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a LAST MINUTE IDEA A subscription to the Era and Express is last minute Idea Phone te a subscription which will fa weeks of the year f- PUBLISH NEXT TUESDAY The Era and Express will be published again next Tuesday with copies ready for mailing and news stands early in the morning Advertisers and contributors are reminded to have copy early for the next Issue by Friday If possible ERA YEAR EXPRESS HERALD YEAR NEWMARKET ONTARIO TUESDAY DECEMBER 24 1957 No 52 SINGLE COPIES 10 CENTS EACH dustrial Commissioners Work Described To The Town Council Appearing before Newmarket council on Dec 16 as an appli cant for the position of indus trial commissioner M Bul lock spoke for over a half hour He outlined the work of a com missioner and the various he would take if he were chos en to fill the post Mr Bullock is a former Au rora resident He was a chief administration officer of project development with the federal department of public works Mr Bullock listed six sepa rate campaigns which must carry out if it is to new industry here They were tactical engineering fin ancial local public relations publicity and entertainment friendliness Smoke and snarled traffic are what come to mind when people think of industry Mr told council and added hat he did not think in terms of industry for there is no atcr in Newmarket for such pes of industries as a steel ant Nothing ruins a town than one smoking he said hen considering prospective tries the town must the people who are resi dents here now continued Mr ullock He listed them as for- merchants and city people ho have moved to a tranquil to get away from congestion and fumes is all but taken in expansion and it will be he same soon with Richmond fill Bui Newmarket is Being off the highway it retain its independent char- tier he said Part of the tactical campaign be this determination of he type of town Newmarket is he kinds of industry it warns the direction of its future Mr Bullock light service industries as ling suitable ones for He named science projects plants branches of electronic in dustry and the types seen along highway as being highly de sirable In discussion annexation and its problems Mr Bullock recom mended expansion of the town in a south orand east direction Whitchurch township ra ther than north into East He recommended main taining happy relations with neighboring municipalities when planning development as well as in all other phases of civic work Wherever you see empty plants you know development has stopped there Mr Bullock told council The empty fac tories in Newmarket should be put on the market immediately A part of the financial cam he outlined solicited the help of the community The re ceptive attitude of the towns bankers was vital Mr Bullock said When industries consider moving and expansion they need financial assistance The coop eration given a prospective in dustry by the local bankers could be an important factor It is al so necessary to help the present industries expand within the town he added Through the local public rela tions campaign it is necessary for the council and everyone in terested in the towns healthy growth to promote the idea among the local residents Show why the town needs in dustry and when they under stand the problem they will as sist explained Mr Bullock The campaign included the provision of ser viced land and adequate water supply as soon as possible Mr Bullock said it would be ap proximately one year the sewage system was completed What is Newmarket going to do about serviced land in the mean time There is a need for these services both from a sanitary and development point of view Newmarket by putting in the way for service land he added To illustrate the important place friendliness and entertain ing pay in securing new indus tries for a community Mr Bul lock told of a successful pro ject in The mayor of headed- a delegation to New York in search of Ameri can industries who were plan ning new Canadian plants While there he arranged for his group to demonstrate curling on the ICC surface at Rockefeller Center There were no less than in quiries received because of this Mr Bullock told council adding that several new firms came to Arnprior as a result of this New York visit What industry wants con cluded Mr Bullock is serviced land and a friendly town away from the turmoil of a large city parts manufactuiingtruiik sewer is preparing the r Planting Project uggested For Town A tree planting project was for consideration 9 a civic improvement plan for 1058 council by Councillor when council met on Dec The Horticultural society be interested in such a and willing itli it Councillor Bert Kent Id council The tree conservation was out- by Mr Haskell following he receipt of a letter from the Tree Experts of Canada his firm offered its services to he town in the removal of old rets or decayed and dangerous limbs The way the trees an down around town we dont any help with it said Mr Any money to be pent should he spent in plant new ones Mayor told council at the town has haws ladders ad other necessary equipment that the town employees ike care of the removal of which miry be considered We are fairly well set up to this work ourselves said the The men in the work apartment do the work The ladders are available from to hydro department The men have done a good job id arc willing to help rvmove ngerous trees from private pro- Our own men are doing job and doing it well I dont ink we need to consider tree he added are a lot of bad spots town where trees obscure the feet lights argued Councillor At this time of the trees are no problem in the summer visibility it in some places because of trees There are definitely places in n which could do with attention from a firm like Next year this might be Idered in the budget and it Id be done during the win- months when as the firm Is out rates are cheaper Basket recommended Sutton Greenshirf Open December Comets At Home Dec 30 All the seven teams in County rural hockey are sched uled to pry the lid off another season over the next week Of course how much success theyll have in getting underway in most eases will depend on how much work Jack Frost does Sutton are one club that will have no worry in this regard The have artificial ice so their in itial home game is Dec at pm will pro vide the visiting opposition From there on Bradys will have a home game each Friday night Keswick Comets who have in stalled Nobby Ash as coach and Mahoney as manager are scheduled to give their home season a grand and glorious sendoff at the Keswick arena Monday Dec 30 at pm While the Comets will open their home season on a Monday evening from here on most of their home names will be play ed on Tuesday nights Comets first infill opponent will be Woodville One of the stellar attractions during the