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8 Aden gave Fairview cemetery alone ACTON LEGION Chorallera led the singing at the Decoration Day services on Sunday The weather was warm and sunny for the occasion and the Bill SMILEY graves were daorated jib citizens had Mowers during the previous week Well were you enough to fill your gai tank and pick up half n live- gallon jerry cans of the stuff before the price soared Were you smart enough to have your furnaceoil tank filled before the stuff turned to black gold Thats funny Neither was In f net my wife informed me the day after gasoline prices headed for the moon that we were riding on a pint and a prayer Dummy I stated Dummy your self she retorted Why didnt you tell me the price was going up Why dont you read the rudd newspapers them and you never talk to me alone all day and never see anyone and you come home and bury your big fat nose In the newspaper and I m sick and tired of I snorted and we were off on one or those halfhour deals so popular with married couples and from which I always emerge looking like Archie Bunker And there wasnt bit of truth in her tirade I dont hog the papers I let her hat the mis section and the sports section when Ive finished with It Shes not home alone all day She has the cuts She sees the postman and the garbage men when theyre not on strike And I dont have a big fat Its Just big Im digressing Hut 1 often do when I get talking about my helpmeet my other half my my the loan to my Darby that broad who Is driving me with talk about spring cleaning What I really begun to discuss my native ability born knock or sheer genius at missing chances to save money There many such chances In these parlous times but cry time there Is one I seem to be out to lunch Show mo a hydro bill and Ill show von that its four days past the deadline for the discount By tho way thats one sweet racket Hydro sends you a bill with a certain discount If it Is paid within certain date That means Hydro can get quite nicely If everyone pays on time Therefore the discount Is no such thing a penally Bobbers Show me on Income tax return and Ill Show me full page advertisement featuring a Ill sale per cent off eveiyHilng ami Ill show you the paper In ten old and I lie wile ended Inst Saturday Show me Jump In I he price of beef leltULc ami I ll you a craving for red mi at and salad And my wife Is just the same Show her six of wall i all good stiiidy stuff and she will unerringly nick the one thats twite the price of all the others leak In July the August sales begin My hoots spring the Mime thing In liinuarv before the sails begin If I plunge for live shares of a surething Mock a wm or Nixon says home thing stupid again and a stock slump I dont lonsldci his to he a malignant thing I dont really believe though It has my mind that Cod lias It in for me Maybe Its Old At any rate It happens loo often to he a coincidence and Im getting of It by gum A typical was the first Olympic Sweep stake I forgot to get a think guys friends would remind him But oh no Not them loo greedy And Ive a sneaking notion Id have won the million bucks Boy would I show my so called lends if I won that They wouldnt see me for gold dust house taxes In January think we save about eight dollar That will show them we tell other solemnly proposal by Kingham Hill Estates to take a 20 foot swath from cemetery property should be closely by the works committee of Halton Hills council The company says the grade Is so steep at tho cemetery property line it will end up right at the back door of new homes proposed for tho area creating a drainage problem among others The developer does not propose to buy the cemetery land or use It Just lower the grade of the slope We cant buy it Its llko putting the cart before the horse The developers surely knew the grade from the cemetery was going to be steep before they plnnned on their property Approvals have never been given If was going to be a problem Taking a swath from the forest cover in that means losing several fine threes which would take decades to replace There has to bo another the developer should forget about building houses backing on the grade which originates In the cemetery Town Engineer Peter Morris lias said he can see nothing wrong with of the fact number of fairly largo trees have to go We can Although there have been no burials In that wooded suction of the cemetery wo believe tho people of Acton like It to stay as it la We sympathize with the developer who has contend with problem of under conditions as Mayor Tom Hill asked at committee meeting Didnt know this would happen when you sent in your plun Cemetery has been one of Actons beauty and the of the should remain as it is without further Interference unless It concerns Interment That strip of land makes an excellent between the new subdivision and the cemetery No industry if help scarce Efforts to get more Industry for Acton and area not going to be successful unless manufacturers in the district can get the help they need to carry on operations The story in last weeks Free Press about frustrations one plant manager ran into attempting to recruit help so an existing operation could expand Is typical of the state of employment Unless Polypcnco can get further people to run the operation expansion wont be feasible They are expecting a business increase of per cent plant manager feels that