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The Acton Free Wednesday April MiniComment It is no news that Canada received 25813 or 18 per cent less Immigrants in 1871 than In the previous year but Is interesting to note United States for the first time was the major source country for Canadas immigrants in At the same time the flow of emigration from Britain fell to 15451 a decrease of per cent from the preceding year Other major source countries with number of immigrants coming were Portugal Italy India Hong Kong 5009 and Greece Of the entire total Ontario attracted per cent with Quebec second with per cent and third with 155 PC The majority of newcomers per cent were under The were almost equally divided male to female An estimated million gallons of water escaped from the Scotch Block reservoir last Wednesday when a 20 foot section of the dam collapsed and spilled into the valley of the Sixteen Mile Creek which kind of poohpoohs the suggestion made by a district news paper that the flood was really only a trickle of water that leaked when the dam sagged It seems that ever since we can remember that grand juries have been condemning the Halton County jail in Milton Once again in annual fashion the grand jury took a swipe at the venerable antique especially for its lack of exercise areas for inmates If this years grand jury report has as much effect as previous recom mendations we would suggest they forget all about them and turn their energy to more promising pursuits Can we expect increased educational taxes next year Board of Education finance chairman William attributes the drop in the educational levy this year to the fact government grants are paying per cent of costs this year as opposed to only 42 per cent in 1960 and thats the end Despite protests from other boards over the provinces ceilings on spending Mr Priestner says they are necessary to control the extraordinary growth educational spending of the last decade Amen Coles Slaw There Is some discord at our house this week over the result of the hockey playoff to date and 2 an article which appeared in the dally newspaper about sex and cars It is not serious mind but at tunes has led to some sarcasm on both sides of the marital fence You see my better half is a volatile supporter of the Boston Bruins figuring they were cheated out of the Stanley Cup last year by brash young roan by the name of Me I ve been cheering for the Toronto Maple Leafs honing they would shovel the into the ashcan in the same maimer as the Haba did last year Up to the time of this writing I have had only one choice to gloat when the Leafs kayOed the Bruins In overtime at Boston The wife meanwhile has been able to glee fully pound me on three occasions and fined me up or a fourth with the Leafs on the brink of elimination She picks the Bruins because they are young strong aggressive not to mention handsome she says symbolizing the vigor hockey players should display as well as dressing pretty mod The second area of conflict kind of ties In with this theme It concerned a newspaper article declaring British men measure their sexual potency by the and youth of the automobiles they drive This type of article ordinarily would not create any problem but recently It became necessary for our family of four drivers to acquire another car My choice was a ona of the smaller cars on the Report vindicates our policy The confidential report released Monday regarding the site of the new Toronto International Airport vindicates both the editorial policy and strong suppositions in news stories carried In these pages that federal planners chose a site near here for the brand new facility We were accused during the prolonged period where and announcement of the site was delayed of arousing unfounded fears with news stories and editorials that the airport would be located near Acton We were convinced that this is the hub of the most important parts of Ontario and the only real site that made sense Federal planners It turns out agreed with us picking Acton as the favored place for the airport as well as being Ihe most economical Then politics Intervened It must have been the disagreement between the federal and provincial governments over Acton that delayed on answer on the site Anally chosen at Pickering Federal planners felt the airport should go In the Acton area while Queens Park following the guide lines laid out in the TorontoCentred Region Plan felt it should go east of Toronto Bill Davis McKeough and their cohorts won the federal Government gave in compromising on a new deal which Involved a regional concept serving the whole area with four airports It almost frightens one to think that the future of this entire area hinged on the decision of a few men In Government pointing out once again how Important the election of competent men to govern the province and country has become Well miss the excitement and the Influx of jobs and capital a new airport would have provided In town and area but at the same time we are thankfui the decision to locate at Pickering was made Now we are also more familiar with the statement from Prime Minister that the federal Government wasnt one hundred per cent happy about the Pickering site The decision by Government planners does show once again that Acton Is In the real hub of this province and efforts by Government to keep the area small and undeveloped are going to run Into continuing opposition Spring breakup in the Schools must develop personality member on the Halton County Board of Education hit the education nail firmly on the head with comment directed against the proposals for mammoth high schools with enrolments of 10000 to students at a recent discussion of board administration proposals Stressing high schools of that size would almost completely eradicate the personal human relationships which education should develop above all else Mr pointed out human development requires Interactlon and involvement with others We are probably graduating the loneliest young people this country has ever seen the trustee claims stressing the problem is compounded by the