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Three in May 22 federal race Election call both surprise relief for candidates By Peter MI1U A mixture of surprise and relief was expressed by the three candidates for federal office in Ha ton now that the election has been called Prime Minister Pierre Monday night asked for the dissolution of Parliament and set Tuesday May as the date for the federal election Otto candidate for the Progressive Con Party said Its about time He was at a meeting of ISO PC party workers in Oakvilie when the election call went out Doug Black New Democratic Party candidate for Hal ton echoed Mr sentiments I ready to go He was nominated for the candidacy on Thursday evening He is an Oakvilie lawyer Hallon Liberal MP Frank was In an airplane bound for Mexico City when the election was announced The silting MP Is attending a meeting of the Steer log Committee of International Parliamentarians The committee is sponsored by the United Nations and is general secretary of that committee He scheduled to deliver a report to the committee and return to Canada by this weekend Mr Jeiinek said the delay in calling the election has cost Canadian taxpayers 000 In the past year and has kept Ottawa on a treadmill Present MP for High Park In Toronto he has been ready for this campaign for the past year He said he would concentrate his campaign in two First he said he would emphasize his party platform on the issues He said the economy is the primary issue in the country today and his party Is committed to reduce government spending Second he said he would try to gel across the record of Ihe Trudeau government If anyone looks at his record in any detail he find it a tragedy He said inflation and unemployment were up while productivity and the value of the dollar are down He said a PC government would have a different style of administration Under Mr Clark it be run like a board of directors You II have individuals who arc for certain areas and will formulate a plan The board will either accept or reject it He said the Prime Minister style Is to surround himself with a bunch of yes men Those who say yes are gone like Mr former finance LIBERAL DR FRANK PHILBROOK DOUGLAS BLACK CONSERVATIVE OTTO minister John Turner and Ralph Stewart IMP for Cochrane North who recently joined the PCs Mr said lie would not be campaigning so much against his riding foe Frank as he Trudeau In Mr Blacks view escalating particularly food is one of the major issues in this campaign He said the government has done nothing to curb rising prices Unemployment he ban is a concern in Halton and across Canada Mr Black also stressed the importance of resource control within Canada Mr Black was critic of the Prime Minister Monday night speech in which referred to a decade of development The Prime Minister is referring to Hit 1980s being a time of strong social ind economic grow Ih in Canada Mr Black said the Minister has been in office throughout the decide of the 1971 and it has led us into one hell of a mess If they the Liberals in offer the people any more linn record of the years then they should just opt out Their record has been a disaster He said the is i competent iltcimlive but admitted there was almost no realistic the party will form the next government He said party leader idbenl has projected himself in a competent leadership role lie added the would probably hold the ilanceof power in whathcsawnsaminoril government situation One Hundred and fourth Year No 39 ACTON ONTARIO WEDNESDAY MARCH 28 1979 Pages Twenty Ctuls WARP decares war on food costs Town hall report at committee again If and when the Hills eouncil decides to demolish the Acton town hall they have the and at least one name of a person to prepare drawings and spec Rations and call ten General Committee Monday evening re ceived and filed a report from town staff con the hall The re port estimated total cost of demolition at Demolition of the building without damage the adjoining tire hall removal of all refuse and materials levelling the site and moving the fire siren lo safe place would be on estimated It will cost another to apply a new brick facing to the now exposed wail wall strengthened and the roof finished off To properly grade the entire site and pive to make into a park ing lot will cost another estimated 5000 Further costs included various costs of erecting the fire Council felt this in formation was useful for future use An Acton woman has jumped on the band wagon to help stop rising food prices Barbara Is attempting lo form a local branch of Women Against Rising Prices WARP an or in Brampton and spreading to designed lo force food chains into lowering prices on certain items So fir Mrs says in Acton Ins been excellent group plans to boy certain items each week with the item This will hopefully cause havi wilh store inventories organizers will decide what to boy during particular week and media let shoppers know what to avoid at the Mrs pointed out WARP is aimed the food stores and mil the fir mors or the small bus messes She w lo cet shoppers on tin move with especially those i shop out of town at stores Shoppers in Miss ind Brampton were recentlv asked any men priced over SI per pound Mrs said The wee Hie is a different item enable ihe shopper to enjoy food en michl be on the boycott list to one of the founders of the roup some supermarkets dropped prices of goods which hive been boycotted i few weeks ago She women from all aero Canada and the United Mates Imt her find out ah ul WARP are items wlnili have risen in I nee within a tune weeks items ire potato chips ill cold cuts cookies i imported clicise fri tomatoes md pickles Ml have risen in price since on the few weeks more information write lo WARP 150 I irk Drive irio or tall Mrs at IGJ0 Mis says she hopes her weekly grocery wilt sun be lowered through the of WARP Manpower office temporarily closed Five members of Acton Figure Skating Club practise for the