efforts of Canada Manpower for this area arc not producing He thinks Hills should have a Canada Manpower office of its own to supply manpower to industry in the area We are inclined to agree Theres an office open one day a week in Georgetown but Acton Georgetown and Esquesing have merged into one municipality of 32000 and surely an office would make sense here Acton employers have to deal with the Brampton office now a rather awkward arrangement when Brampton and area em ployers are probably facing similar problems The shortage of manpower In country where some areas are facing severe employment problems is one of the enigmas this country has been wrestling with since its foundation The ideal would be to move those men out of work In one section of the country to a place where there is a labor shortage However there ore severe financial problems in set tling into an affluent area where housing and types of ac commodation arc tight Then again not every man out of work wants to leave the district in which he resides Theres also the problem of getting suitable help compounded by those who pretend they want to work but really have no intentions to do so Unemployment figures show that less than four potions out of every hundred are unemployed In which is close to the full This means all available libor is going to be snapped up by those who huve manpower offices Few if any would think of the smaller towns when Job are so plentiful in the cities plant manager Mike Worthington has been trying get action on a Manpower office for Hills He contacted Terry OConnor who in return made overtures to the Hon Robert Andreas with no results We think this Is pretty election ball Which of the parties asking for votes would place a Canada Manpower office in town Its a question worth asking Certainly no new industry wouM settle here unless there is in adequate labor pool to draw The Clergy speak out Weeklies Longer store hours j C0 by Rev Leonard Ewlng In post few years we have Been the lengthening of business hours in many retail businesses Gas stations and small variety stores which have often been open Sun days holidays and evenings are being Joined these days by larger stores and retail chains For the most part the major retail store managements and the large retail workers unions have been united in opposing this trend The retailers argue that longer hours and par ticularly Sunday or holiday shopping in creases their costs labour utilities etc without similarly drastically in creasing sales This in turn that the consumer Is easy to obtain a quick check shows that prices in food stores which open Sundays and holidays are definitely higher on the majority of Items than in food chains that are closed Sun days and certain evenings On the other hand the unions point to the damage to family life which Sunday holiday and ex cessive evening work parents and children can end up seeing little of each other The general public you and I nave operated on a double standard In this whole matter While decrying the cost of Increased shopping hours In dollars and in family life we have also pressured for the stores to be open We say Stores shouldnt be open Sundays but we show no hesitancy to shop In those stores which do open then Why do we operate on this double standard The ex perience of the major food chains In areas of Quebec province where unions and managements agreed about four years ago to close the stores from noon Saturday until noon Monday has shown that longer hours and more shopping days are not necessary for consumer This destroys the convenience and economic arguments at times marshalled to support increased store hours The reason for our double standard Is found In plazas malls and monster shopping centres in the suburbs With their long hours six days week they attract large crowds of all ages These people just seem to roanr around few can be carrying purchases We use the malls more for enter tainment than for com merceand therein lies our problem We have more wealth and less working time than our parents hod and we hove become affluently bored We cant use our leisure and our affluence civ we dont know what to do with out lime and money But is the price worth if Arc not the increased prices and personal life difficulties for workers too high a price to pay to have the stores amuse us in our boredom Rather should we not own up to our boredom and admit that excessive window shopp ing is a Until we admit that we use stores for entertainment more than Tor shopping we are asking the managers sales clerks and stockroom workers to pay the emotional and psychological price for our Inability to use leisure and that Is human exploitation One of the things which bothers many citizens of Hit a great deal is the spending of our tax dollars by govern menl at vu ions levels Just this month an our money is overspent was shown concerning the trade fan- In China Tile thing bothers however is the attitudes that influence the ex penditure of public money For instance the Government furnished each hotel room in with a bottle of This is only i small item in the ex penditure of Moo by the Canadian Government on this Fair With only firms represented it the Fair public servants made the trip from Ottawa to see that all went well The Government in order to secure the participation of firms In the also paid the entire expense of shipping their across the Pacific