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acton free press acton ontario thunaday march ulh ims bright and chewy cuizens generally appreciated the reduction in the municipal tax rate which hai been tel for acton this year last year s all time high of 64 milli had a very disturbing effect on citfeeni it is evident that the rate could have been at wait a mill lower lat year tn view of the fact that a lur plus was carried over into this year s budget however this amount raised last year in excess of requirements has been helpful in arriving at this years rate of 51 mills looking over our exchanges we note that tax reductions are unusual in most municipalities in smiths falls and bowmanville where new assess ments apply for the first time the mill rates are 51 and 43 mills it would seem that acton s rate of 51 mills ts in keeping with othor municipalities where the new assessment has been used the 11952 rates in milton were 56 mills georgetown 43 mills burlington 32 mills and oakville 35 mills the new rates for 1953 have not been an nounced in these municipalities but bronte with a rate of 38 mills last year has gone over ihe 70 mill mark this year if tax rates are to be ma in lathed at the present level a duty devolves on every citizen in the mat ter of demands on public bodies acton has had orne heavy major expenditures which will deter ralnaxedtomfltcmmt tewmex for tunately most of them are at favourable interest rates so that principal owing will be reduced more rapidly the improvements were all neces sary if acton is to maintain its place in the general growth of canada that acton s growth can be maintained and public services given which are comparable to those which citizens in cities and all large towns enjoy and the tax rate of the present year levied at the rate of 51 mills is a credit to those who serve on the municipal council and other public bodies in the town it is hoped the peak in muni cipat taxation here is a matter of history and the ptesent rate can be maintained without curtailing a program for essential expansion ss mp north eait wlt s outh 4 charter of th conservator the announcement the past week that the thomson company had acquired the brampton conservator and a couple of suburban toronto papers was of more than pasting inlmetl the company headed by roy h thornton already owned 15 papers acrost canada and one in florida the president of the company it a very active individual he it past president of ihe canadian daily newspapers association and president of canadian press and a candidate for the conservative parly in one of the toronto rid ings some of us who think we are busy in tmal ler fields usl sit back and marvel the passing of the brampton conservator inlo other hands from the charters family wema hard to realize by some of ut who have been in the newspaper field for quite a few years the con servator it 79 years old and for 63 years of its existence the name of charters has been asaocidl ed with this fine weekly journal wo have poi socially been acquainted with three generations of the charters in brampton and it seems difficult to realize that other owners have acquired the in teiest of this great family of newspaper men so long associated with the conservator the new cwneis have a high standard to meaiuie up to in a community newspaper but ihe chaffers family wilt nol retire from the publishing fietctin brampton we are glad to learn lo the same announcement as the sale of the conservator comes the news of an expansion in the charters commercial printing plant and the ontinuance of printing in this plant of a number ol periodicals which the firm has been looking after for some time we wish them continued success but we ii miss at weekly newspaper con ventions seeing a charters from the conservator some folk soem to attempr tu difficult feat of administering a kick in the jxind ut ihe same rime as a pat on the back t ounly on 4oronallon i ikoly