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B2The Acton Free Frew Wad Nov Press Editorial Hats off to the Lions Our hats are off to the Lions And our coats shirts skirts socks shoes etc And on with the bathing suits If it hadnt been for the initiative of this club Acton wouldnt have its swimming pool open this week The club conceived the idea but staged a campaign at a very in opportune time with a new regional government They strode on anyway to get contributions and apparently have reached about 50000 their goal in the first place The rest of the cost is assumed by public bodies with grants and winter works program Meaning it comes from our taxes Admission charges of course will defray the operating costs For the past while Acton has counted up its list of losses One of them ironically enough also started out as a Lions club project The old station was bought by the club whose members hoped to move it to the park or somewhere else suitable With costs prohibitive they sold it for scrap Miltons old station is up on skids and ready to be moved this week Other losses range from the loss of our own council and boards and works staff to our loss of Thursday garbage collection Include the staff gone from the town office the fact theres no one in our former works yard Council questioning our band our type of remembrance day observance our fire chief Senior citizens housing denied us When a water line breaks equipment must come up from Georgetown Permits taxes cemetery plots all the paper work Is gone from here Anyway now we have our new Legion hall and swimming pool to be proud of Dogs and school yards The thoughtlessness of some dog owners has concerned public school principal Gary Where from 500 to children play on the grounds of the Z Bennett school dogs play too and leave their marks Its just thoughtlessness Mr thinks However he has a clipping from a newspaper that causes him a lot of concern A noted scientist ac cording to the article thinks that dog litter on streets and in parks has caused blindness and other dis abling even fatal diseases among children Dogs in Acton should not be running at large in the first place However they do sometimes And it must be the responsibility of the owner to see that the animal doesnt make a nuisance of itself in a public place Pet owners surely dont have the right to foul our schoolyards parks and streets If some animals cannot be trained to realize the only place to litter is in their own back yard at home the owner should be considerate No reason the person walking the dog couldnt carry along a plastic bag and one of the handy slotted spoons on sale in hardware stores and grocery stores nicknamed the super duper pooper Clean up after your pet Actons ways defended Remembrance Day service in Acton has always been a community event The parade and morning service at the cenotaph are followed by a church service In Georgetown the Legion has regularly been in charge of the November 11 observances which apparently includes a service at the cenotaph only Its to be next Sunday The differences caused Halton Hills councillors last week to question the usual grant given by Acton council to pay for printed programs The Legion had looked after all costs in Georgetown Councillor Pat stoutly defended Acton ways and finally council agreed to pay for the printing of programs for both towns Mr estimated the cost involved would be But for the record Free Press printing manager John says the Acton programs cost and tax something over Consideration had been given to holding the Remembrance Day service in the new Legion hall Then there would be room for people of all denominations Maybe this will be given some more thought Of this and that The Oakville JournalRecord wrote a couple of sentences this week about us folks way up here Theres an up country feud brewing in Halton Hills Some folks in Acton dont like the way folks from Georgetown are dismissing the traditions of the former North town Heres one shotgun regional marriage a la Queens Park that really hit the rocks Waall you fellers in the south sure are perceptive One of the problems in hiring crossing guards is the fact that the pay 280 an hour is in conflict with the supplementary pensions some of the older applicants receive Surely legislation should be changed to avoid this kind of situation Crossing guard is a good parttime position for many retired people and they enjoy it They shouldnt be penalized for their efforts and contribution New highway warnings Special signs are now being erected all over Ontario on all types of fourlane divided high ways to remind motorists of the necessity of stopping for school buses Heres the sign STOP FOR SCHOOL BUS WHEN SIGNALS FLASHING BOTH DIRECTIONS The fact that many motorists do not stop for school buses was brought to a head last week by driver Mrs Shirley Kleine Deters Her story was quickly corroborated by the principal police and parents Lets hope plenty of these signs go up in areas like ours Letters welcome Yea your letters are welcome on topics of general interest Please keep them snort and be sure to sign your name Pen names for publication provided the editor knows the identity of the writer but they are not recommended November is the cruellest month A bits and pieces column First item shows a