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B2 The Acton Free Press Wed May 1976 Those four mystery lights The four mysterious lights pictured here last week have brought a possible explanation from amateur astronomer Norm Elliott He says that the four images conform to the positions of two stars and two planets He checked back and ascertained they would be in just that position at that time of the year On the left the two lights are in the same position as the planets Mars and Saturn at that time of year Its unusual for them to be in such close conjunction and Norm had noticed them at the time On the right the lights are in the position of Castor and Pollux two bright stars in the constellation Gemini Norm thinks a second exposure could easily put the somewhat blurred image of the stars and planets on the film 24th on 24th So the 24th of May fell on the 24th of May this year It s only been a movable feast since 1952 before that the 24th was the 24th no matter what Now its the preceding Monday and we can get out on the roads for a long weekend s ac Laurence Fuller Rosemary Rd who took the pictures is very interested in Norms theory but he thinks the clouds were probably dense all over the sky not just overhead Just the day after the picture appeared in the Free Press an article appeared in the Globe and Mail on ball lightning which describes small luminous spheres that appear during thunderstorms That phenomenon has scientists baffled Norm Elliott doesnt think the four simultaneous bright spots could be ball lightning Don Hilts of a photographer himself would like to see the negative to try to figure out if the lights were reflections No one has even hinted they might be spaceships from outer space Nothing beats the fireworks a great tradition recalling royalty which hasnt been stamped out yet Queen Victoria was born May 24 1819 and the holiday was first dared 16 years after her death Now its a tradition of long standing Of this and that Erin printer Colin Newland has found and donated to the Uni versity of Guelph four ruffed grouse eggs The University req uested help in a letter to the editor here He s the only person we ve heard of who was able to help in the research And he turned down the 1 each offered by the university for each egg Although there are no govern grants for young peoples projects in Acton and district this summer the days of grants arent all over A Student Community Service program grant brings 4633 to two students to provide service to immigrants Another gives for senior citizens This one will provide tools and seeds for senior citizens interested in gardening Nine more Wintano grants have been assigned to but none yet for Acton They go to Oakville for lane dividers for swim meets Milton for soccer travel costs Bur for goal equipment Oak ville for baseball equipment Campbellville for baseball equip ment Burlington for ski first aid equipment Georgetown for base ball equipment and for transportation to the seminar Management by Women in the Arts Some of these days Last Wednesdays snow was a shock to eyes and campers got a cold start on the season with the low temperatures over the holiday This is lime of ir when lot of ire not dumb hi in quiet iw ire thai school gel i sinking I hist divs is sotiological juiil from tin v i hi hive bet n boring in tin of ithul tlim do v incv of tin ir sluiknts l host poor Irv to knowlcdgi tint there is still Unit product shoot or two know tin in enlightened mivbt evm enough to mike is word ind tint kind brew very one from the Minister of ducat Suddenly there in It It days lift there nihil rtilizj ion ill skills lint it hid is ninth effect on Susie is would bucket of poured our i just doesn slick Thus whin llu b I king for inl with antieip to of term It is the students pen mini Unit puts Hie iehers onto depress pills mm se si lhrouLli Hie school dimn to their tlissroom Richer will do hick flips trying to Hind pinning siuh i IiIhI on students know well th i around must of the Hit miss issignmtnts be 1 ivs nothinj vcrv terrible will i thin In let if iroiind looking serious sincere for I few weeks do work lilt re s lint llu will st r or strimbk through to it Hit process Hit next Horn mil used in i soeittv it is no its Bob MacArthur and Dora Ryder have ended long careers in the printing business and all of us in the company had a party Thursday because of it Bob started work at the Free Press on January all of 49 years ago He was away from Acton for nine years of that span People we miss but always as a printer and some times reporter too He is the last person here to retire who worked under the legen dary H Moore that staunch old fashioned pillar of the com who was publisher for many years As printing foreman Bob taught the young and lively apprentices who are still here older and less lively Dave and Jim Dills Hart ley Coles and Wilf Duval as well as many others They remember how Bob was especially meticulous about the care of the equipment RETIREMENT PARTY for Bob MacArthur and Dora Ryder was held Thursday by Dills Printing and Publishing at the Legion Bob a printer for years was presented with a type drawer filled with souvenirs of the trade from fellow workers Dora Ryder has been a linotype operator and proof reader for 32 years With them in the pic ture are Dave Dills and Jim Dills and he used to operate M of it When the Milton newspaper was purchased Bob was closely involved in reporting printing and mailing It was wartime then and things easy Staff was minimal He married Sabra Nelson who worked in the front office and even after she left she continued to write the and years ago columns for years Dora Ryder has a special place in our affections she worked here retired not because of years but because of a cruel illness It was great to have her with us again last week and she spoke touchingly of her work and life She started in the front office but soon showed an aptitude for operating the folder handpress and newspaper press She spec laiized in operating the linotype one of the few women to do so at the time And her friends had to admit she was the speediest and most accurate Not to mention the prettiest She left the Free Press to serve in the WRCNS but returned after the war She married advertising manager Don Ryder and her next absence was after the birth of their son but luckily she returned after that too At the party Dave Dills spoke about them both and made