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Yuri A THE ERA WED AUGUST VOL No 33 Whitchurch Township Area School Board once again closed off public discussion of its affairs by going into the timeworn politicians act of going into the committee of the whole Holding a committee of the whole meeting means that an elected body can hold its deliberations and make decisions in private It bars the public the taxpayer from hearing these delibera tions or entering into any discussion that may lead to a decision All that is necessary is for the elected body after rising from a committee of the whole meeting to give a brief account of its deliberations or decision The Whitchurch Board until recently met with little or no tax- paying witnesses Lately because of several controversies the board has behaved like an ostrich and conducted its business in private Some board members feel that their critics have been too harsh and too imtemperate That may be so but conducting meetings in private gives the impression that they have something to hide A Good Step The Whitchurch Conservation Club is offering township Grade and students a scholarship if they take a course in conservation This is a commendable project and should offer encouragement to students to take this somewhat unusual but worthwhile course Conservation of our natural resources is of prime importance especially as Metro Toronto moves towards us Anything that can be done to conserve these resources should be encouraged The Whitchurch Conservation Club has taken an important step in doing that and other such organization should follow suit A MoneyMaker Deputy Reeve James Murray has taken the proper course in object ing to spending Aurora taxpayers money on a railway museum at this time Deputy Reeve Murray made his objection when a resolution was brought before council asking the Ontario Municipal Hoard for flion to spend to build maintain and equip a railway museum in the northeast section of Aurora He urged that a plebiscite be held to determine if the majority of Aurora taxpayers approve the spending of their money on the museum Deputy Reeve Murray claimed that it would cost the taxpayers yearly to carry the debenture debt a outlay to construct sewers roads and pave the project and unknown amount of money to purchase the site for the museum He felt the total expenditure was too much in view of other services required by the town Deputy Reeve Murray is quite right in objecting to the expendi ture because Aurora tax money can better spent now in other ways Aurora as other communities has a road and traffic problem Aurora as other communities has had flood problems Aurora as other communities has storm and sanitary sewer problem The capital expenditure and its 70000 yearly debenture debt can bo better spent on solving these problems The museums proponents claim that it will make an annual profit of 20000 on the 224800 Investment Thats a pretty good return on an investment and as Deputy Reeve Murray points out one wonders why flome other town or private firm hasnt snapped up this money maker for themselves Dear Perhaps It is not to be wonder ed at that news matter concerning decisions of the King Township Public School Hoard emanate from a place called Strange The recent decision to revise estimates for a new senior public school from down to 400000 must bo causing the ratepayers some con cern regarding the need for the original estimate If after some study half the sum will fill the bill Over the past few years school boards seem to be hypnotized by the grandiose plans of metropolis tun area architects There appears to lie a competition on to see who can dream up the struc tures for teaching In both urban and rural districts The actual teaching areas In these lined hulls of learning are getting less In every building There are lounge rooms guidance rooms recreation areas stages New York theatre and resource centres whatever they It probably a forlorn bono revision of estimates In dp plans means that the proposed school will be a build ing without too many frills and most of the floor plans made up of classrooms Perhaps we can Just live In hope that some future generation might turn the wheel full circle and demand that once again schools become only what they were intend ed to a placo to teach the kids King Pin The following letter of apprecia tion was receive by Newmarket Town Council regarding recent publication of tho history of town Sheldrake Blvd Toronto Ontario Dear Mr Might Mrs McFall ami I wish to ex press appreciation to Council of the Town of Newmarket for the excellent history which you have published Wo believe that this history which has been ho nicely published will be greatly enjoyed by many people Sincerely A McFall SUMMERTIME SETTING Views like this arc not rare in Canada It is little wonder that today tourists from around the world spend many vacations travelling in our country and thrilling at the marvelous scenery and settings The raw excitement of nature is perhaps at its