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4 The Acton Free Press Wednesday Dec Don McDonald Publisher Founded In I Wednesday by Inldnd Co 17J phone 15191 B53 Sub OOn at Sown copies The Acton Free Press one Inland Co LVmtl group of which include Whitby Pick Newt Advertiser The Brampton Th Burbngion Posi Eiotxcoha GaietM The Georgetown Inddpendsnt Mart ham Economist and Sun The Champion The News The Aurora Era Oakvide Oshawt The Week Thn Weekend and The Tribune AdwrtaffiO Accepted on the condition that in ho even ol typographies error thai portion the advertising space occupied the item together atwnjblu allowance for signature not be charged lor but the the advertise men I will br pad for at the applicable rate In the event of a cal error adveitaing goods or wrong goods or services may bo sold Adverting is merely an offer lime I Newspaper Second mail EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT Editor Coles Mews Editor Helen Murray Enc Ebtone Sports Editor ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT BUSINESSACCOUNTING OFFICE O flic a a Thor CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT Manager in TELEPHONE Business and Editorial Office Welcome addition News released last week that more development is coming for the downtown is welcome news for Acton shoppers coming on the heels of commercial development on the east end of Mill St bet ween the CN tracks and Canadian Tire The newest development will see the old Morse Hardware building renovated and rebuilt with five new stores in a mews- type of mall It will be similar to Acton Mews formerly the old Free Press building The Morse building has been unoccupied since this spring when the owners went out of business Reconstruction will commence early in the new year and owner and architect Merv Prythtka is convinced it will be a welcome addition to the downtown Some of the stores are already rented If the eyesore created by the fire at the Dominion Hotel and adjoining house were also eliminated downtown Acton would be well on the way to looking like architect Lloyd Sankeys proposals which would keep the small town atmosphere and at the same time add at tractive shops and boutiques to blend with the present mix Much of the present complaints from shoppers stems from the lack of variety and inability to get what they want in Acton shops The new commercial outlets should broaden the variety of goods available and make Acton attractive for shoppers especially in view of increasing prices for gasoline which makes travel expensive Political wives suffer Politicians wives seem to suffer particularly from an il lusive sense of selfworth Margaret Trudeau has been on a long public and often tedious quest to find herself Joan Ken nedy and Betty Ford suffer varia tions of the same trip Although Joe Clarks wife Maureen appears to enjoy her first lady role she carefully keeps all options open retaining her maiden name aiming to continue her law career and even run for office The quest for self isnt ex clusively a female problem as Prince Philip and Britains Prime Minister Margaret Thatchers husband can testify Philip lets off steam playing polo flying planes and taking potshots at cheeky journalists Ian Thatcher stolidly kept up his own career hes rich and deli cately circumvented the wives inevitable round of cocktails shopping and hospital tours during a recent Commonwealth conference in Zambia by as the press put it playing a great deal of golf Journalistbroadcaster Miche- wife of former Ontario leader Stephen Lewis who has been there her self says no matter how she acts and what she says a political wife cant win The only solution she sees is to pay wives a salary and spell out their duties and treat them with the impersonal respect accorded servants if wives are a public role and be pubhclyaecountable Landsberg warns a political wifes job is a muddle of con flicting demands and ambiguous rewards No one elects her and no one pays her Maybe its time the wife of the politician got equal pay for equal work Limehouse school concert Chris l mas the World was the Iheme or the I school concert In Ihe upper left picture gather under a street lamp Santo saves the In the upper right photo Toy soldiers arc on guard In the bottom left picture and the or many nations In one scene Man parents were in Tipping conundrum By Worth You ve just received lousy service from the staff at your favourite restaurant The steak was overcooked the vegetables nearly raw The waitress spilled water on your wife lap and the coffee tasted lot like Iced lea The question is should the customer leave a tip In Europe and many other countries around Hie world there is no choice An additional per cent or so is simply on to the bill in the guise of a vice charge no mailer quality of Ihe food or service In these countries Ihe traditional Up has become an conditional tax You pay the bill or the restaurant sues In Canada the argument goes the situation Is somewhat Here the size of the lip is supposedly based on Ihe quality of service and food But is it Do Canadians really leave Ihe waitress when they are forced to accept atrocious service or poor food The quick answer Canadians are prone MRPs message tolcaveatlp however reluctantly Tipping of course has become a basic part of the Canadian restaurant system Price competition has forced restaurant operators to rely on tips for a portion of the employee s wage package Tips have be come an important element In the battle to hold down prices at even finest eateries