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j xt eightieth year no 41 apon ontario thursday april 7th 1955 twelve pages six cents six teachers leave acton school staff six acton teachers have for- w thole resignations to the public school board r cdalsy folster completes 4b years of teaching this year ralph hckeown has accepted the prin- cipalshlp of glen williams school miss dena braids will teacb next year fn a toronto district school and miss lorraine potter will be attending teachers college mrs wilkinson wished to resign during next year tout has accepted reen gagement with the provi of a long winter holiday as mr vringl has accep a school at higersoll mrs ringler the kindergarten teacher here will be moving with him hie school board is already en gaging replacements for the vacant positions on the staff two new members join acton rotary fred wright read a letter from an english rotary club during tuesdays club meeting here and the two clubs toasted each other by arrangement this was the reg ular business meeting and various topics were considered two new members have joined cl mac s kexrh ford vic masters was appointed the clubs representative to a meeting of the chamber of commerce art ificial ice- committee meeting representatives were invited to islington rotary clubs charter night and the tb association din ner a letter from the newly- formed georgetown rotar club thanked the acton group for their gift of lapel buttons joj was the total collected so far in the easter seal campaign last years total was 863 ladies night was planned when members wives and friends will see guys and dolls in toronto jim ledger harold kinread and walt wood bu are continuing plans for peanut day to be held in may suh photo last hockey award of the season for local minor league teams wo made last week by legion president g beatty right to win ning senior team captain paul lawson the trophy put up for competition by the local legion branch was presented at the year- end banquet 34 join united mens club enjoys buffetstyle lunch it was strictly a social evening when the mens club of the united church met monday evening gam es included shuffleboard darts table tennis scrabble and crokin- ole and music also added to the program rev currey took the devotional part of the meeting giving one of peter marshalls sermons the refreshment for w hich the club is building a reputation this time included rye bread cola meats onion slices pickles and cheese for sandwiches church sunday sunday morning 34 joined acton united church 10 by transfer and 24 on profession of faith four were baptized there was also communion at the service those joining- by transfer- were mrs ken allen mr and mrs bruce shoemaker mr and mrs jter jfe inside this issue bob brayshaw mrs a symon miss lions mclaren and mrs an nie paul joining on profession of faith were mrs robert brayshaw miss betty bean jim bilton mrs cook john cunningham norma cun- aiingham mrs nh d ann deforest hartley deforest george hollinger edna jennings linda lovell marie lambert gerald la marche sylvia mages david mc- vey mrs roach marilyn rogn- vaiason james swackhamer mr and mrs eric sorensen garry walker mr and mrs edward wil son baptized were sylvia mages anne deforest hartley deforest and mrs eric sorensen 786 for seals so far jim been oilected in the rotary easier seal leamp- aign ht acton last year a itojtal of 883 waa da ted for use in crippled childrens work t is o f an sunday is vaster two days for solemn religions celebration by christiana the world over mode of this celebration while having a common basis differs among christian peoples of varying ra cial groups on page 9 of this issue a free press staff writer jells how one such group the ukrainians makes ore of arttstteaay decorated eggs in connection with their easte cclturaw trict there are many new cana dians of ukrainian origin to gauge public support for ice in actons arena c of c takes lead as organizations asked for opinions preliminary information about artificial ice installation and arena renovations were discussed last night wednesday at a meeting of the acton chamber of commerce council opened to representatives of town organizations purpose of the meeting was to acquaint local groups through their representatives with the informal- ion prepared to date by a cqm- m ft tee and to ask the special visit org to sound out opinion among their own membership it was emphasized by chamber president john goy that the data collected with estimates on install ation costs and suggested means of financing were tentative before cakjng- definite action he indicated the chamber was anxious to real- itp the feeling in thetowns-nrg- ginger farm chroni re feature of free press 25 years on april 11 1929 a new column appeared in the free press it was called just plain folks by judy cgrady it immediately appealed to many readers the name of the column was changed to chronicles of ginger farm and its author be gan using her real name gwendo line