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Home Newspaper of Halton Hills Established A Division of Canadian Newspapers Company Limited Guelph Street Georgetown 3Z6 Ontario GARNET CO Publisher and General Manager DAVE Editor PHONE 8772201 J STEVEN FOREMAN Advertising Manager ItrxiilrrrdNiinibnn Page SECTION A THE HERALD Wednesday August IMS Election signal Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water Since May weve been spoiled no elections no can didates pounding on our doors no polls or reporters predictions Hills Mayor Miller broke the quiet of the summer Saturday with his formal announcement that hell be running for mayor in the November municipal elections Sorry folks but soon youll find a lineup of other mayoralty candidates and wouldbe councillors making headlines Its a symbolic ending of the summer reminding us that the carefree days are behind us Now its time to start investigating the choices of candidates as they become known to the public Several Issues will make the election race more in teresting and more important than ever before Former Mayor Peter Pomeroy in 1982 had only one opponent with no town council experience Miller an appointee mayor in will now face challenges from his fellow councillors At issue will be problems common to other municipalities the need for more improvements such as roads and sidewalks the need to keep taxes down and trim government waste Each councillor and mayoralty candidate will have to stage his or her platforms on constructing a new municipal centre and the expansion of Georgetown and Acton Theyll have to convince us why theyre the best man or woman for the job Dont get caught when its time for an all- candidates meeting or when politicians start canvassing for your vote Form your questions now sort out your opinions on what you feel are the issues for your community Start early and judge fairly theres a lot at stake not withstanding the future of your community State of a- airs Hills is alive with news about our state of a- fairs This week has been particularly good to us in terms of news about fair days Fairs and festivals give us a chance to mingle with the crowds and strut our stuff to entertain and be enter tained Heres four reasons to smile as we anxiously hang on to the precious few months left before snow hockey and staying warm become a 1 Halton Hills Day at the CNE Thursday was another success by all reports weve received Its a great way for local talent to get exposure while at the same time it lets people know what Hills is all about The Georgetown Chamber of Commerce deserves a pat on the back along with all its helpers for the efforts 2 Members of the Georgetown Highland Games committee just received word theyve been given per mission to hold a Champion Supreme class competition next year This will mean their June festival will attract bigger and better bands and more crowds 3 Save your money for Actons Leathertown Market and Even people from outside the region flock to this event with a illtown atmosphere where the food fun and entertainment are hard to beat Mark it on your calendar Aug 31 Back in Georgetown the annual fall fair Sept 8 will be actionpacked and sporting some new crowd- pleasers in the way of a demolition derby and craft tent Later the month the Acton Fall Fair will bring us more carnival fare including the popular Miss Acton Fall Fair competition A c fn Full throttle patronage Ottawa Report IU Mi I rod critics suggest the Mul- government may be keeping a keen eye on public opinion polls as It ponders each decision but clear exception seems to be Its patronage appointments In this area there is no reason to believe that opinion polls are given more than a passing glance Either that or the government is assuming perhaps rightly that since nearly half the respondents are likely to be Liberal Ihe overall public opinion Is automatically loaded against Tory patronage In any event Prime Minister and his advisers seem to be cheerfully Ignoring that poll which Indicated that per cent of Cana dians disapprove of the way the government la handling Its appoint ments Despite the summer doldrums the federal patronage machine continues to operate at full throttle Well over 100 patronage Jobs have been dished out in the last few weeks most of them to wellestablished lories In most cases it should be noted they replace well established Liberals MANY OTHERS The appointments we are talking about are those made by the Privy Council office under the direct control ministerial appointments which do not require cabinet approval Recent ones In this category Included new board members to the Canada Development Investment Corporation do Canadalr and other crown corporati ons Then