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thursday august bth ims the acton free p6ess pack rrrr mn n soper spent a few days lait utik with friends in ceorg- towa miss nora kenney rn u vis iting friend in roatnn maim this week ur wallace cordon la under going treatment m cuslph carj hospital miss mem cmittr of dundalk u vailing with mr mod mr j k- crd4nr ur and un john moffat and son stanley visited acton friends over the meek end ivan and marlin tioddi of 1111 in afad visited laai week at their grandparents ur and mr darby ur mar stawart wmbroke visited at th home of mr 3llia kosiril willow st during the waekend mr and mr kobl hall wing ham spent the weekend at the ttome of hie mother mra w j tall and marjorl ur and mrs george lee from nuuu llshamas era visiting with the latter parents mr and mra flnlay mlkr in acton mr a mrmullen who ha been 111 for the past four waeks la con valescing and frienda will with fur her a complete recover mr and ur jack stewart and daughter sharon apant th week end at th noma of mr and mra earl vincent and family toronto mr and mr sa under fvrlyn margaret and uoyd it it 2 acton are on a motor trtp through nova srolia mr sa under fonm r home mr kverdell returned hom saturday after spending three week with her sister mrs j 11 1u11 i ucknow mrs m mc- danlel of tormito art nmnaniid her and u spending a few days with her mr lfiih john mn4ii if mix romr 11 vivittd ul tnk ith hi aunt and unch mi and mr w omholm mr mclean w mm r of j scholarthip is enruule to fjigunri w here he w ill atti nd the h al t ol lege of musk for three years ueutenant h moffat vi of mrs hi- morfal innifalc all rt who ha ixtn taking irt iris train ing with the reserve arm at amp llorden visited hi aunt mr cald well and other arton friendi before fetuming lo hi duties as a high school teacher at lied teer alta mrs w philips cera id and or trude of powassan mrs dave ujv pokl andchlldren of windsor mr and xlre t laude hume and child ren of parrv sound mr and mra cordon i tennis of sault ste marie xi r and mra john e ralston and famll and mr and mrs inu lesi- of toronto were recent visitors at the home of mr and mrs jas ral- ion ainnrvttm rnc rtatxa the financial poet reports dla potable pie plates made in canada out of aluminum are being used in several hakarls following advantages are cl tim ed plea baked and delivered to the consumer tn rhe same ple thus eliminating washing greasing hand slipping the pie fo the paper plate and breakage lacraaaad ay appeal fait heat penetration pro- pertiea reduc conking time amount of crust required to make a arm and non seeptng pie u re- luced isakers aignatur or trade mark can he embossed in centra of plate tbtttdbvyj afttttto tfljurrt at tututba kv uovta mcujuno miihif paraonaje bwr avaau sunday august jhih 1m9 10 00 am sunday seaool 1100 an morning service 7 00 p m combined evening car- vlcv you are welooja al aay uwr brtabglfrtihi ctfcturrh tu kiuua knox chdmcr aotom rev bobekt il ajumybonfl fcl4 mlauur sunday alkurr julh 1mu 10 00 m hundiy school 1100 am llev w 1 rliullav 7 00 pn service in the church of i ngland all are welcome buttle bburrlj aoron see cham oowcs uutui sunday aixust jmth 1u4u 1030 em sunder school 11 31 am i7e tailor will preach sal aug j7th ongregatlona nlr nlc at the- farm home of mr and mra ii m krld jrd llm- meet at the church 1 to p m tvt albaaa fllljurrli aaaliaaaaj stsatsr w q lastaa sva slindai aiuusi th 1ih9 trthity xi 910 am ttoty communion ii 1 a in morning prayer tdopin rvenlng prayer united service a welcome a walls you do you know continued he iiu ma rue rmodrcts truhish ihe production of maple rup and uirr is ont a aonal imp and i far tmm twlruj the nain a urce of revenue to farmers in suitable lvalltle ihe crop this ear is esitmated h the ixwnlnlon jlureau of atlstl to have a fioxs farm alue of j9 ljth0o x p retard in terms of lrup the jm trop amountevl to 2 i orttl gallons an lnrrae of 4 per cent ver the prev ous ear but still below th ten rnr pxwi avernge qucoe is the lead in j prxnlnee in the prmlucmon of both maple rup and ucr and in m pr ducetl 1 u 000 gallon of syrup and 1 6m otvt ptuoda of sugar ontario produce w xv gallont oijrar pnluctlon in os sxtla and neu brunswick cwmblned waa niw irauona of ayrup and mc00 rnund of sugar so pi ular vna the- conibincl iflvi lg t th cjiuthan nation j1 fxhibition ut iir it ha lken decided u rhat it this ear ltwtll b an rnlarged dupuv on the ground and tn the ur the jet- uill hurdli aero the exhibition park water front