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Theres hope for Canada The recent Canada Cup series did more than prove we have the best hockey players in the world It pro vided the missing link this country needed to make us a country Glorious and Free By the end of the series Canadians were so proud of their homeland they were happily singing the national an them something in the past regarded as silly or Besides the fact that we achieved international respect the hockey world the fans attitude at the end of the final game may also have shown the world we are good sports when we win as well as lose The standing ovation given Vladmir Zdunlla the Czech goalie for the action packed final game when Team Canada squeaked through with the all important win showed we recognize a good athlete when we see one no matter what nation or team The unity in Canadians in the final games against Russia and then Czechoslovakia all across the country showed there is hope for this nation When 87 per cent of the populace is watching the game on television one could not help but feel the national ties Fans in the audience in Toronto on Monday night and in Montreal on Wednes day sang Canada with emotion and pride It may take a long time to get Canadians singing their national anthem again and to get them to be proud of their home land but the seed is planted Probably by now most have forgotten their pride of the past few weeks and it will take another Canadian championship to set the vocal cords in tune again But if we did it once we can do it again and again Maybe someday we will be as good at singing our anthem as our neighbors are Perhaps it was because Team Canada players came from all over Canada which tied the country together or the excitement of win ning Whatever it was it worked We should be just as proud of the fans as the actual players No sunshine no crowds The fairgrounds were packed with people all day Saturday and again all day Sunday and attendance records fell again this year Crowds and sunshine abounded as happy crowds meandered through the exhibits watched the many special events and shows and enjoyed seeing the animals at close quarters But there were many hours at the park when there was no sunshine No crowds photographers Those were the many hours when the men and women involved in producing a fan were working at the grounds before and after the regular hours of admission Thursday night for instance people were still at work in the hall at a m A gigantic task for Saturday morning was the arranging for the drying out of the sodden track A sump pump was speedily arranged for and the ground dragged Then came a packer with stone By noon when sun and breeze were assured the track was at last in decent shape for the afternoon classes The women in the hall who spent hours setting up and decorating then manned the hall for one evening and two full days still full of good cheer Sunday at 5 as the exhibitors swarmed in to take out their exhibits and their ribbons Some of those women even found a few spare hours to enter baking themselves The organization and pre planning was an enormous task The parade listing of judges preparing of pens and ties allocating of space building of booths and showcases decorating assigning putting up chairs and taking them down again for the dance listing lighting sound systems entry form writing all those aspects that the contented fairgoers never see take many man hours and woman hours of these dedicated people Several men on the board of directors took their holidays before the fair there was so much work to be done It is to the president and board of directors genial secretary treasurer ladies and mens board members and all their assistants we say Thanks you did a great job Of this and that Another name has been suggested for the new middle school to open here next fall the former high school The Frank Oakes school is the latest suggestion Supporters signed sheets favoring school at the fair and a previous suggestion was the H Stewart school recalling a pnnapal of many years ago Water bills mailed from Georgetown to Acton all had to be corrected by hand this week Under This bill may be paid the writers laboriously changed Georgetown to Acton Thanks girls Anders Celsius developed a ther which registered 100 degrees in melting ice and degrees in boiling water Six years after his death the scale was inverted to read degrees in ice and 100 degrees in boiling water Dont it sound simple So how come it doesnt make sense and most people have to look at their old Fahrenheit thermometers to know whats going on outside WASHED OUT Friday the midway ended up a huge success Saturaay and Sunday Rides for children and adults operated at full tilt all day making up for the discouraging quiet here on Friday when nothing was heard but rain Midway organizers were well satisfied with their share of the days profits Free Press Wed September In defense of agriculture submits this letter to the Ontario T form Commission as to the of the tret Press August J7b Chairman and Members ino Reform Commission Ontario Thank you for the opportunity to this hearing to be granted I hi privilege of speaking on m own I that the remarks I am about to make are own opinion madi is a firm land owner with i per cent interest in farm property My should not interpreted as being in in w the of others and ire made without prejudice The properly is Incited on Lots and omission Hills Region of Hilton The property in question comprises a ten room house located in a rural setting approximately icns of work able land with a cluster of five barns two drive sheds The farming operation is fifty head of beef cattle cow ialf to finishingwith an annual production of about JO headof cattle per In iddition there is sheep operation with a current operation of over sheep All feed is r on the home farm or on rented land I find myself in disagreement concerned and mystified by the proposal to apply a market value o farm land What is market value as applied to agricultural land Is it rcalistie market value derived from the economics of any particular farming enter prise If so then individual farms will have different isscssmenls depending on the nature of the I suggest that market value be removed from the recommendation and substituted by the term productivity Value which would more truly reflect the true worth of farm and ibility of the farmer