early schedule comes up for fan attention Jan On that occasion Keswick Comets will meet their Old and friendly rivals Sutton at the Sutton arena the center of trees on our pro perty There should be some way of stopping this The wires must go through 2aid Mr This town has a lot of nice trees said Councillor Idler It is a beautiful town from help that standpoint but there are sections that ate bare The Horticultural society will plant trees if council wants them said Mi Kent The so ciety has volunteered to do this several times but could not get any cooperation from the south side of the area a nursery had visited the site plans for the planting were completed and the roads and bridges chairman told us to wait as more fill had to he put there We waited all that year and again through this planting season but received no operation he said Perhaps Horticultural so ciety could be advised that the roads and bridges commit tee would be more receptive to suggestions said Councillor Choppiu We should acknow ledge this letter and refer it the 1058 council for a study of a tree planting program and at tention to hazardous trees he recommended Council approv ed this resolution Owner Denying Liability To Pay 1029 In Taxes TOWN TO INSERT ADVERTISEMENT IN NEW YORK TIMES Town council on Dee ap proved the expenditure of 153 by Councilllor chairman of planning and industrial committee for an advertisement in the Jan issue of the New York Times A promotional scheme to in terest industries to locate in On tario is being sponsored by the Consumer Gas Co which has arranged a twopage spread in the annual financial and busi ness review of the New York Times Aurora North York Brampton and many other communities in the prov ince have purchased space in this special advertisement The Consumer Gas Co is ar ranging the project but each community pays for its own ad vertisement After publication of the special issue the Gas Co will distribute circulars using the two pages Newmarket will use the ma terial from its advertisement in the Business yearbook of Canada Mr explained to coun cil that a decision had to be made that week and since be fell town could afford he had approved the expendi ture On a resolution of Councillor council endorsed the ac tion of the planning and indus trial committee chairman RINGS PLAY AT BRADFORD DEC market Smoke Kings will play Combines it the Bradford arena Boxing Day evening In a scheduled Subur ban Super junior hockey league game Game time is Newmarket council was noti fied at its Dec- meeting that Mrs Vera Armstrong denied lawful liability for taxes for amounting to pm Armstrong acting for his I wife notified council of this rfrMTf I COMING EVENTS Mr Armstrong said his assessed by No in 1M8 and for which the tuxes of in community hall pm Music by Leo attention be given to the had been demanded by fenestra Admission ding of new trees He said treasurer WEDNESDAY JAN I New which have been removed She denies lawful liability tor Years Night dress dance in be replaced and in many taxes and will submit the now subdivisions an ex- such only when all planting program statutory procedural re- Former Aurora Man Foils Bank Robber Fifty-year- old Alexander San dy onetime Aurora resilient and manager of the Canadian Bank of Commerce when it was located In the pres ent Aurora Municipal offices was the hero of holdup and capture of a bank robber at Hamilton on Friday Mr manager of the Commerce Branch at York and Queen St in Hamilton was pres ent when a lone bandit took At one stage it appeared the husband of the teller would be shot then Mr di verted him by shouting Leave the lad alone if youre going to shoot anybody shoot me He then released the tellers hus band whom he was holding as a hostage While the alarm was being sounded Mr fearlessly followed the armed bandit from the bank and carried the re volver he had drawn in the bank but not fired at the bandit The robber was captured under a porch in a blind alley into which he had fled and which Mr guarded until police ar rived Thieves Make Raids In Aurora Saturday Aurora Thieves had a raid on Aurora on Saturday night and Aurora police w a citizens to watch their premised carefully Breaking a door with consider able force the thieves look a lb turkey from the home of Hen ri Sun key Avenue and ransacked the premises un successfully for cash Drive entry was made and the house searched but apparently the miscreants fled when aroused by persons passing by At the residence of Bruce on Gurnet St entry was gained by a window but except for ar ticles of female lingeries nothing appeared to have been taken All three breakins are blamed by police to one mass sortie The same evening entering by a window on the north side of the building thieves jimmied the safe Of Canada Wholesalers on St This is a new firm which took over the business of A Snow Over in cash was removed and from the technique used po lice believe this to be a profes sional job whereas they regard the Drive robberies as the work of amateurs Mount Albert Resident 90 ft and a childrens film A buffet lunch of sandwiches cookies I cakes and ice was served later in the evening The highlight was the arrival of Santa who distributed present- to a the children Winners of the Optimist Club Christmas draw are the follow- First prise Mrs Irene Bel- 1 Road Tor- j onto pi lie Second A Senior Mount Albert sponsored by Sharon Junior he Bell and hydro workers slaughter trees terribly Mrs a wire to be have been met the Utter stated Farmers orches tra Schorpberg Lucky spot Cafeteria lunch Admis sion a person It added that Mrs Armstrong DANCING every Saturday night in Bond He id Community Hall for best costume Spon sored by Anglican Young People Price would pay any lawful de mand for taxes they chop oft limbs The letter was referred to the Archest a chunks wer taken out of town solicitor AID BASKET A contribution by the Of fice Specialty Mfg Co has boosted the I ions club Christ- mas Basket Fund which will make a happier Christmas fori needy families in this district The Newmarket fire depart- ment contributed to the fundi not as reported in error last week Christmas Party Held By The Optimist Club Newmarket Optimist club held their annual childrens Christ mas party recently This event which is held for Optimist mem bers was thoroughly by to children Many activities made up the evening including carol singing Prospect Street Newmarket Third prise Dr Ritchie Mr Gibbons Mount Albert celebrated her Ave Newmarket Fourth William Stephens Keswick On Fifth J market Sixth prize Club ai m a wishes to thank everyone who right who celebrated her birthday on Nov 3 They I purchased tickets and helped make this draw a success The j do their own housekeeping and maintain interests in the church and proceeds will enable the club to extend their boys work through- out the town and area