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The Acton free Press Wednesday December Regional government in a year Imminence of regional government statements which cooled off prior to and during the election campaign can be resurrected Liberal lender Rob Nixon has predicted regional government will be imposed on four new of the within year and he Halton Peel Hamilton Haldimnnd Norfolk and Oshawn 10 as the areas slated for More evidence to support Nixon statement came by mail to this town planning board from the Department of Municipal Affairs Replying to a letter from Acton asking about possible annexation of Esquesing the long return mill said annexations in Peel and Halton had been discouraged deferred and there was little likelihood of the province changing its mind now If regional government comes the moot question for Halton of course is will it be alone or will PIXIF THE PUSSY is getting set for the Chnstmas season is one of i ict at the home which also features another pawing balls that resemble the bulbs which will soon be on the tabbie name of Dixie Jim Jennings Photo family tree at Jim Jennings home on Mill St Pixie Bill Smiley November glooms are barren beside the dusk of June Thus quoth the poet Henley And I too ruddj true As a general rule But this year has been an exception I don think I ve ever written a decent word about November with its blasts its sudden depressing dumping of snow its bleak and sterile look I know we re going to pay for it with a terrible winter but this November for the first time in years we ve been ushered into winter with a gentle that seems unbelievable B the time this appears in print we may be up to our noggins in snow But credit where it is due The first few weeks of November this year in these parts have made me decide to give this country and its climate one more chance It almost as though God had held up his band as the four winds were on their mark cheeks puffed read to give us the usual and boomed Hold The poor devils are having enough troubles of their own making Let give them one November to remember Normal November is the most dismal month in the year with the possible exception of March But in the latter at least the days are getting longer and there a wild hope that spring maj come again Normally November means many things none of them pleasant Darkness comes early There is a wild scramble for many of us over snow tires and storm windows There is bitter wind ashore and terrifying storms on the water It s been a grand November for the hunter and trout fishermen Perhaps not so good for the deer hunters with little snow But for the duck and partridge boys and the rainbow anglers it has been near perfec Day after day of mild almost balmy weather has done away with the agonized squat in the duck blind with nothing between you and certain death from exposure except the flask of rum The same weather has made trout fishing usually undertaken in a biting wind with half frozen fingers practically a Sunday school picnic Even the golfers have been able to stretch the season by at least a month The only danger they face is exhaustion from golfing in the day and curling at night Normally the squirrels would be getting set up for the winter I look into the backyard and they re gambolling as though it were midJune Surest sign that It been a November wlthoutpeeristhebehaviourofourcat Asa rule when November arrives with Its wind From the editors desk As an advocate of keeping Sunday as a set I was interested in the information that came from the Lord s Alliance regarding the history of Sunda observance over the ten tunes It starts back in the days of the Roman Emperor Constanline In A he issued a ban on Sunday work except agriculture so the populace could honor the sun patch up quarrels or free slaves It was not until the fifth century that the meaning of Sunday was changed from Sun day to the Lord Day Christianity had become the official religion of the Roman Empire by then Roman lav in turn became the foundation for Saxon law in England and we find Kins Lie had both religious and social objections when he banned Sunday work A freeman caught working could lose his freedom or be fined shillings A priest s fine would be double Other English acts were aimed at travelling on meeting outside ones own parish and sports particularly the cruel bullbaiting and bear baiting current then The Sunday Fair Act banned selling goods at fairs and markets on Sunday The 1677 Sunday Observance Act banned all works but that of necessity In 1791 Upper Canada now Ontario was created and the very next year English Sunday statutes were introduced into the province It was not uncommon for settlers to work seven days of the week when Canada was yount So it is understandable that rail way workers asked the Presbyterian Church to help them get of the burden of a seven day week in The Presbyterians got an ecumenical conference goint and the result was the Lord Day Alliance in But it wnsn that the Lords Day Act was passed by the Canadian Government assuring Canadians of one day of rest in each week of the more than a few years the I Day Act was interpreted strath by the blue nose element of who were mainly interested in the letter rather than the spirit of tht law But in the last few years there has been a loosening up of the strict laws governing Sundays and people haven been afraid to enjoy themselves This