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v Vrt- CIRCULATION NEWMARKET 1 WADING TOTAL PAID Average three months ending September AURORA OUTSIDE 3272 OF NORTH YORK YEAR EXPRESSHERALD YEAR NO NEWMARKET ONTARIO THURSDAY MARCH 1ST SINGLE COPIES 5 CENTS EACH The Newmarket branch appointed a civilian de fence committee at a general meeting on Monday night Maj T Ewing was named chairman of the com- Some of us can imagine what could happen in a community such as this if it were subject to an air attack or disaster said the Legion president Fred Gar diner There are some mem bers of the Legion who have had experience in dealing with such situations he said Ewing who had consider able experience in military gov ernment of civilians in the oc cupation of Germany after the war said that he would be glad to act as chairman of the com mittee The town is to ap point a to cooper ate with the county committee on civil defence but that does not mean that the Legion could not do much useful work along the same lines he said At the same meeting members of the York County hospital medical staff presented the Le gion with a scroll in honor of the blood transfusion service it has been giving the last 3 years About have been given in the last years said Dr J G Cock There has always been blood available at the hospital through this service Chairman of the as sociation Dr of Brad- ford made the presentation We have been looking forward for a long time to show our appre ciation to the Legion Over members of this branch have given blood he said It was decided at this meeting that the Legion would take over the leadership of the Newmarket Boy Scouts Members of the Lions club celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Newmarket Lions Club were guests of the Legion at the meeting Seven Oat Of Eight Guernseys t t Awarded Are From York County Seven out of eight of the all Canadian awards in the Guern sey Breeders Association have gone to cattle belonging to York County owners and most of them are in King township Jack Don Ada Lang- water Victor was the AH Cana dian senior Guernsey bull All Canadian junior bull was King- field Comrade owned by Burns King township and the Reserve was Ad mirals Traveller owned by Jack From Crossland Farms Ban croft Clovers Louise was the All Canadian aged cow which was senior and grand champion at in Reserve vas Willow Princess In the junior female class Fraserdale Admirals Bee was the All Canadian and Don Alda Supreme Charm was Reserve both owned by Jack Fraser On U N Topic Herbert Mowat chairman of the speakers panel Toronto branch of the United Nations association in Canada addressed a representative audience at the town hall on Thursday Feb Speaking on the United Na tions its aims and objectives Mr gave sketches on Dr Ralph Dr- Brock Chis- holm and L B Pearson He quoted many spokesmen from other countries in their praise of Mr Pearson Mr dealt with the spir itual aspects of the United Na tions He said that it was only in its infancy and had made mis takes but was the only answer to world government Harry Beer assistant head master of Pickering College chaired the meeting and intro duced the speaker Mrs How ard Morton president of the Newmarket Home and School association the sponsoring orga nization thanked Mr for his account of United Na tions activities The meeting was under the direction of Mrs convener of the citizenship committee A film Battle for Bread was shown by J Lothian At the close of the meeting many took the opportunity to ask Mr questions regarding the international situation Korea Move Cancels Leave Call Up Folks From Fort Lewis Two special force soldiers from King township made a long dis tance phone call to their parents from Fort Lewis Washington re cently Having planned to take leave and visit their parents they had to cancel their arrange ments because of news that the rest of their regiment the Prin cess Pats would soon be bound for Korea Eddie and Gary Bishop sons of Mr and Mrs Joseph Bishop of Strange near King City decided to at least put in a long distance phone call which they made on February News that more Canadians would be sailing for Korea was known to the troops before the Canadian public heard about it The boys from King are now anticipating being sent over in the next draft to Korea and told their parents that they are glad to be on the move Paul formerly of King township is at Fort Lewis also Paul is enlisted Kingston His parents live in Ottawa but his sister Mrs Donald Chalk lives at Mrs James Sutherland Years Old Tomorrow Newmarkets only centenarian Mrs James Sutherland will have reached her I03rd birthday to morrow Friday March Mrs Sutherland lives with her daugh terinlaw Mrs at her home at Prospect St She was born in Scotland and except for a few years has lived all her life in Newmarket RIDGES MAN OWNER OF GUERNSEY COW WITH MILK RECORD Donneddy Northern Clover a Guernsey cow owned by Bill Fuller of Oak Ridges has scored the highest record ever made in Canada