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B2 Free Press Wednesday April 14 1971 excellent idea We like the idea of a walking trail from Acton to following the old radial line A group Guelph under the chairmanship of Jim Pierce Cadillac Drive is currently working on land owner permission for the trail and they report a good response to their efforts They propose to call the walk The Line Now the Toronto chapter of the Bruce Trail Club is considering linking the proposed new to their section of the Bruce Trnil which opens up more vistas for hikers The Radinl Trail follows the old radial line roadbed which ran from Toronto to Guelph The old railway followed the attractive river valleys of the Blue Springs Creek and the River on their course from Acton to Guclph The trail is mostly through woods and bush with many varieties of wildlife Native will remember when the rndml cars used to leave the station on Main St S just south of Church St They took a route which bisected Church St crossed over Mill and Cameron Sts passed over Fairy Lake at the big bridge where the Breezes tourist area is now and then Towards the end of a long dreary winter like this year even the most Jubilant of begin to flag The world takes on a monotony about the color and taste of English gravy We seem to be suspended in a vague nightmare in which we are swimming in porridge with no land in sight We have forgotten the of the individual spirit and our fellowbeings seem to merge into the murk there is the point at which we need a spring tonic In the old days our in the shape a pood and it seemed to help these days instant es we for spirit not the bod I this ear just in tune It was in the Jims of two stones both true faith the and of the human spirit was restored sod I feel like living again The first one contained enough irony and humanity to the most demanding of It concerned a bank holdup The manager was out to lunch when the struck lie slipped a note to one of the tellers her that it was a stick- up then sapped a wedoff shotgun from tinder coat and to the front counter Chatting happily on the phone to his girl friend the accountant had his back to the villain The latter waited politely for him to finish his call and get the message A lady teller trying to get the account ant attention kept hissing at him Dave Dave He went blithely on while the robber began to drum his fingers on the counter with Just a touch of impatience Finally he roared in stentorian voice DAVE Dave looked his shoulder and dropped the phone as though it were redhot as he looked into that shotgun barrel about the size of a Cyclops eye The Intruder a bag at Dave and told him to fill it It was done and the visitor left with what turned out to be He got away clean though three of the staff had rung alarm bells which were directly connected to the police station A customer saw the getaway car and got the license number The chap was nicked up about a week later A sordid little story Not at all This was no ordinary hood This was a man of character go careening off in a mad chase with police bullets and tires screaming He drove a few blocks to a hotel went in and had a few drinks Sensible chap Sitting on a powder keg Denktash Touring the green line through the city zone was depressing On either side of a narrow street are lined the Turks and the Greeks Strategically located are the outposts with outposts in between Damage that resulted from the street fighting is very ident We went to one area of where the fighting broke out It is like a wasteland destroyed and abandoned homes with roofs off windows out and completely deserted Once people lived there Blood spattered walls are evident and in one room we tried to reconstruct what might base happened Presumably a grenade had been thrown in from indications of the shrapnel and the blood stains on the wall No attempt could be made to consider how many could have died In the small upper room Streets are narrow at and what was left Indicated a once pleasant architecture and reasonably solidly built buildings The downtown area of Nicosia revealed more about todays living A house with a large door completely open allowed us to catch a glimpse of a mother rocking one child with uncounted others playing noisily Grandmother was there too Some of the children followed us out along the street with their favorite word Hello They were dressed in dirty clothes and their future was not being made any brighter as a result of the divided state Obviously peacekeeping is fraught with frustrations but the Canadians appear to perform well Their task is to reason and to negotiate and both sides seem happy to have Conflict and Contrast them as a continuing presence but how long will the remain Turks who arc the minority have the striking power of Turkey only hie minutes away If Turkey and Greece two NATO countries enter battle who is to say where it would end Tune was flying in Cyprus but we didn t want to leave without meeting Rauf R who is vicepresident of the provisional Cyprus Turkish Administration and in effect the No man in the Cypnot government He spoke excellent English and had studied law in England from to After his call to the bar he returned to Cyprus and began to practise law on his own It was he who led the Turkish Cypnot delegation at the London Conference end the security council on behalf of the Turkish Cypriots In 1970 he was re elected as president of the Turkish Communal Chamber and continues to function in this capacity in addition to his duties as vicepresident of the Provisional Turkish Administration He had very warm memories he said from the early days of the troubles and the Canadian friends who have assisted in the plunged into virtual wilderness of the Gore before arriving at Blue Springs park which in the past was a local tourist attraction Now the park area Id owned by the Boy Scouts but the old line 1b still well marked and would make a splendid walking trail through some