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To unveii historic plaque at library on July 1 A historical plaque will be unveiled Dominion Day afternoon at a park at the library The plaque dedicated to founding of Acton will be unveiled by the town last mayor Lea Duby as Joe Hurst reads Its inscription Dr Oakes a former mayor and county warden will be chairman for the auspicious ceremonies and Rev A will dedicate the plaque Mayor Tom Hill will give words of wet- come The program will begin at 15 Monday July The Hon George Kerr P P tor Hal ton solicitor general of the Historical and Museums branch of the Ministry of Colleges and Universities will be here loo This ministry arranged in October that the plaque would be plated in Acton Atlonaform rmnyerMr was asked lo be their liaison person since the demise of the centennial commission To quickly prepare for he placing and unveiling of the plaque on July 1 works department or Hal ton Hills spent days dressing up the point of land at Ihe corner of and Main for this occasion Flower beds have been and planted walks built and benches installed The library oft robbed flagpole is again flying a Canadian flag as well as a flag I hope Ihe site will be highly respected maintained and never abused says Mr He expressed a strong desire lo some day see a cairn constructed also on site declaring it Actons Centcnniil park an senior citizens retreat The ling ceremonies will be a high lighl of daylong centennial festivities including a fish derby rock concert Rotary barbecue Citizens band concert numbers performance ball con lest fireworks display anil merchants draw The Inscription of the plaque will read Tilt rOUNIMMdOt ACTON lie f rsl land grants on the West Branch of Credit River were mode in lew and am the earliest this v w and Adorns A first known as then A dims ville colled developed around ind Grist mill ind he Tannery erected in the early s Ind obtained i post office ind in lHjf he Grand Trunk Railway reached the settlement The railwiy stimulated growth ihe following first llogc plot is laid out By 11S69 the community some ibitants were imported local industries which woodworking mills tanneries and glove and carriage works Acton was ed is a Village on January l 1H74 I REMEMBER coming here as a young man to see the movies retired Beardmore employee and longtime Acton resident Davy Holmes tells A B Supermarket cashier Rosemary Cook The Wonderland theatre once stood where the present supermarket is now located on Mill St Clerks in downtown stores are dressed in old fashioned garb this week to com Acton Centennial Always eager to talk about life in the old days Davy has become an expert on Acton early days Ninety Ninth Year No ACTON ONTARIO WEDNESDAY JUNE 26 1974 Seventy two PagesFifteen Cents 700 homes proposed for east end Acton Ontario Housings Action Program may have tremendous effect on I In growth of Acton and the town of Hills if development proposals In front of the Province an approved Joe of Alliance told the I ress this week his Homes ha I pirns to build homes on JIB on side of Aton The program wis the 111 first to get No agreement approvals and then the municipality will be Hie first Hills was of the proposals was Monday night when Miyor Tom Hill read excerpts from the Ontario Housing Task s latest report which indicated Holdings ltd had applied to build 1500 housing units on the east side of Acton It some 1500 houses for the area which the south side of the highway Includes land on the east side of Churchill Road south of Highway as far as the Given Road excluding 10 acres for a house on the former Sprovvl farm and two other houses on Alliance owns 124 of that acreage and Homes have Ihe rest The assembly to Ihe middle of the concession The developer emphasized no had yet been municipal si rvi received but the were put before the Housing Acllon Program to expedite them as Ihe Government had suggested He said they were not for Hills works com mlttec will recommend to council that the town do not enter any agreement with four residents in Acton to properly along the shores of Fairy Lake This proposal had bet discussed many tunis Acton council and is now a continuing item on Ihe Hills works meetings Committee members rcccntlv viewed the Me and talked over the situation with the residents concerned A Turner schrocder A and J Bray all of Elizabeth The suggestion hid I wen that Ihe town lease from thi si four residents seven feet of their which liki They had pur chased the lot in question from Joe Com iittn agree I that if the residents now or rcnnlng lo sterilize the properly thev get our backing The residents can ilso ipply for four had expected to enter Into an agreement the town of Alton but con id never been agreed upon hopes id Hen to provide a walk round the like The extra land would also be for culling equipment Despite the fact the com is not pursu the feel off the lot there is available this location he re is a I like shore pi in width ill and repair work be done liter to m ike this section passible to mowers Ic ibers of