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The Act Free Press Wed February Drama in the pressroom A roundabout Involvement in the Progressive Conservative leadership campaign proved interesting here at the Free Press plant Issues of a special newspaper for Flora were printed here the week of the convention at the suggestion of her campaign manager our former Terry Connor Production of the last issue was the most dramatic of all It had to be in Ottawa Sunday morning Ross Colquhoun of Floras staff flew back to Toronto Saturday afternoon his flight changed be cause of snow and fog The plane missed the runway at and another half hour of his precious time was eaten up before the pilot got another turn Friends rushed him up to Acton and left him He had sent up the news stones on a facsimile transmitter that relayed the editorial copy through the telephone Rowsell had them all set and ready Saturday by 3pm Alex Chidley waited for the crucial pictures which had to be rushed through processing for printing The pages were put together by a bunch of willing hands John Cunningham was ready to run the press and that took minutes Alex volunteered to drive Ross back to and with three mailbags containing 5000 papers they set off in the fog and drenching ram after They had checked the oclock flight would likely go Otherwise Ross would get the night train Ross had only had a muffin to eat all day so they tried a good res taurant as they the airport Rejected clothes not suitable Worst news of the day The airport accepted them jeans were OK in the dining room the freight was OK the plane left The delegates received Flora s paper with the text of her speech on time By the time the leadership race was over we realized Flora had lost despite our printing efforts and Joe Clark was in And that he must be the son of the family which published the High River Alta Times We think the Clark trophy named for his grandfather has been won by the Free Press We were happy to meet the fine people working for Flora and to play a small part in the campaign Committee frustrated Only time will tell if the steps to bridge the communications gap between the Acton and Esquesing Recreation Advisory Committee the Recreation Department and the General Administration Commit tee have done any good Councillor Les Duby has pathetically labelled the members frustrated because they sit on the committee discuss items make recommendations to council and then often feel their time was wasted For several months the commit tee has explored various direc tions of recreation in the town attended two meetings a month gone to some general tion committee meetings and given what they feel is the general public opinions feelings and needs The members are unpaid hard working individuals They are average people sitting on the com mittee on their own time to repre sent the residents of Wards one and two They talk over hopes and ions and make decisions But they seldom see results Whatever they decide must be approved by the recreation department then GAC and then if it gets that far by the committee of the whole of council Those old village names Street names are part of a towns history and it would be sad to have them changed Long time Acton resident Trimmer Coleman has written back from Toronto to tell the origin of some of the street names From members of the pioneer Adams family come the names John Wilbur Frederick Agnes Ransom and Maria Mill St is named for the Adam mill and Main St was obviously the first street Church St signifies the first church Bower was the lane to the Adam s farms Young St is named for sur veyor George Young Wellington St for the Duke of Wellington Arthur St for the Governor Gen the Duke of Connaught Peel St for Lord Peel the British Prime Minister Scene St was once called Prouttown for Thomas A letter to the editor about the Cas well family house on Scene St referred mysteriously to town a couple of weeks ago Health costs and Wintario While the moves by various Governments toward restraint m spending may be quite commend able in most instances not many will agree with the price cutting tactics very much in evidence with regard to expenditures by the Provincial Government in the field of health care To put it bluntly If you have not your health you have absolutely nothing in a very real sense Queens Park will very speedily discover if such is not already the case that they are treading on very spongy treacherous ground indeed when they attempt to cut too many corners too drastically in connection with health care as now available to the tax payers of this Province While most of us would agree that some pruning and primming might be reasonable the wholesale closures of bed spaces and in some cases entire hospital operations is bound to result in the greatest up roar this Province has yet wit We cannot help but wonder who is leading government officials so far down the garden path that the profits from this very popular Win tario draw every two weeks are still going presumably to some cultural and tional development When the chips aredown health care we cannot do without but cultural and recrea development we can struggle along very nicely in the absence of Far be it from to offer carping criticism without offering any possible solution to the finan cial crunch said to be behind the proposed ahd actual hospital lab oratory and soforth closures One financial bonanza which we con tend would meet with great popular support is the diversion of the Win tario profits into paying for health costs If this is what is needed here is a life line What is more we believe that the general public would actively support Wintario on a weekly basis if funds were devoted to hospitals and similar institutions is fun for a buck in that the of what one could do with such a prize