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every Wednesday by Inland Pub slung Co Lmiodm Telephone M10 Subocr pi S cop each Canada In all count other than Canada Tho Acton Fieo Pros Inland Publish ng Co Llm led group of news pftpen which Include News Tho Brampton Guardian Tho Post Tho Georgetown Independent and Sun Gonad an Champ on Newmarket Aurora Da Beaver Tha Week Osliawa Tl Weekend and Tho S rout Founded In 1875 Don McDonald Publisher EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT Editor Hartley Co en Editor Helen ay RaporterJPholagiaphai Els no Editor ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT Advertising Manager Cook Claiilf led Advertising n BUSINESSACCOUNTING OFFICE Of lea Manager F an on I Co CIRCULATION n It 2010 Business and ditonal Office The Acton Free Press Wednesday Jan 17 1979 Sports museum for part of town hall The death of Clayton Dude Lindsay this week after a lengthy illness points out the lack of suitable recognition for per who made Acton a well known name in Ontario Sports circles Dude as he was familiarly known in hockey and baseball annals of the province starred on championship baseball and hockey teams of the and in Acton When his playing days were over he gave unstintingly of his talents as a coach and manager to minor industrial and Ontario Baseball Association teams He loved sports of all kinds and left his mark on an era when amateur sport was alive and kicking like a healthy mule But this isnt a paean to Dude Lindsay and others like him who made this community a more pleasant and interesting place with their sports efforts This is a plea that they not be forgotten with the generations who saw them play In Georgetown a number of people have formed a Hockey Heritage Committee to preserve the history of the great Raider teams of the past A similar project in Acton to include all sports would be not only approp riate but give the present generation and those to come a picture of past sports person and the part they played when Acton was a much smaller town and sports was endowed with vigor an everyday part of community life One suitable place for such a look into Actons sports past would be the old town hall which a public minded committee is try ing to preserve Several suggestions for a re novated town hall have been made all of them admirable Why not a local sports hall of fame in one corner or part of a larger museum preserving artifacts and memorabilia of all kinds of the past Other communities have taken the lead in keeping the past alive with museums a word we don especially like Museums con jure up a vision of musty rooms and displays of the same ilk We think of well lighted displays that would bring the past alive and convey some appreciation of it to people today and tomorrow It s thought for those who may feel the old town hall should be demolished Saving it would not only preserve part of Acton heritage but give this community a place to stand Legal gambling beneficial If you want to lay a few bucks on your local bookie the government has a surprise for you fines andor But at the local race track you can legally blow your financial brains out There s a full fledged law prohibiting pennyante poker on the CNR But you can buy Canada tickets at most train stations The law says you cant run a Bingo game for cash But you can buy lottery tickets from almost any of the provincial govern And at least two provincial governments are seriously considering legalizing casino gambling We ve reached an interesting point in the social development of this country No longer is all gambling deemed to be the work of the Devil Now only enterprise gambling is officially labelled as sin Staterun gam blmg is now condoned as socially beneficial This sort of convoluted thinking comes naturally enough to a government which wants to spend more than it figures it can raise in taxes A similar sort of thinking takes place during wars when rather than tax the public directly for the I plan to become an eccentric full cost of the campaign and risk losing public support for the war effort government prefers to print money and tax the public more subtly through inflation most anything as any politician knows is preferable to a tax which is highly isible In lotteries all sorts of govern have discovered an almost unlimited gold mine The same people who hate to pay taxes love to lose their money on games of chance where the odds against success are high enough to make a bookie blush This vast supply of money mediis that government doesn have to take the full rap for its spending Since taxpayers are not really aware of the total revenues which government is taking out of the public pocket there is less opposition to the governments programs The case for lotteries might be a lot stronger if the money was being used to offset the deficits in essential public programs In stead the lottery departments are running around trying to find new projects which can be funded through the gambling revenue The Canadian Federation of Independent Business With whole now year extending itself before us perhaps it time to wonder whu mo are going do with the next 10 or months My plan for next months is to become an This may not seem much of in imbllion but I and secretly desired to he one My wife jnd other close friends hove suggested that I im weird bill problem almost 20 years i It idler of English I spell ir like she is way my students do I hut only one of