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ads that pay fttic place en in the oremv clauhmt pates by j mftjmol skiying er ettlnt h herald i where jru will fmd the result yoo the home newspaper for georgetown and district return postag guaranteed ia printing publishing the georgetown herald hae mrvad georgetown and district as printers arid publishers for ovar a century offsring the bast in fine printing ind nawa coverage second class mall keeustared number 0943 georcjerown ontario april 10th 1969 500 per year slngl copy price ten centi crazy cruise near tra fished from river the fun and high jinks of georgetown jayeees third an- nuatbbatjtee almost turned to tragedy saturday for 10 anxious minutes 300 mlookerl watched in tense sil noo from the lower paper mill bridge their vision fixed on ladi bobbing in the churning noddy water 0 thwbase h of the tula hands made numb by the chilly water- clutched- at copes dangled like fishing lines by firemen and other wouldbe rescuers from the top of an ab- i otment 20 feet above the surf- the hands slipped and re- gripped the knuckles white from both the cold and desper ate determination as the ropes were inched toward the rivers edge minutes later brothers lynne lod monty hyde dave under- hill john jones and jim bar- reau soaking wet and visibly shaking were placed in a ge orgetown fire department van febich had been standing by and taken to georgetown hospital iwhere they were wrapped in blankets while they waited for dry clothing the near drowning occurred when a natural whirlpool made more violent by the spring taw and recent rain caught the three man hydeunderhill craft as it left the shore below the dam after portaging m the craft three oil drums welded together and lined with foam rubber was pulled back to one of the three sets of falls i and swamped jones and bar- rieau joined the others in the water when their rescue try fin a small flat bottom boat tailed as the boat went down under the added weight underbill who twice sank out of sight was pulled ashore first but it was another five minutes before the other four were out of danger dragged the last few yard from the base of the abutment by bob wolf a competitor whose inner tube- wheelbarrow craft was tied to the end of a rope and used as a lifepreserver dave underbills brother paul also bad a narrow escape when his rait hit a tree stump spilling him into the water he had to swim to shore one hundred contestants in forty or fifty boats entered the five class race officially started by mayor steamer emmerson and cr harry levy the seven mile course ran from the 10th line bridge east of glen will iams to the riviera at norval winners of the various races were professional canoe and kayak class roy johnson and mel vin frost georgetown rubber rails and boats chris sarg ent and bruce murray glen jwilliamsr two man can e larry nuttall and lanz hows- bergh georgetown comic class art ellis and the blue giants boats of ah types norm jon es qalt and norm bennett preston the best entry in the comic class went to bill little and murray cooper and the prize for the first jaycee to cross the finish line went to bob darby and dave kentner of george town the honour of being the last to finish went to bob rey nolds and gord brown jaycee sam jones was race commissioner backed up by doug fishburn while steve hutchison acted as registrar journalism prizewinner james tost son of mr and mrs jack tost georgetown has been named the i960 win ner pf the kitchenerw record and the kitchener press club award for general proficiency in the diploma journalism program at the university of western oni ario the award will be officially presented april 11 at the kw press club jim 4s a 1968 graduate of economics from uwo the proficiency award is an annu al prize available to students in the diploma progam this is the second year the award has been presented 7 more grass georgetown fire dept beat out half a dozen grass fires in and around town this week the grass ere season started last week with the first series of calls how long it runs and how serious it becomes depends on howmuch common sense resi dents use in burning off grass or burning rubbish near a dry field fire smoke cause heavy damage in house blaze rebuild park grandstand fair board urges council members of georgetown fall fair board executive iked council tuesday night re are any plans to re he grandstand at the pari air board president stewai hall stated the fair board planned to appoint more dlritors from town in an effort make the fair a community jtort overtime goal gains haiders 1 game lead it took an overtime period out georgetown raiders paced by jack gudgeon won the open- fig game of their intermediate ft western league final with durham huskies in durham tuesday night with less than two minutes ifeft in the ten minute overtime period gudgeon caught the dur ham goalie wandering and scor ed his fourth goal of the game to put raiders into the series lead the overtime was forced when durham scored with two min utes left in regulation time creating a 9all deadlock raiders came within a whis ker of winning it late in the third period but dan nortons hot with 10 