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The Acton Free Press Wed May 1976 Reunion at the fair High hopes for a happy reunion of former have coll apsed Charles Caswell of Toronto buoyed by enthusiasm expressed to him by many people contacted do by letter But not enough re plied The reunion will not be held Organizers wonder if it could be held again May we suggest having a reun ion on fall fair day Perhaps old could gather in one corner of the park and chat there Those from outof town could still drive home in good time In past years people come back to the fair and miss seeing fnends simply due to the size of the park One central meeting spot might solve that problem every year The census tells all Twice in every decade a census is taken in Canada The major dec census is taken in each year ending in 1 while a less extensive middecade quinquennial census is carried out in every year ending in 6 This year s quinquennial census will be taken on June 1 Because it is a short census signed to update essential ion and housing data it wilt be less detailed than the 1971 census and will be confined to collecting basic population and housing data In according to the Census of Canada Ontario was home to one out of every three Canadians Out of a total provincial population of 7 10672 6 per cent or 596 people lived here in the densely populated southern region 1 lived in the eastern re gion in the NorthCentral area which includes Sudbury and Sault Ste Marie and just under 225 in the more sparsely pop ulated vastness of north west Ont ano The province s growth rate of 23 5 per cent between and was second highest Canada and higher than the Canadian average of 18 3 per cent due in part to the fact that 50 per cent of all imm lgrants coming to Canada in the years after 1951 settled in this In the five years between 1966 and newcomers were attracted to Ontario and 438 000 of these people came from abroad No wonder growing and the country roads filling up with homes Needed Metrics debate Popular opposition to has caused the British Government to postpone debate on its Weights and Measures Bill Ottawa doesn even have a bill Bureaucrats are pushing Cana dians into metric conversion with out parliamentary debate let alone approval says the Canadian Fed eration of Independent Business Typically there have been no estimates of cost In the U S con version cost estimates range from to billion At the usual one tenth differential that means bet ween and 10 billion for Canada Let the costs lie where they fall say the bureaucrats They re not in business of course They don have to buy new scales or new tools or new labels Much of the pressure comes from national corporations As part of a world scale process of rationalization they are concerned with transferring standardized manufacturing to metric using low wage countries Canadian jobs will be lost as a result Canadianowned companies will be forced to convert tool and die equipment lathes punches drills and presses In many instances when equipment has to be com pletely replaced experienced for eign manufacturers of metric equipment can be expected to replace domestic suppliers Claims by Metric Commission officials that conversion will increase exports must be taken with a gram of salt Canada s rush to convert speeds distances temperature and pressure and household mea merely confuses and irritates the public In the U S conversion is more gradual and selective each move must pass the test of benefits exceeding costs However with the commit ted to conversion Canada has no choice but to follow suit A recent holiday to Myrtle Beach put Canadian conversion prominently in our minds again With weather the most important consideration every day it was a pleasure to hear about it in good understandable Fahrenheit Of this and that The planters have just been placed on the main streets a few days and already some clowns have tipped one over into the road way These stupid pranks don t happen often but they are depress ing Br OH NO not again The season for giving the street boxes a hard time has arrived Most people like the boxes and flowers but some find them a challenge WITH RECONSTRUCTION of MiU St being planned this view of the street from the s is in sharp contrast with today The street then seems to be a good width with a reasonably wide sidewalk and hydro posts already encroaching on the travelled portion of the street Vehicular traffic is noticeably different though This view is looking west approximately from in front of the building along past Willow St Raindrops in the stream by bill smiley In recent of in id died national magazine Mai It nits writer Wilier Stcwirl his an irlicle Irving Id show inidnns in mil Or quiet sober gn people think they I could have told him Ihil have used it is in on some occasions the silt myth home and it in sensible respectable ind ither dull Ins been fostered our colorless press equally colorless Tin facts is Stewart pointed