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Coles I left you last week just after singing praises for the various wines wo found palatable for North American palates Europe with a promise to say something further about European food My first advice Is dont ask for a western sandwich in some European capital such as Vienna Charlie did and the waitress pondered the words consulted a menu and pronounced that we were in Eastern Europe But there were other things we found to our liking such as the food In the Cafe In Vienna a real Hungarian eating spot where you start off with an apricot brandy savor a white wine demolish tasty cabbage rolls and then launch into the main course which In our case was beef as the cowboys eat It Delicious accompanied by a bottle local red vintage which is cheaper than a cup of coffee This was followed by dessert with an exotic name I cant pronounce anyway and then a bill which didnt amount to any more than two people would eft Tor in Canada Ive been asked If we didnt find European foods too spicy for our liking One of us did but the rest of us found that despite formidable names in German Dutch French and Italian European food wasnt a heck or a lot different than what we got at home What we couldnt get was the price or coffee Depending on where you ate of course it varied anywhere between and a cup Many times the cup would look like it come from a childrens play set and would only be half full my wife explained as she sipped the thick liquid Halffull was Charlies reply and besides that I dont like it The other feature of European life we had difficulty adjusting to was breakfast Crusty rolls and various Jams sometimes with juice when requested Eggs and bacon When you asked the waitress would stare as If you were a carnivorous beast Stuff like that is reserved for lunch and dinner when you have more time to savor It Europeans dont seem to be in any hurry to leave the table As a result the waiters and waitresses arc never In a to see you served but Invariably the food is hot and well cooked when It arrives In most places the tipping charge is on the bill service included but It is customary to leave an extra to per cent if the service Is courteous and efficient Of you sometimes Into a the food Is terrible and the service similar In that event the people In Europe complain and stomp out in high dudgeon muttering loudly about the food the waiters and the weather vowing never to return In my younger days I was full of a lot of romantic nonsense about a loaf of bread and bottle of wine a Parisian garret etc leading a simple uncomplicated life but I never expected it to be realized It was when we boarded trains and there was no dining car or as it was called Then it was left up to your devices to fiat If you didnt bring lunch the only escape from an empty stomach was to open the train window and purchase something from the cart vendors when you pulled upat a station Usually they had a variety of rolls or bread sometimes filled with halfstale salami several kinds of wine and fruit Our experience with this mode of life came as we left the Alps and thundered through Italy towards Rome At the first Station stop Charlie leaned out the window bought a bottle of wine four small submarine sandwiches and paid for It all with an American dollar bill Here he said is the stuff youve always dreamt about From now on that dream will be a nightmare The bread was stale the salami sour and the wine tasted like vinegar But we survived to go on For womens libbers EQUALITY AT LAST I had a dale with Mary We were to the Show I parked my Pinto at the Curb Then found she could not go The reason that she gave me She had nothing left to wear She had loaned her costume Jewelry To her brother with long hair Now Brother Joe looked lovely His long and wavy hair Long and a string of Beads Would make his boyfriends Stare His shapely pants of powder blue Was why Mary could not go He wore everything that Mary had So I took off with Joe Though nature did not Emphasize Or give the Urge to mate Our dating Run was lots of Fun We made another Date Poor Mary had to stay at Home And dream about the past While Brother Joe got to the Show EQUALITY AT LAST Victor Smith Itll be another trip to polls Canadas trip to the polls every four years may have to be duplicated very soon judging by the results of Mondays federal election Voters obviously disenchanted by the Government turned out in big enough numbers to create stalemate But they could not muster enough strength to replace it Some of the charm is still there In Halton Terry OConnor the bright young lawyer from nosed out able incumbent Whiting who held the scat for the Liberals for the last four years In Wentworth Kempling the rolypoly Tory from took the seat from the Liberals by erasing Norm while in Wellington County incumbent Alf Hales a popular figure in country and