tvpry mninuuun minimi ton u wonitditilk lll uu w inwn u kt t dn itmtltm vr ihn malum county inwiiitir ws ihttl hrunle la loutalivoly ulittirlud it ulrtrnl dam a held day and n firework dunhty in aotoh out nitmlm uin wombo inn about a twhniii iii lvuya undmalnnd iiudkiii ffrts w u hi wlum aiitttlim rtm was nuui una had t l tut minim umlorthke a alrinit of i heanma mllum aunita wnul i the mvy of ihe rmmly with iho mountain tn hunt ihelr hra nil in ilurltnktun the union la plan ntllh a weok lbu carnival in lhu arena yea wmk lungt h rvln- iluba there are tn im aaked fui their aumibllniin the piwudbimy amivtmini for the children ua mentioned loo another hchool another new piihllt hnoi on ned in halton tounty lt oak wood public achool in oakvllk an t fallowa right on ihe fimuii pa now aclinou ut alton hid ho lie town and the iorim shun a h mil in thi township thu crowd at the enln wua told lliat the mi hnol wua tin ural inmnmu mhool bulldlliit l b itullt in onhvllle iu id ytuia n- ihoiiyh the town a pnmlullon lud doubled in ihut time hafe after alt tilmln m 1 lint ihium und eoiyi l imn win ihimidil in naulmta mi and mih ouk muldi i unci lui yrnnm diuuhur itanna had dud in tin rthtlit loodn in riiilund wei uvnjoytd tn dlicovtr tlint tin information was iinlitit lust week a i linilmtiai fiitnd mm john nohlt wiott tn ihi town clerk of tlic olluht in hmlund whui they the good old days may have seemed better ion ore oi young as your face as old as your doubt as young as your self confidence as old as your fear as young as your hope as old as your despair yrari may irrinlclr the xknn but to give up enthusiasm trrinmrs thr mmu from a scroll irhich hung in the south paciftc headquarters of general mncarthur th roup hour h orld war 11 experts and specialists we are losing our respect for experts and specialists there was a time when thete werent so many of them that an expert could perform a task that left the ordinary layman in awe many of the socalled experts of today still leave the ordinary layman in awe especially after he has paid the account and finds the trouble has not been rectified after all an expert or specialist is only a man oi woman who can do one thing well usually he deduces that all the trouble lies m his specialty or else you diagnose the trouble and call in the ex pert in the field you either find out your deduc tions are wrong or you ve called in the wrong ex pert wete developing a greater respect m cur own mind for the fellow we used to hold up to ridicule as a ackof all trades his diagnosis was sometimes erratic and many a time unexplainable but he had a broad viewpoint which took in the whole situation and often times came up with the solution of making the thing work perhaps the trouble lies in the fact too many folks take unto themselves the title of expert or specialist after all there seems to be no set standard of what an ndividual must possess n above average knowledge to assume the tile of specialist we don t advocate either that our n stitutions founded to spread greater knowledge assume the task of issuing degrees of expert or specialist we wouldn t advocate ether that governments at any level des gnate who s expert and who is not they seem well loaded them selves matter of fact the more we wr te and th nk about it the more involved we become the only concluson we really have s that the expert and specialist field s overcrowded and maybe we ought to do more for ourselves as nd v dua s n an effort to elim nah the surplus mnldeia lhnuulve huy erti fun ml in movt iilnlih in lhlr imini lull wnt uatt unit biinnd ni llrm in hurllnglwi llio luat dollviy imrau in liur llnutmi bun lefl i he doliy hua hunt nttthunliul lony th lant iiiiibm mine ninjlimlly fnm thu taim id john mutahull nettr mllxi who now uvea in iviirllnutoii hub imu o ild to u hamilton duliy mlllun puretimti unit btjddu milton a nnot ultlti hai been unnhuoeit fniin mm malaly the qtittuii fur the ion of imblli