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press ovary Wodnonv by Publishing Co Limited How Street Acton Subscription Single each 7 per in In than Canada Froo Prow a the Inland Publishing Co Limited of suburban which include The The Brampton Guardian The Burlington Post Goorgetown Mark ham ill Economist and Sun Milton Canadian Champion Tho The Aurora Era Oakvlle This Founded in 1875 Don McDonald Publisher thai uvont that by tho erroneous lorn iviih for hut ihoodvu I bo error floods bo a old Advertising is merely on lion Nurnlmr EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT Editor Hartley Colo a rfP ho tog ra rro Eric Elitono Sport Editor Robin ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT Advertising Manager Bill Cook Classified Advertising Maryl n McArthur BUSINESSACCOUNTING OFFICE CIRCULATION PHONE8532010 Business and Editorial Office Tho Acton Free Press Wednesday Dec Take it slow and easy Winter weather gets the blame for a lot of accidents but the real in most cases is the driver who fails to adjust to cold weather problems Too fast for conditions la all too frequently listed as an accident factor When the road is slippery you cant stop as quickly or as safely Lowering speed when the road surface is hazardous and stretching following distance to even double or triple the usual road interval will avoid many Abrupt turns lane changing and sudden acceleration or deceleration can cause bad skids on ice and snow Anticipate turns or speed changes and make them slowly and gradually Limited visibility is a major problem A driver who scrapes only a little peephole in his ice- covered windshield is asking for it Clear your windshield completely of ice and snow and keep it that way Also scrape outside mirrors clear Be sure your defroster is in good shape Poor traction has caused many a crack up Check tread wear on your snow tires and keep them inflated correctly Tire inflation should be checked more frequently during winter months to be sure pressures are at recommended levels cold weather reduces tire pressure approximately one pound every 5 degree celsius drop in temperature Theres one trick to safe winter driving take it slow and easy from start tostop Listen to the farmers Although some of the statements made by Ontario Federation of agriculture president Peter an address to that organizations annual meeting may seem extreme he raised some issues which should be examined more carefully Hannam says the Province with half hearted measures on agriculture has allowed urban people to impose their lifestyle on rural Ontario City people who move to the country think they are moving intoa park Hannam said Before long they are trying to stop odors noises drainage projects machinery on the roads and other necessary farm activities warns farming in the most productive areas of the province could be restricted beyond reason unless there is some change in Government policy He also cited garbage dumps hydro generating sites gravel pits hydro transmission corridors airports highways pipelines nuclear dumps snowmobile trails poisonous liquid waste disposal sites and other urban intrusions as damagmgto a productive farming community It is true some urban people try to impose their style of living on the farming community objecting to the smell of fertilizers barnyards and animals but we think they are few and far between Any urbanites who move to the country should have enough sense to know they will have to accept the conditions that already exist there unless there is a valid reason for them to change They certainly shouldn t be allowed to interfere with the production of food although evidently there are instances of this happening also has a moot point when he objects to farming com munities being cluttered with dumps generating sites hudro corridors airports highways and liquid disposal sites which urban communities have rejected as unsuitable If these are necessary for the common good they should be on wasteland unsuitable for the production of food Ontario does not lack suitable wasteland Hannam has called on both the province and the federal govern ment to change their priorities so there is a real commitment to agriculture He notes in one atuomobile turer Ford received govern ment subsidies of over million to establish one plant in Windsor He points out this amounts to nearly half the entire agricultural budget for all of On tano last year If consumers want food prices to be stable and keep farmers on the land then we have to listen more often to the people who produce those products If we dont we may one day regret it at the super market and in the home Learn trade to get a job Premier Bill Davis has recog nized that greater efforts must be made to impress upon parents and children that learning a trade is just as good or perhaps even better than getting a university degree Mr Davis made his point at the federal provincial conference on the economy noting the importance of learning a trade has often been neglected and understated Manufacturers faced with a serious shortage of skilled work men have known this for some time They have had to recruit people from Europe to take jobs Canadians were unable to fill in sufficient numbers Now that source is up as