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Escapes police custody man held at bay in Legion recaptured After attempting to pass a forged cheque a Woodstock man was chased caught and taken to the police station Thursday only losuddenlyescapecustody After a Couple of hours he was recaptured charged and taken to Jail in Milton The harrowing afternoon for police resulted In two charges being laid against William Arthur Myer 19 Woodstock uttering a forged document and escaping lawful custody His associate Richard Taylor Jane of Woodstock was charged with forgery Remanded week Both appeared in court in Mil ton on Monday and were remanded for a week in custody Investigation Is still continuing and charges are pending from seven other police departments The couple had made similar but more successful attempts at various banks in seven towns They had already received in their forged cheque racket The Bank of Commerce In called Del Cook manager of the branch here to warn him shortly before the man fitting the description appeared at their counter in the noon hour Mr Cook phoned the police and Cons Paul Brown came running his hat flying off as he raced for the bank William Myer he had been caught fled out of the bank and luckily slipped on ice This gave Mr Cook a chance to shout and two passersby Charlie Harrison and Ed Diamond immediately assisted in holding the agile young man Con Brown hand and still with the help of one of the men on the street took him to the police office During the ensuing Investi gallon while the man was released from handcuffs he suddenly escaped custody and fled through back gardens across Main St and behind the Dominion Hotel Search is on The search began and North Halton police quickly arrived to help their colleagues of the other people who learned of the incident and immediately began to help was John Mason son of Corp Ray Mason who was involved In Ihe investigation at the tune of the escape John was on his way to the Medical Centre when he was hastily told what had happened While others searched in cruisers cars and on foot John Mason went upstairs In the Legion and found the man there The two were alone and John Mason tkavehlmto summon help for fear he would dash out of a door downstairs and away again His attempts to attract attention failed until someone came upstairs an hour later to clean Back again He called for her to get Ihe police When the call came In Cons Connors and Cons McNaily of the North Halton detachment were In the police office and rushed right over Myers made no resistance when he was hand cuffed and taken back to the police station for the second time During subsequent investigation it was learned a second man was Involved At am the next morning Detective- Sergeant Scott of the 0 P P Anti Rackets Department and Cons Brown went to Woodstock where Richard Jane was arrested He was charged with forgery and Jailed It is believed he was in a car waiting for Richard Myers when he saw him arrested outside the bunk High Noon It was high noon in Acton when the dramatic capture and escape occurred There was no western shootout as In the movie High Noon Just plenty of running Police said Myers ran with astonishing speed egged on by desperation Children home from school for lunch witnessed part of the drama There a bad man here today one little girl told her mother excitedly He has cuff links on Ninety Sevenm Year ACTON ONTAHO WEDNESDAY JANUARY Pages F Cents In North Halton Heavy load frustrations disillusion nurses Despite dedicated efforts by the medical officer of health and the director or nursing public health nurses in North Halton are saddled with a tremendous work load frustrated by attempts to carry out a program and find themselves unable to use much of their professional training The situation is aggravated by a chronic shortage of nurses This is the submission of a former nurse with the County Health Unit In an interview with this newspaper Her sentiments are shared by other nurses now with the county and members of the community who have been involved with services Unfavorable comparisons Mrs Alma of Acton who spent one traumatic year at the Halton Health Unit has a story of keen personal frustrations with the program in North comparing it unfavorably with benefits bestowed on residents of Oakvllle and Burlington Efforts of the medical officer of health Dr J Chamberlain and the director of nursing Miss J to improve the situation are continually frustrated by bureaucratic twiddling Mrs says This Is not a total criticism of elected representatives Mrs says In many cases they have no idea of what is going on and health professionals are too busy doing a job which leaves them too beat after a day of personal frustrations to find the energy to do more In my opinion the director of nursing Is a truly dedicated person who has kept abreast of developments in nursing In general and public community health in particular She has progressive Ideas but has been constantly thwarted by lack of staff and lack of enlightened personnel on the board of health Could lose again We now have well prepared medical officer of health and an experienced assistant director of nursing several very capable community health nurses If we can keep them and hire others we could have a top notch health unit hut if events follow the pattern recent years we will lose these competent health professionals Mrs warns Many of Mrs Swetman concerns are shared by Miss Isabel the psychologist with the Board of Education North Centre especially the lack of treatment facilities for disturbed children problems arc so complex that they both see a general shake up of the board of health as the only way to remedy the situ at on They are both disturbed by the attitude of some elected representatives when Chamberlain made a request for an adequate staff o community health nurses find an ad assistant Evidently Ihey have no knowledge of the situation Mrs Swetman notes Elementary schools often are virtually without health care except for immunization hearing and vision tests An administrative assistant would leave Dr Chamberlain tune to set up new programs that other counties now have such as home care which he has proposed to set up She views the former warden comment that an assistant would leave the M O little to do as ludicrous He should copies of guidelines for a M 0 she notes to have some idea of what an 0 and a board of health are supposed to do Id Wellington most galling part of the situation to Mrs Swctman is other counties like Wellington have many of the programs Halton lacks The home care program for instance which is being proposed for has been so successful the provincial department of health has decided it should be set up as soon as possible in every district Tht saving on home care as opposed to hospital stay In and tht province is HEALTH SERVICES in North Halton leave much to be said she spent one traumatic year with the Halton Health desired according to nurse Mrs Alma Swetman Acton Unit trying to serve all Esquesing 10 population as well shown here with her two boys Adam left and Chris right as schools Staff Photo studying a pamphlet on preventive medicine Mrs providing per cent financial when she was employed for a support year as PHN she was To give an illustration of the responsible for eight schools plus work load the Public Health carrying a population over 10 Nurse in the north of Halton people all of it