p clarke since then mrs clarke has written a total of 1300 columns during 25 years for this pap er and never missed an issue to maintain increasing interest in the doings on a small canadian farm for 25 years is indeed a remarkable accomplishment mr clarkes friendly stle very readable prose bits of philosophy and apt descriptions of everyday events have endeared her farm and hv family to hundreds of readers mrs clarke is particularly inter ested in the early history of this district and is currently writing another series especially for this paper and the canadian champion milton pages of the past reflect her interest in personal lives and everyday occurrences as well diaries and from the oldest resid ents of the area i pages of the past will be pub lished in book form after the col umns have concluded mrs clarke began writing as a hobby in england arid has also had articles published in the family herald and weekly star farmer advocate the farmers magazine and the canadian countryman one of mrs clarke s chief com munity interests is the womens institute w hich she mentions fre quently in her writing she was the first president of the scotch block w i and is a life member have you wondered vjut where ginger farm is it is located on no 25 highway the last farm on the left side of the road befor the curve at the outskirts of milton it it st well back frorn the road cosy in a setting of trees many friends that the clarkes have nev er met watch to see mrs clarke or partner working around the farm as they pass by- many readers join in extending congratulations at the conclusion police lodge then those after youths two young men recipients of acton police hospitality early sun day morhingttifer in the day took on different roles to become fug itives from the police constable d cook early sunday morning talked to two unlucky hitchhikers at the eastern edge of acton and invited them to spend the fewr remaining hours or the night in a local cell the two gave their names as e graves windsor and a gunn welland about noon sunday the pair left the police office after thanking cpl r mason then on du for the use of the cell bunks half an hour later cpl mason obseryed a speeding car leave town and head toward georgetown he gave chase and as he pulled up not iced the cars occupants were the two young men whod the night in the cell the speeding car pulled away- from cpl mason who radioed to milton georgetown and district opp cruisers to put up a road block the fugitives meanwhile itore east on no 7 highway over the sjeventh line and onto a bumpy sideroad before long they aband oned the car later discovered to have been stolen in belleville oh saturday and lit out on foot into the bush by this tune eight police cruisers had converged on the area but the pursued lbst themselves in the thick esquesing bush area and eluded the pursuers anizations it was suggested town council was hot prepared to debenturize in order to assist or bear the cost of artificial ice or building alter ations in view of the present high er tax rate i to raise the money for plant in stallation floor preparation and minimum alterations variably es timated at 60000 two recourses were outlined public subscription ps board receives staff resignations resignations of miss d folster mrs m ringler and mr r mc keown were received by acton public school board at its regular meeting on wednesday evening of this week miss l potter is also leaving at the end of the school term to attend normal school to receive her certificate the annual requisition for piii w p ie case demand the full sup port of such groups as church bodies service and social clubs public and private organizations in the town and rural district artificial ice committee chairman j newton was optimistic that the required money couldbe raised if complete public support and en thusiasm for the project were ar oused everybody would like to see our town have artificial ice he said but it means that every body would have to back it fin ancially earlier president goy noted that provincial grants up to a maximum of 5 000 could apply to the pro ject if it were ultimately under taken as a community centre in requesting a report on organ izations attitudes to the project he added that if the feeling was of general accord with the chamber s proposal of ideas then a larger m with more repr from all local and rural groups would have to be held and steps to follow laid out the chairman reiterated the chambers policy to proceed caut iously until a conclusive indication erf public support is obtained deer bounds into side of local cab council delegate addresses fireside the sunday school room of ac ton united church was filled to capacity for the regular bible soc iety fireside on sunday evening m m coles introduced to the group his son rev stewart coles of knox presbyterian church osh- awa kiev coles was a delegate to the world jouncil of churches at ev- anston illinois and gave an inter esting resume of the purpose and accomplishments