wuahto a tlnm a mtltoji indoalrtullal i i ut mum ltd money in hta will l r liio lown with the at hu1k 1 1 on u i naud oi wuahrooma i j alan arrlvaa tim kind nlutit orouruaawd lowuid iimnletluii and the 411011 1a im ouredl oeorn bull a dlrettoi and leudluk oftuial id the united auto mobile wuikcia of anieika hua o i ready rented itut foi inlon of ittra the imutlon la jual a alinna ihiow uwuy from tlto plant at ihe jon tlon of the low r middle r d mid ihn giieen elltutnlti way t ampbellvllld iada t sltue tho f umiiliullvllle 101 ilb linndmt rtyoiitrt thai aiiiwdiopa wtil bloom i im in a nurd ihmiiry 11 w huve bi back in 1903 rram th iwm t tha rra froaa af ihunday marat ii im1 kaeu dear of la liliw if you bio nwackhamer intorma the l cab lliul u new iniloatvy baa aeiured for ailnn and will shortly iiiiiiiikiiio onurutlon uuak weio dund n ivtd 11 dulh lil oird of inu in ilrna if ilh 1 dlatit un in- id tin iliord llni lluvell uolltiif any 10tu r ai prlllb und think mrs 1 1 y 1 a- ford a mnil llvill aiiiv- die 1 hi anolhrr folk hchool wt iih by the if 1 in advocum thai hit aelituliy of lilt ntm cfl foiitm kloyd irliahack idiltfd u filk whoil ii wtli or wi u at uli don 1 million d folk achool wua in ii rijhulv t lbi hmiii of 1iof miakmra au him i11u ill ihe land at last 1 nh any jiiariue uf youna t kullty ut iinaeemly and ll ltjal inndiilt ut the lornur ut mill and main hired a on monday even inn they indulged in aong aik dunu untlci to the tnlenae annoy uui n paueia by inuifitoi j h ttuo vlailtd alton athooui thla week very ifrutlfyiilit indeed wire i rtbultn of he anniversary aoivita in the flanlm hurih iwx hunday all ftlt irontcd by th ilmcly and lijiint uddruaota ty itcv iti kurmei of mi maau 1 tfnlvehiity tor into tin- uiimli b the liioii udolalcd hy tin fiforlnwn male ourlut wun in ii ful mid ojoyed by uli ih i iv buv ouht u murk id 1 lluuifr n the ul la ot c filludu urn m ihti uutn iu ul 0hlj l ably thla 1 ianf la la rtfrlv mi 1 uli nix- of ihr t 1 1 t of drtl omnml pi tiinrlty oto who ii jll ilu i f n trill wst linmlgrutio 1 i in ooijtiniicd auli- or furmlnu lund in th ioitahadnwa u bin iiinvt miif this yar atlw clhl wceka of fuirly good rontlnuoiu bllgluiiii lite liitom fu it of it laat week riurr wen ilnrty atvci ui of in mloi h liurk m oi f i it yjrl yaltrday rmading btfwn th un education claims over onethird of tax bill where do taxes go council hns eompkud iu ud budtttt und mamigul lo ml tht mill rut it a r apoctubk 1 whuh ft the import nnt llm u thi lux piyir lis pnlly diffi till to undt rslnnd jusl whtr ihi dollurs und ttnbi of 1 1x1 s ko bm in lilt munulpil kid of tux it ion thi sirvlns ar uinully mort ividmt ihnn in my of hit othir trcas of tixntlnn in an 1 ffort to find jusl whit thi inx dollar dots ihnl th indtv idual property owner ronlnbtiti s akdnwn of the tixik rdinr to ihi 51 1 ii cast thi property iixps for 1953 it public school high school county rate hcbentun dcbl tcntril tdministntion re creation community sir ice budgets and the people most taxation budgets seem to have a liitle sunshine sprinkled m them but it s to be hoped the sunshine is not extracted before it gets to the taxpayer such was the case in our experience with newsprint the sales tax was eliminated in the recent dominion budget and an increase of si 0 per ton in the price becomes effective the first of the month one has to work fast to take advantage of benefits calculated for the advan i hi n 1 tage of the consumer nh ni 1 2 000 last week the provincial budget announced a change in grants to aid municipalities one of the features which will be appreciated is the fact that municipalities are not obligated to spend more funds in order to take advantage of the provincial assistance such has been the case in the past and has been a factor in increasing municipal taxation complete details of the new system of grants were published last week and in halton thenet pollcl p fire protection increase amounts to 41 