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ninetythird yearno acton ontario wednesday august 30 1967 authorized a second class mall b ih po of lire utparlmrnl ottawa fourteen pages ten cents get four bowler and mustache cup old fashioned days begin in acton tuesday morning starting tuesday september 5 37 business places in acton will be participating in old fashioned days store staffs will be decked out in old fashion ed costume and all will be hand ing out free coupons enabling patrons chances on ave grand prises valued over 500 the program was to run from september 5 until september 16 a slight change has been made and draws for the five prizes will be made friday night september is during the arena show spon sored by acton fall fair with purchases made at part icipating stores and business places patrons will receive cou pons after filling out each with name address and telephone number these are to be deposit ed in a box in the place where the purchase was made ah coupons will be picked up on the friday night and entered in a massive drum where names will be pulled or prizes at the arena special sales will be advertis ed by ch participating mer chant during tbe two weeks in the acton free press and each par ticipating merchant will be iden tified by a special crest in his advertisement dont forget to ask for your coupons you could win one of the following a lazy boy chair set of luggage five tires mount ed transistor radio or a vacuum cleaner outfit total value over 5001 dont miss out support spon soring merchants and save while vou win carol swackhamer in gi ont dairy princess semifinal competition uftmo tme ud off om fashioned days is going to produce a heady brew for shoppers of acton and district lodging by the unusual shape of this basketenclosed bottle merchants in acton dressed exactly like bill vvandel paul neilsen eve cooper and fred gordon are here will be dishing up bargains and handing out coupons for prizes this is the first venture of this type by businessmen in acton staff photo carol swackhamer comely halton dairy princess from r rj acton took the first step to wards an ontario dairy princess crown monday night at the can adian national exhbttion grounds the attractive 18yearold tea cher won the first competition against contestants from dur ham glengarry wetland and wellington counties and she will represent halton in the semi finals tonight wednesday at the ex the finals of the contest win be held thursday night the eyes of the county win be on the acton fall fair prize lists are available tree of charge to exhibitors who are preparing to enter the many classes this year the book with its special centen nial fair cover has 92 pages packed with classes supported by local and district advertisers 100 girls lack leaders leaves memories miss bennett moves to waterloo saturday new term expected to fill all three schools to capacity carol as she tries for a spot on the finals between 6 and 7 p if first part of the contest is an interview and then each contest ant delivers a three minute speech on their own county this is followed by a milking compe tition carols performance monday won the judges nod and she will be among the 10 girls who wiu be in the semi final contest which is divided into two sec tions carol won tbe halton dairy princess title from among three acton firefighters marched in contestants at hornbys annual milton firefighters ceaten- garden party and this gave her nlal salute parade last saturday thehonor of representing halton and acton citizens band beaded in tbe provincial competition the long parade car damaged a hitandrun accident was re ported to police at 445 pm monday august 28 when con struction worker sena pasquale of downsvlew returned to his parked car on elizabeth drive be discovered an estimated 150 damage to the right rear end of the vehicle acton has been fortunate in baring for over 60 years miss minnie z bennett as an exemp larycitizen and influence for good principal of tbe school here from 1913 until she retired in 1939 she was honored by the entire town as the seventh citizen afthe year in 1964 this saturday miss bennett is moving into parkwood manor 75 cardinal crescent waterloo her attractive home on lake ave has been sold and an taction sale last saturday afternoon dis tributed many of herpossessions among former pupils and antique collectors it was in 1903 that hiss benn ett began her long career devoted to teaching at clay riu school near glen williams her pay 325 a year she taught at ss 10 erin her home school and hornby before coming to the graded acton school in 1907 it was in 1913 continued on page 3 industrial building ml last 9000 feet rented actons two public schools filled to capacity open again on tuesday with enrolment expected to soar up a little nearer 1000 from junes 940 tbe principals gw mckenzie and elmer smith wont know exactly how many students they have until after registration tuesday despite a school board appeal the 11 z bennett school faces another year without its addition which was to have included an auditorium at the robert little school the library has to be moved for another