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th1 georgetown holo wednesday july k the georgetown herald a thomson nawapaparo limited publication walter c biehn managing editor garfield l mcguvray production superintendent office staff mrs aileen bradley l terry harley plant suff leslie m clark dave hastings corey ft herringtoa bob baskerville serving th communities of gwmrvttown glen wlllamt nonral llrmhousa hornby stowarttowtl balunafad ashgrovo terra cotta member of the canadian weekly o newspapers association and the ontario division of the cwna authorized as second class mall post office depl ottawa edit com need for traffic light approval is being sought from the depart ment of highways for installation of a traffic light at the busy highway john street corner a similar request a few years ago was turn ed down by the department on the grounds that a traffic count did not show enough need for such installation the count must hav been taken on a sunday morning between 2am and 4am and even at that hour we wager there is a fair flow of traffic on both these busy streets we believe at that time too there was some comment qn not a high enough accident rate to justify the renaming streets there is some possibility that when mail delivery comes it may be necessary to rename a few local streets with similar names victoria st and victoria ave have been mentioned as well as the two chapel streets east and west r should it happen that the postal authorities demand the change we can think of no better name for the present victoria avenue and cresc ent than dayfoot drive the crescent was orig inally part of the dayfoot property which was subdivided several years ago the family roots go back to georgetown s early history and with closing of the old hoe factory and death of bro thers harry and charles it would be nice to have lights at any rate traffic has increased to the poinbwhere at any hour of the day a pedestrian takes his life in his hands to dart across the highway and drivers have cooperated also to boost the accident toll for there have been sev eral smashups luckily all minor at the corner in the past few years the need is certainly apparent to anyone wholives in town statistics are all nght in their place but whatever a new traffic count shows we won t be happy until we see the light them remembered in this way the dayfoot brothers contributed their share to community betterment during their stay in town harry dayfoot was a member of the hydro commission for years his brother served on the high school board their shoe business in its day was one of the towns stable industnea- and their product was widely known another old georgetown name which has escaped recognition is barber and we would sug gest this as eminently fitting also should other street renaming be necessary as founders of a business which still makes georgetown known as the paper town the barber name should have a niche in history too ashgrove ixpupils reminisce at public school reunion on tuesday evening june 30th the wa held a meeting at the home of mrs wilfred bird presl dent mrs vera picket opened with a short devotional and a hymn and prayer mrs thos giffen and mrs arthur ruddell read thank you notes from sick members who had been remembered through the jears mrs len coxe gave the treasurers report after some it j b mackenzie son ems of business were discussed meeting closed and a social hour followed the public school reunion held at the school grounds on saturday jul 4th was a splendid success the weather was ideal and over one hundred and seventy five who attended said it was the best one yet pupils and teachers of past das reminisced and looked at pic tures of themselves when they at tended that little red schoolhouse lunch at noon under the tress never tasted so good and sure disappeared in short order the committee are to be congratu lated on such a wonderful reunion virginia and robert anderson of montreal are visiting their grand parents mr and mrs arthur ruti dell and how son mr stuart brigden of harnston made a surprise visit to his broh er bruce last week who is not en joving good health mrs horace barnes and nora spent last week at their uncles cottage at bala muskoka our minister rev john hill and his familv are awav on noli days next sundav the service will be taken b dr george clark of burlington at 1130 on sundaj julv 19th it will be in charge or the young people and rev adams of stouffvillc will speak service will commence at eleven o clock miss sandra tindale attended a shower at arthur for her friend miss rae morrison bit fnda night sandra will also be a guest at the wedding on saturdaj july 25th the mail bag saves work and money coven ouhlde wood work eoaily lit one cootl sparkling whiteness lasts and tests selfcleaning bat won streak down masonry surfaces gallon 1095 320 quart j b mackenzie sojjj ib 71751 was former school principal in glen a halton school teachejfor 37 jears until her rotirenunft in 1935 miss margaret e currie died in milton private hospital june 29th beginning her career in bronte in the primary room in 1895 she later served in duffenn school the scotch block in palermo and zimmerman going to glen wil liams as principal in lq13 she re turned to bronte as principal in 1923 in 1931 she went to ball school nelson where she served until superannuation born in erin township miss cur ne was a daughter of james and mary ann campbell cume she at tended public school in grecnoch and erin township high school in georgetown milton model school and toronto normal she also held certificates in household science and agriculture surviving are her brother archie of acton and sister louise of tor onto the funeral service on june 30th at the mckersie funeral home hilton was conducted by rev j grafcam of st pauls unl ted church of which miss carrie was an adherent cremation took place in toronto and her ashes crank calls hazardous to ambulance police and fire personnel georgetown ontario june 28th 1959 dear mr editor georgetown and count provin cial police officers have gone on record that the person or persons who have put in false alarm calls for ambujance and police will be severel