the HERALD Home Newspaper of Hills THE HERALD WEDNESDAY A Division of Canadian Newspapers Company Limited 103 Main St South Georgetown L7G Ontario WILLI EVDOKIMOI Publisher Equalization is not the answer to Haltons problems A word we keep hearing more and more frequently at regional council meetings is equalization The word crops up frequently in discussions about sewer and water charges It was heard once again last week in discussions about the new regional landfill site Burlington and councillors are already calling for an equalization of haulage costs to the site Once and for all we wish the region let those of us In the north who will feel the biggest negative effects of equalization know exactly what magic formula they have drawn up to provide this great equalization of costs among the four municipalities in Halton When we think of equalization in Halton our concept is that of a big scale on one end of which hangs a massive weight the costs of operating Burlington and Oakville and on the other end of which hangs a smaller weight Hills and Milton Now to equalize that imbalance the easiest method is to simply take some of the load from the heavily laden end and place it on the lighter end You continue to do that until the two ends are evenly balanced There a second method though With that you move the centre of balance so that without shifting the weights at either end eventually you come up with an even balance Thatmethod however requires outside assistance to move the centre of the balance That outside assistance would have to come from the provincial governement in the form of increased grants to the larger municipalities but in this year of cutbacks the likelihood of thatkindof assistance is small So we re faced with that first method shifting the weight from the have to the have Burlington and Oakville have major financial difficulties ahead Halton Hills and Milton don t have such problems Our growth and resultant costs for servicing are going to increase over the coming years certainly But our increases will not be to the same extent as Oakville s or Burlington Halton Hills major expenditures will be the extensions to the Acton and Georgetown sewage plants The financing of those major projects is well in hand For the next or so years we 11 be paying off the loans for those projects Hopefully during that same time period our demands for ad ditional facilities will not increase too drastically Oakville and Burlington however will be having their problems re not being parochial in this outlook We re strictly looking out for Number One ourselves If the province wishes to help Oakville and Burlington and any other urban centre meet the financial pressures that growth inevitably brings let the provincial government do it themselves Don try to pawn that responsibility off on the rural residents of Esquesing Equalization does nothing more than get the provincial government off the hook We sympathize with and Burlington in their struggle to handle their financial trying to solve it through the region is the wrong route to take The provincial government after all was the chief promoter in developing this monster Known as the Golden Triangle THC AMD forges On The Home Front- Happy birthday Louisa by Del This wick Heralds Louisa a twelfth birth day and the of this occasion to Valentines Day Is more than more incidence I find my daughter total delight who in one moment can drive me to distraction and In the next warm my heart with an unexpected gift a gesture and a growing com However I have become aware much to my sorrow that Louisa Is growing up I have decided not to go Into an immediate panic over it as she Is still very much the Tomboy soccer player but I notice now that her pre game preparations Include a dab or perfume behind each car As calmly as I find myself having to respond to despair g statements Who would ever want to marry ugly old me and positive ones I think I dye hair blonde She lives in a constant stale terror at the thought of platform shoes going out of style before she old enough to Over the past two years she has taken on the characteristics of a young colt all legs and arms and she seems to be having great in getting It all together She falls downstairsandcvtnfalldupstairs Her arms seem to get caught in everything she passes and if there Is thread on the floor she manages to trip over it This temporary adolescent lack of co ordination rssul ted In her being carried home by the school principal with on Injury in in a soccer game and recall only loo well he occasion when she took a nosedive off the balancing beam in a school gym class and succeeded In burying a front tooth In the floor Snap Now you have it now you don And there I was with egg on my face not having taken out school insurance I took one look at her battered little ace and sobbed right along with her Sweetheart I cried you have over two hundred beautiful medically covered bones your body Why did you land on your tooth Temporary caps root canal permanent cap That was bankruptcy time I believe I could have gone on a six month economy cruise for less Hoot canal work which sounds more like something that needed to save Venice we did manage to eventually However when the dentist tells you s temporary cap d better believe It The first one disappeared in a wad of chewing gum the second Into a cookie and the third came flying off when Louisa unfortunately The only blessing to come out that episode was that as a result the gouge left in the gym room floor we were not sued by the Board of Education for destruction to school property Obviously this growing up business is not all Us cracked up to be The way she is going I don know if she is even going to survive It and I have a that her parents won I either Letter to the Editor Yield to the members of the fire department To the of the of the people of Georgetown call have their high beams on I would like to bring to your Not enough praise can be given along with their way flashers attention and to the people of this town a vital need of this town Every town city or village needs fire protection As I sure you are aware Georgetown has a very fine fire department These men risk their lives every day to protect the lives and property They