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The Acton Free Press Wed Juno Kditoriui New high school soon Acton desperate for high as put More the school board Tom Watson has in the unanimous decision to aside plans for a new high In Villon in of Ntither Georgetown grown at the same speech rate as figures given to the board showed The high school here is filled with two portable out back already and two more due to Ik- up in September Principal Dive Kati at the decisions points out the staff and students been working in a building for wars It exciting news he totd the Free Press Trustee Tom is mother one who is pleased with the board decision He is also pleased about the site although t quite complete He the sire that ill be built and explains that an can on it to accommodate more people However he thinks would be the ideal limit for a school here The changes will affect all the schools here not just the high school The old high school w ill become a middle school grades six en and eight The Utile and M I lUnnett schools will house to grade five classes The new school might make modem new use of space too by incorporating walls which can be mined to best advantage Suggestions will likely be for w irded to the school board by the high school staff It take a full two for a new school to be ready after ipprtwals are given The ester Pearson school in Burlington for instance won be open until Sept imbtriTO At its present stage its steel is complete and it half braked This is Dave new domain For new high school to be open at the target date of the builders will to break ground tins fall The siting of the new school east of Churchill Rd in formerly farmland also brings to the fore the of the school being rounded new houses before too long Certamlv all the changes won be education It a whole new en for all the town as well as its scholars Garretts will be missed Be ihes for a Toronto go from town week with Mrs Doug His patio its are the ones will mess him most of thtin have found it difficult to another doctor after having had his care advice and friendship over vears His effect on our town can never thoughts in spring be measured for his contribution wis a unique verv private Tlie w hole familv found niche in the and different people will miss them in different through sports arts and and social life Thanks verv much for having been here This spring has been warm and fine and the park has seen plentv of use Swimmers sailors fishermen picnickers have all made an earlv start at summer s pleasures this vear It s a beautiful place to be on a weather dav The local pick straw fields should be readv or on June according to the local Department of Agriculture The crop looks good with the berries sizing well The time of eating strawberries with real taste is here again and manv are looking forward to it If vou have Duilt castles in the air vour work need not be lost that is where should be Now put the foundations under them Henry David Thorcau The Toronto Star Saturda car a review of a new book that sounds interesting The title is a Dream of Horses and the price is S3 These the interesting things though it s the name of the author red Eunnger Can he be the Fred who left Acton to stuch drama and plays it must be and perhaps someone will let the Free Press know His book contains short stones one of which is concerned with quote dissolution death and the continuance of life upon some new plane He has a supple prose style and a nice sense of the macabre but his narratives lack an inner drive or dramatic necessity says the re Fine But is he the Acton Fred in town will want to add their congratulations to Herb along with those of his fellow members Walker Lodge held Herb Ritchie night and there his friends sang his praises He has been a citizen of the town all his life Milton s St John Ambulance brigade like Acton s has found it self in difficulties with dwindling numbers of members However the group will be able to carry on at near normal capacity this sum There are 19 persons in the brigade there The few Acton members left have pined the Milton group Voters find a way In a poll conducted by the Association of Municipalities of Ontario most favored the Monday of the first week in December for municipal elections And four to- one the municipalities favored a two year term of office The Monday vote in this distnet comes on a closed day as far as stores are concerned but the polls stay open and probably this doesnt prevent anyone from voting People who want to vote find a GREAT for flying Walter tunes up a plane on lie parking lot of Acton Utah school afternoon With him are Richard ana Michael llmdcn Scott Mel Scan David and tins Sugar and Spice by bill smiley regular nadirs of this column are aware there are great many things Hint bother me On the whole I m glad of it I never become one of people who arc never bothered about anything or if thev are don t enough guts to or do thing about it The list is endless Celsius tern those silly organ at hockey games strident Women Libbers stupid male chauvinists gutless politicians lawless unions greed big business chicken of age mindless beer ids town engineers who wint to cut down trees hotel desk clerks religious artists in the social wees the Receiver General of Canads most administrators most people who make more money thin I do I could fill a column This should make me a very disturbed voungman I ust the term advisedly How come everyone is getting old but you and Fortunately this has not happened Then in so rrnny things l like that I usually in a state of happy balance like a fat lady going on a diet of ice cream undies However there is one thing in this country that gravels me thoroughly It s a nasty thing spreading like a cancer as difficult to fight and just as to the people infected That thing is the steady growth in this fostered by a small often vicious hut vociferous minority of Amen I don think it has yet grown to troll proportions in the corpus and I hope it can be cut out with some rigorous surgery in the right pi ice s II creepy crawling business and the healthy mind can be smeared with it without even noticing its existence OUR READERS WRITE Metric Why re not to reas No one would dare to ask though will need i dough To complete the metric task In these days Conservation re asked to i w ith less No r why we must The money for this Why should we borrow money When our economy running rough VShv must we pay to change our a To all this metric stuff The wisdom of our many years Must be wasted overnight We owe yet spend more dough To change from ahrenheit It be that if we learn This metric measures well Our salesman Joe can get more dough J- everything he II sell So now we buckle up our T for oil in litres Hut close our eyes conservation wise While wc travel kilometers Believer in food cure way no matter the day or the weather