Acton Free Press (Acton, ON), June 12, 1968, p. 1

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what jwtm mttt prtss ninetythird yearno so acton ontario wednesqav june 12 iv6b eighteen pages ten cents pierre to visit holton ontario scrtoiar and winner of 4000 scholarship trudv morris will take science at queens university in the fall she garners the highest awards to ever come to an acton high schools graduate and has a record of consistently high marks 90 per cent first ontario scholar wins 4000 award liberal workers in bottthslloo and haltonwonrwortb ridings and the district sr busy making arrangement for a mammoth hmcbme for tbelr leader prime minister pierre trudoeu friday the prime mlnleter isoxpecl- sjd to atop in oakvlue around- thcinoon hoiirfora pubuc gath- erif at oak quepall then rush off to biirungton entering the downtown area by guelph una and new street to central part burlingtons town band will entertain the crowds hore tru- deeu wjll make a brief speech and meet the people after being welcomed by the mayor at bur lington and liberal officials haltonwentworth candidate john llorlaon will accompany trudoau on his tour a special request has been made to allow children out of school- to meat the prime minister although mr trudeau wiu not visit north haltonarrangements are being made to bus milton acton and georgetown people to oakvlue to meat him the trudeau motorcade la e- peetad to leave for st catherines at about 3 pm and then swine back tojtartilltorrfor a rally that overling at hanultdd civic stad ium supporters and party workers will meet ai burjingtoo cehtral xrens it about 6 pm and leave the arena at 645 to go to the stadium the burlington towni hand will accompany lie motor cade and play atthe v mr trudeau la wspoclud o apeejt at 30- ptrt following v the rally eujjprtor will go back to the huiiinglorj arena for trudeauagogo dance with prood going to the meyftuld school for helavded children tickets for the ratty ave avail able through liberal poll cap- tsins nd af headquarters cut a first come first adrved basis jvv snoopy brownie pair of squirrels delight townsleys charllo brown the inquisitive red squirrel who found a homo with the harold townaley family on cameron st for a few months has not roturnod charllo dlsappoerod last fall presumably to a hollow troe in the townsley yard but he hasnt been awn since and the family unprecedented awards for an aetoo high school graduate have been wan by trudy morris 17 who will have completed heryear with marks expected to reach about 90 per eont she has been awarded a general motors scholarship of 4000 1000 for each university year she will also be actons first ontario scholar with over 80 ir cent in grade 13 to receive wo trudy who moved to acton from hamilton with her parents mr and mrs harold morris maintained her high scholastic record throughout ail her school years she attained over do per seat each year in high school aba took als subjects ibis year ter nine credits she will be taking science at queens university kingston majoring in biology and chem istry commented principal ted han sen this is the first of this kind of award for acton high school as far as anyone can recall weareauploasedtohave a person like trudy here she has an older sister sherry and two othors in the family are also at ahs nancy and gordon her father is the owner of morris pharmacy sbo will also receive other local awards at graduation in the tall trudy is working at halton centennial manor for the sum mer last summer the tiuiglu swim- mlng at the playground has little hopo of roslghllng the cute nut cracker this week the disappointment of charlies disappearance was temporod somewhat when garry sldrrow presented the townsleys with throo cute uttle baby squirrels most people would toll gerry to go peddle his oil the town sleys wero dollghtodl they promptly adopted tho throo llttlo waifs whtfeamo from a tree near the baptist church and installed ihetn in comfortable quarters in tho house un- fortunatoly the smallest of the canadas niimv minitm pierre elliott trudeau is making plans lo visit oakvllle burlington st catharines and hamilton on friday afternoon and evening he is pictured at e recent mooting where he met halton rid ing candidate rud whiting left trudoau- manla is expected to break out around oak queen mall at noon friday when ha stops there briefly then its off lo burlington around one oclock for a civic reception in company with halton wentworfh candidate john mori- son staff photo vnmis nothing ukk some of grandmas cookies to maw bohv squirrels sit up end eat favorite suite for the two mrv ciickurs is harold townsleys shirt pocket both of them cuff up there with only tails protruding staff photo child escapes drowning in fairy lake sunday a sunday oulfng al kmallwood acros hoach nearly onded in tragedy for tho emmorson fam ily when slxyosrold shane emmorson wandered out into deep water and narrowly uscapud drowning according to his grandfather mr bob emmorson of macdon- aid blvd acton shane a non- swimmer was splashing around noarhe shoro and than strayed into tho deopor water he got a mouthful and swallowed his tongue he was only in the water about throe mlnulos when they spotlod him floating out beyond tho buoys ho said kevin conroy assistant acton scout loador applied the schaef- or method of artificial