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I V irfei WED JULY VOL No a By Ray j A I v ive Ii M trr It was heartening to see the large turnout of East Heights residents at the meeting with the Area School Board and com mend them for their interest and desire to see the Grade 6 children remain at Maple Leaf School At the same time however some criticism must be registered about the lack of order at times during the meeting The people attended to try and get certain answers but failed often to give those speaking the opportunity to have their say without interruption As school board members the principal and others tendered explana tions for the proposed transfer of pupils many in the audience lacked the courtesy one might expect from people who spoke of the good of the community The school board stuck to its guns in declaring no changes could be made pointing out that as the elected representatives the members were seeking the best solution possible And this is how it should be if ratepayers elect a group to do what could be best described as a thankless job they should accept their decision T fc ft Into var he hoped the new report- or ethnic It would and focus public de- often forirotteu Unit Ih on the consumer interest to which nil of KM Mohifi There has iicen mild opposition fe ttml In which wo acorn- from certain business interested Interest the very idea of a consumer it or form fairs role in the federal govern- fishermen extended debates over or every consumer credit laws were an to Canada common fam- cation of how touchy a subject ily of consumers In this respect ivKiliiim I Hilt aaw ivi Face Lifting Plan l THE OLD HOMESTEAD settings like these which inspire artists to them en canvas Houses built in valleys across Canada are as much a part of our heritage as the dungarees worn by the girl standing beside her saddle and gear while wo arc not all equal we should have equal interests This why Canadians will watch with interest the govern ment reaction to proposals to strengthen the consumer wing of he federal de partment This is the department which for so labored quietly in Ottawas labyrinth of red tape its very existence unknown to most citizens The appointment earlier this year of young politicallyastute But the government appears ahead on principle that there need lie noconflict 6f A interest between responsible busi- and intelligent consumers 1 Crier Elizabeth i fe The first report of the engineering and town planning firm on urban renewal in Newmarket has been released to the Liaison Commit- tee of Town Council and its 77odd pages of opening salvo certainly confirms one fact that the downtown area of Newmarket is the worst section of town structually from a residential or business basis and for its hodgepodge of architecture This has been obvious for some time but it takes some of the statistics in the survey to forsee that the final report will likely place heavy emphasis on some type of extensive and costly renewal scheme as its first recommendation for this section of the town Main theme of the study report on the downtown section states that the rear of of the Main St properties as visible from the offstreet parking areas presents a most unsightly prospect Going farther north along Main St the report states that lack of property maintenance is evident in many cases street widths are inadequate for todays traffic volume there is poor street surfac ing no storm drainage and the area is bereft of sidewalks in most instances The study confirms the fact that except for a small lawn and one maple tree in front of Trinity Church Main St is devoid of vege tation the entrance to the church and the forecourt is a precious relief from the otherwise uninterrupted frontage of the other buildings It will be interesting to see the final recommendations regarding this area and the reactions of council members of that time One thing is certain both council and the ratepayer will have to have their feet well braced and the tranquilizers ready when the com mittee bring its recommendations and fiscal estimates for the redevelopment of the downtown area SUGAR SPICE By Bill Smiley John Turner of Montreal as Regis- In In trarGeneral was the first step in l Buffalowed Bi r Junk Mail Deluge 9 V There are no holidays for the deluge of junk mail which loads up the desks of most businessmen Winter and summer the flow is just about the same Editorial writers appear to make no headway whatever against this nuisance We may be raising a nation of postmen going bowlegged from hauling around mountains of useless communications and local post- offices are finding that the normal boxes supplied customers can hardly accommodate the piles of junk material It is also a wonder the variety of subjects which are thought to be worth wide distribution in the faint hope they will be read before reaching the nearest waste basket In some cases this sort of traffic may increase the revenues of the postoffice but in the majority the rates paid are insufficient and help add to the thirty million dollar deficit annually faced in this depart ment There seems little hope the junk mail problem will vanish though one would think that economy alone would move organizations to cut down their