very best in Canada SUGAR SPICE By Bill Smiley A Beach Soliloquy With summer on the wane and hoy how it waned around here Ive made a discovery With the minimum of encouragement I could spend the rest of my life as a beach bum Never was much of a hound for the beach life before As a boy I swam in rivers and lakes but not at beaches Anyway kids are too busy swimming and diving and horsing around to be bothered ly ing on a beach As I grew older beaches still had little attraction I just didnt like sitting in the sun I dont tan I just sort of turn a burnt orange Beaches were for women little kids and old people I pre ferred golf or fishing Well Im not a woman or a little kid so I must be turning into an people Someone will think un kindly no doubt that its the advent of the bikini that pre maturely aged me ThiVis merely a halftruth Im not particularly addicted to the sight of though some of the other stuff displayed is mildly interesting No its the other sights and sounds that fascinate me Now I dont like the huge crowded com mercialized bench It inspires in me with its noise and clutter and bawling transistors and screaming humanity nothing but nausea Hut the beach we go to almost every day the sun shines is not ike that It is clean sand and cool blue water and friendly relaxed people I here are no loudspeakers tallowing the latest heat There t a hotdog stand or a motor cycle or a beer can in sight That doesnt mean Its as quiet as a church The gulls wail the mamas holler at their children the kids scream and fight and cry Hut when you stretch out on the sand after a dip and the sun bores Into you taking away the aches and the tensions its as yon were hearing it nil through cotton wool For some reason our beach has became a mccca for to Canada Foreigners as we used to call them In the old un enlightened days Von can Ho there all tiny and scarcely hear itword of Anil what a pleasant change that Is You could be at Odessa on the Black Sea My Hun garian and Polish and German have improved tremendously Hut theyre great people They love the sun mind their own busi ness and pick up their junk when they leave which is more than can be said of a good many tenth- generation Canadians Its fun to watch and listen Over here are a couple of Italian grandmothers in black dresses both built about five by five yat- away eighty miles an hour Just over there is a majestic young woman with Slavic features a baby a bikini so sparse you could nt blow your in it and a bust that would knock your eye out Maybe both of them Hack up on the sand a bit is teenage crowd They too have discovered our beach this sum mer About sixteen of them sprawl ed in a loose circle heads together indulging in harmless sexplay laughing punching smoking and milking their Intricate plans for evening Hut theyre decent youngsters who apologize when they hit you on the head with their football No hippies thank I he powers Here comes an elderly German gentleman who must have drunk half the beer west of the Wall to produce that magnificent pot Theres a voting Jewish father his kids rotten Theres a Hungarian couple tanned the color of tar with two beautiful blonde urchins And speaking of urchins this Is the real fun of the beach They are through over and around the prone IhmiIcm They build castles and dams and forts They hurl themselves Into the water shriek ing with delight And theyre all so brown and firm and smooth you could eat them Why do all darling chubby fiveyearold girls have to turn Into bored neurotic harassed wo men Why do nil careless sturdy happy devils of boys have to turn into hurt suspicious ulcerated men A good question Hut I still have nt told you why like tho so much Ive discovered that Its I he only place In world where my win will abut her mouth for two or three hours at a iVtlfcfciMMMtf A SS8SS8FLOOPI m By Ray Top 3 For Three chief contenders have emerged for the Progressive Con servative party leadership to be decided in Torontos cavernous Maple Leaf Gardens Sept Two are provincial premiers Duff of Manitoba and Robert Stanfield of Nova Scotia The third is the bouncy former Minister of Trade and Commerce who walked out on John in 1962 George Other candidates are in the run But none of them have the national stature or success at the polls of these three This is not to say that the convention which must decide whether to go with a leader who can hold the partys present Mari time and Western strength or to throw in with a personality who will be able to deal the Liberal- dominated big cities will not choose some other candidate The race is still wide open But the three mentioned above have by all the political form charts the best chance of ending in the win ners circle As the highly successful pre mier of Manitoba Duff has nevertheless encountered political reverses in the provincial field re cently and it is not at all sure he could win another Manitoba election Hut he would offer fresh new personality on the fed eral scene has strong Western support and being fluently bil ingual