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i a yi iv fhf aftoni free pres acton ontario thursday february 16th 195 hty artnn jffrrp ptthh hie oauy paper rounded to 1875 and published every than- day at m koi st k acton ont member of the audit bureau ot circulations the cw ra and the ontwioquetjec division at the cwjja advertising rata on request sab- seriptiods payable in advance 300 in canada s400 in the united states six month 175 single copies 7c authorised as second class hall post office departmant ottawa oa g a dula sditoria chiat f dawid r jmjla pmdoctton james dills john black assocuht wmwmm bustneas sod editorial office ph 174 acton rural safe driving week the ontario federation of agriculture is sponsoring a rural safe driving week february 20th to 25th 1956 attorney general kelso roberts said recently each of the county federa tions of agriculture are cooperating and will be holding meetings during that week at which representatives of the ontario provincial police will be present and will participate this consti tutes the type of cooperation in the safety drive which is so essential if the problem is to be solv ede anything approachingnr satisfactory basis mr roberts commented the attorney general said that the ofa drive was a part of the provinces safety cam paign which has been termed operation live j3hepeople of the province of ontario must endorse and support all the time this continuing drive to assure success in road safety the attorn ey general said- it is all the more important be cause every one of us has a personal interest in seeing it succeed any one of us may suffer ir reparable personal injuries or even death by fail ing to give that support and in our daily actions conforming to the requirements for safety on the highways leap year meant something yes girls there was a day when leap year meant something matrimonially speaking the idea that one year in four the ladies are free to propose marriage is not a gag dreamed up by jokesters no matter how humorously it strikes the 20th century imagination actually there was a law enacted in 1 288 upon the statute books of scotland clearly es this traditional be liefs niberaph-atistatiorrftorn- lect it reads it is a statute and ordained that during the reign of her blessed majesty in every year known as leap year any maiden lady of both high and low degree shall have liberty to propose to the man she likes should he refuse to take her as his lawful wife he shall be fined a sum of one pound or less according to his estate except he can prove that he is betrothed to another woman when he shall go free this law takes away from men the right if it ever was there to propose marriage and it tem- porarily becomes the derogative of the female thissho h be s i uncertaii but perhaps it meant something in the old days when women were shrinking violets and dared not initiate a proposal at least we read this sort of thing happened at various stages of his tory and in the victorian era probably even with the arrival of leap year the customs in proposals was not altered very much i in fact woman is still the pursued during courting- and leap year or not it would not be wise for the ladies to be too active in their pro posals the male ego must be saved and the easiest way of doing this is by playing hard to these random february thoughts are offered for what they are worth and frankly we do not think they are worth much owen sound sun- times individual importance an important and desirable change hat just bean mad in our immigration policy says the financial poet now we are going after promi- rng people and not determining eligibility for entry solely by occupation for some years for instance a nriany cthances of gettirjgnto canada were greatly affected by whether he was a member of a particular trade eg carpenter in which according to the cum- bersome workings of our statistical machinery we were said to have a shortage the truth of course is that what we are realty concerned withis not whether a man is a car penter but whether he has the guts and the adapt ability to became a good enterprising canadian were really looking r people who seek op portunity and the people who want merely secur ity arent what we should be after alall v diversified people after several years of operation of three high school districts in halton county a consultative committee has been set up to give study to the whole problem we recall that back in the years previous to high schooldistricts in halton there were committees and many meetings to study the matter we recall many of the obstacles that had to be surmounted before the whole county accept- ed the plan down in smiths falls there is one of the finest collegiates in the province its a beautiful modem building splendidly equipped and with a big enrolment but it is not maintained by a high school district with ever rising educational costs study is being made to have three townships ad joining the tpwn form a district its estimated the town would save 13800 in one