The Actor Free Pre Wednesday August Those lazy hazy days of summer Staff Photo Sugar and Spice by bill smiley Well here we in If way through the summer an I vt a whole of turn on I olid Hit furthest I been away from home with friends to the west coast tin coast is out to tin hotel to deliverer pick daughter the waitress tin miles I itpl ivedfivt been in sw and en t en my rod out of tht trunk of Ihe hi re it been since If tli tool da on thcdiysflybv Tim rtmind me of lit bullets which tome screimmg sin at and for some reason miss disappear old may 1 set one But that reminds there is one bright spot id Cam in ichter Pilots Association is iv me its tht summer Im invited to and poison If for three d in tht Lump inj of other rightly sagging balding paunt hint haps per tLnt of whom never met It miLht fun but I think I II pass it up IIilsi rt unions ire more saddening than jov I tet more fun out of taking out the old album looking at what I was in those sloppy hat top button undone handlebar moustache and a devhsh twinkle in eve My daughter says the twinkle is still there though my wife lifts her eyebrows I just snort That the best answer when yon rt not sure of jour ground Perhaps the real reason I won t go is that for ont of the dinners there is a note saying Black tit optional Actually I look pretty danetd distinguished in a black tie but I dtltst everything the phrase stands for sophisticated middle class snob I not knocking the old fighter pilots Most of ttiLm came from pretty humble surroundings as 1 did and have done well in lift After all we were the pick of the crop andnosnorting please from the army and navy who gave us a hand occasionally and in our way frequently But black tie optional is a bit rich for blood And can hear all the dead ones hooting with laughter at this innocent bit of pomposity And I wonder how many of the and the failures will be there tit or none And there another reunion It pnsonersof war air force deal This too I d enjoy if I knew anybody But I tried or two of these wound up is lontly as i lobster at tlambikc All these fit red fictd Cinidnns other on back ind lies while I looked for familiar fact All my friends in prison camp were Czechs and Poles Norwey ins ind South Africans Irish Welsh Scots Must have been in the wrong imp And of course there s convention of the Can Weekly Newspapers Assoti tominj up I still i rehtionship with the weeklies and many old friends among their editors At least I don feel in outsider at their But I probably won Who would time Kim to work Who would settle the fights between her and her mother Who would continue to fail to put up the new clothes line and repair the handle on the bathroom door No I m essential right here it home Editorial Pag Extend commuter service It Acton needs additional assessment to residents in paying for town new sewage plant some thought should be given lo the itlvintages of a proposed GO trim system stopping here The prospect of a new Toronto commuter roil service that will extend is fir is Georgetown and rmybc Guelph was brightened at meeting between federal and provincial of fici lis with representatives from Metro Toronto They agreed to make study of several routes radinting from Toronto for i new nil commuter service The study won t recommend which line should used for commuter service but it is believed the leading contenders are the line that pusses through Malton Brampton Georgetown Acton and and another through North York as far as Newmarket It is expected 11k study will be finished In eight months and one tine or two could be in operation soon after There no need to document the extra commuter nil service here would There would be i brisk demand for housing Esquesing for wealthy to have orderly and planning boird included a provision in the newly unveiled Officnl Plan to mike the minimum size of new houses in the rural parts of the township square feet The chairman in response lo objections from residents it the meeting where the plan was unveiled noted it was in empirical decision and the boird wis not necessarily sure they were And of course they Including provision the pi of the township they arc miticilly excluding per cent of the township residents from ever building i new house in the rural parts of the township It wis pointed out that those who could not afford to build i 1 foot house would still have the option of building i house in one of the three design hamlets where the minimum size would be only 1 squ ire feet This concession to the middle ind lower income groups of course would soon create i situition not unlike the British Isles where the titled and wealthy live in country estates while the bulk of the huddle in hamlets villages towns cities These facts were not lost on many of the attentive audience of over at the unveiling of the Official Plan There were numerous objections to the minimum of 800 squire feet figure and the planning board promised the would reconsider the figure There wis enough comment ifler the meeting to indicite 200 or squirt feet would he much more acceptable One lady with an aptitude for figures