The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

Warden Lang find his wife Erin township reeve 74 Wellington warden In Robert the first warden Wellington County to be elected from Erin Township unknowingly set a precedent Of the wardens more have been from Erin than any township the Inst being George Wallace In On January IS ceremonies were held to inaugurate great nephew of Robert Warden for 1974the eighth from Erin An extra cause for celebration for the first lime in years the inaugural was at tended by the parents of both the new war den and wife- Mr and Mrs Andrew and Mr and Mrs Carmen Parkin son all of llilhhurgli Later Warden Lang stated he fell one of the most control ibsues this year will he the proposed one million dol lar bridge it where the Grand and meet While the new bridge and the opening of the road allowance would reroute the traffic going through major decision concerns the possible bale of the county council building in and the move to countyowned property near Fergus and When asked about himself Mr Lang slated briefly There isnt much to tell never did a heck of a lot was born right on the family farm on the Fifth Line a Century Farm which he still owns and went to school I spent several years logging several summers out west harvesting and have liv ed here in this house for years guess thats all there Is to tell One might question the statement that Mr Lang Never did a of a lot For the past 16 years he has been on the school board and on Erin township council the past four years as reeve He has also served on numerous committees in various capacities Lloyd his wire Mildred and their family of fourRrlan Kevin and Val erie farm on the where the Langs have a cow milking operation Constable gets man and a 175 surprise Two men in a car later located the ear coming into charged with impaired Acton and began lo follow it driving had been reported In attempts lo lose the from to cruiser the car turned a police last Wednesday couple of corners and nipped and Cons Bruce into the parking lot beside St set out to meet Albans church them in the cruiser He soon There it came to rest Council nixes added help At the insistence of Miller Hal ton Hills council rejected a unites committee to up the number of emplo yees from lo Councillor Miller admitted the need for the two workers previously employed by the board this would be a transfer but thai lenged the need for am more Let not hire anymore until the need can be shown said Miller Councillor Em said one of the promised emplo yees would replace two time employees There is one actual person thats the mechanic helm maintained Hyde government was supposed to reduce costs and here we are adding staff after two week Councillor Pat backed Miller s stand pointing out there must be duplication in the three staffs to hire any more people for at least three months until the situation became clear reminded Ihey didnt know what grants they would receive or the amount of the assess Im concerned about the to the taxpayer he added Hyde contended one me chanic could not take over two extra fleets of trucks Councillor Com Mid the person they were propos to hire was not a but he is no way a mechanic Miller stated he spent quite a bit of time around Acton arena and understood Ihey did not need any more full time help Council endorsed Millers stand to turn the matter back to the works committee with only councillors Morrow and Hyde opposed Mayor Tom Hill will collect a year for his job as mayor of Hal ton Hills and as a member or Unit on regional council for a total of Hills council set the salary Monday night and passed the bylaw without any comment Councillors voted them selves a year The four regional councillors W Len Cone Ernie and Morrow will also the fl500 for attending regional council The salaries will be paid in monthly payments One third of the amount is tax free as it is considered expenses The Hills salary represent a big pay hike over the salaries received by three separate muncipalilles last year ExMayor of Georgetown Bill Smith a year and councillors received 2500 Actons ex mayor was paid a year plus 500 car allowance Acton councillors received 2000 a year former reeve Tom Hill now mayor of Hilts was paid less than a quarter of his present salary He received last year Esquesing councillors were paid 2000 a year The reeves and deputy reeves also received from County Council Council also passed a motion to pay Ihe council elect 35 a meeting for 11 meetings attended between October and December Staff members present at the meetings will also be paid In addition the steering committee which held five meetings between October and December 3 will be paid 35 a meeting council decided The three former heads of the municipalities Tom Hill Bill Smith and Us and the clerks and treasurers were members NINETY