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The Acton Free Press Wednesday Oct Want more than sympathy An enquiry into regional govern ment has been formally requested by the representatives of the Ac- for Action committee and will surely be forthcoming Legis lation states that 50 resident owners can request a review Although the committee has the readilygiven signatures of over 2000 they went to the trouble on the weekend of making another formal presentation using the correct wording of the legislation Parliamentary assistant George Ash who met with the four men from Acton said his area has been through regional government too and he sympathized with them Obviously we went more than sympathy The country is full of towns our size and far smaller who are independent within their own regions They have not collapsed finan cially Very few towns are stripped of their identity and their selfdeter mination We are told the people in George town would also like out of the Halton Hills setup Perhaps a peti tion from a citizens committee there would add weight to our representatives They have done a commendable task in putting into words and writing the feelings of the great majority of townsfolk Senior citizen centre The Ontario Heritage Foundation has just agreed to pay half the cost of the feasibility study for saving Fergus town hall building It will be used as a senior citizens centre for the town Their building was erected in and is owned by Melville United Church which had considered demolishing it Of the 50 per cent of the cost of the study remaining 25 per cent will be paid by the Rotary club and 25 per cent by the Town of Fergus The cost will be about about the same as Actons Possibly having the town hall here as the towns full time senior citizens centre possibility Therell be no stage for their pro grams though Councils decision to proceed with the second storey to the fire hall stands and the stage is being wrecked this week We love turkey Canadians are the worlds top consumers of turkey and many of us will be helping make it come true this Thanksgiving weekend Turkeys have been around for a long time The following is an excerpt from the book The Canadian Settlers Guide or a Female Settlers Guide written by Catherine Parr Trail and published in The turkey breeds well in Canada but the young ones are great ramblers and do much hurt to the grain and for this reason the farmer is shy of breeding them Some manage to confine them by tethering the hen to a stake when the young will not ramble far from her Mrs Trail would certainly as tounded by Canadas turkey pro duction today Not another postal strike It seems possible that there could be another postal strike It might be that another strike would mean the end of the postal system as we know it Private enterprise has already adopted alternative methods of getting their mail through and publicity is now out for recruits to help in getting the mail through if there is another strike While freedom for workers to form unions to call strikes to improve wages and working condi- is a right granted by law yet every right brings responsibilities and if the general good is ignored there will be a breakdown some where The list of demands by the Cana dian Union of Postal Workers as they appeared in the unions national news magazine seem just a bit much to nonpostal workers They are asking for a 30 hour week six hours a day five days a week including lunch periods hourly lominute rest breaks and a washup in return for hours of pay Included also are suggestions for double time for all overtime and senior workers get first chance at all over time double time for Saturday shift work triple time for Sun days four weeks vacation to start and seven weeks by years of service a raise of 30 cents an hour for any worker relocated from one postal station to another even if the old and new stations are in the same block an end to all electric surveillance of workers super visors to be located so that they can see the employees These are only a few of the suggestions made by the leaders of the Postal Union If such demands are granted it is conceivable members of other groups who have had their wages drastically restricted by the Wage Control pro gram would refuse to comply with the law The Ridgetown Dominion Of this and that The Fergus newspaper is run ning a series of reminiscences about the old town hall Actons Town Hall Restoration committee is considering the same thing Fellow was arrested the other day for stealing hamburgers and milkshakes at the drivein Police called him a shortorder crook Halloween is UNICEF time One of the pieces of literature sent to us reports that the total income of UNICEF is less than the amount spent on world armaments in four hours What does mean Its the United Nations Childrens Fund Giving thanks While complaining and criticizing are a couple of lifes enjoyments this is the time of the year set aside to give thanks Give thanks for our country our town our friends our jobs our families our faith Monday is Thanksgiving Day Welcome to a new writer Debbie Marshall She will be covering the news of Eden Mills and district and shed be glad to hear from any one in her area with items of in terest There has