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Acton Free Press Wednesday July TELEPHONE Qui nauond Ed Off Foundod In 1875 Pub shod every Wednesday by Inland Pub Co W low Si mi 519 2010 Subsc trans cop at in Canada than Canada Tho Acton FooPiai the Inland Pub Co L tod of ban paper include The TUB Guard Poat I Weekend Post Garotte Tho Goo Independent Ma and Sun Tho Hon on Chanpon News Tho Era I Booker Th Wook Tho Weekend and The llo Don McDonald Publisher la accepted on on that avont of error hat pot on of a ng apace by torn together with allowance for II not gad for but balance of advertisement be paid cable raia In event of a typog advert goods or sorvcoj goods or serves may bo sold Advert no la an odor so I Second class ma 1 registration urn bo EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT Editor Go d Murray Editor Helen ray Sports Wallmann Contributor for Darkroom Pater Mill ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT Manager I Cook Solas for Bar Classified Advancing I Thompson Notional Advertising Saloi Rep Dun BUSINESSACCOUNTING OFFICE Office Manager Rhona Sh loyJocquo Arthur CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT n Arthur Dont legislate end of postal strike While we fully realize this latest postal strike is costing businesses untolded millions and will create many hardships for individuals through loss of in come solving this labor dispute by back to work legislation simp ly the solution Labor problems in the post of have to be remedied once and for all even if it means a strike which lasts all summer long There are two primary sons why the government can t back down from the union simp ly to get the mail moving again Firstly a postal settlement will have ripple effects through the entire economy both public and private sectors Secondly if the post office has any chance of operating better as a crown corporation later this year the government can t put the system behind the eight ball again with an unrealistic settlement Also this is a legal strike so if the right to strike means anything it must continue until there s settle ment Postal service disruptions have become so common re cent years that this one coming in a slightly slower business sea son t hurting nearly as many companies Business has become increasingly adapt at in sulating itself from the impact of postal strikes The government has the sup port of most Canadians in stan ding firm against union demands about items like weeks paid maternity leave and other economically dangerous prece dent setting demands We also suspect the union hierarchy doesnt have the staunch support of the majority of its members either Sure they are out on strike but their hearts in it we believe Many many members especially those outside the large centres where there are militant members are only go ing along fearing colleague sure But eventually this false wall of solidarity should crack From everything we know about Ottawa s offer it seems fair Of course when the two principles Jean Claude Parrot and Treasury Board President Donald Johnston wont even meet it hard to get a clear picture of what is really happening As long as Parrot is willing to go to jail by defying back to work legislation again the govern ment can t use this tactic It will only make a martyr of Parrot make relations between the two sides even more strained From our admittedly outside view it looks like the union leadership has made such great strides for its workers in recent years that to justify their exist they must make more and more outlandish demands at the bargaining table It s rare indeed that we back a stand of the present Liberal government but in this case we think they re right to just sit the strike out and wait for the union to come to its senses In the long run fewer Canad will be hurt by suffering through the strike than would be by giving in again to a union which can do considerable damage to an already sick economy Our readers write Alf Duby excellent person for odor investigation Dear Sir Regarding the letter from Mrs Wright of Churchill Road published In your issue of July As mentioned in your previous article there was a highly unpleasant odor coming from for several evenings last month in the Churchill Road South area There are two lion control systems in the neighbor hood towns ahd The experts from both of these plants insist that the problem did not come from their plant There may be other sources It not always possible to locate the source of an odor after its effects hove disappeared The town engineer dele gated Mr Alf to investigate this problem and the inference In Mrs Wright letter is that he Is not a com person to do this The purpose of my letter is to agree with this Inference Because of and extensive experience on the staff of Halton Hills and the former Town of Ac ton he is aware of the methods used in the two pollution con plants and with their limitations I believe he is on excellent person make such an Investigation In any event Mrs Wright tells mc that the odor has nol recurred