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aaj the acton free press wednesday january 17 1968 a tip tf the ckapeau everybody talks about the weather but few do anything about it undoubtedly if the power to change the weather lay wlhln our hands over the weekend there would have been more than a few hands reaching for the slop button the snow hard on the heels of what was almost a rair dropped in quantities not seeri here for lome yeas roads became almost impassjhto wslklngrdlfflculf aodharerow drtvac wysere plogged up irslkiylust ike- he winters wjare prone to exaggerate wnil when svo were children we were fohuoete in thlsnecltof the woods aflhougvsome country leads wens plugged aw hydro was off mpone area w suffered nph of the inconveniences or hardship people in the london and toronto areas endured under difficult conditions he lowri work staff soon had raids around town- cleared of snow and kept traffic mov ing despite strong winds which filled in what had been plowed the main business section was cleared off in time for- tuesdays reopening of stores and other business places without interrupt ing tlie flow of traffic or causing much inconvenience township roads blockedby huge drifts were slower to be cleared but by monday afternoon most were open and workmen were starting to win the battle against th elements v work staffs froffi town and town- ship are to be iommensjed or their efficiency in noddling the emergency it ineanr many there hours of overtime add sleepless nlgbts but jjbey respond- ed with inthlalasm to the- ob of jdaep- v lng the conwnonlty mobile we are prone to criticize municipal work staffs until situations like the one pn the weekend remind us they ere an indrspenslble group on whom we lean heavily a tip of the editorial hat to them all editorial page onlif jefoej to blame the main blame for traffic accid ents rests with the driver of the vehicle this is usually someone who lets his attention wander or who tajes unnec essary chances thats the conclusion arrived at at a traffic safely conference of close to 1 000 community leaders in toronto re cently among them mayor les duby councillor bob drlnkwalter and clerk- administrator jack mcgeaehie from ac ton the best way to prevent accidents is for drivers to slop trying to blame something or somebody else to accept their own responsibility to drive with care and common sense there was unanimity on these points from representatives of the pro vincial government that makes the laws the police who enforce them the courts that uphold them and a diversity of groups with a special interest in safely educators manufacturers traf fic engineers civic union and church leaders homo sapiens being what he is however it is going to be hard to get this message across all of us are prone to blame our failures on someone else or something beyond our power to con trol its only as the old saw says hu man nature we may accept the fact that our own foibles lead us into situations which wed rather not have happen but it wont slop us from passing the buck when it affects us personally we must admit that at times we ve driven without proper attention to road and traffic especially when familiar with the road olhdr times weve taken chances which when looked back on seemed foolish but at the time appear ed justified we agree with tho traffic confer ence 100 per cent but even if we do accept the individual approach as being the correct one to take how will the message be desseminafed to those who dont ust give a darn the conscientious people will listen and try to improve driving habits oth ers will merely shrug it off and drive as they always have if everyone would heed there no doubt would be a real chance for a breakthrough in traffic safety even with the desolate snows of win ter sweeping around tombstones churchill cemetery is an ideal place for a vista of the surrounding countryside established across the line from the church the cemetery has been in use since the first pioneers put their roots down in the district staff photo sugar and spice by bill smiley editors sometimes have nightmares about tho possibilities of type from dif ferent stories getting pled a printers term for scrambled have you heard the one about one printer who dropped type from a wed ding and an auction sale with the deadline near he hurriedly gathered up tho type and placed them in the paper without separating them heres the result in the next days paper mr john katon and miss mottle thompson were united in marriage at public auction on the premises on last friday at high noon in the presence of two yearling heifers so while leg horn hens and 1j twoyearold steers the bride wore a beautiful gown of two tons of unbaled timothy hay and several hundred bundles of fodder trimmed with two spring tooth harrows and one riding cultivator she carried a bouquet of sausage grinders stuffers iron kettles and cooking utensils the groom has been a lifelong resi dent of cedarville being general man ager for two dozen pigs and about 10 milking goats tfufbride was given in marriage by two draft mares to foal by day of tale the bridesmaids were one oliver turning plow hoe drill and two shares of telephone stock the grooms best men were a elder press wheat fan and two barrels of elder vinegar miss emily johnson a friend of the bride played o promise me on one new deal manure srjmader a corn shelter and two copper kettle and stands the color scheme of lavender and yellow was carried out the room being decorated with a 13 ford sedan and 14 jersey heifers eligible to registra tion after a luncheon and reception the happy couple left for a trip of hvsi months with two percent off for cash upon their return they will be at home with two sets of almost new