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Cobbeh couple bound for Nassau A Cobblehlll Road couple Bob and Barbara Ashby will be taking a free trip to Nassau sometime between now and September courtesy of Acton merchants Bob is a water works employee with the borough of while Barbara Is employed with the H K Porter Company in town Neither was at the afternoon The Ashbys who have lived but hurried downtown here only two years were the pictures when Don Lindsay grand prize winners In the telephoned to tell them the good merchants 20 week shopping news They try loan their contest holidays so that they can make Shoppers filled out coupons I trip together with every purchase at Money loo participating Acton stores Each includes week names were drawn and spending money and assorted it into the master drum to other privileges upon arrival In come eligible for the grand prize Remaining coupon holders were eligible for prizes Drawl coupon Mayor draws that lucky number LUCKY WINNERS of an all expense paid trip Road received their tickets from Paul to Nassau Bob and Barbara 14 Cob- Nielsen following the draw Saturday Consolation prize winners of vouchers were Ethel Mo Mullen Mrs I Davidson Mayor drew the Shirley Swachhammer lucky Ashby coupon from the P Irene Mackay master drum In front of the Marshall T N LeBlonc Reg municipal offices Saturday af Adams Babe Roszell K Merchants Paul Nielsen Mrs E and Don Lindsay assisted at the Elsie Ted draw Brankicwlcz and Javald Seventh Year Pages F Cents Six tax instalments Arrest man in Mil ton charge fraud scheme After two Incidents of bank fraud here In Acton last Friday a Toronto man was arrested by the Milton police later in the day for the same offense He will be charged by Acton Milton and other towns for bank fraud The yearold man had opened accounts at the Bank of Commerce and the Bank of Nova Scotia here a few days previously with a fictitious deposit Then he withdrew money from the ac count according to police Both bank managers phoned the Acton police Friday when the fraud was discovered At one bank he had withdrawn at the other A Telex description and Information on his methods went out immediately When he attempted the same thing In Mil ton bank authorities recognized him and contacted police He did not give any resistance when arrested by two constables A similar occurrence happened here several weeks but the accused was harder to catch Police note there is a considerable Increase in the incidence of bank fraud in the province Parks recreation ask for 47387 Acton Parks and Recreation Committee is asking town council to spend on recreation and on parks in the coming fiscal year The recreation figure Includes a deficit from last year and 000 for a recreation director whom Councillor Peter Mtrks has suggested the town should hire Half of the would be recoverable in a government grant Chairman for Thursday night parks and recreation meeting Councillor Chapman said he feels the budget would be handed back by just as sure as spring is coming Council chopped a much smaller parks and recreation budget presented last year Wants meeting Marks said he would like to see council explain reasons for cut backs at a meeting attended by parks and recreation members He suggested only two parks and recreation members take an active part in the meeting but that the entire committee be allowed to attend as observers nils committee spends a good hours every year preparing a budget and I Just don t feel It right to have 10 hours work go out the window with one stroke of a pencil he charged dropped close to on revenue it expected to receive last year Public skating revenue was down while miscellaneous hockey took a dip Marks belittled any suggestion the committee should attempt not to raise the ire of council by presenting the high budget There s an excellent chance any politician who tries to please all the people all the time is not doing the Job he s supposed to he warned Committee members Hugh Patterson Barry Inscoe and Gil Malcolm were absent when the budgets were approved SHOULD ACTON ANNEX LAND to the East This was the subject of a hefty discussion at the regular meeting of Planning Board Thursday evening Mayor Lea would like Acton to annex 1 acres of Esqueslng land including the acreage shown In this aerial photo by Jack Carpenter looking east from the subdivision Hold that note please FAMED DUTCH SINGER known as the Mary Cerlaar the singer headlined a Dutch Singer without a Name holds a pear shaped troupe tounng Canada for the past two weeks tone for Holland Canada Club executive They were entertained at the Fryters home members Jules of Acton and on Mill St Sunday evening Turn inside for the president J Ben of Milton The real story Staff Photo Cities dictate DST Greer Councillor Jack Greer made his annual protest at council meeting Tuesday night again opposing the bylaw designating Daylight Saving Tunc The by law stating the dates for the changeover Is a yearly affair but councillor Greer makes sure it t automatic He votes against at each reading There should be a ballot on this Mr Greer grumbled We don have a say In ft at all Were just dictated to by the cities Vou fellows forget admonished Mr Greer a council old timer We had to go back because the city of Toronto went back We re being dictated o just like regional government Councillor Marks agreed It was foolish for council to discuss it at all Rene recalled a provincewide proclamation bad been turned down when many municipalities wanted to maintain some Independence Daylight Saving Tune begins April lasts till October There will be at least two more nights of committee meetings before the town budget Is ready to come to council Reeve told council Tuesday night It probably won be ready for the next regular council meeting Two Items councillors hoped would be Included in the budget came up for discussion conn Marks Introducing the Elizabeth Drive improvements and councillor Elliott a grant to the centennial commission Legality problem Legal boundaries on Elizabeth have still not been determined and lawyer C is on holidays council learned However councillor Masalcs told Mr Marks the matter should be settled soon Mr Marks wanted assurance the work was being included In the budget Councillor Greer assured him the project priority