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three seek halton east seat tuesday voters io hilton east will choose from three candidates when they go to the polls tues day the new riding is being contested by jim snow rr 2 georgetown representing the progressive conservative party robin skuce of oakvitle for the liberals and new democratic party standard bearer bill go- lies william gillies william gillies an unsuccess ful ndi candidate in the 1963 election will be in the running for the new ndingin halton a 46 hr old oakvillo coun cillor he is a native of niagara fall and served in the canad ian armed forces in the second world war and in korea moved to oafcville in 1958 to take a position with bp refinery mr gillies his been active in politics for several years he is oakvllle councils represent atlve to the parks board the subdivision policy committee and the chamber of commerce although unsuccessful in iocs mr gillies polled over 5000 votes more than a 90 per cent increase over the ndp total in the previous election robin skuce liberal candidate robin skuce at 29 years of age is the youngest entering the race mr skucc former french teacher and a former united church minister is canadian secretary of the bmlcd nations associa tion he is a native of ireland and received his early school ing in belfast and later enter ed trinity college in dublin after three years at trinitv ha moved to toronto where ho worked as a french translator and acted as boxing instructor at woodgrcen community ccn tre the youthful candidate earn ed his bachelor of arts degree at the university of toronto and later studied at emmanuel college and won a scholarship to the university of edinburgh where he studied psychology and other subjects related to theology he spent a year in the ministry near lindsay and came to appleby college in oakvllle to teach in 1964 tmr skuco was elected presl dent of halton east liberal association in november he is a volunteer woikcr at the chil drens aid society and a mem bcr of the ontario teachers fe deration jim snow jim snow 37 year old pc candidate for halton ease has a long active background of serving the county born on an esquesing farm and receiving his schooling there and in mil ton mr snow left the farm to work for a carpenter in oak ville at age 12 a year later bs went into the building business on his own he has built schools churches factories stores and apartments since expanding his business to accept general cont racts besides presiding over his construction company mr snow has acted as deputy dist rict governor of district a 11 uw lions ctab sad villi tts sbsj of a f nil tiaae hijpar nm a 400 acre farsa when ma l cattle mr snow has member of the haifa pa sire conservative for the past 12 yean the pc ranrmal k director of the ontario producers association and is a member of the bnruntfm oala vfue airport com mr snow is named villi four children george kerr progressive caa servative who repre hal ton riding in the last praam parliament is running as a c dldale in the nding of hahoaf west opposing him are labexaf jack lush and ndp ted mc donald georgetown herald b the home newspaper for georgetown and district i canada 1u7 1h7 to harau mwim7 aulhonzed as second class mail pott offka dap ottawa and for dayman af posfaya in caih georgetown ontario thursday october 12th 1967 5 00 par year sjngla copy pnce tan caaaa quite feat gets high nursing post at john hopkins hospital a georgetown woman has been named to a high post at the johns hopkins hospital in baltimore maryland miss dons armstrong a staff member there for 17 years is now direct operative and ac nte care services she will be responsible for nursing and ad ministrative activities in the ge neral operating rooms recovery rooms and the adult intensive care unit miss armstrong who is the daughter of mr and mrs fred armstrorg 11 mcnabb st is a graduate of georgetown dis trict high school and the school of nursing at braitford general hospital exhausted body and soles wary glaude and paul egerton prop up their burning tools es and let sleep engulf the r tired aching bodies at the end of 34- mile walk the georgetown youths took part in the walk a thon sponsored by oxfam an organtzat on which tries to raise funds to combat famine all over the world the youth in group wh ch sponsored glaude and eg erton padi fifty cents a mile each for a total donat on of s34 50 reviews features of smith tax report for chamber highlights of the smith re port a recently published re port on ontario taxation were reviev ed in a speech to the chamber of commerce lait week by the honourable charl es macnaughton provincial treasurer mr macnaughton was speak er at a special get acquainted night planned to revive inter est in chamber activities over a hundred turned out for the evening at north halton golf and country club mr macnaughton stressed