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expand and our inert iMiigh The role seems to he foiling to exploding York Editorials A county year County government for many years something of a toothless among the provinces municipal administrations tppenrfl to be on threshhold of a new day The need for some form of Vir is ihilini rapid transportation shortens distil the county Nowhere is this need more pr County Queens Park demonstrated a dim a year when the premier announced that boards to amalgamate on a countywide pressure from the county level government to allow counties to take over with education A strong case was made for this takeover and the pressure should bring the issue to a head early this year If the province approves county government will have taken an important step towards filling the role of a regional administration We think the government should turn planning and land use control over to the counties It seems the only method by which equitable cost distribution for the new countywide school system can be guaranteed On the other hand far more widesweeping reforms to establish true regional government instead of a of muni system established in the mid1850s would be even more desirable But whether York County stumbles bit by bit into regional govern ment or slides in smoothly will be a critical year for County Council- Its new warden is well aware of the importance of the problems facing him during his oneyear tenure Other members of council must also face them stop their regional bickering and pull together of the problem last legislation will force school is by 1969 By late December to build on the provincial lining and land use control iv I WW THE Readers ERA Gold in them hills With the inflationary spiral of land values evident today the Town of Aurora is selling a parcel of land in the northeast section of the town for a very low price The agreement with the purchaser calls for construction of indus trial buildings on the site following completion of services to the area by the town Although the land is rough ttnserviced and without an access road at the moment this price of an acre is very low in comparison with recent land sales made in other sections of York County A fiveacre parcel of land in Viinghau Township was recently sold for industrial development at an acre In the agreement for the sale of the land the town will also assume the cost of providing an 87foot road allowance from Well ington St into the northern limits of the property and of this feet will have to be bought from It Fry and Associates We trust the Town of Aurora will not find the need to extend the town limits in a northerly direction some of those farms are finding buyers at over Newmarket Ontario Dear Editor After reading your editorial on cruelty to pets in this week issue of the Era I wonder if you have any idea of the effect of stray dogs on small harmless children Per haps there are a few instances of delinquent children illtreating ani mals but there are also many in stances of dogs running like packs of wolves scaring children Every day for two weeks before the Christmas holidays my small son who is in kindergarten at the Maple Leaf School came home at lunch time shaking with fright and sobbing hysterically because of these dogs chasing him I ac companied him day and count ed ten dogs loose from Newbury to Drive also there were five dogs running loose on the school grounds I intend to meet my child from school every day until these pests not pets of socalled animal lovers are apprehended and in cidentally I intend to take a suit able stick with me in case it is needed Its amazing people neglect their animals and in some cases their children when they profess to be so fond of them leave them loose to be a nuisance to the people One cannot be too Ottawa Ontario Dear Editor I write in reply to a letter by It E Park published on your edi torial page of January Mr Park speaks with the inarticulate and inaccurate gusto of an English- Canadian nationalist who wants to Impose his shallow mentality upon FrenchCanadians This ap proach is wrong Canadians must cast aside English and French- Canadian We must cul tivate a national ism that includes the best of many cultures One must realize that Mr Park is grossly inaccurate when he writes that Quebecs problems stem from the folly of their past leaders in religion politics and edu cation Did you know sir that it was a narrow attitude like yours that brought FrenchCanadian nationalism to a head but then of course FrenchCanadian national ism consolidated your Canndiati nationalism A vicious circle you say It is a tremendous task to under stand each other Mr Park but do let lift try A PanCanadian Fred Collie Ottawa SUGAR SPICE By Bill Smiley Have a great 68 Mures nothing much THIS WEEK By Ray gyle US squeeze will hurt except those old with promise and hope of new pencnce new adventure As you get older the years flipping past like the pages in a book anil yon realize the new is going to be pretty much tike the old one wars Therell be one crisis after I here be scandal in high ices I lierell be race riots and prolyl marches Therell be a lot of rotten TV fare Can ada will be