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The Acton Free Press Wed October Please sign those letters A letter to the editor received this week makes an excellent point about the paper and bottle collec tion However the writer has not signed the letter and so it cannot be published Will the writer please drop in to the office or mail in a signature It is a strict policy that we must know who has been the au thor of opinions expressed the Letters to the Editor column The name of the writer need not appear in the paper This writer of this particular letter has signed it A concerned citizen with boxes full of bottles and papers This is the signature that will appear next week when the actual name of the writer is known Letters to the Editor are most welcome Our columns are always open to people with opinions Editorial Page A problem for weeklies Should The Free Press run court news Have all the readers of the weekly paper a right to know who has been charged by the police with an offense Should we record the charges laid weekly by our detachment and then have a reporter at each court session to list the outcome Bill Smiley writes on this prob of weekly papers in his column on this same page today He suggests anyone with opi should write Dont forget to sign your own name even if a pseudonym is used in the paper Post office problems All except a tiny minority of post office employees want to make the service work the way its supposed to work says The Cana Federation of Independent Business The mail is vital Moreover the mailman is a The Post Office has been dogged by poor management high turnover technological change union and in many in stances irresponsible union lead ership the key post of post master general has been used as a stepping stone for ambitious pohti so that until recently it has been deprived at the top of con cemed consistent political leader ship Now Postmaster General Mackasey is doing his best to remedy those past failures His strongest ally is the public to which he owes his duty He deserves our support Meanwhile with growing con cern we continue to make plans for coping with a possible strike Sub Free Presses will be kept here at the plant and any who wish may come here and pick them up up News advertisements cheques and job printing that arrive by mail will hopefully be brought some other way A strike creates far reaching tentacles of problems to small businesses Where do you live The need for firefighters to have absolutely correct directions was brought to the fore again this week when the truck was sent to the right line but the wrong township It important for outoftown people emergencies to tell the lot line or and township firefighters agree Names change but these facts remain constant Of course people phoning in about fires are frantic One caller t impart any knowledge ex the fact there was a fire no name no place before he hung up in a panic It s when there s no emergency that country residents should what to tell the fire dispat if the need should Smile theres good news There s good news for all the people who cringe at the thought of a spell in the dentist s chair An important step in the fight against tooth decay has been made by a research centre in Britain The research workers from the dental research division of the Royal College of Surgeons reported to an international confer in London that a weekly or fortnightly mouth spray with a mixture of three antibiotic drugs greatly reduced decay This was so even though monkeys used in the test were fed on a sugary diet- monkeys get tooth decay just like people and were deliberately exposed to the organism which is the chief cause of decay The same research centre has now reported its experiments on the other means of direct attact on the decay germs vaccination Again the tests were on monkeys As reported in the British Medical Of this and that Journal one course of injections gives protection against decay for at least four years The protection is complete Both mature teeth and milk teeth are protected Does this successful research show that a human toothdecay vaccine is just around the corner Not quite For one thing monkeys where similar to people are not people For another only a small number of animals were treated More important still perhaps is the fact that the same strain of decay bacteria was used throughout the tests Further work will be needed to establish whether a single vaccine can protect against different strains of All the same this research marks a major advance in the struggle against tooth decay And for many the worst struggle is to make that appoint ment During his first ear as Member of Parliament for Halton Frank Philbrook made various statements in the House on behalf of his constituents He has had these remarks from Hansard and related letters compiled in booklet form as reference material Friday he brought a copy of this booklet to the Free Press office in the poss local people might find it useful The Free Press will be happy to show this copy to anyone inte rested The new United church canllon peals out a tune that sounds sur like America The Beauti ful Surely the old Kate Smith special t on the repertoire lake a listen and see if you can catch it Times weekdays noon and Saturdays and Sundays in and p m Repot to are that the Guelph Chamber of Commerce is con petitioning to have the GO train extended to instead of having Hie new bus service from Guelph to Georgetown How about it Acton Chamber FIRST PRIZE winner in the Free Press photography the angle of its head which all added up to a I competition at the fall fair is this study of a cat by completely satisfying photograph The original Shu ley Moore The judge praised the technical picture submitted for the contest was in color aspects of the shot the neat cropping of the ears and Sugar and Spice by bill smiley SOMETHING came up on my this post lhat rather intrigued me and I it might strikeaehord responsive or otherwise in the breast or breasts of m best friends the readers of this column 1 ism ill and party on the last of the convention At least it began small It grew larger be cause it was unsclect who passed Ihe open door of my room is hoi at to in Fortunately most of the people who were passing were weekly newspaper people with Iheir wives girl friends or grandmothers With regard to the I must confers said he gallantly thai you tell the girls from the mothers Perhaps that Is because it Women International Year but doubt it I have noticed In Hit few years hit girls are becoming more like grandmothers the glasses he long skirts the humped den and or good or worse grannies ire becoming more like girls smoking drinking rye whiskey and their bosoms with thi aid of good knows what of to perilous positions Will back to the Federal and provincial politics womens lib starving editors rotten kids and overpaid workers were dealt with fairly smirilv and expe ditiously They were all bad we agreed or the starving editors the last bulwark in the fight for freedom law and order the old irtues and a return to the good of the Depression This was standard for a party and I was pleased that men thing was so coot But as host or hostess of e par everywhere and every time knows