disintegration and impersonalization of families He sees the trend toward smaller schools will have a positive reaction among teachers who increasingly as the system becomes more refined will have the ability to communicate and light fires under their charges instead of being merely collectors of degrees Above all Mr Lawson says the teachers should get to know their pupils and their families To our mind this Is what education Is oil about not merely learning by rote or experiment fitting oneself for a Job- but complete development of the human person Perhaps the establishment of smaller schools where warm personal relationships can still exist and school spirit can be cultivated assiduously by both teachers and students will be more costly and require duplication of facilities but it is part of the answer to many of todoys problems in education where disgruntled students are to subcultures of their own for solace as Mr explains We shudder when we hear some supposedly enlightened people spout theories which would reduce the education process to that of a production line where students go In one door and are turned out another clutching a diploma entitling them to occupy a pigeon hole for the rest of their lives It Is heartening to hear trustees on the Boards of Education are concerned with more than the everyday mechanics of huge and costly enterprise and think seriously about the complete education of those who will one day run this country And Mr Lawson is on the right track Photos by J Carpenter compact market And it wasnt a new one So you can see right away there Is an a where there could be same anxiety My first reaction when reading the article which first appeared In Motor Market News was to deplore the fact magazines were not satisfied in invading the bedrooms of the now they wanted Into the garages too A spokesman for British which produces most of Britain mini cars was also disturbed He Is quoted as saying this can really be a general rule If it is all these people with cars must be hiding terrible problems But I could see that many women in this country would be sizing their own husbands up from now on by the size and vintage of the husband limousine even though they were aware it was Britain where there was the growing tendency to change cars more often and always for something bigger better and newer It reminded me of a clipping a friend sent me not long ago where a young man went into a department store to buy a pair of gloves for his girl friend At the next counter was a young woman buying some lingerie for herself Due to some shuffling by the sates clerks the packages became mixed up The young man got the underwear the gal the gloves Is girl friend with this note My dear Anne in this package yon will And a little gift which I hope you will accept In the place of the ones I ripped I hope to be with you when you put them on as there are a number of ways the sales lady suggested for pulling Now I wish no other bands to touch them yet I know a hundred fellows win gaze upon them when I am not with you If they are too large you can let them wrinkle as a great many girls wear them that way The sales lady had a pair for three years and only cleaned them once She said to remind you to always blow In them when putting them on caution It might not be a bad idea to put a ew mothballs in them to keep the flies away and above all do not take them off In the street as the skin chaps very easily in this weather Needless to say the note required a lot of explaining And that is exactly what these studies regarding bigger and better cars need too- a lot of explaining Don t bet that they havent got their packages mixed up too Of course I might be willing to put more faith in the statistics if I had the resources and the nerve to race around town In a Lincoln or a Caddy instead of a two door Datsun But then every man has two ends an What he accomplishes depends on which end he chooses heads he wins tails he loses As write the socalled first day of spring has long gone but the only Indication that winter Is nearly over In these parts Is that the curling season Is drawing close Outside the window the snowbanks look like the Iceberg that sank the Titanic Inside the furnace thumps away like a bull moose that has just outrun a pack of wolves And every four days It seems the oil delivery man wades through the drifts inserts that solid gold nozzle in the side of the house and whistling cheerfully pumps another worth of oil Into the great guzzler It Is a time to try mens souls It Is a time of year when I curse my Irish forebears for not emigrating to New Zealand or South Africa or Jamaica However It happens every year and there always some little ray of spiritual or emotional sunlight to penetrate the late- winter blues My little ray of sunshine at four oclock in the afternoon Is sleeping the sleep of the pure at heart She been in the sack since 30 this morning after sitting up all night talking to her crazy mother who stiffen from insomnia Its not that Kim disturbs the quiet gentle routine of our dally life She doesn disturb it at all She destroys It As mentioned she a nightowl Does her best work writing essays and stuff after midnight And Just like the owl she can sleep all day Same with eating She never hungry when anyone else Is If dinner Is carefully planned for sixthirty she is suddenly famished at fivethirty and smashes herself up a big mess of bacon and eggs or spaghetti and sardines leaving her mother and I looking ruefully at the roast Or else she is not hungry at dinnerhour and will eat nothing but some celery and then about Bill Smiley f These are minor things of course and she a delight to have around the house When shea here at least I know why my socks are disappearing and I haven t a clean shirt to wear The problem you see Is that we ask her home for a weekend She throws a dean blouse in a shoulder bag and heads home But she hates the dry so much that her weekends turn into a sixday sojourn and she has to wear somebody clothes and she and her mother cant abide each others taste In garments so she wears mine which are so