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The Acton Free Press Wed October ACTON RADIO AND TV reporter Jack Carpenter was Invited up the CN tower at the moment it became the tallest structure in the Commonwealth at feet two weeks ago He returned in daylight at foot height to take these spec tacular pictures where viewing range extends to the monitoring station north of Acton ultimate height Is 1800 feet with communication facilities revolving restaurant and observation decks Elevators will go up the outside as shown centre Top left looking down on the big ones Toronto Dominion centre and Commerce Court with the Royal York Hotel in the foreground Lower left the view people will get from the looking toward the harbor gap and Toronto islands with the huge new Harbour Centre Top right looking east along the Gardiner expressway toward Don Valley parkway with Scarborough in the distance Union Station and O Keefe Centre visible Lower right breath taking view looking north new city hall partially hidden by new Sheraton hotel View can be miles but this day says Jack Carpenter fog hung over and prevented a view of Acton The general public will be able to follow Jack up there by Our man on the CN tower A thousand feet up in the air Carpenter gingerly lifted his eyes across the miles from Toronto to And ho see tog But this Intrepid ioand TV reporter on clear the few from the new CN low to Acton should he tcr rife He tried it in reverse from both Churchill church the monitoring and he could plainly see tnc new tower rising at the rate of an inch every five minutes hour a day That 16 feet a day until It reaches its ultimate height or over feet the highest Record Jack Carpenter broadcast from Ihe tower at Its 785foot mark when hydraulic jacks boosted Ihe platform the inch that made it strike a new re cordthe highest ldlng in the commonwealth He stayed up that night for four more automatic boosts as work progressed around him ind the height went up four inches altogether He returned by daylight to take pictures some of them specially for Ihe Free Press Ily then it was feet high And I m not really a height man exclaims Jack However he put on a casual look for the photographs keeping wdl away from the edge of that 1000foot drop Bravado He went up by hoisted plat form although one of the workmen climbs up by Ihe emergency staircase every It takes him 1G minutes and he docs It for bravado And exercise The workmen hoist goes to the bottom of the crane and then the last feet is by a series of ladders And then the emergence at the top to Its spectacular breath taking view And It can be for as far as miles extending beyond Niagara Mllrananecny a quarter of the distance to Montreal The dart shaped tower In eludes telev ision antennae for CBC CTV and and can house all the M radio chan allocated to the Toronto Next stage After the concrete tower is completed inch by inch workmen will descend and begin the next stage the extending pod which will in elude observation decks of fices and a revolving restaurant Hunger t one of he sensations Jack felt aloft last week He still cant imagine silting calmly munching a lunch that high above ground I was the guest of Matachy Grant tower sign and construction mi who has words of en for a novice climber The tower Is ex tremely rigid and no motion at all Is experienced It planned to withstand even on earthquake About men work on the slip platform as it creeps up taking all safety precautions Some work over the side Jock refused an Invitat on to try It out there Mr Grant says the final feet will be like a sculpture rather than a piece of con It will be part of a com which won be com pjeted for two decades or so Then there will be parkland at the foot of the lofty tower shops restaurants bout I ques connected by pedestrian walkways all part of Mi Centre By then Instead of rising inside the concrete structure sightseers will go up glass en closed elevators on the out side One observation deck will be indoors one to the some of hi in the cemtnt comes from Kalian Nelson Crushed Mom Cement comes up 1600 tons day feeding the work me who surrounded our hometo runrtu as he stood caul from of the drop I no future sightseer the boondocks out here will find the experience quid as shnklnc as Jack 76 entries Just back from a roach conference in Halifax Hat ton Warden Anne attended the Heritage art show at County Museum over the weekend Homage Ha ton is Mrs MacArthur project as War den this year Being the last will exist as county Mrs MacArthur thought it would be a good idea to have scenes around he county painted or photo graphed to preserve them and launched a competition The County Museum at the Kelso Conservation Area was chosen because of the scenery at this time of year and to bring new people Into the museum Mrs Mac Arthur reported a completely different group of people came than those who regu larly visit tnc museum I our categories The competition was into four categories three plac awarded Winner of the adult oil and water color