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4tree jrts editorial pagm cleaners kilt toater that cleanercthanwhite shirt or blouse you are wearing may be indirectly responsible for one of canada biggest problems detergent pollution is killing canadian waters at everincreasing rated despite rumor that the detergent manufacturers had the problem solved two or three years ago mountains of ukls which used to clog sewage plants have disappeared under the improvements in the detergent wetting agent which could be broken down by bacteria unfortunately the suds were only the symptom the disease itvelf is still very much alive phosphates the major constituent of nearly all laundry detergents are good fertilizers and the culprits they are good cleaning agents as well as being excellent fertilizers consequently a detergentpolluted stream is a nutritious broth ideal for producing algae the plants which appear as green scum on water algae are important to life processes in a nromal aquatic community since they provide oxygen and food but when water becomes rich with detergent phosphates the algae bloom at night an algal bloom absorbs oxygen when the algae die and decompose more oxygen is used an airless- environment is created in which only the hardiest and leastdesirable fish and aquatic animals can survive excess algae will wash onto beaches and shorelinesdecay and smell canadian and american washing machines are turning out detergents which are poisoning water supplies there are detergents available which employ only small amounts of phosphates and wash as clean as the other tpye if the lowphosphate detergents were used the problem would be solved why doesnt everyone buy the lowphosphate detergent likely because it costs about isc more for the family size than the other that seems like a cheap price to pay for creating clean water the federal government has a new policy regarding its role in managing water resources surely this is one of the first areas where they should show concern ttytrwted families the plight of several families who live in trailersdescribed as mobile homesat the breezes nejr acton is new to this area but one likely to increase us the cost of homes and apartments soars to heights above what the average wjge earner can afford there is a prejudice in the minds of some district people against people who live in mobile homes they are considered a poor class of citizens but this only had j small bearing on bsquesmg councils decision to refuse a permit to the owners of the breezes to allow the mobile homes to remain there for the winter there is really no evidence to suggest people who live in mobile homes arc poor citizens sometimes they are making the best ol a hard situation others prcler the mobile homes because they urc convenient and comfortable esquesing councils decision was based on economics they are guarding against people who arc trying to do u bit of tree loading as councillor marshall has said someone has to pay tuxes to pay lor schools and roads and services and in the past there have been examples in the township of people escaping the tax levy by the expedient of living in a trailer meanwhile the people in the mobile homes have nowhere to go i or some of the families it was the second time they have been uprooted they had been given six days to leave a port credit trailer camp that dragged into an 18 month battle with provincial government and council before they were displaced the sad part of a rapidly urbanized society is that society can dictate where a person should live if a family prefers to live in a trailer and is willing to pay its own way whats the matter with thaf bsquesing councils passed a bylaw in 1959 which prohibits trailer camps to a site between acton and georgetown on highway 7 there are 4i acres almost half of which arc taken up by a motel but the owners are not interested in developing the remainder to accommodate permanent trailers why not transfer the licence somewhere else then it would do a little to solve the plight of families who cannot afford todays high priced houses jfaqhtyranta create jeoj those shortsighted and usually nurrowmmded individuals who think immigrants to this country are contributing little ot immediate value huve had their answer irom the minister of manpower and immigration mr mcbachen reveals that in the past 20 years new businesses started up by such newcomers total an astounding 27000 involving some 355 million in working capital and these are only those immigrantheaded linns ot which ottawa has knowledge there are quite certainly many more but these 27000 known enterprises alone have provided direct employment lor more than h2000 workers many of them immigrants themselves indirectly ol course they have created jobs lor a great many more canadians tins is an aspect ot immigration which is olten overlooked it is a reminder that many newcomers arrive in this country with material assets aswell as great potential st mars s journalargus phctca frw the past wz rime objective of porta board this wmmor hat toon tho boautlfymg ot town parks star i of i ho program wore now flower bodi and ornomontol ihrubbory bctido the community centre the board hopes to expand into more ornate gardont next year theo pa pi lion h been hired to look at tor the projoct and hit work hat been odmired by many staff photo sugar and spice b y m i i e y remember when mill st was shady this parade heads east on mill passing the old free press ottlce and tha methodist church apparently many years ago the free press was painted cream and maroonjust the colors its being repainted in this picture was taken about 1017 why dont prli just gel married the way they used to what n this desperate thing in modem society thai insists a gul must get a degree or become a nurse or jeam a skill such as punching an adding machine i rightencd frantic parents with the shadow of the depression peeking over their shoulders are lamming their daughters willynilly into something they can