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Acton Free P Wednesday Aug 3 No rate increase for Erin Hillsburgh phones There will be no rate increase for Erin and Community Telephone customers un til service Is improved The Ontario Telephone Service Commission the governing body over pri vately owned telephone companies has granted a rate increase to Com Telephone Com of Ontario Ltd but has ordered a freeze on any rate increase for this area The freeze according to the Ministry of Trans portation and Com municatlon was ordered because of an over whelming negative ret ponse by customer the proposed Increase Subscribers complained of poor transmission overcrowded lines poor repair service and not enough toll free calling area Orono near Bow manville it also included in the freeze also due to the negative response and complaints of poor service All other Com Telephone areas including Drayton Sunderland pockets in Kingston and area and areas near London will be facing a per cent increase of the Com mission told the Acton Free Press a lift on the freeze is not anticipated for some tune When the necessary improvements art completed to the three exchanges the in crease will be granted The company filed for on increase in 1978 Customers the increase ban together to form Committee for Better CBS A hearing was held in in Dec ember when irate escape comes under fire customers attended along with Commission and the company re presentatives It was at this time the Commission heard the brunt of complaints A similar meting in with 300 attending brought up the same complaints Subsequent meetings with the CBS executive the commission and the Community Telephone company have been held to air differences and to solve some of the pro blems In announcing the in crease and the local freeze the commission also explained they have ordered the telephone company to improve ser vice to its customers by installing additional fac ilities in the same ex changes revising a ber of its business pract including its policy regarding disconnection of telephone services and revising rates for hard hearing handsets in the past according to Mr of I hi Commission there was installation charge plus a monthly rate for the hand sets provided to assist customers with hearing deficiencies The commission has ordered these sets to be provided for a flat charge with no monthly rate Cox of the CBS says her or is encouraged by the freeze At least we know now someone is listening she said The recent escape of two Inmates from a work gang in has caused more than a few angry feelings from Bob Brown of First Line towards the Institution that per mils the work gangs Mr Brown was at his Job Monday morning at Rockwell International in Milton when he got a call that the family car a been from his country residence But it was not only the fact the inmate made off with his car that upset him so much His wife Ilia came close to being seriously injured in the incident According to Mr Brown his wife had left the car parked in the Halton to compete with Peel for jobs industry commerce Region s effort press conference Wed vlronmcnt that are to attract more industry July of the and attractive Is likely to result in an at region plans to attract opposed to Peel tempt to steal industry industry to from Peel We have to cut into Bill Marshall director Peel industrial of business development ticn We can offer land for Region told a easts and a living in Region holds labor survey In an effort to deter mine the labor resources at lis fingertips will be surveying households The survey is designed to get a breakdown of labor force The questions in the confidential survey elude the occupation and industry of the region There are questions but not every question applies to all people Bill Marshall s director of business development sold he hoped people would take time to answer the We need about a five per response to make the survey worth white the survey which is costing about 10 Is i valuable tool You might soy it is the key component of the whole thing said Mr Mar shall The whole thing is the region Economic Waging Plan three- part plan to bring more industry into Nation The three stages are entitled Community analysis Opportunity Identified tion and Promotional Program The first stage Mr Marshall said is 1 1 ally an analysis of the tenures existing in what were selling he said The second stage is an an average Industrie plate industries look if over the same period of they Toronto lime Marshall said Port of the reason for Hilton has been able to this Mr aid some industries traded an average of was the proximity of Peel Hamilton Went new industries annually to Metro Toronto worth Most of those while Peel has attracted He said Peel is the first industries locate in Burlington because of its proximity to Hamilton Regional Chairman said will tike a different ap pro than Peel in at noting industry I think is likely to be more selective than I talking in terms of rapid high density growth Peel cut heavily their rural aria while we ve main tallied ours north of Highway has roughly acres of vacant industrial land Of that total acres arc and another I acres are easily serviceable he said Peel has no publicly owned industrial land said Mr Marshall Mr Itaftis noted outline of growth areas within the region and tlu third stagi is the active search for industries for the areas The labor survey fits into the first stage by finding out what kind of skills exist within the re gion s labor force Mr Marshall said industries