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The Acton Free Press Wednesday January prices Editorial mi ONE TWO THREECOUNT THEM kitten They re triplet black like the nursery rhyme but retain only a black ace as lambs born to a Suffolk ewe called Lamb Chop at the farm of they grow older It Is early for lambs but Lamb Chop pulled the Gordon Leslie RB 3 Acton Sunday night Leah Leslie 18 same stunt last year at about this time It is her first set of and brother Barry 11 explained that Suffolk lambs are born triplets Staff Photo Smiley This is the time when pundits across the land speculate in type about what the coming year will bring forth If there is one thing we don need more of in this country it is pundits We have political pundits economic pundits sports pundits Most of them spend most of their verbiage disagreeing with other pundits in the same field What is a pundit It is a person who knows a little more about practically nothing than we nonpundits Having unburdened myself of those sour sentiments I now propose to leap Into some concerning Read carefully now so that youll have a dear picture of what we shall face this year Most parts of Canada will have lots of snow I hope nobody will give me an argument on that one Right now outside my window it looks Like plucking day at the chicken factory The population taxes and your fuel bill will increase This statement is not based on fact but on pure Intuition Especially the part about taxes According to some of the rosy statements in the new tax reform bill hustled through parliament I will pay less taxes this year about enough less to buy an overcoat from the Salvation Army But they can t fool an old taxpayer like me I know with sickening clarity that if one level of government hands me a few bucks some other level will be digging three times as much out of my back pocket The wageprice spiral will continue though perhaps not as rapidly The reason We re all greedy as pigs at a trough And the biggest pigs the strongest unions and the most firmly entrenched capitalists will get more out of the trough than the runts the ordinary Joes There will be a federal election and whoever wins there will be promises galore new brooms being waved in all directions and the country according to the pundits will still be going straight to the The churches will continue to be one th rd filled and scrambling for enough money to stay alive But there will be a continuing search for some sort of spiritual experience by our youth Thousands who are now merely a gleam in somebody eye will be bom And good luck to them when they enter a mighty complex world Thousands will die and lets Just hope you and I are not among them don want to go until I get my mortgage paid off t that the supreme purpose of Thousands of kids will experiment with drugs and some of them will end up tragic figures shattered human beings But thou sands of others will Ignore the chance of becoming vegetables and will lead happy healthy useful 1 loving and learning sad and happy Since I first started to talk with you about our fall Junket I ve had several people ask what I thought about Florida and the Bahamas Would it be a good place to Live they enquired Personally I d rather live in the arctic than Florida or the Bahamas It lust too clam hot for me The thermometer hovered around the 90 through most of our trip and at night cooled down to or thereabouts which I consider mighty hot in the beginning And that was in October when the weather was supposed to be cool I figure the Good Lord have intended me to go to hell a pool of fire or else he have made me suffer so much in the Mating sun The Intense heat was a cross for the two drivers First it was Charlie that was cross Then it was my turn when I got behind the wheel and Charlie doing the navigating Fortunately we only managed to get lost about once a day each This took some skill on both our parts especially when we got headed the wrong way on a freeway north Instead of south or vice versa and turnoffs were few and far between It got to be a game If Charlie got lost in the morning it was my turn in the afternoon and the reverse Naturally this led to some comment from the back seat where our wives were comfortably ensconced Despite these minor setbacks we managed to leme Disney World and get pointed in the right direction for Tampa and St Petersburg slopping for a night in Lakeland We crossed the causeway at Tampa and skipped over to Treasure Island a strip of sand between the Inter coastal waterway and the Gulf of Mexico We no sooner got accommodation than it was decided to take a dip into the Gulf an appropriate gesture since we had all been testing the swimming pools all the way down Beautiful beach palm and coconut trees lined the sand and those cumbersome pelicans flew lazily overhead every now and again down to gobble up a cal fish Keeping a sharp eye for sharks by Constable Roy Wood a summer visitor I dove into these the storied waters where nests of pirates once cud with the aplomb of a Johnny Weismuller What a shock I got It was like diving into a warm cup of tea or taking a bath Warm You might even say it was hot There was some gentle surf and we frolicked in the water like penguins taking a Saturday nightdip keeping our eyes peeled Exercise common sense In an interview with the Free Press this week Mayor Les indicated that Acton council has no wish to impose further regulations on but if complaints continue to snowball they will have no choice but to accede to requests for them A few drivers who persist in waking sleeping citizens charge