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New industry expects late May start Construction of the new Industries plant Is about two months behind due to difficulties with brick and block layers and bad weather conditions The plant is ex to be In operation very soon though probably by the end of May president plans to have IB people working in the plant located in the Acton Industrial by the end of this year After the plant is set up he expects develop ment to be much faster with an estimated employment of 100 people In three years though the plant will be highly automated The em says Mr will be drawn from the town of Acton and the surrounding area At this time the big hold up Is the half load limit restricting the use of heavy equipment and delivery of heavy equipment to the building site The building is progressing slowly with the roof and port of one side open but ready for assembly when equipment to be used in the plant is Installed Oil producing Is an oil producing industry According to Mr they will provide a full range of lubricants They will eventually be refining crude as well as re cycled oil The company aim Is to give the public the right price on high quality cants The company plans to stand fully behind the guarantee on their products Mr says they would like to make expenses and a a mot profit on their Investment but they do not Intend to be a heavy profit making company In this way they hope to lower the prices of lubricants on today market Ninety Ninth Year No ACTON ONTARIO WEDNESDAY MAY Cents Two Acton youth grants approved Opportunity for Youth grants have been awarded once again this year to two groups of students in Acton Their Include a senior citizens program and a revival of last years hand grant In Inst year summer program the band succeeded in training their students In instrumental music and also drafting some of them into the regular Acton f itircns Band This year purpose of Instructing grades five to eight In instrumental music is basically the same as last year Also they plan to take their students to Rock wood for week of day camp What will be new this year Is the formation of a junior band from last year students The participants of the band program Include Carolyn Mcrrin Mary Watson Dave Morris liar barn Pratt Janet Allan and Janls They were notified of their project acceptance last Monday Their actual grant is Senior The other 0 croup calls itself and in in a senior citizen aid program The people in the group wont to set up a phone system whereby any senior citizen can call the group They plan to do odd Jobs for these people such as cutting Music festival at MZB today It that time of year again v hen the public school dents in the county compete for top honors In the annual festival Wednesday Today schools win be in the running including Martin Street Percy Merry Howard Wriggles worth I imehouse Glen Wil hams and M who is host for the Ttu original purpose of this yearly event which began in was encourage vocal music in the Hal ton county schools The originators of the project were a group of women from the Palermo branch of the Women lute Today program has greatly expanded In com pan son to the first competition In which only rooms took part Due to the tremendous in school population there art now four separate festivals and one county final grass reading to them or just keeping them company Members of this grant include Valeric McGinn Sandy Ross Melody Hodgson Mary MeGllloway Pearl Harris and Mary Ann DeHaan As one member of the group said there really for them in Acton not very many people take an interest in the elderly The program will run from June to September 2 with a possible continuation after the summer months The idea Is to see what happens this summer how well they succeed though before even considering this future aspect of the project Hal ton has 13 successful Opportunities for Youth grants approved worth MO M Terry Connor revealed this week Three of the successful applications were from Georgetown two from Acton one from Erin and seven were There were no successful grants from Milton Successful applications were culled from ap plicants for grants and represent jobs and man Quarry owner sees local gravel shortage area around Hills will be out of gravel within 10 lo IS years J Mac Duff operator told general administration committee last week He asked the committee to approvt the extension of his gravel pit operation at Lot Con into Lot owned b Macassa Mines and Fred Brooks Mr Duff said he realized an amendment to the official plan was needed but said he wanted a vote of confidence from the council IK explained part of the property had been designated extractive four years ago the operation had lit Only pits which were in opt ration during the prev ious e month period received licences under the Pits and Quarries Act said Mr Duff Chairman Roy Booth asked what percentage or gravel would be used in Region Mr Duff answered that percent of his sand and gravel went to and percent to Peel He said over half of his business is pick up and the rest is trucked a maximum of 11 or miles Chairman Booth raised the question of rehabilitation and pointed to the moorish landscape of some abandoned quarries on Highway 10 Mr Duff bald he had presented plans for rehabilitation some time ago which