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The Acton Free Press Wed Juno Pi w- An Arts Festival A Festival of the Arts is a concept being talked over by band members this spring They would like to see a full days program- maybe in the arena with concerts and displays of all types of crafts It sounds like a great idea and although it couldn t be organized this year maybe next spring will see Actons festival arranged and operating There are plenty of talented local craftspeople Proof the Bennett crafts day the Oxfam trade fair Palette and Pencil club and the Acton Arts and Crafts group which has Us each fall And Acton is outstanding In music talent Singers could be incorporated too probably through the schools Decoration Day weekend has been suggested as a good time for it when out of towners are back May the organizers find lots of encouragement and cooperation as they talk up the Arts Festival Fifty years of union Church union is a continuing topic seemingly enmeshed in problems But 50 years ago one church union worked and set a splendid example for divided Christian factions It was the union of Methodist Presbyterian and Con congregations into one unit the United Church of Canada Some Presbyterians decided not to join and in many places as here have remained separate since The United church has continued its efforts to involve more in one Christian faith Fifty years ago this month a special ceremony took place in Acton United church when the rolls of the new members were transferred from the Methodist and Presbyterian churches to the brand new congregation Part of this ceremony will be reenacted this Sunday with two of the original members Marguerite Taylor and Orwell Johnston taking part Its another important milestone in the towns history Those organ donor forms Lives will be saved as a result of the introduction of organ donor consent forms which come with drivers licenses However a news release out this week from the Ministry of Transportation and Communications says a number of drivers have in error detached the organ donor consent forms from their new drivers licenses and mailed them to Queens Park The consent forms the Ministry says should remain attached to or kept with the drivers license once is completed and signed This ensures that in the event of death the wishes of the donor are im mediately known to the authorities The Ministry cant trace the drivers who mailed back their consent forms because theres no name on them If you suspect you did it you can get a new form from any Driver Examination Centre Or if you arent yet due for a new license with the form and would like one call in there too It was a commendable change and will find wide support Our eyes and ears Reporters go to all the meetings and public events they can to impartially relay to the people what our eyes have seen and our ears have heard We consciously endeavor to be accurate and fair Someone says a quote in last week paper was wrong yet others at the same meeting agree with our reporter Another news paper has criticized one of our A time to tell Our Member of Parliament Frank Philbrook picked an apt time to send out a questionnaire including a question on gun control taws Do ou think the federal government should introduce suffer gun control law he asked reporters Well these things happen Not everybody agrees completely about everything ever The Letters to the Editor column is always open for people with fenng opinions We continue to do our best and keep trying to make our best better Its our profession constituents in a tetter sent out recently He repeats the question in bis column this week We know what we think Guns are made for killing what else And how many people need to kill Please write your M P and tell him what you think Thanks and such Thanks to the works crews who had the town looking all up for Decoration Day The streets had been specially cleaned planters out and flowers blooming flags flying and cemetery grass cut Each year there are many comments on the attractiveness of cemetery There seemed more geraniums and bouquets than ever this year there more robins than usual twitting around the lawns this year And more butterflies Let have a show of hands of those who did anything about Family Unity month We approve of advertising but that exortation to family living paid for with our money was more advice from the Big Daddies than we needed Here and there A grant for Milton Chamber of Commerce project to restore the towns old CNR station was announced by East MPP Jim Snow The grant comes from the Ontario Heritage Foundation which gets its money from the Ministry of Culture and Recreation The station was moved from its long time location to a small park just north of the town and will likely be used as a tourist centre Donations helped make the move possible as the total cost was estimated at about 25000 Fergus council is offering its CN to any non profit group In appearance it too is much like Actons station Theyre thinking of a recreation complex or senior citizens centre MP Beatty commented wed be out of our minds to let the building be demolished No passenger trains have been through Fergus in the last four years LINDA AND Edward Wong take a refreshing break at the Prospect Park fountain Something important has caught their eye as they look up from taking a drink The This is a bad time of year for female television watchers The hockey seasons are in full swing And already the sports writers are running stones about next fall football players It s got so that girl much choice on the weekends She has to knit or get drunk or do some work around the house whatever herthmg is Sheisiwidow to ill Intents and purposes Her husband has retreated into Ihe weak inklcd hit fumbled slicing pass missed womb of his youth He is of no more use than a large vegetable True he is sitting in a chair but he must be watered and fertilized or he will just wither away he watches mesmerized large young men doing nil the things hi could have done better 10 or or years if only he d had decent coach or the money for proper equipment or hadn I got married Wouldn t you think that in Women Year the of television would have made at least a token effort to destroy this annuil spring edition of Canadian domestic life a fat turnip stuck in a chair with wasp buzzing around if Surely there Is one bright light among the dim bulbs which illuminate the world of TV This wis the tar for the big With little imagination and mtel the big advertisers could hive millions of women slumped in i chair drinking beer and never removing their eyes from the screen and moving their limbs only to reach for the sandwich brought in by George There no shortage of omen sports and there is no shortage of women who would watch them ividly and who also control the pursestrings purchasing Why haven t the networks replaced those waist hockey players around clutching each other sweaters with women wrestling a couple of muscular sweaty broads with their false teeth out pounding other across the chops with elbow smashes This would be a normal release of the aggressions of women watchers who would be as sweet and docile after the event as their husbands are now after seeing Ah pulverize Elmer Every grown man In Canada is an in slant expert in hockey because he donned the blades as a tyke and learned that you pass and hit