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tr ninetysecond yrfarno 36 v ntirur m w- authorised as second cun mall acton ontario wednesday march 8 1967 authorised as second clan mall p b t by the post office department ottawa dlxtoen roges i en vt ask high school board to review scholarships an trtintwal request from ac ton branch of the canadian leglon brought a vote of thanks from acton district high school board at the regu lar monthly meeting of the board monday mike mcmillan a representa tive of the legiooasked thtr hoard for a review of scholar ships available to students some of which the local branch contributes he said the le gion branch feels scholarships at the school were outdated and unrealistic he asked if there was any possible way the board could raise them ifc dent fed we should load the way but would be willing to fell in line if contri butions were raised mr mcmillan felt some in dustries and labor unions would contribute if an effort was made to raise scholar ships whoa job to it to solicit scholarships some members thought it was a home and school associations but trus tee ray arbic said it was defin itely the principals job a motion was passed asking principal hansen to investi gate the matter further and make recommendations on ap proaching industry and inter ested organizations in the re gion tied with the motion was a vote of thanks to the legion for bringing the matter to the boards attention thla cant be tackled light ly warned trustee arbic we have got to be prepared to sup port out plan with figures to make scholarships wor th while lets not spread them so thin either chairman tom watson observed the board accepted with deepest regrets the resignation of secretary- treasurer william ordered chsed middleton who had been with them since the school was built mr middleton agreed to tay on the job until a suitable replacement was found he was instructed to adver tise for a successor amid well wishes tor his future from members mr middleton said he found the job too arduous as he was in his 73rd year al though enjoying good health at present he felt the board need ed a vounger man trustees duncan moffat and ray arbic reported to the board on a meeting of the un iversity womens club milton which had a speaker on the new community colleges the meeting was well worthwhile and it was good to see a large representation from acton said mr arbic what impressed me stated mr moffat was courses were available for adults as well as young students they have had pupils as old as 60 it was also reported courses offered at the community col leges will be suited to the needs of the district they are in the haltonpeel college to be called davis college after the minister of education will be in temporary quarters when it opens this fall correspondence from the red cross brought a request for a hearing from a speaker on the subject of blood donor clinics in high schools but it was pointed out studens at the acton schooi already participating in local clinics at the ia1 clinic in the legion 60 students volunteered with about 14 donors accepted finance chairman chester anderson said his committee had received a proposed bud ge which jvas being held up ion further study teacher management chair man ray arbic disclosed the school would be losing at least three teachers this year but his committee had completed in terviews for the positions and there was a good possibility they will be filled one was filled 30 applicants were re viewed for another and the third position was still doubt ful he concluded the school the town and the board had a great deal to offer salary negotia tions with teachers are com plete except for minimum and maximum figures a number acton has 7318191 of county assessment halton county has 308907- 324 worth of equalized assess ment on which 1967 taxes will be drawn it was announced last week at the february meeting of halton county council of this just over s306000000 is taxable and the remainder is government pro perty on which grants are paid in lieu of taxes oakville will pay 4376 per cent of this years rate and burlington 4035 per cent other percentages are ac ton 237 georgetown 527 milton 321 esquesing 357 nassagaweya 146 equalized assessments are acton 7318191 burlington 124650805 georgetown 16 279329 milton 9918338 oakville 135175493 esques ing 11041080 nassagaweya 4524088 assessor robert beachs re port showed there is 1360400 worth of ontario government property in halton and 811- 416 worth of federal govern ment property ontario pays grants on hydro department of highways public works and liquor control board proper ties the federal government gives grants instead of taxes on department of transport post offices armouries nation al defence cbc and canal reserve properties acton reeve herbert h hin- ton asked the county assessor whether there were any ille gal assessments in halton to my knowledge there are none mr beach replied he said be had made 4000 spot checks of assessments since assuming his position a year ago reeve hinton said ontario municipal affairs minister j w spooner had said recently there were a lot of illegal as sessments in ontario crowds of children wait ed eagerly for the opening of the new centennial lib rary monday evening when the doors were opened they swarmed into the building and librarians were taxed to meet