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r ht jvttim ninetysecond yearno 51 acton ontario wednesday june 21 1967 press authorimd u second cua hail by h pott ottlw dtpaitnwnt ottawa planning board resigns following councils refusal to accept rec four persons injured in two friday smashes police reported two vehicle accidents with damages total ling 1650 and four persons injured the week of june 11 to 17 pint smash occurred on church st at elgin when a 1963 valiant operated by wil liam john gillespie 138 wyn- ford place acton was in col lision with a 1966 ford driven by zvoko severunski 29 acton boulevard on friday june 16 at 325 pan polios old the gillespie car was westbound on church st and the severinski vehicle go ing south on elgin- ken bennett and elmer white passengers in the gil lespie car were injured ben nett suffering cut arms and white hit on the head estimated damage to the gillespie car was f55uand the severinski vehicle had 600 constable p campbell investi gated second accident the same day occurred at 650 pan at the millmain corner when a 1964 rambler owned by andy george dye 336 peel st and a 1966 honda motorcycle own ed and operated by walter henstridge 86 agnes st collid ed the motorcycle driver and a passenger on the buddy seat daniel hillier received minor cuts and bruises damage of 300 to the dye car was confined to the front bumper hood and radiator while the honda had an estim ated 200 damage to the front police said the rambler was going west on mill st and was attempting to turn left onto main the motorcycle was go ing east on mill st constable p thwaitesinvev tigated all members of planning board with the exception of councillor bob drinkwalter resigned thursday evening after passing the following motion due to acton town councils attitude of continually refusing to accept the planning board recommendation with out offering reasons or constructive criticism we the appoint- ed representatives hereby tender our resignation as from this date i latb hevs in brief conditional approval on welfare unit halton county council tuesday approved establishment of a county welfare unit subject to permission being granted for municipalities over 5000 population to opt out mr neilton of the department of social and family services explained municipalities could opt out if county council agreed and if the minister approved he noted the minister had never given such an approval he urged bur lington and oakville to consider trying the county plan for a year county sells 514000 in debentures county council approved the sale of 514000 in deben tures to bell gouintock and co approximately 65000 of the issue will bear 6 per cent interest in canadian funds and the balance 5h per cent in us funds the yield is 9875 in canadian funds mr dunn of bell gouinlock told councillors the canadian market had deteriorated and his firm was unable to sell more than e small portion of the issue in canada he said the discount on canadian funds would have to go to 12 per cent before the county suffered any loss from going to the u s market approve amalgamation talks halton board of health will hold talks with peel county board on the possibility of amalgamation following the sug gestion by the department of health county council learned under legislation provincial subsidies would increase from 50 per cert to 75 per cent and the present system of projects financed by the federal health grants would be elim inated all members of the board were present chairman alda braida e footltt bill wilson neil miller and council repre sentatives charlie perry and bob drinkwalter passing of the motion fol lowed a lengthy discussion and much deliberation the letter which was received from council concerning the sey- nuck plan of subdivision was read council was of the op inion that the 1300 expense should be made by the devel oper a subdivider planning boards resolution recommending the town pro ceed with a tentative plan of subdivision on the property owned by t seynuck and c griese was defeated by a close 54 vote at council last tues day- in itthe board recom mended the town bear the cost 1300 and collect it back in pieces as the land was devel oped councillor bob drinkwalter opened the subject at coun cils last regular meeting men tioning planning board was concerned about ithe area there is no plan of subdivis ion on it and the board would like to see a plan on it even if they have to pay for it them selves otherwise there could be trouble reeve hinton agreed he said it was highly desirable to get a registered plan for the area but he was against paying for it clerk j mcgeachie told council it would cost 1300 for a tentative plan in order to register a surveyor must car stolen reported stolen tuesday night from mill st was a car owned by grant withers john st the keys were left in the ignition police say warning against the practice field day the inspectorate centennial add day is being held thto morning wednesday at the ml z bennett end high school playing fields competitor come from acton mutoo brookville and campbeuvwe it was postponed from last saturday morning