most people sensibly go home to bed and mine host is stuck with the Rag Tag and Bob Tall of the partv who still have a few bones stuck in their craws and want to wash them away with some fairly strong solvent It happened wont mention names because are two fine western editors good to heir children kind to their wrtes pillars of their communities and I don wont them run out of town on some torn up rails of a defunct line of the C P R not tarred and feathered but smeared from head to fool with printers Ink and copies of their old editorials 1 just call them Rag Tag and line Tig ran out of arguments ind steam ibout m but BobTail kept up until a the bus leaving at for the fishing trip me going him not ind I hope If he reads this he is dying painfully from in mcurablt Tins is what they got hacking about ith me as the judge should or should not i editor run in his columns courl that is why I thought vour readers might have an opinion Rag Tag said Absolutely It is our duty No one can be spired We owe it to our readers If I were convicted of impured driving I would run it in the paper HolyTall spok thus Blank beep ho do vou Ihink you arc Cod The guy or gal has already been judged and sentenced by law He or she has been punished All you are doing by printing it in the paper is doubling the sentence ex posing him or her to the scorn and con tempt of friends and neighbors and sail vatinc sensation seekers who swoop like vultures on the garbage that is other peoples troubles can see Bob- Tail was a little more poetic But Rag Tag was nol to be downed so easily He fought back K smart ass What would you do if Ihtrewasa murder in town You II note lhat he had now dropped the sub junctive RobTrill I ignore it I d say In Ihe paper that Soand So had passed away on Such and Such If the Calgary papers wanted to come in and make a big murder thing of it let em You know what I do I go and see the widow or widower and talk to her or him as a I won bore you with any more The argument went on for two hours with the looking at a nonexistent walch brightly mentioning that the fishing lr was starting In two hours and even calling room service to see whal time It So what would you do gentle reader if you wwe a weekly editor Would you run the court news and break some poor mother heart or do you think that the public has a right lo know that Ihe mayor got drunk and beat up his wife When I wis wccklv editor I had to cope with Ihis I decided with the full con of my partner that there was no Too many people were being doubly punished why Merely for the delectation of the righteous Strangely enough or not the people who howl and plead most when it is their about to be exposed in public print are the most righteous The less righteous are almost proud that nephew Imer got his name in the paper Three days later on our fishing trip I reintroduced the subject and saw two weekly newspapermen this time from Ontario practically conn to blows over the issue Duly papers subject with the utmost cynicism They court repor He or she reports only those eases be fore Ihe judge which will make a good Ihe salacious Ihe sensational the bizarre those that will make the reader chuckle or slaver What do you think Perhaps your editor would be interested in opinion Does he or she run court news Does it serve purpose You judge Write him or her Write care of him or her I would really like to know how decent human beings feel about Halloween Most of the Druid demons have long since vanished and we can rest assured that the ghosts and witches we encounter this hatloween will be completely harmless But perhaps there is still one ominous spirit lurking to spoil your halloween the accident demon There is no magic potion that will ward him off But with a little time to review the basic safety rules and a lot of common sense a definite ty can be mustered to combat his spell Remember Choose a light coloured costume design and paint your own face instead of wearing masks make sure your costume is not long enough to trip you very young children should always be accompanied by an adult give your children both a curfew and boundaries haunt a familiar neighbourhood in small groups of four or five take a flashlight along dont run between parked cars use sidewalks and cross only at intersections The Free Press Back Issues 20 years ago lam E lllotl won the draw for at Tennis lull uchre held E riday evening in St Albans Pariah Hall Winners of ad prizes were Mrs W J A Van E let and It J of Acton Mlwt who was In Acton lust and in lit arlcton Place and Mr Wenulsky of all E red made draws for the club A white elephant auction sale was he highlight of the supper meeting held by the A on Thursday Its hop which finances delegates world conventions One of Acton major industries Micro Plastics limited has been soil to lack Ktntfoofci will known Toronto financier publisher industrialist it was announced his week Am of September ill shares of the company were trmsfr rred to the new own Mr is now a tor of th with J A It Long and I Howies Acton male chorus has resumed re Is under the direction and le idimhip of George Muhm lie Eaecd with a busy sea son of entertainment dales this home town group of melody men opened activities with an election of officers President is ton Peal vice president A Hall chorus mpanist seen tary and music lihrnrian Vic 50 years ago Taken from the issue of the free Press of Thursday October 22 Saturday the of the in restaurant business and build ingof Mr Victor to Mr Tony Sty nuck wascomplded Mr who paid for the business good will real look immediate possession To rust funis for their hints prist s of Devonshire I is pulling on in Ihe Inwn hall this tuning prognm ippeirs in mother column Whili Mr was Im willing of the industry the other even inc thi Mason knitting mill w is tomg it lop spied so much so th it could irdlv hear the w ills of the depressed speikcr for the racket of the mill wheels The county high school field is held it Milton Frank ook of Acton won first in the net second in broad jump ind third in lOOyanldish M of Acton took lor broad jump second for high jump and third for senior jump won second in yards ind second in high jump of the after noon wire followed by supper in the high Boston Hornby Presbyter churches have decided to form i union No less thin seven new or rtviscd books are to Ik put in use in puhlu and high schools within Ihe months Miss Emilv Cildwell left for the mission field of wist hin Then was small tournoul of women lectors it i special met ting in 75 years ago from here intend iking in worlds fair it on E Icctnc light continues to jrow in favor Messrs and inslillid number of lights their furnitnrt ware- rooms seven additional lights been put in nan church ind the new Warn blot k has been roughed in and the installation will completed the plastering is dor lamps are now being supplied with current One of te ims in awiy from fit station on fortnoon with a load or The al neck pic down hurt as fir is Vie ton i hides all nth The irnved homi first aw frost of the season if night nearly thin last busy has tome Mondav and continue during ill and wmltr months Hi inkscmng social in Knot i hurt this evening THE ACTON FREE PRESS PHONE Business and Editorial Office