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tin Sugar and Spice by bill smiley June is one of the happiest months of the year in Canada Or it should be In other countries they have spring In this country we have a month before the last snow goes and June bursts forth in all her lush splendour Grass is startling green and the cattle fill their bellies with the juicy sweetness after a long winter of confinement and dull fodder Young ones of oil species actually gambol snort kick up their heels and butt their mothers on one side then on the Our trees have forgotten their groaning and cracking In the teeth of winter they bow and whisper like ladies at a garden party while the squirrels scamper saucily about iheir legs the birds twitter among their ample bosoms and verdant hair June is full of anticipation The boat owners are painting and repairing and launching The are having their finest hour before tht silly summer duffers swarm onto the courses And school Is nearlv over And the most marriages ever conceived are in It is a month when surely every Canadian should be shouting Praise the Lord or I told a littU last week about our one junket to Michigan when trusty old took us there and brought us back tkspite the fact she was nursing a temperature I glad to report the patient is recovering but there is still trouble in her radiator that will require more medication than a new fan belt Over there the Americans we met all wanted to know what was going on streaming over the border as if it was a holiday Ana of course it was thanks to old Queen Victoria celebrating a on the Just to make us feel at home my sister and her husband had hung a large Union Jack outside their front door to let us know there were still some in the country the revolution of failed to expel It was a welcome sight after seven troublefilled hours on the King Highways although I m partial to our own Canadian flag myself This family of exCanucks has been over in Michigan for a decade now Although they like the U way of life it has some drawbacks that we have no corresponding problems to compare with here As a for instance one of the first Americans to greet us at the door was a furry ball of curls they referred to as a Cocker Poo Let joy be unconfuied or at least Wow This is the greatest But a benevolent Providence in Its wisdom must remind man that every rose has a thorn that every light contains its darkness that every good has balancing evil It probably just as well If there were no bad smells we t appreciate the good ones If we never felt pain or illness we t appreciate health So in June as in life there another turn of the wheel another side of the coin There all that glorious nature just waiting to be revelled in And there are all those mosquitoes and just waiting to revel in turning you into a swollen porpoise or a stripped skeleton There all that luxuriant grass But the dam stuff is up to your knees before you get your lawnmower overhauled And there all that young life June was a happy month for my mother more years ago than it is decent to talk about She proudly bore her third son me But what she tot was a sickly whelp who cried for two without stopping and barely survived every infant ailment there was in those days id Pepper by hartley coles sheepdog It turned out to be a dog half cocker spaniel and half poodle He I think it is had trouble distinguishing us from the despite an inquisitive nose and adopted us on sight Of course discussion about dogs brought up the inevitable questions about race relations which are considerably strained in the small of Mount Clemens Michigan It seems the Whites cannot on with the Blacks and the Blacks cannot get on with the Whites What that got to do with dogs Well mj brother in law an easy sort from back when he rode a tail gun for the A t visited a service station to settle an account Noting there wai no on around in the reception area he started for the office Whoah there veiled a voice from the bock of the garage Stay where are There was the sound of hurried footsteps as the proprietor arrived on the scene Oh it alright he said glimpsing my brother in law s red hair I thought you were black See that dog in there he indicated a large German Shepherd in the office he trained to bite blacks The incident was forgotten until an article appeared in a newspaper a few weeks later It was dun proprietor bitten by dog or words to that effect It seems the dog one A confirmation ceremony It isn t often that the north end of Halton Is privileged to have a political nominating meeting The well run meeting in Acton last week was a first and it went off with hardly a slipup Political fence mending has a long and established tradition in the county and there s no doubt the Tory nomination meeting in Acton was another in the attempt by the south end the riding to establish a better rapport with Progressive Conservatives from the north Organizers of the meeting deserve full marks for an imaginative eff that ran off very well indeed Unfortunately as everyone suspected there just wasn any attempt to unseat the Hon George Kerr And the nomination meeting really became confirmation ceremony A contest where one disaffected member of the Halton West PC stood up and challenged the right of Mr Kerr to represent the riding would have made a big difference in the tenor of the meeting provided just the right spark to create a dynamic setting for a candidate to accept the challenge for another term For instance if John McLean who as president of the West Progressive Conservative Association has