my eccentricities I mi also lo crow in my nostrils In mend in my ears No more this the Hie i liddlc trim the I want eyebrows I want look like in an Jewish profit If that cm ugh I II grow flurd in my belly button You know what flurd is I s lb it cottony that grows your Icily I is Ihe real cause of the Ameri civil war The Northerners were rowing mi re in their belly buttons th in the Southerners were on their plnntn Hut enough of And who ever of i civil war A war may be full of fiendish cruelty or dreadful atrocities or monumental indignities but there is nothing civil about it A civil war occurs when you sue your neighbor tear down Hit fence that is bowing over your Ik is Back to my eccentricities summer until now l have eschewed the we iring of tie And know my dignity has I ve heard people say it I hey 1 ok at his dignity Did you sec such suffering Next summer come what miy m lo chew tie day II may be little rough i He day but with the price of leltuce what can you lose Another I plan to net I is No no not football about the cm do that I menu dribble at nose and mouth eon si intly 1 will wipe it with my sleeve I his is only slightly less eccentric than picking one nose In public and citing it which i mil do time Do I be to disgust Don worry libels worse I hue well formulated plans to we white wool sot with black pilent leather shoes brown shoes with blue blazer and while shies wilh in tuxedo I will wi my but discreet bun to with I am pi innniL i big for the Twelfth of July So far only the Pope and a few cardinals have accepted But I m ex f other birds Like King Billy Ihe loventeeth It promises to be quite a Another thing going to do In the new year is Not Go South tor the Winter This is becoming one of the mire eccentric things to do I m going to change my whole toward my grandboys No mare love and attention That not eccentric That bourgeois This year it going to be Gel off my little monster or 1 1 a good scelpt in the lurch leach them that it doesn pay fool iround with a relic I have some eccentricities in store for old too Instead of sitting there raiding the paper I m going to look up smile and Darling s the most fascinating account I ever heard how made the bed and did last nights dishes ind the living room SI ell go into i slate of oblivion There ire a few other bad habits I hive to discard if I wint to become the eccentric Don I try to say that one unless you hive your partial in I m going to stop semi supporting my kids No more hindouts Perhaps this seems eccentric see par graph above but at respective ages of 10 and they are no longer my business In I wish I had i business so I could disown them nice hard tare business lor example with a net profit of I d just love say I disown you and I leaving the business to your cousin I wood whosmokespot hangs around the pool hall and t know whether his arm Is glued or I love to see the look on their faces Or would This eccentric business is not as is it seems And better I your dentures in for one Dude Lindsay Another prominent sports figure of halcyon days My first memory of Dude Lindsay originates in the at Acton old steel clad arena I was just a kid plenty wet be hind the care and full of enthusiasm for sports This was a sparkling cold night The ice was fast and hard The Tanners group champions of a strong Intermediate B league which Included teams such as Georgetown Milton Fergus and others played In front of a full arena At one point in a game which Acton dominated Dude Lindsay broke down the right wing catching a pass from centre Norm Morton broke around confused challenging one on one The nelminder came out blocking the Lindsay crossed in front of the net the goalie following keeping the angle covered Then while the nctmtnder expected a shot Dude rifled a onehanded bullet over the astonished shoulder that brought the crowd to Its feet applauding It was a typical Lindsay goal as Acton piled up the score on the visiting team and was just one of many highlights in the exploits of Clayton Dude I who this week passed away at Guclph General Hospital after a long illness Dude Lindsay was born and raised in the hamlet of West Montrose a collection of homes on the Grand Illvcr and Kitchener with little claim to Tame other than its old covered bridge over the Grand River unique in Ontario He played junior hockey in and like many boys from small towns and rural areas played and with enthusiasm In season He excelled all of them Perhaps like many athletes of that era products of small ponds and ice covered arenas he would have gnduatcd to professional teams at a later date when opportunities were greater tor small towns such as Acton where many of these athletes gravitated their presence brightened up the tough economic limes of the Great Depression and their after Dude like many others athletic career Interrupted when World War If broke out in 1939 Along with other he also played hockey in the old Toronto Varsity League before signing up the irmed services The war came when they were in prime leteshke Mooney Bon the brothers the Morton brothers Johnny to name a few had athletic careers shortened by the service However their love of sports never left them When the war was over hockey and were revived with great en a fledgling sports writer it was my privilege lo associate with some of the best leims Acton ever produced The Tanners had won the OHA Intermediate B hockey in 1939 a proud moment for Acton and they threatened to dominate