is well worth the relatively small cost of the ticket Lets have our smalt time gam fun every week and put the profits where they are needed In the places that look after you and I when we get sick Can you think of anything more important than your health Ask anybody who happens to be sick St Marys Journal Argus WIDE ANGLE VIEW of the Civic Centre convention floor shows retiring PC leader Robert Stanfield ad dressing the crowd gathered to choose his successor More pictures and stones on page Sugar and Spice by bill smiley This seems to be of those winters simply must be through like i sir ioui illness or a bid mirmce Now as Canadian of of score and then I know there no whining to pay price for living in finest country in the world win ter is tht price Bui there is surely a limit to the Hon of price This turn round it bit ridiculous Whoever is in charge of the weather up there lias to the point where he s just showing off trying us with the of his or her One day you ire running around mop ping up iter bee the pipes have frozen and burst The next day the temper iture has soared degrees ire down in the moppiiij up the melted snow his run in A third you start ilkint to work in sunshine ireciughtin howling down from Pole get hopelessly lost wind up in a supermarket or parlor id of your phee of work We don my in our town but I told it in city some have been so badly lost in some of our storms they hive w indcred inadvertently into one of them there missage parlors As 1 write this it school we have just sent tht kids home on the buses be cause the rinds were blocking in As soon is the buses left out tame the sun the wind it a perfect win tor diy and re here with egg on our fact no students just the other day wt kept the kids for for he full day even though it was storming and wound up with two bus toads of students on our hands for over night I was it had lots of room and offered to take five girls for a pyjama or hoys for a poker party They turned me down The admin not kids This wtek some of our history studenLs are to he involved in live in it St Mint a replica of a 17th century Jesuit settlement rhtortlitally they will the ictunl winter living conditions of those times No modern aids lo beat the cold as oil furnace pocket heaters or home Just lots of clothes lots of it da mixed group and open fires Good luck to They should have taken a dog learn They probably bring out the frozen in the spring On the hand knowing students and tht pretocity of youth 1 11 venture to say it will be one lug party and in icnte to be savored for life Hut I glad I m not chaperoning From son Hugh in the desert like country of Paraguay comes a try from the other end of slick Oh for one just one while cold Canadian winter day The temperature here ranges from about 100 to and to keep vourstlf clean sweat and dust requires almost all the energy you can summon wish I could trade him one of ours for one of his In midst of this wild winter my second grandson chase to moke his He was a healthy tight pounder mid bles quite a bit so the ladles say his big brother Pokey I cant really tell at that age me all look like liny crane tangs I hope for my own bake that he has a little less energy than his older brother The Poke burns up more steam in a day than Muhammad docs in a 15round title fight And when I try to keep up with I come out feeling like Joe kid is week old and they don even have name for him yet Miybe its just is well this time reason will prevail Last time il iiighltr wis reading itussnn novelist and my son in law is in I a Poor little kid wis nimul Nikov Chen I i ljled him Pokey This time m daughter is studying musit my son in law architecture Don It if I announce one of these davs that he latest addition to the has been I Johann Sebastian I loyd Wright oir fellow Or Sibelius That would put tht touch to his future Imagine going through life being illtd If they commit any such abomination I II revenge myself in the usual way He- member that silly old song dance Doing the Cokey Okty I this one Okey And he and his brother and will join hands dance around in a ring and sing to his disgusted parents We re doing the Pokey Okey that what it all about That II fix them Asidt from all Hit rigors of the weather January and I are going to be expensive months in the future Two birthdays in January wife and daughters birthdays in February All that on top of the fuel bills However However Let it snow let it blow What nicer midwinter gift could a fellow than a fine healthy grandson Maybe a gnnddaughlcr Nothing less OUR READERS WRITE A highlight of his ministry Pleise from my wife and mt our most sineire ippreei of the very e client cover ijccivcn by your paper to he which took place in Churchill Com on Sunday February 15th in past found your rtport of devotion of the hurthill folk lo ineir minister to just as indicated in news item which id to do with our re Our six and a half it wis rewarding in mure wuysth to us A visiting lady it service impressed tht feeling which has he en mini from the start of our ministry at when she said to me I feel that von were re illy sent to this Church on he hill editorial dealing with our retirement is also greatly appreciated My wife and 1 have been encouraged many times in the past by the interest shown in the continuance of the cause at Churchill not only by our people there but also by many others in the sister churches of our community and elsewhere Your piper has played a part in this too Sunday 15th will be remembered by us is one of many high in our nearly years of ordained ministry for your contribution toward making it so Praise for the doctors I Hunk is that the people of Aelnu Ihe superb medical ser v iti s that this community offers I wish to submit the following for publication on many ytt busy people who myself seldom slop to re