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Acton Free Press Wednesday Dec The Acton Free Press news room Is a place this week Leaving us la man who has made more friends in the newspaper business nation wide than any other man you care to name Hartley Coles our editor will dust off his desk on December turn off typewriter if he remembers and leave his office Ilea not going far Hartley will once again be cone full lime editor of the Georgetown In dependent one of our slater papers lies been shuttling back and forth between the two papers for years anyway But this official leave taking gives me an excuse to writes bit of sentiment to one of the Printers devil A local boy all his life except for some mis guided years spent In Brampton and Georgetown when be was too young to have any say in the mat Hartley started working for Dills Printing and Publishing when he was and fresh out of school He and Dave Dills went to school together Dave and Jim took over the Dills plant after the death of their father Dills in IBM Before that they been in partnership with him since 1954 In the days when Hartley started as a printers devil the DHLs plant and he Acton Free Press were housed in what is now the Acton Hews The building still owned by the Dills brothers Those were the days of hand set type hot metal and California job boxes A printers devil was an apprentice and expected to learn every phase of the job Hartley found himself handling the heavy type setting copy doing up ads writing stones when something extra happened and sweeping the floor The job sort of grew on me he comments Linotype Operator In The Acton Free Press moved to its present location along with the rest of the Dills business Then occupying the ground floor of the three story building the paper shared space with the presses Job printing a leather business boxes and assorted people Hartley was composing and printing operating the complicated linotype machine Arlof Dills an innovator in County when he introduced the linotype to the Free Press in tiny type letters and setting them care fully in line an operator could now literally press metal letters out in order by punching a machine Hartley has always had a soft spot for linotyping and old style methods when putting out the paper required sheer muscle Along about that time the paper had a scan engraver for photographs This was a device that scanned the tones of a picture with impulses from With JENNIFER BARR an electric eye and transferred the images to a plastic engraving It was quite an improvement from the old method of getting zinc plates made of a picture to be mounted on a block of wood before printing Hartley remembers the days when one or two pictures in the weekly issue were a big event tern well Everyone had two Jobs in those days Hartley remarks In his spare time he was a sports writer He received extra salary for but said he would have done it for free he enjoyed it so much He was always very active in local sports both baseball and hockey So going to games and wnting them up was no chore for him He says the arena was filled to capacity in the early before television came along to ruin sports attendance Town enthusiasm was high and strong support was given all local teams At some point in the Hartley found time to marry Irma Kentner and produce two children Marianne and Tim Imut and Hartley also have two delightful grandchildren Both Irma and Tim work In the composing room of the Free Press In the Free Press offset along with its Bister paper the Canadian Champion Much more space was required for this complicated but ftcient way of producing papers This method utilizes photography making a negative of a print page which Is onto a rubber roller making an impression which is transferred to pap er No direct Impression to made as in old style printing but type is Indirectly transferred hence the name offset This encouraged much more artistic freedom allowed us to have better photographs and allowed more sexual equality Oftset does away with hot type and all that heavy lifting Hartley explains New editor Staff changes were necessary the papers could be larger and more staff were required Hartley was asked to become editor of the Free Press and took over in February Always an award winner the Free Press took off piling up so many Ontario and Canadian awards the back room became full It continued in this vein ever since In 1973 a new paper was started in Georgetown the Independent Hartley was the logical choice to steer this new ship lo its present very successful position Last year the Independent topped all previous awards to become First paper in its category in Ontario For the first year or so of its life Hartley was both editor of the Independent and the Free Press com However the Independent soon demanded all of Hartley lime and he relinquished his Free Press desk to Kay Dills In November of Dills Printing and Publishing was sold to Inland Publishing owners of a chain of Ontario weeklies Kay Dills retired along with her husband Dave and brother in law Jim Hartley became managing editor of both papers again the Independent and the Free Press For the past year he bos worked loo hard piloting both size able productions so finds it necessary to lip up his seat while he resumes full editorship of the In dependent He sad about having to leave the Acton office but says Acton my home and I II always be here As one of the many people who have learned the trade under the careful and caring eye of Hartley Coles I lead a standing ovation for one of the greats in weekly newspapers Teacher contract Continued Page I Ness is mire money lo the less exp erienced teachers than to the senior teachers M teachers would be getting less than five per increase he said A teacher at lowest category in crease The are also asking for an increase in the board contribution to lis The two sides remain free chart I he path if negotiations in a variety directions They may continue or call in a mediator for final offer selection or go to a strike situation Sixty days after the fad finder report made public i the term will be up January 13 Hie board may change Ihe conditions of the agreement according Knox Presbyterian Church stood tall amongst the snow covered trees last week making a lovely fitaftrtet Co teed Mountainview Road S GEORGETOWN 8776984 est HAPPY NEW YEAR was last week winner of the Acton Merchants Christmas Draw She Foam insulation Continued from Page I irritating In eyes and nose At live parts per million it drives you out of area said Mr However according to a telephone survey customers carried by few people notice the Irritation The survey was performed as pari of company re sponse lo a Canadian Broadcasting Market Place pro gram which focussed on the insulation industry in general and in particular able We picked where we had a history of warranty Bob Elliott described the as being honorable We were Impartial In the survey Wo picked areas where we had a history of warranty cards said Mr Out of 508 customers called indicated they delected occasional odor In a closet or basement said Mr Perrin The survcv will be turned over to government agencies such as Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation Consumer and Corporate Affairs and Ihe Depart men I of Health introduced a system of checking the quality of work performed by distributors A Ironies of carries out an infa red scan of a completed Job The scan simply pictures Ihe re sults of work so in si a Hers can see where I hey may have missed an area in a wall The system called Chech was In Iroduced said Mr to ensure our ap plicators arc responsible our clients arc not ripped A Winnipeg firm Canada Foam Is only company lo offer the red check according to Mr About homes have been scanned If the job Tails under H I program and all four walls are done Rapco insists on a scan said Mr Elliott or Check is dous according Dennis Brace A check can be performed in two or three days he said Brandco applies cellu lose fibre glass gloss fibre and mineral wool in addition to urea formaldehyde insulation Gary Brace has been in the insulation business about years while brother Dennis com his twentieth year last month Their father Howard Brace had been in business since 1947 have used the name since 1952 became a dealership in 1974 but only after there was good hard look at he in dustry said Gary Brace We were watching the market and material It i was new at least in this country We found nothing else but good about it said Gary Brace employs 15 people two which ore licensed applicators Walk lag run skate ski swim pedal don let life catch you with your head down THE ACTON FREE PRESS Authorizod as Sftcond Clats Man Postal Number- 051 Prices Dec to We reserve the right to limit quantities Club House stuffed Olives 34i mi A plastic Saran Wrap 100 Maple Leaf Mincemeat 139 119 198 Clover Leaf broken Mandarin Oranges ion 4 Sunlignt liquid 35 Aft Detergent Glad green Garbage Bags ED Smith CO Garden Cocktail 03 varieties Bicks Dills 33 Ocean Spray 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