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georgetown herald pubhshod by hen new ope unuaaal 22 main street s georgetown ontario w t ww ftamnfca thursday february 9fh 1947 editorial comment hard chore for councillors continual pressure for mora money to operate local boards and commissions mounting costs bf materials and salaries demands from residents for more ervici and an inflationary spiral which causes some ratepayers to resent the fact that tax es dont go up make it a difficult fob for municipal councils these days to conduct business to be sure one would not want to live in a town where there was no pro gress where only the barest of wrvlea were provided where saving a dollar was the endall in town financing but neither should one wish to live in a community where councillors gave no sec ond thoughts to requests for money and lat taxes go up and up with no concern other than to satisfy every demand of every citi zen a town after all is just a collection of individuals and the tax treasury can only be the total of what we spend for collective improvements if we spend more than we can afford we can be in trouble just as can an individ ual who tries to spend each year more than he earns the difficulty in municipal budgeting is a dedicated religion today when it is ell too common for antireligious views to be given prominence we must not lose track of the fact that god and religion still play a prominent part in the life of many people one such group is the christian re formed church which friday will dedicate ft fine new church building on the 7th line at a special service preceding commence ment of regular services on sunday the church whose membership his grown operation icicle when people are prone to criticize if things are not just to therr hking wa can point out one incident this week where three public utilities combined to do the public a favour the east side of main street where the herald building is located li a danger spot when certain weathar conditions cause huge icicles to form overhanging theaifiewalk from sloping roofs monday morning ths icicles had rea ched such epic proportions that if one had that one must keep in mind the wide var iation fri incomes of residents and the ba sis of taxation which is property rather than income there is tone school bf thought which woud have municipal taxes raised on an income basis and it has many points in its favour but ae long as property is the criterion then caution must be used in raising taxes keeping in mind particularly those resi dents who live oft fixed incomes as we mentioned last week one major factor which must be curtailed is the pas sive submission of school boards to outrag eous demands for more and more money by the teaching profession residents too must think twice before complaining too much about roads sidewalks water defic iencies snow plowing we cannot demand perfection on a townwide scale any more than we can in our private lives no one has his home perfectly outfit- led his family perfectly clothed takes air the trips he wants drives the car of his dreams what most men do is to make their wage stretch as far as it can providing first the necessities then some saving for rainy day and last what luxuries he can afford can a town be any different from 30 families a decade ago to 142 fam ilies today has not only outfitted one struc ture kv hs short georgetown existence but tts outgrown this building and erected a fine new edifice a majority of the congregation are new canadians of dutch extraction and it is a tribute to their religion that starting in a new land with limited finances they are witling to give generously t their church with all the demands on their pocketbook of everyday riving fallen on a pedestrian a serious injury could have occurred to the rescue came operation icicle while the public works department blocked off traffic on the street and the pokce department stood by to direct traf fic the hydr used their truck and bucket to swing hydromen toward the eavas and knock down the pesky icicles merchants were happy for the service for it u welt nigh impossible to do this themselves and the public owes a vote of thanks for elimination of this danger winters sports in the mail ba says 47000 fire aerial ladder should be vetoed 72 duncan drive february 2nd 1967 your issue of february 2nd 1967 carries some ot the re- 1 marks that i made before coun cil at the meeting of january 30th refircttably it joes not quote mc deeply enough for the genuine meaning and con cern i expressed does not show through i do not pretend to support all or any request to council and my prime worry here was not the library is sue i stated and i relterat that statement that as a cost cut ting battle the mayor has chosen an unfortunate battle field wc have excellent schools a fine quality ot tea- chprs moat of whom are dedi cated to giving our youth a fair start wc have built good bull dings at great cast but tbt child must have facilities for study beyond the school text for without them he learns no depth to his subject books are the fund ot knowledge for thll and at the requested 2 a head represent a fine bargain the mayor must know that there are those who cannot afford to bay the books themselves and a properly stocked and staffed library gives everyone with the desire an equal chance ah this aside however the report missed one particularly disquieting point some two or three weeks ago the council lor in charge ot the police and lire committee covertly stated tint- his cemmjsatott wouitf- irinj in a recommendation to purchase ah aerial fire truck for high apartment bolwasi at a cost of 400tx this was made briefly bat dearly the mayor did bet stand up and ridicule this