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Acton Free Press Wednesday Editorial Page You can be a part Back to Acton Days are for the whole community and the organizers hope as many as possible will join in At one point your participation is going to be specially requested in the zany parade a modern version of those the town always had years ago Put on a crazy hat bring a musical instrument ride your bike get out your Halloween out fit whatever Hie parade needs lots of people The other special events of the weekend will be drawing many people too Think about how you can par ticipate not just watch 1 Get those critters Its unlikely that there is any danger of catching encephalitis this summer from mosquitoes but there are ways to control mosquitoes which are useful anyway If your yard is inundated by hordes of mosquitoes each year there must be a nearby breeding site Mosquitoes usually multiply in still water Homeowners should make sure lowlying areas are leveled to prevent water from gathering Drainage ditches gutters and drainpipes should be unclogged to allow water to move freely Disposing of empty cans and old tires gives mosquitoes less chance to breed Water in wading pools ponds and bird baths should be changed every few days Keep swimming pools properly chlorinated and filtered Apparently backyard zappers and sonic arent that great but insect do prevent bites Scratch scratch The duty of being happy The following rules on how to be happy are attributed to Robert Louis Stevenson who believed there is no duty we underrate more than the duty of being happy Make up your mind to be happy Learn to find pleasure in simple things Make the best of your cir cumstances No one has every tlnng and everyone has something of sorrow intermingled with the gladness of life The trick is to make laughter outweigh the tears 3 Dont take yourself too ser iously Dont think that somehow you should be protected from mis fortunes that befall other people You cant please everybody Don let criticism worry you Summer hints With the holiday season ap proaching St John Ambulance offers a few First Aid tips for families taking off for the cottage planning a trip or some other summer recreational activity Small cuts should be attended to immediately to prevent them from becoming more serious Wash well and cover with a clean dressing To stop bleeding apply direct pressure on the wound with your hand or a clean dressing This will stop ever profuse bleeding Be sure to take along some strong laundry soap for use if you come in contact with poison ivy As soon as possible wash the contact area thoroughly with soap and water to remove the plant oil which causes the rash Dont go swimming alone and dont dive into water without knowing the depth Mouth to mouth resuscitation is the most effective way to revive a casualty who has stopped breath ing from drowning electrocution suffocation or heart attack Put 5 Dont let your neighbor set your standards Be yourself 6 Do the things you enjoy doing but stay out of debt 7 Dont borrow trouble Imag inary things are harder to bear than actual ones 8 Since hate poisons the soul do not cherish enmities and grudges 9 Have many interests If you cant travel read about new 10 Dont hold postmortems Dont spend your life brooding over sorrow or mistakes Dont be one who never gets over things Do what you can for those less fortunate than yourself 12 Keep busy at something A very busy person never has time to be unhappy your hand under the neck and lift to tilt the head and open the airway Make a tight seal with your mouth over the victims mouth and blow Watch for the chest to rise Repeat every 3 to 5 seconds Dont try to get a tan all in one day Take it gradually Sunburn is treated like other burns Dont break blisters Gently apply a cloth soaked in cool water to relieve pain then cover with a clean dry Stuff The attractive new fronts at First Line T Sports Corner and A Supermarket spruce up the whole of that block There have been many favorable comments The downtown planters are more beautiful than ever this year Thanks to Ted Tyler and assist ants WARM WEATHER WAS tempered by good breezes when Knox Church held their outdoor service last Sunday The congregation enjoyed the service under the sun Sugar and spice Despite my fairly often encounters with misanth ropes who seem bent on convincing me that the human race is a nasty lot I keep coming back to the good worm feeling that on the whole people are a pretty good lot as far as they go They are kind and concerned despite the evidence to the contrary When wrote something about my wife insomnia and how she dreads our upcoming trip to Europe trying to sleep on boats buses and a strange bed every night a lady reader sent a long letter filled with ideas on how to cope with the situation One time in a real en I men lhal our daughter was very ill and asked readers to say a prayer We received dozens of letters and phono calls from friends and strangers assuring us that they would do just that An elderly lady from Alberta wrote me a longand involved letter offering a solution when I once complained of arthritic agony in this space I m going to take her up on it one of these days Ive tried wearing a phony bracelet and carrying a potato around in my hip pocket and they were slightly less than successful Turned to write something on the black board a few weeks ago my old friend Arthur nailed me in the hip and I almost felt down