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Acton Free Press Wednesday Mar 1978 Otto Jelinek kicks off campaign with question period Citing bis strong track record against powerful Liberal incumbents and his position as minister of small business In the federal con servative shadow cabinet Otto began his campaign for the Con servative nomination In Saturday with a wine and cheese party and question session at St Albans Mr whose Toronto riding has been eliminated by the redistribution of ridings has decided to contest the nomination In his home riding He has lived in vllle for the past 30 years He was critical of the governments handling of the economy and the key word in all his an swers to economic questions was incentive Wo used to havo a country built on freedom of enterprise and the marketplace Since there has been a total reversal of this He called the government socialist oriented and ac cused it of creating a welfare state That may be harsh but it is fact His platform which because of his position in the party is the official party platform would be to provide tax incentives to small business Basically on one hand I will remove bureaucratic stranglehold government has on business and replace it with tax credits for Investment in small business Too many Canadians Invest abroad One of my main concerns Is to develop a secondary manufacturing Industry ill Canada Mr Jelinek added He pointed out Canada Is the wealthiest nation in the world in terms of natural resources but most of these are ex ported then as finished products If secon dary manufacturing were to grow In the country we could still have high wages and yet be competitive with imports because we would not have I import the v materials he claimed He supported quotas on foreign textiles and shoes but said he was introducing a bill In Parliament to make small businesses exempt from the quotas because they depend on imported goods He condemned the for wanting to raise the minimum wage without care ful thought Theyre a socialist parly lor goodness Our readers write Marks rebukes Hill Bouquet on story Dear Sir I would like to express my hanks lo your papers for the interest shown in part of the past County re The of one of the few unsolved of Ontarios first Provincial Detective John Wilson Murray The Free Press is one of the few papers to have the complete trial of which ran for seven weeks When one reads the complete trial and Ihen the Whiteside story in Memoirs of a Great Canadian Detective one sees discrepancies but It makes for most entertaining reading My thanHs to Mrs Margaret and Mrs Doris Lindsay who first mc in formation in 1 To George Klcer and Congratulations staff son George who allowed me to visit the old landslte and whoalso gave me a copy of the original story from the publication of Memoirs Councillor Peter Marks took Mayor Tom Hill to task Monday night for his hand ling of the council meeting His reproach came during the lengthy debate on the plaza next to Gordon arena Marks stated You have wandered far beyond your Jurisdiction and given your personal opinion when youre supposed to be chairing the meeting We would like to vote on a motion without biased comments from the chair I would like to see debate without emotional out bursts that dont accomplish anything but someone blaming else The mayor did not respond but simply called the vote sake he said Minimum wages have to be looked at in terms of productivity he pointed out Canada now leads the world in man hours lost through strikes asserted Mr Jelinek and he would take away the right to strike from essential services The threat of separation hinges on economics he told the audience Even Levcsquc saw this In his campaign he stated his main platform wbb better govern regarding economics He said Trudeau has not been firm enough with the My position is simple Levesque wants to separate but continue to have his transfer and equalization payments coming from Ottawa I say No such thing Trudeau has not said that If Quebec separates Mr Jelinek bellpves the Atlantic provinces will be lost way out there and the western Indexed pensions for civil servants and MPs under fire as he proposed a series of steps to reduce the government payroll First he would remove the Indexed pensions then freeze the hiring of civil servants then reduce the service by what he called the sunset law When a new agency is needed It Is created when It is no longer needed It Is dropped to zero again With the controversy that is now revolving around MP Tom Cossit and his con fidential papers Mr stated he and Elmer McKay have been directing questions to Trudeau about his inability to deal with matters involving national security The have been frustrated by their inability to act to remove the criminal elements from the country and they have begun leaking information to MP he asserted Special thanks to Miss Campbell who I finally contacted after a wait of three years Miss me a wealth of information Many thanks lo all who have contacted me and given me more facts