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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
May 21, 1959
Page
8
U.S. lawmakers discuss banning state nonresident income taxes like Massachusetts levying on airline pilots. Outlook for constitutional amendment is uncertain. The article notes no one has solved taxation issues for space satellite astronauts.
CBC TV captured six of seven first prizes for network shows and five of 23 honorable mentions. CBC radio earned five firsts and five honorable mentions. Ontario announces a 400000 Queen Elizabeth II Scholarship Fund to broaden provincial opportunities with no strings attached to funds.
The Tweed News cites provincial police figures showing 174 accidental highway deaths in four months to April. It cites 1959 motor crash deaths near 176 and notes Ontario totals and Metro Toronto figures. It argues prevention is essential and compares highway risk with natural gas incidents.
The Lord's Day Alliance releases its 1959 annual report “Sunday Weather, Unsettled” noting many business leaders favor Sunday closes while unlawful Sunday commerce grows. It urges review of cultural entertainments on the Lord's Day and warns that profit motives threaten law and public welfare.
A young city man and his son picked trilliums in Terra Cotta Conservation Area yesterday. A staffer stopped them as they gathered nearly all visible flowers. The wild blooms wilted within half an hour and were discarded in an ash can.
The writer mocks nostalgia for childhood holidays and argues for more Monday holidays to create long weekends. He notes how memories often blur truth and suggests shifting observances like the 24th of May and adding new long weekends to reduce the holiday surplus population. He laments January and February’s gloom and proposes several Monday observances, including a Love Day.
A humorous proposal lists possible holidays to ease winter fatigue. The piece riffs on moving Easter to March or April and suggests quirky names such as March Hare Day April Fuel Day and a June Long Weekend dubbed Rude Awakening Day. It playfully critiques government timing and calendars.
Church calendar entries for Acton Pentecostal Tabernacle Baptist Church United Church and St Alban the Martyr Anglican list May 24 1959 services including Sunday School morning worship evangelistic services baptism and midweek Bible study plus notes on parish activities and child care provided during services
A traffic safety expert argues the cause lies with the driver behind the wheel not a special class. He urges readers to drive safely themselves, avoid overconfidence and emotional disturbances, and maintain vehicle condition. The piece lists local doctors and professionals, then notes various regional office hours and transportation services.
Local notes report a nightclub style gathering of 24 to 25 young men at a dirt hedge last Saturday into Sunday with gambling and disorderly conduct. A park incident drew Constable Smith’s reprimand of women spectators and a separate deadly horse wagon collision near Mascales when a train spooked a horse, killing the driver. Firecrackers alarm, road dust control, and a plan to plant one hundred maple trees are noted, plus Empire Day concerts and a fatal farm roller accident involving Dorsen Beaton.
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