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honor citizen of year of dinner dance saturday highlight of the annual chamber of commerce week in acton this year will be the citizen of the year dinner and dance at the runic centre saturday night at which sportsman chule thomson will be honored chamber p r nun don keep halt on one region over opposition of oakville and georgetown halton county courted voted tuesday to press for hilton u a regional government unit the county committee on regional government meeting with representatives of peel and the minister of municipal affairs wai directed to negotiate for a twotier hilton unit failing that the committee wii directed to negotiate for the bell terms poiuble for llalton in a hiltonfeel merger in a tpecii meeting of council on april 8 members agreed to obtain the direction of their local council on support for ibllon or a hiltonpeel unit georgetown reeve w hunter suggested a delay of a further month in reaching a decliion would not be unreasonable disagreeing deputyreeve ron hams of melton called on council to thow tome solidarity and clear thinking we dont need to wait for peel if we want a hilton county region we thould be woiking on it now he emphauied a llaltonpeel unil n auppoited by oakville deputyreeve w gillies reported lie uiggetted the county committee on regional government thould prepare a recommendation for the county conuderalion warden g currie emphasized the committee needed direction on the thinking of the individual municipalities deputy reeve gilhei maintained the county wai waiting ill time pressing for a hallon unit and would be belter to work on the best poiuble entry into the twocounty structure in expressing support for a llaltonpeel unit reeve hunter predicted that some morning youll wake up and be told lie maintained the county might negotiate a better deal if it accepted the mimtleis proposal to merge the two counties and negotiate on other items of the structure reeve w lloey nassapueya reminded that committee members were told at the outset in a meeting with the minister to decide first on the boundaries of the unit all municipalities voting in a recorded vote supported the llalton region as a first choice with the exception of oakvdle and georgetown dupuis says there wdl be several new wrinkles in this years program including raffling of a steer slon donated by beaidmofv and co to help pay for the event which has traditionally cost the organization money corsages will be given to all the v ladies present another tint for the event tickets for this years ewd night and dntce went like the traditional holcakea and ate about as hard to jlnd now s a stanley cup ducat there may still be one or two around but the executive finds the demand exceeds the supply president john stadbolt points out that the cost of the tickets is eaten up by the dinner and the chamber muit find extra money fur the tent of the lull and the orcheatra over the years the chamber of commerce movement hat eitablithed a reputation is one of the most teptesentatives and respected groups in canada the acton chamber has a full scale program going this year to improve the business and social climate in town among the things the chamber sinves for anr better urbanrural relationships education projects ufety puking recitation and town snow hopes in education more governmental help may soon be forthcoming for ontario tnuntcituliliei suffering under the strain of increasing education tosls inequiltei in distribution of school costs a major problem ui ontario so far this year may soon see furllier reviuont in the erovincial department of ducatlons gnnl ttiucture hilton tut mp p jim snow hinted this week mr snow said the department it presently tabulating all the county board of education budgeti and it continuing to planning and a close contact with municipal affairs the chamber also promotes retail talesihe butiness barometer of the communitytourists and location of new industries in the community for change grants divcuu problems in distribution of costs with the variousbeard rising coils have brought a large publio outcry- all acrois file province il it my belief that when all these school boaid budgets have been received and tabulated and the inequities of distribution auessed some reviuons to ihe grant structure may be proposed said mr snow lait week heltons board of education dinged grants favor city boards over ruralurban county boards mr shadbolt points out dial c of c members do not have lo be businessmen a common misconception the clumber is an organization which unites buuneis and professional people from all segments of the community whether they be in commerce industry or agricullute and keeps them working together he said the acton clumber hai several project in mind for this year including a survey try be taken of thoetping facilities in town to determine how merchants can belter serve acln miidenlt they are alto looking inlo nutters like car parking and an emergency telephone number for tjie benefit of hie members the clumber it going to investigate the posubihly of obtaining special rates at golf clubs arid try lo encourage more participation by members in social and business activities clumber members are asking acton and diilncl resident where ihey fit in the picluie zstemasaisbm loaded down with goodies and high school thin annual watkethon to raise encouragement miss novak was o ol money for lb canadian carter society story and several nonwalkers who patrolled ihe rout of the picture on youth page isxalf photo trapped in car suffers severe 3fe3 1 hip injuries ninetyfourth year no 43 acton ontario wednesday april 33 1969 eighteen pages fifteen cent approve five model homes acton council tuesday evening pve approval to the reisman homing group to erect five model homes on wallace si in order to speed develoent of the seynuck and vyie properties sale of these houses will have to conform to the uncompleted subdividers agreement and receive the approval of the ontario municipal board david w beauey of the town planning department of marshall mackhn and monoghan ltd and mr grossman solicitor for al reiinun