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etoit every by Printing ft GO Acton Ontario Tetophona each T7O0peiyeerCeneda i and Com Second Ken Bellamy Don Ryder Hartley Coles Director of Advertwrtg Ed tor The Acton Free one the of suburban which The Aurora Banner The The on Pos The Bu tort Week id Pom The Guardian The Geo own Sun The Champion The New ketEra Beaver Friday Beaver WhJtbv Week Weekend Richmond Thomhai The Minor The ouff viae Tribune The Mrtor and Woodbndoe Libera P in Publish EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT N aw Editor Sportc Mark Darkroom Nancy Pundaack Ted Brown ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT Ratal Advartlatng BUI Cook Sale- Susan Jamie ink Advartnkia Circulation Debbn MecDougaD BUSINESS OFFICE Office Manager Jean Accounting Pal Ken Two way street Congratulations to those Acton youths who organized and held a meeting at the Acton library last week to discuss with police alleged harassment The meeting was suggested by Toronto lawyer Al Bickerton to the disaffected youth as a means of resolving ferences between a few young people and the police A meeting is the place these differences should be aired not in street confrontations during late hours where the hackles of both the young people and police are raised However it would be foolish for anyone to deny there has not been a lot of problems in downtown Ac ton Loitering vandalism rotten language kids high on drugs and drink has in vited action from the police spurred by complaints Have the police been too harsh with those who break the laws It is a matter of opinion Certainly when individual officers go beyond the call of duty to subdue unruly youth they should be called on the carpet But lefs not forget there is often provocation As was pointed out in the meeting last week those who feel they have been un fairly treated by officers have avenues open to them to complain They can file a complaint to the police department immediately after an incident and an investigation will be con ducted In two recent instances we are familiar with this was done with thoroughness and objectivity All the complainant needs is the time and date of the inci dent the name of the of ficer involved can be traced by the police department If the outcome of the investigation does not satisfy the complainant they can go further to the Board of Police Commis The accuser must not forget that if the officer is found to be innocent of the charges levelled against him mischief charges could be laid against the accuser Its a two way street Police must enforce the laws They do not make them When laws are broken those who break them have only themselves to blame when they fall afoul of the law The officers of the police department must also follow the law If they break them they too must answer to their superiors and further if necessary Perhaps as the lawyer who suggested the meeting maintains that the Town loitering bylaw is in conflict with the Criminal Code and is also unconstitutional til that s resolved the police must continue to enforce the present laws fairly and without discrimination Clergy comment Knowitalls fall flat on their faces Have you ever thought you had all of your life figured out that you knew exactly what you were going to do with your life and typical you have And what happened In the outcome Well again if you are at all typical you ended up falling flat on your face All your fine plans and ideas fell apart Whenever we think we know everything we eventually find out bow little we know Whenever we think we have everything we find out how weak we really are In Isaiah chapter 10 we hear of a great and powerful king who conquers many nations but despite all of his power he will soon waste away to nothing In Mathew gospel chapter 11 we hear that the clever may know many things but they cannot grasp that which Is simple and most important You and I must not make this same mistake in our lives again We need to realize we cannot control everything or understand everything or own every thing If we begin to think that we can we are doomed to failure All we can do is try our utmost to be the best person we can be each day of our lives and that will be more than enough Ft St Josephs SCHOOL paper AT State of the Union Acton USA tourist turnoff News Editor Oh Acton you have no peers I thought I might be stumbling onto this little burg a mirror image during my recent New England holiday when I spotted Acton on the map of Massachusetts There It was northwest of Boston and not far from Georgetown Burlington and Bolton Town fathers are an unimaginative lot As I drove north on the Interstate memories of Georgetown E I which is apparently closed on Sundays filled me with The Maritime namesake of our Halton Hills neighbor was as empty and still as the piles of lobster traps stacked on the sundrenched piers when I visited It two Bummers ago Surely Acton Massachusetts would do more to meet the standard set for such an eyecatching name by its Ontario counterpart the Queen of Fairy Lake the glittering earring dangling from s lobe First impressions were good in and people In public relations tell us Important You roll Into Acton on a slick two lane highway lined with forests until you see the welcoming sign that tells you Acton was founded In Almost 