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the georgetown herald foutteen paws georgetown ontario wednesday evening march 26th 19sb first section windsor proves little opposition for raiders the raiders made it plain sat urdaynight that tiey wont tbe easily knocked off the intermedi ate a throne by battering wind sor riverside 9 1 in the opener of their semi final series at geor getown arena however theyll probably have- their hands full when they play the windsor club in a weekend doublebeader next saturday night and sunday after noon in windsor after theyve had fred lawrence speake john hamilton mp cer when best tories hold rally postal delivery in georgetown this year is a virtual certaint said conservative mp sand best at the meeting that packed the legion auditorium last night mr best said that he had had two surveys taken and that onl a ver small margin lay between the population and postal sen ice natural growth in the next few weeks would take care of this he continued some 250 seats in the legion auditorium were taken with a number standing to greet the hal ton member in the last house as he entered the auditorium with john hamilton deputy leader of the house of commons stanley hall mpp and leslie clark presi dent of the count pc s they entered to the sound of the aud lence singing best is best for you a song written by the mc vince mountford spcciall for the occasion mr clark welcomed the gather ing saying he was happ to see so mam out particular v the man new faces he then introduced stan hall who spoke regarding the coming campaign and urged everyone to get out and ote for sand on mondat he warned of the dangers of compacenc a the chairman then said how well mr best had conducted himself at the local three candidate meet and also how much more ably be had handled himself than the other candidates there and at a meet ing in bronte where the candidates were subjected to a rough time b a number of questioners obviouslj there to create a disturbance sandy best then spoke telling of the lsues involved and of the basic issue performance of the pc government against the fran tic promises of a desperated lib eral party who were willing to promise anything to get back in power he cited the many bene fits to the people since last june and urgd everyone to get out and work and send him back to otta wa where he would carry on his efforts to work for all of the peo ple of halton and indeed of can ada his speech was given a stan ding ovation by the crowd john hamilton mp for york west deputy leader in the house and parliamentary assistant to the minister of labour was then introduced mr hamilton long considered one of canadas great est speakers for 45 minutes kept his audience spellbound with his slashing attack on the liberal stra tegy of promising anything any thing to get reinstated he lau ghed at the desperate appeals of no income tax for six weeks and the promise of exemptions for 3 years for young married couples why didn t they attempt to do this in the 22 jcars they were in power he demanded turning his attack on the once supposed ipdxspensihles of thai party he demanded what happened to these socalled supermen has any one beard where the gar tons jie winters the campneys the harris s and the howes are to a cutting attack on the bow tie u kid lester pearson he told of promises made when he was elec ted as leader of the opposition at the liberal convention ef the pro mises he made of what hed do to the tories followed by mr pear- aejpfr speech in the house as the new leader where he said in el a weeks rest before saturday nights romp windsor had played 9 games in 11 days and were any thing but fresh when they took the ice after 6 hours on the road the raiders pounced on every windsor mistake in the first period to build a 6 0 cushion there was no scoring in the second as windsor bounced back to silence the raider barrage but the charm wore off in the final period when georgetown traded three more tallies for the price of a shutout as the riversides netted their only goal pete bradkin with 2 goals and an assist and bud varey with 3 assists led the raider scoring krtst and drouillard were best for windsor fred lawrence and jerry ingus were also among the standouts raider contributions were made by bradkin jerry ingus blake inglis junior beaumont bradkin again and bill bingham in the lop sided first period cunningham bingham and beaumont found the target in the third while knst of windsor prevented the shutout there were just ten penalties in the contest georgetown draw ing 4 the fourth and fifth games if needed will be back here friday and saturday apr 4th and 5th the winner of the best of 5 series will advance to the ontario finals against napanee or bow manvilleorono combines the team that beat the us olympic hockey team in a pretourney ex hibition council endorses improvement plan operation home improvement received thetown councils endor sation monday when alan mcdon aid of the alexander murray and co firm explained the plan which local contractors and suppliers are considering mr mcdonald whose firm deals with man local businessmen ex