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Sept TELEPHONE 519 8632010 Founded In Wednesday by Mttroiand Ltd Actoo copes 30- MS Canada other Canada The Free PuUuhng Lid roup of suburban Pickering Aurora Banner Era The Baton Enierpnte Brampton The Pott The Weekend Pom Tha Advenner Guardian Tha George own Independent Economist and Sun Tha Champion Th The Nam Weekend Ednnn North York Minor Beam Beaver Week Th Weekend Richmond Liberal Tha Scarborough Minor Tribune Ken Bellamy Publisher Don Ryder Director ot Advertising a accepted on portion of occupied atoManc for Mtfl not lor I Hartley Coles Managing Editor it typographical artor thai the balance aril be typographical pood or merely an offer Member Tha Canadian Community and Tha Ontario Community AuocUIion EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT New Editor Murray Spam Nancy ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT Cook Retail Manage Sato Susan Stone Jennifer AHon Davy a Carolyn Number BUSINESSACCOUNTING OFFICE Office Manager Joan Shew CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT Manager di still convinced cable TV should pay own way From the editor s des Im an Expos fan by Cord Murray It could only happen In Canada eh Only here could the Expos be In the midst of the pennant they were last week race and the only game on television thats In English la the last place Blue Jays This my favorite time of year not because of the crisp autumn days colorful trees or the fall fair though I like all those things but because rel ish pennant drives playoffs and the World Series I dont watch much ball until the sea son comes down to the crunch Im a fan not a fanatic During the summer Ill watch part of the odd contest on a Saturday afternoon or bit of a week- night Blue Jay contest even take In a few games at Exhibition stadium on hot summer evenings Come the fall though or in spring training when things are shaping up for the season and we have a look at all the new faces on different teams now thats a different story Last year I scheduled my vacation Tor early October so Id be sure and have time to watch the playoffs and series as welt as visit the Baseball Hall of fame in New York This March I hope to finally be In Flor ida to see spring training 1 like the Jays just fine and Im pleased to see them improve so much this season But down deep Im with the Expos and have been cheering them since they were bom The past three campaigns as well as this one have been real emotional rol ler coasters for the players and their supporters Two near misses and then half a year of glory and an inning sway from the World Series last year And if you dont think theres a lot of people right here in Acton keeping an eye on Montreal these last dwindling weeks of the season you havent been in any local watering hole when the sports comes on Theres a hush as everyone listens to find out how theyve done that afternoon or night and how far out they are now Anyway I hadnt consulted the TV guide before I accepted invitation to another fans house last Wednesday night to watch the Expos play the Mets as well as swill a few whats baseball without a beer J My buddy neglected to mention the gamewason cable in French There were two channels carrying the Jays versus the Oakland Athletics neither of them contenders in English though Im all for and have no problem with the Expos being in Fr ench on a television located in a home in a predominately English speaking part of Canada What griped me was not carry ing the Expos on the English language ions opposite the Jays on Oh I know all about clubs having exclusive rights to broadcast their games in their own markets and all that Jan But youd think theyd consider the fans and viewers and at this stage of the season use a little Judgement and broadcast the game which means something a game which has a little drama to ft I read recently viewers in the area are writing tin networks Expo and major league baseballs head ail at the urging of to have U Expos gaum on was raised In that area of Ontario sad as had a choke wry Saturday night of taking in the Leafs or Caaadtat tad thats the way it should be with ball too Other ports of Canada got to see the Expos in English lost Wednesday night why sensibly couldnt we Its enough to moke you wish the Jays hadnt been hatched when the penalty is to miss a pennant race gam Anyway we watched the Exposwlth the sound off and it wasnt too bad though you really had to pay attention When you go to a game you dont get a playbyplay but you do get some announcements of whos up and theres a board to follow the count A lot of playbyplay announcers are frankly pretty ban Often you want to turn off the sound especially if its baseball on ABC with Howard Cosell doing the talking But you never realise how much information you have to be given which is essential to following a game until you sit and watch for more than three hours with only your