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ELMER SMITH Two retiring principals honored hundreds parade dine dance See pages Bl and B3 Pat Mckenzie Year No ACTON ONTARIO WEDNESDAY MAY Fifteen Cents White sticks with four unit Halton and East Flam borough will remain with Went- worth County but the remainder of will form a twotiered regional government sub as originally proposed Ontario Treasurer John White told the Ontario Legislature Monday White refused to reveal a definite date but rumors Indicate legislation will be Introduced In the house within two weeks which will bring to Peel Wentworth and the area east of Metro Toronto on Jan announcement that the region of Halton will be similar to what the government proposed In January appears to mean a victory for the town of Milton in its battle to retain the central part of as a separate borough In a regional govern ment Although the other municipalities In pressed for a three borough region lumping Milton with north the Ontario treasurer appears determined to keep Milton and a central swath of Halton separate Plenty of help White praised the extensive public contribution to the Hill running for mayor Halton reeve Tom Hill Is the first to publicly throw his hat In the mayoralty ring for the new North borough In a brief statement at the conclusion of Mondays meeting of council Hill said he hid made up his mind to run and now that the Hon Jaoh White has made his announcement he was making It public Tom Hill a native of Glen Williams was first elected to Esqiwsing council In 1065 He served three years on council before elected as deputyreeve a post he held until 1970 Then he engaged In a two way race for reeve with Malcom Freeman which he won easily following the retirement of George Currie In 1972 Hill defeated challenger Russell Miller in a close race for the townships fop post Other contenders Other possible contenders for the mayoralty Include Mayor Bill Smith of Georgetown former Georgetown reeve now Coun cillor Bill Hunter Acton mayor Lea Duty has never publicly announced his Intention to run for the top post of the North area He was not available for a statement It Is possible he could run for a council post Esquesing assures Legion of help for new hall council assured three representatives from the Acton branch of the Royal Canadian Legion they looked sympathetically on plans to build legion hall on property adjacent to the towns borders in the township but would have to study the legal position before committing themselves Any way we can help we will Reeve Tom Hill assured spokesman and branch secretary Gord president Bob and John Gov The matter will be discussed En committee prior to next Mondays regular meeting Mr McCutcheon outlined the Acton branchs plans for a building to cover half anacre of the 10 acre tot on which the Legion has an option The land belonging to Cecil is situated on Fairy Lake west of Cameron St Three and a half acres of be tot He In the town but McCutcheon explained they wished to take advantage of the natural sur roundings so the best location for the building would be in the township He told council per cent of the branchs membership resides In Reeve Hill suggested the branch should first get a separation and building permit Mr Goy told council they anticipated no problems for services since the town has agreed to provide them and a letter from the Credit Valley Con Authority thought the building would be suitable for the site But Goy told council bow it was that the approvals be expedited as quickly as possible to qualify a centennial project we must get a permit by August if we want to get it finished he said The reeve said council would have an answer in a week TOM HILL Candidate for mayor Freak accident truckcar tow Two accidents In town were investigated by Acton during the past week An unusual accident occurred last Wednesday afternoon at l 5 m when a truck towing a car jackknifed on Young St Driver was Joe Kaczmarek London and damage was estimated at The car being towed struck the truck bumper on the turn causing the freak accident At 10 p m a car and motorcycle were involved in a collision Driver of the car was Fournler Georgetown Motorcycle driver Steven Porty suffered minor injuries development of our original proposals There has been universal recognition of the need for restructuring local government in this rapidly growing area of Ontario and there has been a fairly substantial concensus of how it should be done he told the legislature in January ana parliamentary assistant Arthur K Mcen announced proposals for reglonalliation In the area west of Metro and asked for local comments on the plans Milton was satisfied with the Idea of Coining north Oakville and and parts of southern and- with the county town in one borough south and south Burlington in two more and the remainder of North in a fourth All the other municipalities opposed Milton taking such a large swath through the centre of the county White and Meen explained the proposed parkway belt that will run east west through southern should be the boundary between the proposed Milton based central borough Oakville and Milton Latest word from Queens Park is that the route of the parkway belt will be announced next Monday June Keep together The four north municipalities felt all of Esquesing and Nassagaweya should remain in the northern unit Nassagaweya Council has maintained the entire township should remain as one unit and when it