plained that operation home im provement is a national scheme fo encourage home owners to improve their homes banks are anxious to lend monev on home improvehient loans he said and business firms are naturally anxious to promote such business but up to the present there has been no concentrated ef fort on such promotion some 24 local firms would be in volved in the cooperative scheme and it would be a benefit to gcor hackney horseman often showed at georgetown fall fair a prominent hackney horse breeder and showman marquis mark given 74 was buried in greenwood cemetery george town on wednesday in ill health for some time he died at st jos eph s hospital guilph on march 17th a native of erin township he was the youngest son of thirteen children born to john and mary ann kirkwood given he attend ed glen williams public school af ter the family moved to esquesing in 1893 in 1909 he married ida bescoby in brampton and they farmed on the 6th and 8th lines and at limehouse until moving to rockwood in 1945 he was a mem btr of the presbjtenan church mr given had a large collection of medals and prizes accumulated by his hackney stable in competi lion he often appeared at geor gctown fall fair surviving are his wife three children olive jean and llod at home and two grandchildren bn an and dale bunny and one bro ther malcolm given of calgary alta three daughters died in in fancy and other members of his family who predeceased him were brothers james david john robert thomas kirkwood nath ante and niliiam and sister mrs n k hardic mrs jos mcmenemy and mrs h barnes rev a h mckenxie of knox pesb tenan church acton con ducted the funeral sen ice at the rumley funeral home acton six nephews were pallbearers john thomas bruce and william gi en clarence and el wood snow wing rove bessey rinks top bonspiel winners at the farmers annual bonspiel held on thursday at the arena received many worthwhile prizes donated by georgetown and district merchants the spiel was in two draws with the winner of the morning draw being don wingrove 15 durham st and the winner of the second being an other georgetown rink skipped by wray bessey in the morning draw which was held at 9 a m the other rinks in their respective positions were ian emslie orangeville george overland hillsburg mac robert son guelph alex mckinney brampton wilson fraser bramp ton cliff ridler erin bert weeks orton placing behind mr bessey s nnk in the second draw were bob ack what council did attractive town helping local em pi o j men t and creating more purch asing power the plan has the en dorscment of the federal depart ment of labour and central mort sage and housing corpora t on gctown he said in creating a more rojd brampton robert fothenng him palmcrston bob darou georgetown charles brown bond head vern archer georgetown jim hurrcn erin tim patterson unionville prize donors included scott motors mavcal motors llcwson motors hcrkcs motors orval shea robinson s livestock trans port lane s haulage ashgrove welding canada packers bramp ton milling allison farm imple ments moloy farm implements young s pharmacy the dow brew ing company credit valley bott hk worki ed pries arena man per and halton coop dust mud complaint of eastern residents signs of spring appeared at mondays council meeting when diverse complaints were made by residents of the eastern part of town which has dust in one place and mud in another walter turner 15 rexway dr substantiated remarks made by another resident harold rossiter last week about excessive dust on his street and said it was worse since the road was graded on saturday mayor armstrong had visited the area that day end said he realized the problem though until chipped atone and tar could be used for a surface later in the spring a solution appeared diffi cult it was left with the road com mittee to seek some temporary relief for residents who say the dust is so thick that children can not be allowed out to play harrison wood 28 bairstow crescent said mud is the prob lem in his district and criticized contractors for damaging roads with heavy equipment he sug gested that council set a route which such equipment must use ive roads installed last year as much as possible asked by the mayor what route he would suggest mr wood said he would recommend mountainview and sargents roads as the main ap proaches road chairman walter gray said roads which had prime and chip coats last year now have some mud on top but it is diffi cult to avoid this while homes are still bebig built and he is certain the delrex firm will restore the roads when work is finished three new town streets which will be constructed in the vicinity of the new park public school were named by council princess anne drive will honour a mem ber of the royal family hyde park dr with ja wgllfc conno tation also iuu the name of a council member ernest hyde and harold street takes its name from a former mayor harold cleave from whom some of the new school property was purchas cd a chlorination unit which will cost about 2500 was ordered for use at the water reservoir cr hjdc explained that chlorination is necessary to kill a