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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Jul 13, 1944
Page
5
Local residents and guests spread through Acton and nearby towns during the week end. Bettys and Micheals from Toronto to Hawkestone and Lake Simcoe. families from Milton Guelph and Winnipeg visited relatives here. Major Collier and family welcomed Lieut. W. M. Collier home from Italy.
A garbled exchange notes a man being shot in the lam bar region, with unclear location details and speaker attributions. The text resembles a clipped, erroneous OCR fragment lacking full context.
The Mille workers take a week off as the Georgetown paper closes for holidays. Fisc queeng Agricultural Society seeks and receives a 125 grant for the Fair board from the town council. Duplate Canada Limited acquires Smith and Stone Limited with Colonel W E Phillips becoming president. Fire brigade hosts Milton brigade and town council for an evening of cards and lunch. A fire of undetermined origin damages the Hughes farm home on Norval Road near Georgetown, leaving only furniture saved.
The Coleman Journal in the Crow's Nest Pass has been sold by FY. T. Halliwell, who owned it for almost 17 years and now runs the McLeod Gazette. Purchasers are Tom Halstead and A. Balloch, both long-time staff members.
County council moved to insure county buildings with General Fire and Accident Assurance Company using two blanket policies totaling 103 500 with a 556 69 premium for three years. Company to distribute local agents. motion carried. Meeting schedule set with August recess and next session on the second Tuesday in September.
Mr and Mrs WC Hardwick and family leave Oakville for Sherwood Forest Camp Camnarvon to spend the summer. Lt Col SB Pepler reports nearly 70 000 raised toward a 100 000 campaign for the Oakville Trafalgar Hospital. John Ross Orr, son of the late Rol and Izzle M Orr, dies Friday at Mountain Sanitarium Hamilton after treatment since last November.
Thirteen members gathered for the Busy Bees Club July meeting at Mrs Stan Robinsons home. Quilt blocks were shown and discussed while reports from returning servicemen were read. Dinner, gratitude notes, and plans for a garden party and future meetings were noted amid local visits and holiday travels.
Weekly War Commentary notes British and Canadian forces in Caen area after freeing Louvigny and Heerendl. German defenses press in Normandy while Montgomery reports 1,000 Nazi prisoners since D-day and heavy tank losses. Ankara diplomacy hints at possible Turkish entry and negotiations for a negotiated peace pursued by Berlin.
In Wakefield England a village tale and a local house known for a curse become a wartime maternity home. West Riding officials converted the house to aid service members wives, and 600 babies have been born there with mothers and children thriving under the new use.
Hugh E. Weller, 23, of Toronto, used the name Mayor Conboy to get lodging at a London hotel. He admitted the act as fraud after the mayor denied knowledge of the name, pleading guilty to obtaining lodging by fraud.
A Toronto Mail excerpt notes projected annual spending of 785 million versus 451 million before the war. It argues that increased costs come from debt payments, provincial transfers, and unemployment insurance, while controllable expenditures fall short of prewar levels.
Ontario resorts report record tourism with sold out beds from July onward. Muskoka tourism officials say every room is full and hotels face staff shortages to implement a 48 hour week. Toronto leaders warn of housing strain as wartime housing applications rise and builders seek speedier private construction. Americans increasingly visit Ontario as wages rise and vacations increase. Acting premier Kennedy responds to criticism of the eight hour week delay.
The Ontario Parks Association held its annual convention in Windsor. L. Moor of Windsor Parks was elected president, succeeding John Quier of Niagara Falls who retired after two years. A separate aerial survey aims to revive livelihoods for Indigenous communities through sturgeon stocking and potential beaver dam projects in Northern Ontario lakes.
Lieut Commander Biiddifard arrived in Ottawa from overseas to visit his parents Captain and Mill Hiddifard on King's Road. LAC Gordon Clement returned on furlough after a month in Labrador. Police report complaints of children entering a construction zone and vandalizing property. 1st Burlington Boy Scouts Troop held a successful weekend camp led by Scout Master Joe Marshall at Harvey Hunter's lawn. Mrs Margaret Carey of Burlington injured in a Sunday auto crash near Use. passenger suffered a broken arm and facial injuries. Local cabbage growers struggle to move stock as prices plunge to 50 cents per crate. some 32 pound crates sold below this.
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