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Forecasts Cleaner Holland River Lake Simcoe By TERRY CARTER Era Staff Reporter DON MILLS Hope that Ontario lakes and rivers like the Lake Sim Holland River system be pure enough for rec reational and fishing uses in future years was held out by a water pollution expert here Monday J Barr an Ontario Water Resources Director told a meeting at the Ontario Pollution Control Confer ence that a provincewide water quality sur vey of lakes and streams is in operation and that it will soon cover every stream in the province He said the systems stations are designed to provide municipalities and in dustry with information on bow much waste water treatment is needed and where treated waste may be discharged without adversely affecting downstream water uses Theres just no way something can be LAST WEEKS WEATHER WAS Normal and Mild Hennessey Whitchurch Dep- Reeve VANDORF A man who tost out two or three times for a seat on Whitchurch Township Council was voted in as deputy- reeve Monday night by a substantial ma jority following election returns in the township Lawrence Hennessey obtained votes a majority of 243 over his nearest opponent Frank Williams who bad 396 votes Ivan McLaughlin the third contestant received Ml votes Both Mr Williams and Mr McLaughlin were councillors in Whitchurch during the past term Norman Barnard topped the polls for the three vacant council seats There were six contestants Mr Barnard received votes Betty VanNostrand was a close second with votes and Robert Lewis will be the third council member receiving 511 Wesley the only member of the present Whitchurch Township Area School Board to place his name for another term topped the polls for the five seats on School Board He received votes Others elected to the School Board were K W Mrs D J Elliott Michael and Mrs Marie The three unsuccessful contestants for the school board were James with votes Norma Humphrey with and Macdonald Mathers with 339 votes Losing out on the bid for a council seat were Henry 433 Patrick and The small community hall at Vandorf was crowded with voters and residents to hear the results which were very slow trickl ing in Final results were given to the audi ence after almost three hours of waiting after the polls closed at pm CIRCULATE PETITION A petition Is being cir culated by Millard Arden and Ave residents to protest the use of a home on Millard Ave by John Brown Camps Ltd as offices Residents feel that as area Is one of the better In the town they are protesting the office use because they feel It may pos sibly result In turning It Into a slum area The petition will be presented to town council at neit Mondays meeting Theyre Doing Their Christmas Shoplifting Early NEWMARKET The Christmas season has added the problems of police and merchants with a renewed wave of shoplift ing In Newmarket stores Police Chief William Him reports that at least six people of both sexes be fac ing charges following investigation of cases of last Thursday Friday and Saturday One group Is evidently professional ami the Chief says they have been tracked down and much of the stolen goods recovered Chief Hill also warns that detectives in plain clothes have been assigned to various places in town and they are trained to ob serve the slightest suspicious move on the part of the shopper The offenses occurred at both Main St and Plaza stores dumped into a stream that we will not know about he said Mr also told the meeting a commit tee now working to set minimum control quality standards is due to report this spring The helps municipalities finance construction of sewage projects and where the municipality cannot afford even this he said the commission will pay for the sewage works and contract its use to the Mr Barr said the OWRC will soon have legislation to keep most of Ontarios pleas ure craft from polluting the waterways and he suggested new laws to require marinas to provide dockside pumpout facilities may also be coming The commonly accepted notion that our waters have an unlimited capacity for dilu tion of all sorts of drainage waters has been proven wrong and must be rejected Mr Barr said Rather the planning effort in relation to persistent slow decaying pollu tants must become preventiveoriented as large scale problems once permitted to de velop become impractical to correct He said the OWRC intends to establish limits for each source of wastewater in keep ing with the longterm water needs within the tributary drainage basins These needs include public and industrial supplies rec reation and aesthetics fish aquatic life and wildlife and agricultural uses Another water pollution expert Dr A E Berry President The Conservation Council of Ontario warned that although streams must serve our domestic industrial agricul tural and recreational needs carrying away waste is also a perfectly legitimate use for them But he stipulated that wastes as they reach the stream must not interfere with the reasonable use of that water by others Dr Berry called on municipalities to as sume greater responsibilities for the treat ment of wastes from industries within their borders This should be considered as a munici pal duty he said The cost factor need not be a deterrent if arrangements are made to have these wastes treated at cost Since industry pays large amounts in municipal taxes they have reason to expect a service of this kind Air pollution on the other hand is grow ingboth in big cities and in smaller towns US expert Robert L Stockman Presi dent Air Pollution Control Association told the conference it is essential that we recog nize the fact that air pollution exists and its potential is growing This Is especially true in our large urban areas but not exclusively