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AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH shows houses under construction in Bovis subdivision The photograph was taken August by Steven Dills Churchill runs across the top of the picture and new subdivision roads extend east left to It The new swimming pool at the high school may be seen at the top right corner of the picture with Warren Grove wartime housing at the bottom PO is social institution I don I know about you but weve had a real or a summer Just a mad gay The Great sort of thing You know what I mean Youve been through it Loitering by the pool with an extradry martini and the golden girls past with so little on that your eye balls pop out and splinter your sun glasses Enchanting evenings on the beach waves lapping the fire glowing embers of you Night and mystery and romance By the way did you ever try to glow an ember Its quite a feat And speaking of feat the only lapping Ive heard this summer is our abysmally stupid cat lapping thesweat off He seems to like it probably has a salt de ficiency problem and I must admit it gives me a strange penerse thrill Perhaps by now you realise thai in my own far from subtle way I am suggesting that we Ye had a bummer of a summer And you are absolutely without qualification one hundred and twentyfour per cent right Oh dont think its been a complete waste of time Weve aged two years in two months which is quite a feat lucres that word again Feet We havent Just been lying around watching the grass grow This would In any cue be difficult since it does not grow after about the of June Butthcdande lions are pretty though shortlived and the wild clover has a certain charm No Weve been quite active socially It all started after Commencement last June One of the teachers had a party Teachers after Commencement arc somewhat similar to Magellans sailors who after battling six months to round Cape Horn find themselves a Pacific Occon and a tropical island It was a good party as parties go and they go too long However we say in the game when we dont quite know what else to say we accepted a ride home with our resident artist who came in for some hot chocolate and burned a hole in one of the endtables as big as your eye when no one was looking in the process of putting out a cigarette I think that started the summer on the wrong foot I seem to have a fetish about foots and feet today but dont let It bother Well to get back to our swinging sum social life its been something Weve been to a funeral and a wedding Ive never had so much Massing in my life While the funeral was sad in a sense it was also a family reunion in another Nephews and nieces I haven seen in years And four of the five Smileys alt together at once for the first time in a couple of decades The wee Colonel was in Germany And the wake had a good ouch or Irish in ft if you follow me An 1 wedding wns pretty good shot too though we discovered the happy 1 1 I been married several hours luc homo stupid ridiculous I I I got to kiss not only the bride but fdcr sisters all of them former of mine And Ihelr mother was wedding quite a guests ranging from suckling b grandmothers were former t I like sec them and talk to them John II is tin artist who gave me I think a lucid explanation of how he Is trying to combine the purely the abstract and his own consciousness John on the other hand was about to head Tor the west coast but someone was trying to talk him Into going to Germany instead Margaret sang some songs that make the ripples go up and down your spine She has granny glasses and a great grin Is a gravedigger Gets twenty five bucks a day whether he has to dig a grave or not He offered me a special deal on some wasteland behind the cemetery In September he off to England to study how to teach in a special school whose theme is Awnkcncss We should coll our schools Asslcepncss Ah Great to be Nonetheless somebody must carry the blasted torch Ive been swimming twice 1 have driven past the golf club once Ive been fishing once and caught three crap My wife just three ribs Weve wailing for the roofer for three weeks And tomorrow we have our third big social occasion of the summer My daughter and her husband arc arriving with twenty retarded adults whom theyve been retraining for picnic in the bock yard The Free Press Back Issues 20 years ago Taken from the Issue or the Free Press of September IBS Thomas Acton escaped in jury early Friday evening when the ISM model car he was driving rolled into a ditch about two miles west of town on No Highway and was damaged to the extent of about According to provincial police officer George Moore the car steering mechanism became defective while was driving causing him to lose control and plow into the ditch where the vehicle rolled over Born Morcoux To Mr and Mrs Jean Marcoux Acton a daughter In St Josephs Hospital Guelph on September 1 Mother and baby are well On Thursday August a shower was held in honor of Lorraine Stover the home of Mrs Audrey McLean In Acton Many useful gifts were received The employees of Smith and Stone of Georgetown presented her with a pair of blankets a bedspread and an electric Members of the Acton Music Study group gathered Thursday evening last week at the home of Mrs C Heller While meetings are not held during the summer the group wished to honor two of the members who are leaving Acton before the September Cups and saucers were presented to Mrs Ralph Price and MrsffE Hards Mrs Price is moving this month to Foothill and Mrs Hards to Massachusetts 50 years ago Taken fram lie issue of the Free Press August IS The first threshing of fall wheat In county this season took