in front or the class Headline English Department Head Drunk On Duty Angry Parents Demand Dismissal Wrote a column recently asking for someone to give my daughter a job It was written in jest But any day now I expect an old friend or a complete stranger to give me a call and offer her a job as a chicken pluckcr or a gogo dancer or a cosmetician in a mortuary or some thing equally exotic Years ago IhadtogoofflotheSan with a shadow on my lung I left behind a young pregnant bewildered and scared wife My friends young and supposedly callous spent their scanty money on visits to me and supported and solaced my bride with out ever trying to take a pas3 at her to my astonishment and enlightenment for they were a pretty unscrupulous crowd and she was a raving beauty and human nature being what It Is Just recently a colleague died of leuke mia after a comparatively short illness He was in his prime a nice guy generally liked full of life And he died bravely without any whimpering still making plans for next year A couple or days later one of his mates was around with a piece of paper looking for signatures for work parties at Pauls place He and his wife owned a bummer re sort into which they d poured a lot of money and energy planning for his retire ment They had neglected the place naturally during his last illness The weeds and grass had grown and they had to open soon for the summer season There was no lack of signatures and we all piled in even the old like me who usually leave the menial labor for the kid next door to clean up the place During the war I found the same kind ness and concern among the enemy A young German paratrooper who had watched coldly while some older German chaps kicked me about rather badly for something naughty I d done came into the boxcar in which was tied up that evening bloody and well bowed threw his camouflage cape over me it was talked to me in halting French I sorely needed both the cape and the company A few weeks later with other prisoners 1 was sitting out an air raid ours in the station We were half frozen and hungry as hell Some middleaged German ladles came down with a huge basin of hot coffee ersatz and motherly looks real in the middle of that air raid blessed their good hearts and hoped my mother would do the same In the same situation Arrived at my first prison camp I couldn believe it when the Inhabitants Australians and New cap tured at Crete three years earlier gave us a hot meat from their own meagre rations We were cold exhausted and half starved If anything gave me a faith in the innate decency of the human race it was that Those ore clearcut examples but there arc hundreds of others less easy to de scribe The neighbor who slips over with a jar of hot homemade soup when your wife is away The other neighbor who feeds your cat when youre of on a trip who fixes your shutters or your plumbing and forgets to send a bill The doctor who calls after an ungodly long day to check on the state of your sick child The quiet concern In the eyes of your students when they know you arc really loo ill to be up there teaching I ts a cynical age and it an easy age to be a cynic but don let it get to you When the chips are down when theres fire or flood or famine blizzard or blast or bats in the attic people will respond with a kindness that will blind you with tears vi a lauin uu tun Kinaness trwi win Diind you with tears answer to the gong show by Bob working as a cam era wo man for Burling a junket to Boston at Ilalton Region Council ton Cable TV showed up to capture the That issue was thoroughly debated The fay Bob at Ilalton Region Council After watching proceedings in the Cana House of Commons for minutes entertainer Harry concluded that the had finally come up with a first class comedy I wouldnt want to quibble with assessment of the performance put on by the Honorable Members but anyone who spends any time around Regional Headquarters would readily the show there has to be a close contender to that In the Commons Take last week for example A gal working as a cam era wo man for Burling ton Cable TV showed up to capture the workings of regional council on film Viewers could be excused if they mis took the program for Halton answer to The Gong Show Now that not to say the working and of regional council isnt serious business Goodness no On Wednesday alone the council delved Into two matters that have earth shatter ramifications to the folks back home on the farm The first Issue of paramount was whether or not they should send members of public works committee to Our readers write Old Nell HE ON MWS She would listen to us sing and pray While standing In shed And visit with the neighbours horse At the church where we were wed As each Sunday we In reverence went To thank our God for all Old Nell was there to do her share Tied safely In the stall She would often raise her fancy tail And wind it round the dash With her soaking mane the rain While her muddy front feet splash As the years rolled by she slowed right down But she gamely plodded on When had to ride I knew Inside Some day shed be gone And then one awful morning Quite early in the fall For my dearest friend there came the end As she lay still in the stall I was shaken with emotion I could not even speak An I stroked her nose her eyes did close And the tears ran down my cheek Though years have passed and times have changed There are times when my thoughts dwell rem the traffic daze to