malicious delight in catching someone out as the phrase goes It Is one of the less pleasant aspects of the character but the same time has given a great deal of pleasure over the centuries to the human race There is nothing people enjoy more thnn somebody elses feet of clay How we all secretly rejoice if not openly when a cabinet minister is caught with a blonde who is not his wife or a prominent judge is nailed on an impaired driving charge or a teacher is discovered nurturing marijuana in his her window boxes Disgusting and definitely not Christian but its fun 1 been a victim myself Sent out a questionnaire to elementary school teachers of English last year There was one spelling error in it and I didnt do it a secretary did But about per cent of he questionnaires returned had the mistake circled and some gleeful little remark attached Now Its my turn I have before me a list of novels and plays sent out by the Edu cational Communications Authority a fair ly sacred cow wili the Ministry of Education The Authority wants English depart ment heads to tick off a list of the books most used by In our high schools with a view to buying the movie rights to the most popular so that they can be videotaped and made available on a wide basis A laudable plan It was when I started to scan the list that I thought it must be a puton I rechecked the accompanying letter No was real it was official I looked over the list a fairly compre hensive one of most of the obvious ones Macbeth Hamlet Romeo and Juliet Death of a Salesman Finn The Great Gatsby Everything in order Then turned to Page of the list and nearly fell off my choir I came to two con clusions Either the chap who had dictated the list had roiled to proof read it or the secretary who had done the typing had finished Page 1 and gone out and had a large liquid lunch before tackling Page Don Quixote came out as Don This must be an animal at on about a coyote called Don Emily Bronte must be twirling in her grave on the moors to sec her magnificent Heights described as Withering Heights Thomas Hardy will be having a celestial seizure when he realizes that his great Tess of the has a new title of the DUmber than what A science fiction novel The Chrysalids has a new life as The Chrysshds The Luck of Ginger Coffey ha been transformed to Lack of Ginger Coffey Probably some sort of rationing A fine western novel The Ox Bow Incident has changed shape It is now the Ox Box Incident a rather square title if I may say so A grade 1 standard To Kill a Mocking bird has become To Kill a Mocking Bird Cant you sec that bird just sitting around mocking the old lady who owns if But perhaps the greatest blow to Canadian literature and certainly the one that nearly bust a gut in a number or English teachers was the updating of that fine old novel about French Canada Maria It is now called Chap- delaine Sugar and Spice by bill smiley That is an obvious by some mole chauvinist pig lo entire Women Lib movement But Id certainly like to read the new version I can just see up there in the Quebec backwoods bringing in the kindling worrying about wolves and having babies under primitive Poor It was OK for Mane She hud guts But doesnt sound as though lie could hack it with a name like that I imagine hell die in child birth or be eaten alive by mosquitoes or drop a pot of scalding on Ins foot or something like that Now I know Ins entire column is com unfair to the poor guy who made up list But I got so much pleasure from it purely malicious pleasure that I couldnt refrain from passing it on And sheer joy of is that it comes from in iluiilionil Authority In capitals It be no fun it ill if it en me from illiterate bookseller interesting In learn that your neigh is going to have a baby after 15 years of sterility or that your Uncle George had an affair in Singapore when he was In mer chant y before he became a church sheer glee when you discover away above in the has a monstrous all have feet but most of us keep our shoes lightly laced or at least our Our Readers write Crossing guards in Ward 1 Acton Ontario Nov 111974 Dear Mrs Dills Crossing Guard In Ward I Ana If Mr was correctly quoted in your newspaper last week he was not quoting councils policy regarding crossing guards Never have we even hinted that Ward I should operate without three guards at the established crossings on No Seven Highway When school opened we had three cap able crossing guards for Acton Unfortun ately we have two resignations in two months with some delay in obtaining replacements When advertisements in the local newspaper did not readily give us re placements I went out Into the community and found people willing to serve Wc now have three qualified guards and two spares for illness or replacements Naturally we regret the fact that one cross walk was not supervised every school but i action has been and will be taken in the future to safeguard our very truly Garnet Councillor Ward I Cars trucks pass school bus Acton Ontario The Editor Acton Free Press Dear Sir As a parent of a kindergarten child at tending Public School I would like on hundred percent statements made by school bus driver Mrs Kleine Deters in last weeks issue November 1374 of the Acton Free Press regarding cars and trucks not stopping for school buses Almost daily as 1 wait to