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the acton free press wednesday december 13 1967 pay day for the beardmore and co fire department is always a highlight of the annual christmas dinner and dance which took place in the legion hall friday night beardmore fire chief bern van fleet accepts his honorarium from company beardmore co fire brigade honored at dinner dance beardmore and cos annual salute to the companys fire de partment which doubles as pay day for the brigade was enjoyed by an enthusiastic crowd at the legion hall friday night although the formalities were cot to a minimum by illness of company officials who were un able to attend a delicious dinner was enjoyed followed by euchre and dancing beardmore fire chief bern van fleet extended a warm welcome to all and gave his own personal thanks for the cooperation be received during the past year deputy chief bob angell introduc ed the guests who included the mayor mr and mrs john grief- eneder acton fire chief mick holmes and his wife as well as a representative of this news paper beardmore director ray evel an representing the company reviewed he year and expressed sincere appreciation for a job well done there were no serious fires in the plant this year and the brigade was able to handle minor blazes with such a record asked mr evelan why the need of a com pany brigade re enlarged on the work the brigade did in recogniz ing hazards but felt it was un necessary to show howlmportant their presence was to the com pany since it was well known mr evelan passed along apol ogies from company president wj beatty and vicepresident norm bralda for their inability to be present both wefe ill final item on the program was a personal presentation to each member of the brigade of their honorarium by mr evelan lois gordon of the legion ladles auxiliary was called up to receive the thanks of the diners for the dinner she pre pared she replied humorously to bob angeus thanks opp report bad weather can be crash preventative when a person stops to think of motor vehicle accidents the number that occur the number of persons killed and injured one too invariably thinks of weather conditions adverse to the opera tion of a car and attributes the majority of the accidents to it and yet if we stop to think deep ly enough we might find that these same adverse weather con ditions often prevent accidents who among us drive as quickly or as casually on ley roads as we do on dry pavement accident statistics compiled at the acton opp office gov erning the week of december 3 to 9 1967 tend to add weight to our projected theory decemb er 3 to 9 a week of snow of rain of sleet and of ley roads december 3 to 9 a week in which only one accident occurred in acton and that before winter truly arrived when the pave ment was bare and dry food for thought perhaps other traffic activities en countered during the same week show the six man force to have worked 216 hours driven 726 patrol miles laid three traffic informations and issued 36 war nings to erring motorists our general duties ledger in dicates a total of 13 nontraffic complaints the most serious be ing the theft of an auto the car was recovered and charges are pending completion of the invest igation other requests for pol ice action included one minor theft one disturbance and eight minor complaints magistrates court at milton was in session on both decem ber 4 and december 6 this week and dealt with 22 acton charges of these 10 charges were re manded until a later date two were dismissed and convictions were registered on the remain ing 10 fines and costs meted out by magistrate langdon to the guilty parties totalled 946 with christmas holiday sea son quickly approaching we wish to issue a word of warning to the merchants and other citizens of the town christmas is readily acknowledged as ajtime ol giving but unfortunately some people consider it as a time for taking too with large crowds filling the shops and pressing for ser vice the quick change artist the fraudulent cheque passer and the shoplifter are all afforded an excellent opportunity to practise their illegal art be alert to anyone attempting to confuse you be suspicious of strangers attempting to cash a cheque be sure to obtain am ple identification be safe and during the week of dec 3 9 inclusive personnel of milton de tachment ontario provincial police worked a total of 91134 hours and patrolled 6613 miles on area highways as a result of patrol 49 charges were preferred 51 traffic violation warnings were issued and 21 vehicles were safety checked there were 24 convictions registered in magis trates court there were 14 property dam age accidents and eight personal injury accidents resulting in 18 persons being injured and prop erty damage totalling 22350 most accidents resulted from drivers losing control of their vehicles on icy roads or falling to adjust their speed according to road and weather conditions there were two charges laid as a result of these accidents there were 34 general occur rence s during this period includ ing one minor theft from resi dence and one minor theft from auto involved in an accident one investigation of indecent expos ure two mlsslngpersonsinarea both subsequently located one stolen car recovered for wood stock police dept one auto fire on 25 highway north of town- limits one liquor investigation resulting in one person being it is unlikely you will be sorry sorry sorry mr motorist can we prevent you too from be ing sorry too late can we ef fectively caution you against one more for the road will you heed our word when we say as little as two drinks can effect your ability to drive christmas is a time of joy a time of togetherness dont all ow drink to spoil the fun dont force us to spoil it either if you drink dont drivel ramcrasr f r rrtr rrf chtcktm french fries 9c special picnic pak 8 pieces of flavor crisp chicken co 1q read to sere c chicken in a box 3 pieces of chikvn french fries cole slaw buttered ma bun hnnev 10 phone 8531201 family pak 14 pieces of chicken rolls honev party pak 20 pieces of chicken 399 525 open waafcawda fri sat 11 am to midnight sunday noon to 8 pm b mhood driveln lets blame it on the christmas rush two omissions in the high school board meeting account last week left readers up in the air project action supporters were particularly frustrated by the unfinished sentences which should have read the loss at their dance in the high school severally hamp ers the groups charitable work the letter said and the other the report from the secur ity officer at the dance as requested was sent to the board following the project action dance he said there had been no reportable incidents the machine operators prac tised eye skipped a line in the account of the duke of devonshire lode meeting to mix up slides shown by mrs mcleod of scot land mrs young of western canada and mrs force of italy portugal and other european countries apologies to our confused readers blame it on the christ mas rush robert r 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