uutft was not re ported in the press afaln on monday when addresslnc coun cil on cost cutting i stated that where we need library faculties and where these are tanned ridiculous we certainly can save this 47000 fprnon-exlst- ent high rise spartmentstwwch was frankly the mostoutland ish sunestlon i have heard councillor harrison said that such a ladder and truck was useful for fighting fires on roofs of factories agaiav as re port of this in the press obvi ously the purchase is under some sort of conatderauen yet the taxpayer has heard nothing ot it why id the same issue ef the herald we arc told that the lowest tender for the new pol- lee building was 19500 is this department becoming a little top heavy for a town of less than 12000 we have a chief an inspector a sergeant st least 2 corporals newlyap pointed several constables and a cadet if i am tot mistaken now a new bttildlligt what for a desk for everyone or mora efficiency in the words of mayor gibbons ftmfcutotis not ana ef these eflkers or man were present te sort eut the disgraceful traffic tangle that developed on the maple avenue hltl on sunday mornladj the itn of asmaryread she mayor sat in his ear watching cars by the down slip and slide unable te start once stopped half way vp i am afraid that we lack leadership in george town i am afraid that wa are not going to gat it for at hurt two years altiwr lat us cut out the nonsense no mora tslk of 47000 plus 910800 that we cannot afford no mora talk of cutting out an essential addit- uon to our educational f aellitlas while adding frills elsewhere yours truly hugh powell the district at a glance brampton brampton high schools old boys and girla will hare their day this week in fact they will have three the occasion la the schools homecoming planned for feb 10 through 12 oranoivilli orangevlqe got its first full scale look at plans lor centen nial year celebrations last week highlights are converting the main street into a mall a visit from the west berlin hockey team and from ontarios lieul- governoi erin the growth of the village ef erin is being reflected in a de mand for more teaching apace at a beard meeting last weak final drawings for a two room addition to erin public school were approved and tenders hsve been called what has ten legs and five erase fw mm kjulu dogs sugar and spice by bill smiley more on education this was supposed te be part two of a series on education in this country last weak i com plained about obsolescence the lack of everything but pu pils the unfairness of the fund- raising for education the lack of any national standards and the rigidity of practically ev erything in the system not bad for a start in all the years i wrote oils column before i began peddling pedagogy nobody tried to sup press my opinions here many disagreed violently others threatened to cancel their sub scriptions soma said 1 was vul gar and one reverend gentle man even offered to thrash me within sn inch of my life i re minded him that my big broth er was s sixfoottwo 210pound engineer and 1 never heard another word the first hint that i should tone it down came from a representative of the mighty tucht rs federation said theyd had several letters from members urging that i be drummed out of the service be cause i wss destroying the teachers image by mentioning here such human horrors as sex and drink and by using the odd epithet he saked me heavily what i wevld ee in his petition i re plied hfhtly that id e what i always da with tetters rem cranks and blfets chwek em in the wasteeasket he waa an- neyed pinned down he ad- ted there were two wjch letters and i was annoyed second subtle suggestion wss from sn inspector a lady she passed the word thatthe depu ty minister no less wss con cerned about my column and its contents i turned indigo snd snarled you mean the department is trying to tell me what i can say and cant say in my column nonononono she blurted visions of headlines dsneing in her head its merely hoped that youll use your own good judgment next time it was another in spector at the time a nowde funct newspaper for teachers wss running my column the paper was happy the fan mail was heavy but whispered this inspector he thought he should tell me for my own sake that i wasgetunainirrangwith the federation waddaya tokkin about i enquired in my best head of english department manner and got no answer that i could pin down i seem to he down on inspec tors this week and so i am we got the word the english in spectors were coming i alerted my 15odd birds in the english department next norntns the inetiih news echoes pram the heralda ef 10 and 20 years age fs john d kelly georgetown clerktreasurer for the past five years announced his resignation in a letter to coun cil monday aj twentythree teachers and 750 pupils returned to normal school hours this morning when the new harrison public school opened its doors for the first time since sep tember classes have been conducted on e twoshift system in wrigglesworth school gj construction has been completed on a twooffice build ing at the corner of guelph and edward streets con structed by w f hunter it will house mr hunters real estate office ard a law office lt col alex noble was at home to his friends on satur day on the occasion of his 90th birthday 1947 the ontario provincial police are now responsible for maintaining law and order in georgetown they took over on monday with the arrival of co john clark who will be in charge of a threeman detachment here the election of officers of the looe for 1947 was held at a meeting this week taking positions are mrs w g o thompson mrs n f verdec mrs l mclintock mrs w biehn miss hilda erwln miss jeanmackenzia mrs wiff ford miss helen macdoneld miss