year by having such a district under the district plant provincial grants there would increase from the present 61056 to 115721 these and many other facts were laid before groups who were studying the problem in smiths falls looking over the whole province- the depart ment of education certainly has a variety of prob lems here we have one part of the province making another study of the district plan after a few years of trial while in another part the dis trict plan is yet the goal to be reached we are a probing inquiring restless sort of people in this province arent we it can also be observed that we are a financially conscious tribe invariably striving to shift the costs of our wants onto other shoulders -e-r- photo 1y emhcr taylir plenty of snow this week as few readers in this district need to be reminded february is only 50 per cent gone and therell likely be ample opportunities yet to come upon scenes like this one complete with that hunggrey overcast in the sky that is so characteristic of this time of year guaranteed annual income in view of the fact thatihstallation of artificial ice in acton arena is a question under considera tion by various groups it is advisable to give studious thought to the proposal from all angles acton is not alone in giving this matter some thought over in orangeville the rotary club have operated the arena for 1 7 years but the time has come when they feel artificial ice should be in stalled the rotary club have accumulated a fund of 8000 for artificial ice they have offered to give this fund to the town as a part payment on the 35000 necessary to make the installation in smiths falls the lions club have been operating the arena here artificial ice is installed the club have asked the town for a grant of up to 1000 to help injrnaintenance jn making their appeal to council in that town it was said other towns put up from 1000 to 15000 per year toward operation the arena it is stated repre sents a capital investment of 60000 to the lions club quoting from the aurora banner the editor notes every week i scan about 90 weekly papers the majority of them from ontario points and in practically every instance where arenas ronremed the story is the same the rosy dreams have turned into financial nightmares from durham we find in the old durham arena with natural ice there often wasneny the rotary club kept the arena operating and the only assistance from the town was a rebate on taxes now durham has a wonderful new arena with artificial ice arid a big dance hall last year the town taxpayers kicked in more than 8000 about eight mills to meet debentures and pay off a deficit it is riot our intention to in any way discour age any group who seek improvement for acton and its young people in earlier years we went in h ya as anyone and enoyed them all in those years hockey was the only winter sport when we look at the housetops to day with television antenna on each and every home with two or three radios we wonder if times havent changed and are not quite so rug ged maybe its easier to get subsidized enter tainment when we rcead reports on town arenas such as we have quoted above the fact is borne out that something has changed in the town life of ontario its all very simple though if 400 people in acton think the artificial ice is worth 109 to each of them and then if the same 40opepple having accomplished the first effort would guar antee to buy- a ticket for every home game of all the teams the problem is solved apparently the arenas have to have the guaranteed annual wage as well as the initial capital investment brief comment another new association we have been in vited to encourage is the old age pensioners association of canada looking to the future maybe that is where our efforts should be de voted had an invitation recently to meet the mem- bers of the gordon commission who are study- ing canadas economic prospects couldnt make it becausecanadas economic present still is quite vague in our thinking we like to take things a day at a time oaj it is said that teetotalers may soon be eligible for auto insurance at reduced rates at the present rate the- new company is never liable to be a big company in canada lower costs mean little to those with expensive tastes the-bible- bjev g- p parson district secretary- today upper canada bible society the bamboo curtain was drawn aside recently ions enough for the world to get a glimpse of the life and progress of the christian church in china miss janet rees a member of a delegation of the soc iety of friends which lately visit ed china gave an encouraging re port jpthegeneral committ of the british and foreign bible soc iety this month bliss rees offered tangible proof of the continued activity of the china bible house in shanghai when she presented to the commit tee a red leather bound finely printed copy of a chinese pocket bible- the 300000 copicsol this ed ition were proving insufficient to meet even local demands according to the delegate three editions of the chinese bible have