230 years later the town is quite attractive green and lush tidy and inviting Its downtown view Is dominated by an old colonial church whose services surely must be well attended by the good people of rural Massachusetts Opposite the big modem and attractively landscaped bank was a dell whose facade would have better suited an English pub Either way It was lunch time and with a copy of the Beacon serving Acton and area I strolled inside A front page story in the Beacon cited the towns lurry of Heln you lived In Acton Massachusetts unassuming people than ax you d be home by now It you don t pact much end don I get much and In our community American they rather not with tourists namesake stay home quietly asking silly questions Wanted as an of local economic recovery There was one such sign on the pharmacy door and another on the del s but It was readily apparent that if the restaurant intended to hire more people It would have to expand Armed and ready for the lunch time crowd were five different teenagers with a sixth coming in and out carrying pizza delivery boxes At the drop of a customer s order the team swung action one at the hamburger grill another at the submarine post a third wiping the counter a fourth at the ready with pizza trimmings and a fifth to scurry amide the others working hard or hardly working it was difficult to tell From a disheartening menu th crack team of burger jocks produce med core sandwiches and other inglor entrees that make you wonder if they in training for certain fast food franchises in the big cities A Big Mac form team or a Wendy little league With regrets for having entered I left Aclon not really ess en but who can afford a new sign Across the street the bank refused to cash a substantial number of traveller cheques because of a technicality that had not In the least worried retailors anywhere else In the state Acton Massachusetts it would appear t cotton to strangers Tourists can stay on the turnpike I drove on into New Hampshire in quest of ridiculously cheap alcohol but that another story and headed Queens Park report Hydro increase should not exceed 5 Liberals claim Premier William Davis has ap pointed Tom Campbell Deputy Minister of Treasury and Economics as Hydro Chairman This important post has not been filled on a permanent basis for more than year Instead of recruiting a strong Independent chairman to review Hydro management make essential changes and rectify past mistakes the Premier Is appointing a man whose department baa supposedly been responsible for monitoring Hydro its management and borrowing practices a bureau era who will attempt to defend his own past borrowing approvals Elected representatives should have an opportunity to review bis credentials for the Job to bear his position on a Hydro proposed borrowings of MO billion over the next JO years the overexpansion of power plants which have cost the province faUboos of dollars to build Hydros growing dependence on a stogie source of energy nuclear power and the balance of power generation which be supports Also wilt he bring rate increase back tote toe with Hydro borrowing program Is of course designed to support the Capital Program bom past report Range Financial Projection HO MOS prepared in August IMS by JULIAN REED MP twenty years to to be used for new capital expansion and to roll over old debt as well as financing interest capitalized Hydro baa on of the largest debts In Canada 16 billion at the beginning of the year It borrowing r are too large to be met on the Canadian money market and It borrows in Europe and the United States Last year Interest on the was over S3 billion Hydra borrowed to pay in teres by Hydro customers out of revenue Now Hydro plans to borrow to IMS op million from toe la IMS Hydros foreign borrowing costs consumers dearly in foreign ex losses nearly mutton lost smce loess tosses account for rV portion of rate creases sad the latest financial mount of Airing the low extra cost to the utility next year of million over original forecasts Hydro projected Interest costs Including foreign exchange losses to be covered by revenues in 1984 and at million and million respectively resulting in the need for a per cent rate increase Now Its Updated Financial Outlook projects additional In terest costs of 88 million resulting from the projected foreign exchange loss of million and higher in terest rates for borrowing resulting In a projected loss of on additional million These are among the primary factors leading Hydro to revise its requirements for a 1905 rate Increase of 103 per cent Fluctuations the Canadian United States dollar rate may cause higher rate Increases due to Hydro debt obligations Hydro has made a serious error in its decision to reduce purchases of the more expensive lowsulphur coal from Western Canada The Trotted show a saving of minion in purchasing It may save but Ontario may after similar economic losses due to add rain damages and tourist Industry reductions The Energy Board should prevail upon Hydro to reverse this decision and recommend against the tripling of me water rental In the Budget equivalent to a tax on electrical consumers which will impact rates in by 1 per cent or an extra million This tripling of tax will further discourage private entre preneurs from developing hydraulic