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Young drinkers in Acton well behaved hotel owiui Dropping the age of majority from to has Increased business for local hotels but most problems publicans face still come from drinkers over 21 not young patrons the Free Presss was told this week There have been exceptions Last week a 14 was removed from the Station Hotel by police after she was requested to go by management and refused Police were called She was removed and her parents contacted Station Hotel proprietor Don Hamilton noted the waiter had challenged the girl age when she furnished Identification and refused to serve her Mr Hamilton said he had Instructed his waiters to treat the kids honestly and when In doubt about age to ask for Identification courteously without exerting undue pressure As far as he is concerned the presence of the younger crowd in the beverage rooms has done something to give the business more class Most of them nave been quiet and well behaved he said unlike some of the noisier and more boisterous over 21 drinkers If everyone was as well behaved as the younger crowd there would be few problems for publicans he asserted Mr Hamilton said he has sold his business ton Toronto man and 5 leaving it with no sense of loss He entered the hotel business with little experience and much enthusiasm but his confidence had slowly eroded with some of the troubles he experienced He felt however he had sained a deal of insight into human nature during his stay In Acton Business at the Station Hotel has increased quite a bit after passage of the new majority taw but it was starting to level as the ACTON ONTARIO WEDNESDAY AUGUST 18 1971 One finger typing police false economy soys Marks Hiring an extra police officer at salary In the neighborhood of 10 to do One finger typing several hours a week Instead of spending an additional to rare a female stenographer to handle police clerical duties Is false economy In the view of Councillor Peter Marks Marks made the statement last night Tuesday shortly after serving a notice of motion that council take on additional help to handle clerical duties only In the police office Earlier In the year council decided not to hire a stenographer and mode no allowance for It In this year budget but Councillor Marks who opposed the decision at that time reaired his view at Tuesday regular meeting Investigates He said his own Investigations have shown a significant amount of one finger typing Is being done by officers who are corning salaries in the range H contended hiring a girl to do work would allow officers more time to do the Job we re hiring them to do Councillor Carl a member of council Public Works and Utilities Committee a in OPP tiff told le was quite happy with the work situation this year but that next year secretarial help might be useful Peter there been any complaints from the people Councillor asked If you hire a girl you can t let a man go and It costing us more money he suggested But you re geetlng Increased police protection Councillor Marks retorted Councillors differ According to Marks Sergeant of the recommended the addition of one officer one car and one stenographer to the Acton detachment But Councillor Jack Greer differed with Murks on his Interpretation of the recommend He said eventually we would need that Greer commented Councillor Marks was consoled by the Masales hope that the detachment should have clerical help by the end of the year but did not budge from his false economy charge It bugs me that we re throwing money away he said But we re not throwing money Reeve Frank Ookes said The reeve reminded Marks that council had not budgeted for clerical help earlier In the year and could not undertake to do It In August promised his committee would certainly look into the matter at an upcoming meeting novelt At th Don Ml I owner I 111 St tph n there has bee 1 cent incense in I following pnssngi of II majority law fait tip I null notices now Trouble there has I cut at all says Eddie with customers very well I Mr Startck thinks the new majority was a move in the right direction ACTON RAM forward Hum i runaway OLA Junior ville defenscman Kurt hAWf attack Rams took a comma championship series by i- a not Sxleon Pages F fteen Cents could end up with lis first fl Ham Rams can defeat in the fifth Saturday at 3 p A large contingent of Urn to make the trip for the big game inn Free Press sports pages Staff Photo Proposal quite adequate deputyreeve assured DAVID Radcuffe Frederick Street celebrated his Chapman chairman of birthday quietly at home the fire and police committee Monday August 16 was absent from the meeting Photo Enter agreement for dog control No more tires in dump Ron Robinson of Churchill Road appeared before Esqueslng Council Monday to discuss dumping of t res In the township dump Councillor Coxe charged that Mr Robinson was using our dump for disposal of garbage used tires from other municipalities adding that right now there was more tires than waste In the dump Reeve Tom Hill agreed they just can t cope with the number of tires and suggested Mr Robinson take the rejects back to whtre he picked them up Hamilton Toronto etc and throw them in THEIR dump He further explained could never get enough dirt out of the place to cover them and suggested there d be trouble if they ever caught on fire Mr Robinson picks up to 1 tires per day of which go to the dump while the rest are usable Rev Joseph Giilen pastor St Josephs Rev Joseph J pastor at I lorn and the mission church at Fergus will be the new parish prist it St Josephs Church Acton will succeed Father V J Morton who is retiring as pastor of St