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Limehouse operator predicts shortage of quarry products A I quarry operator warned council Monday night that wayside gravel pits would remain eyesores within the township unless some provision was made to have them cleaned out of gravel and rehabilitated with funds set aside by provincial regulation Mac Duff operator of a quarry on the Fifth Line near a poke at some measures In the new Niagara Escarpment Planning Act which he said could develop Into a serious shortage of aggregate products unless they were relaxed Duff said he would feel the pinch this year someone Is going to end up with egg on face If the shortage became general and material was not available for roads and building Admitting to a vested Interest In decisions of the Niagara Planning Act Duff said his own operation a to expand to his north which had worked out over a period or years sidelined by new precisions In the plan for the Escarpment Yet he said west of St No Highway Iherc were few places where gravel could bo mined except the Escarpment New controls would effectively freeze them had been dictated by inmmlltcc or who paid scant province demand for products from tin- qua rrlea an hi told councillors with a smile noting he belonged to the Bruce Trail Association an kept an active inlcrpst in other associated roups but felt the commission not other Important aspects Into urn si deration Under hi asked council losupport htm whin In presents for ixpaiislon to Iho commission In charge of Issulnit licences lo Hi Tom Hill said Ihcy likely would ri him If ho was going to rehabilitate Ills quarry Duff said the property was now unless something was done told Mr Dull that In planning act was introduced In tout ml Indiscriminate use of the Important natural but ho saw arena where would bind Ho folt for quarry products would bo Ilk up for operators Hill told Mr Duff that It would be useless for council to support any bid from him at tho present lime and advised him to wait until members of the Niagara Commission were appointed by I he province and county The lime to make It will bo when iho commission Is formed he suggested Duff read figures showing the Increase in business his quarry had experienced slmo 1070 including a per cent hike In 1971 and a per cent increase in 1072 Ho admitted some aspects of the Ail had been good but pointed out the area was the only one in the county suitable for quarries It Is bad enough o be put out of business by mismanagement he told council but to be legislated out of business was almost unbelievable Duff also said he was going o push for small pits to be cleaned out of gravel and rehabilitated such as those which presently wero eyesores on the Sexth Line He said If would never be done unlaw It was financed undor the government scheme to allot so much per ton extracted to do the Job Although he did not disclose detail ho said he was working now on general principles to his plan for the com mission Ninety Ninth Year No ACTON ONTARIO WEDNESDAY JULY IS Sixteen Pages Fifteen Cents Esquesing favors new alternative for Hydro corridor The thrcL member their findings to Iho committee lo township louncil at a lommitlco recommend a township policy next Monday towards the controversial 500 the trio left no doubt Ontario Hydro trnnti miss ion as to win they stand regarding corridor will make a written three corridors Settlement Town workmen return to job SIGNING a petition supporting the John Schneider proposal that the power line between Pickering and be along 401 Highway instead of rough farm land in the Acton area was Archie of Arthur St Explaining the scheme to Mr Mac were Joan and Bill Schneider They were two of the eight people who collected over 350 signatures during a four hour stay in Acton Saturday D Pink Photo Strong support to put hydro corridor in south The six Acton town work nun who resigned last Wednesday have returned to work this week after a special of and a union representative or Canadian Union of Public Employees Thursday Only one point In the point agreement which had affected an earlier settlement of the over the naming of a foreman was changed and this wlih the mens The change spelled out that foreman Marshall would a foreman In training for a period of nix months The tlmi period was In the first proposal Earlier the six men refused lo agree lo Ihc 10 point settlement of council policy Residents of the area can for four hours Saturday along Aclon streets and came up with 350 to names in support of a pilot survey endorsing the recommendation for a modified alternative for the hyudro corridor The group la planning another survey this weekend for Georgetown Erin and In their drive to gain support for the alternative which would keep the foot swath of hydro towers and acre substations in the areas which will require power The modified system follows highway to a sub station near and proceeds from there to the Bruce generating station instead of turning north into Erin and Some penalty must be paid by the people in Toronto and Hamilton who demand the power says John Schneider of Acton who suggested the modified system al a public meeting in Acton recently and Is spearheading a drive to see the corridor fallows a course which residents find adheres closest lo guidelines sel up Mr Schneider and other area residents township officials and members of the Bruce Hewlett study team met with Hydro people last Friday to discuss they could accept route which earlier they had turned down as long as lines were not closer than five miles except for a short interval through the escarpment where they could be closer Route resembles route and was selected by the Bruce study as their choice of a route for Ihe corridor Mr Schneider says he has been encouraged by the response of area residents lo the alternative route he proposed along High way expanded their study for the line to include the area from Gueiph to Saturdays pilot survey received the support of per cent of the people who were approached over four hours and the group expects similar results this weekend suggesting council was not bargaining seriously and had left It too I They handed In their resignations Wednesday anil Jones from represents the town em called clerk administrator Usher and inquired about the situation Ho to mod he men Thursday afternoon and set up with thi personnel committee of council that Jones told the com mil toe the men had agreed to accept ouncil policy providing the job classification of foreman Continued on Page MAYOR DUBY left and former clerk administr ator Joe Hurst right announced this week they would contest seats on the new North Halton council Turn to page seven for details presented by Bruce planners Mon day of Council Spokesman Mrs said they favored Hydro taking Ihi shortest for the lorrldor which runs closest Iht lakishoro They were also favorably impressed with the alternative which had been at an mccllng eon ductid by Mr where Ihc corridor would follow 401 High way from substation