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vht sftt fincss eightyseventh year no 9 acton ontario thursday march 22nd 1962 by th pn oftiu ten pagesseven cent staf hhoio luck of the irish bedarned the perfect hand being held by one time acton postmaster frank terry is phonyij was posed the irish may do anything on st patrick s day saturday afternoon the auditorium at the leg on hall was ammed io capac ty as the zone cribbage tournament was held when brantford came out the winners that didn t prevent mr terry and his partner j m gunn from pulling an irsh prank ham peal tells georgetowns shady deal councillor ham peal s stand in favor of a tnc planting program in acton was atrcd again tut day evening whin he informed puiimpati in thi progi town council of a successful mi thou adopted in georgetown mr peal said georgetown council purchased seven fooi trees from a nursery at a eosi of s apiece and then pi inted them on private properties such as fronl lawns adjoining town property side walks at a half pnee eosl ol 250 ouch to willing residents explaining the details of the georgetown method mr peal stated the plan has been so sue ccssful that council in george town has been deluded wilh n i coy slated that several projects quests from ratepayers in some i could quite easily apply to acton ol the subdivisions anxious to such is improving the park m lyor john gov added his ap pro vu i ol i iree pi inline pririm ind suggested pit hip i hortiuil luiil e immitlec should be loim id to lmcstil uc nil ih inncls thoroughly bclon imal approval to any pi in is jjun centennial projects m lyor gov produced i icnfclhv piece of coi respondenee and hriclcd council on i foveinmenl plun for subsidy on projicts under a canadian centennial plan to culminate in 1967 mr and sutisled a centennial com mitlce be limcd to investigate fuithci approv il w is livm it pay consumers deposits lo the amount ol 2097 pay iceounts totalling 12 272 16 hic the mayor did ire the week ot april 8 lo 14 is cham ber of commerce week hold a s budget meet ing in order to striki a mill rate valve shut at kelso dam ater rises 16 in week the mtinch valve at thi of kilso dam on ihi sixteen mile creek ibovc milton heights was closed toi the first time wed nesduy morning of i is week a scant 48 hours litu the water at the dim registered 10 leet in depth yestcrdiv wcdnesdiv morning the j hila showed v depth ol 16 t leet and water his been bieked up over sevenl acres the aeluil ele it ion of i the water visludiv wis 74i tect one ind otu h ill i ill w th sill of the gites tlu tiu hiv been ruscd tout leet in i si s t of iols in uigcd dine the lies jjf lie dm h ivi heen uni iid in us pre suil si tie the d mi i set u store 400 elibi kit i water pel ml oik ind it dis tharge ftoo ciibu teet p s uul the rxtnl ited spun w he level will be 752 teel ui 26 leel from the bise ol the dim th s leaves t kurtoot restive to the regular level in other se isons the purpose ol the re serve beinc amount ot v iter flowing into th to store mv sudden rise m the or hcivv rainstorm lurlher up ihci sixteen nnatnu tin gilis and vilvi hid bein kipt open pending the comple tion ol u small building on lop ot the dam which contains i conink will to the bottom ot the dun ind instruments record witer clevitions and flows om pie led the s imi dav jhcjv live w is el scd operation of gates operition ol the glle d bv i hvdro mcicoiolo- irom toronto the eilcs ire on the job acton h re fighters answered the l ill in record time mond i eve if vwu th men s unled imlujitcrs vvc e rteht n the lull w tiling lo be l in their regular wcckk meeting operilcd bv thcsix teen mile con sctv ti in aulhtntv at present but negotiations are pnscntlv undirwav to hue an operator for them the giles will not be llos- id until ill dinger of spung flooding has passed sci t ind ducks hive il nadv decidid that the like bung created is an ideal haven i i them ind thev have inv ided thi area in quanlitv owner seeks twin lakes trailar park the twfarlakea park at spey side on highway 25 has been purchased and the new owner wants to turn it into a trailer park esqueslng council learn ed monday night j oluver ap peared before council explain ing he had purchased the bank nipt resort and wanted permis sion to begin a trailer camp he showed pictures of other trailer parks throughout the country but councillors