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thobselay july dth i9m the acton free press acton ontario paoe seven seeking a home see this weeks special in town too rve rooms completely remodelled with bath kitchen cup boards roughcast dwelling with three extra lots with good garden soil lots of room and sunshine for the children to run around on good county mam road close to highway and near to school still in the low price class 6 000 00 for appointment to view teuphone 95 f l wright real estate and insurance 20 wilbur st acton canadian in tha uk historic scotland abounds in lore and magnificent natural beauty by abe 8 prowl tktcc months hove gone by quickly and to date i have travel red through 39 of england s 41 counties only herefordshire and sussex remain unvisited along with wales 12 counties since the last writing i have tra veiled into scotland and spent the last three weeks there returning to attend the royal show july 6 to 9 it windsor the three counties show held at gloucester tor here fordshire gloucestershire worcest ershire june 8 9 and 10 was a wash out as it teamed ram all three days june ii i left cheltenham train for scotland it was an smooth sailing to quick results and we do the pulling smooth sailing to quick results thats the story and effect in a nutshall free press want ads are your answar for thosa littla problems of need salesmanship or even swap our little salesman can ba hired by you for only a few cants then watch them go to work theyll set rent find trade inform ust about whatever you want them to do theyre the small but powerful group of workers we call classifieds look first to the classifieds or want ads when you want to find or sell something fast just give us a call tell us the kind of worker you want and well do the rest the acton free press telephone 174 day journey commencing at 1q a j ng at berwick on tweed at 8 15 p m from cheltenham the train travelled through the large ndustnal cities of birmingham and sheffield the train goes by miles of factories and blist furnaces met by friend from sheffield on to derby and york the country is level much tht same is lincolnshire but becomes more rolling near newcastle the conl town fr m ntwcastle to ber wick on tweed the tram travels qu u close to the sea at berwick on tweed i was met by mrs gra him roger and graham the scoi tish young firmer who stayed at our home last year while m tht young farmers exchange vist to ontario graham was married april 2 to i miss margaret cuthill a frfc coun ty girl who comes from a farm near st andrews in fife county graham lived previously near cu par fife with his father and moth er but since getting married the have a 400 acre firm near duns berwickshire he keeps 140 cattle mostly aberdeen angus has sb acres of barley six acres of potat oes 14 acres of winter wheat 23 acres of turnips three acres of su gar beets 10 acres of beans graham like most scottish farm era keeps sheep 200 ewes speak mg of sheep scotland is a country with more sheep than human be ings seven million sheep to six million people the labor employ ed at greenrigs the year round ti seven men and three part time wo men while at greenrigs graham and margaret went back to fife to attend a young farmers field day near newfourgh right along the ta river from duns you tiavel to edin burgh which is 55 miles north west of duns the world fimous forth bridge is over a mile and a half long thus giant structure look 8vt years to build and on two occasions during the wir the german air force tried to bomb it a it is a railway bridge with four tracks icross it after the crois ng wo travelled to kirk cildj then true north to newburg more canadians it was here at this field day i met renovating the two ontario junior girls on the exchange visit mnrie eeker of wentworth county and barbara redner of prince edward county they were the first can adians except george julian i met since arriving the first of april it was by complete ac cident as i had no idea where they were staying however dick hil- liard secretary of the ontario jun ior farmers association said in a recent letter to me the intended itacting me while in britain i did not know either of them pre- to coming to britain but used to tht i mes the when we say the best in lumber and building materials we mean just that when renova tions are in order you can be as sured that acton woodcrafts can supply your needs promptly and efficiently phone mf nukw ontario the best in firmer news the highlight of the dny s events cime in the evening at the dance thit concluded the field daj in the presentation of a wedding present t graham and margaret we stay ed it mirgartts parents farmdur int the week end before returning lo duns while staying at graham and mirgaret s we went back to edinburgh one day a cit idmittcd by all who have been there to be one of the loveliest cities in eur ope perhaps the most striking fea tun of the city is the wa in which it so readily displays itself to the stroller ilong princess street the magnificent thoroughfare which