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B2Th Acton Free Wed September Editorial Page Meeting worthwhile You couldnt call it election fever certainly but there was attentive interest and thoughtful questions at the Meet the Candidates night last week Organizers were pleased with the crowd of nearly 200 Committed supporters always turn out to a meeting like this and few of them are ever going to change their vote However it s likely many were ready to be convinced about points that came up during the evening Few had heard Bill Johnson or Julian Reed speak before although theye known the Acton candidate for years Personalities and facts both count for a good deal when youre attending a meeting like this one All the candidates and crisp moderator Paul Nielsen did their part well Organizers often have mis giving over the usefulness of such meetings The people of this dis appreciate the Chambers organizing the evening and the candidates cheerful willingness to include it in their list of seven such preelection meetings Those who attended will certainly e a clearer reason for their vote Sept Too worrisome to ignore The editor of the magazine The Journal put out The Addiction Research Foundation finds it strange that hartth a has been raised during the election campaign to demand some action to curb the growing problem of alcohol abuse Health and social costs of alcoholism in Ontario are million alcohol involved traffic accidents account for million and alcohol has been implicated in per cent of boat drownings and one of every two car accidents Lowering of the drinking age to has increased the problem by plenty Certainlj it s too worrisome an area to ignore Need some new faces Unfortunate to see Brendan and Gil Malcolm have left the recreation advisory committee following Diane Spiehogels suit They ha eg olli committee and to the running of recreation programs here The method of operation has changed regional govern ment and they feel its time for a change Mr s mam interestwasparks no longer in this jurisdiction important that new people with new ideas volunteer for this board which could be of assistance and even perhaps importance again Of this and that Newspaper reporters mind readers Tell us about it So there s more talk of strikes And Canada in the last decade has reached a new record the second to the top country in the world with the most hours of work lost due to strikes The winner is Italv Nothing to be proud of Astronomical wage increases during the last or two promoted a major question for Canadian breadwinners Which groups improved their posi lions and which have fallen To size up what happen ing The Post sampled organizations across Canada to determine the salaries that ill be earned this a variety of occupations The conclusions the are iUll as wide as although the Decking order ha e changed thanks in large part to the bargaining power of key union groups Least affected perhaps are the big earners who had little trouble coping with inflation Most affected are the low Income or fixedincome earners who have little bargaining strength reports The Also the vast army of nonunion office workers have lost ground to their union colleagues Overall wages and salaries have risen substantially in the past Dollar incomes have gone up 124 per cent to an average weekly wage today of as against in But inflation has wiped out three quarters of the gain for a net increase of per cent in real wages Arthur Kcnney gave the Free Press some old photographs from his sister house before returning west last week We have cartons full of them and always welcome more Miss Nora Bill Kenney both gave special family articles to the county museum too The pictures are of a IM school class another undated class of the same era and the village band The person who can lead and won t follow mokes a dandy road block I am a believer in luck and I find the harder I work the more I have of it Stephen Raspberry bushes entwine unneeded farm equipment in this peaceful portrait photographed by Wendy Thomson Sugar and Spice by bill Boy dais wan big was my bilingual thought as I winged across Great Lakes over the wild lake ind rock terrain of Northweitern Ontario and then high ibovc the prairies lib I headed for the weekly newsp iper convention In That about essence of Canndi so big so beautiful and so varied that it s almost frightening Perhaps only well traveled Russian could feet the sense awe that I fell after a brief look at Just a small piece of this fantastic land of ours In days I covered about miles by almost every mode of ox train and I saw only most verltible nook tht sinallW of his vast fascinating country It an of those hut days for which tin past his been notorious kissing my tearful wife goodbye She wis because we were going to be for a whole week and because might fall among evil com pinions which 1 did At about 11 same morning with couple if time changes thrown in I m liking into the Hotel units away on a lovcK cool Sep- day A week later aftern reunion ivve were almost shy with each other in a Toronto hotel wi arc pounding up the threelane highway In mv old road schooner headed for home Hi hours between the departure mil tin seemed to flash and yd I felt that been aw for a month I so ninth and ninth mud not lo lir anil water Grandmas chilli sauce THIS DRAMATIC study of shadow and sunshine was photographed by Bob Dye at Beach this summer Of all the smells around this place Including Mary horse With all the rest the one that best Is Grandma Chilli Sauce It makes everybody start to drool Including Uncle Bill He grabs a spoon then sings a tunc And washes down his pill Aunt Marie cannot crochet For holding up her nose It hard to tell how this new smell Makes Grandad bite his toes Nose in the stew of this famous