city alike Just breezed to a victory over four other contenders While the Stanfield broom cleaned up in this neck of the woods dis gruntled Liberals could only grin and bear it The party never really Editorial Page The Free Press Wednesday November I 1972 MiniComment A letter from June chair man of the preschool committee for Nursery notes that they have enlisted many new volunteers and are discussing extending the program to four mornings a week Eight children are now enrolled and wheels are in motion for a license Tinkerbell operates for mentally and physically handicapped children under the auspices of the North Association for the Mentally Retarded at the Georgetown district Christian School on the Seventh Line Esquesing Those who are pioneering the nursery and its work are certainly to be commended and deserve strong support from the public The Upper Canada Zoological Society is conducting a campaign to purchase a new Hippopotamus for its zoo at Wasaga Beach following the death of the bull Hippo Anthony killed by a park visitor who fed the animal a rubber ball The female Cleopatra is lonely and the replacement fund has reached 1500 short of the objective The Society a nonprofit educational institution can be assisted in its goal by sending donations to the Hippo fund Ontario Zoological Park Beach Help a Hippo Councillor Bill Coats notion that Halloween could be held on a more convenient date might find many in agreement but to follow tradition it must be held on All Hallows Eve and there has been enough fiddling with tradition However as usual his suggestion makes sense The decision to reject the CN proposal to send garbage to help fill the crater at the pits was rejected on cost not ecological grounds as some may think Now it is up the Canadian Pacific Railway to transport Metro Torontos gift that no one wants more suitable location We are glad that there are no CP rail lines in this area on this occasion We still think Metro should handle its own garbage within its own borders and leave the countryside alone Our Chamber of Commerce official THE ACTON FREE PRESS PHONE Business and Editorial Copyright had a chance In the three ridings The Conservatives ran a good campaign and the enthusiasm of the party workers played a large part in getting people out to Vote The Liberal campaign seemed to rely too much on the Governments record making little effort to offer new voting incentive Terry OConnors victory in Halton came as a surprise to many people because Whiting was a popular figure in the north end of the riding He worked tirelessly for his constituents regardless of their political affiliation Because Whiting did his homework so well there were those who said he did not figure prominently enough in Government circles a libel which showed the lack of knowledge some have of political affairs Whiting leaves very large shoes for the new Member to fill It probably will be of little comfort for a new to know that his term will be measured against that of Whitings Mr OConnors qualifications are high and we have no doubt he is as capable as his election literature Bays he is However under the present stalemate it in unlikely that any Member will really have a chance to show the stuff of which he is made There is no doubt that Canadians will soon be trekking to the polls again to find some way out of the election puzzle There are those who think that the or the Social Credit parties now can swing the balance of power But Canadians did not give cither of these parties a mandate It would be wrong to pursue policies which they espouse just to keep either a Liberal or PC Government in power On the other hand another expensive election too soon may only result in another stalemate So the solution to the present entanglement Is going to depend in large part on the desire of all parties to come to some form of working When it fails we will have to go to the polls and hopefully elect a Government with a working majority Sidewalk situation better Probably it is all in the best interest of all concerned that Mr of V Anderson Associates Ltd the towns consulting engineers recommended that the construction of sidewalks on EJizabeth Drive be delayed until such time the street is re constructed and storm sewers installed But then Mr has not had to drive along Elizabeth Drive when school children clog the road making it difficult for motorists to navigate safely However the fact is it stems from told the editor the Free Press could print the wrong date on forthcoming activities any time if there was the kind of reaction that occurred such as from the Meet the Candidates Night It was our mistake we readily admit but the resultant publicity packed the meeting with enthusiasts so we cannot feel truly sorry Who says that the luck of the draw does not run in families When Denny won a car in a draw at L Motors recently it brought