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Local woman wins research fellowship by Helen Mamy An l Acton woman hits received a major research fellowship one of four granted to the moat outstanding chers in Canada Michelc Heath a Professor of Botany at the University of Toronto became the first woman ever to receive the W Steacie Memorial Fellowship from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Heath received her award last week in a ceremony at Hall Ottawa from His Excellency The Bight Honorable Edward Schreyer Governor General The coveted Fellowships are Ihe Council most prestigious awards and are made annually to outstanding young researchers in Canadian universities to permit them to devote their lime entirely to research for a period of up to two years The amount of the award equal to the winner normal salary The fellows also receive research grant from At the present time Or Heath splits her time between teaching 1 first year university students and laboratory research The fellowship will enable the university to hire a replacement for her for two years Heath is acclaimed for her work In the field of plant pathology Through her research she Is trying to find out why some fungus parasites attack crop plants and not others With help from colleagues throughout the world she has already discovered how plants protect themselves but she Is trying to find out why a plant defense mechanism doesn t always work Heath s findings wul enable farmers the world over to save millions of dollars worth of crops that could be destroyed by rust fungi or other parasites Heath is one of only a dozen women plant pathologists In the world Born and raised in England Dr Heath obtained the first B Sc given in Botany by Westfleld College University of London England In IBM She had first class honors In 1B89 she received tor PhD In plant pathology along with the Diploma of the Imperial College Two years of postdoctoral work in plant pathology at the University of Georgia in the United States led her to Toronto In where she eventually made her way up to the ranks of a professor last year In 1979 she was awarded the Huxley Memorial Medal from the Imperial College London for research achievement In 1961 she became one of four senior editors of the leading journal Physiological Plant Pathology r Heath has on the town line of Halton Hdls Milton for seven years with her husband Brent end fiveyearold daughter Her husband is a Professor of Cell Biologist at York University Toronto and was nominated for the same fellowship last year but was not a successful can didate Dr Heath can start her fellowship anytime after April and has decided to remain in Toronto although she could take It at any university In Canada Heath points out that since the Fellowship was first offered in only three people from the University Toronto were recipients This year alone that figure doubled as three of the four recipients were from that university Other recipients of this year a fellow ships are James Arthur Associate Chairman of the Department of Mathematics University of Toronto and is considered to be a world leader In his field Kelvin Ogilvie Professor of Chemistry at McGUl University Mon treal and Stephen Tobe associate professor University of Toronto Brent and Heath A Metroland Community Newspaper One hundred and seventh year Issue ACTON ONTARIO WEDNESDAY JANUARY 20 1982 12 Pages Thirty Cents Colleen Oates murder case Delay setting date for preliminary hearing Setting a date for the start of the preliminary hearing for the Colleen murder case was delayed in Milton Provincial Court Monday Eric Howard Kcllar who is charged with first de gree murder In connection with the stabbing death of the young Acton mother of two In October ap peared briefly In court Monday A date for the start of the preliminary hearing was to have been set Monday but it has been delayed until next Monday January Crown attorney James and defence counsel Fred asked that the set a dale be set over for week and Judge Doug Latimer agreed said the one week delay was reeded because he just received a copy of the Crown s trial brief or details of the on Monday and needs to look it over to determine which witnesses he will insist be called for the preliminary hearing Kcllar was returned to custody at the Hamilton Detention Centre A preliminary hearing Is held to determine if there is enough evidence to warrant a trial Pinball arcade concerns parents church and school Youngsters like Steven Beaton Timmona Andrew Franks and Russell Library where a Curious George party was held for 14 children Saturday love Curious George a monkey and storybook character at the afternoon Japan treating Demise well by Helen Murray Actons Denise Dilbey is having a wonderful time In Japan and has applied for a university scholarship so she can spend a few more years in country Is in Japan for a one year Rotary Ex change program She left In August just a few days after her 17th birthday and will return home in Denise s mother Jan told the Acton Free Press that she speaks to Denise at least once a month on the telephone usually on Sundays when there is a discount A ten minute conversation costs about she explains around if there was no discount Her father Ron is Ihe letter writer Mrs Dilbey says andwritcshtseldesldaughtereveryweek Is so happy according to her mother that she has applied for a scholarship to a university so she may return for two or three years education However she plans to return home for at least a before going back if she obtains the scholar Lire Is much more expensive In Japan than Denise ever imagined Mrs Dilbey says A special kind of mushroom costs a pound and silk is hundreds of dollars a yard she says 12 wage hike for town staff Nonunionized Hilts staff a 12 per cent wage boost Monday ght council passed a bylaw to amend bylaw it was passed in 1975 to establish a and procedure for wage and salary for cmploees of the Corporation of the Town of Hills Councillor Harry Levy said he t support the blaw which gives a per cent wage hike for 1963 to the GO nonunionized municipal employees i The bjlaw also provides for foremen to receive standby pay of up to a week as ell as overtime at half Employees driving their own cars will receive cents a km for the firs 1 8 a ear and IB cents a km after that while department heads will recciea flat rateof SI 15a month Dirty dozen still champs Acton duty