bacteria which though not a health ha ard is causing dirty water in some parts of town seek 500 more to reach red cross quota despite a generous response by local contributors the second an nual red cross blitz in george town which was launched on mar 17th fell 500 short of the quota however contributions arc still being received by the local organ ization and the difference may still be realized by the end of thi month services of the georgetown branch include welfare water safety blood donor climes am a loan cupboard ofcsick roomsup plies and those people who cannot participate actively in the red cross do have an opportunity thru their financial assistance contributions to the red cross will be received at the canadian bank of commerce until the end of the month in a message from the local branch the secretary rosemary jordan writes in peace the work of the red cross is equally important as in war it has been said that red cross is people he ping people and the people who volunteer their time come from all walks of life and are of many colours and many nationalities in turn the work they do is in he traditional manner of red cross and benefits mankind re gardless of colour creed or relig ious belief they range from the oung people who take part in junior red cross to hundreds of older women who willingly knit and sew long hours for the worn en s work groups and there are many regular blood donors of the canadian red cross this month everone has an op portunity to share in the thous ands of kindly acts and beneficial services offered by this organiza tion for by contnbuting one dollar or more jou are a member of the red cross council delrex meet tonight for discussion on housing feet moeoer bos and let us try again one of the most pit ifiil and weakest displas cer put on by a member of the house of commons and a da he it nev cr forget nor will he forgot john diefenbaker s replj said mr hamilton for the first time in histon the ijberals in their frantic efforts had eton attempt ed to inject a war or peace issue into the election the first time hat anv partv has done so in a domestic election he said that the arguments could rajc for yea s about the rights and wrongs of suez but the fact remained was that the canadian parliament knew nothing about it merely be cause our oldest and most trus ted ally didn t dare tell the lib eral cabinet because they couldn t trust them the british knew that as soon as they had the informs tion they would trot down to washington to let them know he pointed to the prime minister s record in foreign affairs saying it was equal to the record of any man and finished by liken ing john diefenbaker to sir john a macdonald you know the u bcrals laughed at john a when he planned to build the cpr to unite this countrv they said it was a convenience for the indians now the bow tie kid is claiming john mrs edward cation 77 native of peel county rev wilbam weir of the pres bjtcnan church brampton con ducted the funeral service for mrs edward cation the former clara edith leslie in the mcktllop fun eral home 173 main street north brampton on thursday march 20 mrs cation had been in failing heath for some time and died in the peel memorial hospital on mon day march 17th at the age of 77 mrs cation was born on lot 20 peel county the daughter of rob ert and matilda ieshe she recti cd her education in that district and after her marriage forty two years ago to mr cation the farm ed in the district she was a mem her of the presbyterian church and an ardent worker in the church and two georgetown sons survive brantford man often a visitor in georgetown where his two sons live samuel brown 77 died in hamilton mar 19th a native of brantford he lived in that city for many years and had also lived in thastates where he followed his trade of cabinet maker mr brown s wife died 33 years ago he leaves his sons theodore nick 16 union st and herbert 59 normandy blvd and two grandchildren georgina and mur ray brown the rov crawford conducted the funeral service in brantford at the mccicistcr funeral home with interment following in mount hope ccmetcrv four brantford friends were joined by relatives henry shepherd of town and roy hume toronto as pallbearers diefenbaker s vision of opening i community organizations our vast untapped northland unsound that a railroad through the north would only unite igloo to igloo this then is the thinking of the man or men who dares to ask the people jjp support a lib eral candidate concluded mr hamilton entertainment was provided by vince mountford and his group and coffee and doughnuts w served the ladles mr best who bad flown back from algoma east that afternoon had to leave early for a tv ap pearance in hamilton in support of hamilton pc candidates this was televised aft 1l3s he husband edward and two sons and a daughter survive ics he and donald of brampton and marion mrs russell tnm toron to gore two sisters and three bro- therc are also left mrs albert dol son 47 market street and mrs william lyons 16 wesleyan street both of georgetown and george h leslie and starret leslie r r 4 georgetown and thomas leslie of