not been a reporter there since the death of Mrs Georgina Wright a faithful correspondent for many years SCHOOLS IN AGAIN and students are already having fun on lunch break as this crowd shows Also looking for way to break the routine Swinging around if you get hurt you can be sent home from school and the fence at Robert Little is a time tested method of take it easy Some people like me believe in rolling with the punches rather than sticking out our chins to show how many we can ab sorb I have found that in general if I avoid trouble trouble avoids me If I know that some pain in the arm has been trying to get me on the phone I also know immediately that he or she wants mi to do something that I dont want to do Therefore I take the phone off the hook and leave it off until the pain has found some other sucker Another invention of mine to out of trouble is patented as This is short for Negative Production The theorj is simple The more you produce the more problems you have whether it is children manufactured goods or farm products The more children you hove the more emotional and economic problems you create for yourself The more goods you produce the more you have to hustle to find customers and meet payrolls The more farm stuff you raise whether its beef or beans the greater your chance of being caught in a glut on the market Our great national railways caught on to this years ago When they had lots of passengers they had lots of problems People wanted comfort cleanliness decent meals and some assurance that they would get where they were going on time There was much more money to be made and fewer problems by trans porting wheat and lumber and cattle So the railways began treating people like cattle Passenger trains became comfortable and dirty Quality of the food dropped like a stone And they never arrived on time Presto End of problems No more passengers So the railways were able to cutoff nonpaying passenger lines get rid of all those superfluous things like station agents and telegraphers and train con ductors and concentrate on taking from one point to another things that paid their way and didnt talk back newsprint coal oil wheal Perhaps this is the answer for our pro vincial governments which are quickly and building massive mountains of debt for future taxpayers Perhaps they should Just stop building highways and repairing those already in existence Wed all be sore as hell for a while but as the roads got worse and worse most of us would stop driving our cars The governments would save millions of dollars now spent on highways and they could fire twothirds of the high way cops I dont quite see how the governments could use to get out of the liquor business which certainly produces plenty of problems The booze trade Is so profit able that asking government to abandon It would be like asking a millionaire to for sake his country estate for a rundown farm Perhaps if they had a Free Booze Day once a week every week say on a Satur day it would solve a number of problems It would certainly reduce the surplus population This In turn would cut down drastically the unemployment figures Should the provincial governments find that is all Ive suggested some of It might spill over into the federal government usually the last to catch on to what the country really needs Instead of the manna and honey flowing from Ottawa in the form of baby bonuses and penslona we might get some terse manifestos People who have more than one and a half children will be sent to Jail for four years Note separate jails People who plan to live past and claim a pension will be subject to an open season each year from October 1 to Thanksgiving Shotguns and bicycle chains only All veterans of all wan may claim participation by reason of insanity and may apply Ottawa for These might seem slightly Draconian meabures but they sure would put an end to a lot of our problems and troubles Think of what they would do for such sinful act ivities as sex growing old and hanging around the Legion Hall playing checkers But we must also think of the economic benefits With a plug put into that river of paper money flowing from Ottawa taxes Would drop inflation would vonish and un doubtedly separatism would wither on the vine People would be lined up six deep at the border trying to get across and that would solve in one swell foop our unemployment difficulties We could go back to bring hewers of water and carriers of wood which was our manifest destiny before the politicians got into the act Fishermen or lumberjacks In short which most of the rest of the world thinks we are anyway Nega Prod may seem a bit lofty and abstract at first glance but It works I know from personal experience Every time I try to make something or fix some thing It costs me a lot of money and I get into a lot of trouble So I have a policy of never trying to fix something or make something Its a lot less trouble to put up signs Beware of falling bricks Not responsible for slivers from picnic table and so on The clothesline pole by the Rev Chuck Beaton Trinity United Church A few years ago friends of ours moved into a new subdivision and the lady of the house wanted a clothesline in the backyard She gave the task to her husband who was