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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Dec 24, 1947
Page
2
The Acton High School evening event honored students with diplomas and awards for academic and attendance excellence. Joan Somerville won the top scholarship and girl’s award. Ray Archie took the boys’ award.
The Acton Free Press and Canadian Champion install a Meble Vertical automatic cylinder press in Acton to handle commercial printing up to 4000 sheets per hour. It features a spray gun to keep sheets clean and operates daily except Thursday and Saturday. An expert from Toronto is training staff to improve delivery and quality.
A stylish gentleman boasts his dog costs a thousand dollars revealing the breed mix is schnauzer and bull. The woman asks which part costs the money and the man confesses it is the price.
Christmas celebrations for Wool Combing Corporation at the YMCA featured a movie, Santa's gifts, and a tree. Heardmore and Co employees and families attended an afternoon event with skating, carols, bands, Mickey Mouse film, and a Santa gift distribution. Mr. R. R. Parker organized the entertainment.
Acton Council resumes work with Reeve Fo. McCutcheon presiding as councillors Aylsworth and Coonan attend. Streets in Wartime Housing subdivision titled Mason Boulevard and McDonald Boulevard honor Amos Mason and J. M. McDonald for public service. Division Street designated at east end. C. F. Leatherland praised for decade of service. a $200 token of appreciation approved. Ward resignation by Aynsworth accepted. clerkship applications opened. John McGeachie named clerk candidate.
A sober reminder from George W. Spinney, president of the Bank of Montreal, warns that recovery is slowed by popular fallacies. He argues that belief in unlimited consumption via monetary tricks and state control harms both economy and society, lingering after crises.
The Acton village council resolves to appoint a Clerk at two hundred dollars yearly and a part time stenographer for the Public Utilities office. C F Leatherland is named village solicitor with a three hundred dollar annual retainer. Appointments start January 1. Harrop to buy four tires for the municipal truck from Thompson Motors.
Mr. and Mrs. Shanks of Lakeside Farm Pettapiece Manitoba celebrate their diamond wedding anniversary on Tuesday December 9 with friends’ felicitations. He is in his 87th year, born in Halton County Ontario, married 1881, operated the Pettapiece elevator for 50 years, retired five years ago. They have two sons and two daughters and four grandchildren. Daughter Laura Shanks is principal of Strathclair collegiate. other children include Professor C. G. L. Shankskey and Mrs. G. R. Kite.
Miss Joan Somerville from the University of Toronto will attend the North American Student Conference on Christian Frontiers in Lawrence Kansas City next week. About 2000 students from the US Canada and other countries will meet at the University of Kansas to study the world mission of the church under the Students' Christian Movement of Canada which sponsors the quadrennial gathering. In Laurantian Mountains Christieville Quebec a new ski jump has been completed along with noted downhill runs in the area.
Erin Township Council held December 15 with all members present. They authorized treasury adjustments between township and police villages, approved payments before December 31 1947, appointed Reeve Swackhamer to a Grand Valley Authority meeting in Galt, proclaimed Boxing Day a township holiday, authorized bond refunds for a gravel contract, and set school payments in three installments through June 1948. The reeve and officials’ honorariums were approved and trustees received expense grants. General, sheep, rules, and road accounts totaled 1 306.65, 34.00, 108.09 and 3 206.65 respectively.
The Acton Public Utilities Commission held its final meeting chaired by CM Hosen. Plans included a warehouse transfer to Canadian Wool Combing Corporation on January 1 and a push to publish the HEFP Ontario winter power-saving letter. New hydrants were installed in Wartime Housing, chains bought for trucks, a cheque writer purchased on loan, and a $100 sale of a 5 hp motor discussed. Accounts totaling $5762.83 were approved for hydro, power, telephony, and materials. An UK apprenticeship scheme proposes 15,000 new journeymen yearly with scholarships to Building Science degrees.
Listings show Erin Town Hall dance on Friday December 26 with Debonaires from 9 to 1 and Acton Junior Farmers Marathon Euchre on December 30 at Lorne School with prizes and lunch. New Year Eve dances include Fisher’s seven piece orchestra at Acton Town Hall with Doris Hull’s Orchestra, hats horns and streamers under St Alban’s Guild auspices.
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