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Acton Nov HYDRO PROPOSIS UNI THROUGH FARMLAND Are regional salaries exorbitant JOHN YOU FOR THAT WHAT IN THE WORLD WILL YOU DO WITH A LONG RANGE INTER- BALLISTIC MISSILE Bill SMILEY symptoms of debility Space forbids the listing of them but a few arc face alter- flushed and pale murky yellowish a face crying involuntarily fearful of reason tense genital organs swollen ankles bed wetting film before eyes desire to carry arms over head partial deafness First well doa book review this week A fascinating volume has come into my hands It Is called Drink Your Troubles Away The title alone would sell a lot of copies I can just hear the boozers say Key Thats forme Its time somebody wrote a sensible book And then theres the name of the author It is John Lust What an Intriguing com bination Drink and Lust All for Its not quite as exciting Inside as it is on the cover because its a natural foods tract Unless you can get excited over the thought of a brimming glass of carrot juice or start to drool at the image cabbage pic 11 may not be your meat If the author will pardon the expression I was a bit cynical at first but I read on Interest and by the timet had gone through a few chapters I was Im a meat and taties man myself You know what that will get me I quote Wrong diet brings with it constipated bowels hemorrhoids anemia defective secretions acidity ulcers bloating ar thritis headache nervousness liver and kidney ailments heart disease feeblc- a thousand other ailments Well I think thats a pretty sweeping statement I have never been constipated in my life Lots of the people 1 know who follow the same diet as I are constipated 1 do have hemorrhoids and arthritis occasionally and I am definitely becoming feebleminded but Ive had none of those SSfflWWWSSSKS Dont think Im knocking this book I think John Lust is on the right track even though it has many turnings I havent seen any signs of feeble mindedness among natural food fiends Let us say charitably that there is a certain feebleness of will My son comes home with his little bag of unpolished rice He cooks some for break fast taken at noon He gives us a lecture on what harm we are doing our bodies putting poisons in them During the afternoon he smokes eight of my cigarettes though theoretically he doesnt smoke That evening at dinner he decides just to keep peace In the family to break his habit for once and eat meat He eats about a pound and a quarter of the roast beef we can afford only because my wife rushed out and put a second mortgage on the car How would you like to have to kill a fatted calf That story would never have made the Bible at todays meat prices My daughter who is also a natural foods freak has even less will power After a few weeks on rice and beans and macaroni comes home with her husband a sensible young chapwhowouldeatstewedratsif he were hungry enough She goes straight to the refrigerator whips open the frozen meat department and starts muttering Meat Glorious meat the running down her chin But this is a good book no doubt The title refers to the fact that we can drink all our health problems away with vegetable juice What a way to go It is based on vitamins Take Iron for example If you ore short of iron in your blood you can have one of different So remember If you are suffering from an Iron deficiency and at the same time want a fulfilled sex life keep a bushel of wild blackberries handy by the bed Lay In a good store Theyre a little scarce In February If youre short on calcium Its just as bad Here are a few of the symptoms laborious thinking looking into distance Incoherent speech afternoon headache dullness in open air staggering upon arising early sleepiness Does that sound more like Uncle George who has developed a fondness for the grape than someone suffering a lack of calcium It does to me Anyway the best cure is turnip leaves Moral carry around some turnip leaves and lay off the hooch wish I had space to tell you what Magnesium cholera oranges Silicon fingertips burn Calimyma figs Chlorine purple extremities asparagus Thats Just a sample If I meet someone with cholera burning fingertips sand in his eyes and purple extremities I imagine Ill give him a wide berth But dont say didnt warn you Youre going to look pretty funny though going around with a pocketful of dandelion leaves and another of asparagus Says editorial disturbing contradictory November 1373 Acton Free Press Dear Sir Re Your editorial Christmas lights ex pression of Nov was disturbing and contradictory disturbing because It shows an irresponsible attitude towards energy conservation and contradictory because it concludes by recommending prudence In the use of power yet approves outdoor Christmas lighting Thata public utility Acton Hydro should sponsor an outdoor Christmas lighting contest Is inexcusable when our provincial and federal governments are asking for voluntary restraints In the use of energy This bad example is no encouragement to citizens who are attempting to make a sincere effort to conserve energy As much as one enjoys the tight of Christmas lights outdoor Christmas now be discouraged or l Indoor lighting at least con tributes heat to a building and its inhabitants Our continued use of energy Is now in question we should no longer be permitted to squander resources Elec tricity Is not always a clean source power for much of it comes from smoky polluting thermal plants Yours truly Mr and Mrs Robert Hansen Nerval Ontario Fortune is looking for owner Well known