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j ninety third year no 40 acton ontario wednesday april 3 1968 aulrx rizrd set td ci am lull ly it ottawa r f i i aid in lil sixteen pages ten cents acton students finish first in marathon three acon students who attend sheridan college were j hike in aid of the eagter seal campaign saturday- dong port phil mario had hoy sholos walked over the finish bne in- brampton in front of the 22 students who started oat from toronto cfty hall each marcher had a sponsor who pro mised so much money for every mile walked ice carnival on saturday ends season just over 100 excited young skaters will be taking part in the annual figure skating clubcarn- lval this saturday night in the arena and it marks the last night of skating for the season around the world is the theme for the show and highlights will be guest appearances by dr charles snelllng sffwmes can adian senior mens champion janice peters 196s runnerup in central ontario free skating and 1948 junior ladles free skating champion for western ontario and lee armstrong 1986 juven ile central ontario free skating champion and 1968 juvenile mens champion of western ontario the two instructors be remrs glen skuoe and mrs ed leather- land will also skate the program which begins with a timely stawartess se quence swings on a world tour through ireland scotland eng land holland france switzer land spain hungary russia janan india hawaii and braxll before a welcome home to canada conclusion art exposition wivis praise artdrama an aft com petition open to students and staff at acton- district high school needed concentration from a panel of threo judges before de cisions- on winners wore made tuesday afternoon devised organized and direct ed by the art club at the school under the direction of mrs mar- git laszlo the competition drew a variety of art in oils pastels water colors and charcoal prizes were donated by beard- more and co and were presented by mrs j bray judges mrs j bray miss e taylor and tom watson picked grade 13 student norma moffats entries as winner in both water colors and pastels miss moffat has applied for admission to the ontario college of art naxt year the pastel class was won by barry brari a grade 9bfetudsnr who submitted large- pastel painting of horses a pastoral scene in ottswon mary jane new a gtad iz student first place in the oil painting class teacher mrs denahulnekens entries were alsopickedasprize winners by the judges but she graciously withdrew to leave the field open to the students it was the first exposition by the art club which meets once a week alter classes paintings were displayed in the hall where students were able to pick their own favorites from among entries noma mortat and barry breen display the paintings and charcoal sketch which won them prizes in the artorama contest judged at the high school tuesday afternoon norma a grade 13 student won the laurels in water colors end charcoals sho plans to attend the ontario college of art barry breens paint ing took top honors in the pastel section barrys a student in grade b the contest was open to students and staff at the school staff photo orade 12 student mary jano new was awarded first prize for hor oil painting in the art o rama udging at acton district high school on tuosday afternoon judgos wore mrs joo bray miss esther taylor and school board mombot tom wat son tho ovont undor auspices of tho art club at the school was orcjc nizod and diroctod by mrs laszlo staff photo linemens new contract proposals outlined to commission rev harry of st albans dawson rector from may 1 georaetownesquesing f township will post guard at dump replace broken street lights was there any vandalism over the school holidays mayor les duby asked hydro superintendent doug mason at the last regular meeting of the hydro commis sion the answer waslntheaftlrm- ibvel we bad to replace over 40 broken street light bulbs the super answered we blamed it on bb guns they must have been using them oa our roof too complain ed chairman ted tyler theres more holes now than we ever had before chairman ted tyler sr sug gested perhaps acton hydro needed only a caretaker staff and no unementollowlngnew contract proposals submitted by hydro employees dorson frizzell and ken hodgson at the thursday meeting of the commission mr tyler saidthe commission should take a darn good look at things before anytiungisaoneone way or the other on contract proposals which were passed around the commission table he asked superintendent doug mason to compile a breakdown of the time spent on line maint enance and rebuilding lines suggesting perhaps it would be cheaper to have the work done by an outside crew than to main tain linemen on the local staff lots of water heaters are being sold the chairman said how much does it cost for line men to do this mayor duby in a more con ciliatory tone said the commis sion should study the requests put a deadline on and give our selves time to get the job done properly commissioner doug dawldns reaction to the chairmans sug gestion was a query you must have some newlnformationwhai is if he asked mr tyler ill give you time to look at it yourselves its being done be averred in presenting their brief ur frizzeu and mr hodgson said their requests were based on what other utilities are getting asked to buttress their brief with arguments before the com mission studied the proposals mr frizzell went overeachitem with the comment the entire con tract would help our pockets a little bit included in the brief were the following points 1 benefits paid by the com mission be raised to 75 per cent of the coat 2 accumulated sick pay of one budget new teachers secretory on high school boards agenda acton high school board re quires 382522 in its budget for 1968 exact amount of grants is not yet known for certain and the remaining