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the georgetown herald sixteen pages georgetown ontario wednesday much 14th 1958 first section what council did presents safety award what council did plan three stores on highway property richard vanderberg told council at their monday meeting that he hopes to construct a 3 store building on no 7 moving his present house to anoth er location he asked permission to build the full 50 foot width of the lot saying he could see no advantage to a narrow alleyway which would bo left under present building by law regulations reeve allen agreed that there is a problem for the area seems headed to be a commercial one with several stores already constructed and it would be a mistake to make such buildings conform with restrictions meant for houses mr vanderberg questioned by cr doug sargent said he would be agree able to deeding land from the rear of his property for a service road mr sargent said the highway land problems have been discussed by his council committee but they have come to no conclusion about what to do in the expanding commercial area sid hardie president of sunbeam ratepayers who was at the meeting for another purpose interjected that if the store is built it will be right behind the prince charles residential area and there might be objections from residents mr vandenberg s request was left for further consideration an offer of 400 was accepted from halton coop supplies for a portion of townowned land behind their high way building a previous 100 offer was turned down by council and there was still some opposition to selling from three council members hale sykes and sargent who felt the land should be retained for a future park cr mcgilvray said he didnt think the coop should be held up any longer in their expansion plans and that he though their 400 offer quite fair in view of cheaper prices paid by others in past land transactions deputy reeve sargent said his in terest wasnt mercenary and that he was looking to the future when the town might need a central park how ever as he could see the motion was going to carry he asked that the 400 be reserved for spending on develop ment of some other park areas cr harry hale said the fair way to sell the property would be by tender cr sykes agreed with mr sargent that the property is potentially valu able as a park site and should be kept by the town money goods stolen hardware store robbed money and goods were stole from richardson s hardware sometime be tween closing hour friday night and saturday morning the break in was discovered when the store was opened saturday morn ing drawers had been ransacked and loose change of approximately 40 removed from a desk also missing were two 22 rifles 4- boxes of shells and four cigarette lighters entry to the store had been gained from the read the thieves had got onto the roof of a slbreroom and had broke an upstairs window police are investigating several leads which may lead to an arrest of the culprit according to police chief roy haley scouters meet here in st johns hall north halton scouters club held its regular meeting last tuesday in st johns church hal representatives from erin milton acton and george town were present in all fifty nine members and friends sat down to a delicious turkey dinner prepared by the ladies of the church following the supper a short busin ess session was held under the chair manship of scoutmaster ed holton of erin plans weer discussed for a scout camporee to be held later in the ea- son final arrangements were left to the milton troop the advisability of securing insurance for the scouts and cubs was also noted slides of the world scout jamboree at niagara on thelake were shown and the evenings entertainment con cluded with a sing song led by how- ward winters of erin phyllis stewart stars in television drama phyllis malcolm stewart daughter of mrs h m stewart durham street played a starring role in an hourlong play presented sunday evening on cbc television miss stewart was a member of the cast of the small ram a lister sin clair play in which she portrayed a middle aged widow enamoured of a young neerdowell played by gerry saracim name trevor williams georgetown fair secretary a joint meeting of the mens and ladies section of the esqueslng agri cultural society was held at the home of mr and mrs ken ella hornby on saturday evening there was a good attendance and spencer wilson and mrs don lindsay the new presi dents of the society presided the meeting was called prim arily to appoint trevor williams as the new secretary of the society which operates georgetown fair he takes over from garfield mcgilvray who retires from that position it was decided that a boys grain club should be operated in conjunc tion with the fair and the age limit is between 12 and 21 years it is hop ed that at least 16 boys will be regis tered in the next two weeks the ad visability of operating a pig club will also be investigated due to the fall fair dates being on sept 21 22 this year it was neces sary to change midways and king shows will replace stanger shows this is a