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I Year No 17 ACTON ONTARIO WEDNESDAY OCTOBER SECOND SECTION Delegation protests widening Sideroad A delegation of road was being widened for the residents acknowledged the need quarry operations that would be for Improvements In Sideroad forced back from the escarpment but questioned county plans to and closer to the Mr widen It to feet when they Johnson also complained about appeared before the township the placement of surveyor council Monday A Johnson predicted the Glen Pearce a resident of e area and an engineer with the Ontario Water Resources Commission reviewed the letter received from County outlining plans for surveys property acquisition and future widening to feet He the need for SILK SCREENED HASTY NOTES are proect are Mary Anne Ford Barbara made by three trainees at ARC and Carol Deforest Staff workshop Hornby Working on the Photo Hasty notes ARC project Silk screened hasty notes are the latest venture of trainees at ARC Workshop Hornby and will ACTON PHARMACY Is your local PARCOST PHARMACY be made and packaged at dlf fercnt times throughout the year to be sold at regular craft sales The silk screening process Is a very simple one according to Mrs Isham supervisor The silk screen is a simple wooden rectangle with a screen centrally located Various designs are cut out of plastic film and the film Is adhered to the silk screen A quantity of paint Is then spread over the film and a blank sheet of paper inserted Under the design The paint is then pressed over the design making an imprint on the paper The trainees package the notes and envelopes in plastic bags The packages sell for cents each Offer old pit as garbage dump Milton Brick Co has offered an old pit in Esquesing township as a dump suitable for the town of Milton and the townships of and A letter from solicitor P McWilliams read at Monday nights meeting of Esquesing council said the old pit was located on the east side of the First line and Town Line The company felt it would be suitable for Milton and the southern parts of the two townships for dumping improvements in the road but suggested the large con servation and recreation holdings in the area should be considered before widening He suggested the road was one of the most scenic roads in the township largely bordering woods Mr objected that no hearing could be held but maintained he would force a bearing under the expropriation laws He said he was confident he could beat the application Curve hills now A member of the county road committee Deputy Reeve Gordon Agnew agreed to carry to that committee the opposition of the residents He pointed out the three and a half miles of road had five deficient curves and 11 deficient grades The survey undertaken was to establish plans for alignment He main tained there was no plan for other than the curves and the hills now but the province required an foot road ultimately if it was to pay subsidies on the work The deputy reeve agreed there should be a bearing Peoples rights Told of surveys and survey stakes Councillor Alan suggested people have rights on their own land He maintained widening the road would attract more traffic and destroy the environment Im concerned about surveyors sticking in stakes that can tangle In equipment At the present time were strictly trying to do a little work on the curves Deputy Reeve assured the delegation as he promised to take the in formation to the road committee and seek a meeting to clear the air Doesnt want to rush new trailer bylaw THE BASEMENT of the new addition to ARC Workshop Hornby Is still under construction Due to delays the building scheduled to be completed by November wilt not be ready until the end of December reported supervisor Mrs W Isham Workmen are preparing to lay the cement floor To raise money for the new addition an auction sale has been planned for Oct at Milton Fair grounds Local businesses have already been ap proached for donations The new addition will contain a larger workshop recreation room and washroom facilities The present workshop Is being remodelled Into a cafeteria kiln room quiet roam and office Staff Photo Arguing against rushing through a bylaw regulating trailers and Increasing the current license fee Councillor Alan pressed for more time to study the implications of the legislation The councillor noted current construction methods involved modules and other offsite con struction methods which should be considered Reeve A reacted heatedly maintaining the current bylaw charges trailers monthly and residents are using all the services that those paying much higher taxes are receiving She argued the fee Is not fair to the people paying higher taxes Double fees The new bylaw Increases the monthly fee from to Councillor Ackman maintained there were other Inequities In the bylaw and It was not com prehensive enough Members debated whether the new bylaw permitted a man to live in a trailer on his own property while he built a house The location of commas in the wording and Its clarify were challenged No morel While Councillor Ackman argued the legislation shouldnt