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Acton Fr Press Wed July Paget Simpler phoning Saturday On Saturday there will be no long distance charges for calls to Milton or Guelph The increased calling area gives us phones we can ring instead of last week puny What a challenge Many will welcome the change and will be starting phoning friends relatives businesses government departments and stores right away Simpler phoning should do its part to make Halton more unified be much easier to dial Halton region departments health unit museum Glen Eden ski area Milton OPP the works garage etc Certainly we will have far fewer those frustrating onesided often impolite conversations with a supersweet recorded voice That kind of thing puts a caller in a poor frame of mind before the call ever goes through With constant inflation its unlikely there will be many com plaints about another increase- that of monthly phone bills If bigger is really better we get it for phoning this Saturday But don forget to look up the post office in the phone book under Government of Canada the Bennett school under H Board of Education and the health unit under Regional Municipality of Halton Some things never change George Kerr vindicated Supporters of our Member of Parliament George Kerr have consistently expressed confidence in him right from the beginning of the Hamilton harbor dredging scandal Now he is exonerated and able to return to his full duties as SolicitorGeneral He had continued his role as Halton West MPP during the waiting penod and trial but gave up lus position as a chief of police- Ontario s Chief Fuzz as he cheer fully called himself until his name was completely cleared Although his name was in the daily papers many times when he was unable to speak Up for himself he had his opportunity when the time came in the trial Now it s all over and sentence pronounced on others Our busy Member will again be as busy as he wants to be The day he rejoined the cabinet he started right in where he left off by declaring himself in favor of a licensing system for firearm control He be meeting soon with federal justice and police officials If Ottawa rejects licensing Ontario can act on its own Mr Kerr points out Licenses would be required to buy rifles and shotguns and possibly air rifles and present owners would have to snow a license to buy ammunition License testing might be done by gun clubs police or the Ministry of Natural Resources The age limit could be 16 or No one could just arrange a license and go out and buy a gun immediately while in a state of rage or depression There would have to be a cooling off period of several days Despite what people see in the movies and on TV guns don solve problems They create them The sooner the better for gun controls Liberty maternity equality Despite the fact we only publish focal news in a small town weekly we re very tempted to save a space in the Birth notices column for the day when Montreal Mayor Jean Drapeau or one of his confreres has his baby Even people here will want to know about this phenomenon has said the Olympics can no more produce a deficit than a man can have a baby Now this week the estimated deficit has gone up to million Start your breathing exercises vous in Quebec One of you is due to be a mother Just another increase The Free Press subscription rate is up the first increase since 1969 It still costs the same dime plus a nickel to buy a paper singly But subscribers pay a year after the first of August As our special centennial issue showed the paper cost just a year in 1875 There were four pages every week then Everybody knows all costs have gone up and surety no one will be really surprised to hear of even another increase Leaflets three let it be The poison ivy itch is about to strike again With warmer days people are heading for outdoor places Many people will come back with a rash that may be distressingly itchy for a week or more The first sign of poisoning is usually a light itching followed by a faint blush of the skin Itchiness increases and small watery blisters appear sometimes bursting to become irritating oozing sores which finally dry up forming scabs A mild dose or a heavy one how it can itch So how to recognize the treacherous plant Poison ivy takes many forms and grows practically everywhere especially in Southern Ontario It may only be a few inches high carpeting the ground two or three feet high like an upright plant or vine like twisting itself around trees shrubs or plants The leaflets vary greatly in shape and size the margins from perfectly smooth to finely or coarsely toothed to deeply and irregularly lobed The old saying goes Leaflets three let it be The leaves borne alternately on the stem consist of three leaflets Hie stalk of the mid die leaflet is longer than the stalks of the side leaflets All three are joined together at the upper end of one much longer stalk It s the oil in the plant that causes the toxic action on your skin You don have to touch the plant itself The oil can be transmitted from contaminated clothing especially boots and tools picnic baskets car tires and even an animal fur Your dog runs through the poison ivy patch you pet the dog and the oil is trans nutted to your skin If you are sensitized to it you start itching not the dog If you have been contaminated act at once Wash with thorough lathenngs of soap and repeated rinsings with water If a rash appears apply a thick paste of soap and leave it on over night or use calamine solution