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Georgetown Herald A Division of Canadian Newspapers Company Limited Georgetown Ontario UK HARD Publisher Page HERALD Thursday Sept 13 SWIMMING POOL Its For The Community The vote wasnt unanimous but Georgetown council has agreed to go ahead with development or an indoor swimming pool at the district high school Debate now is academic about the virtues of a school pool com pared with a pool constructed as part of a municipal recreation complex as considered locally The school pool is a community asset and will derive community use And it is not the end of the road Swimming is one of the few forms of recreation that can be enjoyed by anyone who can swim with a minimum outlay for fees and equipment In time and it may not belong a second pool may be required in Georgetown for municipal use Recreation is never stagnant and the pressures and demands change with the times Georgetown residents are for tunate that they are acquinng a swimming pool that will offer year round use And they are not alone in the list of communities that make use of school based pools Others share between students and residents built the community will have the benefit of its experience with the school pool Time may show that a school pool gets and gives the best use or it might be learned that maximum use is made of a pool and some other recreation outlet such as hall or auditorium In any event the community is acquiring a pool that is for com use no matter what the status of the citizen who seeks to use it And the measure of an item worth is its use Sports Madness Shows The world is being lanen over by professional sport Remember gentler days of hockey on the radio and baseball a game Dad and junior played over at the park Football and basketball were something rich kids pursued on college campuses But now sport as big business is blared to the top of the news on radio breathlessly front paged in newspapers and is endlessly played and instant replayed on television Church fraternal groups concerts and Home and School meetings have to fit their around the game Ministers don I dare hold Sunchv evening services or anything else during prime hockey evenings during the week Hockey art paid millions to jump leagues Baseball cards are given away with bubble gum to hook the tots and busts of hockey players are packed in toothpaste cartons to ensnare the The 76 Olympics is going to cost millions and the controversy over it may divide Cinada as separatism never could What all this means is the short end of the stick for youngsters and adults who would rather play than watch and fewer gold medals for Canadians in 1976 because the big money goes professional never Attack On World Famine As food prices keep rising everybody pocket is being hit And little wonder Ever since the beginning of this year the wholesale prices of such basic commodities as wheal corn oats rye sugar cocoa coffee also wool rubber and cotton have been soaring The upsurge in world demand for food and other commodities has come at a time of crop failures and feed shortages around the globe The United States Department of Agriculture recently warned that new figures showed this years grain production would be far lower than had been estimated But whereas the world food shortage hurts the affluent it is i calamity for many of the developing countries Vast just south of the are being turned into dust fearsome drought Disaster despair countless towns and villages in Africa and Asia where the hunger that is always present has become even more acute Even national governments such as Japan Brazil China and the Soviet Union arc afraid of the world food situation and are paying the highest prices for gram The most pressing question the world faces today in regard to food is this Will the poorest countries be forgotten in the scramble for wheat rice and other basic com modities Will the poorest people in these poor countries face famine and perhaps death because richer more powerful nations are too greedy Will famine spread because we in the affluent nations are loo intent on our own well being forgetting that our failure to spread resources more equitably could lead to starvation in many Canada is one of the world s breadbaskets and Canadians always have been sympathetic towards Hie developing nations Today however more than sympathy is needed Canada and nations like the United States Australia Argentina must make a effort grow and ship as much gram as possible Unless food surplus lands make a greater effort to send gram to the needv the world will be faced not just ith inflationarv prices but with widespread famine ECHOES FROM THE PAST 10 Town council turned down a request from Market merchants for Thursday evening shopping hours following receipt of a name petition from downtow merchants proles ling any such extension Coun Don Powers analysed a newspaper survey and said only three of shoppers had any definite opinions about extended hours and none indicated would increase their local shopping if Thursdav evening hours were adopted Plebiscite for two year terms or council in Georgetown was a distinct possibility tor the December election Coun Don Powers and Coun Waiter Gray argued for longer terms promote better municipal government which is in errupted every year for elections Council agreed to consider another plebiscite but was something less than enthusiastic because one on a similar Issue In 19S9 was defeated Robert Georgetown saw the movie Windjammer at Ihe University Theatre in Toronto and two years later got to sail aboard a Norwegian training vessel at the express imitation of King Olaf of Norway Bob sec re v wrote to the king asking It there was any way he could train aboard a windjammer He Joined other cadets only four of whom spoke English aboard 26year old Christian Research committee headed by Dick Licata was formed begin preparation