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snow defends boost be i rig a provincial member of parliament u not a getiichfast scheme according to jim snow mpf for hilton tart snow war speaking in reference to the ontario governments recent proposal to boott the wpp olarief by so per cent currently the alary for uppi is s8000 plur 14000 for mom lovell bros meat market santarama weekend specials rep brand bief shoulder roast 755 tender n e short rib blade roast 79 wing roast 99i choice sirloin tip roast 11 k ground chuck 75 uaple leafsliced side bacon 89 1 small link sausage 69i order your christmas fowl early while the selection is at ks best lovell bros modern meat market 77 mill i acta mm tsl1140 oaiiv muvuv expenam they are alto allowed to claim for is trip to their constituency at the rate of 10 cent per mile the propotal would boott the labry to 12000 expense from 14000 to 6000 and allow for 30 trips rather than i s there are many reaiorii for the proposed simable hike mr snow explained that the job wai no lonrrt a part time vocation but a full tune job even when the house it not titling there it work to be done in the riding tuch at answering and returning phone calls correspondence and the 101 oilier constituent problems that have to be dealt with tuch at being at all the public function where an mps it expected it hat been at leatt five years since the mpps salaries have been adjusted he noted the salary should be adjusted more often nd that way the boosts would be more in the line with what might be expected adding that most of hie members could earn more in induttry than they do in politics he said only a very few entered for the money but he laid they should be compensated fairly for the lob they do it a man is doing a conscientious job hit is paid trips to the riding and 4000 allowance are gobbled up before long in hit own case mr snow travel to hit home from work each day and about once a week stays in a hotel in toronto others have to set up residence in toronto and go liome weekends while others share apartments the house tilt longer than they have in the past and it it difficult to run ones own butlnest and hold down the fovernment job at well he hat ost money due to a partial slowdown in hit own conttruction business in addition to the daily sessions in the house they meet three nights a week from 10 30 to 1 1 p m this year the legislature sat from late january to june and then sat again in september the mpps time is pretty well all spent and for this they feel a pay increase is good order while the motion has not yet been passed at final it it expected to go through manning electric ht jutcrtt snt ft ninetyfifth yr no 23 acton ontario wednesday december 3 1969 second section moffat decal factory caters to pottery works the first step in the manufacture of e docal it establishing the type of design which will best suit the markot and the manufacturer mr hammeriley putt the finishing touch onto a pattern which will be used at a design for a decal for dinner plate after the design hat been docidod upon it is thon drown by hand and transferred onto a prountitizod shoot of plastic as many at 30 separate deceit of the same design aro put on this pro umsitizod heat at mr hammertloy is doing and thon tho shoot is silk screened by brian ward almost fourteen months ago a man and his family came to canada from england tottart a new life and a new business starting out in a rat hole he has built a north american market for lutiproduct and has chosen the village of moffat as the base fur ins operations john hammersley onginjlly from st ukeon trent came to canada willi the idea of continuing his ceramics trade and first landed in toronto js general manager of a firm which made dccals for transfer onto pieces of ceramics which gave hem their different patterns he stjrted out working fur this established firm but won went out on ins own and set up shop in the basement of a plumber s store li was like working m a rat hole he said recalling his first canadian business getting fed up with that shop last october he decided to find a larger building and applied to the township of nasvagaweya for help the township combined with christie and woods real fcstatc found him a building in moffat and he moved in to set up delwyn decals one thing youll probably never believe is that 1 travelled nearly 35000 miles in under four months to find out what type of mjrket there is for my ceramic dccals mr hammersley said knowing his market he started to make the decals and now has contract o sell them to ceramics firms alt over canada and the united states basically the decal is used by ceramics firms to decora lc heir pottery in place of the expensive fund painting they are applied by hand and when dry are glazed in a kiln to make them permanent all kinds of patterns can be made into dccals jnd in mr hammerslcys case most of his designs come from a design house back in stokeontrent although he does admit to putting through one a month himself the firm at present