is partly due to the more liberal attitude of the churches and a lessening of their influence on the public morals tor instance the Lords Day Alliance endorsed the four proposals of the Ontario Reform Commission Report which was issued this year and states Ontario should provide legislative support for a uniform weekly pause day for as many persons as possible The uniform weekly pause day should the government preside for a shotgun Peel union There Is no doubt the majority of selected representatives would prefer to proceed down the of history alone with only friendly Peel link Peel apparently would also like to solo in the regional choir But the director of region government music for the province has indicated he prefers a duet to a solo anytime because this would put a united front against the City of Toronto expansionary designs But how will regional government affect the ordinary citizen According to Bob Nixon speaking from the experience of the new Region local government costs cin be expected to rise as high as per cent Expectations of economics by elimination of duplicate programs have so far not materialized in areas where regionali7ition have been put into effect You can expect the power than once belonged to local councils will be seriously eroded Many of the decision making processes will be centralized at the top level where they are awfully alow in coming through now Town and village councils will be able to increasingly blame the slow march of progress on those above The large communities with the bigger vote will grab all the goodies they can for themselves while the smaller municlpihties will be offered some crumbs As one who was an early convert to the regional government we have become increasingly disenchanted by reports from municipalities where it has been implmented Have there been any results worth the time and the bother or is regional government just another genuflection to the current philosophy that bigger is better We d be interested in knowing some of the positive effects of region before we become completely cynical on the entire concept Why not encourage homework and rain and snow she has to be hurled bodily This year she has actually been going to the door and asking out I haven t seen any bees but there are still a lot of crazy birds around who have been baffled by the weather and are going to be caught with their pants down one of these days And they re not the only ones Many a man like myself has been lulled Into a false sense of security his storms on changed to snow tires t even turned off the outside water and t a clue where his winter boots are Oh there be a day of reckoning all right My bones warn me But to heck with it I going to live dangerously and enjoy every day of It And to prove It I m going to write my first and probably my last ode to November Muchmaligned November This year you ve been my friend Don t quite know how to prove it But you shown you can groove it No way are you September But you re one 1 11 long remember that beautiful We were a little surpnsed it the scope of the opposition to Councillor Peter Mirks attempt to allow councillors to take non confidential from the town office for study which was defeated at the list meeting of Acton council Although there was a strong body of opinion maintaining that all councillors hid plenty of opportunity to receive all the information needed at committee and regular meetings of council we don think that is the guide lines for a decision If Councillor Marks or any other member of council wants to take copies of town business home for further study why not encourage rather than make it as difficult is possible to secure the documents all this is to the taxpayer merely by going to the office and requesting it then piying a small fee Some councillors reasoned that what is sauce for the goose should also be for the gander and Marks should have to follow the sime routine We are well aware that Mr Marks follows an independent course in council s deliberations and his opinions often run counter to the but no one can accuse him of not fully wishing to explore each issue borne people are going to harbor the suspicion now that certain documents council has in the town office could be embarrassing to council This is simply not true All members of council hive the opportunity to see them committee meetings is why we cannot understand council s reluctance to part with copies of by laws and resolutions for their own No doubt some councillors have a suspicion that Councillor Marks could use these documents against them in debate but by the same token they can do some homework too and trip up Mr Marks We would like to suppress the notion that there might be some personal present in decisions at council but the suspicion lingers that personalities rather than logic sometimes play too large a part J Ontario legislation providing port for pause should be secular uid not in both purpose and effect Flu legislation should have the dual purposes a preserving a quality for the pursuit of leisure and ensuring that as many persons as possible will be protected from bunt required lo work on Sundays against will Curlier members of the Alliance would have turned their wrath on these proposals but liberalization process has been at work The All is thing to keep Sunday as a d set apart I believe they are one hundred per cent right most Canadians think this