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Ml a press It may be season of the year or It may be number of have been passed along to the news paper by readers about the news coverage and editorial comment during the year During the ycaf we hear plenty of complaints from read ers we have been given severe lectures by telephone for omit ting a personal Item important to some reader or we have been called down for certain opin ions we have expressed in edi torials A newspaper cannot please all the readers all the time Once in a while someone does call to say that he approves of a certain opinion or passes on a compliment about the paper but most people do not take the trouble to make favorable com ments That is only human na ture Possibly we should attribute the recent com ments to the spirit of Christ mas Nevertheless we accept them happily and will remem ber them throughout the year In the new year we will provide the community with quality reporting and editorial comment and hope to improve on 1955 In the new year the Era and Express will widen its news coverage and conscien tiously serve this growing New market district We wish our readers a Happy New Year We urge the people of Newmarket and district to consider that the newspaper is here to serve them and may be used by the citizens at any time to help make a better commun ity Community organizations are welcomed to the columns of the Era to promote their work Individuals are welcomed to ex press their opinions through this- medium by way of the let ters to the editor column We hope that in we will hear more from our readers We feel that if all opinions could be ex pressed on local issues import ant to Newmarket and district the better would be the local government and the healthier the community from the Files of and 50 Years A December Work Progressing Fine All the new water main extension pipes at the north end are now completed and earth filled in Singing Christmas Carls On Tuesday evening the choir of Trinity United church sang Christmas carols in front of the homes of shutins about town and inside York County hospi tal Following the carols the choir went by invitation to the home of Mrs Dick and her daughter on St where refreshments were served and all enjoyed their courtesy Dr Bond of Toronto was in town on Saturday Mis Esther is home from Fort William for vacation Mr J Harvey principal of high school is homo for Christmas vacation Mrs of is spending Christmas holidays her daughter Mrs Cane Mayor Davis of Newmarket extended the official opening of the Aurora on Tuesday right Mrs Hall and little daughter are spending several days this week with her mother Mr Mr A Gardner principal of high school and for merly of Newmarket high school was visiting in town en Monday Miss Elsie Campbell who Attending Normal school in To ronto is spending the mas holidays with her parents Friends of Rev An- rewf in the Canadian him a pound turkey and pound goose as a Christmas They know how grow poultry as well an Very good market last Satur day morning but everything was picked up as soon as It was placed on the table in fact considerable poultry before ft got Inside the market were four buyers on the mar ket and they bought all the and eggs they could get their hands on A New Years Eve dance thai will far outdo any celebration of welcoming the incoming year ever staged in Newmarket Is being sponsored by the December An Early Start The town whistle blew about five oclock on Tuesday morning and many j of the people thinking it to be the usual six oclock whistle got up an hour ahead of time It seems that the engineer made a mistake in looking at the clock Fire at Schomberg A serious fire occurred at Schomberg on night last Four buildings were burned Wil liams jewellery store Dennis drug store Redmans butcher and dwelling attached and Butlers jewellery store and dwelling Total loss estimated at Produce Good big mar ket last Saturday almost equal to week before Too many formers held their poultry too near Christmas Buyers com menced offering for turkeys and townspeople paid as high as The buyers were not anxious because they said it was too late for the Toronto market Ruling prices were as follows butter to lb fresh eggs 35 to doz pack ed eggs 20 to dressed chickens Q to lie lb dressed turkeys to lb lamb to lb apples to bas ket potatoes a bag onions peck hogs live weight 6c lb Mr and Mrs Arthur spent Christmas with friends at also Mr and Mrs Verity and family Mr and wife of spent Christmas with her mother Mrs Nollcr also Messrs Will and George of Detroit Mrs Asn Rogers formerly of this town leaves on the first of January for St Augustine where she expects to spend the winter Her sister Mrs Keller of New York is going with her Mr and Mrs Fisher of King Christmas with Mr and Mrs also his daughter Mrs McDonald and daughter of Toronto Mr Frank of Water loo spent Christmas with his father Mr Arnold Prof and Mrs of To ronto spent Wednesday at guests of Mr and Mrs C Stanley Scott ft TAWS tit SPUD aw- f m to for at Toronto Brit- III swoops low over parted automobile Mi Crow feet while miles from sir vmU9 of Mt to distant MU Previous for run tint at Toronto iAi M aoly two Its Th Exm avary St by Era and for for in arm Member at A Canada Canadian Weekly Association and the Audit of Authorized Second Clou Moil Pop Office Department Ottawa JOHN Me ton Worn Sport i fc LAWRENCE RACINE Job end THURSDAY DAY OF DECEMBER NINETEEN HUNDRED AND FIFTYFIVE THE AL PAGE LOST WEEK THE WEEK BETWEEN Christmas and New Years Day more and more is becoming a