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Acton Hoe Press Wednesday Aug Pride in the industry If a leather theme is adopted for Acton and we certainly hope it is the people of the town will have to make a mental switch For many years we have been somewhat defensive about the leather fact in town What smell Or It smells like money It was surprising to read in the Business Improvement Area study that people are directly em ployed in the leather industry here This includes Superior Glove Marzo Gloe and the Frank feller and Co plants They are proud of their crafts manship and their products and it would be great to pass this pride on Many of their neighbors are no doubt unaware of all that in volved in this specialized industry and of all the products that are produced If the concept of a farmers market for Acton appeals why not drive down to Milton some Satur day morning and see how the market operates there Its in a vacant lot near the jail Reaction to the report of suggested improvements for Acton has been very good But some people misunderstand the method of payment All the improvements are to be paid for by businessmen in the downtown area through in creases in their business taxes The first increase produced the inter locking sidewalks and the gram report which is producing so much comment The business people have under taken this project themselves In Milton the Business Im provement Area is just being implemented Georgetown similarity It is interesting to note that in Georgetown the downtown curbs will be flared out into the road to permit planting of trees This is one of the recommendations for Acton in the Business Improvement Area report The Georgetown downtown merchants are thinking the same way as Acton s at the same time They decided they preferred the flared curbs over planters which do not look as permanent It will be next spring before any of the work can begin The merchants there are also planning a big sign welcoming people to downtown Georgetown and development of the traffic island New signs will be another sure thing Their report recom mended big banners Merchants there have also contributed in additional taxes for the improvements Best use of money The estimated cost of for building a second storey on the fire hall comes as a surprise There was in the town budget for the project The tag brought to mind the bill a fellow publisher paid for his recently new building For the same sum he bought the land and erected an square foot fully airconditioned plant with which he was very much satisfied He explained to us the system of building he purchased a systems building whose components come straight from the factory right ready to be erected It is not built brick by brick but steel walls and roof are hoisted into place Everything is pre planned You pick your shape your look your color Inside partitions can be moved at will Everything fits in com The newspaper people there are happy with all the space and are glad to show off then- new plant We are held for ransom The untold complications of the air line trraffic controllers strike are horrid to consider Few families would not know of some travellers who are affected in the peak of the summer season With a country as vast as ours air travel has become a necessity is being looked after we understand Members of parliament can command the armed forces planes As usual it is the ordinary people who suffer We are being held for ransom Something must be done about strikes in the public service and when I say Im from Halton Hills they ask me if its nine or eighteen holes THE RECEPTION TOO GOOD but the squirrels dont mmd anyway It might work better if the owner plugged it in and set up an aerial and maybe even brought in cable T V for his set As a matter of fact even taking it in where the rain cant get at it would help The picture was taken while the photographer was lost in Nassagaweya Sugar and spice by Bill Smiley My wife loathes and despises the nit r my retiring some day She is firmly ion that after a busy useless life I would be completely at loose ends should retire and would just wither away And every summer I do my level best to convince her that a fears are founded that I have never been bond in my life that I am a master at the art of the trivial and that retirement would be breeze with not enough hours in the day to accomplish all the things I to do avoid all the things I don want to do Here a typical summer day and I leave you to judge I m up every morning late but I stay up until watching the late but I up until a watching the late movie to make up for it I do either of these things in the other ten months of the year so I figure I m entitled Carefully wash and shave never go downstairs with a grizzle of beard one of the first signs of deterioration I m lathering up 1 skim a chapter of the novel on top of the toilet tank Not a second wasted you II note Then it downstairs pop on the tea kettle fetch the morning paper from between the doors open the refrigerator door and think about breakfast which I prepare myself This morning I was torn between bacon and eggs fuddle the cholesterol and fresh strawberries settled for the berries and ate about a quart of them in cream and sugar with lashings of tea and hot toast dripping with butter and peanut butter Judiciously read the morning paper while I sludging down the grub Again you see not a moment or a motion wasted Am told In very certain terms that the strawberries were for making jam Shrug it off asking rather pointedly who picked the ruddy things and suggesting that if I breakfast thechips and the berries must fall where they may By 11 a I reconvinced that clans arc windbags that Canada is going to hell in a wheelchair that I don t really core on this fine morning and that It time for some action So Its outside into backyard pulsing with life vitality and strawberries Me not the backyard It is pulsing with life starlings long grass shaggy hedge- but no berries and recriminations about those strawberries I stole from lhe nether regions of the kitchen where the jars ore being boiled for jam For which we arc short one quart of berries So Its a quick look at the hedge a quick firm decision that It would be crazy to clip It in the heat of the day and off to the farm near town to pick another quart or those lousy strawberries In the heat of the day But It s great picking berries Down on your kneea Is the only way to It s earthy There nothing malignant or irritating about strawberries They re just there fat luscious waiting to be raped In the next row there an old German lady at least a grandmother chirping away happily knees in lhe soil hand busy mouth smeared with Juice You decide she a a lot more than your wife who a great picker but not of berries You also discover that you forgot to put on lonj Hi it shorts ire not ide weir in thi patch that jour knees in turning into two I boils lhcn Us the berries there morning beer lunch thin i serious discussion with the about when you ire gome to in up the compromise by il will be the very first i itsloocold to play golf secretly hoping it