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Thursday afternoon One dead six injured two twocar crashes One man Is dead and six others injured alter two two car collisions at Highway and County Road Thursday afternoon Jack Cooper of R survived the first accident with no Injuries However only five minutes later he was struck and killed during a second dent Ontario Provincial Police explain that Mr Cooper was driving on County Rd turning onto the high way A car driven by Walter Carpenter 70 of was southbound on the highway and swerved to miss Cooper vehicle Mr Carpenter s car jumped the boulevard arid Into the front window at Strattons Garage at the corner of the Intersection The Cooper vehicle also swerved and crashed Into a mailbox Minor injuries were received by Mrs Winifred Cooper Mr Carpenter and his wife Barbara This acci dent took place at p Police say Mr Cooper and his wife left their vehicle and walked across the road to see If anyone was hurt In the Car car Five minutes later according to police Mr Cooper crossed over the high way to shut the engine of his car off As Mr Cooper was return ing to he garage a car driven by Anna 4 Rockwood was north bound on Highway 24 and making a left hand turn into s An International milk tank truck driven by Emerson Martin heading south swerved to avoid the vehicle It turned sideways and rolled over three times striking Mr Cooper In the process He was killed Instantly the police said The milk truck valued at 000 was totally demolished Another damage was sustained to the vehicle A total of in estimated damages was sustained to the two veh icles of the first accident though there was dam ages to Stratton s building Rockwood and Eramosa fire department was called to put out a fire in the truck and to water down the road The truck had spilled gas on the pavement as it was rolling Taken to St Joseph hospi tal with minor injuries were Mrs Cooper Mr and Mrs Carpenter Mr Martin Mrs and her one- yearold daughter Naomi The police describe cir surrounding Mr Coopers death as freak As well as his wife Mr Cooper is survived by one son John Patrick of Guelph and was the brother of Nathaniel Raymond and Mrs Arthur all of Norfolk England service was held at Mclntyrc and Funeral Rome Guelph Saturday Interment was at Wood awn Cemetery Over the years the corner has been the scene of several fatal accidents The death record prompted Eramosa township council to petition the Ministry of sport a on and Com for a flashing light the corner This was installed about two years ago along with rumble strips on County Road Rognvaldson retires District news THIS year pins 11 Fastball tourney Rockwood champs 15 Classified ACTON ONTARIO WEDNESDAY JUNE 21 1978 Hundred and Third Year No THIS CAR SWERVED ACROSS the parking lot and went through the window of the general store Strattons Corners Thursday Driver was not hurt in this accdent but was killed moments later in a second accident on the same comer Countdown on weekend fun CATHY UPTON Acton high school student was guest speaker at the Rotary Club dinner meeting last Tuesday Cathy represented Acton in Ottawa at the Adventure in Citizenship project See page 6 for her story The count down is on for the second annual Back to Acton Days weekend June 30 July and 2 Organizers are arranging fctcUa array of events bound to keep a smile on everyone face A few Items will be hap pening Friday evening but most of the action takes place Saturday and Sunday Music will be piped out to the street from the dining lounge and anyone wishing to do so may dance to their hearts content out on the sidewalk Friday evening Acton Citizens Band will also be performing In front of the municipal buildings At ten the next morning a Calithumplan Parade will be departing from three locations around town picking up people in Its wake The three parades will meet at the Mill and Main Streets corner for the official kick off of events The dictionary describes calithump as a boisterous parade with blowing of tin horns and other discordant noises also a burlesque serenade a charivari Everyone in town Is welcome to join In the parades Thoy leave from Beckers Plaza and K Ingham at a m Meanwhile while the townspeople are hopeful 1 flowing into the business area In the parade there will be skateboard demonstration and contest in front of J T Sports This will run for most of the morning At am the kickoff ceremonies ill be underway The Acton Citizens Band and a Sweet Adeline group from Misslssauga will be on hand to provide entertainment throughout these ceremonies Atll there will be a bike decorating contest However only bikes from the Calithumplan parade are eligible to enter the contest says weekend chairman Wood At noon there will be a bike safety rodeo In front of the IGA This ij sponsored by the newly formed Optimist club and to there will be Bingo sponsored the Lions club In the vicinity of the United Church Dogs and cats arc welcome at the pet contest from two to four the Mill Mam corner Hills lion Department will be or a Senior itizcns fitness class in the from 1 There will also be one Friday evening from to in at Prospect Park for the children The Music Slop is putting on a rock concert it the Mill Main corner from three six Throughout he entire day Mill SI will be closed oft to all traffic except pedestrians Various iris and crafts groups will be having displays n he mail The Hills Energy Con Group will have a booth showing the various ways to save the much valued energy and Dills Printing and Continued on Page CAR AND MILK TRUCK collided in a second accident at Strattons Corners Thursday Halton Hills likes two tier Scallen found guilty of fraud A man who ran a monastery just north of the hamlet for several years was convicted Friday night by a jury of six men and six women of three counts of fraud He will be sentenced July 10 Denis Edward who pleaded not guilty to the three charges at the outset of his trial which began June said he was surprised by the verdict the jury brought In after 10 hours of deliberations but not shocked I ve been in too many wars to be shocked by anything I feel wonderful It was a trial of my beliefs not a trial of me noted while urging the audience to keep smiling Scallen who says he is a Roman Catholic priest said the ordeal of the two week trial shaken his faith and vowed lo con tinue his fight It oyer yet he declared He was charged with defrauding three OakvUle residents and a Brantford couple of while posing as a Roman Catholic priest His lawyer Jack Scallen former neighbour when he lived in Georgetown performed brilliantly In a losing