Acton Free Press (Acton, ON), September 27, 1972, p. 13

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Ninety Eighth Year No ACTON ONTARIO WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 27 Cheering Liberals support Whiting ALONG Whiting his wife Anne cheerleaders If you re a Liberal and you and father Lester clapped their hands and know It stamp your feet stamped their feet to a tune set by young With overwhelming support their MP hod haunted his office from exuberant liberals Rod when he was Urban Affairs Whiting was nominated Tuesday Minister He worries about you night of last week to run for his and he worries us until we do second term as MP The something he added incumbent was not challenged suggested the choice of With the exception of a few leadership will be a key issue In seats In the front row It was the campaign He said the record standing room only in the should be examined and Judged Galaxy Club In Oakville where Contrary to opposition liberals crowded in to be part of forecasts of doom and disaster the official campaign for we have had good whiting Hoopla management Andras said He agreed it been perfect but suggested it was remarkable under the nn a me He reviewed the Quebec and was entertained by a Dixie band and about a dozen chanting cheerleaders who added color to the otherwise routine event Signs were posted throughout the hall that read Whiting works crisis and the steps taken handle the fastest growing labor force in the world and noted there had been per cent more provided In Canada than the States said inflation had been toenail tnaireaa moras awn Keeping companies in pi for people Whiting and guest effectively controlled In Canada Hon not corporate ripoffs At a press conference prior to the nomination meeting Andras said there was no immediate answer to the problem of high food costs He indicated however that wage and price controls wire too drastic to be Imple mented on the basis of a two- month trend Touching on other issues said people could expect to see the competition act rise again It was presented In draft form earlier Andras said there is still and remains a need for small businesses He Indicated monopolies and big business tend to get sloppy If they dont have opposition Discussing incentive grants said the chief purpose of the grants was to provide jobs by keeping companies in W1TH A RAH RAH and a sis boom bah pretty young girls cheered Liberal partisans at Whiting nomination meeting in Oakvlltc 3 MORE DAYS Thats right only 3 more days to save yourself some real money at The Family Store in Acton SATURDAY IS OUR LAST DAY OUT IN THE STORE DOWN TO PAIGE Is speaker Bob Andras who Minister of Corporate and Con affairs were paraded Into the room Little encouragement was given to anyone who had the idea of putUng their name forth as a dark horse candidate Whiting and His cavalcade marched into the hall behind pipers cheerleaders and the Dixie band after a representative from the Toronto and District liberal Association had started to read the rules by which the nominating convention would be March underway During his speech Whiting predicted Liberals would start their march back to Ottawa from the prairies to Newfoundland He suggested Canadians have the in disputable conviction that good leadership will continue In the Pearson govern ment took over and had the terrific task of removing debris while other countries suffered heavily Terming the Liberals as the party of reform said the party was sandwiched between the Conservatives who charge liberals as Chicken Socialists and the who campaign against the Liberals on a corporate welfare bum theme We don t want extremism We are the party of reform not revolution Dry fish wet wheat liberal MP Wally Deacon spoke briefly and knocked what the PCs called a new team He said one of the new team was DID HEAR the one about Bob and Whiting share a joke at a press conference before Whiting nomination meeting Tuesday night in Whiting was acclaimed to again carry the Liberal banner In Halton Reject request asks pre Commission in Toronto Monday the Coalition of Concerned Citizens has asked that Ontario Hydro application Claude Wagner who was a loser f wnfl it calls acres of when he ran against for southern Ontario land to Liberal leadership of Quebec construct its 500 KVA power He said Paul lost to transmission line from Pickering and then thought he to Nanticoke be rejected try something new called Action The brief recommended that Canada and when that didn Ontario Hydro be required to work out there was nowhere else provide for its transmission to go but to the Conservatives capacity needs to the end of He noted Allan Lawrence who by upgrading or increasing the moved from provincial to federal number of circuits on Its existing of Tory mismanagement Nine politics had suffered a loss at the rights of way and that the The brief the nnit h reduce tower wars of Liberal has nn hn ne tnc to years of Liberal government has brought greater security and a place of dignity Whiting said He said participatory demo cracy was never as great as it is now Whiting disputed claims that backbenchers were and could not be heard by the Prime M mister or cabinet ministers Great freedom The Prime Minister and cabinet ministers will meet with hands of Dill Davis when he ran for Ontario PC leadership They re all losers he said everything Deacon suggested the PCs were still split with some westerners supporting Diefen baker some Nova Scotlans supporting Stenfleld and government independent funded non partisan Environmental Council