facing a busy agenda decided to bold the request over for another meeting bob lawson appeared at the meeting to nodfy council the stewarttown mill pond was full of dead fish sixteen mile creek conservation authority field officer david murray also attended the meeting to ex plain esqueslngs share of the 1962 levy for conservation council had earlier objected to the increased levy agricultural night at rotary tuesday it was agricultural night at acton rotary club tuesday when spccml guests were lloyd burt lloyd mclean fred spears c coles c mckeown and ray thomhill the guest speaker was william samis general manager for the hamilton regional area of the american growth fund a gradu ate of the university of toronto he lectures to students at rycr son institute of technology in toronto he spoke on the eco nomy of the country and suggest d we must mcsi more money mm with moniy live eight and a hill vnrs longer three out of 10 at the age ol 65 can retire with a salirv of 10000 vearly prizes zoom his interesting comparison of prices today with 20 years ago included a ear up from 900 in 1937 lo 2900 today and a house up from 6000 lo 15 000 give now the scout group committee is going out for money and fridays the day scouts will be delivering en velopes to every door friday and the sealed envelopes con taining the badlyneeded o- naftlons wjllbe picked up next monday money is required for camp ing equipment scout hall main tenance and purchase of equip ment be prepared when the scouts call to do your best iws is the motto of the scouts guid es cubs and brownies and it could also fee yours wooden versus steelclad roof tops off disposal plant troubles faced with making a decision between a wooden or sleekclad digester roof at the disposal plfint acton council tuesday eve ping instructed the water and sewer committee to check with manufacturers following engine cr recommendations the com nittee was authorized lo have the selected type roof installed 4s soon as possible following the collapse of the digester roof last week r v anderson and associates town engineers inspected the damage ind submitted recommendations to council included in the recom faendattons were estimated prices for a wooden type roof and a steelclad roof the wooden roof including an entire program of washing down and painting the digester will cost 2500 the steelclad roof at a iosi of 5000 does not in elude washing and pain i in t ac cording to the engineers report it is essential to have the digest er cleaned out and painted as this has not been done in the jyears since it was originally installed council learned in the report jhat it was believed water seep ing through the roof had caused the digester cover to tilt lodging u against the wall of the digester in turn resulting in motors bum ed out and other damages a four inch gas take off pipe in the centre of the digester had shift ed position but fortunately had not been broken and no sewage had entered the gas pipe system after discussing the engineers recommendations further coun cil agreed n would be foolish not lo adhere to the recommenda lions and so instructed thi watei and sewer committee to finalize the installation ot the roof they decide to purchase consider street sweeper when council learned that live used slreil sweepers forme ly owned by the city of toronto ire acaihble il a eosl ol 1 000 each i hey discussed i he fc isibility ot buying one as opposed lo hiiing a company to sweep acton strecls this sprint members lcirncd thai an amount of 500 has been bucket ted foi this e ii th s un mini covels rental i i midline i j swicp slrecls once this combined with islimitis foi in inn il 1 1 bur i ist u u hi inj- the entile stiect swccpine pto- gram up to the neiho iihood ol 2000 lcffsuil this council ip- pointed i de leg in n lu iirl to- runlo on salutdiv lo ispcel the machines and hunt hick a ic commend ition chlorlnalor installed appmval was feiven lor the payment of 1 412 to fischci ind porter company tor the msl ill i hon of i ehloimator it ilic churchill north wain well m i or goy said the quantity of chlo rine originally put mio the witei syslem friday last week had been reduced considerably monday council received prices on types of air compressors bung consul crcd for punhasc and insliuclcd the road committee lo attend i demonstriyon ol v inous tvpes and when satislicd