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he jvtttfit ttt pftzs ninetythird year no 42 acton ontario wednesday april 17 1968 fourteen pages ten cents council residential hundreds of fire calls cost 40000 so far 1968 budget rote up one mill a plague of grass fires daring the past three weeks has cost an estimated 46000 to the lax- payers of hilton county hilton fire chief e a clement suggest ed today the tire situation has reached emergency proportions in the county and the five county fire departments haveanswered hundreds of calls he said acton fire department had another eight grass fires the past week in the past two weeks the acton brigade has answered 10 calls to grass tires in esquestng township alone moat of the grass tires have been blamed on human careless ness open fires and bonfires whipped by winds have spread to fields trees bushes and stumps and even threatened homesnear esqueslngdumpone hay stack was lost this week the milton chler felt the 40000 figure wasa conservative one georgetown milton and acton fire chiefs understand they may be asked to draft a bylaw to help prevent the rashes of township spring tires milton acton and burlington have local bylaws that require a permit for burning there is no bylaw or even re quest in esqueslng or nassaga- weya the townships pay a flat rate to acton ps board upholds 145190 requisition ctudtt card a fiveyearold pacer belonging to dave lindsay of acton made his first ap pearance of the season at the mohawk race way last week finishing in the money trainer- driver bill wellwood said credit card qualified for tho race with a time of 2 10 15 for a behind tho scenes account of tho mohawk race way turn inside to the socond front at a special mooting of the public school board on tuesday evening the onceroduccd req uisition for council was passed by the full board without further ask esquesing adopt national fire code to help curb grass fires in township georgetown are chief erwlu lewis made a strong plat before esquesing council monday night for the township to adopt uniform natlotxu fire code regulations in the three esqueslng fire areas disturbed by the rash of grass urea in the township which has kept the georgetown acton and milton lira brigades busy this spring chief lewis outlined the advantages of the code to coun cillors ha said the regulations which require a permit before lighting a bonfire have practically elim inated nuisance tires in acton milton oakville and burlington where the cede is already in effect they credit the permits with stopping the grass urea chief lewis affirmed he is working on georgetown to adopt the same system the georgetown brig ade has had 48 calls since march 30 16 of them in the township and 32 in town if the township adopts the code tines can to levied for contra vention it has been the exper ience of those who have already adopted the national code that few ones need to be levied chief lewis agreed with a suggestion from councillor bob lawson that permits could to issued from the township offices ive talked with acton tire chief mick holmes and milton chief clements and they agree something should be done about the nuisance fires in the town ship chief lewis continued last weekend we got to sit in the tire hall for four days over foolishness neglecting our own people the georgetown chler told coundl council was sympathetic to the chiefs views and agreed they would look into the possibility of adopting the code earlier in tho meeting corres pondence from the flro mar shals office confirmed they would be startlnga municipal fire protection survey in the township starting may 1 the fire mar shal will review the townships present setup and make recom mendations respecting preven tion it is expected the survey wlu be completed june 29 salvation army honors dr buckner with award large poplar crashes between two houses on wednesday april 3 at the oth annual dinner meeting of the salvation army house of concord dr robert buckner was singularly honored he was the recipient of the order of distinguished auxiliary service scroll the distinguished service cross which is the in signia of the order from inter national headquarters of the salvation army london england it is only the second time that this award has come to canada and only the 107th in the world commissioner wiseman head of the salvation army in canada and bermuda made the present ation and read from the scroll that doctor robert dalzlel buckner during the course of some nine years through giving on his own initiative honorary medical care of such high pro fessional tone that the entire house of concord project is acceptable to government and in social work circles the house of concord is the first institution in canada for the rehabilitation of young offenders dr buckner received a standing ovation from the large gaiierlng present cuts as requested last week by council on motion of vic brlstow sec onded by charles hoard the board will requisition councillor 145190 for 1968 plant operation tho original requisition was tor 167794 total operating cost is 386- 446 grants amount to 209044 the difference is taken up by operating surplus and nonre sident fees chairman cyril bishop out lined the series of meetings held to prepare the budget the board