out in desiribing sever violent strikes an otherwise on ihe whole ire not tolerant I young enough to when such expressions as turn clown in the woodpile dumb ind WO were eurrtnt in the home the street If you tame out with of those you might Just be looking for i purple eye or fit lip from a militant Jew black Ukrainian or Italian As a result ins switched their nil VVc in jokes the victims are long w off We tan tell Iaki jokes the victims are pretty helpless if you an too to indulge in cither of these you tan lys run down the Y inks feel like i virtuous Sober ins in the drinkers in the world with the possible ex of Scots who Ret ugly Irishmen who belligerent Poles who eet gloomy Maybe we an tin worst We get ill three If you do happen to he decent sen sibk middle aged person and you don believe a word of this slander drop in to your local bar or beer parlor on a I riday night There are scenes would moke Hogarth chronicler of the 17th century gin phees in quill in his I once sat in a beer and watched this scene Pour commercial fishermen came in Tough violent mi They silled inlolhc beer as though there were going to be a brewery strike within the hour And within the hour Ihey were drunk and ugly and vicious One called another a an old Cnnadnn expletive often used as a term of affection The other in maudlin mood retorted Don you talk about my mother like lhat cracked his glass in two on the edge of the table and jammed the ragged edge in the first speaker s fact Wood and language flowed freely but there wasn even i fight It was another night in Canada and not untypical of an evening in beer parlor Putting boots to someone who is down is something you might associate with he slums of Glasgow or Pans or Hamburg It is not all unusual on a Canadian Saturday night Reasonable Courteous Canadians Don I make mo laugh Just lake a drive on a four or six lane highway Admittedly most people ill those two adjectives but Iherc is a large minority who make Canada one of the worst places in the world to drive is any American will tell lust the other day I was driving on a threeline one way highw Solid old Bill v is the middle lane gauge right on the lit milt per hour limit Suddenly i cut in front of mt from the left lane simultaneously one from right lane Both were trying In gel into m lane atwut iO feet ihtad of me They ilmosl collided veering off like a couple of startled trout Neither had any reason for passine me 1 found myself ilmost wishing they had if it for me the filling in the sandwich the people of southern about the irst Brigade of Canadians m War II I ind out something about the II ilifaxriolsittheendofthil war Ask your Did if he wis the troops who booed their own prime minister at in the same struggle If I were in a tight spot I just as soon have a Can to back with me as body else We are tough and brave and resourceful We have a wry gift for not swallowing BS no matter who is dishing it But let be honest We art not a nation of gentle reasonable tolerant dull sober thinking as so many nations and so many of our own think us We ive loo much wild blood in us from all those immigrants who have been pouring into this paradise for years We art We are bad drinkers ind drivers We hive a propensity for vio lence mi explain our great in i couple of wars cm watch all in the hockey play OUR READERS WRITE Explains rate increase tdilor I would like to give an this time for the recent ruse in removal prices and the request for month advance payment The additional cost is for driving to and paying to dump being as Ihty are closing the dump site I would also like to advise you that the Region has been trying for the past year to force me to go to Georgetown I have been advised that route south of me in the much heavier populated Burlington area has been paying per month for tht past year I lost last year by people moving Wanted grouse eggs out without paying me therefore rather h in more on the honest people I lit to request i four month payment in here v ill not be another raise this year I hive no intention of changing my r itcs unless cost prices get too high I have been in the business ifl years and my older customers know I do not raise prices or charge in advance without very good re Sincerely A Garbage Contractor Moffat O Acton free Press Box Ontario Dear Sir I would like enlist your cooperation Ihisyeir assisting us to carry oul a research program on fluffed Grouse sup ported by the Ministry of Natural He sources If you could bring the following in formation lo Ihe attention of your readers would be mosl appreciative As part of a continuing research pro- on Grouse at the University of we are attempting to collect a sam pic of eggs from the wild The eggs arc re quired to provide grouse for use in the re seirch projects Because of the great difficulty in lot at ing nests it is necessary to have co-op- as many people as possible Any one locating a nest within one hundred and twenty five miles of is asked to