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organization members best civic citizens survey finds people who belong to volunt aiy organizations are the people moat interested in and aware or the rdles and personalities in local government in george town according to the prclimm axy results of a sociology surv ey conducted here by professor alan powell and his assistants from the university of toronto speaking lo a meeting spon sored by the civic group of georgetown at cedarvale audi torlum monday evening mr powell also disclosed that of the four mojor religious categories which they could distinguish in georgetown the awareness of local government and its prob lems is highest for members of what might be called nominal denominations for example anglicans 78 per cent aware itess is lowest for adherents of thoae denominations whichare more demanding of their mem bers loyalties mr powell emphasized that bis conclusions could not be con ndered really representative of the total population since be cause of time and financial lim itation the random survey contacted only 260 people his talk on monday concerned the preliminary results of the first part of his study earned out in january 1966 the complete sur vey took 20 months and wis completed this summor final results of the study vet to be computerized will be available in the public library m april mr powell said his survey indicated that workers in vol nnttry organizations are also tops for their interest in the workings of local government it also disclosed that women cons derably more critical in iheli reictlon to local guvern merit than men it revealed that the older a citizen is the more likely he la to have an op inionaf some kind about local government younger people art more indifferent after asking the recipient of their telephone call to classify himself as upper middle or lower income the survc found that upper income persons arc mote prone to evaluate local government than middle lower income citizens indiffcr ence is aparcnt in the latter two strata however the study fourd no relationship between income and voting in the last local election although i appeared upper income peopli attend council meetings twice as often as lower income people those of urban origin are twit as hkely tn attend council meet ings as those of rural origin ac cording to these preliminary sur vey results analyzing voting hab is the survcv disclosed that married couples with children arc more likely to vote than married couples without children in order to make up then de luctions the team of research ers questioned community lead irs from three to six hours made a random telephone inter survey of 260 adults and perused herald newspaper files to familiarize themselves with the problems and political trends in town over the past ten years the people they called were asked to express opinions on the collapse of avro the separate school strike the con troversy over the purchase of cedarvale the last local elect ion and the growth of the new subdivisions mr powell who will include the results of the sociological survey of georgetown in a the sis for his doctorate degree chose georgetown for hh study becnuse he felt it crystaluied the problems facing all small communities which while keep ing their own identities are very rapidly changing in all phases of their development into large urban centres mr powell concluded his ad dress by giving the audience anonymous samplings of com merits received ih the survey in answer to the question what do vou think 6f the civic group mr john bellaifty socretary of the civic group introduced mr powell bridge club ten tables of duplicate bridge were in play tues oct 10th in the legion auditorium north south winners george sargent r prusl mrs m tay lor and mrs b pattullo mr and mrs art norris mrs sue sullivan and cam sinclair east west mr and mrs clay ton barbour mrs mary rose pe ters and mrs doris barber mr and mrs it dickson miss flor ence wright and mr l law good buy predicts maximum occupancy for hospital winter months legion marking remembrance day with parade dinner the anadlan legion branch in town li coming into 1u bus- lest mason from now until lh new year the branch bec omes a busy place with many projects under way already in conjunction with their padre rev kelvin john ston plans have been made for th hnnual remembrance day parade this year to be held on the th fit november the annual event of the year for the veterans the re memhrance dinner will be held friday november 10th in the auditorium it is understood a very special evening is in store and the guest speaker is john t armstrong ion tunc honorary member and former mayor thin event is always a sell out with members either obtaining their tickets right away or finding themselves out of luck this year the branch wilt hold their new year s par ty on friday december 20th and the kiddles cristmas tree is to be held ihuraday dec 21 the auditorluh has been re ceiving a cerulo amount of re decorating and renovations ai their busy seaaon approaches firm fined 50 a georgetown district firm pleaded guilty to a contravn tlon of the unemployment in surance act in magistrate j r black s court in milton the court convicted the def endant sentencing it to a fine of 50 and costs for failure to make a written return of la formation ten years opp clerk mrs quinton retires about 60 coworkera from north hilton opp detachment and friends held a farewell party in milton legion hall for mrs anne quinton of george town who has resigned alter 10 years as an opp clerk stenog raphcr to devote her time to household dutirs mrs quinton joined north halton detachment six years ago after four years with the mount forest detachment head quarters sgt c j pirkmson presented a brocade billfold and a gift of money on pchalf of those who were associated with her cards and dancing followed the pre sentation halleys comet last seen in 1910 reappears roughly evcrv 76 years and is next due in 1066 team shooting prize won by lome scots the lome scot peel duf ferln and halton regiment won the centennial rifle shoot at camp borden this weekend it was organized by the ontario rifle association in conjunction with the ontario region of the canadian armed forces oak vilte lome scots marksmen beat representatives of 24 militia units to win nine of 13 trophies and walk off with the compct lllon top pruo of the day the sir caimir gzowski challenge tro phy was won by private george marsh ot rexdalc the lome scots won the top team prize of the day the cen tral command shooting champ ionship m litis as well as the tyro team championship thb oeoroitown hirald thursday oct iv 1m7 page 8 flower for all occasions wedding arrangements coraapm a spacialty cut flowers and funerai designs we wire flowers rosedale floral albert si tk 751 incredible this has to be your greatest mattress buy ever anywhere ban morning backache forever with famous posture serta 837 coil orthopedic occupancy at georgetown and district memorial hospital from 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