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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Aug 25, 1949
Page
2
A week from Tuesday Acton voters will decide on installing sewers and keeping pace with Milton and Georgetown. The measure would authorize a 350000 expenditure with laterals to street lines and potential bond sales. The council urges informed judgment and progress.
The article notes how district boards now face complex tasks beyond hiring teachers, including mass pupil meals, auditorium usage, bus networks, cross-district enrollment finances, and nonteacher staff, while members juggle farming, store work, and board duties as a separate career.
The piece argues that urban fire services and water systems aid city fires, but rural barns burn uncontrollably once flames take hold. It stresses farm water shortages and equipment gaps leaving little chance to save structures.
Workers strive to save other buildings under threat as farm fires burn with partial to total loss. The text warns that high building costs make replacement via insurance unlikely and urges strict fire precautions on farms.
An editorial notes the need to boost exports to balance imports and views Canada as a defense asset for the U S. It also recounts a Paris editor's critique of tax value, describing town services such as garbage collection, water, streets, and fire protection as essential benefits for residents.
The CN exhibition opens tomorrow drawing many locals, milk grade debates aim to cut costs, auto output rises to 140115 in six months, and GM plants note bumblebee flight myth. An Ottawa Citizen piece questions recession while praising Canada's steady jobs and resilience amid US gains.
Acton notes from the Free Press dated Thursday August 24 1550 report contractor Alex Cripps to begin offices at the Tanning Co next week and Campbell doubling dwellings on Mount Campbell Cobble Hill. A grain unload incident injures Richard Brown at Mr Lindsay’s farm. an electric light soon to be installed at Fairview Place. Residents depart North-West seeking new homes. Geo Edwards and Mrs Edwards move to Flint Michigan. W Ke Smith advertises for sale his dwelling barn and two acres on John Server Avenue. John Perkins Jr previously of Acton dies at Gloversville aged 40 years.
Acton High School exams show pupils post strong results. Nineteen residents will receive the Old Age Pension in Halton County on November 1. A wedding at St Joseph's RC Church united Elmore Papillon and Arlington White. Brampton obituary notes TW Warner Nokhin, 64, of Acton.
The article describes a death chamber exhibit at the Canadian National Exhibition opening next week. It features a mass breeding program at MacDonald College in Saint Anne de Bellevue Quebec and a demonstration of controlled predation using an insecticide spray containing DDT and other chemicals to kill pests.
Under the Fur Seal Agreement with the United States Canada will receive about 13 000 skins this year. It is the Dominion's twenty percent share 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 the erection of Acton into a town to take effect on or about September 15. Clerk J. McGeachie notes the plan and date.
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