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GBownActon WMm Oct 1Z Ken Bellamy TELEPHONE fiiMMwndEfwnaiotta an 18JS Acton LTJ QUI 30 par w Canada than Canada Don Ryder Director of EDfTORIAL DEPARTMENT UtaraardHwnv IHmEiHnWiMKt Hartley Coles Managing Editor aceaNd on tfia condition that in to ww w pi mil mm tor at to rata In in at typographical Fraa a of the Mttrokm group of Aurora Em Baton EntwprM Brampton Guardian The Pan Pan The Etotacote Advertner Guardian Gaoroe Independent Www The Now Weekend North York Canadian and Ontario fridJ Ties Weekend ConimMnftrMawwaporAaoeaiton Scarborough Mirror Siouffufle Tribune ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT Cook Dm Kirk Davy BUSINESS ACCOUNTING OFFICE Office Manage Jean Shewtl CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT Mawagt Meyen Were mad as h but will we take it anymore Were mad as but are we going to take it anymore Thats the Councillor BUI Johnson was asking Thursday night following the public meeting dealing with the plan to freeze huge tracts of land in North Halton in case the aggregate industry wants to mine stone and gravel in the years ahead Johnson wondered aloud just how much Queens Park thinks the people will take Sure he said we elected the Conservatives to run the pro vince at least Ontario did HaltonBurlington didnt But really dont they realize theres only so much people can take before they break How many things which we dont want that our local repre sentatives oppose vigorously we get organized and fight only to lose will they impose and think they can get away with Johnson pointed to the impos ition of regional government and the Hydro as the classic examples of pushing us Well we hollered a lot about them but they didnt push us past the breaking point He speculated the freezing of land and the threat of grave pits and quarries all around the Acton area could be our version of the Pickering Airport Would this prompt not just public meetings letters to govern ment officials legal battles and other forms of peaceful law abiding protest but also civil disobedience like people lying down in front of bull dozers or sabotage Only time will tell if weve been pushed too far this time Likely if we havent the gang at Queens Park will test our limit with something else a few more years down the road But not all is grim Theres an important lesson in all this besides treating provincial elections seriously In a few weeks per cent If were lucky of the eligible voters in Halton Hills will go to the polls to elect councillors school board members and hydro commissioners Weve previously said and it bears repeating that these elections and the people we place in those jobs are impor tant They will make many many decisions which affect our lives and our However something we must all keep in mind not just at elec tion time but also throughout the next three years is that the people we elect at the local level are limited in what they can do When it comes to many of the most crucial things Queens Park is holding all the cards The councils and school boards need grants from the province so the province calls the shots on the big stuff For many many things our local politicians are really just trustees or agents for big brother in Toronto Queens Park imposes the school curriculum Queens Park hands down social programs which regional council must partially fund The province appoints people tb police commission and conser vation authorities to name just two of many bodies which demand and get levels of fund- little- control over The province imposes dozens of things on the local level of government through the Official Plan The list goes on and on So while the school board and councils can make adjustments in its budgets many costs are fixed by programs and services dictated by the province This isnt meant to belittle the upcoming election or past present or future councillors Its just a reminder that we shouldnt expect the people we elect next month to move heaven and earth Our readers write r Santas coming November Dear Sir We would like to announce that once again the Santa CUus Parade sponsored by the Acton Men will beheld on November at p the McKetMleSmith Middle We are catling upon all businesses service clubs churches school and childrens groups to participate in this years parade Float entry forms can be obtained from the Y building Yours truly B Jones Chairman Acton Santa Parade 1962 Above and beyond the call of duty Dear Sir Garbage collecting is thankless Job Collection usually Invohrea re moving tied bagged refuse from curbaide only but the family who keep dean go far beyond the call of duty and I wish to thank them pubbcly Rocfcwoodi refuse is picked up Saturday mornings as early a MO am at our end of town This means many residents put their bags out Friday evening However Rock- wood noted for Hi carefree animal population Saturday morning the street are usually strewn with happily chewed ripped bags Yet after the Truck baa been peel the streets a picke dean On a recent Saturday some animal tesetf Our street warn white with wed Septra two babies worth bags cans food rinds tea bags and cereal arrived and my Jaw dropped in amazement In the pouring rain one of the crew armed with a cardboard box darted over lawns driveways and up steps gathering every bit of spread garbage Certainly performance above the call of contract Thank you for the cleaning of a sloppy sleepy village and keeping It as pretty as it Is Yours Truly Jennifer Old wives cures do work Dear Mr Coles Your serving of Coles Slaw September struck a responsive chord with me That was the dis cussion on the use of liniment on arthritic joints Specifically though It was the use of magnets in bed to ease leg cramps that captured my attention Some years ago I