the competitive intermediate hockey wars again athletes got back in civvies Although careers beckoned in other direction moil of the athletes preferred to return Acton Among them was Dude Lindsay who played win and defence for the Tanners and made i name with the Acton baseball nine as a catcher and long ball hitler Dude played behind the plate and had a high balling average as Acton Intermediate ball team won the championship He had married an Acton girl Louise Lea t ham and was raising a family in this town Including two boys with athletic proclivities He also found lime to as coach of the Juvenile baseball club where I played third base His knowledge of the game was obvious our collection of fum biers and weak hitters At one game in Milton for instance where a right handed pitcher Poolie Marshall was bam us with a sharp curve and drop Dude let us have our wings for two inn lags When he was sure wc were suitably chastened he advised us stand ahead of the plate a step and swing at the ball be fore the curve broke We started bell that pitcher all over the lot and chalked up an astonishing lead over the surprised Milton club considered the class of the league under coach Bud Corbet l Unfortunately our fielding match our bats We lost by one run How ever our respect for coach Lindsay rose by several notches Dude was never a quiet His on the ball field and on ihe ice was sometimes interpreted as bravado it Infused the learns for which he played with the spirit that wins games He also had strong confidence in his own which also was sometimes construed as boasting but his detractors were often forced to admit he could carry out his statements Dude was plagued ill health and forced to give up many of the activities he enjoyed Earlier he coached Georgetown Giants in the County isehall League coached and played ball in Aclon until he hung up his tack for slower pursuits He was part an era In Acton the like of which may never see again We II miss Dude but we carry fond mem ones of him for the rest of our lives H Coles Back issues 10 years ago Taken from Ihe Issue of ret Press or Thursday Janunry22 19G3 The community was shocked by the of George Robinson in an in accident There s no doubi is the fastest growing in the district ready licenses for have been issued at the local bureau fcdwm Wat Bob was again named chairman of the planning board Contrary to an announcement by the national government ihe post office will not be closing ill day on Siturdnys Beginning wickets will be open from until I m Mr doesn feel that the change will be a hard ship for residents Ken Marshall and his S huskies have been competing in dog races Cobblelnll residents oppose the locating of geared housing and senior citizens units in their locality A petition was presented to council The favor single family dwellings for area Dons Cook Addit and Grace were presented with silver Irays The trio recently retired from after a tola of ears scr 20 years ago Taken form the issue of Free Press of Januarv I9j9 P Alan Deacon planning consultant for the town of advised the planning board that consideration be given for future planning He said board should consider close examination of the central commercial in order to provide a stimulation of trade with off street parking there should be a park plan for the entire town and there should be i prehminarv street plan to tope with future extension and expansions in and around Acton The pirk board set its budget at S3 with George Barbcau reviewing ex penditures His mention of ihe need for more picnic tables was promptly seconded by secretary Mrs George lit ration plant is being considered for the wading pool Nassagawcya reeve John Milne was chosen as I9a9 warden of Helen Benton was chosen to it the County public speaking finals Finalists chosen were Graham Winded Lind Joan Cook and Gay While Judges were Rev A A Hansen and Glen Banks 50 years ago Taken from the Issue of the tree Press Januarv 1SP9 The annual meeting of Fall Fair was held in the Town Hall yesterday President Kerr spoke of improvements and progress the fair was making Fair dates were set for he third Tuesday and Wednesday in Sep tember as has been he John Smith was elected president with first vice president J Kennedy and second vice president Duncan ihe school house and an old stone slable at Brisbane corner this one time hive of industry is off the map The last frame building was destroyed by fire this week Father was reelected chairman of the Free Library board at their meeting Monday morning At the last meeting of Aeton Loyal True Blue Lodge Sister Lappin was reelected M A number from Glen Williams paid Lodge i visit Drivers Be kind to your horses these winter days Blanket them when they are standing With highways open the entire year molonng can now be termed a year round pleasure At Ihe annual meeting of the Horticultural Society Mr Waller Thomas was elected president 100 years ago Taken from the Issue of lhe Free Press of Thursday January More snow Today mails are all late The streets have been lively sleighs station is now one of regular stations on the line of he and Railway and freight can be shipped and from there hereafter The skating rink continues be the centre of attraction to lovers of sport in this village II is open every evening and almost every afternoon and the band is In attendance Monday and Thursday evenings A sleigh load of attended the skating carnival in Milton last night Good time