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tfUFOO THE ERA MARCH s 1 I I Cancer knows no season or boundaries It is found throughout the world We in Canada are fortunate in having the finest cancer treat ment facilities available It is imperative that the Newmarket Unit raise to help offset the high cost of cancer research- On June Hamilton Clinic Henderson General Hospital was built at a cost of approximately and an additional in new and special equipment Cancer Research Unit University of Western Ontario completed in cost approximately A Cobalt simulator cost A cobalt treatment Unit is priced at The radioactive source in the Cobalt Unit cost and usually lasts two years An electron cost about a light microscope 1000 Rats for research cost approximately each mice 110 The average laboratory uses about 511000 worth of them each year and another is required to feed them These are just a few of the expenditures absolutely necessary to carry out cancer research and treatment Be generous when your canvasser calls this year Safety On Ice II It is time the Provincial Government took another look at the regulations governing ice fishing The regulations in force are insufficient arbitrary and archaic There are regulations to stop foolish ice fishermen from ventur- onto frozen lakes early in the ice fishing season or from going out on the ice late in the season The Government should enact legislation to permit officers of the Department of Lands and Forests to determine if the ice is safe and to have the final say when fishermen should go out on the ice The Government legislates safety on the highway and forests Why not on the ice Present legislation makes it compulsory for fish hut owners to remove their huts from the ice by the end of March This legislation is archaic It is archaic because it tells the hut owner when he must remove his hut but not when he can place it out on the ice Present legislation is archaic and arbitrary because the Govern says in effect We trust your good judgment in putting your ice fish hut out on the ice but we dont trust your judgment in removing it The end of March removal time is arbitrary because weather condi tions change from winter to winter and some lakes stay safe and solid longer then others It is unfair for the commercial fish hut operators to be forced to remove their huts at the end of March when the ice is perfectly safe especially if the lake did not freeze until late in the winter Conditions vary from year to year and from locality to locality It should be up to the local Department of Lands and Forests office to determine whether the ice is safe and not the politicians at Queens Park Friendly Invasion This week of the Easter holidays will see the invasion of more than visitors to Newmarket The invasion is a friendly one made up of young hockey players their coaches and their managers They will come from as far away as Cobourg and Woodstock to play in a hockey tournament sponsored jointly by the Newmarket Minor Hockey Association and the Branch of the Royal Canadian Legion The visitors will be billeted in homes throughout Newmarket and will be shown true Newmarket hospitality Welcome hockey players have a good game and have fun 1 in The indication that Whipper Billy Watson is entering York Simcoe politics under the Progressive Conservative banner is interesting He joins Senator Wallace as a Progressive Conserva tive candidate in the new Federal riding Both own farms in the riding both are Toronto businessmen both are active in charitable projects and both are well known across the country There is no denying the abilities of each of these men Mr Watson is a successful businessman a renowned athlete and respected for his work in aid of crippled children Senator is also a successful businessman prominent in politics and respected for his wartime service in government We wonder if when these two men meet on the platform their introduction will be In this corner the former heavyweight wrestling champion of the world Whipper Billy Watson and his opponent the retired director of Argus Corporation Senator Wallace McCutcheon Or will there be a third contender for the York crown 1 The Editor In those distant days when the sun never set on the British Empire that indefatigable British soldier Tommy Atkins coined a from the plaintive cry of the middle east beggers It was Bakshish pronounced buck- shee This was a very useful word to Tommy anything by not quite shall we say honest means was bakshish Anything given for nothing was also bakshish How very appli cable this word is today I Teachers not content with an- increments now say bakshish School Boards ask for 150 mil lions of dollars and then cut back to millions or 50 millions This is 100 million bakshish Nearer home our own Aurora Public School Board proposes to Theyll LBJ mm OH You cant fight a hot war on platform of by urging that a cool medium says Marshall bombings be halted that the Viet the Oracle of Toronto Cong be as a party to and spokesman of the electric any peace talks and that generally age speaking sense and