of the gathering he showed pictures of iome of the leaders including the archbishop of canterbury pator sniemuller and others from asia europe north and south america pastor costerus led in hymn tinging with frank bean at- the piano numbers were enjoyed by a bras trio george elliott bob landsbor- at town council road and sewer work planned or project ftrn woul i i board approve the reque v road rehabilitation and sewer extensions dominated discussion at- the regular session of acton council monday night when members re viewed work completed and projected on the towns springscarred roads and gave the goahead on sewer installation work at one subdivision with another soon tb follow following a recent meeting with the puc sewer committee chair man a irwin reported the com mission had agreed to allow wate works employee a duby super vise sewer installations with the engineer he also mentioned the commission had requested assist ance from the town in filling in sewer excavations a cooksville firm john heck and sons was hired at 10 per hour for backhoe work and 8 per hour for ahgledoze work to excavate the sewer line on queen street east for the 40lot subdivision ere35arho th cl r municipal board approval receiv ed for this 10 500 sewer extension discuss trunk levels engineer ross simmons was au thorized to prder material- for this work projected to start this week discussion briefly centered on sewer trunk levels on the third line to service part of the glen- lea subdivision and it was sug gested the sewer and roads com mittee confer with the engineer sup- the the mackenzie tor juno delivery the necessary repairs to stoker were authorized by members a tender for painting and dec orating at the school was accepted as submitted by j b frank purchase of a sink for the ait room was authorized as was pay ment of the financial teport total ling 1156 22 with the meeting adjourned at 10 10 p m otnorth walton high school board mnrrhir work wnicn is plarnrednr principal e a hansen for the use of the auditorium for a dance to night thursday and the request of harry otterbein for the com munity programs branch of the department of education for the use ofthe auditorium a weekend in may for the annual display of the five counties art association interest in books boosted by contest eden mills new school no 11 in eramoa township was filled to overflowing tuesday evertfog mar 29 friends attended a preliminary contest when children in grades six and seven from eden mills school and no 5 in nassagaweya town ship vied to see who would repre sent them in a big quiz in april thecontest wras to see who had-re- membered the most from six specially selected books for child ren in their age group there was also a spelling contest for grade eight pupils a walberg was chair man for the evening the two con testshave -been- plan- commence as soon as possible reviewing the time sheets coun cillors entered a lengthy talk on road repair plans during the dis cussion it was pointed out there is still considerable work left un- done by thejsewc contr at warrenrove a holdback is stttt retained by the town on this job the clerk was asked to contact the engineer in an attempt to have the incompleted work cleaned up ibroken pavement on mam and mill streots was brought to at tention and contact is to be made with the deparment of highways regarding repairs reeve j har grave questioned the method now apparently being followed in re habilitation of the roads and con siderable discussion ensued dealing with grading gravelling and patch ing acton boulevard again councillor j newton brought up a question on the towrrs street signs which he felt should be stan dardized from this one of the re- occurring arguments ove the one way signs at acton boulevard rear ed up with mayor tyler and de puty reeve footitt leading the de bate 2016o pages our printers and reporters were working every inmate this week and overtime tea for the advertising nen and writers there were 12 ipagea roll of news and ad go create for the printers there were over twenty thousand pages to print far the acton tree press alone the press ran far the town paper is 168 this week making a total of 21c pages run through the big jpreas in these it pages are news and features of acton and district ranging ram 5 years ago to last nights school board meeting we pue happy to pre this 12 of advertisers who the heme market serve beat happenings of import as she seeks j of 25 years of writing fo the free out material from old books and press douglas mceachern local taxicab driver reported to police this week that a deer bounded across the highway early sunday morning braybaw and charles east of crewsons corners and in- i ough to the side of the car i a very pleasant social hour fol- the colhson w renched control lowed w hen delicious refreshments from the driver and the cab ended were served by the ladies of the up in the ditch damaged to the i congregations extent of about 125 the deer was the next fireside