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2 The Acton Wednesday Mar with JENNIFER Burned Out Rooster is a trucker an Acton trucker with his own enormous Kenmorc cab over truck unit wheeling alt over Ontario and New York State Burned Out Rooster Is his CD handle When he homo he Brad Timbers young fellow living quietly with his wife Janet and nine month old baby daughter Miranda Brad been trucker most of his life since graduation from Acton High School six years ago However the decision to purchase his own truck was not one made lightly Brad says he not regretted the purchase last November but Janet comments she was worried about the amount of money tied up in the vehicle The great big looked big to me was purchased new sports a Detroit engine and is grossed out to carry pounds Fortunately Brad has a contract with Trojan Freight Lines and docs all his trucking for them thereby offering him security while enjoying the independence of being his boss Drives all night Travelling from Ste Mane to Ottawa to Windsor to New York City in any kind of weather doesn faze Brad who seems an easy going guy He usually drives at night taking 12 hours to make the New York run Once in New York City hell sleep in the truck cab and be rtidy to go with anothe load by mghlfill of the second day arriving home by dawn Sometimes he 11 do this week Bi prefers to travel at night finding ing lights don bother him way up High in his truck cab He can avoid slow commuter pas sengercarsand pokey drivers at this time Night is the time most truckers move He also prefers to travel full both ways though if he empty one way he says it easier on the fuel He gets paid no matter whether he has a full lead both ways or not Fuel can be a problem especially in these days of soaring gasoline Even though his big rig has a gallon fuel storage tank at an average of to Brad has to watch his fuel con sumption With this in mind he made sure his truck had a new style fuel efficient motor that could be squeezed down to use less fuel when there a lighter load on So far Brad has been lucky and has hod no bad experiences trucking He says it important to be patient and leave a little extra room when driving in passenger traffic Weather bother him although he like ice who does He has never ex the sinking feeling of a tractor trailer in full load slowly tipping over an off ramp of as be it insulation steel lighter fluid or booze Brad lakes is easy and drives carefully trying his best to stay upright and get to his destination in one piece CB usage slowing down Although Brad enjoys listening to his CB radio he says he t talk on it much CBing so popular with all drivers two years dying out around Toronto except with professional truckers Brad comments It s different in the Stales he says and he knows as soon as he crossed the border by the sounds coming over his radio Most truckers monitor channel which is kept clear by court for truckers He finds police have a tendency to be a little lenient with the truckers Brad remarks They probably recognize the truckers pro fessionahsm and superior driving ability Even with i government rebate on fuel for transportation businesses costs arc going up Trojan Freight Lines adds a seven per cent fuel surcharge to its shipping charges When trucking costs go up consumer goods go up in price Brad feels people will just have to go on paying higher prices Sooner or later everything s got to come by truck Higher prices are inevitable Brad says he can t imagine doing anything else he enjoys what he do for a living He his own boss home weekends although he spends Saturday morning servicing his truck And he King of the Road Maybe I II get it out of my system in time or maybe it get worse Brad Timbers comments philosophically Famed missionary speaks at Trinity United Sunday Former moderator of the United Church of Canada and famed medical missionary Robert Bob will be in Acton this Sunday to speak to the congregation of Trinity United Church at 10 a service Dr will be guest at an open house at Trinity United Church Saturday from a to 10 p m Saturday All people who would like the biographies of signed are welcome according to Rev Beaton The bio graphies by Scott ore entitled The China Years and Years of Challenge J Clurc was born November 1B00 in Portland Oregon In the United States a fact which he feels gives him the right to call himself a refugee since his parents were pioneer missionaries of the Canadian Presbyterian Mission in North China His mother had gone to the United States to escape he Boxer Rebellion but returned immediately when it was His father William after of service as medical missionary was ap pointed Professor of Internal Medicine at Cheeloo University grew up In north China spoke Chinese be fore he spoke English and is still fluent in that language In fact he says he often thinks in Mandarin He studied for his med degree at the of Toronto and graduated in He married the former Amy in 1923 and returned to China where he served in a variety of posts until IMS when the Communists took over and the McCIurcs were once again refugees During his medical service in China his operations for gunshot wounds alone averaged one a day every day for ten years In he was awarded the from the University of Edin burgh Later he received the from same university from 1037 to lMi he was loaned by the United Church to the Inter national Red Cross who appointed him Field Director for Central China during the conflict McClurc The China Years a book written by Munroe Scott ends with his departure from Shanghai in December 1WB He intended to return but when that proved impossible he answered an appeal from the Church Missionary Society in England to serve in its hospital in Palestine where he remained until the spring of IBM Then foilowcdn the mission hospital in Central India under the aegis of The United Church of Canada In 1968 Dr was elected moderator of The United Church of Canada the first layman to hold that As moderator he toured Canada from coast to- and visited several overseas countries When his term as moderator expired in 1971 Dr started travelling again He spent two and a half years in Kapit Sawrawak Malaysia do ing at Christ Hospital six months at a in the jungle he returned be cause of the lack of government funding pre cluded his health service beinj carried out and a few months at a hospital In the West Indies His latest overseas assign mcnl has been one of four months duration at Institute Medical Robert Mctlurc will In Acton this Sunday Trinity United Church First showin I ven though it was his first show this yearling Quarter hone colt owned by Tom Thompson of Acton placed very high In his conformation classes at Quarter Canada largest Quarter horse show held recently at Ihe Toronto Coliseum Eternal ward shown hire with Thompson and his handler Judy also of won a seventh place In the Canadian Bred and Owned clans out of rles and a reserve in the Canadian Owned and class out of IT entries Photo by HAROLD CAM Escapes injury An Acton man escaped injury in a singlecar accident In slippery conditions early Friday morning Wayne John Mcdland Acton was driving cast on 22 when he lost control on the sli BUSINESS SOLO INVENTORY REDUCTION LAST DAY OF SALE SAT MARCH 15th OPEN THURSDAY FRIDAY TIL fun SATURDAY MARCH 15 Cloud for Inventory Mm Gifts Cards MILL STREET EAST ACTON 853 3160 J Kimpese Zaire heard a cry for help from the hospital while reading the Street United Church Bulletin one Sunday morning Ina letter from Robert Milliard a pediatrician sent by the United Church short term help while one of the regular doctors went on holiday decided that he would Canada on July for what was supposed lo I a twomonth stay It turned out to be double that time and he also found thil there was much more work than he had anticipated fie performed over operations while at Kim peie percent of them major He was appalled tie number of traffic deaths one per day on the average and the number of Caesarian sections required Most of these he attributes to the fact that the govern hospitals closed at five clock in the after noon Modern medicine has arrived in Africa says but medicine without the Christian spirit of service is use- turning to Canada In October to what everyone believed would be a well earned retire ment found himself in the public spotlight as the subject of Munroe Scott bio graphy Demands from the media church and service clubs arc un satiable and Dr itinerary has rivalled those of movie stars OnDecembcr7lh McClurc his bio grapher Scott and their wives were honoured by the Ontario Legislature Its your CHOICE to select Actons CITIZEN of the YEAR FOR I nominate as Citizen of Year The following are my reisons for nomination Corn on of ll e DEADLINE FOR NOMINATIONS MARCH 14 Mail Your The Acton Chamber of Commerce Box Acton Ontario L7J2M7 CHECK OUR SUPER FOOD VALUES IN OUR FLYER DELIVERED TO YOUR DOOR THIS WEEK EVERYTHING MUST GO BONANZA BUY DIRECT FROM WHOLESALER IMPORTER ONCE AGAIN OUR VOLUME BUYING 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