had some long standing differences with Mr Kerr over the Burlington stand on regional government had elected to throw his hat into the ring it could have really added some fire to the nominations Mr McLean resigned as head of the Halton PC on the eve of the nominations allegedly over dif George Kerr has stood strongly for Burlington remaining in the Hallon- regionalset Mr McLean was a member of the Hamilton Chamber of Commerce committee which submitted a report to the Steel Commission urging Burlington be included in a HamiltonWentworth region There were other differences too during the provincial leadership convention where Mr McLean threw his support behind Allan Lawrence Come on ladies Photo by Denis Gibbons There all that anticipation But the boat owner discovers that the rats have been at his sails or the termites at his hull or his motor has developed a perforated ulcer And the golfer swings too hard on his first day out slips a disc and is out for the summer To be sure school is nearly out But June is pure hell for both teacher and student For the teacher it is a scramble of final reviews an avalanche of evaluation a surfeit of statistics Pair enough He paid for it But he might as well be teaching a couple of cords of wood The bodies are there but the minds and spirits have fled through the open windows into the musky June air it even worse for the student There is that oaf talking about poetry when the greatest poetry in the world is taking place outside that stifling rectangular prison The blood stirs the limbs go languorous the eyes go glassy and that retarded adult up front might as well be talking himself in Swahih As for those beautiful marriages conceived in heaven and time tabled for June If I had any statistics I say that staUsUcs show that fifty per cent of them will end in a life of quiet desperation thirty per cent of them will be unbearable ten per cent will be impossible five per cent unspeakable The rest will wind up having their sixtieth anniversary pictures in the local paper I m not being cynical about June I wouldn t miss it for anything I am merely as usual the facts day turned on its master and tasted White for the first tune I was glad to hear that some sneaky Black had retrained tht dog to bite Whites and dof started on the first available person Outside of the race troubles which moderates on both sides of the color fence are Iryint their best to settle without more confrontations the northern part of the United Suites t that much different from our part of Canada One radio commentator was giving President Richard Nixon a real goingover the we arrived for setting out to create in the United States I ike Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau he was accused of deliberately creating unemployment because he was a callous hard fisted administrator with no heart Now I know where Bob Stanfield that line It should be labelled Made in the US And of course there was the usual student trouble at the school my nephew and niece attend They organized a skip da and all the students stayed home much to the chagrin of the principal but with much secret rejoicing from the teachers I tried to tell them about my days at the academy when we skipped classes and it hookey but they kept thinking I referred to our national game so I gave up In disgust Who plays hockey in June anyway We admire the perspicacity of the women who resent the questions on the census forms which seem to assert male domination of the nation but we question their logic Some women proud of their ancestry on their own side of the ancestral fence took exception to questions about racial origins of the family when guidelines stated they must follow the male line Others thought the census takers were getting just a bit too nosey when they wanted to know how many bathrooms they had in the house One woman became so incensed at the questions she threatened to tear the whole thing up and urge others do to the same Calm down ladies Think of the can of worms the government would open if they decided both the male and female ancestry was traced on both sides of the marriage It would likely turn out that most Canadians were a hopeless blend of a thousand nations with very few Mixed up values Sometimes we think population experts full of theories are barking up the wrong trees with their insistence on limiting people so the earth doesn become overcrowded Figures show that a car is produced every five seconds in the United States A baby is born only every 12 seconds It stands to reason that a car is going to take up a heck of a lot more space guzzle more of the dwindling resources pollute a heck of a lot more air than people and then end up in a junk yard disfiguring the scenery As a matter of fact the car raises so many problems that we seldom stop to think about them We have heard the car called a sex symbol and extension of our personality a luxury a necessity and a financial dram among other things but we find very few people anxious to start up a society to slow down the auto birth rate It has been said that the car is a contradiction We it yet we hate it Britain for instanc- an overcrowded place if there ever was one produced over one billion pounds sterling worth of vehicles for export last year The country depends on the money to keep balance of payments level People with their personalities vanety of talents and differences of opinions hardly bring anything on the export market these days You can be who lost out to new premier William Davis George Kerr lined up with McKeough When lost and