sedgewick alberta four grand children also survive pallbearers at the service were alex mckinney douglaamcclure john wtttmmson william smith will taylor and mel wanlea in terment waa in dixons cemetery grass fires stovepipes three calls for firemen the grass fire season which is synonymous with spring to fire brigades was officially started in town on saturday afternoon when h rem en were summoned to douse a grass fire in an orchard back of sunbeam heights the property is owned hv bob iane and was the scene of a second fire on sundi afternoon at ibout 1pm on the sunday call firemen made sure that there would be no recurrence al least in that particular orchard by supervising burning off the rest of the grass just two days prior to the grass fire the brigade answered a typi cal winter time fire call from terra cotta where pipes had be come overheated at the home of mr and mrs d hurst however in this case there was no damage fire chief jack harlow warns now that everything is drying up georgetown residents should be particularly careful with fire and if bnrning off dry grass he sure that there are enough people on hand to keep the blase under con trol what council did increase for everyone 2990 salary boost salary increases with a yearly boost to the town payroll of 2900 were approved by council mon day recommendations from the police committee for 100 a year increase for the police chief cor poral and two senior constables were accepted by council as were varying increases for all other town employees recommended b the administration committee the town clerk had a salary boost of 300 assossmcnt commis sioner works foreman and water meter reader 100 clerical staff each 2 50 per week and the works staff 4c an hour each which amounts to approximately 100 per j car for each of the eleven men employed all increases arc effective april 1st except those to frank whit moe the water meter reader and mariljn carter a new office cm ploee who will receive the raise m september mayor armstrong pointed out to council that the municipal act now promdes that councillors ma be paid a maximum of 13 a meeting in place of the former 8 00 i think council is entitled to do this or provincial legislation wouldn t place it on the statute books said the mayor if a coun cillor does his work as he should such a sum doesnt compensate for the time and effort expended on civic affairs cr mcgflvray observed that brampton council has recently introduced a 16 meeting fee for its members there was no other comment on the matter and no action was tak en to change the present 800 meeting fee which council presently receiving council will recommend to the hydro commission that a mercury vapour light be placed near the rexway dr entrance on the high way the ligh would be on a pole in front df the robert ha milton residence which faces the intersection reeve sargent was named as council s appointee on the execu tive of georgetown citizens band replying to a town suggestion that the firm might purchase a 110000 debenture issue for arena improvements savard a hart a montreal investment firm wrote that it would be necessary to study georgetowns latest flnania re- port before giving an answer lac harold stodd art air frame technician was recently na med airman ol the month at no 4 transport operational unit in trenton son of mr and mrs carman stoddart 17 arietta sl he was awarded a 15 cheque a certificate and a trip overseas on a regular training flight selection is made on the basis of coopera tion deportment efficiency and ability mr stoddart his wife and children dale and beth live m trenton consultant architect engaged for hospital the firm of dovan ferguson lindsay kaminkar langley and keenlyside was engaged as the ar chitects for the proposed george town and district memorial hospital on thursday march 20th when the hospital board met with the build ing and medical committees m the municipal building gordan fres- lan associates were also hired as hospital consultants the hiring of the firms termina ted a series of meetings of he board and the two committees the first held on march 6th when six architects were interviewed a sev enth architect and the hospital con sultants were interviewed at a sec ond meeting on march 13th the architects and consultants decided upon are both toronto firms help crippled children by supporing the easter seal drive in town give generously norval palermo tied in hockey playoffs led by the scoring prowess of ross cunningham and bill rich ardson the norval jr farmers equalized their 3 out of 5 halton jr farmer hocke final with pal ermo on mondav at milton arena by shading the league champions 8 to 6 eachclub now has a win and a tie palermo lost most of their scor ing punch early in the game when their ten goal man of last weeks 12 12 draw don vivian was thrown out of the game at the 850 mark of the first period following a vigorous argument touched off when vivian drew a slashing pen alty and ken hearns was given the gate for charging norval was quick to strike af ter the temper flare up ross cunningham notching the first one unassisted at 856 right from the face