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The Acton Press Wednesday Aug Don McDonald Founded In In jn 1 Pub ah Co led How Si cut Acton Subsc Copies lach J c ConadJ The Acton f Press one of the Inland Publishing Co L mirod ban news piper A by News Advertiser amp ton Guardian The linglon The Georgetown Indcpondcnl Thornh Economist and Sun ThoM on Canadian Champion ThoMaiauuos Newt Tho An a E fe Tho Week Thtj Weekend andTlwSioulfvlT buna a accepted on ion that in event typographical error that of wig paco occupied by roneous Item together with reasonable allowance to aw I not be ged ten but the bo pa d for In he event of a error advertising goods or at a wrong p ice good or may not be sold s me an offer and may bow awn any mo Newspaper EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT Editor- Hartley Coin Editor Helen Murray Sports Editor Robin Inscoe ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT Advertising Manager Cook Classified Advertising Marytm BUSINESSACCOUNTING OFFICE Manager Stwtey CarorynArtem CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT Manager TELEPHONE Business and Editonal Office Left to the Lord Theres an old story about a clergyman admiring Mr Smith s garden exclaiming t it wonderful what the Lord can do The agnostic Smith scoffed What the Lord did You should have seen it when He had it he declares with deprecatory gestures Probably thats the way Halton Hills council feels about the lo cation of Acton public library surely one of Actons beauty spots It has been left to the Lord to beautify it when the water is low and the weeds high Obviously there is no money to spend to take advantage of the natural beauty of the location Town workmen keep the grass cut and flower beds looking beautiful but the school creek is a mess during mid summer when stream flow is low Weeds grow to great heights and clog the stream bed Children find it a handy place to dispose of their refuse Library board member Norman Elliott has entreated board members on several occasions to do something about the library during the summer season when most people would appreciate it Somehow it always gets over looked At one time there were plans to install weirs on the creek with pleasant falls of water There were also plans proposed to give the creek a gravel bottom in front of the library Since it is along the highway and with an historical marker adjacent the library is a focus for both pedestrians and those passing by in cars It could truly be a beauty spot to remember It seems appeals for improve ment are always made during the winter months when the creek is covered with ice or when the school creek flows strongly by with an abundance of water Now is the time for councillors to examine the area and make plans to keep it beautiful all year If council cannot find time or money to further beautify the area around the library perhaps some service club or other organ izations would be interested It would make an excellent project always on public view Squeaky wheel greased Fourth estate The freeze on a tele phone rate increase by Com munity Telephone of Canada Lim ited for customers in Erin Hills burgh and draws a very blatant point The squeaky wheel Committee for Better Service a group of people who have banded together in the Erm and Hills burgh area to protest the poor ser vice of their phone have scored a major victory against their huge Americanowned telephone com Their rates will not increase until the service is improved as stipulated by the Ontario Tele phone Commission the com regulating body CBS has battled with Com for over a year Their con tention was why should they pay more money for the poor service If the quality and quantity of their service were improved they would not mind the rate hike Now after one joint meeting of the CBS the telephone company the commission and over 200 cust and smaller meetings be tween the three organized bodies the Commission has decided Hillsburgh and Orono where there are lobbysts of the same will be exempt from the in crease Many other areas which have not launched a complaint will be paying more than per cent more on their next bills Cox of CBS is upset because her organization had to complain for one year before just ice was done She charged the wheels shouldnt have to squeak for so long before action is taken Her group took on big business and the government and won the battle but the war is far from over Their phone service is still poor their toll free calling area far from adequate their directory listings still almost impossible to find etc etc Is good service a right or a privilege To the folks in and it is essential therefore it is a right Now if they can just convince Community Telephone of that Tipping out of hand While we are not always in favor demands made by workers we are tely on the side of those who demand a fair wage for a fair day work Waiter and waitresses and those who serve the public should be paid a decent wage If one of them gives the customer service beyond that required by the job then the customer may give a bonus or a lip at he fit However the business of tipping has got out of hand It has become the rule and some worker can be very obnoxious if the tipdoet not come up to what they expect ed borne dining room pay their worker ridiculously low salaries counting on tips to make it up Indeed we have heard of Acid raindrops keep falling on our heads by brie alone Here comes the new improved rain drop Its shape Is the same as you re used to works by gravity like he old one size Is identical to drops that served your daddy your granddaddy and all ihe daddies before them new and improved is inside To the traditional end some argue out or dale water rain drop things have been added Chemicals They re OK I they After all everything Is made chemicals I am You are Chemicals are natural So the teeny weeny yellow sulphur and nitrogen dioxide that joins hydrogen