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r thursday january 5th 1056 the acton free press acton ontario page three give you home a complete cleaning have us clean your drapes and slip covers give finishing sparkle to furnishing clothes phone today for pickup and delivery at your convenience phone 272 custom cleaners main st n prepare zoning in georgetown in process for almost a year a draft of an official zoning plan for georgetown was presented at last wooke c meet by jrepfc entatives of town planning- con sultants dr e g faludis firm which was authorized early in 1955 to make a survey of the town the plan suggested that george town take initial steps to form a planning board by petitioning the department of planning and dev elopment to establish a planning area m georgetown council follow ed this advice and has made the necessary contact with queens park the draft plan was held over for study at a later council meeting as time did not permit discussion oh it at the meeting mayor armstrong explained that a plannmg board would be comp osed of two councillors and either two four or sx appointees i stokelys fancy apple juice 20 oz tins 2 for 19c cudney choice halves peaches liptons chicken noodle soup mix iga choice tomatoes 20 or tin 19c 5 pkgs 56c 20 oz tin 19c clover valley hinlo cheese slices 8 oz pkg 19 ga deluxe 100 pure instant coffee 2 oz jar 56 johnsons wax super hardgloss glocoat pint tin 56 i ga with pectin raspber or strawberry i1u raspberry iga tablerite pure lard oak leaf choice cut wax beans 9 oz jars 3 for 56c 1 lb pkg 19c 20 oz tins 4 for 56c combination feature i a 15 oz tin of york beef stew and a 12 oz tin of york bologna both for 56c swiffs premium ontario genuine spring lamb legs half or whole ib 56 burns shamrock lean rindless stdrrbacon fresh young sliced pork liver lean rib u boiling beef combination feature 1 lb lean stewing beef and mb beef kidneys 1 ib pkg 56c ib 19c lb 19c all for 56c california new crap seedless navel oranges florida crisp green pascal celery stalks taxes snow white cauliflower california iceberg crisp solid lettuce size 288s doz 35c large size 2 for 19c large head 29c jumbo heads 2 for 27c florida no 1 marsh seedless grapefruit size 96t 045c frozen foods tersio today is to 225 booth brand cq3a fish sticks 10 oz pkg pictsweet oz pkgs 33c 35c ledgers iga planning costs cut 40 percent planning costs in the burlington and suburban area which includes burlington nelson waterdownand fact flamhnm were jus 60 per cent of the amount budgeted for at the beginning of 1955 robert serena secretary reported at the december meeting qf the planning board the saving was brought about by the fact it was not necessary to call in the consultant p alan dea con since early in the year as a result of the saving each of ftl bills for the fourth quarter pay ment which is based on population in addition there will be refunds on the third quarter for those whose payments have been made deputy reeve fred c atkinson informed burlington council rec ently of this saving but as yet all councils in the area have not receiv ed official notification the board budgeted for 7000 but actually spent only 3970 ap proximately 60 per cent of the figure mr serena reported with a population of 30000 in the area he said the cost was about 13 cents a person ratepayers interests every ratepayer owts it to him self and to his family to familiar ize himself with the zoning propos als brought forward by our plan ners oakvilletrafalgar ont journal needs expert inotice where the cnr has ac quired a learned man from the defence research board to do a similar job research it hasheen suggested thotjns first research could be devoted to discovering how to put on a pair of pants in an upper berth barrie ont exam iner spotlight on the district new s items of interest gleaned from the newspapers of the district nelson building is six million doubles all previous records with december figures still in complete building values in nelson township have doubled those of last year and exceeded the record year 1953 by more than 2000000 to set an alltime record for the for the year were 6257102 comp ared with 3129283 in 1954 and 3915282 in- 1953 this year has seen the great ex pansion in nelsons growth accord ing to figures revealed by brace asjicroft township building in spector ih this growth were per mits for 548 residential units valu ed at 4878000 compared with 334 last year arid 342 in 1953 new home permits in 1954 reach ed a value of 2600988 while in 1953 342 permits showed a total value of 3 141975 industrial expansion also set a new record with eight permits for new construction totalling 581500 frank mcniven new halton commissioner frank mcniven assessment com missioner for milton was elected the 1956 chairman of the halton county assessment association at the monthly meeting held recently in milton william dukes assistant assess ment commissioner for trafalgar became the new secretary early in 1956 it was decided at the meeting a complete list of land values in halton county will be published the evangel is christ acton ministerial association our week of prayer january 9th- 13th theme evangelism finding and saving the lost monday8 p m st alban s anglican church evangelism rev k reid tuesday- 8 p m knox presbyterian church the evangelism of christ- rev g s j adams wednesday8 pm knox jtgsbytenan church god the loser man the lost pastor r costerus y thursday8 pm acton baptist church man found by christ i rev r groeneboer friday8 pm acton united church call to evangelism- rev r h armstrong 5 choirs of the participating churches will provide special music each evening mt clings will be under the leadership of other local clergy pray come invite others thousands visit coronation park during the past summer 61000 people visited trafalgar townships coronation park b c a cumber land chairman of the township parks commission has announced this is an increase of between 4000 and 5000 over the previous sum mer the park was an extremely pop ular place for church and organiz ational picnics and bookings for a number of such events have al ready been made for the coming summer about an acre of swamp land at the park has been tilled in said mr cumberland there will be a water supply there next sum mor the base line park which was opened last summer as a con servation park has been proving popular as a weekend camping place for scouts and other groups some time after the first of the year