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The Acton Tree Press Wednesday Mar 10 TELEPHONE j in Puttied by Me Lid SO On a 17J Telephone Subcm jo Srcl each Canada The A loo hi ho Wei P t L group accop on vfuch udei by Piclmrmg Mows Adverinei Au Banna J Au or km E a Weekend on ho Bolt on attovnarKo 4 En an The rig on Pot The Butting on Weekend Poll The paid to it the appUcabls I EobicokeAd in dun The Conwjmer The Ceoigeiown and Sun The Champor The may bo aw The News Weekend Ed en Tho No Tho Noah Oaky Oak Boave Week Othawa of The Canada Weekend Pee The P Leial The Sea Ctimmun Newspaper A is The Sea Do Tho Vaugtian Second clan mad aw Don McDonald Publisher Spoil ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT Manager Bit Cook BUSINESSACCOUNTING OFFICE Manager Th CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT Manager Maryl Let Ottawas bells ring on Lei the bells ring on The current fiasco in Ottawa with the Tones refusing to come to the House to vote thereby delaying Parliament has upset many Canadians Some see the Opposition as the vilhan because they have ground Parliament to a halt Others are unhappy with the Liberals for trying to push a huge bill through the Commons which should be broken up into smaller pieces of legislation and more importantly are angry with Prime Minister Trudeau and his Grits for the way they have been running the nation as a whole since regain power in early Some support the Tory measure because they see it as a way of stopping We support the Tory move because in majority situations there are few tactics the opposition can use to slow the government and force it to listen to their views Many will say there are more important things Parliament should be doing especially con the woeful state of our economy We support that contention if for a minute we thought the Liberals actually intended to do anything about the economy However it has been made painfully clear over the past few months that the Liberals are bound and determined to for the most part ride out this severe recession on the backs of the struggling businessmen farmers and unemployed and stick with their high interest rate policy Oh sure they made a few changes in the budget but not enough to make any real difference So even if the Commons stale mate ended we doubt would see the Liberals turn their attentions to the crucial economic matters so really what are the Tories costing the country The best thing for Canada is if both sides come out of this fiasco smelling bad Then if the childishness which has permeated Ottawa for some time now costs both the Liberals and Conser vatives and particularly their leaders support maybe they d decide it was time for a fresh start Our readers write Rap paying for fields Dear Sir may be crossing bridges before I to them but he article regarding charging for playing fields for the dlf sports activities prompted me to As I understand amount of dollars is to be charged because the people who use facilities should be the ones paying for them If that is the town policy then fine but it must be a complete across Ihe board policy not a pick as you choose Could I suggest the people who never use the facilities of the arena library and particularly our schools will appreciate benefits of this use the facilities for them policy find it hard to believe there will be a charge to maintain baseball diamonds soccer fields etc What happened to the portion of our tax dollar that was alloc towards these Items Was it properly calculated or used and if so ihen who made the error Should that area not be looked into rather than Just ask for more money Thai would be nice If we could pull that with cur employer 1 understand mere has already been a lay off In part time arena help Has that been justified Another item lam positive all organ have their books open to any one Interested in looking at them find it amazing the rec department think they have a right to demand financial statements before issuing permits What has one to do with the other Does this suggest if one group has more money than another the group with the lesser amount can t afford the use of the facilities or deserves them more Or does it mean the group that perhaps worked hard on a fund raising campaign can afford them or doesn need them because they can get their own If this is a case of the more money you have Ihe better you can afford it then It sounds the same as fix your Let your home slay the same and your taxes won go up as much Some en couragement After Tuesday night s meeting I will hopefully know more about this proposed charge Thank you for taking your time to read this and please if you feel strongly about this Issue pro or con lake time to write a letter to the editor and let your feelings be known If you don t do that please call your councillor rep It is Important to your community par licipate Mar Thomson Letter needs signature This week the Free Press received a letter from a group calling Representatives for Minor Sports of Acton dealing with the same subjects as letter above The Free Press would be happy to publish letter however we need the signature of at least one member of this group on the letter before we can print it Drop by the office between Bam and sign the letter Once we have the signature it can be published and it will be printed as signed by Representatives for Minor S porta of Acton Clergy Comment by Rev Hodgson Let take a look today at what It means to be a believer In John Thomas stated Except 1 shall see In His hands the prints of the nails and put my finger into the print of the nails and thrust my hand into His side I will not Jesus comes and stood in the mldsl and said to Thomas Reach hither thy finger and behold my hands and reach higher thy hand and thrust it into my side and be not faithless but believing Jesus said unto