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Editorial Whom Do We Honor In June 1964 the people of Newmarket paid tribute to the accomplish ments of Bob a member of the Canadian Olympic Hockey Team and Guy with his partner Debbie Wilkes who also represented Canada in the figure skating competitions at The following year two more of Newmarkets sons were honored Sill Thorns and Herb Cain both of whom represented Newmarket ill amateur hockey and went on to gain fame in the National Hockey League This project was handled by the towns Recreation Commission and was planned originally as a means of honoring residents of Newmarket I who brought honor to themselves and their town whether it be in music other cultural endeavors sports or in municipal life June which appears from past events to be the logical time for theso Newmarket Awards Nights is fast approaching and as far as we can ascertain no action has been taken to name a recipient for similar tribute There are at least two persons who could qualify both noted for exceptional endeavor in their chosen fields Is this practice of honoring Newmarkets sons and daughters going to be discarded If so it is indeed a pity for past Awards Nights have not only been a means of paying tribute to those selected hut also a very tangible way of expressing pride in our town Dental Check- Up Most of us know the agony of a toothache and many of us have Inst a tooth because we neglected our teeth or failed to have a sufficient num ber of checkups when we were children Thats why a remark by Dr for York Comity merits attention Dr told a recent meeting of the county health unit that he had been approached by a dentist to initiate a countywide dental check up service Although no details of the plan have been made public it is understood that the checkup would follow a program being planned for Peel County That is A thorough examination of childrens teeth by a qualified dentist with the possibility painting the teeth with a fluorine solution At present a public health nurse exams the teeth of elementary school children but this can only detect the very obvious cavities- The proposed service would be much more thorough The Era believes that the proposed survey merits more inve3tiga I and hopes that such an investigation will eventually lead to a county- wide dental checkup program Refreshing Metro Chairman William statement last week to Keswick Optimist Club Civic Night Banquet is refreshing for a politician even though hes a politician by appointment Mr Allen told the banquet would predict that in the next genera tion all levels of government will be thinking of people move than the staple hard services such as roads water and public protection by police and fire departments This statement is interesting because it a growing change among both professional and elected government officials A few months ago York County planner Dawson said much the same thing at a service club meeting people represent The construction of roads water services and sewers is fine for the majority but is it harmful to a few When government officials make a decision do they consider the effect it will have on ail whether it be good or bad The statements by Mr Allen and Mr Dowson indicate that there is a changing wind and that politicians will be for all the people It is hoped that other politicians municipal provincial and federal will be thinking of people more than hard staple services in our lifetime and that the next generation will have this approach to political life as an accepted fact Theres nothing as satisfying as SUGAR AND SPICE by Smiley This Family Taxes Us All All cits wrestling with the archvillain of all time a mysterious monster called The Budget Although he is made up from a combination of concrete tilings like sewers and schools and street- The Budget himself is an abstract thing lie is like The Devil You him heat smell him stand him but you know he a there a blind malignant creatine that cannot be controlled You can fight him and get a bloody nose You can him chisel at him chop at him and all you get arc a broken hammer a dull chisel and a blunt ed axe The Budget is like an octopus He grows bigger every year His appetite increases his tentacles become longer and stronger and more strangling as he grows And when you try i come to grips with him he exudes a cloud of black red ink which obscures Of what ingredients is The Redly bos i two- headed monster a regular Siamese twin On the one hand it is just a I it bundle of and spice new schools new industries a new And on the other hand he Is snags and snails and puppydog tails Thats what little towns arc made of And big towns loo And the reason for all this of course is that The Budget this big ugly unmanageable brute who is Impervious to human feeling fell in love by some ac cident while a mere hulking lunk of a boy with n girl called Most of its know her as Mill in in i iciie as her husband She is steely- eyed relentless unscrupulous and absolutely without merry charm pity looks or any the qualities we normally associate with that lovely creation known as the fe male of the species I have known Mill Kate since she was a girl and I am here stale without apol ogy that she is a pig Its difficult to believe that such a union could produce progeny lni it did His name is Taxes Has This Hour Run Out Canadas most ipilir program Hour Days had its final showing the season last Sunday arid it still not known whether it will back in the fall the events winch led up to the firing of cohosts Patrick Watson and and the threatened strike of producers which averted only by appointment of new paper pub lisher Stuart Kudo an informal mediator in the dispute The fate of Seven Days was not on the face of it an im portant national issue tint it was a controversy that attracted great attention because the people be hind the program had known how to use the intense impact of TV to I Ik The Seven Days show one of the very few inns when TV had been In Typical fpc lie affairs intelligently produced and skill fully presented But most of them also have gone high over the heads of the majority of Canadian like a pitcher who knew what he was aiming at but couldnt keep the ball over home plate This was clearly not the case of Seven Days It tackled vital isues ill a way Hut invoked the the ii the treatment of Indian in northern Ontario the pathetic cor or Hie tragedy of a thali domide baby Why then did CMC president Ouimet recently ap pointed to another y a term move so drastically In his decision to dump Watson and La Pierre If there had been a great pub- lie outcry about Seven Day or if there had been widespread public this was not the case Hen show which had attracts er audience than any program with the excep tion of hockey which doesnt really qualify as a program and which had gained great publicity by scor ing a number of major scoops Producer Douglas says the CBC has not given any comprehensible reason for the firing of the cohosts There has Certainly the general Canadian standards of have not been of fended by Seven Days Unless Mr Is prepared to enforce a taste standard which Is clearly not shared by in general is hard- It may be thai Mr in wisdom will be able to install new for Sewn will do a better job than Watson and and produce an even more popular show If he is rot able to do this then he re- sign because if management has the riehf to manage the have the right to hed man cement responsible for it foi Crippled Children may I pronation for the publicity isnt hi winning jiii ciiihty Taxes has become the man in town Mayors develop dyspepsia councilors coro llaries when they try to deal with You went pleasure driving on these roads potential ixitliok tils ami a he of the pic on uts or ite ah l ran ha is that 1 councils my strive I cope it of Mill I ate anil Our thanks are sent on be half of the several thousand cam- mure than fotHHi minded children in Ontario who receive direct help as a result of the Buster Council has received full thumb we can tin our part to sec that these patches of colour are not deec rated lij vandalism It took a lot of hard work and dedication to get them stalled We should lake a second took at these little isles of pleasure through the eyes of visitors to town and give credit and thanks to those respon se Armchair Gardener THE ERA Serving Northern York County Since Company Limited