been printed during the past five years in that country now closed to western missionaries a striking fact presented itself repeatedly during miss rees tour in every city visited christian act ivity entered about the study of the bible one of the main interests of the ymca- at tientsin was its bible study group each church hah rii q kp r irt oakvilles cjhc receives okay oakvilles radio station cjhc blessed by the canadian broad casting corp board qf governors will be in operation by early fall howard came head of a syndicate promoting the station said after receiving the good word from ottawa the call letters cjhc stand for halum county said mr caine he hadnt picked a spot for a studio hut expecledit- would be in oak- ville if we can locste the space at the ottawa hearing before the cbc governors only objection was voiced by the manager of the brampton station there appeared to be freedom of worship in china according to the report and each sunday the churches were crowded some week night services were also well at tended all such activities were strictly religious and did not im pinge on politics however while rumors of bible circulation and use have filtered out of china from time to time this is the first authoritative report backed by act ual evidence brought out of the country by any western christian group suggested readings for the week sunday genesis 1 131 monday genesis 2 125 tuesday genesis 3 124 wednesday joel 2 114 thursday genesis 4- 1lfi genesis 6 122 saturday joshua 1 118 nelson police kept on toes chief constable harvey hunts re port to nelson council for january showed four convictions under the criminal code seven local sumons es served and 33 others for outside municipalities court fines totalled 55 with costs amounting to 91 during the month the police de partment attended three fires found a lost child investigated 12 accidents served 26 warnings under the highway traffic act and made 16 criminal investigations although no cars were stolen the force rer covered one stolen vehicle property stolen amounted to 70620 while goods recovered totalled 323 there were 80 occurrences reported and one dog complaint investigated j qoodgld sbch wvwvvvvmsvvv back in 1 montrealers spend 117 cents of their food dollar on meals in res- mrants in winnipeg the f is 109 toronto 94 vancouver 83 hal ifax 39 united church of canada acton ontario bev gordon adams m-a- bjj minister parsonage 29 bower avenue phone 60 mr george elliott organist and choir leader 76 bower ave acton phone 6 sunday february 19th 1956 950 am junior church 955 am church school 1115 am morning worship 700 pm evening prayer presbyterian church i in canada knox church acton i rev robert h armstrong ma- bjq minister sunday february 19th 1956 945 am church school 1100 a m morning worship 700 pm service conducted by the daughters of knox i 815 pjn tea and farewell to miss i ellen anderson i they that wait uvon the lord i shall renew their strength the angucan church of canada st albaas chorea acton oat rev evan h jonas- ba lt 1 sunday february 19th 1956 first sunday in lent 900 ajn holy communion 945 am church school 1100 am beginners class 1100 ajn choral communion 700 pm evening prayer special lenten service wednesday february 22 8 pjn evening prayer rectors ddress nprise r baptist church acton ray h costerui pastor parsonage 115 bower ave phone f sunday february 19th 1956 1000 ajn sunday school 1100 ajn morning worship 700 pm evening service wednesday 8 pm midweek ser vice coyote on roof carrot river sask cp a coyote believed treed by the farm dog was shot on the iroof of a barn on reg neaths farm h acton pentecostal assembit meeting in lol hall crewions 7- corners i pastor rev k- j- reid bfcook strrttleskhhfwbw 1 j i sunday february 19th 1956 1000 am sunday school 1100 am morning worship 730 pjn evangelistic service wednesday 8 pm cottage pray er meeting and bible study joyed-a- tha front the issue of the free thursday february t i9m on saturday evening a gathering of members and others en valentine party in the gym in the murray memorial ymca one of the contests was guessing childhood pictures from a gallery that adorned the wall miss oral chalmers had 24 correctly named ajapanese sword fight proved interesting to the spectators those taking part were p w watson g cooper frank terry and howard norton those appointed to the young peoples council of the yllca were misses dorothy macarthur edna hinton mary chalmers dor othy mcpherson fern brown mrs d h lindsay messrs jack smith harry a norton grenville masales arthur gamble john reid gordon cooper charles kirkness council lors jack alger frank terry mis ses fanny hurst isabel cowie another stormy day with its blocked roads and subzero weather couldnt keep the tanners from get ting another game off their chest and they took the oakvllle boys by 3 to i in their own camp tuesday night acton lineup greer goal gib bons and walters defense mooney centre marzo and lindsay wings alternates n morton terry bus morton and marshall woods sub- goal miss