fall hack on the irony of course we want them to get rharned eventually to a nice boy with a nice job and prospects a nice home nice children a nice neighbourhood and at the end a nice pension but first we want them to have anywhere irom ii to 18 years of education so theyll have something to tall back on we arc tacitly admitting that it they do get marned theyre going to be abandoned divorced or their husbands are going to die at 2k so they have to have something to tall back on why dont we just let them get married and tall back on their husbands tor a living my wile has been tailing back on me tor almost 2 years and im still in reasonable condition lven though my back has alien a bit into my tiont 1 suppose you think this is just a diatribe well youre light but theres a reason tor it my witc and i have nursed and cursed and wheedled and needled our daughter tlwough hisji school she haled n mciiade 1 1 loathed it in tirade 12 and abhorred it in tiiade i 1 but by i combination ol blackmail bribeiv and piteous whining wv made her slaggei through the piocess i promised it you just get voui grade 13 ou can do whatevet you want co to college get a job prop dead but youll never regret it already shes regretting n now she lias to go to umvcrsttv which shes about as much interested in as she is in catching lepiosv this whole column is inspired or uninspired by the harrowing etlort ol getting kim organized at university she thought site might be able to hack university it she had a pad of her own a grill to bum beans on and bum toast on and maybe a sleeping bag on the floor and a few psychedelic posters and a few cockroaches and her cat for company this was all right by me ive slept in bains and b6x cars this was freedom from home and parents and all the awful things they represent such as cleanliness and godliness and so on but her mum had different ideas and her mum as i have reason to know is a domineering forceful overpowering and illogical woman tike most other women so kim is going to stay in a nice home with a very nice middleaged couple as far as shes concerned its getting out of purgatory and into hell ive never heard of anybody beinr kicked out of hell but i imagine shell manage it within about thiee weeks if you have a teenage daughcr youll know what i mean theyre absolute slobs until theyre married when by some strange process they go around emptying ash trays before anyone has used them but three weeks of dirty bare feel and a bedroom that looks like a salvation army oldclothes depot and a bathroom ihat looks as if it went down with the titanic and even that charming calm landlady will be screaming out out however i guess the trip was worth ii we met a nice lady in the registrars office who reads my column hello nice lady keep an eye on my beloved we had a couple ol roaring lights with subsequent tears which is good lor everybody and we got home alter a fauly disastrous stopover with friends to be greeted by our oilier rolten kid the vacuum cleaner salesman who has decided to giv back to university alter iwoycarsof diopout who has nude s1s00 in the last eight months who has mjybc enough money to pay my tees who was just chopping in ai the old oil well to sec il it was still pumping somebody said lile is short and life is sweet thank goodness its short the acton free press w phone 053 2010 buimoi and editorial office fountud i ibifj tvnd rubj ihi umv wttvjtfv u umkmr si acioa onliso tlevrjjaw omkf autfcl duruu of ctfcuulttvi iht cwna jvj own aaowliung raim on ratquwl subiimiafvi pivw fcjac uootncvutu uoowsylloounlftmoitvw thla cvudi tint csioih 15 otvw tkkoftd cutu i revyittlion numb 061 adwluwm evcwll on h condition lhl tn tht mnl of ivpotytptuul irtv thai ponton ot ikj vlvwliuna kui ofcuvll by th vronmui tim looiikm with rutombw jkwfcnc for uonttuiu will not b chvftd for but thai blv of tuj khmrtiwmtyftt vwtll bt pd lot th taalwefcu iu in iht kiwm ot ivpoyiohiul v1qi vfcrtvtnutfl wutjt ol iwvlcm ft tmoas li tut or wutcsh mv ml b told aihsvluloe to tntvulv sn of tw to hxi d mv b wlhdrswn u mw tutter bub mu c u dvld r dllll publlthtr wriuv colm tditsv coovts1 1060 don kvdif adv misrttgaf 20 years ago taken from the issue of the free frets thursday september 8 1949 seventeen cases of polio have been reported in lullon this year the supper hour crowd of citizens on acton streets utt night were horrified to witness and learo that rod ryder had fallen from his bicycle and did under the tear wheels of ihe gray coach bus it wj raining when the accident occurred lie was a star and popular member of the baseball club and alto played hockey he wi 35 yeart old he was an employee of force electric products and was going home from work at the time of the accident lie leaves hit wife and three small children madeline bryan and glen parents mr and mrs edward tfycler sister mill marguerite and two biotheri glen and don we all welcome chit sutton to acton as jneial uunar of use ym c a hon leslie troll paid a turpi lie visit in acton paiung through on hit way to blyth fair andiew moloui a pupil at georgetown high school won a buitary of j400 which will permit him to enter the school of practical science u oftoionto by a majority of 24 acton ratepayers gave aueni on tuesday lo an expenditure of 1350000 for the initalutlon of tewert and live erection of a diipoul plant only 3h2 voters went to ihe polli 50 years ago taken from the luue of the free prets thursday september ii i georgetown ii hoping to become a town the main itreet ii paved now and the population ii 2100 at the meeting of the executive of the childrens aid society for the countsei of llalton and peel at milton mr w ii stewart late principal of ihe acton public and continuation schooli was appointed inspector to succeed mr c w norton who hai so capably fulfilled ihe office for the pan 10 or 12 yean mr stewart hai admirable qualifications and his friends here will offer bncere congratulations dr cox is prepsripg for the erection of his new karaf on his lot on