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mtf t elflhtysevonfh yearno 25 acton ontario thursday december uth 1961 y sixteen page seven cents if i yivfj bui bui buiidino on church street it completely equipped and the dial culover will take place on sunday northern elec tric workmen have been setting a steady pace of installing and erecting the equipment and the past month has baewdevoted to checking and rechecking the system the new building of white brick with black trim is located east of st josephs ro- hulk pholn man catholic church- mayor john goy made the first phone call this afternoon thursday when special arrangements were made to allow this prior to the changeover sunday actons dial exchange will be the most modern in canada its the first cross bar system to go into operation this unit is very com pact yet allows greater capacity than any former units union commission at loggerheads grievance to go to arbitration palling lo change a decision re garding tin alleged breach of contract following the lay ofl of a hydro worker a threeman delegation from local 1766 or hie intermediate brotherhood of electrical workers union propos ed arbitration over two other technical points viewpoints were aired during a special meeting of acton hydro commission thursday evening december 7 when donald anderson class c linesman was laid off by the commission november 23 he made an appeal to the union pointing out tils scnlotfty over other hydro workers when an explanation from hydro super intendent doug mason failed to satisfy the union grievance com mittee this special meeting was called jo review the problem employees on the hydro depart ment prior to the layoff includ ed superintendent mason dor- son frlzzell class journeyman ken hodgson chiss a linesman and don anderson class c linesman three union men during the meeting three union representatives tony green pre sident of the union grievance committee clarence green and jack gilbert were accompanied by mr anderson its they re viewed the layoff when an argument posed by the union members regarding the legality of the layoff was re futed on grounds ot a clause in the workers agreement the tin- union threatened arbitration on the grounds the superintendent was doing linework and office worker newton hurst was read ing meters the delegation claimed both men should be members ot the union if they were handling these jobs during the discussion regard ing the layoft ot linesman and- 1 erson t green slated the last nmn hired slunild be the one to go in the event of a layoft chairman gont beatty explain- ed the layoff had occurred after a careful study of a proposed work program drawn up by the superintendent and that the layoff hail already been post poned for a period of two months in the hope that more work could be found and mr anderson kept argues seniority in support of mr anderson the union representative argued seniority and stated mr ander son was in the employ of the hydro longer than another workman ken hodgson hiottttift nftjftftcd that the decbtlon to lay off the class c linesman had taken place atter consulting the superintend ent and a careful review of the hydro department mr beatty told the represen tatives of the union the commis sion didnt think it feasible to lay off a class a linesman and maintain a class c work man in support of his argument the chairman referred lo article 6 section b o the union agree ment which slates providing ones work is satisfactory sen iority in classification and ser vice shall be the governing fac tors in the promotion reduction and rehiring of staff in the ev ent of a layoff the last man hired will he the first laid off only one in category mr beany explained it was the desire of the commission to lay off a class c linesman and the employee in question was the only one in this category he staled the commissions regret at having to lose a man but told union representatives it look us two months lo conclude we couldnt logically keep ibis man working and justify his salarv we had no alternative we were elected b the people to administer lo the best ot knowledge clarence given said the union- wanted to gel the job hack for mr anderson and stated i un derstand you have an office man reading meters and a superin tendent doing work this is not permitted in suppoy of the class c linesman- t delegat es insisted his seniority should be considered spokesman t green told the commission we didnt come here with a chip on our shoul ders leis got down to reason we dont want to go to arbitra tion doesnt make sense commissioner e g tyler told the delegates to go ahead and explained it wasnt reasonable to lay off a journeyman and keep on a groundsman it just just doesnt make sense in a small utility he exclaimed chairman beatty told the group thai mr hurst the office worker has many chores and one of them is reading meters t green warned the union would have to get into classifica tion for mr hurst and if he was reading meters he should he in the union he also stated that if superintendent mason was doing linework and on standby lime he should also be a union member c green told members it wasnt reasonable to cougc two top linesmen and have a superintendent on standby eith er from a safety angle or as an economic measure he explained the safety factor by slating it the two lop linesmen were work- ing on a pole there would not be a groundsman in the event ol j an emergency dont need man i tony green enquired it the commission intended to rehire mr anderson or anvorie else in s i the near future and was told hv the chairman things will have o to change radically before we r hire anyone mr beatlv also explained thai the layotl had commissioner ray arbic ask ed the spokesman for the dele gation to clarify his statement regarding laying off the last man hired and was told the clause in the bargaining agreement was contradictory in that the first part was opposite to the second part mr arbic told the group the clause was a common phrase in bargaining where an