merchant and former Warden If Bert vlNltod this week to com ment ho disappointed the had not fatten a ittfnlnt high regional councillors them- Helved recently Mr said the Dally Journal Record and Burlington Gazette have taken grout to unleash grassroots protest the salaries and he thought the Free Press would be doing the taxpayers a service by adopting a similar stance We explained an editorial had been published over what wc considered to bo exorbitant salaries for part time work but outside of a few public spirited citizens few people wanted to be disturbed from the general apathy In our opinion it was up to the public to respond to greed at the public trough But Mr Hinton wasnt letting us off the hook so easily He explained newspapers In the south were spearheading the campaign to have the salaries reduced led by a leading light of An orphan fortune of over is searching in Canada for the heirs of Herbert George Thompson in order to settle an estate of which the recipients are obviously unaware This became know In Tucson Arizona A when Gordon Cox probate genealogist West Elm St Tucson who specializes in tracing missing relatives to settle estates took over the search with vague and in complete clues to guide him Records have been found Mr Cox said In dicating that Herbert George Thompsons parents Herbert Thompson Sr and Victoria Davidson were married on Oct ISM in Toronto Witnesses to the marriage which it appears was per formed in an Anglican church were Thomas Vin cent and Ada Williams It also has been ascer tained Cox continued that Thompsons mother Victoria Davidson was allegedly a widow at the lime of her marriage to Thompson Sr Her parents were George and Mary Buchanan and Victoria was born in Bruce Mines Canada Herbert George Thomp sons paternal grandparents were Alex Davidson and Ann Herbert Although records indicate Herbert Thompson Sr was born in London they do not indicate whether London England or Canada Mr Cox said he is also seeking people who may have known Herbert Thompson Sr or Victoria C Davidson nee Chlsholm and can give in formation concerning their whereabouts so the estate can be settled Progressive Conservative Party who is also professing shock und suggesting simultaneously the province should Impose ceilings on regional salaries Indeed perhaps the province should be but they could be em barrassing since Premier Davis and the head of the Liberal and NPP are negotiating for MPP salary Increases at the moment What do you think of the pay the councillors voted themselves In the event you are not sure it was for each councillor which will be at the local town level In the case of Hal ton Hills It has never been revealed what local salaries will be because the press is not allowed into meetings we suspect is one reason why Milton is going to pay Its mayor and the councillors each which means Mrs Ihur will receive for her two jobs We would venture to say Halton Hills will equal those figures or make them larger so Tom Hill gets at least as much as Mrs MacArthur and the regional councillors will receive plus another It is not exorbitant for coun cillors if it is a full time job The point is however no one knows how much time the job is going to take Councillors engineered the lofty salaries without much knowledge about the time involved It looked like they were going to squeeze the lemon for all it was worth The lemon in this case is you and me Milking the public purse is not a new development in Halton Some politicians who were not reelected look tike pots calling the kettle black by chastizing colleagues But we think the politicians should be giving us some answers about these salaries instead of sitting back trying to weather the storm What makes them think they are worth this kind of money more than many of them ever made in private life Why isnt the press allowed into the meetings of the Hills council Are there things happening there the public should know Hoping to hear from you soon Editorial Page All hunters arent sportsmen As a group sportsmen are conserva tionminded Unfortunately of those who do hunt there are still a number who do not understand game populations and the consequences of hunting pressures They are solely interested in enjoying the pleasures of hunting and are not interested in giving up the time or effort necessary to reach an un derstanding of the animal they are hunting Before long it will be essential for all those who hunt to become sportsmen The title of sportsman is not restricted to those who have a gun and a 200 dog rather it should include those who un derstand and appreciate the life cycle of and the pressures upon each game species A sportsman also appreciates his own freedom but understands that others have their opinions as well He is both aware of and willing to talk and compromise with these people We look forward to the day when all hunters can be termed sport smen Not only will the game benefit but the protagonists on the subject of hunting itself may reach accord Algonquin Region Huntsville report Crows a bitter bird to swallow The temptation to comment on the sports field is one often dangled in front of editorial typewriters but silence is often the better idea Take junior hockey as it is played in this part of the province for instance The teams have their ups and downs When the home town is winning you must resist the temptation to crow a little When they are on a losing streak it is difficult to refrain from suggesting they fire the coach replace the players and win a few The Bradford Witness suc