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GeorgetownActon Wednesday Aug Acton TELEPHONE 519 8532010 Butnan anO EAtcxwJ Office Founded til every Wednesday by 1 SDMI Acton Ontario L7J Telephone 1513 SubKrvoona 3D in Canada trie other then Canada The free one of Punting Ltd of includes Pickering Aurora Banner Era The Brampton The The The AaVertnef The George town Economort and Sun The The New The Weekend Edition The North York Mirror Bearer Beaver Week Othawa This Weekend The Richmond Liberal The Scarborough Mwror The StoutfvilSo Tribuno The New Ken Bellamy Publisher Don Ryder Director of Advertising Hartley Coles Managing Editor will be Adverting a on the condition that in tha event typographical portion of occupied by the erroneous item together with for wfl not be or but balance of paid for at the apokeatXe rata in the even of typoovaptucaJ error g at a wrong good or may not be Advertising a merely to and may be at any lime Second road regatraiion Number EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT Editor Murray New Editor Helen Murray Sport Darkroom tut ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT Bill Cook Retail Manager Jennifer Anon Davy Susan Stone Clasatfkad Atern BUSINESSACCOUNTING OFFICE Office Manager Jean CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT Manager Ice cream carts in park Were looking forward to hearing the presentations and councillors debate on ice cream carls being allowed in Prospect Park We certainly dont envy them their job on this one It will be a tough issue to adjudicate On the one hand there is the ice cream carts which pay a municipal vendor lisence pro vide a service the public ob viously wants though many parents would like to live with out and it creates em ployment for students On the other hand the snack booth at Prospect Park is a very important fund raising tool for minor ball Minor sports of all types in Acton are hard pressed to raise the funds necessary to stay alive They face ever increasing costs for everything including use of facilities through the userpay fee system of the municipality Minor ball pays a good rent to operate the booth and thus have a monopoly on the selling of snacks in the park They dont need competition Yet councillors will be reluct ant to not back private en terprise in the form of the ice cream carts business Councillor Dave Whiting says he isnt sure how he stands on the issue He wants councillors to hear the points made by both sides in the dispute To get the matter on the council floor after trying to solve it behind the scenes much of this sum mer he is introducing a motion to allow the cars in Prospect Park though he may not vote that way Hopefully the presentations will make more points than have been brought out so far Councillors must keep in mind their decision on this one could have impact on other similar questions they may have to someday settle GM Need microlight rules Its hard to believe that any kind of aircraft with an un- pilot at the helm could be forced to make an emergency landing and no government level cares But thats exactly what hap pened in Acton last week A microlight a small very light single person craft was forced to land in a grain field behind homes onChurchill North last week when the pilot couldnt switch the fuel flow from one tank to another The pilot in this case had some flying training though he isnt and doesnt have to be to operate his over farm fields and subdivi sions alike In addition there are virtually no regulations just some loose guidelines over design manufacture use and maintenance of these crafts Not all microlight emergen cies have turned out as fortun ate as the one in Acton Some people have been killed operating these hobby aircraft and they do put innocent by standers in peril The pilot who landed here it wont be much before Ottawa steps in and slaps regulations on micro- lights While we often arent in favor of more government intraven- in our lives we certainly think controlling microlights in the ways other aircraft are regulated is a good idea Its hard to believe there are government controls on say the use of minibikes on public pro perty and yet anyone is free to fly one of these things around in the equally public air Tidy downtown helps Recently because of the Business Improvement Association program to have the streets swept and kept clean daily there has been a vast improvement in the tidiness of downtown streets Most merchants are doing their best to keep premises neat and tidy but the general ap pearance in some areas is ruined by a few unkept premises In some places the weeds grow uncut the paint peels and it gives the downtown an appearance of decay Visitors who have driven through Acton have been charmed by the town and its people but many have com mented that loungers on the street gives them the creeps They are not prudes The people commenting noted some of the loungers wore hardly any covering Some dump cigarette cartons wrappers and other