even though he could never do any of them when he should have He shot to get rid of the puck pre tending it was a pass so nobody would hit On the other hand every woman In Canada an expert in the things she never learned to do very well as well Supposing the idiots who tell us what we bill smiley are going to watch on television that there was going to be in ass wiggling competition woman In the country from four would be glued to the set The males wouldn t get near it They would mope about the kitchen and have to do the dishes in disgust or winder into the it up just for something to do Just is the men chuckle now when they re watching those over piid clowns and say See that elbow or That was a lovely buttend or when some slams another into the Wow Atsa so would the ladies have their innings 1 fountain was originally the village horse trough located at the Mill Main corner She looks like i howl of Jelly with palsy I d in her look sick years go They god da be falsics She learn that strut in the Presbyterian choir She wooden be bod if she knock kneed Just sample arc many other feminc sports would be surefire to the fair flower of our land and push those chested inarticulate male athletes right ick to Hayfork Centre where they came from How about a dirty confrontation what do you think about a Show My Operation contest How does a Hoy Did Tell Him Off competition sound you The possibilities are endless But the TV moguls blew it And so did Women OUR READERS WRITE Worried about bus safety Route May 1975 Mrs J Alexander Chairwoman County Board of Alexinder Ontario Dear Mrs I write to you with growing concern over the mechanical safety of the school buses children travel on daily Last week I agreed to be an assisting parent with grades Kindergarten thru from I Public School on a field trip to the Metropolitan Toronto The trip wis held on May 1975 We departed from the school at proximatel m and before we had gone twentv miles Ion 401 between the Road and Hwy 10 inter changes the lead bus was engulfed in smoke The motor had burned out The children were put on the two remaining buses and we continued on Just west of Kennedy Road interchange on the bus on which I wis travelling lost an enormous chunk of the tread perhaps I and the tire had to be replaced Old miser Bill He has a little surplus Fven though his is small Cause he budgets every dollar For his clean and tidy stall He squeezes every penny To save a tiny bit example for our Government Is this thrifty Scottish wit- He is not bedecked in luxury This humble thrifty lord For he never buys a single thing That he can not afford He does not believe in interest On top of what he pays But puts a little on one side immediately 1 was told that the battery on the third bus went dead ifter we irrived at the zoo Ni to say the day was at best a trying one for all concerned cm help but wonder how often and how all buses in the province arc inspected by representatives of the Ministry of Transportation and cation The mam reason there was not severe injury or loss of life in the first two in stances mentioned above was the of the drivers The situation could have easily resulted in tragedy the drivers fuel been any less capable I would like to know what the schedule is for complete mechanical checkups for all buses the Region and how many years or miles they are kept in service before being replaced Also when were the buses in question lost certified as road worthy by government Inspectors We were all fortunate there were no results to this trip We should learn from this situation and take steps to prevent it from again Compensation and lawsuits will not replace children Very truly yours I Mrs Sandra R In case of rainy days He will not take from other folk But keeps his selfish pride He yves his labour honestly praises God inside to the little miser We re thankful for his lot Unlike the spendthrift government lies not borrowing If we had a miser government Inflation would be beat Wed have more money after Taxes With which to buy the meat Victor Smith The Free Press Back Issues 20 years ago from of the rrr June I 1055 ire of undetermined cause broke out In tin homo if Alex or I curly Sunday morning The fire started In Hie bedroom caused about itaningi and warn of the Brigade North high District Hoard gave approval of David Roberto and Mrs Hardy on It George town stuff and Miss timber who will lake hi on the Acton at mi ting in Slew Monday I hi Women Association of United hi Id a supper i veiling May honoring choir leader and rs and tin Sunday school stuff fur their faithful work during trie yiar and Rev thanked h ladles for lr work In preparing Hit supper and appreciation of all resent District provincial polite reported an accident Saturday ivcnlng on I N issagawi four miles south of Aclnn Involving a local youth and a rvllti truck driver Acton was driving a light pick up truck ml he in collision with ruck driven by John Sum at Hit a hill 50 years ago Taken mm the 1013 I very Saturday that the weather in the Acton citizens will a concert on the lawn at Sunderland House during June July and August Mr John Clarke turn kindly con hinted to give the use of these grounds for this purport Hit Band asks that the public generally protect the grounds and building during Iht concerts so as not to abuse the privilege St Alhan Church will open the local Party early next week They have booked their annual affair for Thursday June Advertisement Removal Notice Jeweller Watch and Clock maker etc is removing his business next to Morton Barbershop on Mill Street wherein all repairs and retail the same lines as cheaply possible The rtgular meeting of the Acton Women Institute was held in the Pirlsh Hall on Thursday afternoon May 28 with president Mrs James in the chair Bessie the nine yearold daughter of Mr and Mrs A Wilson sustained a double fracture of hi r right arm when she fell from a mtitor tar on The roadway at the intersection of I ilrvlew Avenue with Main Street is badly In need of repairs A tile drain and dozen loads of gravel would help 75 years ago Ink en mm Ihel June 1900 The micros In the coming reunion of the old school boys and girls of 71 on the of July is rapidly growing The monument scheme is also mtttjng with success and letttrs and liberal lions to fund hive been received during the week The Methodist Church hen is to be upon the appointment of the new pistor Joseph MA who Is to J A Mclachlan M A the first Sunday In July Rev Mr has for a number of years been a member of the Montreal Conference and requested to transferred to Hamilton because his home is here and his kindred resided within Its bounds a Niagara alls and He is a mlnlsttr of the gospel of high attainments a graduate of Toronto University has had a successful pastoral Acton was not behind In the celebrations last Thursday Word was received of the of Pretoria early in the morning and the town fathers were soon around working up a demonstration The morning was enlivened by the discharge of a lure cannon and hearty cheering from all parts of the town At p m a procession was formed at own hall consisting of ihebindand upwards of happy children who hid granted a holiday Mr Charles Moore son of Mr John Moore I has purchased the interest of his late partner Mr Chard and is now the leading photographer of Lancaster Ohio THE ACTON FREE PRESS PHONE Busmessand Editorial Office