often ask him the kind of labor force in when they consider moving to the region sunt Clean or replace fur nnce filters once a month during the winter to breathe easier and save fuel We ve been to say we know what kind of skills we have but wce never been able to proc it Tins survey will he he It probably the most ambitious survey ever undertaken by a regional government We bounced this thing off the pro vincial government and they were a bit aghast at the size and scope of it Mr Marshall said pirts of the first stue of the overall plan were ready completed He said the staging plan would be finished by the end of and be ready for input into the 1980 budget has 3 million budgeted for land subject to a policy now being Fated He was asked where the industry would go Where would do the most good adding it would depend on the in dustry s needs He said a distillery would likely go in Oak ville or Burlington to be near the water while a warehouse would be near a highway like the Queen or Highway Mr Marshall added an increase in the large shopping malls in Halton is desirable Right now there is close to million an nually lost to the large shopping centres outside like Square One Eaton Centre and Shcrway Gardens He said the figure represents dollars spent by residents outside Halton the ignition She was due to leave the house in a few minutes he said Mrs Brown stepped out of the house just in time to see the two escapees climbing into the cor She dashed for the car and tried to open the doors but driver backed the car out of the driveway knocking Mrs Brown aside They could have led my wife said an angry Mr Brown I don think people like that should be out he said adding he felt there was supervision of work crews by Maplehurst off A gang of seven men were working on a resources tract of near the Brown driveway with the keys in Blood needed Summer s a great lime for vacations and trips in the family cor But in creased traffic often means accidents that means blood it need for accident victims Regular blood donors go on vacation too there often a short of blood in the summer So before you get into your car why not check on your nearest blood clinic and give a unit before you go It may benefit you in more ways then one Woman to airline clerk How can anything that goes miles an hour possibly be late Region cant buy Site F NEC may give control back This is completely logical and therefore we can go for it Those were the words of Councillor Kick Day responding to a request from Dennis regional solicitor to negotiate options to buy land The land the region wants to buy is the land on which It hopes to put a land fill site known as Site Mr emphasized he wants to negotiate options to buy the land An option to buy Is an agreement to fix a sale price The region would at some future date have the right to exercise the option If it wanted to He said it does not necessarily mean the actual purchase or the land Mr mentioned three prop erties the and prop erty the Mogil property and Bessie Smith property The area of the three properties is acres acres and ten acres respectively Mr said the first two prop erties have indicated their willingness to negotiate In any case Mr said three conditions would to be fulfilled before the region would exercise its option to buy any land The conditions ore that all environ mental approvals would have to be given all appeals by the town of the Ontario Municipal Board s decision on Site would be completed and the region could not buy Bessie Smith s property until Miss Smith asked the region to do so These conditions dldnt Impress Milton Council which voted against giving Mr permission to nego tiate with landowners Councillor Bill Johnson said We ve stood firm in the past and I think we must stand firm now Mr Fred the town s solicitor has said this action won prejudice us I say it will prejudice us iurely the Cabinet or the courts or the Environmental Assessment Board will hear about it Mr Day agreed The first thing Jim Snow is going to read the morning is a newspaper report of this The logic of Mr request Is Inescapable but unfortunately logic and image don always correspond Mr letter is crystal clear and 1 sorry I going to have to support Councillor Johnson on this A suggestion by Escarpment mission staff that most of the area now under their control be turned back to the local regions and towns isonK a suggestion no more said Councillor Hoy Booth a member of the NEC He emphasized nothing had been decided but pointed out some com mission members turning over most of the land to the local author dies and perhaps setting up another government agency not the present NEC to administer the most sensitive areas along the escarpment running from Niagara to Tobermory Booth pointed out talk about the demise of the should be no prise since it was always scheduled to fold after the fcsearpment Plan is passed by the Minister and becomes an official document CLOSED for HOLIDAYS August 1 to August ili Robertsons MILL ST EAST ACTON THE ACTON FREE PRESS Authorized as Mad Postal Registration Watch or Program Listings on Cable A for Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday program bo propertv under the supervision of one officer on the morning of the escape Two sent back to the institute shorllv after a ni after failing to comply with work from ieer I suggest that when they ire sentenced by a judge jail for their term said Mr Brown He pointed out there were several housewives in the whose 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