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i 11m harald 1m71m7 georgetown heral the home newspaper for georgetown and disfrh authofind m second class mall post offlw dtp ottawa and lor paynm postago in cask ooorbtown ontirio february 2nd 1967 canada 11471967 par yearj singla copy print tan can estimate 144 gained basic nursing knowledge through red cross course some of the women enrolled in the current care in the home home nursing course offered by the george fown branch of the canadian red cross look pn as instructor mrs mary simpson rn and assistant instructor mrs elaina sales rn demonstrate how to make a bed with a patient in it from left to nghtare mrs m swtzer mrs j mitchell mrs j bunton mrs g macdonald mrs s golden mrs rafter and mrs m tlucko in bd e ghteen women registered for the course which started three weeks ago at the cedarvale building in centennial park an estimated 144 have taken advantage of the opportunity to acqu re knowledge of s mple nursing care since the courses started here in 1960 the classes are designed to prepare women to give basic nursing care under profess ona i direction to a member of th family or a friend who is i i it also prepares them to serve tn time of local disaster basic nursing ability has gained in importance in recent years because hospital patients are being discharged earlier than they usel to be and because peope are living to an older age which means more elderly people are being cared for at home on graduation the home nursing students receive a certificate and volunteer home nurse pin refutes charge library used in election campaign mayor gibbons who last week blasted the library board using the library as a campaign place tor candidates and wi quoted by the herald as say i 4wre was a rotten apple fine board got a return sally from john bellamy board chair- foul on monday mr bellamy explained that the incident started when his young son unknown to hnn took one of john elliotts cam paign cards to the library and left it an a desk the librarian he said did not know where ca had come from but thought it sensible to exhibit it the same as any other candid ates literature might have been exhibited she had a call from you and her explanation said mr bel lamy you never approaches the board and now six weeks later you raise tbc question in council he said that while the board supports the view that anything of public interest should be dis played in the library they would comply with any ruling of council fer to meet mr bellamy outside oppose the 2 00 per capita council to discuss this asked for you made a public state ment about someone x presume to be myself gild mr bellamy i didnt mention any names answered the mayor tbe gentlemanly thing would be to apologize contra ued mr bellamy tve no apology to make was the answer i repeat the library is no place to display campaign literature librarian miss marjone nazer cxiancd that irany public no ticcs are displayed in the build ing and she had treated cam paign literature in the same manner we have to curtail expend turcs if we are going to keep a sensible- tax rate which resid ents em pay and which will en courage industry to locate here he said finance chairman cr merson said all boards will re ceive consideration at budget time and that he feels the lib rary is one of tha town sjout standing functions mayor gibbons misqoouct mr bellamy said it was well known that he had worked for mr elliott m the campaign he knew of no turmoil on the board as the major was quot ed as saying and said the may or had cast aspersions on every one connected with the library with his rotten apple charge explaining thai he had not used the word turmoil mayor gibbons said he had also not used the term rotten apple but rather bad apple mr bellamy had admitted there was campaign literature in the librarj he said and he does not agree that any public building should be used for campaigning queried on who is the bad ap ple mayor gibbons said the dispute ha turn into a p 1 don t think you like the library you never come there she said r4 oh yes 1 do answered the mayor would you he surpris ed if i told you i saw the cam paign literature there when a ratepayer hugh pow ell added his voice to the plea for a larger library grant the mayor said he v ill continue to john bellamy you should apologlia milton fair dates clash ask change a clash between georgetown and milton fair boards threat ens to mar both annual events in late september unless one side backs off kenneth ella president the georgetown fair board has asked the halton agricultural society to alter the dates of milton fair which coincide with the one in georgetown he made the appeal at the society s annual meeting in milton on saturday mr ella said the fair dates clashed every five years and both suffered as a result he charged that georgetown fair board members had met with strong opposition from mil ton members in the past when they made similar requests for a change of dates i think this is a little short sighted of both boards to be at loggerheads when they are on ly ten miles apart he said he asked that milton fair be held on other dates so as not to detract from georgetown fair re said the clash of dates would adversely affect 4h club entries for georgetown to hold its fair as arranged and added cen tennial year is also an import ant milestone in our esquesing agricultural society halton society chairman gor don rayncr told him the milton board had signed a contract with an amusement company for their dates and doubted if it could be changed albert hunter a burlington representative on the halton society said the board would be wilting to investigate he possi hility of breaking the amuse ment contract this being centennial year everyone is putting an extra push on said mr ella there is no sense in throwing it down the dram mr rayner said the matter would be taken up with the new board of directors the new board is tom bouse- seld elmer dojglas gordon rayner alf ford and cameron marshal oakville james mc kay e mcgibbon and sam harrop esquesing lloyd cms holm jack mcpfaau and lloyd stokes nassagaweya archie mckinnon a c hidfield george readhead and fred dixon burlington and dr h r cu an jam- mr ella said k is important biownrtdga milton deny ratepayers claim that roads a mess a ratepayer hugh powell described sunday road condi uons on maple ave on the hill by holy cross church as a disgraceful mess monday and said snow plowing is not efficient as it should be his charges were denied by mayor gibbons while road chairman bill sjntth explained that an unusual icy condition made street sanding ineffective that day when mr powell complained that roads are not plowed earfy enough mr smith explained there are a limited number of employees and the staff is used to its maximum efficiency i travel the province in my job he said and georgetown roads are no worse and in ma cases be than o communities credit sprinkler system in averting local hotel fire a rcently installed sprinkler system has been credited with preventing the mcgibbon hotel