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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Jul 24, 1968
Page
2
The Free Press presents a 16 page bonus section titled Insight Acton. Staff photographed local industries and interviewed managers and workers to chronicle daily life and industry in Acton. The project aims to chronicle growth and human interest honestly, with color front page by Don Hayward.
Residents warned to keep barbecue fluids and other chemicals away from children after a two and a half year old in Glenles subdivision drank varsol from an unmarked bottle. She was taken to Acton Medical Centre, later identified as varsol, treated at a Guelph hospital, and kept under observation for potential complications.
Rural subscribers to the Acton Free Press will receive this week’s issue by mail due to a carrier arrangement. Other readers may pick up the paper at Dills Stationery on Mill Street.
Two-car collision Saturday at the Mill Main corner left Adolph Kraus of Poplar Avenue with 150 dollars of damage and Anthony Berberich of Main Street Rockwood with 100 dollars. The next day a motorcycle and car collided at the same corner at 5 50 p m Honda driven by Thomas Perkeins Jr of 134 Longfield Road suffered about 100 dollars in front end and motor damage while Pontiac driven by Mike Nagare t wice of Martin Sr Toronto incurred around 10 dollars damage to the front jumper and fender.
Pickets from the Canadian Union of Postal Workers disrupted Acton operations as the nationwide strike began. Some staff maintained limited service while most mail handling halted. Police protection and headquarters in a garage supported the picket line as Alec Frank said public support was strong. Negotiations stalled with signals of possible concessions from the union.
Public school board approved tenders for the M. Z. Bennett school addition and the Robert Little resource centre. McNally Construction won the Bennett contract at 308,600 with 20 weeks work. Paragon Construction secured the library project at 51,640 plus extras. Final government approval to be picked up in Toronto Thursday.
A Gray Coach bus stopped before the Royal Cafe to discharge passengers and backed into a Volkswagen station wagon driven by Frank Mariscak of Guelph that pulled in behind the bus to drop a passenger. Damage to the car’s front was reported at $25. the bus driver from Kitchener, Philip Greaves, was not damaged.
Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau said the strike is perfectly legal in an interview before a fishing trip, brushing aside critics who want the House to reconvene and issue a back to work order. The strike disrupts some operations while others keep customers informed via border city mailings and alternative supply chains.
Dr. R. D. Buckner and family bid farewell in Acton as he leaves after 13 years for a trip to Great Britain and retirement in Kingston Jamaica. Over 100 guests expected. social hour, dinner, a plaque, and Scottish dancing mark the event.
A Milton council meeting outlined a provincial plan to locate a regional Maplehurst correctional complex on a swift bounded 85 acre parcel by Highway 401, Highway 25 and the C N R by pass. The site includes 55 acres owned by the Department of Highways and 30 acres under option from Edwin Harrop. The project would include a detention centre training centre and reformatory for about 460 inmates with a nine month average stay and separate zones for reform, training and maximum security. Plans call for relocation from Mimico and Millbrook facilities with soil tests and investigations ongoing and no fixed timeline for closing the Halton jail.
Halton County Museum opens the new Carriage House, a centennial project now public. Public notices invite social teams to submit personals without charge, as the paper runs a free Progs notice column for inturns and trips.
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