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Regional councillors set pay at 8500 per year Taxpayer will be asked to provide close to a quarter of a million dollars In salaries for the new regional council The new council held its first meeting Monday and one of the first Items on the agenda saw the council vote salaries of for each of the regional councillors The chairman receives a year by provincial statute A motion by Burlington Councillors Dave Coons and Vern would have set the salaries at per year That motion was defeated when Chairman Allan Masson was forced to break a 13 tic A subsequent motion setting the salaries at Introduced by Burling ton Councillor Tom Suthcr land found sufficient support and was passed It alone Georgetown Councillor Morrow had suggested set ting the salaries at a year the same as present county councillors receive and have the salary reviewed after six months when it became clear how much word was Involved Chairman Masson pointed out councillors would only be paid after Jon l Coons argued that councillors should be paid from Oct 18 on That was the date of the Inaugural meeting Chairman will check with Queen Park to determine whether or not be paid for service to Ian I Councillor Archie described the raise as criminal and said Intro ducing such a controversy at the first meeting of the council would It appear said he con It an honor and duty to Bene Mr recognized If nit the people were to be paid for the work done he costs would be even higher Councillor Bill Mason of Hie said the sum was too much He said he to ex peases in nn effort to allay fears of spiralling Increases In the cost of government Continued on Page NINETY NINTH YEAR NO ACTON ONTARIO WEDNESDAY OCTOBER Fourteen Pages Flttoen Cents AHS harriers make finals Acton High school senior boys crosscountry team will travel to North Bay this weekend to represent the Peel secondary schools association In the Ontario high school The AHS team which won the Halton County champion hip two weeks ago finished second to Port Credit in the Peel meet at Kelso Conservation area in Milton last Wednesday The senior team scored 68 points mis sing the Pee Halton title by just five points Frank sixth Frank Houston placed sixth In the field of covering the Ihree mile hilly course in an excellent time of IS IB Glen McKentle was 17th Jones Scott 23rd and Dennis Blake Jerry Kooyinans of White Oaks won the race In HIS In the girls event Heather Near Just missed qualifying for the Ontario meet as an Individual runner as she placed izth In a field of 81 Anne Smith of Acton finished Although the midget boys team was out of the running Randy Young finished out of Boo Charctte was the top Acton runner in the Junior boys event He fin lined out of B0 Score Mike Dixon of Georgetown ran the race of his life to upset Milton Simon Joyncs In the junior race The senior boys will be IcavlngTor North Boy Friday night Their race Is at Saturday afternoon The team has trained hard for the past year and will carry every good wish for success from Acton and area residents to North Boy with them AHS physical education head Bruce Andrews a track star himself at Acton High In the early Ms coaches the team It Is much better to sit tight than to drive in that con dltlon says the Ontario Safety League Commencement at school Friday LEAVING ST parish after five and a The Altar Guild also presented half years the Rev and Mrs Harry Dawson were em with a fire screen and the ACW with a presented with a purse from the congregation Sun painting of the church by Mrs Laura A dav Pictured with the are rector s war reception was held following his final service Sun den Harold Denny and people warden George day morning Regional government bill extends Separate School Bd jurisdiction Graduating students of Acton high school were launched on the next of their lives aboard a platform shaped like the prow of a ship with a nautical back drop on the gym wall In an hour and a half long ceremony that moved with dispatch certificates scholarships bursaries and I were presented to the large group seated on specially reserved heals on the floor Proud parents and friends filled the remaining chairs in the gym the bleachers In the gallery nc grade 13 graduates leave the school with Ontario scholarships there were In Ihi graduating class to receive secondary school honor graduation diplomas Graduation diplomas grade were presented to The began with the banquet at the Presbyterian church and concluded at a dance at At ton Meadows golf club Maxwell a student in the three year degree course In radio TV arts was valedictorian for her classmates Wc all face the future with optimism assured tin commencement audit but shall always profit from the precepts learned at Acton high school She recalled how her class had started high school at the be I lorn of the ladder Now they had made It to the top and were starting at the bottom again She reviewed the years between and the Intangible benefits which accompanied the education they hud ex We learned there