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The Acton FrooPress Wednesday Acton library looseleaf by Taylor Fall 1076 In a national poll conducted by Scholastic Magazine American high schoolers were Is there a man or woman living today who you consider your personal hero Top vote- was television newest and biggest sex symbol Majors In the first four months that her hit show Charlies was on the air I posters became the hottest popart item in the country with more than two million sold Smashing the poster record held another TV star The Few The foregoing paragraphs arc quoted from written from a Chris turn viewpoint by Gregg A I avis who titled his first Big Brother is Witching a reference to George Unveil horror story 1984 In Lewis judgment Orwell fiction has now become a reality Big brother is here in living rooms family rooms recreational rooms even bedrooms or wherever the electronic eye can be put for access Every year millions of people become its willing captives unaware that their minds are being programmed by a dazzling bloody array of violence in electronic communication history It might comfort the author of Telegarbage to that some Canadian viewers are not all that mad about It s doubtful if the blonde would have headed a poll in this country In fact a poll taken now might show a lot of TV fans are happy that Angels if one has to watch it is more palatable without the so- called sex symbol However whether or not one agrees with all Lewis arguments he does make a strong case against the evils of TV In a chapter Fighting Back Fencing in the Dump he offers advice on how to battle sex and violence Telegarbage is a library paperback Summer vacation is an ideal time for catching up on some solid reading For fans especially Churchill admirers John The Churchills Is a Must Watney an officer in the British army in the second World War was assigned in 1940 to the hair raising role of Winston Churchill bodyguard This proximity to the wartime prime minister and his family gave him an insight into the tradition which nurtured the The Portrait of chapter on Arabella John Churchill eldest sister whose influence with James Duke of York was responsible for John first army com mission at 17 as an ensign In the Foot Guards Winston and Elizabeth Churchill had eleven more children after Arabella Only four lived past Infancy Their eldest child shy and back ward and no beauty became Maid of Honour lo the Duchess of York whose husband James heir to the throne of England had a roving eye Arabella caught but she repulsed him at first Apparently James fell genuinely in love with Churchill s daughter and in due time she sue cumbed to his courtship The Duke installed her In a new house in St James Square where she lived quietly producing a number of children of whom four vlved The first Duke wife Sarah appears in the second chapter and then Mary wife of William or Orange figures in the history of a fabulous family whose descendant spoke and battled for England and what remained of the free world in a time of darkness and despair To read James Boarding Party Is to wonder if Churchill knew of the last action of the Calcutta Light Horse whose members civilian bankers solictors accountants and merchants Joined the part time territorial unit because they liked riding and racing Sir Winston would have relished and perhaps did relish incredible true story of middleaged amateur commandos who volunteered to board the German ship which was shelter ing In a neutral harbour In the Portuguese colony of miles south of Bombay rhe mission of he boarding party was to silence a secret transmitter aboard the Guided by in formation beamed from thl transmitter German boat sank Allied ships in the Indian ocean within roughly six weeks late in 1JJ2 It was a desperate time for the Allies The transmitter had lo be put out of com miss ion But how to accomplish this operation without infringing jtilously guarded Portuguese neutrality Regular troops could not mount action against the The assault March 1943 was undertaken by civilians who volunteered at their own risk and expense No credit would be given if the mission were successful If it failed the whole episode could be written off as a regrettable drunken prank that mis fired After finishing Party one local reader ventured Only the British could have up such on impossible scheme and put it over In this book writing is taut ind lean but interest never fhgs There s a foreword by of the loot The of Burma Other Leasor fiction ir the library The Greer