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georgetown herald nlmnlaaa yihanw nawspapava imrtaa 4 22 main straat 1 onorgatown ontario w c lamn oybllthar page fhudsorvy dkember 15th 1966 i editorial comment professional politicians however near or far from the plunkett rtmomrnendations for halton and peal coup- ties the future has one thing is certain we ore in for drastic changes in boundaries and the composition of elected and appoin ted officials to handle municipal services the bell has almost tolled on the day when men offered their services gratis or for a token payment and received their payment in prestige and the satisfaction of a job done for their community perhaps georgetown s mayor is the last of the line decinng to accept the 2500 which this position has carried for several years today we find with a few exceptions like georgetowns public and high school boards that most elected and meny appoin ted offices cell for a meeting fee in the case of county potttfefans this can amount to several thousand dollars as councillors ammid for attendance at committee meet ings as wall es formal council sessions the sitahon thus arises where a man is neither fish nor fowl he becomes a kind of seem pro where the job doesn t pay enough to justify his full time yet is more than a token and more than the after- hours time ha can devote to thjob is worth a larger administrative area will cer tainly call for full time officials and ilka he present system it wont be all good or all bad one should expect that when this happens we will benefit from having coun cillors who will treat their position like a a job but it will further restrict those who seek office to mainly men whose private business can afford fulltime absence or men who embark on a political career as a vocation if this is to come about then it might be wise for our provincial government to consider as part of our system of educa tion courses to train political leaders for all echelons of government it is surely ne cessary that if a man is to make his living this way he possess more information than ust a winning way and an ability to per suade the voters that he is their man has spent eaa day oa tee hee- pfottoir jinipostiis the vttthia will bs hatwao halton our seaicr ctttesu ft 1 expect- what are you doing here cant have cake too there is one phase of the plunkett re port which is being overstressed which smacks of trying to liave your cake and eat it and that is in its opinion on an ed ucation system the government is stressing equal op portunity for all in this field a worthwhile aim yet one which cannot sensibly be rea ched suddenly we learn that unless there are six thousand or more students involved tn one education area we cannot properly train them perhaps not but if as we are learning wo cannot set up such an area in halton with its density of population how can we expect this in areas more iso lated from the large concentration of pop ulation isn t it true that if one prefers to live in a smaller community there are some dis advantages to offset the benefits of rural livtng georgetown can no more expect to have all the benefits of a city htgh school than it can expect to have an o keefa cen tre a reference library a ymca with in door swimming pool a movie theatre a royal york hotel and if georgetown cannot expect these then it is even more far fetched to expect this for communities in the bruce peninsula or haliburton as far ai education is concerned geor getown has never suffered too aerrouity in its standards even in the day when our school was much smaller the fact that we have grown four times ia a couple of dec ades has given us definite advantages commercial then technical education gym nasium and auditorium a school library better laboratories and an increasing staff of specialist teachers were chasing a will o the wisp if we expect to operate our education system on the scale of toronto ust as much as if we expect other big city extras which are only possible in densely populated areas we can take compensation in the thought that we haven t the slums the traf fic problems the crime rate that our larger neighbours have inherited with their bles sing largeness not all good sugar and spice by bill smiley no expo for me the plunkett recommendations are dif ficult for one person to assess- certainly a year of study by experts eouldnt result m something completely worthless or all bad but one can not ex pect that one group of men could come up with the perfect solution either the only experience we have had with larger units of government inclines us to doubt the efficiency of a school board over seeing the affairs of too many schools spread over a wide area we were a member of north halton high school board in the days whan it con trolled the georgetown milton and acton schools it was never as efficient as the the three separate boards which finally re placed ft all too often matters affecting only on school did not draw the attention of board members from the other towm and essentially the board operated at three lev els with local members guiding the destin ies of their own school meetings