effort observers agreed said he doesn know yet If there will be an appeal There are many avenues open to us and appeal is just one that will be explored he stated Assistant Crown Attorney Larry Owen obviously pleased with the verdict sold he plans to proceed with one rape charge and two charges of indecent assault against Scallen sometime this fall He sold he could see no reason to drop the rape and indecent assault charges which were laid at the same time as the fraud counts Both the defendant and his lawyer were anticipating a hung jury as the most likely result of the case and for a few hours It appeared their prediction would prove correct About hours after starting their deliberations the jury returned asking for the definition of fraud they heard that morning from Judge Alan Sprague In his charge lo the jury The Jury asked at the same lime what would happen if they t reach a unanimous verdict Judge Sprague told them that bridge would be crossed when he came to it At p m the jury came back again stating that after eight hours of deliberations they couldn t reach a unanimous verdict and doubted they could sent them back for further discussion and con and at Halton Counly Court re opened and the jury came in with two messages one that they had changed foremen and the other that they had reached a unanimous verdict The court Bat in silence when the new foreman an nounced the verdict was guilty on ail three counts Belleghem had the jury polled with the same result It was decided a date for sentencing couldn be set so late at night and said he saw no point In a pre sentence report since the judge had already heard s life story in testimony The maximum penalty for fraud Is 10 years Imprison ment denied ordering nun strip Denial of charges by three prosecution witnesses that he Continued on Page 18 Hills councillors arc all Tor two tier government in but dont think hey should comment on whit lypc of local government Hamilton needs Monday council considered supporting a resolution to send to Queen s Park jointly by the towns of and Stoney Creek as well as the townships of and tlamborough protesting a government review of the Hamilton Went worth region In which it wis recommended two tier government be dissolved replaced with one tier Under one tier government there would only be a council and no local or area councils time to time has been one tier might be the route for to follow and hints leaked out that the province might decide only one Her will be 1 lowed In one tier govern mint would eliminate local councils in Hills Milton and Burling ton leaving regional council Clerk administrator Ken Richardson suggested Ihc council could send a resolution he province stating Hills supports tier government Councillor Itoy Booth said if that resolution was to be indorsed the words in region should be added He said there was no way he town could know what type of local government would work best In the neigh region lo the west Booth suggested some areas maybe shouldn t have two tier government Councillor Peter Morris thought the town be commenting on another form of government suggested the letter from Hamilton municipalities be reccivii filed Councillor I of course I ill supports two tier goieni hire Noting the government has been backing off on a lot of ideas I itch Councillor Mike Armstrong said the proposed resolution should be I up and thrown away Hi noted he province is bickcd off on assessment and setting up more regions will back down on the idea of tier government in Ted Tyler plants flowers at 3 am The night planter last week has last been Identified his name Ted Tyler Reports came into the Press of someone out in the wee hours of the morning last Wednesday Thursday plan ling flowers In planters along Mill and Main Streets Further investigation revealed it was Mr Tyler taking advantage of a few spare hours to do the plan ting It turns out Mr Tyler told this newspaper that tin only spare hours In lih lately arc when ho would be sleeping So last Wednesday water bucket and flowers in hand he proceeded down the main doing his bit to beautify the town Actually it was the tax payers who paid for hem Mr Tyler stressed He ex plained that several years before regional govern merit there was a group of to net mod residents and merchants who formed the Industrial Development Members Ikd to various cities hoping lo dig up Industry for the lown They also worked hard to beautify and better the municipality Just before regional government came into being the group had some money left over and put it in trust for a rainy day Mr Tyler said members of the group the rainy day had arrived and decided lo buy an of flowers for the it planters It seems they had previously pur chased some of the planters I he town of Acton purchased the About 20 planters line Mill and Main Streets Mr sold He should how many because he put flowers in all of them took him from to Mr Tyler said lit w surprised at the people out on the it that hour of the morning Ik had a few people come up an ask him what he was but other thin mist wen satisfied with just look at him Halton police to table morale report M Z BENNETT SCHOOL columnists for the Free Press this school year are honored in their own column this week Principal Doug paid tribute to the hardworking girls standing Lisa Gillies sitting Diana Dunn and Victoria Rodriguez See page for this special story Regional Police Association Is meeting tonight to decide a course of action after a page report on morale within the police force is tabled According to president A I Tuesday the association committee which produced the report will recommend Us adoption tonight The report contains about recommendations on ways to improve the Regional Police Force said It being mended by members who know what going an he claimed The regular meeting of the police governing body the regional police com mission may be gelling the report presented to it tomorrow said he did not know if the document will he made public then Work on the report began in April following a motion at an association meeting to find the causes of falling morale of officers through out the region About of fleers voted unanimously to set up the investigating com mitlee Since Ihen said every district including Georgetown Acton I Milton and from civil tans and constables to super intendents have submitted material to the investigating committee The forci also police Ik lington don I get a third 1 1 tin force responding and t something wrong il I Ihc association president The latest incident in morale on he force revolves around tin Continued on lag J