debris on the sidewalk or on the road with no thought of being charged with littering The downtown section of Acton Is on two major high ways Like all downtowns it is like the living room of the home with a giant picture window If the appearance is bad trade suffers and business does not prosper as well as it should A neat downtown kept tidy and clean attracts the shopper and enables business to offer the variety they want Best of all it keeps business it town HC From the editors desk We recently had a visitor to the news room who had a very interesting al most scandalous story to tell Unfortunately the sketchy details about this Incident you are about to read is about all that will ever appear in print The gentleman we never got his name though we did learn he lived In the rural area somewhere claimed he was treated rather rudely when he went to a Hills facility by a member of staff He was alsq concerned about safety measures Thats about all I can tell you about the Incident The man feared harassment of himself and his family and refused to give us his name so We could do a story In fairness we werent about to write a story tearing a strip off a town staffer without this fella backing it up with even his name We offered to print a letter from him and withhold his name Then wed Invite the municipality to respond He wrote the letter sitting in the of fice but when 1 told him hed have to sign it though his name wouldnt ap pear in print he refused to turn over the letter I explained company policy was that while we would withhold his name from publication I had to know the identity of the writer Its protection for the paper and the letter writer as well as whoever or whatever the topic is about Ive never felt entirely comfortable about running letters without signatures but It is a common policy with papers in small towns where everyone knows everyone else If we didnt have this policy then wed miss out on a lot of letters But it is ab solutely essentia that we have the writers signature Often we get anonymous letters on a whole host of topics There arent return addresses so we have no way of tracing the writer so we can ask for a signature If you have ever written a letter and never seen it published and didnt give your name now you know why It wasnt printed Anyway with the gentleman who came In with a horror story about conduct at the municipal facility while he was still here I placed a call to Mayor Peter who In turn chatted about the incident with the He had no more luck finding out who the man was than I did The Mayor said he was Interested in persuing the matter but the citizen decided he wasnt At least he was understanding about neither the paper nor wanting to probe the Incident when we didnt have a name to back it up This wasnt an isolated Incident either Were always having people ask us to fight their battles for them while they maintain a cloak of anonymity Theyre unhappy with the way the teacher or coach is treating their child they feel they were ripped off when they SI their car fixed or something like t they arent happy with the selection of merchandise In some store in town my neighbors yard is a mess and I have a photo I want in the paper to embarrass him working conditions at a factory or office arent perfect not unsafe Just not satisfactory etc Many of these types of things are slander we Just cant do anything about your car not being fixed properly Its the customers word against the garage owners and its slander to humiliate someone in print to say nothing of highly unfair Some of these anonymous Items are investigated some actually turn into excellent stories So dont get me wrong we still want the calls and let ters This is intended only as an explan ation of why it appears nothing has been done on some matters On another front there are some types of stories we just dont want to do and In fact wont do I had an annoyed caller contact me about why the Free Press had nothing on a suicide a few months ago I was a little taken back I thought everyone knew why suicides arent covered but apparently not I dont know of any papers or media which routinely cover suicides its sort of an unwritten rule in the industry If the unfortunate soul is a public figure or celebrity then their suicide Is news Alsoapublicsuicide is news jumping from a building or standing on railway tracks while a train is coming But sitting in your garage with the door closedand the car running taking pills or blowing your brains out in the con fines of your own home Just wont be covered The victim and their family have a right to some dignity and privacy in a matter like this for one thing Also some warped mind might just do it so they can go out in a blaze of glory on the front page Well we arent going to be an ac cessory In a case like thai Acton like any small town is full of rumors every week We hear them and follow them up Sometimes by the time they reach us they ore so embellished Its almost em barrassing to check them out