employee gets into a disagreement it exemplifies the employers pos ition he staled mr arbic con tinued no one has anything against mr anderson and cer tainly during the discussion there has beejl great concern shown for him the commissioner told the de legates it was his opinion the clause in question should be ad hered lo but if they could poinl continued on page two first dial call today lifting the receiver of beige telephone mayor johnny goy this afternoon thursday dialed 8531000 to place the very first call on actons new dial system and the man who an swered the call was c s keith bell superintendent for this ar ea who was waiting for it in the gleaming new dial exchange building on church st although the system wont go into effect until the hour ol 2 am sunday morning when no phone system is very busy special arangements were made to make the call from the plat form of the high school gym nasium and for all t h e children to hear an address so they might all years from now recall the moment which will make acton history to include children when mr goy was asked to make the first call he thought all the public and high school students should somehow be included in the exciting mom ent bell officials agreed and made the special arrangements his address had been taped in advance and it was played over the publicaddress system at the fwo public schools while he gave it personally al the high school early next sunday acton will enter a new era in com munications he said i am very happy as the elected re presentative of our town to be able to participate in this his toric event by placing the i irsi call to be connected through our new dial exchange because the advent of dial service in acton represents such an important event in our his tory your teachers and i thought it would be fitting to assemble the students and discuss the sig nificance of the event with you im sure youre already aware that canada has played an im portant part in the development of telephone service the tele phone was invepted al brant- lord not many miles from here and canadians make great use ot itic telephone year after year canadians emerge as the worlds champion telephone talkers we canadians place more telephone calls per capita than the people of any other country descendant of beacon fire man has always felt the need to communicate that of course is why languages devel oped but people are not always within earshot of one another and so have had to develop art ificial means of carrying their messages the history of communica tions is part of the story ol mans everincreasing ability to master the forces of nature and make them work tor him today we have this modern dial tele phone and we have our radios and we have television receivers these instruments are direct de scendants of the beacon fire which early man used to signal fiomone high point of ground to mayor john goy makes first dial phone call jgttjsilzdkv tdisvoi aaw ok stone school classes despite disruption in class hours and iraielling between two schools members of the hieh school staff here nnule a decision to attempt setting up classes in the old stone school next fall in order to stave oil a proposed 60000 high school building addition for at least another year although final details have not been completed principal e a hansen believes that classrooms can be set up in the former continu ation school beside the robert little school and a makeshift science room can be planned in order to comply with school boards wishes during the high school boards meeting last week it was learn ed that the stone school had been offered by the public school board in order to postpone a building program in accord with councils austerity program high school board members agreed lo accept the proposal pro viding the teachers agreed during a subsequent meeting of the stall members everyone was in accord to set up classes in the stone school in hopes a building program expense can be postponed likely the teachers will move lrtim one school lo the other with the senior grades in the old stone school another the jungle drums and crude drawings on the walls tlf cnvts dwellers homes weve come a long way but the point we ench this weekend is just another step another era and there will be other teps into other eros sm0 each this telephone insjrument- whlch i am using today to parti cipate in actons rirst dial tele phone conversation is only n small part of all the equipment necessary to moke a telephone call possible there is much more to it in fact it costs close to 900 for the equipment need ed to place each telephone in service plrst there is a wire actually its o pair of wires running from your telephone in to a cable which in turn leads lno the central ofrice building over on church st inside that building there is equipment to make it possible to connect your telephone with any other tele phone anywhere on earth up till now the job of con necting calls has been handled by human telephone operators however in future the job will be done by machinery this elec trical equipment is very complex it is made up of many parts each quite simple but so pre cisely designed and so ingen iously arranged to work together that they quickly and accurately follow the instructions which vou send to them when you dial the equipment in the central office building goes to work as soon as you lift the receiver the first thing it must do is find your telephone line pick ing it uut from the thousands which end in the office as soon as it does it tells you so just as the operator says number please when she is ready to handle your call the dial equip- roent sends you a message a steady humming sound known as the dial tone then irince the machinery would not he able to understand if you spoke the num ber you must dial it the dial itself does its work on the way bock to its starting ctmutuud on ptc too- more inside for more information on the bell switchover interesting arti cles and fascinating old pictures see page 9 rttrtrrrr iii arr