They say A pessimist is one who about the noise made when opportunity knocks Overeating the destiny that shapes our ends Sir seeing a descendant of one of our pioneer families laid low with leukemia an old childhood habit of mine came foremost in my mind I was always looking up words in the dictionary So I produced my King English die tionary and an old encyclopaedia and commenced my search I as told the disease worked in the bone Sol turned to bonemarrow and it said oleaginous substance in the cavities of the bone I then learned that meant oil particularly that of beef fat Remembering that oleomargarine was the first name of our butter substitute wondered if beef fat was still used in the nnnufacture of If so w ould it not be a good bone- building food for leukemia patients read here that there is also gelatine substance in bone which in the jelly from boiled chicken or beef or even that in the little packet would be an effective food am a great believer in the food aire 1 talked this ith the kindly mother and she sent me on my way ith a right good cup of tea hope any doctor reading this will not laugh at my unscientific research work Yours truly It hard to pin can find It anion educators In the press among politicians In varying degrees shrillness Hie media Many honest are lakin in and eventually find that their pride In things Canadian is been warped Into lit then be no mistake Tin re is no real connection The former is The latter l This has a country loaded with prejudice itcver you may think A couple of generations back the Anglo Saxons of this fine free country of ours looked down their noses even though their own background was an slum a Scottish croft or an Irish shanty They spoke bluntly and of lesser breeds Germans and Scon dimvians were Squareheads Italians were Wops or Dagoes French were neither Canadian nor They were Frogs or from t to the Ukraine wis a A blink person wis i Nigger Jew Well Jew certainly wnsn Jewish He was just a Jew The only thing lower thin my of these categories Think l m romancing It sounds pretty ugly t if Hut 1 was there gentle render and so were many of you With education enlightenment a fine porfnrmtnee by most of those lowly immigrants came change in phcrc It to be tolerant word it has made me squinr not before the private schools and the societies and the medml schools the golf clubs had had their Wasps onlybarrieidesknockeddown It in this country The grandchildren of those earlier prejudiced people showed a remarkable lack of that narrowness C was Incoming oasis of freedom for the In dividual People were leaning over nek to prove they were and And now nil in and secret hilred seems he channeling Into Americanism People in this country talke I endlessly about Watergate as though such sewer of corruption wt re peculiar to They sniggered about the s of Amencin There was particularly of something near when the Americans pulled out of Vietnam There was and is a proliferating of popular articles about owning Canadian Industry up property put an end to this slimy Ixt look at our own scandals and lawless unions Lei stop secretly cheering when get a bloody nose somewhere It s not their fault that they re rich and powtrful They didn l seize our Industry sold it them I- ranee and Britain virtually Ignored Canada when this country was We owe them We could have a lot worse neighbors than the Americans in fact almost anyone I can think of Anti Americanism is chiefly petty envy and is found only among those who are petty and envious We re loo big for that The Free Press Back Issues 20 years ago 1 himself told memiKm public school ilnns about Ihi ho at In at their on Monday The annual graduation banquet lit honor of grade impilN In by the Home School tallowing to the Queen by til ceremonies David Rev Jones in Joyed the dlnnr with ham salad plate nkn and cream Mother of tin pupils nerved under the Mm I relghton and Mm took Minn Human led a King with Mrs Iiirm r the piano mid also Hang several Introduce d the speaker and Don Cook Ihunked him and made a pre or lie clip and cuff links Mm Ralph Price formerly of wire hosts to and their at he annual ministerial picnic last I their rectory In Mil in Niagara peninsula ltiv Jimt Mrs ArinstDng and David I I v and Mrn Jones Itev and Mrs 1 and Mrs an Id attended Mr Invited the to visit him next year 50 years ago Just a year ago Rev J en me tg from as the minister of the Church He was received and he and Mrs Culp entered upon his work with high hopes and the tlonof long pastorate Last spring a v breakdown developed and from this he failed to recover Ills physician ordered cessation from the onerous duties or the ministry for a time and a change of climate Having a son and daughter living in California Mr and Mrs decided go to them for a time in he hope hat proved health would result With this In view he advised the Official Board of the church here and applied to the Hamilton for superannuation for a yea The pastoral term ended with June and lis Sunday Rev Mr concluded his irk here with Impressive farewell ser In his concluding words Mr said It is only that t am obliged to that I give up the ministry I am glad that I have had this year in Acton for in many respects it has been the best of my ministry The annual convention of he and W wns held in the United Church Milton lost Thursday Mrs tlev Caldwell of ieorgetown the President occupied the chair At the morning session interesting reports were presented by the various unions and of the counties A picnic lunch was held at noon and a at team lime Roth of these functions were enjoyed Mrs limes Mrs P Moore Mrs and Misses Jean Kennedy Viola Rumley Marguerite and Dorothy Campbell were present from Acton 75 years ago The midsummer examinations in Acton 1 School take place tomorrow after noon The principal and staff unite in ex tending a cordial invitation to all parents ind friends of the scholars The five departments will be open to the public The High School candidates go to C nexl Wednesday for their examinations Acton Public School will send a class of twentyone tire Brigade will hold their an June In- when pri7es will be offered for the following sports Bicycle race open to all matchedblcycleracebetwcen J Holmes yard bicycle race boy bicycle race best decoraled bicycle en anil boys foot races tug of war f firemen and citizens The interest in the proposal of the Committee In charge the Second of Pupils of 1863 to erect a monument to the memory of the late Robert little their teacher of the above dole is Ihat ultimate success will be reached tho they last week instructed the Monument Committee to go on and order the monu executed THE ACTON FREE PRESS PHONE Business and Editorial Office una frit own rt en I i Hi tii el tint mm tecond tint mat flfttfriiMn Mil WO It OB IT Mitam mi portion at im tine ccv4MM Mr or T In a arrer M or u it an am Kav Mil Copyright 1976