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ujv tijrtyw t wc vii6f kwaiiif needed senior citizens and families who find iheir present accommodation in adequate would be well advised to procure and fill out the questionnaire regarding public rental housing in ac- ion questionnaires are being circu lated to most of the tenants living in jacton but if you are missed by all means contact the municipal office for one it is ironic that in the midst of a residential building surge in the town there should be a need for additional housing but its quite evident prices on houses being constructed here are well beyond the reach of the average wage earner few people in acton can afford to fork out 18000 ard up for an or dinary size house its unlikely there will be any drop in prices in the for- seeable future with spiralling toronto prices setting the pace people in the metropolitan toron to area are forced out of the city and suburbs by high prices to the smaller surrounding centres they will be the purchasers of most of the new houses being built in acton with a sprinkling here and there of present actonians consequently the need for some cheaper form of housing continues to grow a public rental housing program could alleviate the situation particular- ly for senior citizens and couples with large families minimum rent for public housing will be 32 per month but rents will be geared to total family income re gardless of the size of accommodation rent charged will include sferyice charg- es for heat hot and cold water stove and refrigerator public housing for families would probably be of twostory and either of row or semidetached design we feel there is a real need for measures like this at this time and urge- everyone who is in need of decent commodious accommodation to fill out a questionnaire without delay jfrtt fts editorial pag ckarlej tfeea ui a aticr charlie de gaulle stirred up quite a storm during his visit and abrupt de- parture from the province of quebec recently he managed with the aid of a gallery of separatists to antagonize most of ihe country rile his compatriots at home and grab valuable publicity that is worth millions newspapers who wouldnt ordin arily run a line on canada unless we had a revolution or the aaounties went on strike yodelling rose marie ran reams of copy on de gaulles speeches to the lower canadians of all the comments on charlies inflammatory speeches in the daily press the one most appealing was scott youngs assessment in the globe and mail it runs counter to the usual argu ments you hearbut3r nfeertls to make the most sense he says de gaulles remarks might have raised the apoplexy meter in some people to new heights but he was relatively unaffected then mr young proceeds to say why is he planning to send troops to free quebec no just ideas and moral support does he dispute the validity of canada as an entity no except that he says french canadians do not live in liberty equality and fraternity over the whole length and breadth of the nation would anybody like tp rise and say that they do did prime minister tester pear sons yearsago phrase two nations really fall short in essence of what gen de gaulle has said in the past 10 days f vthe- separatists in themselves are only a few but millions of quebeckers wrte are not separatists do feel that in a centennial picture gaueiu mxma t statham and sons bake shop was on mill st about where the ab sup ermarket is now while his home and baking premises were on church st both these pictures taken in 1900 were lent by miss luena campbell of georgetown for this series standing at the door of the bake shop are ger trude statham mrs roy burling and ada johnston mrs george campbell the door on the left leads to the re sidence of mrs ifnnii smith and daughter edith and tairn may be one of the children in high button boot and hat baker statham in the bottom picture stands in his white apron in the driveway beside his home where his granddaughter mrs lucy edwards walters lives now driving the delive ry wagon at the front is son harry while the other driver coming with a load out of the driveway is perhaps son george one of the ladies stand ing by the fence is perhaps mrs ed wards knox mesbyttrian church opened and dedicated with impressive cerem onies in february 1895 is an impress ive landmark in acton it was erected when the old kirk became too small the first presbyterian church a frame structure was erected in 1 846 by scot tish settlers from inverness and aber deen and they left a heritage which re mains to this day nurtured by their de scendants sugar and spice by bill smiley this is the other winner intbesmlley- toexpo contest according to mr smiley this column was ate of the first to arrive and just kept bouncing back in to the finals by edwin w mills hamilton ontario the subject is pheasants and i live on an island in the muskokas to which spot i came some five weeks ago together with a car full of the usual clotting food etc and perched on top of every thing a carton containing two cock pheasants one aspect or another they do not get the same break throughout canada as englishspeaking canadians when this belief exists im with those who contend that if the country ever is to make it united the existence on the belief is the important matter not the validity of the belief or whose fault it is if your brother has a pain that makes him groan do you tell him hes off his nut mr young does not mention the generals bad manners in sounding off in a country where he is a guest in a way that was offensive to the majority but we cant help but agree in essence with most of his remarks perhaps unwittingly de gaulle has supplied the