near Milton to a point near Gueiph and from there to the Douglas Point generating station on Lake Huron It Is known as a modified We feel this is a good alter tlve Mrs said noting It would avoid The most southerly route for East West corridor was also most logical one she declared Mrs statements were members the township council appointed to the committee She noted that If the North South line followed a route a linkup closer to Gielph there would also be a considerable In distance miles as op posed to 111 If the corridor followed a more westerly Hon lo link up with a substation near Acton Mrs Symmes said public ion had been in favor of a utility corridor concept and the routes they favored fell into the proper categories Councillor George noted there had been unanimous support from Ihe Aclon meeting for he alternative suggested by John Schneider But can we con vince Hydro he asked The link Up point to the Bruce generating station was still up In the air he said because Ihe newest alter native had never been studied Mrs Symmes said the link up cannot be selected until the How lett study picks an east west route There were other problems too said Councillor Dick How lit He attended a mealing Monday with BHI and our represent lives of Hydro regarding ihe modified where Hydro stated it could present difficulties with two lines from and three from Bruce In close He said It had been Hydro Continued on Page I DISPLAYING the skin of the Masiassauga Rattlesnake he encountered in his sleeping bag during a recent trip to fehawanlgan past Parry Sound was Adrian John Swinkels an employee of Building Products in Acton After killing the snake Swinkels skinned it end mounted the reptiles skin on the time clock at the plant Dj Pink Photo Extend tollfree area Bell to determine Survey cards and explanatory letters are being ma bed to the MOO Bell Canada customers In the Acton exchange this week to find whether they want to pay an extra dollar amount for tollfree calling to Milton and Gueiph Acton residents can make local calls to Rockwood or Georgetown now Involving telephones The new local calling ana would Jump that number to Rates for a private Individual residential telephone would increase from per month to If residents accept the change Bell says per cent of the Acton customers would have to agree before they would consider undertaking the proposal The company la asking for prompt return of the cards by August 17 and hopes to have results tabulated by the end of August The company says the additional charge will took after extensive rearrangement of equipment In the Acton and MUton switching centres required to change trie basic monthly rates Bell says their experience bat shown that calling increases as much as l per cent when tollfree areas are adopted in place of longdistance charges and this calls for enlargement of faculties handle calls The additional one dollar charge would apply to an Individual lines while a cent hike would reaultfora two party Una raise for a multiparty line Extension telephone would remain the urn Individual lines for business would Increase by under the new relet jumping from OS lo IS while a multiparty line would increase by Bell agreed to pay the Moo for the survey when Acton council rejected the cost and lack of public aglta Hon for enlarging thttoUiree call area Elevator stalls- trapped Trapped in the Diplomat Apartments elevator for an hour and a quarter Mrs Christine 17 was released through the efforts of electrician Jon Hurst A group of friends tenants and her husband welcomed her out Mrs Stuckless is a resident of the Church St apartments She was alone in the elevator when However the elevator light remained on Her plight was soon realised Itie superintendent and police chief both Joined the en deavor Mrs Stuckless became immobilized at the third floor about Tuesday nJgfat She was released at about 10 little shaken but fine Mitchell Sharp meet waste of timeDrijbers REVOLUTIONARYTYPE POSTERS being about Acton and area were rejected by Oscar Drifter He said that be understood what they are saying but that it cannot help his cause He does not want to see the peoples suffer but reiterated the urgency that people in Canada must recognize the possibilities of the governments aid to Zambia never reaching the source for which it was intended by Lorraine Rotf Revolutionary type posters placed about and Acton recently were rejected by Oscar Drljber when he said that he understood what they were saying but that he did not see how it could help hu cause He reiterated that he did not want the Zambian peoples to suffer but that Canadians must recognize the possibilities of their government aid never reaching the proper source for which it was intended and that more research and investigation should be done to make cure that it does The said earlier that they feel that any government incapable of admitting their own fault not ma ture enough to handle the large sums of monies which the Canadian aovemment and others are pouring into that country Met with Sharp Mr and Mrs met with Mitchell Sharp Ottawa last Thursday in a twohour meeting of attempting to get truth and Justice The External Affairs Minister afforded the Rockwood couple the courtesy of a 17 minute wait before arriving at his chambers and after the meeting it was the concerted opinion of the parents of the villagHwbwaadeliberatelyrowderedbyZamrjUnsoldiei that it had been another waste of time The returned only recently from a nix week visit to Zambia Rhodesia and South Africa where they went to check out reports that Marian could still be alive The one week intended visit however turnedfatoafullfledgedsixweek Investigation Mr said their reception in Ottawa was not unlike the treatment he bad received in Zambia with the exception that he knew the president was lying outright but that Canada External Affairs Minister Mitchell Sharp was simply not aware Accompanying the Dnjbers at their meeting with Sharp was Wellington County MP Alfred Kale- Abo present were two Affairs Department off who took notes a during the session The Drijbers could feet the deep understanding and sympathy extended by many of the dignitaries and representatives they met at the Parliament bulking and felt particularly that radio J TV and press were behind their cause In presenting Mr Sharp with a typed list of questions Mr said If and when they are answered to my satisfaction I will stop my present activities My only concern la with the investigation be said and later reiterated I am not attempting to crucify the Zambian people but I believe that the Canadian taxpayers have a right to know what b being done with money the government gives or leans to foreign nations Mr Dnjberwaastorpmhbcritkbmorexternalaffairsaueced wasting taxpayers monies He said be felt It would have been more feasible lo send airmail of over 000 so that an envoy could convey the Information personally At the meeting Mr Sharp for the first time In 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