much larger midway and the society hope for a good show past president harding price was appointed a member of the es queslng hall board replacing john bird who has been a board member for s number of years plans were made for a euchre and dance in april the ladies reported a very success ful cooking school and turned a sub stantial sum over to the society trea surer for fair purposes at the close of the business ses sion miss join ruddell on behalf of the directors presented the retiring secretary and his wife with a gift voucher and expressed thanks for the assistance given the fair during their tenure of office l georgetown community swimming pool donation llt prfctiomly acknowledged 2868710 anon 2900 mrs martha e kennedy 500 charles greig 10 00 mrs annie stull 10 00 george burt 300 mrs lawrence burt 100 a friend 200 don undsay 200 mrs george henderson sr 1000 wm h reld iooo r b corbett 5o0 rer f fletcher 1000 david and paul kidney 1000 bert corbett sco mrs e beeney 100 root k souther 1000 at esque5ing council holman construction gets gravel contract esqucsing council at their march 5th meeting accepted the tender of holman construction to supply crush and deliver 15000 yards of gravel on township roads this year council waived objection to remov al by canadian national railways of a fence separating their rightofway from no 7 highway in concessions 1 and 2 of the township provided it does not interfere with private property owners a 25 claim was paid to donald lindsay for a lamb killed and one in jured by dogs a n stark was valu ator payment to inspectors under the brucellosis control act totalled 156 40 they were paid to martin da venport owen marshall neflson stark len coxc claude mclaughlin willard britton george somervillc stan matthews george burt and tho mas gibson the finance committee of acton council along with the town clerk and solicitor leatherland discussed the annexation settlement with council mr moms also discussed a propoted subdivision with the council and mr cooper pensions for township em ployees the months fox toll was 49 and 3 payments were made for destruction of these animals m whitney mil ton was credited with 10 clifford stover 8 angelo basso 6 linton nay- lor 5 john buck and h deforest ter ra cotta 4 each wm shepherd ac ton 3 a brigden hornby 2 and frank jones george baylis john v it- one each sunbeamers ask for sidewalks culverts prince charles studio georgetown manager charlie cocklin of brewers retail store congratulates and pre sents jack crawford with safety award button the award signifies eight years of accident free driving for mr crawford in his duties with the store what council did oakville objects want town finance humane truck 13 years secretary mcgilvray retires retiring as secretary of esqucsing agricultural society after a 13 year tenure of office garfield mcgilvray was honoured by society directors on saturday at a meeting at the home of mr and mrs ken ella hornby mr and mrs mcgilvray were thanked for their work which has helped to make the georgetown fall fair so outstand ingly successful and they were prcs nted with a substantial voucher for goods at a local store as a token of appreciation mr mcgilvray took over as fair sec retary 13 years ago succeeding frank petch who previously held this posi tion he will be succeeded by trevor williams who has been a member of the board of directors for the past tow j ears and whose father in law percy cleave is treasurer of the soci ety ballinafad objections by oakville and trafal gar to letting the humane society truck service georgetown have stalled a plan by which the oakville society would take care of dog catching chor es here council last wlck contacted the soc icly in hopes that this would he a solution to problem anticipated when the new tie up became effective yes terday society officials had intima ted that they would be willing to work in georgetown but bowed to pressure from the councils in the south who had given funds to purchase a truck and who felt their money should be spent for their own local people it was suggested that georgetown acton and milton might combine and purchase a vehicle and pa for an ex tra employee who would be required if this district is to be adequately ser ved by the humane society mayor armstrong at monday s mee ting said he anticipated the subject would come up at county council yes terday and that he anticipates some solution will be found in the near fu ture meanwhile georgetown residents must keep their dogs from running at large in the towns effort to avoid any spread of rabies in town a scale of taxi rates asked by a majority of taxi qperators became law when council passed a resolution em bodying this in the taxi by law bill coleman formerly of silvers store staff was hired as water meter reader he replaces les dickenson who asked to cb transferred to the town works staff road chairman walter gray said ho had been surveying the town with the engineer and will at a later date be proposing storm sewers in several locations to clear up drainage condit ions which are causing money to be wasted on