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20 floats will surround Santa Twenty floats homes with riders ponies with carts fire fighters children church clubs police and all will circle the jolly old gent Santa when he arrives in Ac Ion Saturday afternoon Dec 13 Plans for the parade are going excep tionally well says float organizer Coates Although she t lived long In town she saw a plea for volunteers and attended a planning meeting in the She thought it was good way to start to become Involved in the community she agreed to be a clown Before long she was also In charge of the whole parade too She has contacted many people moat of them gen to her to ask about en tries and says she received a wonderful response All helpful Everybody went out of their way to be helpful she said Any others wishing to take in the parade may call at She Is pleased that the par doesn t seem to be parti commercial All kinds of groups are taking part- firefighters scouts snow mobile club churches Junior Farmers Agricultural Society curling club and the police along with stores and businesses Students from Spcysidc school will be In costume on a float and a large group expected from Ospringe too Acton Citizens Band will play but the only other out side band engaged is George town Girls Pipe Band Some of the trucks will be wired for sound and perhaps some groups will sing Donations are being sought to finance the costs of the parade but bands are especially expensive The firefighters will be acting parade marshals Various groups or stores are donating candy There will be judging of floats All the people In the parade will gather the scout hall for hot chocolate and doughnuts Mrs Pontes promised more details for next week I rec Press Christmas bus runs nine days The Christmas bus will run So Alton shoppers will for nine days this year four know which merchants and days fewer than last year business people have made according lo Chamber of donations to Christmas Commerce president Mike bus decnls an being Worthington Arrangements printed They will be arc being made for the bus prominently in More doors or ACTON ONTARIO WEDNESOAY DECEMBERS 1975 One Hundred and First YearNo Forty Eight fteen Cents service throughout town beginning Monday December A Tyler Transport bun will be used Chamber members are canvassing for donations to sponsor the service Although Acton council had sponsored the project in he past Hatton Hills councillors objected windows Donate time Bill Alton and I Mi Isaac were busy the Scout hall yesterday installing the concrete floor They donated their time to the cause BIG HUG was in order for Jean Precious from Santa Claus at the sixth annual Golden Age Club Christmas banquet on November Nellie left awaits her turn as the jolly old gent made his rounds The banquet was a joint effort of the Acton Rotary Club and Branch 197 of the 17 people tops on GO bus There was a small improvement in the use of the new lo Georgetown GO bus last week GO spokesman Tom Henry said this week the bus hit a high of passengers on Thursday ihe new service taking and Acton commuters to the Georgetown GO trains has been operating for a little over two weeks The high the first week was people Henry said Acton seems to be where moat of the customers are coming from and GO Transit has discovered two people from Acton take the bus each day to work in Georgetown and one resident commutes via the bus to work In Acton each day Damage Car hits Royal Canadian Legion Over Golden Age members feasted on turkey and received a gift from Santa It was rumored that Santa bore a re resemblance to Earl Waller For more pictures and story please turn to page 20 to car Estimated damage resulted when a Chev went down a bank and rolled over morning The accident happened on the town line west of the third line of James Beauregard Scarborough was driving the car owned by Robert Perry Barrie guard rait The railway bridge on Main St N Georgetown was slippery Nov 26 at m when the car driven by Bcrnice Kinal Rosemary Acton went out of control and crashed into a guard rail There was estimated damage to the front of her car and to the guardrail according to police Postal workers are back on the Job in Acton today on their shifts Union steward Clive Law ranee who lives In Bramp ton receded a call from union headquarters In Toronto about noon Tuesday Instructing the striking workers to return to work today The union members who remained on strike voted Tuesday on the tentative settlement reached with the post office The national vote was per cent against accepting the settlement and 53 per cent in favor Refused vote Postal workers who returned to work earlier were refused the opportunity to vote The three people at work in Acton post office were simply not informed that the four workers who re mained on strike were voting The national executive of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers had instructed all union locals on Sunday to bar from voting all those who had returned to work or had re fused picket duty For the last two weeks Mr said Acton em remaining on strike nod been coming to the post office for two hours or less each weekday morning at about to be there hen the early shift arrived Baby bonus Postmaster Gord McKeown had been expecting a truck apparently especially arranged to bring the bonus cheques They were to have been delivered Thur Three union members were back at work here by November and as result the postmaster was able to call back the mail carriers and rural mailmen Other district post offices had also had limited local service The post office staff here includes postmaster and his assistant Chris McMillan who do not belong to the union and seven inside workers Of the seven three had returned to work ACTING AS air traffic controller John supervises a crane opera tor and a team of Legion volunteers during the plating for a former 33 atop of a pedestal Saturday The plane is on permanent dis play behind the Legion The Legion s number was painted on the trainers side Bring back Go ahead wolf bounty Councillor Ern Hyde wonts the wolf bounty In brought back Monday at Hills council Hyde asked the town regional rcpresenta tives to try and get legislation passed to bring the wolf bounty back because of Ihe cost of compensation lo farmers whose livestock Is killed Russell Perry Acton will receive for two sheep killed by wolves on November council decided In addition Mr Perry will also receive for one sheep which was killed by dogs on November 15 Howitt Hyde fail to scrap transit study Servicing fire truck Acton new fire truck Is now in town but according to fire chief Mick Holmes is not yet ready to be put In use The truck has lo be viced and have some ad equipment installed on It before It will be able to rush out to fires Mr Holmes returned last week from Quebec with the truck It was fresh off the assembly line Because the truck is not ready for action the picture promised in last week s paper will be detained one week residents went benefit from a Hills transit system so why should contribute to the cost Iraasltsludy Councillor bit How ill asked Hills council Monday In a resolution asked the urban ureas to assume the burden of cost for the study since it would he of no benefit the rural areas He predicted the only am which would benefit from the study would be Georgetown and doubted It would in much use for Ac I on Councillor said then was no way could Ik sure the benefit risidents since a hook up with like Williams and might be suggested He id milted transit systems always cost must be subsidized but w is needed for Hills A transit system would be cohesive for the town The attitude that one Mini shouldn contribute would generate feelings of decisive ness in council Wc could siiy most of ihe weed ii work is In the ireis and should tin bulk This kind of thinking t be sound fur future of the town of the future lions Councillor Hi said transll is neeissar for the town and in people can t get around for ppmg or get to Ihe because they don hive their own When suggestion it no part of the study coats It charged to rtiidcnls was rejected he another the rural area subsidizing the urban areas How lit and Council lor r rn Hyde suggested the entire study idea be scrap- noted there has been pressure on council from the public to set up a transit Regardless if the prov does pay 75 per of ihe cost of the study it still means money comes from Continued on page First directors named for services centre in Y A board of directors for the new Acton Community Ser vices Centre was speedily elected at the conclusion of a public meeting set for the high school cafeteria to explain their purposes to everyone interested About attended the meeting breaking up into groups to discuss the needs of the town Named to the board are Peter Marks Lea Ewing Dave Mitchell John Cooper Bill Coon Pat McKenzle Craig Hutchison Gall Matt by Kay Dills BUI Coats Brendan Dorothy Craig Lloyd and Pat Carton No limit was set on the number of directors They will meet again this month and elect their executive officers Other names are being compiled for advisory boards Peter Marks who has been chairman of the temporary committee pointed out to the group of people present that organizers were convinced of the lack of services in Acton and area and lack of co ordination between service groups He said a group of between GO and people met to discuss the situation and from this the steering com was formed He asked the Actonlam there if they considered such a centre meaningful and Reports given from discussion groups later showed unanimous approval and produced many sug Continued on page