could expect to make some headway in Quebec George who managed to emerge from the Munsinger affair only a little besmirched has together with Alvin Hamilton the best record of performance in a cabinet job As Mr energetic Minister of Trade and Commerce he put on a drive for exports which contributed substantially to Can adas present Rut the new light In Conservative ranks may well bo Nova Scotias Robert underwear heir who delivered seven of the provinces seats to Mr in the election Mr represents the ideal moderate position which the Conservative party would probably lie best advised to take after the retirement of Mr As a Maritimer he may well bo accept able to prairie voters who might at tho prospect of another period of Ontario domination of the parly which would be the case if was successful Hut go ing against Mr is fact that while ho has solidified the party In tho ho has no grass roots following in Ontario Alvin Hamilton the aggressive former Agrieulturo Minister in cabinet would prob ably bo the most loyal of all candi date Policies He is a loft winger within de finition of Conservative wings has a solid homo base In Saskatchewan and Is an able administrator Hut ho does not atom to hnvo broad enough to win leader ship Davie Pulton Columbias representative In Tory swoop- slakes shows signs of slipping desnlto campaigning Tho fact is that Fulton for all bis never had much of a personal following In I ho party His disastrous attempt to revive Conservative party mark ed him as leader who cant win This is kiss of death In today polities other candidates appear to bo in race merely for exorcise Former labor minister Michael Starr bus support from hi own province Sen Wallace it Into arrival on the political scene has age and his Senate Heat going against him Donald Fleming who served Mr as Finance Minister has boon too long out of the party machinery to a methodi cal campaign at this ditto John McLean business man who was first in race hasnt it chance PC Mantle I vative party will abide by the traditional methods of selecting a safe leader Who wants another John Diefenbaker Is still time for a dark- homo perhaps someono like Montreals dynamic mayor Jean achievements of Kxpo and tolling off Gen doGaullo mado him some thing akin to a national hero Hut likelihood is that Conger- Crier By Elizabeth Heller Good news has reached the public that the labor pains are almost over for the Commission on and and within two years we may expect complete delivery of the results and findings In all probability the report will be quite obsolete by then and until recommendations can be Im plemented a whole new generation has moved from schools on Into life still unable to talk to each other across the Laurentians Todays children who may have to struggle one day to keep their country afloat in turmoil currents of international politics may find years of precious time lost now by their elders squabbling whether they should learn to swim The situation of dual cultures is not unique in Canada it exists in many countries and some of them have found that over and above nit rights and privileges of their minorities in unity lies strength A perfect example of course is Switzerland where four languages and nationalities live peacefully together just simply known as Swiss The Swiss are an educated people no one is considered edu cated unless able to speak two lan guages or three So on this basis all get an equal chance to prosper and succeed The Soviet Union is another ex ample of a conglomeration of vari ous races and tongues in one state trying presumably in peace and order to build a country It will he Interesting to see how they are faring years from now when they have reached their century of constitution Reports on Rus sian education Indicate that em phasis is laid on so future generations here may have to heed the superiority of those who can communicate and are not dependent on the understanding of others good enough to learn their language Canada could so well take advan tage of the resources of two major cultures and educate her children Into a leading nation of the years to come by teaching them two languages right from the start when minds are most receptive and they learn ho easily In no time they would be able rebuild the bridges connecting and unit ing us that now seem to crumble mainly under the argument of who should not have to learn which language opens to each mind unknown horizons and only know ledge Is the key to power and suc cess THE ERA Seivlao York Since Incorporating THE POST ffifpieflf THE HERALD DAVID and J Advertising mid Manager ill News J Published every Wednesday at Charles St Newmarket Ontario by Newmarket Era A Company Limited for two years for one Single copies 10c each Mem ber Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association the Audit Bureau of Circulallon Authorized Second Class Mail by Post Office Ottawa for the payment of pottage In cosh Phono Newmarket Charles SI Phone 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