ind a knowledge of con struction costs Mrs Horace Bell pointed out the minimum of 1 square feet would mem the residence could be built in the township would cost a square foot as a guide ind not including the cost of land Mrs Bell deduced few people todiy could build that kind of house the mt would be extremely for and assessment would follow null At the same time the town could exercise a considerable A of control so expansion does not get out of hand A fast link with Toronto would also magnet for business and manu as well is commuters and m ike Acton more attractive centre Both our provincial MPP the Hon Kerr ind federal MP Whiting are sympathetic to the town problems Why not get them busy suggesting the new commuter service should extended to Acton young people just starting out when they have scrimped saved to buy half or threequarters of in of and then were denied the opportunity lo build a house they I here is no quarrel of course with the intent of the proposed legislation to ensure the rich agricultural land of is not developed willy without thought to orderly growth However the square foot would in effect establish the township is a preserve for the wealthy the most would be denied the great of residents I he figure should be reduced to one within the reach of people who live ind make their living in As it st now it could create privileged rural society tinged with it is no place in i township Pioneered developed by ordinary people who lefl a rich tradition of democntic for their des OUR READERS WRITE Should investigate source of odor following is letter sent to the mil Hit Hon Kerr rctardwc the odor in tht t of Alton which the tree w is to publish It not that I I d Dear thoroughly enjoy mixinj it up with old pilots old p w old editors And I could probably a ride for Kim And line can lie there rot for all I tare And the bathroom door knob can wait as it has done for six months It just that wife takes two hours to rtady for swim three days to to go away for i weekend three weeks to ready for a convention It am I worth it May be 1 11 take a day off and to down to and catch somt ptrth io in the cistern of own of suffering from i vers odor we fin illy relief from this tondition Howevtr over the past two this odor has returned to the ltvtl it is 15 years ijo her pist two It has become rorcsiul worst to i point it the I rtstnt whtrt it is impossible for lo list becoming violently ill from th stench th it stems lo move in on limine I rt id in our lot il paper where there is some question is to tht of this I tint i of your to ignore r ther than invest if He todettrmmt if our pollution control plant is cause or in it is still tffluentfrom Be Co Our retvt took tht stand it ivc i pollution control plant second to none and should not its ibihty to do tht job intended of it would surest reeve should take time to visit tht ire i when this sttnth is it its worst I would think this led to a definite problem that exists surely convince both retvt ml the members of thit possible I m to if the pollution control plant is functioning satisf itlonh If it is not every step open 1 be to ensure this is immediately On the if it Is as I believe that llns is still from tffluent then should immediately sltps to with Co ml insist wh itever operation they discontinued some twoyeirsuo which was this terrible smell to a point it w is it It be iblc reintroduced f itt it the is presently sew pi that will hope fully torn this condition is no reason why should have to suffer the remainder of stint thit immediate be takin on this rt problem Yours truly It liter 20 years ago Taken rum the the ree Press Thursday 1951 hour of litis have been reported in ilton of these is voting Bill tf Ivkr tins week that swimming in Iiki h is bet forbidden by tin ilton He Unit on the of ft 11 imt trLinitr said Pollution in fornur ears has been id but there is nothing th it in done about it until tile into ope ration Samples d swimming ITic lown added a iirbati truck to its equipment on Monti ivminj owned tht of it wis bought ft r Pensions tor years of iee go into next January Halt on has approximated 100 persons in this who will vtarh Mr and Mrs Harrv Norton and children who been have returned to Peru was in passing all his Upper School exams at College the most attentive at the Old Time Fiddlers contest in were Charles and Charles Mason of who acted us judicial board members and Perry announce the opening of their new showroom and sheet metal plant on Main A modern glass front displays products years aqo Taken from Ihe Issue of the Free Press Thursday August 11 Twelve of water from selected wells in Erin were sent to the Provincial laboratory for testing Of these ten were found to contain colon bacilli the usual cause of typhoid The citizens are advised to boil all for drinking purposes The sad death of councillor William I has brought great sorrow to this He was attending Queens when the great war broke out ind he was the first man to leave Acton to join Corps at a few weeks he with a number of his withspinal meningitis and was ill for months his life at times dispairedof