on twice a day milking tests The certificate for the cow is lbs milk and lbs of fat The report of the cows achievement was for warded to Mr Fuller by the Can adian Guernsey Breeders Asso ciation last week Northern Clover was bought at Donneddy sales as a twoyearold by Mr Fuller for J Stoops of Far Hills Farm Aurora of which he was man ager The last three months of her twoyearold record was fin ished with lbs of fat placing her second on the honor roll With the purchase of the Far Hills Farm without the cattle by John of Toronto Northern Clover was pur chased by Mr Fuller with others of the herd Mr Fuller owns and operates Fullers Dry Goods Store at Oak Ridges BREAKIN SUNDAY A breakIn was made at the home of Don Wright Eagle St Newmarket last Sunday night Police reported that the house was ransacked but nothing was stolen Someone had kicked in the cedar window to gain en trance to the house The tourist business has be come an important source of for eign exchange for Canada In it provided seven percent of total current receipts from abroad of commodity exports only wheat and newsprint ex ceeded it in exchange earnings In Yukon Territory the three mining districts are Dawson Mayo and Whitehorse Virtually all the gold produced in Yukon Territory is from placer opera tions mainly in the Dawson dis trict IN BOYS WORK Set Fine Record As Friends Of Boys Over young boys in New market have participated in summer and winter sports be cause of the efforts of a small group of men Less than two years of activity in the Newmar ket Optimist club shows that nearly have been raised for boys work All of this money has been raised without the help of pub lic subscription and most of it can be calculated by hours of work given by members of the club It was less than two years ago the last month in that the Newmarket Optimist club re ceived its charter Almost im mediately the club embarked on a vigorous work program With the motto Friend of the Boy the Optimists looked to an age group of id to years the purpose was not to attach any stlgmn to youth by bringing at tention to Hie underprivileged idea but to help all young boys In December the Opti mists assumed responsibility of boys in Bantam hockey activi ties Since that time the small club with a membership of not than has supplied uni forms and equipment and wholly financed the Bantams This was the first major project of the club and by the end of it had spent 759 for Han t am hock ey All ice time at the arena was paid for by the club Ban tams were divided into four teams and out of them an All Star team entered the Ontario Minor Hockey association and played into semifinal seasons Buses were chartered for out-of- town trips and Optimists sup plied their own cars Ice time for the Bantams alone amounted to a week A sixteam National hockey league was also sponsored by the club so that as much activity and as large a participation in numbers as possible was brought about by the club Newmarket merchants also donated uniforms for the league which took in nearly boys To raise funds the most impor tant Optimist program took in the management of the refresh ment booth at the Newmarket arena With the exception of one booth has been operated entirely by club mem bers themselves and has earned sufficient funds to finance all Bantam hockey to date With the booth open every night of the week a roster was drawn up for members to work on certain I nights Many manhours could be totalled up which have been spent by Optimists who give their time for youth activity With a small membership it has meant that each has had to spend much time working at the booth and with some members busy with their own jobs at night or off through sickness it has meant a part time job for some mem bers of the club The sponsorship of a midway carnival donkey baseball and a theatre concert earned more money for boys work The club has set an important rule that all entertainment for the public should be worthwhile and that nothing should be sponsored by the club unless the public gets its moneys worth Newmarket has been proved to be large enough for the activities of two service clubs the Lions and the Optimists and their functions in the community have never overlapped Optimists have not confined their work to hockey alone Si milar baseball leagues have been sponsored in the summer It is estimated that over young boys in Newmarket have been given a chance at sports partici pation through the efforts of their friends the Newmarket Optimists Flu Still Cuts Down Era Staff Forces Paper Limit To 8 Pages The fin has been relentless The composing room staff of the Era and Express dwindled down to three this week and the she of the paper had to be cut down to eight pages It is hoped that readers and correspondents will understand that the situation has made it impossible to publish all material which has come in Dean still recovering linotype operator this week ex cept for assistance on the mach ines by one of the compositors Consequently the