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25 north from An elect Ion promise is going to be fulfilled and people in this area have a new route to the north This week Gordon Carton Minister of Transportation and Communications made a joint announcement with M John Root that Highway win be extended from Ospringe to connect with Highway 89 and provide a new route to the north The province will assume the road In April The proposed alignment of the new portion of Highway will start at the junction of Highways and at and follow Highway 24 to the Junction of County Rood 24 It will follow Wellington Road and County Road northerly to Highway At this point the new highway will turn westerly to Highway 104 and then northerly along and County Road 4 to Highway about midway between Mount Forest and Shelbume Election promise John Root M for promised residents of his riding the new highway prior to the last provincial election and this was the first public indication that work would proceed although Reeve Uoyd Lang of Erin township said the Department had kept his council abreast of the route the road would take The route was chosen following a study which the Department says took into consideration environmental as well as economic factors involved It will provide an alternate route from the Niagara Peninsula to the Georgian Bay Bruce Peninsula The highway will be assumed by the province in the Spring of to allow time for the orderly transfer of maintenance responsibilities form the counties to provincial Jurisdiction Mr Root said the highway should benefit the whole area and tourists travelling north will be able to go through some of the most beautiful parts of Ontario Prime surface Meanwhile there was still no word from the Department when that portion of High way from Acton to will be paved The Free Press called them on Tuesday and was advised a prime asphalt surface composed of oil and asphalt would be applied in May or June of this year similar to the surfaces of other years A Department spokesman said the road would likely get a permanent surface within the next few years but no specific date has been set Ninety Eighth Year No ACTON ONTARIO WEDNESDAY APRIL 1973 Eighteen Pages Fifteen Cents Request reopening Acton Speedway Ron White appeared before Erin Township council Tuesday on behalf of Eugene Seminara to request a licence to reopen Acton Speedway Just south of on Highway Shortly before council had read a letter from IS nearby residents opposing the application Reason for the opposition were cited as noise traffic problems parking on the side of the 25 Highway littering dust and general intrusion on their day off Reeve Lang told council that while the track was In operation there were few complaints He added that it was there long before zoning bylaws were thought of and existed as a nonconforming use Half the residents had moved In before the track was opened and half after Donald Matneson thought that perhaps If meets were held on Friday evenings there would be no more complaints and suggested that if owner Mr a Toronto construction worker and Ron White appearing on his behalf contacted surrounding residents they could maybe come to some agreement Mr White said It was a waste for the track to just be sitting there but If he himself had it he would open It on only one or two nights during the season and Invite the Imperial Hell Drivers to appear In that case Reeve Lang commented we might consider granting a licence He added that council needed a written application stating explicit Intentions Councillor Bill McLean added And people who object can go away that weekend GUARD signs 900 Garbage demonstration planned in front of Toronto city hall Citizen of Year and the band on CITIZEN OF the Year George Elliott The decision was made Tuesday night by a committee of the Chamber of Commerce They considered names before making heir announcement and reveal that Elliott received nominations as a result of their request for suggestions The towns bandmaster and church organist a professor at the University of Guelph will be honored at the annual dinner later this month PhotobyH Coles The executive of GUARD Group United Against Rural Dumping has proposed that trucks laden with bagged garbage set out from Pickering Port Hope and meeting simultaneously at the Toronto city hall There they will contact Mayor David and other city dignitaries and suggest the cement pool In front of Torontos deluxe city hall would make a good garbage site GUARD hopes to stage the demonstration at an early date before fanners are occupied with seeding and ploughing Sub post office opens precedes carrier service Acton first sub post office opens this week Its located in drug mart with pharmacist Gary Barton now duly sworn in as sub postmaster in charge and clerk Mrs as clerk Postmaster Gordon McKeown had made the customary request for a sub post office expecting letter carrier service In Acton soon While his request has been granted all necessary equipment sent It now seems carrier service will be delayed by quite a few months It had been expected by the first of September but the postmen likely wont start walking till January or February Expect more When mall Is delivered door-to- door the office becomes a necessity People no longer need to go to the main post office No fooling man charged Two April Fools Day Incidents Investigated by Acton OPP proved anything but funny for the people involved Just an hour and a half after the expiry time a local driver was stopped by police and charged with having overdue license plates The man became upset and as a result was also Student chosen Sharon Barber has been chosen to participate in this years Rotarysponsored Adventure In Sharon whos In grade 12 will go to Ottawa May to to Join students from all across Canada in the annual program there charged with causing a dis turbance About an hour later a parked car in the Dominion lot owned by Michael Wilson of Milton was struck by an unknown vehicle Damage was estimated by police at 100 A