sought an increased department of education grant because of increased costs alter reviewing enrolment and costs the department advised they could only increase the grant by 7000 for a total of 209044 after being asked to cut their requisition the board met and cut their budget by 18766 mr bishop said the budget com mittee was given a complete breakdown of the new 145190 figure the cut was made by deferring the engaging of teachers for remedial reading and oral french a librarian eliminating the purchase of approved library books and visual aid materials we stressed the board was not happy to make these cuts he emphasized however at the subsequent meeting of council the school board was asked to cut their 145190 figures by at bast 30000 at tuesdays special meeting the board unanimously main- continued on pap a urge poplar tree measuring 10 feet in circumference at its biggest broke off in sundays high winds and miraculously lit between two houses on cres cent st weakened by rot on one side the huge tree lit between houses owned and occupied by mr and mrs dude uodaay and mr and mrs fred salt the salt home was damaged and a ear owned by their son also received damages it was a miracle no one was hurt exclaimed dude uod aay who said he has been asking the town to remove th tree tor the last ave years i was sitting reading the weekend paperswhen i heard loud crack about lour oclock 1 ran to the window and saw the tree spread all over the yard the big old peplar broke a win dow damaged the ee vet rough end the tv aerial at fred salts reatdenc mr and mr ron salt vlattieg their parents had a a car parked 1b the d which the tree also nude several dent la and scratched up the tree was off balance- from prevloustrlmmlng charged mr lindsay the trimming had rotted one aide and the high winds weakened it and brought it down he forbade bis daughter to sleep in the front bedroom on a recent night because he feared it would blow over on bis bouse a skilled woodsman could not have dropped the poplar as well as the wind did sunday only the top branches caused damage to the salt residence ive talked with thetownforthe but five years about taking that tree out of there said mr lind say and argued with the clerk as late as last monday about it they aay it is my responsi bility 1 aay it is theirs now the insurance company can settle it impact of the tree also caused damage to the lindsay lawn town orkmn cleared the salt driveway of branches after the accident residents in the area fear more of the targe trees will setter the same fate theyre tearful some one might be under the next one slash general purpose rate in midnight sesstori tuesday slashing at the general purpose rale in a mldingkicil burnlisjf session last night tuesday acton council almost held the una an the 1968 mill rate which will be hiked on milt on residential prop- k erly anil 2 j mills for commercial and industrlal the modest hike a move council tried to avert by various strat- agelris brings the residential rale to 77 mills and industrial and commercial to 87 milts last years rale was 78 and 848 mills respectively council was disappointed the public school board did not cut their requisition so felt the only alternative was to chop the gen eral purpose rate which they had succeeded in reducing by one mill already further chops of 11- 4s0 the entire equipment de preciation amount 500 from the development commission budget 1000 from planning board budget 350 from the cemetery budget 2000 from the administration budget and 7650 from the roads budget took the general purpose account down another three mills this was the only way for council to hold the una the public school rate is up 44 mills residential and 5 mills commercial and industrial most of this hike was due to teachers salary raises there was a alight 1 mill in crease in the high school budget and a 11 mill increase in the county levy taxpayers will also gat relief from a new measure introduced into the legislature designed to reduce municipal property taxes on every selfcontained resi dence under the plan the pro vincial government will pay an average of about is per cent of the property taxes of etch resi dential taxpayer in ontario this will work out to between 45 and 65 on the vast majority of the residential properties in th pro vince the legislation imposes a duty on landlords to pass on the full amount of the tax credit to ten ants tax credits will be deducted oo municipal tax bills or prop erty owners wiu be refunded the amount of tax credits if they have already paid tbelr taxes clerkadministrator jack mc- geachle outlined some of the highlights of the plan to council which will increase the burden on his office when it is passed budget committee chairman deputyreeve dr frank oakea voiced a vote of thanks to mr mcgeachle for the many hours of extra work be put into pre paring the budget the clerk worked hard on the fatfflfeet he bad five straight nights ind worked weekends to have this ready id like to think he can have a day off some time hes put in hours and hours of overtime and i cant let it go by without some apprec iation of th extra work im sure 1 speak tor everybody around the tab give him two days off agreed councillor perry i agree said th mayor mr mcgeachle should