NINTH YEAR NO ACTON ONTARIO WEDNESDAY JANUARY SIXTEEN PAGES FIFTEEN CENTS Hold up recreation staff proposal Hills new recreation directors proposal lo have two area program was held up for further study by the administration committee of council day of last week Doug Collisons existing staff already includes pro gram Glen Gray who has been working re cently in Georgetown Mr Ho attended the committee meeting in town ship hall with administration committee members Roy Booth Morrow Dick Ilowitt and mayor Tom 11111 Couldnt Glen Gray han dle the tola urea Mar row expressed the com mittees feeling would decrease countered Present staff He had prepared a list of staff with Jon descriptions which Includes personnel pre sently working for Acton and Georgetown and these will be engaged by Hills This Includes Georgetown arena manager Don Gosling arena employees Doug VI- ion John Knight and Dennis Allen secretary Mrs Anna with cm Mrs Field In Acton employees will be arena manager Harold Town- sley with Hob Price and Mike Mr has been in crunched into a parked car and Cons McArthur got his men He got a little extra The parked car damage 175 was his own The two Georgetown men in the car were charged with impaired driving While he was charging the original second man owner of the car started drive away and was charged too Corp Bob Arbour arrived to assist A citizen from Rock- wood hod informed the police of the erratic driving procedures making the arrests possible The McArthur car had been left in SI parking lot by Cons McArthurs wife Marilyn who was at work in Ihe Free Press office There was one other ac in town and again the police were at the receiving end A Georgetown car skidded on Main at Knox Saturday and struck the siRn Damage Good thing it isnt Police Week grins Corp Arbour No shortage of heat here The fire brigade was summoned Friday afternoon to Clare Ct by Mrs Robert Butler who had a fire going out of control in her fireplace There was no damage the chimney got a good clean out Georgetown since August 1970 as recreation director Glen Gray was hired by Georgetown council last year as program New Jobs Chairman Roy Booth point out the overall concept of regional government was to amalgamate and save duplication Everywhere we turn we are creating new jobs and hiring new people Councillor Morrow pointed the two men in question arc already the recreation staff in Georgetown Recreation will be a prime leveller of Hills he said How long Georgetown will feel their of recreation is ro ue Councillor added that Acton would like to think they will get equal treatment However he fell the status quo should be maintained till more study is made of the duties of he present program Mr Gray A program for Acton and could work out of the Acton town of fice Mr thought He would look after programs and deal with intangibles likely preventing problems Secretarial staff would be available from the present staff A courier system has been proposed between Acton and Georgetown Mr pointed out the previous and recrea tion board and arena secre tary Mrs Doris Townslcy could assist with program here Mr reported people in his area arc uptight about it all and Major echoed You want to believe it All the people of Hills have a right to alt the facilities said chairman Booth Mr Booth and Mr Morrow agreed Mr Gray is already very busy and tended to agree with the need for another per son However they fell this person would not necessarily be assigned to the Acton and area You cant lump Acton and Georgetown together Mr declared Its not the nature of the beast If we were an urban centre there Firemen council pass peace pipe Firemen of Acton and Georgetown areas and Hills council took the advice Make peace not war to heart Thursday night and did just that A committee of council Mayor Tom Hill and coun cillors Mike Armstrong Ernie Sykes Pat and Coxe met with Georgetown firemen In the Georgetown flrehall at Jim and with the Acton In the Acton Thursday night and out Mayor Hill stated after the closed meeting Everything was settled to the satisfaction of firemen and council I think confidence In each other was restored It was good to get together and talk openly Councillor Icn said both firemens associations indicated they were prepared to give the some service and carry on In the same way they have in past years here There were firefighters present for Ihe meeting In Acton fire hall with just two absent Councillors aisiired them they wanted volunteer fire brigades and were 100 per cent behind them The meeting was very orderly and amicable Recreation feelers out to Acton groups HOT DOGS taste better outdoors Here Jim Wallace and his daughter Cindy two share a bite during the Acton Snowmobile club meet More pictures inside todays paper SS Letters are on the way to Acton organizations from Hills recreation