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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Sep 29, 1955
Page
6
The final Inter county Tennis League meeting was held at Acton club house with representatives from Acton Milton Brampton Port Credit Woodbridge and Hespeler. Port Credit won the league with Milton second and Brampton third after a final against Hespeler. Plans were made for the annual banquet likely at the Legion Hall in Brampton.
Dr H Mowat named chief of staff of Sudbury Memorial Hospital with other department heads appointed September 9 by administrator C C Evans. His career spans Toronto General Hospital Inco Medical Services St Josephs Hospital and the Hospital for Sick Children. The Sudbury Daily Star lauds him as an outstanding surgeon and notes posts are temporary with an election planned next year.
Dr Nari Folkers of Merck and colleagues presented at the International Congress of Biochemistry in Brussels describing the isolation and synthesis of a large fragment of the vitamin B12 molecule. The fragment comprises about two thirds of the molecule and offers a key to understanding the full structure and potential synthesis. Vitamin B12 is produced by fermentation. its complexity lies in its huge size and six kinds of atoms, with millions of possible bonding arrangements.
Joseph Francis of Montreal constructs highly detailed wooden church models. The seven foot long assembly includes pews organ pipes stairs to a bell tower and a pulpit with a Bible. The four year project will be given away like a previous six foot model displayed in a church.
Halton paving and contracting Co. Ltd won a six inch watermain between Bronte and Coronation Park for 24425.22 dollars. Gurney Construction Co. of Brantford won the 12 inch industrial main near the Queen Elizabeth Way east of the Eighth Line for 20842.50 dollars. James Holiday Construction Ltd received the Speers Road 12 inch main project, extending to an industrial area. Three inspectors will review bids to select the best bidder.
An auction notice from Norman H. Ellis lists Holstein cows and heifers with calving dates, hogs, veal calves, and a large set of farm machinery including threshers, tractors, grain grinders, and spreaders. The sale on No 5 Side Road west of Streesville will include two colony houses and a bank barn. terms are cash with no reserve as the farm is being sold. Hindley and Elliott, auctioneers.
This piece presents success as doing one’s job well and fair, helping others, staying true to aims, and pursuing growth. It links success to learning, striving, resilience, courage, and joy, emphasizing integrity, effort, and service as core. The poem urges perseverance through defeat and sorrow toward betterment.
Gordon Brain son of Mrs Elizabeth Brain of RR 1 Norval enters the University of Western Ontario in London this fall at age 16. He has earned a $500 Board of Education Bursary after studying at Milton High School. His family is proud and he plans to pursue a career in law.
Campbellville reports cover Blair Evening Auxiliary hosted by Mrs James Baynton with readings prayers and a bazaar plan plus the Women’s Missionary Society meeting led by Miss Simpson and Mrs Tenn McKenzie. Attendance small but social time followed. The 1954 Canadian consumer spending hit a record 15 581 million, up 466 million from 1953.
Advice urges parents motorists and schools to cooperate for child safety on school routes. Emphasizes obeying traffic laws setting a good example taking children to school until they know safe routes and using crossing guards and patrols for protection.
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