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The Acto Free Pr Wednesday Sept Pride in our schools The opening of school brings a host of changes to Acton children this week Most impressive is the fine new high school building which will be an asset to the whole town For the first time Acton has a middle school a concept which has proven its worth in other centres The senior grades will all be going to classes together in the former high school The Robert Little and Z Bennett schools now house just the grades from kindergarten to five The town has a separate school for the first time Catholic children are leaving their former schools and attending classes in the stone school beside the Robert Little Acton is the last town in the region to have a separate school The fine new quarters will in spire enthusiasm and pride this week The Free Press will continue to make a point of reporting the news from our town and district schools on the Youth Page each week All you reporters A reader said to us this week Maybe you re not interested but Yes we were interested We are very grateful to people who tell us about things that are hap pening in the town and district We can do without you We are also happy to have people write out items about their holiday trips and visitors Or call and let us know Others like to share this We don mind being phoned at home if there is something special We had a frightening few moments two weeks ago when a the night caller started out Thought you should know theres been an accident Turned out it t a family member but the two police cruisers which had collided on Highway 25 What a relief One of the other newspapers in the area had a reporter who said to us once I always thought you must have 60 reporters working there Its true more than Many people give us tips and ready written stones bring in pictures and cartoons We ap preciate it all Strikes against us During the air traffic controllers strike comes word there could be another post office strike before Christmas Both government and the unions seem quite prepared to let the public and businesses bear the brunt of their arguments The majority of Canadians do not even belong to unions And many feel strongly that the government should replace the right to strike in essential services with some kind of compulsory arbitration Public service unions have shown he kind of regard they have for the public Who suffers All of us in a kind of general blackmail The Federation of Independent Business asks everyone to write to the Prime Minister on the subject Our Member of Parliament also asks to hear from his constituents The Prime Minister address is simply Parliament Buildings Ottawa Dr s address is Room Confederation Building House of Commons Ottawa The government must know what the people are thinking The teachers creed What should be the teacher creed She or he must believe in girls and boys the women and men ignorance in the efficacy of schools in the dignity of teaching in the joy of serving others in wisdom revealed in human lives as well as in pages of the printed book in the ability to work with the hands as well as to think with the head Teachers should believe in the present with all its op portunities and the future with its promises for living at ones best Teaching is a continual and dif ficulL occupation but most rewardthg be done by kindness by warning by precept but above all by example One has to remember that the teacher is the book that will imprint her or him most upon the youthful mind Education is not teaching youth the shape of letters and the tricks of numbers then leaving them to turn their literature into lust and their arithmetic into roguery On the contrary it means training them to exercise their bodies and minds prudently Strikes concern MP Dear Sir The recent air controllers strike has once again raised discussion on the larger subject of strikes in essential services however that may be defined Last time It was the inside postal workers While all fair minded people would agree that legal strikes are an established part the collective bargaining process that the worker has a right to protect himself economically and that all workers should have the same rights without discrimln a ion there is obviously general and serious public concern about the effects of strikes In some areas Those areas characteristically involve the deadly combination of a virtual monopoly function plus the right to strike They have serious effects on the expenses and convenience of individual people on businesses and on the economy In general They involve areas such as the public service transportation communication and security They can result in serious civil disorder and economic loss While most contract negotiations In both the private and public sectors have been settled without strike action or lost time strikes In these crucial areas nave had de vastating effects in recent years This was not what the government had In mind when with the best of Intentions legislated the right to strike for these groups a few years ago nor has it now It cannot In future tolerate or permit serious harm to the public from such strikes and loan services