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the HERALD Home Newspaper of Hills United Way plan discussed page 18 Halton election report page 19 Tilt SECOND SECTION BOUTIQUES SHOW LATEST SPRING SUMMER FASHIONS Us mother daughter tomblnallon with 1 ran Itandl Iran is a full length skirl as a up our bathing suit and Is snowing one of he new bikinis fashions In Iht show which was presented the North llattoit for the Mentally Retarded are In the In the Old Hank building sand one of he stylishly loose Tilting tops which she is wearing with a narrow bell swinging back Into fashions and Sandy hai completed her with a smart hat and a disco purse Photos by Lori Taylor Georgetown high school dropins recommend commercial course K few Georgetown kers art doing their bit to reverse trend an school dropout tie they A commercial course the Georgetown and District High School is in w rappin up for this car but will toon be open for next year term And the stud enrolled m the recommend the Id recommend the course In who is interested in it regardless of their former education I t have missed it for the world They say this is the tin Id but 1 soy this is my says Corngan hush so pleased with how it Hi me to go bock next year ind gel my Crude The women are among the two dozen housewives who stilted a special class designed to leach wives the pnctical skills net to enter work forct rhur backgrounds arc them were Mill others like Mrs and Mrs lilt it Grade work in offices in common mil Mil wis Ihe desire t get hick in swine things is after raising Ihcir innlv IFFTSniOOI Mrs Her high school training in Nova and worked then and in Toronto before she left her family 1 ve been out of tht work forte for years she says id had wanted to work I Id have had no confidence to go back without brushing up on my I ditht hack so much to get a job is to find out bout lodays world If I was offered something I enjoyed I prob tike it but I tame back inly to et mj Gr 12 in touch with things IgBJl Mrs reasons or were differtn She tried job hunting Shchisbctn it home for It years work in England in but I never needed typing Now I found I needed it I the want mc but I a whether it isolderorbcc i out of the long When school at die tndof Grade 10 I had Rood job 1 is earning my own at 15 she says Now when you eo job hunting with just Grade IU you eel like a high school drop out lo my and my Grade 12 joiim Sit says she intends to take the summer off because she needs rest but she II defm be out job hunting by fall Xlhe two dozen women who enrolled inStptemheronly two base and of those went intoexaclly tht kind of job she inled in a 1 office in Georgetown It seemed so far to look ahead begad Mrs says but it s mm weeks now and one of ill be a werk Tht women were in the same class and a close rim hip has developed t wan all the members Mrs says Win going to mess when says 1 we 1 gel Arts Council grant lilt Hilton lulls will receive int up to from the this ye if town ittepts recommendation of Hit committee next vtir night learned that town to Die of the need to submit its print prior to lime in when ill applications were Mr King that to i reserve fund to cover inv grant applications tint were nit covered it time Council lit rcporlcd approximate from the town in I ye requested Flunky disco The Mug will hold a on April JO and 10 to p during regular to rs Contestants must pre registtr and forms are il iblc Georgetown and Milton high schools as I as it the Actor offite be aw irded to the in various Bye Bye tonight Fitness events or readers interested in local fitnessoriented events the town general committee night sanctioned two upcoming activities involving walking and running The irta chapter of TOPS Tike Off Pounds Sensibly will be st i Walk a llion May 5 that will follow a route along Mountainviow lload South Five the Eighth Line through Park Maple Avenue and ird and to A rain dale is scheduled for June will witness the first annual Mayor s Race organized by Operation ACTION Camdi Works and the towns recreation department Joggers and runners arc invited to try 5 kilometre route from Gordon Arena through the industrial park and along Mountomview North so often so we can keep in touch The women have studied the same courses alt hough allowances were made for individual needs The wo men studied typing shorthand accounting communications ipdoffitc practise Some like Mis orrigon already knew shorthand and thusdldn need while others like Mis another subject lo get the required credits for her Grade 12 Mrs nig school in the fall wis a terrifying experience for hi The students they have mixed with however have been leiy mature in their and their teachers also have not for more than they were capable of One of the girls in my law said one day that she us for having courage com back 11 and found their children quite ted the fact their mothers are back in school Mrs has one son in Grade J and Mrs has six children 1 1 to mothers In Ike find their are embarrassed acknow their if they mrct In Ihe but Mrs ulhbcrlson fee Is this Is the hang up rather than the mother s rohtcm depends an the youngsters Herald photo age She didn realize how tcrr died 1 was of stepping into that class on the first day It has been a great experience lhaifih Law is mostly discuss and we get voy interest ing ones going The Grade 12 students have one mat and Am I the other the and 1 have another We different Is because of our Some things like insurance for mpe we know more about than they do because of our own experiences ire great Ira not nearly is shy is 1 was because of ions and the way the kids have accepted us THI- Wt II Mrs agrees that the students have accepted them very well While the women fill funny about com back tht students didn t notice it Some of them even opened doors for them beginning Now they are just and treated as other students They are mistaken for teachers at times too she hut the notion that they tales on misbehav students has been us pell They are treated just like oilier students with no for being late of miss mg but both women fed is it should be Why would you come back as a student if you expect special privileges Mrs says Si fact the women are even mire conscientious than the younger students Mrs Corri gan feels 1 ve seen some of the girls come in here with a terrible cold she says because they re afraid to take the