car stereo and tapes were also reported stolen from a car on April 1 Seizure charges On April a drug and liquor seizure was made as a result of information from police Five local youths In a vehicle were stopped One was charged with possession of marijuana and another with having liquor in other than a residence Other liquor charges were laid during the week and a local youth was charged with creating a dis turbance to pick up mail so appreciate a facility nearer their homes Other sub post offices will also be set up before long its not known yet where they 11 be Milton and Georgetown each have several sub post offices in conjunction with their carrier service It a convenience explains post master McKeown The new sub office will sell stamps and money orders and register letters and there will be a mail drop But there will be no facilities for parcels It takes a different category of office for that complete with scales Mr Barton will set up his own hours for the post office in his store Mr McKeown explains he made a request for the sub post office as soon as Acton had qualified through population growth for letter carriers All tied up However an agreement requires that every postal walk must have a count done by letter earner post officers and theyre all tied up with work for the time being Equipment came from the post office stores Last to arrive delaying the opening from Monday were the money order imprinter and requisition forms Decade ago The date of the opening of the sub office with the tenth anniversary of the opening of the new post office building on Bower Ave It was on April Fools Day In that George and officiated at the ribboncutting ceremony there At a meeting of the GUARD committee last Wednesday at the home of Fred Brooks Llmehouse it was agreed that the efforts of those opposed to rural dumping by the dues In the Esquesing Port Hope Pickering and areas should co ordinate their efforts and It was felt that the demonstration would be an effective tool to demonstrate the solidarity of the various groups Contact groups Rick Sales was authorized to contact Derail Dumps today at Harriston Group Against Garbage at Pickering Derail Dumps Today at Port Hope Pollution Probe and the Ontario Federation of Agriculture and other concerned groups to co ordinate the demonstration Mayor Is to be told the country people have supplied beef beans and bacon to the city but if Toronto buries them in garbage rendering farm land unusable for crops or cattle and watersheds become polluted there will be no delivery of those commodities It was reported that GUARD membership has risen to and many lists have yet to come In The committee has sent for topographical and hydrography maps of the area In order to pinpoint wells depths and types of soils and gravel The committee was also concerned about the level of sodium chloride In Lake Ontario after receiving Information that it has risen from parts per million in 1960 to parts per million Figures show the level Is Increasing one part per million per year Drinking Is considered unsafe after 250parts per minion the committee was told and the nitrates are harmful to pregnant women and heart patients YEARS OF age on Tuesday Mrs Albert McCutcheon still has good health She lives on Young St with her daughter Mrs Struthers another daughter Is Mrs Sinclair Mrs was born at Everton and came to Acton In Coles Three hurt in crash Three people were injured In a singlecar accident on Knox Ave at 1 Saturday March 31 Driver of the car Sheldon Barker Peel St and one of the passengers Linda Mowbray Place were the more seriously injured Sharon Gordon Main St had cuts and bruises All were taken to Guelph General hospital by ambulance The car struck a tree on the south side of Knox Damage to the car was estimated at a minimum of 1500 per cent increase in county tax levy Facing a 5 per cent Increase in spending for 1973 Halton County Council will levy for from municipalities In the county The budget calls for an expend iture of for roads and for general expenses Acton will pay Burlington George town Milton 1427560 and 68171 The amount levied averages a per cent increase over last year The budget was reduced by 22000 when members of county council cut a 20000 grant for Harbor from the budget and reduced the budget for the Wardens Dinner by Individual committee budgets were presented to the adminis tration committee earlier and with the exception of the two cuts the budgets were accepted as presented Milton Deputy Reeve Marjory Powys and Deputy Reeve Terry Mannel voted against raises for county council They were easily outvoted and the move brings the salaries up from to for Councillors and to for the Warden Council approved expendit ures of to cover councillors fees travel allow ances conventions and similar expenses of that nature The budget makes provision for for general adminis tration which applies chiefly to personnel in the office operation and another 244700 for general government which includes maintenance of Janitor service repairs and other expenses involved in maintaining POSTMASTER IN a white coat pharmacist Gary Barton is sub postmaster at a new facility in Glenlea Drug Mart and Mrs Stuckless is postal clerk Both will handle their new duties along with their regular service in the store The sub post office will be especially handy when mall carrier service begins here and residents dont have to go to the main post office for their mail- The wicket opened for business Wednesday Coles Even though the council was notified of Emergency Measures Coordinator Ron Beattys resignation the council budgeted for expenses Council approved a budget from Social and Family Services of 1109171 a budget for Centennial Manor of and a budget of 53640 for Childrens Aid society The total expenditure required for Halton County Health Unit amounts to The Halton County Museum Budget one of the smallest at caused most dtscusstoa The budget la up over last years estimate- of CoundUora objected to phone bills of and to salaries which accounted for