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the georgetown herald ten pages f georgetown ontario wednesday april 1st 1953 ten pages tax rate remains at 43 mills lowest rate in north mayor good news for georgetown prop erty owners is councils decision to make no increase in thea953 tax rate over last year the 43 mill rate was maintained when council passed a 217000 budget of expenses a 6500 increase over last year taxpayers will have a total levy of 164500 to pay no essential services have been reduced although the road budget was lqpped by 3000 and the fin ance committee recommended the weathei mr edifcor- this weeks summary shows an average max and min which are both 14 degrees above the normal average for the month of march em batkln date max min rain march 23 60 32 28 march 24 58 39 march 25 51 34 06 ffecje ease in ine to 6 on the credit side council bud geted for 3500 from the sale of the old town hall and 4000 in supplementary taxes mostly from building of the new smith stone plant council plans to use 6000 of surplus to keep the tax rate con stant it is hoped to realize this by converting e large share of un collected taxes into cash a 1300 increase in garbage collection costs was in the budget the cemetery board which last year took only half their grant has asked for the full amount boosting expense about 1000 public school costs increa sed 5500 high school costs though not increased in total added 2000 to georgetowns tax rafte because the town has agreed to drop a fin ancial gain at esquesings expense in order to proceed with building a high school addition finance minister mcgilvray and his committee were congratulated by mayor armstrong on their work in keeping the tax rate down he said georgetown could be particu larly proud of the fact that the rate is lower than in any other north halton municipality this rate has also been held for a threeyear per iod taxes will be payable in three instalments may 15th july 15th and september 15th -43- 46 -32- 34 two nokval teams t win championships by j r as this is the first column in some time we will try to summar ize the news of the past few weeks to bring you mocp or less up to date on the happenings in the little capital of halton we feel as though we should put something in about the successful hockey teams who won trophies at georgetown because last week the only mention of norval winning was made in a little corner contain- ing about fifty words could it be that the georgetownlan who wrote kwas sh6rt oi paper we would like tohave been able to congratulate all three teams in stead of just two but the peewees coached by nels robinson didnt quite make it nevertheless they played a fine game the bantams coached by duncan robinson was in our opinion the fastest team on the ice standout players on this team were bill richardson bill donaldson peter poxneroy and goalie bill patterson many others deserve honorable mention they played two games the midget game proved to be nothing more than giving george town their usual saturday morning shellacking 71 with goals scored by nearly everyone except the spec tators how did that one get in you ask well yours truly the goofy goaltender let it in one of two shots how about that the midgets wore coached by don jar- vie who has been doing a stalwart coaching job all year rev r b copland of kensing ton pei is visiting his parents mr and mrs c w coupland- a very successful nayride spon sored by the norval united yju was held on march 24th ash- grove united and norval presbyter ian young peoples were also in at tendance for young- and younger the biggest problem on the minds of young norvalites this week is where is pogo ed note maybe churchy or albert swallowed him and then again maybe owl will con tact him on the telephone well anyway grundoon has a solution skmvts an accident on saturday after noon apposite the home of rev c gilbert brought injury to reginald rust of brampton and practically demolished his 51 model car the automobile was rounding the turn at the bottom of the hill going to wards georgetown when it went out of control on the slippery pave ment and came into violent contact laith a maple tree in front of the gilbert home mr gilbert who was pumping water at the time was first to reach the car and after pulling the unconscious man from the wreck took htm into the house where he administered first aid and phoned an ambulance our scout troop now has eleven boys in patrol order they are wolf patrol pl laurie reed sec ond bill donaldson ron fishburn bill bailey beavers p l ross cunningham second peter pome- roy and charlie carney fox patrol pl julian reed second donald smfth ronald melcan and bill richardson lately itwo of the members took a twoday bronze arrowhead course