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MiniComment What did you think about the Maritime proposal refusing to sell land to fellow Canadians from Upper Canada The Americana maybe In certain cases but it hardly seems likely that any law which denied fellow Canadians land would be constitutional We can understand the concern of provincial authorities who have found that nonresidents of Prince Edward island were buying up land at the rate of acres a month and sending prices soaring beyond the reach of average but there must be other ways of preserving the land other than strictures on their own countrymen Soon we may need a passport to go beyond Cornwall raise hellery in Georgetown may soon be on the paying end of a fine If the town council of our neighbor has anything to say about it They passed legislation allowing the police to charge offenders who cause disturbing noises between oclock at night and oclock in the morning Purpose of the new bylaw is to give the police department authority to try to stop disturbances not covered by present law Two gentlemen responsible in a large measure for success of the Highland Gaines in Fergus last week Dr R and Eugen Landoni have two well known Scottish names if we have ever heard them Over 18000 attended the event blessed with fine weather after a muggy morning The wet damp summer may have flowers around the district have never looked better Their enthusiasm for the type of weather is exemplified by a profusion of blooms in almost every hue and color The many green thumbs In the towns and villages of this district can take a bow Sometimes we run across someone who claims it doesnt pay to advertise and it brings to mind this little ditty which appeared in the Free Press 50 years ago A WARNING Breathes there a man with soul so Who never to himself hath said My trade of late is getting bad Ill try another teninch ad If such there go mark him well For him no bank account shall swell No angel watch the golden stair To welcome home a millionaire The man who never asks for trade By local line or ad displayed Cares more for rest than worldly gain And patronage but gives him pain Tread lightly friends let no rude sound Disturb his solitude profound Here let him live in calm repose Unsought except by men he owes And when he dies go plant him deep That naught may break his dreamless sleep Wherein no clamour may dispel The quiet that he loved so well And that the world may know its loss Place on his grave a wreath of moss And on stone above Here lies A chump who wouldnt advertise What gives Canadas worldfamous Cheddar cheese its aroma and flavor No one knows but the scientists are working on the question to give the dairy industry a clue for better control of it chesse making processes THE ACTON FREE PRESS PHONE Business and Editorial Office Drdn Spare the maples remove dead elms te A Although we were reluctant to see any trees come down Acton councils changes in Bower Ave reconstruction plans so that only three need be cut down were welcome The original plans called for 13 of the streets trees to be cut down to make way for improvements which will include underground wiring road widening pavings curbs and sidewalks However Insistence that the sturdy maples which make Bower one of Actons most attractive streets be kept will help also preserve Its shady appearance and character There have been instances In other municipalities where people have refused to allow trees to be cut down They have climbed into the branches and dared the public works department or the tree surgeons to remove the tree while they were harbored In Its branches This kind of action may be extreme but it certainly gets the point across that trees are one of our most priceless assets That is why it is so distressing to see the death of elm trees all over the province and the derelict skeletons of once beautiful elms littering the countryside Dutch Elm disease the culprit was first discovered in North America about years ago It became noticeable in Canada about 1944 Since then it has been killing elm trees at an estimated rate of a million trees a year The figures can easily be believed from tho Incidence of the dead trees in this area of the province where the elm was once a primary shade tree along with the maple During the past years there have been many attempts to treat or arrest the disease but so far without too much success Forestry Service scientists have had some success by Injecting chemicals into roots of trees In various stages of the disease The chemical prevents the disease fungus from dividing and spreading But Dutch Elm disease is stubborn and it will take many experiments of this nature before any effective control is established In the meantime the desecration by the disease will continue to bankrupt It was encouraging that many of the dead elms were cut down last winter but we hope the province counties townships and urban municipalities will take stronger measures to remove the visual pollution created by the dead trees in the winter to come Long overdue reforms made THE EDITOR ASKED reporterphotographer Denis Gibbons to get some scenic shots of the district for this weeks