puts out 3000 sheets of dccals per week which add up to a phenomenal sum of 1 00 000 dccals per week starting off a design is approved and then pictures arc taken of the design one for each color and this picture is reduced to the size of the actual decal needed the designs ire then multiplied and placed on a presensitued sheet of thin plastic the plastic and combined patterns are then exposed to a might light and the pittern is transferred 16 the sheet 6f plastic it is taken out the unsensitied areas washed off with a high pressure stream of wjter and hen hardened from there the plastic is placed on a silk screener where the pattern is once again transferred this time onto a iheet of nylon then the actual pattern can be transferred onto he decal paper which is called thermaftat paper the decal itself is covered by a smelly lacquer lo keep the colors together and he whole sheet it taken to special racks to dry the paper it gummed and when it it placed in water the decals can easdy slide off with the lacquer keeping he different colors together mr hammerileyt plant none of two in canada now producing the decals and he plant to expand hit operations by bringing in designers from england to wbrk in the plan w moffat he also plans to get into the wallpaper nunufictunngend of the business toon youre never hill in thii business he said you have to go out to find the market ilnce people always want something new we are putting out new patterns every week crediting his bank manager and a pottery dealer in hamilton with his success m this country john hammerdey is well on the way to putting an international industry in moffat the final touch on a piece of pottery it the addition of the docal mr hammertloy very easily slip a flowered decal on the col too pot and says that it is made permanent by firing it in e kiln e process which hit plant does not do staff photos it would probably be ok to lower the voting age to ih if theyre old enough to see those movies a little politics couldnt hurt h s holden onomiratsr m cork st eaal guelfh phone ta z7im you meet the best of people at the station silk screening is still tho namo appliod to this procoss olthouoh a pioco ot nylon instoad of tilk is used when the design it transferred from tho pro senutired sheet onto the nylon tor the final printing two ot dolwyn docal s tivo emplovoos marjory bilton and bertha malyk oot tho silk icreonor ready to print a shoot ot docals a finl addition lo ihe town ilit curling ilub will begin operating ntxl week four minors were charged with liquor offences by acton o p p during the past week ttlh opportunity class has been using the arena for ikatmg and hotkey charlie thomson is helping teacher miss mary golem with the group a slbscribbr phoned this week to say it tjkes a full week for his free press to arrive at his home in buihngion let the free press know of upcoming chnstnus events wntc ups and pictutes have special appcjl at this time of year clip and save i montti act0h chamber of commfrcf december 1969 acton christmas shopping hours ry titmtuy wadndy thurwuy friday clip and save sttuft fey 8 pm 9 96 pm 10 96 pm 11 99 pm 12 99 pm 13 96 pm 15 pm 16 99 pm 17 99 pm 18 99 pm 19 99 pm 20 96 pm 22 99 pm 23 99 pm 24 96 pm 25 closed christmas day 26 closed boxing day 27 96 pm 29 closed 30 96 pm 31 96 pm jan closed new years day jan j pm jan 3 96 pm driving conditions were had hut week with ice rain and blowing tnow trucks were out sanding highways and the sand pit up highway no 7 wai all ready the united church women arent holding their santa fair this year it used to be the only place in town to get pictures of children taken with santa claus seemed very strange to the free press staff not lo be answering the phone constantly till midnight on election night the two year term left the town quiet on the usual election night this year y men helped out by some young lads stocked up on christmas trees by cutting down their own last saturday truck loads of trees are hacked up behind the y ready for sale it a an annual fund raising project of the club two of the tup winners in the library essay contest wrote on books from popular series the nancy drew books and the hardy boy books yet the librarians have discovered to their surprise that official recommendations coming in to them dont particularly recommend these books others not high in favor with tht top people in the library system are the l m montgomery ann series yet the dogeared copies of these books hete show just how popular they ire this jibes with a comment made by a childrens reviewer who had found that prizewinning childrens books werent usually enjoyed by children did you know theres an indian version of russian roulette the hindu flutist serenades six cobrasbut one is deaf recently a 1 0yearold french girl wrote on the birth ofbabiet composition that went like this in france baby girts are found in roses and baby boys in cabbages in england and america babiea are brought by the stork in all other countries babies are born the normal way