mailing lists Stouffvillc Tribune 5 i 1 I it i 200 Avenue East Gwillimbury Heights The Editor Your July Issue banner line eyecatching and you printed a brave editorial but there wasnt a single word in the whole news paper about the sad truth causing concern to the East parents of schoolage child ren Since I am one such parent who was present at both meetings agreed nay condescended to by the local representatives of the School Board to receive and con sider a petition urging an alterna tive course to the proposed trans portation by bus of grade six pupils next fall May I complete the pic- At the first meeting hetd at Sharon we received nothing but evasions and noncommittal an swers to the question of an alter native and after a frustrating hour or so we requested the attend ance of a School Board member with authority to give an uneql- vocal yes or no to our questions A telephone call accomplished this The late arrival may have had the authority but lacked willingness to exercise it Nothing was accom plished by either side but our re quest for another meeting to be eras etc ready to cover the meet ing but chairman inferred the news people had been brought in to put them on the spot And well they might be After longwinded speeches by Board members trying to justify their actions and those of their planning board the spokesman for the parents asked You mean to tell us then that Park Avenue School would not have received a government grant with which to add the classrooma which our children are supposed to occupy in the fall unless a certain number of pupils were submitted to justify the granting of the money and that our children supplied that number The answer was Yes Our spokesman then asked Is it also true that Maple School will only get a government grant with which to build a library if space for a library is made avail able The answer was Yea and our decisions are final The class rooms vacated by grade six stu dents will supply the space Our children are mere pnwila on the School Planning of Maple Leaf If you recall the people of this area who had to pay for the building were assured It would be planned and built to allow for future expansion as the need to do so arose I think I can say without fear of contradiction that I am the stupidest English teacher in Can ada if not the whole of North America I may add that I am the most dunderheaded columnist between Vancouver and Newfoundland Why Aside from the thing that naturally spring to mind its this crazy column contest thats why English teachers spend their win ters muttering and cursing into the small hours as they read and mark what are jocosely called es says At the end of June the intel ligent ones begin their holidays or run off with somebodys mis tress or get roaring drunk The stupid one starts a guestcolumn contest and spends his whole sum mer muttering and cursing into the small hours reading columns that make him extremely insecure about his future as a columnist Well I guess you know what all this is leading up to Thats right chaps I still havent pick et the winner of that fantastic prize of fish Like a jerk I didnt put a deadline on entires and the damn things are still com ing in But thats not the problem Theyre all so rotten GOOD Head ers of Sugar and Spice or at least a couple of hundred of them arc among the most literate arti culate and witty in the land How would you like to be ask ed to judge a beauty contest in which every entrant was a knock out and also the daughter of one of your best friends Thats how I feel A person with some method in his madness would probably sort the entries into groups Excellent Vary Good Pretty Good A De finite Potential Lousy Stinks and so on Then he would put an clastic band around each group He would then put aside all except the Excellent He would peruse them for the eighth time narrowing down to two And ho would a decision And body would be unhappy ever after wards except the winner I dont operate that way I am racked harrowed tortured One day I think I have the winner My wife agrees The kids dont like it or I suddenly remember a better one that I read last week and spend two hours searching for it only to find that it should have been in the Stinks file Another day I everything narrowed down to the TOP TEN I place them carefully on the floor beside my desk And my wife tidy ing up while Im not around puts them back in with the others shuffles them and to read the whole ruddy lot again in the process discovering several which were much better than the TOP TEN My ears are already burning be cause I can hear the shouts of Indignation from right across the nation when the winner is an nounced It will definitely be for all other entrants the worst col umn theyve ever read Ah the hell with it Hero I am an old fighter pilot who dived into the blazing flak at Caen scared stiff because people are going to think Im a cloud for not pick ing their column Next week the winning column will appear in this space even if I have to write it myself and donate the prize to the Stupid English Teachers Association Now heros what to do If you want your manuscript back and have not already Indicated so please write to me at Huge Ave Midland Ontario and it shall he sent Then take it