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The Acton Free Press Wed January Editorial Seek consensus on Mill Its always difficult to get a good response from a questionaire However thats the best way a group of Chamber of Commerce members could think of when they planned taking their case on Mill St reconstruction to council ary 26 They want to know what other Acton people think Do Acton people want an lm proved downtown section Would they object if parking were banned on Mill Would merchants be will ing to pay higher taxes to help pay for offstreet parking The Chamber hopes very much that quite a few people will take the time and trouble to assist them in preparing their case for council The Chamber of Commerce is one group in town in which every one can participate Please try Outofcountry postage up A per cent increase in postal rates effective January forces a huge hike in cost of subscriptions to the Free Press out of the country Postage on papers which had amounted to about a year will now be a year causing a new subscription rate of hold your breath a year out of Canada The Free Press has been losing money on mailing these papers for some time but the increase in postage this year makes a re adjustment necessary There are about Free Press subscribers effected and personal letters are going out to them A part of history missing PERCHED ON A FEW branches not far from tieir feeding station sparrows patiently wait to receive then daily ration of gram from an Acton family Se of our feathered friends are finding this witter weather difficult for food Any bits of suet bread or any amount of gram will not be wasted when fed to the birds It s very unfortunate no old pictures of the Beardmore houses in Acton have been located The feature story in a recent Free Press about the home in Toronto underlines the fact there have never been reprints in the Free Press of pictures of the beau tiful old family homes in town Gordon s home was located on the property where the Church St apartments are now Robert Little had his first school on that site before and the school building was altered to create the beautiful house Billy Beardmore s house was on the lot which became the bowling green behind the present Canadian Tire store If anyone could locate pictures of these houses The Free Press archives would be greatly enhanced The photos would be re photographed and returned unharmed Sugar and Spice by Start of last year Councillors are starting their third year under regional govern ment the last year of their three year term There will be an elec tion next December to determine area and regional councillors What a terrific number of chan ges there have been in the past few years The Acton and Nassagaweya representatives have had their hands full taking part in larger councils and seem to have done well for us Of this and that January to is National Education Week on smoking The Halton TB and Respiratory Disease Association has lots of literature if you want it 184 Balsam Drive Oakville It s a service that s provided free thanks to Christmas seal dona tions turn ifw perls fools such is newspaper columnists make idiots of themselves predicting whit the ntxl months will is like looking into in old ruhbtr boot It stinks a cm set invthine in then Hit thine prnb leaks hell mil toe I r to do little looking bock i looking fom inl ike some hasty on arthritis in lug toe md hope everybody will have forgotten whit 1 sud following week Which they will Ids look hick is the veir of vtrvbodv who was some bods ind i many who wml on strike it least once dirt it result in id ercil bibi is producing reliable n i prudent sensible took i nosedive investors were heard things like 1 d be safer betting on the hour minute of return from than I would be pulliig money into that Cray It wis also the year of the Grand Gimme anil Chronic Catch up as hs elderly aunt clad in and moaned plteously In it bosoms and tooth and null to get a bigger clunk or the national loot lhan everybody and her elderly uncle It wis the vearthe Montreal Olympics could no more havt i deficit according to that Moses misleading his to land than a mm could have a baby It was ycai in which the Thanks Riving roast was transformed by Grand Guru boiled seagull It was year of election upsets political promises union threats dire w insane callow assumptions it was a year much like the one before and the one that Is coming after it amusing and hor record of mn moral and mental weaknesses OUR READERS WRITE Class on side of the wolf Answer to garbage problem Tel Dear Sir I am not surprised thit there has been so little response to the Region effort to Ret public participition In s so Solid Recovery The programme was doomed with the pitlon of Ontario Ministry of Anyone who knows anything about Solid Waste knows that the Ministry Minister on down sup ports long term landfilling and informed people know long term landfilling is not in best interest of Ontario or In a recent letter to the Toronto Star tht Hon Minister George Kerr lindfillinp with garbige some thing Hilton rejected proved unsani in It is important to note tint the Hon Minister represent North II ton Hilton anymore ind his idvocation of filling quarries with garbage should he of deep concern to the people of North I have submitted many briefs on Solid Waste I contested tht Miclaren lienor on Solid Waste I spent much time anil effort writing that critique and it is importint to note that when It was presented at Regional Council not one word wis contested by the authors of the Miclaren Report who were present sol can only sec presenting further briefs as an exercise in futility I know the to Solid Waste problem just as other environmental groups in the area know the answers only the stem to be uninformed Solid Waste problem