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Main St crossing dangerous We were disappointed that the Department of Highways saw fit to turn down the proposal for a subway or overpass at the Main St N railway crossing and agree entirely with the public works committee of council the matter should be pursued further There have been both pedestrian and fatalities In vehicles at the crossing and there quite likely could be more ft something isn done about present conditions The Department turned the request for a grade separation down because a traffic survey showed annual daily traffic amounted to vehicles They estimate that by 1991 the number will reach only vehicles dally The Department pointed out that this estimate falls far short of the number necessnry to make changes for a subway or overpass Bird Watch Stall Photo Teachers in line Recently this newspaper in common with probably every other newspaper in Ontario received a brochure prepared by public relations experts entitled Unemployment Insurance For Teachers The front cover also says A new tax Uncomfortably close to fraud Unemployment insurance for teachers is not yet a fact but it is in the discussion stages The teachers are very much up in arms and it must be admitted have some pretty potent arguments to back their stand If and when it comes to pass that teachers must join this weekly parade of insurance payments they will be heartened with the knowledge that they have plenty of company from countless thousands who like the writer have paid the premiums weekly since the inception of the plan and have yet to draw a penny Unlike the teachers we have no public relations experts and no funds with which to fight the issue The fact is very few of us have any desire to fight about it While there is a faint flavour about the 0 brochure which decries lumping them with the weekly wageearner and tending to regard unemployment insurance as a welfare measure the facts of life are now such that teachers as well as people in almost every other walk of life including executives never know when they may need any type of protection available The wave of the future insofar as teaching is concerned is becoming evident through a number of factors not the least of which is the declining birth rate and a corresponding drop in immigration figures The most potent threat to the number of teachers employed however was the recent setting of education spending guidelines by the Department of Education Trustees now have but two choices either hire less qualified and therefore cheaper teachers or increase the teacherpupil ratio If for instance the secondary school ratio was increased from the present sixteen or 17 to one ratio to 25 to one a lot of teachers would be unemployed come next September WereahzethattheOTF has well bolstered schemes of financial aid available to teachers in need but the additional few dollars of the unemployment insurance will not iff our opinion break members of that profession At least not any faster than it has made the rest of us destitute St Marys Journal Argus Good purchasing advice Deceptivelycomplex credit plans carefully designed but not always truthful promotional programs put the heat on young people in the marketplace Fresh out of school they are being bilked by the availability of credit They go out and buy clothes record players cars and motorcycles magazine subscriptions that often result in commitments they cannot handle As an example of the kind of situations young people can fall into the Registrar of the Ontario Consumer Protection Bureau A R Walker cites a gimmick which involves a pseudo- cheque mailed to the home A pull tab is located on the top right hand corner of the cheque The number beneath can mean a free stereo if ft appears on enclosed list But there Is a catch When presented the cheque is presumably worth the price of the stereo 50 All you have to do Is pay for 75 stereo long play records at five dollars each and sign a contract These records cost but they could be bought retail for about two dollars each or In this case the free stereo isnt really free says Walker Free items seldom are Many times circumstances are more acute that just buying a free stereo Sometimes young people cripple themselves financially for years by forsaking their common sense for the lure of easyconvenient credit terms bo Mr Walker is going around telling high school students to ask themselves questions about purchasing such as Can I pay for it and still meet my daily living expenses What will happen to me when an emergency arises Is having something new worth the worry of paying later Do I really know what I am buying and how much will I pay as a result of credit and finance charges Have I purchased the item from a reliable well established firm company or store Good advice all of us could heed Editorial notes Care to take a guess at the highway carnage in North Halton during the past four weeks Would you believe motor vehicle accidents in days One person lulled and 37 others injured A total of in property damage Const Tom Pennce Milton accident prevention officer claims careless driving and speed too fast for road and traffic conditions are the main cause of winter accidents especially on those days when high ways ice up Toms good word for this week Slow down BEFORE you find you re unable to do so OUR READERS WRITE Beer bottles litter Churchill Rd IBS Churchill February To the Editor Acton Free Press Wow there must have been quite a party somewhere In the vicinity of Churchill Road last night Friday February 1971 When I took my dog out for his first walk of the day this morning I saw no less than three cardboard boxes full of beer bottles One box containing 21 bottles out of the original had been dumped outside the front of my house Another box originally containing she bottles had been dumped Just north of Road Several of these bottles bad been broken and now provide a hazard for dogs and children walking along the side of the road On the opposite side of the road another box containing most of the original contents had been dumped so far these were Intact but I can imagine what will happen when the local boys get out playing in the snow Opposite my own house was a box which had contained another six bottles but they had been removed goodness knows where of weeks ago there was a new law mentioned in the Free Press with regard to the dumping of various Items considered to be garbage What I should like to know is when is this new bylaw going to be enforced and how will this be done First of all the culprits have to be found and I suppose this isnt so easy with the size of our present police force I have never yet seen a police car on Churchill Road South after dark and we have now been living in Acton We dont know how the Department of Highways mnkes projections but It seems unreasonable to suggest that traffic on Main St wont increase appreciably in the next couple of years when Highway Is paved north to Highway Traffic which normally might use the Seventh Line to go north we suspect will take 25 Highway as a better route from the Queen Elizabeth Way and Highway when paving Is completed There is also the matter of development at Actons industrial park which should Increase traffic both truck and car by a substantial margin have been two Instances we know of where float trucks loaded with industrial equipment were stranded on the tracks because of the steep angle the road ascends to straddle railroad tracks More industry in