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The Free Press Wed December 10 B9 by Wendy Thornton October 21 and the first chance Ive had to sit down my typewriter and peck off a few lines And wouldnt you know that the postal strike has Just been announced so I don know when this will reach Acton anyhow Our copy of last weeks Free Press arrived last Friday New cell examination device may aid fight against cancer two days after It was mailed Considering that it pretty Koo Impending adventures forwarded twice by different post offices I figured that was good We were delighted tosee the spread about our The critical time gap between discovery of can cells In the human body and beginning of treat merit may soon be drastically reduced through the of a brand new device which allows doctors to examine cells Individually Ir Richard Graham Miller senior scientist at the Ontario Cancer Institute explained Thursday night Miller guest speaker at the first dinner meeting of the Halton Hills Unit of the Cancer Society diagrammed the machine for persons in attendance at North Golf and Country Club There is effective drug treatment in fighting can Miller said The is that drug rcac against different kinds of tumors varies We have to find out at the beginning which drug will work Miller explained that medical researchers got the idea for the new device from Los Angeles mechanical engineer Ben Sweet who was searching for a high speed process in the printing industry Using cells token from cancerous tumors instead of printers ink medical researchers found they were able to examine the cells individually in a short period of time and deflect out of the stream cells of interest Since cells will not live in test lubes for very long use of the new machine will mean that a population of cells can be token from a patient examined througn the machine treatment pre scribed and even begun all on same day At present there Is often a period of Iwo The picture of our scruffy The second night we group about to depart was slopped at a row of little log rtnht on By the lime we cabins and booked into thing crammed into Number The Fields of I told him Yes three hounds one cat in the front seat and a ferret in the cage lie seemed quite un believing Lets have a look and of course Minnie was fast asleep In her sock and wouldnt come out So he got back to business again and asked for the dogs vaccination certificates studied them carefully and seemed about to insist on weeks between diagnosis and the beginning of treatment The machine is Just about ready for final testing Miller said He expressed confidence that it will work and that it can also aid in the Tight against leukemia Representing Ontario of the Cancer Society Bill OConnor presented the societys highest award for volunteers the Ccrtillcote of Service to Joy Noble who has driven patients to Princess Margaret Hospital In Toronto for treatment for the past years He also presented a certificate of lo of Shoppers Drug Mart ladies also received sliver pins trademark of the Cancer Society OConnor reported that the Ontario Cancer Societys campaign this year had an overwhelming response of The Society received a further million in Congratulating the Hills Unit he reported 19 volunteer driven from the town had mode a total of trips taking patients to Prln cess Margaret for treatment In the past year Seated at the head table for the dinner were Barbara Skinner president of tht Hills Unit Miller and wife Beverly Macintosh and wife Chris tine George Henderson past resident of the Halton Hills nit Wes Beatty past presi dent of the Acton branch of the Cancer society and wife Nellie the door of the box a curl of sunquest vacations Ihe two trucks we were in a Rood and the loading the grubby state In Ihe Grahams also of will That was something wed Ford we had our three beds know the one I mean been afraid of feeling there figuring no mailer what cording to the guest book was no way we could get we have a good sleep once thought that rather everything jammed back in we settled piles of garbage than have the dogs howling full of clothes full half the night wed bring ill the paintings Ive been In with us McPhee who collecting over the past few had been carefully holding years and a spare tire everything in as we took her Everything that was left In for walks promptly look ad Ihe house was piled at the vantage of a moments relax front of the camper dog- and carefully messed house on the old truck and twice on two mats and wet on gradually boarded up as the the turd I spent the next half Thenthedogs hour washing rugs were shoved into the re- I cant say the night was malnlng space with a bedding peaceful The dogs prowled of shavings the back naif night their noils fastened on and Mlnnie-the- clacking back and forth On ferret In her cage lucked In though all remaining space came quiet We woke to find Tansy cat was Bluffed Sue and the two big dogs in protestingallthewayinloa Jim and David The cat carryingcase and pup and Tansy cat were on peered out forlornly through our double bed and every the plastic top body seemed content II was Tansy who created except for Jim who was the first crisis Because she shoved out of bed once or was so upset I took her In the twice front seat beside me In spite Saved the day of all my soothing comments Through all our trip thought ferret travelled were ridiculous she became well coming out of her box at the official exclaimed Minnie rolled over on her back and yawned delicately You know when we were overseas