Do officials who approve public expen diture such is this really pause to reflect trunk but from the pockets or working people Perhaps participation in the Shanghai Fair is important but most taxpayers will agree that Ottawa could have trimmed the a good deal if they were really In tunc with the feeling of the taxpayers of this count rv Our readers write- BLESSINGS Out here in the region Where the township used to be Theyve got the garden planted Behind the maple tree Grandad raised up all the stones While Grandma dropped the seed There is no soil where the good folk toil So they never have to weed With the good soil ncath the highways The rest is awful thin They took the best and left the rest To grow the later In Though they never find a grain of soil While on their bended knees In the coil they scrape and toil 20 years ago Work Actons new high school is progressing toward Its summer com pletion Two of the towns veteran W Talbot and this week closed doors to Join the ranks of the retired after a total of years residents of Acton and district Mr a native opened his grocery store Ihe comer of Mill and Elgin years ago but had been In early years in the grocery business of Henderson and Co W D Talbot started In the hardware business years ago He bought the business from Kennedy and Son then located on Main St He later moved his store to Mill and Main streets where the IGA store is now located and then to the present property purchased from Beard- more ana Co The store has been bought by John and Thomas Gordon Now Moss Hardware Principal Bobbins of Acton high school resigned during the week to accept the of Stout fv Hie high school He has been principal here for five years First social evening of the Tennis Club for the season was the open night Friday A vacation Bible School will be held In Acton again this summer planned by Acton Ministerial Association Leno Braida has passed his third year chemical engineering with honors The high school exemption lists were posted Wednesday and quite a number of the students are free from trying exam inations Good luck to this years upper school in their exams Isabella Ritchie But when it comes to harvesttime The Lord assures a crop With aching bones they lift the stones and pull the taters up on lop Like squirrels round the pde of rock They gather up the nuts Then their harvest store on the cellar floor and cover up the ruts Safe in from all the winter storms With all its snow white dressing They take their seat before they eat and ask God for his blessing llarharn Turner leanings Donald Fred Gordon and Ilonald In place of their regular scout meeting the boys with Dave Dills Murrav and Roy went to Blue Springs cut down trees ready make a new gait for one of the entrances 50 years ago The Horticultural Society has placed window boxes filled with choice plants and flowers on the window sills of he front and sides of the Gov ernmi Building and the Town Hall President Striven has had much to do in bringing the mutter to a successful issue The contractors are at work on the section of the Toronto highway from Acton to the seventh line Widening and grading are now in progress Aunt Susans Visit to the Town Hall last Wednesday evening was rather Ihe audience having been kept waiting till nine oclock for the actors and actresses to arrive from Mr Alexander Waldic the grand old man of thin community has been rather THE ACTON FREE PRESS PHONE Busmessand Editorial Office III this pant week A visit from his pastor Mr was of comfort to him The Acton Athletic Atsociatlon will hold what Is likely the final dance of the Kason in own hall Friday evening With Actons four or live baseball learns now all under way the fans are oil the varieties of baseball the heart could sudden death of Mr Shorthlll of Balllnafad wjb an event of great sorrow to the community Numerous new ire ap pearing with the worm weather Review for the June examination is In full exercise in schools now The schools are very loyal to King George The schools observed his Tuesday as a holiday 75 years ago The seventh annual picnic at Dublin on the Queens Birthday was mora largely attended than on any previous The competition in the games keen but the prizes were mostly taken ay out siders The supper was highly enjoyable and the dancing platform was constantly In requisition The hand of death has been laid very ily upon the officiary of Knox church during the past few months Within little over six months four elders Messrs Peter Mann Alexander Grant James Cobban and Archibald Campbell have been removed by death About four months ago after cold Mrs William Forbes was found to be suffering from a tubercular the lungs and the inroads of the disease con tinued Her trust In her Heavenly Father grew- brighter and stronger She longed to be at rest and welcomed the call it came Thursday morning She was years of age Freddy the only living child Is eight The firecracker nuisance has been pretty thoroughly stamped out Young Charlie Matthews was painful boned by a giant cracker however The Kickapoo Indian company have been giving concerts In Rodwood two ball this week The show is very good and they receive good patronage Electric lighting has been installed in St A I bans church Mr David Mills received to ugh kick from on of Ms horses Tuesday night and was laid up yesterday The soldier boys are ready camp next week Sheepwashing time has cone again