there are the lawyers agents etc who are given often lucrative assignments to represent various government agencies and departments Taken together were talking about thousands not hundreds of patronage jobs But its those highprofile appointments made with cabinet approval that tend to attract our attention They Include new members for the National Parole Mart Jobs which pay up to nearly a year and for the Royal Canadian Mint the Unemployment Insurance CSmtnissl- and various advisory boards which sometimes offer only a per diem stipend for services rendered This would apply to someone like Harvey Atkinson a Morlnville Alia archi tect who becomes a member of the Canada Pension Plan Advisory Board He had worked on the election campaign of MP Peter the Tory party president Another well known recent appointment to the National Parole Board was former Hamilton Ont Tory candidate In the last federal election Edmonton lawyer Robert Lloyd a wellestablished Tory becomes a director of Teleglobe And George Cross a temporary member of the same board of directors was a former Conservative member of the Newfoundland legislature The overwhelming majority of appointments hive Tory connections PUBLIC CYNICISM And while the opinion polls that Canadians generally approve of the way patronage is dispensed or that it is dispensed at all the prime minister can draw comfort from the fact that a majority of respondents didnt like the way the Liberals handled this business either In disclosing results of a comprehensive survey pollster Angus Held sold Ibis Issue was a major loser for the Tones However the catch Is that only about per cent of Canadians perceive the performance of he Conservatives on this issue to be worse than that of their Liberal predecessors Another 15 per cent actually thought he Tory performance was belter than the Grits while the majo rity per cent felt It was about the So when all actors are considered its probably surprising that the prime minister is not concerned that a majority of Canadians arc opposed to his handling of patronage In fact given his campaign rhetoric about cleaning up the system there has to be a belter way he might well feel encouraged by lack of public opposition In any event its full speed ahead And the present rate It wont be long before federally appointed Liberals be placed on the endangered species list We dislike unknowns By REV JEFFREY C DAVISON SI Johns United Church of Georgetown and Glen WUJlams All my life I have been brought up to beware of people who think they have all the answers to life Along with a healthy respect or skill and know edge there has always been a sense that there Is so much that we do not know It has been said that for every discovery we make In science three more unknowns immediately appear You will understand then why one of my favorite bible verses Is I Corin thlans 11 For now we see in a mirror dimly As a minister I have discovered that people do want very much to do with uncertainty We ministers are called to preach the firm truth of Gods Word with a certainty which scatters all unbelief and most of Ihe I hope that we do However I am also acutely conscious that while Gods Word Is firm and sure our human Interprets i Augustine who said Anything which your Intellect Is able to comprehend Is not God Any human understanding of religious truth will always fall short of completeness and all or us must live with questions we cannot answer and problems we cannot solve It is also sad to sec as William Coffin says hat People never do evil so cheerfully as when they do It from absolute conviction There was no visible uncertainty with Adolf Hitler nor is there with the in Iron yet though millions find leadership through such people the resulting evil Is enormous Beware of believing too much and of thinking you know answers to all the questions Now we see through a mirror dimly It was Harry Emerson Fosdick who described his dialogue between doubt and certainly by saying Most of my life lived In the woods but there has always been a piece of cleared ground in the woods As Ive grown older the piece of cleared ground has grown larger In my preaching Ive preached out of the cleared ground and out of the woods What the church and the world needs today Is not an arrogant and narrow dogmatism either religi ously or politically but a broad understanding of the cleared ground The deep certainties are there in the gospel A God who loves us revealed In Jesus of Nazareth THIRTY YEARS Edwards North Halton golf club pro finished fourth In Niagara Parks Commission Tournament Last week he qualified for Canadian Open In Weston where he eventually dropped out after a hole total of Brooks of Georgetown will be leading the dancers at the