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tmi ceokoatown herald wednesday evening june lit 1655 page variety street buy the best buy bh paints for ueilng ttuuty told by twins woodworking umihousf tr 72162 rrtanufacturers of i sash fsames screens doom iilu ltd out ttlm door hardware floor tile glass open evenings till 9 p m and all day saturdays flowers for every occasion design work a specialty flowers by w ire anywhere in toe world norton floral trlanou 735w gaorsatown have your esso oil burner or air conditioning unit installed now 25 down 5 year to pay 1st instalment in september bill sproule 4 elizabeth slreet brampton phone 1877 reverse charges rusco i wmtouno comsinayion screentstormdoor a tenaa door and atom doe mil b ooal jut raj lmmjtejcwvtttilatloii f rtfi wn raofitthd inm canadian variety makaivlitm april w5 lets 0 on record right now with the fact that georgetown our market survey xa for this month u du uncuy not variety town apart from the facj that a single variety store ts located inside the town lim its and an excellent variety out let it u too the tiny town just thirtysix miles from toronto u too specialised in its retail outlets to gualiiy now that statement takes a bit ot explaining and we propose to do just that but later at this moment we must also clar ify he statement about this little spot being a retailers dream it is and to make that picture realty- cleaf lets talk to walter kvsm secretary of the jeorgetown thairiber of com mcrce hloh peyrell jeortrtown haa one of the hih est per capita payrolls m canada ut u vans and this is no rosy slatetnent born of c of c enthus laxm it s a fact i j uxlhcrrnore its a faet recounted to canadian ar lety lit re band smg by almost every merchant we talked to tieorgrtown per capita pa roll u so hiull in fact that a nt w plant which wu scheduled for location he re was built in auclph insttad thr company figured hourly wiir rale were 2ac irs there with a rea dy labour supply into tht bargain ask any retailer to translate that into terrru of potential buaidrti and he ii be able to do it for you without a second a hesitation that i the kind of market every retail man hope to hit hut there i still another facet to the situation no layoil trouble in most industrial centres no mat ler whether they re large or small the condition we have just described obtains 11 ut there a usually a catch very frequently layoffs occur among the industrial groups and tht rt tail sales curve jjots down down whenever it does not in decree town though it a pleasant indeed to be able to report such a situation but there it u diversification is the answer of course there are nineteen industries either in or very close to georgetown their products range all the way from machinery to mushrooms from la minated boats to children s furniture you have your choice from knitting and paper mills to bottling works the breadwinners of eork town fa milies may be cm p toyed in a quarry or a ceramics plant but the point is they are all employed r ven during the depression years said one merchant the number of unemployed wage earners in george town was way below that of other com munities in relation to population wc vc always been fortunate irt that respect and of course i believe that is because there is a ancty of indus tries in the town good living standard obviously this is no metropolis population is slightly in excess of 4 500 but it s a happy and ccon omicully healthv centre thnt s for sure as you would lujjralh expect in a town which lives under the con ditions d scribed th citizens are ahlt to afford a good livink stindard an estimated seventy five pe r ct nt of the inhabitants own the homis in which they live although thtrt iri no figures availnhlt on the numb r of cars brought down to a per cipila basis in the art a tht ratio is hilh very hikh and then art f t w famil les without a car turns out o he a rt al nt cessity in sorm ensts or tho they may liw and maintain tht ir fa milies in acoretown sonu ot th wafic curnt rs are employtd in tl i bif ford plant in qakvillt roiilhl twtnty milis away others are vtoiklnu in malton and commute from that ct n tre back and forth to thiir homt s in the ct ntre of the ric f irnnn th tnct t also a parking problem all of this is very nit milted hi r as you may have jucssid it triads ornithine of a probli in prohlcm is parking space thi old perennial which pops up to pis cr retailers in communities large a little its litre in georgetown we vc heard many i man who should know better scoff at the idea of a centre the size of gcor gctown having a parking problem but thats the way it woiks rt member how far the average shopper will walk between car and store well the shop pers in georgetown are just as averse to walking a long distance between the two as tho inhabitants of any oth er town or city curbs id e parking is frankly at a premium in this hundred year old community ve cant seem to get the retail era together on the parkin question says chamber secretary evans the retailers feel that they cannot be ex pected to pay for offstreet parking which will benefit the general public the council takes the stand that it will benefit the je tellers ao they ought to set together and pay for off- street parking since they are the ones who will ultimately enefltuie most vacant land is available ac cording to ur evans and he expects that it will not be too ions before the retailers do move in this direc tion almost no tourists v though georgetown u on heavily travelled highway no 7 passing traf fic doesnt hit the towns business sec tion but bypasses it completely though ave ore on tho edge of the coledon hills and close to the cre dit valley which doe have tourist ap peal we get almost no tourist biuii- new this m you may wafljinsine georgetown ontario in an industrial town provides no source of grief whatever the inhab itant ar took busy going about their jobs to make any kind u play for tourist business the town u however going in hea vily for development of its present population figure obsolete now said mr evans when we mentioned the provincial estimate we had seen p sat estate dovelepmapts tht development is in an eastward direction and its fairly extensive with every prospect of becoming more so an 1s00 acre area has been bought up by a real ttate develop ment organization and the area has ben taken into the town limits new homes are springing up so much so that a thirty acre area has been nt aside for a chopping ctntre that uv for the day when our papujaliosy u 10 000 though said mr i- vans at the same time intimating that tht time miht be fairly close at hand at the