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a SOME OF ACTONS most homes are along Bower enough room for commercial expansion along Mill St and special meeting of planning board last week where the mayor inside for full details of the meeting Avenue which is zoned CIH for possible expansion of the homes such as these should be zoned residential to remove the received support for his ideas It was decided to survey downtown business section Mayor Duby contends there is cloud from over owners heads This was the subject of a residents CIH zones to get their views on the subject Turn Ninety Eighth Year No 32 ACTON ONTARIO WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 7 1973 fifteen tents Dog detects drug cache Three Acton people have been charged following the seizure Friday of four and a half ounces of what la believed to be hashish Its value la about The three suspects scattered when chased by police but were apprehended The substance was thrown away during the chase The noted OPP drugsniffing dog Yoko was brought to Acton from by his handler John Foley and detected the main cache In plant pots at the rear of the Bank of Montreal Some of tin substance was also located beneath bushes on Mill St The case Is turned over to the Kitchener detachment of the Date of court appearance Is pending the outcome of the chemical analysis of the substance Two young men and a young woman have been charged According to police one of the men Is presently awaiting sentence on two trafficking charges laid by Toronto police and trial on a drug charge laid by Acton police The same day a young district girl was also charged with possession of what is believed to be a small amount of hashish She was stopped on Mill St Friday afternoon grant too late A Local Initiatives Program grant project for Acton has had to be abandoned due to late ac ceptance and unreasonable conditions The disappointed applicants are three high school teachers BUI Coats Boris Shean and Ian McGiUivray who sought as part of the cost of establishing a store They Just learned last week hat the application was provided their plan was changed And these changes according to the applicants were impossible to arrange Stadeat store Their proposal was for a student store run by adults an educational project students would look after the ordering Inventory and control of the store Daily operation would have been by two fulltime adults and one parttime adult over a six month period The idea grew from the of The Closet the present small store at the high school and the current closing of the towns stationery store The three teachers felt the time was apt to locate the store In the vacant premises left by Dills Stationery store Call laat week The plan was announced In November and the application from Acton was sent In early December After weeks with no reply Mr received a phone call from Ottawa last week indicating their grant would be approvedif they could provide the IS manmonths of work required within the nezt four months These 15 man months are required by the program Because of the nature of the operation the organisers felt they coutdn possibly even get going for a while with quarters renovations stock and staff all to be settled So to use up the required number of manhours in time the store would have to have a full- time staff of four The feeling was unanimous no way could It be done Although the application was for the total cost would have been about to be recovered In sales and Inventory The UP plan is Intended to provide employment in a period when unemployment rates are high and should start the beginning of December to be over by summer The announcement In November was felt to be late by the applicants here who had considerable figuring to do before their proposal could even be prepared Continued on Pant says Toronto garbage Toronto problem The Ontario government must intervene and stop metropolitan Toronto from dumping garbage in the countryside says Keith Matthle second vicepresident Ontario Federation of Agriculture In its annual brief to the Ontario cabinet demanded government intervention if Toronto politicians do not cancel their plans to bury tons of garbage yearly in rural areas Toronto has signed a preliminary contract with Rail to freight and t this tonnage annually In the countryside for the next IS years Toronto garbage is Toronto problem and the city must find its own solution says BrockviUe dairyman BIG INDUSMIN DUSTBIN AERIAL VIEW shows the aggregates mining and processing there would be few if any environmental problems from the operation of Limited at Actoa The company use of such fill The quarry covering about 115 acres is proposes to restore the quarry area using shredded already excavated to a of feet It could accept about compacted and baled garbage as fill and says it is confident one million a year of the compacted bales Announce new proposal to haul garbage here A solution to Metro Toronto garbage problem was wrapped In a more attractive and inexpensive package and presented to Metro Executive yesterday Tuesday by Anglo Recycling a division of Anglo- Canadian Pulp and Paper Mills Ltd Anglo president Robert flew in from Quebec City to announce in Toronto an Oder to handle up to 000 tons of residential refuse a year at a price of per ton cents per ton cheaper than the offer Metro accepted from rail to haul the aty garbage to a site believed to be in the area said his company plans to build a million recycling station for the treatment of solid waste and the processing commercial and residential solid waste on Com St in the city The Anglo announcement followed by one week the revelation that Ltd will proceed with an application to the waste management branch of the Department of the environment for permission to operate a sanitary waste disposal site in quarries on the Third line southeast of Acton Outlines proposal At a joint press conference Billingaley outlined steps in a process which would have Metro garbage sorted for materials which can be recycled then have the remaining waste shredded into compacted bales and shipped in covered gravel trucks to the Acton quarries where they would be stacked and covered each day with limestone Acton Georgetown reps added to region committee After minutes of discussion at Halton County Council last week the warden select committee on regional govern ment was enlarged to allow representation from Acton and Georgetown on the committee Georgetown Reeve Rlc Morrow bad recommended the entire council should be Included on the committee