our fortiuii his letter is Use If about six years lite in its writing lherefore I offer Hie people of Acton community cm ink their lucky stars Based upon pre ixpciiciiccs I believe that this com miiuity is of the best possibk ire sen ices that any croup of people could isk for 1 hive found Hit medic practitioners lure to hi friendly concerned efficient iv ililt and willing lo ill upon special help the moment it is needed I have nothing hut to say about these icaled professionals whom we just take for up the phone on Sunday afternoon or even limine obtain immediate per son medic assistance and for many never have think about it again not even to pay a bill In his day and aLe when the working class share In pocket sue computers sum mer rclrtats country homes expensive past times thrtt thousand caloric day diets expensive cars and on and on for one will be one of the first lo back our doc tors for a raise they so well deserve I think it is just about time that society place these community dedicated family men back into the pinnacle of community They and their families deserve whatever remun they seek especially for their after hours attention and the constant mental awareness that their job demands of them I Hats off to the doctors in for doing a job so well Yours truly The Free Press Back Issues years ago Taken from the Issucof the I- ree Press March 1 1956 Clothing was burned and some damage caused to a closet and bedroom in the home of Jot Guelph St Sunday after noon when firemen answered a call there Cause of the blaze brought under control before more extensive damage occurred Is not known The call was rung in about 3 delighted a crowded auditorium last night Wednesday with a well performed The While Gypsy while younger pupils staged dances and songs that caught auditorium wide appreciation and About friends relatives and former neighbors of Mrs A Brown met in the classroom of Acton United Church Sunday afternoon to renew friendships to remin isce and to offer birthday greetings to Mrs In recent examinations by the Royal Conservatory of in Acton music pupils passed with honors in various grades following partial list Grade 1 piano Mary Kobylka Steven Wolfe Paul grade piano Ruth grade piano Elly grade piano Kalhenne Peter Wolfe Mrs Herbert Baker of Owen Sound is visitint with Mrs family Johnnie Krapck with a group of workers from A V plant enjoyed the weekend at St in the a popular ski resort 50 years ago Token from the Issue of he Free Press Februarys 1926 The Ontario Motor League is proposing a speed limit of miles an The C G I T had full charge of the United Church Young Peoples meeting with Miss Rita McNabb occupying the chair Miss Clara Savage took the devotional part of the program and Miss Jean Wedge sang a solo Miss Bennett the president of the League congratulated the girls on their success The lime works at Dolly Varden keep busy for this time of year Snow Shoe club had a good outing Friday evening Members met at the home of Mr Lome Guild and went down the river Gasoline climbed up another cent last week Thais all right as long as it goes down again to Ihe lower price when motors begin to run The motor cars and trucks had a few days of enforced holiday after last week abnormal fall of snow The former Methodist church at Eden Mills which was purchased some time ago by the Unionists of the community has been renovated and improved The re opening of the premises as a United church will be held next Sunday The Electric Railways excursion to Toronto last Friday evening was well attended about from Acton making the trip Miss Lucy Edwards had a serious fall while on her way to work Thursday Mrs George Somerville was elected regent of Lakeside chapter of the I O E 100 years ago Taken from the issue of the Free Press The committee who had charge of the mamgement of the supper last Thursday find Ihit after disposing of the bro ken packages ind paying the net cost of the provisions the receipts barely meet the outlay There was therefore no surplus monev to distribute amongst the poor A few loaves ind broken provisions were all was distributed Mr Robert Dickie who is about retiring from the hotel business in Acton announces an auction sale of his furniture imple ments livestock etc at the Royal Ex change Hotel on the inst Mr D Galloway has built a new oven in the premises adjoining Morrow drug store and he requests us to announce that he will remove his baking establishment there on Monday or next His superior id will be delivered doily at the houses in the village and vicinity The Conadian display at the centennial exhibition promises to be creditable to the dominion Every foot of the space allotted to us will be occupied Shernf is making preparation for the execution of McConncll the assassin of Mr Nelson Mills in Hamilton It is mm there art no hopes of a reprieve A breach of promise case in which over three hundred letters have been received is coming up for trial in St John The excess over expenditure of the post service of the Dominion is now over During the fiscal year 75 12 letters and papers pas through the post Of this and that are beaming about one aspect of the P C leadership campaign Joe Clarks father Charles told one of the reporters that his son first became interested in politics when he visited Ottawa as a boy picked by the Rotary club for the annual Adventure In Citizenship Acton Rotanans are proud to be part of this project They have sent an Acton student to Ottawa every year but two since Future prime ministers Seeing the paperworkers return to work was a bright spot last week We didnt miss any issues during the long work stoppage in the pro vinces paper mills but there were some weeks our supply of paper was very marginal and we were worried indeed THE ACTON FREE PRESS PHONE 853 Business and Editorial Office