atthe rati of sou miles p r hour n escalator has been in atatfed in the automotive ituuding where the most modern types of planes and equpmi nt utll b en on the mezzanine our iilrni of h u mo u the m wf up ro rtnr u ay lhal u km i u it u til irri or ltr i i rnir no mourr u many fiouiri arr i m d u n or rthuill he- aono u llh jther ad i oca fed hlj joh ti he done in order thdl ue muy hettrr irn e you inu ran helj holh iourteli es amt u t n ott tno our telephone operator your strret and num her antt alio the direction uhetier ran r trest north or south rtememhrr drn i i e lair cal l ro s taxi phone 128 acton 7 a mill st e canadians discovery was dawn of atomic aoe fxrept for the persistence and imagination of gilbert lablne canadian prospector and mining engineer the atomic age might hae dawned elsewhere than in north america state francis and kathrlrn drake in the reader llgest for september the article i nmrtwiahd from the american mercury 1 a bine s eventual discovery on m 16 91 of pitchblende or deposits on the eastern shore of treat bear iakr came after years m and unrewarding trips into the far north and the expenditure of thousand of dollars the strike umovered the richest source of indium and uranium in the world hrok the foreign radium monopoly and forced 45 000 a gram off the price of radium tauine did not n a i ire at the time the authors ob- a ac rhe furtht r p ver hv kd in- mde th ore which wtth the spin ting of the uranium mom nine ears later touched off the atomic age horn on n farm in pembroke tvitnrio in lxx ijibiiu starttng prjettng at 1 matt two silver strikes before ho was two years ol er old timers sa he had a natural nou fir ore but lalllne denied thai tw needeit a mining e1ucatton as well and proceeded to give hmrlf one b edging ino field lectures b gernment ex pert fingering sample in assay office memorizing mineral maps ami studying even textbook he could u hands on in the next ers lablne s succesjte in cold silver and coiper and a sepulatlon second to none in northwest mining circles led to hu recomlng prealdent of eldorado engagements mr and mrs- j victor coleman weston announce the engagement of their daughter norali elaine to alan james liar son of mr and mr alexander rae the marriage will taktr place saturday septem ber 17 at 300 a clock in klngsway latnbtun united church toronto lieut col and mrs harvey george bean announce the engage ment of their daughter mary lqu to tjavtd graham matthews uf mr and mrs charles andrew graham matthews the marriage will take place in ulshop straehan school chapel on september 17th 1040 at 3 30 o cluck mr and mr trri crovnnn an nuuiu e the engagement uf their daughter jtuth fllabith to john malcolm hulling i uf mrs hulllnger and ihe isle malrulm llolllngrr thr marriage will take place m seutrmber 10 at 7 u t li k in falrlawn unlled i hureh tunm to mr and mr ftedifuk smith eden milli formerly of london england wish to announce the engagrtntnt of their daught r hetty to norman it ir hard marshall son of mr and mr norman s marshall edtnmtll the marriage will take place at horkwoort angli can hurt h on sfliiiilxr 17th at 12 jo pm mr and mrs john kobertsoa campbells lllr annount e the en gagement of their only daughter mary phyllis to mr cordon clar ence pemblt ton youngest ii of mr pern ble ton and the lata c e pernbleton guelph the marriage will take place on saturday sep tember 10 at 4 m lock in mm m r unltd church who an tuv puhlir ounrry by joaeph ijster kutledge one- of the favorite themes of hit soclalutlrallymlnded ta that thv twnerajilp of useful undertak ings b private individuals some how manages to change their iharacter and maka- them repra- herulble tlwy would transfer the ownership to the public what thev oerhmik of ionise i that th public that is just you and me are already ihe owners and to durpoa ess l hrm could hardly be to our beni fit according to the taxation statis tics there are in canada some 43 km individual primary produoera farmers fishermen hunters there are 93 000 individual proprietors nf business and twenty thousand professionals in addition to these 1157 000 admittedly private under taking that did well enough to get i into a tax bracket there are prob ably as many more individual un tlertaklnga that didn t tin quite o well it is hard to aae where the i people as whole would benefit by having theae businesses taken over by government but they are pri atel owned and that la what the socialist is arguing against theae same socialists of court- i wi