sounds to break the silence There were a number of errors in the contest including one which we couldnt figure out if It was the first or second fault Who was it credited to How many outs are there Whats the count Twice my friend I dubbed him sarcastically coach hollered at Tim Raines to steal only to discover there were already two out By the way 11 innings after the start the Expos won on an Andre Dawson solo homer so I went home happy at least To this writing its also the last contest they won While Im on the subject of the Expos a lot of people have their own theories why Montreal isnt running away with ItsmanagerJimFanningafauIt they shouldnt have gotten rid of Rod ney Scott at second Raines Is on drugs they dont get timely hits they score IS runs in the first half a double header and have nothing left for the second half etc All these are valid reasons for their struggling their failure not to have put together a good prolonged lead building winning streak all season We were talking about it the other night and my friend reminded me of my ominous warnings back in April about the pitching Fanning had gotten rid of Elias Sosa and Stan from the bullpen and decided to go with just nine hurlers I thought this was the worst possible move even worse than dispatching good fieldno hit Scott when they had no quality replacement thought the acquisition of Oliver and sending Warren back to the outfield was an astute move but tinkering with the mound crew was Just too many changes for a top club Well the changes to the staff have continued Spaceman Bill Lee is gone rookies havent filled the departed shoes David Palmer hasnt rec overed from his arm troubles and to make matters worse with the except ions of Steve Rogers sod Jeff no pitchers have lived up to these ex pectations Ray Burrts has not sur prisingly been a disaster I say not surprisingly because until last year his first In Montreal be hadnt done much so they shouldnt have depended on him so heavily Randy from the Brewers wont turn the rotation around either Anyway toying with tha pitching staff tothsoryforaDUkttraubieTNow I wish I hadnt prophesied back in the spring A recent editorial in this newspaper and a letter dealing with taxpayers paying for lights in the board room so Haltons cable companies can broadcast proceedings of Board of Education has produced fresh comments from Acton Trustee Arlene Bruce as well as teachers in Acton In addition it has raised some new questions in our minds In his letter September 15 Cable program director John takes issue with an editorial September in which it was stated taxpayers shouldnt pay for the lights and equipment costing to We compared paying for this from taxpayers money to the board also buying note books and copy paper for print journalists on tapes for radio reporters Mr Ollivier responded simply stated it is not true to say that a cable television system will benefit from cover age of the meetings He noted cable cant support community television by selling advertis ing cable must spend per cent of its revenue under feder al regulations on community television and people buy cable not for community television but superior eption on other channels Mr Ollivier obviously puts little stock in the business value of goodwill community service and good public relations How can he say people dont sub scribe to cable for the commun ity channel and then include it as one of 19 channels offered He says people like TV and watch the community channel a fact of which we are also well aware We suspect while the community channel isnt a primary reason for subscribing to cable it could well be a secondary reason especially in Acton where many people receive excellent antenna reception because of our loca tion on top of the Niagara Escarpment Mr Ollivier describes the community channel as non profit which it is However Cable isnt unique in operating part of a business which produces no direct revenue yet is needed either to meet government regulations or to produce a better and thus more saleable product A research and development department in industry or a newsroom at a paper dont produce direct revenue They could be split from the rest of the business and called nonprofit too The Cable official says the tax revenue is there Parents who have seen their childrens programs trimmed wouldnt agree nor would any taxpayers who were hit with the staggering educa tion tax jump this year Certainly the teacher who told the Free Press this week if theres money for anything in the board budget it should be spent on more math textbooks for her class Mr notes people who have had no children or whose children are now out of school must pay education taxes He compares this situation with all taxpayers paying for lights so those with cable can see the board meetings All of society must be responsible for educa ting societys children All tax payers shouldnt have to foot the bill so those subscribing