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m plas p tmu presentation dinner hhtryf bwrkmfwl opp report the acton free press wednesday april 26 1967 fl3 at the china inn guelph concluded a course taken at acton high school by employees of micro plastics plant certificates were awarded to mark the completion of a sbx month long training course 32 supervisors fore men laid salaried personnel held a presentation dinner at the china inn guelph presentation of certificates and diplomas was made by l j newton division general manager and k v pepper plant manager of the pipe micro plastics division the coarse consisted of ses sions dealing with plastics technology and modern super vision the course was prepar ed by international correspon dence schools canadian ltd and the modern supervision section had a bve part semin ar the guest for the evening was harold schneu mr schnell was the group leader of the modern supervision course seminar those receiving ics diplo mas in modern supervision were fritz boettcher ijoyd broostad kevin coriray brie felker cam fraser george gidrnan raymond ho glen jackson peter jenkins ned hurley now in montreal mike mcmillan 71m murdoch jack rolfe dave sellers bill speirs gary whitmore har old priest david gamer and paul palmer the plastics part of the course was a selective plan for which no diploma is issu ed by ics for this b p pro duced its own certificate which will be used for future courses the recipients of bp certi ficates were in addition to the above list fred allen roy barsley bill blanch ben cli- mo baldo esch bernie freu- ler norm maher alan ran- dell bonar scoles len sha- kesby and gerry wieck news off the district milton annual reports of milton curling club showed an oper ating loss for the year ended june 30 of 238 and forecast a loss of 1703 for the current year treasurer cec dobie sug gested the clubs financial pos ition could be improved either by increasing the number of members or a fee increase of 10 per year he summed thai the club had met its ex penditures but failed to re duce its outstanding debt secretary e millson report ed 164 active members with sb high school members six soc ial members one junior mem ber and 281 debenture hold ers reporting the club had obtained its liquor license he also noted about 2500 in building changes would have to be carried out in the next two years to meet the require ments chairman bob reed sum med the year up as one of frustrations and joys he cit ed problems with the machin ery as among the frustrations and the welcoming of 22 new members among the joys georgetown a 253367 contract has been awarded to whitney construc tion brampton for the build ing of georgetowns second separate school this site is on pennington cres in the towns east end and the school will be named st francis of assis- si separate school there are eight classrooms and a large general purpose room with auditorium erin an increase of 1361580 in equalized assessment is listed in the first report of assess ment commissioner ian w mcclung which was adopted bv neighboring wellington count v council the total fig ure was 53094805 which in cudes crown propem aluat- ion of 366400 added to the general figure of 52 728405 because of annexation of ar eas to the village of enn ad justment was made of 35 700 from erin township fergus still has the greatest amount of assessment being listed at 6330870 followed by peel township with 4270- 988 nearlv equal are erin township 3735988 and pus- linch township 3735808 era- mosa has 3313906 minto has 3149450 and mount forest 4 has 3096175 the remainder are listed at lower than three million the four towns in the coun ty have a total of 13328870 in equalized asssessment namely fergus 6330370 har- riston 1931775 mount forest 3096175 and palmerston 1- 970050 there are five villages to talling 5601800 in assess ment i namely arthur 1- 265930 clifford 589670 dray ton 605720 elora 1341780 and erin 1058700 the 12 townships total 34- 704135 in equalized assess ment as follows arthur 2- 527850 eramosa 3313960 er- 2409825 guelph 2768065 in 3735988 west garafraxa west luther 1611135 mary borough 3207710 minto 3- 149450 nichol 2179970 peel 4270988 pilkington 1793440 and puslinch 3735808 glen williams a centennial cairn with the old glen williams school bell will be erected in front of the glen school as part of the villages active centennial cele brations to the accompaniment of bands and parades the cairn will be unveiled june 24 a member of the eaton family has been asked to unveil the cairn but as yet they have re ceived no confirmation the centennial committee howev er did receive a donation from the family to cover some of the centennial celebrations timothy eaton began his retail business career in glen williams another successful centen nial project is well underway this one an essay contest open to all school children in the glen williams area the sub ject must be glen williams 1867 1967 burlington provincial police here brattl ed a sigh of relief as an expect ed mil he tieup failed to mater lalize one lane of traffic over the bus burlington skvwa was losod lor repairs last week and police were prepared for the worst but a 15 mile trattic back up never came about small tieups were re ported hut nothing was ser ious and police praised motor ists for thou cooperation the skwvix resurfacing pro gram will continue to the end of june just one headon crash was reported dunnc the first week of the repair pro gram when traffic going both was over the budge was chan ndlcd into two lanes oakville while other municipalities in halton and peel counties draft ed their replies long ago to the plunkett commissions