uld probably any that what they are talking about are the larg profit making corporation they propose to take these over and hare the profits if under the clr- ciimmiiti thi n wi n anv profit uith thi puhlir on thin th overlook is that tn the main the public already owns these corpora- tlons this public if it u aet enough on it can discharge man- 1 ngtment and operate the buslnenses which l jut whnt tr rum promise to do for thtm tht shore of most businesses and in dui tries of the kind are on the th m and hnn in thi i l i open market v u mil i can hu mhin w lit nut t vth it v i tent we will i so public ownership that la gov ernment tontrol and direction ximplx means that gov rnment has itt ided to take over the business that ur individual thi if t u i n i rv and foresight have mad of value or it means that the secur- liv ou hnv tried to provide bv xeturlng a part ownership in aom large business will be lessened bv the governments determination to d tribute bentfits for w hh h vu huve paid to our mind the state is obi cte1 to look after its indigent or tmnpanle its old and even per haps tts lazy hut it is hardlv obligated to put them on a par with those whose thrift and energ i and foresight have made achieve ment possible theae are the pub- lu ow m r n t shall we dinp- ses them for the benefit of the ineffectual and the neetdowail the investor and the problem child a tavorlu fiction of thoae who decry our preahit system ta tfcat the tnvaator by the fact of ms in vestment particularly if ha la a clttseo of another country u an exploiter of our raaoureaa aad in csxence a robber we do not al- wii pause to ramlad oursalissi that many of our rwaourcee ira here for long centuries and no oil the betur for thacn until this a- vesor found us and muhttiud a values let us cile an instance in lfiftt two brothers thomaa and wuuam murray bought 310 acraa of land that u now known aa the sudbury nickel hang the price was a dollar an acre and no one thought they had robbed anyne a year earlier a science minded medico dr howry had picked up a chunk of ore on the property and litd it assayed the report he received was that the only metal p recent was an element known as nick i that had no minim m i in pit ance it waa just thrae years later that a shrewd american promoter hamuel j kjtrhte of akron ohio took over part of the property and formed the anadlan pp i t cm pany note that there ta no men tion of nickel that for all anyon hen knew was just a nuisance depreciating the value of the cop per but futehte the promoter nad a atake in the venture lie began investigating tale trouble some nickel element lie discover ed that an english scientist john range had been experimenting with nlrkel in iron cating t hod en them it prompted ritchie to write the great hrwap armament firm b germany the km pa brushed the suggestion aside but ititchle kept looking soon he heard of e scotchman of the un- scottish name of reilly who was i x unit utihk with nukil ai nt alloy of steel at the glasgow steel works- it was th opportunity lor which he had worked and risked history does not record whnt th t w is in it f r him hut slbly whatever it was thtre art till those who would urge that it w x still or mh mini n whuh tu had no rlalm all we can argue in rebuttal is that nolxwty wanted nickel or knew of its existence in quantity until ritchie began to rout around it was like the gas line that early oilmen found an disturbing both were problem children depreciating the value of the parent product until someone found a use for them forgetting all that nickel has dona toward opening a country providing cities and homes and employment there is this further fad in the twentyeight years from the end of the flrat great war to ims this nickel problem thild produced for art td a ptd short of a billion dollars mightnt we afford more exploiters who could do as much for ua eton wins first rmuul in int a bum hall coaflaued from po oaej his rocking chair oul on fust base either a u customary he handled evrry thuiace without a flaw frank ur may whiffed four battu r going the route fur stud bakers but tve found his lend ncy to weaken in later innuig sprlted his dauin with no hits from his mates he ttmild liardly have won anyway aside from iaiier he we about th best hanilltun sltowrd in the erlea leader handily dupnud of tune on strikts out of twenty m vin hamilton all ii u o a orkstonc 3b 4 3 0 3 1 hrlwl 2b 3 1 0 3 3 strong as 4 0 0 0 4 k lelork rf 4 0 0 1 0 uxvack rf mullens r 2 0 0 4 0 3 0 0 0 4 