reason This is why according to vail over war talk and emotion the American people are The Johnson term in the White so distressed and divided over the House will forever bear the stamp war in Vietnam It wont sell on of irony in that the President has TV because people become so aggressively followed the very Kim Proctor with brother Craig and Louise were typical of many Newmarket youngsters dressed in Easter finery Sunday Shepherd Staff SUGAR SPICE By Bill Smiley Unification Part Two Remember where we left off Twenty years from now A weak central government with every body from the housewife to the US government down on it A tough ruthless Uniforce popu larly knorn as the Canadian Cobras 100000 strong And jut- jawed Joe Garibaldi former union leader as Defence Minister The Honorable Joe vaulted into the House of Commons in a rather unusual fashion One of his op ponents withdrew from the cam paign on health grounds and set out for a world tour The other was run down by a truck just after addressing a meeting in which he had attacked the Hon orable Joe Both incidents occur red three days before the elec tion Joe won He moved into Ottawa with several beetlebrowed cohorts A modest flat Not on your life He took over an entire floor of the Chateau Laurier There he lived quietly with nothing to distin guish him from the average MP except the constant flow of cham pagne call girls and guests He was lavish with the press and they liked it He was always good for a story because he had guts color and good whisky an unusual combination in a mem ber of the House But the majority of his guests were sleekheaded men who grow fat and sleep onights Industrial ists with a new gimmick arma mentmakers with a new toy politicians with a new angle and all the other flies who gather around honey The Honorable Joe was the natural choice for Defence Slackjawed Lester Gordon Prime Minister last of Canadas Rhodes scholars felt in a vague sort of way that the Cabinet need ed new blood Within two years he had quad rupled the defence departments slice of the national pie That made it 85 per cent of the taxes but nobody kicked because even though there hadnt been a new post office bridge or breakwater built in several years everybody was proud of the Cobras the- worlds finest fighting force And only a few old fashioned members of the press thought it odd that the Cobras paid ten per cent of their salaries voluntarily into the Old Soldiers Benevolent Fund Chairman of the Fund Joseph J Garibaldi By 1987 of course there were precious few old soldiers left but they were well treated by the Fund Two glasses of beer a day free smokes rollyourown and a sexy movie every Saturday night whether you wanted it or not Joe played it cool He invited a couple of waiters from the Nank ing restaurant up for a weekend bash Everybody thought he was flirting with the Chinese The US State Department call ed an emergency session The infiltrated Ottawa in the guise of civil servants Of course nobody recognized them Each thought they were other civil ser vants spying on him Next thing he did was throw up a string of fortresses at Van couver Windsor Brockville and St He justified the expense by pointing out at a secret meeting of the caucus that the forts were made of paper thus giving a boost to our pulp and paper industry But the results were drastic The Americans pulled eight divisions out of Germany and sprinkled them along the parallel about eight men to the mile They sent an aircraft carrier up the St Lawrence Seaway It got stuck sideways but the residents of Ontario lost their cool for a few days with those 19- inchers trained on them The entire US Air Force was yanked out of South Africa from which they had been napalming the Congolese The pilots were de lighted to be back in spots like Oswego where a beer was cents instead of a buck and besides they wanted a whack at those Canadian Cobras who were getting more space in Life maga zine than they were Alas once again we have run out of space and you must wait until next weeks issue to learn how Canada was taken over by a director in the only bloodless revolution in history Well practi cally bloodless involved in what they see on their screens they dont want any part of the conflict If it is true that exposure via TV has made Vietnam the most unwelcome war in American history it is also true President Johnson and his advisors are still committed to the traditional re sponse of a militarypolitical chal lenge That response is to wage a constantly escalating war until a final military victory is achiev ed The fact that such a policy is fraught with the danger of ex ploding Into uncontrollable nuclear war is viewed as nothing more than a calculated risk Hence the boast of Gen Curtis LeMay form US Air Force chief of staff that the US could bomb North Vietnam back to the Stone Age It is of course the moral aspect of further escalation in Vietnam which has troubled the dissenters of the Johnsonian policy of war expansion The spectacle of the mightiest nation earth waging war against primitive violenceridden Vietnam