so There are many situations where large sources of air pollution exist in relatively remote or smalltown areas effect on these small populations is just as import ant as on the mass populations insofar as the individual is concerned Mr Stockman told the meeting we have the technology to control most of the gross sources of air pollution today and we should use that technology where and when needed now The only practical action that can be taken now is control at the source of air pol lution said W Cross an air pollution control serv ice engineer with the Ontario Department of Health totd the meeting that under the Air Pollution Control Act of which was pro claimed in October the province will require a certificate of approval from all new sta tionary air pollution sources and all old ones making modifications He said this means furnaces for buildings bigger than a triplex would need permits Individual homes would not but must abide by the pollution regulations or face fines Included in the Act is a control on motor vehicle exhausts provision for compensation for persons whose crops or livestock are damaged by air pollution and the power for the health minister to order a discharge stopped immediately The new legislation will cover industry across the province so that the competitive position of companies within the industry will not be impaired Soil pollution seems the least serious of the big three offenders D of the University of Soil Science Department told the confer ence the problems of soil pollution are not as dramatic or as acute as air or water pollution To some extent this is because soil has a greater mass and therefore is more difficult to pollute He said there ore presently no soil pollution control programs that sufficient information exists to develop them but admitted they are not really needed o CENTS VOL 116 NO 28 PAGES AND POST KM NEWMARKET AURORA KESWICK ONTARIO WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 1967 Newmarket Aurora 7271024 Keswick THIS WEEKS WEATHER IS Quite Mild Temperatures will average to degrees above normal Normal high low 22 Generally mild through period Cooler Thursday warmer near weekend with rain Dave Hart Assistant Administrator at York County Hospital seems to have problems handling two bottles of ginger ale at one time while helping Administrator mix the fruit punch They were helping the York County Hospital Staff Party Inst week Staff RANDALL ON SENIOR CITIZENS HOUSING We May Not Be Doing Enough it Some of the tilings On tario Housing Corporation have been doing In senior citizen housing may not fully meet the needs of the senior citizens they serve Economics and Development Minister Stan ley Randall told about people garnered Friday for the official opening of senior citizen units on Eagle Street Mr Randall the minister responsible for admitted more research is needed in the field of housing senior citizens We at OHC feel loo little is known about such questions as senior citizens space and privacy requirements overall design recreational needs and what special train ing if any property management personnel should receive before being assigned to sen ior citizen units spring to mind such as whether or not there is a need for granny flats in some public housing units to accom modate a single grandparent living with a family he said No Newmarket Housing Crisis Say Planners Existing plans for housing in Newmarket will accommodate the foreseeable future de mand according to the final report of an urban renewal study conducted by town planners Proctor Ilouseflcld and Bacon The Toronto firm recently finished Its de tailed study of urban conditions in Newmar ket Its report contains proposals for urban renewal In three designated problem areas viz the downtown and two adjacent residen tial sections as well as information in the study and other recommendations on urban development Considerable housing construction Is eith er underway or contemplated for the near future the planners note A total of unit Is proposed for areas In Newmar ket for which there arc subdivision plans Of these only or per cent arc to be built within existing town limits the re mainder being in East or King Township In addition acres have re cently been acquired in East by potential developers which would give rise to a further units the report says See Page 10 The minister said now has 751 sen ior citizen units under its administration under construction 328 due to start soon and another units in the planning stage He said more than such units have been built throughout Canada in the past 20 years He said the possibility that these units may not fully meet senior require ments would not stand in the wny of OHC researching the subject We at arc not afraid to stick our necks out and we have done so on many other occasions he said The minister said he expects some of the answers to come from projects already un derway iho new Office on Ageing in the Social and Family Services department and the government interdepartmental and ad visory committee on ageing Newmarkets Second Fiddle AUHOItA A demonstration of pride was sparked off a council meeting on Monday by a request from the York County Health authorities to close their Au rora Health Unit The closing of the unit would leave the area to be served by the York County Health unit In Newmarket and some coun cillors resented the location of facilities in Auroras rival town Im sick mill tired of Aurora playing second fiddle to Newmarket complained deputy reeve Williamson In opposing the move Wo give In without a struggle commented councillor Dick Aurora Is much more of a geographical centre of the County than Newmarket and it has a larger population than Newmar ket ho added Taking exception to this