will be held in killed by the impact the baptist church ned by eden crest womens insti tute and rockwood womens inst- tute in an effort to discourage the reading of comic books and intro duce classics the six books which all the children read were ann of green gables little women call of the wild black beauty glen garry schooldays and tom sawyer e kirkland teacher at no 11 had arranged a platform and the pupils from six and seven grades in no 11 eramoo and no 5nassa- gaweya drew numbers correspond ing to questions read by miss hub bard teacher at no 5 nassaga weya first prize- was awarded to karen mcarthur and second prize to jo anne kerr of eden mills school ken mcpherson won firt prize and paul woodhouse second from no 5 nassagawreya mrs m stone awarded the prizes the spelling contest was conduc ted by mrs c brinklow winners were judy abram first and ber- nice jensen second of no 5 nassa gaweya and bobby ferguson and eileen hoskmg of no 11 eramosa tied during the earlier part of the evening many children from no 9 in rockwood eden mills and no 5 put on a lively and humorous program from o formidablm foltjmr highlights of 1954 town audit report etched in the red presented at this weeks council i ied for in 1955 meeting was the municipal audit report fo 1954 a formidable folder crammed with balance statements revenue and expenditure account ings trust and fund statements and board and commission summaries all gathered together to provide a fullxecord of actons financial actlty last year copies of this report are to be made available to the taxpayers who may make a personal perusal of where and how their money vent in 18s no attempt will be complete financial breakdowns contained in the lengthy report however the auditors summar ising statements highlight briefly giat the tdwn fended the year with deficit on g operations of 1474180 and an underlevy on county rate of 159920 making a total of aj41 which mint be lev- the summary then goes on to it emize the various increases over estimates and following this notes the savings over estimates increases over estimates are j- follows increase in net road expenditur es 5067 33 recreation and com munity service expenses increased 507 74 general government ex penses particularly insurance and maintenance of public buildings ini crease- 147876 police protection increase 7935 i extraordinary ex made here to summarize the oper- pehse for well drilling not provided ations of all departments and the for in estimates 3j4534 sewer rental revenue was reduced by de ficit from sewer- operations 4- 40210 street lighting expense in creased 18388 revenue from fines decrease 1518 miscellaneous it ems of 4150 or less each 126790 increase in anticipated deficit of 1963 212834 total of 19ja675 this last mentioned total is s v duced by a total of 288575 in 1955 budget on page tnree of this issue appears a fallpage statement an the towns badget for 1955 a breakdown af the 78 mill levy and a a spe table a comp arison f municipal expen in creases aver the last five rears jthe bariget statement divided hit receipts and dlsharaamehta has two r slaniaa ana abawlng aetaal item east in ism and te ther ahawing item badgeted es timate far 0955 levy breakdawn shown total badgatad amf fixed coats with apparttonate mill levy repaired ta tana the am- the i table u 4ka steady rim tai easts aaeanteallsple which have meed the manfctpallty fas the last ilia savings over estimates which are as follows revenue from taxes increased 352i69 fire and police grants not provided for in estimates 209 18 county grant revenue increased 169 03 amortization of proceeds of ale of wartime housing increase over estimate 285 proceeds from sale of land 245 sanitation ex pense decreased 405 10 conserv ation of health expense decreased 213 08 county rates decreased ov er estimate 625 80 miscellaneous items of 150 or less each 38ft8t leu of 67 s3 the report reveals the auditors report goes on to state that the waterworks depart ment sh6wed an operating surplus for the year of 1599 01 this waa used to partially offset the operat ing deficit on sewer operations for the year 4 the sewerage operations for the year snow a deficit of- 600111 af ter changing 12000 for sewer rental this deficit was partially absorbed by the waterworks and the balance of 440210 by the town the 12 000 sewer rental paid to the town to partially cover sewer debenture costs is 19 228 75 sho- at clerk j mcgeachie reported a survey has been made on the pro perty recently purchased from t seynuck for public school pur poses and that a deed is to be prepared regarding the hair dressers bylaw the clerk advised dr a bull moh for halton would be at the next council meet ing the clerk also presented tenta tive estimates on street lighting costs for three subdivisions and re ported that the balance of the plan of subdivision at glenlea has been refused registration pending regis tration of the town s annexation bylaw a lette from solicitor c f leathcrland in reply a a question