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Up They Go Again Oh it happened again Taxes went up and like the man said What else is new This years mill residential tax increase for Newmarket and an expected 8 to increase in Aurora was to bo expected After all both towns are growing especially the size of the school- use population This means more classroom have to be built more schools for the classrooms and more teachers for the schools And of course these teachers like the rest of us want to be paid higher salaries This years lax hikes are mainly duo to higher school costs Whom do you blame Well first von blame council increasing the taxes Council blames the school board The school board blames the increased school population And whose fault is that there a than ever school population Its the average taxpayers fault thats who We dont want our children attending inferior schools and being taught by underpaid teachers So well just have to fay higher tuxes Unfortunately Newmarket needs road and run Aurora needs both and more important some method to treat sewage more efficiently than the present system All these programs will have to be curtailed for this year We cant for everything once because first things must bo first And the education of our children should always be first Scaling The Heights Somebody once said There human behaviour Take the study of the motivations the drives the satisfactions which are experienced by mountain climbers About a week ago the world was electrified some degree by the news that four West Germans am a Scotsman had fought their way up to the summit of a foot mountain in Switzerland a mountain called the Ogre in English Earlier in the week an American who had hoped to be with them at the summit trusted his weight to a frayed rope and plunged 1000 feet I to his death To those who find walking up the hill on Main street in Newmarket bit of chore those young men climbing mountains in Switzerland appear to be right out of their minds Vet the very fact they succeeded at 1 biikvhieh seemed practically Impossible brings out some of the finer trails in human character This same sort of thing has been going on through the ages as man delights to pit himself against the forces of nature It is very easy to scoff at the futility of such human occupations as mountain climbing but the aine drive and determination hi many I others has resulted in learning atomic energy the better treat ment and hope for cure for some diseases the automobile electricity our advanced means of communication and hundreds of other advantages which we now take for granted Many in their work scaled the heights but many also knew what it was to plunge into an abyss of despair but the motivation remained and where one failed others took on the job Judge Not That Ye Its not always the cause us to sit up and stare an impact too Now we hear that a quiet fund to build an institution for alcoholic in Canada are still mindful of the age of the old Methodist pioneers of this country and their fight against the demon rum It is interesting to note that this story alludes to priests and the reading public would led to infer that this would a priest of the Roman Catholic Chinch is perhaps rather unfair as we have no corresponding statistics mi am of alcohoiini among ministers or pastors of the Protestant faith It is human nature to regard the pulpit as a pedestal from which it is almost imjssible to fall and news items of this type illy prove that and other men of the cloth are human beings who at times need the full support and sympathetic undo landing of their congregations Their lifetime dedication to transmit some of their original faith Into the lives of the community surrounding them must be facing ever growing difficulties in modern times and we should he the last lo condemn if a very small portion fail to live up to a rigid standard which set but are not prepared to follow Major political and international news will likely overshadow the story of this nature in a very short time but it serves to remind us I hat these men are subject lo even far more stress and fnilraion than those headlines 1 campaign has been s sight a girl by Bill Smiley Sign Of Spring rant to laugh earn for a bout in squirrels And tile fairways beckon And the flowers reckon Its time they put their dopey was the picnic table the snow There was outfit in three scat- piece- to red steaks of July the ra the the but short tattles haps I should put them away fall But when the ice ago its like meeting old friends and ravaged but familiar spring but shes bounced back Endless chant of kids skipping Moose bellow of impatient steam every year That bit of doggerel ers in the bay waiting for break may finish her off for good up I- ire sirens saluting the an nual epidemic of grass fires And what a pity that would be Winter puts the iron in our souls But the slanting yellow rays of Miller lines around mouths turn ing to smiles Overcoats and boots heat the joyous chuckle of freed water the voluptuous stench of like rotten earth emerging from the Womens hats goofy exotic shrouds of death turn that iron irreverent Old ladies lippy- about lime mil since November Kids up to Iheir ears of the s like to be where the is I like spring to come shot of adrenalin not a luke- of tea dont shuck our red longjohns until Northbound cottagers jam this road Ihe theme of the spring If there is tiling as the indomitable man which I firmly would Ire impossible with- the days did not lengthen the and picking the for by the first of THIS WEEK AND NEXT By Ray How To Raise Prices Mitchell is t I it But thia didnt deter the vativc parlv from urging taxes at a lime when every in the country was warn nig against inflation George the former trad who know let the cat out of Ihe bag beore Mr Sharp rose to give hi budget address in the House Commons Mr Hoes had already put him urging tax mine not the cure of Inflation To to spending power at this without Increasing mil He also II rs the best way to Mr picked up the line in a major address in Sas katoon Dealing with the increase in food prices and farm machinery he told his Western audience that while prices were going up farm ers were not getting any more for their production He said the coun try needed an investigation of in flation and that Ihu place to start as by lowei of these two lead ing steps which they should would actually worsen our creeping inflation sent economist and IniiiKnicji 111 By trying to lino up the Tor party as the party of low Co doubt banked dec Its I popular to advocate lower axes It can be understood that a good many Canadians would swallow Hie Tory hook Without thinking too deeply l hey would reason that with juices going up a tax reduction would help them in their struggle to keep up with the increasing cost of living The tragedy of such an action however would be that it would worsen the plight of low income which they know would be dam- Ihe Canadian economy tied as closely it is to the US it is worth looking at what Wash ington is doing to keep the boom This is election year in the United States when all of lite House or Representatives and a majority of the governorships will be up for grabs But ibis didnt icier President Johnson this month from increaing taxi- The higher to accelerate Ottawa would have to do far more than just hold the line on taxes As well as arc not vet ready to admit that true inflation is here But the threat is strong Tear that the find In case Mr Bees and Mr Die need a lesson in eco nomies it is elementary that prices go up only when the public has suf ficient purchasing to accept THE Readers Dear Sir became a resident of market last July and since lime I have been at a the tax dollar goes in town Now I read nights Or and see a for 1 hike any decent roads or finished curbs We have to pay a month I the schools Ihe children walk they want and they are arse on bicycles It seems to me when 1 read the anil wasting time than anything Branch host ap of Branch I at Ihe luncheon I was nvssd with ihe way matters verc handled with dignity and I host of Branch llio for the be congratulate I think Warden Joe Dales ami Mayor A Kent expressed the nought of many here when they at Ihe luncheon on of good relations between groups and suggested to the delegates from other this area in a social way I am not a member of the Cana dian Legion but can appreciate the good public relations work on behalf of Newmarket they also do appreciate sponsor sport- Appreciative the THE ERA Serving Northern York County Since 1852 Phono Newmarket Aurora Charles St