the demands of hun dreds of avid readers lib rarians report they sold many new library cards and they expect a large increase in membership from citi zens of the town and dis trict the commodious new quarters drew admiring comments from all who vi sited staff photo of small additions to the sal- ary schedule created interest uith the teachers its the third time ive sat on the committee said chair man watson there was a definite improvement this vear we were dealing with re sponsible professionals trustee kerwin mcphail wanted to know why the board lost part of its rating with the teachers federation after being at the top last year and was un formed it was a vehicle teach ers used to inform boards about conditions resident i teacher- i the board should know teachers better person ally and this was their way of registering a protest we were at the bottom of the list three years ago the chairman reviewed last year we were at the top we slip ped one this year property chairman k mc phail reported on trouble with blackboards and heating sys tem and agreed to look further into alterations for purchasing a tractor for grass cutting the secretary suggested the board make arrangements sim ilar to the public school boards with the town kb murray and fred meadows of rock- wood display two huge specimens of pisca torial splendor they caught fishing in lake simcoe monday afternoon the big one held by ken tips the scales at 16 lbs while fred holds one just under 14 lbs both are lake trout the two anglers were ice fishing at the pine fish huts at oro station when they got the big strikes within 20 minutes of one another bait live herring and a spoon the big one almost knocked the hut stove over as it was pulled in staff photo cathy lawson finds different sign of spring signs of spring ranging all the way from crows reap pearing and more moderate weather are plentiful but ca thy lawson 10 brock st a grade 4 pupil at the robert little school probably came up with one of the most pecu liar last saturday afternoon cathv was tobogganing near the banks of the black creek which runs from lindsays mill over church st and at the loot of brock st when a large frog slippery and wrig gly jumped on her toboggan cathy ran home with the frog on her toboggan and hur ried into the house when her parents mr and mrs harry lawson heard the story they took the half frozen frog into the house and put it in a jar of water it immediately became act ive and the lawsons fed it bread crumbs which the frog devoured monday cathy took the frog to school where it was put in the room aquar ium cathy didnt know where the frog came from the creek or the ground but fa ther harry said it must have had a brace and bit to come out of either place since the ground and banks of the creek are frozen solid accepted the resignation of o l drijber from the school teaching staff admired a sign done by assistant principal j bray which was used to attract teachers at the recent junket in toronto learned mr hansen and mr bray had completed visits to public i schools in the area received a report from the principal which showed teachers missed only 10 days of school in february chairman tom watson pre sided at the meeting which had its moments of levity from trustees arbic and moffat who attended with c anderson k mcphail the secretarytreasur er and the principal ojmfjpp kttw imaffs what do you think of trad ing stamps are you for or against them halton mjp george kerr is seeking the opinions of his halton constituents he ex plains in todays we col- mm from queens park lhaf the government is considering a ban on the promotional glllhulck readers are invited to write mr kerr at ms home address 314 balmoral ave burling ton with their grass roots opinions or comments george kerr announces haltonwest candidacy george kerr present m la for halton announced he will be a candidate tor the conser- vative nomination for the pro vincial riding of haltonwest at the annual meeting of ac ton and north esquesing pro gressive conservative associa tion the meeting and social ev ening drew a modest crowd to acton music centre saturday evening the nomination meeting obtain mzb growth figures council sought figures of rate of increase and estimated enrolment pre pared for no 1 committee of council by public school prin cipal elmer smith were pre sented to the school board at their march meeting tuesday evening the data was requested in connection with the proposed addition for the m z bennett school school board representatives and the council committee have had two meetings result ing in the new request for fig ures what we need now is ac tion commented board vice- chairman cyril bishop lets quit stalling principal smiths report gate the numbers of children graduating and pupils admit ted to kindergarten for 1961 to 1971 the figures in 1966 are actual but beyond that point they are estimated and are subject to change due to popu lation shift in the area june grad 30 33 36 36 39 42 36 44 35 35 42 is a constant change in population in acton prin cipal smith said and it makes anv figure that is projected er unreliable not counting the kindergarten enrolment or the grade viii graduates the follow uig figures will give you some idea of the constant change that takes place in the school population during the vear commodation principal g w mckenzie pointed out that