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THE ERA WED NOVEMBER 19G7 VOL NO Its The recent remarks made by June when she was guest speaker at the Canadian Mental Health Association meeting left little doubt that in her opinion at least Canadas Indian population has been getting drab treatment Employment agencies industries and the field of commerce generally should take note that today many Indians receive the same public and high school education as others who make up the younger population and given a proper chance could no doubt serve equally well in most jobs The day has certainly passed when the whites should always enter tain notions that the Indian is lazy and useless unreliable in terms of stability and not fitted for the economic scene Judges doctors lawyers laboratory workers nurses teachers and in fact just about every walk of life of Indian birth have demonstrated quite well their ability to fit in a given sphere It is time for their universal acceptance In these days of closer communication there is no room for racial prejudice Let us give Canada back to the Indians so they can be partners in its economic and cultural growth Tribute To Stan One of the stepping stones in the stream of Newmarket activity was removed with the recent retirement of Stan Smith as arena manager Noted in earlier years as a hockey player and manager Mr Smith was indentified with clubs which not only provided exciting games and a good brand of hockey but as manager of Newmarket in the season brought the Memorial Cup to town His knowledge of hockey resulted in Newmarket arena being rated one of the best as regards understanding the needs of visiting teams and having good ice Tributes were heaped upon Mr Smith at a dinner held in his honor last week by town officials and those representing various sports Arena activities and this newspaper have been closely allied over the years and The Era adds its congratulations for a job well done and appreciation for a pleasant association Dear Editor With reference to your Novem ber 1st front page article on the question of artificial in the Queensville Arena the person or persons who informed you that the Arena was much too old and small to spend money on was certainly showing a biased and un- realistic opinion The people who take this attitude seem to say in essence Never mind about the children who dont play hockey be they boys or girls Forget them Its hockey that counts and if you dont play hockey then dont skate at all The Taxpayers of East Gwil- limbury will only support hockey Last winter we paid out for ice time for hockey at the Bradford and Keswick Arenas with about boys participating This hourly rate has increased and the estimate for this winter is Believe me I am not object ing to this expense What I do object to is spending it all to rent Ice time for our boys hockey while we shortchange the rest of our children I feel we could put Ice in the Arena which would give skating and hockey to all those who wish to skate I also feel that in a very short time it could lie very close to selfsupport ing In the matter of costing too much to artificial ice I would like to emphasize that the ice plant THE ERA Serving York County Since 1852 Incorporating THE POST cue THE HERALD DAVID and Publisher WILLIAM J Advertising and Business Mnnagcr GIL News Editor Published every Wednesday at Charles St Newmarket Ontario by the Newmarket Era Express Company Limited Subscriptions for two years for one year Single each Mem ber Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association and the Audit of Circulation Authorized as Second Class Mall by the Post Office Ottawa for the payment of postage In cash Phone Newmarket Charles St Phone Aurora SI Phone Ketwlck I Keswick would cost in the neighborhood of The remainder of the 30000 would be used for building an engine room new washrooms and badly needed renovations to the dressing rooms The structure itself is just as sound as it was the day it was built and no doubt will last for many years to come However as every homeowner knows only too well if you dont spend a few dollars every year your buildings will soon get shabby and rundown The com munity has not had the finances to keep up the Arena as it should be kept They moved it to Its pre sent site in and lengthened it to its present size of x 150 at a cost of and a tremend ous volunteer labor job This money was repaid from Sports Day re ceipts etc over the years The only taxpayers money involved was the 100 that the Township paid Police Village for the Arena I am sure that we in East will soon need a full size Arena and Community Centre and it will surely come In the meantime lets make full use of what we have I would much rather see children skating etc than prowling street comers Our re sponsibility lies in providing the facilities I would urge the Taxpayers in East Gwllllmbury Township to give serious and broadmined thinking to this question of Artificial Ice for the Arena Yours very truly Lome Smith T Dear Editor I wish to thank the principals of all our schools students and parents for their marvellous co operation in this years