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GeotcjetownActoo Wednesday June 15 TELEPHONE Founded in every by Printing Ltd it Alton Onu L7J M10 Subtcnpnora Single each than Canada Ken Bellamy Don Ryder Hartley Coles Director of Advertising Managing Editor The Acton Free a on the Printing and Ltd of suburban The Wh Aurora Thu Bolton Tho Poll Trie Burimgton Weakand The GeorgatoMm Wontworth Economnt end Sun The Mi on Tin New I Nor York Ma or Friday Week Tha The Hd Tha Sea ror S EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT Editor Murray Editor Murray Sportt Rabin Paul Nolan Darkroom Nancy Punduck ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT RatJa Advajrtialno MarwgOT- Coot Sataa Kirk Suun McKnnon Sandra Claaarnad Caioryn Debba BUSINESSACCOUNTING OFFICE Joan Circulation- Dan Consider peoples needs not just dollars cents GOOD MORNING ILL BE YOUR CHILDS SUMMER CAMP COUNSELLOR It would appear Hills Hydro Commission plans to leave Acton billing arrangements in Umbo for much of the summer before telling us what will definitely happen We hope citizens will maintain a close eye on this situation and not let the matter slide just in case some commissioners start entertaining thoughts of still trying to slide through the radical changes pro posed by staff last month We certainly be keeping our ears to the ground to see what they have in mind This has been something of a from the start Changes other than ing one staffer and a com terminal head out of the Acton office and replac ing the staffer with a sum student t ap proved by the commission Even moving the employee and computer to George town was handled sort of through the back door via a motion to hire four stud But as Murt Allison said Friday the intent of the motion was clearly under stood first step towards making major changes in Acton Less than a week after this decision was made by the commission word was filtering around town When it reached our ears we called Doug Mason He in turn arranged for us to talk to chairman Bill Smith with manager Jerry along to supply him with information We ve never been com pletely convinced the whole thing wasn just a case of sending up trial balloons to see how the community would react They wanted coverage of the staff pro posals to see if Acton would go along with them The summer billing ar rangements were supposed to be a trial period but unfortunately Smith used the phrases phasing out and phasing in period more often than trial period during the lengthy inter view Also his tone and words made it sound that all the changes such as no staff at the Acton hydro office to handle billing matters and no mention of paying bills elsewhere in town were the new policy as of September We suspect had Acton and mayor Peter not raised a stink they would have been policy Changes needing formal commission approval sounds like it was almost an afterthought an escape route if the new ideas didn go down well with the community We can appreciate the commission s desire to save money and make business like decisions What some staff and the commission seem to fail to remember is that changes which are noticeable and impact on the public should be con more than from a purely business standpoint Ha Hon Hills Hydro is a government body as well as a business People concerns must be weighed against business concerns Acton is sensitive about change over the past 10 years there have been many changes in govern ment services in this com munity The community is worried about a loss of identity of being swallowed up Local government bodies and our sister taxpayers other areas of Hills and Halton must be pre pared to spend a few extra dollars now and again even when it may not make com plete sense from an standpoint to make this community feel like it is still alive and part of the grand scheme of things If this type of attitude taking care of one smaller sister s needs t pre vail all politicians in Halton Hills and the region had best be prepared to out a lot more storms in the years ahead It will be a long time before Acton lies down and keeps quiet G M Back issues From the editcxrs des Almost anybody but Mulroney Well my prediction was wrong the wicked wit of the east I win the Tory crown In Ottawa But I were John Croeble I hang in there and not quit politics I also spend a lot of time learning French I fear the Tones made a worse choice in Brian Mulroney for leader than if they d let Joe Clark continue in the Job makes me very ncr vous and a sneaking Ion not long after the next federal election the PCs will be gathering someplace again to replace him Some are already predicting that Clark will be hanging around Ottawa to wait to get his Job back It will never happen Tor Joe but Crosbie could well win the prize he missed Saturday in about three years time If I been a voting delegate have been an Almost Anybody Bui Mulroney After hearing the speeches attending policy sessions reading reams of literature and following the campaigns in the media for a couple of months d have chosen Mulroney over only two other candidates John Gamble and Neil Frascr The convention t change my top pick but it sure lowered Mulrony on my list David Peter Pockllngton Michael Wilson even Joe again would have been better than Mulroney I think I know I not alone in my suspicions Mega media com men arc scared of him too and obviously less than 30 per cent of the delegates thought he was the best man for the Job Judging by his first ballot support If I had to be labelled politically I lay I m an Independent