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The Acton Free Press Wednesday September 1971 Congratulations to the Rams PEEPING THROUGH a stand of corn pert Wendy Hilfman picks at Chudleigh s south of town Hay ndes and a ready barbecue await the customers at this popular spot She s the daughter of Mr Mrs Carpenter Sugar and Spice by bill smile Well it looks as though any more travelling I do before summer bids us farewell will be on foot Kim passed her driving test today It was a pretty tense morning for both of us She was afraid she might fail her test I was afraid she might pass it Just to complicate matters she turned up for her test at a only to discover thatshe was slated for She claims It was their mistake but knowing my daughter I have a good Idea who made the However the chaps giving the tests managed to work her In at a when someone else failed to show up So that meant I had time for only about ten cigarettes us J waited pretending to read the morning paper But it gave me a chance to took at the people preparing for their tests Quite a cross section They ranged from a skinny 16- yearold who wanted a driver license for his motorcycle to an old chap with a hearing aid and almost blind in his left eye Both passed but I hope I never meet either on the a couple of former students of mine walked in ire the type who have probably been driving for several years without a license and have finally been Wailed They arc peasant lads but while neither is dumber than in ox neither is smarter Their procedure w is typical They filled out the application cards and hod to do them over again When Mike is asked the officer where he lived he jerked his thumb at Peter and said Two houses down from him the officer rolled his eyes He wanted the address Then the pair sat down it the lont table to fill out the written test Ten minutes later they were sitting brows furrowed with about three out of forty squares off I tossed them a word of en courage mint It be easier if you could read and write eh Unfazed just grinned Peter retorted Ye ih we shouldn gonna sleep in all them there lasses Fine specimens both 11 probably make excellent but dangerous drivers I in not implying that the drjvint tests ire isy They re quite tough When I my license the job of testinf aspirants was i sinecure The tester told me to at his phecof business it pm He locked up the store told me to drive him home ibout eight blocks I gave him two bucks ind thit is it When my wife got hers some ten years later it was the same procedure The police thief had her pick him up it the office thev iround three or four blocks and she took him home to lunch At his place not ours Today there s a whole battery of physical tests a written test on the rules of the road and the driving test A good many people ire flunked and I ill for that What 1 really like to see is a compulsory test for every driver about every two years a stiff one Could you pass Jack with your colour blindness Could you pass lady with your total in to irallel park Could jou pass Grandad 1 think it min of us would be put out to pasture Kim returned I expected to see her with face is Ion is a foot She is be heart sank There stoinj here every until she back to school years ago Taken from the if sue of Hie Free Press of Thursday September 13 A street dance will 18 months of town improvements Acton that started with a sewerage and winds up with the complete paving of Mill and Mam council decided at a lengthy eight hour session that ended at a m Councillors agreed to take the lead in the affair and call on merchants for to cover the essential casts Made sold and used Acton plastic pipe is being installed at Acton Public School It can be managed because of Us light weight It is made by Micro Plastics and distributed by Beard more and Co The expected life of the pipe is years Hydro superintendent Mason Mel Jordan and Kerwin McPhail are installing the pipe Andy has been made a navy cadet and attend a course Western University Helen Adeline West was wed to Howard McCutcheon in Acton Baptist church When Mrs Kate at her show in the Coliseum asked if there was anyone in the audience who kept chickens it was Mrs Fred Kentner who appeared at the front She was presented with an electric egg cooker 50 years ago Taken from the issue of the Free Press Thursday Septembers Preston bowlers came to Acton on Saturday to play for the Mercury cup but faded to tain it Acton successfully defending it Score 1 to ton bowlers N Mi Donald I J Holmes J ind Co have reduced the price of I re id to or lelivered Miss I il Mill will open new millinery showrooms next to tailor shop rhe hie bo iril at side is a new in Toronto However the lake THE ACTON FREE PRESS PHONE Business and Ed lor al Office iter is and swimming dangerous children will be sad to le irn that the will man from Borneo who is in the tire us business for so lone is In Milton irbv residents ire opposed to their new arena built near the hotel They an injunction against work which had aire 75 years ago Taken from the issue of Fret of Thursday September farmer 1mm in the neighborhood of took a load of apples to When he learned all he could for them was cents t bat he dumped them the road for people to help themselves The piper mills at Georgetown are running i and in order to increase the for turning out i superior quality of paper Some are being in new and unproved machinery The paper for the 18 Free Presses from and is still in excellent while other files are crumbling Toronto is greater than ever Never before did the exhibits cover such a wide rmee It almost looks as if every province had striven to do its best to make the exhibition worthy of the country When the material prosperity of the Dominion is sectional differences are forgotten railways art running special excursions Bush fires are raging in British Columbia New Westminster is surrounded threatened on every side We would be remiss indeed if we did not congratulate Acton Rims on winning the All Ontario Junior lacrosse championship Saturday night in front of one of the largest not the largest and most enthusiastic crowds to see a sports spectacle in Acton in the last two decides In true story book fashion the Rams waited until a 10 minute overtime period before they wrapped up the crown This gesture made the victory seem even more sweet and certainly added the every final series should have Winning a championship Is not the simple thing it seems to be on the surface It takes years of preparation and training to produce championship calibre teams In this instance the nucleus of the club has been together for the four years first as juveniles and the last two years as juniors We on remember when club president Howard broached the idea of reviving lacrosse in Acton after an absence of several It was ilmost a one man operation at first but as he