remedy for what ails us criticism from abroad perhaps will make us see canadians of all nation alities that we have something very precious here and it would be far more advantageous to all concerned to work at it not knock it a manitoba editor who said not to use his name reports that down in chi cago there is a wonderful bar named the office it is for husbands who just cant stand lying to the wife the acton free press phone 8532010 business and editorial office founded in ii7s and initelillmd i wllfrilla i s wilk si actun oatano member of us audit bureau uf cirktflaltcm tfce onna arad 0na adnimg rate on request swlmcrfcp- lion paabw m tdxinrc mad ml camda lj00 ui ll countrw other tsaml cartada amar re 10c aulhorucd at secoad claw mail tau ofhct department ftaa adkertiliwb tt a the cundmiun that ia thw evaat of rjnagrrjfaakal error thai puetaaa of the i raaca oc curred ta the nnaaimii i reawnaaar auouaact loir lieaiafr charyed for but the bal ce of that t will be paid for al rac appakam raar ctent of a tvpodraaaical error or senior at a wroaaj srtrja mav not be sold ftiliiuhjaaj hi o aril and mar be alrmrarwa ae aarr rtraet my wife a rather bland and gentle creature with whom i have lived com fortably for nigh on 40 years had her doubts from the start i add that unless you keep fowl in cartons on a level keel they scratch and fight to avert trie crisis i suggested we choose names tor the little beggars and we fixed on lester and john lor private ly ve felt like their namesakes neither would be around for long on the way up lester got into a hell of a fight with his loyal opposition and arrived without his tail attached that is lester of course was a bird of peace his namesake gets medals for it so the whole thing gave him an in feriority complex and he hid for a week john however was just like the other john and with the field to himself he strutted preened and squawked gawd how he squawked all day long being an old arm hand i made sever al trails of cracked corn and wheat end ing at a feeding place in front of my chair and window john being conscious of the importance of number one mani toba hard in his life caught on first and within a few days was doing his stuff right in front of my wife and l but watching the two cocks both single wing clipped i felt there was more to the droop of their appearance than just the small loss of a few feath ers so i ordered three bens iron the same source of supply and we had no trouble naming them ie gerda chris tine and mandy u i watched john carefully through the glasses and two days after the gals ar- rived his tail was high and his eye was bloodshot then disaster struck first when there was no sign of gerda and associ ates for a week i decided to institute a search i fear they were double wing clipped by mistake and after a day or so of lester and johns company they just went high on a windy hill and took off over water and this being their first flight since being clipped and put in the shipping carton their feather power plants were insufficient they probably came down got water logged and sank i add that john and lester both tried it twice went ars over top and only got about ten feet and paddled back then lester got dive bombed by a redtailed hawk our biggest next to eagles he got to cover but it scared the living hell out of him and lester is a bird of peace at any price so he sat down with john and probably said come let us reason together this is getting to be too damn dangerous be sides the lady birds are gone let us take wing on the morrow or pheasantese of equivalent eloquence lester abdicated a week ago and we hear him dally from the deep woods on the mainland i cant say that be actual ly followed the route of the gals because inferences might be drawn and a royal commission appointed to investigate 1 ft might even topple the government old john however excites our ad miration he just stays on and on and on i think his squawk is that there is nothing repeat nothing to beat good old western canada wheat so be ing in dire straits myself i am entering this plea that you accept my story and send me your cheque by return mail so i can go to the trading post and get some more of the real stuff for good old john 20 years ago taken from the issue of the free press of thursday august 7 1947 editorial coming back from a holi day trip in the states we notice old glory seems to float from every hot dog stand and certainly on public buildings we cannot help but notice the absence of flags in canadian towns we wonder many times if the adoption of a distinct ive canadian flag would make canadians more conscious of their status as a nation weve had designs submitted the point has been argued lone enough and political parties have mads an issue and display that is tiresome after tailing to the ground from a hay- wagon joseph zajac of wellington st died last monday an employee of beardmore and co he was helping a friend mr carl rosley of r b 1 with the haying i one suspect has been identified in the camptellville bank robbery the tender of james morrison for garbage collection of 1850 was accept ed by councll when the 50 wartime houses are occupied be will receive an additional 150 three tenderswere re ceived in 1941 when garbage collection was first instituted the cost was less than 1000 it is now almost double that figure 50 years ago taken from the issue of the free press of thursday august 9 1917 a cable was received by mrs el h worden guelph that her only son lieut ernest worden was wounded in action having received gunshot wounds in both thighs it is just four weeks since mr wordens death and mrs worden is naturally prostrated the epworth leaguers held their an