moment giortfttown has the luw rut mill rate of any town of compar able slit 45 mills on equulurd astsjmenl which looks like a fair uji inducement tin town is af ttr all on the main line of tin ml just thirty five rail milts hum tht ht art of toronto plans 31 years ado says the georgetown herald of 1017 eorittown is in such clone proxun ity to toronto as to afford quick and frequent communication a distance of only 20 miles it is ossible to ijit the city to attend conct rts lectures theatres etc at a small cost and speaking of transportation it is tn cou rating to note that our pret nt one company method of transporta tion will soon be supplemented by the opening of the toronto suburban hcclric ilailway from the juctn i ity through to fuclph and western onta no 1 he atlvt nt of the t it ctric road will provide a more frequt nt means of transportation and blse probably a itss expensivt means so mueh for thin 38 years ao when he assefctmtnt roll show ed geortft town a population to be 1 bbs and the total assessment of the village was w20 0o0 the communk ty has come a long way in the inter i in not a variety town vve said some time ao that this is not a variety town it is not indeed ketailinl i ct ntred alonv main st which la intersected by milt street on which the variety store la locattd sed like to ttll you a little about the georgetown ftc to 1 00 store on mill street before we go on to talk to the other merchants however it ts owned and operated by c r wray end though the store is not tremen doubly large it is a tremendously good example of a well organized well operated tarlcty unit the coun ters and wall shelves which featurt he merchandise art pin neat dis plays are simply done yet art parti cularly effective with more than 7 000 hems in stock mr u ray who is chairman of the retail mtrchants association keeps his counters in tiptop shape his is a mh1 business thert are always people in tht store and wt trv to kttp ur custom rs happy ue always i x chanj e mt rchindise and rive refunds if the loods arm t satisfactory says mr s ray this is a kd commun ity in which to do business ht re ported retail outlet garners tr the rist of mill sin 1 1 and on to alaln one of the first stores is garners an outlet which special izes in personal and household dry goods merchant garner s pleasant easy going man who operates a store in erin reported the same story as the others to whom we had talked business on an even keel no pronounced peaks or valleys in vol ume except on a seasonal basis of course said mr garner a stable employment picture for the working people of georgetown asked if there was a noticeable pull away from town by reason of its proximity to toronto mr garner remarktd i think that is true of every centre to tome extent the georgetown chop pers may go toguelph buttheguelph shoppers may go on to kitchener snd so it goes that way but similar ly shoppers from brampton do shop in georgetown to some extent so there you are thompsons uardwaro rurthir a8ng the street we tjuer led hardware man ray thompson mf tfcampnn corroborated the gmt rh stability of busjness in town an at tractive snd wt unlocked store ttiotnutfon s hardware we observed was another unit in which custodiers are always found north along main the katon order office is tu be found wilt tht fauul tar company signature on thr front and fa in i bar catalogues anil ordir blanks inaldt the tidy small offut silvers apparal across the strttt almost immediat ely opposite is a lart and smartly fronted ready to wear stort silsers is almost a department stort 1 1 rtain ly the bulk of family needs in per sunal apparel are available ht rt sil vers optralts a store in hrampton in addition to the georgetown unit also locattd on the east side of the street is th simpson sear order office and it too follows tht patttrn of cum pany offices across the country a solid town the stores we have listed are by no means in the variety category we talketl to manage mint in each case howevtr knowing that the problems of one retailer basically are tht probli mi of all this quit i little community woes on and ruws apace there is no visible burst ink t tht stains tht rt is no problem so acute that it hits the visitor as soon as he strikes tht town boundary council and retailers will get together on that parkins problem it is pos sible there may tx a change in tht 1 o clock thursday afternoon closing some want it changed not too many seldom will you find a less excitable group of people for the rt tatters of georgetown know they r in a happy position they accept thr fact gratefully and they see no reason to fuss and fume about tht odd difficulty they encounter in do ing business georwitown is nt i a variety town in the sense we usually apply it it s a solid town and as one of the retailers phrases it it a a nut fommunitj in which everybody ml a squan deal lol 68 meeting monday june 6 8 30 p m tn stewarttown lodge hall initiations 6v ttt get fordmonarch dealer j used cars trucks wh atjv m ean s ivtly usid car and tiucx tnat ratis thi al hon has ken ixaailmamil by rl marvlcmw ffiwwm iul performance ims ond ckacfcwl for mfary phc4i for uhjvnolbg wlwa trvtmully aitrf uiunwy 4vrht4 warranted by yeur fordmenarth dealer ed backed by mi reputamee concrete blocks also chimney blocks il oriole concrete block co w j mcgowan 91 h line olen williams trnn 73471 out of town callers please reverse charges x all he has learned the experience and judgment of this min are of direct importance to a large number of people in his community v he is the manager of a branch of one of the chartered banks behind him are years of training in various branches as teller accountant assistant manager back of him too are the special skills and broad experience of the bank he represents everything he hay learned about people and business and sound banking practice is put to work every day in the service of his customers he directs a banking servicecentre where t wide range of banking services designed for specific purposes are available to everyone in the community of proven ability tested by years of practical experience he is a key man in the canadian bonking system only tmrtmd lunk tffm full rsxgt tf banking imiim including- mltonal loans tofiunee your pcftonil needs repayment in regular laical- menu from your esroinas mow imroviialnt loans por repairs alterations or additions to your home commircial loans for business or industrial firms large and small producers processors retailers every type of enterprise moniy tranimrs by mail teltgrtm or cabl to anywhere in the world tub chartered banks serving your community ul 5spwwwffikr5ffi7