Joseph after more than years of service bather Giilen has been pastor at and Fergus for the past 10 years or to that I was pastor at Chepstow He was born in Wellington County the m ly resided in Walkerton for many years I- athcr said he knows no one n Acton except present pastor Father Morgan but he tc often has passed through and liked the area He begins his duties In Acton Tuesday September Rev John V Walsh who is currently serving the pastorate of and Cargill will Father in Meanwhile parishioners si Joseph s Church are planning a reception to honor Father Morgan Tower tumbles Workmen tumbled one of Acton old landmarks Wed morning when the ft high GO gallon water tower on the cemetery hill Main St S fell to the wreckers hammer A condominium house development will replace the to we i and town garage In spite of a suggestion by Deputy Reeve Garnet McKenzle that a presentation to planning board on the advantages of county planning may not have Slight increase for hydro bills Acton consumers can expect a slight Increase in their hydro bills as a result of new rate structure which goes Into effect November 1 this year Bob and Jack Christopher of Ontario Hydro Consumer Services met with Acton Hydro Commission Thursday night reviewing the commissions financial picture and recommending they adopt new rates Faced with dwindling resources as a result of holding the line on rate increases In the past the Commission agreed to the rate structure worked out by the visitors The increases and new structure ore subject to the approval of the Ontario Hydro even though their officials worked out the formula It is just a formality said vicechairman Ted Tyler been up to pi Councillor Norm Elliott assured the deputyreeve last night Tuesday the presentation made by Councillor Bill Coats was quite adequate and planning board simply had mixed on the matter Deputy reeve McKenzie introduced the question during the regular enquiry period of the regular meeting of Acton Council Refers to report Referring to a newspaper report of the July 15 meeting of Acton Planning Board the deputy reeve remarked I t read into the report In where the person had tried to out the good points of county planning Mayor Duby who also attended the July meeting backed Councillor Elliott s claim that the presentation had Indeed been adequate is one of council two representatives on planning board Reeve speaks Reeve Frank Oakes said the way he rend the report one member of the board did most of the objecting to the idea of county planning I think from what I read one man did all the talking and he went to great lengths to allow his political affiliations to show the reeve commented Following an administration committee meeting with a representative of the Ontario Humane Society earlier In the evening Acton council last night Tuesday decided to enter a dog control agreement with the society along with the town of Georgetown and the township of George who has been looking after dog control in the three municipalities recently tendered his resignation and Acton council subsequently received correspondence from Council saying they Accept Civiero tender Mill St reconstruction Acton Council has accepted the tender of Civiero Construction at the price of for reconstruction on Mill Street at the corner of Park Avenue Council accepted the tender on the recommendation of Its works and utilities committee Deputy clerk Grant Usher has also been instructed to negotiate with Beardmore and Co a trade of property on the north and south side of Mill Streets and to have necessary documents and transactions prepared Gets rapped for ripping Ripping up a Acton parking will cost a Toronto motorist additional Angered when he found the on his car the visitor proceeded to rip It to shreds in the presence of Acton OPP Constable Roy Wood Con Wood then charged him with littering the highway Justice of the Peace Murray Allan has issued a twin fine summons for littering the highway and for illegal parking were interested in hiring one dog controls officer for the three municipalities Effective October The new agreement will cost the town cents per capita and will come into effect October 1 The Humane Society ha3 pound facilities at Its headquarters in Cooksville Councillor Norm Elliott pointed out that Acton will now have full access to all services rendered by the society not Just for dogs and cats Even if someone has a racoon In their attic he said Second advantage Councillor Peter Marks explained another advantage of the new agreement is that the Humane Society will ad minlstrate the town by law They 11 actually Issue themselves to persons who are violating our by law he Judges say Free Press best allround paper Last week s record rain on the Tuesday washed out driveways and caused havoc at the Ontario Housing Corporation development on Cobblehlil Some nearby residents were engulfed by the moving mass of dirt The Free Press has again won first prize as the best allround newspaper In its circulation class in Canada Results in the Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association Better Newspaper were announced this week in conjunction with the association annual in Vancouver British Columbia Seven provinces were represented in the winners circle Publisher David Dills is in Vancouver to accept the award Judges commented favorably about Free pictures which were awarded the lushest marks of any newspaper in the competitions Judge A said most entrants appeared to have taken treat care in supplying quality local photographs In particular the Acton Free Press and the Tilbury Tunes showed much imagination good taste and quality printing The judge