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The Acton WadntKJny April paper tries hut Salt and Pepper OPP report New cars new drivers spell spring dangers Board bans sale of papers in school During our reporting week March to March 29 the men at the Acton Detachment while working 168 hours patrolled miles of town roads It was a bad week for traffic accidents again with a total of two being investigated with property damage of being registered The charges laid as a result of these accidents were one under the Highway Traffic Act and one for failing to remain at the scene of an accident Four traffic charges and three warnings round off the traffic sheet Other occurrences were a prank phone call a case of minor damage and a minor disturbance all requiring very little investigation Provincial court in Milton on Monday saw convictions registered on the Acton docket with fines of being paid Wc arc glad to report that Ray Mason is well on the way to recovery and should be back on the beat in the middle of April With the advent of the good weather the roads are better and spring is in the air A lot of young drivers are on the roads for the first time and a lot of new cars are out on the roads In a lot of cases a young motorist will try and find out just how fast his car will go Admittedly it is not speed itself that kills or mams it is the sudden stop of a collision But if that sudden stop occurs at miles an hour there is a one in chance of death Bring that speed up just 10 miles an hour and the ratio drops sharply to one in eight Add a mere five miles an hour bring the speed to and death is almost certain We lost five young people from our town in traffic accidents during 1969 in the year let the total be a big fat zero Back in May of a little before my time a Mr Jacob German was the first person to be arrested for speeding in the United States He was tagged for racing along the road at a bold 12 miles an hour Around that time a newspaper commenting on the speed of the car gave the startling information that it can actually beat a horse Cons Roy Wood Halton County Board of Education passed a resolution at their meeting Thursday to not allow sale or distribution of any newspaper magazine of periodical in schools Cord McLean head writer for Sweeney asked the board to allow the sale of the underground Oakville paper In Halton schools McLean said the paper had been banned schools and had been confiscated in some Oakville high schools McLean said It is clearly theft when teachers confiscate the paper from students McLean argued the paper offered an outlet for the youths to express themselves and achieve personal fulfillment He said the paper had been described as a thoughtful paper for thinking people After stating precedents where the rule had been broken before he asked his paper be allowed in the schools and told the Board his sales had increased 25 per cent since the ban was put on Trustee Bruce Edwards asked if McLean thought daily papers and other should be allowed in the schools for sale McLean answered Sweeney is in a class by itself Director Jim Singleton explained the Board will not try to he paper and said if it was sold outside the schools and brought in the student would have a right to keep it Trustee John Ronson said to allow the paper in the schools would give it a captive audience of 46 000 The students arc legally bound to be In schools and it was thought by Board members they be taken advantage of Trustee Emie said there was much talk of adults having to try harder to understand youngsters and suggested maybe it was time for youngsters to try to understand adults Why is it necessary for you to use language adults feel is undesirable he asked Trustee Fred advised paper may get better reception generally if t WflS cleaned up although that change the Boards attitude Kingman named sergeant transferred to After eight years of service as a Corporal with the Milton Detachment OPP Cpl Kenneth Kingman has been promoted to the rank of Sergeant and transferred to where he will be in charge of a detachment office He will be replaced at Milton by Cpl E who has also just received a promotion He earlier served at Burlington and detachments of the OPP Kingman has been with the force almost 22 years He joined the in November of and served in five detachments around northern Ontario then 10 years at the Falls detachment being promoted to corporal and transferring to Milton in June of 1962 A farewell party was held for him by fellow officers and friends at Centre south of Milton Monday evening He was presented with a bronze for his desk a set of and two paintings Sgt Kingman wife lias been working at P Robertson Manufacturing for several years They will be moving to Cobourg as soon as he can locate a new Continued from Page Bl Then one winter night when a blizzard howled down the Caledon Hills he got a call to a home Over in the Cataract area where an old man was very sick and wanted the consolation of religion Roads were blocked so the Rev Just Plain Bill decided to walk On the way over he stumbled over one of the limestone cliffs he loved so much as a boy Villagers found him in the morning dead Nearby they found the words M AGG I scratched in the snow They held the biggest funeral these parts have ever seen and buried Bill In the cemetery we just visited fearless Plul concluded but people here never knew what that word scratched in the snow meant 1 II never tell them Maggie sat silently for a long lime regarding Phil Then without another word she rose and stepped outside she Neighbors of Maggie Sliltlegs often comment on the contentment she radiates ever since her trip to Toronto They wonder sometimes who the debonnalre gentleman with the fine manners who visits her at home One friend reported seeing her over at the Forks of the Credit of all paces with a secret smile as the wind rustled her hair and she scanned the steep hills where the Credit River tumbles through the scenic valley And the folks who live in the rugged scenic country around the Forks tell a story about a new spirit which haunts caverns and precipitous cliffs which cling to the Caledon countryside making the youngsters shiver and the girls look furtively behind lliem as they walk along the quiet roads home there His appointment became effective today Wednesday H S HOLDEN opTOMimrsT Cock SI Eatt GUELPH Phone TA Good posture for Lassies The sixth meeting of the discussed wliat physical fitness Greenock Leisure Lassies was was and to feel good you should held at thr home of Mrs R follow the Canadian Food Sinclair on March Guide They all did exercises The meeting was started with suggested by members and later Pledge The roll call was on practiced good posture They to name a defect in your posture filled in a chart in their books on and how to correct it The posture minutes of the last meeting were The meeting was closed with read by Barbara Gates They the 4H Grace Spring cleaning made easier with Hoover PORTABLE Everything fits attractively handily 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