road maintenance armco drainage was given a con tract for boring under the canadian national railway embank ment behind the oold dolphin craft plant where sewer lines will be con nccted with the swanek subdivision cr mcgilvray asked that queen st be plowed as snow and ice has piled up on both sides making it a danger ous thoroughfare two baptisms at st georges church sunday afternoon rev kenneth rl chardson officiated at a baptism serv ice in st georges anglican lois mary daughter of mr and mrs john elliott 48 hewson crescent rfnd deborah jacqueline daughter of br and mrs c wilson 39 maple ave w were the babies baptized edna and robert patterson were godparents of the wilson baby what council did ask couuty resurface south main st link georgetown council has asked the county to resurface main st s from maple to park avc and to put the maple ave hill m shape for paving next year the roads are connecting links for which the county is responsible and are in poor condition council agreed at their monday meeting reeve allen explained that al though the count road budget has been slashed from 228 000 to 180 000 this year he thinks there is some chance the county can be persuaded to do the georgetown work it looks as if the government is forcing us to pave because they are paying on new construction and cut ting maintenance grants he said the georgetown construction he said would be considered as new work and grants would apply on it council is advertising for tendcts for purchase of a new 1 ton truck to replace the present one which is 8- ears old a motion presented by cr sargent providing that no residence could be erected on land which docs not front on a street or road allowance was withdrawn for further stud mr sargent said this amendment to the building b law would be aimed at stopping wildcat development reeve allen while explaining that he is in sympathy with the idea of the motion said he could not agree to an idea which would stop a person cr ccting a building on their own prop crlj in his own case he said he has land behind his home and would not think it proper if he were banned from building on it two readings of a by law were pas sed providing lor a 176000 expendi ture for an eight room high school ad dition canadian national railways offer rd to sell a strip of land owned by them adjoining the harold cleave pro perty and council asked the town en gineer to look over the property and give his ideas as to its value to the town roy bradley asked council to recti fy a situation where a town road runs over land owned by him at the dur hamsarah corner the land had been improperly surveyed when the road was put in he said and building plans for the lot cannot be carried out until the roadway is changed w hh carr was engaged to survey the prop erty to find out where the boundary should be dog owners important notice in an effort to control the spread of rabies in georgetown legislation has been passed providing that dogs may not run at large at any time please note this is an important measure for the protection of the general public and it will be strictly enforced john d khiy ci larkmans celebrate fiftieth wedding we extend congratulations to mr md mrs o larkman who celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary on saturday march 10th members of the w a called on the larkmans and pre sonted them with flowers mrs e mclnery of guclph was a weekend visitor with mr and mrs norman sinclair the evening auxiliary held quie an enjojable program in the church friday night which consisted of a short play and items of local talent pie and ice cream were served in the basement to close a pleasant evening icy roads cause many accidents a series of accidents mostly of a minor nature were caused by icy roads and bad weather conditions during the past week among those which drew the at tention of the local police force was one last wednesday at s 15 p m mau nee herbert 79 main st n had just driven through the john st culvert and braked to avoid an oncoming car driven by steve kuckcran glen wil hams his car skidded and hit mr kuckerans cai sideways total dam age amounted to 300 according to cst jim bilsborrow const bilsborrow was called to an other accident the next day at the dangerous main and guelph corner charles dykstra 137 mam st n was driving north on main and a truck driven by fred robertson milton was rounding the corner coming off the highway when the vehicles collided damage to car and truck was only minor but mr robertsons wife who was with him in the truck received a shaking up the same evening at 11 p m a ped estrian was struck while crossing the cnr tracks marjorie roe 79 guclph street was treated by dr c v wil hams for a bruised leg when she was struck by a car driven by mrs lillian bycrs brampton mrs bycrs car skidded sideways on ice while she was crossing the tracks const cliff found investigated early tuesday morning at 6 45 ano ther accident involved a truck driven by william ostrandcr r r 4 and a car driven by cyril brandford the vehicles met at the corner of alliance paper where river drive ends there was total