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f flrtss editorial pagjm like ijcwr tetter like moat other newspaper the free proa dearie to print newt of interest to reader in this area at the tame time reserving the right to edit all copy and in tome instance to reject part of it we particularly welcome letter- to the editor tor publication oh the various issue which may crop up in town and district we are glad to hear reader viewpoint on subject which concern them and we will print most of the letters we receive although not necessarily in the week we receive them however a in the case of new reports we reserve the right to withhold publication this u necessary to guard against publication of malicious or libellous material which will get ui in trouble with the courts as well as the writer these articles and letter are few and far between but occasionally we do receive one we may agree with the opinions but if the writer is malicious or libellous the free press cannot be responsible the writer must sign his or her name in any case although a pseudonym can be used in the newspaper our news columns except in the case of signed articles are relatively free of opinion we like straight honest reporting with the stress on accuracy although we are lenient when it come to plugging tome community matter the most frequent rejections are usually nothing more than articles which are camouflaged propaganda advertising reams of it come to this desk from many sources and we file it in the waste puper basket sometimes too we mutr cut oqt advertising from local copy we do not think it is necessary to explain that a newspaper cannot afford to advertise free advertising is the lifeblood of the newspaper business the advertiser is the man who make this newspaper possible he provides the major part of the revenue to keep the country newspaper going a much higher percentage of news and advertising- appearing in home town weeklies is actually read than that appearing in the metropolitan daily or a national magazine onehalf of all the retail buying in canada is done in small centres served by weeklies in the past year the readership of the weeklies has increased more than any other news media these facts are supported by an independent survey and make the weekly newspaper one of the most attractive market places for the man who is interested in getting his message across to prospective customers threat tc jcveteiahttj the printed word recalls about 20 year ago when a newt magazine in the united states alluded to an area that it called north of canada a canadian wrote to the editor to protest that there is nothing north of canada anything beyond canada is south of the north pole which marks the centre of the north after some weeks an editor of the newt magazine wrote to the canadian resident and said he could not find where they had that jtvmee lead alcoholism kills more people in france than in all other major western industrialized countries france also registered the highest rate of fatalities from cirrhosis of the liver a disease frequently caused by excessive drinking per one hundred thousand population the french death rate from alcoholism was 12 compared with usa 14 england and wales 01 in the case of cirrhosis death rate france led with 342 followed by portugals 304 o the eujfjf eating dinner in a restaurant a customer found it impossible to cut his steak complained to the waiter and said you will have to take this meat back and get me another piece sorry sir i cant take this back now you have bent it the only people you should want to get even with arc those who have helped you information in their publication there was nothing further to be said because obviously the editor was not going to admit the magazine had made a mistake but maybe the editor was just ahead of his time or lud some information available like certain american mining companies who art- disputing the sovereignty of parts of the arctic there is apparently a map published by at least one company from the united states which shows part of canadas arctic islands as having no real owners canadians can raise their hackles over the unmitigated gall of the yanks for even suggesting that perhaps the us owns part of the arctic and can go in and develop resources in the wastelands but first of all we should ask ourselves what we are doing to tap the frozen north for minerals and things like oil it is a vast practically uncharted wilderness virtually untouched and will be a source of temptation for american promoters as long as it remains in its present state we sing loudly of the true north strong and free but if canadians dont develop the large tracts of land in this country we can be sure there will always be neighbors eyeing them a covetously fortunately it isnt the ussr john diefenbaker may have the wrong side of the coin when he suggests defending our sovereignty in the arctic with an eskimo army he did however sec the danger inherent in the situation anil recognize the lessons that history lus taught us in oregon and the pucific northwest which today might have been part of canada if it had been developed by the british j phctej tfrcm the past sttt ptess back is sues like ferdinand the bull sam the annual inspection of cherry blossoms tail si barnard hat a passion lor flower power week on braetlde farms near with hit matter peter hughes he mad the milton stall photo sugar and spice by bill imi ll y soldiers memorial was erected aftsw world war i by the citizens of acton in honoured memory of her soldiers who fought and those- who fell in the gnat war tha methodist church thed and st joseph church spire thow in tha background for next week there t a photograph of the official ceremonies when the two tanking munumentt were added after world war ii i never want to wish my life away hut tome weekends i could do without and he perfectly happy to have my life cut short by three days it started friday somebody called the principal at the school at h am and said