Included planting and sodding for recreation pur Eases or for housing of some He said he was willing to Work with the planning advisory committee to work out an agreement He warned it could never be put back lo farmland because it never was farmland He emphasized the planting and sodding must be done or he would not remain in business He foresaw a acre lake as a possibility Councillor Dick said the Ideal solution for both Mr Duff and the neighborhood would be the extraction of the grovel before the hydro towers come through then Ihe towers could be lowered The present land is high and rolling Y renovations for centennial emergency meeting of the board was held Monday May to discuss recent and damage at the M C A More security measures are being taken with police co operation The Y is In bad condition board members agreed and is also being badly abused Programs have been cancelled and the board Is trying to lockup and cleanup the building In preparation for good programs storting In the fall with good instructors and supervision The Men and clubs have undertaken as a centennial project to the and will be carrying out several fund raising projects throughout the year The board wants to sec the building serve the community of Acton all ages for many purposes But at present it Is of no good to anyone as people arc using It for sheer des the board told the Free Press We want It to be a plate of fun and fellowship and we arc earnestly requesting the public support in helping us when we for It They would like to hear from anyone who has time ideas or concern lo share board will try to keep the public Informed on the M as as possible Town workers in conciliation lit presents lives of Local Canadian Union of Public Service Employees and Mill representatives met with a provincial conciliation officer Wednesday in an attempt to iron out a age dispute which sees the two parties seven cents Local 7J with members includes the outside workers of the three former communities of Acton Georgetown and A strike would garbage collection roods and parks maintenance and grave digging The lown offer of 38 cents hike bringing the laborers rate to was rejected by the union who are asking a cent an hour Increase This would bring Ihe laborer rate to an hour Three weeks ago Ihe membership voted to strike if their demands were not met Local president Kent Robinson said the minimum rate in the neighboring towns of Brampton Burlington and Is an hour The union is also asking five cents an hour premium for shift work and a slight increase for mechanics and heavy equipment operators Drag strip may be house dotted Residents of Ihe and Sixth Line who have made known their annoyance with the nearby dragstrip may have good news soon The owners of Toronto International Drag way ore hoping to convert the drag strip to a planned estate dev Two local owners told this newspaper they are hoping to build houses on 77 two acre lots on the land north of High way Seven between the Fifth White has issued an order d signaling the Niagara Planning under the of The Niagara Planning Act The order 2 printed in the Out March Ifi Mr will present Ihe order drfinint the planning ire to lh lcgishtiire for required in Hie ict Iroptrty owners in Ihe in i will lie able now to dilermiiu which pirt of land is within of the Planning Area Information owing said could the at or into office at St Now pi area has been defined subject lo confirmation by the legislators the Ministry of Housing will circulate all for subdivision nil approvals to official plans or amendments the Niagara Commission for comment The legislation providing for Hit Niagara PI inning and the commission was Introduced in June 1971 The com mission Under Ihe chair of is appointed in November Inside The plan to be drawn up by the Commission will be for ireu encompassed by the of Ihe planning There ire now no lopmenl controls in in jny part of Ihe Minister on the recommendation of the commission will place development controls on selected parts of the escarp ment in trie future and Sixth Line Medallion Aire Estates is the name of the company who will lay the plan before the general administration com mlttee of Halton Hills council next week A spokesman said they have three choices they can continue to run the themselves to some people from United States who want to lease it as a dragway for five years or they can turn it into an estate rHE NIAGARA ESCARPMENT Planning Area has been defined and now needs only confirmation by the Ontario Legislature The planning takes in all of Acton part of the old town of Milton and skirts Georgetown The bold lines on the map trace the planning area Three leave meeting in protest Representatives of the Ministry of Housing met with Regional Council In a three hour private meeting Thursday to unveil plans for a Housing Action Program in Three members all from Hills left the meeting before the delegation arrived Pat Morrow and Ernie were among those leaving and protesting the minister decision not to appear after calling the meeting Some members of council were upset when they learned the of Housing Sydney I going to be in attendance The meeting was called lo order but adjourned before Assistant Margaret Scrivener and staff representatives arrived at regional headquarters in Burlington conference Mrs