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1S rv THE ERA WED MARCH 22 VOL No 12 Safety On Ice The Ontario Government should enact legislation as soon as possible to prevent future loss of life and property on provincial lakes and waters since the advent of snowmobiles and the upsurge in ice fishing The Department of Lands and Forests men are the officials who should know if and when the ice on certain waters is dangerous and certain prohibiting signs could be erected Those who rent ice fishing and snowmobile equipment at the lake areas are fully conversant with conditions and use their own judgment allowing the reckless or careless person on the lake It is the private individual who usually is the culprit in these cases either through sheer stupidity carelessness or just plain ignorance Ice which is able to hold up a fairly flimsy ice hut will not of necessity hold up a heavy snowmobile and trailer loaded with the owner his wife and three or four of the family Early winter and the spring are the most dangerous times for tak ing chance- on the uniformity of ice on the lakes and officials of the Department are able to give a more reliable estimate of problem areas and safety measures than the layman who is certain that because it was a little chilly last night it would be an ideal day to give that new snow mobile a on the lake and the family the thrill of a lifetime The owner and the family could get the last thrill of their life unless father is wise enough to get official advice or an opinion from some local experts before venturing out on the ice Better still why put the responsibility on local experts Why not legislate safety on the ice the same as safety on the highway or in the forests Their Own It seems that every time a politician wants to get his name in the newspapers he suggests that suchandsuch a lake or thisandthat of land should become a Provincial Park The latest politician to flash his pipe dream on the screen is Jack chairman of the Whitchurch Township Planning Board Mr Allan recommends that Lake Wilcox become a Provincial Park jl In his remarks to a joint meeting called to receive a planning report the Oak Ridges Lake Wilcox area Mr Allan remarked Looking ahead it would appear that the Lake Wilcox area is a I problem area He said that the area was being spoiled by a few people Later on in the meeting he said that if an urban renewal scheme was implemented for the area water might be piped in from Lake Simcoe to attract industry- At no time in the meeting did Mr Allan suggest that Lake Wilcox was ideal for a Provincial Park nor did he say that its surroundings were idyllic His remark about piping in water from Lake Simcoe for industry would indicate that even he does not feel Lake Wilcoxs water is exactly sparkling But no Mr Allan says that the Lake Wilcox area is a problem area and his suggestion indicates that he wants to fob off the responsibility of solving the problem on to The Lake Wilcox problem is Whitchurchs problem and its the responsibility of the politicians of that township to solve the problem Dear Editor This letter in regard to the two articles which appeared on the front page of the March edition of The Era titled Island National Park and Hold Upon the Proposed Aurora Plaza I have been following the pro- Kress of both of these proposed developments and it seems quite evident that neither one of these rare being encouraged by councils involved in the negotiations It appears to me that any deve lopment which will attract more people to the areas involved which will provide additional work op portunities to those already resid ing in the area plus better shopp ing facilities for all is quickly couraged by present council mem bers They seem to rebel against any progress which can only add convenience and pleasure to the community New faces or revised thinking plus contemporary ideas are need ed desperately if the young fami lies of today want to raise their I children and themselves in a com- which provides better schools additional varied recrea tional facilities and a multitude of job opportunities So many of our young people on completing school and rcach- maturity seek careers else where rather than in the com- in which they were They make the more to the cities because there they arc offered extended education a more varied selection of jobs and also very important a vast recreational life awaits them Wouldnt it be more to- parents and beneficial to the community if these young people remained and helped to build the future of the area I only hope that the Indians and residents involved in the Island Development plus all of will most assuredly Ktenefit from the proposed Aurora i TV Behind the resignation last week of Robert Thompson as leader of the Social Credit party stands a man who wants to be Prime Min ister of Canada but will not cam paign for it Thompson whose weak sixman House of Commons group was all that remained of a powerful bloc of who controlled Parlia ment after the election an nounced his resignation while on a trip to the Far East He sees Canadian politics as entering an era of with two strong parties one of the left and the other of the right For this to happen however requires either the death of the Conservatives and the Liberals- and the rise of the and Social Credit as the dominant parties as is