While the present tipping system in Can is fraught with inconsistencies and ambiguities it is important note that consumers still have the freedom and right to refuse a tip More than per cent of us never take advantage of lhat right as we tip on a regular basis even if the service is mediocre SHU the freedom to refuse is important It the difference between the European style Servicecharge tax and a gratuitous gesture on the part of a restaur ant customer Mr Worth is director of public ofam Jar Canadian Federation of Independent Business Those were the days Inflation in Ontario of too Towards As we approach a new decade let us pause and reflect the happenings of the 19T0 and think or the future Let us look clitscly it the past ten years and consider whether civilization took any giant steps forward or if Indeed it slipped a little Permissiveness pervaded past decade common sense seems t have almost disappeared I believe we should look at some of the problems this altitude lias caused Morality all kinds seems be considered old fashioned today We seem to have become increasingly self centred s conscious of possessions and so selfish in many ways that old traditions of honour and respect are forgotten An example of this is the proposal made by the Toronto Board of Education thai the Lord Prayer be dropped from Ihe opening exercises in our public schools and a minutes silent meditation be sub stituted I agree strongly with Premier Davis v hen he says lhat the Lord Prayer establishes a common respect for a society where morality humility and faith In God are important pillars of stability and social norm In the Riding of Peel our citizens are blessed many advantages not Ihe least which is a strong heritage and a great sense of belonging this land Many of our people can trace their ancestry back years or more in the same area in which they live today others have come from other lands and chosen our area in which to live in much the same manner as our forefathers Let us approach this new decade with hope and dedicate ourselves l Ihe pursuit if a better lifestyle concentrating on a resurrection of those qualities which were bequeathed to us with pride and which made Canada a nation respected through out the world Let us give to our children an understanding of discipline is one of life must important lessens Let us give thanks for the blessings of life which are abundant in our part of this great Province let us not take these blessings for granted but guard them and cherish them and go forth into the 1980 determined to strengthen moral stand ards of life Jack Johnson M Wellington Did somebody say inflation Maybe prices in Ontario are high in 1979 but if you had lived in Ontario 159 ago you would have paid almost a pound for coffee and some per cent more than was paid In Kingston for all other goods And that not all To send goods from Quebec to in lB2uwas best a lottery Mure than half of the items shipped iflhcyarnvcdat all were broken or otherwise spoiled If you were a private individual you not get any form of insurance for your goods and the shippers would pay if these were lost or Consider the case of one naval officer Thanks from Chamber To the Editor Once again another year is drawing to a close with all its year end festi vlties The high points and low points of the year almost gone seem to mold together into the candles of Christmas love and sharing Families friends and even strangers take lime to meet and to anticipate unknown events of the New Year It a busy time a thoughtful time The Acton Chamber of Commerce has had a busy year and has enjoyed the cooperalinn of many of Acton citizens and groups support and assistance given to the by the Acton Free Press is greatly appre ciated News coverage of our events and Ihe formation of the Acton Com munily Calendar have helped to make our activities more meaningful and productive As we look forward to changes and growth in I960 we say a hearty thank you and send our best wishes to all or Acton Sincere Janet Fleming Secretary Acton Chamber of Commerce who Mas posted to the Naval it in November IBID It loukhim ind his wife sister in law five weeks to mike he journej from King through loronto to Samuel lured seven sleds to transport Ins mil household poods winch lie hid to bring along with him because the Navv did not supply such necessities it the the sleds broke through ice 1akc were lost Roberts losi Ins purse pounds and he had to pay for two horses ilia were drowned during the In he had pay wiges to employed in conveying pari of tin baggage if Captain Sam Roberts C li through woods ihe names of best worthies have vivod in the record Three were I were native probably Ojihwav Tilt movers were Will mTurnbill lis Chapm Lewis and In an effort to seek compensation from Hie Admiralty in London which hi never did receive Roberts midc a plea that speaks for itself Under a dale Sept ember after facl- wrote nfident of jour Lordships desire give consideration to my statement imbarked in service of the Royal and from the year 179B to that of was constantly active with exception of nine months in prison the was captured by the Spaniards and seven days leave of absence during hich period i brother was the only relation I had seen Constantly in I was in engaged with enemy and in was sunk in action in a lender I commanded by lw vessels of superior I had been wounded twice and was shipwrecked in HM SluPTay under my command in 1816 Mv for the loss of Hie was fullv satisfactory the was court mar hailed routinely that was