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Ninety Year No ACTON ONTARIO WEDNESDAY MARCH Second Section Investigate govt grants Acton Parks and Recreation Committee is investigating the possibility of applying for grants from the provincial government to cover labor costs Involved In repairs or decorating improvements to the community centre At Thursday nights meeting Councillor Peter Marks reported the provincial government Is offering grants to cover labor costs only on improvement projects Insulate roof Arena manager Harold Townslcy also suggested the committee consider the possibility of using to Insulate the arena roof and walls He predicted installing insulation would be cheaper than spraying the underside of the roof with an insulating substance The roof encompasses 18000 square feet Major cost Involved in spraying the roof would be renting a cherry picker to raise workers high enough to apply the insulation Mr suggested would also brighten up the building Hundreds of gun collectors converge on Acton Sunday Guns are usually looked on as In addition literature could be deathdealing weapons reserved purchased on almost every for wars and hunt But guns for Mr and Mrs C of Brentford mean a new interest In Hie and a hobby that has opened up vistas they never dreamed of when they were ordinary civilians As husband and wife team they conceivable weapon Books traced the history of the various types of arms In hard back books with covers that ran the gamut from the time of the American civil war to the weapons used in the Middle Ages Perhaps the ordinary peace- are antique gun collectors who loving citizen might be affronted showed part of their valuable by displays of destructive power collection at the Antique But gun collectors are almost all Arms Collector show Sunday at of the ilk of Mr and Mrs C They They are interested In the were the attraction of the show history and the workmanship that drew hundreds of gun behind the weapons They fondle buyers traders and sellers from guns and various other weaponry different parts of the province with affection making it the most successful SmaU cannon venture yet for the Haiton group the Tax room jtemg showed was a Well lighted facilities at the small cannon on wheels that was industrial centre square used In Afghanistan against feet were taxed to hold British troops by everyone who showed up mountaineering peoples of the Wespons ranging all the way country from daggers swords shields The small cannon had wheels slingshots mortars small or pulling along level country cannons siege guns to the most but it waslight enough to pick up sophisticated hunting rifles were and cany over rough terrain among the displays which drew British cannon were too heavy to collectors and traders roll over the rough stuff and as a one hop Easter Shopping AT ACTON PHARMACY BUFFERIN TMLETS 99 CREST Family Siia or mint 87 DRISTAN TABLETS 69 BORN FREE SHIHP00 OZ SUGG LIST 88 RIGHT SCOPE MOUTH WASH 97 MIR SPRIT 99 VASELINE SUGG PETROLEUM JELLY 59 Sudden Beauty HAIR SPRIT oz HEET LINIMENT Childrens Aspirin 29 Eno Fruit Salts 69 ALKA SELTZER 59 LAVORIS MOUTH WISH COLGATE TOOTH PISTE SUPER 99 BALLET TOILET TISSUE ROLLS NOXZEMA HUD LOTION RESDAN HAIR CONDITIONER 88 NOXZEMA SPRIT ACTON PHARMACY result they were at a disad- showed a six shooter common to vantage when fighting the native the early West to another peoples on rough terrain It is history like these Gunga Din gun dramatics that attracts and holds people like the Keeps him young Its kept him young said 78- yearold Mrs of her trader Look at the lines this he pointed out His face was almost a commentary on life in the early West when everyone wore guns for self protection At other tables there was forts It had a mount to fit into pedestal and looked like it would require two men to lift it Offered yearold husband Their interests medals also run to antique furniture but of youthfullooking Mrs Sleeth admits guns are their first love Arms CoUec- at this siege gun she secretary Hank Ruppert of asked the Free reporter who was up to am See the curled up end Youbould rughtprenarlngfor No need of expensive musket balls Sa J Vou could use stones sticks J b marbles anything The end P he hope to the heavy Weapon curled like a J Canada horn resembles the firearms he in Acton HI She musket alongside with several barrels last Spring the that all could be fired at once to repel raiding parties on British Eminent Arise early Gun collectors arise early Sunday mornings to reach the various shows ln the province and by one or two oclock in the Mr Sleeth has been offered they are packing up their for his collection by one displays and hitting the trail representative from an Sundays show here was no American museum but he exception but before it ended doesnt intend to sell It would Hank Ruppert presented Mr and take more money than that to Mrs with an engraved replace these guns the plaque in appreciation for their enthused gentleman said appearance that day They are much ln demand both