Federally and provincially I ve Grit and Tory in the nine times I gotten to cast a vote There was a byelection in one riding I lived in years ago 1 1 even voted NDP once though that wasn a vote for the party but the individual candidate I made no secret of my dain or disgust is a better word with and his cronies in recent years People who do things like set up conflict of In rules for themselves and then break them and don pay a price because after all they arc just guidelines not law shake my faith badly Judging by the polls I far from alone in his regard I don blame Trudeau and the Liberals for all of Canada woes I reject them for their hang onto power at any cost and do as I say not as I do attitudes But I ve been labelled a Tory by some Liberals in town right Peter based on the things I ve written In this space But I have written some nice things about Liberals in the past It s Just been that since I ve been at the Free Press the Trudeau gang has run roughshod over decency and ethics In the same 3V- year lime period I ve had some almost equally disparaging things to say about the Tories at Queen s Park Anyway I went to Ottawa ex petting to see the PCs pick the person who I be voting for to lead our next government Now I not so sure I II be watching Mulroney closely and if he isn a lot differ than the man who I saw in Ottawa I might just vote Liberal If Mulroney seems to be the same phony cardboard cutout with no substance I think he is now once he is in the House Com mons and the Liberals pick some one who t in the present regime then I could well back he Grits Should the Liberals choose Alan or Marc Lalonde for the Job Id go to Mulroney Belter the devil I don t know that well than the devil I know all too well I also reject Donald McDonald even though he not part of the present government he guilty too for taking that ridiculous pay for his silly Royal Commission That seems to leave John Tur ner A Turner who goes In and house brings in a new cabinet team and then goes to the voters with a new Liberal platform would I think appeal to more Canadians Including myself than Mulroney despite the fine team he has around him Why does Mulroney worry me so much In the policy sessions I witnessed on Friday he evaded questions I want someone in the lop Job in Ottawa next round who gives straight answers to straight questions After Pock ling ton went to following the first ballot I watched Peter Puck being inter viewed He sold the deal he struck was a Royal Commission with him heading it to look his per cent income tax proposal Then I heard asked about the deal He didn t confirm the arrangement He made it Continued on pages coies- slaw Some live in retirement immune to age One of the better parts of on Job is the opportunity to read newspapers which reach us from all parts of Canada as part an exchange operated by the Canad Ian Community Newspapers Association There are often cresting articles about condition in their port of the country and they make one think how much alike Canadians are although geography can be very different One I enjoyed recently Came from Ihe Camroae Alberta Canadian in a column written for weekly newspapers by the Alberta Medical Association It concerned a man and his wife who had been married for When he was he underwent desperation surgery But he surprised the doctors by living until he wo 95 Dr Bob Young writer said the man fooled us all 111 let the doctor tell it bad looked after him for he was one of my first pat During thla time he had moved from a large house to a mailer and then at age SO when the gardening became too much to a condominium It was there thai wad to talk to fais wife alter be Three days previously when I admitted him to hospital 1 knew that be was abort it die Host develop an ability to recognize a patient who Is ter even If Ihe patient is con scious and able to converse Laboratory tests and such merely confirm the impression Mr as have called him was like the wonderful onehorse shay When he collapsed all his parts stopped functioning at the same time Fortunately this was obvious to the specialist and my self and heroic treatment was regarded as both useless and inappropriate I must admit that I expected that his wife would accept the adage that death at does not rep resent a failure of medical science Initially she could not the loss was too great and too recent She felt guilty that she had not called the doctor sooner She was upset that had left him very ill but stable lOmlnutesbeforetheend She was angry with physicians hospitals and the world in general She was depressed and even discussed suicide I had of course encountered all these reactions many times before and I was beginning to question my apparent Inability to assuage the anguish of her bereavement Listening to the widow helped me understand Mrs married Mr when she was 18 That was M years ago They had been inseparable and their companionship had Increased as the years went by He had work by choice until he was BO They had become even closer since his surgery partly because she was pleased to be able to help with his care and partly because most of their friends had passed on Of course shell distraught She will need help to get through the grief anger guilt remorse and other expected and necessary stages of bereavement But first she needs a time Why am I referring to this article aside from Its human Interest stoV Because there seems to be some sort of gloomy foreboding sweep ing the land that life ends when you collect a pension Of course It depends on the