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The Acton Fiee Press Wednesday July25 1979 Press Don McDonald Publisher Founded in iiltviyW rt icmIjv Pub lim I519i tut ihjr Acton Press one of ihe Inljnd Publish Co led suburban news papers include The Wh Tho Gua Bu Guolc Tto Independent Ma Sun The Canadian Champion The Misuuuaa News Newmarket Aurora E a Beaver This Week This Weekend and Tho Advertising a accepted on the condition that in the oven typographical or that portion of Ihe advertising space occupied by the erroneous item together reasonable lot signature wdl not be ged lot but ihe balance of the advertisement n bo paid at tho applicable rate In event a cal ror advertising goods services at a wrong price goods or cos may not be sold Adverting me an bewithdrawTiatanylime Second mail Registration EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT Editor Editor Helen Murray Sport Editor Robin ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT Advertising Manager Cook ClattifiMl ArhttrtfsM Mary BUSINESSACCOUNTING OFFICE Office Manage- Fran Gibson ThornhiB Srurtey Carolyn CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT Manager TELEPHONE 20t0 Business and Editorial Office Should act on buses Thirtyeight Ontario children were kilted in school bus accld ents in the decade between 1967 In the same period 2172 stiff personal injuries Design and faulty equipment were blamed for many of the losses Plans of the federal department of transport to improve the safety of school buses has received support from such diverse bodies as the Ontario Public School Men Teachers Federation and home and school associations Proposals would include higher with increased pad ding stronger body joints protective cages around gasoline tanks However Ottawa backed away from the improvement program last fall It is suspected the Government has been listen to the Ontario Association of School Business Officials which thinks improvements would be an expensive and unnecessary change A spokesman the Ontario Association of School Business Officials said recently that alter ations to the buses would cost to for each bus Were talking millions of dollars in total costs over the years and no guarantee there would be cut backs on injuries and deaths in school buses he said That has raised the ire of the mens teachers federation It is ironic in the Year of the child that we are prepared to trade a few dead and injured children for some questionable savings in school board budgets a statement from the federation thunders The teachers president called for action not more evidence He says there are enough facts and figures available to implement the recommendations and make significant improvements in school bus safety He notes that automobiles have rigid safety standards which cost buyers money He charged it would be setting a double standard If the same criteria is not attached to school buses It is not hard to agree with the teachers If school bus safety can be improved by spending to on each bus then surely there should be no question about implementing the proposals Ottawa should make it man On the other hand if the changes do nothing to improve the safety of buses then it would be foolish to spend the money The issue then is statistics They seem to favor the teacher views Changes should be made Farming is hazardous This is Farm Safety Week and a time to review the relatively high number of injuries on the farm According to the Farm Safety Association it may be more ser ious than statistics indicate Farming is ranked third behind mining and forestry as one of this nations most hazardous occup ations Last year in Ontario the Association recorded lost time injuries in agriculture There were however many more that required medical attention only and no time away from the land At present only one third or What others say 22000 farm employers report to the Workmens Compensation Board so it is reasonable to assume a large number of farm accidents are not included in statistics The association also recorded farm fatalities in 1978 Of this number 17 or 37 per cent urred to children under the age of More complete and compre hensive statistics probably would reveal farming is more hazardous than present statistics indicate and the need for better safety practices on the farm acute One in four will crash It Is frightening to discover every or 17 yearold who obtains a driver licence runs a one in four risk of becoming involved in a major accident before reaching the age of IB And it is just as frightening to com template that all other persons on the roads drivers passengers and pedestrians are made to share that risk Insurance company statistics tell us that among youths not yet IS there are claims per 100 more than one in four at an average cost of By contrast for women and single men under age the claim rate per 100 falls to 9 l and 1 respectively rates that obviously would be lower were the undcria figures excluded Clearly Ihe danger posed by very young drivers Is substantially greater than thai posed by drivers even a few years older Infacl is so much greater that one is inevitably left to conclude that the minimum driving age should be raised to 10 Of course three in four youths with safe driving records will undoubtedly argue that raising the age Is unfair to them But there is a strong element of the inequitable in all thresholds based on drinking age the voting age And driving is not a right it is a privilege Easily gathered and ob jective statistics allow us to weigh the inequity against the risk and at nearly per cent the risk surely tips the balance Leamington Post Honestly officer didnt realize he was hurt I thought he was just loitering Smileys estate a junglesays he For weeks I been telling her said jungle is coming in on us I not kidding Its a bloody jungle out there and it going lo get us She thought I was hallucinating ogam Jungle Creeping in Rubbish And then I took her out and showed her She taken a good tour of the estate for a couple of years And what she saw shook her You re right It is a jungle A few years ago we had a kaleidoscope of color out there Now it a almost solid green relentlessly creeping in from all Vvt had two rose beds We had