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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Mar 10, 1949
Page
2
A reader laments constant provincial policy changes harming municipalities. He notes alterations to grants, assessments, education, policing, and fire brigades while local volunteers shoulder costs and tax bills keep climbing.
L Abbe Arthur Maheux, president of the Canadian Historical Society and Laval University professor, denounces provincial history books as divisive. He calls for one national history taught in all provinces to reduce confusion and promote understanding between French and English Canadians.
Experts claim even two ounces of whisky raise a driver's error rate by twenty percent and three or four drinks lead to overconfidence and risky speeds. The warning urges drivers to avoid liquor as the number of cars increases this year, stressing that liquor and gas do not mix and a drinking driver may cause a fatal crash.
A few weeks ago Farm Forums debated lowering pensionable age from 70 to 65 and removing the means test. The forums largely favored the age cut and the means test removal, and discussed the potential cost to Canada and how it might be financed.
Health Minister Paul Martin tabled a Commons return showing that a $50 monthly Old Age pension at 65 would cost about 232.8 million with the means test and population levels similar to 70 plus. Abolishing the means test would raise the cost to 576.4 million. The article urges clearer cost information for Porum decisions and notes a broader lesson from a local strike in Paris highlighting civic participation and majority voice importance.
Will J. Lavelle, advertising manager for the Ashburn Furniture Company in Alhambra California, urges a annual advertising budget at four percent of anticipated sales. He argues steady newspaper ads build goodwill and sales while sporadic campaigns lack readership and impact.
Editorial notes discuss St Patrick's Day being near and the Shamrock symbol on Irish bosoms. They note Ontario plans new taxes with no tax relief and remark on Hon Geo Drew failing to move 1942 correspondence in the House of Commons. The piece laments readers’ focus on 1949 over 1942 and hints at a Hong Kong headline.
Fragment summary notes two storey additions in Acton and a plan for a new Baptist church this summer. Mentions John A Gordon leasing Ganten Wall and Paul Kennedy Jr. planning site at Mill and Elgin, plus local industry and civic notes from Acton including a rockwood boiler upgrade and town hall meeting results. Also mentions marriage and death notices in Georgetown.
The March 1929 Freer Press notes Ro J Waldie selling Lot 22 Concession 2 Kaqueeing Township to William Sinoclair of Norval. A man from Brin was seriously injured when a pit cave in. It also covers Actondale YYP, school debate results, and obituaries for David McCutcheon Everton and William Dutton Rockwood.
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