needs studx of the two counties oak die received permission for a late replv njavor mtlean an derson and two town officials were expected to deliver the report to toronto some time this week their answer suggests anv re gional government should be based on creek watersheds and favors the singlet tier form of regional government oakville is a member of the halton re gion conservation authontv whose jurisdiction covers the 12 and 16 mile creek water sheds in nine municipalities the only wife of a us pres ident to have her portrait on currency was martha wash ington her picture appeared on 1 silver certificates series 1886 1891 and 1896 k three hotels once in or near pad armed robbers steal taxi miss beatrice hilts again dips into her reminiscences of baomafad and came up with this interesting story about early hotels and the mill miss huts also told the free press another article will follow by miss beatrice wits in the year 1819 and early 1820s settlers first came to this district each built a log cabin and lived in them with bush all around some wolves and black bears roamed am ong the trees little by little the land was cleared and some kind of crop here five teams of horses with a wagon or sleigh could be accommodated at one time above this shed and joined to the house was a large hall which was never used as fa back as i can r grown a small hamlet sprang up on the town line between es- quesing and erin townships on the seventh line thomas merry a native of ireland gave ballinafad its name in earlier writings i have described someproperties on the north side of the town line and west of the seventh line also the store on the north corner this time i will write ab out hotels in early years there were three hotels in or near ballinafad one was on the erin side on a lot between the store and the brick cottage it was a me diumsized two storey frame building when i saw it in the 1880s mr and mrs gartley with ed lucy harry and ed ith used it for a home after a few years they mo ved to georgetown later on the building was taken down another one supposed to be the first one and operated by mr john frank was on the east corner of the tad no doubt this was a log build ing i will describe the hotel as i remember it in the 1880s it was on the east corner of ballinafad at the top of es- quesing township county of halton it was a two storey frame building one door facing the seventh line led into a hall with a di ning room and a kitchen on the left a door on the right side led into a sitting room another outside door led to a sitting room with a bar back of it a verandah with a cement floor ran all along the front with a well and pump in front of that three or four steps at the lower end led down to an open shed member no d6ubt the reason was the temperance hall had been in use for some years just south of the shed and hall was a barn with a hay loft mr archie thompson was the owner mrs thompson gave good meals to travellers and also provided a bed when required they had one daughter mag gie who- was a few grades ahead of me at blue mountain school she became a music tea cher gave lessons at her home also had a class in ac ton one day a week she drove a horse and buggy in summer and a cutter in win ter she was organist in the presbyterian church for some years a short distance below the barn but otr the roadside was a weigh scale i believe a group of farmers helped to get it put there so when a load of hay or anything else needed to be weighed it was taken there and the wagon and load weighed then later the empty wagon was weigh ed each one paid a small sum and mr thompson re ceived a small fee for his work this was continued for some years when it was no longer needed the platform was re moved and the opening filled in around 1984 mr thompson sold to mr and mrs win- ship they remained a couple of years then sold to mr and mrs mcleod who had two children they were there two or three years when they sold to mr mccarthy one evening in august 1912 a fire got started and as wa ter was very scarce all these buildings went up in flames fortunately it had rained all day and continued to rain so everything was soaked there was an east wind which blew the flames in the direc tion of the cemetery mr peter fergusons house blacksmith shop and barn had to be watched lest a spark catch somewhere the land remained unused until mr james kirkwood got the idea he woirid like to build a chopping mill on this property in august 1931 he bought the land from mr mc- carty and began building in youre 67 apply for old an extra 40000 persons in ontario will become eligible for old age security pension in january 1968 and so should be making application at this time these are the people who will reach 67 by the end o this calendar year canad ian citizenship is not required for eligibility mr j g parsons regional director of old age security for ontario stated that appli cations from persons born in the year 1900 have been very slow coming in to the ontario regional office less than 3000 or 7 7 percent were received by the end of march old age security applica tions along with an explana tory booklet may be obtained from any post office and should be sent to the regional director of old age security 25 st clair avenue east to ronto 7 ontario since ansap- plicant must prove age birth or baptismal certificates should be sent in with the ap plication if such documents cannot be submitted the appli cation should be completed and sent to the regional of fice with a note explaining this year age security why the required certificates cannot be obtained the reg ional office will then assist the applicant to find other evi dence