place Tuesday on the farms of J C Alton and Walker Nelson township and VacuicUe Trafalgar township The wheat Is a fine sample and Is yielding to JO bushels to the acre which Is highly satisfactory The wheat Is a little above the Average and so Tar no sprouts have been found Councillor Nicol has been engaged this week in cleaning up the old cemetery and making it presentable This is very worthy work and if sufficient support is given the work Mr Nicol will see these premises which should be regarded with hallowed feelings put Into the condition which should always prevail there Subscriptions toward this work have been made as follows A Storey Samuel Point Edward A Brown Mrs Charles Atkins of Toronto Andrew Murray previously acknowledged Coasting on a bicycle while hanging onto the back of a truck proceeding along the Toronto Hamilton Highway last Sunday night James DeMelo 18 years of age section hand employed by the Canadian National Railways at Bronte was instantly killed when a passing touring car swerved to the left of the truck to clear it but knocked the boy under the wheels of the truck Both motors came to a stop The occupants of the automobile walked over and the body but let It lie there it is reported and hastily drove off in their car The truck is owned by the Oakvitle Basket Company Chief of Police Kerr states that action will be taken to arrest the occupants of the passenger car in the of their not returning 75 years ago Mr t of Mr Alex Acton won the first a silver cup valued at aw arded by Strathcona Another son William also won a prize for best team and Mr William Waldies son won a valuable prize Last wee some twenty young men lett Acton for the Rainy River District and on Tuesday of this week some eighteen more took their departure for the Northwest Most of them are probably regarded as making temporary visits during the har vest but there is nevertheless use feeling that if their position they will become residents of the Northwest and be lost as residents of Acton Tuesdays list Included Messrs William McPhail John S Coleman Allan Mann Horace Cook David Elliott William Forsyth and John Moffat to Brandon John to Crystal City Perryman and his son Robert to Russell Alex Campbell and Angus Keith to Dauphin Andrew Mc Alpine Thomas Bell Allan Alex Bums and Mrs to Arden and Miss Hales to Winnipeg It is especially hoped that the property owning citizens among them will not leave Acton permanently Mr McPhail is superintendent of Knox Church Sunday School and an active worker in the Endeavor Society while Mr J S Coleman is a teacher in the Methodist Sunday School and an ex president of the Epworth League The best wishes of the community go with the company THE ACTON FREE PRESS PHONE Businessand Editorial Office far as we know Acton people are accepting housetohouse mall delivery without protest Some are saying theyll miss the daily trip to the post office and the inevitable chat with friends However the Free Press survey found most people willing to have house delivery Not so in Yellowknife North West Territories There the residents ore demanding an end to Ottawas plans to abolish post office boxes and start home delivery at the end or September They say there will be no delivery on Saturday and that much of their mail will be delivered a day later And they declare that their present system with Its post office boxes and general delivery wickets is a social institution Home delivery is due to start In Acton Sept Does anybody here agree with the people of Yellowknife 4 Acton Press Wed August Smaller churches remain candidates for the honour of the smallest United Church congregation in Canada are listed in the current issue of The United Church Observer One is Inlet on Van couver Island which has a lay minister an official structure and three congregations with a total of 11 members but only eight of them are still residents Another is on the west coast Vancouver Island which has a minister and an organization but Is larger official charge Its local membership has recently climbed from seven to 12 Baldwins Mills in Quebecs Eastern Townships has eight members and an organization but only a summer student as minister in northwestern Ontario lias only four members but no minister or organization To count officially as a pastoral charge a congregation must have an officially recognized organization and a valid ministry The article makes us wonder again Why the church hierarchy insisted Churchill congregation should dissolve and Join with Ac ton The community church there was the happy result of the con troversy Our readers write Swimmer blows her stack Editor Acton Free Press If tills letter hod been written last week I might have been minus a typewriter as the result of a resounding explosion Temper Temper and all because I was Informed by a kid young enough to be my she should be so unlucky that could not swim in the beach area of old Fairy Lake I have dog paddled in Actons for years and never before have 1 warned to stay out of the water Reason for the edict There was a swimming class in progress on a warm morning Involving three Instructors and no more than half a dozen young bodies for whose learning welfare the whole beach area was cordoned off with buoy ropes This area happens to provide the only safe access to dunking water on the park side Elsewhere a water baby encounters mud stones or weeds and Before last Tuesdays confrontation Georgetown teenager versus Old Battle Axe the latter had heard rumors to the effect that the general public kids and adults were banned from the sandy section of fairy Lake in the interest of something called a water safety program quote from Hal ton Hills