be rushed the reeve warned she wasnt going to let it go on tor more than another meeting The bylaw must be passed this year to be effective In January It was to be clarified in one area and presented again next meeting TOYOTAS NOW IN STOCK The Toyota Corona introduction was announced today by Canadian Motor Industries Holdings Limited distributor of Toyota vehicles in Canada Extensively restyled and improved for me Corona is lower longer and wider Powered by an overhead camshaft engine rated at this four door sedan has a cruising speed of mph a top speed of 105 and of fers up to to miles per gallon There is a choice of four speed floor shift or a threespeed automatic transmission Standard equipment includes tinted glass front disc brakes electric rear window defroster and complete carpeting COME IN FOR A TEST DRIVE TODAY HALTON TOYOTA Division of Halton Truck Sales 1967 Limited HWY 25 JUST NORTH OF PHONE 8783121 Acton mayor featured on program at International Plowing Match Mayor wife thought there was something familiar about the picture of a person plowing on the program at the International Plowing Match at Lindsay Saturday She was right It was her husband Actons mayor behind the wheel of a large tractor cutting two mean furrows with a plow He wore his peaked plowing hat and looked downright professional as he churned up the soil at one of the more recent classes for mayors which are an annual feature of the plowing Ratepayers Limehouse First official function of the newly formed Ratepayers Association will be held in the com munity hall Wednesday November Subject for discussion is Plans for Election Support Executive of the association is headed by Dennison Denny Dave Craig is vicepresident Ellis Taylor treasurer and Mrs Shirley Moore secretary The association is expected to run candidates in the upcoming township elections to challenge the present administration which ratepayers say has failed them match Mayor Duby back in the lineup again this year with about 35 other mayors This being a year for womens rights however the judges unanimously picked Mayor Gladys of East Gwtllimbury as the winner were Mayor Brian Best of Milton and the local boy John of Lindsay There was just no way they could pick me laughed the Acton mayor after contestants saw this picture on the front cover of the program Program plan meeting regarding establishment of the Golden Horseshoe and a truck route along the Fourth line and IT It Is expected the association will back Russell Miller from the present council He had disagreed with council decisions on these matters Only This newspaper was In error In reporting and Townships would pay an additional each toward the county budget The figure should have read each New rapport between school board councils NOTICE Daylight Saving Time Ends 2 AM SUNDAY OCT 25th in the Town of Acton PLEASE TURN YOUR CLOCKS BACK ONE HOUR J Hurst Clerk- Administrator Town of Acton councillor Ken Marshall a constant exilic of the new county boards of education and In particulartold members of the township council Monday night that he is vastly encouraged by a new rapport between the Board and municipal councils He and Deputy Reeve Tom Hill attended a meeting between municipal officials from the county and the Halton Board of Education and Mr Marshall reported that there seems to be a feeling now that the Board of Education and council can talk Philosophy of education The first seminar they will discuss the philosophy of education and try to get us to see why hey need things some of us sec extrinsic to the business of education Mr Marshall said He saw this as the first step in a new understanding between councils and the Board although admitting that If the Board case he might have to revise some of his opinions about their operations Sometime we are going to have to find out the limit In taxes people can pay for education and where to strike the balance he declared He thought the town ship where a good deal of fax money went for education was a good place to start Can we raise taxes more than they are now or have they reached the peak he asked Mr Marshall thought perhaps the meetings would enable both the board of education and councils to solve mutual problems I was very he said Toronto man hit by train The death of a Toronto man at an Township railway crossing Sunday Oct 11 has been listed by North OPP as a suspected suicide The year old Michael Harry was found in a ditch near the CNR level crossing just north of No 10 Sideroad on the 3rd Line The discovery was made following the report to police by members of a CNR freight train crew that a man who had been standing in the middle of the tracks Bad been struck by the train Members of the train crew rushed back to search the ditches as soon as the train was brought to a stop The body was found a few feet from the crossing The train was reported to have been travelling at a alow rate of speed at the time of the Impact Whistle warnings were sounded and the brakes applied but the man appeared to make no move to dodge the on coming freight He was pronounced dead at the scene by coroner Dr Ivan Hunter