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Fonda Reed star Action movie filmed in district Milton looked like a page against them Fonda accord trailer out of Hollywood or two days to producer Jon Slan of Helen Shaver a Canadian last week when a movie crew is once again with three major pic lures to came to to town to film scenes a wandering type who her credit plays the female for a new movie Fifth town motor- lead and provides the lor a new movie using cycIe hU ramflnt interest She Reed and teams up with him chases Fonda Jerry Reeds to get revenge on the bad son is played by yearold guys Christopher who Reed is killed in the film that segment was filmed on Producer Stan he hired The Acton Free Press Wednesday Dec 28 1977 11 Wheel Truck Stop as a back drop The action movie called Highball in stars two American superstars Peter Fonda of Easy Rider fame iu and country and western Tuesday Dec 13 on the Sixth trucks and drivers for a singer composer and actor Line but his yearold son Jerry Reed who rose to fame jumps on Fondas motor- scene and to as a back in Gator then clinched it in cycle races to the local truck Smokey and the Bandit But stop and rounds up the other big names trucken torn a convoy f Canadian and the film is Canadian production to avenge Reed demise The Fonda Reed reunion Both Fonda and Reed were MOTORCYCLE OWNER Gary Bluestone of Toronto right checks out his bike just before movie star Peter Fonda takes off for a ride down the road Bluestone rented his antique 1940 In days one day on Sixth Line north of Five Side road where some of the action scenes were filmed and two days at Fifth Wheel for a segment Fonda and a bad guy were filmed at the Fifth Wheel location Wheel but Ihey come and too quickly The convoy scene was an one as the truckers Including one woman actor come bursting out the truck stop restaurants doors dash to their trucks and race out the This week the dim near the film where a touring rural roads north of taiwwy to the highway truck stop background was Toronto doing the climax of Baton PoUce required ihe scene in which Woe off traffic on High is about a group the heroes are chased by the to te motorcycle for use in the film lie says its of bad guys trying to force villains that features the was scene ssijsu one of the truckers who rebels and a tractor The cars were rolling Wednesday at Brookville The oval at made by all the boys as a Speedway may be covered class project Most of them with drifting snow and the had been working on their strip at Dragwoy Park in cars since September Cayuga may be covered with Most of the cars were Ice but the track at Brook ready to go in November ville Public School clear said shop instructor Jack and busy Wednesday after The boys spent noon hours working on them at The Grade Eight boys in school and as many hours as dustnal arts shop class they wished working on them hosted the Second Annual at home Derby There were no particular a series of races using style regulallons for the cars proximately l scale The boys designed their cars model made wooden strictly from imagination replicas of automobiles We had some The automobiles were regulations Becka said Parent questions literacy levels Claiming literacy stand not from a superficial book are dropping a such as novels or fiction parent wants to know what books she asked local educators arc doing Maximum weight for the car had to be grams Max imum height was set at five cent meters and maximum length was set at cent The body had to be made from a pine block The wheels could be made from any type of wood the boys wanted to use Axle modi fica and body modifications Rick Greenly and David Dan ielle qualified for the Derby Donaldson Isnor Koughler Brown Smith Pal and Greenly forged on ward into the quarter finals after tough matches Isnor Smith and Greenly dragged their way into the semi finals Isnor and Smith both out of camera range Some warehouse scenes were filmed at a warehouse on Queen Quay In Toronto Publicist Prudence Emery said is like a modern day western with trucks instead of horses The picture focuses on Fonda as a former trucker and erstwhile motorcyclist who becomes enmeshed in trucking Industry corruption Jerry Reed plays a trucker who embroils his friend Fonda in a series of swash buckling actionpacked adventures as they take on the highjacking crew which has been creating havoc on the highway She calls it a hottest Canadian property right now she grinned Filming started Nov 21 and director Carter who also directed The and Rituals hopes to be finished by the end of this month The movie is scheduled for release by next summer- perhaps earlier The 30member film crew includes five two of them top Hollywood stunt coordlnators plus three Canadians Special effects man is Richard Helmer whose credits include Jaws Silent Running and Race with the Devil Chief is Gary Davis billed as the world greatest motorcycle stunt man He doubled for in the movie Viva Knievcl and broke Knievel record by Jumping cars on a motorcycle The team is doing some thing new in Highball in called a flaming cannon roll which has never been attempted before in motion picture history Without giving too much away movie officials hinted It has some thing to do with blowing up a flaming truck At one point in the film flaming cars are dropped from a speeding car trans port during a highspeed chase DESPITE THE RAIN filming for the movie Highballui continued for two days at Fifth Wheel Truck Stop in Milton last week Stars Peter Fonda and Jerry Reed in hat are pictured discussing the action with director Peter Carter in toque Canadian actors also In elude David Ferry Chris Wiggins Mary and Wendy Thatcher The movie was originally tilled Flyer but It was changed during filming to Highballin Producers said the name may even change again before it is released modification could be used here Also plastic modlfica tions were allowed Becka said the bodies had to be sanded painted and fin to be accepted into the derby All regulations were to be met as well Fifty cars qualified for the preliminaries two weeks ago Of that group cars emerged as finalists in the Derby which took place on a foot track in the gym before an audience of Grade Six Seven and Eight students Each race was a best two- out of three affair because the cars were averaging close to five feet per second along the wooden twolane track- thus heats t require much time Mark John Nicholson Steven Hill Kevin received the letter without things Ike comic Donaldson Kevin Cory weYe allowed and any kind of driving hot graphite powered in uie racers emerged championship despite having wheel problems and minor track accidents However the drivers respective pit crews had them In racing form In a matter of seconds In the final race beat Smith after Smith s car had tire problems the back ones fell off Isnor won the fastest car In the derby championship Brown won the most sports manlike driver championship and Jones won the best looking car championship genre of I S T and Con voy and stressed the entire film was being shot on loca lion in and around Toronto Canadian financed High ballln is one or full length movies being shot In Canada this year Tax credits have helped bring many of these films to Canada from Holly wood Producer Slan says Highballin will cost a mil lion plus Ms Emery said Helen Shaver was one of 105 Cana actresses who audi tloned for the lead She s the NOTICE OFFICE WILL BE CLOSED Monday January 2 too Men welt FRANK TOTH MOTORS Gualph Street 8531840 about growing schools Alice Milton wrote a letter recently to Halton Board of Education in which she referred quite a bit She wondered if children in can be protected so problems like violence and crime in schools won t spread to this area Mrs said children arc problems in schools south television listening border T to the radio and reading comment Thursday much heir minds are likely Nationwide the statistics deteriorating and are losing literacy grow more po connected and vigorous thought each year She questioned student nutritional habits recre ational activities reading habits abilities to read teaching and marking and work habits Mrs said her letter and questions were meant to concerns she has brought to trustees attention in the past Can our children put an intelligent composition together Can our children carry on an intelligent con versation on a subject that Is Choose Seal friend The Lung Associa lion announced today that a unique award will be pre sented for the first lime in the Association year history The chosen recipient is yearold Sharon Oakvllle and the presentation will be made at the first meeting of the Executive Council in the new year Miss Gaudet has par lie 1 pated in the Family Asthma Program since its inception at White Oaks Pool in 1971 and faithfully adhered to the breathing exercises and relaxation techniques that helped her overcome her handicap The Lung Association is justifiably proud that Miss Gaudet now is able to com pete successfully in 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