seconds left boun ced off the inside of the goal post norton scored raiders other two goals georgetown had a 41 lead at the end of the second period but the huskies picked away at the lead and with the capacity crowd behind them rallied to eraie it completely missing rearguards bill cur- rle and glen cooper coach gerry inglls rotated phil lavell kent robinson and bill wheel- v er with wayne davison and doug richardson putting in cubs find how animal clinic railway work fifth georgetown cubs know more about animal clinics and railroads this week on tuesday of last week they paid a visit to georgetown an imal chnlcnwhere dr brian buckrell showed them the facil lfles they were shown he surgery room operating instru ments and special table an x- ay of a dog which had been hit byjcarearller the same day fcpd tttentourefthvc wh the animals are kept they were also given pamphlets explaining what a veterinary does dr buckrell answered quest- ions from the cubs about care j their own pets at the railway yard jim colter son of b pack leaders mr and mrs ross colter whose fcobiy is railroading explained to the cubs how to read switch lights why there are different weights of rail how train or ders arc transmitted types of height cars how to read the coding on thesides of cars and whistle signals the boya were accompanied by the colters ev owen jim smyth mrs stan kruger del dtentremont and mrs claire pelletier some blueline time norm lockhurst again a standout in the raider goal got his most severe tests in the first and thlfflperiod game two of the best of seven garfield mcgilvray stated he hoped council was interested in rebuilding the grandstand sin ce he felt without it the fair could peter out he explained a 25 grant on an expenditure of up to 25000 was avail able for this purpose he said the fair board could con tribute two or three thousand dollars to the project we just want to get your feelings on the subject he said they also sought their cust omary grant of 250 cr donna denison asked them to attend the recreational committee meeting on april 24 to discuss it a shelley street family will make their hdme in a trailer for the next five weeks while their house heavily damaged by fire and smoke thursday is restored mr and mrs jerry getty and son doug first moved to a brampton motel and two other children brian and jeanette were taken to their grandpar ents in chatham after the noon hour blaze destroyed a recrea tion room and ruined the floor ing in their home at 21 shelley the rest of the interior was coated with a sooty film inclu ding drapes bedding and clo thing the eldest of the three child ren doug who was home from wght school because he had not been feeling well was alone in the house when he smelled smoke shortly after 1 oclock when he discovered the flam es between the furnace and free zer in one corner of the base ment he ran upstairs called the fire department and then re turned to try and battle the fire the intense heat and smoke forced him outside in his pyjamas his hair singed in the attempt mr getty arrived home from a car wash moments after the fire trucks arrived to discover black smoke pouring out of front and side doors and base ment windows no estimate of the damage had been made at press time residential rate 68 industrial 7551 reassessment offsets sharp decrease y at midnight tuesday night council struck the mill rate at 68 mills residential and 7551 industrial and commercial for public school supporters the seemingly large drop in mill rate from 8285 residential and 9241 industrial of last year is largely offset by the reassess ment leaving the average tax payer with a thirty to forty dol lar increase using a commons assessment figure on the old assessment of 4500 which may have been re assessed at 6000 approximate ly means the taxpayer last year paid 37285 and this year will pay 408 an increase of 3515 individual assessment last year some will pay very little more this year while others will have a sizeable increase the industrial mill rate drop ped 1690 mills which reeve hunter termed an inducement to industry a drop of 15 in the county rate helped keep the costs down while the revised figures from the halton county board of ed ucation showed a drop from 1- 191947 to 1120934 or a sav ing of 71013 education costs have increased 207229 or in percentages have gone from 625 of the tax dollar to 68 of the tax dollar these figures will change in the mill rate is apportioned accordance with the change in i as follows residential and farm boards get the news final will be here tomorrow has resigned hired as his re- night the third game in dur- placement this week was don ham sunday with the balance i findley of northwood golf still to be arranged club tuesday nights budget show- 1 surprising number lower than ed some changes in grants to last year the grants were al- later in the evening tho 5250 boards and commissions with a i located as follows grant was authorized j 1961 1969 library board 18000 22000 committee of adjustments 500 7q0 cemetery board 9000 9500 planning board 12300 8000 industrial commission 1500 1000 credit valley authority 11355 7362 community centre bd pool 3982 