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4 the acton fr prs wgsnasday march 19 199 4ttfee 3ness editorial page pmce up time mayor lcs duby thought on a project to benefit the town at the interservice chib meeting list week was something to beautify the town goodness knows the town could do- with one we are particularly concerned with the condition of tome of the buildings along the business sectlonwhlch dont need to be pointed out if the business streets are neat and tidy in a community they reflect credit or it it lint fair to the owners who look after their premises when tome let property deteriorate arid give the ttreet a rundown look winter debrii doesnt help the picture town employee were busy last week cleaning up the streets but it wont be longuntll the lltterer are allowed to throw wrappers and cartons about with impunity utter cant installed by the town are used by the neat and orderly but those who are inclined to be untidy still use the streets for a receptacle a little ihoughtfullnets is all that b required and respect for the community there is a heavy fine for those who litter oh the highways a similar penalty for town llltcrbugs might engender more respect it will be good to see the ttreet sweeper iri operation to clear up the accumulation of hand which already is causing dust problems in fown being tracked into houses and covering them with a fine layer of dirt spring rains will eliminate much of the dust nuisance but the ttreet sweeper cleans up what the rain misses perhaps the town should have a cleanup paintup and general spruceup week to introduce spring ijefuna clj hat according to the printed word the fashionable sideburns evident on many men today should really be called burrisides the fashion is named after one established by general burntlde a union officers in the american civil war there it a suspicion says the printed word that the general decided the best way he could work his way into the hittory books was by a whisker the fashion caught on and today were teeing a rebirth of the old fashioned look among the gentry this of course is not the first time army officers have set fashions two british commanders in the crimean war made notable contributions to male fashions you have heard of the raglan sleeve it is named after lord raglan who invented the tleeve that even women make use of then there was lord cardigan who invented a woven jacket known nowadays as a tweatercoat so the charge of the light brigade wasnt the only memorable thing that came out of the crimean conflict wars seem to be the time of ingenuity in the fashion world remember the eisenhower jacket churchills siren suit the trench coat faces may remain the same but the chin shrubbery and hair styles that go with it have periodically come back into fashion some of the stem old patriarchs who settled this neck of the woods had abundant hair and whiskers to match part of the reason of course was the scarcity of barber shops the romans when they ruled the then known world were clean shaven naturally they figures anyone with flowing tresses and long beard was a barbarian and they were right in many cases school principals sometimes take the same tack today the boy with the long locks is sometimes ordered to get it cut or face expulsion on the other end of the scale is the girl with the short skirt accurately called a mini so depending on the time you come into the world it could either be the long or the short of it which will end up in trouble for you uia te hchtetuthdblea the swing to nonretumable pop bottles looks unstoppable in the opinion of soft drink industry men as they gauge first public reaction to a stiff price increase for their nrpackaged products the popular 10 oz half dozen pack went up to 67 cents69 cents from 62 cents retail in toronto a month ago meanwhile the same pack in returnable remains at a suggested retail price of 55 cents after deducting the 12 cents deposit and its performance in the last month hasnt been dramatically affected either the manufacturers are gloomy because the swing to nrs is cutting into their profits nobody says just how much more expensive onetrip containers are but all say substantially o the eu nobody is interested in your troubles unless a woman is involved by the time a man finds greener pastures he cant climb the fence weayherbeaten lines of thta country shad make quaint pleturt along hlflhwv 36 north ol acton sufi photo sugar and spice by bill smiley great changes are taking place thete days in education lets have a took at tome or them from a straightforward honest prejudiced point of view and then you decide whether they are good or bad corporal punishment is practically a tiling of the past good or bad i think its good for lite students and perhaps bad for tome of the teachers it never did have any detenent effect on the students as i know from personal experience as a student it merely nude the brutish student more brutish but it was a great safety valve for the hottempered teacher now i know there lhuuldnt be such things as hottempered teachers but there are they are human beings and some of the hottesttempered arc the best teachers t often they care more no more for them the glorious release of hurling chalk or blackboard brush at that sniggering lout in the bock teat no more for them the sedative of the clout on the ear the ruler crack on the knuckles the fiveofthebett on each land whats going to happen to them you can turn the other cheek only to often i prophesy a large tax increase for the fiurpose of building more mental nstitutions for teachers who crack under the strain of choking