the bygone days With my buggy and Old Nell junket to Boston That issue was thoroughly debated The only other issue that commanded as much attention centred around how many people would be an each committee and how many committees there would be In case you missed it earlier council actually decided to pass on the annual works show junket The word Is works chairman Jack Raftls will be back again before the month is out In an effort to convince council of the peril that will exist if isn t represented at American Public Works Equipment Show and Convention In all seriousness I must say thats not all that is actually discussed Viewers of the Burlington Cable TV presentation it It is ever shown will be treated to likes of Jim Watson about the evils of the Board of Education or inviting other councillors to return part or all of their salaries to the region If they feel they ore overpaid Watson resigned from a teaching post with the Board of Education several years ago but never overcame the bitterness he developed for the system If that tickle your fancy you could concentrate on Oakvilles master of the oneliners Archie Donaghey The following are brief excerpts from the proceedings Watson When the Lord made time he made lots of it Donaghey Yea He made lots of Idiots too Councillor Ron Mr Chairman this matter is of real concern to me and my colleagues Donaghey You t be con cerned you arent even going to be here next year Councillor Laurie Mannell Is probably most flamboyant of the bunch My goodness Laurie where did you get your shirt Reply from the peanut gallery Thats not a shirt he sewed all of his lies together Councillors rejected a move to alt on two committees as Chairman Morrow Wednesday For bucks a year councillors figure two committees is one too many Maybolheyareright Afteralllttakesa lot of lime to rehearse some of those lines Free Press j Back Issues 10 years ago Taken from the twit of the Free Press of June IMS Unprecedented awards for an Acton high school graduate have been won by Trudy Morris who will have completed her year with marks expected to reach about per cent She has been awarded a General Motors Scholarship of for each university year She will also be Actons first Ontario Scholar with over 80 per cent In grade 13 to receive Liberal workers in both Halton and ridings and the district are busy making arrangements for a mammoth welcome for their leader Prime Minister Pierre Friday A Sunday outing at Smallwood Acres beach nearly ended in tragedy for the family when sixyearold Shane wandered out into deep water and narrowly escaped drowning years ago Taken from the lime of the Free Press June 1959 Micro Plastics Division of Ltd will construct a new square foot building on a acre site purchased several years Main St North vice president J H announced this week The Amalgamated Home and School Association were hosts to grade eight graduates from the MZ Bennett and Robert Little public schools on Wednesday evening in the Robert LitUe school auditorium Bruce Andrews yearold Acton run ner made a mile in 192 at the British Trials in Saskatoon on the weekend win class He placed seventh in the trials as the race he won was a slow class he was forced to enter because of his age His quarterly speeds were 61 a very fast quarter and 2 Bruce won it In a breeze the second place man was SO yards behind at the finish line Waterfalls Playground on the Sixth Line was the scene of three Acton church Sunday school picnics lasl Saturday when Acton Pentecostal Knox Presbyterian and St Alban Anglican held their annual outings on June 50 years ago Taken from Issue the Free Press June2IISz8 On Tuesday afternoon Miss Margaret Macdonald A principal of Acton Continuation School and Mrs CHW Harrison left on an European tour They sailed on Wednesday morning on the Mclagama from Montreal Their in will include a tour of the British Isles France Italy Belgium Switzerland and a cruise on the Mediterranean They expect to be away about ten weeks The first year Toronto University results were announced last week Among the successful candidates was Miss Helen of Acton Miss Coxe came third In the second class honor group in her Home Economics course On Wednesday evening the home of Mr and Mrs Gordon T Beardmore was the scene of a happy gathering when about 100 guests assembled A dance was held In honor of Ladies Baseball club and Acton Hockey club At intermission a dainty lunch was served Miss Ruth Gibson sang several solos which were appreciated by all Guests from out of town were Mr and Mrs S Bennett Mr and Mrs SA Clarke Miss Johnston and Mr of Toronto and Mr Connolly of New York 100 years ago Taken from the Issue the Free Press or June A quoit match will be held In Georgetown July between Mr Geo Gibbs of George town and Mr Cameron of Acton for and the championship of the County of Donald McLarty of is fourteen years of age and Is over six feet in height Quebec was in a state of uproar on the 12th Inst the strikers having risen in a mass and rioting and plundering prevailed throughout the day Several were wounded On Friday morning about unemployed labourers waited on Mayor Bangs at the City Hall Ottawa and made a demand for work Mrs of Toronto lectured in the Temperance hall on Our girls and boys under the auspices of Acton Division Sons of Temperance The picnic and entertainment at Crewsons Corners was quite a success About was raised THE ACTON FREE PRESS PHONE Business and Office Copyright