lost week for commercial enterprises This week stores were closed Monday and Tuesday and much of the activity yesterday was concerned with preparations for yearend stock taking or making exchanges for Christmas shoppers From a business point of view most people will want to forget about this week It is much the same in the newspaper business Community life is quiet and there is little activity in local politics Tonight the council will hold a yearend meeting to clean up a few minor items of a routine nature For the newspaper it is a short week and we take a little time to review the year of the community and district while things are quiet Unlike the daily newspapers we do not require sensationalism to keep our local readers interested Outside of the slaughter on highways the daily press has been short of news stories this week So we have seen the touching prob lems of a North Bay family and their four yearold daughters in far off Montreal delicately told in eight column bold block lettered headlines The qualities of a good pulp story are included It is a real tearjerker and has mystery too when our interest is sought by sug gestions that sinister intruders are influencing the lives of the Dionnes It certainly is a lost week Early in this newspaper urged council to plan While members of council were concentrating much energy on industrial promotion ideas an editorial pointed out that the town had little to offer to new in dustries since it had practically no vacant land Months ago this appeared in an editorial Planning should take in the area around Newmarket and the only way it can be done is through cooperation with the neighbor ing municipalities A few weeks ago we were told about the planning committees report Most of the right answers appeared in it Now we shall wait and see what the coun cil can do with the ideas and how long it will take to implement them There is no question about develop ment taking place the question is whether or not it will be guided to ensure that it will take place in an orderly way and without burdening the home owners It is to be hoped that there will be less politics in the future planning for Newmarket and district Recent suggest ions for planning boards both in Newmarket and East possibly indicate that the councils realize that planning should be taken out of the political arena Many municipalities have found that the job can be done more quickly and efficiently without the ground work being done by councils Another in favor of planning boards is that council members do not have the time to spend on the details of planning REVIEW THE REVIEW of 196S shows signs of progress in and around Newmarket Today we see a number of new buildings being constructed or already completed the new hospital wing Metros home for the aged a new wing for the post office a wing for the registry office an exchange building for the telephone company on Millard Avenue and many new houses Newmar ket is growing But progress in other ways has not been so rapid A year ago some citizens and nil municipal representa tives were concerned about bringing new industry to town We cannot look back and point to any tangible accomplishments in this respect In fact Newmarket has lost industries In spite of much loose talk in political arena it was not until the end of the year that there was percent agreement on a might offer a cure for the problem We do not say that there was no foresight shown by town council problem was that there was not sufficient agreement and co ordination of efforts among the members At the years end an expression on a sound policy finally was made We hope to sec some sound planning for Newmarkets future development done by council WASTING OUR MONEY AN ATOMIC powered submarine has been a sue- project for the American navy Recently an American naval authority in a d the statement that atomic powered aircraft carriers will come next What a waste of taxpayers money that would bet In an air age when long range bombers can fly half way around the world and back nonstop there is talk of building seagoing carriers for low speed types of aircraft It must be that the tradition of the sea in the minds of diehard navy types leaves no room for logic Instead of spending millions or billions on aircraft carriers it would be less costly to try and put the atomic power Into airplanes Besides a carrier can be destroyed too easily with a small atomic bomb leaving numerous air planes with no base Even Canada plans to spend mil lions on another aircraft carrier to Magnifi cent a typo of ship which is made obsolete by the atom or hydrogen bombs and the increased range of aircraft Since we must keep up our defenses why not spend the money to fight off tho type of attack that could come but which we hope never will It would not bo from ocean but it would from the skies OUR SIDE OF THE STORY by Harvey WHERE DO WE GO FROM GENEVA Catnips ay Giriger then by fee Slim and I were talking about th TV boners pulled in In the middle of a stirring dram Climax a corpse got up and walked away in plain view of the camera- Jerry Lewis pulled a towel a rack on the Comedy Hour and the entire wall came with it Host Bill of Show er of Stars won a laugh by mistake when he introduced a ballet dancer as a belly James Mason started to in troduce Rhonda Fleming and couldnt remember her name On Matinee Theatre a charac ter talked into the wrong end of a telephone for three min utes and Irene couldnt up her dress on a cue be cause the ripper stuck must have moments for the actors said Slim The