director Doug this week Service clubs and sports organizations will be learning via letters that hes anxious to get to know them and wants to know what Ihcyv been doing or would like to do in the line of recreation Mr Collison and program Glen Gray of Georgetown expect to both be up to spend time here and talk to groups here if theyre asked They have already made some contacts A series of Friday meetings has been set up with the arena managers of the two towns Harold Townsley and Don Gosling These meetings will be in either Acton or Georgetown Playground The summer playground program and swimming lessons will continue under the new regional set up Mr Collison and Mr Gray have both already been on staff Georgetown and are presently extending their scope to include Acton and Esquesing township Mr request for another program has been delayed by Hills administration committee for further study Mr in his original request had envisioned this additional person looking after Acton and while Mr Gray continued as program coordinator in Georgetown The two meanwhile say they are looking forward to getting to know Acton people although Ihey expect new system may experience some growing pains The fire chief hassle Is now back to square One Ken appointed as fire chief of Georgetown area and Miek Holmes as fire chief of Acton area The proposal was made lo clear up confusion about three district chiefs two paid and one unpaid as a district chief Another complication was put forward by chairman Roy Booth lie could see the clerk administrator running to fires Councillor Booth reading from the Fire Act said a ire chief is the assistant to ihe fire marshal in any municipality and as such is the only one with the authority lo lock up and remove equipment after a fire if the origin of the fire is in doubt If there is no fire chief the responsibility then falls on the clerk ad ministrator maintained the chairman Mick Holmes Fire Chief of Acton area now designated Fire Area Number One said named could act as assistant to the Fire Marshal and bad been doing so for the past two Councillor Dick suggested the bylaw designates the two men as fire chiefs of the two separate hope we never get so silly we have to have a clerk administrator running to fires commented Councillor He pointed out that legislation read out by the chairman had never been designed for regional government Bill 151 was never designed for regional govern ment cither quipped Councillor Morrow Bill 151 is the bill which set up regional government in Councillor reminded members the legislation read by the chairman was dated 1962 and may have been updated since then The committee decided to write to Ihe Ontario Fire Marshals office asking if the two area chiefs created any prohlcm School guards scarce despite higher pay School crossing guards in Acton arc paid more than they are in Georgetown and are still impossible to find Councillor G Pat told Hills council night Councillor Hyde raised the question when he noticed in the finance and personnel committee minutes that no replies had been received to an advertisement for cross ing guards Councillor Hyde said Georgetown had raised the salaries substantially and wondered if a lower salary was the reason for no response in Acton Councillor said that couldnt be the reason because he Investigated and found Acton guards were paid advertisement will be rerun in on attempt to find crossing guards Ken Murray heads Agricultural Society Eighteen directors of Acton Agricultural Society were speedily elected and after a delay spent debating pro cedure elected their own top three men Monday night About to attended the annual meeting of the fair in the community centre and the nominating committees recommendations were snapped up and approved New president is Ken Murray first vicepresident Russell Murrayno relation second vice- president Brent Marshall The Three follow Mr Three who has been bumped up to the post of past president Directors are Ken Mar shall Brian Evans Ken Stubbington George Milne Jack Fryer Clifford Storey George Mallby Stan Mat thews Stan McEncry John McAdam Tony Debaptista Ron Wilson John and two sons inlaw of the new resident John and ill Lang Longtime secretarytre asurer Irene Swackhamer took to Ihe floor to remind the directors of procedure learned from years of ex perience Directors alone would vote for the top three posts and had to be paid- up members for to be able to do it So they duly lined up and laughingly paid Continued on paw AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY for will be led by a new board of directors elected Monday night New president is Ken Murray front left first vicepresident Russell Murray Standing are secretarytreasurer John Rowe and second vicepresident Brent Marshall About attended the annual meeting in the community centre