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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Aug 25, 1949
Page
5
Acton dominates the opening round as Frankie May, for Studebakers, fans four batters while Hamilton, from Leader, secures a strong performance with nine hits and twenty seven strikeouts.
A string of visits and travels across Ontario and beyond shows residents of Acton and surrounding towns hosting friends and relatives. Notables include Mrs B Soper in Georgetown, Miss Note Kenney in Reaton Massachusetts, and families such as the Gardiners and Moffats sharing time with Acton households. A Royal College of Music scholar heads to England, while Lt Roy Moffat returns from wireless training in Camp Norden before resuming duties in Red Deer Alberta.
The Financial Post notes aluminum pie plates made in Canada are used in several bakeries. Claims include: pies baked and delivered in the same plate save washing and greasing, reduce cooking time, enhance appearance, and lower crust amount. Center-embossed Dakers trademark possible.
Dominion Bureau of Statistics reports maple syrup and sugar production with a total farm value of 9 136 000 dollars. Quebec leads in both syrup and sugar, Ontario and Atlantic provinces showing varied outputs. Canada hosts expanded Meatless Canadian National Exhibitions display with jets racing along Exhibition Park waterfront and an escalator installed in the Automotive Building for modern planes and gear.
Sunday, August with 1549 1000 am Sunday School 31.00 am Morning Service 100 pm Combined evening service You Are Welcome At any Hour.
On Sunday August 28 1949 Rev W L Findlay leads at 11 and 1 pm services in the Church of England with all welcome. A 10 30 am Sunday School and 11 30 am sermon follow on August 29 1949. A congregational event is noted at the farm home of Mr and Mrs Held with a meet at the church at 1 pm.
Sunday schedule lists Holy Communion at 9 00 am Morning Prayer at 11 00 am and Evening Prayer at 3 00 pm United Service features A Welcome Awaits You in a concise church notices format.
A city line urges residents to provide their street and number and the card address direction to improve service. The note asks for timely response to assist both the public and the operator.
The Reader's Digest summary credits Gilbert LaBine, a Canadian prospector, with starting the Atomic Age by discovering pitchblende near Great Bear Lake on May 16, 1930. His work ended foreign radium monopolies, slashed radium prices, and influenced wartime uranium production, shaping global science and industry through Bold exploration and private funding.
Mrs J Victor Coleman Weston announces the engagement of Norah Elaine to Alan James Rae. Lieut Col Harvey George Bean announces Mary Lou to David Graham Matthews. Fred Crowson announces Huth Elizabeth to John Malcolm Hollinger. Frederick Smith Eden Mills announces Petty to Norman Richard Marshall. John Robertson Campbellville announces Mary Phyliss to Gonfon Clarence Pembleton. Marriages set for September in churches across Toronto Guelph and Rockwood.
The author argues against socialist plans to transfer private ownership to government. He contends the public already owns many enterprises through taxation and public ownership, and warns that state control risks reducing individual thrift and invested effort while aiding the ineffectual.
The Financial Post notes tempered glass chalkboards are being produced in Canada. The surface is described as nearly indestructible and easy on the eyes, staying free of glare and dulling, available in green eye rest color up to 48 by 90 inches.
The article recounts 1884 land purchases near Sudbury and the rise of nickel as a key resource. It charges a prominent promoter, Samuel J. Ritchie, with exploiting resources while noting nickel’s eventual economic payoff and its impact on Canada’s development.
In Maine last summer a retired chief mate who spent five decades at sea befriended a newcomer. He jokes he has never strayed beyond throwing distance from his home and quips about the tale friends will tell back home. The meeting ends with a lighthearted note on the sea man's stinging humor.
The text explains that sour land is often misinterpreted as imperfectly drained soil. It notes that sour land requires alkaline substances to sweeten the sod and cautions against equating sour land with acidic soils that merely retain moisture and favor moisture loving plants.
Six or seven nations are overfishing the North Sea and a forthcoming annual report from Britain's Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries is expected to show improvements. Britain’s Lowestoft research lab, led by Mr Michael Graham, foresees a need for a 15 percent cut in fishing for three or four years to restore stocks.
Dominion Agriculture report notes dry cool conditions hurt yields in key vegetable and root markets centered on Columbus and Ontario. Expected acreage declines affect carrot lettuce onion peas and beans while cucumber radish swede and beans rise modestly. Canning pea output down due to previous crop, with mixed results across Maritimes British Columbia and Yorkton areas and no marked change elsewhere.
Ottawa speculation grows that a rent-plus housing scheme requiring no down payment could be part of Dominion Provincial policy proposals. Reconstruction Minister Winters reportedly explores areas of agreement with Ontario Premier Frost as federal cabinets consider housing options. Canada’s crude petroleum output for January reached 2 etc.
The district sees many family reunions as old Halton roots connect to new lands and homes. Reunions unite generations, share achievements, and ease burdens. The paper urges each gathering to appoint a scribe to record the event for permanence.
Britain planted more than 36000 acres of new forests in the last year, up over 10000 acres from the prior year, as part of a major two year program to restore woodland lost to wartime felling. Since the program began 115 million saplings have been planted on hillsides and open spaces. The article notes slight declines and variability in the crop yield outlook for the wheat harvest, with forecasts around 306 million bushels overall and a spotty crop pattern.
The Financial Post cites that by end May 1949 production was 5,000 units above 1948. With multiple shutdowns by General Motors and Chrysler for major changeovers, output is on track to exceed last year's record 364,000 units by a wide margin.
Unieer the Fur Seal Agreement with the United States, Canada will receive approximately 13 600 skins this year. This is the Dominion's 20 per cent of the annual take from the coal herds of the Pribllof Islands in the Hering Sea, west of Alaska.
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