down side walks on their machines with no thought for pedestrians and heedless of others rights will bring the wrath of citizens down on all irrespective of whether the majority of drivers try to heed com sense Consequently it is up to snow- to police themselves if they wish no further restrictions along the streets of town and district The mayor noted council in no way wishes to discriminate against those who get so much pleasure from snow mobiles through the winter months And we think the majority of people In town and district feel the same way It is good to see so people get so much pleasure out of the snow machines Many of them could have been decided winter haters In times but now actually wish for copious amounts of snow to fall so they can use their machines to the best advantage It is only when machines are mis used and other people s rights abused that complaints start to collect If the snowmobilers themselves would exercise their common sense there would be no further need for restrictions on the use of the machines What will replace a calendar Are calendars outdated One of the noticeable differences between the current year end and only a few years ago Is the decreasing numbers of calendars which are dispensed as a goodwill gesture by merchants and financial institutions The reason isn hard to find Calendars are expensive Their value as an advertising tool Is questioned because of the cost But even so ac cording to a large calendarmaking firm demand for calendars exceeds the supply a fact verified by stationery and book stores that sell non- advertising calendars Certain types of calendars are fading it true Fewer people distribute them However those who are are distributing twice as many says an executive of Canada s largest manufacturer of calendars In total the Canadian calendar business is probably worth million a year the Financial Post estimates However unless you live In an unusually affluent area It Is quite likely there are only one or two calendars in your home this year that were dispensed from business places as a goodwill gesture This may seem like a trifling sub ject but many Canadian homes depend on calendars for their art Calendars with pretty arty or striking pictures on them were hung on bare walls throughout the year Then they are cut out and sometimes framed And there Is some very good calendar art both in the secular and religious field Right now we suppose either the 1971 calendar is still hanging in its Greatest gift will ago n be jammed to the rafters with students who t be there but for whom there is nothing else to do ere 11 be thousands of broken homes and marriages turned to dust But there will be thousands of dreamyeyed brides and proud young grooms positive that nothing could ever happen to their love which is something special There will be wars that have no victories and peace conferences that go on inter proceeding from nowhere to no where The United Nations will again announce that It to going broke but nobody will ante up enough to pay the bills thousands of bright young people will emerge from college spilling over with knowledge and come face to face with that brutal you can t get a Job with no experience and you can t get experience until you iel a job But thousands of others will break their backs to get Into college where they will learn all about life and the mate of their choice Does this all sound sort of familiar to you It should Does It all sound rather depressing It t You have your downs but you 11 have your too those glorious and fleeting times when you wouldn be anyone else or anywhere else Your children will change preferably for the better but don count on It The year will fly by Moke it a good one by thinking If I were to treat my friends as I treat my children how many friends would I have left That is one of the challenges to readers in a new book written by a California mother and educator called Your Child Self Esteem The Key to His life The book and its Dorothy CorkUle are described in an article in the Christian Science Monitor Her theme is that a should tench a child that he is lovable that he matters and has value because he exists that he can handle himself and his environment with competence that he has something to offer others Her relaxed view of the teen years begins with the conviction that rebellion is not a necessary part of adolescent development If the parents have as they should been steadily working themselves out of their job she says declarations of independence are likely to be less drastic Most accustomed place has been replaced by a one or else the space on the wall is vacant If it is vacant we would suggest you mention this to the businessman or institution which supplied your year end gift Tell him or her or they that you ve got a date with them but you can find out when because your calendar is missing He may come through with one from under the counter reserved for those who ask or he may have run out Or he may have never had any in the first place In any event the great Canadian of hanging calendars in the new year is going out of style for lack of hanging material The question now isWhat will replace the calendar on the walls of Canadian homes youngsters don really want to family ties even if parents have madf mistakes Along the way Mrs Briggs deals out a little self esteem for parents reassuring tnem that they don have to be perfect They should forgive themselves shortcomings of the past and deal with the present At the last of the book she returns to her theme Helping a child like himself is the