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rfsr k thursday august 1995 the acton free press acton ontario pacw pollock and campbell manufacturers lot high grade memorials memorial engraving 61 wator s nmth oait tfrtephon 2h n e l buchner optomctrist in acton every wed afternoon office at 48 miu st e acton hours 130600 evenings by appointment telephone 115 salvation army helps at court jwontrbab cp alfred l steele finds his ob as monttfpal police andprlson court officer tor the salvation army very absorb ing particularly whan we meet with success wve held thlj lob for seven years and each year my interest increases l last year mr steele and his assistant alex macmtllan inter ceded with judges on behalf ot 2946 male lawbreakers in 2281 pf the cases the men were paroled or rehabilitation in care of the sal vation army we deal with this many cases every year adds mristeele whi served as a canadian army chap lain in the first an second world wars and we find that only about seven per cent of the people we look after ever return to court again another aspect of his work con cerns people who may be headed for the courts mainly domestic cases i visit these people avtclrat with them over a cup of tea he says the first few times the ma a and his wife wil probably be at each others throats but often after sevreal visits things are straightened out and the threaten ed trouble la averted were onar pedestal sure wero proudi weve got a reputation to maintain for the finest in dry cleaning service call us today i gotfrm geaed main street acton wl picnic at lowville although saddened by the word that the wx district president mrs max featherstone of milton waa ill members of halton womens insti tutes enjoyed their county picnic at lowyllle park on wednesday after noon july 21 the ladies had lunch at noon and enjoyed a picnic during the afternoon mrs featherstone took ill th morning of the picnic ajid waa rush ed to hamilton general hospital those attending from acton and dublin womens institutes were mrs r l davidson mrs earl lambert mrs w hall miss mar- jorje hall mrs j johnston and mrs george somervllle obituary robert mcphedan dies in hospital funeral service was held at the rumley funeral home in acton on july 27 -for- robert mcphedruu a dutrict farmer who passed away in st josephs hospital guelph on july 25 he had been ill for ih months mr mcphedran the son of the late john and janet mcphedran was born in nassagaweya fh 18flfl and spent all his early life there he moved to rr 3 acton in the rockwood artfa 25 years ago interment followed the funeral service tn ebeneer church cem etery pallbearers were willard britton wilfred kennedy harry msleod george robertson archie sinclair and bill stubblngtnn six grand nieces and grand nephews carried the flowers newlywed couples honored at school two newlymarried couples were honored by friends and relatives in the district when on friday ev ening july j2 despite oppressive heat greenock school was crowd ed for the social event mr and mrs ernest west and mr and mrs don matthews were guests of hon or during the evening ralph mokeown was master of ceremonies and introduced several films mary and clarence reid sang duets miss elva pearen read the nd- dress to mr and mrs w6st and gordon leslie presented them with a mantel clock mrs ralph mc- keown tend the- address to m r anti- mrs matthews and the presentat ion ot a hostess chair wus made to them hy calvin aitken three fathers of the young people also spoke mr west m- matthews and mr archibald griffin oats top contest results of the acton agricultural societys field crop competition in chronicles of gjnger farm escapes night on flight overseas feels sense of security on plane trip to usa follows ceremony in a cerem in s judes angli can church oakville mary louise williams daughter of mr and mrs r f williams of milton and peter charles flippance so of mr and mrs c t flippance of oakville were married the rev j d laf- ferty officiated and g m evans was the organist the bride who was given in mar riage by her father wore a pastel summer suit and her attendant wore a similar suit of pule blue robert johnston oakville was groomsman for mr flippance after the ceremony a reception was held at the brides home the couple left for a wedding trip- to the usa on their return they took up residence in hornby oats judged by j a cuckblllli uf guelph onjulv 20 ure as follows s e griffen and son 95 points lloyd tjiomas 12 points calvin aitken sjl5 points harold mcln- tyre 91 points charles mcnabb 905 points george wallace b95 points d mcphedran 89 points m mccullough b7 paints e pasmare us points gordon leslie 85 points report of month by wilma sinclair top honors for a report of the month went to wilma sinclair of halton in the latest issue of the junior earmer news jwss sinclair wrote an account uf the halton juniors annual church service which was held in milton in may an editors note following the story says in part a number of good reports were received mak ing the- choice a difficult one waterloo and halton were the big winners declared another article in junior farmer news des cribing the annual junior farmer field day at guelph there is a picture of the girls softball team from the county with their coach e mcdowell team members in the photc are jean bennett betty anderson marilyn may doreen ford betty may mary saliba audrey vivian joan mocurron doreen patterson marion ford and shirley downs ifie new hnd of hardtcp- th 4door