ra bounded on one side b fine shops ind on the other by lawns and gardens these dum off to perfection the romantic back ground of the castle the dominat ing feature of the city whicn stands on a ridge of rock falling a sheer 270 feet into the gardens be low from the castle i took pictures of the city it was a bright day and on a clear day one can see a wide view of the firth of forth the shorts of fife and the distant out line of the highlands at the castle i visited he small room whore miry queen of scots gave birth lo ie r jon jamec- sccs queens home other places of interest we went to in edinburgh were the pilace of holnxdhousc the residence of the reigning monarch wnen visiting edinburgh hoi rood wis founded b david i in 1128 occupied bj mir queen of scots and b bon mo pnnco chailes in 1745 while in edinburgh another da i climbed the 287 teps of the 200 fool scott monument n prince street the monument is con structed of binnic stone from lin lithtfowshiro it is a stone that has natural oils in it to prcservi it i left greenrigs on june 24 for dumfries b rail in order to do this i had to travel from berwick on eed back down to newcastle n across engl ind to carlisle n on to dumfries if one travels north or south rail service is good but to cross country it is very dif ftcult making train connections it here at dumfries from june 22 to 25 that scotland s i19th highland show was held also the 14th time to be held in dumfries a town of 26700 including maxwellton on the west side of the river nith 72 acre show the attendance figure for all four days was 113919 as compared with 56 043 in 1938 the lart time held in dumfries over 3 000 extra people stacd in dumfru maxwellton during the four days i mj ancestor of the shon the show ground of tin hout covered 72 seres ind each da j the re i dumfriesshire poll tingents f m iamrkshi carlisi cit pil in a series your hrdro at work for you and yours your hydro key service in a new community from 1947 to december 1953 the num ber of new dwelling units built in ontario was 183 515 each required an average of 1 v kilowatts of electricity a total of 229000 kilowatts or 307000 horse power these homes didnt have to wait for hvdrosenice crews vere stringing lines before the homes were completed hdro was there before the door ke to meet this demand ontario hvdro and our local municipal system must plan far into the future power projects must be started years before their immediate need arises so that new homes new schools new shopping centres new mum cipal services and new industries all have power when and where required lowcost power that is the keynote of modem hung ontario hydro at work for you and yours intormabon concerning ontario hydro can be obtained by writing to your hydro chairman 620 university avenue toronto slmb phots ripples under the bridge with the four ontario juniors mr marritt agricultural representative of wentworth count harold bak er assistant agricultural rtprcs enlative of huron count formerly assistant in wentworth and hallon counties along with the other canadians on their toui the second daj i attended i met mr and mrs s g bennett it the ovcrbtis travellers also m i them two dajs later it was quite a meclinj plice for cmadiaits on young firmers dij i met prictie illj all the young firmer who have been over to ontario in tht last few ye iin n iiic fleming run dalglish ian middle ton graham hoer aim j ihn on andrew uarr and root tt th nixmm main hil ton juni rs re nit mbe r bod thomson hi liod with dive ielletteno end h ivwin huitiell when in hillon tint veir tour in taxis on the hsl di of the slww the eikht domini n young us of the ir we members of the w e lcomed at the municipal build ing in the morning bj tht provost later a flcel ot lax is look in on i tour of the town we vim ted first iht museum later tht hou e where robert burns lived the lost ears of his lift and d ed dumfries is truly robert burns town the town ht lived and died in while al dumfries mr and mrs jim hohcrncss gerald stidoll of south rhodesia and 1 wtnl one d iv dove n into the lovely lake dat- tncl of cumberland county here is some of the most staggering scenery of all england mountains ranging from 1 000 feel lo 3210 feet mount scafell england s highest the day wis ele ir and the tour of us enjojesd it verj much searches for ancetrtora i left dumfries for glasgow in ther two hour tn n ride the pur nd pose of the trip was to try tiid fine mi fathers t rf pt nt four dij- i the rogurtrv of t glip w paislej john motherwell him ii i cum d reeled double i bi rhnd ik the i l offices a k ir egistntioi great grandfither scotch block fsxjik ire is but w i ui f ind com pul iory b rth mrr if s iiimmi mid n thai n is pi r cbij ri filed w th th in edinburgh it ve u m y mv streams f car from the norti west south iid u t t cir pirks whit impressed m mast at the roval highland sh w wis the bu rifl tableau parjd of 2fi vehicles whicn was staged wice a day 120 performers took part the parade w is led b rtalisticall c ntructcd replica of burns birthplace