in brampton this course is designed to give pls advanced training in their positions just lately the troop staged a father and son night which was highligh ted by an act entitled tommy- tenderfoot and done very well by pete pomeroy and laurie reed commissioner jack atkinson was present for the occasion the ladies of the local association provided a social personal lady macdougal on her way back from florida visited with her niece mrs ernest ball before re turning to england this week mrs w p brill of guclph is visiting her sister mrs herb cleave and attended the institute 50th an niversary dinner on wednesday mrs florence smith toronto and mrs norman cameron bramp ton were visitorson thursday with mrs john oneill archdeacon w g o thompson mr and mrs w f bradley mr fred mcnally and miss lena mc- nally attended the funeral service on grace church waterdown on saturday for mrs- a b higginson wife of a former rector of st what council did georges church here mrs j b mackenzie has as her guests her sisters miss c g mc queen and mrs j h mcrae from lacombe alberta miss margery mackenzie is at present on a trip west to california travelling most ly by plane mayor jack armstrong and councillor douglas sargent indus trial chairman of council attended an industrial conference in toronto on monday and tuesday called by the trade and industry branch of the dept of planning and develop ment britainholland flood relief fund acknowledged 240532 azc 100 l devries 1000 john r barber 1500 legion wa fashion show 12400 jack gunning 500 russell hepburn 500 ashgrove wi 3103 -loufens-wiweohut- 8j10- on monday september 30th sold the old town hall to sid silver for 3500 with the stfpula- tion that it may be used to house the fire truck until september council had previously talked of wreckdng the structure and rebuild ing on the site but at the last meeting an offer to purchase was- received and it was decided to of fer it for sale as is two other offers were made 3000 by austin corner belfountain and 1006 by c p boutelle crs goodlet and allen spoke jn favour of the motion to sell march 27 march 29 march 28 07 260435 32 flurries smith and stoners in quarter century club twentythree members of smith and stone ltd- became charter members in a 25 year club of du plate and associated companies sat urday night col w e phillips himself a charter member and president of the duplate fiberglas and smith and stone companies presented en graved watches company pins and framed certificates to a total of 65 men and women at a dinner at the royal york hotel which was fol lowed by an evening at the royal alexandra theatre first grass fire of the season first grass fire of the season oc curred yesterday when a fire orig inating in the glen swept up the hdll towards mcadowglen growers in the region of basil hadleys home the fire brigade was unable to take the truck into the area and fought the fire by hand beating it out before any damage was caused many prizes given at true blue cooking school season ends as commuters lose the local commuters were badly defeated last week by the bilt- mores 127 in the avro house league finals the game was very close till the end of the second period when bilts led by one goal in the third commuters seemed to fall apart and the winners ran up 7 goals to com muters three jack hamilton with 4 goals and assists and blake baxter with ifvo solo goals were best for the locals mccaffery longhouse and hunter were outstanding for bilt- mores who now talke on the short circuits winners of the wood- bridge league winner of a bond draw which helped the commuters finance through the season was ben har ris of weston who witttse remeni- bcred locally when he played a season of hockey here in the early war years main street merchant died this morning seriously ill since suffering a cer ebral hemorrhage a week ago sun day mrs ae farnell died this morning at peel memorial hospi tal brampton mrs farnell with her son grah am had operated their main street grocery store since mr farnells death in 1949 the funeral service will be at the mcclure funeral home on fri day a f ternoon new toronto here for minor hockey teams from georgetown and new toronto played the final games of minor hockey for the year at the arena saturday morning midgets and bantams played two games and pee wees a 15 minute period which ended in a ill tie doug davis scoring for georgetown- georgetown midgets won their round 173 and new toronto took the bantam series 84 midget scor ers for georgetown were pomeroy hillier spence mcguigan hurren denham hulmc hill and boyle bantam goals were scored by ward davis and richardson mrs alex lewis of miiverton spent a few days last week with mrs fred mcnally while cr norton was strongly ag ainst it mr