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The Acton Press Nov Big welcome for Santa Congratulations marchers and organizers of the Santa Ctaus parade Sunshine beamed down for the first time in weeks for the delight ful parade all the more enjoyed for being a surprise success Mike Kinal the sparkplug behind Saturdays effort looked so proud youd think hed invented Santa Claus singlehanded Well all help Christmas decorations are making their appearance already And glittering Christmas lights ore an Integral part of Christmas Its too bad to see the hydro discontinue its annual beatdecorated house contest However if energy conserva tion is to be a reality thats a rea sonable place to begin There will still be plenty of lighting without the encouragement of a contest and prize Main effort come from the Scouts and Cubs and Beavers who made a terrific showing on short notice Parents decorated Santas headquartors and served refresh ments to the chilly marchers One suggestion of Mr Klnals has a certain appeal year hed like to see the churches enter floats in the Santa Claus parade After all thats what its all about Isnt it Acton people have already proven they are more than willing to think about conservation In their regular contribution to the Outers club at the high school Many now save newspapers and glass regularly for the first- Saturday pickup Certainly most are aware of the worlds problems and ore willing to help in their own small way Walkway is a vision A walkway for everyone around Fairy Lake and along the creeks Its been a dream of Brendan for years Now that the Acton advisory committee on recreation Is apparently going to meet again with cooperation from the Halton Hills recreation department Mr has brought the matter up again He is very right in thinking this is a longrange vision that requires active thinking every year Hes sorry to see the Legion owning land right down to the lake on their new property But subdivisions would thwart his plan much more with private gardens right down to the shore Hes an able and willing watchdog for the public More than a media matters Canadas newsstands are flooded with foreign magazines mostly from the United States Playboy for instance collects about as much money selling its magazine in Canada as do the largest Englishlanguage consumer magazines combined the Special Senate Committee on Mass Media reported Two US Magazines Time Canada and Readers Digest- have special privileges under the Canadian Income Tax the big break that has enabled Time and Digest to become so rich and powerful that the pair now scoop up between and 60 per cent of all Canadian magazine advertising revenue Truly Canadian magazines are squeezed out of advertising are squeezed off the newsstands and with few exceptions pay much higher postal costs than the two giants who received postal subsidies amounting to in Is this situation of interest only to advertisers printers publishers writers editors artists and photographers No The TimeDigest issue is every bit as important as the energy issue It is through the pages of journals such as Time Canada that we perceive what the energy situation is A false perception will lead to false action Times interests are finally US interests The federal cabinet is reported to be ready to remove the special privileges Powerful interests oppose such action Whether the cabinet acts will be important to every Canadian Canadian magazines are waiting in the wings to take their rightful place in their own country Unchurched Editorials Of this and that If Canadians ate one less ham burger a week one million tons of grain would become available to feed an additional five million people Neighboring townships are gearing for elections Halton is out of it this time OUR READERS WRITE Let humans clean up first Dear air I am only in agreement with your editorial entitled Dogs and Schoolyards Free Press 13 Nov A Of course dogs In Acton should not be running at large Unfortunately a great many dog owners are Just too laiy to walk their dogs and turn them out on the street in defiance of the bylaw I realize that some people have no alternative for reasons of age or health but to let their dogs run loose sometimes but these arc exceptions It is unfortunate that dogs trained to go on regular walks on a leash will never litter Ibeir own backyards Only those dogs who art- never allowed out of the yard will foul their own area and really eel sorry for poor animals The difficulty with walking a dog regularly is that the owner cannot control the dogs bowel movements However the droppings are usually at the ode of he road ana not on somebodys priz ed garden Butit disappears Unpleasant smelly whatever It doe disappear Just consider animals have been on earth for millions of years but we arent over our heads in ani mal droppings Contrast the mess a dog makes with the mess a human makes Things like beer and liquor and beer cans thrown out of car windows by idiots who if they really make an effort could graduate to halfwits Think of the hazard to children and ani malsand tires caused by broken bottle threads on our own roads and in our dit ches That luff doesnl disappear Then there Is garbage dropped from badly loaded trucks and cars on their way to the dump left for weeks at the side of the road And the appalling litter outside our candy stores Wrappers and coke cans and plastic popsicle sticks And litter from gar bage bags left out overnight and ripped open by those same dogs let out to roam the streets by those same