especially those In the government sector The public turn made It clear that It simply will not stand for It The economy has made it clear that it simply cannot stand It What to do then It Is not easy or pleasant Sunset silhouettes ducks as summer becomes autumn Sugar and spice You can t hard lurn your back these days but one or other of our old traditions has either vanished or changed for the This thought came to mi for no known reason is I was speeding down the highway the other day wincing time big tnnsport blew mi off the road shouting opprobrium lime somi punk in sports car cut in front of me those vile noises reminis cent of a bear with the din rear You know Bill said to rather querulous one of thesi line days you won be able lo find a rmcr can drive a team of homes a tractor yes Drive i bulldozer Hut not knowing the difference and Gee Well this thought profundity mode me sort of gloomy and the gloom deepened as day after day further evidence that our whole as you and I knew it Mabel is dlsappnrmg behind our very I was siddened when I look my two out to a loco farm the other day to pick some corn beans flunked them down the rows of corn and they were bewildered The howled with tcrrorof this alien corn They never been on a farm before and may never be on one again tjuillc dommage I must admit they weren baffled for long In five minutes Nikov was lost In the torn patch localableonly by the piping I found big one Grandad and little is silting in the damp clay happily eating yellow beans But I fill of pity for them lhat II never on top of a load of hay nivcr gel a squirt the face of warm milk right from the cow s leal never have the fun of turning the handle of a separator see farmer sharpening a the on or farmer wife beheading that was to be dinner I grow up on a farm but in that most pleasant of all places for a boy to grow a small treelined town in old Ontario My uncle town and of aspects of farm life were a see ret to mi It is old place formerly the of gentleman farmer of means Then must have been 11 different out buildings most of them In a state of There was house boast scvir fireplaces and even a butler s Sort of rundown but a place for a boy to visit As it turned out it was a lousy form and lie lost a fair chunk of his shirt when he fin illy sold it and bought a real farm But for a right once It has been granted even though this be necessary The alternative is some other acceptable tlvc bargaining mechanism to replace the strike such as binding arbitration or the last best offer system Governments have been seeking such an answer for some time Some people believe that it is Impossible to legislate against legal strikes because they will only become Illegal strikes or other disruptions I suppose this Is one of the tests of a modern civilized industrial nation But surely If government has to be continually legislating workers back to work each and every time a strike is called to keep order In the country it would be better to know beforehand that the strike Is not permitted port of the ground rules Surely overwhelming public opinion can appeal to the Inherent sense of rcspon of our unions of both their rank and file members as well as their leaders At any rate with more such strikes anil in the essential services eg the In side postal workers transportation groups and perhaps others this subject will un continue to hot topic for dls cusslon in caucus Parliament and among the public over the next few years Moat people obviously do not want their essential services disrupted Neither do 1 would appreciate hearing my constlt views either in direct so that I may represent you even more effectively on this crucial subject In Ottawa Yours sincerely Frank A Philbrook Member of Parliament Ive always found the tennis court lighting adequate a romantic kid who read a lot going out to Ihe farm was the equivalent of visiting relatives who had come down in the world bit but were still aristocrats My uncle a hardy old Irishman who lived lo be bought a farm hen on the side of town but it was just a plain farm Itsgreatredeemingqualitv was that on Ihe bank of Ihe river that flowed through it was fought the last duel ever fought in Canada Many a time I searched the ground for bullets Some years later I even took a girl down to that river bank probably hoping that the atmosphere the duel was fought over a lady might have some effect on her It didn Summertimes before the Great put an end to such frivolities we went to a cottage up in Quebec on a small beautiful lake Just up the hill from the lake were two farms and I spent many hours jumping in haymows helping bring in the cattle turning the separator helping to load on the drinking from the dipper in the pail in the kitchen and for supper and fresh blueberry pie if I could wangle it farm the nearest we got most of our grub Fresh produce picked from the garden Daily milk at cents for a fivepound honey paid full gen zed Unpasteurized Delicious couple of fat fowl for Sunday dinner if relatives came and they did in droves at cents each Delicious Eggs at cents a dozen Delicious The were the nearest thing I ever had to grandparents They were elderly their own family grown and gone Mr