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May fill quarries with Metro refuse ACTON FIRE Chief Mick Holme examines charred contents of a garage at the home of Roy McFadden on following an alarm shortly before midnight last Wednesday night Cauac of the fire wai undetermined until Friday Acton OPP arretted a local man Gordon who later con- he the fire Gibbons Dragway sold subdivision planned Toronto International property on the Fifth line east of Acton has been sold to a group of Georgetown area men who may turn the land Into an estate subdivision the Free Praia baa learned from a reliable It la believed the group will apply for an amendment to the townahipa bylaw once it and the townships long- awaited official plan are in force Council announced this week they have received word from the Department of Municipal Affairs that the plan should be back In the township any day now The opened its gates in the spring of 1970 following a series of efforts by residents of the area tostop it County supports majority View Quarries on the Third line of Esqucsing south of Acton la the site referred to in a report In a Toronto daily Friday announcing that Canadian National Railways has offered to haul a quarter of Metro Torontos refuse tens a year for so a ton to a site near Acton the Free Press learned this week Contacted by the Free Press Indus spokesman George Armstrong would say only that the proposal is Just in the discussion stage and that it would be premature for him to comment further at this time According to the Toronto daily report Metro refuse would be shred ded then compressed into bales before being loaded onto rail cars for the trip to Acton The process would cost an extra but would render the garbage into the most innocuous and unobjectionable form of refuse that can be economically achieved the report said The report went on to say that solid waste would be fed by conveyor belts Into a shredding machine at two plants adjacent to rail lines in Toronto It would then be put into a compacting baling machine The bales would weigh 3000 pounds each and would be loaded by trucks onto specially- designed covered rail cars for ship ment Cite advantages Advantages of the shredding and baling system which is In use in some parts of the US arc that it Involves no burning and can deal with such bulky nonperishables as refrigerators furni ture and car tires township Reeve Tom Hill said tils council will approach the waste management branch of the Depart ment of the Environment Immediately with an armful of questions as icon as he learned of the proposal We might not bo able to stop It but I don think were going to be In favor of it he said There arc a lot of ef fects to be checked out and one of them is possible damage to the water table He recalled a majority of council opposed a proposal last year which would have approved use of worked- quarry at Milton Brick for a waste disposal site for the town of Milton Makes suggestion Reeve Hill had a further suggestion for the provincial government If Metro is In such a state that they have to do something about their garbage the government should put some kind of a halt on their expansion he said Theres no other place In the province I know of thats expected to take other peoples garbage M Rud Whiting said he knew nothing about the proposal but promised to Investigate It immediately through the federal governments Department of Trans port In a telephone conversation with the Free Press he suggested filling up pits may be part of the quarrys rehabilitation program However he agreed with Reeve Hill that a lot of environmental questions would have to be answered first clerktreasurer French said no mention of the proposal was made at a waste disposal seminar held at Queens Park Thursday night Mr French re presented at the seminar along with Councillor Wilfrid Leslie and roads superintendent C Bud Snow The Toronto daily report also said Metro Executive Committee has asked Canadian Pacific Railways to submit a proposal for hauling the garbage but that a CP rail spokesman had declined comment on Its bid until Metro of ficials decided to release It In 1970 a Torontobased firm proposed to construct an incinerator- typo industrial waste disposal plant on the Rognvaldson farm south of town but It was unable to get approval of planning board Twenty Pages Fifteen Cents ACTON ONTARIO WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 1972 NinetyEighth Year No 13 Police nab fire bug town residents relax County Council went on record Wednesday as supporting the majority view of the Halton Municipal Councillors Con- ferancf Sept At that con ference a plan calling for a tiro tier three borough system was favored with Whan being the The three boroughs as outlined at the Sept would lump the five northern municipalities In one borough The second and Pay raise for pollers Personnel manning the polls at municipal election this December can expect higher remuneration