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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
May 25, 1961
Page
4
Holiday weekend travels show many visits across Huntsville Niagara Falls Guelph and Toronto. Notables include Mrs Gordon James patient at Guviph General Hospital and Mrs Edna Snyder visiting from Toronto with A M Macpherson family. Visitors recount weekends with relatives and friends as organizers plan Y s Men Ladies night at Parkview and note improvements in Mrs William Hall at Guelph General Hospital.
In Georgetown and surrounding areas, Nassaguweya enumerators Bill Cahoon Burt Watson and Bill Price will conduct urban and rural censuses. Training courses run May 22 to May 27 with Acton Esquesing Nassagawevawill rural staff and local clerks meeting in Mil lon to discuss new municipal legislation.
Preparations for the 1961 Canadian census begin June 1. Census commissioner Mrs. Leslie Clark, 41 Main Street South, Georgetown, says Acton is divided into four sub districts needing four census takers: Mrs. Gordon Beatty, Mrs. Edgar Lidken, Miss Elizabeth Jany, and Miss Ella Jany.
Council plans to rename three heavily split streets after maps shown to about 100 students. Six suggested new names are being collected from Robert Little school students and submitted to Principal G W McKenzie.
Congratulations to Mr and Mrs Albert Leterink on the arrival of a son at Guelph General Hospital last week. Mr and Mrs Thos Hamilton and daughter visited Parry Sound over the weekend. Clifford McDonald attended Lawson Grieg’s Pentecostal wedding and reception at the Means home. Georgetown Be has been visiting King Berg in Cal work McCasland has returned home from hospital after surgery.
About 300 people attended the May meeting of Knox church Evening Auxiliary, with Miss Emma Cale presiding and Miss Sara Perkins as guest speaker from a communist camp. The program featured hymns, a study on providing education and healing for the sick, and reports on the Biennial Conference and a YMHA sale. The event closed with benediction and a social period.
Actor Fred Laraper performs multiple roles this summer at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival. He plays a senator in Cariphies, a sergeant at arms in Henry Will, and a forester in Love's Labour's Lost.
The session began with God Save the Queen and prayer, then inspection and patrols. Some scouts had outdoor games while the senior patrol planned a kitchen cover night hike and fire lighting. Mrs G Wallis joined at campfire and the meeting closed with Taps and the Fall the Light of Day. Local couples begin the post season walk.
The Gaul meeting of the Hatton No. 4 and Wentworth No. 2 Principals Association was held at the Robert Little Public School Acton on Wednesday May 17. Douglas Copeland welcomed the guests. Principal George Pew spoke on bridging the gap between Grade VIII and IX and discussed promotion procedures. Book committee reports were presented and principals received textbook order sheets. Dinner followed, with local officials and a note on rating the largest school in the inspectorate.
Safari on TV will showcase Alb Sonp's African hunt with a Friday broadcast on Channed Dat UE. Rick Campbells-Betters ate hosts the program and three other men from the hunting party will be interviewed.
Five year old Kenneth Orien who was believed injured when a runaway car backed into a yard on a neighbour’s property last Thursday was released from Guelph hospital after a day of observation. Doctors say he shows no serious injuries and was treated for facial and head contusions. The incident occurred as his father's car moved on the laneway and backed across the yard, striking the boy and pushing him through a fence until stopped by his mother.
Mr and Mrs Harl Waller announce the engagement of their daughter Georgena Barlend to Mr Charen Halwin of Putty. A church wedding is planned at St Athan Angtletin Church on June 67 at 3 pm.
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