purchase the most suitable the road committee wis ilsu instructed lo purchase a portable waler pump ifter they hive view ed dejnonstrations of diffcrenl pcs and made their decision no assessor council leornid that ihi appli c int lor the position of lown assessor who wis under eonsld crilion by council hnd t lkm i position elscwhcic and the town is without a prospect at the pre sent time clerkiadmimstrator jack me tremmakostrm t i jsri issue warning corpoi il r ly muson this week issued i w lining lo evciv tnc espiuillv children igiinsl usinfc the ice it fjii laki or llii school creek hi pointed out th it ic cent ihiws his weakened iheice lo the point where il could quite c is lv crick under the weiehl ol a pel son gc ichk advisid ihc council the town difinililv neids an sscs so bul w irned igunst any pinic to hire oni tike your l inn ind gc t a good one ho sided he informed members the issessment roll his to be com plcted bv siplemhir 10 and sug- gueskd with the help of the of fiec si ilf and bv keeping h per kins employed in this depart mint it would be possible to complete the mils without an assessoi mr mcgeachie recom intndcd this del ion rather than hiring i voung assessor who would possible tike up his lime jnyway he cautioned council to he on the lookout for a good as sessor ind is soon is thev local ed one suit ibic tu hire him tm mcdiitelv the ississment com mittee wis instructed lo imcsti tali ihi lining of an assessor jrarrost water smelly but safe chlorine douses seepage people are sipping drinking water turning up their noses and remarking what s tin mil ler for those with shurl memories just i year ay surfnc seipue hum l he surrounding ire i i ihc churchill witer welt con t miniated i he drinkinc w iter ind people weix warned to bo i the vv her before it wis used al this time ihi onliri wilcr resource commission ordered i clllonni cmitg all rremea halton fire radio system on way actons two fire trucks will be equipped with twoway radios wednesday the cm c truck was equipped wilh the radio- system the ford truck which is used mainly on rural calls will have a radio installed later this week when the job is completed firemen will be able to cummum eate from the truck sitting at a fire to other firemen in the fire tnll in the ecnt further assis t incc is necessary firemen in hi hall can also contact the truck if no one is in the fire hall h switching the control button on ihc rndio the fire truck driver can direct ndio conl ict with the county control offm at oakvuic there ihc fircmin on dutv can b pressing a certain frequency control button sound the siren dumps dogs planning purchases busy n halton urban board agenda rue inc t tlu si ne l a c ir lire n u iph strc t wes l lire nieil le irm 1 in hi ie hid been d uisid wht n tlu l w ow11c i dnit tlnkei threw s ind on the blue tin drive w 1 ah e lo s u i his ai uul c rive it w i shorik iterward doe lontiol problems tree plant nj dumping methods re- g ml pi inn n vv itei pressures bilk puuhisis and grants lor let i id hildren s schools occup ied i husv ngendi at i mecline ol ih yirih halun urbin boird in georgetown vvcdncsdav even ing ol last week itecefttoh lme for the high school dance friday evening greeted over 200 guests during the evening pictured above ust leaving the reception line are peter newton former student and moira aackelvey included in the reception hne were principal and mrs e a hansen mayor and mrs john h goy trustee the rev dwight engcl and mrs engel student coun cil president mary beth elliott and her escort hans van witzenburg urban board is an inform al galhenng of councillors from aclon georgiiown and milton held once a month to discuss mu tual problems ol municipal ad ministration will have to move dol control always a banr to north haltms council rcpre isentatives t a bncf airml when georgetown eouncillors re ported their dog c introl oftieci tecil robertson wanted to use a innquilizir eun to sudbuc ram bunciiuus mutts he was lorced to chase councillor jim nnncr son s iid the dot officer s idea had caused hard feehns in gcorc wn and i be use a tranquilizer cun 1 ihmk 111 have to ifmuve from m neighbor hmkl c un jll r ivic brown george i wn th uvhi the dogcatehcrs methods win well accepted b ih people ind his work was belter lhan ihc service provided tor milion rvs iknis bs the oak villi humane sooctv