is serious Just as Is inflation and if wo ire to solve either problem we have to lake drastic measures half measures or band aid poll won do The answer to s garbage problem Is 1Ban the rcturmblcs Imple ment two garbage pick ups per week in ur ban centres 1st pick up for reclaimables glass metal etc 2nd pick for refuse Mike it i1ltLil I Miss metal dtfintd rtthinuhlts is up depots die fuel dump where people tin take re el Start in immediate feasibi lity study to the possibility of burning unreel ible heit ind power public institutions with tht object of supplying powtr to nearby industry in summer a ing policy in Polite Governments stipulating that station i ry used by these authorities w ill post waste Pressure the Provincial Government into giving grants to Industry building girbige hum ing powtr plants to supply needs or for converting to such facilities Put someone on this Committee who knows some thine about Solid Waste and the ad verse of Hiving lectured mil currently lecturing on Solid Waste in both this and other areas I in assure Regional mil Town tils that the public have never been so iw ire of the problem as they now are and idvice to our ind regional pohti is to get with it on Solid Waste or they won t be in office alter the next William A Of this and that The greatest undeveloped territory in the world is under our hat New Sunday closing legislation has caused one large food store in Acton to close Sundays now Food land is no longer available to the working families who found it so convenient The following is a of a letter sent to ountillor I rn Hyde high school lent science class Mr truest Hyde Councillor Hills Ontario Dear Sir My fellow classmates md myself ire very at your recent statement that you would like to the Wolf remstited in Hills Our class spent half an hour taking down points on why you would suggest bringing the back on wolves and points against bringing it back 1 agree it would cost the taxpayers quite a sum of money to for tht sheep lost by farmtrs Hut what bothers us Is how do you know that it is the wolves who have been killing sheep Do you have evidence We would like evidence How do you tiate between wolves and wild dogs Have you hid professional conservationists on the scene to investigate these happenings Our class Is very much on the side of the wolf We the wolf is an endangered species Environmental Science Class made an intensive study of the wolf Our study makes us question if it is the wolf or wild dogs a solution If it is the wolves trap and transport there would be plenty of room for wolves up north since they have been cruelly slaughtered on the basis they were maneaters Kill if chasing This Is belter than a bounty since a hourly would encourage men walking the and blasting anything that moves Can we not compromise with nature Do we have to kill every animal that gets in our way Is killing the answer Why did God make the wolf All animals have an impor tant part in this world live in We have already disrupted this Intricate chain so why ruin It more If it is possible our would be very happy if you showed thi film Death of a Legend at one of your council meetings This film is about and how they are persecuted and how an Important part in a world which Is trying to get rid of it Death of a National Film Board of Canada the Board of Fdueation Inslructioml Media 2050 Guelph Line Burlington high school Class Recognizes names on note Manchester St Cambridge Gait Ontario Gentlemen I am sure that some older like me read with interest Uncover history with note in bottle In the January issue I well recall the Caswell family and a boy about my age name little George or Charlie and wonder if perhaps his father built this house in 1011 rather than Scene Street was pretty poor in those days Camp coffee was a real treat It was about the consistency of molasses and you put a spoonful In a cup of hot water Cream and sugar were already in This perhaps accounts for the oily paper I fee that the boy put the paper In Ihc bottle as I can identify mod of the names and we sure help billd the house Douglas O Edwards I Mrs Harvey Walters McLcod Mrs deceased Gladys Huffman In Toronto Stella C Adamon Gait Joe in A Johnnie We all lived within a block other There were two boys One was Gordon perhaps the second was Johnnie but It t ring true Perhaps you will hear from someone else Editors Note The date 1811 in the news story was a misprint The date an the note was of course 1011 Thanks for writing But that was the bad news Now for the good news It was also a great year in some respects for you and me Personally Ilndofineyear Just listen in this list is better if you think back I discovered a bracing healthful new sport crosscountry skiing and within a month was known as The Terror of the Trails by two old ladies of 86 and 1 developed into s most proud grandfather as Pokey and I cemented an already firm friend ship culminating in an orgy of mutual this past Christmas when the little devil got at least seven presents I love him because he is bright lively handsome and a real hellon wheels kid lit loves me because he can get mc to do anything literally that he wants me to do In this league I am known as Spoiler While were all In tht fimily other things made it a good year stayed married and together a rather unusual combination after a quarter lury We even like each other which is ilmost incredible after what each of us has put up with My daughter apparently celebrating Women lib year or something got herself pregnant again and I am expecting my first granddiughtcr daughter under lined any day now Notice I said I am expecting It used to be the mother who was expecting but things are all cock eyed these days Still in the family I met a whole gaggle of cousins from the West I never seen be fore cousins