from being completely gutted saturday if it wastit for the spnnk ler working so efficiently the entire hotel likely would have been rated fire department chief erwin lewis told the herald the sprinkler system went into action at about 5 o clock in the afternoon after contents of a garbage receptacle in washroom on the second floor burst into flames creating in tense heat and smoke in the room an alarm was also touched off automatically by the fire de tection system chief lewis said water from the sprinkler held the flames in check until firefighters op ened the washroom door and finished the job chief lewis said he suspect ed a cigarette butt dropped in the receptacle caused the fire the sprinkler system wa in stalled in the hotel last fall okay grant river dam a piovlncial grant of 1 046 500 to the credit valley con scrvation authority for land acquisition and construction of the first in a series of lams a- long the credit river has been approved the dam will be b i the riv fieadwitctt near oransevlue wimpey would build 300 homes more grants less taxes always a council poser moore farm developer asks permission for additional 37 the usual situation seems to take place in municipal aftiirs each year as boards submit estimates explaining why they need money to carry out their projects and counul ponders wjiere they can best cut cxpens es and come up with a fair tax rate i last week the library board asked for a 2 00 per capita 1966 frant was si 25 monda i estimates wcxe received from board of parks management t 20 000 in 1966 the board re ceived 15 000 and gave 4 000 of this to the swimming pool for repairs omcfory board 9 000 1160 grant s6500 andj was asked by the figure skat int club for a first time grant the boird of parks which operates tbc arena hopes thah a full one mill grant for two jcars will complete a major re i novation program and that less money will be needed in future the cemetery board wants to buildajont d layed storage bu ldinf and c skating club plans to exl practice per lods to two dai weekly next season wimpey homes which is de vclopmg the moore park sub division in northwest george town asked council monday to approve a change in boundaries w hich would add 37 more houses to an originally plan ned 202 the new plan would provide 134 homes on lots with 50 foot frontage 81 with frontages of 50 to 60 feet and 82 as origin ally planned the company has withdrawn its request to rezone a portion of the property to the lowest r4 residential group cr bob francis expressed concern about what price t the houses will carry the working man is facing a problem today when it comes to buying a house he said and we have no information about what is planned in moore park the planning board will study the wimpey request 44 suite apartment is slated for mountainview a new 44 suite apartment building is planned on moun tamview road south i appljmg to council on mon day for permission to erect the building a representative of the building firm g ro lid was told that it would be stud led at a planning board meet ing this week the site is in the area pur chased last year by metro hal ton developments from delrcx developments 19500 lowest tender for new police building closing plant essex auctions all equipment an auction wednesdaj feb- rtnrv 8th of all the woodwork infi equipment and office turn iture at lsscx quality kitchens on no 7 highwiy and sinclair ae w 11 officially close the plant which has been mopcrat atic for the last two months the plant mw available for lease began operations in march 1966 council is studying seven tenders received on monday for construction of a new police building on james street tender prices ranged from a low df 19 500 to 25 732 for the building which would be staled house style so it could be later converted into a res idence if an eventual municipal centre is built which would house all civic services rabies closer there have been a few cases of rabies reported in peel county but none in the george town area dr w mccabe im ported this week barbara hilts radiology grad home economics and workshop bolster rural school curriculum an industrial arts room con taming two lithes a band stw drill press grinder drafting tables aid mrlal an i wood working tienrhcs will he incwi i ed in a ten room addition to stewarltown school it was re- ve alcana riasttpeptrtesqmtsrng school b ird meeting the present school plus the 428 000 addition w 11 br t senior public school serving grades 7 and 8 in ihc township in addition to the lndustml arts room the new wing will house a homo economics room complete with stoves refrirer iters sewing machines a couch and chiirs the couch an 1 chairs till be in i small irea simulat ng t lim r om sufesli in th i three tpc of flooring small arci f hardwood tile and broadloom bo installed in the home ec room to teach floor care is be ing eonsidend lil rar a goner il purpose n m ind six classrooms com plcte the addit on the 428 000 deben ure em ers construction costs alone and doe not include furniture and equipment i expo 67 preview the herald s news editor terry harley was one of two hundred wecklj newspaper pub ushers and editors from across canadi to lour the expo b7 in a sneak preview friday the trip and accommod ation in montreal thursday and fnday nights was sponsored by lxpo a feature story on the canadian exposition will pear in an upcoming issue miss barbara hilts rt miss barbara hilts daughter of mr and mrs gordon hilts glen williams recently gradu- aled from the kitchener water loo school of radiology and ii currently dying p firahiiatft work in radiotherapy i princess margaret hospital to ronto she is a graduate of ge orgetown district high school plans plastics business in main street building the united gas building on main st n just over the rail way bridge has been leased by howard tamvcll he plans to start a plastics business here while a large plant is being constructed on the 10th line of esquesing opposite georgetown golt and country club eventually he hopes to have a complex of businesses on this site one the plastic business another aluminum extrusions and the others not yet decided at the moment united gas il still using the rear of the main st n building mweatfier h l sn sun 24 16 tr 2fl red carpet for red wings georgetown raider defenseman dave mcmenemy standing in for team captain rod presswood extends a welcoming band to ham iton red wing capta n fred speck prior m thfer exh byort hockey game hftfe friday right the jun6r a club came to i til houra iunn7j5 normal ta town to play raiders for tha benefit of local minor hockey hamilton won the game 74 68 jan 25 wed 26 thurs 27 fn 2ft sat 29 sun 30 mon 31 tucs total ram 1 01 total snow 117 total precipitation 2 18 total hours of sun 25 35 3 per cent of possible arire high 301 avcragel ow 14 9 wed jan 25th was the war mest january dav on record in 128 years statistics for january aorage low 17 6 mean temp 25 3 4 6 above average highest 58 de grees jan 25 lowest 15 jan 25 lowest jan 15 jan 19 total precipitation s21 to- tonal thing and fa would pre-