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ht jwtr ffiett ninetyfourth year no iv acton ontario wednesday november 6 19ob wl alt a poppy fighfoun pflo contn esquesing council delegation asks bylaw regulate quarry blasts armed with a petition signed by over 200 ratepayer j delegation cbmplaining about eiicess blasting from township qujrnes extracted a promise from lsqueiing council monday to talk the problem over with quarry owners mrs 1 nagels read the petition to council she was accompanied by wilf fortowsky percy hicks and paul colbourne all ratepayers who lived in the vicinity of the quarries and felt quarry blasts were excessive the petition asked council to immediately institute a by law to prohibit blasting in the township except for small blasts necessary for stump removal and other necessary work council balked at some provisions of the request however and would agree only to talk the problem over with the quarry owners i might as well speak my mind now said reeve george currie weve no intention of closing these quarries they are the biggest taxpayers weve got taxes would be a lot higher lor ratepayers if the quarries wcient in the township the petition claimed the present large scale vibrations were a serious encroachment on the rights of individual property owners it also asked council to include a provision for rehabilitation of the area quarries have already defaced and discourage further defacement of the escarpment whistle still brings comments several more weekly newspapers have commented on actons bring back the whistle episode the collection of clipped columns and comments grows what a surprise to beardmore officials the i ree press and probably the general public that the issue provoked so- much comment and the reverberations continue police seek man police warned children to avoid strangers in town following a case of indecent exposure reported to them a young girl was accosted on church street at hlgm bv a man in a white 62 or ol lies tuesday night she untitled police mrs nagels complained jbnut cracks in windows plaster brick and foundations as a result of large blasts she said pluming layltcrm quarry every tune a large hljst occurred had been good for a courteous answer but the quarry officials indicated their seismograph did not record any breach of blasting regulations i phoned the department of mines and they said they can do nothing unless there is a petition mrs nagels continued council consulted a letter they received in reply to one they had sent to the department of mines after a previous complaint the department said their prune concern was the health and safety of workmen claims for blasting were m liters for the civil courts ground vibration damage was rare the departments engineer l s riddall maintained he- doubted vibrations could do the damage attributed to it ind thought it was likely due to other causes quarries employ seismographs lor records and personjl protection and the tapes were sent to harvard university in the ii s where an authority on ground measurement examined them his readings indicated no structural damage would occur wilf i ortowsky clullcnged the accuracy of the seismograph readings the information the department gels is supplied by rate increase possible for telephone users the number of telephones installed in acton has doubled the lorecast at the beginning of the year reports bell manager 1 loyd denhy and nises telephone subscribers in the acton exchange up into a higher rate group in conformity with the regulations of the canadian transport commission bell canada has reported to the commission that the number of telephones in the acton localservice area now exceeds the present rate group by more than five per cent if the commission directs the company to reclassify the acton exchange into the next higher rate group telephone rates would be increased slightly to make them the same as those in other exchanges with a similar number of telephones in their local service areas l g denby bell manager for this arej explained tor example the monthly totefor twoparty reawence service would be increased by 20 cents and that for individual residence service by 25 cents telephone rates for local service in any exchange are governed by the number of telephones in the localservice areas recognizing the principle that the value of service to each customer increases as the number of telephones increases telephone customers served by the acton exchange now have 10811 telephones in the localservice area there are 2415 telephones in the acton exchange alone the following table provides examples of the new monthly rates for typical classes of service in the present and next higher rate groups for the area prl slnt nlxthighir group no 5 group no r1sidlnci slrvici individual lini 415 s4 40 twopartv lini 1 25 145 mult partv lini 105 1 is 1 yiinsiont1 liphon1 1 00 1 25 kusini ss si rvic 1 individual lini 8 00 10 twopart lini 6 10 7 0s mllti party lini 4 50 4 80 i tis10 tl 11phom 1 15 1 85 jim slaven crosscountry champion jim slaven won the ontario tuth school senior crosscountry championship at conservation park bovd near jim slavtn came hom as senior champion from the ontario high school crosscountry races in woodbridge last saturday there were 650 competitors in the lunior midget and senior roni staff photo woodbridge last saturday the acton ross country track team became eligible lor the competitions by taking all three top spots in the cftossa meet in guelph two weeks ago at that time slaven finished first in the senior race with the tastes time of the day 14 17 tor the threemile course according to slasen the woodbridge course was more difficult than in guelph there were two big lulls one at the beginning ol the race and one about hall wav through slaven ran with perfect style maintaining a lead ol about 200 yards throughout the 4 14 mile race that will be his last big race this season outside of some indoor meets this winter actons midget team placed 10th out of a total of 45 school teams from the pack of 2 runners pete morrison came in 17 randy coker 41 george mcphad 66 and riny schuts 138 unfortunately the junior and senior teams were short players and failed to moke it in the top spots hamilton southmount collegiate won the senior team competition hill park the midget division and george s ilanry the junior division acton was one of the smallest schools represented lh quarries iil maintained and they could tsll you anything no one checks their stories were left completely at their inercy he complained ouncillor pat patterson concurred people over there have been ul difficulty as long as ive been on council he said it wis at our insistence that scisnmgr iphs were