parochial view Councillor Evelyn Buck declared that she could not support the office remaining in Aurora if there was to be no difference In service provided by the Newmarket unit you thought of the taxes we would lose Mr Williamson Inquired of Mrs However it was settled there would bo no tax loss since taxes were paid by the owner of the building which was rented by the health unit Council eventually agreed to meet the chairman of York County Health Unit to discuss the matter further The Space Age Cometh KESWICK The space age will reach Keswick Dec ready or not Mike the student whose request to North Township Council recently for rocket launching licence threw body into a flop will enter space rocket float in the Keswick Santa parade Mike who hopes some day to be space engineer and astronaut built the rocket float will man it His request the Township Council for permit to allow him to launch his solidfuel rocket models so fur hasnt reached the countdown stage At Mondays council meeting council decided not to allow importation of rocket fuel pending further study No one on that council had any Idea how to go about giving my boy amission to fire his rockets said Mikes father who appeared with him fore council A report this week from Sic Marie Indicated that a yearold space scientist up there has fneed the same problem and taken it directly to the top He wrovc to both Prime Minister lister Pearson and Premier John his quest for a rocket licence The Prime Minister apparently referred his letter to Premier as matter of provincial Jurisdiction Indicates an Ontario of lnnds and Forests report The Premier referred the matter to the Provincial Secretary who In turn referred it to the Assistant Deputy Minister of the Lands and Forests It Is obvious that the procedure for rocket licencing Is a bit obscure Mates Marie District Forester J Ball Into whose lop problem eventually fell He was asked discreetly the possibility that a mad scientist was at work In the area The result the 12yearold still didnt get his rocket licence Aurora Abandons Railway Museum AURORA The idea of establishing a railroad museum in the town has been aban doned by council At a meeting on Monday only councillors Walter Davis and William Trent stood op posed to a motion to shelve the issue The vote was recorded Councillor Dick Illingworth moved that a letter be sent to the Canadian Centre for Science and Technology advising that the proposed site of the museum was no longer available and withdrawing a request for museum pieces on which Aurora had had first option Following the approval of this motion Deputy Reeve Jack Williamson moved that the proposed plebiscite on the musuem not held His motion was carried The decision council not to proceed with the museum Is closely linked to the an ticipated development of the Towns Pel- property located north of Industry Street It was proposed the museum be located on this land A syndicate has given strong indications to council that it wishes to purchase this land for development purposes but first council has to secure adjoining land held by R Fry Assoc so as to gain direct ac cess into the properly via In dustry Street Reeve Jim Murray earlier informed coun cil that progress was being made regarding the purchase of the Fry property lons had liken place with the owners in the past week he told the meeting The potential developers of the town land were being very very active about the progress being made by Council in the nego tiations he said The Information prompted Councillor to the conclusion that since the sale of the properly was nearly assured council should withdraw its request for museum pieces from the CCST lie sold he had come to this conclusion rcluctunlly and only after being unable to discover a suitable alternative site for the railroad museum He was also Influenced council learned by the lack of community support for the project Mr thought that total com munity participation was essential for the success of the museum is evident that we dont have this he said Councillor Trent was of the opinion that council should not give up the matter He felt an appropriate area for the museum could be found When you find out who is willing to take our place In line youll Just kick yourselves were his final words to council in the debate Councillor Walter Davis expressed strong disapproval of any abandonment of the scheme There are people in Aurora he said who were definitely In favor of a mu seum and could sec beyond the horizon He emphasized the possible long term benefits of the scheme The cost isnt the point the point is that this will be something great for Aurora for years and years to come he said He urged council to refer the matter to committee Mayor Clarence Davis commented that the question of a railroad museum had dragged on for some lime He agreed with Mr that property deal could not be ignored ExMayor Kent Writes NEWMARKET In a letter to editor former mayor W A Kent suggested that The Era has strayed from the truth in its report of Mr Kents recent visit to Town Council Mr Kent also feels that the reporters inability to stay awake during these tranquil proceedings Is a major factor In the dearth of news emanating from the council chambers although he qualifies this by suggesting most of councils decisions are made in Committee of the Whole In the concluding paragraphs Mr Kent is also disturbed at council agreeing to buy a new truck nt a cost of to be paid for out of next years The complete text of Mr Kents letter is on Page Maureen Walker of Bradford and partner Dick Shedlowakl of Toronto sparkled in their performance Sunday afternoon for the Newmarket Pop Concert The fifth annual program was organized by the New market Figure Skating Club Photo Phil Jones