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Its mental health week No more stress today than ever psychiatrist Murray People living under any more stress today than they have for generations according to an Act on area resident who is psychiatrist John Dougan lit Acton says every gen believes it is living under more stress than has ever been seen before This week May is Mental Health Week In Canada and stress is the theme The Canadian Men Health Association has proclaimed Stress The more you know about It the better you cope Dr Dougan had a number of suggestions how people can cope belter withstrcss Exercise People nearly enough He also urged people kick the habit and quit ing Another step In learning how to cope with stress is to switch off the TV Dr believes a lot of stress could be eased if people would cam to talk to gether again and enjoy the company of their Turning off the TV is a good way to get hack talking Director of the Community Psychiatric Hospital serving and Orangevllle Dr says he sees some patients from the Acton area and re called at cmptlng to start a mental health clinic here about five years ago He agrees with experts who point to many physical ailments being stress related It is thought by the medical profession that anywhere between to BO percent of all diseases are stress related stress is the root of all ps illnesses And he physical ailments brought on by stress are hypochondriacs 5 tress on a person mind will jnflu the body to produce ailments and illnesses can even be fatal he says He points to stress created ailments like ulcers chronic tension headaches eczema and asthma and says there ore dozens of others I don really think stress is lingering People today t under any more stress today than they were during the dirty depression World War II or in the 50s when the cold war brought the threat of nuclear bombs and destruction of the earth Dr Dougan says he ought to know about stress In those times since he lived through them There was as much stress then as there is now Today stress is just produced by other things I grew up in Ireland and there were enough stress there to curl your hair People have always lived under stress and always will The difference today is more is known about stress especially about its effects on the human body reports people have been getting sick and even dying from stress for centuries it just that nobody knew it until just the past few cades though Hippocrates talked about stress causing physical ailments as far back as century it wasn until this century that the mod leal profession really began to believe it Hans Sclyc did ground breaking research into stress much of it In Canada In the and soon after the medical profession began accepting the relationship between stress and disease People think there is more stress today because they hear more about it Dougan says but it is just a case of the public and doctors be more aware of It In his work he runs Into some stress illness and notes the chronically ill can be helped if the doctor realizes the ailment Is caused by stress It also helps the patient acknowledges the ailment is stress re An Inland Community Newspaper 0 and ft ACTON ONTARIO WEDNESDAY MAY 1980 Tv I a Hellers deal alive again by Murray The possible move by Frank Heller and Co Ltd Into the closed Diss ton plant is alive again Heller general manager Fred Dawkins revealed in an interview this week that he and partner Ron Heller met Thursday with Business Develop ment Officer William Marshall Halton Hills Mayor Peter Art of the Ontario Develop Corporation and Bob Planck Ontario Ministry of Industry and Tourism Halton representative The possible move is alive again in the sense it is disc Dawkmscautloned In early April announced the long rumored deal was off after several months of negotiations He said he was encouraged by last week s meet with government officials and there is a of government aid being available Another encouraging sign has been the three straight wecksof drops In the prime lending rate set by the Bank of Canada said the drop in Interest rates is an Important factor in helping re vive the talks Disston it was closing its plant here last August and shutdown November Over people lost their jobs though many found work with the help of a parent firm Heller has three plants two in Acton and one in Georgetown and the move to Disston would have consolidated their operations Negotiations got rolling last December and by January a tentative deal had been reached but by the end of March It had fallen through Dawkins pointed to high Interest rates the slug economy and lack of government aid as factors in causing the deal to collapse That gloomy picture has changed a bit resulting in a glimmer of hope for the deal Not long after Dawkins announced the deal was dead Marshall and Pomeroy who had not been in much to that point revealed they were going to set up a meeting with and Heller and the provincial Ideals to sec if the negotiations could be revived New plastics firm opening A new plastics manufacturing firm is opening this month in Acton Plastics Eighty Ltd will hopefully begin production this month and initially employ five or six people plant spokesman Don said in an interview Plastics Eighty is moving Into the