liryre if 3 0 0 0 0 iltrd lb 3 1 0 a 0 may p 3 0 0 4 1 hrowne rf u mb 1 0 0 0 0 atuiu f m 7th 1 0 0 3 0 jl 4 0 24 is acton all 1 it o a masters 3b 4 1 1 1 3 toolltl tf 4 0 0 1 0 itujkstadllrr av 1 0 1 4 ijiiduy lb 4 0 0 ii u masalra 7b 4 2 1 2 3 hlhigh if 4 3 1 7 kydtr rf 4 2 0 0 0 jviolt 3 0 1 o 10 laeath r 2 2 1 l 0 44 10 27 20 ifetmiltitn ooo o00 ouo 0 4 1 arton ooo 030 i2x a 10 i horn ituru hough tnil- leader i km ble ltumladtu r slrurk out by may 4 by leader u liases balls off may 3 off ixadtr 0 error hunstadtlrr and orkhtom left ki imsc by hamilton 4 by arton a official whit man pul s lilt k lt saity yarn in maine iat mimm r i madt frit nd w ith a rt tirnl chief mate who during 0 eirs at s a had nr cled the world many times he still frequentlv file to n w ork one evening an out of tatr car xtopcd thfore his hmivr anil a lndv aked directions to a town 10 mile dls tant don t nghtlv know said th old sea dog i am t mir teen out of throw m dntinre from this hoitm in mv life aa the car drove away i asked v hat on tarth made von tiv that t at ion anv how think of tht knk tht 11 t u lllng the folks back home about t he quaint charae- t r tht mi t this summt r in malm the header i dtoet season of famity rfunions ttu is the season of reunions when the members of the old fam ilies meet again for a day of rem tn i seen re games and the renew log of ik family th htwre will ttc many family reunion in tht district several hava already tut n reported and there will be nn re in the weeks to come llalto oiintys ctmparaiwrly old hiatnry ivts it many founding families l hi brnnches of which may oe iprcad l tither countries other land but whtue roots are still strtkngly lmtedded in the iloma- lixod of halton it is a nappy custom to bring the family together onoe a year one which should be encouraged a herever possible it glees a ass or unity when the children and the children s children are gathered al one place until one has attended such a reunion it la difficult to ap preciate how farreaching family ciwinet tlons can be then too thrv is the opportunity to aharv the pkwjiure of ones accomplish ments and to lighten the burden of another a dtatreaa we hope that every reunion will appoint a scribe to record the ivent for the local paper the printed record of such reunions klves them a permanence which will encourage annual gatherlnga needlfus to say wherever this newspaper can assist in bringing together members of the family we will be happy to do so vkokyabuc sksub in the two principal vegetable and root seed producing areas la hrlilsh columbia and ontario weather conditions this year kw nol been entirely satisfactory be ing dry and cool sevaral of taw important kind will show soaaa decrwase in acreage including car rot lettuce onion peaa and man gel the dominion oepartnaaat of agriculture reports however utr is expected to be a slight lneraaae in kureage devoted to cucumber radish iwede and beans a aur- plu of canned paaa froaa th 148 crop has been part ly responsible for a considerable reduction in the acreage of canning varieties of peas for seed purpose it is ex pected that thane will be a alight increase in swede asad producttoa both in the maritime sjutw brit ish columbia mangel teed pro duction in british columbia will probably show a decided drop due to reduction in acraagw tsfkafest ik win8 t will houaehuagry families with little rash alamos suddenly ftad themselves able to buy tidy little 7 000 to 18000 house on new official real plus plan and without a down payment the ftnaarial post sees some possibility speculation in ottawa roust rue tlun circles and provincial capitals is that some such farraachlag scheme may be among doamtaion provincial housing pallry prokcl to be put before th federal cab inet by reconalrttrtloa minister winter the idea is growing that this may be one of the areas ol agree ment rrarhed by mr wudoi aiwf ontario pnmltr trtt and lc lleved currently being scouted by ihe federal reconstruction minister in the other provincial capitals vnruli inil mih print i i al him of mute m lr it um aeroimti ft for 4 42 tvt ikarrtu in jsnunry ihl year as compared to i k723 in thr nrn wnding mxith t it ur under the fur seal with the llnltadsutaoanadwiil receive approximately 13 000 skin this year this u the ixunlnlon a 30 per ct nt of the annual take from the seal herds of the prtbliaf islands in the bering iea wast of alaska tachlin jiweuias afit giving awav free a bridal knot diam0ndring tybt am ctmt k- aukad p ti cataej i uut k vow fta