socalled dog lovers No Mr Editor unpleasant dog litter may be It cannot compare either in quan tity or in sheer filth human titter Ill tell you what When humans stop burying this world in botUes and cans and wrappers etc then Ill carry around on my walks a super duper pooper and clean up after my dogs Sincerely Chas Wright Churchill S Acton TOMORROWS STARS are practising todny Participating in a wild fast game of road hockey are Allen mid Doug Bennett Hick and Randy Richard Bob and Don lie scored Sugar and Spice by bill Lets set- Where am I I know I was go ing to make a pointed telling a I tack this week on one of he great evils of our society But 1 remember what it was Maybe hats because I have three ex urns to act essays to mark my bricks falling out along with my fil lings and my wire who has Just given a thrilling account of how she couldnt get Ihe cur started is going to the hospital torn or Ah well la vie as Chinese You have everything running like clockwork world in which the most sen creatures to bo cockroaches also have forty four letters answer six vital telephone en lb to make a speech to write and a bring up Then there about seven thousand pounds of oak leaves lo rake and bag I Ill send them to Dcsh Surely homebody there knows how to make oik leaf and acorn soup Dont think Im being hard and cynical Theres a lot of prolein In those acorns And I have squirrels not counting children in my aide lo prove it Maybe you think this is Just the whining of a middloagcd man who cant cope with life Well youre right My bricks are falling out Or they arc being sucked out by the vines of this old Georgian house which arc about as gentle as a giant squid The roofer said Geez Bill your bricks arc loose It sounds sort of obscene like You have rocks in your Hut its not Theyre fulling out Or being knocked out by Ihe clumsy roofers and painters And my filling are fulling out is fast can or my dentist urn put Ihem In Hes a nice guy Orel the most painless dentist I have ever hail for which will ding to turn until teeth do us depart hut you cant build pine trees out of stumps And then theres my grandbabby Youd think I would not worry him when bos a hundred miles away Hut do Mow do 1 know those young sillies in the daycare centre are leaching him the right things Do hey know how to ride him on Jigging foot tune of Did You Go Into An Irishmans Shanty Where la Scarce and Whiskey Is Plenty Do they know how lo lei him chew their thumb while at the same time whistling his belly and waving his bare foot in Ihe air the lune of Knees Up Mother Brown Well maybe the young sillies arent do ing too badly as long as there are three of them to one of him At least they ru not try nig to untuach htm Ihe good things learned from his Had a call from his mother last Sunday She made it from a phone booth Mother Bell has not smiled on them Asked her where the baby was She responded coolly that he was on her knee tearing pages out of the telephone directory He lovis tearing up hooks especially those ill sat red like the Hell 1 nil linn tiff with Hie mane coloured sec turns of the Saturday papers He seemed lo hi ive mi ripping apart with gusto ami imy ketchup thai happened be I thought it wise to move him up to tele phone books polite reports politicians speeches net Is am such examples of inidiin re I urns out hes a boy of ter my Go to IIik real name is Own hut I tacked on him and it has He pokes into everything that Is or still If its moving he slops if it htill he makes it move grinning fiend ishly all the lime I tell you its a gray mud whirl around In re Just now I was interrupted by two the front door rakes In hand 1 I forgotten about them Theyd come lo my Icives For money of course mi hi n I git any boys In the past week I also dealt wilh sixteen students who are obvious flunkcrs one irate pi rent several disgruntled teach ers and one invitation to Judge u beauty contest To lop it off in todays mail came an lion flyer from Argyle cites column announcing his run for school trustee He must be out of his nut Everybody seems to be going a bit mad these davs but I II jy odds that I get Iherc the rest of you Childrens Aid Not an ogre I am glad they are there People think you must have done something really awful for your kids to be in the Childrens Aid was the comment of one mother her experience with the Society her children were committed to care Explaining lo the neighbors was the greatest difficulty in the situation accord to six mothers who met recently in a Childrens Aid Society office to tell the so cial workers what they really thought of the The Society arranged the meeting to help social workers to have a greater in sight into the feelings of clients The mothers who were aged 16 to were only on the basis their children had been or were in foster homes and they were willing to participate In a discussion Hate ins pic Ion All spoke of the resentment they had felt in not having their own children with them and how this created hatred and suspicion of foster parents Later on meeting the fos ter parents these feelings changed lally when foster parents had helped the children to understand thai their mother still loved them but was unable to care for them at the time Next to the questions of neighbors the hardest thing was visiting the children There were always mixed feelings want ing to see the child and dreading the A recent twoyear study in London Ontario tends lo show that fre quent contacts with the natural parents actually helps the child to adjust to foster parents in