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See you at the fair The fairgrounds will be the magnet this weekend when crowds will again enjoy the annual fall fair Again this year the fair boards and all their assistants are plan an event which caters just as much to town tastes as country products The stress on entertainment is obvious and there will be plenty of entertainment for everybody The midway ill run throughout the three days if not longer and it always attracts with its music delighted shrieks prizes and delicious smells Parts of the fair grounds will be small oases of quiet as thoughtful judges inspect the warm sheep sleek cattle gorgeous poultry and other livestock The products of the gardens and the kitchens will entice viewers and beg comparisons Local people will have all manner of booths and all matter of of things for sale Miss Acton Fair will be chosen and will reign The parade will pack the main streets of town There will be draws galore and food for sale everywhere much of it raising money for good causes All three days will bring their own attractions not the least of them the visiting with old friends Few of us will think of the hours and hours of planning and hard work behind these exciting three days As usual hundreds of people will thoroughly enjoy themselves this weekend See you there A better chance Lottery addicts take heart Here is a new lottery plan where you are guaranteed to win at least once a year suggests the editor of The Renfrew Mercury However it involves stopping spending money on any other lot The day before each of the Win Provincial or Canada draws just deposit the value of two tickets in a special bank account With 26 Wintano 12 Provincial and four Canada draws the total after a year will be And to make the winnings even bigger you will be paid interest on the money Of course therein t any chance of winning a million dollars but then the chances of winning a mil lion on the lotteries is so small as to be worthless anyway The truth about the lotteries is that from to 50 per cent of the money goes into prizes That means that of your entered only from 100 to is paid back in prizes So that means that after level ling out the odds you could make twice as much money by putting the ticket money into the bank And then at Christmas or what ever time you decide to take the cash out you will have a nice total of winnings on hand instead of cursing that you didn t win Of this and that Councillors and firefighters who hoped to buy or expropriate CN land near the tracks for a new fire hall were led to believe there is a two year freeze on the sale of CN land However the Globe last Saturday reported the sale of CN land to the city of Toronto for housing and offices Adds to the confusion How about the fire siren atop the town hair Where will it be recon structed and how much will such a tower add to the cost of the fire hall addition According to the Ontario Safety League while most children stop before entering a pedestrian cross walk many of them then run Words to live by across the road They try rectly but are unable to take in the entire situation Children don t see things the same as an adult and they can judge distance and speed In fact the child s way of looking around gives them a great deal less information than an adult inthesamesituation When a driver makes eye contact with a young pedestrian about to cross the street the driver knows the child has seen the vehicle and will wait for it to pass Actually the reverse is true The Safety League reports that studies show that a child making eye contact with a driver is sure the or he has been seen and that the driver will stop to let her or him cross Weve lost a freedom James Taylor The Untied Church of Canada Contrary to popular belief there was more sexual freedom years ago than there is now Yes back in the days when male college students came home from the dance at the nurses residence bragging about who hod been able to do what with whom sexual be havior still offered one choice that is ap parently not available today That choice was virginity For male or female A person in his or her twenties or older who admitted to being a virgin might get sympathy But It was still possible to admit It Today when every other program cither suggests or shows casual sex when every film seems to have a mandatory nude scene when best selling books define and encourage every conceivable technique and excuse for sex who going to admit being different Gordon writing in the magazine Catholic states Surely it is much easier now for a young person male or female to come out of the closet and con to being a sadomasochistic homo sexual transvcstite than admit to being a virgin Suddenly virginity has become some thing to be ashamed of Christians are divided on the doctrines of the virgin birth Bible authorities quibble about the meanings of words biologists disagree about the likelihood of Jesus spontaneous conception Yet through the dispute the Virgin Mary has stood for all Christians as a symbol of purity and innocence When those virtues are no longer able our society has lost something And in spite of all the arguments about the new freedom and in sex when virginity is no longer an acceptable option we have lost a freedom Written for this newspaper by