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The Acton Free Wednesday April MiniComment Size of the crowds and success of the Georgetown Raiders this year indicates that intermediate hockey is still very much a marketable commodity when competition is keen and the quality of the game high The Raiders are presently engaged In hunt for the Intermediate A title against the well known Durham Huskies Both teams rely heavily on imports for their lineups Rumors are strong that the long talked about regional government will hit this area much quicker than generally thought but tracing sources of rumors usually reveals they arc founded on other rumors Well believe it when we see it happen Or when the Minister responsible lets the cat out of the bag Latest speculation is that a Haltononly form of regional government will be announced this summer with the first elections in October And quite likely this year s Spring election will be held in the Fall Headlines said that villagers won the bypass battle but really the enure exercise was one of participatory democracy with the road committee of county council County council gave the villagers every opportunity to express their feelings on the proposals submitted by the design engineers When they rejected all the proposals as unsuitable for the village and area the road committee went along with them According to petitioners people along the Fourth Line would be more inclined to accept the presence of gravel trucks if the road was widened and improved The roads committee has instructed the engineers to study that proposal Obviously the trucks must have some access to the highways so there may be more fun before the residents of and the quarry owners come to a solution acceptable to both It has been man years since we have seen nvers and creeks in the area carrying so much water in the Spring Winter never relaxed its until last week and then the thaw set in unleashing torrents of water from fields and forest This may go down as the year when snowmobiles were still operating April Crosswalk education need Councillor Norm Elliott charge that Acton crosswalks leave a lot to be desired in the way of safety points up two distressing facts about today fat cat society Elliott charged cars parking beyond the 20 foot open zone near crosswalks are blocking motorists view of children stepping on to th street As Councillor Earl Masales later pointed out many people seem to insist on parking exactly where they want to get out even though there may be ample parking spaces on side streets or lots only a block away In an age when lack of proper exercise is one of the largest contributing factors to heart disease it seems strange people should jeopardize both their own health and that of other pedestrians by cramming cars on Mill Street just because It happens to be right on the doorstep of most stores We agree with Mayor s Grass outlook I ONE OF THE surest signs of Spring for members of the Acton fire brigade is the abundance of grass fires which keep them busy shuttling back and forth between the rural areas and the fire hall They answered two calls during the past week the first Monday at6pm on the First at the home of Mr and Mrs Glen Gibbs and the second Tuesday in a field behind the home of Mr and Mrs Ron Cooksley Fourth Line where corn stalks were being burned off Both were extinguished quickly Above two firefighters use a hill to check the Coles tr Coles Slaw Have you ever had an electro graphic personality anal sis Neither had I until a few weeks ago when a friend and I played hooky from the usual daytime chores and spent most of the time at the Sportsmen Show in Toronto There while in the hundreds of trailers camping equipment sports outfits and the attractive ladles who Sell the various products we stumbled on this machine which promised by the simple matter of writing your name on a cellophane window to analyze us lltCTIMtAfH C We were hooked by flashing lights the sober attitude of those who had tried the machine out and carefully studied the results You merely sign your name on the card and the lady in charge feeds it into the machine which by a series of screens reels pulsing lights grunts and clickclacks grinds your personality onto a card by a series of strokes not unlike you might see on an electrocardiogram According to the blurb on the card most people find their analyses to be surprisingly accurate but the various complex factors involved are not considered provable Therefore scientifically accurate results cannot be guaranteed The card explains the analysis is for fun and entertainment only The people should not be so modest Although quite likely the law not the inventors tagged that fun and enter tainment supplement on the personality analysis that machine really tagged me The left hand side of the card shows your good points while tnerighthand side records the dark side of your nature In my case the electric pen made only five digressions onto the right hand side of the card t make up Its mind about nine personality traits and indicated that I had 12 good points I was elated I elated so much for my own sake It was my wife I thought should be suitably Impressed Along with various other members of the family they kindly remind me of my shortcomings Somehow they don dwell very long on the positive side of the ledger This was indeed proof that there was much more to the old scribe than they had dredged up before So naturally when I arrived home this was the first object I produced for the brood carefully concealing the footnotes about fun and entertainment under a thumb There was a curious silence while they sized up the analysis looking at me taneously Then my better half calmly enquired Is this all you did all day Course not I replied enthusiastically I can see that she commented pin pointing two free tickets to Marvin burlesque house which had slipped out of my breast coat pocket for all to see I shoved them back quickly cursing my negligence Some doll had slipped them