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Ratepayers pay the shot We can well appreciate the feelings of councillors and officials over the decision by representatives of the Ontario Municipal Board to adjourn the hearing Monday over the Golden Horsehoe objections to the Agricultural Holding By Law until time as counsel for the has time to assemble evidence Hearing chairman told those in at the hearing that he appreciated the inconvenience the decision he and Mr Lancaster arrived at but felt the deserved careful consideration before the could settle the case Earlier he said the township applied for approval of the by law and It was up to the to show why the Golden Horse shoe property should be zoned Agricultural not the other way around would disagree with these points but it seems to us that DOCKED AT ONTARIO PLACE is the Nonsuch a Lake Ontario with all her sails catching the wind She built of replica of the 43ton ketch built In England which was the first English oak although her keel is English narrow leaf elm with shiptocnter Hudson s Bay returnloaded with beaver furs some yellow and red pine also used in the construction The Now in the year anniversary of the Hudson s Bay Company public is not allowed on board but may inspect the vessel from the replica is visiting a number of ports in Quebec and Ontario the wharf Photo by Bill Stuckey She only 53 feet long but a handsome sight sailing across Sugar and Spice by bill smiley At this time of year the average school teacher takes a deep breath lets out an even deeper sigh and wonders where In the name of aU that ridiculous the last teaching year has gone Looking forward to It In September It seems endless But that bother you You are refreshed full of beans full of plans and full of that friends spirit Looking either direction about February is a depressing experience Behind lie the ruins of jour buoyant September self Ahead lies a trackless desert with the end of June far beyond the horizon But looking back it seems to have flown by at the speed of a mallard You are exhausted you query whether you have accomplished anything and you are ready to step out of the breach and Into a It a good time for a quiet assessment of what the whole educational business Is about and also whether you have contributed anything more than a fairly capable job of babysitting The young teacher especially Just finishing the first year has had a genuine eyeopener First of all he or she has discovered that the learning process as the Jargoneers call it is vastly different from what he or she had imagined It to be The brighter ones realize that they have been taught They learned that kids are people that problems are never as large as thev look and that memos are for the waste basket For some of them it has been the most exciting ear of their lives because it has been the first year in which have been totally involved in a real Job with real people students lormanyoftbem the year past has been a blur or a dazzle endless hours of preparation and marking papers and a combination of great leaps ahead and agonizing prat falls They re looking forward desperately to vacation because they ve really been through the wringer They can scarcely believe that they hav come through a year of teaching without anything worse than a slight tic or a voice several decibels higher Sometimes subjects for a column are elusive when the weather Is muggy neck is fried from the sun you are dreaming of basking at the beach toes dipped in the water ana a handy mug of something or other dose by In the event a parched throat croaks for relief It is times such as these that newspaper hacks reach for the files and explore inner recesses In this case I reached back the files to see what the devil I had to say last year about this tune Believe it or not the hot subject in June was hose Women were raving about them There were arguments between the hose makers and the girdle manufacturers no doubt all owned bv the same doughty bunch who dreamed up hot pants for this season about the advantages of these mediaeval apparel as opposed to the restrictions of the girdle After the fuss was all over I ran across a couple of items I thought might come in handy some time detailing further uses for these combination long John bottoms and Number one observation was from Style A women wear newspaper commenting that although hose don always stand up to the roughest wear they do come In handy sometimes In a pinch I envisioned an Italian scene where the voting gallants have a reputation for pinching bottoms But mj imagination was totting bottom It seems an enterprising nurse found a new use for the contraptions after witnessing an accident where a youngster was hurt and bleeding She whipped off her pant hose and applied them as a tourniquet until an ambulance arrived So hose turned out to be a lifesaver in a pinch or scene number two you must picture a earful of tourists stranded on the Macdonald Freeway known to the unlearned as with a broken fan belt One of the women in the group with a presence of mind which defies description doffed her hose and fashioned a makeshift fan belt from them that enabled the car to limp to the nearest service station six miles away You may recall that this fuzzy cheeked fellow was in a similar situation three or foureeksagothe distaff members of the clan failed to come up with a solution such as this testimonial supposed the tourist lady improvised In fact it is doubtful either my better half or Daughter One would have suggested the wrinkle even if it had to them THE ACTON FREE PRESS PHONE Business and Editorial Office ratepayers of que sing ore the goats in this particular postponement They will bear the cost of readvertising another hearing assembling witnesses and engaging legal counsel The township clerk and others concerned with the hearing will have to contact all witnesses and objectors again for the third time while re presentatives of the virtually have a licence to operate as they sec fit until such time they feel they have assembled enough evidence to present their side of the story It would seem to us that the O M is bending over backwards to give counsel and owners of the dragway time to present their case Certainly they arc entitled to every opportunity for a fair hearing but it seems they have already had two golden to state objections to the holding by low as it affects their property Although counsel for the denies they were ever notlfled of the first hearing over the bylaw in I ebruary they certainly had every opportunity w present their case at Monday hearing We feel the onus should have been on them to produce evidence Monday and representing those who object to the dragstrip were prepared to furnish witnesses and evidence within an hour although albeit reluctantly and wo feel counsel for the dragway should have been prepared as well We don pretend to be experts on