reeplra- esquesing land ripe for development annexed milton was granted a majority of the land it sought through an nexation in an ontario municipal board decision released tues day all the land requested was granted from etcsiealng and from oakvllle the omb grant- ad all but the western corridor which lies west of the present limits to the dividing line between oakvlue and burlington the annexation decision will more than double the acreage of the present town the latest decision awards milton appro- imately 1171 acres from oak vlue and 369 acre a from esques ing in an interim decision in ims the board granted milton ml acres from esquesing and 47 acres from- oakvllle the towns original application to the ontario municipal board in 1065 was for 2700 acres of that 1767 has been granted effective on january 1 1069 milton district hospital and the ontario school for the deaf will be in milton as well as canadian mater co ltd jas h matthews co mlacoiporauonedsweld- lag hand chemical industries copelanalumber star steel beaver lumber pigment and chemical co and a number of other commercial establish ments the boundaries on the west of the town will remain unchanged except to the south where the rallway will be the boundary the boundary on the south will bo 10 sldoroed or derry road but will extend around the bos pltal property on the east the boundary will be the third line to the base lino where it jogs further oast to the point the base line iniercoptshlghwaytol the pass bylaws water and sewer amending by laws were passectat tho regular council tuesday confirming new rates for both town and out-of- town residents for service and installations commlttoe of the whole chair man bobdrinkwalteromphastsed town residents would pay no ad ditional cost if they were using over 1000 gallons the mini mum has been boosted from the previous figure of 600 gallons rural residents whouae acton water meanwhile will pay a minimum of 10 every two months mayor duby and reeve hlnton opposed the water rate bylaw while the mayor was alone in apposing the sewer rates boundary on the north wlu be highway 401 in its decision the board in dicated it had no hesitation in ordering the annexation on the lands in esquesing the land is located immediately south of highway 401 and is obviously ripe for industrial development shot starving dog found concerned young boys brought a sick dog they found in the park to the pouce this week the dog had been shot in the shoulder and the pouce took it over to dr frank oakes the wound in the shoulder was healing all right the veterinarian said but the dog was starving neither pouce officer nor sympsthetlc boys could keep the dog so it was returned fed to the park and the pouce are tracing the owner from the tag the police office this week also received a cau about a cat which had been injured ap parently struck by a stone this family pet was also treated by the veterinarian the board noted oakvtllee ob jection was that if the proposed area was granted and all develop ed the sewage effluent would be in excess of the carrying capacity of the sixteen mile creek which flows through the centre of oak vlue in the boards opinion this is quite a legitimate position for the town of oakvllle to take in view of the population explosion which is taking place in the pro vince milton will be assessed the costs for esqueslngs represent ation in the hearings as this is the second application against the township trio weak when tho townsleys first received him later died the other two dubbed snoopy and brownie by a doughted jeff and juue townsley are very much alive full of tricks and keeping tho household in a state of ferment charlie brown if he does come back wlu find his place taken by the dynamic duo nope the townsleys arent going squlrrely they uke animals and the squlrrols are euto clean pets if they start chewing on the living room wallpaper like olo charlie brown however you can be assured mrs townsley wont hesitate to give them their walking papors as far as the collar anyway rename school creek after early acton family fire tuesday e at beardmres a ore in the upper leather finishing room at beerdmores tuesday morning at 6 am was quickly brought under control by the plant fire brigade when the town brigade heard the special tannery whistle sum mon the beardmore brigade 12 members rscod to the fire hall and had the truck ready to rou if help were needed a call to the plant informed them every thing was under control coffin spell the sympathetic neighbor ap proached the farmer who was busy with hammer and saw hear your wife is alun yep uttlo porely that her coughin nope maldn a henhouse the school crook which moan- dors from the fish pond property on tho third lino behind warren grove crosses tho railway and flows down past dills printing tho robert llttlo school tho centennial library and under the main st w bridge before joining fairy lako has a new name council tuesday night accoptud a resolution proposed by reove bort hlnton that the creuk be called hondersons criiek after a ploneor acton family much of tho property thu crouk flows through once had a pond on tt called hendersons pond back of tho present dills printing plant thu hendersons wore a well known family in actons early dayspromlnent in business affairs there was once a dam holding back waturs of the pond just back of the dills