back their honest rage so much for that lets look at counselling or guidance this is one of the fastestgrowing aspects of education only a few years ago any guidance was done by regular teachers usually chosen for their common sense they chatted with the kids and tried to steer them in the right direction now the guidance department is one of the busiest spots in the school you dont teach guidance youre in guidance right up to your cars the reason for this is that the duties of guidance people have snowballed why for two reasons many parents have abdicated as counsellors of their own children and leave it to the school many other parents however desperately they try simply cant cope with their children and expect the school to help inevitably the guidance teacher has become involved with emotional disturbances family backgrounds physical liandlcaps and all the oilier things that influence a childs behavior he has become a sort of padre without dogcollar in addition he is expected to guide the student into the right course thus he must convince johnny who wants to be a doctor and who railed his grade 10 science dismally that lie might be better in another field lven worse he has to convince johnnys fattier who is a doctor and is darnwell going to have another one in the family glad im not a guidance teacher how do you feel about examinations they loo are changing in status the emphasis on exams is diminishing and in some schools they have vanished good or bad my feelings about them are mixed one day i feel that they should be abolished so tliat we could get down to the business of learning that they are an unnecessary ordeal that they cater tomedlocrily the next day ive reversed my stand and am convinced that they ore the only goad for the lazy student that the pressurerelief is good therapy that the student who is a wallflower in class has a chance to blossom on paper that they reveal the classroom charmboy for the ignoramus he is on the whole im in favor of retaining exams in tome form until our competitive society lias changed completely otherwise you have a repetition of the disastrous childrens crusade of the middle ages you are tending kids into battle with no weapons except a series of successful field trips and protects you have to learn how to drive a car and then you have to prove it in an examination the tome applies to building bridges or removing tonsils in fact we need more examinations for prospective fathers in diaperpinning prospective husbands in coping with tears and so on ill bet you can think of a few acton fire brigade pond tor this official photograph at the town hall this picture which hangs in the lira hall is not dated but its presumed to ha not long after the turn of the century the acton free press phome 6533010 butlfttus tvd edittyul ohfc a ra us iih isftj hlfcltahij tttsir a lllllu u m wuhm si 4c la ottutit utmrnu af ttto m fccmi cum mu tsttl qalkaj iwmu ulfcjtfa i la ail roauwiw mtt tagrfimalti twtullmahsu dtlmul sasvtjsrtastasj ja maajali ms w csjatsbtiom its bat uss rmtw ttf tttsktpitjalaittl ttttyt ik uartltm of last elulleeaj taaatt custj b tto tmaamtitai iam atsssssaar taa wmmitli htmc tw y m at to ckamd iw kail tto tebattf af bat mmttimmtmt uui to lj ttf ti kw ajwarttlt w at mat smi bf luisamhkit tnatr ihahhtag ar tmim m v n a ijaati ar tsntfea htw aol to ttu- mmiliam b mmmi a anw tsi isru aa atm to sjiiilafctuiiai al any thai ahihlli tattt iff m fchg tflfc m batu durk tnaasw uftrtby cw tto kiato qayrisjallw tstmtiwmm 20 years ago taken from the issue of the free press thursday march 24 1949 at the bimonthly meeting of courted a bylaw was passed to make application to the ontario municipal baud to have acton elevated to the status of town the doors al the hew scout hall are ready to tuns and this week the foundation uu pot lit for a flicplke master matori allan leiihman wild two xilrtmu kelly gardiner and louie ate yuudlng a fine fireplace tuxw ltboiatories joined he cement mixer for the fireplace foundation tl public utilities commission will nuke an inventory or all meters in aetttn 1 before the cliange to 60 cycle hi made acton juniors fs4d from the hockey picture by losing their second straight tame toorono the spring fashion parade at the koxy theatre drew large crowds both evenings feature of the show was use modelling by four local urla misses lois hunter joy kornphf georgina perryman and betty gibson who had been selected by popular vole for the event lden mills and district athletic club put on their play speed under the auipices of kockwood community club lait week vic bristow noticed a scarlet t singer last saturday a new foot xray machine has been inttalled at l bralda shoe store spring temperatures and spring rains came right on time 50 years ago taken from the issue of the i tee press thursday march 20 1919 for sometime the messrs beardmore have had up for consideration the construction of tome public utility for the benefit of their employees and the people of acton generally they have now definitely decided on a rink building for skating hockey and perhaps curling they wjll also provide tennis courts and bowling greens the plan is to utilize the whole of the block bound by mill wilbur church and fellow st tills splendid program will be greatly appreciately by our citizens the enterprise will entail an outlay of 20000 or s25000 county council voted strongly against daylight saving time as not in the interests of the gardener fruit grower or former the local trapper had a good season some of the persons of tills vicinity who pursue this vocation in their spare time salt and haw secured from si 