Perhaps the publicity associated with the original Free Press story has been use ful If It does happen again I presume will have to bring in the experts from the province Sinccely yours J Knechtcl Book prizes beautiful Sl The were beautiful and well I would like to use your paw on for children thanks ion to the Chamber of Spcca chose the Commerce on behalf of the three students hooka from St Joseph School who won books In Sincerely the Back to Acton Days Contest Peg Graham Hall On the All weddings arc special to the people involved and this Saturday marriage of Helke and Jim Fawn is no exception But their Is extra special because it is also the golden wedding anniversary of grandparents and of Muelhelm Ruhr Germany who are visiting Acton for the big day The original date of the wedding was but when date had to be changed decided to be married on her grandparents anniversary July IB is the daughter of Gin and Bollert Also in town from Germany for the occasion arc other grandparent Una Bollert Mrs brother Karl his wife Emm and their daughter Margot Welcome to all the visitors and congratulations to the nearly and the anniversary couple And speaking of anniversaries Pete and Louise Pop I Ion celebrated their 15th year of marriage Saturday Congratulations And best wishes also got out to Mr and Mrs J McNabb of who just marked years together The village of was sad dened to have to say goodbye to Rev Dan Stiles of he United Church Boy those Tobln girls sure do have all the luck Cynthia Tobln won a trip for two to Las Vegas at the Milton Mali Second Anniversary draw on the weekend Coin tally she leaves July for Las Vegas for the fifth time She must be doing something right or she would never had returned the first time Cynthia sister Gall Thompson won a trip for two to the a few years back Gall was getting married but wasn going to take a honeymoon that Is until she entered CJOY radios contest But I m not jealous m going to win the next trip I need some support and I need it soon I hope to see an adult gymnastics program taught as a night school course at Acton High School but 1 11 need at least people who arc willing to pay for ten week course It will be great exercise and great fun if enough are interested Night school organizers need to know the next week if enough people would attend as hey ore in the midst of organizing fall courses Anyone Interested can call at work at or home at A group of who started kindergarten together back in 1B51 In Acton have always kept in touch but over the years have moved to various ports of the country They had a reunion on Sunday at the home of Geraldine Calder Kentner in Georgetown Those attending were Mary Beth Elliott Currle of Windsor Lorraine Lasby of Carrot River Saskatchewan Janet son Taylor or Elliott Lake Nancy Re id of Toronto Angel Butler of Acton Susan Heard of Sea forth Linda Parker Clark of Cam bridge and Gall Timmerman of Clif Ashley of Tidy Ave shot a hole In one recently on the ninth hole of Pike Lake Golf Course Mount Forest He hit it 140 yards I m lucky If I hit the ball 140 inches With the mail strike on most of us don bother to look in the moil box However last night Tuesday I spotted the regional water bills being delivered by hand put In mall boxes Just because you haven t looked fn there for awhile doesn t entitle you not to have to pay your bill Better check and St Josephs graduates Due to an oversight on the part of this paper the names of the grade stud entering high school from Middle School and St Joseph s Catholic School were left out Wei better late than never graduates are Sona Todd Andrews Kelly Bogort Peter Susan Roues e Andrea John Gardener Steven Hall Alan Michelle Ste wart Hoy Jenkinson Melanie Johnston Tommy Jung Julie Kurtz Leah Marks Shelley Mason Kenneth McKcc Donald Miller Tammy Nolan Sally Janet Eileen Rose Bart Soder Soper Chris Slansbury James Thatcher Carolyn VandenAkkcr Kelly Bannon Barkosky Michael Tim Lisa Cadenhead Frank Wayne Chappel John Clarke Doug Dorst Dunbar David Ellis Lisa Gill iss SeanHaefner Scott Ken nedy Jim Kwlalkowskj Mark March ment Jackie McMullen Susan Moo ten Bill Morrison Greg Muir Susan Nad hail Susan Heath Norton Michael Ormsby Bruce Mike Raino Mark Ruppert Wade Crystal Smith Grant Smith Helen Slaley Anthony Betty Lou ford Robert Walker Tina Walker John and Colleen Winters Nadino KrlsDawkms Diana Dunn Vcronika George Tracey Sean Heatly Gail Hughes Bill Ingles Jason Inglls Steve Inotai Marie Jocquc Karen Knott Ken Kurplewelt GretchcnLath rope Joyce Lisa Mc Cry stall Adam McGuin Scott McStravick Susan Moore Michael Jack Keith Olsen Tracey Patter son Scott Stephanie Smith Steadmnn Steve Wilson Brad Angella Allan Janice Bar ton Derek Boyle Gillian Brain Terry Danaghcr Norman Poster Tim Gar- ton Jackie Kelly Hurst Craig Johnson Leahann Jarrett Pat Knud sen Cathy Kolozsvari Diane Little Richard Looser TedMoyse Scott Now Ian Cheryl OBricn Robbie Porte Trevor Slmms Michael Stone David Thomas Thornton Tammy Tony Vandam and Tanya St Joseph grade 8 graduates arc Pierre Agnes Peggy