wa too In early 1971 a Gallup Poll asked Canadians if wished changes in the concerning retail selling Sixtjone per cent said No Sixteen percent thought small stores should be open percent thought all stores should be open and two per cent would not venture an opinion Canadians want to retain Sunday as a day set apart for family recreation church and other pursuits completely divorced from the of the other humdrum six days of the week There are enough pres sures for six days of the week without ex 20 years ago Taken from the Issue of the Free Press of Thursday Decembers Nearly voters will be eligible to vote for mayor six councillors and one Public Utilities Commissioner in the Municipal Election Approximately 100 citizens attended the nominations For mayor one to be elected T Salmon Tyler for council six to be elected N Cunningham A Fryer J Greer A Irwin C E Taylor Thompson L For Public Utilities Commission one to be elected E Bilton C Wood J Ware Elected by acclamation were Reeve J deputy reeve J J Stewart and three public school trustees J J Wolfe and T Watson nominated who did not were C Hansen B C Collett Barbeau D J C Wood A Mercer Carnochan N Hurst J Reeve Hargrave reported that the deficit was due mainly to the extra work on road and downtown sidewalks Mrs Stanley Swackhamer died suddenly it her home time subscribers addresses are listed in the new Bell telehpone direc tor About directories were required for Acton homes indicative of the growth of the town Free Press is really short handed this week Three of the staff can only work with one hand David Dills fell from a truck collecting paper for scouts and has a broken wrist Jim Greer had a nail removed and George Ware cut the end of his thumb in the tending then to the seventh No doubt there are economic advantages to seven day selling and buying In the marketplace but economists also claim Sunday shopping increases prices Work every Sunday You may have to if some people have their way It not so different from the days of Constantine when he set the day aside to honor the sun patch up quarrels and free the slaves Only the slaves may wear modern dress today And the masters Just a word from Jack Carpenter to up this week He says we are spending too much money getting something or nothing these days Amen Acton Junior Farmers at a leadership training School in Brampton were Mac Sprowl Don Matthews Beatrice Cripps Bert Watson and Somerville 50 years ago Taken from the issue of the Free Press of Thursday Decembers Anderson member of the late government is surely to be congratulated upon the splendid vote rolled up for him in the election Monday Neither he nor his most sanguine friends ever anticipated such a majority especially with such strong Mr W Fisher the IJberal Candidate and Mr J Ford the champion of the Progressive Party of the county The election returns were given as received to the large crowd at the town hall and at the New Wonderland between reels Mackenzie King the liberal leader was returned with lnrfe majority A German gun has arrived at Rockwood and has been placed on a permanent base near the soldiers memorial Also at Rock wood burglars broke into the station on Sunday night knocked a hinge off the THE ACTON FREE PRESS PHONE Bus and Editorial Office safe smashed tills broke open drawers but nothing for their pains A new garage and Ice house have Just been added to Acton Creamery Mill St A runaway car which a citizen cranked without releasing the clutch made a mess of the lattice fence at Miss Masales residence on St circles are talking hockey again New Wonderland A Cecil DeMllle production Forbidden Fruit A vision episode of the story of Cinderella Agnes and Kathleen Williams Prices cents and 27 cents All three of the political parties held mass meetings in Acton The novelty of a lady speaker brought out a large number of ladies when Mrs Munroe spoke on behalf of Henderson Miss Stella on the staff of the head office of the Merchants Bank in Toronto was home for the weekend 75 years ago Taken from the issue of the Free Press of Thursday December At the meeting of the Haymakers Concert Co in it was decided to put away the funds raised last winter in the bank They were found to be not sufficient to put up street lights as had been designed New Goods for Christmas What could be more acceptable for alittle girl than a Velvet Tarn 45c silk handkerchiefs 15c Beautiful china from France after dinner coffees individual tea and coffee cups So clock sets bread and butter plates pin trays brush and comb trays All finest china mostly Limoges From Germany cut glass salts butters toothpick holders pitchers and small dishes English sterling silver sugar spoons and tongs berry spoons salts and an endless number of little things American and Canadian novelties Ladies silver watches to gold up to men up to Boys P Periodically there has been more or less opposition to the tanneries owing to the dis coloration of the water in the stream on which they are situated A Pennsylvania doctor upholds tanneries citing how the people benefit from the tanneries The knights of the highway who call at Acton for a night a lodging repose in genuine comfort on the downy couches in the cells Hot air pipes have been put In Albert Gibbons who has been doing successful trapping lately took a bundle of mink and fox skins to Guelph on Tuesday Mather Earth Is again clothed in the mantle of winter