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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Jun 18, 1953
Page
4
A columnist muses on Father’s Day noting its emergence after Mother’s Day and suggests simple tokens of appreciation. Exumers are busy this week compiling voter lists for the general election and urge readers to ensure their names are on the list.
Citizens over 21 must decide their preferred candidate as campaigns heat up before August 10. Voters are urged to exercise their franchise, keep ballots secret, and cast ballots to shape their government.
A survey of Nassagaweya Township highlights neat sign posts at crossroads marking concession lines and sideroad numbers aiding travelers. Residents enjoy hydro and telephone access, widespread television aerials, and a shift toward leisurely, scenic back roads amid modernization.
The council urges housing cooperation to address Acton’s shortage. It notes high costs from labor, materials, and land, and stresses that active down payments and collaboration are needed, while governments can provide leadership. The Kitchener-Waterloo Record warns against idle rumors.
A biography of Lord Atten recalls Acton on liberty as humanity’s core value. Liberty is not mere whim but the right to do what one ought, tested by a standard not made by man. The piece contrasts Athenian and modern democracies with the need for a divine or fixed standard. May rains, moisture, and spring swamps signal good crop growth.
The piece argues the world fights free capitalism versus state capitalism not capitalism versus no capitalism. It contrasts profit incentives in free enterprise with taxation and forced measures in a communist system. It warns taxation inflation and bureaucracy threaten freedom and calls resisting these demons to preserve free capitalism.
Reports claim Joseph Stalin kept only 40000 in bank funds and arranged royalties of 7000 monthly for his son, highlighting alleged anti capitalist stance in his finances.
The Halton election centers on three candidates: Sybil Bennett Liberal Murray McPhail and Stanley Allen. Nominations set for Milton July 27 with enumeration of voters starting next week and revisions from July 21 to Aug 6. democracy hinges on citizen participation as Aug 10 approaches.
Reports cover new steel frame housing plans in Trafalgar and a Six hour erection claim. Georgetown to adopt a last four digit dialing system with a September dial exchange. Fire brigade drills and a minor Georgetown blaze are noted. Garden tours in Halton Burlington site and Milton plant expansions announced. Community milestones include George Bell’s 93rd birthday and Milton sidewalk debentures. Contest winners from Milton and Callander win cash prizes.
A dense listing of Acton Ontario area professionals includes physicians dentists veterinarians chiropractors and real estate firms with offices on Mill Street Willow River Street Frederick Street Knox Avenue and Brookville. Also shows funeral home Wright Real Estate and Insurance agents and a Chartered Accountant Gerald A Candiler with contact details and office hours. Includes bus schedule fragment for coaches leaving Acton with multiple daily departures.
The 1903 Free Press notes three forenoon trains before 10:30 with none until 8:10 p.m. Acton gains five daily east and west runs, a new 8:50 a.m. train reaching Toronto by 7:40 a.m. and crossing eastbound trains here. Citizens can breakfast in Acton, day in Toronto, return by 8:10 p.m. In local obituary, Thomas C. Moore, Acton settler and builder, dies after long illness. Floods in Illinois and Missouri cause massive loss. A man working along dykes is shot after workers demand pay and a dyke breach follows.
In 1933 temperatures plunged from 92 on Sunday to 45 by Monday night. A quiet Rockwood wedding joined Edna Vera Byer Johnston and William Roy Johnston of Acton. A farm fire destroyed H Holcovitch’s Erin Township home, sparks from the chimney blamed. A Limehouse Church Parsonage ceremony united Elda Elizabeth Tarzwell and William Alfred Johnston. Births announced Sawyer and Leslie families with notes from Acton and Guelph Hospital.
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