will Ik lone hoi summer And then it s off for it ime of golf or swim or or fish with in old buddy or a ride in somebody s new ho it suddenly it time for cool drink under the oaks perusing the evening r for cook to ill out Hi it dinner is And before you know it its l time or off to the movies and ill late to bed in tht knowledge it been full d you contributed nothing to the OUR READERS WRITE Vandalism disheartening lo the editor ft was interesting to reod in the I rce I revs August of the Utopia described for the business centre of Acton I believe most would be if this could be iccomplished without too many problems However I hope that the workers pi do not forget has to contend with great deal of theft by punks who burn and steal turnover soils pull flowers out of the ground and lire ik off tree limbs Other towns have flowers and scats and all in perfection Acton has lost many It is disheartening to see wilting flowers ind broken trees all through summer Concerned On middle schools August llii ditor Acton Press rjiadel i be I nb of the Hoard of I make interesting reading us reported in the Acton tree Press though I must s that I find Mr s reaction iry philosophy somewhat disconcerting Hut he is entitled to his point of view too knowing it is an essential prerequisle for intelligent voting Notwilhstindmg Mr s right to champion the views of one sector of his con stituency he would represent it better by sticking to tht facts in order to make his points Therefore I would like set the record straight with respect to a inatter reported in the Acton Press August 3rd I am referring to the issue of middle schools where Mr is quoted as saying North York would like to get out of middle schools For his information this level of schooling is alive and well in North There were always arguments pro con in that borough and therefore the school board appointed an ad hoc com to review the level system after years of operation They were to examine it from two points of view philosophy and economics This committee has reported on the first aspect and pro nounced the system Is sound educationally Their report on relative costs has not been announced at this point in time The source of my information is a lady who has served continuously as an elected member of North York Board of tion since before junior high schools were instituted in that borough Yours sincerely EldonB Comfort Of this and that We notice as we read other weekly newspapers that the editors join us in annoyance at the proposed television series Fit to Print When a medical series is developed the doctors dont use herbs as cures When a series is developed about police the police arent armed with muskets Why should a modern day weekly newspaper series be put in an antiquated setting So if you see Fit To Print dont imagine our plant is like that Funny things happen in this business of course We cant imagine any business more varied or more interesting But a funny series could be built around ac curacy surely Ihcre ire tots of variations Don t think it s as dull as it sounds Sometimes to the ink and josh the girls all of whom seem to be former students now mimed cither pregnant or mothers Sometimes you write a letter or spend as much as in hour thinking about the book t quite manage to get written last summer but will this year for sure Sometimes people drop in ostensibly to old friends but in reality to tell you all the horrible things that ore happening to them no more interested in you than they ire in the sir berry festival Hayfork es it rather i good life Not exciting perhaps but I think my wtfes concern ibout m retirement is a little premature 1 think I could hack this life for perhaps mother three or four hundred years the Free Press Back Issues 10 years ago Taken from the Issue of the Free Press of Wednesday Augusts Miss Joan Romsden has successfully completed her Canadian Society of Laboratory Technologist exams and is now a registered medical lab technologist The daughter of Mr and Mrs Bing Rockwood she is working at St Joseph s hospital Brian McCrlstall is still spreading himself pretty thin While he lived in Acton he worked on the Milton paper played ball for Georgetown and spent a lot of his social life in and Kitchener Now he lives in C writes for the newspaper plays ball for Mission City and goes to Vancouver for entertainment Three Acton friends Terry Wilson Bob Dennis and Jim McDonald visited Brian and Bill when they took a motor trip to the west coast The Watson family held a picnic at Niagara rails on Sunday and Watsons restaurant was closed while the family all attended Family visitors in town who also went to the picnic were Mr and Mrs Norman Todd Steven and Susan of tiac Michigan 20 years ago Taken from the issue or the re Press of Thursday AugustlS 1957 The announcement made over a month ago by Mayor Tyler that Acton would soon have a new industry entered the final stages this week As intimated last week Mr J J Stewart who is a former reeve of Acton and an ex Warden of Halton County has disposed of his entire farm in Acton to the town of Acton and the new industry In an interview with J J Stewart land owner he revelled the buyers of this property to be Porter Company Canada Limited Toronto He further stated of the land purchase had been completed with H vice president and manager the company Bruce Andrews of running for the Legion Track Club continued his great running as he placed first in the juvenileonc mile under years at the Fifth Annual Track meet held in Toronto on Saturday Rev Charles J Jolhffe retired missionary of recently celebrated his birthday His maternal grandfather was Robert Rock woods first postmaster 100 years ago Taken from the of The i Press of Thursday Mr I school inspector was requested to lay before Iht council any statement he wished to make regarding the establishment of a model sehool in the county It had been found that normal schools at Toronto and Ottawa were over crowded with the lower grade of teachers It is proposed to establish another normal school at Milton The Gazette gives an in cresting account of the new tannery premises being erected at that by Messrs and Son proprietors of the Acton tannery Twelve carpenters four masons and an average of 10 laborers ire employed on the works and the whole concern when finished will make so big a hole in that the residue will be nowhere About cords of tanbark have been delivered on the piling grounds on the opposite side of the river The tannery will probably be the largest tan nery in Ontario and certainly the model tannery In the Dominion Now is the time to make your soap Save time and money by buying steam refined lye 25 cents a box Bad boys and young men still persist in gathering around the Methodist church during Sunday evening services They should either take seats inside behave themselves or be sent to jail Two big bears and two dirty clowns amused the children yesterday by their street antics hop pickers wanted at James Mat thews hop yard Monday next The hop crop in this vicinity is said to be excellent THE ACTON FREE PRESS PHONE Business and Editorial Office