there was a bomb planted in the building very sensibly he kicked all the students out of the plant and kept all the teacheis in it it was a rather brutal but efficient way of pointing out who was dispensable in the system hordes of police and firemen added lo the excitement the teachers were twittering like swallows making bad jokes about ticking brief catcs jnd other liitarious objects as an old fighter pilot who had bombed jnd had been bombed in more ways than one i thought i should set a good example so settled myself in a corner of the staff room and read poetry not a soul was impressed which was rather depressing the kids had a ball it was like being locked out of jail the smokers gathered in their outside smoking hay and reefed away on the weed as though it were going out of style a number of young ladies locked out of the school on a cotdvindy day and lightly clad climbed into cars with their boy friends to keep warm the poolroom crowd headed straight downtown eventually the school was cleared and we got a sort of halfholiday while the police searched the building everyone rather enjoyed the break in routine except myself to someone who is perfectly organized such a disruption is very disrupting it was a fairly hairraising day for the teachers in charge of the schools annual musical comedy to be presented that night would there be any audience with the local radio station announcing hourly that there might be a bomb in the school needless to say there was no bomb and there was a huge audience and the musical fortunately was anything but a bomb happy ending who made the phone call wat it a kid who had been bawled out the day before wat it crank was it a taxpayer driven beyond the brink nobody knows but it will come out some day well nothing wrong with that you say just a little extra excitement and no harm done but i knew what was coming these things all run in threes as any old pilot will tell you saturday i playedmy first golf game of the season i discovered that either id gone blind or old nick was moving the ball just as i swung talk about a lack of communication i was right sunday morning at six sharp i was viutcd hy the lightning flu bug that has been decimating classes lately i barely made it to the bathroom where everything came up except the traditional kitchen sink and j couple of times i was sure the sink was coming it goes without saying that that was my sunday to take up the collection shivering and sweating und tottering i made it through the service and if i dont get to heaven on that performance alone somebody is going to catch heck sunday our new kitten who had been perfectly trained from the day we brought him home going to his litterbox as though hes been doing it for years suddenly decided to join the tecn revolt or something and found a corner right at the back of one of the kitchen cupboards where you couldnt quite reach him which was more to his liking sunday evening after being assured by four different experts that pip the kitten was a male a lady dropped in and dropped a pall by announcing with proof that he was a lady a big ugly yellow tomcat loitering in the vicinity when i threw the little monster outside in the morning underlined the point we had a visitor sunday night who stayed up talking until j am i arrived at work monday morning physically and emotionally ravaged and who was there a sweet young woman a former student whos going to be a teacher and wanted lo observe me in action some action the acton free press phone 6533010 builneu and editorial ohtc ruasu 4a 1ih west hrilllil tv wlawmdiv ftt h wufaw st- alton 0lavtv uatawaaw bl tftl aiatsal bumu 6f gmiuian tfc cwwa vtt owwa jukvhtiti stabetwlswrm u wilitkaw fceuiakw 061ft ad it i o uti wttsuutvi ttttt m he mel ftw the tvwtstvt tf he tdsyttswaj tatttw c6ftuiid bv ewftvmou ttsm idjllt if feattttwut ihwww fa utnmum emlt mm fa tt tiajtej tdf fcatt tits biltwm 0 itrtlmntiwt wit b its it m tfct esjeefathta ft iff tttj ft vphvhd vtsfat eatfceartteittjj tatttlt of tawllefsej j sselsms vitat toefch w wwetat mtw km b txftu jiltstilj i tats twd i dili kiulaw iurtuv cbltt don ttycj oemlttm 20 years ago taken from the issue of the free press thursday june 2 1949 history wt made in kockwood yesterday morning when canadas prune minister give hit endorutioii to a public holiday for kockwood school children prime minister st laurent sloppej in the vduge shook hinds willi a host of folks and nude a biief speech lit car was attached to lite cn r- train miu doiolhj pallant daughter of mr indjttrs m paltant gitduatei oh friday in occupational therapy at the university of toronto she will tae i position in si anises ouehec over u enthusiasts mended i fie opening night at ihe tennis courts members of hhl 2 ngtloiul shoe and leather workers union met a new union iepretentalive in the peivnn of k lavack when they met in ihe legion mall mr ii lruelei was elected secrelarytieasuier succeeding j roberts who has left the plant a committee has been foiined by the service clubs and womens orgjmatuins to raise funds for the addition of wings lo ihe existing memorial to allow for about 2s names to he added tenders are being received and lite sum necessary will he in ihe neighhoihood of 2000 there wrll be a canvass nude in town and any who widi from outoftown may send a donation to mr wm clayton at the bank of montreal there are regular crowds at mceaclieini electric lo watch television mr rotl uallentme has commenced construction of a lunch counter adjoining his garage 50 years ago taken from the issue of the free press thursday may 29 i 1 9 corp fred wrrght reached home from overseas accompanied hy a pretty war bride who is being made to feel at home with friends of her soldier husband the queens birthday was delightfully celebrated with a banquet tendered to all available returned servicemen by the young ladies of the intermediate red cross the company numbered about 100 and were attended by ihe young ladies all in white during the course of the meal grafanola