coat is split be tween acton esqueslng andnas- sagweya high school board members at their masting in the school mon day approved the new figure cut bom their original estimate it is still higher than last years m37s4 figure one cut was made in the trans portation budget to lower the figure and members discussed ways of holding tighter rein on charter bus trips for students the amount creeps up steadily every year finance chairman chester anderson observed however chairman duncan mof fat recalled the transportation bill has been higher in the past than in the last lew years if the school participates in sports involving outoftown trips nothing can he done about the bus costs however special held trips and tours were talked over with ray arbie wondering why cant the teachers budget for trips oa april 10 a bus trip was scheduled for just is students to toronto and the board questioned sending a bus not completely filled with students vie principal joe bray explained tfau is the total memberahlpojth notary ekab and they were going to tour the central library in toronto which could take no more in one tour the outing an annual is treat for the library workers when it was suggestedgolngby car would be cheaper principal hansen reminded the board it had been their decision that private cars not be used for school trips the trip was approved ray arblc reported the budget committee of council had com mended secretarytreasurer fred salt on his tine presentation of the high school board budget transportation chairman ker- win mcphall reported that during the march snowstorm actons buses were the only ones in north halton which operated all teachers needed at present are hired tor next year manage ment chairman tom watson said but two of the present staff are still not committed to stay hero net teachers hired are mrs nan hurst acton who will teach english and history mrs b warner girls physical educa tion and history brian sleurrett sudbury guidance and mathema tics el shean commercial and j w may english and history resignations were read at tho meeting from ron uccauum and pat sullivan miss carolyn ueenery has been engaged as of april 8 to do guidance secretarial work attendance forms and other office work in the high school she join mrs lauder and mrs pendleton in his report principal hansen said as part of tho guidance pro gram all grade nine students will visit beardmores porters and micro plastics plants this month on wednesday april 24 colored slides about courses at sheridan college will be shown to grade 12 and 13 students the boards representative on the interim committee on edu cation preceding the county board tom watson reported he and murray smith with the help of inspector mcneill had been proceeding very welllnpreparing guidelines for future financing mr smith and mr watson were assigned tothe finance committee by the interim board one of these days ur wat son commented freds golngto fcimrinurd on pag 3 and a half days a month to a total of 182 days s if statutory holdiiys tall on saturday provision be made for the holiday soma other uroe- 4 three weeks vacation after eight years service and four weeks after is years 5 standby time raised to 24 a day from 914 6 paying a man injured on the job until compensation cheques are received 7 a 12 per cent increase in wages chairman tylers first re action to the proposals was a reminder that the commission was handling public money there are some things we cant do that private companies can he said mr frizzell said linemens wages at the local commission were just brought up even with other utilities now asked to explain the request for money to tide tbem over till compensation cheques arrived vr frizzell explained the com mission would be reimbursed when they did its just an idea he said i know from personal experience it can be pretty rough waiting six weeks for compensation commissioner orvllle brown agreed he referred to claims by the compensation board about fast processing of claims but lacked any knowledge of evidence for the speed claimed commissioner doug dawldns said he personally knew of com pensation claims being settled within a few days mayor duby recalled one christmas when he had to borrow money from a company em ployees fund to buy a tonofcoau the mayor recommended the commission set guide lines for their policy and then go home and think about it is there any comment from our salaried staff asked the mayor referring superintend ent mason and secretarytreas urer audrey urouhart they might want fresh baskets of flowers on their desks there was no comment new rector of st albans church will be the rev harry j dawson who is recently as sistant curate at st georges church st catharines mr dawson his wife and young daughter will be moving to the rectory when he begins his duties here may 1 mr dawson is a native of ham ilton and a graduate of bishops university in lennoxville and huron college in london he was ordained to the priesthood by bishop bagiull in 1965 and since thon has been at st catharines with tho largest con gregation in the diocese in his letter read to the parish sunday bishop bagnell added under canon downey your new rector has gained great ex perience both in the pastoral care of the people and in the adminis tration of the parish he will come to you with enthusiasm vigor and deep dedication the bishop letter introducing the rev dawson ra b th was read at the 9 oclock service last sunday by the rectors war den fred new and at the 1030 service by peoples warden don lindsay public school board seeks to pare costs public school board chairman cyril bishop informed his board tuesday that the requisition to council budget committee for 167794 was sent back to the board for review last years levy from acton council was 105000 increase in staff with recom mended new teachers and tho possible m z bennett addition