5000 cedarvale com centre bd 10605 8000 board of parks 18212 20000 new pro peter carter north hallon golf and country club profes sional for the past two years public schools 2164 high schools 1665 general purpose 1861 county rate 448 police 662 9 total for public school supporters 6800 the disu developed in- to a full scale hassle when a motion to set the mill rate at 685 ws presented by crs ric morrow and sandy mackenzie the normal practice is for the finance chairman to make the motiort striking the mill rate confusion arose because the mill rate had been ten tatively set in committee at 705 however tuesday morn ing a mistake had been discov ered riving the town an extra 55000 some of the council did not want to vote on anything other than was decided at the committee meeting without a great deal more discussion ind com 2405 1850 2186 448 662 7551 the real battle ensued when cr ric morrow claimed reeve w hunter had instructed the auditor to draw up a motion for 68 mills with no discussion with council cr morrow claim ed he had seen it that very night on reeve hunters desk he in turn angrily denie there had ever been such a motion cr ern hyde termed the mo tion for 685 mills put by cr morrow and mackenzie before the finance chairman had put any motion at all as a chal lenge and vote of lack of con fidence in the finance chair man he pointed out the situa tion was now completely chan- tense moments in boat race at left a pair of canoeists paddle toward quieter water as lynrte and monty hyde and dave underbill try unsuccessfully to free their craft from the pull of the turbulent bockcurrent at the base of the lower paper mill dam which is pulling them into the falls below their barrelboat swamped and abandoned the hyde brothers and one of their rescuers cling to ropes let down by leo wolf norm long and herb wild who are engaged in a tugofwar with the churn ing water in the water to the right is bob wolf whoso innertube boat proved a valua ble piece of life szving equipment the rescue- took place during saturdays crazy boat race adams photography ged from the situation at the committee meeting i suggest we go nu committee of the whple and reconvene to strike the budget turning to the press he stat ed please make it clear if we reconvene tonight we dont get an extra thirty dollars he emphasized that the finance chairman should have this cour tesy extended to him at 1030 council went into committee of the whole to discuss the budget further at this point only a difference of half a u 685 or 68 was being argued cr ern hyde claimed there was enough allowance for contingencies the point raised by crs morrow and hyde in fact there are some things in there that are sheer nonsense he maintained cr denison had more money to play with than anyone ever had in that field admitting he had been the or iginator of contingency funds some years ago he now quest ioned their validity because of the low interest rates better we should spend the conting ency fund and cut down on de benture debt he advocated the motion to strike the mill rate at 68 mills was put on the table this time by finance chairman w hunter but was almost withdrawn when cr ric morrow again challenged the reeve about a prepared motion the situation became more snarled when the second er deputy reeve speight re fused to have it withdrawn then reeve hunter threatened to vote against his own motion because cr morrow claimed he had not had his questions on the comparative value of a mill on the old assessment and the new answered cr morrow stated he had un derstood 67 mills on the new assessment equalled 8285 on the old now i find out its clo ser to sixty which means a bigger tax jump than i thought cr ern hyde poured oil on the troubled waters saying he wished everything that was said in the last five minutes could be retracted finally at ten minutes after twelve the motion to prepare the bylaw setting the mill rate at 68 residential and 7515 in dustrial was passed with cr ric morrow still opposing dental office garages entered cash taken only a cash register and a smallamountofcashwere lis ted as missing after breakins at two car dealerships and a dentists office over the week end the cash register was taken from murray motors on moun- tainview rd and the cash from the office of dr m woiburgh in the halex building at 69 mill street the other entry was made at masson motors on guelph street at the car dealerships entry was gained by breaking sido windows the door to the den tists office was forced rushed to hospital child is recovering a small child in convulsion was rushed from mcgilvray crescent to georgetown hospi- tal in a police cruiser tuesday morning when lime didnt al low summoning of the volun teer ambulance service i constable john liver with cadet brian farrell were dis- patched to 47 mcgilvray cres where they picked up 17 month old debbie ross and her mother mrs jackie rossf and rushed to hospital at press time the child was reported in good health but under surveillance in hospital police said she was turning blue and in a convulsion ap parently brought on by a hlxh fever the result of an ear in fection when they arrived at the rpss home r