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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Sep 28, 1961
Page
3
The Nassagaweya election shows about 85 percent turnout confirming strong voter support for the decision to build a race track costing 3.5 million dollars. The result follows Highway 401 development and reflects lively community interest while avoiding inflammatory campaigning crowds.
A lyrical piece extols September as the perfect month with vivid Canada imagery. It contrasts travel fantasies with autumn realism and follows a woman planning new projects each September, balancing home life with organizing ambitions.
A narrator chronicles a busy life shift with a new job and a house. Roles shift as Kim becomes a choir member, Hugh serves as altar boy, and Dad might lead Sunday School while the couple argues over interior style and chores.
A remembrance of Dag Hammarskjald as the United Nations personified and the impact of his leadership. The piece notes his crises handling from Suez to Hungary and Africa, warns against a three member veto plan, and urges vigilance against unlicensed door to door salesmen and hawkers to protect the public.
The Financial Post notes that over four million Canadians receive regular cheques from Ottawa, with adults making up more than a third of the adult population. Family allowances reach 2.6 million mothers, pensions total 900,900, veteran and dependent payments amount to 217 million, and 160,000 receive special assistance. Ottawa's federal payroll tops 200,000, wages total 848 million, health grants reach 2317 million, and other subsidies total 3388 million. Loans to Crown Corporations stand at 35 billion, with 50 million annual operating costs.
The article traces a household changeover from wood fires to oil and gas heating, describing stove removal, chimney work, and pipe connections, then noting shifts in fuel sources, disruptions from strikes and rail troubles, and the rise of electric heating and modern thermostats. It highlights diminishing firewood, abundant Canadian oil, and evolving home heating systems.
Young Canadians in Red Cross work with senior volunteers at blood drives nurseries hospitals and care centers. In a year 4026 items including clothing school supplies health kits quilts and blankets were made by Red Cross Juniors and shipped to ration centers.
Acton notes include visits by John Hill of Antrim to Benjamin Kinnard, Henderson’s re election as MP with 430 votes, M P Barry shipping turnips at 14 cents per bushel, farm crops rushed to depots, Hynds selling his Mill Street premises to Jennie Wood, liberal club plans, and pirate crop mischief. Also guard training by Acton volunteers, school field day champions George Elliott and Dorothy Cunn, storm damage at Wool Combing, Churchill United Church anniversary with Dr. Silcox, and booming Acton Customs receipts around July to September totaling 103 188 43, signaling industrial growth.
Dr W G C Kenney physician and surgeon listed with office in Symon Block 434A Mill St E Acton. Office phone 78 Residence 115 Church St E phone 150.
Listings show dentists Dr D A Garrett Dr H Leib and Dr A J Buchanan with office locations and hours by appointment. A timetable notes coaches leaving Acton on daylight saving time with multiple daily departures including mornings and evenings.
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