James A Taylor Managing Editor The United Church Observer St Clair Ave Toronto Ontario M4T IMS COOPER stands waiting for customers in his tailor shop and mens furnishings store in the 1920s located where the Shop now stands Thomas Gibbons Mam St lent the Free Press the picture wmch he found amongst the belongings of his late sister Dene Gibbons The photo shows the bolts of material and show cases to the left the hats at the back of the store apd cuffs and collars to the right Mr Cooper was the father of GordonCooperof WillowSt Acton Ruined foundations still stand on highway Sugar and spice When you wont to rub somebody s nose in something it tosiy smugly I sav I told yiu so but Will 1 don it at I thoroughly enjoy it So litre a year I wroli i the vultures ithmnt In rend in tear it the still quivering of I iberdl in I ran Minister in Remember The Torus still Hushed wilh ixcitiment ilieiinL i w leader were in a stall of i Whv publn opinion polls showed steadily in ippe I ibenls idil I pundits iiross the were trumpeting the nninf a new era The I were Tmdeau wis ill wnslud up slid the pcrts licking lips Nil was on the waiting or knock punch At the time I tried lo introduce note of reason or at least sense among prophets I w it while the big I iber machine is mg and seemed almost moribund times it wis not ante for extreme I remember iskinj bluntly What do you think ill 1 the country an going to do 1 ledown pi dead I reminded reidcrs lhat while seemed the most man in the country so hid Hint perennial winner Mackenzie King Nobody paid any heed few people paid the extreme insult of insisting that only a dyed in the wool would have written such a comment Then mysteriously Ihe polls gin to change The Tories began to slip even though the government went on humbling and bungling Now alter almost a year the figures ire reversed The Tories were wiped in by elections They hive lost four members of caucus through switches and nations Right now they are is sink as Ihe Grits were months ago WhathappcncdWell fornno thing young Tory leader Joe Chirk on like an old rubber boot It help hit the media disappointed because no politic blood was being shed sivaged him ferociously Next was tossed a political bouquet when the won the Quebec election the whole began bleating about the destruction of our sacred union Overnight he was trans formed from arrogant die tatorsocialist take your pick in Ottawa loSl Pierre the while hope who alone could back the savage hordes from Quebec s ilvngc maidenhead At exactly the propitious moment his beautiful young wife began rolling and stoning around and we all sat with baited breath The soap opera ended perfectly with tilt hussy leaving poor dear min done with ill those boys to imliy odd the sheer perversity of the l an voter and you have all the isons for the once more flying high read for an election any time the poor old lories wondering why the roof fell in for one moment think that the revers d in fortunes in less than is dm to any or boldness on the the I government from it let mi refresh your mind this is the government rejected price controls when the Tones llobert wanted thim then turned around hire faced hypocrisy applied them his is the it was going to wrestle inflation to the ground Guess who s wo two out of the first three falls This is the government lhat the workers to tie up the country for five weeks then slammed the door on the fingers of the controllers when by Bill Smiley they died perfectly legal strike This is the government that has sat by and watched unemployment climb to frightening levels without stir ring finger This is the government that dithered over punishment and waffled on controls is the government thai threw millions of dollars off the dock by trying to mike middle aged civil servants learn French instead of spending those dollars on Inching it to children his is the government that has set up a propagand i service and has acknowledge block lists of Canadian citizens This is the government that sold you a Canada Savings Bond which is now worth cents on a good day This is the government that pleaches control and constraint and practises neither in its own spending On the town hall The Chairman of the Acton Town Hall Restoration Committee I feel I must reply publicly comments made by Council members about the work of the Committee I reports of statements such as the fol lowing have appeared the hall might still be coming down because the fund rals Is going so slowly Mercury Sept Rand they would like the firemen out of there Acton rec Press Sept 7 it seems docs not know much o the Committee s work or Is not clear its terms of reference t he mandate of he Committee appointed by resolution of Council June 1077 is as follows to coordinate the required fund rals mi activities through all Provincial and private sources to finance restoration to insure the inte grity of the Town Hall This motion quite clearly implies that intends the Town Hall to be pre served and the Committees job is to in and undertake fund raising licfore any fund raising however it Is to know how much must be raised Application for Provincial Government funds through the Heritage and must Include submission of a feasibility study by an acceptable consultant The Committee has been carrying out this essential preliminary