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the georgetown herald ten pages wednesday evening august 12th 1953 ten pages halton goes conservative georgetown sends first member to parliament social and personal overwhelming majority for federal liberals a cavalcade of honking motoi cars followed halton s new mem ber of parliament sybil bennet qc in a victory parade around town monday night when word was received at progressive conserva tive headquarters that murray mc phail had conceded defeat miss bennett s election was of more than usual interest in geor getown for it is the first time in history that a georgetown resident has sat in the federal house she will succeed hughes cleaver of burlington who has represented halton as a liberal for several terms flustered and beaming tired after a hard campaign and as she said speechless for one of the few times in my life a happy candidate clutched a huge bouquet of roses and spoke brfeiiy to a large crowd which collected m front of the p c committee rooir on main street she was introduced by leslie clark president of the georgetown association she thanked whose who had forked with her and those who had voted for her saying that in ottawa she would be striving to serve halton as a whole and not any sectional or oolitical group a fine tribute by supporters of the opposition liberal party m town came later in the evening when liberal officials went from their ommittee rooms further down the street to the p c rooms to congra tulate miss bennett only to find that she had left for a celebration in milton another visitor was stan allen who ran as ccf candi date later in milton liberal can didate murray mcphail and hughes cleaver added their congratula tions ber triumphant trip to the coun ty town in which she was accom panied by stan hall mpp and other conservative stalwarts in cluded dozens of jocal cars filled with wellwishers after visiting the committee rooms there she was piped down th main street to the town hall which was filled to over flowing with friends from all sec tions of the county the new member spoke from the platform saying she felt it a trem endous responsibility to represent one of the most important parts of canada in federal affairsj and that the weather mr editor this weeks summary shows a full rain column the total of 3 81 inches was over 1 inch more for the one week than the nornnl average for the whole month of auust em batkin date max min rain aug aug 4 aug 5 aug 6 aug 7 aug 8 aug 9 aerage 71 76 55 she would do everything i her power to work for the best interests of canada as a whole and for hal ton i don t know just how effective this new broom will be in view of election results across the domin ion said miss bennett as she re f erred to the liberal sweep which will return a large majority to ottawa and flourished a ribbon de corated broom presented by party members also speaking briefly from the platform were stan hall mpp george elliott milton official cam paign manager percy cleave geor getown who is county p c presi dent george bra of burlington and alan nicholson burlington a former federal candidate who acted as chairman for the meeting miss bennett then proceeded to oakville and returned to milton late in the evening where campaign manager f w b fitzgerald and his wife held open house glen williams a visitor in glen williams for the next month is mrs jessie scrags of london england mrs scragg who works in the office of the british council in london made the trip to canada on the empress of france and is enjoying sightseeing trips to vari ous parts of ontario and is much impressed with the canadian coun tryside her husband who died some time ago was a brother of mrs hordern mi s ailecn bradley and family rc holidaj int his week at balo eileen kcir and jofln chaplin are ilationmg this week at port el- mi m and mr w a mcgowan si tut lbt ucck on icition in new ik city i and mrs thorn is ens n mar- j nl and jlitrcy sj cnt labt week at wisuga beich mr and mrs jim doherty and glenn i spent last week visiting in i he i piton bnriv and midland dai ny ho lit and john doherty spent two di a last week in ro chester n y vacationing in hmlburton last wttk mr and vlrs h hurley stay ed at poudash lodge mrs walter wh tmee was a visi tor in collingwood for a few days list week witii her son ralph and family mrs william carney has her grandson little i daniel carney of toronto visiting with her this week frances linton daughter of mr and mrs james linton is spending three weeks at the jack and jill camp at caledon miss lillian watson and her niece paulcne wtson were guests last week at hollywood lode is land grove mrs sam ter nant with her son- rn law and daughter mr and mrs john fletcher vacationed at