were time consuming there was a higher ratio of the members absent from meetings and a lack of the close communication which a strict ly local board engenders if a larger school area is to coma then it will be necessary to turn the day today running of the schools over to paid offtc lals with the board acting more as a pol icymakmg group and will this really be cheaper in the long run we think not for not only will we add sevral highly paid officials to the school staffs but we will be paying full time sal aries to board members as well turning back time series weve been talking about it for a ions time it would mean a major upheaval in the fam lly but its two against one and this is a democracy unless of course your wife happens to constitute the minority today i applied for an ex change teaching job for one year in the united kingdom i must be out of my mind but i did daughter kim is all for it with toe adventurous spirit of the young and their complete lack of participation in alt the work involved she glows at the prospect after all england is the land of she beatles the rolling sto nes and the highest nuniakirts england as the song says swings like a pendulum do thats for kjmbo she d like nothing better than to spend a year abroad not ac quiring a broad education nev ert she looks upon education as small boys do upon washing the squsrest and moat useless uunsj folitad on the young by ituptd loving parents ne what shed ilka to pick up in england is a camaby st wardreee and a liverpool ac cant as that ahe ceum knack the lecal kids eeed whan home the- look of camaby h bad eneoah but the dialect ef the liverpudlian ii serety the vejtott in tha world eutalee the pure hottentot what she doesn t picture and i haven t the heart to tell her is the truth if the deal goes through a year from now she will be wading through the fog in little muddling or climbing the cliffs on the isle of hull complete with rubber boots raincoat and sousrester ap proximately 8000 social miles from the england and londons west end sty wife mows hot and cold one week when things are par ticultrly obnoxious around a snug cottage with vines and a coxy fireplace shining brass and an english garden out back she envisages a jaunt into lon don every week end for piano lessons concerts lunch and the theatre the next week she s been talking to someone who has just spent a year there and was i them than i ever did no wnat sparks my desire to ijgo away for a year ia none of i these it is the bought of 1 1 spending jthe whole of cental nisi year in canada now i love this land but the idea of an entire year of having expo rammed down my throat of watching municipalities sol emnly snip the ribbon at such sparkling centennial projects as the new public lavatories or the new parking lot makes me want to throw up and what better place to do that than the ux where 1 must admit i have done it be fore on a number of occasions after an evening of warm pints of bitters halffrosen for 12 months or she says flatly if you think i m going to leave my comfor table home treasured piano students and all my friends to go and jive in some cold clam my dump among a lot of stran gers etc etc sometimes she wavers asks me what england is really like the trouble is i havent been there for over 20 years about all i can do is describe some first rate pubs and tell her how easy it was to lose your girl in the fog or blackout un less you clung to her somehow these descriptive gems don t fan her ardor for the trip as i said no ana in his right mind wants to spend a year in th u k i know 111 came hem either rtddlad with rhaumaf ism or in a wooden box with a sheen of fog en it and it isnt sentiment ad mittedly there are a few old pubs rd like to revisit but they have probably changed into raucous road houses that serve martinis instead of half and half and the waitresses are in solent pups instead of buxom barmaids who called you ijv or ducks and there arc a few old slrl friends id like to revisit but a friend of mine did this last year taking his wife along somehow he said there was a lac of rapport and they were all so old and even worse they thought he was old and i sure as heck dont want to go and stand on some deser ted dilapidated airdrome and think of the old days old run ways are for the birds who would bka a leadaw this as it is most lot the bui win guarantae oat age pensioners an income of 91180 a year or 100 a noata each whether they are eaarri single th asanisd ps loners will have a guaranteed income of 110 a aoata or s38s0 year it is anticipate that 9o0jpqd senior dtiaens m benefit from this progran end it will cost canadian tax- payers between mo and mo million dollars in 1967 the programme u baaed on the individuals income and would ask for information that is given on the income tax re turn apart from the inforus- tlon gtven on the income it return there win be no check- ing into a senior citizens finan cial affairs hits pr will gradually disappear as the can ada pension plan comas into effect and it la designed to faalp those who cannot or are not covered under the canada pen sion plan tinder this programme re cipients