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the acton free press acton ontario tiiurmjay february ii im4 no easy task in these days when councils are being requir ed to make provision for money from various bodies it can readily be seen what a problem municipal councils have to face when it comes time to strike the tax rate we have yet to note one body make a requisition lower than last year and when that occurs it will be real news indications all pointed last week that expendi tures of county council will be in excess of last year there isn t a doubt that school boards will require more funds to operate over that paid last year citizens will undoubtedly require extension of services to new areas and the maintenance of present services will in all probability cost more than last year without any control of the expenditures of other bodies municipal councils are called upon to see that the tax levy is sufficient to meet all needs too often council is blamed directly for rncreased taxes while actually their control of ex penditure is a minimum having over a period of years watched muni cipal councils struggle with the budget each year our sympathies go with those in whose lap even iualfy falls nearly all the fund raising of other bodies schdol boardsand county council simply tell the municipality the amount that will be re quired the debenture payments are set forth be jond the control of council every group of citi zens who want improvements or donations makes the appeal to council its no light task being a member of council when the time arrives each year to break the nevs to the public of the rate that will be required to meet all the needs of the municipality and the growing costs each year criticize if you wish but remember the town coun cil is not entirely to blame for higher taxes new jobs for those who talk glibly about unemploy ment figures of today it might be well to point out that in 1917 there were 606 523 canadians em ployed irmndustry in 1939 there were 658 114 employed in industry a growth of roughly 50 000 in 20 years in 1952 industrial employment had reached a total of 1 273 189 in a 15 year period employment had doubled with 615 075 new jobs the figures are spectacular says the fort erie times review and thinks they are even more astounding when we think for a minute about how those obs were created according to the labor gazette the cost of producing a new job for each new worker was about 6 269 in special industries like steel where equipment is hugely costly it almost doubles that figure bui u5t this cost for average occupations adds up to a pretty penny if you want to be dazzled just do the mul tiplication for ourselt of 615 075 new obs each costing 6 269 to produce if this cost was equally distributed over the 15 years the outlay was still a staggering t257 million in each year no one ever heard of a worker putting up the 6 269 to provide his own job but someone had to somebody put up the money for those new jobs its only reasonable to expect that some return must be made for the creat ve capital if it s all drained away in taxation and to meet every demand of labor there w i soon be an end to new jobs and new growth faorifng lufwn th ut exchange missives sunday as love symbolizes st valentines day better paid but we agree with ihe m dland free press when it iays th s country wou d be ui a lot more ef f ciently f we had feer better pa d cvl ser ants ottawa omices need houseclean ng badly there are st m far too many clerks and steno graphers stretching the coffee break nto an hour long s esta and too many enecui ves bu id ng up their establ shments of vr or servants as an ex fuse to boost their own salar es the government that will tackle this problem w i earn the undy ng gratitude of canadian taxpayers there is only one way to reduce tan rate and that is to reduce the number of people taxpayers are pay ng for unnecessary obs the trouble seems to be that we are gett ng only half our needs we are gett ng better pa d civil servants but we are not getting fewer ot them the jobs that were necessary m wartime seem loathe to leave us n t mej of peace warm and bright we need some new and attractive signs at the highway approaches to acton giving some brief information and a welcome we don t believe that every such community project should be toss ed over for the attention of council surely there is a group of citizens who are public spirited enough to see that signs are erected and kept in good repair true we have the highway signs which give the name of the town and the popula tion but there must be other brief facts that those who pass would like to know by way of suggestion we think the date of founding of the town is important perhaps the business