eliminate rockwood georgetown toll charge with switchover to bell dial system sunday long distance charges will be eliminated sunday for calls be tween act on telephones and those in both georgetown and rockwood the change will coincide with i in i change calls between acton and the two neighboring exchanges will be local ones dialed direct by telephone users to reach a rockwood tele phone an acton telephone user introduction of dial service will dial the full sevenfigure acton as a result of the rockwood numbers i to reach a gerogetown num ber the acton subscriber will dial the first two letters of the exchange name plus all five figures no charges removal of long distance charges for calls between ihese pairs of neighboring exchanges is parr of the bell telephone companys extended area ser vice eas plan according to c s keith bell telephone manager for this territory he explained that studies are maintained of the long distance calls between such pairs of exchanges and when the studies indicate lhat the majority of customers would be better served by replacing the long distance calls with local calls steps arc taken to make the change lcxiiix seufsc w iiriuatjraljuittrcjr not occurred nonalilies but siri onomic measure icciiun t of per- as an ec x 4 u j hire assessor for appeals two weeks salary 300 john ladoucciir was ottered 1300 lor two weeks work with the acton assessing department trom december is to ixvenibcr 10 at the regular acton council meeting this week mr ladoucciir had iv- signed in november and hisivs iuuatiou takes etlcct ivceniber is he has accepted a position with the department ot finance at ottawa under his new two- week contract he will appear and defend his assessments at the court ol appeal scheduled tor december 2tv78n in a letter lo council mr ladou- ceur had lequcstcd payment lo him of the towns contribution towards his pension plan ap proximate s225 plus his salary lor the iwo weeks mr ladouceur felt lhat thejown portion should be paid to him because the con tribution to the pension rflan had been in lieu id an inctvar in sal- tin assessment five of them dustrial which atter the court ot revision could go to the omb impossible ol cntflt payment council decided it would he im possible to gram mr ladouceur pavincniol the towns portion ot the pension plan in view of the precedent it would set and be- cause tour other employees had lett the town earlier this ear and no adjustment had been made mr ladouceur was asked in view ot this what he would re- quiiv sta with the town un til thv end ol the vcu alter con sideration mr ladouceur suggest ed he would accept 174 normal salary tor the two weeks 200 increase fur lm 25 for the dif- j tctvnec in pav between his actn salary and his ottawa salarv x and 1750 tor the january 1 mjtuiury holiday council again discussed the ary in 19tnr he felt the amount of suggestion at some length and work accomplished in 1m and agreed bv resolution to offer mr the results justified an increase ladouceur 300 for the two council dftcwrd the prupod weeks mr ladouceur accepted with mr ladouceur at some this final otter and will appear length mr ladouceur pointed j at the court of revision on be- out there were 85 appeals against half of the town a inlaw to regulate and license the vendors ol lluid milk pro ducts in the town ot acton was given two readings inder this blaw which replaces three b- laws passed in pw and l4l no pei son mav sell or distribute milk in acton without a license the vendors must have a ccrlili- cate i mm the department ol health no milk mav be sold in aclon unless it is processed and pasteurized in or within three miles ot the town of acton the tees in the hylaw are 2x lor residents aij- 50 tor noiwcsi- dents the bvljw has to he read again bctoiv becoming eltcctive january 1 lfo salary bylaws the council and mav or salary bvlaws were read tw ice inder this baw councillors will re ceive 10 per meeting tor up to 0 meetings a ear tor attending regular council special ouncil committee ot the whole and com mittee meetings a deduction will be made lor each meeting not attended the salary will be paid semiannually and 50 per continued on pep 7hr issue warning police issued a warning to motorists this week regarding parking vehicles on the streets overnight corporal ray mason of the ojp detachment re ported that cars parked on the street overnight would have a ticket placed on them own ers violating the bylaw will be charged corp mason asks the co-op- era t ion f everyone in leaving the streets clear for snow plowing cons tub 1m have been wanting car owners to date but from now on tickets will be issued tor infractions of the bvluw pleasant voices soon cut oh the pleasant voices ol actons eight phone operators are cut oft sutulav morning when intricate equipment takes dcr their job supervisor mrs margaret ford will be the last on duty until 2 am suiutav morning also missed will be the heln- lulness ot uv beatrice chew miss sylvia mafje mrs men- harness mrs phil maccristall mrs r p mimer mrs j p skip- pen and miss martha turkos monday morning the office will still be busy although the switchboard will be dcud northern electric workmen will dismantle the old switchboard which has relayed so many thou sands of phone calls mr ford will be back wi t h m rs grace baird district instructor from kitchener to clear out the ot- tiee files missing tajtts wai he title of the play enacted by grade six pupils during the robert little school christmas concert last night wenesday the auditorium was packed as parents end friends attended all pupils from kindergarten to grade eight participated pictured above kneeling in front is brian wilkin son who performed as the knave second row left to right peter mj sales servant mary loo rogers queen bob tonnette king end paul youngblutt servant beck row left to right randy rid ley servant cathy krul guard gordon reed urgent of the guard bob cripps captain of the guard ectdte msey guard geil dunne guard elaine hughes maid nd christine preston director