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Tho Acton Froo Press Wednesday Sept 26 Mon press Don McDonald Publisher Founded In P I 4 Wednesday Inland Put Co ted S3 Telephone I519I Subscripts in all counirn1 other Acton free Pint a one of he Inland Publishing Co L rn led group of suburban news papers include The Picker New Advertiser The Brampton Guardian The Bvilnaton Post EtobicoJte The Georgetown Independent MarkhamThomhllEconomisiandSun Milton Canadian Champion The News The NewmarketAurora Era Oihawa Week This Weekend and a accepted on condition the even of error that portion the speco occupied by the erroneous together reasonable allowance for will not be charged for tut the balance of the advertisement will be pad for at The applicable rata In ihe event of a typographical error advertising goods or services at a wrong price goods or services may not be Advertising a otter to sen EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT Editor Coles News Editor Editor flobm ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT Advertising Manager Cook Clsaalfted BUSINESSACCOUNTING OFFICE Office Manager Fran Gibson Rhona Thornhitt CsrofynArtem CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT Manager Maiyl McAithur TELEPHONE 853 2010 Business and Editorial Office A penalty for thrift Hope the Grey Panthers were listening when Halton Region Council endorsed a resolution from Chatham which urged the Province to limit the amount of comfort money residents of homes for the aged may ac cumulate Its a mean move Although council heard horror stones of Halton Manor residents who saved up to a high of from the 51 a month allowance theyve got a lot of nerve telling manor residents what they should do with their comfort money If they chose to save the money instead of spending it then surely that is the business of the res idents of the manor not region councils Municipalities don t need ac cess to the comfort money of elderly residents who may think saving money is a virtue rather than a sin Indeed some of our politicians could take a lesson from manor residents on how to save over out of a month At least the regions health and social services committee knew council should leave the matter alone The committee rec ommended council not endorse the Chatham resolution which seeks amendments to regulations of the Homes for the Aged and Rest Homes Act to give lpahties access to accumulations of comfort money in excess of to offset arrears in main charges Some councillors obviously felt accumulating over 500 was not the intent of the comfort allow ance Perhaps it wasnt However when we start ing thrift then it is time to tax the comfort which members of region council get from their fat salaries See how fast that resolution would pass A big thank you Saturday there was recreation activity at both ends of Acton but most people would have difficulty recognizing events were a har binger of the snowy season soon to come In the morning there was reg istration of hockey and figure skating at the community centre Simultaneously arena manager Harold was making ice in the arena end of the building He expects therell be ice to use Monday October I As hockey and figure skaters were gearing up for the cold sea son ahead the house league soccer finals were being played on the and Z Bennett school grounds Another sign summer is gone When hockey begins and soccer ends it is as significant as geese flying south The seasons are changing and this glorious fall weather of the past few days will gradually get colder and colder And Canadians will grouse about the foul weather ahead It is also a sign that recreation in Acton is being well looked after by the dozens of volunteers who find the time to sit on hockey ball or soccer executives or act as managers coaches and officials or other capacities Single in put in hundreds of hours seeing the children of Acton and area have organized sports to play Most of us take them for granted but if they decided to pack it in for a year there would be some confusion Sure they get a kick out of organizing and operating sports in town and district but they also perform a service that taxpayers could never pay for in the event it ever became a paying proposition We owe a debt to the many vol unteers who look after minor sports and recreation in Acton as we do to any community minded group As the soccer and ball seasons end and hockey and other winter sports are on tap perhaps it is time to take stock and say thank you to those ladies and gentlemen who recognize the importance of minor sports both to the children and the community Immigration myths The myth that immigrants somehow steal jobs We see someone who is ob viously new to Canada at work on the job then we hear the latest unemployment statistics and click we put one and one together and come up with the wrong answer The Montreal Gazette cites a new study by the Quebec Minister of immigration that analyzes the performance of landed immigrants between 1951 and more than half of whom were workers The study showed that while these new immigrant workers filled 22 per cent of the new jobs which were generated in Quebec economy during this period they were also responsible for generating 25 per cent of these new jobs Another of the studys findings were that the provinces gross national product for this period would have been 11 per cent less were it not for this influx As the study observes often have a marked desire will and need for work and an entrepreneurial spirit Such statistics show the