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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
May 10, 1967
Page
20
Halton County Fire Prevention Bureau urges families to draft a home fire escape plan. Include two routes, teach children roles, keep doors closed, use windows with caution, and practice regularly. Contact the local fire chief for literature and personal guidance to ensure safe evacuation in a fire.
Ontario minister introduces a plan to let unorganized territory municipalities enact by laws for tax credits up to 150 dollars yearly for resident owners aged 65 plus. Credits funded by the province. credits defer taxes until ownership changes. Burlington town bill already offers a 100 dollar relief with means test and ten year residency. Minister argues relief should not burden other ratepayers.
May 6 1967 marks end of regular schedule with playoffs next Saturday. Banquet is June 3 at Knox Church 6:00 p.m. Bantams Top Cats beat Neptunes Night Hawks defeat Rolling Stones Angels top Alley Cats in pins. Junior Senior Jerks top Flintstones Pinbusters beat Hot Rods on pins. Top Ten list includes Perkins Sampson Swift O Rourke Moore McEachern Knight Turkesz and others. Coca Cola Seven Up winners: Moore Swift Hardie McEachern. League standings show Bantams Angels Alley Cats Night Hawks Rolling Stones Nepturnes Top Cats and Juniors Seniors Hot Rods Pinbusters Idiots Crouts Flintstones Jerks.
Swiss clocks donated by the Swiss watch industry will govern Expo 67 time in Montreal. Seventy clocks and twelve clock towers at key locations will be synchronized by a master atomic clock with a daily precision of one millionth of a second and a total drift of at most one second in 3,000 years.
Anthony Adamson of the Ontario Welfare Council outlines a Peel first approach to a Halton coordinated fund raising and welfare plan. The proposal envisions united funds and social planning councils with cross municipal boundaries to ensure prompt, equitable support across Hamilton to Oshawa and beyond. He stresses a social planning council prevents fundraising from becoming a mere collection drive and notes backing from united funds and welfare agencies.
Halton 4H Conservation Club held its first regular meeting on April 19 in the Agricultural Office Milton. John Cockburn outlined available projects and urged prompt choices. Henry Stanley, Halton Agricultural Representative, spoke on land use and best conservation practices.
The Canadian Jersey Cattle Club lists April leaders with Mac Alexander Norval’s Rose gate Valet's V a junior 2 year old top producer at 2 years 49 days in 305 days 8341 lbs milk 573 lbs fat 6.87 percent Silver Medal. In second Ben Arrow Milestone Mona 9052 lbs milk 489 lbs fat 5.40 percent Silver Medal. Yearling leader R T Sayles and Sons Paris Ont with Spruce Avenue Beacon Comette 6334 lbs milk 336 lbs fat 5.30 percent. Bon Arrow Acme Nan 6608 lbs milk 336 lbs fat 5.07 percent. The most important part of a tractor is a safe operator.
Canada ships 80 Holstein dairy cattle worth 550000 dollars from Montreal stockyards to Italy in May to replenish stock after floods that drowned or slaughtered many cattle. Italy lost 150000 cattle in the disaster, with Canadian and flood-relief groups providing 630 cattle valued at 400000 dollars and 230 cattle valued at 150000 dollars. The herd will grow as heifers arrive and are bred.
Susie G Horn Ung, age 84, died at her Myerstown home. She left 298 direct descendants including nine daughters, four sons, 109 grandchildren and 176 great grandchildren.
About 50 couples attended the Haiton Junior Farmers annual Spring Dance at Leisure Lodge Preston on Saturday May 6. The climax was the crowning of junior farmer queen Carol Swackhamer with Miss Wilma Mason as sponsor. Princesses were Joy Hayward and Peggy Madill.
A Ontario farmer died after becoming entangled in an unshielded power take-off shaft that spins about 540 revolutions per minute. The story warns that clothes catching can prevent escape and urges installing shields supplied by machinery manufacturers, noting many farmers leave shields in the drive shed.
Campburn H C Valet, a Jersey bull bred by Charles Robinson and Sons of Harvey Station New Brunswick and owned by Mac Alexander and Sons of Norval, has been designated a Silver Medal bull by the Canadian Jersey Cattle Club for the high production of his daughters.
Two year old Rosegate Val et's V led Club's age division in April with 8,341 Ibs milk and 573 Ibs fat, a 6.87 percent yield, earning a silver medal. Owned by Mac Alexander of Norval.
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