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The Acton Free Press Wednesday March I977 press Editorial Group all for Acton In last weeks issue there were two items that could be pulled together and thought about A Business Association of mer chants could mean a drastic change in the role of the Chamber of Commerce And a letter writer suggests a community day with a walking tour giant picnic and concert If the Chamber loses its stress on business arent there plenty of other things it could do This com mumty day seems a perfect project for the Chamber A group to initiate the organiza tion of such an event is vital With no Acton council to discuss it with where do people turn The Chamber could be the one group that is open to everyone in the town and can work for all the people of the town The people of Acton need a strong group like a Chamber of Com merce with its interests a hundred per cent right in Acton and district Golden anniversary This is a golden anniversary issue of the Free Press as far as the family is concerned It was years ago tomorrow on March that the late G A Dills took over ownership of the business from the previous publisher H P Moore The paper and printing business have been in the family name since then G A Dills was an Acton native who apprenticed in the trade under Mr Moore He also gained exper Toronto Guelph Kingston and New York State before Buzz off flies One sign of spring that bring all that much pleasure is the stupid buzzing cluster fly These sun stunned creatures are staggering along window ledges these days They don cause any harm they re just a nuisance These flies hardly ever come in the house during the summer but enter the fall to find a warm place to spend the winter On warm winter days they awake from their dormant period and start to buzz returning to his home town He was a partner of Mr Moore s until 1927 when he became full owner His wife was closely with him in the business for many years Dills Printing and Publishing Co Ltd was formed in 1954 Sons Dave and Jim Dills are now owners on the staff are their wives Kay and Shirley Holidays bring in the next generation students Steven Mark Paul and Kathleen Dills Catherine Dills is a carrier And there one more Carolyn A new generation stark in the spring The female lays eggs in the soil where the larvae develop and live as parasites on earthworms With the first cool days of early fall the adult flies enter houses barns and garages for the winter There are probably two or three generations of cluster flies each year in Ontario This timely biology lesson came in the mail from the Ministry of Agriculture and Food The people are convinced A site near Milton has been chosen for the future landfill site for all of Haltons garbage this decision with its stress on growth and bigness heading in direction Surely most people agree now that our aim in the garbage game is for smallness Recycling will be the system of the future It has been proven people are willing to save papers and glass if the pickup is available Shouldn we insist on a huge re cycling depot for Halton instead of a dump On people as horses The recent announcement that low income housing will have to be completed in Georgetown before any is started in Acton could cause more trouble than most people rea lize The first problem involves coun cil Bad words are likely to be shared over this quite possibly resulting in fisticuffs and other nasty things which would not serve to raise Halton Hills in anyones esteem Second what about the old folks They dont want to leave and will fight to stay The United States has never sold arms to groups like this before but there is always a first time An army of senior citizens armed with M16s tanks and a few B 52 bombers could probably lower property values in many areas before being brought to bay In the end they would be dragged off to Georgetown chanting heck no we won go and waving signs uncomplimentary to a lot of people who would really much rather be complimented The death toll could be tremendous and I cant see the government bringing in tourists by putting up an Historic Plaque about the event very soon either The solution is obvious Horses are well known for many things not the least of which is their four legs Horses are content to stay in barns and stuff all the time It is simple to see that if we graft extra legs onto all our senior citizens they too will be easy to satisfy and will no longer take any interest in where they live Once the peoples personal preferences are removed then it will be easy to move them all to Georgetown John Bottomley Of this and that Last week we suggested writing letters to newspapers in Quebec telling the people we wish them to remain in Canada with the rest of us Now another suggestion has been made that Canadians write the Prime Minister telling him we would like to have