drab and nondescript that nobody could fight over them As I said these are trifles But she always in some kind of a hassle and these ore the things that produce the hourslong allnight sessions with her old lady while I lie blissfully dreaming of the grand old days when she was a cuddly infant She still pretty cuddly by the way but not for the old man And that the sort of thing she and her Ma can talk about for six hours at a stretch without either one drawing a full breath They can talk about Don and The Wed ding This Is not the title of a Russian novel about the Don River Donis the other man in her life and The Wedding is causing more confusion around here than anything since the day we discovered our tomcat was pregnant The great event Is scheduled for May Typically Kim announced that they had chosen May as the day And typically her mother who never misses anything Important like this though I doubt if she knows the name of the prime minister checked the calendar and discovered that May 7 is a Sunday Not many people get married on Sunday though I dont know why not There t much else to do I had a lot of free advice about the wedding Most people chuckle fiendishly as tell me what it going to cost Well she a your only daughter so youll have to go the whole hog eh Or Well It only happens once and it cost you a bundle but think of the loot she 11 get Consoling stuff like this In the first place I wouldnt care if I had ten daughters Well maybe I would But in the second place I dont want her to get a lot of loot We d wind up storing it In our bouse for ten years until she and her bloke Intended are making enough to afford than an unfurnished room Her mother promptly announced that she was not up to a big wedding with all the frills the smartest decision she has made since she agreed to marry me Her mother that Is Next I laid it on the line Four choices A small wedding immediate family only and a fairsued cheque A slightly bigger deal with a smallish reception to Include close friends and a small cheque A big splash with a Lot of people and no cheque Or a massive affair with pomp and circum stance In a city hotel ballroom with her uncle and godfather a welltodo lawyer paying the shot If she could talk him Into it She chose No But we see Were far from out of the woods Middle age Middle age is defined as a time when you are not inclined to exercise anything but caution Back issues of The Free Press THE ACTON FREE PRESS PHONE Business and Editorial Office Taken from the Issue of the Free Press of Thursday April Good Friday was marked with solemnity at three Acton churches and all five Acton congregations Joined Christians throughout the world in expressing Hallelujah A cantata The Easter King was sung by Knox church choir at the evening service on Easter Sunday Ted Hansen directed the choir and accompanied hem on the organ Oldest Masons attending the annual District Deputy Night at Walker Lodge on MondaywereW A T Frank Mcintosh and V Bro Cooper Each of them has been a Mason for well over SO years and served their lodge in every office They rarely miss any of the functions Donald Wade Elmlra DDGJif of Wellington district paid his official visit to the lodge About 150 sat down to the meal served by the wives of the officers The toast list was presided over by A J Buchanan Four Acton singers sang in the secondary schools choir under the direction of Dr Leslie Bell at a concert in Eaton auditorium during Easter week Carolyn Oakes Shirley Thompson Yvonne Bnmelleand Ken Mann A wellknown resident of Acton George Wesley Murray died InGuelph Tuesday Be was one of Esquesings best farmers and served on Acton fair board for many years Smelts are running at Burlington and local fishermen are trying their luck Taken from the Issue of the Free Press Thursday April 13 A special meeting was called by council Thursday evening with a request that citizens attend to show which route they desired the provincial highway to take through Actoa It was moved by H A seconded by John Kenney that the of at the meeting are in favor of the Toronto to highway being built so as to pass through Acton and not around on the northwest side The motion was carried on a showing of hands Harold Wiles has secured the premises occupied by M Edwards and Co bakery business and will open a first class restaurant in connection with his confec tionery business living quarters for the family are being fitted upstairs Mr Wiles has now installed all the necessary apparatus for Vernors Detroit ginger ale Oakville Is at last considering the opening of a free library CampbellvlUe has been honored with the opening of a Masonic Lodge The Young Peoples Guild of Knox church have arranged for a splendid entertainment for Easter Monday evening in the church A Guebh choir will present The Resurrection Mr George Lister brought In a very large hog to stockyard at Rock- wood weighing pounds This la Just ID pounds less than the Bernard brothers record bog two years ago Taken from the issue el the Free Press Thursday April This is the season when winds fifty times a day and be who lays his flannels off likewise Is laid away The meeting of the Board of Health was held Monday evening with members present Reeve secretary Moore and Messrs H Moore W R Kenney and Robert Wallace The sanitary Inspector was instructed to begin his housetohouse inspection Spraying experiments will take place In R Harrisons orchard at Milton The Scotch entertainment given at Rock- wood under the auspices of the Kings Daughters on Thursday evening was a thorough success The haggis proved to be as much of a drawing card as the list of entertainers The talent supplied by the villagewasMr J Strachan Miss N Tracy Miss B Murray Eric and May Wood Vera Strange and Messrs Pike Clancy and Miss J and the string band of Ospringe were the only ones provided outside Scotch dainties wen served with the supper Show windows in town are at a premium for exhibiting new bicycles Wont the council please give the lamp posts a coat of paint this spring If we most continue to endure coal oil street lamps let the painters Improve on the ugliness of the