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The Acton Press Wednesday Oct 7 Profiles with Jennifer Bob MacArthur lias betn in the printing business all his life In at the age of 15 he started working for the Acton Free Press and retired from the same company then called Dills Prmtlngand Publishing fivo years ago He was away for nine years working In Cur rent in the printing of course Printing Is all I know says Bob modestly Seems like a simple statement but It passes a great deal Job specialization was heard of in The four half member staff did every job going working long hours for Bob received a week and tried to squeeze IS hours of work dally into I was highly over paid says Bob There a job connected with the paper that Bob done He was a printer devil floor sweeper press operator compositor llnotyplst reporter and advertising sales man usually all at once m stirring fire for the steam powered Press He swept floors When he started his apprenticeship the Free Picss was housed In the Dills Building now Acton Mews shopping Prior to this the company was situated where the Bank of Nova Scotia now stands Bob started working with H Moore and Arlof Dills In the days of their joint ownership Shortly after Bob joined Mr Dills took over the company and Mr Moore relinquished his Free Press ties although still maintaining his desk in me building office as police magistrate As well as learning to operate Press printing two pages of the four page paper at a time Bob became an expert Linotype was a fairly recent innovation having been brought to Acton in the first in Halton Prior to this type was laboriously hand set two col in a ten hour shift Type was set mirror fashion In large full page coses Bob learned to read backwards as fast as he can read forwards Ads were cuts mounted on wood Photographs were sent away to be engraved an expensive process Zinc was most ly used but rapper or brass was employed for finer detail When plastic mounting came in some of the detail was lost according to Bob Even ad pictures were cast in metal from cardboard Bob remembers his when hi spilled four cases pages of type all ready to go on the press for that week publication have forgot to close the dogsboy the air was blue Bob and the staff worked all night to put that type back together but the paper got out on time Evenings Bob attended hydro and council meetings doing such a knowledgeable job he was appointed to hydro commission In 1943 when the Milton Canadian Champion was purchased Bob travelled back and forth with ads and papers He received a dollar for attend Milton plus cents for supper and 10 cents a mile expense money I never asked for a raise In my life Bob soys proudly If the Dills had the money we got it If not we didn t There were no paid holidays in those days cither In addition to a spicy varied 1 printing also brought Bob his wife worked part time in offices of the Free Press for it years starting at an hour she recalls Both were raised In the area and trace their family histories back to early settlers They have one son John and a granddaughter One of Bob greatest trcsaurcs presented to him at his retirement dinner Is on old linotype case containing mementos of his Myelin in prin ting Among the ad cuts type styles and logos Is a zinc engraved picture of Bob He t Chang Sprackman drops objection to industrial park rezoning Jerry Landawn Shopping Centres has withdrawn its objections to rezoning of some land off High way Just north of Acton for an Industrial park Hills planning board was Informed last Tuesday night that which wants to build a plaza on the cast side of Acton had dropped Its objection Early in Hills about 70 acres of land west of the railway tracks from rural designation to industrial for Alteo Construction The region approved the objected to for the per cent of the the and the site which is the Ontario Municipal urban servicing water Board had set a hearing and sewers boundary for November 9 With while per cent of the the objection dropped site approved for ihe hearing won be needed Approve lots on private road A six single family estate homo located on IS acres of a 100 acre operating farm off Highway was given draft approval by Hills planning board this week A private road run off Highway south of Ten will be maintained jointly by the seven owners the Insistence of the Ministry of the Enviro nment states the bam will not house more than six head of livestock A certificate of com issued Jointly by the Ministry of culture and Food and the Ministry of Environ ment regarding the number of livestock in the barn will have to be produced by the owner The number of livestock allowed will then have to be registered on title of lot owners Acton Photo Camera LMthartown Acton TRUST US with praclouaplctura SEND SNAPSHOT GREETINGS SAVE COLOUR ENLARGEMENT SPfdAL COUPON ofiDtn of IJ I YOUH QUE AS MANY A3 WSI SO JUKI WES OH SHOES OFFER EXPIRES OCTOBER 31 11 We am OPEN MONDAYS Wo use Kodak pa For good look