industrial area The firm will be manufacturing custom vacuumed forms Its products will be aimed at the point of purchase market and many will be used for cosmetic displays in retail outlets In addition to d plays Plastics Eighty will manufacture Industrial components parts and some consumer products The company will produce plastic fabrication tak flat pieces of plastic heating them and then bending them into various shapes Disney on parade It a small world for these kindergarten pupils of Itobcrt Little School who will raise their voices In the primary concert to be held Thursday May The theme Is Disney and the children are dressed as fat characters t row left to right Timothy Howe Stephen Sargent Back Philip Williamson Lisa Beaton Jennifer and Bobbie Dawkins The concert starts at 1 and again at The Junior concert will be on Wednesday May 14 30pm and J The theme for Is Canada Photo by IA TM Mortgage protest at standstill 100 musicians singers perform Conductors George Elliott and A Dale Wood of Acton Band and he Georgetown Choral Society respectively go over the score of one of the numbers for the third Joint concert the two musical organizations will present three nights this week The Band and Choral Society have been several Weeks for the performances which will take place at Holy Cross la Georgetown Friday night Saturday fa Acton at middle school and again In Georgetown at Holy Cross Church Sun day evening Called Holiday In Spring the Saturday concert In Acton will feature 100 musicians and singers at the school All performances begin at An Acton man campaign against high mortgage interest rates is at something of a standstill A wait and sec posture has been adopted In March Bill Rogers Road went out and collected more than lOOsignatures on a petition protesting interest rates In the area and also attended a homeowners meeting with pol itlcians from various levels of government in Misslssauga The plan hatched by a Mississauga man was to collect signatures from across the country for presentation to Prime Minister Pierre It was also hoped to start a Canadian Homeowners Association Recently the Homeowners Association plan col lapsed before it even got off the ground Rogers said he thinks the petition campaign may proceed any way The goal is to collect half a million signatures Canada wide He collected only a few more signatures in the past month noting ho has been very busy with work and everyone seems to be waiting to see what Ottawa and Queen Park are going to do about the situation Rogers observed the province doesn t seem pre pared to do much after budget was brought down last week Queens Park will present some of a study of the matter later this spring and is also waiting to see what Ottawa will do The federal government has hinted at mortgage aid for a limited number of people but has offered no concrete proposals Rogers points out the federal government has promised more information next month but then they promised to unveil plans in April two months ago Mortgage rates have dropped a little along with other interest rates the past couple of weeks but going down nearly fast enough to help any of us homeowners who must renew their mortgages this spring or summer Rogers noted there is talk mortgage rates will be down to 12 per cent by December but that won help renewing homeowners He says the only option people have is to take out a sixth month mortgage Woman seeks support for mosquito spraying More delays for the Sen J Citizen apartment complex that won open until late June or early July An Acton woman Is looking for support from residents here to help her press Hills to In program this summer Christina Houston Churchill Road went to the Ward One Councillors dropin Friday to express her concern about the pest bugs which descend on Acton along with much of the rest of the country pretty soon She told Councillors Terry Grubbo and Ed Wood that Is allergic to mosquito bites and swells up badly Mrs Houston reported she has talked to some other people In the community and finds people are anxious to have a mosquito spraying program She wondered a petiti would Impress council Acton newest residents You 11 find Profiles on two families of Boat page 2 News Digest is on People are busy settling page 3 page has On the in and learning English Leavell and More Digest is on page enough to start spraying Mrs Houston said she was ready to start collecting signatures if it would sway council Knee el noted he has talked to town engineer Robert Austin about spraying and the municipal official has said he won t spray unless so ordered by the Medical Officer of Health Wood noted he was received several calls from residents who were concerned about in the past year and reported a petition has been in the Cobblehlll RoadStorey Drive area He observed both the the region and province have gotten out of mosquito spraying because people object to damaging the environment with chemicals The problem here according to Wood is Acton is surrounded by swampy areas breeding grounds for She said she will be talking to others who arc con about and want a spraying pro gram then go to council In Acton 30 years Jong Wong and his brother Kong Wong celebrated In Aclon Thursday The owners of Royal Cafe to Acton May 1 1050 They thesDmcyear