the commission will submit to the township council a brief on township parks as some day they are going to be big business and the council and the parks commission should be ready for it we an going to need more equipment chronicles ginger f written specialty for the actoe rree pret b gweneeune rjoletke oakville kiwanians obtain audiometer forharlton ps pupils members of oakville kiwanis club at their weekly dinner meet ing held recently were told by president gordon snyder that the club s nut campaign had proved an outstanding success although figures werent final re turns received up to that time were not far short of 2 000 indicating that the net profit on sales would likely be in the region of 700 this will enable the club to realize that the objective behind the campaign purchase of an audiometer to test the hearing of public school pupils throughout halton county dial exchange contract given wylie construction brampton has been awarded cdmrnct for con struction of a dial telephone ex change building in streetsviile it has been announced the new building on the north side of pearl between broadway and queen sts will be started shortly timeconsuming work on installation of complex dial switch ings apparatus will then follow before the new service can commence all telephones must be replaced or adapted for use in the dial system and the network of wire and cable now serving the area will also have to be adapted and cxttndtd as was the case in the milton changeovtr recently iheeh wii a war a 5t iiiiiiiliiitiil jmoppets can punch the pillow scramble the sheets and bunch the blankets but when the war is over texmade is the winner long wearing beautiful texmade sheets are the choice of r homemakcrs scot plain fitted colou o jget every bedroom in your home a showroom with texmade sheets fours for years -ill- j0mh sow cjf empmaw dominion tixtile company limited its all over now the chrlstmaa tree stripped of its trimmings the gay glass ornaments carefully wrap ped and put away strings of color ed lights bereft of illumination packed in their proper boxes and the needledropping tree thrown on the woodpile or in some cases out with the garbage poor little tree such a short while ago we joy ously brought you into the house decked your green branches with glittering baubles and then further enhanced tthe glitter by tiny elec tric lights you were very lovely little tree and served a good pur pose so i hope you are not feeling too badly because your period of brightness was so brief yours was a short life but a gay one in every home you were the symbol of good will and laughter but now with the new year we must discard you as we pick up again the threads of ordinary everyday life carrying with us happy memories of family gatherings stacks of greeting cards and perennial letters at ginger farm our letters and cards included greetings from read ers of this column 1 love to get your messages of cheer and ehcourage- ment writing this column would be a lonesome sort of job were it not for you my readers so keep your letters coining friends i love them every one but during a spe cial season like this 1 hope you will forgive me if i reply through this column answering a lot of letters at one time set ms to be more than i can manage glencoe render advises me to feed our cats a little flaxseed thank you for the tip glencoe it sounds like a good one kenora you will know by now that our little grandson is greatly tmproed there were no catnaps for him over christmas sleep in the davtimt not he he might miss somi thing thank ou for all your kind inquiries and good wishes we hope you will be feeling much bet- ttr during the coming year writer that was a grand let ter i hae a feeling you have what it takes and i am sure you always make a success of whatever you set out to do writing or any thing else i dont think you need much advice from me once you are properly settled you should do well i too subscribed to donald french s magazine and found it verv helpful mrs f so you are going to drive the family car that seems like an excellent idea especially if you make that visit you mention start driving now before you get any older and you will learn that much easier irish our letter was most in- t resting your music the old fam ily homi and vour cats and dogs sum to proide vou with a full and satisfy ing life i am sure vou never know what it is to be bored why should vou laving as we nil do in the most interesting and progress- ie period history has ever known i cannot see why anyone at any time should suffer from boredom i am sure that your talents your active mind and hands help you to forget to some exit nt the pain you sufft r w itli those aching joints illinois our letter and greet ings wt re ery welcome it wai nice to hear from vou again later on i will repv mnn fully at the mom ent i am particularly busy david xptcts to go to hospital again soon this time for the removal of tonsils and ad noids the foregoing w ill i hope take rare of riplits to letters for the time bring but in addition to the letters i would also like to thank thost who remembered us with greeting cards it was no nice to get them and to know we have so many unseen friends but i w tinder whajt happ nett co our friends the mya- ttnous mr x i was certainly likking for a c ini with hn classic signal urt among our family letters was an a rogramiru from partners bro ther in australia lit was not ex- ptrting his sons home for christ mas is th v wn both in new giiiiii a iist ar when we heard from him th od st lov had just returm d after two years in the ant arctic tiles clarkis stem to get around don t thev how strange to spt nd c nrisimas in a country like australia with the thermometer around km degrees i must ask them how thev celebrate would itu like a good suggestion for the new year that u if you have a lot of un named and un- datttl photographs as we had one night i got out the whole collect ion and hen sorted them and put them ml tnvrlopes labelled ac cording to families with each pho- jograph named anoj dated -frnarate- ly this idta came to me while i i was doing some historical research and found families with stacks of photos whom no one could identify quite suddenly i realized the same thing could apply in our family once partner and i were gone be yond recall and so got busy it takes only a little while try it yourselves and if tm not lafrtn you will t quit a lot of fan and enjoyment out of doing the job rrrr mrjitmit lny5tl