talked the enthusiasm grew and he soon recruited aides to help sprcid the lacrosse germ Using the juvenile team as i base club officials decided it would make sense to elevate the to Junior last year when many of them became overage Playing In a Junior league the Rams played their way to the Ontario finals list year but lost out to Scarborough in the finals year with coach Bruce Sears at the helm Allan Hall as manager and Howard Dwyer the ad mimstrition end as club president the Rams proved they had matured a yeir by jelling as i team in the latter part of the schedule They added two or three players as the season progressed to give better balance They swept Midland aside in the provincial semi finals with four convincing wins In the first game it looked as if they might mete the same treatment out to Essos But the cime back and tied the scries up showing they were not the pushovers some hid predicted The Rams took the next two games in Acton but showed they were far from beiton by coming back with their second win on their own stomping grounds Saturday sixth and final game was a thriller from the start and we II leave it up to sports editor Denis Gibbons to describe the iction Suffice to say the Rams won the game in overtime and proved they had the stuff of which champions are made The team made the Rams know they were in a real bill game They were in contention until the final sounded and bowed out unwillingly Congratulations and good wishes to the entire teim of Rams are certainly in order from all the people of the town and district May they be back again next year to defend the crown they won this season last time Acton won a lacrosse chimpionship It was bick in 1899 when Acton Crescents won the Ontario decrown defeating Fergus Gilt St Mary and finishing off in the finals So it s been yeirs since the feat wis iccomphshcd A long time but well worth waiting Photo by Jack and to Acton Band A few hours after fans had shouted themselves hoarse as the lacrosse Rams won a title Aeton Citizens Band competed it the Cinadian National Exhibition igainst six top bands from towns and village of the province When points were added the Acton Band finished second in the competition two points behind winning Port Needless to the Acton Band members and their Art Hilliard were delighted Like the band members and supporters who went to the Ex to hear them we are also delighted it their success Building a winning band is a project that is not accomplished within a short span It takes many especnlly when you are starting with relatively few experienced and relying on many youngsters But the Acton win proves it cm be done The experience ind youthful with the baton of Bind Bandmaster proved a stimulating blend for the judges who picked them two small points behind a Tapping a lighter vein We have just heird of a man troubled by insomnia who takes a shot of liquor it ir intervals It make him sleep but he says he s to stay aw ike Maybe you noticed that Friday w so dark in the afternoon that street IiljiLs were on Certainly a poor week for i it but maybe we have some beautiful fill weather to mike up for fast 1 1 line summer t One of the loveliest drives in this part of province will be off limits to vehicle when the Fourth line diversion iround the Conservation is lompleted lhe limestone cliffs and small ike of the p irk with abundant vegetation on the banks mike a sifht you might see in or the Hahburtons but is rare in this of anario Unfortunately the was necess because conservation and township people re that the up of traffic there was dangerous spite of all their precautions the also skewered the recreation ire i from the c unpint sites mayor of community doesn t me in tht best of mayor He just I id the road m front of his house although roads in been paved for v ears There should be union for to the Claire Quebec I News ind Chronicle weekly newspapers ire like women Th it s bee they have forms back numbers are not in demand they always have the last word they are worth looking over they have ierc it deilof lucnic you em t believe they say there s ill demand for the bold f ice type they re much th in before en I very man should have one and not borrow his s The Chronicle w is with tongue in cheek no doubt School s back next week ind mothers all over the district can look forw to the morn coffee breaks without the kids If it for the I sure every mother would love to have the kids it home months of the year There be many a tear shed when some of the kindergarteners leave the nest for the first time both by Ma and the youngster inline to fly on his own But then te come too when they grow up leave school mimed and leive the nest for cood for all the messages from readers refardint the free less win in the Better Newspaper We sold before we 11 say it it is the result of the we receive both in the plant and more experienced and larger Port Col borne ition It often we eet the opportunity to throw flowery bouquets at ore iniitions from town or district for their ichievements in the provincial competitions So we like to idd our ind compliments to the Bind on their win We ilwiys knew you were one of the best Now you ve proved it Both the victory in licrosse the s top standing show this town ind district does not lack ingredient tint makes a champion from writers columnists ilvertisers tipsters in I the staff thit ikes these wins worthwhile It is i tribute to ill I 1ike the poll tie i nswc ire often damned if in in I rned if we don t This week wi the latter for not including report of the II West Assutu tiun convention in last week s per We explained there were we had to avoid if we were koine to et the re port in ind through a up in the plant we I to m ike it But upset re nun to make it fur the Progressive Conservative nomin itine convention hoopla ted we should ive done It for the lit Is too even the Tones met In week before we published the du in Burlington the same we must ive our copy done We in win em ill but it would sure be to be ir Uie N Ins to bout it Incidentally we were disappointed In the West for not us to their convention not even letting us know there was- a convention plinnul tailed to inform couple of nights prior to the meetiw but no il word the mill like you expect West interested in the north end of ONTARIO CHAMPIONS OF Acton Crescents finished off some of the best field lacrosse teams in the country to tack a title up for the old home town There s a gap of 72 years before an Acton team brought home another lacrosse crown but for many of those years there was no lacrosse in Acton The game is flourishing again and this year s championship revived much interest in Acton Know anyone here Frank Mcintosh is standing second from left Fred Ryder fourth from the left and Eddie Ryder is sitting in front second from the left This picture was taken in the park