typesetting time has been severely limited At home with the flu this week are the managing editor John Meyer shop foreman Lawrence Racine job printer Bill Ingram and Mar- Bailie The Era and Ex press has been short staffed in from the flu has been the departments Pickering Show Starts ToNight The Pickering College Glee Club is presenting Patience by Gilbert and Sullivan at the col lege auditorium the next three nights The staff and student productions were first started in under the direction of Rourke when the first experi ment was made with Trial by Jury Since that time the college has built up a repertoire of seven Gilbert and Sullivan operettas The Glee Club is supported by the Newmarket Ladies chorus Pickering students are taking four of the leading roles and three Newmarket girls are tak ing leads Mr stars in the lead role of and Alice has the part of Pa tience Through the years the Picker ing Gilbert and Sullivan produc tions have found a loyal group of supporters not only in New market but from Toronto and many distant places At the same time Mr has won considerable recognition as a dir ector and authority on Gilbert and Sullivan Mr Frank Houston president of the Toronto Gilbert and Sul- Society and also director of the Simpson Ave United church productions of Gilbert and Sul livan is the musical director The brilliant garb of the dash ing soldiers of the Dragoon Guards and the graceful flow ing costumes of the rapturous maidens against a background of luscious green fields and woods makes a charming setting for the operetta It is a satire on the rise of the new art in the early eighties of the last century Township Road Budget For Increased l6000 Over Last Year Whitchurch Township road ap propriations will reach a new peak of in accord ing to figures set out in the bud get bylaw passed at the regular meeting of council on Friday evening The new figure is above that of last year With this heavy traffic today the roads are wearing out faster than we can build them com mented Councillor The wear and tear to which the roads were subjected by heavy gravel trucks came in for bitter criticism and it was agreed that Reeve Ivan Mc Laughlin together with Council lor Sid road chairman and road superintendent Davis should visit Mr munici pal engineer to see if some curb could not be placed on the trucking destruction Council gave road superinten dent Davis the green light on the annual order for calcium dust layer Sixty tons will be pur chased from the Mond Co at per ton laid down at Vandorf Station An account tabled from solici tor J who acted in behalf of Whitchurch township in the recent appeal case con cerning the equalized assessment in the County of York was con sidered and was shelved pending investigation Frank county weed inspector spoke to council at some length concerning the county campaign against barber ry and buckthorn and urged that local roadsides be kept free of the grain rust carrier He also revealed that the county would shortly experiment with some brush spraying in the township A request was received from the Toronto and York Civilian Defence Committee asking the township council to appoint a civilian for the municipality After some dis cussion council agreed to have the reeve and clerk interview several prospective appointees COMINGEVENTS I Announcing the open ing of Harry Grahams Taxi Re liable and courteous service Phone Aurora Friday March Modern and old dunce in Mount Albert hall sponsored by the Park Hoard Norm Bui lings orchestra Cafe teria lunch Admission Mill Dance it Norm Hurling and his Kingsmcn at Mount Albert community hall commencing pm Friday March At pm dance in Holland Landing com hall Millers orchestra Door prizes Cents ladles Proceeds to help finish hall Saturday March At pm Minstrel Show Community hall Mount Albert sponsored by Li brary board Adults children c4w6 Monday March ftScoutGulde Mothers auxiliary meeting Scout hall pm Program by Girl Guides Mothers of Brownies Guides Cubs and Scouts invited to attend Monday March Don of Bros will he at Aug Wests store Phone New market Oil for appointment Tuesday March At pm the Swallow evangelistic group from Toronto talented vio linists soloist will he guests of the Fellowship Group of the Christian Baptist church Every one welcome Wednesday March Bingo un der auspices of Newmarket Vet erans Association In town halt at pm Attendance prize Jack pot Value of prizes Proceeds for the Newmarket juv enile hockey club this date The York County Farm Forums are holding their annual Forum Rally at New market Agricultural office on Thursday March Programme commences pm Ladles please provide Thursday Mar Lloyd Jasper president Bruce County Federa tion of Agriculture will speak at Sharon Hall pm Films music refreshments Sponsored by East Federation Public cordially invited Thursday March a Snowball WI euchre In school pm Admission Friday March pm Ladies Aid of Christian Baptist church is sponsoring a special musical evening- Mr Mac- Brian Toronto Bible