competition won by Georgetown s David for his painting of the CNR Station High school oils and water colors won by Brian Gibson of who painted a church school oils and water colors was won by llobinson of for h painting of a farm south of Photography honors for his picture of two girls Old Time Pic nic Mrs MacArthur was very pleased the response ALS SPECIALS Free factory air conditioning while they last Only left 1973 Company Demonstrators with special saving offer For information Call Al at Andrew Murray Motors Limited Georgetown Ontario Mountain view Road BOWL for Pleasure BOWL for Health THE ENTIRE FAMILY CAN BOWL TOGETHER IN Thing Ml I to do GO BOWLING ACTON BOWLING LANES N Member B P A C ACTON HOCKEY SKATING SCHOOL REGISTRATION Boys Glib up to 8 years Sat Oct 20 Sat Oct 27th 10 am to 12 noon AT THE j ACTON ARENA WEEK SESSIONS FEES Brothers of I family Brother or of family Optra again this year by Harold Townsley and Jim James Marks maintains council interest Acton Deputy reeve Peter council seat In Ward t Marks defeated candidate In told the tree Press Ihe race for Ihe regional this week he will definitely Let s talk about HORSES Si By Jennifer Birr fall Fair had really Rood weather for once this year and so was able to at tract on even larger than normal crowd The horse show was well attended with over 30 horses in some classes Once again there was a mixture of saddle hunter scat I used to get quite upset when strutting saddle horses turned up In Hunter Hack classes but a couple of years ago solved this problem by providing some true classes as well as the classic hunter flat and per classes So now we get low gliding hunter type horses ridden hunter seat In he Saddle classes looking so Incongruous the show high stepping saddlers The draft horses attracted family having raised and shown Belgians spent a long while talking to Brothers new Belgians from Alabama These brothers from have shown for over years but arc now into Belgians lecnusc of the lack of good available The horses hey had at were mognificcnt a team of five year old mares weighing better than a ton a piece and two each topping the scales nearly lbs Their quality was superb as well at lire nil of them being I breeding the royalty of Belgians The show was well set up us spectators being to see the three ring clrcusofhunUr classes draft and harness classes from the bleachers The only complaint I heard were about he confusion of two an the difficulty In controlling horses ridden tight past racing trotters with their drivers throwing whips and yelling It difficult to a horse to Jump five feet when all he see are Hackney ponies hairing around but that part of the J- all Fair scene If people wish to show fairs they have to be irepared for these things Anywny it sure separates the men from the boys and makes the Judging easier especially when the poor Judge has thirty horses to contend with Question have men Honed Canadian horses recently What do you mean by this Answer is Canada a only native breed of horses unfortunately there are very few of them left In the early days draft horses were Imported from Prance and crossed with Ihe army marcs producing a versatile cob of 14 IS hands and weighing about 12001300 lbs For the settler who could only afford one horse this type was useful to him as an all purpose farm worker harness horse and saddle animal The original Co lens were not pretty hut sturdy However the herds that exist in Canada are like on original Utile perhaps Arnold Brothers of ren Quebec still breed nnd I knew a M of Hudson Quebec who had a fine stallion There are a few out west but that s about it although the type of horse Is still quite common on Quebec farms make himself available to the regional chairman and area council for any positions In which he could be of sen Ice Deputy reeve Marks was officially counted out of the race Monday two weeks niter the election when a recount conducted by Judge John Sprague resulted in eight vote plurality for the sue candidate Acton Pat McKenne with the result reeve Marks con Hut I m happy to have had the opportunity to serve Acton the local government level for five years Mr Marks topped the polls when hi first ran for council in He repealed his poll lopping ally when he was re elected in 1970 Last year he was nominated for the position of deputy reeve and to office Wall and see Asked if he would consider running for election three year from now the year old deputy reeve replied I Intend to stay In close contact analyzing the policies procedures that develop during the first Ihree years I II have to wait and sec the results of the present council then make a decision whether could the community by running again Mr Marks agreed with Mr McKcnrfe description of Monday s events as a gentleman recount were able to reach all decisions without any trouble congratulate Mr McKcnzie on a ne campaign and he concluded GROW AHEADPLANT BULBS SHRUBS JUST ARRIVED from Holland FALL BULBS Tulips Hyacinth 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