to pay the taxes in relation to his Income I am skeptical that the farm assess ment whatever it may be called will be used by other agencies to arrive their particular tax base oho example might be capital gums If society deems advisable to continue to raise funding at the expense of culture either through ixts on land ind buildings or through ipil or cipital ixing on death or Ihtn leansec disenchantmtntwiihsodi its idirs which would mire that farming is not worth the to continue as a of in i have oursdes or t tic firm lax rtbatt its thi condi tuns under which it is pud seemed not having experienced ihe tffi rts of various to frtei firm I licrmanentty into without exceptions and without consider for the farm owners views ihe fffcets it would on his position mi to hiving piv share of the munitip bit of flushes me i Tee I mi reading between lines tint the orgam that places me some form of obligation which could am to a Inn on mv I feel that pi tin onus on Hit f to rtpav the laxes plus interest should propcrtv which hi is sold out of irm ing ismoslunfnr unjust When else does six i el v impose condition which hi beyond the owner control ind vet he his to Consider and ixceptinns must m for forced to health ill or rations I desire the right to continue to pa own laxes without being forced to reject i because I believe in freedom mil freedom of chime In general it is not the principle of the Reform of Tixatlon its legis lition thill indisagntrntnt with is tin conditions and its that concerns mc It is the that come liter to which I I and mv dieted representative will have op portunitv to review before they become a fill of lift I el mi say from my own personal observations that it is my concern hit farming and its production of lood fibre has reached Ihe epitome of frustntion for those engaged in actively wirking the land If Ontario farmers are to continue to an abundance of high quality the food it times below a realistic cost of production then I feel greater concern must Ik shown for the problems he faces in tins case taxation Though no fault of Ihe individual farmer the voice of agriculture is weak his needs in misunderstood his feelings and desire for freedom from controls are often ignored he is not kepi informed or changes that may affect turn and meetings take pi ice the worst possible time I believe that the simplest and most idmlmslered system is to assess farm t on the productivity of the enter through an income tax or business tax rather than a fixed land and buildings valut base This would be completely rich and poor healthy sick farmers In good production years it would increase the taxes and form a reserve and in poor years give some relief to tin farmer by lowering his lax payment Unfortunately the agricultural problems of which taxation is just one are shared by four livels of governments and several hundred groups within governments As lone is farmer and or his iliims to sitllc each issue with a different agency and sub group the issue of will never be settled culture in Ontario and Canada needs one one agency P Branch It It No 1 Sign indicates Acton Editor Many people travelling to from Acton on highway signs in Ihe turn off to highway North to End of summer and it piggy lime in most of Canada You know what I mean Don tell me you haven laid a cob of corn slathered in butter across your fate recently For most of the year in this northern climate we must content ourselves with produce grown either in greenhouses or in the States and it about as tasty as an old rubber boot Oh it looks great on Ihe supermarket stands Sock the sprinkler to it several limes a day and junk looks crisp and fresh But the celery tastes much like the lettuce the turnips much like the potatoes the oranges picked green much like the grapefruit And those pale pink tomatoes in their neat cellophane packages taste like nothing at all But for one glorious- short burst Canadians can live like gourmets gour or gluttons as Ihey choose First come Ihose slim green onions fresh out of he Ihey don t even seem to be distant relatives or the limp bunches we buy in the winter Then the trickle turns to a stream as the baby potatoes appear and the fat juicy strawberries and the mouthwatering raspberries a bit later and right along the green and yellow beans fresh picked And then perhaps the greatest treasure of them all real tomatoes plump and firm and sun kissed with a flavor surely designed by the gods themselves They are no more like that Imported trash than a sexy kiss is like a pat on the bock Had I the talent would write an ode to the lowly tomato A friend of ours who has a small farm brought a basket of his beauties around the other day I put them in the kitchen went out lo his truck to chat for a minute Came back in and caught my wife leaning over Ihe kitchen sink slobbering as she wolfed them down a tomato in one hand salt shaker in the other I had to lock her in the basement for a while or she d have cleaned up the whole Basket And then of course there are the cucumbers so fresh they almost snap back at you when you bite Into a slice Into August and the piece resistance- car to car sweet corn It must be fresh picked and not boiled too long Lather it with butter get your head down nose out of the way and go to it My heart goes out to those people whose teeth are so worn down or so Insecure that they can eat corn off the cob The only thing worse would be to be Impotent Some of my most treasured memories arc connected with com When I was a kid we used to steal It Over the fence Into somebody garden stuff the shirts with corn and back over the fence hearts pounding walling for the shout or the shotgun Then off to the sand pit build a fire and gorge We t use a knife to by bill smiley spread the butler on One of the gang would have filched a pound of butter from the family fridge Put the butler in an empty can melt it over the fire then just stick hi whole cob into the can Another memory is of swiping corn from our own gardens and taking it down to the Jungle by the railway tracks where the hobos lived in summer Then a royal feast lying back afterwards and choking over Ihe handrolled smokes the unemployed rail riders would give us kids As a skinny year old I set a family record by going through cobs of corn at a single silting In those days you didn fool around with corn using it as a sidedish along with cold meat you had corn until it