com mon sense of maintaining an adequate immigration policy It made this country what it is today It tiniL Smiley has novel writing hangups September after long summer vacation several of my colleague ask me jecnngly I afraid Well did you write that novel Or Did you polish off your play And every September I have to come up with an excuse No I broke my pelvis sky diving Or had it well in hand until the day I was out sailing we crashed into 00pound sturgeon and I suffered a bad one gets pretty good at ihe instants Ihe swift riposte years of it Well uh no spent he summer drinking beer and going to auction and swimming and cutting myloenatls and trimming the corn on the ball of m foot and reading novels and looking up a storm of frozen dinners would be out of character Because every June I swear to all and sundry that I going to turn out a piece of prose that v ill make Dylan Thomas Ernest Hemingway and Margaret Laurence wish they been born years later Some it going to be an auto biographical novel with absolutely noth held back I warn my wife Can take it sweetie There will be no holds barred Everything exposed The whole business down in black and white She nods as she finishes the dishes Other years it to be a Play that exposes the whole rotten corrupt per verse middleclass lire of this country The wet tea bags in the sink the made beds the after breakfast martinis the secreL racism as we watch the Indians ing decimated on the latelate show Hut somehow after twenty years of Ihls charade I might as well face the fact that I am neither a Trudeau nor a Tennessee A new piece of fiction that is going to sell must have certain ingredients sex drugs volence perversion a guy write a redhot article when Julias lived a ically pure life lor number of decades flow can a guy write explicit sex scenes hen all he seen for the last twenty years is a couple or robins having an affair in the back yard How can a guy write about drugs when his nose is so many times fractured that he can I even smell let alone the sweet cent of marijuana on the air How cm a guy write about violence when thi worst incident he has seen in is one grandboy giving the other a cheap shot in the back when the other wusn t looking knocked Ihe other head against the corner of the picnic table and drawn blood and ears It not exactly Atlila the Hun How can a guy write about perversions when the only thing he a seen for years is a baby girl blue jay trying to pretend she a baby boy Or a henpecked hus band trying to pretend when his wife has gone to the John that he Henry VIIF No I m afraid you II have to stick to TV the movies and Harlequin Romances if you want your favorite ingredients just don seem to have any background upon which to draw what others say Married are penalized- It used io be that divorce was a dirty word but now it is the word marriage seems to carry Ihe connotation of un pleasantness In a country that has long been lauded as a Christian society where the principles of decency and chastity form the basis of the laws it is more and more evident that people arc being penalized for being married It is actually true that the law tends to encourage some couples to get divorced One blatant example of this is demon strated in the income tax law which makes it profitable for small businessmen and professionals such as doctors dentists architects and veterinarians to divorce their spouses before hiring them as em The laws date back to the early days of the graduated income tax The graduated system means that the more money a per son earns the higher the percentage of in come is paid In tax It seemed logical to many businessmen to circumvent the higher tax by hiring spouses thus splitting Ihe income and splitting the tax between them at a lower rote This led a tax law that states that any money a boss pays to a spouse is taxed as if it were part of the income of the boss Later bosses found they could this rule by incorporating the business Since no one is the spouse of a corporation the law could not apply Then came the doctrine of reasonab leness The tax department ruled that the corporation could not pay the wife of a president more than it would pay a complete stranger performing the same duties That seems So fair in fact that it a wonder it is not applied to businessmen who choose not to incorporate or to professionals who are forbidden to in corporate Such a person earning KM a year who replaces his a year secretary with his spouse actually winds up paying his spouse nothing and losing on top of that Example The husband earns SCO a year A secretary who earns a year leaves and is replaced by wife The wife pays a year tor day care of their two children and incurs another a year in expenses on such Items as clothes transportation housekeeper etc pocket expenses thus amount to 000 The husband pays tax on her salary as if it were his own and that costs Net result A loss On other hand if they divorced before the wife went to work for her husband the tax savings would be attractive about a year These figures supplied through Donald Shaughnessy a chartered accountant with Word and Partners Coboug may not excite too many readers Some may think the wife of a man earning 000 per annum should stay home in the first place But in a day and age when marriage and ily life is failing at a frightening rate in Canada it should be government responsibility see to it that outdated laws and poorly thoughtout legislation become a contributing factor in these sad Shirley Keller in the Signal Star brutal party or