for the IBM Georgetown centennial Doug Wilson agreed to serve as vicechairman of the committee Others appointed to the committee were Bill Smith Dan Doug Maclaren Don Powers and J G Collier July l weekend of the new year was picked for the celebration Candidates contesting the provincial election in riding met In Georgetown at a public meeting and fielded from the public Can were Kerr William and Owen Wb was under way W Bell dthcchangeov morning would lake lobe made about two minutes Local operators either transferred or retired Among the retirees wis Miss Mabel Chave chief operator who had 17 of service A chartered bus carrying Ira ford sea cadets lo the Canadian National Exhibition went off Highway on the western Nerval hill and slid into a ditch on its side Nona Apiarist Sid Morris was among Ihe first motorist on the scene and was flagged down by an Injured cadet and asked to summon aid Only one cadet had to be taken to hospital and his injuries were not serious Brooklln defealed in Ihe first game of an Ontario lacrosse championship series plated in Brooklln Junior Beaurmont scored twice for the Georgetownteam Themalchwasa rough one with several of Ihe hometown crew sustaining minor injuries Mill manager at Alliance Paper Mills Ltd InGeorgetownmow Clifton left the com pan for a new in the United Stales Mr was a Georgetown resident since 1MB AGO Waller T Evans of Georgetown had the honor in Portage La Prairie of ting his eldest son Jack with his old bombers wing Jack graduated from Georgetown High School and the University of Toronto and was com missioned a pilot officer More than 2 persons attended annual fall fair in Georgetown Bright sunny weather contributed lo the fair success Red Cross Wood donor clinic disptay was part of the exhibits and Mrs Brill reported that she enrolled donors Tor the next clinic A team from tin Williams won the tour introduced in thin year fair BILL SMILEY END OF THE TUNNEL OF LOVE READERS FORUM Project SWEEP Gives Pride Sir As Project SWELP Students Working in an Environmental Enhan cement Program draws close in the Credit Valley Conservation ihe students leave with a sense of accomplishment and pride in having com a summer of meaningful employ mini true The students have cleaned up most of the roadside litter throughout the watershed eviry township have much to Improve the redit Thev Depot Study Sir you reported in The Herald Pollution mode a presentation to ihe Georgetown works torn on the creation of a recycling depot We in turn were asked pirform a survey in town to determine the degree of response winch such a depot would receive This Is now being done In addition to he residents within the town boundaries there may be considerable number of vour readers within the North who would also support i depot cannot Feasibly be contacted liv Pollution volunteers we ask through the medium or your Forum that anyone not surveyed who would support a depot bringing or all of their clem paper bottles and cans to please get in ouch with one of the following I22f Milchellnr John for Pollution Probe Georgetown Noises Noted Sir My wife I had occasion to spend a brief holiday in your fair own recently The extraordinary ex development Business and Residential enterprises over the past im pressed us The cleanliness of business as most refreshing and admirable Prices most reasonable and and led nothing to be desired The criticism The universal and ever present noise pollution with and the infernal contrivance the automobile Thank for a marvelous and even success or the future Price London IHrpliMPtt ii Publisher Alt IHHA Manager All Milt AM An mutant Bob Graves Valerie David Hastings Mvles John Nelson have built gabions Tor erosion control planted crown vetch for bank stabilization created new grounds out of natural material and restored many sites throughout the watershed cleaning and repainting The public has been mule aware of and the need for con efforts from us all it we are ever lo overcome the mounting pollution problem The SVUEP students will now nil be returning to their respective colleges universities to continue their educations Their earnings this summer will help to offset the costs or rising tuitions and books and will or some be he reason its dual purposes well The authority and watershed as whole have been greatly enhanced while at the same time of our right out of this watershed are able to continue to improve their education so that may all by their future contributions to this society SWEEP will probably be year lo help more students and to help improve It is worthwhile it deserves support Scott Conservation Meieiowvale tint Tribute To Lifeguards Sir the summer almost ended I am writing this letter as i tribute to lifcguirds helpers at the Georgetown Community Swimming Pool My girls and I are sure many other boys and girls have benefited greatly from their guidance in strut lion I alio think that for i town Ihe of Georgetown that it is i great pity thai some rginlzalmn does not bock the swim team Our newspaper is full of all other which you must be certain agei while the swim earn takes in all ages When mention the name swim great manv do not even know I am talking about Ontario Scene Cost Of Dignity Hard On Taxpayer the capable of our lifeguards ihcy are a group of vnung swimmers representing the town of Georgetown During the summer they compete against other awns and cities in Ontario The lifeguards devote a great deal of their the team and 1 think it would be very encouraging 1 them ind to ill swimmers If some group gel behind them and show them thai the people of are interested in hem IIIIMI Park Bureau if The Herald TORONTO- If the iiiquirv nithing else it has produced a figure which could save the province I old millions the vears This piece of information produced i rival to was lint head office of IBM Ltd was built for a third less of what office Is to cost The reasons