In rural areas tarries Mrs Swetman notes She points out that the provincial health department served suggests there should be one It doesn t take much nurse for every people In imagination to know how little urban areas In rural areas the service these schools received ratio should be smaller because states with emphasis The of the larje territory to be problems they face from distance time and the heavy amount of cases cause nurses to stay in North Halton only a short lime Swamped with calls My experience has been that there is no possible way to cover the territory even with what the board of health considers a full complement of nurse she says I was swamped with calls she recalls and had so many referrals I wasn t able to handle Proof this is not an unusual experience for a North Halton nurse is provided by the heavy turnover of staff And compounding the problem for the new nurse who comes in cold Is any lack of liaison I would say it takes six months to a year before the new public health nurse is really much to a successful community program Mrs feels because of the lack of overlap between the outgoing and incoming nurses Since she has quit the Health Unit there have been so many telephone calls Mrs says she almost decided to get an unlisted number She has referred these people to the health unit but realizes there isnt enough staff to handle everything A public health nurse she points out must be a graduate of a recognized school of nursing and have at least one year of post graduate university study in public health nursing preferably a B Sc She has a large role to fulfill in the community especially as a health teacher She is to visit schools and homes help expectant parents provide a service for the newborn baby assist with child health conferences look after children adolescents the aged and chronically ill and Is also a member of the team which tries to prevent the spread of disease Her specialty is to work in preventive programs and emphasize wellness in all ages and stages of lire Put on blinkers You have to learn to put on blinkers when you work In North Mrs Swetman says to service the populace by ratio and Miss also feels there are more problems In the north especially In the number of mulU problem families It is very frustrating to spend time in the north of after serving in the southern urban areas both from the amount of travelling and the lack of services the south takes for granted Miss states There ore less striving families In the north she feels trying to keep up with the Joneses but she thinks the problems are more numerous because the south is more affluent For instance both she and Mrs Swetman figure there are many nutritional problems in North Halton schools that need solving although these are not necessarily caused by the level of affluence Bussing is a real health problem which should be assessed they both claim Children take a lunch to school some eat it on the bus and have nothing to eat at lunch time This upsets blood sugar level and is reflected in their attitude at school Some schools serve a chocolate drink which has no nutritional value because there Is no milk in it Davey greatest concern is lack of facilities to treat serious psychiatric problems a stopgap measure is use of hospital services in Hamilton She feels the board of health Is negligent In not providing a local service which has been encouraged by the province No guidance Mrs t entirely with Miss Davey that North has more problems than the south of the county but she does insist many children are in opportunity classes in the north who really have no business being there if there was time for proper guidance from the public health nurse They both agree that many children sent to training schools could be avoided If the preventive and treatment programs were There la no psychiatrist in North Halton to Continued on Ban snowmobiles from streets Except for purposes of coming and motorized snow vehicles will be banned from Acton streets effective a m Sunday All vehicles must be equipped with a fluorescent safety antenna of not less than five feet in height from ground leel and egress and ingress must be carried out at reduced speed and noise levels Acton Council made the amendments to their snowmobile bylaw last night Tuesday after being swamped with com plaints about operators abusing privileges in town Park open Snowmobiles will still be allowed to operate in Prospect Park between the hours of a and on wetkdays and am and on Sundays providing snow conditions are suitable Suitability of conditions will be lift to the discretion of the arena manager In Sir Donald Mann Park in snowmobiles will also be banned That action was taken last by Acton Parks and on Committee to protect tobogganers who use the hills there frequently Peter Marks one of two town fathers who also sit on parks board said last night Tuesday the board felt its regulations would curry more weight if incorporated in the town by law Council decided to discuss the parka board request in com and make further amend ments to the town by law if requirtd Marks also asked council to consider appropriate advertising to fact snow mobiles will be allowed to operate in Prospect Park within certain hours He called the ban from streets a drastic move although he admitted he himself endorsed it because he felt the streets definitely were being abused Are you serious in this welcome to Prospect Park Frank Oakes asked Last year you were worried about the effects It could have on the grass underneath Marks emphasized the arena Seven dogs poisoned on Sixth Line Residents of the Sixth line above 7 Highway are concerned about family pets and watchdogs since five dogs have died of poison in the past week North O are investigating a trail of stricken dogs which has led almost all the way from Highway to the Town VIEWMG THE WORLD through rose David Latimer 1st Georgetown and Bobby J T recovered colored glasses without lenses can be a real 1st Acton demonstrate at Saturday ffij achievement when you made the frames Cub Craft Day Id Georgetown lriiiglMhind yourself as Bruno Schultz 1st Georgetown is Ronnie Bell of Georgetown source of the poison They have been assisted by residents one of whom found hamburger with seeds in it The meat has been sent away to be analyzed Mrs Shirley Moore who lives along the Sixth Line told the Free Press their pet was taken ill and had recovered But she is may try in some other neigh bar hood Dr F Oakes and Dr B C Budtrell are treating the animals manager wdl have the authority to prohibit In the park anytime he feels there Is not a proper amount of snow Meeting Council action last night Tuesday followed a committee meeting last week by repre- of the Acton Snow mobile Club Alan Holmes and John Miller At another meeting held in the Bennett School Thursday club members went over snow vehicle regulations with Acton O Constable Paul Brown Many members feel they re being victimized by thoughtless strangers TICKLE BOX by led and residents attribute their efforts for saving pets that recovered from the poison effects Constable Hudd of the North P investigated the incidents Last autumn Sixth Line afraid that the same person or resident Peter Bowman reported persons who planted the poison his dog had been poisoned and almost died Now he says they must keep the dog in a sorry fate for animals which have much open space in which to run Its Watch Free Press pages for Tickle Box