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jr the acton free press acton ontario thursday august tth 10m proposal accepted to erect hall for the community of ballinafad must now register for nights lodging in burlington jail the life of a transient in burling ton is not as uncomplicated and carefree as it once was now anyone seeking tree lodging in the burling ton jail for the night has to fill out a form which encompasses a con densed versidai of his life history the surroundings are nice and clean the walls are whitewashed and the atmosphere is as pleasant as can be expected in a jail guests are expected to supply their own food in fact if they dont they dont eat the jail doesnt pre tend to be a breakfastinbed hotel mast of the men who come to the jail are travellers who are stuck or men between jobs naturally there are the characters too the men who feel the world owes them a living or the fairly rich men who love to tramp around the country side and act the role of men of the rood for sheer love of the pastime the police are neither encourag ing or discouraging these men from their way- of life but there has been a noticeable drop in visitors since the practice of filling out forms was put into use two wanted men have been caught through the form process altogether there have been 55 transients seeking a bed for the night since the beginning of april and if the beds are harder in the new police building at least they are bigger and cleaner at a meeting last week of erin township council members accept ed a proposal of the ballinafad community committee to establish as presented by the committee a community hall the hall is to be erected in accordance with the community halls act at the same meeting a committee was appointed to interview the dif ferent fire insurance companies with a view to the company paying a percentage on fire calls in which they ur interested the treasurer was instructed to pay 10000 to the county treasurer on the 1956 county tax the following bills and accounts totalling 462259 were received examined and ordered paid gener al accounts 8214 relief accounts 13530 sheep accounts 89 road accounts 427145 hillsburgh pub lic utilities accounts 64 v v s sr while you read these three lines there will be a forest fire started or burning in ontario allan reunion held at erin the second annual reunion of the family of the late mr and mrs william allan was held recently at stanley park erin with about 70 guests present with perfect weather favoring a pleasant afternoon was enjoyed by everyone there was horseshoe pitching swimming and races for the younger members while the older members prepared t tasty- supper in the pavilion plans were made for next years reunion and appreciation was ex pressed to the committee in charge for a pleasant afternoon and even ing together people buy the free press to read and read the free press to buy twelfth in a series of s4 articles what can a small town with its small population and limited re sources do to defend itself and help defend the rest of the country against disaster nuclear or natur al the answer is quite a bit i warning the farmers around the i town since to achieve maximum re- suits the countrys civil defence or- agnization must extend to every community no matter how small it is being set up in provinces like ontario on an area basis each area embracing a number of towns and federal civil defence planners whose job it is to work out and guide into the operational stage a disaster plan for the whole coun try say thai a small town or com munity needs an executive com mittee composed of the reeve and two or three responsible officials to lay down policy a director and a small planning committee since the role of most small towns and vftlages would be as reception areas for evacuees from cities their plans should be worked out with this role in mind the wo mens organizations in the church es for example should be trained and ready to provide food for large numbers otrefugees from a city hit by an hbomb this sarne preparedness of course could be applied to feeding large numbers of persons made homeless sudden ly by a flood or a tornado or a landslide such as the one last fall that carried parts of nicolet que into the river the welfare of people includes providing them with a place to sleep a small towns plan should include a survey of the sleeping space available remembering that in an emergency people can sleep in barns lofts and garages as well as the guest room a small towns civil u defence plan therefore might require stockpiling at a central point such welfare essentials as blankets and foods particularly drypowdered milk and canned goods while few small- towns would have to worry about actually being hit by an hbomb if war came many would be effected by the dangerous radioactive fallout from the bombs blast so the welfare planning could prove a boon to the small towns own inhabitants for fallout can contaminate fresh vegetables milk eggs and so on food in cans however is safe ordinary buildings provide a de gree of protection trorn fallout basements art- better and root cel lars even safer so a cd plan for a smull town should include a sur- vcy of the fallout shelter avail able for its own residents as well as possible visitors front less for tunate areas because of the danger of fallout a small towns cd plan should also include a trained monitoring ser vice that is persons with the nec- equiptnent for detecting the of danger from fallout requires training and civil can provide that training uimibfanm cjp mnshould- i i a communications sys- jjbmurt provide means of communities that can help each other but each town must still have its local director to coordinate its efforts with those of the rest of the area now get automatic blowout protection m228 franklin prouse motors phono 16 acton tqth motors phono 52 adon builtin peace of mind a growing county north halton is still growing the present population of milton is 4220 and of georgetown 6000 ac tons still not that big a series of lectures was given recently in the milton legion hail to a large group of heating contractors and dealers from the areas to be served with natural gas the group shown above are receiving some helpful information frorrrthe instructor jack kehoe shown left to right mr ke hoe- r butler acton- s miller oakville b walton milton d houston georgetown the course was sponsored by the united suburban gas com pany limited heating contractors dealers tctfce course on gas appliances in preparation for the coming of natural gas to the three towns in the north of halton county the united suburban gas company limited has sponsored a series of five lectures in the milton legion ha fo a large group of heating contractors and dealers from the area to be served with the gas the purpose of the course was to familiarize these local men with the rmvst modern and correct pro cedures for installing and servicing gas appliances some dealers and contractors from the oakville area also attend ed natural gas has been in that region for about a year septiles que cp naval cadets here visited the rcn des troyer escort isoquois when it called during a tour of canadian ports mayor jack layden went aboard and later received cmdr daniel hanington at the town hall trafalgar teachers seek one for ash the days of the little red school- house are drawing to a close but not before the oneroom school at ash south of millon off nurrbetr25- hirhway causes trafalgar educa tional supervisor kenneth arm strong a few headaches the reason is he cant find a teachrwho wants to teach eight grades in a oneroom school as is required at ash to find a pro perly qualified teacher who will take on such a teaching job is a difficult task admitted the head of trafalgars teaching staff six years ago only one of trafal gars 22 schools had more than two rooms now several have 12 and 16 rooms 9vv keys made while you wait hintons 5c1 store klm always fresh available at ledgers r i g a acton afrq in the biggest peacetime effort ever you are invited you are needed to donate blood acton blood clinic aug 30 her life acton gftf canvass jl volunteer blitz blood donor aug sponsored by the canadian red cross your donation means free blood to the needy monday aug 13th 6 to 9 pm t 7 can the blitz is on monday aug 13th 6 to 9 pm 67 canvassers will call house to house be ready remember next monday aug 13- time 6 to 9 pm i- exception glenlea subdivision will be canvassed friday august 1 7th 6 to 9 pm owing to holidays and other conditions womens institutes will canvass their respective groups ballinafad churchill crewsons corners everton limehouse nassagaweya rockwood 3rd to 7th line v junior farmers etc will be canvassed at discretion of their respective apppointed canvassers i auspices ofthe acton legion and legion auxiliary and red cross mobile clinic h time 3 to 57 to 9 pjl aug 30th sir would you buy a car in a crate it might bo a 1956 cadillac or a 1918 maxwell why gamble when costs are equal v v buy heating where you know your installer code oil oas furnaces rulf oil or gas conversion call root hardware phone 16 collect rockwood see quality duotherm gas water heaters here fares what irnpehal doe with its taohe of every dollar imperial oil took in lest year mere than half went to bay raw materials such at crude oil operating and administrative easts depreciation and the waees of imperial 13500 employees took about a quarter jast ever a tenth went in taxes not imiadina the road taxes in the variant province jast anttv nine cents was imperials profit of which five cents was reinvested in the easiness so of every dollar imperial took in last year jast ever few cents went in dividends to the companys 45000 shareholder wpumwlwm x ti