take a day off whenever he feels free to following is a breakdown of the budget with a summary at the tall end improve no 25 hwy build bridge the department of highway has announced there will be con siderable work done on highway 25 from south of acton to oapringe schedules call for grading drainage granular base and structure in the 59 mile stretch from on mile south of acton to highway 25 at oapringe included in the schedule is a bridge over the e ramose river a mile south of oapringe clearing will also be don on the 59 mile stretch m whistle hours beardmore and gos whistle which usually blows each working day at 8 am will switch over to it spring schedule the whistle wiu blow at 7am starting monday and at 4 pm instead of 5 in the afternoon this i a departure from last year practice of blowing the whistle at 730 inthe morning and 430 in the afternoon ims calculation of public school lew residential assessment 40869600 o 90h 367826800 commercial it industrial 356839300 less hydro assessment 3407500 t 3 tjjj 1bjwj two car collision 575 damage district motorist were in volved in a 575proprty damage accident on highway 7 tuesday evening of last week a ear driven by kenneth mc donald r r 4 rockwood re ceived 125 damage while 450 was thatstimaisoarepelrsneedv ed for on driven by thomas shannon r r 1 acton they collided just east of haltonwentwortb county line neither driver was injured total for taxation debenture levy as per schedule principal interest township of esquesing 721238600 3170000 1982925 5152925 60000 52129 23 fcootlhutd on poet i nine weekend fire talk one menaces nearby homes fire call overlapped are call over the easter weekend when the firefighter aped to nlm call one was in acton one in erin township on in nassagaweya and the rest in esquesing township this makes a total of 10 tire call to esqueslng in the past two week mfafciw slnrtionj at cmr tool shoi at eight oclock this morning wednesday a ease of malicious damage was reported to th police sometlmebetwen4am and 730 am five pane of glass a the cnr tool shed were broken by stones the shed was undamaged at the time of the last rouun police check at 4 ara a note scrawled in pencil la a foreign language was wrapped around on of the stone its awaiting translation at th pouce oftiee but th police are certain 1111 turn out to be more insulting than informative miasutf440 ovtb 10 mr at the base this large poplar tree blew over between nouses occupied by the lindtsy and sell families sun day without injuring anyone the tree was partially rotted high winds sunday were blamed for toppling the giant staff photo exhausted firefighters were thoroughly ready for their day of rest which they had on sun day thursday at 1 pm fire spread alter a householder aet tire lo rubbish on the crescent flame burning into the long grass were extinguished by the firefighters good friday saw a aerie of calls which found the brigade prepared for a bad couple of day warn weather and a brisk wind coupled with th spring bomeeleaalng urge set the teen for th subsequent hours at 950 am the first call waa ta th seventh line of erlntowa ahtp north of balunatad when tire apreadtrom burning rubbish both erin and aeton brigade were called aeton rural truck got stuck in the field aad it took another truck to pall it out at 1010 cm the alarm sounded again sending another crew and truck to th third line f eacjwstng to george mattbr home the tire had spread from barolng rubbish oat of control tato hash aad gnu tad waa dlfflculltoexuscslsh at u noon there was a minor call to fanjtestm dump at 3m there was alar to lot t eoaoeastoal of eaonesiag where a grass fire was barolng at a country aosne cytlo saturday saw a repeat of fri days activity with on serious tire endangering homes at 1230 the alarm earn to go to estbmtlng dump again where th grass fir had spread over hlutndlntobdtbmtnaeln several homes two truck were seat to fight th flames and th weary firefighter didnt leave th scene until after 330 ptn at 215 a bush fir of unknown origin waa reported oa th tow line eaquestng back of the hulford botn during a graa fire at the lindsay farm on th sixth line of esqpeatng reported at s punt a hay stack was lost half an hoar later wy th rural track waa still out at that fire the- towa truck responded to a call to 85 slderoad and th fourth line of nasetgeweye township although th track went up and down the neighboring ums the hrflghureouldloeais no fir whether the call we a false alarm or not the firefighters fid know bat they certainly dtdrtta4ttoarla daaaaa to ta treat end fjliffurr strike wm a hamilton motorcyclist was lnfcired when his bike flipped oa highway 25 just south of aetna sunday afternoon milton opp aald a fellow eyeliaf motor seised up and ht machine quickly slowed down causing val john gaaeoya of hamilton to brake and swerve us eycl th man tattered mouth laceration and several scrapes and waa taken to attttaa district hospital for treatment two car collision on mill st friday only accident reported to aetoxt opj daring the past week in volved two ear driving north oa mill st at kaoso april u involved were a ear driven by cameron forbes cnwilsmtl read which received 18deasaf to the left treat leader aad a ear drives by terry mcmartea mu1 at watch received tui