Campaign Through their gen erosity we reached a grand total of A special thanks to the ladies who helped with the delivery and pickup of the boxes The town of Newmarket Is to be congratulated for Its efforts in thin worthwhile project This is rewarding work know ing the thousands of under- pri vileged children we help over seas Yours truly Mrs D J Heard Chairman for Newmarket THE OLD MANS HERE Theres certainly no way of getting around it Old Man Winter has arrived Snow and freezing temperatures have spread across Canada dur ing the last few days and it appears the snowmobiles and skiers are in for a long Season So folks just bundle up and keep smiling Spring is only five months away SUGAR SPICE By Bill Smiley A Day With Smiley Life do go on Always the same and always different Bits and pieces make up the patchwork quilt that covers our nakedness And bits and pieces of a typical weekend will make up this column Im no richer or poorer sadder or happier wiser or Just a week older with a few more patches Some red some black some yellow Making a motley Kim was badly shaken when a friend of hers a 16yearold girl was killed an hour after she was talking to her The childs neck was broken The boy driving didnt have his license had little exper ience hit an icy patch and couldnt cope One young life snuffed Point lessly uselessly This Is hard to take when youre young and my daughter took it hard And its pretty hard for an ordinary muddleheaded man to explain that God is too busy to go running around preventing every auto accident and catching every little sparrow that falls regard less of the old hymn Nearly cracked up myself on Saturday Hurling happily along the highway when we ran smack into a stretch of wet snow with no warning Everybody on the brakes Thought I was going to mount a Volkswagen in front of me Decided to go around him rather than over Took a beautiful fourskid sashay during which two other cars passed me one on each side Heart stopped thudding after Id two cars in the ditch Turned to Kim whos learning to drive and said coolly Did you notice that technique for getting out of a skid Just turn the wheel into the She gave me a long hard look that she has learned from her mother and snorted which she has also learned from the same source We were on our way to spend the weekend with the Old Lady at her pad In the city What a peculiar feeling to enter a strange apartment building go up an eleva tor walk along a hall knock on a strange door and have your own wife answer It seems almost in decent or something as though you had a kept woman But three or four hours later after youve got down to fight ing over finances apologizing be cause you havent got the storm windows on yet and promising that youre going to help Kim with her Latin things are right back to normal And its difficult to prolong that sinful feeling that youre keeping a mistress when you go to bed with a woman and theres a great lump of a daughter sleeping on the floor an air mattress and a sleeping bag two feet from you That air mattress allowed me to deliver one of the Inst great puns of my life I knew this cute gal on our staff had a mattress We talk ed about me borrowing it And the other day in the staff room I asked in loud clear tones Miss Could we get together on that mattress As all heads swung toward us with fascination I waited to see whether shed slug me or laugh She laughed So did the others but some of the old ducks rather nervously My wife has a nice little apart ment but one weekend in it nearly drove me up the curtains Theres no place to hide and read or look at yourself in the mirror or cut your toenails Except the bath room And you can only stay in there so long At home there arc all sorts of nooks and crannies for looking at your navel or picking fluff out of your bellybutton Well houra of telling her she could pass the year if shed stop worrying Thats like telling Niagara it could he a nice little trout stream If It would stop falling And home with Kim driving ami me twitching And column to write anil lessons to prepare and Halloween candy to bo bought And that fearsome washing ma chine still to be tackled Think Ill have a snort and go to the coin laundry THIS WEEK By Ray End Of The Trip Civic politicians in Canada havent yet received the message but the hippie movement is dead And while some hippies will con tinue their farout way of life the great social rebellion of the 1960s has come to an end The decline and fall of hippie- land started appropriately in San Francisco the same freewheeling city which saw their rise and that of the beatniks 10 years ago The hippie movement has ex pired here in the city which Bishop James Pike says leads all America In alcoholism suicide drug addic tion homosexuality and divorce And after visiting San Francisco recently I came away convinced the hippie movement has indeed gone the way of beatniks and into the limbo of history to be revived only in the music and poetry of whatever soc ial upheaval fomented by Amer icans next generation Take Roger orphaned at seven expelled from school at 13 for suggesting Communism was something other than a system run