reward for real effort she said Teacher Ken Hits in traduced the valedictorian as an active student with high average one Involved In my activities an I with outward warmth and friendliness She lhanked by student council president Top Assistant rlnlc I presented the Ontario scholarships insisted Brian Skerrctt Top student In grade 13 was Shales with per overall average She Is working but Intends to go to the I niverslty of next Doll In also accepted Alton award from I in Met illivray and the Mission award from Hill 1 Another Ontario scholar was JoAnne Vlletstr who also received the University Women club of Milton scholarship from former I of Moderns Mrs Marlon Hied Building Products from Kevin the Amos Mason on Pan 3 For the first time Catholic taxpayers In can now direct education taxes to the County Roman Catholic School board regardless of where they live In the county but board chairman Dr of does not think it will make any immediate differ Bill 151 which established regional government In Ha ton also extended the powers of the Separate School Board through the entire county Previously only residents of Burlington Milton and Georgetown could have their education tax applied to the separate school system Under the old legislation taxes could not be directed to separate schools unless tax payers within a three mile radius of a given place got together and formed a separate school board Then the board would merge with the county Separate School Board and children could Acton Nassagaweya township and part of never participated In the Separate School system but the new bill makes this possible Board chairman acknowledged they could collect taxes in Acton and the two townships under the new system but he says there Is much to be con sidcred before any move Is made We believe in the philosophy of Catholic Hon but dont believe in emptying the public schools by building new ones he said noting also the Ministry of Education has set out guide lines for sharing facilities with the public schools He acknowledged the separate school board could collect taxes without any school facilities in Acton and the two townships but said he would not favor taking the taxes and not providing any thing in the way of facilities Bussing children from Acton Nassagaweya and to schools In George town and Milton Feasible perhaps but said the schools in the two towns are full now to the extent where a new school is planned for Milton In 1975 He said the County Board of Education Is also planning a public school in Milton many problems have to l worked out on a mutual A He said much about room In the schools been created by the teacher ratio In practice it about 30 to one but guideline it the Ministry of there is still theoretically lot of room in the schools Much of what the County Separate School Board does in the way providing new facilities children in the three municipalities on the wishes of parents who create a demand places Meanwhile study of the live there noted such as Acton but he assessment potential in the an influx of many new people sizes the Board w II hove to newly opened areas will be who have been used to the deal with the problems as done to sec if this can help the separate school system can they crop up Board decide Garbage subject for 50 Community Centre The Coalition consists of re cycling environmental and land use groups across Ontario separate schoob will depend if us in Hills population is and Burlington 912 A permanent committee was acclaimed at the meeting Bill Johnson of A It IJ and Helen Hansen of Pollut on Probe Georgetown will represent this area on this committee Mr Johnson was asked to prepare a brief on behalf of the Coalition which he will resent at the environmental in November GUARD head was disappointed at the poor showing from local groups He pointed out that if Hills docs become the rcc for Burlington and garbage there will be renewed ntercst Plenty of fowl balls in this world series Canada goose step across Acton ball diamond VIVACIOUS Maxwell was valedictorian for her classmates at the high school commencement exercises in the school gym Friday An Ontario scholar and winner of a staff scholarship she Is studying radio and TV arts at Ryerson Institute Hers was the only speech in a quick moving program Families and friends filled the gym floor and bleachers above Photo by Gibbons Cancel bikathon Pouring ram caused can cellation of the UNIttr last Sunday Organizer rimer Smith has been to upcoming reports without much lea sure nee rain is indcated for is weekend again He will be having announcements made In the schools when a new date is decided Sponsors have backed the riders and one rider at so much a lap in the park All out All the town P force will be on duty tonight for Halloween However Bob Arbour is not expecting trouble Halloween has been observed sensibly in recent while the youngster thoroughly enjoy themselves Shoplifting A fen cases of shoplifting have been reported to Acton according to Corp Bob Arbour The incidents are still under investigation