nual picnic at riverside park guelph on civic holiday they went by electric railway rev mr large and kiss min nie bennett president directed the days pleasures with splendid discrim ination the holding of civic holiday here concurrently with the cities and towns has been found very satisfactory motor trips picnics radial excursions and long walks through the fields and forests were indulged in and enjoyed cm monday acton boy scouts with their bugle band and scoutmaster harwood and moore had a pleasant trek en monday evening and sang patriotic songs the garden party at the park last wednesday evening under the anspioas of st albans church was popular and enjoyable naturally the program rend ered by the 108th regiment band kit chener was the piece de resistance the moving picture show introduced a new feature in garden party programs for this section aggregate proceeds at the gates sale of flowers refresh ment booths the palm reading and the raffle were over 300 eighteen british vessels were sunk by german subs last week two can adian aviators are among the weeks dead 75 years ago taken from the issue of the free pram of august 11 1891 another old landmark the willow trat at the corner of mill and fredarieksts was cut down the otnfi day it is re ported that mrs andrew harrison lata of creemore is about to build a brick store and pair of houses on the tot the heaviest ttanderstarm of the sea son took place tuesday the success ive flashes of hgratrring and subsequent thunderclaps were alarming every el ectric wire in town was alive and num bers of telephone services were burned out the latest swindle is carried on by means of a double fountain pen one end of which is filled with good substantial ink and the other end with ink thatfadas away in a day or two the sharper writes the agreement contract or what ever be might have chosen with ink that win not last in a few days he has a slip of paper with nothing bataslgnature over which he can write a note and eas ily turn it into cash dr mckeague is now getting comfort ably installed in his new home he is rapidly becoming acquainted and is be ing given a kindly reception by dr low- rays large circle of patients dr low- rey is moving to guelph and parties in debted to him to whom accounts have been rendered are requested to attend to the matter as promptly as possible the citizens of toronto recently voted 150000 to the toronto industrial fair tor improvements tor this years ex hibition the exhibits wiu be bigger and better than ever and will include soma being prepared for next years worlds fair 100 years ago taken from the itaue of thw canadian champion august a its it appears that there is some dis satisfaction in our account of the hornby meeting as we inserted the word or angemen instead of friends we are quite willing to make a correction as we will on any occasion when convinced that we are in error when mr coyne asserted he would call on his friends to vote against mr white if denied a hear ing we understood him to mean those of the orange body mr coyne informs us he meant merely his personal friends and we are bound to accept the explana tion mr chisholm has held a great nwrjr meetings but at not one has he dared to try a vote as to his popularity at a recent meeting mr beaty after being rebuked along with chisholm and oak- villes mayor romain delivered a scream ing speech consisting of abuse of mr white the delivery of the speech seem ed to give great relief to the speaker it had evidently been pent up so long that unless gas had been allowed to escape an explosion might have ensued with great danger to the peaceful denizans of omagh however the safety valve was allowed to blow and there was nobody hun church news trinity church the united church of canada minister rev gordon b turner ba bd organist mr george elliott ma phd presbyterian church in canada knox church acton rev andrew h mckeniie bjl bj minister mr e a hansen ba organist and choir master ifr sunday august 13 1967 combined summer services in knox presbyterian church preacher rev andrew h mckenzie 10 00 am morning worship 1115 am churchill united church churchill rdn morning worship bethet christian reformed church acton ontario sunday august 13 1967 1000 am english service 1110 a xn sunday school 2 jo pjn alternating dutch and eng lish service saturday bible classes 1012j0 ajn everyone welcosne make avenue baptist church georgetown sunday august 13 1967 945 am sunday school 1100 am morning service 700 pjh evening service wednesday 8 pjn prayer imerting acton 8531956 georgetown 776665 evangel pentecostal tabbrnacu paoc 33 rtyin bond rev s m thoman pastor 8533715 sunday august 13 1967 1000 am sunday school 1100 am morning wonbjp mr howard grant of toronto for mer missionary to india will be guest speaker 700 om- evangelistic service tuesday 8 pjn prayer and bible study thursday 8 pjn christ ambassa dors acton rapttst church founded 1842 pastor rev stanley gammon res 144 tidey ave ph 8531615 sunday august 13 4967 1000 am church school and adult class 1115 ajn morning worship speaker mr ronald campbell dearborn mich what lies ahead no evening service during august wednesday 7 jo pjn prayer and bible study in charge of deacons thursday 7j0 pjn choir practice thought for the week i wis glad when they said let us go unto the house of the lord pa 1221 thi church op st alban tni martyr anglican comer willow st and st albans drive rev ritchie mcmurray mjl st3 sunday august 13 trinity xji 1967 900 ajn the holy eucharist 1000 ajn matins the parish welcom es mr len ewing lyreaoer of st hildas parish burlington who is in charge of the second service this rooming the rector is at st georges georgetown