person Some people lose intcresl in life before they retire The lest setback makes them retreat even further from the vicissitudes of living Others keep a keen interest in living all their lives They shrug off setbacks big and small and keep on living to the fullest suspect most of us are some where in between these two ex tremes Some small things get us down Others which would fell a horse are tossed off like a green salad As we get closer to retirement it is refreshing as well as fortifying to know how well some people deal with it It boils down to personal strength and the ability to bend with the situation And I suspect there are many stories like he foregoing which never get told Jack Johnson MPP for Wei County recently noted in the Legislature that be has wat died with growing dismay the attitude of confrontation which has dev between Ontario Hydro and the farming community although the goals of both are to many respect mutual and com patible He soys it is personally pointing and discouraging to witness the perception on the part of many farmers that Ontario Hydro is the enemy But he notes that Ontario Hydro is in large measure responsible for the creation of this perception and will have to bear the responsibility of it 1 am convinced that Hydro needs to look at its policies more closely It needs to develop a fresh and more responsive approach in its dealings with the farmers It needs to view itself as a partner of rural Ontario rather than an all powerful benefactor It needs to adopt a more cooperative and sensitive stance and thereby gain the confidence and friendship of those who it is attempting to Johnson said Someone on the Government side of the House Is telling it like it real Is Many in the farming com with short memories still cannot shake off the effects and the treatment Ibey received when that 500 corridor came through this area But Mr Johnson is right If Hydro follows the path the late past chairman of Out Hydro Hugh set It may one day mend its fences years ago June 13 More than participants ed and sang around Ihe stage during Acton School Of Dance annual Springtime show New officers were installed at Acton Legion President is again Bob with first vicepresident Gord James second vicepresident Fred Alien Secretary is John Chap man and treasurer McCul Sergeant at arms is Ted LeBlanc Actons town employees walked off the Job in protest Friday return only after they were assured a committee would look into their grievances Employees they are concerned about the newly created position of town foreman John Dunn CUPE local represent and union representative Sam Tennant met with Acton council to discuss the matter Bicycle license regulations caused a run on licenses according to police An additional order of 200 licenses on top of the original has nearly run out police say and more are on order Acton s bicycling population has burgeoned 20 years ago June Boy Scouts gathered pounds of newspaper on their annual paper drive last weekend Hamilton Industrial Shoe Ltd Actons newest industry should be in production within a week The company expects to hire in the Acton area A extension Is proposed for Halton Manor thecounty home for the aged Robert Little and Bennett Schools report children have reg i stored for Kindergarten Raymond has successfully completed his third year of medicine at the University of Toronto Rev A H was awarded the J Bert Wood Trophy for the low gross score after shooting an In the Acton Open Golf Tournament at Hilltop Golf and Country Club in Erin Andy Nolan and John Goy also picked up trophies years ago 1933 Three times the parish hall was filled for the ploy Cabbages and Orchids with all the parts taken by girls and young ladies of the church Lillian Perry Irene Flowers Olive Rooks Phyllis Mackle Esther Taylor Barbara Taylor Alice Taylor Hazel Bridges Irene Elliott Velma Blair and Clara Bauer and Mrs Violet Knight Rev Sawyer provided musical numbers Mrs A J Buchanan was director There was a fair crowd at the town hall to hear the speakers of the C expound the principles of this new movement Mr Plant was chairman Mr and Mrs Amos Mason were honored by the employees of Mason Knitting Co on their wedding anniversary Mr Charley Kirkness read an address and theywere given a silver flower basket containing roses years ago June 1 The annual convention of Esquesing Sunday School Association was held at last Friday afternoon and evening Nixon was reelected in Halton as the Conservatives swept Ontario Acton voters returned Nixon over 1B8 to 148 voting at the town halt and Speight shop The annual garden party under the auspices of Knox Church Ladles Aid was held at the home of Mr Robert Campbell Miss Laura accompanied the musical numbers and Acton Citizens Band enlivened the proceedings Tea was served on the lawn from to clock Owing to the cool weather the demand for ice cream was not as great as it would have been Mr John and family of Toronto have taken up quarters at the Fish Pond for the summer years ago Jonrll Not more than one section In 10 In Halton can supply a house for a mar rled teacher The General Session and County Court were held in Milton but due to the absence of crime there was no business to be brought forward Many Juvenile immigrants are coming to these shores from England for adoption or hire chief as farmers Many accompanied by good references have been made Stoves taken out of sight for the warm weather should be thoroughly cleaned Cricket baseball lacrosse and croquet are all Indulged la for evening entertainment now