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Regional councillors told cut salaries Regional cillors will be asked to show leadership in the tight against Inflation and accept cuts in their own stipends of 10 per cent or per year That motion arose out of a discussion during Wednes day a meeting concerning a move to eliminate automatic merit increases for senior staffers The motion came out of an in camera meeting of the Re gion Finance and tratton Committee Com member MacLean Anderson said the senior fers were being paid a damn good dollar You have to start at the top and the buck stops here he said making his point In favour of ceasing merit Increases Anderson had earlier told reporters he hoped that merit increases would be and that the move would lead to further spending cuts by the region Hills Councillor Morrow opposed the cancel I at Ion of merit increases and indicated council should meet in committee of the whole in camera to further discuss the matter of staff increases He argued there should be an incentive to work for every employee Councillor Gord Brown felt the taxpayer was accepting as much burden as he could now and favored a tough line on salaries Councillors favoring doing away with merit increases were reminded periodically that there was no similar de sire Tor restraining expenses when councillors voted them selves into a pension plan two weeks ago The motion cutting council salaries proposed by Jack llaftis and Bill Masonwas withdrawn later in the meet but Mason promised that the matter would be referred to budget discussions No free swims All free passes to town swimming pools will be cut off If on administration com mlttec recommendation is adopted by council Hills administration committee chairman said it was an austerity move suggested by Director Glen Gray Bingo ACTON ONTARIO WEDNESDAY I Hundred and F rsi Year No Forty Paget ftccn Cents Christmas bus to roll Friday The town Christmas bus will start Its annual holiday route this Friday morning It Is again sponsored by town merchants and business people to provide rides throughout town during the holiday season Although naturally mer chants hope shoppers will come downtown on the bus It Is also Intended for anyone convenience or pleasure People arc welcome to hop aboard to visit friends at the other end of town Older people are already planning to call on friends in the senior citizens apartments this way School children arc also ex to take advantage of public transportation to get to school these cold days Half hours The bus will be at the police station on the hour and half hour The route will be almost exactly the same as last year only It will take in a few more For winter built up streets In subdivi sions Tyler Transport agreed to donate the last full day of bus service as their contribution Because of this the service can begin a day earlier this Friday Dec There will be no charge for passengers Chamber of Commerce president Mike is collecting for donations to pay for the bus and says he finds the merchants res ponse very enthusiastic Al most all of them say it a great thing he says Dona are coming well Decali For the first time blue and white have been pre pared and these will appear on the store or business win dows of each contributor C of president Worthing ton hopes will no tice these signs and thank the sponsors by patronizing their businesses Three hour parking limit is coming back Hills works com decided Monday to take another crack at trying to get council to pass a three hour parking limit regulation The committee says a three hour limit Is needed to pre vent overnight parking during the winter because parked can hamper snow removal operations this committee tried to have the three hour parking limit included In a parking by law but council rejected the Idea because It would affect residents who had guests at their home who wanted to more than three hours Engineer Robert Austin signs will be posted at the main entrances to the town warning people there is a three hour parking limit The signs would be placed with HUN signs The procedure is used in many municipalities including Brampton to prevent parked cars from hampering snow removal It has been suggested several times by the com that the regulation banning parking longer than three hours would only be enforced during the winter months Cars parked overnight for more than three hours could be towed away at the owner expense November building Building permits totalling a of loo were issued for Acton in November There ore just two buildings in a single family dwelling on Crescent St for and a residential alteration for SI 100 The season for building is past Bill town Beardmorc and Co billed Hills for outstanding taxes and administration committee agreed to the payment Monday night Acton parks board originally leased land reclaimed following lake dredging from for 1 a year and had agreed to pay the taxes However this had not been done for the past three years The problem as explained and rcsoKed by committee A WORKMAN SIGNALS to a operator just off camera to hoist one of the wood planks used to shore up a sewer trench in Cameron Street The digging is heading north toward the lake and is expected to take three weeks before the