economic conditions in the European countries improve The unemployment rate among young people in is 2 5 times higher than that for adults and more than onethird of the young people have never worked or had any work experience Mr Davis said The Premier acknowledged that for psychological or reasons parents view a bachelor of arts degree as the ultimate ob jective for their children but the changing times have also changed the demand for university graduates who find a university degree does not necessarily guarantee a job It is obvious some of this is ing through to young adults because statistics show a decline in full time university enrolment and an increase in enrolment at community colleges where skills are taught The explosive growth of technology in the post war years created specialties in engineering and science but to reduce training costs employers now demand specialists for jobs which previously were filled by almost any professional A general manager and director of Technical Service Council said recently that a persons future job prospects in industry are largely determined by the experience he or she gains in in the first eight years after grad uation If university is the only answer for some then they should consider either engineering or commerce because studies show many education law science and general arts graduates will be forced to settle for jobs below their expectations An Ontario Govcr nment study also estimates that more than half the Masters and D holders may be surplus to Ontarios traditional manpower Continued on Pago Baring its beams Cancel my two minutes on boob tube i ill ltlt bout me Hi iciiil ibotit I ivc deep suspicions medium low reg ird for the is in ijoritv engaged in its itions I irsl of nil is out if Hit most per nicious influent on tin mil v but dries of tin young to whom I mi trying to Hit sublimes mil lie iuIils and el in ih I Hun is almost nothuit to tin mind null tit Hit senses to tin language Must division drum is dimensional ll laid out ill is is childish is And if in blue moon thin is in intelligent sensitive piece of wirk on Hit the mood is constantly l ids or dististeful commercials ring iround Hie toll or under inn llsapily in tin right mils could he most enlightening experience in the lives of many people from tluir personal with other hum in beings But per of it is aimed tit the in of a six old Hie lmn artificial applause The increasing sexual innuendo Tin constant shouting of so called comedians Die dull mil derivative dance routines Hie and snarling of rock groups And perhaps worst of all those insane greedy game shows It is literal fact that I can refrain from throwing up when I tome one of those with the bellowing master of ceremonies the fawning contestants and the audiences You know when television began it id good many flaws but most of them wtri technical time it had a vitality and reality that swept before them Drama was done live and we had great as Paddy s Marty Compare that reality and pathos with the slobbering sugar entrusted stuff like The Compare shouting leering and Shirley or the late Maude with the great comics of the early days Carney and Sid and Imogene Coca Vou can There is no comparison Perhaps it because the big of television have treated their massive audiences with more contempt than any other medium has ever done including the Hollywood of the big studios And those appearing on television respond like fawning puppets Hockey players gel Into necdJess fights so that can display big macho on the screen Football players dont Just score a touch down any more and leave at that They do a dance or they bounce ball hard off tho ground and run with heir arms up In selfcongratulation Learned and Intelligent professors allow Bill Smiley mist lus t in lilt il from ignorant in riuuirs Miliums illim tin to hi ihimtd ihurhsli rejwrhrs just iiit on the Iwob tube in slim will ippe on Hie siricn with in ope or illiL Mr and in suited show Ml just to get the dies it powers of arid a mi inborn irrogitu someone like Malcolm m magi ihi of Hit ijpinl Only rirelj does an someone like break the porridge of the Willi few tines i news reportt r from delivery us monotonous is iinitronomc I lie National silo iloeknews is ibout as exciting service We had I d rtson the oiled tonsils re iding the news is though it were tin phone bonk nun we had contemptuous Kent who gave the impression that lie was doing us a favor These days we tun dull old solid stolid George who delivers the news as though it were a w roast Which it is on most occasions In short TV is dull dull dull have great sympathy fur two groups in our society One is the oldsters and shut ins who hive so little left their lives and rely on television for a diversion something to take the mind away from aches pains the loneliness What they get is combination of the utmost pap and crop it only a sadist could devise cheap Grade movies soap operas sickening game shows And the otliir group that gets pithy is young children With a few ex such as Sesame Street alt they have to watch is pictorial great epics like The or violent ind bloody movies What a pity when the medium could educate their minds stir their senses with color and music and send their imaginations soaring a New York