Mr Marks explained we all know the legality will be settled after the budget so I raise the point to make certain it was included It 11 all come out at budget time soothed Mr Greer who was chairman for the committee of the whole meeting of council for centennial After attending the centennial commission meeting councillor Elliott reported to council I have the impression they re severely strapped for funds He suggested a motion granting them a sum of Deputyreeve said he d rather see it termed an advance on budget Reeve chairman of the finance committee said he d like to know the whole amount wanted How many will there be There has been no direct request for funds said councillor Coats no direct approach or budget presented to us The mayor objected strongly I ve been asking since January he said After some of the committee attended a council meeting the mayor said he took the matter to committee I made it clear they like en advance until budget they ve had nothing forthcoming as a tentative sum on which to operate The mayor said the committee could very quickly come up with a sum He is a member of the centennial committee A motion to advance the tennlal committee passed unanimously Tax payments Clerkadministrator Joe Hunt reported to the full council that at the budget committee meeting uic night before approval was recommended for tour further payments of taxes The dates would be announced as close as possible to the old dates Council approved the recommendation there will be six instalments this year replacing the four of previous years Councillor Marks wondered about extra cost Involved In having extra collection la It minimizing Ihe profitability he wondered Mr Hurst felt most of the extra work was paper work In the office Deputyreeve McKenzle added this would be offset by con venience to the ratepayers Georgetown GO by 73 SPRING must be on the way At least the crocuses in the garden of Cy Perkins Alice St seem to think so Staff Photo A Go transit type commuter service will use the existing Canadian National railway line from Union Station Toronto to Georgetown via Weston Bramalea and Brampton beginning in 1973 A spokesman for the Department of Transportation and Communications said the decision to introduce the service followed the preliminary reading of a federal government report two weeks ago The report assessed the potential of rail Ones in the Toronto area for commuter transportation The TorontoGeorgetown route is expected to receive substantial assistance from the federal government Power corridor has serious flaws CCC charges in brief to Premier Over 30 representatives of different municipalities were in attendance when a brief from the Coalition of Concerned Citizens was presented to Premier William Davis Monday after noon The- brief accompanied a 084 name petition asking for review of plans for a major Hydro trans mission corridor from Pickering on Lake Ontario to Nantlcoke on Lake Erie Many townships in this area would be affected by the proposed line including Erin Eramosa and Lee Symmes of Terra Cotta chairman of the CCC presented the brief to Mr Davis and John Schreiber the list of names The group reported they were very well received by Premier Davis and Minister of the Environment James Auld We were given more lime than we had anticipated said Mrs M Tixxard 2 Acton who was among the delegates from the CCC at the meeting Also with the group from this strict were Mrs Elizabeth Hoey Miss Martha Hoey and Mrs Joyce Barnes from township and Vic Johnson from town ship Serious flaws The brief explained that the CCC is convinced Ontario Hydros proposed trans mission corridor has serious flaws and should be examined before an objective Commission of Inquiry The group also contends that the Cabinet has been illadvised by Ontario Hydro In the matter The brief stated We do not profess to be technical experts and can be readily snowed under once the discussion gets beyond the realm of common- sense and into the realm of tech nology However It also stated that a public examination by unbiased experts has not been made to ensure that the best and most acceptable compromise between efficient and economical power and the conservation of the quality of life in Ontario has been achieved Many of the Coalition members will be affected by the route of the proposed line some losing houses and others out buddings others chunks of land The group criticized Ontario Hydro apparent reluctance to discuss the matter and the used to arrive at the chosen They suggested Ontario Hydro method of oper ation is outdated in a democratic state The CCC suggests that laying underground cable is the norm in New York state and the United States but that Ontario Hydro has deliberately turned its back on by choosing a voltage which they are incapable of burying for any distance Although the status report on the Toronto Centred Region endorsed the Parkway Belt for transmission lines the charges Ontario Hydro has Ignored No bunching The brief also states that although it is energy policy to normally a void bunching of EHV lines In a single right of way for security reasons and the New York Public Service Commission defines visual saturation in terms of three towers abreast the Ontario corridor will have towers abreast each tower carrying one circuit Ontario Hydro states they have designed the line to minimize the Impact on the environment but In the rolling country north and west of Toronto the proposed Hydro route marches in a straight Una for over 30 miles many of the miles being from all southerly approaches Although the provincial government enacted a statute to protect the Niagara escarpment area with a high rating for the Halton Peel area Ontario Hydros proposed route combs slowly up the escarpment at an acute angle finally crosses the crest northwest of Cheltenham and then parallels the crstt on the skyline for several miles which would have maximum impact on an area of unique character In conclusioB the brief states that although Ontario Hydro has the 1 mile transmission line is necessary to transmit power the commercial and heartland of the province the proposed corridor is nowhere good enough The brief states the routs and corridor would impose necessary hardship on the people of Southern Ontario and op a permanent to bold a full public