215 public works roi one of the items which confuses us in the verts tlc new grants is the amounts paid per capita to the municipalities in halton municipalities over 5 000 populat on receive 1 75 per capita for municipalities m the 2 000 to 5 000 group the rate is 1 60 and under 2 000 the rate is 1 50 in view of the fact that provincial levies for taxes are paid on the same basis no matter where one lives the discrimination against the smaller muni cipalities seems difficult to understand the taxes on gasoline and liquor are just as high in nassa gaweya as those paid in nelson or trafalgar the cost of motor vehicle licenses and perm ts s the same no matter where one resides perhaps there 11 a logcal answer to the variance in rates looking at t from another viewpo nt the d f ference m rates may be the ontar o legislatures method of providing an ncentive for the smaller commyn t es to get b gger and the bigger centres to become more th ckly populated so that the per cap ta rate of assistance w ii be greater no mat ter what the piann ng back of the change ontar o mun c pal t es w ii welcome any amounts that w ii ass st them n ma nta n ng reasonable and the el m nat on of the pol cy of more t get a ttle ork tht 1011 nil 1 7 14 oat 1850 gurbagt colli eti public wtlfan 1 iginl putntibi tilul j20 1 2 02 1102 00 turd nplt sumi of tht hi jduiku muy 1 lllllt explanation rir txui ihi county mil that ls th mm lf money paid by the town to ihi county of halton jb i ahjit of tounty road tost tounty jjii llallon cjiuntiul manor and olhtr txptndilurta of th tounty until thus imount is bow d on tht ash shmiol of 1 jth munkl jluy nid thit la lht figuri thit hui bun tonustiu by tht intin ripilitlik for to vi ral yt ira citntril idminuilr ition and 11 trillion ind immunity rvic includi thi silanin of thi ib rk trt isun r xssi sior sotlritor tt n t jnphi rs in well as lht krant 1 lht band pirk ind irnn rmintentnte public wilfirt tntludes tht u counw or rtln f to ni 1 dy citi7tn i lyment of hospitil billk whert the patient is un ibli to unit th nv1 and the town is n sponsibb ind post lanitorium cirt i r continued on paac six untaxes back in 1933 vtm lh imm 4 ike frw rrm f thnruuy wanh t ini nol many dimwbaiika lo lw takafi uwuy by ihe spring rama thin year lb anuw ahovola had to be bfmibt oiil of nloruifk aaln for it ty yrmnduy m mr r hwtefit7 bud thn mlaforl una l fall while akatlnn uod broku a ixine in hla loft wrlat rtie ihruo ml rural oinody urn co led by the ai loiidah ukypo in the town halt drew a good at modern o and provldod a aoundld vtmnm a biitnlalnmrol iron dubba waa the pr emulation and provided plenly of aiiloaoiient tliti tarmval put on by th arti nmmltua and atlon hmdnaa menu aaeoiialloii waa a apieiuud biuceaa luat thuiduy ony uia 1 olorful dm orations ljriifjilinid tbla upot witti colored hjfhta and olorful aoodliiftila iklween on und two bundled appeared in eua luiiie huiluxjue boxlnji pnvcl ihe ioiit uinnainv fealort two tium if llocloeua oifii f a eij tf to u buleaiiur botkey mitub thi playela wen- uli lo 1 wtoioe und hit k i iloycd with iio kej allilea m d u aoft bail a iuotiaiii dot a iholnalcd ihl eveot id hrpt lite fuo if liit iotil mldnbjbl alijiii ii xkty learn vjyed w itiuielirjlc ii hull 1 day night and 1 at lo tbt- t ii e of s 2 uikii amjltof at ula late itanlniui j bo iijut a ion oit murulay martb d 1u33 john cinftl iet jpy4jucbfihd wl the lw jeejle r uoiplmtl in hla him yttur iamj1ci1t at the home of hi daujfbei uia itobi liron main it 1 eel anon on monday maireb dtb laaj ithlph malhiaa larnbwh ijtj jvnl biiaband of the late jane tttripbell in bu blb yr professional directory and travellers guide medical dr w g c kenney fhyalclan and hurgcon office in symon uloek mill st acton office ptaon 71 rraldrncc church hi phonr 1m dr d a garrett phyakhun and hurgcon orni r of willow und itlvr su fntranct itlvtr strut dr a i armstrong phyalclan and hurgeea offin lti mill st fjiat phont