damage of 100 police chief roy haley investigated residents of the sunbeam heights area petitioned council for sidewalks and culverts on prmce charles and shelley streets monday when sid hardie president of the ratepayers as sociation presented the petitions to council the request for culverts met with little favour from council with a maj ority of members saying that the pre sent trend is to remove culverts which freeze solid in the winter and lead to bad drainage in the spring months the property owners have agreed to pay for their own culverts mr hardie said but would ask the town to instal them so that there would be a uniform system cr alf sykes said it is up to the subdivision contractor to put roads at the proper elevation and that he is opposed to culverts his views were shared by reeve allen who said drai nage conditions on river drive where he lives have been improved since culverts were removed and by cr harry hale who recited a similar sit uation on ontario street road chairman gray also opposed culverts a lot of money has been wasted on maintenance he said in cases where culverts freeze solid and spring water cuts into pavements and roadwavs mr hardie had pictures of lakes in various section of the subdivision engineer douglas wilson said the photos represent an example of con ditions frozen culvert cause major armstrong said he is certain that diainage conditions will right themselves when the roads are put in proper shape at the right level and when properties are landscaped with grass and shrubs which help to make natural drainage both requests were turned over to the road committee for study and re commendation to council plans for developing a proper inter section for mountainview road and no 7 highway were proposed by del- rex developments with harold bair- stow of that company present to ex plain the proposal delrex has purchased the ron men dham property at one corner of the in tersection and will donate this to the town if other property owners will do likewise the intersection could he widened he said and asked the town to discuss this with the petrafina co which has purchased the faram property in the other corner and is in process of erecting a gas station that company he said has indica ted willingness to discuss the situ ation and council agreed to interview them about the proposal mr bairstow said it is delrex hope that georgetown can have a wide highway entrance to town he showed a map of another gas station which the ba company will erect farther along the highway at delrex blvd which will be set back far enough to conform with the highway pattern jesse hazelwood dies was former resident a former resident of georgetown jesse hazelwood died in humber memorial hospital weston on sun day march llth mr hazelwood who was greenskeeper and manager when the willoughby golf club was first formed here moved to wes ton some years ago he was in bis 78th year besides his wife the former ada maddison he is survived by two sons reginald and arthur of toronto who both trained for the printing busi ness at the herald funeral services are being held to day at the ward funeral home in weston with interment in mount pleasant cemetery raiders lead clippers could end series friday ound rhodes but he held them out until the final whistle last night in stouffville george town made it three in a row leh man opened the scoring for stouif- ville carl in the first period raid era came back with two quick goals by ron dixqn and ken nash in the second period there was only one goal scored pete bradkin scoring for the raiders on a low hard shot and the raiders skited off st the end of the second leading 31 in the third period the raiders stormed around the stouffville net and dave voyce finally clicked for 2 rapid goals georgetown then ran into three penalties in luccession and only some excellent goal keeping by rhodes limited them to one goal by george start final score george town 5 stouffville 2 the fifth game of the series is in georgetown this friday enmiaf and if the raiden continue to play the hockey that they are capable of they have a good chance of winding op 0 cries georgetown raiders after losing the first game to stouffville have had a complete reversal of form in the last three games winning 82 in stouff ville 43 in georgetown last saturday and 52 in stoufmllc last night with jack rhodes turning in three terrific games in goal the raiders seem to have added confidence and have tak en a commanding lead in the scries needing only one more victory in their best of seven set last saturday night in georgetown the raiders opened up in the fust period running in three quick goals en the first twelve minutes bud varey scored the first at 4 16 gerrq inglis and harvey chappel added one apiece before stouffville could dent the twine behind rhodes there was no further scoring until the third period lewis scored for stouffville to make the score 32 junior beaumont scor ed for the raiden it 16 03 the clippers kept fighting back and scored their third goal at 1720 to make it 43 for the remainder of the gsme the dippers nrarmed ar