norton pointed out the danger of putting a fire hall on the reid lot across the highway where it will be a menace to school children four people had already- called him he said objecting to ithis p- i dont want to be a councillor who has to look into a mothers eyes over her childs dead body and feel responsible said mr norton we talk of town planning yet we turn down the psychological location for the fire hall mr norton also asked where the firemen would park their cars when they were out on the truck cr petch said hm could not see any more hazard to children toy moving the fire hall a few hundred ifeet away when the vote was put reeve macdonald and cr norton voted against it will print 100 copies of the auditors report for 1952 k agreed to install necessary water and sewer services into a planned subdivision in the tyers survey when an agreement from alwood construction co indicates the com pany will build at least ten houses john ihnat and george szigeto spoke for the company indicating rthat they plan to build a minimum of 10 houses which could increase to 40 or 50 if the houses prove rea dily saleable the company will put in roads if they go ahead with the subdivisio they have built 60 houses in us and ulh l north york an enjoyable time is reported by all who attended the canada packers cooking school sponsored by the loyal true blues on thurs day and friday in st johns mem orial hall the thursday evening show was dedicated to the preparation of meats and meat dishes and the fri day afternoon show to pastry and l cake baking both shows which were opened by wm mrs albert carter were enlivened by the con genial presence of vlnce mountford of brampton wellknown as an en tertainer and district representative for the company who acted as em cee the committee in charge of ar rangements consisted of mrs a taylormrs harry shortill mrs i victor mcntven and mrs bob har iris mrs don arthurs and mrs mc- fniven assisted the dietiticans and j mrs pearl udarber was pianist at the evening show the frigidaire range and refrigerator used through out were supplied by mcclurcs home furnishings grand door prises of a sunbeam mixmaster donated by goodlets hardware and a 12 lb decorated ham from canada packers were won 1 by mrs j douglas and miss helen armstrong respectively five dol lar vouchers from carrolls were won by mrs r barber and mrs d copeland daily door prizes ef swingaway can op eners doriateosby ernies radio were won by mrsfred tucker and mrs charles sayersna weeks sup- f ply of bread from ntjeqvenette bakery was won by mrstieosfug- ger winners on thursday night lfeags of groceries were mrs g riddall mrs s walker mrs g harley mrs s lyon mrs t harlow mrs e cole mrs l peters mrs dybar mrs pearl bar ber mrs j- fry jr miss d hazell mrs e rawson mrs e hodge mrs a henney mrs j bmmerson 4 miss shaw on friday afternoon mrs lawton tmrs jr webster mrs a tost mrs w roney mrs j douglas mrs george eason miss f mrs c allen mrs g campbell mrs flarlow mrs f blacfc 4trs d jpridebuxmrs l peters mrs n wflsoh mrs g preston the food prepared by the dietic ians was won by- thursday night mrs j e h ev- mrs jf- ana- strong jr mrs v mountford mrs f mccartney mrs r lockhurst mrs f brown mrs s walker mrs v rawson mrs- c harris mrs n lowrey mrs e whitham friday afternoon mrs d bow man mrsv cook mrs j doug las mrs s- robin mrs w grant mrs w biehn mrs g king mrs e leslie mrs g campbell miss carol mcgilvray was also presented with a special dish hav ing assisted with the grand draw eighteen rinks at thursday ponspiel another successful bonspiel was held on thursday by the curling club with five rinks from hills- burgh and rinks from brampton unionville and fergus joining ten local rinks unionville and a team of local builders skipped by norton nel son won first prizes in the two draws second prizes went to matt fullertons brampton rink and to clifford burts georgetown group third prizes tegeorge lacey of hulsburgh and jack williamson georgetown nay bowers won a coffee table in a lucky draw with horace barnes getting second prize a smoker stand delicious lunch our scouters are rev g l roy al and harry perkins who are do ing a splendid job the womens association of nor val united church held its march meeting at the home of mrs bert carney the discussion of business centred around arrangements for a daffodil tea early this month the ladies are looking forward to a large number of guests we hope that this little column will keep you up to date on the happenings in and about the little capital if you have any news of interest please let me julian reed know before mondays h you wish to have it in by wednesday of the same week william van sickle as halton warden warden of halton county in 1943 william van sickle 60 died