nearly every case All the mothers felt highly motivated by the separation to work with the social work- to get the children back again A tempor ary separation can be the means of repair ing family relationships When the children came home again most felt that there had been a real change in themselves their husbands and the children One reported that her teenager had been in a temporary cooling off setting and had done just that more appreciative of his home than formerly where he now fell thai he had more freedom Glad its there used to see the Childrens Aid as a real ogre one mother said Now I am glad ihey arc there lo help when I need them This kind of session illustrates a new trend Children Aid Societies offer shortterm crisis care keeping in close touch with the families so that the situation docs not become permanent Between 1W9 and 1971 there was an IB percent reduction in the number of children remaining in care at years end down from to 15 This is in spite of the fact that there was an percent increase in the number of child rcn Liken into care by CAS in the same period The number of children turned to their homes each year as com pared to those removed is on a ratio of six to are not out to snatch children from own parents Askwith Director of the CAS said On the contrary we want to help families over the rough spots and keep together wherever possible This kind of service requires in tensive work by the slalf good community resources and able flexible foster homes In fact while Childrens Aid Societies in Ontario saw families involving children last year only were taken into care a ratio of one in Slightly one in 10 are returned home a few months time Little birds I was Diking to m BlueJav About box of feed J Inflation roar and prices soar On everything need So he promised that hed diet And live on cheaper seed Not make a mess and eat far less To satisfy his greed Then I promised him Id do the same Id make do with much less With out my waste and taste We could make it a success We Winter birds who have stay Must regulate our mouth We II fio endure the snow ause we can I afford the south At our hardworking Politicians We II promise not to Curse We will abide cause Nationwide We all could be much worse We all must live from Profit Its not a dirty word For mv BlueJay Ill have to pay Like every other bird Victor Smith Rockwood The Free Press Back Issues 20 years ago A Ions twite hearing uripilre mine Tuesday In inwfi ball Hie Isnt dotted yet from Id been tail and whit in us I prri Munh Itourds it will not be milled In lorimlo by two opposing next Willie no oil It mi tit will bit handed down Ihul or It was evident Ills A ion will gain mm possibly mint in r now In the town studies were iirnmliied incinlx of Urn Urban Board by ltd I Itlephmie on the iHwuibllltli a art service when ihe group me I In on Wed veiling lion sturlid week ill lurgeh subdivision In be develop dale In Acton Ihe subdivision on property formerly owned by I llralda In In rn own will devcluped on approximately litres of land Under Hie original agreement of extension by Hie Ukiiiiiis and Ihoinan Hun Cum Sanyo Hi homes are scheduled ir In Hie firnt phase of devclup 50 years ago When the trial of took place here on fith Inst the for Hie company riiiestcd that Judgment he reserved lo allow for a lie nut in evidence The court waited until the 4th As no douimcm received at this date judgment given by Police Mauls Irate Moore on the hint lie concluded lliul the evidence dearly proved that a vio lulionuf the Hide and delivery to 1 of Mi purl of which purchase wus delivered niter Hie firm had been notified I hat this limxir hud been banned by the Ontario License A penalty of and was imposed Before Magistrate Crawford Brampton lust Wednesday J llenham who took over Hotel from W A Robins fined fin and costs of for using Improper language to constable on duly Inspector In company with Constable Alexander Hammond of lold hut they to look around the premises I en hum Hie privilege using profune and Improper language When one wheel of the buggy In which he was driving wan curried by motor car driven by Mr Ford of Acton Jock lied ford Liverpool Street wus successful In keep grin o fron Saturday evening He been driving down the hill and the car mecllng him shaved off Ihe front wheel Ihrowing film to the road but he is now little the worse for his experiences 75 years ago Mr Gamble has rented his farm to Mr Cleaves who will work it In connection with his own A change was made this week in arrival of he evening ruins The train going east is now due at Ac Ion en minucs laier formerly and the going west is due at eleven Mr James ha secured the patent papers for his newly invented rein holder and is now ready put he new device on he market Mr fuvid Mills who is about move on a farm on he seventh line has sold his properly the corner of Agnes and Frederick to Mr Cook for While experimenting with a toy cannon in company with a number of other boys at Park on afternoon Master Willie Taylor had the flesh and nail of the first Joint of his right thumb painfully lacerated A premature explosion did it The five of the Acton public school reengaged for next year MissS L late teacher of music in Hover gal College Toronto has taken rooms In Aclon and is prepared to give borough instruction in both vocal and instrumental musicpiano or organ Miss is an experienced and successful eacher and her pupils here will no doubt make satisfactorj progress THE ACTON FREE PRESS PHONE iess and Editorial DfllfPuMMMr Copyright