College will ho drawing the Old Rugged Cross Freewill offering March a Dance in Mount Albert sponsored by Sharon Junior Farmers Norm Curlings orchestra Novelty dances Spec ial prizes Cafeteria lunch Ad mission 50c Sat Mar and The Newmarket Dramatic club presents Arsenic and Old Lace at Newmarket Town hall pm Reserved seats Rush seats c6w5 Friday March a Bingo in school at pm Good prizes Door prize Come and bring a friend Admission cards Sunday March 11 Rally of Newmarket churches In Trinity United church pm auspices Canadian Home Bible League Round film Bearing Precious Seed will ho shown Wednesday re dance and draw Newmarket town hall under the auspices of St Johns church Door prize value SI Friday Mar Newmarket Figure Skating Club first annual ice carnival cast of ISO Costumes action spills and thrills Limited number adult tickets available from any club member Adults cents students children 10 at door Mar At pm recital of sacred music Church of St James the Apostle Sharon Collection towards choir expenses to Monday Mar from Monday Mar at Roches Point memorial hall Postponed in April ft from Fri day Mar St Patricks tea and hake sale of Trinity United church Evangeline Auxiliary Every Saturday bingo in North Memorial hall Kes wick at under the aus pices of the Building Board Spe cial prizes cards Dance to Norm Burling and Klngsmen at Memorial au ditorium every Friday night Ad mission and tfl Thursday Friday Saturday- See spring showing of mens and boys suits LOWELL KEFFKR Lions Club Celebrates Its Anniversary Makes Presentation The anniversary of the Newmarket Lions club was celebrated Monday night in what Lions called one of the greatest nights in the history of the organization Of the charter members when the club was organized in only ten are still active members and they 20year charter member chevrons at the meeting The anniversary night was chevrons and Noble Tom held in conjunction with district l governors night District Gov ernor Fred Thompson a mem ber of the Newmarket club spoke on the organizational as pects of the lions International office in Chicago Also present were international counsellors Harry Lambert and Ken Robert son of the Brant ford club Mr Lambert is a past president of the club Lions presented with their 20- year chevrons were F Dr Boyd A J Davis Alex Eves Scott and Earl received 10 year old Monarch chevrons Mr was presented with a year perfect attend ance button and Fred Lundy Frank Courtney and Frank Both- well 15 year perfect attendance buttons District governor Fred Thompson was also presented with a travelling bag Many of the Lions went to the Legion hall after the meeting where they were entertained by members of the Newmarket branch of the Legion At the DONALD Lowell Keffer Newmarket and Donald King were two district high school students who went to New York recently and visited the United Nations headquarters at Lake Success in a tour for students in York County Both students are in grade Keffer at Newmarket high school and at Aurora high school Alex Georgas Eves membcr Lundy C L Pnt- chard and B Rose Fredr Sault Ste Thompson and G Marie Gren Thompson was pro- received year old Monarch seated with a smoking stand BIG CAST OF 14 IN ARSENIC OLD LACE The Newmarket Dramatic clubs production of Arsenic and Old Lace wilt have a large cast of Newmarket personalities The three act comedy is the second production by the club this sea son and is directed by Dorothy Bowman The cast of characters are the following Brewster Vera Brown Rev Dr Harper Charles Boyd Teddy Brewster Eugene McCaffrey Officer Glen Henderson Officer Klein Herb Dunham Martha Brewster Grace Sinclair Elaine Harper Ruby Harrington Mortimer Brewster Don Mr Tommy Taylor Jonathon Brewster Nick Styke Dr Kin- stein Jack Struthcrs Officer George Officer Ken Leemin Mr therspoon Del Whitchurch To Levy Fifth Mill To Support Federation Agriculture Whitchurch township will levy onefifth of a mill to support the Federation of Agriculture this year The levy will be made on all farm lands consisting of five acres or more The township council agreed to make the stop at its regular meeting last Friday night The township dork John Crawford was instructed to draw up the necessary bylaw AURORA H S CHOIR TO SING LAST DAY OF MUSIC FESTIVAL The Aurora High school glee club has been asked to sing on the closing day of the music festival at Eaton Auditori um Toronto Some results have already shown that district sing ers have taken honors at the festival but all the participants have been heard Marion Gibson daughter of Mr and Mrs Roy Gibson Second St Newmarket won a first class honor standing in the singing class of years at the festival last week in summarizing the adjudicator said that Miss Gibson has a promising voice She is a student of Mrs J Cane In a vocal class of and un der Miss Anne Stephenson of Oak Ridges took third place in competition with 24 soloists on February This direct tax levy system is being instituted in lieu of an annual grant which the