actually planted some roses In them and some of the roses actually grew Peace roses roses As soon as they bloomed I them put them in a vase and we sit around looking at them as though we borne children I cut them back dutifully piled dirt around them in the fall and a couple even bloomed the second year The roses were planted check by Jowl with a fine healthy row of peonies that produced almost obscenely The second year of the rosea the peonies were a little sick The third year they were definitely ailing This year that particular flowerbed has produced two peonies three rosebuds two elm trees about eight feet high a healthy young maple and enough hay to feed a herd of cows The jungle Our other was somewhat of a failure from the beginning despite all the fertilizing and fussing Therefore when a douple of acorns the squirrels had missed sprouted I thought Why not It add a nice touch of green Almost overnight it seems those acorns have grown to dimensions irsl lew here we had tiger lilies and all kinds of other exotics This year we had tigers You see them sitting there in the at night peering with eyes Some people might say they were eats I know they were tigers A fen years ago we had browneyed daisies galore had brown tyed children galore slashing and galloping through the jungle that once was brown eyed daisies the woodpiles are creeping closer first Ihey were orderly woodpiles in their place ready to be thrown into Ihe cellar adding rather a quaint touch or ticity to the backyard as it once was Then we started piling fallen branches on top of them Now they are horrible woodpiles crooked and beckoning looned by and other creeping green things Used to be young spruce growing near the garage Top of it would have made a nice Christmas tree It grown so last in fifteen years that it a hazard lo low flying have squirrels so big and so bold they II jump up on the picnic table and snatch tht second half of your peanut butler and- honey sandwich without so much as a Do you mind Vte have robins who pull out worms as big as rattlesnakes and then have to render them togrncldes as big as seagulls strutting about the clearing in the jungle in hat ugly pigeon toed gait of theirs Bets as big at beavers buzz around our beer bottles Huge black ants hoist them selves up the hair on my legs spit In my eye and off to attack a starling day we move our lawn chairs a little closer to the back door Out front our mighty oak grows ever greater peers in windows rubs his nose against panes chuckles with amusement gives the brick a smack with one of his huge hands and goes back to waiting for the next north wind so that he can drop a dead branch across our TV cable wire Up Ihe back of the house crawls great green vine with tentacles like those of a giant squid slowly carefully and with super human skill pulling bricks loose one by one Every so often it starts to die and watch with glee hope But no fresh green tendrils sprout every one of Ihcm a potential brick puller Tonoavall Everywhere the trees the weeds the vines crawl the house in sidious malicious whispering to each other their eventual triumph In this steady frightening encroach ment of jungle there is only one bright spot one thing that won t grow That the privet hedge between Ihe yard and the street that gives us about as much privacy as a stripper at a medical convention Planted at great expense trimmed with decreasing regularity because there nothing to trim it looks like a kid who been in a fight and had a couple of front leeth knocked out That the good part Down at the other end where the snow plow man dumps fortyeight tons a year it resembles a pygmy with a bad cose of malnutrition That the way we plan to go when the jungle forces us to flee Straight out through one of the gaps in the hedge pushing the grand piano in front of us fc This editor had the privilege of attending the anniversary convention of Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association in Toronto where the Dills brothers for mer publishers of this newspaper the Independent Georgetown and Milton Canadian Canadian Champion were hon with life memberships In the Assoc iation Dave and Jim Dills have been spark plugs in the CCNA and continue active involvement like their father before them The final evening of the convention Saturday in Toronto is reserved for the President Ball with the Province of Ontario host It was at this function Ihe Dills and Jim and farmer editor Kay Dills and Jim eldest son Steven were recipients of awards and present It was a fitting honor for them all Dave and Jim grew up in the weekly business Until the sale to Inland Publishing Co Limited tost year Ihey lived the news paper game 24 hours a day Now while bro ther Dave is recuperating from an illness Jim has been the new executive direclorortheCCNA a job which will him all over Canada probably to Ottawa on occasion to present briefs to Joe Clark and his confreres Kay Dills former editor of The free Press was given a gift and recognized for her efforts In the weekly field Steven Dills now publisher of the Highway Tribune a weekly newspaper in Alberta was also honored for his work at head office Toronto with a gift Few families in llalton Hills ore honored or respected as much as the Dills and this is appreciated by weekly publishers and editors across this Their honor reflects on their own communities and Acton people can swell their chests to have such well known liked and respected newspapermen still among them or springing from this community There much speech making at con ventions naturally lots good humor meals and some of the newspapermen and wives have been known to hoist a few There are seminars for the publishers and sessions for editors all designed to make By Hartley Coles them more professional at Iheir jobs and produce better newspapers The Free Press was recipient of one award at this convention third place for the best front page in its own circulation class but it placed high in the standings for the best all round newspaper coming fourth in a class of 30 newspaper fro across Canada totalling 75 points in the only six behind first place chronicle with 81 and the Brad ford witness with 80 The judges acknowledged that the top four