dozen retained their champion ship crown in annual Halton Regional Police volley ball tournament held in Friday night The Acton detachment beat the headquarters men In the final topping a field of 14 police team entries The police also raised for the Canadian Cancer Society with the tournament The Rotary homes she is in are very well off tells her mother and she is learning a lot about the Buddha religion While attending high school also has a private tutor for the Japanese language She has become good friends with the tutor and is readily making friends Her parents are proud of how easily she has adapted to the language as she writes several sentences In Japanese in her letters home She is also able lo carry on a conversation In Japanese Mrs Dilbey says does a lot of public speaking which helps her Japanese Being blonde has caused quit a stir in some of the smaller centres for Denise While she loves the country she will not travel on the train alone Mrs explains that people are always pulling her hair because they have never seen fair hair Some times she is even dragged off while waiting on the train by people wanting lo spend a few minutes with a real Caucasian Because Denise will be getting no credits for her time spent in Japanese schools she had the entire month of December off while regular students were writing exams to tour the country and see different towns So far though her mother says she has not left the coun try even though her parents have given permission for her to do so Mrs says she hopes her daughter will chance to visit Korea Meanwhile Denise has tried her hand at deep sea coral diving and has stayed in everything from very old hotels with straw mats to sleep on lo the modern hotels with regular beds She has also become a vegetarian Mrs says partly due the fact a lot of the meat is horse When Denise gets home in July she will slart pre paring for a college course she has already been copied Into at Seneca College She has completed grade at Acton High School Bui if receives the scholarship once she returns to Canada she must make a big decision whether or not lo return to the land which she feels so much at home in or slay in her home country She was selected for the year abroad by the Acton Rotary Club A parents group school and church have concern about a arcade in a gas station on Highway east near Churchill Rd south and restrictions on the ages of players and hours of have been urged Earlier this month Hills Committee of Adjustment deferred making a decision on arcade owner Bill Welsby request for relief from bylaw so he and his partners can operate an arcade at 364 Queen St East The committee plans to in the as well as contact the bylaw enforce ment officer regarding having a gas station and cade at the same location before making a final dec Mark Edwards who spoke for the owners said when Ihey opened last year they realize they were operating Illegally The owners are going to put in windows and an office Ihe old service Ion building where they have installed is video games and IS pinball machines There is plenty of parking and a large field around the site Edwards added they want to run a filling station in con junction with the arcade In a letter Bethel Christian Reformed Church to the arcade and Pastor John Cooper spoke to the committee The church t want a business which is a hangout for you Ins located so close lo schools and churches and noted sometimes who are supposed to be at the church have ross the road at Ihe arcade The games also ha an addictive effect on youths and can tempt them to lie about their whereabouts steal change wherever Ihey can find and Ihe Influence of older children may have in smoking drinking drugs etc are concerns Pastor Cooper asked if Ihe owners had tried to lo cate anywhere else in town and wtre told when set up there was no other facility to rent in town They felt the location was good because neighbors wouldn be disturbed The owners also feel the location near schools and churches is beneficial be cause the youngsters can be easily found Edwards said they have Invested about in the opera t ion Edwards noted McKenzic Smith Middle School principal John Simpson has complained about child rcn skipping classes and coming back laic after Inn but felt he arcade to blame He gested if they received detentions for lateness then they get back to school on time The arcade is open 10 a Mondayto Wednesday am to 12 midnight on Thursdays Fridays and Saturdays and 1 lo m on Sundays Edwards said they couldn close for the hours school operates noting some adults play the games during the day Simpson said there are six children lale for school every day and the arcade infringes on his right to have them there school Edwards noted neither of the other two schools in Continued on Page inside Snow controversy rages Turntopages2and4 Acton Red Cross celebra tea Us first anniversary Four day work week for Beardmore chrome division Workers the chrome or upper leather divi sion at Beardmore have gone on a four day work week Personnel manager Donald Rankin said 160 workers will be off either on Mondays or Fridays for an indefinite period of time Which day a worker is off depends on which part of the div the works in In the past few weeks 15 workers in the chrome division have been laid off on a temporary basis The remainder of the plant the vegetable where tanned leathers are made will keep working five days a week There are 150 employees in the vegetable division Rankin said the lifting of impart quotas on foot wear by the federal government late last year and the depressed Canadian economy are to blame for the layoffs and four day work week In early December 175 workers in the chrome division were put on a two week rotating lay off Layoff nine at Ajax Engineers Nine of workers at Engineers Ltd Queen SL will be out of work sometime in the next The workers are being laid off temporarily but few weeks for an indefinite period of time He noted It is the first staff reduction in several Alex plant manager reports years and explained orders ore down because of the Monday that a layoff is coming up at the plant poor economy Acton resident Janice a birdyear business administration student at was recently be recipient of an award provided by Canada Packers for outstanding academic achievement Here Janice receives a certificate of accomplishment and a cheqte for from Phil Renouf of Canada Packersfrlgbt