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Police Chief warns 60th anniversary Thomas and Constance Weir Church St apartments celebrated their 60th wed ding anniversary Saturday with a fa mil parly at the home of their son Tom Weir JefreryAve Cancer drive is underway by Helen Murray Throughout year their work goes un noticed by most A hand of volunteers strive continuously to make life a more bearable for victims of cancer one of the nations top killers But for one month of the the Acton branch of the Canadian CancerSociety comes out of the woodwork or its national campaign to raise funds That month is April The local campaign officially kicked- off Man day morning with the raising of the Cancer flag at the Acton cenotaph Daffodils sold in ad vnnced in March will be delivered Friday But most Important of all some canvassers will be knocking on doors asking far donations The campaign led by White has set a goal of this year Every year except last since Mr White took over the campaign the can have surpassed their goal And each year they have beaten the previous campaign by Because of this effort the Acton branch has been recognized as having the highest per capita do nation rate Something the town people should be proud of says branch president Gloria Coals When Mr White joined the branch five years ago he walked the streets or Acton and took note of every house He then divided each neigh into sections and assigned his canvassers accordingly Some at tribute this organization to the great successor the campaign Us child splay now Mr White says It a matter of adding mat each year now that it is all set up Anyone not when the canvassers come ling can Mill make a do nation An envelope will be left with an address for delivery Plastic also be put in around town April Is over and Ihe group has hopefully reached the mark they will once again set lie into their quiet on going campaign that of helping the sick Part of this effort is transportation to treatment centres in Toronto and Hamilton People in need may gel a free ride into these cent res for as long as Ihey are taking lht it treatments The Society provides dressings if necessary and home visiting Those in need may also take ad vantage of the sup plementary services such as home nursing drugs lodge care etc The services are the heart of the society says Mrs Coats who is grateful to Sue Kuechler for her hard work at vices chairman Cathy McGilhvrary heads the education end of the society Special kits ore placed in schools to help young children understand about the disease Cell teaches kindergarten to grade three children with a different kit for grades four to six A new kit will soon be out for grades seven and eights Films brochures posters etc are avail able in all schools cither Joyce acted as master of ceremonies Friday at Beard more Ingnsurprlfepresentallontosecretary treasurer Lome In honor of his retirement The staff presented him with a printout calculator L Youngblut retires After years of climbing the ladder secretary Lome Youngblut has retired Mr started out in the leather factory as an office worker doing Invoicing In he was made secretary and in his expanded to secretary treasurer has seen in plant in his time there was the switch over from manual labor to mechanical How ever tn spite of this change the plant employs some workers as compared to years ago In Acton he says he has watched as the town transformed from a small friendly town where everyone knew everyone else to a dormitory for Toronto Prior to coming to Acton Mr worked in Toronto and Mount Forest However Acton was his first exposure to the leather bus Mr has not only been active at work but also in the com He is the company re presentative on the Chamber of Commerce and Is a member of the Investment Club the Masonic Lodge is post chairman of the Re gistered Industrial Accountants Peel Halton charter He doesn plan to let any moss gather under his feet in his re tirement Mr plans to do privatcaccountingaroundtown and It was for this reason the staff of and Co presented him with a calculator Friday his last day of work Other than his annual holiday and his accounting he has no plans for his time J More involvement in child abuse Ha Hon police will be more involved in cases of child abuse when the new Child Welfare Act is pro claimed June 1 police chief Kenneth Skerrelt told police commission Thursday The new act will have more effect on Children s Aid Societies Skerrett said in his report but add it will directly affect our force above and beyond the previous act In the area of child He said he has taken special measures to ensure that the polices youth and family service sections are made aware of every suspected child abuse case so that they might ensure that the CAS is informed to fulfill our legal gat Ion A set of guidelines from Roy McMurtry Solicitor General of Ontario the same as from Keith Norton Minister of Com munlty and Social Ser vices to the CASs being discussed with Acting Crown Attorney Larry Owen to gain his Input and expectations of our force and the Children Aid Society He said the results of both the new legislation and the guidelines will no doubt greatly in crease the Involvement of our officers In gallons and in Juvenile and Family court Members of the forces youth and family ser vices section are to at lend a