read that an eld erly doctor En Britain was speaking to a class of graduating physicians In her address she cautioned these young practitioners not to sneer at old wives cures To Illustrate her point she told of having an elderly patient and In conversation the Doctor mentioned that quite frequ ently within a few minutes of lying down in her bed she would suffer the most agonizing cramps in the calves of her legs The responded Why they are the easiest things in the work to Ox Just toss a small magnet your bad and you will have ho more leg cramps The doe- tor had a small magnet and found that placed in the bed no cramps If forgotten for a tew weeks cramps The British physician that she now had a From the editor s desJ Passing up fishing for baseball By Murray Free Press Editor I cant decide if it was good or bad luck that Saturday I passed up going fishing to watch the fourth game of the AngelsBrewers As I told you a few weeks ago this Is my favorite season because theres so much good ball an television I worked several weekends a row so I could have the one as next weekend to catch the games Helen didnt mind the deal Just as soon work than be at home when base ball is on TV However Saturdays gome was a long one as rain delay after rain delay stretched the contest out and besides the team I was pulling for lost As it turned out if Id taken Bill Cook of nonsmoking fame up on his offer to trolling on Saturday as long as we didnt stop at many watering holes on the way back from the north have been back in Acton In time to catch most of the game anyway And Ive really been looking forward to trying trolling for the first time Besides trying to make me kick the weed Bills spent most of my nearly three years at the Free Press trying to get roe as hooked on fishing with help from Keith Andrews and a few others In that crowd He seems to think I need some diver sion from work short or lying on the couch watching the tube or away my free time in other nonproduc tive pursuits Finally after a year of persuasion In the winter of Bill got me to go ice fishing at Thorn bury with he and one of his cronies It was a cold blustery day and when we got to Ttornbury there was Just one big problem besides having to teach me to fish there was no tee Great I thought now we can go to a restaurant and wait for the Legion to open BUI had tricked me though hed brought lots of other equipment along Id gotten up at to go all that way and stand on the pier with my line dangling In the water for five hours We fished well past what I understood to be the normal adjornment hour of noon I caught nothing but a cold and a good scare when nestled In the rocks out of the breeze I fell asleep and woke up about a half hour later feeling very worm and Thats when I re called seeing In a movie once It isnt a good sign if you get nice and warm when you fall asleep outside In the cold Id Wed fishing once and found It Just as boring as I had as a lad when I went my father until we discovered w were both going fishing for the other and quit the silliness But no they cajoled me Into ice fishing a few weeks later at Owen Sound I dressed more sensibly this time and so enjoyed It a little more But I was still bored and didnt catch any thing In tour or five hours of trying The next week they enlisted Helens help In pushing me out of my warm bed for one last stab at experiencing the thrill of triumphing over a dumb fish And this time I experienced every bit of the thrill I was standing quite a ways from my bole chatting with Bill thats about the only saving grace this sport has in my book the shooting the breeze and camaraderie with others when I the bober hed loaned me had disappeared down the bole Great I thought how much do they cost now that I ve lost one I innocently enquired of B13 where it might have gone He suggested It fell off became caked with Ice and sank or heaven forbid there might finally be a fish on the end of my line I nonchalantly strolled over I wanted to conceal my excitement at the prospect the latter might be true Just before I reached It Bin called out don forget to set the hook Now what did that mean Hed told all the Im portant details except what to do if I ever did get a bite After a hurried conference I learned I should give the line a good hard Jerk which I did feeling the line was a little heavier I pulled frantically I didnt want it to get away I was under the false impression that with one taken theyd mercifully take me home It seemed to take twice as long for the line to be brought back up ft did for it to sink Anyway after what seemed like an eternity I pulled the line out of the hole and there dangling at the end was a not too large but still respectable looking Splake BID rushed over to offer his congratulations John Goy Jr grabbed his camera to record the event Others In our party shouted out praise Then I asked whet seemed to be a pretty logical question which sent everyone rolling in the snow In gales of WhatdoIdonowTaeemedtomea reasonable question to ask on an auspicious occasion such as I was experiencing When Bill finally was able to control himself enough to reply I wished I hadnt asked Ever since my boyhood fish have disgusted me As a lad there were thousands of dead and decaying tab strewn on the beach In Port Hope so Id long been repulsed by fish and the sport I didnt even eat fish s In fish and chip variety until my and then only after drowning It In ketchup Anyway I was none too pleased when I learned I had to touch the creature take out the hook and hit it over the head Finally I performed all those tasks much tn everyones delight and re ceived the really good news Now try for another and if you can get four more youve limited out and then we go to the Legion On my few succeeding trips ice fishing Ive learned to