recreation department Cynical and all as I am about regional government I found this rumor hard to credit despite reports from on Irate mother of a 15yearold boy and a brownedoff husband whose spouse was more or less told to hong her clothes on the hickory limb but dont go in the water The mom hardworking citizen had dispatched son and younger daughters to the park for lunch and a swim a family custom since the youngsters grew old enough to look after themselves tangled verbally with one of the instructors As a result the LAWwas called Mom decided That was That no more a park outing for her kids Last Tuesday I learned for myself about the bounds rule I admit freely to use a corny expression I over reacted In plain English I blew my stack When the young spokesman for regional bureaucracy informed mc politely that the class would soon be over and you can go In then this relic of a less privileged generation announced bluntly that she was going into the water now which she did while the instructor twittered We cant allow it We cant allow it It would be cosy to report that the girls frantic injunctions caused me to repent and conform to the image of a nice old lady Alas this senior citizen sometimes known as OLD BAG and worse ran true to form Try and stop mc she snarled and plunged into the drink while budding Officialdom figuratively pranced with frustration and lamented aloud her protests inaudible to the rebel swimmer whose thick skull was encased in a tight bathing cap Brief swim over I hailed an Acton lifeguard and quizzed her about this idiotic rule and who dreamed it up She explained extra bodies in the swim area distracted learners and besides because of weeds it was unsafe to swim outside the buoy line Sorry you feel this way but we just cant allow it Still boiling the OLD BAG served notice that no chit of a teenager is gomg to tell me when and where to swim I been swimming in this for years and will continue to do so regardless of rules A call later to the Recreation office Georgetown natch Hal ton Hills har confirmed that the park instructors were enforcing a rule hatched at top level Therefore although the out of- bounds restriction is in my opinion unfair to the general public the girls were within their rights to shoo Old Mcanie away Mr Doug recreation chief explained the lake was programmed mornings for water safety a m hours being the least desirable of the day The Acton caller wonted to know how come as some people consider mornings the best time for daily dips Furthermore everyone is not free for various reasons to trip down to Fairy Lake afternoons Why continued Ancient Baby Snooks was the park wading pool getting only limited use this summer Sir reminded Old Aetonite who did not need reminding the shallow pool was designed for wading rather than swim Yet before pre regional together it was continuously for swim lesions I would like to clarify one point I do not fault the teenage water safety instructors for the job Ihey have done this summer If passing observation counts for anything they arc a credit to the lice department Polite helpful and patient with young charges My gripe Is against a rule that penalizes the general public for the benefit of a few youngsters It should not be necessary to rope off the entire beach area for swim lessons For one thing the morning bun drives preteen kids to the opposite side of the pond where they Jump up picnic tables into foot depths The other morning I asked a ten year old Not very safe here is If reply No its kind of deep can swim on the other side I concede ruidily that unrestricted swimming in the lunch area would pone problems for Instructors and learners ore always few clowns who spoil things for Hie majority A total ban though is currying recreation loo far circumstances consider myself a law abiding citizen who minds her own business Only two sets of make me violent cruelty to birds and critters and being pushed around Before regional government bureaucracy was reaching the stage of tolling for a license to blow ones note Being bedded down with Georgetown and is certainly not increasing the Individual freedom of Aclonltes At M almost and well over hill I don skate bow curl ride golf or knock around a badminton birdie My only sport Is Fairy Hence I fiercely resent being told by a Georgetown young that can go Into home waters when the spirit moves mc Esther Taylor Poor little girl replies Dear Editor I wish to correct the letter from Anna and John ConlgHo because I am the poor little girl who bought the jeans The poor excuse of a bill which I received was merely an old business card of Milady with prices of the purchased articles on the back These prices were not itemized according to the articles bought Other stores say the price cannot be raised on old stock unless clearly marked or the customer is informed A did neither The original price tags were taken off by the store owners as I bought my clothing I agree with you on one point John its been a long hot summer but we spend our time doing Jobs for the Senior Citizens of Acton house painting mostly I am sure they would not approve of us being called scabs Instead of S C A P You stand on the sidewalk and shout at us walking by Have you run out of ways to amuse during the long hot summer We are giving to the people not taking Try it you like It Mary Ann Pet of the week LIGHTNING AND HER FOAL Sunshine are practically of royal des cent as far as horses go anyway Lightning is old and the half sister of Trigger that famous steed belonging to Roy Rogers She origin ally came from Maryland but now lives on the farm in retire ment On Lightnings back is woo is very fond of both horses