account tor tho increase total expenditures for the year estimated by the board are 405- 212 with an anticipated 290044 in government grants there aro clouds on the hor izon warnod mr bishop and after the regular meeting ad journed board members stayed on to talk with the architect donald sldnner and to work over the budget figures tor a repre sentation to council the costofconstructionalone is up 75000 mr bishop ob served its quite a jump three wives of high school teachers will be on the staff at the neighboring m z bennett school next fall principal smith told the board mrs ian mcguuvary who has been teaching grade two there the past year will returnto kind ergarten work mrs bruce and rews an experienced teacher will come back to acton to teach in the primary division mrs shean whose husband is just joining he tus staff next tall will come from hamilton to teach a junior class principal elmer smiths pro jection of his teacher require ments depends on the addition it the addition is not built by next september portable classrooms or other arrangements will have to be made its just a matter of days till we know it there will be an ad dition mr bishop said special teachers recommended are mrs titan parttime art teacher between the two schools a shared remedial readtngteach- continued on paot 8 the running feud between es- quesing township and georgetown had more fuel added monday night esqueslng council annoyed at alleged use of the township dump by georgetown residents passed a resolution to hire a guard and post him at the gateway of the dump saturday afternoons the resolution was worded so the action would prevent residents of other municipalities from using the dump but there was no doubt about where it was directed recent publicity charged deputy reeve tom hill has in dicated we are not paying our share for things we didnt de serve it if georgetown is going to charge esqueslng for library time it is time esqueslng charg ed georgetown to use the township dump i had a call saturday con tinued the deputyreeve and discovered four different people from georgetown were using the dump at the same time the subject irritated council lor pat patterson too he re ferred to town workmen picking tragic loss sympathy of this community and district goes to mr and mrs elmer roszell and family knox ave in the tragic loss of their two yearold daughter the utile girl took 111 sunday firefighters were summoned with resuscltator equipment sun day afternoon in an effort to revive the little tot who was unconscious and unable to breathe when the resuscltator tailed to revive her mouthtomouth resuscitation was used but all the efforts of firefighters and dr r d buckner were unsuc cessful funeral service was held to day wednesday from the rum- leyshoemaker funeral home up garbage all over the township dumped there by people from out side the township the deputyreeve said he had a call recently about garbage being dumped on the given road be tween the third and fourth unas below acton and ha and council lor patterson investigated they found evidence identifying the dumper immediately contacted him with an ultimatum ha soon had the pile cleaned up mr h1u said were going tohavetocontrol the gate said reeve currle weve got no business to shove anyones dirt over the dump but esquefthgs theyll dump it on the aide roads claimed councillor pat terson well fix themtooretortad the deputyreave why would anyone dump a stove and a mattress at the aide of the road asked road super intendent referring to a recent pickup his man made because saidthe reeve with a straight face that slowly broke into a grin they wanted to sleep and keep warm tool the motion to post a guard at the dump proposed by mr h1u and seconded by mr patterson passed unanimously birds recall horror film for lakeview residents residents in lakeview subdivision had visions of an aured hitchcock fantasy sunday night when huge flocks of blackbirds descended on lawns and trees for those who saw the hitchcock horror fllta called the birds where huge hocks of birds tried to take over the country sundays sight almost looked uke an eerie scene from the picture the flock was estimated to be weu over 1000 blackbirds they were not so bold as the manuuing hitchcock birds flying away at the slightest intrusion the birds descended after the heavy shower of rain leading residents to believe they were after the first worms and grubs in frosttree ground chomliets sag in score hr mm background music for halton countys new promotional film has been sungbythe acton legion chorallers robert meyer of robert meyer productions ltd wrote the original arrangement of songs to match the film foot age and brought it to acton for the local choir to learn and sing although the men picked up the harmony to familiar tunei quickly it took two nights before the timing was perfect enough to match to the film mr meyer directed them in singing the hlro is to have its prem ier at the county building way 9 and will also be shown at the international plowing match in wellington county in october aa part of the halton county display it will be available tobeahownby any groups wishing it it pur pose is to promote the county the choralier learned they not only ting but also appear in the movie films were taken of them singing on their float on their way to the park on fair day mat and mks b wkmht celebrated their golden wedding anniversary with a reception at their home on wilbur si saturday many friends and relatives gathered to honor them and with them many more yean of happy wedded life staff photo its cancer campaign month response has always been good bare the association for the ment ally retarded held a success dance in the legion hall friday evening an ad this weak reminds citizens a bonfire permit isneed- ed last weeks rash of urea underdoes the firefighters re quest for cooperation