editorial page picture montage It Is obvious Denis ideas about the most scenic things in the district differ some from the editors but who can dispute his choice of subjects Top is Hurley from Acton via OakvUle at the Conservation Area Centre Karen Hilfman from 17 Sideroad admires one of the kittens at the Country Market Saturday morning Bottom Judy of Springfield Ohio takes 30 at side of Fairy Lake Shes visiting in Acton with relatives For the first time in Ontario the right to vote in municipal and school board elections has been expanded to include the growing numbers of people who are neither property owners nor long term tenants Any Canadian citizen or British subject who is years of age or older and a resident of the municipality between September 5 and October can vote in local elections It is a reform long overdue Previous laws discriminated against those who preferred to rent rather than own property or could not afford their own homes or businesses According to Revenue Minister Allan Grossman property qualifications have established eligibility for local There Is a movie called Suddenly One r Summer something like that This i3 more w less the way I feel towards the end of this For thing the weather has been generally rotten My heart has ached for the campers the tenters as temperature drops Wne winds blow and I turn up the thermostat Jon the furnace As I write its more like late A October than August But there Is nothing much I about that its happening to everybody somebody is definitely out to get me I dont know whether Its the Lord fate or the devil But Its too obvious to be merely coincidental It or they started with my car Almost six months ago a gentleman backed into the front of it Hes a mechanic and promised to have it fixed rather than pay the almost exhorbltant insurance rate It is still not mixed Not his fault We made a date for July 31st and my wife busted her ankle and in the confusion I forgot But its still not fixed Next I was at a public gathering where there were a lot of cars parked Somebody and he was not a gentleman snuggled up too close to me The only calling canine left was a deep indentation in my left front door Third And that was my wifes fault not mine She was at full steam somewhat like an organ with all the stops out It happened at a highway motel where wed had lunch I backed up knowing there were no cars there and hit a light standard that shouldnt have been there It was solid brick It made a boomerang of my back bumper There went another hundred bucks Heres where Ill go along with Ralph Nader and company The bumpers they put on cars today are not bumpers but junkers 20 years ago Taken from the Issue of the Free Press September Canadas largest extruders of plastic Actons Micro Plastic firm is planning its second edition in two years officials announced this week The proposed cement block addition will add about square feet of floor space which will be used mainly for warehouse although two machines will be housed in the building Officials of the Green Fire Brick Co have announced their intention to rebuild and expand the fire razed building that was destroyed in the well remembered fire In the early hours of August 16 The floor area of the Acton industry will be increased by approximately square feet over its original size and will bouse more modem equipment Toe largest enrolment ever was registered at the Acton Public School Tuesday morning The full staff of 13 teachers met their new classes after an assembly in the auditorium In the and span addition to the school which was just completed in time for school opening Tuesday morning Acton High School students were welcomed back to their by principal Orland Bobbins in a general assembly The six teachers two of them new to the school tbt year were introduced and then the pupils went to their homerooms Requiem Ugh mass was sung St Josephs Church Acton on Saturday September for Thomas Salmon who in Acton on Thursday at the age of In 1901 be was elected mayor of Acton but retired due to ill health electors throughout Ontarios history with a few exceptions Mr Grossman said that an individual will now have only one vote per municipality regardless of how many properties he or she may own or rent However If an individual is resident in one municipality he or she can vote once In each municipality and so can that This means for instance that a cottage owner can vote in the municipality where he is usually resident as well as the municipality in which his cottage Is located Enumeration of Ontario residents will begin September by the assessment division of the Ministry of Revenue so that municipal voters lists can be delivered to municipal clerks by October In plenty of time for elec tions on Monday December Eighty per cent of Ontario Municipalities will hold elections on that date The Minister explained that enumerations are being held in the Fail rather than the Spring to reduce errors and omissions caused by family moves In the summer between school years However some will still be missed and these can contact the clerk of town or township to have names added if they have been incorrectly omitted The reforms in legislation