker BobBossin What good would their strong turnout do he asked before answering his own question by refer ring to the success of the Vietnam demonstrations in the streets of the 1960e and 1970s that war ended be said And maybe in essence that is what the great cruise missile debate Is all about For the truth of course is that tbe war in Indochina has not ended It goes on today as it has In various forms for the years Tonklnese or North Vietnamese Communists from the Red River Delta have tried to build an empire fn southeast Asia What should have said Is that American participation In the killing had ended helped by peace forces on the streets clearing the way for the real professio nals the Communists to get on with tbe job TELLTALE What separated the anticruise crowd from the group of counterde monstrators who believed In peace through straight was not police lines but a gulf in perception wellIllustrated by views There was only war in Indochina while the was Involved There is only a threat to peace if tbe US arsenal is expanded although some of the more charitable peace camp blame both aides equally It is not that most of the speakers or marchers were They werent were simply expressing fear allout nuclear war an emotion anyone can understand and translating that Into toward a specific weapons systems the cruise misslet an American missi le Yet the effect of their action was to take tides It is not so much tbey were endorsing the Soviet viewpoint as Ignoring it turning a blind eye to the most powerful military machine In the world FIGHT BACK Banners in the peace march denounced the American resistance to further Marxist gains in Central America There was no word on the bloody and dangerous IranIraq war never mind Indochina or Afganistan And Russias wax preparations were treated skeptically as in Canad ian Union of Public Employees presi dent Grace use of the word alleged to discuss Soviet aggression It is there one find toe great dividing line Few of tbe marchers really believe deep down that Soviet Union and satelliteallies like Cuba and Vietnams Tonklnese are a threat To them the Russians must want peace as much as we do After at theyve experienced the horror of war If only the Americans would stop being so bellicose NEED MORE It is the argument of the naive The Soviet Union is a tightknit dictatorship run by men who sincerely believe that killing millions foreigners or their own people in nuclear war or by peacetime famine and the gulag moral if It advances the inevitable triumph of MarxistLeninism And that leaves us In the West with only two alternatives either to have a deterrent power so strong that strateg ic nuclear war will leave nothing for survivors to rule except ashes or unilaterial surrender now A minimum deterrent Invites a Soviet Pearl Harbour surprise strike Yuri Andropov who pioneered the use of psychiatric drugs on dissidents you dont like socialism you must be crazy is a dangerous and ruthless proponent of expanding MarxistLenin ism by violence We need enough strength of which the cruise missile is a facet to ever prevent him gambling be can do to us what be did to Budapest in IBM Shouldnt be complacent to metropolitan extremes Nestled west and a little north of the widelyspread arms of Toronto Halton Hills is a little slow to pick up on the trends As regional police Inspect or Jim Currie said this week we havent had a great deal of violent- pornography here nor much child pornography As a Georgetown resid ent I wouldnt complain about Rampant in the United States and growing steadily in Ihe large metropol ises of Canada such pornography is everpresent Although putting a stop to it could be seen as infringing on somebodys liberty to read what tbey like or see what want to the value of such materials is question able In Halton Hills we have a watch dog group formed last February to defend our town from the infiltration of such materials Citizens Against Violent Pornog raphy chairman Gail Rutherford says watching violent pom affects every one and unbalanced people to a greater degree In fact most of those convicted of violent sexual crimes have been found to have scads of this stuff as Mrs Rutherford puts It in their home Going back to what Insp Currie said local police have never confiscat ed Playboy the wellestabl ished girlie monthly Although Pent house and Hustler sometimes get borderline In their copy be said charges havent been laid by local police Contemporary community stan dards nave changed over tbe years and what was objectionable in the 1950s is no longer so Partial nudity total nudity and simulated sex acts are apparently acceptable now In Hills and police are accordingly not laying charges in these cases Pornography Is a difficult pheno menon to police there are a lot of gray areas as Insp Currie noted to complicate issue What is going to be judged obscene in a courtroom is difficult for the individual officer to determine on scene at times Thats why the citizens of Halton Hills have to be vigilant well Its their complaints that will get police to lay charge or mediate a solution and make fellow citizens aware theres a problem Im not trying to alarm you in any way but dont take things for granted any more said Although Halton Hills is a Utile slow to pick up on tbe extremes prevalent in the city we shouldnt be sleeping when we do have stands a movie theatre and several video outlets in town THIRTY YEARS AGO Provincial police are tracking down all leads in a sensational robbery in Glen Williams last week when goods valued at over were removed from the Beau mont Knitting Mills Time of the daring theft has been established as shortly after midnight Tuesday when nearby residents heard a truck which stopped at the mill for time Entry was gained by forcing a window and the robbers then opened tbe door and loaded a large number of work socks Into the waiting truck owner Arthur Beaumont says that a total of 900 dozen socks packed in 36 cartons were taken in the robbery all of them ready for shipment The Arm Is offering a reward for Informat ion leading to toe return of the stolen goods No theft insurance was carried by the mill TWENTY FIVE YEARS AGO Possibility of moving the war memori al to a more suitable location was mentioned by Coun Fred Harrison at council Monday Mr Harrison said be had brought the matter up a recent Legion meeting and they had suggest ed he Investigate possible sites Town owned property on the Maple Avenue extension