numbers were rendered by mr c c speight taking part in the program of musical and literary numbers were w gowdy messrs mcclure smith wildgust salt and pepper when the lord was handing out green thumbs i must have been in the purple finger lineup as a gardener im a flop dont believe it come and have a look at our lawn itll convince you although it his been cut fed rolled petted trimmed manicured doped and encouraged with thousands of words it looks at if ihe dandelions are running the thow me im jutt about ready to thtow in the towel im convinced that if i wit trying to cultivate dandelions in pots theyd probably wither up and die if i tried to grow them in beds theyd probably never poke their heads above ground but since im trying to grow grass where the dandelions are the darn things are getting the upper hand ive fought them on the landing f rounds ive fought them on the beaches ve wrestled with them on borders pulled them out by the roots sprayed them with poison and kicked at them with my loafers still they grow in great golden gobs of color crowding out the clover elbowing the blue grau and choking the fescue whatever that u i planned a real prevention campaign this spring one that was guaranteed to be foolproof by makers of fertilizer pellets and broadleaf poisoners it started early with large applications of fertilizer while the grass was still brown this the instructions said would create such a thick carpet of grass that dandelions and others of their ilk would never be able to penetrate it they werent kidding the grass grew like it never hat before we had to cut ours twice before the neighbors turned green he gleefully suggested i should pour beer on the lawn and maybe it would come up half cut but i was content to tit back and watch the grass grow confident i had defeated a welt entrenched foepoetry it was a fatal mistake one morning i awoke to and there had been an overnight dandelion invasion my thick luxurious and mann mrs a t brown miss mae robertson miss lottie mason mitt bertie smith mis uly alderson miss lauretta gray mis leonard wordert all the vocaluts joined in we never let the old flag fall at the conclusion of ihe program sgt w coles voiced the thanks of the men hit resolution of thinks was seconded by pre j p scarrow and three checrt were given as only soldiers know how to cheer right owr ihe top the i oue empire dy concert was one of ihe bel yet winiteit for ey oo lite union jack were marie lantr stephen guetl bemlce held uuie martin florencc birr ioe provost itarold reld leon waller george ullle the books were presented by lite regent mrs r m mjcdonild- 75 years ago taken from the issue of the free preu thursday may 11 1x94 citizens generally and viutors comdemn ihe method of our municipal aulhoritles of lighting the streets hy the almanac ixiiing ihe storm people were obliged to grope their way along ihe tlreel in darkness keiaute ihe ntmin was limed to thine if we mutt put up with the last decade lighting by coal oil by all means let us have the lamps brightly burning wlten needed tins is the veidict of the taxpayers ahout 10 days ago mr john slcklnger hostler at the commercial hotel me i with an accident by which his leg was broken he was uol aware of ihe extent of his injury and members of the klckapoo medicine company neisuaded film frequent application of their indian oil would teiloie the limb on saturday ihe pain incrocased to such an extent mat a local medical nun was called in it was with difficulty the fracture was leduced and splints applied he is now doing very well without the oil mr j ii matthews now drives the mini natty rig in town his little driver carries a fine set of russett harness brass mounted and is attached to a dainty carriage flnldied in the natural colors a gang of tramps armed to the teeth came through on the early afternoon train from toronto at acton when conductor devlin asked them to leave the train one of them put a revolver to his nose mr devlin was enough of an irishman lo smell a mouse and lay low he wired to the police at guelph when the train came in the chief and pc filrsimmons went to the depot when they got off the night baggageman tried lo capture one and was knocked down for his heroic endetvort pc eitisimmons nude after him and held on to him he wit the only one nabbed the others escaping across the bridge bv her t ly co i t carpet of grau was covered with gold they glinted in the sun and swayed in the breeze a pretty sight if i was a wordsworth id probably have penned something like this i wandered lonely as a cloud and gazed on gilded dandelions beside the like beneath the trees almost as high as my knobby knees they fluttered and danced in the breeze millions of em in bold djiplay it filled my heart with cold dismay but being plain disgusted and annoyed i merely went out and bought a new weapon to fight the lionsa weed bar all you do is put a rope around this big bar of weed poison and drag it around the grau like a pull toy hardly got started pulling the darned thing around the lawn when a neighbor went by never said a word just gtwked but he didnt have to it was obvious he thought id flipped my lid a few minutes later a young lady sauntered by she ttatvd for a couple of minutes before asking what are you doing killing lions was the reply i should have slid drying to kill lions a week has gone by since i pulled the weed bar and the dandy lions are getting dandier with no tign- a week has gone be since i pulled the weed bar and the dandy lions are getting dandier with no sign theyll succumb to the new weapon the blurb on the boat guarantees death to the dandelion within 10 day but im not waiting with bated breath convincing proof that i was no gardener came on a visit to another part of town where a friend has a lawn completely devoid of weeds and a smooth a a billiard table what do you do lo deserve this i asked he shrugged nothing it just come up likethat i left whistling the weatin 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