joined the Davis camp he was joined by Kerr And Mr McLean was unhappy about it He is quoted as saying that the and Davis camp could lose the next election or end up with a minority government unless they can motivate workers like the Lawrence crew Those differences of opinion would have made a volatile combination for a real nomination meeting There was no doubt that Wednesday s meeting was cut and dried No one dared tackle George Kerr the capable knight who has fought the pollution dragon from Manitoba to Quebec However we enjoyed having the Conservatives hold their nominations in Acton We hope they consider it again And we also hope the Liberals and can take a few lessons from the political acumen of the Tones when it comes to choosing the site for their meetings boasting pure blood lines for the social registers And just because they t ask how many sittings they used to have in the old fashioned does not mean that they cant ask how many bathrooms we ve got in our houses these days It is a sign of affluence and we Canadians are trying hard to shore up our national these days So just sign em and send them in and forget those asides from Women Lib sure the emphasis will continue on producing polluting cars rather than personable people When you think of it too probably a lot more are killed in cars than in the wars people manage to inflict on one another Russia although it has only a few cars per capita manages to have people killed in auto accidents in 1969 alone The United States has an annual carnage on the highways that makes the Viet Nam war seem like a cocktail party So you can see why we wonder while we worry whether some people don t have their values mixed when it comes to making a choice between metal or mentality back issues 20 years ago Taken from the Issue of the Free Press Thursday May 1951 Sirrs recently graduated from Toronto Western Hospital and will with at Western University Meaner Ross graduated from Sick 1 Hospital Toronto Acton from tht Acton C A to Centennial International convention t Cleveland will be G of the Mens club and Blow who will be representing young adults It jhl Rev Bishop of the rite of rm to candidates in the Acton St Sunday morning and I lie the new parish hall adjacent to St John church in the Parishioners and Rev industnouslv on the f building in climaxing 12 of work bee was held at the manse I on when about half the was done Mrs Don Ryder was the winner in the Diamond guessing contest at the Roxy during the showing of King Solon on Mines last week Radio Ryder with a beautiful set of Over entered the contest image of Mae Clayton of Mr and Mrs Clayton of to son of Mr and Mrs of Perth was at St I church in Toronto Miss Eveleen was bridesmaid and J Furlong is his brother best man Carroll store has installed completed fixtures 50 years ago Taken from the the Free Press Thursday June 9 1921 Monday was a busy day in Acton Police Court The court opened at clock and the session did not eonclude until after four in the There was a big field day with cases Three charges were laid of Glen Williams The first was of intoxicated and about witnesses were heard penalty of and cost was this a second offense He was also charged with beint intoxicated while in charge of a motor car In this ease also a large number of witnesses were examined The evidence however was not sufficient to warrant the registering of a conviction The third was a eh of having liquor other than in his residence This was not proven The ease was tedious one Hie ratepayers of Crewsons Corner and vicinity are petition for a union school was a lare meeting in the town ship hail at last week for final consideration of theerectlonof a monument to fallen heroes of the township The monument will be a costly and beautiful one and it was deeided to reel it without delay on the farm of close to the THE ACTON FREE PRESS PHONE Business and Ed Office road not in tht middle of the crossing roads at that point is was proposed it is about hay tune for the Council on the neglected streets Strawberries at the old prewar price of 111 cents a quart may bt seen again this year Georgetown links which have been la d out and put into fine by Mr J A on his furm arc affording recreation to the community 75 years ago Taken from the issue of the Free Press Thursday May lit town bell now at p m each evening Wednesday and Saturday so that ill stores may close simultaneously fit earl by law is In force now and it II be a general advantage There Is no tenable reason why the merchants and thelr should not enjoy a few evenings to themselves week rhe ball match between the Graveyard of Guelph and the Acton Young Canadians resulted in an easy victory of 21 to a for home Juniors The players were Ryder pitcher George Clark Mc Donald Ryder Mcintosh W Watkui3 I Williams Smith and Messrs and Co are building their teams in the rear of the bark sheds The old buddings near Mr residence wdl be removed new bridge from Agnes St to the high level at the tanneries is completed he Ontario legislature has decided to let ladies practice as barristers as well as solieitors A lady has just finished her and now the Law Society will have to decide if she may practice as a barrister Mr George Cann is now postmaster and storekeeper at Crewsons Comers You can have pics like your mother used to make if you buy a Duchess of Oxford at Symon Bros The fire can be regulated at a moment notice and only a very economical supply is needed Robert Wilson EMen Mills has fall wheat out in head He never knew of wheat being out so early as the of May before