which could be land filled is one Idea in his mind he said plus another spot which be would not identify until he consulted with tbe owner Installations of storm sewers in various parts of town delayed until financing was arranged with the government authorities is proceeding and bylaws received their final okay or the week and the debenture cost The sewers are In process In the Swanek subdivision on John Street and the highway A report of North Urban Board meeting was read by clerk indicating tbe concern felt by three towns on the situation at and the possibility of layoffs in March at the Avro plant TEN YEARS AGO Halton regional councillors voted themselves yearly salaries of each effective Jan 1974 at their first official meeting at the county administration building Milton Monday remuneration motion was carried by a vote of 1410 Councillors also voted that council meetings will be held on the first and third Wednesdays of the month begin ning at 2 m Meetings will continue to be held at the county administration building for an indefinite time Com mittee meetings will be held on alternate Wednesdays In what was generally a calm session tbe big item on the agenda was the question of councillors salaries Coun David Coons Burlington proposed a motion that salaries be fixed at This motion was defeated Coun Archie Donagbey Oakville called the proposed salary criminal The motion was carried Instead Other council business included appointing councillors Har rington and Barrett to tbe regional board of commissioners of police and appointing members to finance works planning and commun ity services committees ONE YEAR AGO The kiosk In the Georgetown Marketplace was one of retail photo outlets closed Friday Two local employees were among the 420 staff put out of work Customers who had left films for developing with the company shouldnt feel nervous about ever getting them back divisional controller Philip of Photographic Ltd said Bellevue picks up processes and delivers films to outlets He assured The Herald that tbe films entrusted to are under lock and key and nave been developed by Bellevue We have deal of work on our premises are awaiting instructions as to how this work will be returned to the customers be said Elderly study input needed find labels to identify mall as first class airmail or fragile Wrap parcels careful ly Send them In strong cardboard boxes wrap ped in brown paper and tied with strong If you have fragile goods to protect puffed popcorn makes an excellent packing Wrapping pro perly addressing prop erly and mailing early can help Canada Post get your Christmas mail there on time As an added touch try out Christmas scene stamps Theyll be avai lable at all post offices from November Thanks and with best wishes J King I Georgetown Post Office By Mil Mill A quote the District Health Council Newsletter says It is said that men die and women get sick In Region during twelve men aged 1534 died in motor vehicle accidents In the same year two hundred and thirtysix older women over In Halton were hospitalized for an average of thirty- five days because of fallal The Halton District Health Coun cil In cooperation with the Regional Health Department are reviewing these statistics along with Information about lung cancer diabetes suicides heart disease and environ mental pollutants as part of a plan for health promotion in the Region Carol yn who has been Involved in health care planning for the past ten years has been named of the Study Study Is beginning with a review of the statistics on death and disease of each municipality In according to age and sex The Study team will determine what the local agencies Involved with health promot ion are already doing They will also be asking a sample of Halton residents about their health- related activities by means of question naires Should you be tbe recipient of one of these fill it out to the best of your ability to assist the program In relation to Phase Two of the Study on Health and Social Services for the Elderly public forums will be held for Seniors service providers and interested persons in the community in the Georgetown Library 9 Church St Nov at and In Acton BaptfstChurch80MillStENav at pm At these forums alternatives and recommendation regarding serv ices to be planned and provided In tbe future will be presented It is In the Interest of all Seniors to attend these forums as your future wellbeing is the important Issue Your reaction to the study suggestions pro or con Is essential Please note the number for the Home Care Program Is not 8776113 as stated In our previous column Two little girls were discussing their families Why does your Grand mother read tbe Bible so asked one Replied the other I think shes cramming for her finals Poets Corner MAY I May I love you please just a little bit so hardly anyone will notice It wont hurt you and Im sure youre all I need to clutter up Marlowe JfiSSSL Last week I described some of the many positive features of Ability Phone With ail its versatility It can help almost everyone In some way handicapped or not This does not mean however that tbe use of tbe Ability Phone would negate tbe need for personal physical assistance If you are deaf a TDD la available for under If you require an automatic dialer or message taker these can be purchased separately for under Multifunctional calculat ors are less than If you need reminding or someone checking on you regularly buddy system Is free Other features such as slave units can be purchased separately Prerecorded telephone messages suffer from machine failure poor telephone connections or delivering the information while the call Is being transferred or placed on hold The police and fire departments like others prefer to speak with people not machines Other companies such as Protect Alert or Halton Alarm use real people If you can not reach tbe unit It can not help you An accident or medical problem will not receive attention until a preset time and only If that function la being used The Ability Phone does have a place with the handicapped 83400 fa expensive but this can be Justified If It means independence for owner Anyone wishing a complete desc ription of this unit can contact me or Doncaster Medical On the local scene the CBC library club is having a Victorian Order of Nurses representative present Nov between and 3 pm If you have any questions about this service you can drop this Friday and get a free coffee too