Relieve inflammation with cool compresses of ice water Con laminated clothing and articles should be thoroughly washed with soap and water Clothes to be sent to the dry cleaners should be labelled as poison ivy con taminated so the dry cleaning personnel will be aware of the danger Treat poison ivy with respect Keep your distance Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources I WONDER what s under here says 15 monthold Robbie Nurse of 24 Ransom Street Cooling off in Fairy Lake he searches for what ever is under this wet stuff Sugar and Spice by bill smiley Don t be surprised even in these days of women liberation if you hear some time this summer that a member of the male sex has given blrlh to a child The figurative father would be Mayor of Montreal one of the great con artists of the century Asked near the beginning of the f whether there was any chance of the Canadian Olympics being a financial dis aster His Worship replied something like s There is as much chance of the Olymp losing money as there is of a man having a baby Well hi there Dad The 1976 to be held in the Canadian city with the worst slums Die worst schools the worst sewage problems and the biggest crime rate In Canada is now approaching II on over estimates But don I sell Drapeau short He has pulled so many rabbits out of so many hats in the lost decade baffl tig his audience in the proceedings that Its not at all impossible that he will prevail upon one of his stooges to produce I can sec the headlines now Drapeau Aide Bears Baby Medics Baffled The kid will be bom with an Olympic com in his mouth and he 11 be hustling lottery tickets from his cradle But you and I will still be stuck with a tax bill that would have made the Fathers of Confederation have a simultaneous group stroke The whole country worth that Don be surprised if starts a completely new lottery with Ihe winner men only chosen as the first man in Canada to have a baby I know a lot of women who would buy tickets However lhats peanuts only some thing like one tenth of the national debt There the very serious problem of Ihe increase In the price of gas Dear me if theykeepputtinguptheprlceof gas it will soon be more than a pack of cigarettes It has already soared past the cost of a bottle of beer What is this country coming to tearless John Turner about as much choice as a lady who eight months pregnant has produced again with a budget that will go n In history with the same impact as the la anniversary of Joey Crack and Flossie Snail So the price of gas has gone up So what new Did we all expect it to go And these stern new prices are going to cut away back on our misuse of one of our natural resources My foot Did you stop smoking when fags went up to SO cents a package Did you stop drinking when beer crept up from about 12 cents a bottle to cents Are you going to stop driving and get off your laiy tall and walk down to the store for a pack of cigarettes or a pack of beer Those of course are rhetorical quest We re ng more than ever drinking more than ever we II probably burn more gas than ever just to prove how irrational we arc There is only one thing that is going to cutaway back on our wislage of fuel That lb when some politicians they have to do it in concert because no individual would have the guts to do it decree that the speed 1 mit will promptly be reduced to miles in hour in Canada and at the same time cut by twothirds the amounts spent on super highways we almost pick up the amount Drapeau flushing down the drain 1 can see that you re wondering why Smiley isn Minister of inance if he has all answers Well I can you I have the big broad concepts well in hand but some times the niggling little details escape me Recently for example I had my wife convinced that if I paid up for my war vice and taught for another year I could retire at a pretty good pension and and stupid and useless that no body will have me except her Then she plans locirt me off to Golden Clow Haven or such One of those awful places where couples can retire together My idea is that we should split when we dec art mature the house the car Dodge the piano rugs the in stocks bonds the and the snow shovel I won t need any of that I lljusttakemy I and we II go off somewhere and make a good I It tor ourselves with no women My calculations were out per cent on the pension deal so I have to work for mother or years perhaps that the reason I am a astute financial critic n the big world a complete failure in my own On the other hand there are not many Dodge that runs like there are not many guys left who still have 12 shares of And there are not many guys my ayc who could still make a good pool room So watch it John Turner OUR READERS WRITE Think of report cards now Dear Parents School Is over but not forgotten parti by those children experiencing difficulty Has your child ren ever received report cards through the years with these evaluations l minutes were up before she got the main idea down His reading Is a problem 3 The printing on this paper would give him a C grading He generally has an indifferent or negative attitude to school He is restless ana Inattentive In class He feel It was necessary to hand in a mathematics project She Is still weak In reading spelling and arithmetic skills She enjoys oral cussions and is keen to express her Ideas Reading test marks are but inconsistent Mathematics marks are getting worse Compositions are in complete Required reading is behind He seems but still seeks little help from his teachers 