the case in BC or some kind of coalition between the and Conservatives But as of now the Socreds dont He said hed continue to sit the Consenra Development will stand up and support such advantageous pro jects Let the peoples voices be heard above the mumbling of The Selected Few there is everything to gain nothing to lose May spunk and persistence be the backbone of the Consolidated Building Corporation and the Deve lopers of Island Competition demands better business procedures by those both large and small plus the fact that it stimulates a needed require ment of every human being the will to succeed This bene fits the community I only hope that you will find space to print this letter so that others who feel as I and others who do not will have the opportu nity to think over what has been said and reassess the situation Dolores Smith Zephyr i Dear Editor The fact that Im going to have to pay another quarter each time get my hair cut doesnt parti cularly ruffle me My hair isnt as plentiful as it used to be and it doesnt grow as fast At one time and it wasnt so long ago I used to have a hair cut every week Now lean gel by with a monthly shearing But this isnt the case with my three sons Their hair is growing like a lawnfull of weeds I take them to the barber once a week and by the time they are ready for another haircut they look like junior versions of the Beatles It costs mo a week for hair cuts for them now and I think that 175 a week is simply too much especially when the three boys arc only in the barbers chair for a total of about half an hour It seems to me that an hour for a barber is pretty high wages and Im sure that there arc other fathers who feel the same way Thompson A Time To Remember Nothing carries more significance at Easier than a simple cross flanked the traditional Easter Madonna Lilies This is a time of the year when people around the world journey to Jerusalem and then make their way to nearby Bethlehem the birth place of Christ Its Time To Project Is Defence Minister Hellyer as he presses relentlessly for unifica tion of Canadas armed forces marching them straight into the twentyfirst century or straight into an abyss It depends on whom you listen to these days as one admiral after another goes down with all guns blazing But I dont like the idea myself What will happen for example to the old friendly giveandtake atmosphere that was prevalent among the services in World War You remember When our air force used to bomb and strafe its own troops and ships And the army and navy regularly took pot shots at their own aircraft All this jovial camaraderie will be lost Another thing Who will the new forces fight when they go ashore on leave If there arc no soldiers sailors or airmen to tangle with theyll have to fight among them selves or beat up civilians A bad show cither way But these are minor things which could probably he ironed out in about years There is another and more frightening prospect implicit in the formation of a single force Dictatorship Oh come now you say Dont be ridiculous ft could never hap pen here This is a democracy Canadians would never put up with it Dont kid yourself Canadians who will put up with the kind of government taxes and weather we have now would put up with anything And the whole business would be as painless as kicking off your old galoshes and putting on a new pair of rubbers Lets project a little Say years into the future Heres the picture We have a doddering fumbling inefficient government So whats new you ask Dont interrupt The only reason this government is in is that the opposition is even more hopeless By its tax policies this feeble federal government has alienated both rich and and has in furiated the middleclass The provinces thumb their noses at it Quebec treats it with Gallic scorn while bleeding it to death with blackmail The United States is angry with it for its crushing taxes on the twothirds of the country owned by US corporations The United States is also disgusted with it for its vacillating foreign policy A dim picture Yes but there is one flaming torch in the heart of this darkness That is Uni- Its the only thing in the coun try that Canadians arc proud of It is a crack force in every sense Every one of the men is They are the physical and mental elite of the genera tion Their pay equals that of the average university professor Their equipment is the best in the world Their esprit dc corps is superb And theyve earned the right to swagger a bit and push civi lians off the sidewalk and openly pinch the bottoms of young mat rons In the Lower incident they proved themselves a tough efficient and ruthless fighting machine In the Upper Cambodia affair they stamped out communism socialism de mocracy and the entire native population in two weeks Time Magazine nicknamed them the Canadian Cobras And the creator of this magni ficent fighting force envied by the whole world Twofisted jutjawed Joe Garibaldi the aggressive young Defence Minister the only man in I he cabinet who got things done And people done in Before entering politics the Honorable Joe as the papers call ed him fondly had fought his way to the top in the trade unions thus learning what democracy was all about His tough treatment of creeping socialism in union ranks made him feared and respected by all He ruled the unions fairly with