classroom where room can be found for the library is not yet certain the cramped m z bennett school just has books in the classrooms number of teachers is two higher than last year to cope with expected higher registrations school board chairmanx o chapman wasnt available for comment but he intimated invthe free press centennial progress edition tbe board might havexto resort to portable classrooms if no other accommodation is available tbe high school anticipates lew changes with increasedenrol- ment ot about 450 and 25 teachers ith principal ted hansen norman braida general manager of beardmoie and co ltd announced today wednesday that tbe last 9000 feet of space in acton industrial centre has been rented and a lease is now being prepared although details are not available at the present time a news release is expected at a later date announcing the name of the firm and pro duct to be manufactured it has been indicated however that the product to be manufactured is not presently being made in canada the expansion isexpect- ed to provide employment for 30 more people pro duction is expected to be gin november 1 mr braida also inform ed the free press that john goy owner of goy transport and acton ter minal warehouse who has been occupying temporary space inthelndustrialcen- tre will move in perman ently on september 1 and occupying a distribution warehouse in 6000 sqaure feet of 3ace with over 560 students ex pected tbe robert little staff for this yearincludes23teachers with principal mr mckenzie douglas copeland is viceprin cipal no longer do esquesixig and nassagaveya students come to acton by bus for home economics and shop both the townships now have classrooms of their own mrs kathleen hannah a ryerson grad in home ec who taught at brookviue last year will teach home economics part time in acton and part time in nassagavea a similar ar rangement takes industrial arts teacher douglas hines to nass- agaweya part time the special class has been divided into two with a junior and senior classroom both in the stone school former teach er miss elaine ellis will teach the juniors a new teacherhere lorenzo hill will take the senior class mr hill is a former principal from east flam- borough mrs helen rognvaldsoo of acton who taught formerly at llmehouse will be teaching kin- derg artenprimary linda braida is an acton girl who has just completed teachers training and returns to her hometown tor her first position two more lake shore teachers college graduates wayne wheeler and dorothy fisher have been engaged another newcomer to the staff is douglas balhnaformerprin- dpal of a small school at tober mory second husband -and- wife combination mr and mrs john cavanaugh win join mr and mrs doug copeland in teaching together the cavananghs will live in georgetown where rel- atlves help with their family they taught previously in scar borough but come from new- former teachers returning to the r l roster are richard coe mrs june doberthein mrs jane gamble mrs margaret ma- sales mrs maureen meuor mrs joy penttua mrs grace reed miss donna riseborough and mrs mar jorle white glenn banks is again music supervisor at both schools tuesdays registration will de termine exactly which grades the teachers will be assigned many changes have been mad during the summer especially in the stone school black out curtains have been installed in rooms for simpler use of visual aids all the brown cork bulletin boards have been painted in the stone school mr hills continued on page 3 of an ideal dozen guide and brownie leaders the local groups are starting the new sea son with just one leader com missioner mrs lowrie who is moving to the burnt river near fenelon falls shortly is very concerned about tbe critical drop in numbers there are three brownie packs tw o guide troops and a ranger group each should have one leader and at least one as sistant a total of 12 there are over 100 girls re ceiving brownie and guide train ing here under mrs lowrie who planned the centennial day in the park the program has been operating very well mrs ginger who in the spring finished her training and receiv ed her warrant as a ranger lea der will be changing from guides to rangers thln is the only leader left some have resigned some moved and one is returning to school the situation with the girls groups is extremely serious mrs lowrie is advertising this week for leaders and is anxious ly awaiting replies ghost town the former silver spur ranch north of ballinafad stands in mute testimony to an enterprise which temporarily at least has been discontinued almost like a movie scenario the deserted village overgrown with weeds in the best tradition of western ghost towns was once the scene of much activity as a stage coach puhed loads of children through the recreated village it is situated n enn township about four miles west of ballinafad and seven or eight miles north of acton turn to the second front for further sceres x griffin and son top competition results of the field crop com petitions sponsored by the acton agricultural society have been released twentyone fields were scored in tbe hay competition with the top