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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
May 17, 1967
Page
2
Ontario minister Irwin Haskett urged strict observance of traffic laws to cut accidents during the 1986 Victoria Day weekend. He noted police cannot be everywhere and urged drivers to police themselves while travelers head to vacation spots, boats, and trailers, warning that careless driving increases fatalities.
Sree Press reports on professor N S Sutherland's view that within 40 or 50 years computers may rival humans in routine tasks but will not reach true creativity. He notes computers already produce tolerable melodies and solve geometric proofs, and master checkers by self learning, yet Mozart Euclid Shakespeare and Keats remain beyond mechanized genius.
Some 6000 students from ten Canadian provinces will march in Ottawa on May 19 for the 7th National School Safety Patrol Jamboree. Acton district participants are sponsored by the Hamilton Automobile Club. Governors General Georges Vanier lauds Patrols for safety and citizenship benefits.
Massette who lent the class picture identifies Madeleine Gibbons Alice Johnstone Rumley Elsie Stewart Eddie Landsborough Herb Ritchie Stella McLain Adamson Sabra Nelson MacArthur Ray Agnew and Lloyd Masales in a reader’s list of students and associates.
A first trout outing ends in chaotic planning and rugged terrain. The narrator insists on a dependable companion with gear and maps, but faulty navigation and misadventures with beaver and deer turn the day into a comic ordeal. Despite bites, the trip ends with a grueling trek back along muddy highs and hydro lines, leaving the narrator vowed not to repeat the experience.
James Montagnes notes in The Financial Post that buying all Expo 67 special stamps creates an interesting collection, but questions the investment value. He explains other world fair stamps seldom rise much and foresees opportunities to speculate at face value at national pavilions.
Fragmentary notice appears to state that a sale offer may be withdrawn at any time. The text references an individual likely connected to publication, David R. Dilla, but details are unclear and the notice remains incomplete.
Lt. Hayes leads Acton High School Cadet Corps inspection at 10 30 with C O George Elliott calling present arms and Aldo Braida initiating the march past. Also notes church ministers changes, local weddings, a tag day fund, a Masonic anniversary, a retail move, and two births.
Report details back issues and ongoing work to transform the Ontario Reformatory in Guelph into a home for wounded soldiers. Current accommodation covers five hundred beds with plans to house fifteen hundred. April roster for S.8. No. 12 Esquesing lists several members and teachers associated with the effort.
Fifty years back Acton readers previewed barefoot students returning to work on farms under Education Department rules while a Beardmore tennis court lighting system was installed at the Little property. At St Alban’s, Rev C H Be Smith announced John Wood as rector’s warden and Mrs George King as people’s warden. Fine elms at W R Kenney’s Church Street were removed for John Clark’s grounds, and the Military Hospital Commission toured Guelph.
Knox Church launches 45th anniversary celebration next Sunday and Monday with Rev Dr Fraser of Hamilton delivering sermons and a tea and lecture on My trip to Egypt and what I saw there. Building Association sales top twenty houses bought by Storey Brown Christie Henderson, while Hamilton Street Railway conversion to trolley advances rapidly. Sons of Scotland numbering 25 attended Knox Church service with Rev J W Rae delivering a fitting sermon.
One hundred years ago a Militia Order directed Volunteers in Quebec and Ontario to assemble at noon on Saturday the 23rd to fire a feu de joie in honor of Her Majesty's birthday. The event was to occur at garrisons in Montreal Quebec Ottawa Kingston Toronto Hamilton and London with volunteers coordinating with Her Majesty's troops and senior officers at each station to arrange cooperation.
The Acton churches disclose May 21 1967 schedules. Knox Church Rev Andrew H McKenzie ministers the Presbyterian service at 11 00 a.m. guest preacher Rev John N Balsdon from Georgetown. United Church of Canada ministers John May and George Elliott present. Acton Baptist lists May 21 1967 events including church school at 10 00 a.m. and service at 11 15 a.m. followed by activities and prayer/bible study midweek.
Local notices list service times for Evangel Pentecostal Tabernacle and Beth Christian Reform Church Acton English and Dutch services at Maple Avenue Baptist Georgetown St Alban the Martyr conducts Holy Eucharist and Church School with a presentation of tokens of inspiration, reflecting parish activity.
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