presentations Wilf Duval pre Bob with a old type drawer filled with souvenirs of his printing days and a folding workbench Dora who had been partied before was given a huge plant by Hartley Coles Oral Norton gave Bob something very special to help him remember all the girls We miss them both here very much now dignified is welfare where ployment insurance is a cushion adversity where their aged parents will hi looked after by the state win re the work ethic is scorned where the semi literate hockey placer or pop star is not only idolized but nth the kids are noi to Ret their in knot over something is apparently irreltvint as doing wi II it school let s not blame too much I ike look the world we re pissing on to them It a world strangling drowning in its own poisons created the greed of gtncrilions The kids see the greed and Hie poisoning going right on Small wonder they ire little ibout some of the virtues as unselfishness the golden rule i world in which the ripoff is ad mired on the whok see unions ripping off in in man rippinc off the consumer to rip off the government So nut rip off he school Its the sucker of ill It i world in which the media pander to lit biz im The the terrorist ire overnight sensations Is it nuvt to suggest these ire respon to some for the bomb wirn ih in our It i world of drugs The old man is his drinks night ind gets smishee on Hie weekend has indifferent kinds of pills not run from re be them It s i world in which the ilailv papers in full of ex of corruption in high phecs A senitor here president there Ins helped himself So what wrong with Hint as long is vou I it world in which the and or an often bullied the brutal and he Him rent So wh not give the bird tunc cint do to senji home So whit Write i ind sign vour old s n imt Not very pretty picture re right reader Hut this is not an indictment of students It s cry of shame for the society we handing on to them I s restore f our 1 restore excellence another word that s been dropped Let show the kids tint is ugly reason is superior to violence that love sex are not synonymous that compassion and courage far outweigh cruelly dice I m sorry for them and whit have shown them But I don despair Lets show them it a beautiful world and that are beautiful and that they are needed to make it more beautiful Then watch go Fowl chapter An advertisement in todays paper from the Conservation Auth asks people not to feed the wildfowl on Fairy Lake since this discourages them from migrating The ad goes on to say if the birds do not migrate there is every possibility that they will die from exposure during the winter Could someone tell us why the Authority thinks this way How many have died Have any bodies been found The flocks seemed content enough and bird lovers enjoyed feeding them in midwinter The water was kept open for them The request is reasonable enough without adding a horror note of im minent death to it I The Free Press Back Issues 20 years ago Taken from the Issue of the Free ISM Highest cheque ever paid in an Day draw was made out to Mrs Herb Price last Saturday With a per cent coupon and the name of the merchant of the week won from the jackpot was the second name drawn Placing second behind Preston in their at Play Day In last Thursday whs the Acton high school learn About 30 competed with Oscar Dnjber and Mrs coaching Andrews set a new record for the mile race and in second in y race Blair won the hall throw Jim Denny placed first in the pole vault with Hill lost second BUI Oost inn second in high jump Frank Cooper won dash iximar Watson came third In both I hi mile and third m the yard dash and third in ill running broad Donald Cook recently trans- from Acton to the nt of tin Provincial Police was re ported io injured in collision on the J- lnalHth Highway The accident Slonty Creek Tuesday The took was driving was slnick in ibi by another car driven by I Winona of Him Mills Mr and Mrs rurlis Hot rts celebrated their at their Moffat home when friends and neighbors V d honir couple 50 years ago Taken from tht- of her May IMS Mr Smith has purchased Hill fine residential property on the and f premises which he and his wife have occupied for the past four years or so Mr Smith has retired from the tendency of sole leather tannery and now take life somewhat Mr and Mrs Smith and their daughter Pearl will continue to live in their residence in as losalry with a school concert of merit in the town in a mouth organ band were Gordon Melvin Iocker Gordon Cooper Bill John Bert Toss Gibbons Colin McNabb Gordon Titus Murray Smith George Tler Lloyd Bruce Gamble I D awards went to Kathleen lien Helen Stewart Mary Gibbons John Mellon Bessie Bobbie Hall Jane Helen Campbell Irene Elliott Ida Morello Helen Evans Ethel Woods Jean Inmbert and Wilma Hansen Milton public schools have barred married women as teachers and when women teachers are engaged they must make a solemn promise not to many during the term Acton now has eight gasoline tanks installed for the convenience of the motor- Acton I will hold their annual Decoration June In the whole of Canada not cities have Daylight Saving It time the fad was discontinued 100 years ago Taken from llu issue of the Free Press IS76 Some of our storekeepers are keeping late hours The habit is a dangerous one persisted in will rum their for tell you some other lime The Minister of Education has appointed the toth day of July for the commencement of the examinations for the current year for cert iftc of the first second and third class One evening last week a gentleman in our village while considerably elevated was insulted As nothing but blood would his honor the by standards kindly loaded up a double barrelled shot gun After considerable trouble they de cided toss for first shot which the igrt parly is fortunate enough to se cure Our friend wis accordingly posted up it twenty paces distance with instructions tost ind still Instead of this he surprised the spectator by making tracks in a lively manner for a neighboring wood pile He peri two flying shots through his ad vers try want of practice and lives tell Ihe At a large meeting of the merchants and traders of Brampton on Thursday a re solution was adopted lake United States silver only eighty on the dollar of the month THE ACTON FREE PRESS PHONE Businessand Editorial Office liun cut null dill It on condition mil vnl rror In ip lor will no I Mr but Iti will fa pkl Dili Copyright