and wonderful humourous incidenls of the past To reporter Eric Elstone a special lhanks for showing interest in the past and riling about it Sincerely Mrs Donna Robin nee Whiteside Tom Cossit will get support from me he said Following the revelation that two men on trial for the murder of Emmanuel would not have murdered the boy tf the death penalty had existed Jelinek staled his support for the death penalty saying who killed boy killed boy Inadvertently by removing the death penalty He pledged to make the death penalty He pledged to make the death penalty an issue in every con across Canada Mr began his political career working on the Diefenbaker campaign and was asked to run in Toronto by former leader Robert Stanfleld who wanted to get some Tory represent in the traditionally liberal Mclro area He won in 1972 and the Liberals sent in deputy postmaster Murray against him in the next wllh stood the challenge and has- been by his own admission a thorn in Trudeaua side since he arrived In Ottawa He Insists that whoever wins the Conservative nomination will have to work hard to beat Frank the incumbent Liberal Theres feeling among constituents in this area that Phi lb rooks been so bad that whoever is nominated will win This is not true We will be fighting Trudeau and the Liberal government he said is not dumb His thinking may be a little warped but he knows how to win an election Mr Jelinek claims his years of experience make him better able to win against His opponents for the nomination are Toronto civil servant Tristan Lett and physician Dr Arthur Ross He closed the question period by introducing his wife Lea la and announcing their intention to buy land in North Halton area where hey can set lie down February The Acton Press Willow North Acton Ontario Dear Sirs I was very pleased to read thai the Acton Free Press will receive three plaques from the Ontario Weekly Newspapers Castle or cottage CASTLE OR COTTAGE My collage is my castle It holds my treasures rare I shed no tears about the years While rocking in my chair In this little happy comer With my toys and aged pup As we take our stride we watch with pride The youngsters growing up But I wonder of the future As this old world passes by Thanks for publicity Thank vbu for the publicity you have given to our Guiding activities over Ihe past tlon for best editorial page best classified advertising and best display advertising Congratulations to all members of your staff who have contributed to making your weekly the newspaper that ii is With best wishes for continued success Yours sincerely Dr Frank A Phllbrook Member of Parliament Will the progress side be worth the ride Were making in the sky Will our science men of wonder Then come back to find That in their ihey ve made a waste Of all they left behind In these castles and these cottages Will humanity end its trail Will our human pleasure be Just a treasure Left in a vapor trail Victor Smith R 2 Rockwood Ann Chesworth Guide Captain Eden Mills Pork prOdUCer Cartractor of year speaks in collision By Mark Leahy Halton Peel Pork Producers held their annual meeting at United Church on Monday Feb at 12 noon President Charles Fines chaired the meeting A delicious hot pork dinner was served by the ladles of the Church Guest speaker for the program was Harold Giesel R R 2 West Rose Ontarios pork producer of the year Mr Giesel showed slides of his hog operation He led an interesting discussion on problems encountered in setting up his hog operation and explained his success with using artificial insem Councilmen were elected for a three year term to the Zone Ontario Hog Producers Board as follows Tom Foster and Bob Merry Peel Clare Corbtrry and Jim Johnston Alternates Lance and Charles Fines Directors to the Halton- Pork Producers As soda were elected as follows Casey Boss Garry Brown Tom Foster Dennis McClure Bob Merry Lance Pocock Bill Robertson and Bob Thompson Peel Harry Clare Car berry Ken Coffey George Charles Fines Dave Johnston and Bryan Speers New officers will be elected at Ihe next meeting on Feb Howard Malcolm Director from the Ontario Pork Producers Association ex plained some of the Boards programs for the coming year Gerry Secre tary of he Ontario Pork Pro ducers Association intro duced an advertising ape which will be used this year in promotion of pork shirts promoting pork production are available Bob Thompson Secretary of the Peel Pork Producers Association at a cost of S3 A collision involving a farm tractor and an auto resulted In a total damage figure of on the First Line Febru Damage to the farm tractor and snow blower driven by Peter Martinello of Acton is estimated by police to be Region Police state the tractor was reversing from the road into a private driveway Damage to the auto driven by 114 Eliza Dr is put at by police The Swetman vehicle was southbound UN ACTON THURSDAY NIGHT SHOPPING TIL 900 PM THE FOLLOWING MERCHANTS ARE OPEN THURSDAYS AND FRIDAYS TIL PLUS PARTICIPATING 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