that be had been booked to speak defore tne election announce ment and that his visit was not in the nature ot a political one he loi chctl on the smith re port particularly as it could af feet towns like georgetown less property taxes regional go eminent a pro ince wide property reassessment at cur rent values and assumption by school boards for levying and collecting their own taxes arc some of the smith recommend ations he stressed that municipal ties mil be consulted about changes and warned that if pro perty taxes arc lowered by the central government assuming a larger share of some costs towns must pass the savings on to the home owners rather than lining the money for extra ex penditurcs he said the smith report is not designed to rum ontario s competitive econom but to shift the tax burden to those who can best pa it h gher sales and gas taxes and a prov incial income tax would comp eniate for the pronerty tax rev enuc drop irwin noble ntw president of the chamber was dinner chair man and presrntcd a gift to the speaker while thanking him for his talk john t armstrong troduced him an aclmtv program for the coming ear was outbned by george michm esquesing reeve george leslie and georgetown mavor joseph gibbons extended municipal greetings and rev kelvin johnston chairman of georgetown ministerial assoc i lion said grace next evening plinned is a dinner meeting on november 20th false says 0hc head of home rumors here reports that ontario housm corpi ration is plann ng a land development program of 1 000 to 1 aco lots under the home ownership made lasj program in georgetown arc completed fauc i1w sutcrs managing dircclor of ohc said last week mr suters sa d a number of reference hivc i ccn made in recent weeks to such a program the corporation has not ob tained any land nor is it cur rntlv negotiating for land in georgetown he said mr su ters irlded this did not mean ohc would not obtain land in the georgetown area if i u i able site were offered and it wis establ shed there was a need for building lots in the municipality he pointed out a residential mbdiusion of this size would tat ba 1 an at la a ajmnua- itv the sue of georgetown un less it was a balance develop ment giving residential indu t nal and commercial assessment in their proper proportion car nrd out in full consultation with the mumcipalit mr sutcrs said small home subdivisions are being develop ed in smaller communities ror example the corporation offer ed 10 lots in tcck township near kirkland lake at tuesday and all but three of them have alreadv been snapped up seniring is now under way or serviced lots are being pur chased in more than 30 ontario municipalities which mil prod nee more thin 6 000 lots for building in 1068 he said local plant is host to office furniture dealers office furniture and equip ment dealers throughout ont ano met tuesday and wcdnes day at the general fireproof ing company s factory here to take part in a marketing scmin ar with company officials the program included discus sions of new marketing technl qucs and presntalion of prod uct information general rireproofing is one of the worlds leading manufac turcrs of business furniture and equipment the firms new 191 000 square foot office and fact ory serving the canadian mark et went into operation in gcor getown in march on hand to present maiketiiin information on gi- s desks ing cabinets chairs and other productsavcre h c williamson the compiny s executive vice president r t riffle manag er of filing equipment r f dalton manager of seating and j a loudon manager of sales for canadin operations the gf management team will also hold marketing seminars during october for dealers in montreal winnipeg edmonton and vancouver plax moving to qe site dr bruce duff new surgeon in georgetown dr bruce r duff has joined the georgetown medical frater nitv with the opening of pract ice as a general surgeon at 21 church street his office and residence is lo cated in the house recently va cated by dr m g o dwyer who is now practicing in scarbor ough a toronto native he is the son of mr and mrs r a duff of lakcfield he attended vau ghan road collegiate graduated with an arts b a from the uni versity of toronto and in med icine in the class of 61 at bni versity of western onlano london dr duff interned at grace hospital detroit and for the past year has been associated with northwestern general hospital toronto where he wrote his surgical exams relocation announced to 150 employees by executive vp hi wife the former audrey elliot of calgary alberta dr bruce r duff a businc s move which will affect some 150 georgetown em ployccs was revealed last week when employees of flax canada limited were informed that the firm will be relocating in bur lington the plav firm located m a building adjacent to and rented from smith stone ltd ts a leader in design and production of