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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Jul 18, 1957
Page
3
The piece urges safer travel during long weekends with tips from the All Canada Insurance Federation. It warns of rising tolls as many Canadians die or are injured in auto accidents and offers driving, road, and boating safety advice for families.
The article warns thousands of Canadian travelers to check tires inside and out before vacation. It explains hidden tire damage from potholes, heat, and under inflation can lead to blowouts, especially on long trips. Regular inspections save time, money, and lives.
Fire Chief Jack Newton urges careful fire practices in forested areas and homes. He stresses avoiding man caused fires, proper smoking and campfire disposal, chimney cleaning, safe ash storage, no smoking in beds, electrical safety, proper fuse use, avoiding flammable cleaners, oily rags in metal containers, heater maintenance, and annual equipment overhauls.
Mrs. W Webb hosted the Mair Evening Auxiliary on Wednesday. President Mrs. Hambly opened with Psalm 26 and prayer. Members discussed church work in Hong Kong Formosa and the South Seas. Six girls dresses were sent in June. The meeting ended with a hymn and benediction.
Georgetown council approved a draft official plan from the planning board to guide future zoning. The plan classifies land into residential industrial agricultural recreational streets and commercial with three residential subcategories and revised acreage allocations. Major shifts include reduced residential and industrial land and new agricultural zoning, outlining future shares: residential 38.4 percent commercial 3.5 percent industrial 18 percent agriculture 19.2 percent streets and utilities 13.9 percent recreational institutional and conservation 14.8 percent transportation 1.9 percent storage and service 3 percent.
Provincial police warn drivers and pedestrians to slow down during the long weekend as heavy traffic increases risk. Children at play and cottage trips raise chances of serious injury or death, with reminders to obey signals and avoid distracting behavior behind tinted glass and at night.
An integration committee met with Public, Separate and High School Boards in Burlington to form a joint committee on annexation issues. They discussed a business administrator, transportation, attendance, boundaries, capacities, debt and future trustee elections. The plan seeks broad representation from each board as meetings proceed.
Aldo Braid a former Acton public and high school student and son of Mr and Mrs Braida opens a law practice in Guelph after two years with a Toronto law firm.
An unusual albino tommy cod was hauled through the ice at Cap-de-la-Madeleine near Rivieres Quebec. Fishermen reported the rare specimen after a catch during ice fishing season in the area.
Doris Wallweather, 18, of Mined Up Giant John, N B, adopts a young fox that teases dogs and slips away from pursuers by sheltering in a chicken coop.
Elderly store-owner Quon Bhing None told police his Confectionery shop was robbed for the fourth time in a year by the same man who hit him in January and possibly the same assailant who held him up twice last year.
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