of old age security who have no other income of the type considered to be in come under the income tsx act will receive the full amount for tntwewmr have other la- there is a provision for partial payments this is avail- fala to single pensioners who have an annual income lnclud- tha flat rate pension of than 91620 and to married pen sioners who have a combined income of less than 93240 annu ally thus the income supple ment redistributes income favour of single persons and married couples with incomes of below 91620 and 3240 res pectively rather than over the whole range of incomes as is the case under the existi old age security pension dndttctb pb0poced lea ulattoa the locoana of aaej is taken la- ba- ef tba m inoosne hi thi la oast ef each spouses aapplcj 1 j meat tama each spouse race a ves tie lasai iwawd v 3v in 40100 each opbuwasrit hej aatgflpi n b tsavcee of mar raeetva a cheque jmmttm pn ctke under old m laarltj a the present time receiving the flat security pension f jearan esd income s th canada pension plan ene cht que for the cabined amoun will be seat each sseath it is pboptjeot that th payments fir tjlsj5bne suj wa be flaagned fron the old asje ascurity bnd th tax utaaaurea iwidxeavln coi actios whh these espendlt area wql be dealt wtffc by the minister ef rtasaee in his kin budgets tb verr bear fotun itts pbop0stt3ut th guaranteed income supplemen programme take effect la jai nary 1867 early in the year t ueatlon forms will be sent t sll recipients of old sge sera ity those whojuanf wtn r calve monthly sepplement re roactlve to the month of jan supplementary pa srih h combined with the aid age seo urity cheque and we expacj that the first cheques tncluulnl the retroactive supplementarj income payments will be aenl out with the march old agesi rarity cheques we would hop to hare all these refroaettv pyments connected with th introduction of the progrsmm cleared up with the apr cheque my business directory chiropractor donald a oay dc appointments mad daily call tr 74401 30 mill st ceu chiropractor serald w cerbett dc dally by house calls arranged 77m11 11a main st north her bbcs fairly keen she sees make much better landings on check carbon monoxide possible accident cause years have changed this town street ltt old ofommown stt you probably would if the trees on the right were erased and a brick house replaced the grassy lot on the left this postcard loanej to the herald by jim lyons church st shows how that street appeared in the avty 1900a the house wjtfi turreted verandah on the left ti the old lyons home at the r of church and edith polka and coroners in halton county are being instructed to wata for evidence of carbon aoxida poisoning in nnex plained traffic accidents crown attorney peter hcwil hams issued the instructions and said be has ordered burl taftofl police to have car ex parts examine a car involved ja a nov 8 fatal accident he said the examination is to determine whether the driver b a blackout caused by into the ear from m faulty hose the possibility of carbon mon oxide poisoning in the burling ton crash was suggested st an inquest tuesday into the death ef an oafcnua resident airs john robertson a passenger in the car mr mcwilliams said the fst al civsh was the second this year in halton county in which the occupants of a car were un able to explain why it veered out of the une in which it was travelling w h caw shefetalenal engineer consulting engineer ontario land surveyor ofbce- 772211 a vjwoa mama ux kvooriffnts limited bulmars ef pine hemes prop- walter pacholok 774111 ar s77w1s monuments pollock a campbell designs on request inspect ear work in greenwood cemetery phoni u17m0 a water street north halt optometrist l m brown 0 d 35 mill st for appointments phone 773071 barragers cleaners shirt liattern tr 7m7s 18 main s 166 gudph robt r hamilton 116 afountsinvlew rd carretal bldg for appointment 8773971 frank pitch license auctioneer prompt senries po box 413 ik 74bm georfetowm printing of distinction a statehents urtterhkads envkijopes wedding invitations georgetown herald wallaci thompson 3rd omsleti court clerk a ceenmlsshhwr trmm o t walker po uut optometrist 12 main st s brampton 4s14474 bes 4514213 hours 9 sjn to 6 pas tuesday to saturday friday 9 ajn to b pjn esealiifs by appointment john b love architect 17 ch st bramptea comaoerdai industrial and institutional buildings 4773032 459365 georgetown herald bible thought for the week 1 can de all things throws christ which s me pfalltppim 413 the lord is looking cor peo ple through whom be can do the unusual and even the explainable the man who has chnst in him and propnates the power that goes with it can live the most exdt ing life ever with god notlv lag shall be impossible ihaipipiiiumltad georgetown ontario walter c ftiehn publisher waraam mcohvrey production superintendent news editor accountant terry harlej aueen bradley frank kullin advertising manager mrs frank capes clerk typist anne currie reporter leslie clark dave hasttafli h gdson j directory advertising brings results ctsorgctown animal clinic 106 guelph street dr ft ft oasldn cunle open 6 b pji mor wed pri tilm