by council if local improvemei t charging could apply to sidewalks on wallace street did not satisfy members further information is to be sought no help to congeniality council signed with the halton county health unit which pro vides for plumbing inspection of all new installations in the town a schedule of fees was adopted and the town retains 20 per cent of this inspection revenue before the agreement was passed an exchange of opinion developed an whether or not the town has th authority to enforce a resident to connect to available ewer lines from the sewer lines attention ran to outdde privies where members cited some local examples which reportedly do nohng to help neighborhood congeniality it was stressed the town has the authority o do away- with all outside pri vies t council gave necessarv readings to a bylaw setting the 1955 mih of these costs the hydro electric depart ment the report continues shows an operating surplus for the yer of 106118 44 the acton public school board with total revenue in 1954 of 86 766 80 under expenditures of 86 834 42 ended the year with a def- surrfmary of other municipally- related organizations sljows that the cemetery board ended 1954 w ith anoperation deficit of 249 07 the r band wound up 6628 to the good ttie free library board shows a deficit of 364j the planning board carries to 1955 a surplus of 49023 the north halton urban board completed the year 3082 in the red truck tumbles and cars crackup in weekend mishaps considerable rlamagg to vehicles and some injuries to drivers and occupants were reported in two accidents investigated by district police over the weekend near here friday afternoon two men came close to suffering serious injury when the panel truck they were nding attempted to pass acar near crewson s corners sideswip- ped tne latter then crashed mto a oitch and flipped over xhe truck driven by kenneth elhs 4 acton with eldon crispin acton a passenger zig zagged down the road after hitting the car driven by boris petxoni- shin oshawa before it somersault ed and crashed a total wreck the petromshm car hit a hydro pole and caused damage estimated at 500 crispin and ellis crawled from their wrecked truck with head injuries and cuts petroni- shin was uninjured constable g moore reported charges are pend ing following theacddeirt three car accident sunday evening a complicated threecar mishap occurred on no 7 highway just west of here donald clarke acton travelling west noticed an oncoming car on h is lane passing eastoound vehicles clarke pulled to the side of the road and stopped behind him a car driven by richard jarvis tor onto also westbound rose over the brow of the hill and went out of control then brakes were applied to avoid the stopped clarke car the jarvis vehicle rolled into the ditch and ovett on its roof meanwhile she car doing the passing driven by maurice cooke mimico had passed two cars and cut in sharply to avoid hitting the clarke car the former struck the shoulder of the rdsd and rolled into the ditch there wee three passengers in the clarke vehicle and one in each of the other two cars involved no damage was done to the clarke car however police estimated dam- age at 900 to the jarvis car and 100 to the cooke car no injuries were reported police said a charge has been laid against maurice cooke- in vestigating officer was constable h gunn 70 a letter from milton council asking for actons view on a sub division school tax the former tqwn proposes to levy on subdividers was given short reception it vtfas the opinion with the local council that such a tax would preclude de partment of education grants to a request by a local firm an thony gas explorations ltd for a natufcbl i gas line and supply fran chise in acton members consider ed more information should be sup plied by the officers of this com pany before any decision is given the letter noted the company has two wells completed with- a com bined open daily flow of 300000 fcontinyad on font tuieloa legion auxiliary spring tea sale acton ladies legion auxiliary which will have been organized for 10 years this july held another in its long series of successful events in town on saturday spring was the theme of the tea and sale held at the legion hall and b mquets of spring flowers added a perfect touch l i s the baking table was popular as usual sales here were under the direction of mrs j drysdale and mrs r angell a rummage table which looked to be the result of early spring housecleaning was cpnvened by mrs l drysdale arid mrs m chisholm mrs rosemary cook and mrs d fowke were in charge of the candy table the tea was convened by mrf e johnson who was assisted at the tables by mrs a masales mrs j ford and mrs k janes guests were received by the preswent mrs w maddox who convened the tea by mrs johnson and pastopresldent mrs r finley proceeds are used in the groups program of veterans activities sending boxes to hospitals and ov erseas and other 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