ippomted to command Lake Huron as Melville kind observed to make up in some mea sure for m misfortune Their Lordships were pleased allow me take m family with me therefore purcliased at heavy expense furniture here in lornn residence on shore on mv in inoria eloquent plea concludes Lords 1 have been a Child of lurie My only interest lav in the those officers 1 served under many of whom unfortunately for me and them in mm reposed the dead In the event letltr ell on deaf I his is jusi simple of what it was like he posted to Ihe Kings service to during the s Hose who might wish learn more i in 1 di bv visiting the Historic Naval Mililirv sinbhshmtnls portions of hive been reconstructed on tin it the i Historical I irks Ministry of Culture and Ikereitimi the Naval and Mil itar are locited at the font of Street in years ago I of December INIi I he skill ing rink wis opened on ivuiing lust was fair attend nice hut owing to the that no provision is inadi for informing the general jre it of the knew nothing it None from other towns were present J hi Brass supplied an ex abundance of music a inter passes without a severe eiusul children hanging on A lad fill off a sleigh Saturday come within an ace of being run by the following learn his vuek the ree Press issues supple ment eontainmp i large amount of choice reading and ilsou cut of the renowned Zulu the sime as appeared in the London Illustrated News a few wceFs ago Instead of not publishing any paper this as is the custom wilh country journals we herewith present Ihe paper with one half more re iding matter than usual Two weddings for last week two more this week and six others lake place before Jan 15th Pretty good for Acton The College students are home for Christ mas Mr of Victoria Col lege Mr McDonald or Trinity Medical College Toronto Mr of Knox College Toronto Mr Albert Moore and Miss Emma Matthews or Georgetown College Back Issues 10 years ago Taken from the of Ihe Free Pre of Thursday December lies A review of The Sixties includes campaign for community centre huge success first call on dial phone made by mayor political newcomer Lea headed the polls in 1960 Jim Casburn first recreation director Ihe pipe band was active brother and sister combination and Irene headed the anniversary fair recrea lion committee charter members were Albert Irwin Claude Cook J od Mrs t lakes John Gov Mrs Kcales Jim Cas- and Len In first sod turned or music centre I9fc new library cen tennial project In 1957 Legion sangat ixpo hydro budding officially opened in 1967 Legion sang at hydro building was officially opened in a downpour drenched the Orange Reeve Bert was county warden in 1965 high school students saw Europe in 1968 wilh teachers the Martin dales in 1909 Miss M Z Bennett attended the official opening of the Z Bennett school addition Apartments and subdivisions swelled the town in the sixties Small country schools closed up and he county board of education In l955thetTeePressrirst began to report on regional government The need of Mill Mam is still an issue of emergency measures dwindled off and talk of pollution increased The decade Citizens of the Year were Kenney Bill Conn Madeleine Gibbons John Miss M Bennett BUI red Wright George Musselle the St John Ambulance brigade and Charlie lliomson Community spin swelled at Churchill where residents decided to save a new flag flew 20 years ago iken the of the ree DccrmberZl With the onset of winter a rise can be anticipated in incidence of virus pheu An exception to most of the usual holiday was the Christmas party staged the Water s Swimming Club as they held a competitive Christmas party swim at k pool Friday Over members of club look part under in structor Jim jmong winners were Cooper Jean Jackie Madeleine Drew Bemice Drew Nancy Walker Linda Steven son David Thcrma Phillips Shirley Hipper Jack Pope Elaine Johnson Leslie Camochan Mary David Carl Weir Susan Cohen Jack Pope Bill Reed Teen bowlers held their Christ mis and luckv winners of turkeys were Jane McCrea Sally Dick Karen vuis John Dunne Phil rename and Steven Wliole sections of the Canadian shoe in dustry are danger being wiped out by unfair competition from low wage coun tries says the president of the Shoe Manu facturer Association Christmas were held at all the rural schools A thicken barn on the TM Sprat t properly was completely destroyed lire flic new Millun hospital is now open 50 years ago On the Seynuck Valley Oil com panv resumed their drilling operations at well two miles east of Acton flic drilling outfit is being run by two shifts working day and night flic patience and lourlesy of he Post staff during the trying experience of plethoric mail lias been admirable From a m until m hey worked incessantly in the effort to serve the public with promptitude consistent with accuracy and post office requirements The heaviest mail in Ihe history of the office was handled on Monday comprised dray loads of mail matter There were about 10000 lei and cards in the morning delivery alone and hundreds of Christmas parcels Postmaster Matthews and his staff are worthy of Ihe gratitude of the people of the community Tomorrow nigh will see the opening of II A Junior hockey in the new arena with Milton as the opponents Let all be there to cheer them on Mr Fred Pasmore has started a skating rink on bowling green at The annual High School Home was most enjoyable under direction of principal LawTence and assistants Miss Nephew and Miss The first car of supplies for the new hydro line have arrived Now watch grow