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Ninety Year No ACTON ONTARIO WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER Second Section FIRST LOAD OF PULP WOOD ever to be Li between Esqucslng and loaded at Acton station according to old townships Destination a timers was piled onto flatcars last weok The null near North Bay according to truck wood came from the Halton County forest on drivers Staff Photo PP P report Second summer week with no accidents During the reporting week of August to August officers of the Acton Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police worked a total of hours and patrolled miles Of the general occurrences investigated during the week a good number involved the loss or theft of bicycles Many of the lost or stolen bicycles have been returned to the rightful owners however some owners may not be as fortunate Lock bikes Teach your child to take care of his or her bike If your child bicycle is left outside overnight make sure it is out of sight Park it at the buck of the house or in your garage Purchase a lock for the bike and stress to your child the importance of locking the His far cheaper to buy a lock now than new bicycle later Other occurrences investigated during the reporting week ranged from trespassing to malicious damnge Three youths have been charged with Theft Under fifty for their part in breaking open a coin box in a local laundromat All three boys are from the Toronto area And cars too In the last two months there have been a number of either stolen or recovered motor reported in the area Many of these vehicles have been stolen as a result of keys being left in the ignition An automobile is a very expensive necessity in thisday and age far to expensive to lose as the result of careless ness Be sure your car is locked and the keys are in your possession when you leave it un attended There were no reportable motor accidents during the reporting week This proved to be the second accident free week of the summer months Six charges A total of six charges and four warnings were Issued for violations of the Highway Traffic Ait during the week Help prevent crime can be of considerable aid when it comes to preventing crime in community Many offences are seen by the general public before being brought to the attention of the local police If you sec someone acting in a suspicious manner report them to the police Cars improperly parked or left unattended for an unusual length of time may prove to be stolen Help moke your community safer report such matters to the police Const Paul Brown 3 BIG DAYS FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY SEPT 345 AT Prospect Park Acton Arena PROGRAM OF EVENTS FRIDAY EVENING SEPT 3rd DANCE ft BEER GARDEN 8 PM Comeand TheOFFICIALOKTOBERFEST BAND Admission Couple Admission Good for Sat Night Also SATURDAY SEPT From a to p Model Boat Contest Demonstration Fishing Derby Soccer Match Model Plane Demonstration Films Helicopter Rides Horseshoe Pitching Trap Shooting Casting Contest Golf Demonstration Minor Baseball B PM DANCE TO THE SHAYNESMlllionaires Night Admission Couple or use Fridays tickets SUNDAY SEPT Huge Gun Show Model Boats Fish Derby Soccer Game Helicopter Rides Golf Model Planes Trap Shooting Boomerang Championship General Admission Sat Sun Adults 50c Children B to lift fir qka J9 ignt Kerr ACCEPTING THE WEST nomination Bob chats with Liberal leader Bob Nixon at the nomination convention Burlington last week Photo MORE SMOKE THAN flames originated from an upstairs clothes closet at the farm home of Mr and Mrs Mervyn Hunter 1 Acton Sunday afternoon and Acton firefighters soon had that under control Cause of the smoldering blaze was unknown and it was confined to the Firefighters mounted smoke ejectors in the windows to get of the smoke entering the house on the Sixth Line Nassagaweya by donning Scott Air Packs Photo by Jim Jennings FREE PRESS SPECIAL Halton West Liberals will fight Hon George Kerr Minister of Energy and Resources in Kerr own back yard in an attempt to oust him from his cabinet post and replace him with a 34year old geologist Bob me assistant professor of geology at University and a resident of was the clear choice for the West liberals at their nominating convention In Burlington Friday He defeated Bob Mattery of Burlington In nominating William O said the Liberals In the riding had two choices one was to forget the environment altogether and the second was to research it study It and poke holes in Kerr policies He said he chose the latter and McNutt with eight years of training and six years working in geology was the man to fight McNutt has a BA and a doctorate in geology said the riding would be i tough one to take because Kerr had had more press exposure