respond to and an orange flasher In the fire calls hours a day 36S front windows of their cars day a year no matter what If people see these men the weather responding to a call try if The problem is since these possible to let them by men are volunteers they have because the fire may be at to respond to the fire hall from your home work or home Most of the grid el link men while responding to a Georgetown On Parliament Hill- still haunt PCs by Stewart MacLeod Ottawa Bureau Of The Herald OTTAWA Who Is the most prominent person In the Conservative leadership race Claude Wagner Brian Mulroney Flora MacDOnold Paul No any of these or perhaps one of the other declared candidates might win the race but the most prominent Individual at the moment is noncandidate Dal on Camp And he has achieved this prominence by being constantly disowned It matter that Mr Camp says he is a neutral bystander It doesn matter the he doesn t hold any office within the party it matter that his only role at the con vention will be as a commentator for What does matter is that Mr Camp was largely responsible for dumping John Diefenbaker in 1937an event that won t be forgotten in his lifetime and most can live in mortal fear that he may suddenly endorse one of them They would rather be fingered by the Years Ago High school staff up to 29 From The Flies of The Herald IS YEARS AGO Karen Norton daughter of Mr and Mrs rover Norton was crowned Stardust Queen by students attending the Stardust Ball Karen was crowned by last year queen Carolyn Goudekeltlng placed first out of nine other competitors in the annual public school speaking contest held this week la a student of Howard School The Georgetown High School teaching staff will probably Increase by four next term It was decided at a meeting of the school trustee The Increase would bring the total Georgetown high school teachers up to 23 excluding the principal and vice- principal Duncan will head he North Golf Club executive for his year Mr Duncan will serve as president with Jim Linton as vicepresident and Fred secretary treasurer Graham who will be business administrator of Georgetown a new hospital has arrived In town to commence his new job Temporary office accomodation had been provided in the Development buildings until the hospital la ready 10 YEARS AGO Fifteen thousand new residents and property development of million was predicted for Georgetown last week by Bruce McLaughlin president of the Metropolitan Development Company The firm which has purchased the majority of Rex Heslop Development holdings hosted a garnering of Peel officials Mrs J was named president of Ihe Georgetown District Memorial Auxiliary at the annual meeting of officers She succeeds Mrs George Tapp better known to most farm people as CouslnClem speaker the annual banquet of Ihe Norval Junior Farmers and Junior Institute organizations The banquet was held at the hall The Georgetown Herald received the fourth highest point total in Its division in li newspaper sponsored by the Ontario Weekly Newspapers Association It was announced this week The Georgetown Midgets sponsored by Sunny Acres Form captured the division title at a tournament held in Dunn vllle Quebec last week Georgetown didn defeat until the Grand Championship game when they were edged out by a Scar borough club I Mr and Mrs Jim of arc drat to report the sighting of a robin In Georgetown this year They were walking In Hungry Hollow during the week when they spotted a pair of the traditional harbingers of spring replaced by nickel and dime variety according to a recommendation made by the Parking Authority to council at the meeting held Thursday Acquisition of town owned acreage on Princess Anne Drive Is an Integral part of a plan for a prime residential subdivision David Nelson head of Nell Investments offered for the property at a council meeting this week William McNully was re elected people warden and Rev trie Mills appointed Jim Court as rector warden at he annual meeting of St George Anglican Church held this week Mafia Mr Camp has said he will do no such fingering 1 don t wont to polarize their opinion about my opinion the former party president has said I want the delegates to say we did it when the convention is over Not that Camp manipulated it No Support he went on to say that some of his best friends are candidates I like them I wish them well but I am not going to publicity support them Normally that should ind it But It The now it seems Is for the various campaign workers to Identify and isolate can ales Mr Camp secretly supports Then the remaining candidates could divide the spoils from the still strong faction within the party Since the campaign began the professional whisperers have managed to identify Mr Camp with John Joe Clark Flora and now Brian Mulroney And with Mulroney obviously up there with the front runners he seems destined to carry the Camp banner Into the convention whether he wants to or not Workers for other candidates won let It out of his hands Camp boys Is a common expression when these workcra talk about Mulroney slick and expensive campaign And when Claude Wagner talks about the grey eminences the tLlTfc and the establishment of the party there Is no doubt that he Is referring to Dal ton Camp So many candidates are saying things has lost his voice One Successful The man most successful in disassociating himself from Mr Camp is Paul the former Liberal cabinet minister Not only was he In the Pearson government when the Camp feud was In full flight but he now has managed to corral support of many loyalists And he t have to say a word about it With so many close associates of Mr in his corner Mr can rest assured there will be no public from Mr Camp But Imagine the fun Mr Camp could have by merely saying something nice about Mr The organisation would plunge into a purple panic Incidentally Mr himself is saying nothing about Individual candidates although It Is significant hat so many close associates and one employee are actively working for Mr The candidate has on several occasions suggested that the former Conservative prime minister had encouraged him to run Thla didn sit well with Jack Horner the long time supporter who is also in the race I have no fears whatsoever