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and Book For Young Canada Book Week Puppetry I and Class A Serving Newmarket and the rural district of North York year at every Wednesday at Charles Newmarket by the Newmarket Era ft Express Company Limited Subscription S7M far turn years SI tor out year in advance Simla art It Member Class A Weeklies ml Canada Canadian Weekly Newspaper Associativa and the Audit Bureau Circulations A tit homed as Second Glass Mail Post Department Ottawa THE EDITORIAL PAGE to Nov the Book Newmarket Public has supplemented its books and Jackson Collection Richmond Ed My Swedish Cousins General Wolf Col- Pinkish Bluish Egg Bill Space Ship Louis St- Adventure St At- f Huckleberry Finn iip story by SB Little A recent article stated that keeping peopl to the realization that others a willing to do these things for lis and Reindeer because of this we are duty bound to Too Many newspaper fc t Moore I Learn to S The old Roman method of Elite il m we would wish for ourselves K Carter For Older Readers den fleece Colnm Fairy Tales and Stones is Christian Anderson la hra Washington lnORi Treasure Hunter It Mystery of McGulteyl Mansion Florence Mystery of H err it Valley stated that old Roman method port we would wish for Keeping people happy was to give them i J will not agree For Older Readers bread and circuses The Moscow Christmas recently appearing at New Yorks with the platform aspirations A flf to in- candidates but next Monday night when i it is our res- York Nomads of Damp son Square Garden would appear to that Russia is attempting to follow nominations ar a similar system by intent or otherwise to They could have also added that the recent RussianCanadian wheat deal has given capitalistic production methods the biggest international boost in decades Now that the United States is con cerned in the drive for Russian deals in the wheat market it is interesting to note the great change of attitude in our neighbors to the south now that they to weigh carefully the quali fications and stated intentions of each so that the strongest legislative possible may lie elected to conduct the business of Newmarket PENALIZING THE MARRIED Old age pension cheques now include College Reign Pickering College HIWAYBYWAY see the gold shipments and commerce the increase to make them from Russia unloading at Canadian ports month instead of The increase in return payment for the wheat deals which was voted by Parliament was We must admire the lawmakers both with the pensions paid at the end international and national who are able of October to mold the interpretation of rigid rulings couples the that humanity might benefit or the may disappointing joke Until individual given a break in the courts parliament gets around to carpenter neck getting rather crim son after watching perhaps a television program of United States origin lauding up of the gaps in the hundreds or thousands of read the regulations correct the and t adherence to to have added to their and subtracted from their man in a twohanded government operation The cases in which the gap is going before i to show up it appears are those in which view one of a married couple is over and getting old age security while the spouse is between 65 and and is getting old well age assistance How many such there may be would be difficult to from the statistics but there are 340000 people in the one province the of Ontario who now draw old age secur- pension and another 25000 who of all forms of that country ministration and then reading in the next days press that they have appeared to become a little greeneyed at Canadas million wheat deal and are falling over themselves to find loopholes to al low them to climb on the band wagon In spite of the keen business acumen of both sides of the border to make these sales to Russia and her satellites one thing seems to be surprising It is very hard to imagine Russia knocking at the door in Ottawa to report they had had pension a crop failure and were in desperate Among these there need of wheat and yet it appears still mll3t hundreds and more pro- more amazing that our highly paid and bjlblv thousands made up of such highly skilled members of the as a husband aged and eeonTof as They can track n w g other no doubt appeal us secret Russian t of one spouse aged over and the aright and to apply with other between and Old age security pension of course paid to all without means test Old assistance is paid only after a means est it varies according to the other in come of the recipient a d in Ontario about a month The figures ary from province to province because age assistance is administered by the provinces with the Dominion govern ment making a stated contribution to the for adding something to the fe deral contribution For married couples the rule is that the income of the spouse must be con sidered when the means test is applied for old age assistance to people in the age group Unless the rules are changed it appears to be inevitable that when one pension cheque goes up the other is going to go down womari j Sussex writes to informed that t editor of her local newspaper am disabled pensioner and my husband the old age pension How the present government t the old age Canadian down some of the plans on nuclear research and a time miss a multimillion crop failure almost on the embassy doorstep We would at least expect that up in that high salaried and educative level they would look around the countries in which they were resident and be bright enough to spot the fact that Russia might be a potential good customer for Canadas heavy wheat crops We sometimes wonder what on at these Moscow receptions diplomats are sipping their We have a suspicion next cocktail is the main subject when let themselves be surprised by a crop failure which take tenalize covers thousands of square miles of terrain and occurs in broad day light We would suggest that from the view point of the mere taxpayer who bill for these diplomats that the only Russia was likely to be in the market for wheat months before it happened that they were either asleep on the job we looking through a slight alcoholic haze the during the past ye AFRAID TO DIFFER pension As everyone knows it was small enough then to live on But here is how they are doing it As I said before being a disabled pensioner received a iir letter from the pension board the other Listening to members of local day stating they would have to reduce tils or to those in provincial and federal pension in order to pay my as they conduct their band the increase in the old age pen- pointed business we Canadians So ask you how are we benefit- do not yet fully understand that it this raise to debate without acrimony is unlikely that this is an isolated to on method and detail without case fundamentals to decry There is an unfair disci at some particular point against maided couples this If the that man himself pensioner were a widower a bachelor he would get his increase Because Whik it afraid of disagree- he a wife and the wife is disabled ta he does not get it When he goes to buy bewildered perhaps by groceries though the prices are just the history and preoccupied same for a married man as for a widower building of a new nation we or bachelor If the two of them have withdrawn en masse from public til now been getting along on a monthly pension income of plus 50 they J it to the few still willing laic its rewards and accept its risks then leaves us little choice stand prepared fir civic responsibilities criticism which may offer ourselves though it continue to get along pension income of the clear intention of Par liament nun old pensioners should benefit to the extent of a month Vch BOND LAKE FURNITURE SALES ions St at Lake NOV OPEN under EW MANAGEMENT featuring New Used FURNITURE APPLIANCES Hillmt Prices Best Deals Anywher OPEN 1 JH It Phone Ust the BONUS COUPONS lor FREE INSTALLATION -i- BRAND NEW KEYSTONE WINTER TIRES OPEN ALL DAY MONDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY NITES TIL J SPILLE