cumbed to the first temptation in its November 14 issue editorializing about the strength of the Bradford Vaseys after they had vanquished a weak Fergus club in a recent game Even the most diehard fans would admit the game was one of the great bores of all time the Witness said To date the Vaseys last years OHA Junior champs have easily handled their com petition For example a week ago with three key players and coach Gary Vasey absent they pulled off a comefrombehind win against All ton While the season is just nicely getting underway we would hope the competition gets better or it will hurt the Blues at the gate and when they get Into the playoffs their soft season may lull them into a dangerous point of over- confidence that could result in defeat Noting it might sound strange coming from the home town paper the Witness also observed it cer tainly hoped the competition gets stronger so there is some spice in the Sunday night hockey Otherwise we are going to have to start spotting the visiting club some goals to get our boys into the spirit of things the paper con cluded Now if only the writer had held back a week or two until Acton Sabres had crossed blades with the Vaseys Sabres whomped them Sunday supplying the ingredient the Witness was looking for But dont expect this writer to crow just because the team made the Vaseys eat a little of that big black bird Theres still ahead a long season Back Issues of The Free Press The Lord Nuffield scholarship for at least six months of study and travel in the United Kingdom has been awarded to Mac A Acton He will leave about the first of April There were nominations for 13 seats at the annual nominations Friday and a good crowd attended but when time came for filing qualifications too few chose to take council seats and all the offices except that of mayor will be filled by acclamation Thomas Cooke and Ted Tyler are con test the mayoralty Reeve is J J Stewart deputyreeve ft Thompson council C L Lindsay E A Irwin school board Watson W Wolfe Smith public utilities com mission Charles Hansen was chairman of the meeting Mayor Oakes gave a compre hensive review of the past year and said he believes Acton is in for a time of expansion In Esquesing Wilfrid Bird was ac claimed reeve Walter Llnham deputy- reeve council acclaimed George Campbell Sinclair Spencer Wilson School area No William John Gingham Robert Cunningham James township running for reeve Archie Service John Robertson acclaimed to council John Mime Stan Charles Thomson Lloyd school board Stan Robinson John McDougall Horace Blyth three trustees to be elected Charles John Lloyd Clifford Meadows Frank Schneider reeve Ernest David Gray deputy Fred David Storey councillors Franklin Armstrong Charles McNabb Joseph Oakes Frank Warren Parkinson Albert Quite a large crowd of citizens turned out for the municipal nominations on Monday at noon The advantage of having municipal politics over before the Christ mas holidays was manifest by the Interest All offices were given plenty of nominees Owing to the Father and Son banquet in Knox church the usual nomin ation meeting was held Tuesday evening in the auditorium of the town hall Mr E was chairman Reeve Barber outlined the various important activities of the council through out the year He laid stress on the excellent progress in the waterworks department where the number of patrons has now al most doubled reaching over He referred to the continued contention of The Free Press for a Waterworks Commission but thought the Council could better handle the work George Barber was acclaimed reeve- There will be an election for councillor on the following five nominees Jeremiah Bell Frank Holmes John J A Smith The The election of George King for Hydro Commission Is by acclamation The voting on Monday next This is Radio Week and special trans continental testa are being carried out between England and this continent Mr Roy Johnston son Mr R- Johnston eat a mile or so out of Acton beard the program Sunday evening A very enjoyable musicale was given by Miss Marguerite the collection for the pipe organ fund The lecture of Rev J K tins worth last Friday evening a t Churchill was interesting and humorous Acton in 1938 prophesied for years hence a model manufacturing city of 15000 population beautiful residences lovely parks perfect streets traversed by electric cars and over shadowed by aerial vehicles extensive and ideal etc In the progress of the lecture numerous promising juveniles are given positions prominence The venerable Rev Dr is pastor of on immense union church and congre gation A commodious fourstorey hotel under municipal control without license but with gymnasium swimming baths reading rooms roof garden and the Kinemeto- has for its genial land lord William Pearson Esq son of exmayor Pearson The immense and nourishing sole learner tannery of Swackhamer and Son is located on the north side of the city Dr David Henderson McKeague the board of physicians whose duties are to keep the population well Instead of doctoring them after they get sick They are all paid out of the city treasury Roy is principal of the central school whose pupils spend only three hours a day at their desks and then have recrea tion and exercise The city baa numerous parks and pretty lakes and all residential streets are paved and Mr Nelson Ryder is proprietor of a carriage factory John Henderson of a big department Brae a hard ware and bouse furnishing establishment Edwin Barnes is city engineer Clinton has a grocery and supply warehouse The dry Is growing