in the past two or three years many MP get in a lifetime He t neglected the issues and he has made himself available to the people noted in a rare gesture of praise towards a politician representing an apposing party i married and lives with his wife Paula and two children Suzanne five and Christopher two and a half McNutt said he understood and had a strong feeling for the environment and vowed it would be a key issue in the election He spoke against uncontrolled urban sprawl and criticized the government for not acting on the matter He the government for having no overall plan to save the escarpment In spite of what the press says I don t feel very much is being done to save natural resources he told the gathering of about persons He said farmers must have relief from the heavy education tax burden The candidate criticized the government for sitting on regional government for or and Peel with Burlington after Burlington voted overwhelmingly not to go with Hamilton Decentralize He urged government take action on decentralization and to start with moving some of the government departments out of Toronto There is no reason why the department of agriculture can be located in a rural area and the department of mines and northern affairs north of Toronto he said later Liberal leader Robert Nixon added to the criticism of the centralization issue He poked fun at the minister of agriculture poking his head out the window of his seventh storey office and looking over the green fields of metropolitan Toronto Nixon touched on many topics during his address but devoted most of his time urging action to save Canadians from taking an economic shafting because of United States president Richard Nixon Imposition of a 10 per cent tariff on goods being imported into the USA Many attend funeral service Many attended the funeral services Wednesday of last week for Charles Kelly Browne who died in General hospital at years of age Rev Ingles conducted the service at the funeral home and Interment was in cemetery Pallbearers were friends and fellow lodge members John Morrison H McHattie Joseph Fuller Charles and Alfred Winters Members of the Orange lodge and Royal Black attended a memorial service Tuesday at the funeral home Unemployment crisis He warned that the develop ment could create an unemploy ment situation In Canada even worse than last winters crisis conditions The conservative government neither has plan nor program and the need for immediate action Is paramount if Ontario Is to escape unemployment this winter on a vast scale he said Nixon said a I govern ment would amend the Labor Relations Act to compel American owned subsidiaries exporting to the S to freeze layoffs and wages and would not allow them to close down for clays He feared American firms would move their Canadian branches to the States because the per cent tax would eliminate any benefit to them of operating near natural resources in Canada The I iberal leader advocated setting up a fund to aid Individual farmers and Industrialists to lower their price by 12 per cent He said per cent would meet the surcharge and two per cent to stimulate the Ontario economy To aid farmers and individual exporters a Government would provide an emergency offset surtax fund Monies from this fund would be distributed to aid individual exporters in reducing their prices 12 per cent and to compensate those who have suffered serious financial loan in the first moments of the program he promised PHOTOGRAPHIC CONTEST fOR AT THE ACTON FALL FAIR AMATEURS ONLY Best black and white photographs suitable for publication with credit on the editorial page of the Acton Free Press Picture Subject a scene animals flowers etc of general interest taken within ten miles of Acton Identification jnd technical infoinution type of camera and film accompany each Three entries per person permitted Childrens entries welcome Negatives and prints to be submitted to the Free Press so judging may be completed and pictures enlarged for display at the Fall Fair Deadline for entires Wed Sept IS First prize three honorable mentions at 50 each up to awards of SI each AMIIVWWI ACrON DELEGATES to the meeting where the Status Report on the TorontoCentred Region was delivered by the Hon Darcy McKeough at the Inn Malton on August were Mayor Les Duby centre Paul Nielsen right They discuss the report with Mayor Mac Anderson of OakvtUe Mayor Duby is vicepresident of Central Ontario Regional Development Council while Mr Nielsen is chairman of the Development Commission CORDC was host for the presentation TOMATOE Starting Aug till frost weekends dawn to dark free containers free parking Tractor trailer rides ai usual Pickyourown Corn Sept apple picking starts sept CHUDLEIGHS On Hwy miles north of