charged with investigating and advising on the environmental planning of all major utility projects in the province further recommendations made were that Hydro not be mission system design ton opposed to this suggestion federations and conclusions ami old the commission recommendations Nowhere In this province is the expropriation of land not a large Mrs June Humes a resident of Con Hi brief also that as spoke on the impact of the line on properties of historical interest M and Mrs Carol Davis reported P transmission findings of a study taken by concerned citizens In King township A total or citizen that it is on the brink from nw development In Chlngincouiy go oping devices which and King townships attended the currying capacity of a tower or unify or both pointed out said the Coalition has never imitated that the whole system should go under ground but that it has maintained under grounding this that and art every thing bo me time I wonder why I m private members any time I m in the House of Commons All I at the freedom to hear about is dry fish and wet we enjoy It not in the wheat Deacon quipped Whiting tradition to be a puppet Mliton Mayor If being a puppet was the only greetings from way I could be a member town suggested a parliament Id get out of Conservative friend had told him j lt Whiting wasn t agreed Wh ting was no Conservative That the way puppet and told Liberals they feel about number of other camps who were granted more than five years requirements in rights of way at a tune that the parkway belt proposed In the Torontocentred region plan be reconsidered as a site for the power line and that Hydro be required to cease ad or restrict its messages to campaigns directed to reduce peaks in load Lee chairman of the Coalition presented twothirds of the six part brief concentrating on major recommendations comments on Hydro sub received by the Com mission from a public group has endorsed by Nassagaweya Council It stated six reasons why the present Hydro application should be rejected namely that Hydro should be used for short distances where it will materially reduce of its of waj that environmental Impact or shorten has failed to that Its the route three proposed routes arc the Die Hydro submission states best that Hydro has failed to that it is loo early to consider the show why they should be granted incorporation ofsecUonsofahigh separate single use corridor capacity KV protolypc cable remote from the parkway belt into our operating system that Hydro has failed to show any stated How far behind one of its proposals has the the other utilities in the world do SAMPLE BUYS 80 LADIES BLOUSES GIRLS DRESSES 150 BRASSIERES 65 PR LONG JOHNS PR MENS SLACKS 60 SKIRTS PR LADIES PYJAMAS 95 JUMP SUITS 40 CHILDRENS 50 MENS colon styles 50 PAIRS RUBBER BOOTS 2 PAIR MENS SOCKS HUNDREDS OF OTHER ITEMS TOO NUMEROUS TO MENTION ACTON LIONS CLUB Fall Frolic and Dance SATURDAY SEPT 30th 1972 at the DANCING acton community centre Per Couple At Door FEATURING HARRY HIBBS Shrimp Cocktail Caribou Club IB TICKETS AVAILABLE AT Canadian Store Acton I G A approval of all municipalities that Hydro has failed to submit a reliable system and that Hydro has failed to submit an system design Mr called an ad mission by an Ontario Hydro spokesman that some of its rights of way wouldn win any prizes and were built in a time when most people were unconcerned about ecology and the environ quite valid but reminded the commission we arc dealing with the requirement for the with the skepticism of the 70s Fmp hat reply made an emphatic three single circuit lines are pre ferable in sections where they are adequate for ultimate require ments and where width of right of way is not a large factor in selection of the route We in the Coalition are vehemently and diametrically to get before utility ARTHUR A JOHNSON OPTOMETRIST 54 Mill St Acton 853 Wednesday Saturday POLLOCK NO CAMPBELL ffL starts to consider technical ad seriously he asked Need coop ration The brief went on to say that the days arc long past when a utility may plan in isolation the mo it economical route regardless of other effects It that in Great Britain and the there is wide co oper between utility government at all levels and the people right from early planning On the subject of the parkway belt said that if planners have not provided sufficient width to make it feasible for Ontario Hydro must provide more Commenting on Hydro previous submission the Commission charged that there was no proof a corridor was needed beyond a statement by their own engineers We are fully aware that Ontario requirement for electrical energy is growing fast and we concede that a grid system is a practical method of satisfying it Symmes explain ed However we do not agree that a corridor such as Hydro proposes involving a foot wide swath with five towers abreast up to feet high is the way of achieving this end or even a good way also claimed mat mature trees which protect watersheds are being too rapidly sacrificed and areas which are subject to erosion and stow to develop new cover are being bull dozed Among recommendations the brief made towards design of a transmission line were that corridors be limited to two towers abreast that all towers have provision for more than one circuit that lines generally follow the topography of the land and that lines have frequent bends at major road crossings in order to avoid long visible tunnels To illustrate desired showed slides of single standard towers now in use In the US

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