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The Acton Free Press Wed April Editorial Readers want information We were surprised and sorry to learn some councillors are con sidenng closing committee meet of Halton Hills council to the public The three committees meet every other week and discuss matters under their own particular jurisdiction works finance and personnel and administration The following week their considered resolutions are presented to full council and voted on Councillors Roy Booth and said the printing of committee news in Wednesday s paper puts councillors on other committees at a disadvantage since they are asked questions they cannot answer Frankly we don t think this is a reason to exclude the public from the meetings We are always very particular in the news account to report that the committee conclusion is a recommendation only which must be approved by full council We think our readers understand that and understand the system It seems to us too that councillors should not feel embarrassed that they do not know the discussions from another committee meeting Why should they It s not reason able and we think readers under stand or would if it were explained again to them Councillor Booth also said We make statements at committee we don t want printed and Councillor felt it might be better to be able to talk man to man without notes being taken by the press As far as the press is concerned we see things differently again To us valuable Information for the public is obtained at committee meetings and we think they should be open There are always a few moments after adjournment when councillors who want to add some thing they want to see in the paper could do so If the press just attended the full council meetings the public would miss a great deal Often the are passed routinely and all the background reports and discussion would be missed Surely the voters deserve to know the rea sons behind council decisions Reporters have no special status at council or anywhere else We attend public events meet games presentations simply to tell the readers what happened As reporters we use discretion and judgment We have our own standards and we like to think they are high We have heard this week from some of our readers who were upset to read of the recommenda to exclude the public from committee meetings are intelligent readers and voters Who certainly know the difference between a committee recom mendation and a council decision They want to know what council is talking about Possibilities are endless The possibilities of community involvement with the new Community Services Centre in the are endless Coordmator Judy McLin mans the phones and arranges meetings of people with problems and people with answers Many of these are professionals That part of the centre is surely well understood by now and it s mainly confidential and stays so But the possibilities of volun teers taking off in different direc under Mrs McLin s central office brings to mind an array of happenings that could make this town and district even better for living and bringing up families A meeting of volunteers is being planned for Wednesday evening May Some specific programs will be discussed but more ideas are bound to turn up Some of these ways to enrich the community are probably partially undertaken now by churches and service clubs But wouldn t it be great if these groups could get together and work through one office Pass on news of sick people needy people to whoever can help in the best way Senior citizens could arrange to phone each their ailing friends who live alone Meals could be provided There could be help with housekeeping Friendly visits Clothes found A little babysitting if needed suddenly Someone to talk to A driver to take someone to a doctor s appointment How about the high school students who can get summer jobs this year The lively public school seniors with lots of energy Couldn t something be worked out for them such as an extension of the Senior Citizens Assistance program operated under an Oppor for Youth grant Groups with the same problems could meet One such new group is for teenagers whose parents have drinking problems Of course the Centre must begin its volunteer program in a small way These things will grow But the date is set for the first meeting on the subject There won be something for everyone to do right away Suggested programs won t burst into being But it s a great start and the possibilities are endless Warmth and Easter The gorgeous summer weather coinciding with Easter weekend made the agesold message of rebirth more prominent than ever The daffodils and tulips in the gardens wild flowers in the woods and buds on the trees all swelled grew bright and burst open within a couple of days You could almost see and feel the greenery growing in the sunshine Easter services filled the churches with happy people Special music abounded the clergy had prepared the messages people all over the Christian world want to hear again have faith Christ is arisen The six month bondage to winter is over Of this and that Streets were lined with garbage bags Monday morning although the works department had Easter Monday off So much for how well people remember what they read in the Free Press There was a good sized ad saying garbage day was Tuesday this week I think I read something about this mused one woman as she hauled out her Pete Vidters breezy curling for season this week Hope you re back in print when ice comes in again Pete A group of Mennomtes from Drayton area who tore down the arena were hired by Fergus curling club to tear down their building a week ago Work started at 30 a m on a Friday morning and finished shortly after the same day About men were involved and they didn t use any heavy equipment The curling club paid the demolition team which they donated to the mala relief fund A tar NEW DAM between Guelph and Rock wood flooded several acres of land to produce this man made lake Roads and telephone poles disappear into the water as a reminder of what once was The lake is turning into a playground for sail and canoe enthusiasts who enjoyed it over the Easter weekend Most of the dam is made of earth and stone Have you had the feeling in the last couple of years thai everybody and bis brother and sister is trying to rip you off I have And I don like Perhaps it because of inflation but I don recall any period In my life in this In which so many people were pur suing buck so avidly with an almost complete disregard for what they produce In return for that buck Result is a steady deterioration in vice courtesy and Integrity in the business world Perhaps It Just a reflection but the same disintegration seems to be taking place in the social world Insolence and indifference are ing the trademarks of the business world Bad manners and worse language have become