three day work shop to discuss the Implementation of the act and the Solicitor Generals guidelines he said The police chief In cluded the definition of abuse in the act the reporting responsibilities and a copy of the guide lines in the act The Act defines abuse as a condition of a physical harm malnutrition or mental health of a degree that if not immediately remedied could seriously impair growth and development or result in permanent injury or death or sexual molestation he said adding that the latter condition is new Every person who has Information of the abandonment desertion or need for protection of a child or the infliction of abuse upon a child shall forthwith report the information to a society according to the Act the chief said adding the new leg is Notwithstanding the provisions of any other Act every person has reasonable grounds to suspect in the course of the person professional or official duties that a child has suffered or is suffering from abuse that may have been caused or permitted by a person who has or has had charge of the child shall forthwith report the susepcted abuse to a Society The penalty for falling to report is a max mum fine upon sum mary conviction Chief Skcrrctl said The guidelines have the effect of increasing the involvement of the police with the CAS in joint and parallel investigations and ventures Efe One Hundred and Fourth Year No ACTON ONTARIO WEDNESDAY APRIL 1979 Pages Cents through school board or through the Cancer Society Mrs McGill according to Sue Sale has done a lot of work In the library set ting up a display The local branch is also available for meetings of various organizations to speak to them about Can or to show films An industrial education van travels to the various communities every three or four years and goes just to industries to workers During the year vol unteers town are busy knitting sewing and baking items to send to patients in the various hospitals Two or three times a year including Christmas packages go out to these people Last Christmas students at Z Bennett school made wooden toys to send to Children Hospitil in Ottawa Those wishing to send In Memanams in memory of a loved one can do so though at Acton Home Furnishings If given at funeral home they are directed there after wards Of the 50 people belong ing to the Society ex eluding canvassers Mrs Coats is president with Sue Sale as her vice Sue Kuechler is service to patients chairman and Cathy as education chairman Marion Patterson is secretary and publicity convener and Hugh Pat is branch treas urer Telford helps Mrs Kuechler with the activities and services and Oliver is Daf convener Reno Ar bic is coconvener DlJiL I I It Is the aim or this year Cancer Society campaign to put daffodils Into every Acton home say campaign chairmen Arbic left and Margaret Oliver Their team of daffodil sellers Is making the traditional flowers available downtown In stores churches and schools Mrs Oliver says she believes daffodils are becoming more and more accepted and with that the Cancer Society hopes to top the amount raised from last year s daffodil blitz In all In eluding flower sales the society raised just less than cording to Mrs Arbic the past president This Is the third year of Cancer Society efforts to sell flowers to raise money which mainly pays for research Photo by ERIC Halton employs slashing Cuts totalling were made from the regional budget at the Finance and Adminfstra Hon Committee Wcdnes day But its still not enough Treasurer Don Farmer told the committee the cuts bring the percentage increase down to per cent The committee resolved to reduce in crease to six per cent The actual budget increase is 10 per cent Four percentage points of the total consists of new assessments and does not affect the over all mill rate The Public Works committee were told to chop half a million dollars from Its budget The children s Aid Society had cut from Its budget Public Works com chairman Ron Planche of Oakville was present at the meeting He requested the budget cuts be referred back to his committee to decide where the cuts shall be made The Administration committee agreed Regional Chairman Jack Raftls said he would be willing to sit down with regional staff and hammer out the re maining per cent budget cuts He suggested he has a pretty good Idea of where there fat since he has attended each committee s delibera lions Other committee members expressed wariness this lion Councillor Bonnie Brown of Oakville said Where the chairman feels there fat may not be the same place as where I or someone else may feel there a fat She suggested the Regional Chairman meet with staff and the chair men of the four regional committee to decide where the budget cuts could be nude The committee en dorsed the suggestion The regional budget now stands at compared to the 1978 budgeted ex of 193 million only was actually spent The budgeted i will come mostly from That leaves 17 provincial and federal to be raised through the subsidies The budget tax levy calls for to The proposed budget come from subsidies and cuts will reduce other revenues figures further Election trails Overenthused Liberal campaign workers caused a bit of egg on the face of incumbent Frank Phllbrook this weekend when they jumped Ihe gun and put up election signs The signs all had to be removed later when