Acton Free Press (Acton, ON), April 29, 1970, p. 13

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ACTON ONTARIO WEDNESDAY APRIL Hoover introduces a new concept In cleaning the selfpropelled cleaner HAMILTON Ontario A completely self propelled vacuum cleaner with virtual fingertip control ii being Introduced by The Hoover Company Limited It an entirely now concept In upright cleaner design The now Dial A Matic Model is operated by an automatic power drive that entirely eliminates the push pull of vacuum cleaning It propels the cleaner forward and backward at any rate of speed up lo four feet per second simply by moving the sliding handle grip forward and backward The rate of speed Is easily controlled by the amount of force applied to he grip Releasing hand grip automatically returns the drive to neutrul A lockout button can bo depressed to lock the drive In noutral The cleaner can then be rolled anywhere with the power on or off Alio when the handle Is in the upright position storage or for using the snapin cleaning tools the drive is the will not self propel The new Model 1172 Dial A has a number of other design features to make cleaning easier Chief among these is nozzle height adjustment that is self adapting provide the best cleaning action for all types of carpet from very low pile indooroutdoor types to the deeppile slug rug types A coordinate leaturo is the floating mum casting thai has been designed Into the cleaner so that the weight of the cleaner on the carpet is never more than one pound The weight of tho cleaner and any force applied downward to tho handle arc transmitted to this wheeled underframe or casting and not on the nozzle which just floats on top of the carpet A new agitator the heart every Hoover upright vacuum cleaner built was also designed for the Model 1172 The angle of the brushes and beater bars on the agitator was redesigned to propel dirt and heavy litter directly toward the inlet to the bag so thai the pickup ability is markedly improved Overall styling the Model 1172 is very similar to previous Dial A Mattes Hoover the line cleaner which in been marketed for the ist several year- However trie main Casting has 1 rac lively revamped to cover the powerdrive system giving j slightly lower and slimmer appearance and a full furniture guard his been added for protection furniture Colour scheme for the cleaner is light medium and scil The new Model lus j number of features which have been standard on lie Dial A Matic line ittructivi rigid outer tuple filtered an system tune to indicate when tin paper should be ihind NOT AN APPARITION folks Tho ghostly looking cleaner Is simply a photo technique used to illustrate how Hoover newest Dial A with moves back and forth across your runs without any push or pull on the our l of tho user Slight pressure on thi action grip handle propels the forward or With this newest Hoover housewife simply goes through motions Tho dots hard work repine ink height lo in and many others dinner that has ever made tin people who hive been making the in dinners lor over ye its Cramped for space hopes to move to Acton The arrival of a new Honeywell 100C tape computer at Limited in midMatch at their R Acton locution lias aided company officials in meeting much stricter work schedules and eliminated costs of purchasing computer time from comrxinics in Georgetown Kitchener However with new contracts starting in August the company finds expansion of facilities necessary and urgent The data processing centre located at the intersection of Sidcroad and the First Line ot south ot Acton has a total staff of lull time employees on the premises in addition to girls working in a kitchener office as key punch operators It is now the largest independent centre in Western Ontario We re just so cramped right now we can do anything company vice president larl commented company is presently negotiating with the Industrial Commission for tin purchase ot a pjreel of land in the industrial park Centralization ot their location in the middle the Golden Horseshoe has proven a big and officials iu delimit interested m remaining in hi Acton jrcj Moving to Kitchener would definitely hinder our Toronto business Mr Jolly more told the free lrcss Mr Jollwnorc believes relocation the company in Acton would help till the town Ninety live company s female tint employes les employee i I act there a suit ink oiler problem the up in time Mr In addition to the computer the mikes use i total input output miliums which process dita into a suitable lot computer proccssiiR Since the machines and the input ire worth about ill equipment is leased The computer ilsell is valued at close tit The computer reads dal produced on the key punch sorts and analyzes it and products information reports such as sales analysis accounts receivable etc It lakes the computer approximately JO minutes lo about invoices and cash receipts into a complete act units receivable package II the computer makes a mistake it will stop and indicate operators where the mistake can he corrected if information fed ill is results will be correct Mr Jollymore reports Operators have a favorite saying Garbage in garbage out with Mr company pres dent ken and secretary treasurer Joan I seh have a combined total approximately years experience in he data processing M The company started out with one key punch machine December 17 and have about each of the two opera been The recently by the Acton lumber of Commerce wus done on a machine identical to the Anyone interested in seeing the computer in operation may d so by making a by phone The company alset invite lours Addition approved COMPUTER OPERATOR Mr Mary Huxley is kept on largo reels tape Staff Elmore Dr Acton work at the complicated Photo computer installation at KeyCorn Limited The applu addition to the home of Mr and Mrs Archie Place was approved Monday April by the committee of adjustment No objection were registered at the hearing held in the chambers The asked for minor variances to the setback frontage and tot area requirements to permit an addition at the rear of their home Approval comes next from the Community Planning branch of the Department of Municipal Affairs TRY THE NEW HOOVER BEFORE YOU BUY ANY WASHER THE FASTEST WAY TO WASH IN MINUTES- LAUNDRY SPIN DRIES PRACTICALLY READY TO IRON NEW MIRACLE FABRICS DRY ENOUGH TO WEAR Really fast You can wash rinse and spin- dry a family size load faster and cleaner than any other washer YOU CAN OWN THIS MODERN WASHER EACH WEEK LESS THAN YOU WOULD PAY USING COIN OPERATED MACHINES SEE THIS FABULOUS NEW WAV TO WASH SEE A DEMONSTRATION HERE OR IN YOUR HOME

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