dioxide to form the new rain drop is natural as natural that is as a baby born drunk cause its mommy is an alcoholic The newly born infant does not have to suffer a hang over if the mother decides she won drink We don have to suffer been dubbed rain if we decide not to and stick with the decision Right now however the province Is toying with taking up the bottle while Ontario Hydro pays for first drinks provincial cabinet request Ontario is exploring markets for electricity in neighbouring provinces and U S border stales Such sales may be on a full time basis more than likely at least part time But could be full lime too And boy is the market there James Auld the provincial minister who Juggles his time between energy and natural resources claims gross revenues for last year exports of power were about The energy minister prior to Auld Reuben claimed the gross earnings for 1977 were about Neither of these gents bothered to mention how many tax dollars go to gene rating that power for export Here arc some cost figures from long time Ontario Hydro watchdog John Minns The sole price of electricityfrom Ontario Hydro to General Public Utilities Cor some dining roomi where the have to pay for the privilege of working there because of the amount of the tips Now a arbitrator says restaurant management hoi the right to require waiters and waitresses to hand over a por tion of their tips to the mntre d hotel We disagree with the ruling Whoever give the extra service should get the extra pay would come in the cate gory of management The ruling does underline the point that lipping no longer even pretends to be a special personallyearned reward for good and courteous service It Li a levy imposed to be carved up among the cm good and bad The Rldgtfown Dominion Music Art and drama were all displayed during the MAD centre cabaret last Thursday evening In Stewart town Children from the Robert Utile centre per formed two acta which got rounds of laughter and applause from the sellout crowd Mm fflhe EM tolls ration in Pennsylvania is 3 cents per kilowatt hour That hydro comes from the fossil fuel burning Nantlcoke generator One kilowatt hour of electricity from there costs cents to produce Assuming the figures are only correct we re not getting much profit Especially since the Americans and our fellow Canadians did not shell out the bucks Tor the equipment generators towers transmission lines Keep the cost in mind You pay when Ontario Hydro increases its rales You pay in Acton and Georgetown because part of the cost is handed down the line Also keep in mind Ontario Hydro just proposed a per cent increase this year There I much of a whimper from the Ontario Energy Board either when got the word After all it just passes it on to the rest of us There is a real cost in dollars and cents to us regardless or what the ministers of energy present and past remember There is however another cost that only a few folks have dared to program into Ihcir pocket calculators That cost our lakes are paying for the chemicals which ore exhaled into the air from such chimneys as Sudbury southwestern Ontario Toronto Hamilton Parts of the US also contribute chemicals to the atmosphere One estimate to cut the acid rain in half puts the bill at million in Canada How gross revenue after that that figure I expect much attention from ministers concerning the cost of cleaning up acid rain These dollars will be with litUc doubt described as being too many far far too many for you and I to pay Cleaning up the air we breathe isn t quite the motherhood issue as the boat people Acid rain drops will keep falling on our until some enterprising fella markets acid rain resistant coats hats and Not acid proof because you have to engineer the stuff to wear out so that a recurring market is created Styles and colors will be so chic and acceptable Ihey will appear on beer commercials Maternity styles too perhaps By Hartley Coles The August issue of Globe and Mail carried a feature story on their Thursday Section front of Prank and Free man and their well known 100 acre farm where they have been hosting farm vac ationers for the past years The Free Press has carried stories about the Free- mans before and the pleasure they get from being hosts to people from all over the province The are members of the Ontario Vacation Farm Association one of farms which take vacationers for to per adult per week and from to 90 for children At the Cedar Lake farm of the old time simplicity is a feature that brings people to enjoy a rural vacation And of course Frank Freeman who has a bag of stories for every oc casion Anyone who knows the or has occasion to be in their company knows what a delightful couple they ore and how well they exemplify all the good tilings about rural Ontario The Globe article captured their charm If Toronto can have Day to cele brate the August civic holiday perhaps Acton should have an Adams Day to cele brate the arrival of the three Adams brothers and They were the first settlers here and left their mark on this community by naming some of the streets after their children thus we have John Wilbur Agnes and Streets According to Acton Early Days a bible for pioneer days in Acton the farm of Zenas Adams took up all that section of Acton southeast from Main and Mill Streets commonly known as the four corners And of course before Acton was officially named after a town in England on a motion by Robert Swan a native of England the hamlet was called after the first settlers the settlement was named Dan ville after a clerk in the first dry goods store The Adams were fervent Methodist preachers when they this part of Upper Canada Their brand of Christianity was not much in favor official circles where the Family compact an erudite powerful and sometimes officious elite ruled and dispensed favors to their friends and supporters Governor Simcoe was one of the in stigators of the compact which brought