vida ramshaw was elected regent of lakeside chapter iode first viceregent is miss marguerite ryder second viceregent mrs a j buchanan and recording secre tary miss lucy edwards reggis hassell actedas postman at the valentine party at limehouse school leap year and five saturdays in february the school boys are having the benefit of it the scholars of knox sunday school held a skating party last thursday afternoon at the arena mail carriers were badly handi capped in making deliveries tor several weeks well all remember the winter of 36 born tyler at acton ontario oh monday february 17 1936 to mr and mrs matt tyler the gift of a daughter back in 1906 from the issue of the free press of thursday febnuurr 15 um councillor mcintosh gave notice i at the next meeting ot council he would move to introduce a by law to require- all consumers of electric current of six or more m hp lamps or their equivalent to have meters installed thos e price is the new mulelpal officer tor the corporation with salary of 480 the same aa test araar the gtjl bridge gang whlefc has been at work rebuildiag and strengthening the bridges over the speed at guelph and the gnaw river at rockwood are now inaag- ed on the high bridge over tr credit at georgetown toe bag mogul ongum will be through here in a few weeks an interesting srerion at acton board of trade was held tuesday evening president john cameron presiding the proposed cheese fac tory and other items of interest were discussed the rink committee opened the new rink with considerable eclat on thursday evening after a long series of disheartening experiences three years ago last april mr john damper and miss nellie forb es then residents of crewsons cor ners were joined in wedlock they came to acton and settled on church st several months ago mrs damper sickened and on mon day she died her illness was per nicious anaetnea a trouble rarely overcome by medical skill general sympathy will be felt for her bus- band and sevenmonthold baby boy there are numerous complaints by the ladles of muddy crossings thomas ferryman is now in his ninetieth year he was born in 1816 he came to canada in 1843 and was four weeks and four days crossing the atlantic coming to canada without a friend now however he is surrounded by child ren and childrens children to the third generation when he came to acton there were but two stores here john hol- gates and w mclenahans only six men have served as prime minister of canada since 1900 31 k a wrr2sskr s professional directory and travellers guide medical dr w g c kenney physician and surgeon office in symon block 43a millst e acton office phone residence 115 church st e phone 1 dr d a ga physician and surgeon corner of willow and river sts entrance river street acton ontario phone 238 dr robert d buckner physician sad surgeon aflwellington st acton ont phone 679 office hours 68 pm legal c f leatherland qc barrister a solicitor notary public office hours 1000 am 1200 am 1 00 pm- 500 pm saturdays by appointment only office 22 phone res 151 acton lever hoskin chartered accountants 51 main st n brampton phones 2478 44 victoria st toronto em 48131 dental dr a j buchanan dental surgeon office lcishman block mill st officehouts9trmrto8tjnt xray telephone 148 dr h leib dental surgeon office corner mill and frederick streets office hours 9 am to 6 pm telephone 19 acton optical m e sanderson ba barrister solicitor and notary public 4 main scs phone trianglc 72464 j miscellaneous e l buchner ro optometrist 48 mill st e phone 115 office houra wednesdays 130 600 pm evenings by appointment veterinary f g oakes bv so veterinarian office and residence 24 knox ave acton phone 130 1 b d young bv so c l young dvaa- v1 1 l 8 ana office brookville ontario phone milton tr 89177 rumley funeral home heated ambulance phone 699 night or day serving the community for 46 years olive al laaapard atcm rmt teacher of piano acton studio st albans parish hall 14 park ave guelph phone 296 travellers guide 1 11 1 gray coach unes coaches leave acton kartboand 638 am 858 am 11 33 am 2jm 2 08 pm 506 pm 633 pm 8js pjcnu1008 pjn sun and hot 55 l estate and insurance ft l wright 20 wilbur st acton ontario phone 95 appraiser real estate w r bracken estate phone 26 acton listyourfarnsrbusines or bouse arlqtus we invite you to use our facilities in securing a i purchaser for your property 1027 aril 1232 pjn 157 pm 527 pm 727 pjn 912 pjn 1132 pm 112 am rri sat son and hoi canadian national railways btaaaard daily 640 ajn daily except sun days 1000 am 713 pjn sunday anl 8 01 pjn daily except bop- day flyer at georgetown 902 ajn 637 pjn daily flyer at george town 1011 pm r f bean limitep real estate and inssrance 83 mill st acton phone 585 daily 1144 pjn daily except sunday b4b sum 655 pjn flag- stop 1 749 pjn saturday only 233 pm sunday only 9 43 ajn flag- stopi sunday a only flyer at guelph 705 pin daily except sat and sun to detrain pasinigers from west toronto and- beyemd 610 pjn daily except sat sun flyer at guelph 636 pjru t 1 r trr l v 19 l iiivs