the general lilmlnislnition committee of council many of whom were already upset by fun dimcnlal changes proposed Ihe Toronto Centred Region Plan which had recommended slow growth for the area We been giving local small developers proposals bird time and following ihe intentions of the Toronto Centred Region Plan almost the letter Now they arc talking scrapping it Naturally we have rcser said Councillor Acton ex mayor He rccilled telling loci developers the sewage plant only handle so many units and slicking by Now he province want lo speed up housing the Plan is expendable Mr thought the Task may have been mistaken in its of years old A century ago Acton became a formally In corporated village and this upcoming weekend is the one for celebrating Before incorporation January 1 Acton was a cluster of cosy wooden homes with just 750 friendly bustling people What was life like back in 1874 The special centennial section in today s Free Press endeavors to create a wore picture of those simpler days There were no photos then but the special section incorporates in old album style pictures which add to the historic flavor of the edition The earliest settlers here Ezra and Adams obtained mill rights and land grants in The community was called Danville at First as inscribed on the one and only store at the Mill Main corner Later it was called Adamsvdle for the founding families Then postmaster Robert Swann chose the name Acton in 1B44 for his thplace in England Acton rose from village to town status in 1950 and became part of Halton Hills under regional government January at the advent of cen tennial year 12 town houses next to tannery oh The town would approached for oil the necessary approvals after provincial approvals were received which are promised in six weeks Acton growth also must receive approval from Ihe Niagara Escarp ment Commission He said his company was following the for growth suggested by the Town of Acton In Us con plan which declare the areas cast of Acton pear to be the most economical to develop In terms of the provisions of is for single family and semi detached houses wiln a small block of town houses for an Isolated strip which has contours suitable for that type of housing Ten per cent of the development would be set aside for Ihe for the Home Ownership Mode HOME prognm TO per cent would be sold lo families with incomes averaging lo The remainder would be sold a price 10 per cent below the current mirket price of homes in the area Mr acknowledged It is difficult to current mirket value slnl prices are already to per cent below those of April 19 though the Ontario Housing Action Prognm will enable them to sell housing 15 per cent below the market value much lower priced homes ih in are now available He said hid been assembled from the and Met farms ision had been made in i wooded for i Pork another area had been silted for a school He felt the council should not have been surprised by devclopmint In that arei ccausc the town s ins ion programs mentioned it as the proper place to build also the housing iction the municipality to act on the but he personally there would have to some good reasons for re fusing to let If nobody with Ihe they wont have in choice but to take some sort of relive the housing shortage he suggested but noted it w is still i long iv away from that sort of speed up No ill province is Irying lo do is up the processing of housing sub divisions he said Hills council had Iwo representatives from the Ministry of Housing tell them ihe provinces in tendons two weeks ago in population limits cited in Toronto Centred Region Plan would he removed some overloading of plant limited acceptance of septic tanks and modified C on 2 SAFETY MEANS dollars in the new program at Beardmore Sym BUI Spielvogel president of Local of the Canadian Food and Allied Workers presented a centennial silver dollar in a case to Beardmore president Peter Dunham Tuesday Similar dollars go to each employee with a safety message Centennial coins currency Monday Twelve could be built next to the Beard more plant on Mam Street South Acton if a proposal made by solicitor Ron lo Hills ad ministration committee goes through Monday night Mr said Ihe acres of land was completely surrounded by trees and bush covering a seven foot wall which runs down one side It is port old Heard more family propctty Councillor questioned the access to Highway and said he could see traffic problems ahead Mr said he cess wis controlled by the owner Benny Lornmon and could possibly be moved Councillor Dick said he was concerned people council about smell after moved in Councillor Morrow wondered if a waiver could be signed by the buyers saying they arc aware they are next door to i tannery said that was one he wanted the proposal turned over to the planner and Planning Advisory sub Committee It s smick dab right against It he added Morrow pointed out the land was zoned for high density Lawyer expressed doubts about i signed by tht buyers and jokingly added we could make a deal The proposal was turned over to