escort my son safely across No witness cars and trucks not stopping for the school bus even though the are flashing and children ore alighting from the bus How can one get a license number and des cription of a driver when he or she is travel ling sixty to seventy miles an hour when passing the school bus My thanks to Mrs Kleine Deters for the excellent job she is doing and for bringing this serious situation to the attention of public Thanks also to Mr Norm How ell Principal of Speyside Public School and school bus drivers for their time and ef fort in that is possible to en sure the safety of our children Yours truly June Lewis Time for carrot pudding Were making carrot pudding From an recipe If you want a treat hats good to cat Just drop a line to me My grandma always made some To bless the Christmas treat On the little plum she poured the nn help digest the turkey meat I remember when I was a boy When Grandma gave me some She poured on mine a little wine cause Father stole the rum They found him in the cellar With the bottle by his side His face was red he wasnt dead He had passed out with the tide Mom pumped a pail of water And poured it on his head He had to stay all Christmas Day Stretched out upon the bed This Christmas time tradition With turkey pudding pie Is rooted deep we have to keep Until the day we die The Free Press Back Issues 20 years ago Taken from lisueof theFrcePrcii Novemberll lftSt Operation changeover began In Acton this week A force of over men and Bo vehicles deployed over the town and im mediate rural area Wednesday morning to start the nineday job of converting the locality from a cycle district to cycle frequency A large area bounding and south of Queen St E was the first to undergo the frequency change On the same day Wed nesday crews or Ontario Hydro and Cana dian technicians visited scores of farm homes north and east of here in and Erin township The youngest pilot In the Brampton Fly ing Club and one of the youngest airmen In this district gained his student pilots lic ense Saturday after completing eight hours flying time In the air spring Joined the Brampton club and work ed through the summer to pay for most of the expensive lime An overheated fish and chip grill is be lieved responsible for a minor fire at the May fair Restaurant late Monday afternoon when Acton fire brigade was called to ex tinguish a flash blaze Stinging smoke from the burning grease filled the kitchen of the restaurant and when firemen arrived smoke was billowing out the back door Slight damage was caus ed by the smoke Hon J Dunlop minister of education for the province of Ontario will officially open Actons new high school on Monday evening November 22 50 years ago Token from the or the Free November 1924 About last Saturday morning Miss Ethel Clarke daughter of Mr John Clarke of Port Credit formerly of Acton was awakened by dense smoke which filled her room She at once gave the alarm and the family escaped from the burning home in their night clothes The loss to Mr and Mrs Clarke and family is partially covered by Mr John Kennedys companies to the of All the women in Acton whose names ap- on the voters list in the Parts I and the right to vote at the municipal elec tions next Monday They will naturally show their interest in town affairs by pol ling their votes All women who own pro- ore also entitled to vote on the submitted to the property owners ot the same time os the election for members of the council and school board Mrs J Hill Glen Williams had the misfortune to fall break her wrist when going out the barn the other evening The cold spell laqtweek played havoc with the motor cars whose radiators were neglected Did you get the water out of your car before the frost caught If is a question asked around town all week It is surprising how many car owners failed to think of the danger to their radiators when the drop in temperature occurred on Satur day In the garage men have had a busy lime since 75 years ago Taken from the iisueof Free Press November 16 IBM Actons name Is simply Acton not Acton West It was so christened by a public meeting of citizens away back in IST when elevated to the distinction of posses sing a post of ice Acton is the name in all the municipal records and this is the Government name found In official post of fice and court lists Acton West was not thought of until long after the Grand Trunk was built through here be cause freight occasionally went cast to Ac- Ion Vale Que for their own convenience railway people inserted Acton West in their time tables etc Acton Is distinc tive There is no other place of the same name in the Dominion and our citizens are jealous for their time honored title Notice of appeal has been served by de fendants In the cose of Campbell vs Acton Tanning C tried at the late assizes Guclph in which the plaintiff was awarded by the jury ft 000 and each of her two infant children together with the costs of suit The appeal will be heard In January Mr W A Storey left last Saturday on a trip to and Johnstown N He was accompanied by Mr Fred Storey Mr John Walter and family have re moved to town from their farm and are now comfortably settled in their brick residence on Park Ave THE ACTON FREE PRESS PHONE Business and Editorial Office tuHttntini it on In yrar a Oil II Copyrlghl