but we do anyway Some of the tales weve taken to the police have given them a good laugh like the one a few months ago about two teenagers abducted at knife point In front of a variety store The cops had never heard of It If it happened their parents must not have noticed they havent come home Sometimes by the time we get to the bottom of a story some lime a week or two has passed For example there was an alleged crime this year which was common knowledge about town Everyone seemed to know Who was Involved We immediately contacted the police talked to the detectives involved in fact and learned the investigation hadnt even progressed to the stage where they were sure had been a crime committed There was nothing to write The following week we were able to report yes there had been crime and it was being Investigated but no charges yet bo no names A few weeks later we reported charges had been laid and gave the names the same names which had been rumored around town weeks before Since the names were printed the case will be followed in court I heard a number of comments about our handling of that story We were late by the time we reported it the story was old news that sort of stuff All I can say Is If it was you or some one in your family even though your name was already been talked about around town in connection with a crime would you think it was fair to report it in the paper before you were even charged I doubt It very much Everyone wants news In the paper but not about them or their family If its not good Anyway this is Just one of the numer ous columns which will fill this space in the weeks and months ahead on a periodic basis in which Ill explain why we do things the way we do and Ihe papers policies Policies can be changed feel free to talk to us about them If you dont agree Coles slaw by Hartley Coles On the subject of sermons in football season one of the best Ive Men on paper was borrowed by a minister way out in Drayton Valley Alberta ob viously ticked off by the response be gets from people when asked why they dont attend church The original came from a news letter from Emmanaus Lutheran Church and of course it is allegorical goer Why donl I go to the football game Pint of all they always have the garnet at the wrong time I rest you know After Im done with a hard weeks work how can anyone expect me to go to a football game they changed the time maybe I would go more often Secondly all they ever want la my money Have you ever been to a football game where they didnt want year money Football game have become a racket Money money Why dont they forge about tha money and just let people give what they want- then more people would come HC who the man was than I did Alsosomewarpedmlndmightjustdo lalktousaboultheml Why ministers turn grey and how I got that way I stopped going to football games can get all I want on TV In fact dont wrong place or the right word inthe FOR SALE J I because theyre too long Sixty minutes you sometimes get upset at some radio wrong place or words left out sewing machine for salt I stopped going to football games because theyre too long Sixty minutes and all those interruptions By the time its over Its usually too late to go visiting And why do the seats have to be so hard I used to go to football games but no one would talk to me Not once did anyone come over and shake my hand or introduce himself I would probably still be going if people werent so stuck up Besides this the coach never visited me even though I have- lived here for over five yean I had too much football when I was young Bay parents made roe go Every week they would drop me off and had to walk My wife stul does go now and if its a big holiday game She say she enjoys IL Ant we do want the children to go It wont hurt them and it might even help to make men out of tbem coarse yon can be a football fan without going to the games I can read the ports page a borne And I want I can get all I want on TV In fact dont you sometimes get upset at some radio stations Football morning noon and nightespecially on weekends Some body ought to do something about these fanatics But if Im honest I do have to admit it The reason I no longer go to football games is simply because I dont believe In football anymore Substitute football for church and you get the message ve discussed the typographical error before the slip that passes in the type which make editors and staff tear out what hair theyve got left Typos can be embarrassing and even hilar iously funny It especially annoying when the error appears In a friend for lifes name He or she sometimes turns a cold shoulder and hot tongue at us newspaper serfs Other times to our considerable the power of adver tising is blunted by a wrong word in the wrong place or the right word inthe wrong place or words left out Thankfully we have not yet been plagued with the series of typos lhat haunted a small daily newspaper It started with the following classified advertisement on a Monday FOR