dealt with if apprehended last tucsdav june 23rd a call was received for ambulance servict to noryal which turned out to bp a false alarm on the saturday night following a call was received b georgetown police that several persons were in possession of revolvers in the nor val hotel georgetown cruiser and three provincial cruisers responded and this again was a fictitious call in the case of the volunteer am bulance drivers and assistants cv crv trip whether genuine or not entails great risk for them as lht arc not covered bv insurance such as is in effect for firemen while in the performance of their duties coupled with this is the fact that any ambulance police or fire call represents an emergency and no time is lost getting to where the sorvicc is required h would be well for those who subscribe to such tricks to think if that is possible for them that they ma be responsible for a fat al accident involving an officer or officers in the various services if they persist in this highly dangef ous practice and ifcaught would be likely subjeat to a heavj pen ally yours truly ed a peters controversial corner by ian caw drinking and the law if the liquor laws of ontario achieved anything they might be wodthwhile if the many rules and regulations governing the con sumption of alcoholic beverages were successful in reducing the number of drunks and alcoholics or the number of impaired dnv ers if these laws helped us to prevent the abuse of alcohol we could congratulate ourselves on our wise legislators unfortunately this is not the case when prince philip asked harry allen mpp what was going to be done about changing these obsolete and old fashioned liquor laws he posed a good question the present regulations are of no benefit whatever to the average murn bojumbo governing the dnn kers of ontario ensures a contin uation of the monopolistic control of the liquor industry and makes certain that the vast incomes from uie industry continue to go into the same pockets but i doubt very much if the laws achieve the one thing they were set up to achieve prevention of alcoholic abuses the evil paradox of our present laws is that they hit the moderate drinker and not the alcoholic peo pie who drink to excess people who drink to escape the confines of their own petty intelligence they have no difficulty whatever in obtaining the necessary alcoho lic beverages to do thi the ab surd restrictions applied by the lcbo are no deterrant to the hab itual drunk neither is he depres sed by similar rules and regula tions existing in hotels and taverns the lcbo the hotel and tavern op erators and habitual drunks and al cohotics have a common bond the lcbo and the hotel operators have one mam interest to sell as much of the stuff as possible the drunks and alcoholics have one main in terest to drink as much of the stuff as possible there is noth ing in our liquor laws to discour age them from doing this 1hviqw of the complete failure of liquor regulations to prevent excessive drinking it is difficult to understand the tiotent opposi tion of temperance organizations towards anv attempt to change tfiem because the majority of on tarians art not teetotal and do not want to be it is clear that am campaign for complete prohibition and abstinence is doomed to fail ure what we need is a campaign for moderation plus liquor laws aimicl direct at those who abuse alcohol at the moment we have neither of these we have pknlj of cam paigns for abstinence all sorts of emulations and directives which in convenience and penalize the aver age lawabiding respectable citizen and a multitude of hotels and tav cms whose onlv interest is pushing the stuff down the customers neck as fast as possible not that there is too much that an enlightened tavern owner can do to improve his facilities the regulations tell him when he can sell how he can sell and what he can sell lht also tell him a mil lion olhir things such as the cus tomer must be sitting down mum finish a drink txiore ordering an other must onlv talk drink smoke and go to the toilet all this bal dcrdash is fine and dandv for the i drunks who onl go there to drink jnywav tin sad part is that in in this atmosphere people arc en couraged to drink more than the would in more social surroundings i the average tavern is a prettv gloomy depressing sort of place at bcjt resembling something bet ween a station waiting room and a barn the decorative schemes found in some of the more modern taverns are better suited to a pub lic lavatory than a place of enter tainment the cocktail bars and lounges aren t much better either here again the same useless eollec tions of regulations apply the main difference is that these establish monts alltry to economize on hy dro by keeping the place in asly gian gloom which would diake hr nandos hidcway look like noon sunshine the lack of light in these places presumably prevents your neighbours from rccog nizing you in this den of vice neither can anyone tell if you are with your own wife or somebody else s if any enter tainment is provided its usually a glaring tv set if you came out for the evening to escape tv you ii be out of luck the whole set up is rather grim and once again probably encourages people to drink more than they would in different surroundings another fantastic device is the liquor permit a meanuigiess piece of pasteboard the insistence on liquor permits achieves nothing of a constructive nature permits are not withheld from known undesir ables or alcoholics and can be rea dily obtained bynyone who wants one it just means that the lcbo customers must pay a dollar fee for the privilege of buying from the lcbo people who drink are already providing a good chunk of the provincial revenue and this ridiculous permit is just pocket picking if more revenue has to come from liquor it should be done by increased prices or decreased llbo costs the liquor permit is plain governmental hypocraej if an thing is to be achieved in this battle against drunkness and alcoholism we must have a com plete overhaul of existing regula tions it is not drinking which is the crime it ts drunkenness we need a firmer and tougher method of dealing with dmnk