well qualified to do the job for he was an engineer After a few false starts Fred got at it one Saturday morning and it seemed to be a bigger job than he had counted on It involved finding the right location for the pole cal culating the stress on the line the consistency of the concrete and all the proper angles Freds neighbours saw his dilemma and soon he was joined by a computer analyst an IBM execu tive a retired naval officer and a personal manager They discussed the problem throughout the day drew more diagrams and made further calculations The more they discussed and the longer they figured less and less work was accomplished a fact not unnoticed by the wives of the other husbands who had forsaken their own Satur day duties As darkness was drawing nigh they finally succeeded in setting the pole put up the line and retired for the evening proud of their work until Monday morning when Shir ley hung out her first wash and it all fell down After school that day Shirley and her fourteen year old son dug a hole poured in the concrete rammed in the pole and banked up the earth The clothesline pole stood for years and so has the story of the neighbourhood ex perts who took so long to do it and thendidntdoitright The Bible has a poignant lesson in the little letter of James in which the writer exhorts us to be doers of the word and not hearers only deceiving yourselves James 23 The story of the clothesline pole reminds me of people I know namely me and others like me who talk a lot about doing something and never quite get it done Then Im thankful that my God is merciful The Free Press Back Issues 10 years ago Taken from Ihelwueof Ihf Free Press Of Thursday October 1867 Another appeal for an addition to the Bennett school will be made by the public school board Principal Elmer Smith is a sketch of the proposed addition or a special meeting of the board next Tuesday and the detailed presentation will hopefully be made at the next meeting of No one committee of council Purveyors of the dominating male will have a hard time convincing arena manager Harold Townsley of It following the roller skating marathon which started here Friday night at pm Thirtythree endurance testers left the starting gate but the one to finish last was pretty perky Cathy Clark 17yearold daughter of Mr and Mrs Alvin Clark Jeffrey Ave Time Almost p Saturday afternoon hours after starting Children baptized at the Church of St A I ban the Martyr were Ann Teresa Porte Irme Porte Wayne Porte Kim Louise Elaine Vera Tracey Lynn Sandra June Hunter Karen Ann Gordon and Steven Jenkins 20 years ago Taken from the Issue of the Free Press Of Thursday Oct 10 Mayor Tyler announced in an in terview this week that constant contact is being made with the unknown benefactor who offered artificial Ice for the town of Acton Mayor Tyler noted that companies had been approached regarding equipment supplies and materials needed and also forms have been prepared in order to enter into an agreement with the donor at such time as plans are finalized Corporal Mason of the local P announced a change in staff this week Duncan has been transferred to North Bay headquarters and replacing him is Bob of the D and former officer of the local detachment who started this week and will replace Constable Duncan The School Board announced today of ficial word has been received from the Prime Minister that all schools in Ontario would close Tuesday October This holiday Is to pay tribute to the Royal visit to Canada 50 years ago Taken from the Issue of the Free Press Of Thursday Octobers A survey of the book of permits for 1927 show Acton had considerable acUvity Residences are for S Lees A Georgetown Lumber Co J M McDonald J Lyle Walter Bauer Cordiner and a factory for Crcber Bros at the corner of Young and Queen and poultry houses for P McLam McComb G Benton for J Mackenzie with a coal shed and weigh scales a new high school and repairs to the public school Many subjects calculated for the bet terment of Acton were discussed by the Chamber of Commerce The first step is a drive for larger membership H Harrison is president years ago Taken from the Issue of the Free Of Thursday Oct A couple of street fights relieved the monotony of things last Friday evening Considerable was done but we have not heard that anybody was much hurt A subscriber wants to know why we have not published the Village Council proceedings Our answer is simply because the Council have not had a meeting since the of June last Enterprising council aint it The Acton Plow Company is now In solvent the estate now being in the hands of the official assignee The Eramosa fall show in was favored with good weather and a large number of visitors A large quantity of nice butter and bread attracted much attention Grain roots and fruits were all better than last year Ladles department included wax work raised worsted work tatting feather flowers bead work wreath mesh work braiding quilts and counterpanes Stanley has written his first com munication concerning his explorations in Africa He says missionaries are needed Sorry Im late guys had to park in Georgetown THE ACTON FREE PRESS PHONE8532010 Business and Editorial Office WBo SI UK piparl rip font In SO In On DBf Copyright 1977