bui coun- lor les dub aeion said there h 1 1 been eomplints about mr rcherlmmi method ol piekiip cyeirkiuv bruwn summed it ui w th ihe thought thai there aj need t r an edueatkmial program fur d gouncrs to keep ihn pels rum ruining others pruperiv tree nugiams court i or dubv rcponed on k ton iree planting program and announced the town was trv ing to si aside j200 for trees this vcar georgetown reprcsenta- tives reported a succcsslul pro gram wherebs residents petition ed for trees and paid half the com of each tree 2501 with the town workmen and horiicullaral soctctv doing the planting thts thev found gave residents ainorc personal responsibihty toward looking afier the trees the council in georgetown has otcd another 500 toward a tree program this car they offend name of a nursen thai guar antecd ihc tnit hows your dump discussing control of the town dump members traded ideas on dump operations milton and georgetown councillors reported an annual cost of around 3 per eapil i fur their san lar hnd fill method and aelon reprcsenla explained their open dump lives explain idea turnffll t and the con in acton lo alert firemen here anothci switch enables fire men to tajl ror jgjjstanei from other departments throughout ontario by communicating ttiruufch ihc fire marshall s or fice special lessons fin chicr mick holmes was in structcd ml the use of equipment and other humen will receive simil ir instructions as soon is possible the svslerrris bcine installed ry fire dcpirtmcnl through out halton county as a project if the hauun mutual aid fire services and the emergency mca suns organization the truck driver ind chief rid inc in ihc cab will be il the sc it ol trouble js the m un radio equipment is installed under the f unit cushion the microphone uul etnlrtl pine i ire mounted on the dish lor uttssabihlv a dmkv ici lal on the roor is ill th il s noticeable irotn the oulstdi hun syslem temporarily installed until the contamination cleared up seepage starting this year early tests indicated a pissibihty ol furlhcr seepage ml ihc owrt ordered i per i e ii cfrliirmalor pi ml install ed l isl i r id tv this was dune ind when first turned on the flow of chlorine in ihc water supply was relatively he ivy to icich all lines throughout the i wn this week ihc dose has been reduced the churihill road norlh well is the town s main source of wat er supply leak stopped pupils ol two classrooms at the rbert lillle public school who wire evaluated last week be- ciusc of witer leaking through the roof were nturncdlo their normal chssrooms on monday following temporary repairs to the roof principil g w mckcnie re ported this morning thursday thit cvervlhmg ippcand to be b ick lo normal again it is hop ed weather conditions will not be such that the roof will begin lo leak ag un regional planning coming series o confer nces planned for local municipal lies members heard george i wns recock charge thai the lederal government should be n sponsible for ana planning thev i und iu a political issue so thev hinded il down lo the mum t paliiies to settle he said towns townships and euunncs in too involved wilh local plann- mi tu lake on anv addilitnalv wurk like planning 1 ir an overall region he maintained pressure up the acton npnsentalives n- ri rted on i new svstem planned to give a better water pressure to ihcir town and asked ques i ins aboui pressure in ihc other municipalities the clerk was asked io check into the possibill- i es of the three towns going to gether to purchase hems salt for the roads was mentioned as an example ihenbs affecting a saving on the price while em this subject georgetown repn scntativcs reported thev were trv ing an experiment with salt placing a block in each catch basin to present freezing of the basins in winter last month the urban board agreed io petition other ontario municipaliucs for better govern ment grants for local retarded children s schools ms e j hassasd an active church worker was honored tuesday afternoon wheri jnenv bers of the knox presbyterian ladies aid an d w fajs presented her with gifts prior to her leaving acton mrs hassard will live m oakville near her son martin end family pictured above left to rjght are mrs a mmcpherson president of the ladies aid mrs hassard and mrs o moran president of the waas gifts inducted a wallet and key case a leather purse and money