the Queen in vited to visit many parts of Canada during her Silver Jubilee year So far she has only been invited to spend five days in the Ottawa area She will spend five weeks in Australia and two or three weeks in New Zealand HAIR BLOWING IN THE BREEZE Sherrie Clayton 14 enjoys the sunshine after a long winter She relaxed by the stream outside Robert Little on Sun day in this idyllic scene right out of Wordsworth The stream is completely free of its winter mantle of ice now as the warmer season makes its first approach Sugar and Spice by bill smiley of the these is television series spinoff Whin i producer has i popular short ami urn of the secondary trailers is even mildly Ihme you know tint chancier his show of his or her own This until h spin of spun 11 liki i bottle of whiskey the iddme ihuunl mil the siniL price per shot is injiiiil vnu lake this mil furtherdiluiiit more iter mil go on selling at tin origin pnn works fine and nukes lot of until the consumer fin illy re Outs he could get more hang out of of buttermilk he st iris drinking buttermilk art lift a of on ymir hands isthefirsl producers to renhi Oil people hie lr bathroom jokes in Like w is irn in ihe one of thi mom ill time in T land this v is spun off hi imc phoney 111 ilisin bathroom jokes bedroom jokis but it whs the sunt siek worked It whs a step from the sink to Hit sick brother 1 1 came up Miry Mary in which while not quite a spinoff of the favorite refrain is Ob Oh im Gawd txiollinl fin for the mi or diseased mind Another good origin il show Tyler Moore Show spun or spiwnui Phyllis each stirring of most self cmlred unpltasant wimm i writer could dreim up ami i leh with borderline bid I There nothing wrong with ill ihis suppose in free enterprise system and nobody forces you to the But there is only so much thai Hit will take before it will spew And there is only so much you will spew And there is so much tin will tike before will in in vomit ind switch lo the wrestling in itches where it nobody is tryiru to Us thine but phoney ir ps I m Mime my fences hit i re list If tse is into the spiniff jump o ft thins m inu in It SI lis it might Ik 1 of put line nnd il record is tlu w ir I nut in old buddy whoilbttimi Me was intestine in Mild stocks Can me hoi tip 1 plunged with some of the I built up while prison Mil the six months Hi d lost his lionu his w is silhnc farm I ownid slums muskie in s Out it I sticd iw mm the until win the thine win in growth I hut Hun in with m It sums I liter In its had nibbled sonu if tint biscuit Mice so sin mid the ribbil bole or shrink ilmost worth isl in ran list luxurious Id I two in id Swings Bonds weeks Hurt wis m now wi don I inn know whither be i In luuiry of this 1 bind 1ord week l Her I re id in til it Hit Motor t im is mtkine payments for rust to of 1ords in m vintage hen I read the small print The payments id ended on Dec My ford has rust So with a track record like that maybe I tan administer the kiss of death to the spinoff business Thought I start by pro ducing some spinoffs of my column There s no problem about talent My is loaded with writers Both my son mil in pathos They in write letters so pathetic thai you are wieping all over the page and writing a cheque at the same time wife can knock out a grocery list as lone as your irm without even stopping lo suck the pen she is not only tilented is writer She in outstanding out spoken as well She rip up the punctuation purpose style and of one of my columns with both hands tied behind her Which is the only it is safe to read some of them to her And there no difficulty about M diughter is expert on omens lib music and mooching Ms son is fluent in trench Spanish the Indian di of the natives of I is mooching Mid the old lady is in expert on every thine She has been bottling up this fountain of knowledge for deeidis except during breakfast before iflir dinner ill weekend Giving her column of her own would be like punching foot holt m Boulder In two or Ihnt years I might even get the into At the moment they busily stuffing llieir memory banks As soon is they in write you may expect some supine stuff I is a Mis understood Child Centre the Inside Story on Sndistic Social Workers Who Make GneBack Toy You Ripped Off Some other Kid If my column spinoffs don put an end to spinoff nonsense in about JO days paper in which this one appears with or without ketchup OUR READERS WRITE Stand up and be counted r id tumidly nn it ol m inci Bible iiiine mil sinM Hydro corridor hearings in the Legion and high hydro bills co incided last week Rates will go up again too before long The cost of producing and distributing power is still Solar heat is still in the distance as far as practicality goes Even Ontario hydro is involved in solar heating experiments Ontario Hydro has concluded that right now nuclear power is the best means they have to assure