work har nesses and two sets of flystraps editorial note all the sand that goes on roads to protect life and limb during the winter will plague us in the spring with a dust cover whatever you want most in 1968 1 hopo you got but dont count on it thoros nothing much you can bo sure of oxcopt those old rollablos doath and taxos and with tho governmont taxing us to doath tho twain will soon bo ono when youre young a yoar seems anago and each new yoar is filled with promlso and hopo of now oxporlonco now advonturo as you got older tho yoars begin flipping past like tho pagos in a book and you realize tho now is going to bo protty much like tho old ono thoroll bo wars and rumors of wars thoroll no ono crisis after another thoro will be scandal in high places thoroll bo raco riots and protost marches there will be a lot of rotten tv faro canada will bo lielcod in tho world hockey playoffs and a lot of tho other old inovltables will be thoro higher taxos and lower morals shorter sldrts and longer facos louder music and softer bellies more people and less housing groat political promises and minuscule political action and so on uako your own list on tho personal iovol the picture is about tho same if youre a man youre probably going to loso some hair and gain some girth pick up another ache or two grow a little more grouchy or pompous and wonder loudly what the hell tho world is coming to ptcttj frw the pam osptlnoe school june 1914 the teacher and staff posed for the photo grapher beside their one room brick school mrs a j elliott now of rock- wood sends this picture she is the for mer louisa gray the teacher at the school thert mrs ellioh identifies her pupils as- ffoot row seatect left to right billy martin martin wilfred webb kenneth leitch ross mcphall roy mccutcheon jim brydon elgin sinclair gordon aitken front row standing max brydon ella mccutch eon bessie leitch hazel webb mar guerite cunningham lillian campbell cassie leitch marions aitken second row standing verna stewart nellie cunningham bertha mccutcheon annie mack frank leitch wallace cunning ham chester king fred baptie back row earl brydon archie sinclair stewj art mccutcheon wesley leitch duncan mclean harold aitken chas martin clifton aitken if youre a woman youre probably going to lose somo shape and gain a chin pick up a few moro furrows in tho face grow a uttlo more bossy and nudge your husband another degree toward an early grave whatever your sex if youre over 30 youre going to find that a uttlo moro of your gotupandgo has quietly got-up-and- wont but dont worry about that gird up your loins seize fortune by tho forelock spit in the face of fato got somo hormone shots and face anothor yoar with courage dig nlty and bursitis in both shoulders like me for whether we like it or not we happen to bo living in ono of tho most exciting timos in human history many of us often wish wo could bo uvlng in a simpler age when black and whlto right and wrong woro clearly octabllshod alas we alnt but perhaps when wo fool a twinge of regret we should also remember that in those good old days it was every man for himself the rich were richer and the poor wore starving the strong grabbed from the weak the whlto used the black as an animal tho mentally 111 were swept under tho carpot and closets were crowd- ed with skelotons now todays technological advances are frightening but fascinating everyones going to the moon personally i dont want to bo on tho first scheduled flight but tho vary idea is staggering in its re flection of mans eternal curiosity and in genuity but even more exciting in my opinion is the social revolution that is sweeping our world uodern man is examining him self as he never has before hois ute rally picking himself up by the lioelsand shaking as a result longhold ideas are revealed as poppycock rigid dogmas are shattering uko shards its as though an ancient musty attic piled with valuable antiques had had its roof blown off and a frosh clean wind had blown away the must and dust and showed most of tho relics for what they were junk todays society is perhaps for the first time ever concerned with being its broth ers keeper we are trying to do some thing about our weak and our poor and our old prejudice and intolerance are suu with us but they are attacked rather than accepted divorce abortion homosexuality and mental illness havo been dragged out of the shadows and into the light capital punish ment is almost obsolete wind you its painful the whole proc- ess of growing up is always painful but i dont want to uve in ancient greece or elizabethan england or 2068 ad i want to uve in 19s8 and see what happens how about you 20 years ago taken from the issue of ids free press of thursday january 15 1940 municipal elections were held in nassa- gaweya with b contest for the reeveshlp and council in spite of the wintry roads there was a fair vote oat la a ojosa cop- test wm van sickle polled 308 votes id j robertsons ttt pot council ic storey see 8rotos8iottlsn atujb btlentoa werij the choice of toe-electors- t mr and hrvllisrn malmsrifce jnsetly observed the 64th aatnlvsrsir of their weddng at to lneiigtira meeting of psquesing township council members taking their seats were george cleave reeve george currie deputy reeve george- leslie craig refd add wilfred bird councillors thursday nights hockey game was the roughest sees in the arena anil the third period had utttobut fight uoakvllle leg ion won by a on goal margin the penalty box was the liveliest spot all rdgpt peter federko embraced a grandson he had never seen and a daughter mrs j pryatach he had not seen since 1928 after they arrived from the ukraine ernest west represented halloa in the junior farmers zone public speaking con tent 50 years