rivtera by owen clarke although i have been back in canada for nearly three weeks i find there are many questions to which people would like the answers so i am referring- to my notes taken- along the wuy for that infojmatlon first conies the question how- aboutf lyings weseyuu nervous well as a rapid ueans of tran sit flying is excellent on a long distance tourist flight it is also tiring the seats are comfortable and udjustabte but sitting up for approximately 18 hours with noth ing to look at extept u floor of billowy white clouds natuiully be comes a little wearisome this should be expected everything is doile to make the flight as little tiring as possible the meals and service couldnt be better nervous you ask not in the least 1 believe most people once they set foot in a plane are pos sessed with a sense tit security and why not i havent gone into st bu i would imagine the proportion of uir accidents is fur less than those on the roud natur ally hitting an airpocket once in u while gives you a bit of a joit and some people experience u feeling of ear discomfort wheti coming in foru landing then loo a lot depends oli the veutlur the weather isugh lift going is liable to be u bit choppy arnmsssfcsjfcv sfisastnyrlfftw -v- rev w i bidewell at oac course rev wni h bidewell of cump- bellville was one of more than 50 ontario clergy who spent lust week lit the onturio agricultural college enrolled in the sixth annual school for rural clergy enrolled iu courses in rttrul soc- ioloyy farm murketing und nut rition the clergymen spent the week in lectures designed to broaden their knowledge of some of the problems und challenges of rural living soil conservation livestock and field crop tours and a new course this year dealing with early and modern religious drama were conducted many were ac companied by their wives and for the ladies a number of tours were held and the arrangement of flow- ers and floral designs studied old mine crushers going from cobalt cobult ont cp the thunder ing orecrushing stamps at the mileage 104 mill here are being dis carded in favor of new equipment arousing memories among many oldtimers the change marks the ond of an era in ontario mining the crush ers at 104 were the last of their kind in the province the roar of the stumps was first heard in 1907 and by 1914 there were 590 stamps in 14 mills produc ing 2000 tons of ore a day as the years went by the stamps were gradually replaced until only those at 104 were left the stamps weighed from 1250 to 1500 pounds each so devastatng was the force exerted on the steel striking shoes that the stamps had to be dropped in series it is said that if all the stamps in the mill were to fall at the same time the building would be shaken to pieces by the concussion each shoe and stump die would inst only eight months the stamps used to be popular for many reasons they were cheap and reliable simple to operate and could produce many sizes of crush ed ore time and the terrific vibration lias finally caught up with the 104 mill after 42 years of use the stamps will never be heard again i the place a jxuietjnwcruaher will provide feectropa synions cone crusher in closed circuit with a vi brating screen this will produce 400 tons of ore a day ivrhuiis the cone crusher is more efficient but many people in cobalt are going to miss the pounding of the old stamps there are now more than 50 different household electrical ap pliances to use in canada today compared to only 19 in 1930 fall fair dates acum- se ib 17 aberfoyleseptember 20 21- ancaster september 27 2b beamsville september h10 belleville august 1518 bolton september 30 october 1 brampton september 1517 caledonia september 29october i coliingwood september 2224 elmira september 2 3 und 5 erin october 7 8 und 10 fergus september 9 10 georgetown september 30 oct ober 1 grand valley september 23 24 london western september 12- 17 milton september 23 24 rockton october 8 and 10 shelburne september 20 21 tecswater october 4 js waterdown september 13 14 woodbridge october 7 8 10 cne- august 26september 10 royal winter fair november 1119 eaeapa the night one thing i would like to ment ion our flight from montreal to preslwick was at least to me quite s unique experience we practically escaped the nlghll we took to the air at vial dor just about sunset sunset was followed by dim light until we touched sky gradually took on a pinkish glow which after several hours wa sucoeeded by the actual sun rise no real darkness ut all doming buck the trip from lon don to montreul was very different a clear still night but quite dark i thought the night would never end one of the navigators told me it was because the plane buk had followed u different route from iindon to shannon airport und thence to gander and montreul it is only on the northern route trav e us l hour of d electric device to grade fruit kelowna b c cp an electric eye bus been developed to provide nn entirely new system for grading tree fruits the experimental device built by the british columbia research council is housed in a wooden box which can be tucked under the arm it does its work through 10 photo electric cells alternately sensitive to red or yellow v latter domi nant in apple green the 10 eyes placed in a circle large enough to spun a large apple transmit what they see to a dial the dial tells the percentage of red or green on the apple and that is the main factor in apple grading other factors being fairly equal the machine was