almost obligatory in the social world I haven t the space to deal with both as in one column so 1 It just catalogue a few typical examples of the kind of ripoff and shabby treatment that are merely the lip of the iceberg My wife ordered two pairs of infant jamas from one of our huge national de partment stores The catalogue priced them at a pair Now the catalogue did stale that prices quoted were only teed until a certain date arrived a few days after that date The goods were satisfactory pair was encased in the manufacturer plastic package clearly labeled But the bill from the department store was far 50 a pair These had obviously been bought to sell at a good profit for Probably 100 per cent mark up Suddenly they cost Chlekcnlcct you say More like chl If you add up all those quarters on a national basis and multiply it by all the other Items boosted in price for no reason at all except that the department store can probably get away with it My vifc ordered caftan from some outfit which advertised satisfaction or your money refunded She one to her calves and received one do vn to her navel She sent it back and asked for her money back Two weeks a form letter said the company would be happy to fill her order for the right size Sometime Only but they have tin money and she have the dress and I v what the outcome will be They will stiff arm her with form let lers in response to her angry or plead inquiries until she gives up Someday thing will arrive signed for a lady midget or a professional basket ball player Went to the city for winter Stay at a hotel we frequented for years I In bother to get a reservation rending articles about city hotels ope rat at a little over to per cent capacity Well How do you intend to pay Getting a little browned off I ticked the tern marked by cheque That how paid for years Oh we don accept cheques By now steam was coming out my ears Here 1 was an old customer Ob not a dead beat The hotel was about onethird full If I been alone 1 d have told them what to do with the entire operation sideways But my wife was sit ting there on the luggage mutter Plus key deposit another item In the new policy Went to our room ordered some ice I vent out for a paper My vile signed for the ice standard procedure A few mom after I got a flustered waiter was at door waving a bill I was an Advance and had to pay cash The sum was He was embarrassed I was fur Things wercn good The room was rather shabby Breakfast arrived borne by surly waiter half an hour late The on the coffee pot was broken vl eat were cold Noth ng improved To top the whole performance they tried to overcharge me when I checked out It was only 15 but by this lime I d have taken to the Court I hollered and I got my pit lance The Free Press Back Issues 20 years ago Taken from the issue of The Free Press April 19 Joy Peal has been selected to participate in An Adventure In Citizenship sponsored by the Rotary Club of Ottawa Again this year the Rotary Club of Ottawa will play host to nearly young people in senior high school students from every province of Canada II is the annual project The grade 12 students who was a finalist in last year Peanut Queen contest will be Just after she returns from Ottawa With good standing she also takes part in extra activities Staff house at Centennial Manor just south of Milton is no v well underway The foundation has been poured and work with the good weather The new house which will accommodate the Manor staff is situated just north of the Manor buddings Estimated cost of the v building is about which includes interior furnishings Tax payers in Acton were greeted through the mails during the past few with a pink colored notice calling for 1956 first installment of taxes James Caltan of Roseford Terrace suffered painful injury to a finger while changing a tire on his car last veek Sev stitches were required 50 years ago A new line of transportation through Acton from Toronto to Kitchener was in yesterday The fine new buses of the Toronto Kitchener and London Coach lines made their first trips calling on scheduled time Several officials were on board the first coach The schedule gives three cars east and west daily The cars are very comfortable heated and attractive Wiles Cafe is the waiting room for the coaches Keen sorrow is felt by Mrs 11 S Holmes at the death of her parrot Polly has been in the home for years It was always good company sensibly talkative and ways well behaved with her mistress The children in the neighborhood of Villanore will miss this rare and beautiful bird Unfortunately diphtheria has appeared in two homes at Limehouse The dear little twoyear old daughter of Mr B succumbed to the dread disease on day Friday s snow was unwelcome The first snow of the season fell six months ago Of a total registration of 303 motor cars n Ontario last year farmers came first 134 and merchants second 23 Acton has Hydro consumers and a net surplus for the past year of The store also shows good profits It is rumored the Women Institute is thinking senouslv of taking over the Horti culture 100 years ago Mills on Saturday by Mr Alex Weir Ihe young man who at suicide last week has been committed to Milton jail for safekeeping Mr Zimmerman is one the first of the season He has already erected I utlding at the corner of Main and Mill Sis is now occupying it as a meat store Messrs Christie Henderson and Co have just purchased a spanking new team and rig They intend going into the business of buying eggs extensively this season and for that purpose will two teams constantly on road within a radius of 20 or 30 miles of Acton Last Friday evening a public meeting in Campbell s Hall for the purpose of organizing a Farmers Grange here There were about 100 people present Mr William Gordon was elected chairman and Mr Robert Campbell secretary Messrs I and Watson spoke briefly of the benefits of the organization especially in a social point of view There were names given in and new members paid a fee of S3 and the Grange was fully organized that night Headline Seduction Abortion and Murder is followed by the account of a tragedy St Louis Another headline Murder and Arson in the Township of don is followed by many gruesome details Its wonder city hotels are less than I know what you re saying Smiley because he was treat like a transient Not at nil My d what s left of it can l be hurl by such trivia There nothing wrong with cash on the barrel head But there Is something wrong when customers are treated with inso lence indifference and bad manners And ripped off into the bargain unless they fight like tigers Unemployment insurance which puts an ever increasing burden on employer and employee alike is expected to pay out billion last year Of the bene 37 per cent are under Only 28 5 are heads of family units and per cent are part time workers THE ACTON FREE PRESS PHONE Business and Editorial Office