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hodofy school wsiwictors who taught 70 young boys the games fundamentals each week are dave scott school head tom ginger thf lkmon minor sports executive had ed by bob louttet discuss playoffs in the town league bill buchanan left charlie thomson bob louttet and ted pope give up many lei sure hours so boys in town can have minor hockey staff photo the world of outdoors art with h a w e s john shadbolt and keith mainprise were tied for top honors at maple rock shooting range this week other good scores were recorded by wayne leadston with 19 and gord clow with 19 local residents report geese have been seen heading to their northern nesting grounds and one local couple saw one lone goose in a held the acton chamber of com merce this week has announc ed proposed plans for the ad dition of an outdoor sports mens show in conjunction with acton centennial fall fair several attractions have been lined up and more ideas will likely develop as plans progress for further details see the chamber of commerce report in this issue continued from last week the strong case which the canadian wildlife federation brief made for permitting sup ervised use of firearms by young persons while raising the age limit for possession appeared to draw the full sup port of the minister of justice and his senior officials per sons under the present age li mit are permitted to possess the canadian wildlife fed erations brief proposed that a section be added to the crim inal code similar to sections now contained in the provinc ial statutes of ontario and nova scotia which would make careless discharge or careless handling of a firearm an offence punishable bv a sentence to be determined by the court the minister of justice ex pressed the view that such leg islation would be more appro priately contained in provinc ial statutes however since the department of justice ap pears to take the view that provincial statutes may deal with firearms onlv when they are being used for hunting a large proportion of firearms accidents could not be covered bv provincial legislation the canadian wildlife fed erations brief on firearms leg islation questioned whether the present requirement of re gistration of hand guns has served any useful purpose criminals are hardlv likely to register the weapons thev use for illegal purposes if registration serves neith er to prevent crime nor to aid in its detection is it worth firearms u fh theuiconveniencecaused to of form 45 issued by a regis trar of firearms the brief suggested that form 45 should still be available but that it should be issued only after the applicant has demonstrat ed competence in the safe op eration and handling of the type or types of firearms for which the permit is to be is sued there can be no doubt that much of the pressure for res- trictive firearms legislation is generated by law enforcement agencies seeking to control the use of firearms bv criminals believing that such legislation must be aimed specifically at criminals rather than at fire arms in general the canadian wildlife federation brief rec ommended that conviction for offences involving criminal misuse of firearms carry man datory penalties severe en ough to serve as a deterrent to the commission of such offen ces the minister of justice pointed out that there is a growing tendency for legislat ors to leave all matters of sentencing to the discretion of the courts and that it is un likely that this practice would be reversed in any revision of the criminal code caralaaa handling of fire arms used in recreation leads to a substantial number of ac cidents some of them fatal each year the person causing the accident is rarely punished regardless of the degree of ne gligence involved legitimate owners and collec tors of hand guns or the rec ordkeeping efforts of law en forcement agencies the min ister of justice did not suggest that registration does serve any useful purpose but he appeared reluctant to consider doing away with a practice which some people may be lieve contributes to their safe ty the recent contacts which the canadian wildlife federa tion has had with the depart ment of justice would seem to indicate that the sections of the criminal code dealing with firearms are hkelv to be revised during the net several months there is reason to be hope ful that the expected revisions will provide greater opportu nity for voung persons to re ceive training and supervised experience in the use of fire arms and that legitimate uses of hand guns will be made jess restrictive through clarifi cation of the meaning of pres ent legislation there ma also be chang es which will aid police in their fight against criminal misuse of firearms but with out greater penalties fbr such misuse the amount of assist ance provided b revised leg islation ma still be inade quate the acton curling club had its annual meeting this past monday evening in the com munity centre auditorium al though the attendance seemed rather sparce it was considered well attended in comparison to last years meeting secretary ron guest was ab sent due to a business trip to the mari times so marg toth was appointed recording secre tary for the evening with presi dent ted tyler sr chairing the meeting a slate of candidates was presented by the nominating committee with additional nominations from the floor dick lee will be the president of the incoming executive for the fall curling season topics of interest ranged from rental agreements with the refreshment booth the cen tre attraction to better club facilities a general feeling of the members present seemed to indicate things could be bet ter if we had our own facilit ies but how much will it cost president ted tyler sr in formed members that the past investigating committee he was on found facilities available from 32000 to 100000 it all depends ojthowtaanyfrnts7 you want lohn goy chairman of the parks and recreation commit tee and curling club member told of an unofficial longrange plan the parks and recreation committee is considering which might help the members in their indecision the meeting appointed a sev en man committee to investi gate once again the possibil ities of better curling facilities and to present a brief with sev eral alternatives at a special meeting to be called on or about may 15 another interesting note looks like all two game win ners in the club bonspiel will be prize winners v villagers change managers after 15 years andrews resigns earl cairns is named new leader acton refereeinchief murray harrison lee and bob black staff photo by brian mccrtetall theres been a changing of the guard in campbellville after 15 years as manager of the most successful team in ontario baseball history len andrews will be out of uni form when the campbellville merchants open their 1967 hal- ton county season lena personal centennial project is hanging up his ball spikes taking his place or rather taking over as man ager will be earl cairns the change took place in a neat stylish way len said it and it was done thats the way it has been for the past 15 years during that time the tall earnest student of the game has been one of the big rea- ways when we came back to sons for the fabulous success the village it was a miser- string of the merchants elev- able night they bad bonfires en ontario championships going and it really quite a the acton free press wednesday april- 5 1967 5 halton plowmen set october match date girls under the age of 21 com