to my companion and me as we passed a stall where they dispensed pipes I never looked just stuffed them into my pocket for future reference There was no need for future reference My was destroyed They suspected I also acquired the personalis analysts at Starvin Marvin s whoever he is So to more establish positive points I reproduce the analysis for all to share I am not bothered by the wit who enquired why I had not tested the machine tw to see whether it was all true or just a case where the machine developed a cupnee of its own Why knock a good thing THE ACTON FREE PRESS PHONE 853 Bus and Editor Office statement that more education and wider publicity on the proper pedestrian use of crosswalks Is necessary although council as a whole dldri think it was when they voted down an advertising proposal a year and a half ago A Free Press survey conducted shortly after the proposal was voted down showed that by and large neither pedestrians or motorists were sure about the proper way of using crosswalks According to Acton OPP the proper way of using a crosswalk Is to step off the curb point your intention to cross then proceed between the lines Pedestrians are to walk not run Motorists must be given a reasonable time to come to a stop The onus is on the pedestrian to signal clearly The Free Press survey also noted a reluctance on the part of those who did know to point their finger which would indicate that pedestrians are either in too much of a hurry to bother or somehow feel making the signal in public Again it surprising people can be so sensitive about making such a sensible motion at a time less necessary public demonstrations are on the increase Many of the same people would likely not hesitate to point an imaginary finger at an innocent motorist for not stopping Proper use of crosswalks requires three parties the pedestrian the motorist and the parker take the time and have the consideration to think of the other party and what the consequences could be if they don Failing this town council may have to ensure that they do by imposing more stringent measures such as elimination of some parking spaces on Mill Street suggested by Councillor Peter Marks or an increase in fines for parking offenders which Councillor Bill Coats recommended Where are the needed nurses We think Acton Deputy Reeve G McKcnzie and Reeve Tom Hill of deserve strong support from the people North Halton in their efforts to improve county health services in the north There is a wide deficiency between the service the south of the county receives and what we get here In the north This is reflected in the number of nurses who serve each area Figures indicate there is one public health nurse for every people in Oak viUe one for every 6 in Burlington while just one nurse serves the people of Esquesing and Acton Efforts to get more staff have apparently been nonexistent despite instructions from the Board of Health to Health Unit employees at a meeting in February We would say that the Health Unit has not yet got the message about the situation in the north because they obviously are unconcerned After February meeting we would have expected the Board to advertise for nurses to fill seven vacancies the director of nursing admitted existed There is a growing philosophy among young people that goes something like this Work Who needs it The theory has a number of foster parents One of them is the exceeding ease with which one can get on the welfare rolls these days Why work when one can draw enough welfare for a pad however humble grub and smokes Then there Is unemployment Insurance This is even better than welfare to fall back on though it docs require the occasional stint of that four letter word we re talking about Work for a few months get yourself fired on some pretext loll back on the mattress of un ins until it runs out work again for a little while and repeat the process This is a way of life for some young people and they make no bones about it It doesn occur to them that it merely a reiinedformof stealing and in most cases I don t think they care if it did As an aside I think you d be appalled by their attitude towards stealing I conduct regular surveys In my classes on such subjects what used to be known as simple honesty In most cases the majority believes firmly that it s bad to steal from a friend but it s perfectly all right to steal or ripoff from any large institutions chain stores insurance companies the govern I wonder where they got that Idea It possibly be from hearing their dads talking about beating the tax collector or their moms exaggerating an Insurance Could if However we have been advised by one nurse that she has been following the professional journals to see if Halton has advertised for nurses and has drawn only a blank to date Now Chamberlain the quiet spoken medical officer of health has said there was no difficulty getting interviews but most applicants wanted to know the pay they would receive and this could not be answered because contract negotiations are still underway between the nurses and the county This view clashes with the report from the director of nursing who indicated there was a problem getting interviews with potential nurses to fill the vacancies Well is there or t there Obviously the two people closest to the situation do not agree Acting chairman Reeve Hill exasperated by the confusion ordered the medical officer of health to provide a comprehensive accurate report on the number of nurses employed and where they arc placed and going to be placed Pat McKcnzie tore up the Bill Smiley Back to the subject What else influences this new nonattitude toward work One is purely economic They are completely frustrated by the free enterprise system under which they have been raised It still offers great opportunities for the few who have enterprise and luck Well how many of us have both You can have ail the enterprise that lying around but if you haven luck you re a perpetual bankrupt You can be a real lucker but