plant the crystal clear creek was famous for the quantity and quauty of the trout lurking hurr many an early actonjan got a creulfull of speckled beautlus from us waters outside of suckers which schoolboys used to pull up in basxetloads thu creek has had few finny occupants in the past few decades however should the town and the credit valley con servation authority decide tore- turn the crouk to its pristine purity tho creek could once again bo a fishermans haven no 1 committee of council has asked tho clerk to arrange a mooting botweon committee members and cvca repre sentatives to view hondersons creuk with a view to improving the waterway parks board has proposed a gruenbelt down the length of the stream to its mouth at thu park tloji with the assistance of anoth er st johns ambulance man from out of town and a register ed nureej until help came dr van der bent said the boy wss unconscious but still breath ing when he arrived at the beach he was immediately taken by car lo the hospital in guelph where he remained until yesterday for observation shane la the son of mr and mrs ronald emmerson of hea ps isr his grandfather explained the smallwooda were watching the children and so were we but its impossible to sea every thing he expressed his appreciation to all those who helped in the rescue dr van der bent is confident that shane will have no iu after effects abusload mostly high school studunts is going friday to oak vlllo to see pierre eulot trud eau hes expected to be at a plaza for half an hour around noon and local supporters are going to give him a cheer swim pool owners here must deal with bylaw anyone wanting to take a cap in stair own swimming pool hence forth in aetoo wiu be subject to pool bylaw introduced read ass passed by council tuesday sight the bylaw atta out among other things that the pool must he enclosed by a chain unk fence t laaat tear fast high have ira posts in concrete only one tat that same height as the fence which la attfcloalng and has a aetf- laoalng device on top contravention of the bylaw watch forbids barbed wire and electrical cooneetiona as well as other entanglements carries a penalty it will be enforced by the building inspector who wlu also issue permits at no cost to those who apply object of the bylaw which is patterned after oakvillea ts to provide protection to the public and especially children who might wander into a nelghbora pool deputy reeve frank oakes wondered if council wasnt being a uttle dictatorial instating the gate to the pool be locked al all hues anleas thai owner or bis agent required entry uv cant do what he wants on bis own property he charged reeve hlnton argued however that the pool constituted a hazard unless it was properly protected the bylaw merely puts the onus on the owner to take care of it dr oakes was upset to think teenage children couldnt invite neighboring children over to swim without the owner or his agent present councluor earl maaales reminded council much of actons recreation was being supervised by teenagers whom the reeve doubted could be class ed as authorised agents mr hlnton said no 1 commit tee studied bylaws from several places before deciding this one was most desirable for acton councluor ted tyler a late comer objected to the chain link fence part of the bylaw its too much uke an institution he charged what about the feuov who wants a belter fence he bit children could climb a chain unk fence easily i his was the only opposing vote to the bylaw which wiube adver tised in the free press for two consecutive weeks tile tyler thu open ditch on tyler avenue in lakevtew subdivision which guides a spring creek past new housing will ukely be tiled coun cil decided tuesday night the creek which sweus to a torrent when rain is heavy la cresting problemsfor household ers along its route one joseph msllln of 216 elmore drive in structed his solicitor to write council regarding the ditch rubin corporation which con structed houses along the street and changed the route of the reek also wrote council may 22 stating in effect the ditch was the municipalitys responsibility no 2 committee of council met with l live say and a hunt of the rubin company recently to discuss the problem mr live- say said it was his opinion tt- t waa the towns reaponslbluty o move the ditch onto the road allowance the committee dis agreed after further hseusaioaltwas agreed the problem would never be solved if the ditch waa left open mr llvetay said the rubin corp would assume part of the cost of uusg which it was esti mated would coat 5000 rubins share would be 1300 council decided to eoasui town engineer before preparing a resolution but moat counduore felt the job must be done hucktt mom the atlantic ocean only 11 hours ago lobsters a delicacy jo savory whan fresh easterners will travel miles to partake of them were told in town last friday and saturday by cyril swim he reports e brisk demand forvthe succulent crustacea baing don brouillard rocky bartholo- mitchell and wade krettler fly more in staff photo frank rawlings 98th birthday frank rawlings observed us mth birthday quietly cei saturday june i a patient in 9l josephs chronic hospital guesph he la stiu able to enjoy a game of eribbage doea some reading aad maintains bis uaual interest la the flower eardeaa r

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