work is completed Hidden from the camera view are the workmen toiling several feet below the surface Town resolution in error Two dead sheep t worth but four dead and two injured sheep are worth that much Last week Councillor Em Hyde called for the return of the wolf bounty in Halton after a resolution was passed Halton Hills council paying Russell Ferry Acton for two sheep killed by wolves on November 18 The resolution was in error since the was com for four sheep killed on November IB along with two other sheep injured West end in darkness Many Acton residents were in the dark Monday evening after a hydro substation became overloaded cutting off the juice to homes in the west end Hydro superintendent Doug Mason a crew was sent out to throw some of the load Some areas in tow were in darkness longer than others as one subdivision reported a minute blackout The Fret Press clocks were 20 minutes slow the next day I for Hills Clare Wilson said the dead sheep were each worth and the in animals were worth 1 inch Mr Wilson told this paper he received a number of calls after the wolf bounty story appeared in this paper because people wondered what kino of sheep were worth each A town spokesman said that since the compensation for the animals was correct In the resolution council passed it and it will not come up gain despite the fact the number of animals involved was wrong ACTON FIREFIGHTERS have been busy in the past weeks assembling a giant float in the form of the shoe from the nursery rhyme There Was An Old Woman AH Doug Mason and Did Price back to camera were just a few of the men putting the huge shoe on a flatbed to go down to the Georgetown Santa Claus parade on Saturday The same float will be in Actons parade this Saturday Santa will arrive In cotter welcome friends at Y after Santa Claus is coming to town on Saturday after noon at 1 30 He II be driving a newly painted cutter plcn ty of company in the town s best Santa Claus parade yet The men originally led a meeting to discuss a Santa parade and from there on the Idea snowballed On committee Tom Madrick is chairman of the parade committee which consists of Danna Coates Louise Clark George Wall is Dave and Rick Aldridgc Chairman of the judges committee Is El Syme Mr Swetman and Mr lis arc heading the financial committee which has been collecting donations from merchants and business Some money Is needed Tor float prizes Bond expenses candy purchase and a few rentals of costumes Acton Citizens Band will be marching without charge and the Georgetown Girls Pipe Band is coming for expenses There was a similar arrange ment last weekend for the Georgetown parade There will be three cash prizes for floats first sec and third There are no separate categories All the larger entries will be so the Judges can jot down their decisions easily Saturday afternoon Candy canes will be given out by clowns along the route or the parade from the lion down Mill up Main to the scout hall The firefighters will be act ing as parade marshals as well as having three entries of their own In the V The Menettes are de corating the and it is here that Santa Claus will hold court after the parade While children sit on his knee for a Rev C Beaton comes to Trinity Sunday morning a unanimous congregational vote gave a special commit tee the authority to engage Charles Beaton as the new minister of Trinity United He will begin his ministry here the second Sunday in January Mr Beaton will commute here from until the end of the school year in the spring Mrs Beaton works part time as a music teacher and they have three teen aged children in school They hope to buy a home here Mr Beaton is well remembered as a former minister at Balllnafad United church He was ordained in the late a His first charges were In Alberta and then he became the assistant minister at Markham He has been there since For the last two and a half years he has been in the real estate business The Rev Eric Nelson will continue to preach some Sun days until Mr Beaton rives However a minister from Guelph will take the vices on Christmas and New Year Sundays Lake inches deep concerns CVCA chmn chat Jim Jennings win take pictures for parents who would like to buy them loons and candy canes will be given out free to all the child ren who come to the after the parade Meanwhile all the pants In the parade will be welcomed into the scout hall where they will warm up with the help of hot chocolate and doughnuts The Scout Mothers Auxiliary Is looking after this end of things There Is a terrific lineup of floats and marchers which has float organizer Coates delighted On the Hit Speyslde school Is bringing a float with students In cos Firefighters have three to their entry the Old dy who lived in the Shoe a fireplace with children for their Muscular Dystrophy campaign and their 1937 Studebaker fire truck Scouts and Guides have a float called Fairy Tales Acton Snowmobile club plans before and after snowmobiles and costumes Moss Hardware is entering Nursery Rhymes The John Deere dealer promises an entry called Snowmobllers Holiday The Junior Farmers plan to display winter sports activl ties Continued on Page 31 A 000 acre lake only inches deep which would act much like a frying pan in heating up