SALE Jones has one sewing machine for sale Phone and ask for Mrs Kelly who lives with him cheap The next day the following appeared in the classified columns NOTICE We regret having erred in Jones ad yesterday It should have read One sewing machine for sale Cheap Phone and ask for Mrs Kelly she lives with him after pm Wednesday the newspaper came out with a bold face notice in the classified columns It said RD Jones has In formed us that he has received several annoying telephone calls because of the error we made In his classified ad yesterday His ad stands corrected as follows FOR SALE Jones has one sewing machine for sale Cheap Phone after 7 pm and ask for Mrs Kelly who loves with him The final smashing sequence came out In the newspaper the very next day It read NOTICE I Jones have no sewing machine for sale I smashed it Dont call as the telephone has been taken out I have not been carrying on with Mrs Kelly Until yesterday she was my housekeeper but the quit Both the publisher and editor of the newspaper were rescued before they Jumped of the top of a one storey building They must have gone through purgatory and part way into hell However typos do make the readers who look for mistakes happy It proves those Idiots down the paper are human after all Anyway they make a recovery when someone phones comes to or yells MY I en- Joyed the paper last week Back issues years ago August is Hugh Patterson has been engaged as assistant clerk for the town offices his duties are to begin August IS 1972 Specials this week at the Super market are tins of corn for catsup bottle for 39c smoked sausage a lh 32 ox bottle of corn oil and round steak or round steak roast Si 19 a lb The Acton this towns only undefeated learn chalked up their eighth consecutive win when they trounced the Huntsville 10J Joshua Thompson who has been a patient In General Hospital celebrated his birthday on Sunday August 13 with Mrs Thompson being present and the family Kevin Parker of Camp- bcllville skated to higher and further laurels Sunday by winning the Juvenile Mens championships held at the Lake- shore Arena in Metro Toronto years ago August IB 1BSZ The search for a recreation director arena manager has ended Tuesday evening council accepted the re commendation of the Parks Board and engaged Jim of Scarborough He will start on September 17 This weeks specials at the ore 32 jar of salad dressing for pk of lea bags 10 tin of mushrooms basket of peaches for lbs of grapes for and short rib roast a lb Bill Actons new assessor hopes the 13th Is a lucky day for him He began his duties in the municipal office Monday August 13 Karln Schubert and Gerry OcKenden just may be crowned King and Queen of the Twist They were chosen winners on Channel Club Dance Party last Saturday and are in the dance finals Friday August 31 Miss Isabel Ritchie will leave Acton for a years teaching In London England She goes by train to Montreal then sails Friday morning on the Ivernia for Southhampton 50 years ago August 111932 The United Church Ladies Aid wiJJ serve a corn supper on the Parsonage Lawn on Thursday August IB from to oclock Admission is Specials this week at the Red White Stores are apples for 30c pis of raspberries for 5 lbs of tomatoes for25c lib side bacon and l skillet for 45c and pure lard lie a lb Acton Fair is out to cater to the crowds The admission price this year will be the popular quarter Playing this week at the Gregory Theatre on Friday Michael and Mary storing Edna Best on Saturday Hon Wanted staring Kay Francis and on Monday Tenderfoot with Joe E Brown 75 years ago IS 1907 Mr and Mrs Thomas Stathom went to Toronto on Tuesday to attend the annual convention of the Canadian Master Bakers Association Beardmore and Company are bringing in large quantities of St Marys crushed stone for use in making cement blocks for additional new buildings and other cement con struction work Mr Davidson Is making arrangements for rebuilding his barns The foundation walls of the former building arc In fairly good condition Dr and Mrs Bell returned home from a very pleasant visit with friends Jn New York on Saturday Principal and Mn Stewart and children left last week to visit at Blucvale and points in that vicinity 100 years ago August 10 1 The bricklayers are now busily engaged on the own hall after being delayed waiting for window and door sills Evidence the Scott Act preventing the of liquor Is doing good is the marked improvement in several families in town When intoxicating liquors could be obtained freely the children In these families were clothed in dirty rags the weekly wages beyond what was spent for the scanty food for the family being spent on whiskey and the home was but a wretched hovel Now the children are well fed and com fortably clad A raspberry social was held in the lecture room of the Methodist church with raspberries and cream good wholesome bread and butler cake etc The most unhealthy season of the band Our should pay strict respect to sanitary