sufficient supplies of electricity THIS YOUNG FELLOW was unable to give us his name but he did manage to get across that he was all in f warmer weather He was enjoying the slide In the playground on Kingham Rd differ in this observance I who fell it is import lo keep up this must iheir School or till ihe Department of lion in Toronto of their number parents are import to your sthool boards your tax for education is ihe biggest piece of the pit in innu our school idtrs expect sou them in many decision to stress of per son ignis is led to xpecttd freedom ot expression on rebellion a schoolroom tun loom for prac Using rt sponsibility or for rtvoll I hill the by up school boards stuff guidance on how you wish your children brought up I sm ill minorities have insisted on he ml he has been silent I his silence is costing your children somi of their rightful heritage i of your past heroic It to How not only as his lurit figures hut is models Once on mpiri I iy mid met Day pupils wire shown their mhiriltd ideals Iht words of Nation anthem were and explained plays and poetry the importance your heritage Duly ind freedom were learned from true of Independence and initiative wire discovered from real models many of these were from Ihe Bible is well child Is given nationalism In place of patriotism rights instead of res and scientific truths instead of spiritual truth Parents stand up be counted Most thankfully yours Mrs Sytskc Drijbcr The Free Press Back Issues 100 years ago Taken from Issue of the Press of Thursday March A public meeting was held In Ihe basement of the new Congregational Church yesterday afternoon for Ihe purpose of forming a church organization in Acton There were about a dozen of the members connected the congregation known as at Churchill who resided In and who have received certificates of membership in good ding It was unnecessary for them to do more lhan assent to the usual form of The following persons stood up and assented the covenant and were received in full communion viz James and wife James Ryder and wife Armstrong and wife Stafford Zimmerman and wife Mrs Ellen Mrs David Ryder Misses Jenny amcron Martha Ryder and Adaline Patrick Dillon a man well known in the neighborhood of I and Acton got drunk Thursday and was killed by bung run over by a Grand Trunk train shortly afttr dark about two miles east of here The mangled remains were first discovered by a man named Neil who was walking down the track about ten clock The body was brought lo the freight house here and an inquest was held at Campbell s hotel by coroner reeman on 20 years ago I for lie issue lie Press iifThursdus March 1317 While playing h two handed game of with her husband on evening March Mrs Ken of Orion held a perfect hand with a count of Slit was dealt the jack of clubs five of sp ides five of hearts and five of diamonds and the five of clubs was turned up At a meeting of the district Scout group committee Monday evening David Dills was unanimously appointed District for the North Scout District 1 1 friends gathered to surprise Mr Mrs J on their Mb wedding inniversary Sunday at the home of Mr and Mrs A With cards and best wishes tame from 1 Port Toronto and Hamilton is well as In I evening in YMCA a square was attended by many out of town quests from Brampton Erin and areas Sandy was ihe Ciller Mrs I- Imder of was a week end visitor with Mr ind Mrs John C Dennis 10 years ago liken from issue of the 1- ree Press March long awaited slop lights the comer Mill Main were installed this week ind work goes on to connect them illation men were nearly lost in the jungle of lints on tht corner while iht hung ihe three lights in position llu lights will not go into operation until pisses by law on parking Ihe roid is with now regulations V wis chosen represent 11 county district public speaking fin list Friday evening il the finals in competed with seven irmly praised people Whitby on Struck by a truck while crossing Church st in her own home five yenr old trances received skull broken and multiple bruises and ibrasions Wednesday of last week about id p m She and brother Gary seven for truck lo pass in a snowstorm headed onto the road in the of a Ridley irtage truck driven by Dennis llarve R Acton The right front fender of the truck struck ranees but her brother escaped without injury Robins and grosbeaks are all back in town The robins are the traditional harbinger of spring Usually the grosbeaks are here all winter but this year they have been missing until recently It is gratifying to see that Halton Region council has again recog nized the Acton Community Ser vices Centre It will receive a grant of THE si ACTON FREE PRESS PHONE ness and Editorial Office 1976 award winner on Via mCi It Allot i on p noli cop n of dot Hon ill no by icOitrwr wlln raionab will lor ililno or imkn 1 orHfvlcnniay d It Mwlthdrawnat Copyright