man on the highway would be interested to know what industries are located here but above all everyone likes to be welcomed to every town the stress on wanting industries on many town signs is so commonplace that it scarcely re ouires mentioning every town and village is seeking new industries in acton we think par ticular mention should be made that this is an in dustnal centre with 19 industries already estab lished here and one of them for over a century above all make the welcome warm and keep the signs well maintained and erected neatly it s remarfcable the impression of the towrfone gels from a sign at the entrance to town maybe the service clubs could undertake this work for the town such as brampton has done no bright prospects if you are counting on getting a little help this year by lower income tax present indications are that you had better not count on the saving mak ing an instalment on anything this isn t an etec tion year and it s not your turn to profit the bud get is expected in mid april ottawa predictions are that there will be very little change from the present and that no easter finery will be bought f om the saving in tax of course the reasoning is well founded by the amount that the governrnent proposes to spend which was recently announced it might also be pointed out that the deficit in the old age security fund is running to about 60 millions a year then of course there is increasing cost of those employed in government pay the same as every other branch and our members of parlia ment and senate are taking home better pay en velopes there s only one source for government funds it all comes from the taxpayers pockets and taxes cannot be lower when expenses are higher cant be a robot in both management and labor we need more made in canada decisions in this country can adian pulp and paper associations r m fowler says that may be blunt but it is certainly true and not for any narrow reasons of nationalism either comments the financial post we are moving farther away from the pioneer stage of our economic development as we do so it is essential that industrial leadership be in the hands of those with intimate day in and dayout knowledge of canad an conditions this does not necessar ly mean that our labor unions should be completely divorced from those ct another country and t certa nly does not mean that we should discourage fore gn nvestment the canad an econon y however cannot be c erated sal sfactor ly by remote contro in the r rwn and the nat onai r tcests t s best that can ad an plants be mar aged ar d canad an labor be d ected by canad ans not necessar ly canad an born by ar y means but by those wl o full i tend to become canh ans after all only those who are fully fam i ar v th th s country ts h story ts people and ts prob ems and who respect and admre our nst tu tons have the necessary qualfcatons to make dec sions of v tal mportance to canada and can ad ans the bureau of stat sties reports that 19 7 per cent of low ncome fam i es n canada spend nothing for medcal hospital dental or any other v nd of health care asks the chill wack bc progress were aga n baby bonus was supposed to f ii a grai need what s t being spent for by jim a missive sent by one person to another of the opposite six on february 14 st valentines day that s what the encyclopedia says about the event this sunday yes sunday is the day of flit ting cupids with darts of love the expressions exchanged on st valentine s day are varied indeed some vnlcntines ire ixautifully embellished and btnr choice sen 1 1 merits poiltcil quotations and the like stmt valentine uisa bishop of tin nrly church he was put to di ith ji hume in the reifii f cliudius february 14 270 liur hi was cinmued is i martyr by tin c ithohc church ind the dy i f ins denth was set ipurt in mem i r of him ns st valentine s di toinj deeper into tin hisliiy i find th it during the incitnt homin feist of tin 1 up u ill ci li bi itid in the numon of jun it w is custom ii fur roman vouths to draw t ibli ts from an urn on nch tibkl wis inscrib i d the name of a m iielt n to whom dllla hi wan supposed to divott him ulf for a yiar as a matter of fact there were ieve4al saints by the name of val entlne a story connected with one of them runs to the effect that he was a charitable man visiting thp sick and the needy when bedridden with old ajje hecoiitln u d lo send kindly messages to those hi coujd no longer go to sie the gt nil ins were wont to call on lheir st valentine fir rthef in easts of ipiltpsy on pinion w is predominant amone the tnglish peisuntry tint birds those their males at this i sun both shiiktspenti and uiuuir spnk of st valentines dav is i time whin iviry bird eln ss his mite now on sunda when the hifh ly