weekend How come you never have bags under your eyes like me I merely answer the truth A tlean heart and pure mind my dear I must admit that after the thirtieth repetition of ihis little slogan she emitted on unladylike remark But it the truth It not that I haven had lots of exp erience I went through a world rending depression and ate potatoskin hash and porridge soup went at 16 for mon 12 noun day seven days a week I survived a war in which both sides wercshoolingat me especially Ihe British Navy 1 was almost kicked to death by a German Just because I d stolen bis pipe and tobacco I ate mangels and drank rainwater in a prison camp I spent sanatorium I survived of marriage two rotten kids and am still coping with two grandboys who are the most ingenious methods of torture since Ihe Inquisition I even graduated from a university with honors when thev still had standards I spent 1 years in the editorial chair newspaper which has burled many a man I have lived through and thrived on leach teenagers which has sent more people io an early grave than did the editorial chair But still whenever I think of writing a scaring play or a violent autobiography I can seem to put fingers to typewriter I think I know what wrong I t hate father That seems to be what you need to get you going Or if you re Jewish jour mother My father was a mild decent man He l beat me Indeed he I pay much attention to me My mother was loving but not Darn it why didn I have rotten parents like everybody else so could write a vicious sexy perverse Rule of a few account of vandalism comm ltted by late night revellers at the Scotch Block reservoir Region Conservation Authority has taken steps to curb the num of people using the area The action has meant that fishermen have been told to move by authority staff Its another classic case of the acts of a few detrimentally affect the majority Back issues 10 years ago Taken from the issue of toe Free Press of Wednesday September Dude Lindsav of Acton and Cliff Houston of Milton r umed to the County II ill it tame opposition was once again raised at Nassagawcya council to allowing Ontario Plastics Ltd to build a new plant at Ihe corner of Highway 7 and the Fifth Line Dutch Canadians from Acton are plan ning to participate In a sale of tulip bulbs to commemorate the liberation of Holland by Canadians Jake is chairman of the committee Henry secretary find Cor Snoek treasurer The proposed new as envisioned by reeves was unveiled by Dr Prank at council The division would make the Acton area the largest in the county incorporating a large section of Esqueslng Seniors downed to capture their second straight Inter mediate A championship For the first time boys and girls in grade will take physical education together under the guidance of teachers Bruce An drews and Margaret enrolled for the Community Christian Education School 20 years ago Taken from Issue or the I- rce frets Thursday October I Andrews won the challenge trophy at the inter school field meet Police arc asking motorists to stop joy riding on which won open for Sid ijiu has been engaged as general secretary of the i Ken bowling column begins again this week High school field day champions are Lynda Betty McArthur Bonnie Claire Smeltzcr Brian Carglll Matthew Itusscll Bruce Andrews Pete Law son Wes and Don an the milk from their dairies would Increase one tent a quart Vic Masters was elected president of Minor Sports following a buffet lun Others on the executive arc Marks A Johnson J Drink waller Kirby and Rev A McKcnzfe and Mick Holmes lied winners of the Acton Open golf touma menl Over took part In tourney at 50 years ago Taken from the Issue of thr I- evening September Acton School field day was a colorful event Helen runner up Oral Chalmers boys Milton runner up Bert greatest number of points Gordon Cooper William junior girls Aileen Clnr ridge runner up Lillian Perry boys Gordon Cook runner up Murray Smith highest number of points in public school events Gordon Titus There are pupils attending high school this year On the staff with Principal Lawrence are Bertha Nephew and Miss M There are three forms Acton Ladles ball team George town at the tournament there Mary Chalmers pitched an effective game well backed by Phil Tyler Jean Smith and Marg Price also played well The longest hit of season was knocked out by Mary Chalmers The Ladles Aid of church are holding a peanut social gins class of church made presentations to Helen and Margaret Thomas who are leaving to go to Toronto New Scouts are Martin Harvey Ted Hansen Henry and Jack Smith 100 years ago Token from the the tree Press of Thursday September IS7B The Volunteers of Company Bait held their Ball and Supper in the drill shed Friday The supper was supplied by Mr Bennett of the House Potato digging is now the order of business on the yeoman programme No word of rot yet Rev Mr Warner of Beamsville who has recently returned from the North West gave an excellent lecture the Methodist church to a large audience He described his journey out to the Mountains Ihe hardships he endured the 71 days he was on the road and the mode of living while there Putting up the stove pipes is generally considered to be the most trying ordeal a mon temper can be put through has made arrangements to visit every Thursday from a m to Patients will be attended to by leaving word f- lelding a hotel Mr James Moore announces to farmers and others he is prepared to pay the highest prices for Hides Calfskins or Sheepskins delivered to his tannery Lots of strangers in town