him Thomas because thou seen me thou hast believed blessed are they that have not seen and yet nave believed According to Cod word they that Believe can receive Ihe following things from Cod Salvation Acts 16 31 Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shall be saved and thy house Holy SpiritJohn If any man thirst let him come unto me and drink He that on me as the scripture hath said out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water HealingLuke a SO But when Jesus heard It He answered him saying tear not believeonlyandshe shall be made whole All ThingsMark 9 Jesus said unto him If thou canst believe all things are possible to him thai Desires Mark Therefore I say you What things soever ye desire when you pray believe that ye shall receive them and ye shall have them SignsMark 16 17 16 And these signs shall follow them that believe In my name shall they cast out devils they shall speak with new tongues shall take up serpents and if they drink any deadly thing it shall not hurt them tbey shall lay hands on the sick and they shall recover John 31 states But these are written lhat ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ that believing ye might have life through His name John IS states He lhat on Him is not condemned but he that not condemned already because he hath not believed in the Dime of the only begotten Son of God Do you believe Are you taking advantage of the privileges you have as a believer On the Lcavcll Board of Education trustee for Acton Bruce Is in popular demand lately as a Judge for public speaking con tests former school teacher helped Sally Smith end Elsie Syme pick a winner in Ihe Optimist Club Oratorical Contest and last week was a Judge with Rev Art Tribe and Pastor Jean Stairs for the Acton Milton schools public speaking contest In Congratulations to Mrs Feather stone of Milton whose quilt was sent by the Acton Agricultural Society to the annual fairs convention It was one of finalists in the Canada Packers Quilt competition last month There were about entries from fairs all across Ontario George Elliott has a small piece relating to the history of the town hall in the most recent issue of the Halton Hills Arts Council s Calendar of Ihe Arts booklet Students at Acton High School are working hard on a musical You re A Good Man Charlie Brown which will run April and 24 Tickets go on sale next month They used lo call him shut out but no more John Arnold once famous for not cat many fish has turned the tables on his buddies and just about every weekend ihis winter has come home from ice fishing trips to Lake and Georgian Bay with the biggest catch This past weekend was no exception and Saturday John Keith Andrews Bill Cook Steve and John Goy fished at Wiarton and Owen Sound ArneJohnorGreyFisherasheis also known was the success story catching two Splake while other four were shut out Well Sieve did snag a smelt but 1 m that count Free Press publisher Don McDonald and wife Lynda Georgetown Independent editor Hartley Coles and wife and Gord and I attended the annual Ontario Community Newspaper Association convention on the weekend in Toronto Former Free Press staffer Murray Scoyne and his wife Doris now of Ridge- town were on hand as was former sports editor Denis Gibbons Staying in the same hotel The West in were the Montreal Canadiens hockey team We had breakfast at the table neit to Larry Robinson and watched a lot of pretty young girls follow Guy around least for the Acton group was the Friday evening presentation of a special award to the former owners of Ihe Free Press Jim and Dave Dills and wives Shirley and Kay were presented with the highest honor be bestowed by the the Presidents Award Tor outstanding service It was an exciting moment for all and their former staffers were very proud of them No one knew more than our group Just how well deserved that award is and we are glad to have been associated with them The Dills sold the Free Press and their two other papers the Canadian Champion Milton and the Georgetown Independent and their printing plant to Inland Pub lishing Company Limited in November February Monday was International Women Day and Ihe Federation of Women Teachers of Wellington County support the women movement in their endeavor for equality in the workforce equal pay for work of equal value equal access jobs universal accessible quality chUdcare and an end to sexual harrassment in the workplace The theme of this year Day was right to choose and right lo Independence We got our copy of the Indusmin Link this week That Indusmin in house newspaper In it were pictures of Acton s Alex Morrison Elizabeth and and Halton Jack all at the annual management planning session and dinner held in Toronto in December by Mabel Hark man Cheap Tricks The other day on the radio someone suggested thai one t throw away perfume or cologne bottles when they are finished Just put them in drawers and will keep clothes smelling nice for quite awhile I didn I throw away a blue shaker dusting powder container when it was finished I just added some cornstarch and the starch absorbed the scent and is every bit as nice the powder Even nice for babies One day a catalogue had a scent noted so it went into the drawers too If you have Jcloths soak one in fabric softc and add to dryer just as effect ive as Ihe expensive ones you buy Store hand soap in drawers too or in the linen I still think clean fresh air is the best sweetener when Ihe temperature is way below freezing I don t mind reverting to something else for a few months Publisher Don McDonald and editor Murray were presented with an Ontario Community Newspaper Association award association vice- centre Saturday Free Press earns 371 of 500 marks in competition The Acton Free Press collected points out of a possible in eight Judging categories to place third