gra- venhurst last week a patient for some time in tor onto general hospital mr daniel newlands is now a patient in the queen elizabeth hospital mr and mrs len harding have their little granddaughter madeline kenney of streetsville visiting with them this week mr and mrs george kean of flushing long island arrived in town on monday for a visit with mr and mrs alex kean mr and mrs harvey lee and fanuly spent last week at fort erie and this week they are vaca tioning at wasaga beach misses jean mcallister eva ben- ning and betty johnston of toron to are spending their holidays at cromarty lodge bala halton countys new federal member back from vacation at north bay nd lake nipi are mr and mrs jack makulrr gail and doug las three local young men brock hrudli bob mcgill and harry gieij rt spending this week camp ing it liil t mr nl mrs thomas lee step hen vicky md nancy of montreal were visitors on saturday with mr and mrs walter biehn mr claude shankland of dann villc pennsylvania was a visitor last week with mr and mrs d j shankland elgin street mr and mrs d t morris and diufhter lynn of toronto were week end visitors with mr and mrs h j newman mr and mrs robert stowardson and son michael have returned from a vacatioi which they spent in the temagami district mrs oscar baker of welland and miss jean baker of the hamilton spectator staff are visiting for two weeks at norvil with mrs r gol- lop prime ministlr st laurent whose liberal government was re turned to power in monday s feder al election what council did industrial needs increase seek second water source expected use of 200 000 gallons of water daily in the new smith stone plastic plant is causing the town council to consider adding to the present water supply in town the subject was discussed at a council meeting last week and later in the week the water com mittee headed by reeve kenneth macdonald met with mr roberts of the dineen philips roberts firm of brantford which engineer ed the present deep well system in 1948 the tow n water comes from a large well on lower main street which has a capacity of a million gallons a day and is pumped into the water system with pumps op erating several hours a day it re places the former gravity system whereby georgetown got alt its wa ter from a spring reservoir at sil- vercreek whicn gradually dried up as land w cleared in swampy areas which fed the springs up until the present georgetown has been using about 400 000 gal lons of water daily and increased consumption bj smith stone will raise this by a third and bring the peak load close to the present ca pacity of the well even with steady pumping before any definite action is tak en on a second source of supply council intends to ask smith stone for a definite answer as to whether the firm intends to con tinue as at present or whether there is a possibility of installing a cool ing sjstem to reclaim water which which will cost the firm eight or ten thousand dollars a year in water taxes discussing the matter at council cr frank petcn said he would like to have the advice of a second en gineering firm before any action is taken reminded by mayor arm strong that if two firms are con stilted there w ould be an extra charge to pay for investigation cr mcgilvray sided with m pctch in saying this would betta small fee to pay for another opinion cr allen suggested that council should hear mr roberts report first before deciding on any fu ture course of action mr petch said he understood that mr ro- ashgrove what a dreadful wet sunday we had and so mucn grain out in the fields oh well we have the pro mise of seed time and harvest so we must have faith that we will be given the weather to finish the job mr and mrs j h hunter and daughters arc enjoying a holiday motoring up north to klrkland lake north bay and other places miss ann barnes is having a de lightful two weeks with friends up in haliburton mr and mrs joseph drake and family spent a week up at wasaga beach we are so glad to see mrs fred wrigglesworth able to be out again on sunday morning she has been laid up with a bad back but it is improving and we all hope it will continue berts would be saying in his report that a second source of water could be tapped a few hundred yards away from the present well if this was so mr petch continued he did not think it was possible without weakening either the old well or the new one cr norton said he had already discussed this with mr roberts and that it is quite possible to have se veral million gallons close together capable of being developed in two wells any engineer can make a mis take but in order to do a job we have to choose one said mayor armstrong as the discussion con cluded mr roberts firm was here before and gave us one of the great