by a bunch of gangsters Roger is probably better educat ed and more intelligent than the average hippie of a contraction of the street names of the HaightAshbury intersection Hes loyal to while frankly admitting he would not recommend it for others He smokes marijuana says he takes LSD about once a week admits some unstable types should not and works when he has to as do most hippies Roger is longhaired and beard ed reasonably clean defends both hippies high venereal disease rate Youre bound to have this with sexual freedom and denies the hippies have shown Americas youth the road to drug addiction Hippies arent dirty maintains Roger theyre just not obsessed with antiseptic cleanliness Walk on this street with bare feet half an hour and yours will took filthy too High rates of hepatitis and VD have been reported from the but a free medical clinic manned by volunteer doctors and nurses had to close because its sponsors could not get funds from any health department or other source It is on this matter of cleanli ness that nippies aroused the great est ire San Francisco cab drivers arc no exception and almost uni versally condemn hippies as dirty Yet the same day I heard such charges the man responsible for the US war on poverty Sargent was blasting this citys over for getting aroused by the unwashed but ignoring the underfed The citys hippies have some times been underfed but not for long because either found part- time work or subsisted on daily at Golden Gate park spon sored by the Diggers a organization Hut increasingly hippies been working which may account for the downfall of the movement The death of San Franciscos hippie movement is being marked by a takeover by pseudohippies and vagrants As a patrolman put it The tides gone out and the scums left behind Most of the characters hero now says this police veteran of four years on hippie bent arc bums and layabouts who have no philosophy or aim in life other than to pick up teenage girls is dead The society which spawned it has swallowed IM MAKING UP A SUGGESTIONS it up It will survive awhile in cities such as Toronto but its demise in San Francisco the city of its birth is a forecast of what is to come In all the outrage over hippie behaviour in Canada the social critics and politicians have over looked the one redeeming feature of hippiedom its transitory existence Here today gone tomor row And gone with it the concern over marijuana smoking low morality and How widely then has the use of marijuana LSD and drugs reached Canadian youth Is there a genuine menace or is it a phony contraversy Well discuss this next week Crier By Elizabeth When the retiring arena man ager Stan Smith was honoured last week at a testimonial dinner it was an intimate affair shared by his employers fellow workers some close friends and members of his family There is however another celebration taking place Nov 24 at the Newmarket Arena the place where Stan Smith has worked and spent his life and nil those who have benefitted from his service will be able to salute him on that night Sinns history is that of hockey and of the Arena As a Junior he was offered a career with Owen Sound when Davis Brothers stepped in employed him at their plant and asked him to stay and play for Newmarket He remembers standing and watching the Arena being built around him in and playing goal for Newmarket on opening night Throughout his years with Davis Leather he has coached and managed local hockey teams and players like Herb Cain Mann Sparky Vail and many others of hockey fame and he achieved the rare triumph for little town like ours of winning the Dominion Memorial Cup with bis gallant Red- men of After his active days in hockey Stan Smith moved over to the Arena altogether He leased it and ran it on his own for several years at first then was retained as man ager by the Arena Company In 1945 a plebiscite was held in New- market In favour of purchasing the building from this company for and the realization of came In 1949 when artificial ice machinery installed the arena renovated and opened as a com munity centre under Arena Board and Stan Smith manager A total debenture debt of was outstanding against the Arena at that point which was reduced to within the first five years of operation Members of the first Arena Board among others were Bill Ray and the late Bert Morrison Stan Smith has been in the ser vice of the people of Newmarket for the last years trying to accommodate and satisfy them all to keep up the Ice and building and keep down the cost and prices present In his responsibility every hour throughout the years that the Arena was open to the public The Recreation Commission formed in by amalgamation of the Arena Pool and Parks Boards and now responsible for the arena In cooperation with the Figure Skating Club Minor and Junior Hockey is putting on Stan Smith Night the arena on Nov ember 24 an evening with a pack promising program An a special compliment to Stan hell ate New- marketers pass through the gates by free heat will be on and band and pipers The old arena will finally greet its most faith ful servant as Us most special J e i a i -v-