to mind that her father Hdrold was close in the annual minor hockey car draw His ticket was third last to be drawn Notice where the Fergus Recreation Committee has acquired approxi mately acres of land on which il is proposed to develop a new recreation centre for the town Envisaged are an indoor pool and a community centre to supplement existing facilities Chairman Paul Knox predicted Fergus will have a population of in 10 years with the modem trend showing people moving out of cities into smaller and less polluted areas Fergus wants lo be equipped to meet the demand for recreation the failure to get necessary approvals for street drainage so plans had to be delayed We were glad to see that council approved the recommendation to commence engineering studies for reconstruction of Elizabeth Drive as far as the first street Elmore Drive and also decided to go ahead with engineering for Church St as well Now mat Bower Avenue reconstruction is complete residents have a pretty good idea how well all the towns streets can look It is a treat to be able to walk along Bower Avenues cement sidewalks without worrying about holes and sand and dirt tripping one up Council has also authorized the expenditure of to repair side walks around town a necessary and commendable step with so many side walks in need of repairs Now if the residents of Cameron St had the sidewalk link they have been promised for years the sidewalk situation in Acton would be well along the way to being fair And studies are being done to correct that lack A couple of weeks ago while I was writing down the date on my attendance pad got a bit of shock It was October 13 Then I rcalred it was Friday Hey my anniversary On a gloomy Friday the of October 1UH I was shot down over Holland by German flak crashlanded in a plowed field and was taken prisoner Ive been a little leery of Friday the 13th ever since but when it also falls in October us this year I feel a distinct chill and my first thought is that 1 should have stayed in bud all day with the covers pulled over my head to be safe from the searching finger of fate Its ridiculous of course I dont believe in black cats walking under ladders broken mirrors the number 13 and all those old- wives symbols of bad luck Even so I know some of my students wondered why taught all day that day with both hands behind my back What they didnt know was that I had my fingers trussed both hands Well now that a reasonable time has passed and the sky hasnt fallen in I can look back on that day in with no more reaction than sangfroid which as any Englishman knows means bloody cold and of those everything is fine In retrospect that day was not an but a luck one At the tunc I didnt think so I had a date that night with a smashing blonde in Antwerp I was justly annoyed that the stupid war had interfered with my social life But looking back it was one of the luckiest days in my life I still had a miser able often wretched experience to go through However it was one of the most interesting in my life and I made some fine friends and saw a lot of strange things Also my wing was losing from five to a dozen pilots a week My own squadron of eighteen pilots had lost Dave Backhouse Johnny Rook Taffy Price Dingle Bell and a week before I got it one of my tent- mates Freddy was killed A weckafterlgot it my other tentmate went down in flames 1 had landed once with a bomb dangling another tune with no flaps no brakes and Bill Smiley I wonder how many of you have had the same experience believing that the fates had singled you out for special punishment and discovering much later that what seemed at the tune a black cloud was really a silver lining in disguise Of course the opposite can happen Ask some of my friends who thought it was the luckiest day in their lives when they stood In front of the preacher with that gentle sweet understanding and voluptuous young creature and found themselves years later manacled to a fat nagging shrew I know girls it works both ways Dont tell me that that handsome charming young Adonis you stood up with is really the same person as that potbellied bald bore youre living with now whose Id en of a good chut Is to rattle his paper at you and grunt Hut on the whole life except for those few unfortunates the bom losers seems to even things out fairly Twentyeight years ago tonight was pretty blue and miserable After the most inept escape attempt In the annals of escape I had been given a thorough going over and was lying in a boxcar tied up aching in every muscle and a number of bones including my nose bone and shivering like a dog evacuating razor blades For some reason the Third Reich had neglected to install a heating system blankets and mattresses The only way could recreate the experience tonight would be to go out and try to sleep on the floor of my garage which is of the wooden variety with plenty