Ancker Max Bar Paul Barrett James Chalmers Tina Cherwonlak Andrew Ferguson Michel Lynn Graham Shelly ham Paula Gunn Kim Lisa Roberto Ken Morrison Victoria Shawn Tarns David van Eyken Nancy van and Thomas van der Rev John Robertson welcomes Alan Costa a visiting member of the Gideon Socle- International to Knox Presbyterian Church on Sunday morning Costa was In convention Clarence Coles a member of the Gideon Welling ton East Camp and on Acton area resident was also on hand to welcome Costa spoke to a small group or Interested f ton Ten for World Development members at Trinity United Church urdny with Comfort Aelon Ten Days cbnirmnn Geoffrey formerly of Zimbabwe now of Toronto Mr Jlri a holder of Is founder and dent of Zimbabwe a handicapped social and educational Is a professor of African history Bill Brown centre of the Boys Brigade was on hand to draw the winning ticket for Saturday morning He was assisted by Stella Tracey Tyler Back issues 10 years ago July 1071 North Halton are continuing their investigation Into a mystery fire and death on tho former Steele farm Highway three miles south of Acton Police sus pect arson and have not ruled out the possibility of foul play in the death of an Acton area man Acton firefighters re covered the body of Joseph Roger La 31 from the front bedroom of the burning Spanish styled bungalow early Saturday morning shortly after receiving a fire call at 5 a m In a bid to have their side of the story told County Board of Education has replied to statements made by OSSTF president Tom RamautarslngI concerning negotiations between the board and the Halton OSSTF In the Tuesday re lease the board said the teachers were offered a merit pay plan similar to the one accepted in Metro but the offer was re jected without study A second victim of the tragic auto crash which took tho life of 37 yearold Jutka died this week Steven Topc- died Monday at Hamilton Gen era Hospital as the result of Injuries he re ceived in the accident which claimed the lifeofhlswife The Topoiovecs lived at Or Acton Their son Michael 15 who was also in the death car was dis charged from General Hospital about 10 days ago A four car collision on Highway Just west of Acton Sunday caused an damage and sent three people to the hospital 20 years ago July 1901 Eight children were baptized Sunday at Acton United Church They were Douglas Gordon son of Mr and Mrs Peter James Shirley Jane and Mark William children of Mr and Mrs William Morrison Richard George son of Mr and Mrs J Gibson Gdmour Scott son of Mr and Mrs G Malcolm Gordon Randall son of Mr and Mrs J VanFleet and Mrs Willem The Rev Engcl officiated assisted by the clerk of the session Orwell Johnston Tuesday evening gave two reading to a bylaw to authorize the con of the new Community Centre The bylaw will now be submitted to the Ontario Municipal Board far their ap proval before It is given its third and final reading The bylaw provides for tho con struct ion of on addition to the front of the present arena at a cost estimated to be 50 years ago July 16 1931 When Mrs M saw that the car in which she was riding in the rumble scat with her fiveyearold daughter was careening towards the ditch she picked up her daughter and threw her into grass at the roadside When the car turned over in the ditch Mrs was wedged in the seat with a twisted back She was rushed to St Joseph Hospital Toronto where an operation and a blood transfusion given by her sister Mrs W J Martin of Port Washington was necessary The Public Utilities Superintendent re ported that Leathers would re quire an additional forty horsepower at the warehouse forthe new plant would be installed here It would be required within a month It was necessary to do consider able rewiring in this section and other sections of the town where the voltage was very unsatisfactory 75 years ago July 12 1903 Miss Daisy daughter of ex Reeve has received the intimation from Principal Scott of the Normal School Toronto that she Is the winner of the gold medal presented to the first student at the Normal School each year At about 1130 on Friday evening the Mr Fred W Barber at the south end of Water street Was destroyed The fire was well advanced before noticed and indeed when the alarm was given the building was ready to collapse During a heavy thunderstorm on Sunday afternoon the fine barn belonging to Clark son Joyce on the fourth Line was struck by lightning and consumed with oil Its contents This was one of the finest barns in the township The building and contents were partially covered by GOO Insurance 100 years ago July 14 On Saturday afternoon Councillor Campbell met with a very serious and painful accident In his planning mill by which he lost the first finger and part of tho thumb of his left hand Mr Campbell was working with a sticking machine when in some way his hand slipped with tho above result Dr Lowry amputated the finger and part of the thumb and dressed the wounds Mr Campbell suffered greatly during the warm weather since the acrid but he Is now progressing very favor ably