munici pality has been making to the Federation and follows a request from local members of the far mers federation for the charge At the present time Township has a similar levy of onefifth of a mill and Township contributes onesixth There was considerable discus sion concerning the change be fore the decision was finally reached and for a time Reeve McLaughlin maintained that he still favored giving the grant rather than the levy system par ticularly in view of the fact the township office facilities were badly upset during building op erations Id be favorable to it if all the municipalities had to adopt the system stated the Reeve Were doing it of our own free will returned Councillor MeCarron I believe stated Deputy- Reeve Timbers that the mill rate is the fairest way itll come sooner or later and will gradual ly work into all corners of the county Im inclined to favor the mill rate If some of these municipali ties get behind the move the others will have to come into it commented Councillor ron I dont think we would be taxing the urban sections for a farmers organization and thats what were doing when we give a grant stated Councillor Bay- croft Tin favorable to the mill rate if the office staff can handle it he concluded Display British Guides Scroll And Log Book At Group Meeting BOY SCOUT SALVAGE COLLECTION ON SAT The Newmarket boy scouts are holding a salvage collection this coming Saturday in all parts of town Residents are reques ted to put old papers and maga zines in front of their homes Funds raised through the sale of papers go into the Newmarket boy scout camp near Pine Orch ard The annual Scouts and Cubs Father and Son banquet was postponed because of the large number of flu cases The date has been reset for Friday March APPOINTED MANAGER Mr Bruce Milieu son of Mr and Mrs Miller Newmarket has been Appointed manager of the new Singer Sewing Machine store at EMPLOY ASSESSOR Aurora council passed a by law on Monday night to employ Good of StouffvRte as as sessor for Aurora at a salary of 1275 Brown and guides from Newmarket and the surrounding district gathered with their par ents and friends at St Andrews church Newmarket on Friday Feb when the Friendship Scroll and Log Rook sent to Can ada by the Guides of Great Bri tain was displayed Mrs dis trict commissioner welcomed the guests and introduced the divi sional commissioner Mrs D Oak Ridges This was Mrs first official visit in this capacity to the brownies and guides of Newmarket A color party composed of members of the various compan ies present brought in the Friendship Scroll and Log Book as Commissioner proceed ed to the front with a guard of honor of brownies and guides These in turn were accepted from Mrs on behalf of the guides of this district by Mrs In speaking to the girls and their guests Mrs said that it was a very special night for her to be able to bring the scroll to them Think of what it stands for and what it really means A guide is a friend to all and a sister to every other guide This scroll represents that friendship between the guides and brownies of Great Britain and the Canadian guides brownies she said Mrs suggested that the girls find pen pals in guiding in other countries Wherever you go you will find girls interested in the guid ing movement Twentyseven countries belong to the World Guiding organization February 22 the birthday of the founder Lord BadenPowell is for all guides and is called Thinking Day she concluded Mrs Thompson captain of the Newmarket Girl Guide company opened the meeting as the regular weekly guide meet ings are conducted with the for- of the horseshoe the singing of the national anthem and the repeating of the guide promise Dr K led the gathering in prayer Following presentation of the scroll and log book the guides performed two folk dan ces and sang several camp songs around their During the Mrs Nelson Ion who assisted with the reorgani of the Newmarket com- and was its first captain spoke to the girls The guides closed their section of the pro gram with the singing of Taps The brownies from the New market Brownie pack formed their magic circle around the toad stool under the direction of their Brown Owl Mrs Ray and Tawny Owl Miss Grace A delightful pro gram was presented by the brownies with a piano selection- by Joanne a dunce by Morton with Mary Lou accompanying her at the piano another piano solo by Marilyn Perks and the repeating of Brownie motto Lend a hand in semaphore by Judy Carter Betsy Bell Jean and Karen Beare Miss Christian Latimer of the Sutton Guide company assisted Mrs in the presenta tion of service stars to the brownies They closed their section of the program with their grand howl The log book and scroll were displayed and everyone present had an opportunity to examine the beautiful artistry of the guides and brownies of Great Britain HOSPITAL COSTS UP The overall cost of operating York County hospital has in- creased percent was revealed at a meeting of the hospital board on Tuesday night