than they received the last time Acton Council decided on new rates of pay at their meeting last night Tuesday Deputy- returning officers will receive and poll clerks US The town will pay for rental of a poll Reeve Frank explained that wages paid at the last municipal ejection in 1970 in keeping with minimum wage laws in the province Hurst reported he will need extra personnel for the December election but said be has plenty of applicatio on file as well as several call on Strike still on at plant Picketing of the Ajax Vickery said union and Engineers Ltd plant by management representatives employees all members of began negotiating towards a new United Steelworters Local contract in the latter part of May continues as a strike against the He said there have been six company reached its fourth day meetings plus one with the today Wednesday Employees Conci Board Toronto He began the atruoa Friday said the union was legally Local president Doug entitled to strike as early as two Victory told the Free Press this weeks ago week differences between the United Steelworkers union and management are representative Jim Pudge strictly monetary Be said the arrived in Acton Monday to unto membership has rejected a advise on strike procedure seven percent wage increase Although company officials off made by the company not be reached for Hourly rates at the plant under comment Vickery said he the old contract which expired expects a meeting may be July ranged from arranged for laborers to tor the top Job Union financial secretary lob clarification Classification Clayton Dude Lindsay machine the union third boroughs would be mode up of Burlington and Oakvllle Milton argued at the Sept meeting that Milton boundaries should be extended and the county town should form a fourth borough In central Milton has stood by that stand and will submit Its own brief to the pro vincial government to be con sidered when the brief agreed to by the other six municipalities Is considered In the resolution passed by county council Wednesday the county asked the province to pro vide a financial study showing the Impact of any form of regional government on the county and its existing polities with regard to capital and current budgets null rates etc Meanwhile the county TECO committee will undertake en independent financial study Milton Reeve Ron Harris said Milton docs dissent on the issue and wanted it recorded that Milton objected to the resolution It is more logical to have four boroughs than three and it Is my feeling and that of my council that the proposed boundaries to the north of Milton come too far south Harris said It is my feeling the boundaries proposed by Milton are too far north Reeve Mrs A MacArthur quipped drawing a round of laughter from her colleagues and ending the brief discussion on the subject Fear of possible disaster filled many townspeople with dread last week niter police and flghttrs realized three fires in two nights hud been deliberately set However while plans for constant patrols were being made an Acton man Gordon of Rd was apprehended by police and charged with arson and attempted arson appeared in court In Milton Monday and was remanded In custody for another week The description of the year old man was given to police by a citizen whose contribution to the solving of the case has been praised by the local detachment Thursday alarm The first fire was last Wed ncsday night In a garage at the home of Roy McFaddcn Various articles in the garage were aflame The firefighters not suspicious of anything unusual at this stage soon had the fire out Wakened by dog The next night Jack Pope of Poplar Ave called police at to report attempted arson The possibility of disaster was apparent here Someone had poured gasoline at both the front and back doors of the frame Ice cream hazard Acton IGA store owner Dave Manes issued a warning to thieves who stole a freezer full of refrozen ice cream which had been piled in a freezer at the back of the store to firm up before it was taken to the dump Mr Mflncs informed the Free Press the indoor freezer had broken down through the night and the ice cream melted and had refrozen when put in the outdoor Before It could be discarded someone stole the entire lot Mr Manes noted that refrozen ice cream could be poisonous and anyone eating refrozen ice cream could become violently 111 He suggests the ice cream be returned In order for it to be disposed of properly house and inside the front vestibule The family dog woke up the Popes and apparently frightened off the arsonist While polled were at the Pope home investigating the fire sounded ominously again and Just two blocks gasoline had been successfully set in flame Porch ablaze The man had poured gasoline this tunc on the front porch of the home of Mrs Ann and son John Frederick St The alarm was turned In by neighbor Gordon Cur no who heard a noise and saw the swoosh of flames John hastily began to douse the fire with