of where John Diefenbaker s support Is going to do Mr Horner had said I am not worried about him supporting anyone else And same of us were naive enough to think the bakerCamp war had been settled eight years ago Viewpoint Linda Lovelace a health hazard by Land bo rough Its time again for potpourri a regular feature of his column Here we take a sometimes serious sometimes not so serious For our first slop let us visit the US where we offer you this fasclnuUng piece of information Did you know that medical experts have found that there are proximately hairs on the human Of these we lose 50 to 60 hairs per day in brushing or combing In a year we grow about five Inches of Now if you think you might be going bald here your big chance to find out One wo three four Now over to London England where that shady lady pomo star Linda Lovelace Is appearing In court over her new book Inside Linda Lovelace The book Is being examined in Old Bailey for content matter Stewart Come on the type of sexual practises in the book told the court it might lead to a persons death Miss Lovelace was accused of writing a book that is likely to deprave and corrupt But and I hope you re ready for this the book was declared not obscene Like beauty obscenity is in the mind of the beholder and sexual practises that might lend to death according to the British court does not obscenity Sick sick sick Back home to Wellaceburg now where coroner M A McElllgot found that a the lap type worn by Stephen Wong of Sarnia contributed to his death Mr Wong died after a car hit his vehicle broadside He had a ruptured aorta damaged liver and other Injuries Dr McEUIgott said he lap belt dangerous So buckle up everybody even if It kills you Off to California now where a strange crime almost took place in the community of Mountain View Mark Bales allegedly had one drink too many when he got into an argument with his wife Cheryl She ran Into the bedroom where our friend Mr Bates tried to drown her How you ask He silt open the and tried to push his ace Into It Fortunately she escaped Now for the funny part depending on Mr Bateswos charged attempted murder drunken driving malicious mischief and arrest Do you think the Malicious Mischief charge was for ruining perfectly good It just goes to show you that the promise of happily ever after when you buy a waterbed just t nceessar so While we re in California let drop in on the assistant head or psychiatry of Stanford University Medical School In Polo Alto California Prof Donald Lunde tells us that o have a 1 In 1 chance of being murdered this Gee thanks professor He also that best months for murder are July and December and that two thirds of all murders ore committed on weekends How does that piece of good new fit in with your Let slip over to Los Angles now where Hit liquor industry has hit on the Ideal glm mick It called moomoos These are drinks percent proof mixed with milk milkshakes aimed for the ladles who don like to drink Names for these psychological masterpieces are Snowflakes Malcolm Hereford Cows Icebox and Aberdeen Cows You con strawberry banana mint or mocha What do you say when jour wife looks you Innocently in the eye and claims Bullion I ve only had a few milkshakes Now we 11 cross globe to Bangladesh pondering that country over population and the food shortage declared People will Just have to learn to eat each other To which I can only add Stop the worldlwanttogetoff And to think this Is the nation that wants nuclear technology Away to London now where the director of Alchohol Education Centre Marcus Grant said the following Start them drinking young If you learn to drink when you re young you don become an alcoholic when you re old He shares a gin every now and again with his six yearold daughter We have a few socalled experts over here that are In direct disagreement with him Can you believe If his way to having the worlds greatest collection of credit cards He owns cords from all over the world with a purchasing power of He keeps his cords In a safety deposit box What can one say about a credit oriented society that one individual to own so many cards Mr claims there are over cards available in the Stales alone He been rejected by only one company to date How nice Till next week Just say charge It and keep on smiling Park Commentary Hospital cutbacks good for NDP by Don learn Queen Park Bureau Of The Herald TORONTO These days tho much praised research service will be busy busy The eager group of women and men who contributed so much to party s success in September has a now beacon beckoning In the form of the government hospital cut back program It seems there probably will be an election on Issue And it Is a question which Is to order for NDP research group Hardsell There Is no question who Is fundamentally right on the hospital issue The government has acted as It had to It has been obvious for some time that restraints would have to bo applied In health spending But being fundamentally right and right In the public mind are two different mat tcrs Restraint is never cosy to spell In a way the public likes being bribed with Its own money And then In this case there are emotional aspects which right or wrong can be brought out and which If skilfully handled can confuse and sway the Issue Rebuttal Touch It Is almost certain that at this moment the researchers are looking for cases which have been or will be affected by hospital shut downs People who ore walling for hospital beds hopefully or two who have died and then some tragic cases among those unemployed by the shut downs If this election is fought on hospital issue It should turn Into a propaganda bottle And this is he ammunition tho opposition and par ticularly the NDP will wanl for such a battle Remember the long suing of rental hardship cases we got in September We will probably get on even longer list of hospital cases They will probably bo more Isolated and even less pi cable than were the rental cases But they will be tough to rebut And hie Is where the government will be In danger It will have to somehow or other do a selling Job And it won t be an easy task It got off to a clumsy start and from here on the going will be really tough Somehow or other though It probably will succeed