criticized weekly newspapers used national news and those which tor ahzed n stones Using national news in a community weekly puts that paper in competition with the dailies the Judge declared The weekly role Is one of supplying the local news and it is better suited to this job than any other medium If opinions of writers or newspapers show the article should be on the editorial page or should be by lined he concluded rhe Reporter and the Bradford Ont Witness were second and rd behind the Free Press respecuveiy u the best allround competition Other nearby Ontario weeklies to win awards Included The Canadian Champion Milton sister paper to the Free Press which won the best allround competition as well as a second for the best editorial page in Its class and an honorable mention for an tonal on the War Measures Act by publisher Jim Dills who Is also In Vancouver to accept award The newest award will Join another the Free Press won In the Ontario competitions where the editorial page won a third prize among all provincial weeklies and many more other competitions The Free Press has been a consistent winner in both the Ontario and Canadian better newspaper TorontoCentered Region plan Allows Acton modest growth Acton s position in the TorontoCentred Region plan will remain relatively unchanged from the objectives outlined in Design for Development in May of The Hon released a status report on the plan Tuesday at the Cara Inn Malton modifying the boundaries of Zone One slightly to include Milton and parts of Brampton and Hamilton but Zone Two which includes Acton and Georgetown and Surrounding townships is to be mainly agricultural recreational and open space Modest growth Modest natural growth that takes place will be encouraged into the existing urban communities the report said but large urban development proposals such as Century City near StouffvUlc and Centennial City and Castlemore will not be permitted I Public response to development objectives for Zone talks to the press Tuesday proposals put forward in the May report Mr McKeough said Mayor Lea who attended the meeting as an official of the Central Ontario Regional Development Council talked with the Minister and was assured that Acton s size lends itself to a certain amount of growth If we double our size that would be all we require the mayor told the Free Press He saw the status report as a green light for the town to go ahead with planning to develop new areas Now is the time to proceed he asserted Develop eastward The mayor felt that common sense dictated that the town should grow eastward so no new development would be far from the water pollution control plant or source of water on Churchill Road This would Inevitably mean annexing parts of He felt the Tuesday meeting was enough warrant to proceed with annexing parts of the township First step would be for the town to get development proceeding on the Seynuck property and then have room to expand from there in the township In what almost amounted to a personal victory for Mayor Brian Best and the town council Milton has been shifted into Zone One of the TorontoCentred Region and the Treasurer of Ontario the Hon Darcy McKeough said Halton capital will be allowed to grow as high as people on a selfuffident basis Straighten Boundary Three modifications were made to the original boundaries of Zone One but the one that affected this area said In the Milton area the Zone One boundary will be straightened to Include the present town of Milton and ad lands to the west The new lundary is Intended to indicate the ultimate northern limit of the second tier of communities comprising the lakeshore in its eventual full state of development For the immediate future however the growth of Milton will depend on the extent to which the town is able to provide water and sewage services McKeough cautioned against interpreting this as meaning an endorsement for immediate large scale development however Rather he said as indicated earlier the growth of urban centres in Zone One must be orderly compact and properly staged Population In the zone Is allocated at million people Milton was included in the agricultural and recreational Zone Two in the original development concept proposed for the TorontoCentred Region released May last year in a curious Jog of the boundaries Mayor Brian Best spearheaded opposition to the town being included in Zone Two because he felt Milton was the only municipality capable of providing services to North Oak ville and North Burlington Natural growth The rest of the Halton towns in Zone Two including Acton and Georgetown can expect modest natural growth which will be encouraged into existing urban communities With the exception of the northern corridor of up to Newmarket the policy of the government is to maintain land use essentially in its present form mainly agricultural recreational arid open space Population growth In the remaining small communities outside the northern corridor will only be facilitated if the community can demonstrate that it is self sufficient in the provision of services at ac ceptable provincial standards McKeough also shot down three large urban development proposals Century City in the vicinity of and Centennial City and to the west of will not be permitted This drew the ire of one questioner in the audience who said he was one of the mortgage holders at the Century City site and Mr McKeough had better stay out of that area when there was an election because be was very unpopular A former reeve of the area the questioner said mortgages amounting to over five million dollars were held by area farmers He also asserted Continutd on