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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Apr 02, 1964
Page
30
A lengthy critique warns that a Social Insurance Number for Canadians aims to streamline unemployment benefits and pensions, while enabling broad government tracking. The piece questions privacy, urges caution about compulsory forms, and critiques expansion of state power over homes and daily life.
A critique of extensive local rules on finishing basements, signs, structural changes, and changing home use. The piece argues that planning and zoning, plumbing, land use and related boards replace individual common sense under the guise of the common good, stifling private property decisions.
The Free Press reports March 15 1914 notes from Acton Ontario with Red Cross subscriptions reaching 4500 and local letters from military personnel. It covers community events. bowling club election details. a new postal money order office plan. a late Mrs Wilds burial. and farm news including twin calves and a three legged birth.
Milton is honored as Citizen of the Year with Mike Ledwith noted as a businessman Rotarian former Mayor and community leader. In Brampton Fire Chief Gowland seeks to remove 38 alarm boxes with few exceptions and Waterdown plans senior citizen housing via a Legion unit. Georgetown revokes a 20 suite permit amid petitions, Cooksville encounters attendance name dispute at Township Council meeting. clash over development plan persists with Reeve Speck under scrutiny.
Mn Hazel Hardstone of Eaton's chidware department will speak on Table Settings at a Summary Day in St Pauls Church Milton on Wednesday afternoon April 3 at 1 30 pm. The event highlights simple family desserts and attractive desserts for special events as leaders from local groups share ideas learned at a February training school.
A writer notes family warnings while a daughter faces social expectations about marriage. Tension rises as preparations swirl around a Conservatory event and a possible engagement, with details of dates and costs discussed amid excitements and anxieties.
Canadian National tournament at the Royal York Hotel Toronto drew record crowds with over 200 tables in use on Saturday amid anticipations of 2000 alley per day at the Summer Nationals in July. Acton Bridge Club contributed six players, all posting above average scores. the Non Masters team tied for fourth in a decisive match.
An unclear narrative portrays a speaker arguing with a woman over preparing venues and inviting guests. They discuss resistance, anticipated failure, and eventual resolve to proceed with a flawed plan, naming a banquet and a performance setting as a central element.
A Jersey cow named Pride 295268 in Dutchess County earned recognition for fat production. The herd, identified as Pride 1e, requires at least 2 000 pounds of fat over four consecutive years for qualification.
A dense local directory lists doctors physicians dentists lawyers and optometrists with their addresses in Acton Ontario and nearby Georgetown Guelph and Stratford. It includes office hours contact numbers and appointment notes for practitioners such as Dr D A Garrett Dr Robert D Buckner Dr B Moore and others across multiple professions.
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