garden hose and firefighters finished the Job Now thoroughly alarmed immediately called In extra officers from the North Halton detachment Firefighters and volunteers also began a grim search through town without finding anything suspicious The investigation continued throughout the night and all the next day until thanks to information received an arrest was made at p Friday af Siphoning pi Acton police had been Informed that someone had been seen siphoning gasoline from a parked car at the Church St apartments Inspector Terry Murray of the fire marshals office in Toronto also Joined local police and firefighters in their anxious search to avoid further terrifying Incidents and possible death According to Acton police the man arrested has admitted to VOLKSWAGEN in which two Acton area youths Glenn setting all three fires Apparently and Seth Armstrong lost their lives Friday night was the victims were random ones complete wreck The car collided with a west bound Grey wttat h Gibbons Two youths lose lives in carbus collision Tragedy again saddened tms community night when two young men lost their lives in a car accident Seth Armstrong 18 and Glenn TaiUefer 19 were riding in a Volkswagen when it was in collision with the Guclph bus about 11 30 p Glenn TaiUefer son of Mr and Mrs Lawrence Comers died before reaching hospital Armstrong son of Mr and Mrs Robert Armstrong R was taken to Toronto General hospital from Guelph and died there about a He had Just begun studies at the University of Waterloo after completing Acton high school Both young men were players in the Legion and TriCounty hockey leagues Passenger escapes A passenger in the car BUI Fabian Churchill went to General Hospital with a passing motorist and was treated there for minor back injuries Armstrong Volkswagen was rounding the comer at Toth Motors when It went out of control and into a spin striking the left front of the bus according to police There were passengers in the Grey Coach bus with the driver One passenger was thrown from the seat but none were injured The bus was delayed awaiting a supervisor and a mechanic to repair the headlights A student nurse on the bus assisted at the scene Damage to the bus was ITS and the 1963 Volkswagen was a total loss Funeral service for Seth Warden Armstrong was held at his home on Tuesday afternoon conducted by the Rev A and assisted by Father of Buffalo a family friend Interment was in Fairvlew cemetery Pallbearers were Ken Waites Brian Bell Charles Kinken Brian Sampson Steve and Andy Miller is survived by his parents ster Zemin Mrs Ralph brother Treth a student at Acton high school and his Mr and Mrs Warden of Scarborough and Mr and Mrs Armstrong of Albuquerque New Mexico This promising young man bad during the past year travelled over the continent down one coast and up the other going as far as California service for Glenn TaiUefer was at the funeral borne Monday conducted by the Rev McKenue Interment was In cemetery Pallbearers were Ron Waites Barry Cooper Andy Miller Stephen Manery BUI Fields and Brian Wilkinson Glenn is survived by bis parents Patricia and Lawrence TaiUefer of Susan Mrs Townsend RJL 1 Acton brother Gary Acton ana grandparents Mr and Mrs Jack Comers and Mr and Mrs Eugene Cornwall Several fatal accident have shocked the community the past summer Council concerned about CN proposal Vickery parade past the Engineers plant Friday after employees all members of United Steelworkers Local went on strike Carrying signs to r are John Homey and Ray StulL Union membership has rejected a company offer of a per cent wage increase Gibbons In spue of Reeve Frank Cakes sUnd that be cant take the story too seriously most members of Acton Council have eipi ea concern and curiosity about Canadian National Railways offer to transport Metro Toronto refuse to a site near Acton which the Free Press believes to be Indusmm Quarries Councillor Earl Mosaics was first to suggest council try and keep on top of the Councillor Peter Marks suggested council have all statements that nave been made in the press validated People coold get scared be sad Council should contact Rod Whiting and get an official press release from the corpor ation Councillor Chapman added his concern saying the town is Just getting rid of one big smell right now and they wouldnt like another one Reeve Oakes assessment of the report was that was probably asked to submit a price to carry garbage number of miles and that Acton Just happened to be that distance away When they use the word Acton it could mean in the of Acton he si Councillor Norm Elliott had a different view It roust be a definite proposal or it have been released to the press at all be said made by Mayor Les hat the only thing he wanted to see coming into Acton by rail la a is quite valid Host councillors reported receiving calls from concerned ratepayers since the story was pobusbed last Friday tor Joe Burst to contact necessary people for further toformabon