Newmarket Dramatic Club has had its red faced mo ments in the past too Ask the bong abut soma of those be cause he has been a part of many When Arras and the Man was presented at the town hall a couple of years ago were problems in setting up the flats for one of the scenes In a dramatic moment a section of the wall in a room started to topple over It hesitated In its fall for a moment tall Douglas fir when the lumbers lack cries Timber One of the agile members at rushed over and caught the before it crashed and ha pushed it back in place the tension another of the cast breathed the following explanation Mice During another play several years ago a fireplace fell over On it was a large trophy and the din terrific when hit the floor AnothcrXtime in Arsenic and Old Lace two players supposed to be carrying a dead body across a room One the legs fell The audience didnt know It scene was almost spoiled by the own laughter whan one whispered to the other How long did you this fellow been dead Another one of the market plays was being in a Suaday school room at one of rural The curtain was a flimsy affair The play ended on a very dra matic point but the players and- the audience were left suspended when the curtain wouldnt close It was very embarrassing These have never been corded before The club should keep a book where accounts of boners could be kept for all time by Dairy Farmer The Top Six Inches This is traditionally time of the year when it Is custom ary to draw balances sheets figure out Income tax and stand back and have a look at things in general It is the tune of the year when wo celebrate whether or not there is a reason for it and make resolutions to do those things we have left un done and not do the ones we know we shouldnt do but do anyway It is a sort of mental house- cleaning which nil house- results in further ac cumulation of debris that will have to be cleaned again It Is also the time when poli ticians bank presidents and other prominent people sound their warnings or prove to us how wonderful everything la and when most people start new epoch a new era a new year with roaring headaches often in the company of a herd of pink elephants Formers by tradition do very few of above things They have no balance sheets to be elated about they breed live stock of different species and they are very seldom pink The only breed that comes pink Is of course the pig and right now most of us wish that pigs had wings and would fly There la even very little by way of Income taxes to figure It might not bo a bad Idea however If on the way to tho barn and while feeding would take stock of what Is ailing us and then in the series meetings which will now be the order of day for weeks to come wo would attempt to and see if we could get a larger- morsel of abundant national loaf Our first resolution should bo to make a very realistic our own situation and realise that since farm in come only represents much than percent of the national income we must face a fact thaV even a or 30 percent cut our Income Is really cant to the nation at large The country as a whole simply does nt give a darn about i be cause people dont feel it This being the case we have two choices either the occupation of farming and let somebody else struggle or else reorganize our business in such a way that it will more efficient not in order to produce more so much as pro duce what we do produce caster and at lower costs The first solution of course is one that many have al ready taken and will take in Increasing numbers The total investment of farm land build ings machinery and livestock In many cases would enable him to set himself up In another business with half worry half the expenses and about one third of the hard slugging In many cases if invested in stocks and bonds and a house to live in it would give him a convenient life without even doing odd Jobs The other solution the re organizing of the business is quite possible and In many cases well overdue But it will require financing long term credit much moro of it than is available from any source right now should bo the year when organized farming has a look at this problem rid itself of prejudices against using bor rowed capital and become big not only in its problems but also in Its thinking about the solution for it The Ministers of the Big Four have met and parted They failed to reach agreement on any of the major problems on the agenda Perhaps more still they to agree on any principle or for mula on which satisfactory co existence might be based And so the cold war continued Does this mean that we should adopt a new policy It has been argued that we should make generous conces sions In order to prove to Russians that we have no inten tion of attacking them The ar gument Is that the source of Russian unwillingness to co operate been rooted In a fear that we were planning to attack them and therefore the one thing necessary Is for us to make soma dramatic move like destroying our stock of nuclear weapons which would prove our peaceful intent The argu ment assumes that the Soviet Union really wants peace and merely needs to be convinced that we want peace too Would that it were ol Unfortunately the whole course of Soviet action since war proves that view to bo untenable If Soviets been afraid of an attack by us they would not have given us such and open provocation as tho Berlin block The tenant master of people the ie their infrimgemen on their right their egent tie not the function to the Urea- Indeed the communists thought that we would let them