in the Ontario Community Newspaper Association class three better newspaper competition All papers entering the six classes in the general excellence were required to submit the Issues of March and July 1961 for judging The dales of the papers which were to be Judged revealed lo the newspapers until long after they had been published Publisher Don McDonald and editor Gord Murray were presented with a plaque for placing third for general excellence or best all round In class three circulation 3 lo C S3 three drew the most entries In ihe competition The two papers which finished above the Free Press the Amprior Chronicle and Bradford Witness earned a total of and marks re- spec lively The Free Press picked up a total of of a possible 100 points for the two front pages submitted The highest mark for front page was and this publication placed 14th in this category Second place for overall compos ition and layout of he paper went to Press with a mark of out of SO The highest mark was 41 The Free Press editorial pages received a mark of 34 out of The highest mark was 46 and this paper was ranked 13th in this category Free Press sports pages took second spot with 43 points out of SO The lop mark was Photographs in the Iwo Issues of the Free Press submitted were given a The top mark was and the Free Press seventh in this category Local advertising marks earned the Free Press second place This news paper was given a mark of out of for local the highest mark was The Free Press stood third for classified advertising a mark of out of The highest grade was News and features writing earned the Free Press out of marks The top mark was and this news paper was ranked tenth in Ihis category Back issues 10 years ago March After placing first at Erin last Friday Acton Junior now proceed lo the provincial zone drama festival finals April 1 Their play Good Night Please was Judged best of three in Erin District High School Mrs Carol Hyde best director Janice best actress and Rick best actor all wilh Ihe Acton cast Marilyn Ann Coxe R 3 Milton grad uated recently from University of Guelph with a Bachelor of Arts degree A 1966 graduate of Acton District High School and a 1968 graduate of Hamilton Teachers college she majored In Psychology and Sociology at University Attending con vocation were her husband William B Coxe and her parents Mr and Mrs Harvey C Kirkwood 4 Acton What would you like to see Acton do for a centennial project You get a chance to voice your opinions at a public meeting In the community centre Sunday March 19 at when the Centennial Commission airs the subject II about the only time available said commissioner Jack Car center years ago March 1 After spending Ihe past years cutting hair Harry well known Acton barber retires Saturday evening at six clock He has barbered in Acton the past 42 years for40 of which he has operated his own business The well known barber regrets retiring in he sense he will miss the friendly chats with the many friends he has made He will not be idle however as both he and his wife intend to take in the sun of St Petersburg Florida until May and then travel to the area where they spend sum Fifty years ago this week James Symon stopped traveling to operate a hardware store in his home town And today the business is still in the family Half a century later owner Mac Symon and his sister Mrs Marguerite Taylor welcome many friends and customers in Hardware store right next door lo their fathers original location 50 years ago March 1032 Acton Relief committee received a don ation of from he senior chapter of the 1 D E and Lakeside chapter is holding a concert of local talent tonight lo raise funds for relief Members of the Public Utilities Com mission are to be paid each per annum council decided on a recorded vote Councillor Jones felt lhat in view of con ditions councillors should share In the cut ling of expenses but his motion did not find a seconder Council accepted from the estate of James Albert Murray deceased giving in return an undertaking to maintain in perpetuity two plots in cemetery The damage the park by drawing ice over the ground when soft it Is to be repaired 75 years ago March 1907 The kitchen and woodshed of Ihe house at the comer of Mill and Frederick Ihe site of the new Johnstone block now Acton Home Furnishings has been torn down Work men are preparing to remove the main building Intact lo Frederick St This was the first house erected on Mill St after it was opened built by Ihe late Adams a nephew of Ihe founders of the town The lot formed a pari originally of the farm of Ihe late Adams whose farm house stood In ihe rear of the present residence of Mr Henderson MP now Freads Thiswaslhehomeformany years or Ransom Adams a familiar and well known character back in the 60s and 70s When the late W Storey and Camp bell executors of Ihe estate years ago collected the contents of an old chest in the house they aggregated between and Many borrower called here to pay loans with interest al 10 lo 15 per cent 100 years ago 1882 Arbitrators have divided the properly of Aclon school division between the new rural school and Acton Public School amicably Messrs Matthews and John Watson Intend leaving in a few weeks wilh a car load of horses and carriages for Manitoba About new tenement houses are needed in Acton Common buildings are now renting for and per month Very little has been said during the week about organizing a fire company Some fine morning when our citizens find the town in ashes they will probably wish tbey had taken our advice in the matter The special meetings which have been In progress at Ihe Brick Church ME about a mile west of village under Ihe ministry of Rev Clark and Leak of George town were brought lo a close Wednesday Over persons have been at the altar of prayer and of these 35 have joined the church