His fatal illness was the result Ht and his wife had two dear little sons He was a worshipful master of the Lodge and a number Knox church This public spirited will be greatly missed Misses Mildred Matthews Bertha Brown in I Nora and ranees are spending a or so at Wasaga Beach Miss Nora in Saskatchewan Mrs A Dills is isiting her sister Miss at and holidaying at annual picnic of Knox Sunday School was held at Blue Springs park last Wed ntsdav Sonic went by motor car and others by tht Suburban electric Miss Jean Wilson writes from Knox manse to say all the family west very much She Is teaching in Margaret has taken a school near Iiimsden and Duff got his results with First Class honors and intends taking the Short Normal course before course in medicine Editors note Duff his just retired is medical officer of heillh in Kitchener Do not set out fire without permit Ontario forests are yours Birds never cease to 75 years ago Taken from the issue of the Free Press Thursday August 1X96 people have been havim a lauth at the expense of one of the constables of The story is to I that the constable name given w as sojourning ai Bate s quarries on second line and having a warrint for his arrest went to takt him into custody found him engaged in a game of cards with his companions asked permission to go back into the house for his coat house had a back door however and tht last seen of was when was with muth latnty tlunbing over the mountain behind constable went home somewhat eh Elm living at toll gate No A St died suddenly of apoplexy was about HO years old and weighed his sickness pounds The bank barn raised on the farm of Mr George Leslie is a fine structure an went up without a hitch The men who assisted with the raising were through and About JO of the wives and daughters of the rs assisted the culinary duties Hie present year has been a try me to those cultivating gardens especially on lots to horses and tattle which are allowed to run at large the night While impounding- have been these gardens have suffered depredation tour thousand persons were drowned In China by a tidal wave last week Messrs Pampers and 1 two enterprising farmers Corners finished cutting their oats last week Who tan beat them Churchill Road South Acton Ont I J71 I how my people in in it in ind itch pair of Woodpeckers aid a pair of Kingbirds the insitts off the in their 1 hivt just been I on our Crimson King Maple on the in our front even tint from our feeder ilone with bout i dozen sparrows This sort of thine helps totountenct the unpk santntss of some of the things we have lo put up with in this area like bad terrific ists from the Quarry irly ike one jump out of one skin 1 s house and furniture for sever is like tht one this lo itk to the birds I have noticed this th it many more birds in many different vanities in 1 they still come to our feeder I do not it feed them through the summer only in lit winter year they kept ui I ittint on tht feeder long after the time usually ire ible to find their own tool They even kejt flvuu the windovs I to ittrictmy ittention would return to tht feeder in I kt until put somt more seed out for them Since Oct wi hive punh lbs of mixed wild bird seed five Is left ml J lbs of sunflower seeds for tht unfortunitely only time for few weeks set some of tht steds in the ind wt now have half i dozen or so be bit sunflowers in front of our sittlnLroom window to mature to I hope will attriet more to the this ill Now our tries are well hope the irds will illy nest in them ind iround all the time Of course some of the varieties do not stay with us through the winter but many kinds do Since spruit our frequtnt visitors have been raeklts Brown the odd and of tht Robin Most of them iv been bringing tin to the feeder this has been a great joy to as Did know that tht is like the it lays its in mother birds nest allows the other 1 to brine up its Anonymous letter writer errs Dear Sir If the pi rson who wrote me woulioniy take time what I wrote in with an effort to run new at the VMCA in full he or she would have known that the group mentioned has no with the present Open House This Open House being run by the Iarka and Recreation section of council in Atton with a paid leadership and this is where this complaint should have been sent If is wc stated in the memo you are disturbed late at night I would remind you the law can and will deal with this if you notify them when the situation occurs Lastly it la obvious that the writer does not digest news in the Free Press or else she wouldn t waste time writing anonymously to me Your truly Andrew E PO Box it surprise it must havebetnto of our frtqutnt irrow visitors when in se two babies in her nest brought lliem lo the feeder and fed is they were her own and they win muth than she was nature won It fill It neve re to amaze in Whit people iren t as wonderful together so welt I be vtry interested to hear rtsidtnts experiences with our friends and in anyone tell to lo to to beautiful Red to our or ire we too built for this Margaret Wright THE ACTON FREE PRESS PHONE Business and Editorial Office