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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Aug 25, 1949
Page
10
A week from next Tuesday Acton residents will decide on a $350,000 sewer project to mirror Milton and Georgetown. The vote covers sewers and laterals to the street line with bonds likely. passing means more work for officials and progress for the town.
The article notes a shift from simple duties like hiring teachers and maintaining buildings to complex tasks for district boards. It highlights mass pupil feeding, diet costs, auditorium use for public events, bus logistics, interdistrict attendance, nonteacher staff hiring, and board-level financial complexities.
The piece notes that urban areas have fire protection and water pressure to halt blazes, while on farms once a fire takes hold it cannot be stopped, often destroying the structure and contents. It emphasizes the superiority of town firefighting capabilities.
Workers strive to save threatened buildings and urge strict fire precautions on farms. Rural fires often end in total loss while town fires cause partial destruction. Rebuilding costs loom higher than insurance coverage, making prevention crucial.
The Paris editor argues to boost exports as a long term goal and notes Canada as US defense. The piece then questions tax value, recounts town services like garbage pickup, water and fire protection, and urges appreciation of local governance and services.
The column surveys upcoming CN exhibits with district turnout and two week duration. It notes debate over milk grading and cost pressures. It cites Canadian auto production up from prior years and a GM plant sign about a bee while discussing US recession fears and Canada’s resilient economy.
Reprints from the Free Press of August 24 1530 describe local activity in Acton including contractors Cripps and Campbell beginning offices at the Tanning Co Mount Campbell dwellings underway at Cobble Hill a grain accident injuring Richard Brown and plans for electric light at Fairview Place as exodus of citizens to the Northwest continues. John Perkins Jr aged 40 years dies at Gloverville.
From Acton records the 1929 cohort showed creditable performance in departmental exams. Mrs Ko Cook and Mrs Alice Cook relocate to Guelph this week with Mrs W McLaughlin. Elmers Papillon, daughter of Mr and Mrs T Papillon, marries Arlington White at St Joseph's Church. TW Warner Nicklin, aged 64, dies in Brampton.
Under the Fur Seal Agreement with the United States, Canada will receive about 13 000 skins this year, equal to twenty percent of the annual take from the Pribilof Islands seal herds in the Bering Sea west of Alaska.
The Village of Acton intends to apply to the Ontario Municipal Board for its erection into a town, effective on or about September 15, 1949, as per Clerk J. McGeachie.
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