of the prettiest country In this district Many residents of this area have used the old radial line for walking and at one time it was a direct troll for boy scouts and wolf cubs on their way to Blue Springs From Blue Springs tho old railway line follows the valley and takes higher ground through the area where the Ontario Electrical Railway Historical Association has its railway museum another attraction From there the old railway roadbed passed through pic turesque Eden Mills joining the River valley on way to Guclph of limestone add Interest to the terrain on cither side of the railbcd for the proposed walk as well as the cold clear waters of Blue Springs Creek one of the few unspoiled streams in this port of the country Hugh of the University of Guelph recently told members of Lets not widen the gap LOOKING DOWN Mill St last week from the air gave ice with the countryside displaying more abundance of snow photographer Jack Carpenter a view of Spring gradually than the town The photo some indication how well taking hold of town and surrounding district Fairy Lake can town employees kept streets clean during one of the worst be seen upper foreground still wearing its protective coating of winters on record What did the holdup man do with the money He went to his own bank and paid off a loan then he went to a finance company and paid them he owed them What a pity he was caught An honest man who paid his debts pushed by them Into an armed robbery charge A man of The second story Is also true I lust missed seeing it but an eyewitness filled me in It s a cowboy story The hero lives in a small town He owns and rides a beautiful horse On a recent Saturday he rode uptown feeling no pain He wanted his horse to enjoy life too so he took him to a hotel and tried to take him into the beer parlor Unaccountably he was refused Undaunted he took his steed across the street to a tavern and tried to buy him a double Foiled again he was trying to lead his pal into the beverage room of the other hotel in town when the law arrived It was no contest The cowboy told the cop exactly what he thought of him for about minutes He then mounted Old Paint and galloped up the sidewalk of the main street scattering old ladies Into snow banks and children into store doorways Allegedly when the was asked why he put the strong arm on the cowboy he replied I didn t know what to do with the dam horse And a perfectly sensible answer Don t ever let anyone tell you that Canadians are a dull mousy colorless tot Jesse James was a violent clod and Dodge City a home for old ladies compared to this bank robber and this cowboy Pay for teachers is one subject that is always certain to stir up controversy especially among teachers themselves No one disputes that teaching is an arduous job and the rewords should fit the task but there arc those who think the pay scale is already outof line We were interested in the comments of the Financial Post concerning Etobicoke a middle class suburb of Toronto which the Post thinks would be typical of most other areas in the province There the school board expect teachers to work for six hours a day between September and June 30 Subtracting holidays winter breaks time off for professional day Etobicokes average teacher works 200 days or hours a year Teachers are expected to prepare lessons mark papers and contribute to afterhours activity as well but this is typical in that pay bracket who do afterhours work for their companies without compensation To the teacher just beginning his career with a minimum of training this means the board pays the equivalent of an hour to the fully qualified public school teacher with five years experience 08 an hour and to the most qualified and ex teacher an hour By contrast the Financial Post notes the average hourly earnings in man ufacturing was in construction The comparison in no way suggests teachers should be paid the same as workers in manufacturing or con struction Their qualifications entitle thenyo a much higher salary However in pressing their claims teachers should keep two things in mind People earning those lower rates of pay contribute much of the teachers salaries Also unlike teachers most taxpayers do not have a free summer in which to upgrade qual ifications and as a result Increase rewards Most people in man ufacturing and construction have at the most two or three weeks free each summer Nassogawcya Planning Board that tho stream was a natural asset to the area and one of the few which had a continuous flow rather than a high spring crest along Its cedorllned banks What better way to preserve the natural beauty of the area than to turn the old rallbed Into a walking trail where all can use it Let us hope the various townships can In preserving the topography In natural but as Nassagaweya councillor James Watson has pointed out there are already 3000 acres of his township now in conservation and forest lands There is a question of just how much land the township can afford to provide for recreation and still maintain a reasonable tax basis for permanent residents We feel since many city residents would also want to take advantage of the recreational aspects of the proposed trail that the area should be In line for some sort of government grant to compensate township residents for their generosity In ad dition to aiding the preservation of land in the province as the pioneers knew it Those who have to scrape and economise just to get by in the high priced world naturally do not appreciate efforts of teachers to further increase salaries which arc already considered excessive Many of the public still remember the time when teachers were badly underpaid schools were understaffed and boards were reluctant to spend anything on schools other than the barestnecessities They remember the dedication and energy of some teachers then and compare it to the reluctance of some school staffs today to put more than the minimum effort