Scrivener and Deputy Minister Michael Warren held a short press conference following the session with reglonar councillors She explained the objective of the program was to ac Ihe rate at which homes were being built in areas where pressure is the htm lest Ottawa Thunder St Mane and the tentre Region wire listed is those areas under the most pressure to provide housing at reasonable price The Toronto Centred Region includes everything from to Hamilton Mrs Mrs she hoped In involve developers on 101 Study link in five murders IB tarold Neda Novaks IhxIv near the Credit in Mississauga last brought the number of unsolved murders of young women In Ihe Peel area to five It has also caused regional police forces to reopen some of the cases which they had reluctantly closed unsolved Roth Hilton and Peel police are now considering the possibility lhat the same person assumed to be male may hive been responsible for all five dc The firsl victim was Janice Mon originally from Saskatoon Nobody knew where was coming from or where she was going but one day in September of two hunters found the remains of her badly decomposed body in an bush near Acton She had been shot in the head The second girl to die was Komorowski a summer student living in residence at McMastcr while workingonherM A shortly before she was to be married she was dragged from a path outside Brandon Hall and strangled in the woods with a meticulously fashioned noose Summer students and convention delegates heard her dying screams just before a small car sped away foundnrar Milton Ni it the end of August farmer cutting hay in field at Highway and the Lower Base Line south of Milton found the bodvofl7 Pauline Dudley She had last been seen alive in Bronte one week earlier when she began hitch hike to her home near Milton after visiting her mother in The body decoyed quickly in the humidity and police were unable to dttermine the exact cause of death They found a hairline fracture In her Jaw the only evidence of foul play Constance Dickey 19 of had just moved into a women residence at Fnndale College three days previously when she was last a Mississauga bank last September Later in the month searchers found her nude body gagged and bound in chicken wire in a the campus She had been sexually assaulted and police again were unable to determine the cause death In October Novak disappeared on way home from Secondary School She was believed lobe hitch hiking at the time Last week fishermen digging for worms found her body not far from the place where Constance Dickey had been discovered Small tears in the back of her coat have led police to conjecture that she may have been killed with a knife Police have few clues but some similarities hue emerged in all five murders The killer if it is only one person evidently has a penchant for attractive lightly built young girls School and college campuses to be a favorite ground especially since many girls itch hike to and from them In Neda Novaks case the girl was compulsive about hitch hiking and would wait an hour for a ride rather than walk Police suppose ihe murderer is someone of a reasonably trustworthy appearance Violence is an obvious common denominator In all five deaths and Con stance Dickey at least indicates some kind of sexual perversion Similar deviant tor could easily fit into the other four tragedies And the murderer or derm must be clearly familiar with the region since all bodies have been discovered In wooded or obscure areas The type of murder w capon used has not been constant as often Is the in multiple murders committed by the same individual but this might merely indicate Ihe killer is extremely clever and thoughtful In none of the five cases have there been any traceable clues involving a weapon The fact that all the deaths took place in relatively warm may also testify to killer s resourcefulness freezing have preserved the bodies in their condition at the time of death while decomposition due to humidity has eliminated many possible clues Another incident which may or may not be connected to the murders or Janice Piuline Constance and is the attempted robbery and strangling of an Acton girl while she was babysitting in a home on Guelph Line near Sideroad last May A young man between the ages of IB and entered the house saying he needed money for drugs and tried to strangle the girl with the cord of a hot iron burning her in the process He fled when the telephone rang In this case the police have a fair description and a composite picture of the suspect but no identifications have been made And the dead girls can t talk Police arc considering more and more the idea that one person could be respon for at least several if not all of the deaths A single clue to any of them might solve another or all of the others Police hope that somewhere somone knows something and hope that if such a person exists they will soon speak up GARAGE WAS GUTTED at the home of Bill Marshall and family Sunday noon Two trucks answered the call to the property a mile south of town on No highway owned by Jack Ridley In the brick garage when the Tire broke out were a barbecue lawn mower tires a case of oil and a freezer full of meat Smoke belched out from under the partlyopened door as firefighters dragged out blazing cartons and pieces of material