licked in the world tonkin playoffs Ami a lot of the other old inevi tables Will be Hi higher taxes and lower morals shorter skirts and longer faces louder music and softer bellies people and and wondt what the hell the world is coming to If a woman youre to lose some shape and gam a chin up a few more fm in the face a little more and nudge your hus band another degree toward an it in Ihe itnun hots fan we like it or phi liMng ia on 1 times in bin twinge Of regret we should remember that in those good old ribbed from she weak The while used the black as an animal The iwitaliy ill wi-n- swept under the The worlds financi to Canada last week with them warning from Washington that the US might a tux on im- a men described by Mitchell Sharp accurately And closets frightening bin fas- Everyones going to the moon Personally I don waul to be on the first scheduled flight nut the very idea is staggering has been fighting maintain the world of the dollar ever since lain devalued the pound a month the is I meat in Canada and Aus tralia would be limited to per cent of the amounts invested in Curiously this program met with mixed reaction in and in arid also has carried with it the spectre of US economic domina tion Many Western the i reach welcom ed Johnsons investment In Mr Sharps first reaction was that Canada would not be seriously affected Hut this was before Ihe threat to tax Im- serond and major rea son for the US dollar drain is opinion is the ial that is sweeping our world in man is examining himself as In never has before He is picking him a If up the hecks rigid dogmas are shall tug like shards Its as though an ancient nmslv wilb Im judiii and i u liniiuisiMiulil illness haw bun drag- half billion dollars its is valuation and it was the course forced on Canada in ami Iwiu on shut the US in foreign change First Is vast fonign in luallv brings foreign funds iiiy of profits back Ihe slmled to flow I mi to he US but not in volume In offset the final iinislmenl dinnl t nihil f halt lo IIS private inisi in which is becoming increasingly hopeless all the billion is of course expanded abroad vast sums poured into military equipment goes primarily In UK Industry and Ihe bulk of troop wages re main in the count According responsible for about half billion or lb and one half billion dollar ibfiit The US financial storm will milling Canadas i union both In Ihe of the doliiu and to a high relative Ihe effects would minimal II Is the import lax ho buys more from lie US I other If a lew of two lime pi i on impoil4 from Canada will lit pnu goods out the US or force Canadian lust t a lower Crier Elizabeth There are a lot of gratifying things and thoughts that do accom pany a cold spell like the one we had last week for one thing up north it surely was colder still For many whose car reacted un kindly to the overnight there never was a sweeter sound than when the old engine finally would start again the corner when needed early in the morning to assist lo get you going is already on his second call still tradesmen who take their job responsibilities more serious than about adequate and rea sonable comfort of working hours and conditions and their pecuniary Speaking of services you think of the Improvements nil over own which the consultants have recom mended as a priority and of the family on Street who is practically without water for al most year This thought will comfort you if in your own home the pressure will allow taps to run the same time and you stand soaped up in the shower when someone decides to till the kitchen sink You look at all the heaps of snow and wonder about removal and yet how good lo see the snowplough did not come in time lo bonier up your before you wanted to get out or in This and so many other things are all question of the money though all the improvements can le bail if we arc willing to pay lor them In tuxes Newmarkets Works Department could use a lot more staff and more equipment if the budget would allow With the present setup they deserve a word of recognition for all their men The recent pickup of Christmas trees was curried out so liously all branches and pieces were cleaned off the curb and fur ther in from properties On icy sidewalks there wilt always he some sand thrown from the truck Unit does the si reel such saving Ihe owner from possible embarrass ment and liability and the pede strian from slipping A call for help when turns out the sewer has froen up or similar disaster has struck will bring crew that In the most courteous manner gets at the trouble and the dirty work with smiling face which among other things Is not recognized on the payroll It Is this kind of cooperation and of goodwill Unit makes his town to iniiuy of us he home It Is In all Us shortcomings And when machinery and money and even mother nature turn us heres so much humanity o pull us on THE ERA York Count 1B52 Incorporating THE POST THE HERALD DAVID It anil 1uMlsher WILLIAM J AduTtrsluu ami business I St Ontario the 1ra A it I hi il Canadian Association and of in Association and lime if l in illation as St nil I lass Mail Us the Post Office Dipt Ottawa for the payment of in cash Phone Newmarket in Charles SI Phone Aurora Vongc St