jurisprudence but plain common sense tells us that someone Is taking a beating in this case and it looks sus piciously like it is the body of ratepayers who 11 likely wind up wearing goat horns than it was in September Quite a few art even more dedicated than when they began Some of them fortunately not many are soured on the whole shambles and have decided they don t like kids detest their fellow teachers and loathe the ad ministration They should clear without a backward look if they want to avoid unhappy lives for themselves and all those about them Teaching is a reasonably well paid job with a long holiday thrown in But I ve never met a wealthy teacher and never will And one can even get a bellyful of holidays Especially when one has to get up at six clock to drive his daughter to work But to those who consider it as a let me just say It a helluva tough job It not the weak of will or the faint of of heart There are certain prerequisltes You must like if not necessarily understand young people Who does You must be able to get along with if not necessarily like your fellow teachers It is perfectly O K to loathe administrators Everyone else does After ten years of it I have learned to roll with the punches If you don you get a broken neck hgurately speaking I have learned that that mob of hoodlums I faced in September is just a group of highspirited youngsters But roll on the First of July They would have thought it unwomanly And it is of course unless then were bushes to conceal the change of hose And we no quick change artists in this branch of the family tree So the only recourse of course was to Conti i on Pane Editorial The eating is grand Milton Canadian Champion is tilting its editorial lance at county councillors again on the heels of criticism of recent pay hikes coun cillor voted themselves Says The Champion Oh dear the fun funds gang is at it again Reliable sources inform us the Hnlton county councillors arc finding themselves hard pressed to eat in the manner to which they are accustomed on the county s measly meil allowance of only per day while they re out of town on business So the finance committee has the limit to a day is the same group of elected representatives which recently voted themselves an annual salary of with no penalties for missing meetings then combined several standing committees into one to cut down on the number of meetings they had to attend The of course does not cover travelling and convention expenses Nor meals at the new rote of per min per day Oddly enough at the same meeting a report was submitted that shows the county s senior citizens living in Halton Centennial Manor are being fed for the grand cost of i cents per person a day Let hope the don hear how their elected representatives are tossing around all that money they spent a lifetime earning and paying some of it into the county coffers They might start asking for an extra piece of bread once a day and shoot the Manor chef a budget out of whack years ago Taken from the Issue of the Free Press Thursday June diss of Acton Public School enjoyed banquet in the sponsored by the Home and School Chairman Joe Juny intro lucid the heid Libit quests Home and School president Parker IODT recent Mrs school board chairman Oikes Mr McKcnzieand b a led three cheers for Mr Mchenm and Ronald Emerson received for the students showing tilt greatest improvement Jerry White presented an oil painUnt to the school in autumn scene by in Johnston changes in the Sunday School room of the United church uncovered the backing of the old blackboard and the inform that it was installed by Thomas b On the is also some verj fine chalk work many of us remember how superintendent II Moore was in fine lettering and illustration suppose Acton had a population then of ibout half what it is today and it is that the attendance totalled up in the various classes amounted to Helen Joyce Jervis and Wyman I ittle were married in Toronto June Andrew has received a He has completed his second year 50 years ago Taken from the Issue of the Free Press Thursday June 3D 1921 As a result of the new route In Halton of the Provincial Highway Acton occupies a star position on the line much to the enthusiastic delight of The road now from Brampton to Nerval into and then by the check line to rom there it passes through Rock wood and on to Guelph Premier Is the credit for working out this ideal route The new block southeast corner Mill Main is now almost completed and Mr has done both himself Acton a turn by his improvements in rebuilding the Storey block Mr Gibbons has moved into his shoe store and Mr will take possession of the large store and next week Hie annual congregation 1 meeting of the Methodist church is always an occasion of much interest Rev Moyer reported membership of and 38 new members were received during the year Total financial offerings of the were 727 The minister salary is bred Blow machine shop is a hive of industry these days He has Just put in two new lathes is turning out Chevrolet and iord motor axles by the thousands Another car of steel bars was delivered last week In the death of Stewart of another name was struck from the ever lessening roll of names of old settlers He wis born at in 75 years ago Taken from the Issue the Free Press Thursday June 1B96 election on Tuesday was fought with the utmost vigour available vote was secured the 1 iberals triumphed by a working majority The tariff question ind the Mamtobu school question aroused the and excitement of every in the dominion The Conservative party who have had the upper hand of government for the past 18 years now hand the reins of government to the Liberals In both Mr Henderson and Mr worked with determination but Mr Henderson of Acton was the man chosen At Mr Henderson meeting in the town hall Friday there was a larger of the fair sex than at any previous political meeting Mr Henderson who has developed into one of the most fluent and eloquent speakers spoke for an hour and hilt The picnic held in Prospect Park last Monday afternoon under the auspices of St Joseph church was well attended by Protestants as well as Roman Catholics Some of the stores closed for the afternoon A many citizens were very wroth about the fire bell being rung Tuesday night or the bonfire at the park the half tune system is being adopted In school because of over crowding there was no meeting of council on Monday there being no business requiring of their attention 1951 GRADE graduation class does it bring back Back row left to right Colin Stanley Mages Joseph Ronald Emerson Jerry White John Hufnagel Third row John Lambert Allan Holmes Second row Helen Luxton Winter Marilyn Marks Sargent Lorraine Tyler Barbara Anderson Georgina Betty Ann Jo Anne Stuckey Joan Chisholm Front row Fayc Garner Elaine Joyce Halladay Jean Peggy Sag Frances Oakes Cheryl Morton Mary Mages Lamarchc Grant Withers and John were