mark Ihe location but not to disturb the neat They should contact us by phoning collect to Betty Campbell during office hours At other times call collect to Al Gar butt Don Price Murray We will come and pick up the eggs as soon as possible and will pay the locator one dollar per egg lor his trouble The number of eggs collected in an area will not be sufficient to harm the local grouse AH captive birds are of course given the best possible care cooperation last year was most appreciated The birds raised from eggs we collected have allowed us lo make a number of significant findings Thank you for your cooperalion Yours sincerely Allan Garbutt for A A Associated Professor Of this and that Congratulations and best wishes for a fine future in the ministry to Donna who was or dained here last week Donnas studies are over and now she heads out into Christian service Friends are happy at her success and will remember her in their prayers The Free Press Back Issues 20 years ago Taken from Issue of IbeFre Press May 10 1956 Four year old John Seelen son of Mr and Mrs J Seelen of Acton was reported last night to be in improved condition following an accident Sunday afternoon when the young lad was struck by a car at the corner of Mill and Main Streets The wail of the fire siren at four a m Tuesday morning turned firemen and a handful of light sleepers out of their beds to a blaze at the Wool Combing Corp plant The gatehouse of the plant caught are while watchman Withers was on rounds Whenhenolicedlhesmokefiremen were called but they arrived too late to save the small structure from extensive damage the blaze Mrs Roy Arnold was hostess to the Acton Music study group on Monday evening Cesar was the composer under consideration and the group heard a recording of his Symphonic Variations George Bowman will again head the Acton night school committee Miss Florence is secretary and Miss Julie treasurer Other committee members are Mrs W Miss Bella Miss Barbara Wood Mrs David Dills and Ted Hansen Members of Actons Public Utilities Commission last week look steps to pay themselves for their duties on the basis of meetings per year The amount will likely be fixed at per member per meeting with the chairman getting extra per meeting 50 years ago Taken from Ihe Issue of the Free Thursday May 13 Road contracts been Jet and miles between Acton and Brampton will be macadamized His Lordship the Bishop of Niagara has appointed Mr Philip Sawyer to the Albans church Acton and St Johns Rock wood High school students who passed in every subject given at the spring term examinations are Muriel Grossman Archie Kerr Neville Olive Cooper Mary Chalmers Irene Dunn Charles Kirkness Clara Savage Fred Day Mac Stewart Stewart Mildred Merle Gnndell Harvey Young Ivan Kirkness Nellie Young Acton Athletic Associations beautiful grounds will be opened for the season this week and the lawn bowlers and tennis players will commence the season Officers are Hon Pres Beardmore President A O T Beardmore 1st Vicepresident J Gould 2nd Vice- president E J Nelson Secretary treasurer John Wood Assistant J C Matthews bowling committee E Sweeney E Gamble Bailey Watson J Bauer tennis committee J Salt K Graham C R J Beatty T J The home of Mr and Mrs James Hamilton at Limchousc was saddened by the death of their four year old daughter from diphtheria years ago Taken from Issue or the Free Press Thursday April 1876 Mr Christie chairman of the finance commit lee of council stated that he had recently examined the slate of the village finances in order to ascertain the amount available for this years improvements and found that by adding the cash in the hands of treasurer uncollected taxes and license fees as assets and deduebng therefrom the payment of accounts there would be only about left for improvements It has since been ascertained that only two tavern licenses would be granted consequently this sum would be reduced by about Mr Ransom Adams beautiful black stallion carried off a first prize at the county show al Milton last week An auction sale of horses wagons etc will take place Mr Adams home next rhursday How about the early closing system that has so successfully been carried out past winter Several of our storekeepers appear to have gotten back to the old nine clock plan again Why is this Don all speak at once The new license law has the effect of thinning out the number of taverns in Ontario In this county the commissioners have decided to reduce the number by 17 one being cut off in Acton one in George town two in Milton one at one at Silver Creek two in Nassagaweya and others in various parts of the county Mr Hcrtzog delivered an interesting discourse to a crowded house in the Temperance Hall on Mode of Baptism taking a decidedly different view of the sub ject from that recently taken by Rev Mr Calver THE ACTON FREE PRESS PHONE Business and Editorial Office portion Wt by but Mltnc iK MHKp or at In a rnx or I vie Hi wrong let M tola 11 n to