greatest gift you cart give for fins skimming the top ot the Charlie and I also managed to stop blinking and observe the passing parade on the beach which included several bikini d young ladies walking their dogs Next day we were on our way again heading for Naples where we hoped to join up with Alligator Alley and skim over the Everglades to Fort La It was an uneventful trip except for a stopover at the Circus Hall of Fame at Sarasota which was most interesting and an Incident at a well known member of chain of restaurants where we stalked out without paying the bill The incidents started when our party found the food lacked the usual freshness associated with that well known name The bacon looked like it had been fished from the Everglades from a wild hog and then burnt The spaghetti ordered looked like fishermen worms which had Jellied In the hot sun Slices of roast beef looked and tasted like they had come from a tannery- after the tanning process was complete The only exception was my cheeseburger which I had wolfed down before that others barely started My palate could detect no difference At juncture noting my obvious Continued on Pope 20 years ago Taken from the the Free Press Thursday January 17 Reeve of Trafalgar for the past year Joseph M Wickson was elected warden for Halton county at the inaugural meeting of county council At the inaugural meeting of the Public Utilities Commission J R was elected chairman Twenty five years of faithful service with the Acton Free Press and Canadian Champion were remembered with Bob as honored guest at a staff dinner at Hawthorne Lodge The group of included husbands and wives the A kitchen is having Its face lifted under the sponsorship of the Men club and the direction of a committee headed by Harry Arbic The kitchen is being enlarged all along one side Albert Van Gils is doing the carpentry Four candidates have qualified for election in the mayoralty contest following the nomination meeting Monday evening Carl Hansen Tom Ben and Ted Tyler are contesting the position vacated by the recent resignation of Tom Salmon because of 111 health At the nomination meeting 10 were nominated Voting will be on Monday Week of Prayer services all last week had attendance mounting from in Knox church on Tuesday to in the United church Friday Each choir sang in its own church The district secretary for the Foreign Bible Society Rev Moore showed a film riday and Mrs Veldhuis and Miss Dorothy Simmons sang a duet The Holy aty The Student Council held the high school At Home in the town hall Very few parents attended this year This Friday at the high school the film Romeo and Juliet will be shown Last year Mr Hansen showed Pride and Prejudice 50 years ago Taken from the lime of the Free Press Thursday January 12 1J2X The vote in the election for Councillors for township council was unusually close The votes fie the respective stood as follows Col G O Brown Applebe 281 Leslie Bird 216 Hunter The first three were elected The memberselect of Acton Municipal Council met Monday morning at clock for organization The usual by law for borrowing money was passed the amount being Regular meeting will be Tuesdays every second week Geo and A Bell were appointed auditors Their salary is each The reeve outlined work in progress The building for the Hydro must be gone on with at once as Mr Mason wanted the building he had bought in order to carry on his business The matter of putting men at work on the waterworks connection was also brought up Councillor Bell brought up the question of dealing witha number of cross dogs in town A by law will be drafted The blacksmiths had a busy day or two last week Sharpshod horses were an ab solute necessity Eskimo Pie is the newest Ice cream creation THE ACTON FREE PRESS PHONE Business and Editorial Office Acton Cltiiens Band is certainly progressing On the last practice night members showed up Dr armer was in Budapest to welcome his first grandchild the baby born to his daughter wife of the Hon Wlllson Farmer writes the Free Press a long letter from Paris Canada is at last to have a nickel coinage of her own With the finest nickel in the world a five cent piece Is being minted In Ottawa The problem of unemployment could be solved by buying a secondhand Ford for every fellow out of a job 75 years ago Taken from issue the Free Press Thursday January So many people are affected with tonsiutis that it is said to be almost epidemic In many Instances it is necessary to lance the throat and great care has to be taken to avoid quinsy Matt Griffith of found a copper medal struck in in honor of Admiral Vernon who took Porto with six ships only Master Griffith found the medal while walking across a plowed Held near bis home The news has just reached the friends here the death of Mrs Grace Hemstreet sister in law of Acton Mrs was one of Acton earliest residents Her husband the late Miller opened a grocery here In about 1835 ten years before Acton was filially christened He called it the Danville Grocery Mrs Hemstreet was highly esteemed Burglars ransacked the station in Guelph and secured cents The rain the past week has replenished the very acceptably A number of Chicago girls have formed an organization for the purpose of sub stituting a five year wedding contract for the present form of marriage Mr C Harris of passed at OJV C with very creditable standing The la grippe In new form la prevailing A good many of our citizens are Investing their surplus cash In gold mining stock Mr M has Just finished drilling a 30 sot at He intends taking contracts for this work