man st between the patterson block and the ryder and mowit glove factory lb has purchased the old storey glove leather tannery or main st and it will be torn down part of this budding was erected 40 or 50 years ao when good dear pine was plentiful and cheap the mushroom veiionil here but the supply seems to be limited the epworth league had a bonfire service on the chore ot fairy lake after a time of song and ttory toasted bologna biead and butter were served mr w j stuckey has completed a unioue and skillfully carved sign for dr hughes of grand valley the ugn bears the figuie of a horse in action and is very attractive 75 years ago taken from ihe issue of ihe free preu thursday september 13 1894 while mr george statham wai delivering ihe itaff of life to hu cuitomeri on saturday morning till horses which were attached to hu delivery wagon became frightened by a number of cranki manipulated by some small boys on bower ave and daihed down john st tlie wagon became upset againit a lamp pott thut cluttering the glatsei the horses had broken their harness and were only brought to a standstill by die lines winding around the wheel the boys who caused the runaway think ihey were not at fault but believe ihat a mutual agreement had been effected by the equlnei to bring ihe bread down a terrific thunderitorm patieu over this district monday morning accompanied by a terrible downpour of rain and in some placet hailitonet reflections of fires weie vmble all along the horizon in fcramou james raes bam was struck as it was the old fashioned kind they were able to lave the hortet from the rear and use cainagei betide all the hay and grain off a 100acre farm the implements save a lunow were all destroyed the lost ii 52000 insured in the eramou mutual for p50 salt and pepper ft by hartley coles ive just finished reading an article in grassroots editor a biweekly magazine devoted to us fellas from the grass roots a writer from ihe weekly packet of blue hill maine about how hard it it to find intpiralion each week for editorial comment you would think he muted that with all that is happening in the world and community there would be no end to subjects for editorial discourse he admits that normally this is true but there comet a time when the mind draws a blank when possible subjecti seem too gigantic or too trivial to discuss that almost described my feelings last friday afternoon no inspiration sticky felt like id been run over by a herd of unicorns why dont you go home and he down for a while asked the office manager i might go to sleep was my reply its not sleep i needit s inspiration how about writing something about all ihe typographical errors we get each week someone else piped up now thats an idea i brightened a typographical eiror is a slip that passes in ihe type if you arent quite upbn printer parlance in spue of our precautions around here we seem to wind up wiih at least our share of them sometimes they can be downright embarrassing other times they are hilariously funny to us sometimes after one of us hat written a story and been mighty careful with it the finished account as u appears has one or two of the paragraphs switched it just doesnt make sense we tear out our hair other times to our embarrassment the power of advertising it predominant for instance a man advertised his house for sale recently in the classified columns somewhere along the line the wrong telephone number was inserted this journal had barely hit the streets before a gentleman phoned in a voice crackling with indignation i havent got any house for sale he fumed and my phone is nnglng off the wall asking how much im asking for it well what could a fella say sorry naturally but that wasnt going to stop the gentlemans phone bringing down the wall whent the paper come out again asked the voice pitifully not till next week was the answer in a voice hardly audible oh no was the rejoinder mentally we could picture him holding ins head and yanking the receiver off die wall to err is human and to forgive divine we hope tint gentleman wai full uf divinity on ihat particular day thankfully we havent been plagued with a string of errors a tmall daily newspaper in ihe united statet had to contend with a couple of years back it started with the following classified ad on a monday for sale r d jonet hai one sewing machine for tale phone 95h after 7pm and ask for mrs kelly who lives with him cheap the next day the following appeared in ihe classified columns noticl we regret having erred in r d jones ad yetterday it should hive read one sewing machine for sale cheap phone 95h and ask for mrs kelly she lives with him after 7pm wednesday the newspaper came out with a bold face notice in the clatiified columns it taid r d jonei hai informed us that he hat received several annoying telephone calls because of the error we made in hit claused ad yesterday his ad hands collected as follows for sale r d jones has one sewing machine for sale cheap phone u after 7 p m and ask for mrs kelly who lovei with him the final smashing sequence came out in the newspaper the very next day it read notice i r d jonei have no sewing machine for sale i smashed it dont call 958 at the telephone hat been taken out i have not been carrying on wiih mrs kelly until yesterday she wai my housekeeper but the quit how do you like those onions arent you glad you werent connected with that newspaper while they were going through their purgatory which in this case muil have included i little bit of hell how does it happen well someone figured it out once and came up with the conclusion there was approximately 10000 ways slips could pus in the type after a few years you just moan and accept them vowing it will never happen again or we console ourselves with the thought we hive made the people who look for mistakes ecitatically happy for another week we adopt a hangdog look and sneak around comers but we nuke a complete recovery when someone comes in and says my i enjoyed the paper last week