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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Apr 01, 1948
Page
2
Last week Acton completed five of fifty Wartime Housing subdivision homes while the Leishman survey reports about fifty homes at various stages. New homes across town spurred services and a large construction program with little tax return anticipated this year. Expansion trends point eastward influenced by land contours and highway access.
Ronald Williams notes in the Financial Post that Canada's tax enforcement unit has expanded to aggressively target tax evasion. I-men within the Income Tax Branch report 95 deliberate fraud cases prosecuted recently, signaling a rising crackdown amid broader worries about ideological subversion at home.
The piece urges unity to defend values at home and abroad creating a Western European unity vision. It notes fast growth in British Columbia with 2,885 new firms in two years, near 1,000 eastern investments, a quarter billion in expansion, and daily plant openings as the province leads in per capita capital investment and industrial growth since the 1930s.
Recollections from Acton in 1898 recount a sale of Canadian and imported cattle at $8000 with buyers from Kentucky to the western territories. Nominations for reelection were made after the death of W. L. Storgy, with candidates and sponsors listed. Easter eggs among farmers, Fairy Lake thawing, and a festive Epworth League social featured readings and music at the church school auditorium.
The Dublin Literary Society held a social gathering before Miss Flossie Acheson’s departure. She was presented with a silver tea service. Ladies' Aid of Knox Church hosted a banquet and donated a cheque to support choir efforts.
The piece notes a surge in service clubs, Easter church attendance, and hockey hopes for Acton Tanners. It cites municipal statistics, garden predictions, and wartime population trends, then discusses tree shortages versus reforestation, the strain of one room schools with unqualified teachers, and 1946 livestock slaughter in Acton England amid meat rationing comparisons.
Legal notice lists L Wilson directing chiropractic therapy at Rhidro-Therapiet, with hours 10 am to 6 pm at Acton building, phone 2071.
Readable fragments show westbound Daily except Monday 1.17 a.m. and other time notes. Entries include Saturday 2.06 p.m. and Sunday 9.43 a.m. with notes for 6.36 p.m. and 6.36 p.m. entry. Also mentions 648 pra and Q6 pm. and 1209 ami daily ex orp Sunday.
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