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Salesmen beware The Acton Free Press Wed December Towns purchasing agent watching for price jumps Tories named to leadership rally Salesmen beware reporting suspicious price Helton Hills purchasing Increases to the Prices agent Hugh Patterson will be Review Board on the lookout for price in- Patterson expects creases mall Is moving again the town The municipality will act will receive much in the same as any citizen If we formation about the new come across a price increase regulations quality of a product Patterson works in the Pee Main Street Georgetown often finance offices Another new development he is looking forward is space in the town for storage so more bulk buying which we feel Is exorbitant He says the mail strike Is can be done then we will take steps to causing some Inconveniences One way to guard against make the increases known to for the town but has yet to inflation is to buy items the the federal Prices Review result in any really serious town repeatedly purchases in Board Patterson said In a problems Patterson pointed bigger lot recent interview out many of the salesmen who He noted a number sales- visit him these days are men who have visited his bringing invoices with them office trying to sell He added the town t to the town have have a lot of bills such as tax mentioned and discussed the bills which have to go out new price and wage right now regulations Patterson sees Like most people in the an average of four salesmen town money department every day Patterson is worried that the If I come across a price strike will continue to the enc together He added incT Niagara regions purchase items along with Patterson says towns used to get together to buy com needed products from time to time but not as often as they do now that regional government has came into being He thinks Halton Hills is lots but we do working out pretty well and that now because we believes in the long run have storage area and I think regional government is going About Tories selected six peopl from their midst to help choose the next Leader of the federal Con servative Thursday in Milton Sancl as secretary The six candidates will Area presidents include meet with the riding Stock Ken Allen president Mai Thorn as first voting status pay SI most vicepresident Fran Balnea of that becomes a t led second VP Wendy Hon and the actual cost for third VP Dorothy Chamber- the delegate In most out to about fl going leader Bob Stanfickl planned for the of the convention with tin date speeches and on the third and voting on the the riding is looking for In its West and North Oakville new leader that respectively motion made it clear that the Other area presidents In delegates were not being told elude Jim Death of Milton to vote en masse or vote as Glen Mapnusaen of George- directed but rather to get a town ana Eleanor Taylor of broader feeling of what the executive was looking for in Convention schedule its next leader During the mectlngOntario J Fran Balncs of George- Director for the Federal town John Ham and Mai PCs Hawe outlined Thorn of Oakville were the itinerary for the Jim Singleton the day Is coming The to work out to the satisfaction chosen as delegates Riding tion Feb 1922 and ran the purchasing department everyone president Bob Jones Is a dele- election for delegates might take over the old tire- Patterson said he really gate by virtue of his office as Fees for delegates attend half building at the Esquesing enjoyed his two years work in president offices It would be an ideal Acton as a municipal official Louise Pet of the week POSING JUST so elegantly is Tammy a white and gold colored part Collie and Samoyed Tammy is adapting well to Haltons outdoors after living in until the end of Oc tober when Tammys family the Littles of Rose mary Road moved here Tammy was born a year and a half ago in Nova Scoba will certainly ask if it Is a In completing the year error Patterson half accounts iked I will be asking for We have piles of cheques plana t ions and if they reasonable I Intend to strike could make a mess of follow through and contact the year end accounting with Ottawa Even If the so many receivable atlon of a price increase Is and accounts payable out reasonable but I still think the standing he observed increase Is unreasonable I As purchasing agent he will follow through and have would like to see the town it checked I must be on guard employees all under one roof for salesmen propaganda because as things stand now The former deputy clerk with municipal employees treasurer of Acton who scattered all over he became the new town of really able to help other Halton Hills first purchasing departments the way he agent when he municipality would like to was born In January Everything the town buys said because of the mall I handle but in many cases it strike his office has yet to Is just a case of my signing receive information on the purchase order I am not an expert on buying works equipment or a computer for New Democrats the experts In those fields if In a lot of cases the various department heads i are having to go ahead and TinanCial Shape take care of some purchasing themselves because I not The HaltonBurlington New accessible to other staff Democratic Party is in good members If I were handier to financial shape tor the next various departments I could provincial election riding do some more of the work association treasurer which goes into purchasing Brendan A heme reported to such as getting quotes and local parry members at a get their advice about meeting Wednesday night noted the local began last year on campaign with 1 and with donations spent total of on the recent election campaign forecasted the local NDPs should have about to begin next election with Our position financially he told the gathering is a pretty sound one Ron Lewis was acclaimed president of the local riding association at the meeting while Ruby Armstrong was acclaimed to the position of general vicepresident Bill Johnson NDP candidate in Halton Burlington during the best make Sure last provincial election was named Acton vicepresident great Or training while Richard was and back up named Burlington vicepresi dent Marj Milton every service call we make For one thing all of our trainees go through Harold Robertson was acclaimed to the post of SIX months Or Special technical training before surer Archie Brown will be theyre qualified be organizing secretary Sheila will be membership Service people secretary while Jean Petrie on and Martha Lewis will act as auditors back f or regular refresher In a brief address former candidate Johnson who COUrseS tO make Sure storage building While many people com plain about the cost of region al government Patterson can come up with a number of examples where it is actually saving money Since the birth of regional government in the four area municipalities and the region have been getting together and buying items needed by everyone in bulk The five municipal bodies get together and buy every thing from salt and sand verts heating oil and gasoline to light bulbs and pens and pencils This usually means a discount of at least per cent and sometimes other regions and their area municipalities get into the act and we all buy and misses the close associa tion with the ratepayers and councillors he enjoyed in ward one Before he began working for the town of Acton he spent seven years with Dlsston Saw as materials manager and three years as purchasing agent at Beard mo re Drowley and John Chamberlain are youth dele gates to the convention Name alternates Alternates Include Dorothy Chamberlain Tudor Sanci Kelly New Tate and Penny Bennett A new executive was elected during the meeting Bob Jones was reelected as the run from as low to as high as Howe explained that while adult delegates with full Former Director of Hon for the Boar I of Education Jim this year winner the ario Association of Administrative OAEAO Award for ship in Education FREEZERS 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