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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
May 23, 1957
Page
3
A calf born Saturday at J. Zehetich's Deercroft Farm in Haltonville has no right front leg and is growing with two usable limbs. Owner Eckerich plans to keep it healthy and monitor growth, noting the deformity likely not hereditary.
Bronte Council held a meeting to set an increased fee schedule for council meetings. The unanimous vote approved higher payments, with minutes noting the adjustments and concerns raised by members about meeting frequency and transparency.
A National Cancer Institute of Canada pilot study in Newfoundland finds about 230 new cancer cases per 100000 population annually with 401 cases from June to December last year. Of these 217 were men and 160 women. The study relies on 100 local doctors and Newfoundland Cancer Society funding to extend to other provinces.
Construction has begun on a three quarter million dollar Fire Research facility in Ottawa for the Division of Building Research at the National Research Council. Planned for completion by end of 1987, it will house furnaces capable of testing full sized building elements and support fundamental combustion studies and field evaluations of extinguishing agents.
More than 250 teachers, joined by county Men and Women Teachers' Federations, attended a dinner at Glenwood Public School Burlington to close the in service training program for the school year. Rev. A M Laverty of Queen's University urged learning from errors and emphasized informing the public about government issues as a civic duty. Speakers included Mrs R K Dobson and John A Lockhart, Burlington mayor, with Morrell Acheson and Noble H Stevenson noted in leadership roles.
From the 1898 Dominion Bureau of Statistics census Halton county records 103 males for every 100 females. The text also mentions population totals and misrendered figures, noting a skewed gender balance amid nonsensical trailing phrases.
Two local deaths shake Rockwood as William Gordon Rae Nelson passes after an accident in Guelph General hospital aged eight. Funeral at Rumley Acton with Rev John Ward. interment in Rockwood cemetery. Survived by mother Carol Clifford and Leslie. The second death follows Mary B Royce, with funeral at Rumsey Acton led by Rev John Ward. pallbearers Kinood Earl Bolton Hert Bolton Roy Osborn. Basil Parr interred in Rockwood cemetery beside late partner. Reverend Parson addresses St John church on Bible Societies.
The article notes a Bible Society centennial event tied to a film about life in Korea during wartime near Seoul. Charles H. Harris spoke as president, with Ross Gordon delivering a year report at St. John’s church. Holiday visitors included Mise Enid McNabb and others. Douglas Black was away at Port Dover. Victoria Day observed with closures and student holidays.
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