since speyside school no long er required a room in the stone school it has been made into an art room this could revert to a classroom in case of over crowding another classroom in the stone school is the lib rary now possibility of a boundary change so more children would attend the m z ben nett school was touched on briefly again in estimating the required number of classrooms for the mz bennett school addition i was pointed out inspector mcneill had said approval could be gien for additional classrooms to accommodate continued on page two year 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 kp enrol 52 p 49 53 40 49 38 42 44 40 40 monday opening taxes facilities crowds fill centennial library admissions transfers 6162 75 28 6263 57 40 6364 56 59 y 53 6465 63 6566 38 49 6667 so far 55 58 i aear homes proposed for lakeview will produce an estimated one and a half child ren each q about ac- first encounter with the public at the new centennial library proved hectic for the librarians but fascinating or all the hundreds of readers who came to try out the new quarters the first dav a record of about 550 books were taken out on monday boots lined the wide stairs and lineups almost filled the room hallwa in front of the checkout desk quite a few members joined but the librarians didnt look up long enough to make an estimate of how manv people were in the building school children filled the east side of the library after school on monday and many more child ren were joined by adults in the evening some of the children were back again on tuesday for the afternoon- only hours monday librarians were still there neanng 1130 pm sort ing out returned books standing behind the new walnut desk were chief lib rarian mrs isabel watson assistants miss esther taylor miss madge chapman and mrs george williams a lovolv potted chrysanth einum had been sent to them on opening day in appreci ation of iheir services from the library board a roster of helpers assisted the librarians in making the citizen of year dinner planned who will be actons centen nial citizen of tiw year the civic committee of the chamber of commerce is be- tg to make arrangements for the annual april event and they would be happy to hear from anyone with suggestions orv chapman is chair of the committee the social evening will mark chamber of commerce week here bg move last week letters of appreciation of being sent from the library board to mrs k conroy mrs g w mc kenzie mrs r drinkwaltcr mrs h r force mrs claude cook mr and mrs tom wat son and family ys men who t unspotted books in cartons were bill nelles milton ball doug copcland gary bateman brian smith rick coc and g w mckenzie they were fin ished thursda and had no problem with transferring the cartons packed by the ladies four application for care taker of the new library were reviewed at the special meet ing of the board friday even ing in the new building the application of mrs j van der kooy who lives right across the street was accepted it was library board mem bers themselves who brought vacuum cleaners from home and cleaned and polished the continued on page two will be held at central high school auditorium burling ton on april 7 andrew frame of burling ton president of haltonwest pc association urged every one to attend the meeting he mentioned a tentative date for a picnic in june calling on c k brownes 97th birthday mr browne mr frame dec lared is the oldest practising tory in the county hes also actons oldest merchant he was present at the gathering in hit address to the group mr kerr announced that 10 miles of highway 25 between 401 and acton will be comp letely reconstructed this sum mer he also referred to im provements planned for high way 25 from highway 7 to 24 at ospringe appreciation was expressed specifically to acton mayor lcs duby and reeve bert hin ton for their part in he con structive comments rather than criticism on the plunk- ctt report acton should be proud of them he declared provincial government in volvement in other district programs was also cited the provincial agricultural museum to be located on 85 acres at kelso conservation area will show a pre-confed- eration agricultural commun ity he said thousands will vi sit the steam show in its new home in conjunction with the provincial museum work on the dredging of fairv lake will begin soon the new community college for halton and peel the reg ional detention centre to re place the dungeon in milton and the new school for the deaf in milton cost the gov ernment millions of dollars he pointed out actons new stop light at the mill main corner the introd uction of a provincial flag and the new go transit system were also mentioned the new train system serving the south ern part of the area will ease the flow of traffic into toron to thus making it easier for those in the north who have to drive he reported that all parties are glad to hear john rob- arts a dominant figure in the legislature has recovered from his illness and would be back in his office on monday the possibility of an elect ion brought his declaration that he would again be a can didate during the social evening there was dancing and refresh ments were served rev a h mckenzie of ac ton is first vicepresident of the haltonwest pc associa tion and is the only represen tative on the executivejrpm acton and esquesing j is