off and tften just 8 seconds later taking an encore this time with help from bill richardson and llughie cunningham they mw it 3 0 bui rich ardson from ross cunningham at 15 26 while glenn richardson was serving a 2 minute sentence for crosschecking but at 17 55 paler mo came up with their first scor ing effort graham gilles the goal getter from glen richardson and ken vivian to cut the margin to just two goals going into the second period norval wasted no time in get ting back into full stride in the second period as richardson counted his second of the night after just a minute and 20 sec onds had gone by hugbie cun ningham and bill wilson w credited with the assists hughie cunningham netted one of his own from ross cunningham and bruce van vleet with glenn richardson off for kneeing before the paler mos managed their second goal which was scored with just a mm ute to go in the period glenn richardson getting it from bob marshall and gordie greer palermo outscored the norval ites in the wide open final ses sion but were unsuccessful in their bid to cut the margin to less than two goals bob marshall tallied twice and gilles and broughton once each for palermo but bui richardson 2 and ross cunningham kept the norval mac hine out in front there w ten penalties in the game paler mo drew 6 of them the next game is on monday march slat at afuton arena with the game time 8ja meeting tonight in committee of the whole council wall discuss with representatives of delrex de velopments the possibility of the company making some arrange ments for opening more building lots in the subdivision on land which under a 1054 towncompany agreement cannot be released un til a 40 per cent industrial assess ment is reached a request for release of land for 500 houses was made by the company last june which came to a vote at the march 17th council meeting the request was turned down by a 63 vote although sev eral councillors inferred by their remarks that some cash settlement might be considered for extra land release the delrex firm sub sequently contacted council sug gesting a discussion it was first suggested monday that the finance committee be council s negotiating body but majority opinion favoured the complete council being present and t was the final decision a committee meeting has no power to pas a legislation and any action which mgiht arise from tonights meeting will become public next tuesday at a regular council mee ting future hefme building was also discussed during another part of the meeting when harold fobert local contractor asked on behalf of north halton builders associa tion what 1958 might bring to the members of the trade mr fobert was spokesman for builders james h lyons zorge brothers and collett plastering and explained that builders are stymied at present because other than a few odd lots what might be obtainable there is no quanti ty of building lots in any part of town other than the ri area on the old reid farm builders must plan their work several months ahead be said and the association is interesetd in knowing the local building picture mayor armstrong explained that the subdivision by law covers all subdivisions except delrex and that to date one subdivision has received council approval under this bj law he could forecast no outcome of the towndelrex dis cussions council suggested that the bull ders group make a complete sur vey of all land m town which might be used for home building and if there were any problems of water or sewerage services to bring these matters to council reception and tea pleases liberal candidate here beautiful spring flowers adorned a beautifully set table for the re ception and tea held on saturday in the odd fellows hall by the georgetown liberal association for candidate ken dick mr and mrs maurice manderson mr and mrs william marshall and mr and mrs garfield mcgilvray welcome the guests delicious refreshments were ser ved those who availed themselves of the opportunity to meet mr dick from a tea table tasbfully arranged by mrs doug marshall during the afternoon the follow ing ladies poured tea mrs percy leslie mrs florence curtis mrs sam walker jmrs v rawson mrs george leslie and miss may ijngan tea assistants were miss glenna doherty miss gretchen bradley mrs gordon king mrs george fanner mrs erwin lewis mrs john elliott mrs alvm mc donald mrs frank fetch mrs ron edwards mrs marshall timbers and mrs george walker mrs j s hcqttat of milton spoke briefly to the gathering telling of the fine qualities of mr dick and mr lester pearson both of whom she has kn for many years she called on the women of georgetown to rally be hind mr pearson and give can ada the benefit of his experience at a summit conference mr dick was then introduced by the chairman maurice mander son and spoke of the usemploy ment situation today but stressed the fact that if another world war came we would not need to worry about unemployment or anything else and suggested that his leader be given the task of coping with world situations at the summit conference he solicited support for hissaetf on us experiesetto county affairs and as i mrs dick