Planner Mario BEAMING AWARD winners at M Z Bennett athletic award Walter Kwiatkowski all round school graduation banquet are Patty Gordon best student Christine Arbic athletic award and all round student Tracy Tyler student council Maureen Rouse Legion award Stones and class award Ray Green I O D award Gord Bruce picture inside Region town lot levy snafu Jury finds Bourke insane Ten thousand count em ten thousand centennial dollars become common currency in Acton after this gala holiday weekend commemorating loo years of incorporation The Legion has inaugurated the project and the hundreds of tokens are being distributed to all pat In merchants over the weekend You 11 gel them as can spind them vou em exchange them for old fishioned and you cm save a couple is souvenirs of Official The first coin will be of presented to Hills Tom Hill il council meeting The has also a raft of orders for solid silver coins at and surprising The dollar value coins will cease to be useful as money the end of September before firework time at the park Monday July merchants draws will be mode for centennial dollars Coupons are being given out in stores and at businesses all this week by Ihe clerks in their delightful old fashioned garb round not guilty by reason of insanity Thomas Bourke goes to the Ontario for the Insane at until an order for his release Is signed by the 1 iculenant Governor His trial was Monday at Milton Psychiatrists recomme ndation was that should remain at tor least five years A year ago May he was charged with capital murder in the death of his w In her apartment on Churchill S He has spent the intervening year In Jail at Milton Changing legislation resulted in his charge being altered from capital murder to noncapital murder The previous charge is now only for killers of policemen and Jail guards Three line uca Itourkc court with his lawjcr Green span Justice T Wright presided Jury pick ng look all Monday morning with three wit in the afternoon Psychiatrists told the jury was in a state of psychotic depression Nay apartment and slabbed her to death She had left him the previous November They had had a history of marital problems lot levy imposed by Region lo cover water and sewer costs his thrown Hills lot levies into confusion The lot levies were already confused with charging Georgetown charging and Esquesing charging no lot lew but fee Councillor Morrow proposed the Re lvy of should be added to existing municipal levies He said residents coming into the should pay the same is and since taler and sewers arc now covered in Regional levy He said the lot levies would cover the things the three areas share mutually They must be things that ore accessible to Ward I residents commented Councillor Morrow said the lot levies would only be used for capital purposes such as buildings and recreation Councillor Dick said in effect had levies The Committee of Adjustment charged 500 per separation with the money into a capital reserve fund want to make sure if the lot lev they no longer pay a separation fee said Georgetown Committee of had charged a appucition ice a fee five percent Inc cost lol ran between 700 and 800 With the lot levy and sewer and connections it came out about ill at far loo much exclaimed rman Hoy Booth said hi could not agree to adding he Region lew to the towns He said with water and sewer costs out the local levy should be reduced probably paid lo Ihe Region We shouldn be charging for witcr and sewer when we aren t doing it anymore Region is added Booth Hi suggested a So reduction Bringing the town lot levy to This would mike a total of 950 including the Region levy Morrow challenged statement savin a and Burlington showed a lot levy of Hj0 in i reasonable rani He claimed the lot levies did not affect the price of homes and charged builders the market will be Morrow said it would I brow a burden on present tax pavers if residents In did not bear these costs Booth disagreed saying Morrow was proposing a percent increase in lol levies The planner engineer and Iding inspector were retted to review Ihe lv Hills ig into cons der the lot levy posed the emphasized he wanted lo know if the land vision were still Grading at cemetery will be restricted detailed agreement will be worked out be I v Hills and Kingham Hill rotates consultants grading of cemetery land The developers original Proposal presented to litis wxirks committee by engineer Raj has been changed considerably He hid originally isked Ihe right to encroach from to feet into ton cemetery property on three sides Now after discussion on on site meeting the arc is of cemetery land cited for grading are much reduced Mr Wahl again attended the works committee meeting as well as If representing Chamber of Commerce Of special concern to the is a knoll behind two or three lots parallel where the grade is particularly steep area would include about iDOfeet Councillor Joe Hurst felt the grading could be carefully done here to avoid cutting down two large maple trees Councillor Hyde disagreed and fell It would be Continued on