here Ln And wed miss the company the S for their displays we get by having this collect Mrs said it was not uncommon to have people drop in their home from alt parts of the North American continent to see their collection This year gentleman from Europe without a word of English came to see them and their collection of weapons We got along fine Mrs says weapons are a universal language Their house near Brentford Council wants cannons on the lawn townships education levy should increase by mills when most other municipalities in Haiton are decreasing It is the second MRS SLEETH tells a Free Press reporter over The small cannon is from the story behind some of the exotic guns her Afghanistan while the swivel mounted siege husband collects in a collection valued at well gun is British Staff Photos Township education costsup council wants explanation cannons on the lawn Six shooters Along another nearby table another avid gun collector GENTLEMEN FARMERS Do You Know How to Make A Statement for Income Tax Purposes LET THE EXPERTS DO IT CALL 8772217 ASSOCIATE TAX CONSULTANTS St Georgetown year for a township increase while others declined Council members Monday agreed to ask the Board chairman and the Acton- representative to provide the explanations at a special meeting Nine mill difference Reeve Anne MacArthur recalled she had been told last years lump would be the Last necessary to clear up any problems She suggested this years rate was actually a nine null differential because Acton was down four mills and Nassagaweya was up five mills The reeve also suggested ratepayers were very disturbed about the proposed closing of the school and the plan to move manual training and The 102 Corolla 1600s see this power pack at Haiton Toyota S tho powtr red Co oil Coupe the Corolla four door sedan or ho Corolla wagon On good the oiher But probably one tl i So make you thorn all with ill that you power assisted front brakes an it frost plii all the other extras Corollas are famous for You also thing else the Corolla a famous for A low price The Toyota Corolla 16005 Coupe wagon or four dot sedan See the power pack Deal yourself in HALTON TOYOTA Dlvliion of Haiton Truck Saloi T967 Limited HWY 25 JUST NORTH OF PHONE to Acton with township residents to be transported to Acton for that training Its too bad we dont a representative in It seems we only have the bottom half of one Mrs observed the next step after taking away the schools would be to tell the township they don t need to remain as a municipality Wat to be closed Councillor James Watson suggested the old board should have closed the Campbellville School several years ago Former board member and now a councillor Art Gibson noted the board had plans to close the school and build new ones at Campbellville and at Eden Mills Deputy Reeve Don McMillan reviewed the education rates noting the Board was balancing out an error He objected he said to the Board explanations for the error The deputy reeve pointed out that on the average township property assessed at the discrepancy dates back to the 1969 levy He submitted the following figures the 1967 levy for education was and should have been ISO in 1968 It was and should have been but in in 1969 the levy was and should have been 1970 It was and should have been and in it will be 366 and The total of the figures are 1400 and Different factor In the Board under lev ted the township by The excuse was that they thought the provincial equalization factor would be something different than it was the deputy reeve reviewed In he suggested the Board thought they would get money back from the province because of a limitation put on the permissible rise in cost to a municipality The province didnt pay the expected The former board s surplus had been used to reduce this amount by to reduce the total levy The deputy reeve was critical of published explanations for the townships rise He noted last year the chairman said It was because of a deficit in the former township boards operation which had In fact ended with a surplus This year the chairman is saying the township is making up for a mill reduction It experienced earlier the deputy reeve noted No rep This is a perfect example of no representation on the board Councillor Gibson complained At ton and Nassagaweya have one representative on the Board Thomas Watson of Acton Deputy Reeve McMillan emphasized that in most democracies the people have the right to defeat an official bu in there is no way they can elect a township man against the Acton vote He called or discussions with Education Minister Wells on the need for township representation on the board SLOW NO HOSPITAL Here arc two actual road signs reported by the Ontario Safety league NO All atlanta Georgia NO the outskirts of a small town Oklahoma were expanding again La it December wb added printing to our already popular Mimeograph service Thlsenabled to offer short and long run offset printing with that better quality 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