7 She needs to be more attentive to her own work than everybody else She needs more concentration on her work In school His low are the result of finished work and failing to put effort into what he does Oral reading and reading sion show Improvement but still require much extra work to bring her up to the average grade level Spelling Is usually carelessly done and requires home study in each unit weekly Phonics Is poor and she is still making careless mistakes In her language skills 10 He shows an enthusiastic attitude toward extra activities His attitude toward his work however could show Im His conduct would be rated higher if he did not disturb those around 11 She does not wait for instructions before she begins to work and when she does listen she does not follow Ihem Arithmetic 831 no answers Sight reading 5 17 Spelling wrong Social Studies many wrong ideas expressed only about deserve What parents must do Read all report cards and picture what a terrible time that child and teacher must be having at school I hate to get up to Ihe morning too if I had to face a day always knowing 1 was failing Iinorethe picture you have of a child who is a behaviour problem and could do better he she tried Consult your doctor Have the child ears and eyes checked Tell them about the child report cards If physically the child checksoutok take all the old report cards and talk to someone at your Board Education office Further tests must be arranged to pinpoint why that child Is having so much trouble Please consider that it may NOT bo a phase heshe will grow out of and that they areas unhappy as The Free Press Back Issues years ago Pupils or Miss Jean Cole were success ful In passing of Music of Toronto held recently In Three young pianists received first class honours David and Phillips both Look first class honours in grade one piano and Crlpps received honours In grade two The bottling works Used bottle carton of Coke for cents which included rederal taxes and two cent deposit MOM Blackboard Jungle star rlngGlennFord Anne Francis was appear Ing at In Alton Acton Junior Farmers and Acton Junior Institute held a hay ride and wiener roast at the home of vicepresident Jack Marshall Women Institute took their meeting to the Breezes for a picnic lunch during the SO degree temperatures David Holmes of Church St was thrown from his motorcycle when his kickstand fell as he was driving along highway at Crew son s Corners The accident occurred mid night Saturday looks like a record year for Acton With four residential developments scheduled to rise this year town officials can find no year where construction has been as active and building values high This week revealed concrete evidence of Acton s spreading progress Building In Acton In 1955 has passed the half million dollar mark already double the total building value 50 years ago Mr Samuel McSpadden of Haverhill Mass visited Acton friends while on a motoring lour during the week He called on Mr and MrB Thomas Elliott and secured a small tree from theslte of his father home and his birthplace and hopes to be able to have It grow at his present home at Haver hill He also called on Mr H P Moore who was his Sunday School superintendent when he was a boy in Acton Mr McSpadden is a prosperous business man in his adopted city Mrs McSpadden Is a daughter of ex Mayor Furch of that city The first picnic of the Sunday school of the United Church of Canada Acton was held last Wednesday afternoon Eldorado Park which has sprung into such popular ity for functions of this character was the objective Last Thursday evening Acton Cltliena Band went to Milton to put on a regular band concert in Victoria Park The park was crowded with an audience to hear the concert and see the Burlington Fire Brigade put on their fancy drill Mrs Fred McDowell and little daughters Hazel and Evelyn returned last week from a two week visit with friends In and Clinton Miss Margaret Murray of Edinburgh Scotland arrived In town on Tuesday to rid a month or two with her brother George Murray and Mrs Murray 75 years ago A garden party will be given by St Albania Church in the park this evening An excellent programme of games bicycle races etc will be played and the pro gramme of the evening will conclude with several musical numbers to be rendered by MIssNicklln Mrs Gentles Messrs Stark Jeans Henderson and Gurney Acton Cornet Band will provide Instrumental music A baseball match between the north and south of Mill Street will be an Inter esting feature and will M called at sharp The bicycle races will Include open race boys race ladies race and a race for men who never won a prize The dwelling on the farm of Beardmoro Co recently owned by Col W Allan out side the limits of the corporation south of Queen Street was discovered to be on fire about noon on Sunday The alarm was rung and the fire brigade quickly responded The building was too far away to be reached by the steam fire engine and the hose com reinforced the hook and ladder company and by skillful and energetic work subdued the flames after an hour of very hard fighting though one comer of the house was badly gutted But between four and five In the afternoon the fire broke out again and in the absence of water It was deemed impossible to save the dwelling and It was then burned to the ground The Board of Trustees of Acton Public School met last Wednesday All the members were present Chairman Holmes presiding THE ACTON FREE PRESS PHONE Business and Editorial Of ice I t Ml Ml Copyright