Jig and read a book or paper at the same time to kill the hours of boredom In Ive even caught another fish a Herring at Lake Slmeoe And Ive branched out to other forms of fishing though with far less success than Ive had Ice fishing Ive on a bit already this wee so Ill save casting or spin fishing at the secret bole and drift fishing for next weeks installment Suffice to say about i my fishing though when another feOi approached Bill for advice about learning this sport two decades after the rest of his peers had mastered It BID replied confidently Know Gord Murray Well I taught him to fish sort of If I can teach him I can teach anyone away in her over night bag A third one constantly in her purse and a fourth In the glove box of her auto mobile Like Peter Ustinov and his American Express card she just wont leave home without Arthur Carr CKCOTVS Country Editor And You managed to get arthritis correct on the third try Sympathetic ear at the Dear Sir I hope you will find the space to this weeks edition to print this letter There art many wonderful people living and working in Acton 1 found out during the past few weeks To name a few Dr McWimazn Acton Centre Constable G Halton Betty Moore Sue Burns Acton School also friends and cotteagaes of mine Why do I want this put In the paper Be cause I would like to give to Acton something that I have been given I work at the Acton Y Just Wed nesday and Friday each week from If there Is anyone any age out there reading this who Lb troubled lonely bored or needs help please csD or drop into the If you have be will take the time to help or listen Signed sincerely PS I close the Y from noon to pm as I lunch with a dear friend Voting Yes to disarmament Dear Sir We are voting yes dlsannamant November In our municipal election In Hlila We wish to make our position dear that we are not advocating that we stop the production of nuclear arms until such 1 AO countries In the world agree to disarm not Just found for countries to insure that global disarmament will be As parents and grandparents we must start somewhe and It Is in teresting to note that there is even a grass roots movement In Russia Only a worldwide grassroots belief that nuclear can be achieved ultimately result in It Lets betp stop this madness now and turn our atomic energy Slncererjf Letters are welcome Letters for these cehimn are welcome To keep letters brief aavj to the point Utters are edited only for length good taste and libel or slander years ago rllltlZ Acton council accepted the recom of the Development sod appointed J H to fin vacancy on the commission created by the resignation of Paul Nielsen Specials this week at your local IGA Store are 214 tins of apple sauce bottles of ketchup boneless round steak or roasts a wieners He a and side bacon lb Acton Industrial Hockey League player registration fee this year Is Ten years later the fee is After six years of negotiations the second time around Acton council finally completed a land exchange deal between the municipality RParker at the corner Mill and Park Streets Brenda KingunlU was elected president of the Club on Wednesday 20 years ago October 11 iwt A two and a half million dollar Invest ment became more than speculation this week as machinery started to hum when production began at Acton Limestone Quarries Mr and Mrs W Mino celebrated their wedding anniversary Monday at their home In Eden Mills The couple were married in Specials this week at your local IGA store are blueberry pies each 1 lb pkg of VelveeU Cheese pkgs of macaroni and cheese BSc ox of cooked meals for 20c and oranges a dozen On the weekend Mens Inter national Presidentelect McKenzic attended a regional con ference in Pittsburgh Perm High School teachers attended a teachers federation dinner Erin last night 50 years ago October IBM Quite a number from Acton attended the Thanksgiving Day supper at Churchill on Monday evening The monthly meeting of the Duke of Devonshire Chapter of the IODE was on Thursday Rev C I Specials this week at Pattersons Meat Shop are lbs of homemade sausage for sirloin roasts a lb fresh Hams a lb picnic hams a lb wing roosts a lb and side pork a lb Playing this weekend at the Gregory Theatre on Friday While Paris Sleeps starring Victor McLaglen and on Saturday Skyscrapers Souls starring Warren Williams Mr and Mrs of Rock- wood spent the weekend at Mr H Mr and Mrs A Brown spent the holiday In Kitchener 75 years ago October 10 1MT Special this Saturday at G Ryan A Co Mens Store a working shirt for sac available in flannelette and gingham the biggest shirt I ever sold at is yours for The annual High School concert will be held on Monday evening of November D Warner will be at the station Monday of next week to pur chase evaporating apples He will pay cash for these apples The Sunny South Company played to a full house in the town hall on Tuesday evening During an auction sale In Guelph last Thursday the floor of the house gave wayandabrxit2SpeopIemostlywomen dropped into the cellar Fortunately no one was seriously Injured Mr Thomas Actons oldest resident celebrated his birthday on Tuesday 100 years ago OcteberlZlsS A very successful social was held on Thursday evening at the residence of Asa Hall Esquesing In aid of the Ladies Aid Society of the Canada Methodist Church in his place The annual exhibition of tms county was held in Milton on Tuesday and Wednesday and was a greet success A very enjoyable picnic wis held by the pupils of School last Thursday Owing to he low price of wheat and flour the baker all over the country are reducing the price of bread Mr Leach who has been employed In the Canada Glove for some tune left on Monday for Gloyersviae Mr foreman in Moores Leather Manufactory has removed to he house on Church Streets opposite Mr J new residence