an iron hand As President of the Canadian Destruction Workers Union he once shouted from the platform to wild applause If you cant beat cm in the union hall beat cm in the alley Oh dear Weve run out of space But all will be revealed in next weeks column In the mean time dont rush out and buy shotgun or start forming a resist ance movement an MP for Red Deer the Alberta riding hes represented since he took on the Socred leadership in 1961- Thompson a mis sionaryteacher who spent years in Ethiopia quit after losing the support of the Socred caucus And the reason he lost this support was that the federal Social Credit party lacking a broad national basis of its own was entirely de pendent on the powerful provincial parties of Alberta and British Columbia When they recently withdrew- financial backing leav ing the federal Socreds a rump party with neither money nor influence Thompsons leadership was doomed For Robert Thompson it was a sad retreat from the glorious days after the 1962 federal elec tion which had returned the Con servatives to tenuous power lack ing a majority in Parliament Thompson coined the phrase House of Minorities and the description has stuck ever since But with seats including the Quebec followers of the mercurial Real Capuette the Socreds held the balance of power in that Par liament The country seemed to be locked in a political vacuum The Socreds were jubilant that they had crumbled the Liberal fortress of Quebec They saw Canadian voters as fed up with both Liberals and Conservatives and Thompson was Credit would be the biggest party soon telling Caouctte that Social after the next election When that happened according Thompson he would resign as Social Credit leader in favor of Alberta premier E C Manning who would come to Ottawa to lead Canada into a new era of sound government high morality and defense of the free enterprise sys tem By the 1963 election however the disgruntled voters of rural Que bec had started swinging back to the Liberals in sufficient num bers to bring in a minority govern ment under Lester Pearson This was just the beginning of Robert Thompsons troubles The collapse of dreams sent Thompsons deputy Caouctte back his cocoon of French Canadian nationalism ultimately to break with the federal party Caouettcs Rallicmcnt Creditistes now have more Ottawa seats than Social Credit and attempts will no doubt be made to reunite the two groups Social Credit failure in 1963 and again in to dent the national political scene hardened Premier Mannings attitude toward the Thompson leadership Manning dreams of leading a small c conservative government at Ottawa He hoped for a time he could achieve this in the name of Social Credit When it became apparent the Canadian voters wouldnt buy a parly with back ground of funnymoney and French Canadian nationalism the Alberta premier began to cast about for alterna tives And so theyll go their indi vidualistic way encountering suc cesses and defeats but never victory until Canadians tire of this cat and mouse game and someday finish off Social Credit at the polls for good By Elizabeth Only eight years ago an accident occurred on a sideroad near Rich mond Hill and an injured person still lay at the roadside an hour after the collision comforted by a policeman when everybody else involved was hesitantly going on wondering when an ambulance would come Conditions have improved since then but we are still a way behind the times Just recently Toronto announced the centralization of ambulances for more efficiency a system in force for decades in many other countries The cheapest and most logical procedure is to have the ambu lances run by the hospitals them selves as part of their operations It is not right that private com- panics who undertake to provide the public with this vital service often meaning the difference be tween life and death should go begging- for subventions from Municipalities or Counties and worry about financial statements and their livelihood The costly race of keeping up to date with Health Department regulations could be dispensed j with if each hospital were operat ing a number of ambulances to cover the urea it serves Not all vehicles need radios and expend she equipment depending on the nature of their call Emergency Department staff would he quite capable to judge which vehicle to send when notified and briefly told what happened If to bring in rush delivery or a fatality of a severe traffic accident or simply to stand by at public gatherings The necessary preparations he made much quicker to receive the patient and precious time he saved It could he safely left to hospitals to keep vehicles equipped with the necessities There is no reason why lance Operators and Hospitals could not combine their forces in this The cost of ambulance is widely covered by insurance of nil sorts Bad debts that cannot he recovered should be public liability as everyone is entitled to be rushed to hospital ambu lance when the need arises It is unfair to leave the private indi vidual with worry for costs that save the next mans life i 1 i THE ERA I Serving Northern York County Since DAVID HASKELL Editor and Publisher GIL SHEPHERD Editor Published every Wednesday Charles St the Newmarket Era puny Limited Subscription for two years 400 for one 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