this area could Example best defence Stabs tics often clarify unpalatable points we are unable to accept A professor of the sociology department of New York State University demonstrated this by coming up with statistical correlations between drug use by students and the home social class and philosophic background from which they come Eric H Goode of the sociology department of New York State University has found there is a mathematical relationship between the amount of drinking a parent does and the likelihood his son or daughter would take to dope or at least expert He found the same relationship between a youngsters illegal dope use and smoking or the habitual use of legal drugs as barbiturates by mothers and fathers Drug use was greater the social class of parents rose not In the other direction as some have mistakenly presumed Statistically at least students are more likely to try drugs if their parents profess no religion s conclusion from the statistics is that college student drug use is partly an extension of their parents own drug use and to a much lesser degree a rebellion against parental values What is even more likely he says is that it is both simultaneously Whatever we conclude from the findings the fact is parental drug use and college student drug use are mean more difficulties of this nature which could also be compounded around train arrival times Also into the picture Is the Railway Transport Committee which reported changes should not be made at this time based their stand on an inspection made December 1970 However did request submissions from the town and the CNR suggesting the matter was still open as for as they were concerned It is a dangerous crossing even when used with caution so we hope council will continue to keep the sub ject open until the Department of High ways and the railway can come to some conclusion that Is acceptable to council and motts the standards of other crossings based on experiment related the professor concludes Of course this is not new The relationship has been claimed before but the link is more definitely established by the statistics the has assembled Neither nor the other scientists present at the conference considered the material as proof But it is an attempt at objectivity in an area where there has been much opinion and few facts To our mind the facts reinforce the old belief that example is much more important than words All the good advice we give our own children is going to be lost if we dont practice what vq preach years ago Taken from the issue of the Free Press Thursday March 1951 An outstanding Christian life was brought to a close on Friday February 23 when Mrs Henry Caldwell passed peacefully away Her husband the Rev Henry Caldwell died six months after they retired Acton years ago After a private service at the home a public service was held in the United Church with Rev in charge Six other ministers took part Mrs and Miss Simmons sang Crossing the Bar Alfred H has accepted the position of bandmaster of the Acton Citizens Band Mr whose home is in Brampton but who boards in Georgetown is the bandmaster of the Lome Scots band and the Streetsville band The band is newly organized under the name of Acton Citizens Band Several members of the older Citizens Bandwereoutforthcfirst practice with Mr Joyce and Robert Adams were married Feb 24 in Knox church Councillor Esther Taylor was one of women in public life honored at a banquet in the Royal York hotel sponsored by five national women service clubs school pupils had the afternoon off when the Teachers Convention took Miss Grindley Miss Mr Bobbins and Mr Hansen to The last minute rush for car licenses this week proved unnecessary as a reprieve was granted till March Bill Marshall who broke his foot in a parachute jump is home on leave from the army this week About 15 who Jumped at the same time broke either arms or legs due to the wind and belowzero weather 50 years ago Taken from the issue of the Free Press Thursday March 3 A good deal of Interest was centred In the stock judging contests for the young men of county at Milton There were nearly contestants Stuart of Acton wa3 awarded the silver cup and the county shield for the highest points Last Thursday Mr Duncan McDougall third line lost Dock the fine brown horse belonging to the farm team Dock slipped in some way and sustained internal injuries He was valued at Fifty years ago the same attention was given to the death of horses as is given today to damaged and wrecked cars A social evening was spent in St Josephs church with Mr and Mrs C and family prior to their removal to Mount Forest Upon reopening of the schools after Easter there will be several changes Miss Jean Mcleod has accepted a position with Weston at an increased salary Miss Anderson who holds a first class professional certificate and whose sister Miss Isabel has been on the staff for several years has been engaged Miss Folster will take the room which Miss McLeod taught The protests throughout the county against the gazetting of an outside officer as colonel of the Rifles has had the desired effect Major G O Brown has been appointed to the command of the regiment with the rank of 1 Col years ago Taken from the issue of the Free Press Thursday February Acton is a popular convention town and those who met here In their annual gatherings are invariably delighted The annual gathering of the members of Halton Tochers Association last Thursday and Friday was beset by extremely stormy and disagreeable weather and an almost impossible blockading of snow but teachers were in attendance Papers were on Geography What to Teach Discipline the end of all true study Ethical Teaching Literature in Public Schools Moral Education through the Study of literature Scope and methods of leaching Grammar and Its Relation to Other Subjects and The Teacher as a Character Builder Thirty degrees below zero was the unprecedented point to which the mercury this week The roads which were completely last week are in pretty fair condition again A most enjoyable evening was spent by the members of Camp sons of Scotland and their lady friends The unusual was an oyster supper tendered Mr James now of Montour Iowa one of the charter members of the camp Camp Ivanhoe is in an enviable position financially its exchequer gives evidence of the presence of canny Scots within its borders firm the for four years This is not the first time empty beer bottles have been dumped on this road Every Saturday morning I see at least half a dozen when I take my dog out for his first walk Do people think because we live on the road which leads to the dump that we like to have these things thrown into our road I think not People living on this road take a great deal of time tending their front and rear yards and I am sure they would not do this if they preferred to have other peoples garbage to look at Get with it folks and for goodness sake clean up Acton so that it can be a place we will all be proud to live in Mrs Peggy Wright THE ACTON FREE PRESS PHONE 853 Business and Editorial Office MISS LOTTIE Speights Sunday school class front row tor Mrs VanattCr Mrs F Kennedy Mrs Wedge Miss Speight teacher Mrs Mrs W Blair Mrs Johnson Mrs A T Brown second row 1 to r Mrs W Mrs Macintosh Miss Hawthorne Mrs Nelson Moore Mrs Agnew Mrs Spielvogel Mrs H Brown last row to Mrs A McKeown Mrs Savage Mrs H Denny Mrs Charlotte McDonald Mrs Gregory Mrs J Ramshaw Mrs R Miss A Elliott Mrs Gamble This picture was loaned to Cleave Mill St