recognize at last that all people over 18 who qualify as a subject should have a voice in the community in which they reside or own property a fancy crawl stroke calling cheerfully to each other about how terrific the water is today Instead were stuck In the house doing a fancy crawl up and down stairs and calling balcfully about such cheery things as getting the garbage out doing the washing preparing dinner Do you know what happens to a couple of love birds In a cage who start getting on each others nerves One of them pecks the other to death Then eats him or her Well tender and ray wife Is very Imigfl Im a close A generation ago a bumper bumped anu didnt Rive an inch The thing that was bumped gave Today they seem to be a combination of plastic and spaghetti Im convinced that if you ran into an adult male hummingbird at miles per hour youd lose your deductible on your Well to cut a short story long the car Is pretty much of a disaster area Front bashed in Chrome strips buckled and ripped off Back bumper a bummer Motor still great but whole vehicle now In classified ad section as a bodymans special As we all know accidents come in threes Well I had my three and thought whoever was out to get me should relax for a while Not so As I mentioned my wife broke her ankle and a week later I broke my toe She groans and hobbles around in a walking cast I groan and hobble around I never realized before J how important a big toe Is In the process of ambulation Something like a fish trying to swim with his tail cut off Oh Its a jolly lively place around our house We should be out at the beach doing e eye on her I gave her a big hug the other day Its her left ankle my right toe they collided we both yelped and there were mutual recriminations Next time Ill hug her from behind or sideways or something 50 years ago Taken from the issue of the Free Press August vnx Work is progressing on the Provincial Highway between Acton and Crewsons Corners and other thoroughfares are being improved In several directions Twentyfive members of the British House of Lords have already accepted the invitation of the Montreal Board of Trade to be ib guests on a trip across Canada In September to celebrate the hundredth anniversary of that organization Acton accommodation has already been secured for one hundred the Board A couple of rinks of Milton lady bowlers came to town for a friendly game on the greens of the Acton Athletic Association 1st Thursday evening A very enjoyable game was played and the visitors won the honours The Acton ladies entertained their visitors for tea It is reported that new to are selling for a bag Eleven trainlosds of harvesters went through Ontario last week A new business Arm to be known as Acton Produce Merchants with Mr Hartley Harrison as manager has been organized here can go to Toronto Fair from Acton by steam cars electric cars or jitney this year Perhaps by next year an aeroplane be added Master Max Starkman Is very proud of bis hen which laid an egg the other day weighing a quarter of a pound and measuring inches in circumference And it will probably be on the phone any minute I was Idiotic enough to lend my car to daughter Kim and her husband They took off In the poor old battered brute a couple of hours ago for the city where they have to apply for student loans register for college find a place to live and all such They both drive like chimpanzees whove had three lessons They might lust make it But if they do my oak tree will snap in a storm and crash on my neighbours roof Or Ill get a hernia carrying out the empty beverage bottles Or my wife will slip on her leg going downstairs and break her other one Its not that Im superstitious Its just that 1 have this immutable hunch that Somebody up there or down there la trying to punish me for all my past sins all at once And now If youll excuse me Im going to soak my toe in Ice water and sit shoulders hunched waiting for the nest blow years ago Taken from the f the Free Press September Inspector Howe of the Board of Under writers came to town last Thursday morning and turned in an alarm to the Fire Brigade as a test of their alertness The majority of the members of the Fire Company responded with very creditable dispatch and soon had the steam and hose reels laid out in line Steam was up and water playing in about ten minutes and we understand the inspector was quite satisfied with the test A friendly contest between the Milton and Acton gun clubs was held in the park here on Monday afternoon The local team won the match by a considerable number of points The Milton Champion smarting under tbs defeat coffered by the Milton baseball dob at the hands of the Acton nine falls back on the old excuse that Acton has been outsiders The facts are that every purer of the Acton team within the Corporation of Acton Only three on the Ball Ch live the Corporation of Milton and one was imported from In the last game Acton played at Milton they bad not only beat the players bat also crowd of outside who threw stoat and apples at the Acton pitcher n Bus were encouraged by the Milton coaches lbs Acton team is paying no more attention to any team without a reputation