of the social strata from Britain here a fact which was not lost on settlers who came here to escape it Itinerant Methodist saddleback preachers were often looked upon with distaste by the ruling who suspected they were tainted with re publican ideas picked up in the United Slates SotheAdamsbrothcrs sincere and devoted Christians though they were probably got Tew favors from the powers that be When they came to this neck me woods and neck it was then the attraction was power Not the type of political power sought by Governor Simcoe and his friends but water power to operate grist and saw mills as settlers hewed dense bush for farms grew grain and built homes They dammed up the Black Creek and ZiegJer flour mill still sits below the dam on Mill Street an appropriate name It no longer operates on water power but the dam created Fairy Lake pond and source of water for Bcardmore another pioneer Acton industry It seems ironic that power electrics and nuclear now takes the place of water power that drew settlers here Ontario Hydro is still trying to take their power line from the Bruce nuclear station along a corridor Just cast of Acton a controversial intrusion into farm land In this case pol itical and electric power are mixed The Adams brothers would probably be astonished to sec the Acton of today with their farm homes long since incorporated into a town and that town incorporated Into a larger town known as Hills with arch rivals Georgetown and It mould be appropriate to name the civic holiday them even if the hard work and toil which went Into establishing a community on the banks of the Black Creek should only be celebrated with such modern notions as athletic events dances the two latter ihey would have attributed to the devil Back issues 10 years ago Taken from the lime of The Acton Free Press of Wednesday August 8 township reeve WAN Hoey died of a heart in his sleep day night while vacationing In Dlgby Nova Scotia Reeve had served just seven months of his two year term as reeve of the township He has been deputy reeve of in 1966 and 1968 Planning board Thursday night rejected a plan submitted by T Berry of Allhco Thrush Construction to build five stores each with an apartment above on the west corner of Church and Main Streets How ever the board did indicate concern about improvement of this area and invited Mr Berry to submit a revised plan at their next meeting The board also received a letter from Lake Manor Holdings Ltd indicating interest in building a small shopping plaza on the east side of Main St near the C tracks Model airplane flying enthusiasts from Toronto Detroit Cincinnati Ohio and Ithaca New York will converge on Actons Prospect Park Sunday August 31 to com pete in the Acton Combat Exposition Elevated into a higher class because of in creased circulation The Acton Free Press nevertheless bagged two honors in on Canadian Community Newspapers As sedation competitions The Free Press was judged to have the best editorial page in lis class and also took third place for best all round newspaper In the Canada wide com petitions 20 years ago Taken from the issue of the Acton Free Press of Thursday Augusts 1959 Trudy Scott 17ycarold Acton high school girl who hails from the neighboring village of Limehouso was crowned Miss Popularity Queen on Saturday August l to reign over the Minor Sports Civic Holiday program the following Monday An estimated citizens and visitors lined the streets in Acton for the call parade on Civic Holiday Monday August 3 to see nearly 36 floats core de corated bicycles tricycles doll buggies marchers and clowns pass the annual Minor Sports Civic holiday John Cunningham returned to the Acton Merchants lineup after a long lay off last and led his teammates to a 12 victory over the Dun das team to win a berth in the Intermediate baseball play downs A mother of five children and a pal and helping hand to nearly 100 other young Act on kiddies Mrs Monty Root was forced to toss in her whistle and resign as supervisor and attendant at the Acton wading pool on Sunday I 50 years ago Taken from the Issue of the Acton Free Press of Thursday Augusts A pretty wedding took place in own when Margaret Bennett became the bride of Mr Elmer Terry of Kitchener The bride wore an ensemble of rose lace and georgette The events and sports at Erin drew a large crowd from on the holiday Hillsburgh ladies and men steams both Acton Acton winners in races were Gordon Cooper Bob MacArthur Mrs George Henderson of the seventh line between Acton and Georgetown was badly cut about head on Wednesday evening when the car in which she was rid and driven by daughter Marjorie Hend collided with a car driven by Edge- worth Young of Milton Miss Henderson was attempting to pass a car which was stop ping front of Speights garage and did not sec Youngs car coming in Ihe opposite dlr years ago Taken from the Issue of The Acton Free Press of Thursday August 1879 Mr William Gordon and wife of Glencoe formerly of Acton are In town this week One day last week as son of Mr John of Erin was working in the harvest field he accidentally stepped on a grain cradle cutting his foot badly In the Instep The wound which required eight stitches to keep it in position was dressed by Me Garvin and is healing up as rapidly as could be expected Mrs George Walter accompanied by her daughter Miss M Walter left here yest morning on the 10 train for Werners near Reeding Pa on a visit to Mr Robert Walter MD son of Mrs Walter understand that Miss Walter purposes re maining with her brother and entering the staff of the Laws of Health Mr Armstrong requests the party who took his wrench from the tool box of the mower In his field last week to be so kind as to return it We think when people take the liberty to go through Mr Armstrong pre mises as a short road to and from the lage they should at least do so without pit feting the articles within sight of their covetous eyes