est deep wells in this section of the country we will hear their re port and if council then feels that another report is necessary we will get it then the mayor said that he went through a terrible time when ho was acting mayor in 1948 during a bitter water controversy one mem ber of council wanted witching so a woman had been engaged to find water in this way she iad found it in the park near the arm ouries but tests showed a capacity of only 150 000 gallons daily you ii find several places in town where there 16 water said the mayor but to date no source has been discovered with a sufficient daily capacity to justify develop inj a well what council did in a liberal sv eep almost as powerful as in 1949 prime minis ter st laurent s government was icturned to powei in mondays fed eral election the liberals will have 171 seats when canada 22nd parliament convenes this fa 1 conservatives 50 cci 23 social ciedit 15 and six miscellaneous members in a total i f zbo in 1949 party standing after eu eclion was liberals 193 conservs tives 42 ccf 12 social credit 10 and miscellaneous 5 one of the b election up sets was in halton a liberal strong hold for many years where p c sybil bennett reversed her stand ing m 1949 to win a 1284 majority in her previous bid fnr office miss bennett trailed leteran member hughes cleaver by 1426 votes stan allen ccf candidate fared no bet ter than his predecessor m 1949 and ran third to the two old parties miss bennett had a majority in her home riding of georgetown as well as in the southern municipali ties murray mcphail liberal running for the first time had ma jority approval in esquesing nassa- taweya milton acton and bronte while the total number who vot ed was almost 1000 greater than in 1949 the vote in halton was less percentagewise because a heavy population increase more than ac counts for the increase over 20 000 people cast ballots compared with 19 300 four years ago the county vote pc lib ccf georgetown 802 604 223 esquesing 802 891 135 burlington 1678 1084 220 oakville 1475 1219 295 acton 601 642 110 milton 496 591 53 bronte 204 257 79 nelson 1879 1365 315 trafalgar 1585 1449 268 nassagaweya 336 511 65 9858 8613 1763 the vote in georgetown p c lib ccf municipal office 120 81 35 chapel school 105 80 28 library 146 79 8 old town hall 116 90 44 e martin 61 85 30 alex kean 158 95 id walter gunvmer 96 94 59 802 604 223 the vote in esquesing pc lib ccf milton heights 63 72 16 quatre bras 43 84 6 hornby 57 53 5 norval 107 112 20 stewarttown 115 147 6 dublin 71 120 9 limehouse 46 46 14 9ilercreck 90 112 12 glen williams 10 145 47 802 891 135 eiing street extension college viewhighway link now the election is over the next big dayssful be the local fairs major improvement in traffic facilities in the north end of town is in the plannhg stage by town council discussed several times during past years is a continuation of ewing street to ontario to pro vide a through road from no 7 highway to the college view sec tion of town rapid expansion of the smith stone plant which has just opened a new addition which will employ an extra 75 persons has created a affic bottleneck at the john street subway and this dangerous situation will be consid erably relieved if the new road is constructed at a recent council meeting town clerk john d kplly was instructed to have a by law prepared which would call for a 27 000 debenture issue for the new paved roadway estimated costs of this amount were submitted by county engineer roy smith who had been asked to make a preliminary survey and recom mendations it is planned to put in a 56 foot long culvert west of the present creek which will be diverted into a new creek channel 330 feet long mr smith estimates that 6000 yards o fill would be needed for the new road which would be 40 feet wide a secondary benefit of the road extension should be an easement of flooding whicn takes place every spring because of the twisting na ture of the creek once the creek bed is straightened there should be considerably less danger of major flooding in the spring the new road would be subject to a 50sc grant from the depart ment of highways georgetown high school upper school results beckett maby english comp c eng lit 2 physics c fr auth c fr comp 3 german auth 2 german comp 3 berg elling eng comp 2 eng lit 3 algebra 1 geometry 1 trig and stat 1 physics 3 chemistry 1 devrles julia eng comp c eng lit 3 physics c ft auth 2 hughes william eng comp 2 eng lit c alegbra 1 geome try c trig and stat 3 physics c chemistry c fr auth c fr comp 3 mcclure george eng comp 3 eng- lit 3f history 3 algebra c geometry c triff and stat c physics c chemistry c fr auth c schenk eleanor eng comp 2 eng lit 3 history 3 fr auth c fr- comp c german auttu c g