to cable can watch the board meetings if they wish Trustee Bruce said the cost may be minimal but it is unnecessary She says shed support the plan if she felt there were sufficient numbers watch ing the community channel and everyone had access to it but thats not the case She agreed with the editorial that there is no intent for trustees to hide from the public but while television coverage of meetings isnt edited it also doesnt explain what is going on at meetings or explain the considerable background material trustees use to make decisions Newspapers while they dont report meetings verbatim give the taxpayers an understand ing of the reasons behind decisions she noted Mrs Bruce is also concerned about trustees politically grandstanding for the cameras and fears trustees will feel called upon to provide their particular but not always pertinent focus on an issue She feels action items are bogged down In tedious enough debate now without bringing cameras into the room Lastly she says all three cable firms wont have cameras and lights in the board room just Cablenet which serves Oakville and Burlington Cable will hook its recorder into the Cablenet equipment and have one person at the meetings to assist with camera angles etc While Mr Olliviers letter raised some interesting points and shed some new light on the issue we must still urge trustees reject this proposal which we suspect they will until such time as either there Is surplus fundingor cable firms feel they can pay for the lights out of revenues from sub scriber fees Coles Slaw How about a good rub with horse liniment by Hartley Coles Managing Editor TV Ontario has started a series of fering viewers the perfect prescription for coping with the fast moving stress ful modern world It is called Where Theres Life It suggests that one of the main fea tures of social health today is that In many cases a spoonful of medicine is no longer adequate People are beginning to question the traditional role and attitudes of doctors and this having a profound effect on how medicine is practiced Well TV Ontario may think this is something new but evidently they have not heard of many of the ancient nostrums and patent medicine cures Many people still swear by and use them to cure their aches and pains Just the other day Brown the motor cycle champ of The Breezes stopped in for a talk He brought along his favorite cure for a bottle of veterinary liniment is afflicted with a hearing im pairment so sometimes the dialogue was onesided but he claims Super K Veterinary Liniment in its original iodine base raised him from his bed when all medical help had failed Ive been using it for years he said and have told countless other people with about it 1 always offered to pay for the bottle if it didnt help Ive never yet had to pay for one bottle he states waving the bottle in front of my startled nose a year old hellion rides around on his motorcycle like a knight on his charger Said he was told he would never walk again by doctors at the compensation hospital Three treat ments from his liniment bottle and he was walking around again as spry as Aunt Matilda He tells of the time he was Injured in a quarry and they had to carry him Into a Milton chiropractors office on a stretcher He took the treatment but it didnt help Home he reached for the old familiar liniment bottle again The next day he claims he waltzed in the office and did a Jig He couldnt believe it said The day before I had to be carried in and the next day Im ready to fight a lion Wes inherited his love of the liniment bottle from his father whom he soys was Injured moving a printing press out in Saskatoon His father told the press proprietor the second floor wouldnt hold the heavy press Wes said but he Insisted on moving it in As a result the floor collapsed and both father and printing press were deposited on the store below The father received some painful injuries All the treatments he received from the medical fraternity didnt help The only treatment that worked says Wes was me veterinary liniment It put Dad back on his feet again Look he said uncapping the bottle You can rub it on and it doesnt One druggist in the West claims got five gallons of it When someone came in with aches and pains he ladled some into a small bottle and sold them to rub it on Best medicine he ever had Wes maintains Since he is continually lending his bottle of liniment out he says one of his problems is getting the bottle back again They wont give it back he says has had other medical advice for me at times one being the use of a magnet to cure leg cramps Ive always been leery of using some of the old nostrums so I enquired around the plant if anyone else had ever used veterinary liniment such as Wes advised Sure said one gal in the back shop Was it the white stuff Didnt look white to me replied but it looked clear Well our family has been using veterinary liniment for aches and pains