from the Fast I seen for years and sisters and brothers I seen for a couple A great reunion enough family stuff to do a fellow for the next decade There were many other high moments for during 1975 Did some Land with newspaper friends Caught a big pike and rode in a tiny over the brooding empty widerness of northern Saskatchewan Caught a big cold and rode in a taxi through the brooding teeming wilderness of Toronto Beat my wife twoout of five in golf the postal strike by writing columns even though some will never see print Teetered through another three terms of teaching Discovered that In another few years I would be eligible for a category pension F stands for Five cans of pork and beans a week which such a pcasion will provide All in all a Jolly good year one for which I t trade for anything ex a chance to do it over again Last year we were bored silly by Women International Year I predict that this year we will be bored right out of our skulls by two mountains of ennui the American Bicentennial and the Canadian Olympic Games there In the murk and muddle Union will go on threatening politicians will go on promising the rich will get richer and the poor will get babies But gloriously people will go on being people despicable and noble anguished and triumphant hating and loving being born and dying It a great life and the only one we have You go on doing your thing and 1 11 go on doing mine At the end Of 1976 we II make out our lists and compare notes I predict right here and now that we have Just as many ups as downs and will remember the ups and forget he downs The Free Press Back Issues 20 years ago Taken from the Issue of the Free January 1956 J Newton succeeds S Tcnnant as local fire chief following recently announced officer appointments by the Acton Fire fighters Association Slight damage was caused about the chimney well at the home of Lome Mull in on No 25 highway two miles south of here when fire broke out Wednesday shortly before noon Winner of Saturday Treasure Chest draw at the post office comer was Mrs Ella Morton the first and only name called Over a dozen relatives and friends en joyed a turkey dinner Saturday at the home of Mr and Mrs The casion was the birthday observance for both Mrs and Miss Nellie Hall Two more cases to add to the rash of burglaries that has been bothering this town In recent weeks were reported this weekend As in the earlier break ins the take was small but also like the earlier burglaries few clues were left for police to follow Sunday school awards were made at St Altaan church last Sunday morning Pre sented with Bibles for proficiency were Heather Withers Laurie and Danny Holmes Hurlbut Stories of the Bible were awarded to George Ware Leslie Anne Sharon Bradley and Bible pictures were received by Shirley 50 years ago Taken from the Issue of the Free Press of Thursday January 14 1926 The annual meeting of the Board of Acton Free Library was field Monday at 10 a m in the office Police Magistrate Moore Rev Mr the chairman gave a resume of the year activities He spoke of the efforts of the Book Committee to select the best books available which they have catalogued and available lor the readers every three months Occasionally a book would creep into the number selected which the committee felt was not desirable reading for the younger patrons of the library and these were immediately with drawn The need of a new library building was freely expressed The members live In hope that at no distant date such a library building may be a reality in Acton A steam shovel is at work on the high bank on the way of the Canadian National Hallway at Dolly Varden Earth is being excavated loaded on cars and trans to Georgetown New piling and new till in is being placed near the viaduct there to widen me railway land at the switches at hat point The annual skating party of the mem of the Young people league of the United church and the Young Peoples Guild of the Knox church was held Monday The parly which numbered over a spent a couple of hours skating the rink and at ten clock proceeded to the School Room of the United church where a substantial lunch awaited them After lunch an hour was spent in social inter course which proved very pleasant Rev Mr Stewart and Rev Mr hobnobbed with the Young folks during the service Acton Citizens Band provided a rink band for the occasion which supplied suitable music Mrs J A Mowat gave an interesting address on The League of Nations at the meeting of the Women Institute 100 years ago Taken from the Issue the Free Press Januarys A stranger passing through the village of Rock wood on Tuesday evening woulcT not have been long in coming to the conclusion that there was something more than usual on the tapis Hotel stables were crowded to their capacity and in fact the whole place seemed to be alive The reason of this unusual state of affairs was the occasion of the holding of a grand concert under the auspices of and in aid of St John s church The concert took place in the town hall which was crowded to excess The concert was under he conductorship of Mr Mail land of and consisted of songs dramatic performances dialogues recita tions and piano selections Three young ladies were nominated for the cake contest and the price of a vote set at ten cents Miss Mary Smith was the winner having received 128 votes and the next highest receiving Miss Smith ex pressed a desire that the cake should be sold by auction The cake reallzeerabout and the concert about Mr Alfred Anstee then entertained some of the guests from town at a sumptuous feast after which amusements dancing etc were entered into with spirit until after the wee sma hours The absence of sleighing at this time of year has had a very depressing effect on business THE ACTON FREE PRESS PHONE Editorial Office