was coming out your cars The only thing that interfered with the eating was having to come up for air once in a while Before this column gets too corny ha ha lets get back to that cornucopia of sue the average Canadian can slurp through for a couple of ineffably delirious months or gluttony Right along with the corn come the peaches I just had three for breakfast peeled sliced sugared and covered with cream My wife worked as a peach picker when she was a student and she has an i eye for the best firm ripe juilc- what is more delectable than a fresh ripe pear You need a bib lo it and I say them Anvont who its only one pear at a is not a true Plums Buttered beets Hoi lid potatoes Butternut squash Ifyousceafew stains on the paper as you read this don he alarmed It is just drool You can take your grapes squash them You can take your stuff them Who needs meat Just set me down at a table preferably the picnic table in the backyard with the sun slanting in from Ihe west Then set before me a plate of new potatoes boiled in their skins and half a dozen cobs of just shucked corn and a pound of butter On a side plate one ripe tomato cut in thick slices half a young cucumber cut in thin slices six or eight slim green onions the whole resting on a bed of lhat dark green lettuce fresh from the garden Sail and pepper a little vinegar within Then stand well back Or better still don your sou wester There is going to be a lot of juice flying Show me a dinner of Canada finest produce about the end of August and wouldn tirade it for the most meal in the moat elegant restaurant In Paris Even mind slobbers a little retrospect Hilton Hills Many of Actons citizens are quite displeased due to the lack on con literal ion to travelling this route for there is no indication as to whether Acton is in this direction or not Granted most people taking this route arc well aware of this fact but what of others There have been quite a few cases hit we personally are aware of and cer tamly there would be more experiences thin we have knowledge of Was this due to a lack of correct directions or a lack of proper signs k cause we feel that it is more the fault of missing signs than directions we have liken the law into our own hands and put up sign indicating Acton on the 25 north Hal ton Hills sign on Westbound That fine for westbound travellers but we would like to make a request to the Mm istry of Transportation and icalions to do likewise and construct a sign of nature for motorists Yours sincerely Names withheld Smarties Heres some smart origina sayings Peter Piper picked 81 litres of pickled peppers A miss is as good as l kilo meters All wool and 91 3 centimeters wide Beat him within 2 centimeters of his life It hit me like kilograms of bricks The mind is like the stomach- its not how much we put into it but how much we digest that counts The Free Press Back Issues 20 years ago Taken from the Issue of he Free Press Sept J M McNabb 41 Queen Street Acton won a Ford Tudor at a garden party in Bronte The car was given by St Dominic church Over 20 candidates were presented to the III Rev D D for the laying on of hands Sunday evening at St church The Lord of the diocese gave the sermon during the Confirmation service and later spoke to confirmees at Ihe reception in the parish hall Those who were confirmed are George Ware John John Terence Taylor George Harris William Henry Elaine Bradley Jank Pauline Lazenby Lesley Anne Belly Allonby Lcib Audrey Quce Rose Mane CarolcBarratt Mr E G Tyler Jr Mr and Mrs George Bar beau Mr Walter Cook Mr Hamilton PeaN and Mr John Rose Outof town guests at the Johnson wedding in the Baptist Church were Mr and Mrs Leo Synnotl Mr Mr Leslie Duby of Acton Mr J Mr and Mrs E Duby Mr and Mrs Gordon Cox Mr Leon Ayles of Rockwood 50 years ago Taken from ihe issue of the Free Press or Thursday Sept IG 192f The contractors commenced the work of paving Mam St from the Canadian National Electric Railway tracks lo the intersection of the highway near the crossing ft is expected the work will be completed in about two or three weeks The first volume by I Montgomery Mrs Rev McDonald since she and her husband settled in appeared in the book stores last week It is entitled The Blue Castle and is a most readable love story The government wis defeated Tuesday and the Hon Mackenzie King will form a new Liberal administration In voted for Anderson and for Hampshire showing parly sentiment is pretty evenly divided School board was given permission by council to use the small committee room at the town hall for the present as an add room for the school The school board was also given permission to use the shed at the town hall to store their fuel An interesting session of Acton will be held this evening Mrs Caldwell of Limehouse will address the meeting at Ihe home of Mrs J Symon The Beardmore and Co tug of war team won first place at the competitions at the They were defeated by Mimico in the Dominion Day championship The team is composed of A Mai J Taggart J Lambert Thompson Garfield McFadden J Scrlven and A The beautiful cup and medals are on display in the window of Cooperative store 100 years ago Taken from the issue of the Sept The Murder Mrs Whiteside the wife of the Robert Whiteside who was arrested the Murray on the charge of murdering her husband resulted in her Honorable acquittal The ground of her was a sum of money hidden in house but it only amounted to 10 found in an old pocket book In a trunk Last Friday was observed as a general holiday in Acton and a large number of our people took advantage of the cheap to Toronto and the Number Bay We learn that 265 tickets were sold at this stat ion The trip was a very enjoyable one the weather being pleasant and the company agreeable Some disappointment was ex pressed at thi picnic grounds not being quite equal to Ihe high anticipation that had been formed of it nevertheless there was nothing to complain of to mar the pleasure of the outing The half hour ride on the lake was pleasant enough to put everybody in good humor and give them appetites for the lunch Dancing swinging and other amusements were indulged in during the afternoon Six more sheep have been worried to death by dogs this time at the property of Mr Jas Dunn near Speyside The rale of assessment for Acton is only a fraction over one cent on the dollar for all purposes THE ACTON FREE PRESS PHONE Business and Editorial Office