ten placing as follows se griffin b son norman harris dunca n mcphedran wallace swackhamer max storey calvin aitken george wallace lloyd marsden and harvey bayne in the oat competition thirteen fields were scored with the top ten winners and the variety ot oats sown as fouows se grif fin son russel alex mcphed ran sconnont calvin aitken stormont howard donoell rod ney norman harris rodney duncan mcphedran rodney george wallace garry ralph denny rodney r l hcentry rodney and alex mcnabb rod ney the bay competition was lodg ed by a e gray rockwood and the oat competition by rc al exander georgetown the ensilage corn competition to be judged early in september has twentythree fields entered council company conservation men discuss lake dredging representatives of the credit valley conservation authority mt with acton council and re presentatives from beardxnore and co last night to outline plans the authority had for dredging fairy lake and answeranyejues- tlons either the company or coun cillors had to ask about tte pro ject mayor les duby arranged the meeting partly on the insistence of reeve h rlnton who kit the authority had not communicated enough information either for tbe town or the company and partly to clear up any ndsunder- stawlttgs which might exist over the projects purpose tbe conservation authoritys spokesman tor the meeting was us acton representative rr parker who was introduced by authority chairman roy mcmill an- mr mcmillan said the dredg ing was taking place in an appro priate place since the lake was in the headwaters of the credit river and it was particularly gratifying for mr parker to see tbe project in operation since he had been pushing it tor the past lew years mr parker outlined what the authority was trying to do by dredging the lake empbasuing it was a pilot project tie cess of which will govern future projects in mall lakes of this type he told the meeting the purpose of small reservoir dred ging was called flood control but it was really stream manage ment he cited brantford as a good example of what stream manage ment measures could do mea surements indicated that in a three week period in the spring enough water went down tbe grand river past the city to meet their needs for 50 years they would just need to save one per cent of ttds water and they would have all they needed said the okesman big dams were being built such as tbe authority is starting near orange vl lie to control spring runoff but there was also a place for small reservoirs to help the situation many like fairy lake have silted in over the years and developed into nothing better than mosquito- breeding properties black creek the tributary which joins fairy lake with the credit river has beenaproblem for many years the ability of the stream to absorb effluent from tbe sewage plant has been seriously impaired by low how daring the dry summer season dredging of fairy lake the authority was convinced would add an additional 0 million gal lons to the storage capacity and releive low water in dry periods mr parker and the authority approached the ontario govern ment two or three years ago on the project but assistance wasnt forthcoming because tte land was not owned by tbe authority the government persuaded of the ben efits conferred by dredging for stream management an the way down the credit system and auth orised the authority to proceed tbe deputy minister told mr parker since he was familiar with fairy lake and bad been working with it to use it as a trial project if the fairy lake dredging works they may adopt the system of bringing in small portable dredges even for big reservoirs which are silting up mr parkerestlmateddredging would extend to the end of may it would be governed by freeze uptime sittfrora the lake would be used to fill in the marshy area at the arena end the south east side of elizabeth drive the cedar swamps area on the roy johnson property and the area behind smauwoods camp the entire lake win be dredg ed with the exception of that por tion which extends beyond the old radial trestle by the breezes dredginjin the dam area win be4ny done cautiously so as not to dis turb the water which is drawn to the tannery mr parker emphasized the fill from the lake made perfectly usable land when it had settled most of the land where tbe burl ington skyway is done from ham ilton bay and the waterfront in toronto has many areas built fromflll a question period followed mr parkers outline of the project led off by norm braida general manager of beardmore a co who expressed his delight as a private citizen that the project was being oone tie tell sore problems the company might have could be worked oat with council he also mt cunuaias construction the contractor on the dredging job was going oat of its way to cooperate remov ing stumps and hauling them to shore deputyreeve f oasts ques tion over the projects coat was answered bom by mr parker and mr mcmillan the govera- meat pays 75 par cent of the coat and the rest is absorbed by tn ciedtt valley authority watch has a 90 cents per captteasaaaa- meat for every persoa iwauaag in the watershed coats eoald continued on poet 1