ago taken from the issue of the free press of thursday january 17 1918 an enthusiastic and wellattended meet ing of citizens was held in the council chamber last friday evening for the pur pose of organizing a horticultural society for acton 105 persons have paid their subscriptions of 1 each officers elected were president wiluam white 1st vlce- pres gh brown 2nd vlcepres mrs hp moore auditors john cameron and nf moore directors lawrence wlulams hp moore h unwin henry bauer geo mann dt metavtah miss laurettegray miss martha graham and mrs ed gamble the superabundance of fleecy whiteness blocked roads and halted trains from fri day to monday nassagawey residents claim roads were never so completely blocked rural and town church services were almost all cancelled very little bus iness was done in town on saturday our austrian residents spent the first part of the week celebrating the new year one of them named got hilarious and ran into the arms of inspector harvey who turned him over to chief lawson he was convicted and fined he says this is his last experience with the intoxicating de ceiver in genera prohibition gave quiet sober streets on monday afternoon the plucky little electric railroad beat out the gtr and landed the first car here 75 years ago taken from the issue of the free press of thursday january 18 1893 rev hb christie the pastor held a baptismal and reception service at the brick church north op the second una no looser in ettstehce he- administered the rlteof baptl em on flye adu can arid 4 persons were received into fall coonecticn at the annual meeting of tvanbce camp of the sons of auld scctu thmoudaring wen elected j mttavlah chief j ag- rfsrw chleftaiharch metfabb past chief hswackhammer th- harding rjohn- son d grant a ramshaw t cwstolm forbes t millar j f uren j lasby j stalker and j kennedy at the annual meeting of esquesing ag- rlcultural society the treasurer reported 116 in his bands directors elected ire president rd laldlaw vlcepres r lo gin director ws chlsholm h cunning ham m brown f ruddeilgeo camp- bell a little w short i ii jas leslie and david cook tuesday was a red letter day in his tory of the rockwood royal templars for years they met in the old ue church building and now they moved into a fine large old hall over mr j lanes new stone building where the foresters workmen and select knights are also to hold their meetings this is one of the finest society halls in the country nicely furnished and having an organ etc the social atchurchllicongregatlonal church was otto of the most successful five urge sleigh loads of visitors coming up fromacton the acton free press phone 853 2010 bunneis and editorial office i id i 117 jml puhluhrd nrr widrteiday ji ii si air onum hurtitwr ul ihj auji flu ju i iiiubhin ihf lwfm and ms 4umimn ijfii tn rrqurtl suhtcrip- i n pnjrtl in jdtjmt 1400 in cdnadj itfjf n j ii iuiiji ihir iun tvinidj hfil cupii ich alh i j stmrul clji mjii f oik dtfujirmiti otuuj aduihtinf u rpid on ih ti i d t trt ilui in irw itint id uruifrafthltal ivrsvr ihjf rsuftlitn f ihr arfirrfuinf spier at up i h i ht m iirm loajritut wllh i j njh jllnunir r iifniluir mill nol h ijiusii hul i lit bjljn o tw a llmlwmm will tu pj i li i 4i th apphuhlr rair in ih rui j i rn r dtrfmlng goodi ai 1 1 khlt ulfn duu imiimj mj rvuielatsj cf uj da id r dill rublldwr hanuy coltt edilor dun ryewr cuftvrlahi iwt j uanr church notices wtlihtls imdarmiariuiktlrlum thi church of st alban the martyr anglican comer willow st and st albans drive rev ritchie mcmurray ma stb trinity church the united church of canada minister rev gordon b turner b a b d orgjnim dr george elliott ma phd sunday january 2ki 1968 epiphany iii 9 00 am the holy eucharist 10 30 a m church school 10 30 am holy eucharist rftha christian reformed church minister rev p brouwer acton ontario sunday january 21st 1968 10 00 am english service 1 1 10 a m sunday school 2 jo p m alternating dutch and english service saturday bible classes 10 12 a m everyone welcome maple avenue baptist church 81 maple ave georgetown paitor rev robert c lohnes sunday january 21st 1968 10 00 am morning worship nursery provided whal is this thing called relig- lon 7 30 pm hi c for young people sunday school 1000 am junior school to gr 4 11 15 am senior school gr 5 lo gr 8 acton raptist church founded 1842 paslor rev stanley gammon res 144 tidev ave phone 8531615 sunday january 21st 1968 here is our sincere invitation to the whole family to attend church 9 45 am sunday school all ages 1 1 00 a m morning service 7 do p m evening evangel 7 45 pm wednesday prayer meeting acton 8531956 georgetown 8776665 evanoel pentccostal tare rnaclt paoc 33 churchill road rev s u thoman pastor 8532715 sunday january 21st 1968 1000 am sunday school classes for all ages ii 15 am morning worship sequences of the second advent 7 00 pm evening service some precious things tuesday january 23 annual meeting 6 jo and 8 00 pm wednesday 7 30 pm prayer bible study thursday 6j0 p m explorers thursday 8pm choir practice friday 7pm b h p text as it was in the lys of noah so shall ii be at the coming of the son of man matt 24 37 mesrvtfrian church in canada knox cmmch acton rev andrew h mckenzie ba bd minister mr e a hansen ba organist and choir master sunday january 21mh968 10 00 a m sunday school 1100 sail morning worship 700 p m evangelistic service tuesday 8 pm prayer service and bible study thursday 8 pjn christ ambassadors friday 7 pm crusaders sunday january 21st 1968 9 45 a m church school for ages i to 15 years 9 45 am ministers churcb member ship class for teenagers ii 00 am divine worship sermon theme our worries and christs peace 7 jo pm church school staff meeting ut hi elizabeth drive w everyone most welcome 1 i t