Halton Hills Newspapers

Acton Free Press (Acton, ON), August 13, 1975, p. 1

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ACTON ONTARIO WEDNESDAY AUGUST Hundred Year No Twenty Six en Cents I about dump is iipscl about having In truik gar from lo town now thai the mint one dump i closing worried dump filling up the August meeting it was dulded stern letter should Ik- sent lo the region dissatisfaction with Ihe manner in public works is handling gar thought the region should know Hills Is opposed garbage brought to the Georgetown dump from Milton Acton and llu town suggests the dumps lost to inch urban arm as possible to down an transport ihon costs In tin town winls tin to git to work on solving save mom hi tin dump for Gmigetown gar Salesmen leave car hits Socalled win foiled by a smart Acton woman Tuesday and police they given up on Acton and gone However Corp Bob Arbour warns against men selling vinyl siding or household repairs The men told the Acton woman they would redo old house They told her o other houses they d done they even showed her one She checked at once went right lo the door and he was different altogether The salesmen quit Say the police Get In touch with us if you In doubt Donald Kelly not here hydro pole Power off in a part of town for about minutes Saturday after a struck a hydro pole The accident lit the corner of East and explain driver Bar Inn Hurt Poplar was or from the roadway Into the ditch by on unknown vehicle Tht hydro pole was scraped and the power had to be cut off Reports of North Hoy escaped murderer Donald Kelly in Acton have been ill founded according to Alton Ontario Provincial Police A radio station Inst Thursday broadcast of the man and his orange van sighted between Alton and onllwy to police a report Into I hem who In turn relayed the messngi lo the OPP Somehow the radio station picked up the message A of the area turned up no clues as to Kelly presence in the area or even a motive as to why he would tc here Bike taken Last Wednesday police In the theft of a bike from the high school The owner is a resident I oxi told that the working on i plan for dump for North and oik for Smith llnlton and hi thinks it might hi lit In Hi said ho has told dump study to up Ith plans for dumps which don take up good farm land transporting gar art steadily increasing mil if this in two years we will mini Georgetown s garbage too to let know wi in Ibis stupidity and it is going to tost us dearly I llydi snyshiniiddixi ought dump plans of regionulism and In knows Milton loiuuillnrs iren I happy about ha vim garbage to Hi noted tin inlire must the region on Ihur dump plans when hurt North Ihlton and suggested opposi lion worked in slopping dump In and can work again Acton Fair competes at CNE I the inadian I ilong in que insuimpt ting for litli iri llhi I I hi with inlirvuus with judges In in staving it Hall it I mursiis til on mil tin fun lists host piinl is lit hi for mil inmpilitiirs by tin M Board of liiritlnrs in tin I liribilh building it l ruii SI mm mil i two giust si mis tin trip r lw 1 lii itisli i near Bala recently Jim James of and sons Greg and Ted got the surprise of their lives when they a inch rattlesnake Taking a canoe trip on he Moon River the James making a portage the hydro generating plant when they heard the distinctive rattle of the reptile and turned to find it sunning itself on a p about six feet away Once Jim saw it and realized what it was he quickly a branch pinned it to the ground and Seek new group for paper bottle drives it to death with a canoe paddle Inn snake and hi might the home as a of what experience Inside the snake stomach Ik found two still whole was the time the seen a rattlesnake in the woods in many years of holidaying in lie area of 1 atids and I oicsts the lattksnike it ported to have been seen in the in ea this sumniei Power line hearings concluded Thursday In si months din bums w hi iimmmiih In lh with nuns 11 W IS I ml is v llll I I 1 t lH inoniy Hi i and of hi pud isiiu i mi lid hind 1 is think 1 bur fur thru ll 111 Hill III Mil hut in i win tin it 11 ii dmitor Hid is now kill for iIkii tun 1 pi roup ink r slid in tin in mill mips until xput to sum is Willi mi nils idiiii lo in in in lilt IhissirMu llu low Mi Sib iht 1 fir tills I Hoard prom dings ordirul by fknms limlirtll for pirt of llu jMiwir from 111 ihursdij in Mills llu Ik mugs ifli Ontario Hydro Group id iboiil Pi diys of i I for birth find mil thai it would Ik lo tin tin findiiigs known In of inn it tin to sill sitting ill I Villi in pi in to lour 1 d Kill hi hi it would itlur Hydro or iring Itoird if dihb ib ii it tin r All is go for Sept 18 election Speculation turned to real Monday afternoon when Ontario Premier bill said he lead his Tones Into f an battle Thursday Sept IB In making the announce ment the premier said he had felt for several weeks that it was time to go lo the people but he felt an earlier wnt would have caused undue in convenience for the elector ate He noted the Sept IB lion would allow an start for the next session He said an early sitting would be important because this is a critical period in the history of the province Inflation litue The premier promised a no- nonsense campaign and hint thai inflation would be the key issue He said in the ab sence of a federal plan to combat inflation job was lift provinces Davis tossed dart in the dirt of federal libtrals when hi Ontario lectonli would ask whether it us to govern or it wants kissing cousins in Oil The gives tht thru parties to do Dans led the Torus to victor in 1171 claiming with Mill 11 election since coal the ovirnnunl four seals is I upped their re presentation and to Ira polls Polls published early this indie Ontario I ibenhaheid of values three In the new riding Ivivi ton and Hill Johnson is Hit wilt hold met tint Vina I Hud is ihi who his to thi nominitioo of of ficennlhlton llurlmglon Hi has tor il for now Geo sking riding Ihi 1 lor siveral to run in riding lioth a and both ho of for WOOD of It Acton entered htr mare Blue in Sunday Horse Trials sponsored the Trail Slor and more pictures inside l ail food stores to open Sundays TWO PHONE RATES are being paid by Acton callers starting 28 for public pay telephones depending on the location of the phone Outdoor located public phones remain at 10 cents while indoor public phone rates are increased to 20 cents At the same time direct access in an emergency to 0 operator is available without coins from the new single slot Centurion type coin phones at all outdoor locations Karen Moore of Toronto and Debbie Spielvogel of Bower Ave make use of the phone off Mill St The finance committee of Hills council is mending all food stores in Halton Hills be allowed to stay open Sundays if they de sire in an effort to create a uniform fay law across the town The suggestion surprising ly enough came from Coun- Ernie Sykes who told the committee Monday that although he personally did not favor the exemption it might be the only way to be fair to all the food stores In Hills as country stores which would be cult to as conven Councillor said it would also take the commit tee off the hook in the matter and leavi it up to individual owners to stay open or not llowmer he would not the motion because of his opposition to Sunday store openings but did feel it would be fodder for the entire to wrangle with The often animated discus sion was precipitated legil which recommended that stores exempted from Sunday closing would have to do percent of their business under their classification which in the former town of Georgetown by law included barbershops beauty parlors lumber implement deal garages service lions restaurants drug stores and delicatessens Councillor Pal McKeraie pointed out what If the town used the 70 ptnenl of measure it tould down small businesses in Hills which subsist on items agreed but noted the problem is many stores which use the term convenience stores describi an really using term behind the fact are really He said convenience stores have not been defined lo include them In thi uld to set it mi As Councillor saw it miionly of ihe by law it is now and were nit in or of throwing Harry said it a Georgetown by law and had bogged down be It now was to ion and where a similar by law did not He noted that one supermarket in Ac ton stay open mil if ihi town proceeded with would be foned to ilnse Councillor told llu that 1 though the not Acton suptrmarket is open Sundays i not with the approval of tht rest of ouncillir reminded the thai Ihe pro- government was working on the now possibly tided would be on

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