because of rain complete results next week survey each lot and it would cost 50 a lot the owner must provide a plan of subdivision insist ed ted tyler remember last year cautioned mr drinkwalter no further permits are to be granted to mr griese until he has a plan of subdivision the only way he can get a sat isfactory plan is to bring in the entire area said the clerk councillor charlie perry a planning board member told council he was concerned 10 acre lots could have houses scattered here and there with no plan a contractors not going to build houses here and there reported t tyler hell make full use of the available land wed be doing somethnig for a private owner if we pay continued on page five new series this week a new series of articles begins written by former actonlan robert s stewart of port credit now retired he tells of his experi ences in a pow camp during world war ii and his series concludes as he returns to dieppe for the annual service of remembrance in august li j3bm ru ill sb rpv 28h pv 1 v 1 ft a fc- v 1 i k jftrt v vjj girl drowns at limehouse a fiveyearold girl became north haltons third drowning statistic on saturday when she was found unconscious in a small swimming pool at water falls playground near lime- house on the outskirts of georgetown teresa van zutven daughter of mr and mrs j van zutven of rebeca st oakville was found by two young boys about half an hour after the mother had given the girl permission to wear a bathing suit she was rushed to georgetown hospital and later to oakville hospital but was pronounced dead the family was attending a comp any picnic a micfuss antiqui medal belonging to simon stevens of port lorinjj grandson of chief peter stevens of the algonquin indians who helped the forces of king george iii take lower canada from the french in 1 762 has been loaned to halton county museum for display during centennial year museum dir ector major h j newman left presents a special centennial year certificate to mr stev ens while mrs stevens looks on at right the medal was struck in 1762 and six were dis tributed to indian chiefs who helped the english staff photo perry chicles colleagues for failure to march at last weeks council meet ing councillor charlie perry chided fellow members for not marching in this years decor ation day parade mr perry said he felt lonely marching with only the mayor and clerkadministrator beside him councillor ted tyler jr reminded his colleague that he was in the band tootling reeve hinton explained he was away for the weekend and the deputyreeves absence was chalked up to health reasons but councillor perry felt oth ers should have marched the mayor told mr perry there were probably sound rea sons for the small turnout esquesing council puzzles over glen street names in pink puimud chapeau mrs george young served at the io de centennial tea saturday story and pictures inside staff photo esqucsing council went into a huddle at their regular meet ing monday night in an effort to name three streets in glen williams so mail delivery can be inaugurated there outside of a motion by coun cillor tom hill to rename the ninth line from the cut hill in georgetown to above the glen confederation street no further names were produced councillor hill piqued at in structions from the post office department to name streets which didnt jibe with his knowledge of the area told council the list should go back to the georgetown post office and put straight deputyreeve george currie was unhappy street names had to be changed so they didnt re semble those in georgetown why doesnt georgetown change theirs he asked those streets were there be fore there was a georgetown the deputy reeve approved councillor hills suggestion of confederation st for the ninth line affectionately dubbed highway 99 by natives ol the glen if not that how about dicfenbaker st or pearson aj- ley remarked mr currie face- tiously mr hill whose political lean ings are never disguised quick ly retorted cali the back street pearson alley streets in the glen which will receive postal delivery were ticked off as alexander black beaver credit erin guclph 25 yards west of erin karen drive main st to 300 yards north of ravine st mountain mountainview rd to 200 yards north of st no 2 haines crescent park prince ravine to 125 yards east of main tweddle and streets 1 and 2 nameless which creat ed much controversy solicitor terence baines was present at the meeting to ask council to take appropriate ac tion regarding the closing of glen st approval from the three adjoining land owners messrs cooper lucas and nor ton had been received reeve leslie assured mr barnes the necessary legal ac- robt little students attend county council students from grade seven of the robert little school toured county facilities and sat in on part of a county council meeting in milton on tuesday warden w j coulter wel comed the students to county council and their teachers vice principal doug copeland and miss riseborough and ex plained the composition of county council made up of rep resentatives of the local muni cipalities members of the council were introduced