m macken zie mrs ivan hay i current top tunes on the hit parade posted at mcclures record bar are old devil moon charlie spivok beware my heart vaughn monroe thats what i like about the south phil harris what am i gonna do about you perry como ill close my tyes johnny desmorfd open the door richard count baste if this isnt love charlie splvak all of me page cavanagh trioj this funny thing called love freddy martin staff would have gladdened your eye gals all in their bast dress hair freshdone men with their shqea thlned and every single on glowing with virtue after working till one ejn preparing the sort of un- resllatk but model lessons that i expect nine am word comes that they wouldnt be there snow ing and blowing any of us would have struck off for any where but these citynurtured drivers are terrified by a bit of wind snd snow so we shot off all those terri fic lessons on the kids mine laughed heartily when they saw my desk cleaned off it wss the first time theyd seen me below the breastbone in months and tomorrow we have to do it all over again because the inspectors are still coming ju they can make it may they go into a big snowbank and sit there for four hours if they do struggle through it will be sn anticlimax the girls dresses are crushed and their hair coming down and i sure as bell am not going to shine my shoes two days in s row just another of the evils of our system a teacher is given a record of merit by an inspec tor who sees him maybe once a year for one or two lessons harley to halt0n weekly observations by dr harry hariey mp for hahon the house of commons has psssed the transportation bill and is now debating integ ration of the armed forces in canada it has been pointed out that canada has three main functions for her armed forces 1 united nations peace keep ing forces z all deterrent of war by contributions of armed forc es to na1x snd norad r 3 and to maintain the defenc es of canada itself rather than concentrate on any one of these matters the government has decided combine all three in this way we protect our own country as well as make a canadian con tribution to our international responsibilities in preserving peace and deterring the possib ility of war to try to have three sep arate forces do this would be very expensive what is hoped for unification is to provide a flexible armed services that can do all these functions with three services there hsve been occasions in the past when one service procured equipment without any consideration to the needsandjcquirements of the other services there are many areas where duplications in the three services are totally un- necesssary and exorbitantly ex pensive examples are dis tinct and different uniforms separate personnel policies common basic training dup lication of communications medical and dental services hsve been provided as an integ rated service for some time the best man for every position should be chosen whether he is army navy or air force com- bst units will retain their id entity and their specialised training and functions land sea snd air units each with its own specially trained personnel will be retained as long as there is a requirement for them it hss been pointed out that significant savings in cost have already been made despite increased costs of mat erials supplies and service generally from 196445 to 1986 1966 there has been a net sa ing in that year of 12 million dollars the debate continues in alia house hornby congratulations to jean asarlr heer on her recent marriage birthday greetings to janet hill on february 2nd to tanya demlng on february 4th mrs john wallace on february sth deborah sammlt on february 6th anderson may and bill tauyn on february 7th anniversary greetings to mr and mrs joe saliba who will celebrate their 18tfc wedding anniversary on sunday febru ary 5th sincere sympathy is extended to the family of william hamil ton who suddenly passed away at the milton district hospital on friday january 27th hi bis s5tfa year beloved husband ot lillian stout dear father of 1 russell of niplsslng george of wroxeter willis of milton mrs albert marchment laura of hornby floyd or oakville mrs fred lister owen of palermo melville of stroetsville and les lie of applewood acres also survived by 26 grandchildren ssd 18 great grandchildren the afternoon sewing troop of the hornby united church women met at the home of mrs clifford wriggleeworth on tues day january 31st for a day of quilting a pot luck dinner waa served at noon and the quilt was completed in the afternoon the selfconfident showman who may be a lazy bum normal iy whips up a flashy lesson for inspection and scores high the selfconscious teacher who normally does a terrific job be comes nervous and makes a botch of things and scores low i dont really hat inspectors theyve changed they are no longer the old terrors but a pretty decent helpful lot but the system is punk more next week maybe georgetown herald vmlshed by home newspapers limited georgetown ontaxie walter c biehn publisher garfield mcghvray production superintendent news editor accountant terry hariey aileen bradley frank mullln advertising manager mrs harry judd clerk anne currle reporter leslie clark dave hastings myles gllson john mcclementa business directory chiropractor donald a say dc appointment made daily- call ih 73401 30 mill st gcarjtitown chiropractor oarald w carbatt dc opart dally by appointment house calls arranged 776631 11 a main si north w h cam prefatilanal engineer 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17 chapel st brampton commercial industrial and institutional buildings 677jom 4519105 georgetown animal clinic 106 goelph street dr ft goakln clinic open e pj aon weo fl atisrttar 11 ejs