plastic bottles the firm an associate company of smith stone moved here from oshawa in ww the announcment was made by d s chant company presid ent who said physical limitat tons of the georgetown plant do not allow for necessary expans ion the new plant will be constru cted at walkers line and the queen elizabeth way ami wio allow space for additional prod ucts planned m the packaging field the firm expects to move tm late 1968 according to henry martin executive vice presad ent of both firms in an announcement ta em ployees mr martin pointed eat that the new plant h1 b within commuting distance of georgetown and the present staff will be given preference n employment there william clark who a plant manager will continue in tkat capacity m burlington the new site was selected mr martin said after a scient ific study of transportatiaa fac ulties taxes and availability af labour georgetown host school for model united nations session is a registered nurse they have three chldrcn heather 7 deb- at 0 2 n wl11 callcd to or orah 4 and jonathan 2 general assembly of unit ider the scene however will many georgetown bievele n ders and motorcyclists have been rushing to switch tbeir handlebars s nee the depart ment of transport banned high ban two wufca ago marriagegoround is next for little theatre georgetown little theatre is uuncbirg this season i product ion with the november prcsen tat on of marnagegoround a slop of a profess r who lee turcs on monogamy and his wifr who lectures on dnmestic relat the lectures and theories go out the window when a bca iti f il swedish girl plavrd b mary gocbrl appears on the scene the four member cast incl drs ron hill eric ming rrcda grit tani ind marj gorbcl the annual membership drive is on with a campaign of tele phone calls bringing in new members this years western ontario drama frstval entrj the in nocents calls for a girl who looks around eight and a boj who could pass for twelve any young would be actors arc asked to call rtn hill who will dir ct this play bowlers fete member on 82nd birthday lour greens were in play at a ceorgctown ijwn bowling club ladies section competition on the green at th ecorner of ldith and williams streets after bowling 22 members en joved a supper convened by mrs laura robinson a birth dav cake was brought out for mrs ethel hay who was celeb rating hrr 82nd birthday on the 30lh of september evcrjone wished her many more jears and good luck for the winter months she will be staving in ottawa for the win easter in october signs of summer in the month of october such as blue slues and warm weather are unusual but more so are signs of spring thats what mrs alex brown victoria st has in an easter hlj with four large white blooms mrs brown a georgetown and district memorial hospital emplovce was given the plant by a patient last spring she transplanted it into her garden and was surprised on the week end when its second growth of m bunt open the halton ridings the new ridings of halton west and halton east are shown on this map helton east taken in georgetown thel ower 22 lots of es ques ng townsh p m hon and oakville hal ton west nctudes the upper los of esques ng townsh p aclon and bu i ngion the od halton county nd ng wn spla in two during tha red jtnbution of ontario ridings not be new york city but tha auditorium of georgetown dist rict high scbool for m this centennial year georgetown has been chosen to host the model united nations this event which has bee held for the past 8 years was de signed to bring together seco ary school students for the pur pose of discussing the ptessaag political problems of our day this year the organization will have the largest number of at tending delegates in its history one hundred and fifty stndnta from as far away as kitchener kingston and north bay will air tend georgetown has been cboscm to represent ix of the comman- ist bloc nations the lssr m- bania roumania cubav nzo- slavia and hungary tha shook present a challenge to the ge orgetown representatives on friday october 20 at j a m the delegations wih be re gistered then at 1030 the ge neral assembly will ofcullr convrac the meeting will nil until 1230 in the afteroooa delegations will be formed into comtmtlecs which will duoias various problems the activity for friday will cod at 4 45 pirn official actrtitv begins om sat- urdav at 900 un delegations will once more be formed inta committees which will work un til 12 li the delegates will at that tunc adjourn for lanrh la the afternoon between 2jo and 530 the general assembly wih once again meet the assenhtr will officially close at 5o0 pj on saturday evening a ban quet will be held for the deleg ates and officials at that turn trophies will he presented car the best delegate and far tha best delegation- tha end at th banquet marks the edd af a model uv activities until it is reconvened next year