of ventilation Equally faulty was the catering system There was nothing wrong with the waiters except that they earned guns and wore big boots Hut they were the soul of courtesy untying my hands at each meal It was the menu that was lacking Not much variety One item and at some meals not even one The washroom facilities were rather in adequate too But how many of you have ever been tenderly helped down onto a cinder embankment by a paratrooper his arm around your waist yours around his shoulders to go to the bathroom I was dragging one leg it was good experience I learned to love black bread and cabbage soup I discovered that a single boiled potato right out the pot was a dish for the gods I learned how much I could take And I learned to be thankful for exceedingly small mercies Well worth it Back Issues of The Free Press Taken from the Issue of the Free Press Thursday November 1887 Every man is liable to change his opinion Mr of the late choice of the Conservative party at the recent convention at and who declined the nominations will perhaps change his mind Thats what he said this morning and he ought to know The Friends of Rockwood have workmen engaged in building a church A social will be given under the auspices of the Ladies Aid of Knox church A lecture Great Britain Her Power and Permanence will be delivered by Rev a popular lecturer The choir has the entertainment in hand Tea from to clock Admission 25 cents Mr Fred of was up with a load of winter apples He will come again Mr Joseph de who proposed to reach the Klondike from Ottawa by balloon says his airship will soon be ready for its trial trip The balloon is ready with the exception of a heater The treaty for the protection of seals was signed by the representatives of Russia Japan and the United States at Washington Sunny dale Cottage the home of Mr David Swackhamer was the scene of festivities last night The occasion was the mamage of Mr George Adams merchant Acton and Miss Minnie two of our popular young people The bride was supported by her sister Miss Flora and both were prettily attired Many bridal tokens were received Mr Mrs Adams took up residence in their new home over the store on Mill St Taken from the Issue of toe Free Press Thursday Novembers When Rev Baugh returned from his holidays spent in Quebec a very agreeable surprise awaited him In his absence a garage was budt by the St Johns con gregation of at the rectory here The Presbyterian churches asked a special offering of to provide a minimum stipend of 800 for all ministers Have you tned our health bread Maltana Call and our wagon will call Fairbanks baker Mill St There were some senseless and expensive Halloween pranks at Two motor cars were taken from garages One is stul missing The Junior Daughters of the Empire will banquet the Acton Junior Baseball team the champions of Halton county in the town ball The members of the team will be presented with practical gifts A few tickets are on sale at Johnstone and for cents The band will be In attendance Ten Ukrainian young men graduated from the University of Manitoba at the last convocation A wreck on the yesterday delayed the Toronto mail for a couple of hours Hundreds of popples were worn Sunday and Monday in memory of our boys who sleep on Flanders Fields High prices are prevailing for most of the necessities of life A new law went into effect which requires bicycles to carry a lamp after sun down Dwelling bouses are still at a premium in town Houses which rented at 10 a month a year or two ago now bring to Taken from the the Free Thursday November 13 1952 Gloria a kindergarten pupil was struck by a car on her way to school She suffered a severe sprain to her right knee and bruises Inez Mclellan was elected president of the of Young Peoples Unions school was filled to capacity when the community gathered to honor Mr and Mrs McCullough Margaret Brown on their recent marriage Mrs Stan Morrison read the address and the presentation was made by Lloyd McEnery Ralph Denny and Bert Watson Davidson was chairman It only takes a minute its painless its free G W told Lakeside chapter IODE about the Xray survey to be taken in Acton in December The provincewide survey began in 1951 and it is hoped that in lOyears the incidence of tuber culosis will be cut in half No one would believe a dance could start at the appointed time but It hadnt gone two minutes past when drew the horsehair over the catgut and the gents started to swing their partners at the first square dance of Acton Square Dance Club In St Albansparishhall Friday Ernie Packer called the figures The spot dance was won by Jean Ktrby and the oldtime wait winners were Mr and Mrs Fred KlngsmUL Prize winners at the Limehouse I Halloween party Included Mrs Ralph Turner as a bride with little Paul as flower girl and Ralph Turner as Miss childrens winners Trudy Scott Brian Lewis Laura Young