time off They worry about being able to up Mrs says the tell them not to be so harden themselves gcr students don need to be perfect and they expect it of themselves other Hut they do GOOD- I remember kid think as a enough mark Mrs Corngan laughs I be satisfied with It Managing to keep their school work caught up and housework too was a problem in the very beginning the ladies but it was soon straightened out It s amazing what you can hour if you know done Mrs says It all end on how organized you the amount of homework they do depends on the women themselves the ladies say but bath admitted to doing quite a bit Neither one wants to get caught unprepared far a class or a test because Ihey didn t keep their workup to date The ice has been broken now because of us Mrs Corngan says You can do anything you want to do if you want it badly enough home the shyer you get Historical Society members view mementoes hear Actonians recall old town s history Her stuff writer A year old autograph hook a copy of the I ree Press s anniversary edit ion in 1US0 a book entitled irly Dijs ind i house log wire among Die mementos residents plojed it the luster society meeting Monday titmng in the towns Trinity United Church time Acton residents Laura Dennis lor George I- and Sahrn mil Bob were the guest speakers at die society special meeting to leirn more about history from lis Mrs Dennis showed the group a house log which she had begun on her own Willow Street home In she has recorded pjsicil descriptions of her house as well is outlining renovations or changes that were made to it over the years The book includes details of all the properly s owners In its years she said there has only been five owners and one mortgage for Pictures of house various times can be included of its owners and thumbnail sketches of and job The book must remain on the property ill timts and space has been left for future owners in record details about the house ind themselves she said in tlie hope rvof tin will on no matter who is Imnf in it SHOOK Mrs Dennis also showed those present an book belonging to her mother The entry in it was doled and one of the entries was with quill long the entires she quoted wis one made by in uncle saying If you would aspire to heavenly joys think of Hit Lord and less of the MacArthur showed those at the meeting a book entitled Acton s Early Days which was first published in hook form in II was compiled from an inonymous column carried by tht the me The book was out of print for many ye she has heard it is again Mrs M itArthuralsoshowed copy of the ree Press inruvtrsary issue printed in I In it there are pictures of minv town older bull of these like Idposloffice have since been demolished she noted t if the The i is gave I- ree The Old Ihe Clock In the column the wnter began talking about of the town older homes and gave accounts of each street and its buildings at that tin she said The columns covered the environs of the town as far as the Fourth Line of ing township and north along story of Hie Beardmort from which she read industry about 142 ago when there was little cleared land in iham was Hit founder Ed and Henry look it over from and sold it to Coleman in 1852 When G took over in 106j il hid been lying idle for some time the paper said Mr and Mrs both spoke about the radial lint which ran through Acton from Ihe middle of World War I until the early 1930s It tarried both passengers and freight between Guelph and Toronto and stopped at nume rous towns and villages The trip from Acton to took about two hours member of the audience train knew all the passengers ind would wnt for them if he their family running catch the train 11 cost cents lo ride Dolly she said and cents to go to flag ihe down anywhere had to do was the hand so the dm r knew they wanled to the train dstopfor them cars from the line are in railway museum if ihe group was told The MieVrlhurs said the station wis the second house down from the corner of Church and Main Streets what is now a double house The station was originally a house on Willow Street but it Church Main lo become station When line closed around 1932 it again became a residence The freight sheds and livestock pens were behind the station Mr MacArthur said to ship stock to the slock yards in Toronto Society member Jean del asked if any of the speakers knew anyone who might have information concerning Acton residents who went to the Klondike the IBSOs She said one of her uncles Robert was killed in a snow slide there in 1867 and records show thai four Acton men testified al the inquest Into the accident but she has no Idea of their identity Miss said she under stands her uncle went out In 1R62 He went by bo it iround Cape Horn and up the coast with i group of When they ran of money stopped and worked at their trade Her uncle was a carpenter Miss liuddtll said and was reputed to Iwvt been to Mr explained how behind Knox Presbyterian Church had been cleaned up and a cairn erected the memory of burled there between 1KB and whtn the burial ground was moved lo the present Cemetery Knox trustees who were responsible for the proj eel were Brown Davidson W Lasby WJ McDonald Dune McDougall and Jack McGreggor Of the group only Mr Davidson is still alive George Elliott held of the committee trying to raise funds to preserve the old Acton town hall gave a slide on the building outlining its history and explaining the present structural problems which the restoration commit lee must correct in order to keep the building He noted that the bell which stands in the cairn on the north side of the building was cast in Troy New York 1B82 and cost a considerable sum of money Council disputed when the bell should be rung after it was installed Some it rung to begin and end the working day while another group felt it should also be run lo time for work at clock Pure economics set lied the question however since coun cil rouldn afford to hire a bell ringer for the earlier hour and the bell was tolled at 7 am noon 1 pm and Mr Elliott also noted that the floor of the second story around the was thought problem In floor when the firit reports were made investigation of what ion ould be required revealed thai Ion waa built In Since the architect slope the floor of the auditor mm to make It easier to see what was happening on stage he sloped the stage floor instead