the headwaters of the Credit River was pictured for the executive committee of the Credit Valley Con Authority by chairman Grant Thursday Clarkson said gravel pits in the where will known sportsmen Conn Smythe and others have pits will soon be refurbished a 1 lake is planned to take the place of pits His ob jection to the proposal centres in the 12 inchdetplake He pictured the sun heating the lake and water flowing into the nearby of the Credit River system destroying the ecology The chairman described the proposal to the executive committee of the Authority when the subject of travel pits and recent gravel pit hearings at llsburgh cropped up The Authority has been criticized for not participating in the hearings by witness Eric Salmond who testified the has failed to apply the basic principles of protection of the watershed Authority member Henry Wheeler of township told the executive the Credit runs through the area Hit Telephone City company proposes to mine and the Authority should be interested in the Issues of gravel pit mining But how could the staff do It asked member Hazel McCalhon General manager Horry Watson agreed We don have the staff to carry out the work in office now he said so It would be virtually impossible to have representation at the 1MB gravel pit hearings We should let them know wt art keeping an eye on It though the chair man suggested Mr Wheeler suggested the Authority executive committee could look over reprints of the minutes at the township offices and in this way keep track of the proceedings He said the township clerk had a knack for separating wheat from the chaff and It would be worth the Authority time Mayor Tom Hill representing Hills felt copies of the hearings reports should be available to the Authority The matter was left for further study Two crashes Provincial police have blamed snowy weather tions for two separate dents Tuesday morning in which two Acton women on their to work drove off Highway Milton OPP said Mrs Grace Johnston was south bound near No 22 when she lost control of her car The car rolled down a ditch and landed on its roof but the woman only suffered a bruised head and thighs Police estimated the dam age to her Plymouth at A second Acton woman Mrs Jennifer Worthlngton escaped Injury when her skidded off Highway 25 south of ana ram Into a guide post The OPP estimated the damage to the car front end at Man killed in cartrain crash A car containing two Georgetown men was hor ribly crushed by the 1012 passenger train on the Acton MiU St crossing Wednesday evening leaving a passenger dead and the driver seriously Injured Leonard of John St Georgetown died when the train demolished the side of the 1B73 in which he was riding Colin Gibson of Main St Georgetown suffered bead and internal injuries Originally in critic tlon be is now listed as stable in Toronto General Hospital A citizen ran Into the police office to tell them about the accident and the first officer was at the scene in three min utes at 15 p m There soon By 10 m the George town ambulance had taken the badly injured Mr Gibson to Georgetown hospital He was soon transferred to Tor onto He comes from northern Ontario and Is sports edi tor with the Georgetown Her ald Blair Clare Ct Acton a St John Ambulance course instructor crossed the tracks on bis way home from a St John meeting and stop ped to give assistance Police report that the west bound car apparently slowed down or stopped at the tracks and men proceeded across the first two tracks before be ing struck by the train Witnesses told police the signal lights and bells were both operating at the time Train late There was very little dam age to the passenger train driven by engineer John Armstrong Toronto It was held up beyond the Acton for about an hour and a half CNR employee Bert Queen Acton stay In his car at the tracks all a Jit to warn cars which approach the tracks front the station The signal light facing the station crash ed down during the impact and was not operating All the other highway nals were tested after the col and were still operating Six or seven trains pass through during the night Mr explained Damage to the signal light was set at The car was a total wreck By Thursday noon repairs had been made to the signal Coroner Dr A E Mcintosh of Georgetown was at the scene at 10 p He has nut yet determined if there will be an inquest Police have not been able to talk to the driver of the car because of his con The three Acton cruisers were joined at the accident spot by a Georgetown cruiser and later members of the reg police identification un it A small group of people gathered at the accident scene in the sharp cold watching quietly from a dis tance and passing on what they knew of the tragedy to shocked newcomers Among them were the two friends whom the Georgetown men were coming to Acton to visit Funeral service for Chiasson was held at Sacre Coeur church in Georgetown Saturday morning Dec fl Burial was in Greenwood cemetery Georgetown CAR TRAIN collision Wednesday took the life of Leonard of Georgetown The George town car was struck at Actons Mill St crossing by an eastbound passenger train about 10 30 m Injured is Colin Gibson of Georgetown The signal light right was demolished In the crash