power potential at least equal to that in place now Hydro has remained aloof from normal market forces primarily as result of the provincial govern meat guarantee on Hydro borrow Its ever increasing capital requirements Indicate a serious problem for the Crown Corporation financial sound Ignoring warnings it has overbuilt and overspent Its debt load will skyrocket to billion by 1987 if not brought under control This alarming debt guaranteed by the government will within four years represent an average Indent of MB for every family of four in Ontario Interest costs already amount to Sis billion The debt has serious repercussions or our whole economy Vital needs In health care education and bousing are not being met because the provinces financing capacity Is being squeezed The liberal Party has introduced legislation to make Hydro account able to the Legislature and the people of Ontario We have as mentioned at the beginning of this report recommended that the of the Hydro Chairman should be approved by the lature following committee hearings We recommend that legislation should require the of the Legislature for Hydro borrowing or borrowing by the government on Hydro s behalf or government guarantees on Hydro bonds Lack of such accountability dures has we believe led to the present chaos Hydro Updated financial Outlook for 1985 indicates that the rate ncrease for the utility to main tain Us normal targets for financial soundness should approach per cent In other words the situation is worse than originally thought We believe that Energy Board hearings should be extended to review Hydro latest projections and to crossexamine Hydro staff Hydro has stated that its cor objective is to keep bulk power rates at the rate of inflation yet its proposed per cent Increase Is almost twice that objective already pay more for our electricity than the average Canadian Rates have more than doubled the last nine years Hydro must ploy a leadership role and must not be allowed to insulate Itself from the normal market forces bulk power rates should be kept at the projected rate of Inflationfive per cent We would recommend adop tion of lifetime rate to cushion the effects upon fixed incomes Back issues years ago September 174 Hills taxes can be paid tn the former Aclon town office Lorna Clark finds many people did not know that their bills may be paid and receipted here Rev James Smye of St Eugene church Hamilton will become the parish priest of St Joseph s Church Acton Wayne Bowen and family from Nova Scotia were visiting his parents Mr and Mrs Stan Bowen and others in the area last week Tom and Rene Watson and son John have returned after spending the summer at their home In Lis comb Nova Scotia 20 years ago Septembers 1984 Skating before a panel of five judges in he Curling Club arena on Saturday afternoon 15- yearold Linda Braida was sue in passing the Canadian Gold Test In both figures and free skating More than youngsters go back to school In this district and 1430 In Acton alone this coming Tuesday Hac ken brook Cobblehlll was hired this week as a linesman with Acton Hydro Depart men Acton High School top graduating student Joan Cook learned this week she has been awarded a Dominion Provincial student aid bursary for She had already been awarded a York University admission scholarship of years ago August 3D 1S34 Applications are now being received for the postilion of Customs Officer in to succeed Mr RM McDonald who has been super following his critical Illness from which he has not yet recovered Mr was an this year and carried off second prize for green peppers grown In his garden on Main Street Mr and Mrs MacColl visited In Acton on Sunday Mr and Mrs WD MacArthurand Misses Lucy MacArthur and Mary Mills and James Mills visited In Hamilton on Sunday The tree trimming on the streets by the municipal officers has greatly improved the street lighting and cleared the lower branches that were bothersome often pedestrians 75 years ago September 1909 One who has been a familiar figure on Acton streets for over 60 years has gone to walk the streets of New Jerusalem Thomae Perryman the oldest resident of our town passed peacefully away last Saturday morning after but a brief Illness He was born in Devonshire England on the October Owing to necessary repairs to the stone work surrounding the boiler at the power house there was no electric current on Monday night A night without electric lights leads users to appreciate the convenience more fully Mr A T Brown Manager Bell Telephone exchange here will have an entirely new telephone equip merit Installed when the improve ments are completed in his office years ago IBM On Mondav last Messrs and Arthur threshed for Mr James Dobble lot con Esqucsing with their steam thresher bushels of wheat and 435 bushels of oats within ten hours This was without a doubt a faithful day work Mr John Hamilton of the Wellington Marble Works Guelph has kindly donated to St Johns Church a very hand some baptismal font Vote against therepeal of the Scott Act and ensure the safety of your home and family from whiskey ships Mr JE McGarvin municipal clerk and family have returned from their sojourn in Muskoka They had a pleasant time James son of Mr CS Smith has entered Upper Canada College Toronto for a course of study Letters are wecome