into the profession despite high rewards Few would want to sec those days return but by the same token the public recalls that despite the lack of qualified teachers schools of the past set high standards We support a high rate of pay for good teachers but oppose further widening of the gaps between taxpayer and the profession maintenance of peace in Cyprus He reviewed the historical background of Cyprus from 1878 when the British first came to the island and the establishment of the Greek Orthodox Church the problems of proposed union with Greece and the propagation of this philosophy which he argued had been well done through church and schools along with propaganda which he maintained had created the image of the terrible Turk He recalled that in when thenBishop became Archbishop he had taken an oath that In his lifetime he would ac complish was serious recounted the problems of December 1963 when he Turks were removed to the police station two were killed and two were hurt and In two days everything went up in flames In the next four or five days the Turkish enclave was cut off from the world and listened to the Cyprus radio broadcast reporting the government forces were trying to contain the outbreak in the Turkish sector He maintained that Britain in hand with Greece had delayed any intervention and Turkey had taken the initiative by sending in planes In minutes Britain and Greece Continued on Pace 20 years ago Taken from the issue of the Free Press Thursday April post office reported a rush twice in the last few weeks once near the Match the Twins contest deadline and then again at the Know Ontario contest deadline Bags filled with nothing but entries were forwarded to Toronto His truck smashed and ablaze 23-year- old Jack died in an accident Monday afternoon The young father played hockey with the Milton CoOp3 this year and also played baseball with Acton He leaves his wife Jean and a fouryearold son Knox manse was the scene of a pretty wedding when Betty Marie and Clark Wallace Armstrong were married Presiding at a tea table was a pleasant change for Acton council Elected to pass tea at the C A Ladies Auxiliary tea and bake sale were Mayor Ted Tyler DeputyReeve J J Stewart Reeve Hargrave councillors Esther Taylor A Fryer Weick J Greer and C E Wood Seven delegations had matters to put before council Friday in a session which lasted from 7 p m until 3am Several ratepayers protested the purchase of the new snow blower Wellknown Canadian poetess Edna Jacques was guest speaker at Variety Night sponsored by the Friendly Circle Over was raised by the Home and School following Theatre Night at the Roxy arranged with the cooperation of theatre manager H Dcveau Near capacity audiences saw both showings of Father was a Bachelor The choir from Bannockburn school was chosen to go to the county music festival 50 years ago Taken from the issue of the Free Press Thursday April 21 1921 Ontario Endorses Prohibition Of All Intoxicating Liquors By Majority of over 15 The Verdict at the Polls was Most Decisive in Many of the Cities as Well as in Rural Districts For the Fifth Time the Electors of this Province have Said Emphatically No More Intoxicating Liquor Ontario has again and probably for the last tune said to the traffic in intoxicating liquors for beverage purposes Your presence here Is distasteful get out Every town and township in on Monday true to the splendid record of the past gave a substantial majority to prohibiUon Actons Yes majority is Georgetown Milton 201 Esqueslng Total majority in Halton Actons majority in 1919 was No one will ever again truthfully say that women do not value their privilege of voting Acton women workers were on the Job right after breakfast and until supper time The women of Ontario were largely influ ential bringing about the splendid result obtained And why not They have suffered so much of the anxiety of agony of actual want and distress as the mothers and wives of the land Thank God the mothers wives sisters and daughters now have the franchise and used it to eliminate this evil traffic which has cursed and ruined homes THE ACTON FREE PRESS PHONE Business and Editorial Office in Ontario for generations The clues in the minority which are in the wet column included Toronto and Hamilton Local dry majorities Ospringe to Good old Dublin voted three to one for no booze Acton has scored another signal victory for a sober town 75 years ago Taken from the issue of the Free Press Thursday April 2 1B Ottawa Womens Council is working to shorten the hours of labor for women and chddren Some startling examples of under paid garment work were discussed Dean Uncle Toms Cabin Co entertained a wellfilled house at the town hall The visit of Miss Rogers missionary from India was much appreciated Her address in the Baptist was highly interesting Idols of heathen worship and other articles were exhibited The wretchedness of the Hindoo women was particularly impressive Messrs Sharp Bros and their mother of left Tuesday morning on the C to take up land about 100 miles north of Calgary They took with them a number of head of cattle and horses their household furniture and a good supply of seed In all occupying two cars Millinery opening at B Ryans Guelph Great variety of Pattern Hats and Bonnets from Paris personally by us Our Millinery Flowers Ribbons and Trimmings of all kind we import direct from Europe also not only obtain for you the latest ec centricities of fashion but are able to supply them at small cost as we thus avoid the long prices charged for the less recent styles of New York and Toronto Stick to your flannels however glows the sun or you will be an angel before spring is done Mr John C Nelson has sold his business interests at Oshawa and removed to Acton Two of our barber shops have changed quarters the past week Morton to the shop on Main St where A P Symon lately had his jewellery store and Warden to the shop between the Main St hotels oaDiw