the auld clay bigg- n at allow a and i nded w th i com iv lal pjrtv s ng ing auld lang syne registration n sc lland begin at the rojal h ghland show todaj glasg were man canadians well known quarltr million people is the larg to hilton people aside- from the est c t of scotland the second four ontario juni r farmers i met city of the united k ngdoi the two young alberta farmers i m underground railway only here on the exchange visit to eng i london and glasgow have under id and soctland dor two months ground mlwayi however the one clydeside the ship building ard which tie on both sides of the clyde for miles fift thousand men are ployed at clydeside and ten thousand of those work at john brown and co ltd builders of the queen marv and queen elizabeth mountains farms together while on this cruise i saw the 12000 ton oil tinker which princess alexandri of kent launched it wis built b john brown ind co ltd tailed bv greenock where at lintic piwngt rs embark and dis embark cilled it dunoon then rothesiv the clvde is beautiful the i rth idc nl a i countrv on the south side and farm hiid right li the wilcrs edge it w is inde e d i w onde rful daj while at glasgow i visited a firm neir glisgne that herman arnsin ind bill cairns were on list voir i left glasgow for loi dm trivelling to carlisle i ancast er preston to crewe then on to ondon over the same route the bill trim took april i the ihree weeks stiy in scol lind was most enjoyable it is cer tunly i lind of romance and dance ind not just a mere extension of fngland which is a joke the eng rsh tell on the scotch you should see i scotsman jump about if you tell htm that you are under the impression tint scotland is a mere extension of england also are there any rulwiys that run beyond glasgow and edinburgh tht nuf field foundation has arranged a motor boat cruise of the thames and next week i will be attending the royal show at windsor bill sterner and mabel rasmersoi i learned mabel was the province of alberta s nominee for the lord nuffield scholarship she said she would like to see kea elhson of bc the western canadian winner who defeated her along with the saskatchewan and manitoba prov inces nominees ken did not attend due to the car acciderl others i ie just on e 1 nt whereas man r nan 1 ncs glasgow i went on a use dowt i the clde wharf in the cily to glasgoa london ha while in steamer ct from bndf the island of bute glasgow the boat people and there we six hour cru i hree hours rothesav then tw hours i short were dr high d rector of the back to giasg w tht steam r diploma course oac ails from the bridge wharf past 1 000 ml lorne garner motors ltd 2minsmt acton ont phof 5 j toth service station 45 main street acton ont phona 452 volley authority survey starts mon last monday the ontario de partment of planning and develop mtnt commenced the consorva- ti in survc of the credit watc shed this will be under the super vision of the chief conservation en gineer of the department a h richirdson field pirtus consisting of stud tnts ind gnduates of ontario uni vrsities will work under direction of permanent officers of the con st rvition branch they will be working from a temporary camp it georgetown from july 5 until the li er september when the credit valley conserva turn authority was established a few weeks ago under the conserva tion authorities act one of its first lets was to ask the provincial gov ernment for a survey of the land drained bv the credit river and ita tributaries and a report describing soil water forestry wildlife condi tions and potentialities for recrea tion when the survey is complete findings and recommendations re garding these renewable resources will be prepared and submitted to the authority by the department of planning and development th authnrit n composed of repre sentatives of all the municipalities dnmed all or in part bv the credit river svstem similar authorities were previous iv set up nn tht grand river lo the wt and the etobicokemimlco and humber to the east some of the municipalities on the credit are al rtadv r presented and are familiar with the work of thes bodies and reports f surveys on the water sheds the first evidence of activ itv will be the rrection of th camp fell m ed won after bv a fleet of blue trucks with the conservation bnnch and department and prm in cial insignia in while on their tide when tht trucks drive out of the camp at eight in the morning the w ill tarrv fieldme n eventually to all the road in the watershed the men ran b id ntified bv chrome badges ith the department desig nati in and will be found on foot in the woodlots f i ids and streams hvdraulir msimir wnh r ds live ard i pd w to n is a the gradient nf strean s soil special his with augers will be examining the toil rorei rs will be cr using hi u ndiots and otologists will be examining ih life in the streams their finds are plotted on aerial photographs of the watershed and al ng with all available data of soil and statistics relating to resources will bt compiled in the report to be issued later