appeared half might go with Milton and half with the north council wrote the treasurer asking him to keep Nassagaweya intact and join it all with Milton Southern boundary of the Miltoncentred borough In Oak ville was proposed as Just south of Lower Base Line and Oakville has strongly protested the loss of acres of open rural and park lands In Burlington the south boundary followed jagged line south of Kilbride and stretching south to below Five Slderoad Exact boundaries of the new region will be delineated In the legislation expected to be introduced soon In the legislature The province hopes to pass the legislation in June name a regional chairman in July and hold October elections so the region will officially get underway next Jan Remanded Thomas charged with capital murder in the death of his wife Colleen appeared in court in Milton again last Wednesday and was again remanded POSTHUMOUS AWARD of the Eric Hamilton Silk are superintendent G E Code Corporal Ronald Mason trophy for long and commendable service was mede at Mrs Helen Mason Corporal J O P P A of the Burlington to Mrs Helen Mason on behalf of her Milton detachment Corporal Bob Arbour Acton husband Corporal Ray Mason head of the Acton and Constable Nick of Acton OPP detachment of the OPP for many years Left to right Posthumous award to Corporal Mason Corporal Ronald Mason was promoted and posted to No district on the date his father the late Corporal Ray Mason was awarded the Eric Silk trophy for long and commendable service Corporal J district representative of the Ontario Provincial Police Association made the posthumous tation to Mrs Helen Mason on behalf of her husband who headed the Acton detachment of the P in a presentation at district headquarters In Burlington Corporal Ray Mason served a total of 35 years with the Ontario Provincial Police with postings Milton and finally at the Acton detachment He was promoted to the rank of Corporal in and assigned as detachment commander at Acton where his fair and dedicated administration was respected by many Acton and area residents Corporal Mason died in July 1972 after years with the Acton detachment His eldest son Ronald fallowing in his father a footsteps Joined the and was promoted and posted to No 3 district headquarters for duty at Ihe detachment on the day of the presentation Also present at the were Corporal Bob Arbour detachment commander at Acton and Constable Nick assistant A lativc from Acton Chamber solve stalemate In on effort to solve the current stalemate about the organization of the Acton centennial com mittee the Chamber of Com merce Is endeavoring to arrange a meeting at the Dominion Hotel on Wednesday June to discus the future of the committee and the centennial project Mayor Lea Duty has verbally given his support to the meeting and said be attend The Chamber tending out letters to all organisations In town with this information The Chamber of Commerce some weeks ago met with the Centennial Commission and resulting from this meeting and further contact with most of be service dubs and the Mayor it became obvious that there were great differences of opinion on what should be done as a cen tennial project and how it should be organised To clarify the position the above mentioned meeting has been The Dominion Hotel win undertake to supply snacks and the cost will be one doDar per bead The Chamber hopes you will be able to send one or two rep resentatives who could represent the opinion of your organization and apeak on your behalf We hope to obtain from this meeting a project which will be accept able to most of the organizations in town and what Is equally important a plan to cooperate in the division of work and res ponsibility which we feel is too much for one individual to ac complish on a voluntary basis Highest honor conferred on two Acton Guides Canada Cords and pins were presented to two Acton Guides of the 2nd Acton company Sunday morningCarol Grant and Diane Buckman Canada Cords are ho highest honor in Guides and this was the first time that the cords have been awarded to members of an Acton company Carol Diane and Heptner were awarded the second highest honor the all round cord In a ceremony April 16 The presentation of the cords followed a national guides church service outside the scout hall Sunday morning Acton commissioner Rose Hall put the cords on the girls with Company Captain Marjorle Slrongltnarm presenting the pins Sports day A sports day occupied the rest of the afternoon for Guides and Brownies attending the service Carol Diane and Erika along with parents and guide leaders were guests for supper at the home of Mrs Strongitharm There the Scout and Guide mothers presented with a spoon and Carol and Diane with guide rings After receiving their allround cords Carol and Diane began to workontheirCanada Cords Part of the requirements were that the girls serve in a nursing home Carol and Diane each worked in Kellys and homes in Acton Another requirement was that they earn their camp leaders badge by taking a patrol of Guides for a camping weekend and be responsible for all the details emblems through the HaU presented the cords to the ram who of a varying number are members of the second Acton badges company of Mrs Strongitharm The have been involved in right in a ceremony Sunday morning Guides four yean CAROL GRANT and Diane Buckman were the first Acton Girt Guides ever to receive Canada Cords the highest Guide honor Acton commissioner Mrs Rose