orrtf suia gum lb regietatloa aaaabar o lb bridal kaoi oiaaaoad elm 11 ple yuu ere uiuiar bo owlf a- uoa lo eaaia a puecbaasi caaeul item thle tatuejay auflual 37rb al is ecbyrji winner nam will b potted in our window at 3 oclocli oaaf rwaaf t tejv you may sf thi lucky winnb dackhn jewellers w vaughn monroe wed aug 31 gueiph memo at oa1dens whamia advance tickets now on sal osrclam vnkjfgpav millars kitchafsar sad him iros oan ituatal w h un on cm it d in indt noctr laand tfi lorm t ir 1 in i s ft r mimindt i ln1 is 1 st hh iii 1 dim iii nd wh ih is nil s ti 1 n in i whuh n tpiiti n i in ur thi r atkeilmr ibst inc s t m ik th s il tut t r nt ut ll in n n tion mjii ntl th t rm ir 1 ml is t t d im tr ttlv t ind utt i mp r f tlx dr iimd in whth d i n t product ktufaltorv irh d whuh c nt r ill fix ur th r th i f moftim itaitij pi ints s h i htirnt tall scdgi s and m s su h und mav n u netinajrilt n acid rehltiijlso a nations toummn more than tfiooo acres of new forests were planted in britain last year this is disclosed in the an nual report of th forestry com missioners recently published by ills majestys stationery ouve the area afforest wiu over 10 00f at resmorelhan in the previous j ear irtit esr was the s ear of a big program planned to ret ck llritaln a woodlands to mak gooti the losses due to heavy felling during two world wars since the program was initiated iis million iung sapling raised in the forestry commissions nur series have heen planted out on h uide and open space tt minpv ufl uli s hacked him on his great bear lake investigations approving th thn unprecedented vmure of air plane prospecting in the arctic j waste his private fortune and that of his brother charles went i into speeding up uranium product- ion during the war without that patriotic action the readers dig est article says it is certain that j the japanese surrender would have been delaed fifaftq nistnnrspn north rka otrnsatr3y ssxafzasoh su or seven nation are over fishing the north st a to such an xltnt th mrmrim- f in wiikat ctup filhvtti tlil- years wheat rmp hy all pr ent indications kv like run ning somewhat below last ears ini million bushels report the flninclal post as of june t0 the offlrisl figure of crop conditions fore ast a leld averaging ti per cent of the longterm average of 1 huhelt per arre which would clve an over all figure of 300 mil lion bushel although condltlona have over all improved slightly alnc that date its not expected that the flrat official crop estimate will show much improvement on that figure due to arving local conditions the crop will be spottv record cab fwtmt chalkboards of tempered glass are now being produced in canada jwivs the financial post surface said to be practlcatlv indestructible dtvra not become shlnv and slick with use claimed easv on eye eliminating 4lackboard glare cus toms r uith old school blackboard clauchalkboards come in eyerest grvencoour up to 48 tn by 00 in hava few joints and are easily t leaned tatchts jt bttter quajjt fih llkelv to be shown when britain ministry of agriculture and fisher- it s publuhes its annual sa fisheries nptirt so far as britain u cn- ctrned the position should impnve i as a nsult of work bv the mtnutr rtmarch laboratorv at low nt oft but mr michael graham the direc tor fa races the nicessit of some is per cent reduction of fihmg b all concerned fur three or four i vears lvxcept for unforucen difficulties thtrt is no doubt that iw9 motor car prixluction will top everything tn last vear s record 24 000 units savs the financial past latt st figures show that at the end of mav n spitt shutdowns bv general motors and chrvslor for major changtovt r earlu r in th vvar pro duction wa 5 000 imr lasttars at this accelerated pace hmo uotput should excthd tw8 bv a wide margin m last times tooay- grcgory pexk ann todd toui jordan in paradine case plut lalett newt friday and saturday august 3 and 37 marone main percy kilbride donald o connor feudlnvtussnsr lincl a fightw plus don t fool your wife with i eon frrol cartoon and short monday and tuesday gregoiy prck august 30 and 30 ann baiter yellow sky and nfrodixmg that sensational newcomer richard widmark wednesday and thursday august 31 sift 1 jennifer jones john garf eld m we were strangers an eipfosive story of violent lives lived dangerously scoop scoopl aft sunday mjdnioht saptomba 4lti a sbkui mldniom show will maid al mm raxy tkaatra kara in adan tkalsejura s vke of tite red witch doara opan afrar 13 00 midnight show start 13 05 7c