for years she said We used to get It from Milton veterinarian Doc He mixed his own Since he died it hasnt been available Darn it Relax I said Brown knows where you can get some liniment and all your aches and pains will disappear The conversation attracted two or three other people who also confided they had heard tales in their families about using horse liniment for arthritis and other ailments So there you are If youre aching and your doctor or your chiropractor cant help you then maybe veterinary lini ment can do the Job But dont take my word for it Better ask your doctor or your chiropractor first And remember the stuff isnt meant for drinking even if you have stressful innards Still on stress TV Ontario notes that one of Britains best known TV doctors Rob travelled to Los Angeles to test the effectiveness of one of the latest fads for reducing stress the tranquility tank The doctor crept into the tank filled with inches of warm water and BOO pounds of Epsom salts Then he foaled like a cork in total danmesa for minutes Afterwards Dr Buckman concluded I he missed his rubber ducky No one asked it he had swallowed any of the warm water It could certainly have been a drain on his constitution I never knew so many people had bad trouble with their beds until I wrote last weeks columns explaining the problems I had with ours Apparently beds which fall apart are part of many marriages The perils are forced by benedicts and single girls as well The weeks word to the wise Better for beds to fall apart than marriages or words to that effect 10 years ago September IMS A grade 1 1 student at Acton High Sch ool Valerie Mitchell was crowned Friday night Miss Acton Acton Fall Fair Grand Champion bird in a flock of over entered in this years Canad ian National Exhibition poultry show was a White Leghorn belonging to Fred KenlnerJrof Acton Fred also had the grand champion Hen and grand champion female of the show This weeks specials at your AB Supermarket Store are shoulder roasts 59c a lb butt chops lb lb of beef patties St ox Jars of sweet relish and Aliens ox tins of fruit drinks for While some youngsters thought tbey did weO by winning a couple of staffed animals the midway nobody could beat sevenyearold Paul Nolan who von two draws One of them the Mens Cmb draw for BOO and the other was a draw for a Charlie Brown quilt 20 years ago September MI IK The Acton Fall Fair had good wea ther and record crowds of over over Friday and Saturday at Prospect Park new 225000 Court House Registry Office and Administration Building at Milton is to be officially opened on Saturday November 17 This weeks specials at the Supermarket Store are two 14 ox tins of com for I pack of toilet paper all roasts and all steaks a lb and red raspberries IS ox for John IS Tuesday was wel comed as the member of the Gtadhatters Club during a unique presentation at his home here Over adults went back to school this week Night school classes began Tuesday and Wednesday roost of them In the High School 50 years ago teat and CosmetoJ- Association of con vention Toronto on Monday Specials this week at Pattersons Meat Shop are side bacon lBc a lb fresh side pork ltc a lb fresh ham 14c a lb rib 15c a lb shoulder roasts 13c a lb and lbs of lard Playing this week at the Gregory Theatre on Friday The West Parade on Saturday The Silent Wit ness starring Greta and on Monday Huddle starring Ramon and Madge Evans Graced with fine weather Acton Fair will be the feature of the countryside next Tuesday and Wednesday Mr George Soper brought Into Free Press office a couple of pretty fine specimens of potatoes The pair tipped the scales at lbs 75 years ago Mr Robert Brown St has had the old barn al his residence on Bower Avenue removed A new modern structure Is taking its place Toronto milk dealers have increased the price of milk to quart Acton dealers announce that they will In crease the price here to on the 1st October Hiss Maggie McDonald taking a course at the Central Business Toronto She went to the dry on Moo- day Mr John Marshall foreman of the Times North Bay who is visiting his father in Limehouse visited the Free Press on Tuesday Mrs Shaw Agnes Street arrived home from her three months visit to her old home In England last Mr DD Christie of Guelph was in town on Friday attending the month meeting of the Storey ft Son board years ago September 21 182 The brickwork on the first pair the Building Associations houses on Bower Avenue has been completed and the appearance is very fine last week Messrs Daniel and Dun can Robertson of near this village left ben on a trip to the Northwest The object of trip was to see the land probably with a view to taking up land The directors of the Western Pair have decided to prohibit the sale of Intoxicating liquor on the gr- during the fair The brick work of the Town Hall Has been completed and lit as being roofadThe be completed by the 1st of October called for by the contract