brew Mo say he might get stiff This tantalizing odor Seems to hang around the place It just because of sauce And the smile on Grandma The good Lord gave his blessing To spices fruit and meat So thank God for the verdant sod When we sit down to eat When we gather round the table And our blessing has been said Brother Joe and sister Flo chilli on their bread When has had a fill Wilh the smell still In the house No one could miss but give a kiss To grandad and his spouse Victor Smith inotc Thanks for the bottle of it I hid eaten from awful frozen airline meals tnre almost rupture to get plastic top oft pat of butter haute cuisine fowlstuffcdvuthildr to fresh pickerel filkLs straight out of the fryirg pan it a shon I some good speeches John on ground ith no need to politic is unbeatable as an en Otto Lung also in home province gave me that at ist one of our federal is in cool most a ma of all was the high officii from the postal service then and Irving to tell weeklv editors that a good postal will one It s i wonder he w stoned to death But his homework had been done ami his footwork was ex lit com- meed me ssence of Ins messier v as to Bit tint postal code mill Whin it conns to holding a those S iskatchewan editors don have to plov second fiddle to This com was will and colorful It mi hided trip to the battlefield of toe hi where ibrnl Metis took on he mm it a the Rebellion 10 tin ting tin led lusittofionira If an e e r isk iloon don miss it There is i iuniltto ruons true ion if i pioneer lonUimnL from a shop to ibuik with this goes used in tin e d and a t handsome old tint would make an an i buff irs of i lor bit wis the piping in of tin colors at out of he their form il ill tin President I rim if Wtburn Susk hen wit post mint trip into Northern all In in in if Mire thit i- test part if the convention was friends and miking new I o the till ones I am here to testify oilier To new ones mighty people in this ind ire inning them Out thing tint heart wis the number of in which ire involved in parents In this age most young people for some riwii spurn the lupation of parents and want to out on thtir own Tins is under number of second and iven third cinerilioii people sticking with tin business shows that running r slill holds i lot of ittraction for people of them are the thel Dills of Milton the Met of Tilbun There ire others On lht other sidi of the nun of course wetklswlitors and their vines ire just like other Some of their offspring disturb them I must have a national reputation is an expert on rotten kids because I had both ears bent out of shape mother and fathers who would corner me and tell me almost in tears of the latest terrible things their were up to my own experience in raising kidt m but I hope I brought some comfort to the afflicted Don chaps Your kids will turn out all right or somewhere in the middle like most of us and there not i darn thing can do about it except to bite off the umbilical cord A good convention And next year it s off to Halifax and Into the sea food I can feel the juices dripping down my chin The Free Press Back Issues 20 years ago Taken from the lime of be detailed plans for the sessions at a meeting of the A fash Ion of of former yean highlight the September of chapter of the Mr Wett commentator Th- and rut garnered their amount of paper ever In their day long Saturday tnns takn In etijVjyed j turn trr and roast on r A rain wtiinrjc Ihv ear f Mr and Mr Bob rvh TV in wrn to aojiiairtM vim- fan- i in TV fjiffrf l twin- m lt On it fjr -j- Id n fc Hi v irk a 1 w isjji fflnj- iaif rVn JilivrTr and View Vr eI if 50 years ago W mid ha i and dumbing business Blair Mr Chalmers Mr il continue on with Mr Blair Mr expects to a responsible position the Brantfnrd Roofing Co J conducted the sale While at work on a scaffold about feet from the ground last Thursday afternoon at the Beardmnre and Co Works the plank upon which Mr Burt was standing broke In falling Mr Burt landed ma pile of scrap iron on the floor on his back He is now making favourable recovery at his home on Lake Avenue very pretty wedding was solemnized m St Joseph church on Monday morning when Kathleen Ellen eldest daughter of Mr and Mrs James Gibbons second line Escuesing wis united in marriage to Mr Richard J Brady of Toronto The ceremony was performed by Rev Father assisted by Rev Dean The annual Show of Asters by the pupils of Acton Public School was held in the Parish Hall on Saturday of last week The weather was not all that could be desired but this did not stop the children from and bringing their flowers Scoutmaster Ferns who left town about two months ago to go to his mother who was seriously ill in Winnipeg returned Tuesday 75 years ago Taken from ihe Issue of the Press September 13 IWO Alton Coronet Band discoursed sweet music to a large concourse of people at the town hall band stand on Monday evening rail millinery openings are looming up The Misses Nelson have had electric light installed in their residence tournament in connection with the golf in progress the ilub been paired and are off The in the new Baptist church was brought into requisition lor the first time last afternoon Three can didates were immersed the pastor Rev Me A caravan of genuine gipsies created quite i in town Tuesdav morning joung fellows in town had their fortune tola to their entire satisfaction are all soon to be married to pretty girls and acquire large fortunes Mr has added a neat porch to his residence on Church St A band of thieves Is going around robbing clotheslines in the area Boots and Shoes for Fall Wear Kenny Bros Excellent lines of school boots cents and up Our customers know when we publish bargains can be sure of securing them Repairing always carefully attended Main St THE ACTON FREE PRESS PHONE Editorial Office