imbellishd mi sivisem mtu g t xprtsmons of lot in e xchined tin otiin of the exclnrikc will be known a komi thought mifht be for th foreign ministcis at berlin to mike th xcliiitfi with sin trjt ind st valentine s day would inn sirvtd i very ndc qu it purpose is it ins in the past w a necessary provision discussing the need for public rest room facilities in georgetown reeve stan allen put his tongue in check and observed makeshift facil lues reported lo have been used in the downtown area reminded him of r sorts in france where you get a view of heads and feet but at least the parisiennes realize the necessity of providing something no other town patting the collective backs of the town works force after the recent snowstorm the herald editorializes we haven t travelled outside town this winter but we would imagine that no town could b in better con dition than georgetown after a storm thanks to council and town staff for a job well done seek school bite with arrangements complete to meet depirtment of education of finals the erin advocate expects to see a site purchased in the ncir future for the proposed new school trustees the adocil idds hie been negotiating with seral par ties for purch ise of the necessary property free meals fattening worried nbout t miriudmi coon which ind settled in his barn to dim on choice chicken trnfnlgir kwnship firmer hornet hall nnd tht fiime wnrden stilktd the culprit found thi c nmin grown so fnt thnt wis mi li twnn i rm mow nnd tly iht lini two boards hid pried iff to n i ise the ti on emeter overcrow ded hi mtt ncill rs hive i problim in th ir hinds thi loe il nm ti rv it seems is uv rtr wdedti the point whir jnvi pi t spin is almost rion xistt nt last wet k whin one i f our re suii nts dn d tin undt rtake r phom d ini iskid mi whirt hi w mid burv tin bodv said rum alfied jenmnts as oakvilli wont ill w us in th town nmitin 1 wis it j loss tile rmvi idmittid voottj men go south- oikvill s record s ar corfri s up with th storv of how five local teenage lids dtcidtd to si i whit mikes tht world tick rin away from home recent i and headed south two ef thim wer packed b ick bv bordi r julhontits the othi r thr acc riling to tht mothi r f o didn t in id t r th us but the good old days may have seemed better back in 1904 from the intir of the free press of thoridiy february ii 18m st valtntiru s day this year falls on sunday sunday tc mpir ituns vnnid ml dtgnes in half a dien hours th lhaw nplnilshed iht urns u d relit vid many burdintd roofs owing to let on tin tricks hilf i doe n cm s wi r i di milt d i n the sid uifs a th ctii station mi ndfiv a ilise containing tlothing and 100 cash was molt n trom a freight cir it tin 1 it statu n one mnrn inj 1 is w i k georm jivti frsqiksmf ifli r a ttw days illness dud tn friday 1 ist of bit i d poison kit it was quite a shock lo his fn nils is hi ipp ar id to bi ncoviiing until thi div bi fore he di d ii w is be i n on the farm wlitr hi dud mil w s in his wth year and unmarriid acton junior hotkt v niyed lo milton inst evi a gallic with the jum ung to play well protected wenlworth communities are nc as well equipped as halton towns observed councillor a m bat tram i when telling burlington s town fathers about a mutual aid meeting in hamilton with local and oakville fire chiefs we are lucky to have so much equipment within a one mile radius of the town mayor smith added referring to the nelson and beach fire fighting equipment spectres at speyaide speysidc one of esqucsing town ships stoned centres that has seen busier days as a larger village com es in for considerable publicity in recent issues of ihe hamilton spec tator and georgetown herald the story twines around inter sting pic lures and concludes in the thought that ghosts of balmier days haunt the spot over 100 more houses tentative approval was given pi ins for construe ion of houses by j thistlewail on the tast and west sides of martin st bj milton council last week the plan submitted in d ica ted 23 buildine lots in this ar i with n frontage of v7 feet a ro id allowance wns prvided lo run off m irtiu si for i in w subdiv ision whth ntrol ippr xmattlv qll buildine lots times are the best at th nnmnl meeting of halt n agricultural societv in milton lasl wik i bilance on 193 operations if 3a47b2 was ripoittd the huh itst in tin fairs 102 v histirv a tht shortagt in fuel incomes more aeeriviled h r is the wintor and cold weathir advinces tht dnleis havt quit n number of cars on the wjy but noni has been dt live red for 10 days or more the corporation secun d i car of soft coal from toronto on monday and a numujrotjuhmmfi applied for ji fc hundred pounds of it to tide them over the power house would have been obliged to close down had not this