was a huge raw boned man with a magnificent moustache who could hit it hen at 10 paces with a squirt of tobacco juice He knew about kids and let us fork hay handle the reins feed the chickens and give a pail of milk to a greedy calf a robust experience His wire was tiny as he was huge Worn with toil deaf as a doorknob sharp as a tack And gentle generous warm she knew perfectly well that small boys do not have stomachs bottomless pits The other farm was the Kelly The name was right on They were like some thing straight from the sod Maggie had pure white hair and the classic Tea turesof the Sorrows She was stuck with a brother Jim who had the worst stammer I have ever heard He sounded retarded but I think it was only the stammer He loved kids At Kelly we got drinking water and worms They had a well of such pure icy water it would shame champagne Behind the barn was a spot where we could always get worms those skinny red wrigglers Ideal for catching speckled trout No charge for water or worms Today farmer would want cents for a pall of water and a dollar far a dozen worms WcncverboughtmuchatKelly s Maggie was too proud to sell to the sum people But she let us play with the lambs and feed the pigs Perhaps we were the only children she ever had She never petted us or played with us She was taciturn almost grim But once in a while the piercing blue eyes softened Into some thing like the nearest should come to a grin Ah my poor back to their home in the city Noise heat smog vio lence confusion Ah fleeting years What 1 give to be 10 years old digging worms beneath the manure behind bam The Free Press Back Issues 10 years ago Taken from the Iss of the Press of Thursday Septembers Councillor Bob Drinkwalter was elected chairman of Acton new planning board with Sid Saitz as vicechairman The men will take over from the previous planning board which resigned en masse over council decision not to accept their recommendations s Dairy Princess Carol Swack of Acton went all the way to the finals in the Coliseum at the CNE but was edged out by Northumberland Maria making her third entry In Ontario competition Mrs Garnet Kay Mrs Art and daughter Karen are away on a three week trip to Saskatchewan and Alberta George Carr has returned to England after spending two months with his sister Mrs Ben Boyljss and family Diane has relumed to Mary Glen Residence and classes at Institute Toronto Both drivers suffered head cuts when cars hit headon on ltd near Guclph St Georgetown Monday August Hon Guyette 12 Prince Charles Georgetown was driving north and Harvey Young of was southbound when they collided according to police Both cars were writeoffs 20 years ago Token from the issue of Ihe J- Press September 12 19j7 On evening I- ire Depart ment responded to a call at Tannery lo extinguish a small fire believed to have someone dropping a cigarette butt between the ties on the rail way bridge With the assistance the tannery fire department the fire was extinguished in short order with little damage done to the bridge large bam recent converted into a modern warehouse belong lo the Bulb near flockwood was completely fire last Thursday evening The fire was first noticed by neighbor Rod Downs who noticed what looked like steam coming from the building No flames could be seen at first He called owner Gordon Goodman owner of the bulb who was television from were called and were there in a few minutes but nothing could be done to save the building Miss Terra former grade 12 high school student sailed from Montreal September on the Empress of England to attend Junior College in Switzerland 50 years ago Taken from ihe Issue of the Press 1M7 The schools here opened on Tuesday and although the registration was not all com upward of pupils started in their studies in the fall term The attendance was as follows Miss M Bennett classes Miss D classes Miss classes Miss G Clarndges classes 40 Miss A Mac Donald s classes 35 Miss Anderson classes classes Mrs Moore and Miss McMillan pupils The high schools have a registration of over The classes have been divided in two sections and the room at the own hall is being used One class goes and the other in the afternoon from clock lo In the Labour Sports at Mills the Hercules Acton was winner of the open and the 220 yards open and Gordon Cooper of the same club won second in these events years ago Taken from the Issued the free Press September 13 IH77 man named Thomas Gardner Cabinet maker for a long time in the employ of Mr Henry Burnett Sr died rather suddenly last Thursday evening He was troubled with a rupture and on the day of the circus at Brampton got rather the worse of liquor as was a too frequent with him which aggravated his complaint and took him off suddenly Two young men from ihe country started quite a melee in front of the post office Saturday evening by drawing one of our peaceable villagers into a general scrim mage The villager better half joined the tussle with a potato masher in her hand and she disibled one of them from further action Married men don t fail to take your wife and children to the entertainment in the drill shed this evening THE ACTON FREE PRESS Business and Editorial Office Copyright