of age the age at which old age security pension becomes pay able is being reduced each year until by january 1970 pay ment may be made to persons who are as young as 65 as long as they fulfil the residence re quirements limehouse recent visitors in weeks news visitors mr and mrs john hackett and mr and mrs armand bu- joid from atholville njb with the hacheys a few days ago mrs gisby was hostess for a tupperware demonstration on thursday evening the ted browns visited dr and mrs stuart magewood in guelph on sunday how much is missing from the profile of protection on your boat you dont have to go over board fo get complete insurance protection for your boat at safeco with a safeco policy a good skipper gets everything he needs to keep things shipshape insurance wise in one package we ii insure you for boat motor equipment liability and medical expenses on land at sea 12 months a year you have full protection renewed automatically too as long as premiums are paid when due see us today dennys insurance agency 17 mim st e aden 530150 residences bill 8532645 harold s532565 insurance whehe youht treated like a rmswsqnhot a aulmath september of that year he and his wife were keep ing store in the fad at this time his brother donald helped put up the mill and had it operating in december that same year what a wonderful conven ience this was for the farmers of this district no more long drives with a team a wagon or sleigh to acton stewart- town terra cotta or erin to get their grain chopped for their stock in winter it was cold in spring not good sleighing nor good for the wagon either on some country roads w snow still remained snow plows are a more modern in vention in 1936 mr kirkwood sold the store to mr a r merri- am who with his wife and sons grant and grey moved in in october that year mr and mrs kirkwood and young james moved into part of the stone house just east of the store with miss annie shortill living in the other half in 1941 an extension was built on the south end of the mill this was for cleaning and treating seed grain farm ers who had a fanning mill us ually cleaned their own grain and treated it too to kill the smut germ in the spring of 1939 jim began building a two storey house with all conveniences on the lower part of the pro perty and moved into it from miss short ills house in nov ember of that year jn june 1955 he sold the millto mr john black -but- continued to live in the house till january 1956 when they moved to georgetown they had a girl shirley younger than her brother then mr and mrs john black with bobbie and billie moved in the mill is a busy place and usually requires two men as considerable trucking is done for some years tractors have been used on farms and since roads have been kept open by snow plows tractors are used to haul wagons of grain to the mill to be chop ped or cleaned sleighs are not used and very few have a team horses are an intelli gent animal so farmers be came very fond of them some weeks ago a sign for sale was placed on the mill recently it was replaced by another sold on the first of may 1967 mr ford of the eighth line enn township will take over the mill in ballinafad during the period april 16 to 22 personnel of the milton detachment ontario provin cial police worked a total of 933 hours and patrolled a total of 8607 miles on area high ways as a result of patrol 63 traffic charges were preferred 74 traffic violation warnings were issued 118 vehicles were safety checked and 60 convic tions were registered there were three propertv damage accidents and two per sonal injury accidents investi gated resulting in five persons being injured and approxim ately 3200 in property dam age causes of accidents were speed too fast right of way impaired driving and careless driving there were 44 general oc currences investigated includ ing the following- 1 armed robbery where ask county grant hospital 1830000 halton county council has been asked to provide a grant of 1830000 at 6000 per bed to assist in a 9300000 305- bed extension to joseph brant memorial hospital in burling ton the cost would be borne bv the countys grant plus 1070- 000 from the town of burling ton 6100000 from the provin cial and federal governments and 300000 from the board of governors final approval has yet to be received from the on tario hospital services com mission the countys finance com mittee is awaiting that approv al before deciding on the grant the 6000 per bed is the usual county grant for hos pital expansions and construc tion programs boats two persons hired a taxi in hamilton and drove into nas- sagaweya twp where the driv er was robbed and the taxi stolen the taxi was recovered the following day in chingua- cousy twp area this investi gation is continuing 1 robbery with violence in nassagaweya twp involving three persons from guelph who have been arrested and charged 1 fraud involving the pass ing of a bad cheque at norval 1 investigation into the passing of counterfeit money at mohawk raceway l 1 malicious damage inves- gation where an outdoor sign at cedar springs motel on highway 7 was broken by toncs thrown by juveniles 2 persons arrested for bur lington police dept i erratic driver removed from the highway and charged 2 juve missing and both latcrlocated 5 premises found insecure at night 2 liquor seizures resulting in three persons being charged under the liquor control act other occurrences were of a minor nature during this penodtwo es corts were supplied for cen tennial caravans travelling in milton detachment area ac cording to c j parkinson ser geant in charge of the detach ment l as near as 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