if you don have any enterprise all you do is win a few bucks at bingo or on the horses Their real beef against the system of course is that it docs not work It does not create enough jobs Therefore why get an education why even bother looking for work if there any Another influence or lack of it is that of the church It used to have two firm allies in the establishment and the work ethic The church t been able to cope It is tarnished by its association with the other two and the young people have turned their back on it though I don think they have lost the faith written report by the director of nursing noting it provided no answers to the problems the Health unit faced It looks like the public health nurse situation in Hilton is a mammoth can of worms which gets progressively worse as years go by Three years ago Grand Jury report asked that the shortage of nurses be fully investigated and steps taken to recruit staff for the Health Unit The nurses grey listed the county health unit back in when contract negotiations broke down The history since that time has never been smooth It gets a little tiresome to hear some public officials deny there is a staff deficiency or that the north is poorly served when figures and facts point to glaring inconsistencies It must also be baffling for Deputy Reeve McKenae and Reeve Hill as they try to sort out what the health program proposes to do in the north end of the county and whit is actually done They should have the support of all public minded citizens in untangling the r tape They merely toil respect for that massive bo of rules and dogma and an honest day work for an honest day pay and the insistence that while life is pretty rotten everything will be groovy In heaven are younf inpatient simply will not buy that As you may have I or hoped or given up on I am trying to make a point Im not against the attitude If I t like work I qu tomorrow But there is nothing en n work itself It an utter drag unless you I what you ore doing On other morn nt I was driving one of my students to school He a big husky lad who has shovelled out my drive at times of sires Asked him whit he was going to do when he nishcd school Well I go to work for a year then maybe no to college whether he couldn get a student loan I don wint one I don t wanna owe my body anything He continued My parents would give me the money to go to university but I won t take it They worked hard all their lives for it Why not let them enjoy what At this I run off the road and killed two girls from middleclass parents who were ran f idem that despite the fact that they have no brains their parents would send them to college and that they would there f nd a husband and one boy who had told me he was to extort every penny he could from the government in loans and grants and never pay them back Back Issues of The Free Press Taken from the Issue the Free Thnndcy April It a historical site make It a beautiful site is the aim of members of Bannock burn Women InsUtute Farm Forum and residents who held an oldfashioned work bee at Wordan cemetery on Saturday and made real progress The pioneer landmark is at the comer of the Line and No Highway One badly broken stone in the comer seems to be the oldest dated marking the resting place of Mary Wordan who died at Apparently the last interments were made in 1932 The Gay Nineties returned temporarily when the Community Club players sponsored by the Social and Welfare committee of local U and Co presented a variety show in the town hall Director of the show which was seen by about was Miss Ruth McLaren Among the performers were Ted Jewell William Crofts William and Freeman J Wolfe was elected president of the Home and School Association at the monthly meeting in the Mr Jack Mainprize has finished his year as demonstrator at the University of Toronto and is going soon to Taken from the Issue of the Free Press Thursday April The special meeting called for Tuesday evening by the reeve to discuss the route that the citizens of Acton were desirous of having the provincial highway take through town was well attended Mr Smith of the Deportment of Highways answered all questions and when a vote of all those present was taken the meeting was over whelmingly In favor of the highway coming down Mill St The matter of building a subway or overhead bridge at the Mill St crossing is apparently not on the plans at present It was thought however that gates and a watchman would be likely put on at this point Mr Smith said the department has always considered that Mill St was the only feasible route for the highway through town The only objection he could sec was the removal of Cooper tailor shop at the comer of MU1 and Main Sts Mill St was feet wide between poles which was much wider than the Toronto Hamilton highway Where the highway went through Port Smith said he had heard of no serious drawbacks Mr L Gregory who has made such a success of his moving picture enterprise in Acton and Georgetown has decided to open new theatres in and Erin Taken from the Issue of the Free Press Thursday April The barber shops have agreed to fall in with the early closing movement and will close Monday Tuesday and Thursday evenings at A court of the Canadian Order of I- or esters was Instituted on Monday evening by Mr W H I- inch Brantford Elected as officers were W H Denny Robert Watson James Rev Adams John Cameron A Bailey Angus Lawson E Albert Adams Alfred Soper J Dr Mercer A hole opened on Main St In Milton last week and swallowed a horse standing at the Commercial Hotel completely Maximum Results from Minimum Exertion Those who ride Cleveland Bicycles enjoy the Very Essence of Hygienic Comfort and Luxuriant Pleasure Models PS and Agent A Brown Acton Revenue of Acton post office Is and salary Lome school honor list for history and Euclid Alice Brown Maggie Barnes Gamble Attendance Mfna Gamble McDonald Ida Johnston Cleave Nellie Brown Harriet Robert Lasby Harry Willie 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