car be n forwarded the manu fatturen here are short of fuel and e is talk of closing down unless a supply comes forward the weather conditions last sun day the date of knox church unn versary wire not a whit better than those prevailing on the dates of the baptist ind methodist anniversaries last month in tact the impassable condition of ihe roads hindered knox church congregation from at tending lo a larger d gree this event marked the 59th anniversary of the org inization of the congrega lion and the ninth of the opening of the present church edifice back in 1934 from the knur of free ptom of thursday frebrnary g 1h4 twi uty bi low is n r ilh r corunon occurri nee this winte r nnd th burning qunli n this rlavs is how long will th mi ply m th coal bhi liisf if thie was nv ill ubt about t torn j inlm e iitn i f ihe acton anrt i htm tow ii hock v ti ims the inns siw u van sh into thin ur lust fn div mhl win n att n w nt down and eiv m l iwn m 11 1 drub bmt iihl in th h rm rink uls tvl suff d f i s ti injui ok i cir figured ii i t his in wi b i t ir dr in hv andiw mikinnoii f ilph the miship occurred in the lnehwiv list itsid th wt trlv limiu ef at ii mr 1 it r s i ir wint into tl iik iii ii w iiik the collibioa aaa hum imr n its xidi i n in in ii v work has bifun on th st tend i im of esqutsing tows ship bitwi n milt n and acton prr piraloiv in tiking on a large forct of mn to rdue uni mplovmcat n hillut count robe m irnoehan suffered serious mjunts mondav while felling tree in the bush at mr fred stcwatt s farm on the town line tho group had started to work af d rhtrt tiny nnd lne fifst ffcttteueii took i course sideways striking and pinning him beneath sir iota in urns lo his had ind back were sus tamed a verv dihhhtful birthday part was hrtd in honor of grandma smith it the horn of her daughter mrs e roadknifil t on saturdaj r binary 3 it was the occasion of grandmi s 89th birthday and still h il and h arty she is look ng forward to i grtat many more se ms is if acton can dish up any sort of i store for the fins with th georgetown team and the one on tuesdav night was just close enough to be interesting and bbj enough to let the acton team past without much trouble on a 3 win professional directory and travellers guide medical veterinary building for thi w is m iot d it llit dr w g c kenney physician and surgeon office in symon block 43a millst e atlon offlrt phone is residence 115 church 8l e phone 150 i f r sipltm dr d a garrett physician and burgeon corner of willow and riv r fntrince river street i acton ontario phone 238 hu eh 1 nothing to it addmning ttir s menu club here but week hepf public re lations officer bill beeeroft re latau tnis tnw bit of conversion curiosa woman writing to ontario ii dro lo inform she wouldnt be home on change over day sug geta since thrrelt be nobody home when you want to change as from 25 to 60 cycles just drop the extra 35 ccles in the mall and my husband he s quite has d around the house will do the rest dbvtal dr a j buchanan dental surgeon office leishman block mill st office hours 6 am to 6 p m x ray telephone 148 dr h leib dental surgeon office corner mill and frederick streets office flours- 9am tospm tflfphone 19 acton b d young bvsc c l young dvm veterinary surgeons office brookville ontario phone milton 165r2i f g oakes bv sc veterinarian offic rind hesidnc 24 knox ave acton phone 130 legal chiropractor c f leatherland barrister solicitor notary pvbua office hours 10 do am 12 00 m 1 00 pm 500 pm saturdays by appointment only office 22 phone res 151 alton lever hoskin t hartered accountants successors to jenkins and hardt 1305 metropolitan bid victoria st toronto em 4 9131 at the d j armstrong doctor of hlropractlc 6 john si n mis hiantoi s r arton tm flrpfib thc only pops ere publuhed i arte founded in 1it5 snd published eerv thursday at s6 mill st f cton ont member of the aud t burrau of circuls tinnv the t w n a and the ontario quebec division of the t w s a advertising rstes on request subscriptions pa jt ir in dancr k vi n canada v v n the lnited states x ri nths si v single cop es fie ithonrrii as second t is ma pom off ce departmenv ottawa g a dilu fditor ond pnhluh united church of canada acton ontario a frifndli church j rev e a urrey ba an minister parsonage 29 bower avenue phone 60 miss o m lampard a t c m organist and choir leader slnda february hth 19m 10 00 am su da sr- k hi irowd mirh 11 00 am morr ft rs si b c v h jsil r 00 f m even r w h p studv and ides th i tv of tholght for the week men are no made nhjraas br p rf rm rg c ru r act o ehich s od but the most r tfhtei and nil fa l pr forr r marti tiri presbyterian church in canada knox church acton rf robvrt ii 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