we used to get ferrets for the girls to keep the rats in the barracks down Then took over All right move along and we were back In Canada Intact We had left Acton after lunch on Friday and reached in Saskatchewan Sun day night where we collapsed fcr a day Tuesday we were back on the road on the last leg of the trip to Buck Creek Alberta Cut birthday cake for Lakeside chapter Milton columnist publishes book The December meeting of the Lakeside Chapter was held In the Legion hall with members present The tables were decorated with a Christmas theme with a novelty at each place setting Following a pot luck supper the regular busi ness meeting was held with the Regent Mrs J Jocque in the Chair The Regent thanked all for their work that hid been put Into making the the most success ful one ever held by the chap ter Services secretary Mrs A reported on the Christmas hampers Citi zenship Secretary spoke about the meeting she had attended for the Community Service Centre Following a discussion regarding a nominating com mittee moat of the offices were filled before the close of the meeting A gift exchange took place with each member displaying her gilt Mrs D Taylor cut the birthday cake to celebrate the birthday of the I O D founded by Mrs Clark Mur ray In Montreal on February IS 1900 The Lakeside Chapter I O celebrated Its 57th birthday in Plays in symposium Joe took part in the first International Accordion Symposium In Toronto recently He played several numbers which were favor ably reviewed in the Toronto papers ANNIVERSARY roses decorated a marvellous cake which was the highlight of the Lakeside chapter Christmas supper Charter members Mrs Marguerite Taylor and Mrs Isobel Watson admire the cake made by Mrs Neil Bowles Colorful Christmas Seals appearing on mall What a yearold wo man do with the rest of her life when she finds herself with her youngest child in school and a second lifetime ahead of her Women will laugh a little cry a little and most definitely Identify with Joyce Beaton in her new book Now Its My Turn Men will find her book full of clues to the restlessness of todays wife and mother She touches shrewdly on the and little discus sed subject of the middleag man dissatisfaction with life also Virtually overnight at age Joyce Beaton woke up and look stock of her life Marriage motherhood What did she have to bar gain with when she gave up a career at for marriage and her at home experience only prepared her as a waitress or at best a file clerk Far from privileged Joyce Beaton left school an honors student and started Into business world She soon did the normal thing millions of girls from socalled normal Backgrounds do she mar ried and embarked on motherhood There were six children and little money and unlike most families she and her husband suffered through Ihe deaths of two of their children However far from moan ing about her lot In life Joyce didnt slip into her sal years with a drink in her hand a pill bottle and a re signed attitude Her turn She said Now Its my turn and got involved Im mediately in Ihe things that interested her writing the environment minority and womens rights A move to Milton got her a job on Ihe local paper The Canadian Champion an award winning weekly There writes a hardhitting column questioning sacred cows These columns have been reprinted as a book Now Its My Turn She is making public ap pearances with her book at Sheridan College Mohawk Inn Opera Emporium and Halton cum during the next few weeks Support the work of the Tuberculosis and Respiratory Disease Assoc mail your donation to the 1975 Christmas Seal fund today more and more frantic After an hour she was trying to tear the box apart and it dawned on me that maybe she had to go We pulled over to the side of the 1 opened the case then tore back to Ihe GMC to get her pan or kilty litter As I trotted back with it I could sec water trickling from the Ford and found Tansy sitting on the seat with a look of blissful relief on her face From then on her litter pan travelled In the cose with her and as soon as I heard her digging Gord took It easy going over the bumps for a few miles We drove down through the States and back up through Manitoba All the way Ihe weather was good and the fall scenery beautiful It was very pleasant driving all the way with only a small bit of rain one morning Main problem The main problem was Ihe animals of course We had no trouble finding accommoda tion It being the off season but the first night at Pin canning in Michigan the hounds complained a bit and woke one of the other guests up Luckily he was a hound man himself and didnt seem to mind what was going on And it was she who saved the day once It come time to cross Ihe border back into Canada Going over Into the States had been easy with only a couple of Incredulous com me tits about our menagerie Coming back In was going to be a different matter It seemed The official asked to start unloading as everybody around us was doing but took one look at the camper crammed lo the top with stuff and figured hed get me Instead I think He came back and asked me to open dog house camper Once around the back he found the pound bag of dog food and said Arc there dogs there PACKAGE TflANSAR RETURN FLIGHT ONE OR TWO WEEKS DELUXE FLORIDA Milton Travel Service Martin St Milton Let us help you with your travel needs Ellen T Milton New Jerrold Push Button TV CONVERTER Get those Extra Channels lust sit back and relax to change the chann J 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