drivers in obnated pugs and alcohol sustai ned hooigans the first step norval presbyterian church minister th rev c l royal b a sunday july 12th summer service 10 a m the christian life 2 growth and service enter ids house with thanksgiving wash wear wash swear send it to barragers for the professional touch barragers cleaners 18 main st s phone tr 7 2279 agent- sid silver formala should be made to make drinking establishments the sort of place where this riff raff will feel less at home taverns and hotels should bc places white a respectable man can take his wife and hot worry about the neighbors talking there should be more of them so that the good ones will survive and the poor ones go dawn the drain the emphasis should be on sociability not on consumption there should be means of entertainment other than guzzling and arguing such as darts cribbage amateur perform ers billiards singing piano play ing and any other sociable pastime which the landlord sees fit to pro vide those who drink too much and become a nuisance should be rapidly evicted and if nccessarv barred from entering al all it should be the landlord responsib ility to see that drunks arc not cat ercd for under pain of losing ms licence it should be a police res ponsibility to deal with habitual drunks by keeping them out of taverns altogether if a man could stand at the bar and discuss the hows your q todays insurance problems answered coop buys erin mill third in the chain halton cooperative supplies took a major step in its expansion on monday when it assumed con trol of the former erin grist mill the business was purchased by the coop branched from its original it was eight years ago that the coop from donald kirkwood milton location to establish a sec ond branch in georgetown pros ently managed by bih somerville the er n branch will have bob carr as manager who was former ly with orangeville coop charles harris georgetown is general manager for the three divisions will be interred in the family plot in greenwood cemetery george town tyorval united church rev r freel b a b d sundays 10 00 am sunday school 11 15 am morning worship cj st georges church july 12th trinity vii 8 00 a m holy communion 930 a m holy eucharist family service and church school 11 00 a m mattins 700 pm evening prayer question suppost a driver hits his brakes so hard he wears flat spots on all his tires irving to avoid a colli sion should n t the insurance companv paj for the tire da mage after all the driver has probably saved the com panv a big collision repan bill answer the answer is pro babiy no tires are worn a bit every time a stop is made and if insurance companies piid for that damage there would be a million arguments as to degree of damage and whether or not the damage was nccessarv in avoiding a collision contributed in th interwt of aound insurance by john r barber james f evans john t armstrong weather with the landlord if he could have a game of darts and listen to ihc local piano player he would probably spend less time bending his elbow like it or not people are going to drink why not give them an atmosphere where drinking is a background to some other activity instead of being the only pastime our present legislation docs no thing whatever to alleviate the evils of drinking what we have is a multitude of petty restrictions which may inconvenience the av erage moderate drinker but which have no effect at all on the exces sive drinker if we can produce laws which will provide moderate drinkers with civilized meeting pla ces and at the same time deal with drunks and alcoholics by putting them ithcr m jail or in hospital then perhaps we can make some progress the next public holiday will be civic holiday which comes the first monday in august directory dr j burnt milne dental surgeon dr john r kerry practice of dentistby xray tritngle 73841 mils street georgetown dr k w mccauley dentist 6 main street north tr 74641 tf s m faibish ro optometrist mcnamara jewellers georgetown for expert eye care consult o t walka oculist prescriptions filled haarineam glassm 12 main st south brampton gl 14474 res gl 16243 hours 9am to 6 p m daily friday s am to 9 pm evenings by appointment georgetown animal clinic c w sayan dvja 106 guelph street clinic open 7pm to 9 p m mon tues wed fri afternoons by appointment monuments pollock campbell designs on request inspect our work in greenwood cemetery phone 2048 62 water street north g a l t tom van sickler ba barrister solicitor a notary 36 mam st s tr 74531 dr uillmms bidg maurice manders0nqc barrister solicitor 61 mill si tr 7 244 roxy theatre building lever hoskin chrtared accounta 81 main n brampton glendale 14824 44 victoria st toronto phone em 49131 hews0n ord and hels0n barrister and solicitors 39 main st south beside knox church iso guelph st hunter bldg no 7 hwy george c hewson john d ord frederick a helson jjl73m6 tr7s7h a m nfelut dc nd doctor of chiropractic and naturopathy 43rd rear of practice y6 pjn dosed thursdays lady attendant 164 guelph sl georgetown trungle 73612 ralph davies acls fa accountant and auditor 122 guelph sl georgetown tr 73351 office hours 9 a nt o 5 p m mondays to fridays w ttcarr professional engineer a ontario land sunreyor georgetown ontario res 81 prince charles dr office guelph st telephone tr 73300 wallace thompson 3rd division court clerk and commluioner tr 71941 tf robt r hamilton bo optometrist eyes examined for appointment tr 73971 181 guelph street georgetown tf prevent chimney fires use fire chief chemical chimney cleaners to eliminate soot and scale from vour stoves and pipes the smaller the flame the more soot and carbon i for use in oil coal and wood fired units i for sale at halton coop 5 u p p l i e s frank peter licensed auctioneer prompt service po bos 413 tr 7 2864 georgetown dale bennett and latimer barrister a snjlclte leroj dahvtjct 1814igss sytul benjsett jc- 19301966 douglas v latimer ba tftiangle 7ssb1 mill sl georgetown earl g black b comm rtla ca chartered accountant 182 main sl milton ont triangle esui tf robert w fletdwr prompt reports vailey 74314 r r 1 arnold kathbun life insurance and estate analysis sum lin of canada 11 gower ct o