the students were present for the presentation by an al gonquin indian chief of a medal given by george iii to his ancestors for assisting the british in 1762 the medal will be displayed in the halton county museum and returned to the chief when he requests it the medal is one of two such medals known to exist in north america other guests present at the meeting were globe and mail columnist bruce west and his wife tion would be taken council also agreed a hidden intersec tion sign or something similar would be placed to designate mr baines driveway since the entrance to his place was blind coming uphill assessor a w benton gave council a comprehensive re port on the recent assessors convention and recommended council assume the cost of courses assistant clerk del french and assistant assessor stephen saxe passed recently the government pays 60 per cent both del and stephen receiv ed good marks said mr ben ton his recommendation was accepted and council congratu lated the two successful stu dents as well as assuming costs council agreed to contact a bricklayer and ask him to in spect and recommend what to do with poor bricks in the township office building oth er avenues still had achieved no results and councillor hill was fed up with waiting get it done and over with he urged its about five tim es its been brought up here the reeve reminded council repairs had been held up be cause they wanted to tender continued on page five i irrrrrrrrr rrrr rvrrrrrrrfrr rrrrrrrr 1 mayor l a duby elected head two influential bodies acton major l a dub had the unusual distinction of be ing elected head of two influ ential municipal associations in one week saturday june 10 at the 14th annual conference of the town and village section of the ontario municipal assoc iation in tilbury maor duby was elected president for 1967- 68 succeeding mayor curtis l roth of new hamburg five days later at richmond hill les as hes affectionate ly known to actonians was elected president of the cent ral ontario regional develop ment council which compris es the counties of halton peel york ontario and metro politan toronto he succeeds d b lewington of pickering twp mayor john f eakins of lindsay is the new vicepresid ent of the influential town and village section of the o m a the executive also in cludes a secretary seven dir ectors and four past presid ents representing towns and villages from all over the pro vince thirtyfour villages and 104 towns are members municipalities holding mem- be hip in the ontario munic- pal association represent 92 per cent of all the people in the province the o m a has five sections including the town and village section welfare officers as sociation ontario association of urban rural municipal ities ontario municipal pur chasing agents association and ontario municipal admin istrators association maor duby by dint of his election has been assigned to the important resolutions com mittee of the oma parent or ganization interviewed by the free press the mayor sad of all the organizations in which a municipality can have mem bership the 0 ma is a must primarily because it is compri sed of both elected and appoin ted people this means you can come up with a sounder olution to municipal prob lems this is especially true when you consider the various sections thinking for a moment he continued these sections hold ji jnrual tuodav confer ence or workshop to deal with the problems related to them alone out of this come soupd resolutions for approval of the o m a to be passed on to the ontario legislature this is my own personal centennial project mayor dubv remarked when the re porter alluded to the work load added to already burden ed shoulders he has been a director of the o ma s town and village section for five ears and vicepresident for the past 18 months fifteen municipalities are participating along with eight corporate memberships in the central ontario regional de- elopmcm council mayor du- b was in on the formation of the council as a director and is familiar with its aims and obiectives because last years chairman was unable to attend many meetings les has actually fill ed the presidents chair for a term previous in his capacity as icepresident this gives him an insight into the prob lems hell face as head of the council mrs anne macarthur nas- sagaweya councillor is also a director of the cordc and david r dills of the dills printing and publishing co is a corporate member commenting on his election the acton mayor said munic ipalities who decide to become members of cordc pay eight cents per capita annually be nefits far outweigh the three hundred or so dollars actons share amounts to he claimed as our society becomes more and more complex the need increases for municipal ities to get together and dis cuss common problems to de velop coordinated plans to find out what they have and what they need to strive to gether for total progress he emphasized in a nutshell said the mayor mutual benefit re sults from mutual under standing and municipal coop eration the free press joins in con gratulating mayor duby on his two appointments liasiiaesessfeei