take over any areas in which we had no material interests as was evidenced by their at tack on South Korea What they needed to learn was that there were limit to what would let them take over that there were circumstances In which we would fight It only our demonstrated willingness and ability to fight that has stopped their expan sion and changed their ap proach Ions are now being advocated on new grounds It Is argued that Russian policy is not definitely settled that there Is a conflict in the Krem lin between those who want to live at peace and those who ad here to the policy of conquest between Khrushchev and Molotov The argument Is that we cannot expect the Soviets to make all the conces sions and if wo refuse to make any it will weaken position of those who would like to make It Is probably true that thore Is a struggle going on In the Kremlin and it may be that Krushchev would be more will ing than Molotov to abandon the goal world conquest As suming that it is Krushchev who would like to live at peace would making concessions strengthen his position It to mo that the ad vocates of concessions uncon sciously assume that Krushchev is saying to Look these fellows really want to come to with us lets make a deal Lot us free elections In East Germany We have nothing to fear from Germany as long as she doesnt have the Abomb and we can be sure that France will see to it that doesnt get it After all we dont have any right to East Germany Is it at all likely that Molo would be impressed by such an argument Not very He would probably answer Listen Nicky nobody really believed that the West would attack lis That was just pro paganda to Justify our expen diture on Wo dont need to make concessions to avoid on attack In fact the tougher wo talk tho better It will keep the spend ing most of their surplus value on armaments instead of in aid to the Asiatics And anyway what do you mean by saying we have no right to East Germany Dont you know that we have a right to any and every inch of terri tory wo can get hold of by fair means or foul That would bo a crushing an swer but it is most unlikely that Krushchev would ever have offered tho argument which appeasora attribute to him If Krushchev is in favor of peace his argument will be Look this policy of trying to conquer tha world has to be scrapped Al ready wove worked the capi talists up to see a pitch that they fight us everywhere we start anything Look at Korea Look at Cant you see that the capi talists have got wise to our plans even had brains enough to squelch our little schemes in Guatemala and British Guiana Weve got pretend to love them for a while Just as Stalin did That would appear to be the lino that Krushchev would toko If so the way to strength en his position Is to keep right on with our policies of contain ment and of maintaining our strength Those polirIes have halted communist expansion There is no need to change Diem We might our methods of cooperation but that is another story HIGHLIGHTS Continued from Pago elected for With their cooperation in next year we should do wiser and more practical planning and bring greater efficiency Into the af fairs of this community James Made rect or of St church reviewed the years highlights and added From my point of view In the much narrower than the community at large is the fact that old St Pauls Anglican church has been forging ahead with a new on life old church which was built in served well and faithfully the highlight year of when was replac ed with the new atone building Then In another highlight year came and saw the addition of the Memorial Halt Tils year has been one of steady pro gress and enlargement A room was added to the Par ish Hall the Tower was fully repaired and a substantial cap put in place the church was fully excavated and a new ves tibule planned and begun and is now well on the way to But new buildings im proved buildings arc of value only In so far as they servo people meet their needs Thus we Have seen more child ren In our Sunday School than over before We have started a church cub pack for the beys the Junior for girls has grown steadttf Probably the read of this past year weihave com to often take for wonderful of people year to Jo ft and find many thing make w think that is has been a high year and that gives great hope for a still better ahead And finally before closing door on Free Brackets president of Red Cross for a backward to recall the vivid scenes of year Said Mrs We set members Of Red branch busily labelling and pack huge cartons of clothing ant bedding made during the year to be shipped ready in a time need at home or abroad The happy faces of the Junta Red Cross children come to as they presented the cheque for equipping tha In the York County hospital u Womens Institute It planning for the comfort and convenience of the remember the formation of the four new Home and School a happy spirit as they seek to develop programs of Interest and enlightenment for parents We sea the Good ser vices attended by all Protestant communions Joining together In worship and entering into happy fellowship In union church ser vices We think about the many new residents town whom we have met and tried to make feel welcome And we must not for get the merchants so helpful accommodating have eased our task a shopper Lastly as a mother our head in gratitude for our family for their physical health and Gods protection and for all during this oast year approaches we that we may go out hand into the hand of flHjfej knowing that way be safer than the way j 1