Members feared the committee would be too targe and unworkable with members The debate on what appeared to be a simple matter was prolonged when members Discussed at length the merit of additional people and the proper procedure In which to add the additional members Chairman of the five committee appointed by the warden at the councils first meeting of the year Burlington Preston pointed out It was a wardens committee and it was up to her and her alone to appoint members Acton and Georgetown members agreed but felt the fact they werent represented was unfair and unrepresentative Committee members Preston and LenCoxe of both argued that the conuuttees purpose was a fact finding one When the matter of representation was considered they argued they were considering the matternot from a parochial stand point from a county standpoint They said when it was time to vote and make decisions it would come to county counciL Acton Deputy Reeve Peter Marks pointed to minutes of the committees meeting at which the committee voted four to one to endorse the original county stand in proposing a three borough region Milton presented dissent from this view and was successful In convincing the province that Milton should centre a fourth borough In central Marks argued that it appeared the committee was more than a fact finding body and should have representation from seven municipalities that now exist Under the province proposals the seven municipalities would be reduced to four Warden MacArthur said felt there would have to be a change in the current setup I had hoped we would get down to the mechanics and leave boundaries to the end but we didnt do It that way The committee bdd their first meeting Jan Just two days after the meeting at which tbe province announced their pro posals for the region Last Tuesday tbe committee visited Niagara Region where they received advice and information from which they hoped to get some direction that may help them implement regional government in Acton Reeve Pat McKenzie and Georgetown Reeve Morrow were added to the committee Theyll Join OakvUIe Reeve Allan Masson Burlington Reeve Preston Deputy Reeve Len Coxe Warden and NassaKsweva Reeve Mrs A MacArthur and Milton Tbe committee was slated to visit Waterloo Region yesterday and York Region today The committee will meet to correlate information gathered and make a presentation to council by tbe end of this month Council have until Who wants to live near a giant garbage dump Nobody and especially not fanners We have too much pride in our land to idly permit others to sour It OFA representatives told premier William Davis and his ministers that burying garbage in deep pits would risk water table and air pollution growth of vermin and land depreciation The farm group called it an insult to farmers Much of this garbage is excessive packaging and wrapping from food This needless waste is demanded by the consumer but only serves to raise the price of food It is an injustice to pin the price of this on the farmer then dump it upon him protests Matthie screening Materials such as cardboard boxes newspapers automobile tires glass ana metal would be sorted out of the garbage for recycling Cardboard would be recycled by an associated company Acme Paper Products which already has a plant in the city and newspapers would be recycled at the AngloCanadian Mill in Quebec City Glass metals and shredded tire material would be sold to industrial consumers According to D Krever Continued on Page Groundhog spotted looked fat healthy Groundhog Day February passed with only one report of a groundhog being seen ami it turned out to be scrap of paper However Saturday Dabs Ellis of saw one of the furry creatures scurrying along a field on First line Erin township half mile north of Acton Meadows golf club He looked fat and healthy says Babs and determined to find something more to eat Tradition says that if the groundhog sees his shadow on February we can expect another six weeks of winter If it Is cloudy with no shadow then Spring the elusive lady with slow feet Is supposed to be just around the corner Friday weather was warm and cloudy with fog and little chance of the groundhog seeing a shadow so it is commonly supposed that we will have an early spring The skeptics will wait and see and most will hope it is true OConnor opposes capital punishment freshman Con MP Terry O Connor made a speech in the House of Commons at Ottawa Wednesday In which be called for a five year extension of the partial ban on capital punishment which he termed the lesser of the evils An abolitionist O Connor said taking a human life for any reason admits society inability to cope with the behavior of the killer Society must protect Itself from killers and rehabilitate them not perpetrate further deviation under the guise of legal murder he suggested 1 am opposed to the use of the death penalty Marks likes Milton March to make representation to the province Municipal report Several of tbe existing seven municipalities are developing reports of their own the meantime Burlington Deputy Reeve Dave Coons suggested of the municipalities should submit briefs to the county and then the county would submit all of the material along with its own brief to the province In the period between now and the end of March the county la expected to comment on the division of responsibilities the make up local councils and committees and a host of other Acton Deputy Reeve Peter Marks has gone on record as saying he is in favor of a four borough Halton region with Milton forming the core of the central borough Ive read their brief and it deals with considerably more than the county submission They deal with planning engineering servicing and community orientation and use these factors to prove their point It makes more sense than the county brief The county argued three boroughs are better because the two townships have to be split This doesn t make a lot of sense to me Marks told this newspaper Not council view Marks stressed that was his view not that of the north or that of Acton He is the first county councillor to favor for the fourth borough Burlington Deputy Reeve Dave Coons noted however that he wasn opposed to a fourth borough Tools stolen An overnight break in at Mackenzie Lumber was reported Saturday morning to Acton OPP Missing items totalled an estimated including elec trical tools Jigsaws chain saws and measuring tapes They were apparently on the display counter when taken Entry was gained through a back door on the south side according to police