CNE Her father Alfred Brooks was an original memb er or the world famous who gained popularity during the First Great War Rev J Lane formerly of lime- house Is now preaching in Plenty Saskatchewan Harking Price who saw him preach there recently brings new of Rev Lanes success there The prize winning Lome Scot Band will once again be performing at theCNE on music day The band which won a prize In Group last year directed by Bandmaster Patricia Donaldson came from her home in New Zealand to marry William Kent at Knox Presby terian Church They plan to move to Toronto where Mr Kent works at Queens Park Archives FIFTELN YEARS AGOActon OPR a man in connection with lilt and run death of on eight year old Acton girl Laurie Shaw Marilr Mclntyre and Steve Marshal witnessed Ihe tragedy The local Canadian Arthritis Socie ty Organization has a fund raising goal for the Tall The society has spent In Georgetown this Five town teams will be competing in ihe Ontario baseball playoffs this year The tykes bantams midgets all missed the playoffs by one or two points The Georgetown Recreation Committee wants to form a local tennis club based at the new Joseph Gibbons- tennis courts on Weber Drive The- courts were a Lions Club project Beaver Lumber owns the old smithy shop on Water Street and they want to sell it for The catch W the building which Is one of the four oldest in Georgetown must be preser- TEN YEARS AGORetlred George town librarian Is having her second art show in Toronto The show will feature oils Ink and embroidered wall hangings Nurse Marilyn Mi ton just return cd from serving the needs of over women from over countries at the World YMCA Council meeting in Vancouver She said the trip was Just like heaven The Potato In Is honoring women in conjunction with the International womens year They designed events which recognise women this year The Georgetown Indoor Pool held the second swim meet of its history The Georgetown team finished second behind Fairfield and ahead of three other teams Five members of the Georgetown Volunteer Ambulance Association will represent Hills at the Interna tional Rescue and First Aid competiti on In Minneapolis Minnesota Glen Chapman Wildox Jim Jenkins Bob Crawford and John will be going YEARS LePage completed its second major local takeover in the past eight months with the purchase of Stephen B In Georgetown English born journalist and book editor Norman Holt la the new owner of Book Shop The Main Street South book store was formerly owned by Zoe Bellamy who moved to Vancouver The store will now be called Oxbow Books Four teams are tied for lead In the Georgetown Flag Football League with only four games to go Wimpy Greeks Daves and the Delrex Smoke Shop each have seven wins and three losses The Acton Bulldogs tugofwar team are training fulltime as they Elan for a tour Coach John Schcoogy as a training schedule devised and wants his learn to compete at various fall fairs Hard to follow Hiroshima repercussions Helpers deserve pat on the back Dear We found it hard to follow the logic of Mr Earl Ryder on the bomb ing of Hiroshima and its consequent repercussi ons printed in last weeks August editi on of The Herald The war with Germa ny was over when the atomic bomb was first dropped therefore we only had one enemy and not enemies as Mr Ryder slated Whether the allied casualties would have been enorm ous without dropping the atom bomb Is debatable Even If an atomic bomb blast was deemed neces sary to demonstrate the enormous power then available to the USA surely a Japanese Island could have been found with a much lower popu lation The total devastation alone would certainly have proved the point Dropping a second bom on Nagasaki was totally unnecessary Given Mr Ryders emphasis on long term survival of one victim and his attempt to downplay the dangers of radio activity In the aftermath of the explo sion maybe he unable to distinguish between ihe well known politen ess of the Japanese people and their true feelings on the dropping of the bombs As for Mr Ryders head te rn ml that since time the risk of nuclear war has been handled successfully by the government and their allies and the risk seems lo be diminishing the political posturing of both the USA and Russia the massive build up of weapons and the reliance on comput ers which are known to have brought us to the edge of the holocaust on more than one occasion do nothing lessen the Israel China France and even South Africa are known to have the bomb would Mr Ryder consider all of these countries to have stable governments Should we feel safe knowing our destiny was Is in the bands of such dispensers of the sensible use of diplomacy as Nixon Reagan with all their western confron tational