Beach a story of the Dieppe raid and Conspiracy of with Peter Fiction by the same The Chinese Widow Jde Gate Cold Passport for a Pilgrim Passport to Oblivion Make Them I ike Hut Any More Suspense readers familiar with the writing of Ursula and Roe Foley will welcome their litest books In Cold Pursuit and The Girl who had Everv thing Foley There s a ire it in store for Barbara fans Wings of Gothic novel set Inly when Garibaldi wis leading ihe Red Shirts in assaults feudal oppression corruption For the pleasure if biography reiders the library recommends Peter Time and Chance and Francis a Memoir by well known actress Florence Rome on reserve is If Life is a Bowl of Cherries What am I Doing in the Pits Library nature notes Somewhere in the scho grounds near the library pair of Baltimore Orioles nested this spring Father Oriole has not been vocal lately probably resting from the labours of helping to raise a family The small flock of Mallard bachelors has left the school creek for the very good reason the creek is scummy muddy disaster area Before their departure for Fairy Lake one drake had a narrow squeak but lived to quack about his mis adventure Around noon one SUMMER SWIMMING lessons are underway at the Lions pool Qualified students have been hired for the summer as lifeguards and instructors Instructor Joanne Veerman and recreation leader in training Sandra Mason instruct children in the second swimming session Good registration for for swimming lessons Three swimming lesson sessions are being offered this summer at the Acton I ions Pool The first session which wis completed had a lohl if participants spread throughout he vinous swimming stages The second session which is now in progress has slightly lower ittendnnce figures with between and 175 swim liking pari lion for session has begun Skaters travelling to courses Thib summer five of the Figure Skating Club members are attending summer in Toronto or ind with Diane Bagmski ire veiling to Toronto each for he month of July to skate with he North Toronto summer School While there Diane will be attempting her seventh figure If sue Diane will become from ever to reach that plateau David and Cindy MeGillowiy are taking five nek course They arc the course so they can he with iheir pro who is an instruct it IABL stats Hotel J ind I Sports ins Welding Cleaners I II Pool supervisor Liz Bin field is pleased with the registration remarks the second session is lower because of the regular slow weeks in July Miss reports public swim figures to be good in iftcrnoon session between and people coming out each diy She would like to see more adults and children coming out for the evening swim program Twelve qualified students been hired for the summer to lifeguard instruct lessons In mining log J art of their 100 hours with swimming lessons students ire hired through ilioji department mil other summei irtieip mis tin pool Ik iv of their profrim NOTICE Refuse normally picked up Monday August 7th will be picked up Tuesday August 1978 and further refuse normally picked up Tuesday August 1978 will be picked up Wednesday 1978 Works Department Town of Hills JOHN SMITH is one of the students hired as a lifeguard at the Lions pool for the summer The students work both at the pool and the beach Electric on move down Welders 214 a bird watcher heard jn unmistakable Plonk from the highway I she i drake strike hood f on highway seven She dished down to pluck the body from the road It iwitched as she picked it up stunned bird began to revive A couple of letn igers volunteered to tote il the veterinary office Mr Mallard spent the night with establishment He wis rcl ised into the creek next d iy and swim off none the worse for his experience 8783272 8783208 mi 26 CAPRICORN ONE THE HOUSESECRETARY il fi iii NcilSimonnuiitJunni TheCheap Detective Who dunnit Show Times Sun toThurs Fri and Sat 7pm Hilton Hills of the industrial downed Vans Welding Monday night to move within one point of fourth place I I lectnc id been riding the II of Ihe legue for quite some lime until their recent string insisting of a pilr of wins DOWNTOWN ACTON Summer Hours CLOSED MONDAYS No Pickup or Delivery August to 15 STORE OPEN SAT 5PM CLOSED FOR LUNCH 1PM 2PM Corbetts Milton SPECIAL TENNIS OFFER TO ACTON TENNIS ENTHUSIASTS TENNIS RACQUET STRINGING Regular nlT SPECIAL PURCHASE PURCHASE ANY WOODEN UNSTRUNG RACQUET OFF REGULAR PRICE WE WILL STRING IT HOUR ft A CC1UET STRINGING SERVICE ON REQUEST Mill Street 8784602 IAN 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