made a presentation lo council which included drawings of the proposed homes mr beasley explained to council that ihey had already approached planning board with a draft plan of the area and all lots would conform to the town bylaw mr beatley said the company had been in touch with ihe department of municipal affairs over moving division st so all lots would have a 60 foot frontage the department said that if planning board and council pve their approval it was fine with them they atked two requests of council one tlut they nuke a motion and forward it to ihe department of municipal affairs that ihey are in favor of the changes in plan and two that mr reisman be allowed to build five model homes on wallace st which will not be occupied until would mr reisman also be interested in bringing in some industrial development to keep the town assessment balanced atked reeve oakes how can we approve until the subdividers agreement is through asked councillor greer it teems to me the builder is sticking his neck out said the deputy reeve the mayor said the onus was on the builder and he would have to conform to all town regulations including ihe new subdividers agreement councillor marks thought there was nothing in the subdividers agreement winch would surprise mr reisman and later the mayor explained lie had already talked to the builder i the plan is anally passed and registered mr beasley explained the developer would like to gel the housing development off ihe ground while there is still available labor and contractors deputyreeve ted tylei atked mr beatley if ihe people in acton would be able tp afford these houses mr beatley replied ihey would be in the 25030 to snooo bracket councillor masales said this particubr development was not aimed at the people of acton but it was wlut acton needs mr beatley said that the reisman group wai interested in building town houses or condominiums in acton as well houses he felt the acton people could affoid bad objedmnf education cost acton council endorsed a resolution from saltfleel township tuesday night asking for revision of grants for education reeve dr frank oakes told council ihey should support any objection on education because the more that wai sent in to the government the more notice they would take of the seriousness of the situation councillor bill coals asked if ihe reeve was concerned with the educational costs or with the method of paying for tl dr oakes replied that he wai concerned with both since ihe method of paying for it had caused an increase in borrowing in the first five months of ihe year clerk joe hurst commented that the iw deficit from the acton schools cannot be picked up this year and ihe mayor agreed mr duby said the 1968 deficits would not be picked up untd 1970 about what the agreement would entail solicitor grossman said that any risk in thit project would be taken by mr reisman all he wants is the assurance that he can go ahead on the project mayor les duby said it was a simple agreement any services would be paid for by the developer so the development could carry itself and not be a burden on the rest of the town deputyreeve tyler asked if there was any subdividers agreement which also included a clause enforcing ihe builder to bring industry with him paul nielsen in the audience in ihe council chambers told council that the rubin corporation held such an agreement with orangeville the mayor thought that this peihaps was only an initial agreement and further development in orangeville would not be affected mayor duby told council that mr reisman was only interested in developing the land he hoped eventually all this talk of development would be development mr grossman answered that he was completely satisfied that mr reiinun wants to go ahead with this pioject council later passed a motion concurring with planning boards resolution to move division st and approve issuing five building permits for wallace si many recognize scene from photos of past last weeks photos from the past featured a picture ol a budge and stream in i squesing township taken by jacob bauer on a m x 17 incjl glass negative in the early ycjrs of this century did anyone recognize the location jmmwx-wk-wx- clocks must 1st turned ahead sunday morning at 1201am as acton ushers in daylight saving tim the extra hour sleep misted will be caught up on again in the fall ywxxn yes scverjl people recognized the piittncuiuc arched bridge with the sparking stream descending ihe valley in a scries of limestone slcpv mis jacob bauer phoned to say she had no difficulty remembering ihat stream her husband often used to fidi there for ipecklcd beauties we got many a meal fiom that creek she remembers miss tmma cole also tecognied the location she used to live neaiby her brother fred was sure of the location as well mrs a mclean also dropped us a note to say she recognized the scene now owned by mr voughan at the time the picture was taken it was owned by donald mckay mrs mclean explained stan norton recognized the scene right away too he passes by on his way to woik each day several oilier people also thought ihey recognized the scene where is if oh yes its the bridge between the 8th and 9th lines of bsquesing east of silvercreek the beauty of the scene has been enhanced by the growth of trees and bushes since the onginal picture was taken sceneiy along this road which runs on ihe lop of the escarpment has little to equal it in this part of the country adrun champagne 44 of acton wai trapped for nearly halfanhour in a small car on the dundas highway tail week before he was released and taken to oakville hospital with critical injuries he is still under intensive cue two luw tiucki and a transport were needed to pull the car apart so he could be released both mr clumpagnes legs and hips were broken m hie headon crash which involved another car driven by george mcgowan of pineview terrace paris lie suffered a broken finger police said mr champagne was pinned in the car by the firewall and brake pedal which had to be broken off after the two tow tiucks hooked up to the front of the car and ihe tiampoit at the rear to telease his