approach to International affairs Anyone watching the film Speaking our Peace on TV on August must rememb er the remark made that World War Three has already begun The A has exploded over nuclear bombs underground the ana over France Is still atmo spherically testing as we were tragically reminded by bomb ing of the Greenpeace ship the Rainbow Warri or in New Zealand The uncontrolled radioacti vity unleashed Is spread ing across our planet mixing with ubiquitous toxic chemlcr Perhaps because of the contrast with the more immediate danger and high profile of the earlier atmospheric teats the recent and massive series of underground testing seems to be accepted by the general public as of little concern In fact each under ground nuclear explosi on inevitably spews its radioactivity into the ground eventually to be delivered Into our Contrast apparent silence on this with the high publicity ended by every effort to find safe and respon sible methods for dispo sal of nuclear waste from power stations by Isolating it permanently from the environment In rock formations proven stable through geologic al time The outright dismissal by the USA of the Soviets invitation to join them In cessation of nuclear testing Is the most recent example of an opportunity missed The reason given that testing is necessary to allow the US A to catch up with the Russians Is clearly nonsense With the current ability of both super powers to destroy the world many limes over each and every Increase in the nuclear arsenal and in Ihe sophistication of the bombs and their delivery systems increases the danger Therefore we do not hove Mr Ryders confi dence that years after Hiroshima can all sleep soundly in our beds Indeed our only hope of survival Is lateral disarmament for which all the peoples of this planet must work Sitting back and stating all Is well with our world Is very dangerous Indeed at this point of lime Yours truly Peggy George Bowhay Georgetown No sense in global arms race Dear Sir I read with Interest the article written by Mr Earl Ryder recalling Hiroshima This week end I like many others was discussing and try ing to understand Hiro shima with my family and with a veteran my father I wish I could share Mr Ryders assurance that have avoided J he subsequent possibili ty of atomic warfare not by accident but by the sensible use of diplo macy Sense Is the last thing I see In the arms race I When a tape was mistakenly plugged into a computer the whole Western world was put on nuclear alert for six minutes Novem ber goodness even a lock of geese has mistakenly been inter preted as a fleet of Soviet missiles Truly with thoughts of my three childrens future in mind unlike Mr Ryder I have more concern for another Hiroshima than for a falling economy I realize bow closely link ed the economy and world militarism are A recent British Columbia survey Indica tes B0 per cent of childr en years fear they will die In a nuclear holocaust Toronto Star Aug 1985 war and not a post war world find no assur ance In these words only responsibility as a parent and a citizen lo speak out for Justice and peace through nuclear disarmament Eugene arms chief for the first two years of the Reagan Administration has said We are living In Cheryl Georgetown Dear Sir On behalf tne Georgetown Ladles Powder League I would like to take this oppor tunity to thank all the people who helped to make our Fifth Annual Tournament the big success it was Friday nights enter tainment was provided by our coaches playing Town Merchants The men played a very tight game despite the numb er of distractions The merchants put a very strong team together consisting of John VIeira JV Clothing Fred Harris Smoke Shop Glen and S Plumbing Ken Kens Auto Body Chris Milne North Halton Sports Ron Bra ckens Bill Smith BUI Smith Auto Parts Gold en Bear Barry Whit- Georgetown Chrysler Art Crowreed- Wreckers Frank VandeValkMavalkAl Gardiner Fred Harrison ReMax Thanks to Brad Smith fqr organizing the game The majority of games were played Saturday The tournament dance was held Saturday night and final games Sunday Many Individuals and businesses helped make both events a roaring success Activity Van Bakery Dellte Beaver Lumber Burger King McDon alds Pompeii Royal Canadian Legion Branch St Johns Ambulance Umpires S Wayne Kuig Tourna ment Chairman Jim Tuck Steve Gemetl Park Attendant Dave Hill D J Donna Ron del Roger Bob Weaver Colleen Davis Pat Scarborough Gerry Perkins Cor Osterhof Floyd Foster Wayne Sproule Bud Hayes Mario Santos Pete Ward Pete Wanner Larry Peterson Brad Edgar Moore Bob Inglis Niner Penny Joyce Hut- chins Pat Morey Debbie Lindsay Wllh the help of all these people the Fifth Annual Tournament Is thing we can all be proud of i