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1 the georgetown herald weenies january 16th 1946 the georgetown herald sefvffiffttfroomndue ot ufcohuetown glen williams nobval limehousb hornby btkwahttown as ii grove ballinafad llotba cotta bubscription bate 2 00 a year single copies 6c ech advertising rates quoted on application walter c beehn publisher and edltoi qaraetd l mcollvray staff leslie clark reg brootnhead harold davison- the herald is printed each wednesday afternoon at the office on main fit georgetown authorised t as second class mall post office dept ottawa t member of the canadian weekly newspapes association and the ontarioquebec division ol the owna the editors column employment controls lifted employment eontrols maintained during the war by the government ttrrough the national selective ser vice offices havnow been relaxed to the point where only four elementary regulations are now in effect these require that employers must notify the national employment office located in brampton for this dis trict of all vacancies in their establishments and to re port all additions to their staffs to the office that un employed workers must register with the national em ployment office and that persona terminating em ployment either employer or employee must give sev en days notice of separation in prescribed form a copy of which must be sent to the national employment of fice thus termi a sy which we have never been able to decide whether its good points outnumbered the bad or not perhaps human nature is too prone to note these latter and in our limited experience with s s officials we are mindful still of the annoying red tape which characterized many features of selective ser- vice we were never in agreement with the advertis ing policy which forbade an employer advertising iin der his own name and made reference to employment offered be conducted through the s s officials inevit ably this led to bootlegging of labour with the option of transferring workers resting in the hands or officials who were prone to direct men into the hands of friends orif 4gger employers however we were always in agreement with the broad principles behind the plan to make canada s wartime labour fit into the pictubl as econpmically and as practically as possible and selective service did ac complish this to some extent the existing requirements are the very mini mum necessary to give local employment offices a picture of the manpower supply and demand and should help both employer and employee in the recon atruction period a large number of veterans have been demobilized and more are leaving the services dai ly and the national employment service stands ready to act as a clearing house where job opportunities and available labour meet a georgetown museum presentation to us by mr walter moore of a georgetown directory of 1 892 brings to mind the fact that georgetown should have a museum where inter esting historical items could be kept for the enrichment of future generations of residents like any community there are hundreds of small historical treasures whose owners would be only too willing to donate them to a community museum where they would be cared for and preserved the town of colhngw has we have heard one of the finest of such collections and yearly draws large groups of people to examine us exhibits in town we are particularly fortunate in having a building which would make an excellent site the unused por tlon of the library which now that we have a modern municipal building is rarely used for meetings we would welcome some comment from our rea ders and if enough favorable opinion is expressed be lfcve that a public meeting would be in order to organ lze a historical society georgetown 1892 the directory referred to above was compiled by a firm calling themselves ridley christie and lists 3i7j names of residents with their occupations and ad dresses apparently the idea of the booklet was to have paid advertising space supply the funds for printing and the compilors profit but for some reason the idea met with lime favour and only two merchant saw fit to advertise on the inside cover we find moore broth ers tinsmithing plumbing and furnace work and j m buck butcher located in the clark block makmg pointed reference to this lack of patron- 4ige ridley and christie inserted a foreword which said r it was our intention had we been supported bjf the business men of the town in the way of adver tising as we had a right to expect to have published a ttory fuitof information and one that would have 1 credit to the public at4arge but not havmgbeen pr supported by the consenrauve bumstttien here we did hot feel phntbg a those elaborate edition in fact we ket by trav issue hoping that a little of a spirit of thenineteenth century may he i the commercial community of george- k one interesting feature gleaned from the book let is that georgetown streets were numbered- ill those days the only store listed which still is operated by the same family is bucks which at that tune was in charge of the late j m buck father of the present pro prietor many names of course are still familiar in iown barber baird willson ruston kennedy clar- ndge langan hickey and coffin to name but a few housing still a problem we are hopeful thattheend of 1 946 will see some easernent in the lack of housing accommodakjtn in georgetown there ar still numbers of people ttvv ing in quarters inadequate for their needs others who x are forced tix board in town while then- wives and fan llres live in- other localities with most english wpf bndes scheduled to arrive in canada this springs ahd with otherlocal