legs a thud car was involved in the accident but suffered no damage damage to the other two vehicles wai estimated at 3000 decoration day sunday june 1 fiist meeting of the decoration day committee wdl be held in the library wednesday april 10 at 8 30 in the evening tp plan for thii years decoration day on sunday june i the meeting is open to the public and every interested person is urged to attend the present committee feels that ihe more public participation and interest there is the more tuccetiful the day will be marianne still missing sea rch f o r body south of acton after four days of intermittent digging and blasting police have given up hopes of finding the body of a nutting girl in a crevice beside the bruce trail in esquesing township hopes of finding 10yearold marianne schuelt who disappeared from near her home in kilbride almost two years ago faded away again monday when officers from burlington police and the criminal investigation bureau of the ojj gave up digging a 20 foot deep hole they had dug and blasted in a swampy rocky bush two miles south of acton the site half a the search is cancelled now but on thursday whan thee photograph were taken than ware high hop of solving the almost twoytefold dlaapptairanoe of young kilbride txttoolgki marianne schuett police acting on infomvatlon noatved from prisoner at toronto don jsul dug a large excavation in the esquwlna bush at th south end of the third line road william urjaton of th provincial pollc cib and lt william smith ol burlington polio in white trench coats and an unidentified third man probed through th bush thursday morning th balding frockcoated man with glass la believed to b th informer who tipped police oh about the alt digging waa called off monday and polka aid the tip proved tp be fajseistah photos mile south of the dead end of esquesing third line below 22 sideroad had been pointed out to police as the possible spot where marianne was buried marianne disappeared on her way home from school at 4 pan aprd 27 1967 witnesses said they saw her entering a man small foreign make car halfway between the school and her home her disappearance launched ontario largest manhunt as more than 15000 police army scout and citizen volunteer including many from this district combed the bush the main tearch lasted more than two weeks but the files on the case remain open police have followed up thousands of false leads and hundreds of suspects have been interviewed only trace of the missing student was the childs blue running shoe thai const jerry terryberry of mdton opp found on highway 25 near 17 sideroad two days after her disappearance the gills mother mr mdton schuett said it looked like the shoes her daughter was wearing to school that day the lite where police excavated the crevice last week was just a little more than a mile away from the spot where the shoe was found new hopes in the twoyearold mystery came to light over a month ago when a prisoner at torontos don jail told police he knew the girl was burled in the north llalton bush and offered to thow them ihe spot he said an acquaintance had shown turn a body in a rocky grave near speyside about a year ago he visited the site with intp lidstone several weeks ago but was unable to pinpoint the exact location because of the deep snow police salted down the area then decided to wail until ihe snow melted before launching a dig thursday morning shortly after 10 o clock imp lidstone lt smith and a short balding nattily dressed young man drove to the end of the third line and walked the remaining half mile to where burlington police and works department employees had roped off a large segment of bush land the men spent nearly an hour in the ropedoff area and finally appealed to decide to concentrate their efforts on a rocky crevice atop a hillside beside a swamp then they left the tile the man is believed to be robert turner the informant from the don jail who was being held on two minor charges police at the site refused to confirm his identity hall an hour later imp lidstone and lt smith held a brief 10minute press conference in the milton opp detachment office the irtspector pinpointed the area in which the digging was to be carried out the first time it had been officially disclosed and told reporter the area was practically inaccessible imp lidstone and others working on the schuett case have tracked down thousands of pieces of information holes have been dug in several areas of the province as close as the bruce trail area south of mdton and as far away as the shores of lakes erie he invited the press to visit ihe site but would not allow photographers any closer than 75 yards away from where the digging was taking place stymied by the heavy rock the police called in a dynamite ciew and an air compressor to break through the crevice digging continued through a drizzling rain thursday but had to be slopped al noon friday due to the weather work continued over the weekend but by noon monday the police had given up satisfied there waa nothing in the spot throughout th weekend l fleer guild line road and th bruce tfall o p p officer guarded the third that tuns past the tit to keep spectators and reporter away from the hole in ihe rocks three collisions acton opp reported three accidents over ihe past week along acton streets s first occurred on jeffrey st at elizabeth drive last wednesday afternoon when t town truck driven by douglas garrett of willow si and a 1966 volkswagen driven by kalhe dues 192 elmore drive collided the car sustained damage of 400 to the left front fender while the truck alto had a fender damaged loan estimated 50 on saturday morning douglas christie 33s8 main st milton reported hit 1969 ford was struck by an unknown vehicle on the brewers retail parking lot damage to the left door waa estimated at sso tuesday morning april 22 cats driven by victor morris 113 elizabeth dr and george brooks 853 dovercourt road toronto were involved in an accident on main st the morris car wai southbound on main and the brooks vehicle we ncetlibotaiil damage to the morris car waa estimated at si2s while the other veweaetiad no rltrrsiarw