given for the verv expensive head it w is felt it should be of in keeping with Its position or something more or less along those lines lust whv it should have this or its prime location has not been explained Prcsumablv however IBM which is one of our most renowned international torporallons and which doesn have a sales monopolv as does also should have a touch or so of and would have other needs equivalent to Commssion Thlscompanv however is also known as one of the wisest of corporations And being wise It t believe in spending money foolishly So it hasn seen any need of putting Its hundreds or thousands of clerks and other office people in a building In prime space It was built on pie rim of the citv And has put up a headquarters which though is not spitting si PllUTllt the of the inquirv select will take this to heart when ihcv are writing their report They do not have to criticize cm thai it was going along with thi general pattern mini The pallor But let it again hopeful tome down n the itself let it slam the prattite if it does so this could register with government And re importanllj with those civil servants who influence so of its thinking land most of whom reallv don t give a hoot whether vour and mv money is saved or spent This mean big savings If at least all opposition members don express some sentiment along this line in Ihe report then perhaps we might be better off if we out our whole or gov the prov aw ay lo someone who can afford if Back Home But Locked Out Trip Over There Was Tops Yep We re home Met a chap yesterday and he said I thought you were going to England Better get a hustle on You go back to work In a week Perhaps I should explain that this column is written about two weeks in advance usually or sometimes or occasionally or when the situation calls for it The last two for example were written In London and Chester I swear I had the only possible typewriter In Chester Mv wife went out to get some dry cleaning spotted this office supplies place and finagled a typewriter an old beat up one on loan Therefore by time read ibout me and the Old Lady living it up on Slrand we re siding in Ihe back yard mosquitoes IrtT Which we did We had left key lo Ihe house with the neighbors Neither they nor when we d be home You can guess rest We pulled In absolutely pooped Neighbors out for the evening I tried every win any self respecting burglar would have a crack at Nothing doing We sat in the backyard surrounded by luggage looking and feeling like two melting Ice cream cones exchanging quips tike Weren none of these mosquitoes In Edinburgh Boy It something lo be an international traveller Those mosquitoes bow gracefully before they sink the needle It bollier me much But it was almost the last straw for my wife She was In slate of deep depression anyway because she d had lo leave the You may recall that she fought the Idea of the trip and used crafty feminine wile to avoid it Prom moment I threw her onto the plane bodily she forgot her rotten kids her kitchen floor the woodwork that needed Ottawa Proposes New Wheat Price Last the On Wheat Board executive wis tailed to Ottawa at the request of Whelan minister if to gel fir on the s proposed pricing system designed lo control consumer prices of products The basic proposal was that government is to give a five year guar in tee of minimum prices at or equivalent SI plus government if the world rides higher than the Lakehcad the resent lime the Lake heid export price is If world prices drop below government sub in equal until world prices rcich SI it this point there be no subsidy but domestic prices would be m untamed this level even though world prices fell further On Sept is a result of discussions with I groups the federal government its proposal increasing the to SI 75 and the Contact Clash Sir In column which ipp ired in week Herald I mentioned a phone contact centre which I said the w as planning to start in the fall There is no relationship between the centre and the Some people were un confused by suggestion that there was and some gather were less understandably upset by the suggestion The idea lor contact centre originated within ihe social action unit of the the its members hive in a number of ways encouraged the centre or example by providing a Icmponry mailing ad But is no official relationship between the two groups The contact centre is simply being established by i group of concerned people a ho do not indeed at the moment have any formal rganization beyond steering committee which is getting it started I had presumed that the informal association bet ween the two groups was a me and apologize for passing on that misap prehension Richard St Rectory Glen Williams Rebate Ahead Bible Verse Bill I lie mforlcr which Is the Ghost whom will send in name he shall leach all things and bring all things to remembrance whatsoever John The school of the Holy Spirit our willingness to hear and obedience to act on what He Have ye Holy since believed price basis from lo The Ontario When Board felt that theji subsidy was loo low in relation to present world prices and that the producer is giving up too much under the present proposal The Producers Marketing Board has asked the government for in immediate decision so thai wheat again be traded in Onl since it has under suspension for a week and processors are proceed with Expenditure Boosted On The ministry of education wilt increase expenditure ceilings by an average of 7 per year Education Minister Thomas Wells announced last week iy4 celling for schools will be increased by to per pupil while the secondary school ceiling will be raised to SI per pupil an in of SflO over amounts represent in increase of and Iter lent respetlivelj Mr Wells said the new expenditure ceilings reflect the inflationary factors now in economy and will achieve an even greater degree of equity among the school boards or Ontario He