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Mac Freeman seeks recount Malcolm Freeman who lost a bid for the third seat or Council by a single vote In the December 4 election has decided to ask for an official recount Freeman was edged votes to by George MaJtby He first announced he was satisfied to see new blood on council and would not ask for a recount but changed his mind after conferring with his supporters A County court Judge official recount will take place DECEMBER IS WO A D Traditionally the first Christmas feast In England was held at the Round Table of King Arthur The actual date is unknown Ninety Eighth Year No Snowmobile complaints continue to arrive at the police office These are generally that the machines are travelling too close to homes late at night last week a missing person from Kitchener was located here and returned A person arrested on a warrant from Acton by liuclph detachment was escorted to jail by Acton officers Wednesday complaints of telephone lines down following the Ice storm were relayed to the Bell by police The phone lines were on York St and Churchill Machine coins Theft of estimated worth of coins was reported from the Seneca apartments The coins were in the boxes of two washing machines Seneca Apartments also reported Saturday the chandelier down from the front Halton gets winter works grants MALCOLM FREEMAN Halton s seven municipalities will share in worth of provincial municipal employ incentive grants this winter East and Minister of Government Services Jim Snow announced this week County Council will receive with Burlington slated for and OakviUe Acton Is offered Milton ACTON ONTARIO WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 20 Theft of coins stereo produce charges lobby and celling tile torn down On Thursday two Burlington youths were charged They were stopped in Burlington and found to be in possession of a car stereo believed stolen from Canadian store here the previous Saturday Tow cars Several cars were towed away the night Friday they were on the streets hampering wow removal Monday a local youth was charged with theft from the Wash on Mill He appears in court Jan 3 Sunday night the door of the council chamber was left unlocked and subsequently a tablt was found overturned and the new flags kr over The incident is under Investigation Fatal fall man freezes A Georgetown area man froze to death outside his home Saturday night report Milton OPP Police say Bernard J Shepherd 46 froze to death outside his home after being knocked unconscious when he slipped and fell He had apparently walked home from a dance Mr Shepherd lived with his law Patrick Crawford on 15 Slderoad near Ninth Line He was unmarried Band singers tonight Listen for music tonight Wednesday is the evening both the band and the large group of will be out to serenade the town The singers organized by Joyce Carpenter and her dance class were also out last night They are collecting for centennial commission funds this year They are going by bus taking a different part of town each of the two nights The band Is also Jaunting by bus year so they can be heard by more people and also so they can keep their instruments warm Dec 27 issue Deadlines for news and ad vertising for the Wednesday December Issue of the Acton Free Press will be noon on Saturday Dec 23 No charge for hum What do you do for a buzzing meter asked Commissioner Brown at a meeting of the hydro commission Thursday Is It vibrating asked colleague Ted Tyler Sr It sure is came the reply Take a piece of rubber tubing and wrap It around the meter then advised Tyler recalling he Two year sentence for arson Convicted of arson last week Gordon Adamson of Acton was sentenced Monday to two years less a day He remains in jail in Milton since a charge of attempted arson and over 20 charges of car theft will be heard in January The charges extend over a period of a year and four police detachments are Involved Last week court case concerned the charge of arson in connection with the fire Sept at the home of Mrs Ann Mowat and her son John had done it with his home find it noise which Doug Mason happened with not with others Tyler agreed but smilingly colleague hydro for the it was annoying reminded his charged nothing Suggest icy corners should be sanded Councillor Norm Elliott has asked council public works committee If it Is possible to concentrate sanding on Acton streets on corners and grades where it is particularly difficult for vehicles to manouever because of ice Elliott said last night Tuesday he has seen several cars slipping badly and having difficulty negotiating comers Councillor Chapman a public works committee member said the town works crew has already used half of its tons of sand He said 40 tons of sand was used on one sub division In one day Mayor Lea the fact that ice came ahead of the snow this winter is playing havoc with roads in all municipalities He said the works crew has tried in the past to apply calcium on corners only to find a worse condition with the water that results from the melting ice The mayor did suggest however that public works committee consider extending snow removal service in town He said he Is receiving a lot of requests In this regard and ad nutted snow piles sometimes build up to Intolerable heights Wires burn between Hydro town The harmonious relationship between Acton Hydro and the town office has developed some friction as a result of action at Park The Department of Transportation and Communications has told the town they won t pay subsidies for certain works unless they have separate invoices for each item such as recent lighting installations Acton Hydro has only one street lighting account when the town is for work it comes under one invoice The Department wants the town to have the daily time sheets for the men involved but the auditor from Ontario Hydro says if the town wants to see them they can see them in the hydro office Do we ask the town for daily tune sheets for their men chairman to the town queries He mallet it was the town which asked to pa for per cent of the cost of labor for cutting trees on Bower Avenue alter they requested Hydro do the work We never refused the town If we could help them the chairman said as hydro commissioners recalled past co operation by both municipal bodies The clerk blames It on the Minister Secretary Audrey told com miutoners It was the second Instance of irritation between Hydro and representatives of the town at the meeting barter the commission wanted to know they had to pay town auditors to come over and audit their books The secretary said the deputyclerk had said it was all part of the Act Our own auditors look after this Commissioner Ted Tyler reminded the commission We are being billed for for a dup heated service It was decided to write and ask the appropriate Department to point out where in the Act it says that Hydro has to pay for the town auditors The slight friction was the only irritant In on otherwise short Christmas meeting of the Commission Thursday The commission paid the bills including accounts of 31 kept up to date with the work of employees and then held an informal gettogether Hydro commissioner John Armstrong of Georgetown was a Traffic lights topplestruck by car Photo by Pink MONDAY AFTERNOON accident at the MillMain comer Gosselin of CoUmgwood to the Medical Centre Acton sent the traffic lights to the ground and the driver of the car estimated total minimum damage at One of the traffic light damage as estimated by Acton standards at the Mill Main P is about to both the corner toppled Monday afternoon car and light standard when struck by a car driven by The collision occurred at 1 CoUingwood The driver was alone In his car at the the main corner time and was treated at Acton Three more Medical Centre and released Three other accidents were impact disengaged the investigatedduringthepastweek traffic lights from the standard by the Acton police and they lay ineffectively out on December 13 at 1230 a the road collision took place at the Mill His Chev was towed away Main corner with charge laid of by Toth garage Minimum making an improper turn Drivers involved were Derek Halford with damage to his station wagon and Larry Allan Burlington with no damage to the truck he was driving Both were northbound at the tunc Mechanical failure December 19 a collision on Main N was blamed on mechanical and no charge was bid Drivers both headed south were Leo McGUloway Acton with estimated damage to his car and George with estimated to his car The tune was p Yesterday Tuesday a collision on Knox Ave was investigated and a charge is pending according to police Drivers involved were Jean Harris of township with car damage estimated at and Charles Acton with damage set at to his vehicle