the helpful workers were en lightened to Ihe fact that a candidate must Tile his nomination papers with the federal electorate off leer before erecting signs Mr Philbrook was In the progress of getting the proper papers signed something which cannot be done until after the election call has gone out when the signs went up Mrs ex plained to The Acton Free Press the matter was entirely innocent and no one is to blame for the oversight Progressive Conser vntlve candidate Otto nek also had sign trouble this weekend It seems some under- Acton re sidences like the sight of the signs and vandalized them Under the new election act the damaging of election signs is a felony punishable by a fine one year in Jail or both If the matter is brought up before a judge and jury Ihe punishment is increased a fine five years in Jail or both Either way it is an expensive evening or what some might call fun There s been no word on signs of can dldate Douglas Black Two fires this week A conveyor belt at In- dusmln Quarries had to be replaced after It caught fire while workers were thawing frozen ground Thursday ac cording to fire chief Mick Holmes He could not set any definite damage figure to the small blaze A fire in a at the home of Roy Orville Rd was more alarming than damaging accord ing to Mr Holmes Heexplained the fire started after something has been placed in the basket There was no damage but the oc cupants were alar med The incident oc curred Saturday I No union tie in lay offs Geng says by rlc I Islone Decisions to lay off some employees from Superior Glove Works Ltd early this year were not linked to workers efforts to form a union a company official testified during an Ontario Labor Relations Board hearing in Toronto yesterday Frank Geng part owner of the glove com said his decision to lay off some junior workers preceded his discovery of unionizing efforts mi 111 to 1 off I not know the union was organizing Mr old the three member labor board The Canadian Union of Brewery Flour Cereal Soft Drink and Distillery Workers alleges the company interfered with the for mat ion of a trade union under section 79 of the Labor Relations Act The union is seeking to get the jobs back for a dozen or so workers who were laid off allegedly for unionizing activities Superior Glove counsel William Phelps said the lay were a result of business and were not connected with the union Under the act an employer may not discriminate against a worker bee he is a trade union member Discrimination includes refusing to employ Mr Geng is the first person to testify in the hearing which is expected by lawyers on both sides to go longer than this week For about an hour and a half Mr Geng testified in private concerning the company in general and its financial matters in particular The company lawyer Mr Phelps asked the board for help guarding against disclosure in the press of Superior Gloves financial matters Union lawyer John agreed with the request for a board order that no evidence concerning the company financial or competitive position be published Board chairman A I indicated he was not sure of the s authority in such a matter The press however decided to treat such questions in camera material and was absent when the economic data was revealed Mr Phelps argued that disclosure of financial Information may harm the com s competitiveness which could translate Into a loss of jobs Mr is to testify later In the early goings on Mr Phelps said the company believes certain employees have joined the union and they are still at work As yet there does not appear to be an ap plication from the union to certify It the wage bargaining unit within Superl Glove Union lawyer said it is seeking re instntcment of the Inidoff workers plus full compensation Mr Indicated it is clear the company on balance would prefer not to have a union Mr Geng indicated the lay offs were carried out mainly with regard to seniority The 12 named by the union in the complaint were hired last October Through clarification from board member G Bourne Mr Geng indicated he would have had to reallocate workers if the layoffs followed net seniority In questioning from his lawyer Mr Geng said the question of unionizing hid nothing to do with who he laid off Mr went on lo say what occurred to him was that he might scare some workers left in the plant into joining the My problem was the economic end not the union Mr told the board Superior Glove today employs about people the largest roup of which work in the sewing room Since the layoffs another 14 have quit evidence indicates After unionizing efforts became known to Mr Geng he approached some of workers He told the all the discussions were friendly He also said he reminded some employees of past economic difficulties in the industry If I tell someone an economic fact it called intimidation Some of them were hostile he said Under provincial legislation while the pi oyer may not interfere with the formation of a union he still has his freedom to express his views as long he does not use coercion in timidation threats promises or undue in fluencc Was your purpose in talking to them plant employees todccldc who was to be laid off Mr was asked No they are all trained They re still working there Mr Geng said Moments later he continued by saying I wish I could In them Someof All of them are lying