developed by r m cuthbert electrical engineer for the council the general principle is not new it is being used for grading lemons tomatoes and even tones in paint factories but the council is the first to use it for apples council members say thcry believe an industrialsized machine of the tvpeean hejused by the okunaga-ns- 70 fruitpacking plants to grade all kinds of fruits on the color basis wi a color development litlargely a matter of eye appeal said j e breeze head of the coun cils physics division but on other fruits where maturity is the deci sive factor color grading by the photoelectric cell pan solve many problems at present grading is partly a matter of guess work and even prejudices when graders- use color charta ness the next question generally con cerns differences between england and canada commercially i found little difference very often i hard- ly knew whether i wus in london or toronto the same type of stores although stores and merchandise often go under a different name in england a shnrtie coat becomes a jigger a hardware store is an ironmongers order coffee and you are asked if you prefer black or white white is half coffee und half hot milk no late shopping in most towns all the stores close for the lunch hour from one to twofifteen and at six oclock ev ery night none of the places where t visited hud a lute shopping night oh satudays most stores remain open until six except in the larger centres where they close ut noon if you were visiting in england you would soon notice that drug stores are known us chemists shops und sell only kitent med icines toilet preparations and cos meticsand of course there is al ways a dispensary where pres criptions are tilled but you defin itely cannot buy notepupcr ixtoks magazines or in- cream from a chemists shop unless you visit one of the larger stores owned by boots cash chemists which var ies little from our canadian drug stores except for boots if you wont unything from a postcard to a magazine you go to a stationers shop tobacco you buy from a tobacconist of course every canadian und american visitor thinks the brit ish motorist drives on the wrong side of the road ovtr there the left side is the rluht side this cus tom dates back to medieval times when the chief means of getting around was on horseback often through forests where unwary tra vellers were liable to be set upon by robbers and vandals for this reason the rider always carried weapons of deffnee and rode on the left side of the road thus leaving his swordarm free hi right arm in case of attack pimm on trains some of the premnt day customs are iuaint but practicaj for in- acton jersey dairy for the finest in dairy products homogenized milk farm fresh whole milk skim milk cream chocolate milk buttermilk daily delivery phone 242 don timmings prop staim mouur w4tba why warrfcr to go to the nimicjt town to shop she takes buby in ins pram to the local railway station her- mother with baby in bin pram rn ikis th short journey in um- guards van of the train at one station i saw three mothers travelling this way racing pigeon do a lot of trav elling by tram they are bunded shipped in crates to a given destin ation where they are let loc to kvink their way home speaking of railways the sched ule is excellent and so far as i could judge during a short visit invariably on time however i must admit the trains could cer tainly do with a little houseclean- ing aid then we come to restaur- tffns it is surprising thcrjxfmber of milk bars and restaurants that close early in the evening and all day sunday to find a place to eat after six you have to know your ivij around ojcoursi hotels al ways s-rv- meau nt regular hours so tinre is no need for visit r to go hungry or to walk a lort dut- ance as i dttl tftnd fptarrtt shortly afcr eight nclvck at night there seems to be some confusion bout what a hardtop really is and wed like to set the matter straight a hardtop is a car that looks like a conycrriblc with the top up but has a solid steel roof overhead w m ctnlrt pmsts in tb suit umju- r up until tust recendy it could be built in volume only with two doors not more because it would take wholly new structural principles to hinge another set of doors without floorop roof centre posts but buick came up with those new structural principles and ii sow build- in it in volume hard tops with fomr doors you see one pictured here its the 4door riviera and its taking the country by storm breams kert at long last is mm smto- mniiu uitslhe tlta smd if styling v a true j bat uitb trpurmtr jarl t for rerfrl issrngrrs pirns tit jjtj rm qf f mllsiit buick sdn on top of that this buick is tsll buick with the buoyant ride of buicks all- coil springing the walloping might of buicks recordhigh v8 power the whipouick getaway and sizeable gas savings of buicks spectacular variable pitch dynaflow automatic trans mission and its available in buicks two lowest priced series the budgettagged lhh tip special and the hiichpcrformance 2 36 bp century illustrated here come visit us for a firsthand meeting with the 4dodt riviera and see how quickly and how easily the last word in automobiles can be yours dvmafr drrtv mm trmtmiisnm fi 14- motow vaum thril of th ygw is wmb4 tfttot automomles are mmt buick wiu mmld tnem kvlfsso main at bower acton phone 45 w u lrv r cvcby dst everyday low prices fresh doily fruiti and vegetables choice meats quality food products whatever you buy at ig a you get more for your money i ledgers 1 jjj