said that ceilings were proving effective in controlling the rate of in crease in the cost of education Between 1967 and 1971 prior to the establish men l of the ceilings the per cleaning the rugs and all the rest of It NEXT TOUR Right now she planning next year tour of England Between you and me there are a few places in England where she will be banned because she had so much fun This in the kid who understand why anyone wanted to travel Perhaps you read about those bomb scares in don They are blamed on the Irish Republican Army- IRA my foot I planted those bomb scares in the English papers because It was the only way I could get my wife to leave the country And don t blame her She was asked to a champagne luncheon whatever that Is at the Savoy Without me She kissed or was kissed by a Welshman In Llangollen Without me She walked in Hyde Park with a Dublin lawyer Without me She had breakfast in bed every morning She t wash a dish scrub a floor cook meal for three weeks With help of our bob bies I managed to get her on the plane From there on it so bad II was a matter of jumping out over the ocean or landing at the socalled International Airport Terminal Toronto It about even Personally Id Jump If I were flying again 1 d go through to Winnipeg and take a bus back to Toronto That a how bad No 2 is the Old Lady is hooked Already she s sending Heather The Tudor Bar Westminster Hotel Chester reminding her that we want some ice in it this lime Next year we go back for sure SosaysSuse It sa long swim but 1 be at Halifax cheering her as she takes off Ceilings Education pupil expenditures for elementary and secondary students Increased by 13 1 per cent per year Since the ceilings came Into effect in 1970 annual rate of In rease has been held lo per cent Mr Wells slated he ceilings have required school boards lo make hard decisions without any disruption or without ad affecting quality if education He said that there has almost universal support for principle of keeping the rate of growth of educational spending under control During 1974 special con si deration will again be given lo school boards faced with declining enrolments Mr Wells this recognizes thai boards face certain fixed coses which do not decrease in proportion to a drop enrolment OCONNORS OTTAWA On 1972 Crop The Ontario Wheal Board his just announced that the operations for the ending June 3D 1973 resulted in a rebate to all wheat producers in Ontario f ten cents per on crop marketings which will be made in the near future This will amount to SI j QUO and is in addition lo refunds of reserves ilrtadv made by the Ontario Wheal Producers Marketing Hoard to producers in On lano SI earlier this venr In making Ihe an nouncement Fergus Young chairman of the board slated that the board was In the position a year ago to be required to move over six million bushels of wheat into the export market and the rebate of 10 cents is very encouraging In light of world market conditions last year He further stated that the current year situation is very much different and will be reviewed at the Ontario wheat producers annual meeting which has been set by the board for Oct I in Chatham Notice of the financial statement crop operations will be forwarded to all producers within few With the national rait strike necessitating the early recall of Parliament and none too soon the govern ment has now been forced lake some steps against seriously worsening in But first some comments about the Hallway Bill The emergency debate and resulting legislation provided some Interesting insights into Parliament its participants and the parties to the strike I thought that the quality and Intensity of the debate especially during the marathon hour session on Friday and Saturday morning were exemplary Jean Marchand the minister of transport was the best head and shoulders the rest of us and he spoke entirely In English his second language Prime Minister was disappointing In his silence He uttered not a single word although he was present in the House throughout the debate Canadians are entitled to leadership and a forthright stance from our prime minister on such an Issue The NDP showed a marked of which were accepted by the government and then turning around and voting against the entire legislation They Indicated that their vole was a disapproval of the wage package but surely economic interests and In some cases the physical well being of million Canadians must be of primary con slderation especially since Ihe wage package Is but a floor from which the unions can now bargain for better deal I felt that the violence of a few demonstrators hurt the workers cause somewhat In my opinion however the day or the mass demonstration has passed The almost dally sight on television and in the newspapers of crowds of people demonstrating for this or against that has negated the Impact of such efforts More than sincere Nonops Paraded and picketed on Hill without changing the mind of anyone on the subject The Conservative imendment building the wage package in the legislation a factor to take into account the Increased rise in inflation during the summer was finally by the House and the Bill was passed Last week we turned our attention inflatio now recognized by the govern ment as a problem The subject of rising prices alt Canadians as con Its effects are easily felt and understood Its causes and particularly Its cures are complicated and little understood The two major parties have widely divergent economic policies dealing with the problem These factors will produce Intense debate reaction and hopefully for the average consumer some meaningful solutions I plan to be present at all the Fall Fairs In Halton County including the Erin Fair in Wellington and look forward to meeting as many of you aa possible If you have a problem Idea comment criticism or if you simply wish to get In touch with me please stop by