work which cannot be done hurriedly or carelessly An architect has been engaged for feasibility study now about completed The has made application to the Heritage Foundation for a grant to cover one half of the cost of the feasibility study and expects a decision shortly The Com must raise the balance of the cost and has been greatly supported by a dona tion from the Acton business people as a result of their Back to Days celebration Other unsolicited donations from interested people and organizations have been forthcoming and the Committee is also engaged in fund raising activities to meet this obligation The feasibility study is expected to be ready about the end of September A report will then be made to Council and if the study is favorable an application will be made to the Heritage Foundation and for financial assistance A campaign in Acton will be necessary and plans for it have been discussed At no time did the Committee state it would tike the firefighters out of their hall In fact the Committee and Its architect requested through Councillor Miller an informal meeting of Acton Councillors the Committee Architect Engineer and Fire fighters to discuss how the two projects might be worked together to enhance the feasibility of the Town Hall restoration Councillor Miller was instructed by Council not to set up such a meeting The refusal or this request for cooperation has resulted in more work for the Committee and architect and made some aspects of the feasibility study less favorable Committee members have recognized that relocation of the Fire Hall would make restoration of the Town Hall more attractive colly and some eel the Firefighters would be better served by a new hall In another Continued on page The Free Press jl Back Issues 10 years ago Taken from he Issue of the Free Presi of Thursday September 13 Climax of months of detailed planning Acton Fall Fair will likely draw the largest crowd ever this weekend At the last count there were at least floats registered for the big centennial parade which begins at 12 30 on Saturday afternoon First section of the parade is a military parade arranged by the Legion with units from the Lome Scots nth Field Regiment A legion float will include Legion officials The candidates are set and the race Is on to choose representation for County in the Ontario Legislature Each of the three major parties will have candidates campaigning for seats in the East and West ridings in the October 17 provincial election Candidates In this riding are Jack Lush Liberal Ted Mc Donald New Democratic Party and George Kerr Progressive Conservative Mrs A Symon of Vancouver is visiting with her mother in law Mrs Mabel and Mrs Marguerite Taylor this week 20 years ago Taken from the issue of the tee Press of Thursday September 19 1957 Gordon C Goodwin president of the Canadian Branch Office Service Limited for the Michigan Bulb Company an to the Free Press this week his firm has rented the Storey Glove Building in Acton from G Small wood Ltd for the Michigan Bulb Company Last week while servicing the home of Jack Locker Bower Avenue with gas the United Suburban Gas Company located an old coin under the earth Mr Locker brought the coin to the Free Press office and after being cleaned off it was found to be a half penny Upper Canada token dated JimBuckland swimming instructor an nounced this week the post trial com pletions for their third and first star Last week Sue Walters and Jack Pope success fully completed tests for their third star and Andrew Knox for his first star J McGeachicoftheActonYsMensClub reports the Acton club will be hosts to the Regional Convention to be held at Geneva Park near on September 50 years ago Taken from the Issue of the Free Press September 1BZ7 The annual school fair of township was held this year at Bannock burn school The exhibits of fruit baking candy grains and vegetables were ranged on tables The writing and essays and sewing etc were on the walls In the grounds were the pens with animals Barbara Guthrie of No won the spelling contest Miss Velma Murray of Lome school won the T Eaton cup with a total of points The detour on the Acton crossroad comes in at a very inopportune time for Acton fall fair A day or so after their return from their honeymoon Company and friends to the number of about gathered at the home of Mr and Mrs W D Grundy to welcome them to the community 100 years ago Taken from the Issue of the Free Press Septembers 1877 Another old resident of this vicinity Mr John Stalker breathed his last a few days ago at the ripe old age of 88 years His funeral yesterday was attended by a large concourse of relatives and friends The township clerk and postmaster now spell the name of their township An old man named James years of age and known for his eccentric ways was Instantly killed by a train near the line of A distressing cose of seduction and heart less abandonment of a young girl has created some sensation hereabouts this week She Is reported to have been found lying in a fence corner after having given birth to a during the night The seducer Is said to be a young man residing in Georgetown A private letter from Rome states that the Pope is not expected to live past November THE ACTON FREE PRESS PHONE 853 2010 Business and Editorial Office Copyright