sud denly last wednesday at wellesley hospital toronto he had been ill three months with a heart condition he was general manager of king calcium products campbell ville and prominent in civic life serv ing as reeve of nassagaweya a member of st davids presbyter ian church and campbell masonic lodge surviving are his wife lillian elsley a son omar of campbell- ville and three daughters mrs james dick alliston mrs william mahon and mrs robert mcphail campbtville the funeral service was held on saturday 4n st davids church plans for georgetown coronation day will be discussed at a meeting thursday april 9th council chambers 8 pm ail organizations arc asked to send a representative to meet with a committee of council to plan for v die day esquesing liberals entertain stewartt0wn euchre dance esquesing liberals entertained at a euchre and dance in esquesing community hull on friday with over two hundred attending lornc bird president of the township association was in charge of arrangements and during the intermission between cards and dancing murray mcphail federal liberal candidate and ken- giles of the county association spoke brief ly guests at the party also inclu ded two vice presidents of the as sociation frank petoh george town and jack kehoe burlington j p kirk wood and mrs george burt were first prize winners at cards and frank fendley and mrs r li davidson won second prizes doris hulls orchestra played for dancing after lunch among those at the party were mr and mrs murray mcphail w o brownridge mr and mrs clay ton wilson bernice wilson mr and mrs w a neilson mr and mrs tom gibson george gibson mar- jorie gibson elizabeth gibson mr and mrs jack milton mr and mrs wilmer watkins mr and mrs guy wilson ruth wilson mr and mrs john schertzl mr and mrs r l davidson mr and mrs george burt shirley v mr and mrs frank brown ruth brown john and joe brown mr and mrs frank petcth mr and mrs albert dolson mr and mrs r gordon fisher mir and mrs charles ijariche mr and mrs bill sproulc mr end mrs j l moore mr and mrs george leslie joe ross mr and mrs goldie gillies lorraine gil lies mr and mrs ralph denny mr and mrs leslie guten mrs a s wilson mr and mrs melvin mc- cullough mr and mrs manley dcnsmore mr and mrs denney charles mrs george herrington mr and mrs jack lawson mr and mrs r s leslte mr and mrs al bert presswood gordon graham mr and mrs jim fisher howson ruddell mr and mrs wa brown- ridge mr and mrs percy leslie botrlawson mr and mrs ken giles mr and mrs elwood snow mr and mrs robert w dredge richard stoutt gordon w brig- den jrfmes pcollier mrs edwin bailey mrs abe neilsoo lome struck the mill rate at 43 mills the same as last year will observe daylight saving time for the same period as hi toronto appointed a council committee to have a meeting with representatives of oxgotjjfcations to discuss plans for a coronation day celebration will have the road committee in vestigate possible qhanges in some street names to avoid confusion es pecially as h an aid to the fire brigade one suggested change is to con tinue the victoria crescent name along one of the present victoria streets another is to provide a new name for the 9th line and another to establish a name for what is now known as mill road will have a broken water mam on college street fixed immediate ly when cr haleipointed out that property is being damaged because of the break optometrist rnjured o t walker brampton optomer trist who for many years conducted a branch office m town in conjunc tion with dr frank watsons den tal office was injured in a car accident last week mr walker was walking across the street at the four corners- when he was struck by a car driven by a tottenham man mr walker suf fered a fractured- knee bird mr and mrs robert mceiv- ery mr and mrs ken cotton roy cotton bonnie cotton neil cot ton wayne cotton mr and mrs harold early chester early mrs w j mcdonald charlie thomp son mrs john g irving t mc lean mr antf mrs harry dever- eaux mr and mrs f robinson barbara davis mr and mrs oliver hunter mrs cam sinclair peter ferguson mr and mrs wil frid bird thomas norton rrob- inson max hodder g a youngs w g marshall mr and mrs har old michie mamie johnson frank mcgibbon ronald moffatt frank wilson gordon bird pete waller ruddy whiting gord rusley ken giles john blair tony stavjanik jim jesseman clarence harding spencer wilson mrs w j snow mr and mrs j a mcenery mr and mrs francis brown mrs m leslie james mcdonald mrs sam mileham john michie mr and mrs frank fendley mr ond mrs john mcnabb mr and mrs j p kirkwqod shirley kirk- wood mrs harry r- davis char- lotte m turner c w mcfeeters mrs w f thompson mr and mrs d awendover mr and mrs clay ton dick clin mcdonald 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