placed i understand hut can t vouch for information that the seismographs ire there only for small hi isis not the lirge ones but how do you citch them mr i ortowsky sud one quarry ofliciil hid replied to his complaint that if you think this is bid wot till we re illy get going pressed by councillor patterson mr i ortowsky said he would be willing to back up his statement with a signed affidavit he also blamed the blasts for lowering red estate vilues along no 5 sideroad he claimed large blasts which produced unexpected tremors could affect people with heart conditions adversely reeve 1 urne scoffed at suggestions the quarries were lowering land values i clerked lor a sale saturday where a farm sold for si 10 000 i also belong to ihe authority and know the prices paid in that territory for property would you buy property on no 5 mr i ortowsky asked the reeve not at si 10000 i wouldnt replied the reeve his solution to the problem was to invite quarry owners over to a mooting and talk to them the reeve cited one case jt limchouse where excessive blasting had shaken houses in stewarttown and georgetown and a meeting with the owner had settled flic problem we talked and said no more of this stuff he recommended the same treatment now tell em theres going to be trouble if they keep it up he declared percy hicks a resident of lot 8 on 5 told council he made a complaint about blasting three years ago when council promised to do something but nothing was done he listed the nuisance trucks from the quarries caused is spilled stones sandblasting ol cars dust and noise he said ratepayers in the area of the quarries were determined to stop excess blasting both mr hicks and mr i ortowskv bridled at the reeve s inference that the petitioners wanted to close the quarries they wished only to police the blasting ouncillor lawson told the delegation sandblasting of cars etc were police matters the delegation lett with council s promise thev would t ilk to quarrs owners but said atlerwaids they didn i intend to let the matter drop until thes had some action c ouneil felt passage ol a bv 1 iv would mean little and iheie was no adequate means ot enforcement short ot closing down the quarries guided fairy conducted by r r bob pukcr conducted an mteiesting tour of dredgine sites around i airs lake sundav about 40 interested people took part the tour was arranged as a joint project ol the i lumber of commerce and the c redit valles conservation tihorti mr parker actons representative on the authority explained what was taking place on the lake he said although rumors were life that the contractor was being paid twice for silt he takes out it wasn i true fairy lake will be approximately is feet in depth with graduated sides when the job is finished approximately 260 000 cubic yards of fill have been removed to date it is expected 400000 yards will be moved before the work is done sometime next spring mr parker explained the work actons great peace demonstration waa ulharad in with a monttar ocil- daar thankssivinp sarviea parade that wab impressive reeve ityrkln never beore issued a fuv h ii je prlvllaaa to ktl expreiu somatt matltutle to 04 hue come to im cited herself to for defence c4 canada haa la that dedication bean crowned our trlbuta off the omcera and in the area atl mark remembrance day sunday prgmt services at cenotaph knox the names of actons dead from world wars will again be read aloud during the few moments that the remembrance day parade pauses al the cenotaph sunday the service is set for 10 45 a m with the parade forming up al the legion at 10 15 acton citizens band will play and chuck wright will play the last post and reveille wreaths will be placed by organizations and individuals church service follows at knox presbyterian church the united church service which begihs at 10 am will he concluded early so members may join in the annual outdoor ritual of remembrance in the atternoon at 2 45 acton legion and bugler chuck wright will join citizens of lake tour ff parker is a pdot project and if successful many more ponds and reservoirs in ontario will he dredged one reason the authority picked fairy lake is because it is all owned by beardmore and co and if was only necessary to negotiate with one property owner it was expected the black creek flow would be considerably improved as a result of the dredging effluent from the acton sewage plant sometimes saturates the flow now the bullrush area around the community centre is being filled in now and the area back of elmore drive a large drag line is assisting the dredger in removing muck from the lake edge and building up the banks see pictures on page bs nassagaweya for the service at the memorial at llaltonvillc and afterward in nassagaweya presbyterian church in rockwood the memorial service is also sunday morning al 11 a in at the cenotaph there with a community church service following in the centennial school auditorium collision at traffic lights a two car collision at the mill main st corner i riday night was the only accident reported by acton o p i this week police said a car driven by robert roughlcy limchouse was proceeding south on main st and he made the left turn on mill when the lights changed the other vehicle driven by philip r brown stratford was going north from the intersection on main when the accident occurred the roughlcy car received 500 damage to the right sid and windshield the brown vehicle received 400 damage to bumper fender grill and hood appoint new planning board in esquesing esquesing councd drew five names out of a hat to comprise the townships first planning board at then meeting monday appointed for a three yen term will be reford gardhoiue and fred nurse two year terms will be served by fred kelson and jack pemberton while sam penrise will serve a one yen term reeve george currie and councillor bob lawson wdl fill out the rest of the seven man board remembrance day falls on monday which is a school holiday however in recent years the service has been held on the nearest sunday saturday has been proclaimed as poppy hay but i cgion members will etsn he selling them i nday afternoon and evening as well a veterans dinner will be held at the legion sunday after the church service next week acton merchants will be playing santa claut to their customers for the next six weeks every purchase at participating stores will allow customer a chance of winning cash vouchers worth 90 each week the program santa ramabegins next week details of the santa rama program are included in an advertisement inside this newspaper actons new assistant cietk grant usher began hit duties on monday he and his wife moved into acton on saturday from woodbridge staff ploto