servicemen still to return to town tj situation will be further complicated meanwhile the local legion branch has expres sed concern about the price of property in town and the consequent hardship inflicted on war veterans who wish to purchase property build a home anof settle down as homeowning citizens of the community at a recent meeting a motion was passed that this ijfig- lon branchy 20 goes on record as condemning theprac- ttce as at present of property sales at such prohibitive figures we wish to make strong representations to the local rehabilitation council georgetown town council and the local board of trade tbat steps be ta ken to curb the present tendency lnfiaorgetown this of course brings up the whole problem of inflated property values which coid have and should have been dealt with by the government at the ame time as rent control was introduora property values would admittedlyfc hard to fie down as tightly as rents but certain broad restrictions could be maintain- ed however any action taken now would be of little value wasmuch as property seems to have reached as high tfprice as could be asked without a government directive it would not be in the poweifof any municipal authority to take any action to force owners to reduce asking prices of property for sale the only thing that could be done is a system such as some municipalities have adopted of buying land at as good a price as pos sible and giving it to veterans or selling it to them at a reasonable pre war price a necessary preliminary to this would be a com pletesurvey of land for sale an accurate estimate of the cost of buying it a selling price set on each proper ty and examination of municipal finance to see if the town could bear the cost we should not anticipate hat any citizen would object to public money being bpent for this and no one should expect privateindivi duals to take property losses on their own at this stage if anything is to be done the community as a whole must bear he expense aurioulttral shrt course at milton opens with splendid enrolment the three weeks short course in agriculture opened in the farmers bldg milton on monday morning last at the time of klng to press thirtynine young men had enrolled in addition many visitors are taking in th special lectures and as a result a capacity audlenc greeted prof n j thomas of the soils dept oao and arthur diamond of roclcn sod who were the special speakers on the subjects of soil fertility lone term pastures and farm mechanics agricultural representative j f whltelocfc is being assisted the first iwo weeks- bj geo boll assls nnt an rlcultural representauic for oxford count who is handling the hie stock work on monday afumoon the young nitn listed the farm of frank stark trifalgar township where tjuj ecei ed instruction in the judging of hoi steins and southdowns on thursdays the plan to istt the farm of m t mcnabb and sons esqueslng for in struction in the judging of york shires y special feature the coming week include arthur diamond on monday afternoon on farm mechanics visits to the farms of j h wlllmott and m c beaty both of trafalgar township on tuesday and thursday afternoons where they will receive training in t judging of hampshire sheep and shorthorn cattle and jerseys the class will also attend the annual mee- t ing of the hal ton holsteln dub where they will hear w p wat as islant three tor of tfie ontario live stock branch on the subject of artl flclal breeding units on friday jan 18 the group will spend the day at the packing plants in toronto wt up lo the chinese the lnven ion ttt pap- r painting and gunpow der georgetown your shopping centre post war products theres a hint of what 1946 will have to offer in the new merchandise which is beginning to appear in georgetown stores refrigerators washing machines and radios are promised for the near future the new automobileawill be out soon clothing supplies should soon- be more plentiful remember that your local merchants are al ways ready to serve you and will have these new products for sale os soon as they are available tl directory 4 a e lepage realtor r head office toronto 10 bar street specializing in farms country eft surburban homes city fij summer properties 1 jslt i i niin j t armstrong c telephone nsw fflnsaamadtm 11 m ul f r watson dd lfdjr jnouffci auvaos fir anto wtnoassn c p kalhnv sod ajhed srjiotcb xzorbsxsjdi phone liw or j monuments pollock a ingham gaity dcalgss on rcqtwtp ib inspect our work in orasmoad- leroy dsjettcc m sybil bennett xc bjrruer georgetown phone it lm fc ayls ten hesctten bbs nrtaria fbmic ge b uaclntjr ayfawortb omens oragory theatre hiss sou phone bs oaorstod cooper bide phone su j a willoughby wmeagfcby wmtm ltij head officii tqbomto 1m yonge stx adoeoto large and otdeet la caned nrfmuhon forty teen consult oar active ctty depart ment for that home in the ottr tou sunvstof lever ahoskin oehahtbtsd aooouiftairrb nllelsen the oakvnxe monument works w b mnnk radio repairing we specialize m this work j sanforovson frank petch ucmtnm uonnna pboo ml pjo bos u welter t tvant t t jenkins c hardy uob mmmiub bm m victoria at mjg nu georgetown board of trade im ridley arid christie milton uwto bohs fbom ovbb8b8 ovt k v 1ft ton tit oroini at- toroy ulun w i dick at muton ud gtmndkid ot mrs 8 toun of orgetown artad tn uihod aa dec- craber 39tri after crossing from fiig- land on um queen euaabeth onr- beaa tor two and a half reara he iras lwunded in france in o rfl- 44 oapt dick was associated m his i fathers lav practice before enlisting is married to she former mnfleld and tner have a son phone ts worn bbmn cam tskan tmu u pmj we s l nauseii