said iventually will be a celebrity for minutes If lint case include me out The TV chap told me it would take only two hours of my time to make a twominute epic about me and my column I have no particular sire to look like a turkey for two minutes and spend the two days feeling like Appreciation expressed Hie lenders of tin I irst A ub night would like to ixpress their to all parents who leadership crisis by showing their support and willingness to the Stunting movement With this we feel together we can offer an effective program to the boys in the pock consistent with the objectives of the Scouting movement Yours in Scouting First Acton A Cub pack Jim Phillips Mike Walton Friends versus enemies November l7a Dear Sir In parliamentary debates and questions In he past before It became accepted was taken to task or loaning to and trading with countries taken Communist revolutionaries- such as Alienee s Chile Cuba China Russia The said Canada and ihe West believed in trading Willi all Ideologies whether they agree with politics or But the I ibcral Left Is without shame I or a long time now we sec them without embarrassment or any feeling of need to admit or explain their hypocrisy dissembling as they practice and preach Ihe severest economic sanctions on the few remaining Communist nations say South Africa Rhodesia and Chile Home Edmonton Alberta The Free Press Back Issues 10 years ago Taken from the Issue of the Free Press of Wednesday December 1068 A resounding majority ushered genial right back into the mayor chair Former reeve Bert suffered his first political defeat On council are reeve Frank Oakes deputy Ted Tyler councillors G W Earl Jack Greer Orval Chapman newcomers Bill Coats and Peter Marks reelected Reeve George Currie and deputy reeve Tom Hill arc Wilfred Leslie Ken Marshall and Russell Miller Tom Watson handily won the school board seat Decades of service to Acton Agricultural Society have been totalled up by the five gentlemen who were guests of honor at the fair board dinner Smith Griffin who Davidson Sand McLean At Robinson and Duncan Waldic years ago Taken from the issue of the tree Press or Thursday December inal decision to handle tannery effluent through the town disposal plant was with held pending a written report from the Ontario Water Resources Commission when the Acton Public Utilities Com mission met on Thursday December Cold dinners or light snacks w ere in order for many an Actonian in some sections of own last night when the power was off for over two hours due to an overload on the breaker it the subdivision Acton bandsmen had the show must go on spirit at Milton on Saturday when it was a constant task to keep their ments from freezing up as they escorted Santa CI a us to town Acton Citizens Band was part of a lengthy parade of floats bands and majorettes firemen wives and guests attended the annual firemen ladies night in the Legion auditorium last Friday evening when the firefighters played host the legion ladies auxiliary catered for the dinner 50 years ago Taken from the issue of the free Press Decembers Hats off to the ladies To Mrs George and Mrs S Wilson goes the distincttion of being the first women to occupy positions on Acton School Board Reeve Mason was returned Two new members have been elected to the Council in E J Nelson and Mr C H Harrison Councillors and Hansen are re turned Other members of the school board are Mr Masters Mr G Hall Mr Agnew Never in the history of the present editor has such frank sportsmanship and good fellowship been shown by the candidates Red and White store Jones specials for the week Ib sugar cents choice black tea lb cents Chipso 19 cents 1b grapes 23 cents peck apples cents lb potatoes cents 40 jam cents Dublin branch of the Women Institute arc not holding their December meeting as there are so many entertainments 100 years ago Taken from the Issue of the F ree Press of Thursday Decembers Christmas and New Years presents at J McGarvin Hall of Pharmacy con of quadruple plated silverware in cruets butter dishes cake boskets napkin rings toilet sots vases Real Japan Ware in card trays match safes calendars bouquet holders fancy stationery ink stands purses pin cushions dominoes checkers etc Mr Moore tanner of Acton has re ceived a Sheep Skin Wringer from and Hunter of an Saturday last The machine is to be used for wringing the grcaseoutoftheskinsand for making them more elastic Rev Mr Talmagc believes that there Is more power in the newspaper press than Governments and pulpits During a dis course he remarked Get the newspaper editors converted and In hours the earth would hear salvation s call A number of editorials on The New Village Council Council and The Afghan War and other leading important subjects have been unavoidably crowded out this week The Knights of Pythias assembled at their Castle Hall over Matthews store to form a procession lo march to the home of W H Storey where they presented an address to Fred Storey prior to his departure for Nassau The assembled Knights then sat down to an oyster supper to which they did full Justice Nassagaweya approved accounts to be paid to Winn for medicine for the following indigent patients names given Acton is rapidly receiving an unenviable reputation for bad boys