to the editor of your local Just say This column won Honorable Men tion in the Con test Hell print It If ho doesnt bos a cad and yon can toll so from mo There Is some absolutely first rate stuff in heap and in almost every case it should bo printed putting the department in closer touch with the taxpayers Turner went to work with en ergy and verve and almost im mediately it became clear that some major changes were under way changes which would in effect transform the agency into the department of consumer affairs for which there has been mounting pressure in recent years Now the final push in that direc tion appears to have been applied by the Economic Council of Can ada a agency which makes reports on subjects assigned to it by the Prime Min- The Council reported last week on how the interests of the con sumer could best be served by the RegistrarGenerals department i I 2 final breakthrough in the discov ery of therapies for all human shortcomings Soon no one will be any more described as nasty un friendly narrowminded nagging lazy spiteful frivolous or even dumb or antisocial everyone will have a very special Emotional Disturbance that could and should be treated in order to remodel personalities into something dif ferent than they are or maybe were meant to be New methods are being invented every day and none of course too costly to the public purse not to be worth experimenting There- the report if acted on would fore the baffled citizen push the department further here finds himself the distorted into the consumer field by mak- it the of all fed eral activities in the consumer pro tection field It also would play an important role in educating the public to use its money wisely This would touch on such topics as credit policies and interest rates selective buying resistence to ex cessive prices and of course how to handle outright fraud The Economic Council report turned in by chairman John Deutseh agrees that consumers are not at the present time ade quately protected This is because federal departments over- up in some fields and leave gaps in others This would be corrected by set ting up an com mittee on consumer affairs under the chairmanship of the deputy registrargeneral In addition a new public body the Canadian Consumer Advisory Council would be created to act sort of a watchdog on both government and business behavior trend toward making Turn ers department fullfledged of- consumer affairs would be encouraged by transferring au thority over trademarks and labels to his department Inspection work of the agriculture and fisheries department the grading of meats and fish also would be transferred One of tho most important recommendations is that the istrarGeneral should actively in- form the public about laws cover consumer credit As with all government report this one could either gather dual or he put into effect on piece meal basin It is highly probably that most of the recommendations will be acted on if only because Mr Turner is determined to break Important new ground in pre sent cabinet post and harrassed neighbor of the very groups that he is paying to be treated wards and their counsel lors whenever they have appear ed in public the one is always mistaken for the other a peculi arity of the method He wonders how anyone can bene fit from treatment when patients are admitted through one door and let our among society the other He wonders what they are doing there at all what theyll be doing next and who should be protected and he embittered gains the knowledge that on a standard of a month all anxieties in some way can be cured The fact that many children have social problems and difficulties in adjusting to the world around them Is quite recognised by any parents who at one time or an other heard the complaint about their offspring spitting biting and breaking all things from toys to flowers or engaging unduly In off- subject matters at the school Emotional cases have been known to them from tantrums to the angry I hate you attitude and generally been cured with drastic measures right at the spot or with a bit of indulgence and under standing In the course of time held a week later at Maple Leaf granted So much for the planners What second meeting the gen- do we do about the schemers was as surprised as Yours reporters TV cam- Mrs ONTARIO GOVERNMENT HOME OWNERSHIP MADE NOW IF YOULL JUST SIGN THESE AMD ME YOUR SIGNATURE ON THOSE AND PUT JOHN HENRY HERE THEN YOUR THERE AMD A It seems that even a fraction of the sum of per child per day would help an untold her of parents and foster parents to remove the causes of their child rens emotional problems the j way yet In normal en vironment however without the costly detour around these homes and camps THE ERA Ymb Serving York County Sines Incorporating THE POST vSrprefS THE HERALD DAVID HASKELL and WILLIAM J POIRIER Advertising and Business Manager GIL SHEPHERD News Editor Published every at Charles St Newmarket Ontario by the Newmarket Era Company Limited Subscriptions for two for one year Single copies each Memx Canadian Weekly Newspapers and the Audit Bureau of Circulation Authorised Second Class Mall by the Post Office Depth Ottawa for the payment of postage In cash market Phone Keiwkk 47tMa32