vm dental a j buchanan dental hnrgeon ainhmnn lllork mil st lo 0pm presbyterian church in canada knox church acton j rfv robert 11 armstrong ma ed mlnuur sunday march 11th 19v 10 00 am church school 1100 am morning worship 12 15 pm bible citm 00 pm ecnmr worh p they that wtnt upon the lord shall retieir their tlrenpth a warm welcome auaits vou tax rates spend ng the nun utterly lost dan of oil dan xt i uhirh you half not once laughed che qftit artnn 3fo f naa ttie oily paper ever published m acton fountied in 1875 and published eery thursday at 56 mill sl e acton onl membet of the audit bureau of circuu uons the c wj4 a and the ontarioquebec division of the c w na advertising rates on request subscriptions pay able in advance s2j0 tn canada s3 50 in the united suites six months si 50 single copie 6c authorized as second class mail post office department ottawa g a thlls editor and publisher business and editorial office telephone 17 4 baptist church acton diikht l patterson pastor parsonart its bower ave united church of canada acton ontario 1 a friendly church i bd i par- orrey ba minister e 29 bower avcnui phone 60 him o m lroprd a t c m orrantit ind choir leader slnday march 11th 181 x hay thu honf mh dr h leib lental surgeon fjffic orni r mill nd fndinck suwta offici hour 9 am i a p m tfi fpiionf iii acton vftfr1nary b d young bvsc c l young dvm eterinary hargeona office brink vdu ontario f hont milton 6sr2l f g oakes b v sr eterinartan 24 kn x leual c f leatheriand itarrialer a ho lie i toe notary pm office ii phone ilea 10 1 acton iever hoskin chartered accoaataitlo soeeebbon ui jfnkinh and haatdt 13 n mi ropolltjo hide 44 vie to lu st t runu r 0 4 0131 albert j crandell bartered accountant inn stni t ocorgetown offi bm fu ivflh iri will nd kn rvenlnai and j11 day saturday hikopkactok d j armstrong doctor of i blropraeuc ii frederick st n phone 550 mikt ellaneoi7h 1 h 1 i vi r s i n ing hi f d i though for th u e thi lai march 12 8 p m pn meeting slda usfh hh 19 10 00 am sundiv school 1100 am morn ng worship 30 pm evening worship 8t0 pm oung peoples inii sunda manrh 22 30 p 1 quartette from college s bapust chu ch toron 1 fa h ha an in hirt it ear present t st alban5 church anglican ralph f price b b bror rfal fstatf am ishirasct wright real estate and insurance i uhk ht s b v right 30 wi h r si 63 macd nn 11 st cinn on cailph rnt fhnfw i hone 49isw valoalon realtor insaror m mber appn ul instilul mt -no- iclph and d it ct kl fnte bard mrrtri oielph and djirict in ranee agenu awe tat on the victor b rumley funeral home funeral home healed akabao ph n 30 night or day son ne th community k 4fi yit olive m lampard atcm hmt organut and choir leader lniud church teacher of plan sluli lnitd church thurwdaya si dir 14 lark ave oulph tfliphose 29d traveuers guide gray coach lines toachfs leave acton eambocnd an it vi a n- 1133 am 1 1 l 1 rr v m 6 33 p m 9li wntbowtd 2 prr 2 3 pan a rr sun v sunday and boll s n4ay and hotl w r seal estate phone 36 i ut our farm bracken canadian natronal ranwat5 ih 1 uf bu zum tabernacle water street georgetown opposite post office pastor bee f m fletcher phone 750w we n te you to worship on sunday at 1100 am and 30 pm you ill enjoy the full gospel message and the lively singing 900 a m 1000 a t 1100 am 1 00 am 00 pm wednesd holv connunion church school beginier clav choraj commun ot evensong aid sermon it mach 18 len en ter facilities in ei uoyd e aaltffe rr no s coelph phone hespeler 01 all welcome 200 mill st acton phone 585 office hours b am 1 pm 530 pjn 9 pm dailv im daily exeepi sim dan l4 am 10 p m sunday onl 6 pm daily except sumv dav fhr a georgelorn 9 03 ajn dad fhff ai georgetown 1011 pm i westbonaj dailv ecept sunday and moo j dav 2 23 am sunday and moodar only 1238 am daily except sub- day a 48 am ajo pm rflagmop 44 pm daily except saturdw and sunday 6 10 pjn saturday oav ly 136 p m sunday only 943 am flagxtop i sunday only fiver st guelph7jpm m