first Pop Concert which Is to be held at Ihe community centre April at The concert Is replacing the traditional skating carnival The Pop Concert Is n demonstration of skills learned throughout the jear I eft to right Lesley Oakley Chris ten son and Gardener In back is John Gardener Next year the club hopes Id see the return of the skating carnival Photo by Elstonc Rev Andrew McKenzie named Citizen of Year So few unemployed people used the Canada Manpower Centre CMC office in Acton that authorities decided to temporarily close Its doors Just when he Man power office on Queen Street reopens is known to authorities However the office may be used to help high school students find sum mer Jobs Main reason for closing the Acton office was the steady decline of the number of people coming in indicated Manpower supervisor Ellen Boyd The office was regularly open each Friday to ser vice the unemployed employers It was also used Iwo to three times a week last summer for student help There was one day when only five people came in and I don hove that kind of resources keep someone there Mrs Boyd said One of the features of the situation here is that many people go lo the office rather than to Georgetown or farther on to Brampton Some people do go to George town but they could not help fill Georgetown job vacancies The Acton office was closed a few times this winter because of staff illness Mrs Boyd in cited there is interest by people in courses offered at Community College Also their work patterns lean towards the west rather than the Moreover with a population of has more employers than Georgetown Cost to level hall 40000 Rev Andrew McKenzie was named 1B79 Citizen of the Year last night Tuesday by the Acton Chamber of Commerce He was selected from numerous nominations submitted by local resi dents through an adver tisement in The Acton Free Press Rev McKen former minister of Knox Presbyterian and now serving a lion in Perth will be at a banquet and dance April in the band hall Rev McKenzie this past January received a call to St Andrew Church in Perth after serving nearly a quarter of a at Knox Presbyter Ian Church Acton and when he left he was the Dean of Ihe Acton Clergy In September he was inducted the of Knox Presbyter ian Church and during the time he was Minister new members were received Into Knox Dur ing the years in Acton he officiated at 335 wed dings funerals In between weddings members others funerals baptisms baptisms child church services visits ren and adults He and all other duties ex preached 1 338 sermons pected from a Minister of his ministry in Acton Rev McKenzie was before leaving Club of Acton years serving as president in 196061 also he served as Director Program Chair man and Membership Chairman as well member of the Rotary publicity chairman of the Reverend Andrew Arthritis campaign in Acton which canvass went from in 1972 to over in 1978 He has also been a director of the Chamber of Commerce and dent from 1 He has held all offices in the Acton Clergy Assoc la Hon Rev was a member of Acton Curling Club and eight of his first years he was on the board of directors and president in the year the new rink was built In addition he has been a member of Walker Masonic Lodge and the Cutten Club in Guelph and on the board of the Georgetown District Hospital Since his arrival in Acton in 1056 he has been Ihe Padre of the Royal Canadian Legion in Acton In his years in Acton as minister of Knox Presbyterian he was the longest of its 13 ministers and lie not only served that congregation but perhaps ministered Continued on Page The stage is being set for a decision by Halton Hilts council regarding Acton town hall Doug Bower Avenue said the Town Hall Restoration Com mlttee is waiting for an estimate by the lown on the cost of tearing down the century Willow Street building plus pulling in a parking lot and a new wall for the Thai report is in and Ihe cost is placed at slightly more lhan The cost report was received and filed by council pending a final submission by the restor committee to persuade council to save the red brick twostorey hall according to Ward One Councillor Ed Wood Mr Wood spearheaded efforts to have the money which would be used to level the building given to the committee for re storation The town hall could be converted to a day care centre arts centre plus a room for senior citizens who no longer have a meeting place They used to gather regularly in the hail before it was con lost year Think of what the hall could be not necessarily what it was or what it is Councillor Wood said yesterday With direction and a from council to keep the building Ihe committee can solicit funds from provincial agencies to help cover the cost of making the building once again safe Once that is done other funds can be looked for with an eye of restoring building Some is re quired to fully restore the building less make It operational he restoration committee has pledges from Acton citizens Tor about 000 Olher funds can also come from the but most from other agencies Cruelty charge laid against Cville man Seventeen farm animals left to die have resulted in the Ontario Humane Society laying a charge of cruelty against a Campbellvllle area farmer The animals died of starvation The Society was lipped off about the situation by neighbors last November but a first inspection of the barn turned up nothing out of the ordinary cording to the Oakvilie Humane Society On Jan inspectors returned farm to find animals dead Fifty five remaining animals were saved through the efforts of the Humane Society They Included a goat bull pregnant cow heifer pigs sheep and chickens Eunice Collins Oakvilie Humane Society shelter manager and cruelty inspector for the area laid the charge on Thursday Set world record See Page this week RCMPIookngforconman ICG wants meeting with Planner Vandals AS the of the Years damage to warehouse Bantam oust Acton Bowmanvitte cops Centennial crown Smith Stone 85 today