00 to s30o woclh of fur skins minks muskrals coons foxes skunks and weasel have been mote common than in most years x a civic reception was tendered segt geo cook pie dan ritchie pte fchoeh mcjonnofl pie j roult and pte w green al the town hall last evening natsagaweya friends tendered a kind farewell to mr and mrs wdliam ii mccuhough and family who are moving to ruautjing the merchants bank hat iflualled a knies 0 safely deposit boxes john crtham passed away terminating close association with acton for 60 years lie assisted in the erection of numerous buildings in acton including the methodist church and government building pepper theres always one subject the boys in the back shop can agree onmarried life sometimes the bull sessions around the coffee cups become heated when were talking sports weve got diehards in the plant whod call the toronto maple leafs to win the stanley cup if they had an alllady lineup weve got other types whove been betting on the boston bruins for 25 years and there are others who think the world series it a razor blade commercial but when ij comet to married life were practically unanimous in warnings to the plant bachelors itt a tough row to hoe among the marriage tulipseven when you tiptoe and most of ut are just shuffling invariably one of us old married crocks has to point out to the uninitiated bachelors that men whove tied the marriage bonds always teem to die sooner than their mates dear dottle may moan and groan through so years of servitude but the outlasts old beetlebrows nine timet out of ten and it around to collect the insurance youd think that would scare them off no slree you might at well talk to a red brick wau at to bachelors they want to find out for themselves man theyve just reached the first plateau in a campaign to tame and male after youre hooked bachelors dont suspect that joyful jane hat any more motives than a cosy nest for two after the gels him to the altar some tingle males are naive enough to believe they did the asking read some of those womens magazines they dont beat around the bush theyve got articles in them like cant get a husband try madame catchumi love potion which cornet complete with false eyelashes and 42 wayt of making him say yet madames a spinster with a knack for jack marriage rusty shine it up with advice from za za silverpolish whos made the trip to the altar 79 times an expert at splitting vowels is 75 years ago taken from the issue of lite free press thursday march is ih94 mr james grant who has done the express business from the gtr lias disposed of his outfit and good will to excouncillowohn harvey bxactly 37 years from lite month in which it was erected the roman catholic church church on the first line btqueting known as dublin was torn down since lite purchase ol si josephs church in acton several years ago the old church has not been in use and it was recently sold to mr alex joe who purposes using the material for the erection of a house on a farm in the vicinity of speyside the church wat built in irs7 and among those who assisted al its erection were messrs peter and william gibbons the late peter mccann matthew and patrick ue the altar waa built by the late j drumgold whose tragic death by shooting about 28 yean ago will be renumbered by old residents neatly all of the pioneers who worshipped in the old church the mccanns the lees the lambs the daltons and maloneyt and many others have died or removed from this section palm sunday the mercury rote to 70 in the shade crocuses are in bloom married mr james c sprowl of lsquesing and nellie youngest daughter of william griffin esq fjln the limehoute kilns commenced operation again last week and the men are getting back to work the long and useful life of mrs ann hemstreet wat ended triumphantly when she fell asleep in jesus at the home of her daughter thlt remarkable woman lived in acton for many yean she was bom in 1812 in england considering her limited education her literary attainments were marked hartley coles thought you were the great white hunter buddy youre the prey but dont let it get you down there t a way out if you use the old noodle for instance the other day a buddy of mine neglected to tell hit wife he wat going out for dinner it slipped his mind until s oclock when a quick phone call designed to set nutters straight went something like this hello honey wont be home for dinner tonight got a banquet to go to hehheh you what a deep freeze crept along the phone wires and tinged the air with sarcasm youre going where the acid in hit stomach tuned to churn and began to est away more lining well i forgot to tell ya slipped my mind gotta go to a big meeting theyre serving dinner a chilly silence then an ley voice and whatll 1 do with your lamb chop sweetiepie feed it to the cat trterdwaa a loud click at the phone on the otheaend landed back on the rocker the acid ate deeper into the stomach lining buddy hung up ditcontoltte braved a smile shrugged hit snoulders and muttered something about skinning a cat i couldnt stand it listen demetrius fictitious ruune i laid youve gotta use more tact youd never catch me telling- the little woman a tiling like that what would i do well the but time i was in a tlmilar situation i went home and ate you went home and ate yetthen i went to the banquet and ate again 1 comprehension dawned slowly jou ale at home and then again at a banquet you ate twice ha ha ha ha ha ha hs he laughed all the way down the stairs he laughed all the way to the banquet like i taid earlier itt no wonder the better half lasji longest bat you can keep ahead of the game by using the old noodle