which has not known peace since the Japanese inva sion of is not calculated to promote Americas image as a humane guardian of world peace The fundamental question in Vietnam remains that of whether a small Asian nation is to be allow ed selfdetermination in govern ment and social system If the Vietnamese were to vol untarily embrace western style democracy and free enterprise then of course the US would endorse such a decision But be cause those elements of Vietnam life which have so far spoken for the people have oped for a nation alistic Communism the Americans have viewed it their duty to inter vene militarily to prevent a Com munist takeover One could well ask the question whose country is it anyway The bombing of North Viet nam which Premier Ky would like to see extended to the point where Hanoi would be obliterated from the face of the earth stands as the greatest single dcterrant to peace talks A year ago the US took the position that a private signal from Hanoi was all that was needed to forstall escalation and open the way for peace talks It is now known that numerous such signals have been received in Washington Yet now the Johnson administra tion says this is not good enough that North Vietnam must stop fighting before talks can begin Meanwhile the US is making no similar offer to curb the ground warfare North Vietnam can accept such a precondition be cause to do so would invite the US Marines to wipe out the Liberation Army on the Viet namese peninsula The political split between President Johnson and Senator Robert Kennedy has centred on Vietnam although this issue is not the only cause of friction be tween the two Sen Kennedy has announced he will support John son in 1968 but he will continue to take potshots at Johnsons hawkish position Sen Kennedy at least has been consistent with the Democratic policies which the American people rejected when they defeated his opponent Sen Goldwater by the greatest margin since the Roose velt landslide of 1936 v Crier By Elizabeth rent a disused Bank Building for Administrative purposes for a reputed monthly bakshish of This is only a beginning the recently installed Board Room in the Church Street School must be torn out to make one more classroom No doubt expenses will be incurred to make the prestige offices suitable to the taste of the administrative staff Since January of this year non- teaching salaries have also been increased and for a new school board their largesse appears un limited By 1968 the Aurora taxpayer will be reduced to the level of a middle east beggar and the word my friends when you walk the streets is bakshish Youra truly Thomas Atkins When a quite learned author ity labelled Canadians lately as Moneygrabbers he could not have meant he people of this County Events are showing that the higher things in life are still foremost in their minds the Horti cultural Societies still are plant ing trees for bloom and growing flowers instead of dollar hills delighting in the art of nature The Districts Drama Clubs achievement at Hart House proves that art and theatre are cherished and in an admirable effort can be made at home This is true for many things that are not readily available outside a big metropolis slacked with pro artists halls and stages The Drama Clubs Bands Orchestras and Dance Group throughout this area are witness io the fact that people do appreci ate the value of finer arts and if not brought to them they are will ing with of time and money to make their own Their determination to tap the vast resources of culture that lit dormant in books and music and bringing them to life shows that we still think to build a character and soul it takes something else than money and hopefully will be able to pass this wisdom on to our children The quality of the performances may not he at top professional level which is the fault that some will find but it is the material that counts the spirit to stage works of value and of beauty when so much foreign trash and jargon is pouring over us and all one can intelligently bear to set and listen any more is the National on TV The Skating Clubs Ice Carnival has shown how talent is built up from the first stumbling steps to Champion performance and much work and more enthusiasm went into the selfmade Our Town On Ice We are still interested in the higher things ready- to about good entertainment if we cant have the best served on a platter This week the Minor Hockey is holding a huge tournament that cost their people endless hours the Legion will foot the bill for satisfaction that great sports and competition spirit have had their date with our youngsters and im press them with something super to money We like to live and to let live as far as we are let to and we enjoy the better things as we can have them Art you a grabber 1 Serving Northern York County DAVID HASKELL Editor and Publisher Published at Charles St the Newmarket Era Express Com- years A or one rants vance copies an -1- WtVtv a Member of Canadian Weekly papers Association and or- Circulations- SrTj Mall a 1 And the monty round and round