pete for the honor to represent halton at the international plowing match len andrews combine with 11 consecutive halton cbunty titles to give the villagers more battle hon ors than even the most cele brated war heroes why is be retiring fifteen years is quite a while in one job im not real ly retiring im going to be general manager i dont think itll do any harm to have a fresh personality in charge im getting a little tired maybe losing a little fire ive been manager for so long that the players know my thinking backwards he said how did be happen to choose earl cairns as his replace ment with just a race of a chuck le he indicated things on the club are set up in a pretty democratic way except they heave most of the decisions to me i had to analyse who was available and after giving it a lot of thought i decided earl was the best man for the job he said asking lenwhich one of his championship teams was the best is like asking a doting fa ther to pick his favorite son most of the guys think around 1959 we were at our best but the 1964 team was very strong that was the year we had dave heffernan the 1963 team was also a great one we only lost six games all of them by one run he said biggest thrill it was a silly question well we had so many last year when jack roberts threw two nohitters was quite a thrill but weve won a lot of real good playoff games in ex tra innings in the oba play offs every game is important and its a thrill whenever you win one with just a little bit of prompting he recalled how the merchants won their first oba championship under his leadership it was in 1954 and we beat bloomfield we won the first game in camp- bellville and went tp bloom- field by bus for the second game i think we nearly blew a big lead but we won it any- expo visitors to see matoo plans for more than 100 fo reign businessmen to tour halton visiting industry and studying agriculture are being formulated bv the central on tario regional development council councillor anne mac- arthur told nassagaweya council the visitors to halton will be from among the 20000who will be visiting expo this sum mer and extending their can adian visit to see other parts of the country she estimated six groups of not more than 20 would be touring industrial and agricultural operations in the countv visits to the ford plant to ontario stool product at mil ton the conservation area at kelso an agricultural sales ar ena and other pomtv are being investigated she reported mrs macrthur expressed the hope that halton countv might find it poible to join the central onta10 regional development council oon she noted milton had recently approved membership thrill bad things also happened to the team but probably the worst was when harry hamil ton broke his leg in a game against petrolia it was a freak play and he broke two bones it was away from home and the leg wasnt set right it was a bad day no one is a perfect manager and even when you win you can make mistakes taking time to criticize himself len said in the last few years i dont think i was decisive enough it probably would have been better if i made more decisions on my own and quicker but i got into the habit of asking the older play ers for their advise baseball has provided len with what he describes as a great lesson in democracy he notes theres been a great variety of players on our team they have different person alities different habits differ ent mental capacities and dif ferent tastes but theyve al ways managed to get along some of them are far better off financially than others but it doesnt seem to make any difference we have parties during before and after the season and everyone gets along because they have one interest thats the same the team filling dens boots would be a tough task for any new man ager but earl cairns has im pressive credentials certain ly no one is going to question his baseball ability during his 15 year career in intermed iate and senior ball earl has gone to bat 1170 times scored 414 runsr collected 592 hits in cluding 96 doubles 18 tripls and 75 homers 947 bases and 74 walks the rangy first sacker has struck out 210 times and has rlifetime average of 346 he hasnt hit below 300 since 1953 and has combined all his offensive skill with his ability to help the team de fensively as well scoop as they call him is looking forward to his new role but points out i still in tend to play quite a bit looking forward to the start of spring training he be lieves were likely to have a earlcaikns little trouble in the catching department al wingrove has moved away and don joyce has indicated he might retire who is going to catch i dont know yet but ive been thinking about seeing whether stu king would be interested hes a real fine softball cat cher earl indicated so baseball in campbell ville and indeed every time campbellville plays anywhere is going to be a little differ ent this year the heckling from the third base coaching box will continue but the voice wont be nearly as deep or awesome the ground rules at home plate will be explained but not everyone will listen and understand len made sure they did and an in all the whole halton league will suffer its good to have men like len andrews around kids and ball parks and diamonds because men like len add class to the game its always sad to see them hang up their uniform by henry j stanley jack taylor 1309 appleby line burlington has been chosen as the new secretary- treasurer of the halton plow mens association jack is the director of the ontario plow mens association from this county in previous years this office has been held by the agricultural representative george swan 1st vicepresi dent was chairman of the first directors meeting of the as sociation held in the agricul tural office milton op march 22 this year the annual match will be held on saturday octo ber 29 in nassagaweva town ship tom hovvden is field manager and george readhead the assistant a furrow queen competition is again to be held with jack marchment mrs spencer wil son and mrs jim read as com mittee on saturday september 9 the annual junior plowing match is scheduled bovs and plan torn day by h j stanley each year a corn day is held for the counties of hal ton peel and york in 1967 this is to be located on the farm of george and l h lea ver campbellville rr 3 de monstrations will be carried out on weed control rates of fertilizer advantages of irrig ation trace element deficienc ies etc seed corn companies will be invited to demonstrate four of their varieties adapted to this area sudan sorghum hy brids will be grown to com pare dry matter yields to corn tangles with deer a large deer bounded across highway 25 south of spey- side saturday evening the trouble was a car was passing that very spot at that very same time milton opp who investi gated the resulting collision report the car received 200 damage and the deer was kill ed in the entanglement the car was driven by andrew george dvc 336 peel st ac ton pcrta l comer 124 millst at wilbur phone 8532160 golf supplies from campbells or spalding named winners in pictorial contest several jersey herds in the area contributed winning en tries in the jersey allcanadian pictorial contest recently a large number of awards went to the herd of b h bull and son norval bulls brampton aiming sis acme was reserve champion in the yearling heifers class and in the two year old cows brampton sleeping bijou was champion champion reserve champ 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