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GeorgetownActon Wednesday May OPEN MOTHERS DAY Whether you are a Mother or gift shopping for one Canada s largest leather fashions store offers you an extensive selection of exciting gift ideas at up to 50 OFF Choose from Thousandsof Spring Suits Bombers Leather Jackets Coats Fine Woollens Shoes Handbags Wallets Excellent Values on Men s Fashions Complete your Mother Day shopping visit with a delicious lunch dinner or Sunday Brunch on the premises Its Worth the Drive to Acton Billy Middleton marks 90 years One of Acton moat popular and beloved citizens celebrated his birthday the weekend with a giant bash put by the Acton Legion Billy Middleton a staunch supporter of Acton and the local branch was the centre of attention Saturday at an open house at the Legion Over 100 people turned out to wish him well enjoy a lunch and birthday cake made by the Ladies Auxiliary and sing Happy Birthday to him Billy was bom on May 1694 in Brant ford and was the son or Gavin and Mane He was one of six children Serving in Belgium Holland and France with the Tenth Signals Brigade during World War I Billy recalls being wounded on September 1 Today he Jokes about being hurt so close to the end of the war just two months short of the end after being overseas for live years After the war Billy married his wife Helen on October 11 1920 in Stratford The couple moved to Acton in May 1923 and here he worked as an operator for the station They liked he community and its people so much Billy says they adopted it as their home town A Few years after their an here they bought their present home on Mill St E where the Union Jack and the Canadian Hog proudly flies every day the weather is good In IU34 Billy went to work at the Canada Customs and Excise office a job he held until his retirement in 1959 In the mean time he was very active in various projects throughout the town For several years Billy was secretary ireasureroflheActon School Board also a member of the Masonic Lodge When War II broke out Billy was instru mental in the formation of the Acton War Services League which about three times a year would send a parcel of various sundries to Acton people serving overseas Once a month a carton of cigarettes was sent to everyone also John Goy recalls the packages as being a welcome gift from home and much appreciated After the war Billy was on the hard working crew who built the Scout Hall Goy points out Billy is the type of person who was always helping out Goy notes You just had to bring ft up to him and he was there Billy says the biggest mistake Acton ever made was when the post of rice was torn down It was a beautiful building he recalls He has so many other memories of Acton he refuses to start talking about them for time reasons TON He spells It out Not Hal ton Hilis T The sign at Billy birthday bash hays it all but Acton and 1 II love it forever Billy sings praises of the Legion also He anyone to find a better bunch of people than those at Branch 1ST And the members of Branch think just as highly of Billy points out the branch has only three members who are World War vets Billy Jimmy Ingles and Jack Coates who trans erred from Toronto At the open house held in Billy honor Saturday local president Lcn Shone presented Billy with a book Canada the Beautiful Pat Waldie presented Mrs with flowers and Vic Patrick made a presentation on behalf of Dominion Command Hills mayor Iluss Miller presented Billy with plaques from the town and the province of Ontario and a letter from the leader of the Provincial lion David Peterson For both Billy and the Acton Legion his birthday will be a celebration not easily forgotten Bilk Acton ambulance from page I was token Concerns about response time may be case of people In a crisis situation feeling that the time is dragging on when in fact much less time than they think actually passed Acton may find some concerns solved by the new central dispatch out of which will be born in November A local concern has been that drivers can get lost in the rural area However with central dispatch will come radio link between the ambulance and a person calling for an ambulance they be able to talk a driver to his destination Also the computers will have been programmed to pinpoint locations of just about any sized community even by former local names Another interesting point Whiting said is that tolhcgovirnment Georgetown and hospitals are ah fairly qua as far as a facility to take someone to b since they the same etc The provincial view Is that coses go to Toronto and Hamilton rest he nearest hospital Name LACAC township council recently op pointed members in the I AC Committee lor 19IM arc Betty Lou Clark Don llm Coring Don Hilts Betty John Show Beth Hindi Barry Burton Hill Jein Mary and Peter Varh also agreed to gram the com nnttei for the purchase of slides of the ill interesting schools of the town ship NOTICE NEW PHONE NUMBER 8532219 J DOIMT J FORGET The RED CROSS BLOOD CLINIC at H01V CROSS CHURCH AUDITORIUM MONDAY MAY th Open from to 8 pm DONOR ages 17 to are URGENTLY needed to give BLOOD TRANSPORTATION and BABYSITTING at the clinic available to donors If a is needed phone Mrs Alice Geenaway or Mrs Flo Street 4626 On clinic day phone 9055 THIS CLINIC IS SPONSORED B THE KINSMEN CLUB SIX QMS BE WISE BRAMTROmCS 138 St Georgetown