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acton ontario wednesday october 4 1967 you alt wu0wsi ayt arena manager harold townsley left handing out cash prizes lo the three male winners in the roller skating marathon barrie elliott centre came first bob hart left second and dave mcmillan right third staff photo jane fabian accepts third prize in the roller skating marathon cathy clark 17vearold student and fiona 30 and 15 respectively they showed more from official don price she skated almost 21 hours too in the gidman 17 finished onelwp in the roller stamina than ihe boys skating for almost 21 gruelling contest staff photo tkatlng marathon and captured cash prizes of hours staff photo cathy clark barrie elliott win roller marathon timfytimee entrants in the roller skating marathon at the community centre started out strongly friday at 8 pm bj only a few eight were left as the contest went into saturday afternoon purveyors of the dominating male philosophy will have a hard time convincing arena manager harold townsley of it 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assistant don price don ford and steve townsley managed to get a gew winks of shut eye on a camp bed in the st john room numbers in the marathon dropped by dribs and drabs until only eight contestants remained late saturday morning they kept going tor about another four hours when two of the boys couldnt muster for roll call after a five minute break allowed each hour the remaining six divided equally between males and fe males looked like they could go on and on and on arena manager townsley was talking of a sunday ending with a sleepy look suddenly dave mcmillan could go en no longer bobhartwlsely decided he couldnt beat the com bination of breaks barrie elliott had chalked up so he called it quits for second prize of 20 baxrte pocketted the 40 first prize for males the gals they kept on going until jane fabian decided third prize of 10would be fine it became a two way endurance contest between fiona gidman and cathy clark fiona gave it everything she had but finally between 445 and s pm she had to quit petite cathy took another well only have three prizes the stamina of the gals amazed him plans for the marathon called or a smaller division of prizes for girls than boys with the orig inal 86 in prizes to be divided as 48 for boys and 18forgirls however 10 donations from the royal dairy jug milk store and another from sports corner along with swelling gate receipts which the arena contributed 39 made a total of 125 for prizes the boys were divided in 40 30 and 10 the gals got 30 15 and 10 entering the gruelling mara thon were craig perkins john mason jim mllson bill hagan jim flnlayson brian robinson bob toth dave mcmillan fiona gidman fred lockerbie steve mclntyre cathy clark jeanetta yateman gary edge raymond still karen townsley susan nlc- olak jane fabian bob andrews barrie elliott mrs em hur ley wayne deforest bob ros si gnay pauline whltham john bonnie leslie king donald sutler brad timbers and bob hart there was a keen run on lini ment and salve but most contest ants had recovered sufficiently to be around and about sunday one skater john mason toll and hit his head and was admitted to hospital overnight for a slight concussion skaters in the marathon were encouraged by relatives and friends who donned skates and went a few round with the con testants whirl around the rink and clinch ed first for the ladies a purse of 30 fiona got 15 if we do it again next year and we will said mr townsley development toip fields queries about closing of acton station mayor les duby headed a six man delegation from acton which attended a launching of the ont ario development corporations consulting service in kitchener monday night representatives from 15 industries in acton were invited by the chamber of comm erce but only chamber president paul neilsen clerk j mcgeach- ie reeve hinton and councillors g mckenzie andc perry attend ed dinner was followed by an ad dress by mr clarkson deputy minister of the department of economics and development in place of the minister hon stan ley randall who was unable to at tend in the discussion period acton representatives made the meet ing aware of the closing of the cnr station here and asked advise on bow to deal with the corporate body of the cnr development officials told acton delegates the consulting sendee was available for situations like this their high hird one fielded the next puzzler on bow the different regional development councils could coorinate was bobbled by corporation officials heating oil for faf fxfra comfort from service put your winter comfort in our hands now bell bros ltd milton 8786380 order now for the cold days ahead count on our dependable deliveries prompt service and top quality heating oil budget terms metered delivery prompt service quality products bell bros ltd 87s63so milton serving the district for 35 years specially qualified consultants from the odc will be holding a series of private counselling interviews in this area for the benefit of local businesses and industry further information on the program may be obtained from the chamber of commerce there is no charge for this service which is sponsored by the midwestern ontario development area council and area chanter of commerce of which acton c of c is a member blow back reason for hole in roof blow back isnt a new term in the vocabulary of fire but recent ly it got national headlines la a canadian fire which killed a fire fighter in a highrise office boll- ding are opening a door it wasnt his fault the fire fighter was blasted when air is heated it mitf and increases in pressure the vital oxygen is turned into deadly gases now yon know one of the rea sons why the are fighter chops a hole in the roof b is to vent the blaze gases and smoke fabric fires more men 457 than woman 266 died by accidental ignition of clothing in the last 10 years