or five entries were the best in the class and conceded the next were close in quality and content Standings show the Free Press Is right up there with the top newspapers in Can ada and it is the team effort from pub lishers staff advertisers readers and the community which has given this newspaper support and encouragement There are always complaints And bouquets We expect the complaints We are not without fault And sometimes deserve a pat on the back At least we think so Recognition from the CCNA is something newspaper people like because it comes from peers people who understand the problems and energy which goes into Ihe weekly production of every community newspaper So this newest award goes up with a long string won over Ihe years Conventions ore also for discussing the business Whileinspectingsomeof machines which companies produce for the production of newspapers with ran into Peter Newton raised in Acton and much involved in the chemical end of the print ing business A son of Acton former fire chief Jack Newton long an engineer at Bcardmore Peter once worked for the Christie Chemical Co which chemicals for the production end of new printing processes Recently he established his own business chemicals for the industry and he was at the convention working for the arm weekly Newspaper Association in their display It was an extra bonus Peter is married and living in Toronto while his iness has a Misslssauga address When I first started in Ihe printing business as a devil I thought it was pretty complicated with the old hot type and hand set heads from California Job cases Letters had to be assembled individually in a stick and merged with hot type from the linotype In the corner It was a pain staking business and a printer who t covered with ink and like it at the end of the day was either scrupulously clean or wasn worth his salt It has all changed They ve got a computerized machine now that sets advertisements on a screen right before your eyes composes borders for them and does everything but breathe Naturally the company which exhibited this equipment had a pretty blonde run ning it as if it required only hours of instruction before one was ready to set up in business In my day it took seven years of toil before one was considered a printer Reporters now have machines called terminals at which write copy which Continued on Page Back issues J 10 years ago Taken from the Issue the Acton Free Press July IKS Tho weak strong man Don Price bearded lady Mary Ann fat lady Larry were just a few of the unusual attractions the Side Show had to offer at the Penny Carnival held In the arena by Playground 79 Planning board Thursday night rejected a plan submitted by T Berry of Con struction to build five stores each with an apartment above on the west corner of Main and Church Sts They invited Mr Btrry lo submit a revised plan Board chairman Bob Drinkwolter was concerned about parking The Acton Press won two awards in tht national newspaper competitions 20 years ago Take it from the Issue of the Acton Free Press of Thursday July L Ritchie secretary of Walker Lodge was appointed by Grand Lodge of Ontario to the office or Grand Sword Bearer Members of Walker Lodge attending the communication were Mcintosh J A Leslie A Shoemaker Bowles and A J Buchanan I Harris J and A C Patterson A landmark for close to a century began lo disappear when workmen under Henry Cooper started lo dynamite the stone structure on the fourth line of known in recent times as Harris mill and Hendersons Mill The Grand River Con Authority owners of the building considered it unsafe Henry Cooper however after two days of dynamiting thought that if the loose stones at top could have been removed the building would have stood for at least another 90 ycarsorso built was the mill It was built in Many fell it should have been preserved Continuing their climb up the league ladder Acton Nlcols won two and lost one in lacrosse action this week Firing goals were Johnny Phonse Harrison Larry Barry Fred Kentner Harvey Hunter Wayne George Ted and Page Bo Scouts arc spending this week at at Camp chief is Laurie Duby quarlermasltr Peter Newton with Rickey Brian Don Ford John Dunn Andrew Smith Bill Cook Ken Gardner Andrew Tarrant Philip Tommy David Ha r grave Johnny Coy Glen John Leatherland John Max Hoggett George Ware and Nell Franklin 50 years ago Taken from the Issue Press of Thursday July Dublin branch of the Women a Institute are holding canning demonstrations in Dublin school Heavy hitting and a big score char Ihe ball game In the Hal ton Baseball league which Milton won 1913 Chew with four hits and Frank Gibbons and with three each were the big hitters for Acton The local boys were off in their fielding and Chalmers and Waterhouscwcrelheonly ones to keep their fielding average clean Has winter any joy equal to a cool drink from a wayside spring these hot after noons All parlies at Eden Mills who subscribed for the Hydro some lime ore now en joying the benefit of the power Acton Georgetown Milton and Bramp ton Oddfellows and Lodge held a splendid outing at Eldorado Park HS Holmes and Wm Williams both of Ac on won prizes for being the oldest Oddfellows Mr Holmes was initiated years ago to Goderich 100 years ago Taken from the issue of the Acton Free Press of Thursday July IS79 If telegrams are to be believed the Zulu war is over Milk for sale at Milk Depot north of station Acton people need not keep a cow when they can get milk for three cents a quart two cents a pint P Armstrong No more hard work churning Every per son lhat has churning to do should buy one of Noiseless Dog Power Wheels that will run the dash or crank churns Call and see It at work on Bower Street back of Bennett Hotel Mode and sold only by Acton Volunteers wanted The members of No2 Co V M are notified to assemble at the Drill Hall on Saturday for drill previous to going lo camp In Toronto in September Recruits wanted By order John Shaw Capt It has been officially announced lhat Hon Mr Lieut Governor of Quebec has been dismissed from office During Ihe past week a boat built after Ihe style of Haitian s lias been launched on Nicklin pond and numbers of our am bilious young men are anxious to try their rowing powers