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THE ERA WED JULY 1968 VOL NO 28 Editorials Hidden cost Shoplifters cost YOU the northern York County shopper thou sands of dollars a year The extra cost is not added on to your bill at the department food supermarket or tobacco store but hidden in the purchase price Store owners know there are shoplifters know approximately how much is going to be stolen from their stores each year and simply tack this on to the price of their goods If there was no shoplifting shoppers would save between 1 and for every worth of merchandise they buy This 5 bill would buy a pair of childrens shoes a good sized roast or pay the Provincial sales Shoplifting is outandout theft and therefore a crime But most people are indifferent to crime unless it affects them personally The crime of shoplifting affects each of us personally so there is no reason not to try to stop it If you see someone stealing something from a store dont try to do anything yourself report your suspicions to a store employee The employee will then take the necessary steps to confirm your suspicions apprehend the culprit and inform the police It is your duty as a good citizen and a thrifty shopper to stop shoplifting Youth centre The Newmarket Ministerial Association and Town Council are to be commended for taking steps towards the establishment of a youth centre The town has long needed something of this nature for not since Teen Town has there been any organized affair at which Newmarket youth could congregate The building ideally located downtown should be popular with the towns youth One good feature of this youth centre is that everything will not be handed to them on a silver platter They are being asked to clean up the building and decorate it The youth will police themselves and set the standard of behaviour These are areas where adults should not interfere Adults should participate in this youth centre by lending moral and if necessary financial support Best wishes to Newmarkets newest venture SUGAR SPICE By Bill Smiley Ah that silver lining If your family is anything like mine you must sometimes put your head down on your arms and weep quietly and bitterly We go through periods of pas sivity and morbidity to the point where mass suicide seems the only the rainbow a pears theres a pot of gold at Its base and God is once again in Hi- Iwi mguiL around Hie poolhall Weve been through one of these cycles and J reckon that just about one more will finish me off began ten weeks ago For the fifth lime in the last couple of years Hugh the wan dering boy look off to make a new start and his fortune This time it was to be in the mines of northern Quebec A week later we received a card from the flesh- pots of Montreal urging us to write and saying he had a job at Fxpo Jr We all wrote Silence Nothing For weeks and weeks Momma worried I didnt the act and She was forbidden to study Would she fall her year Your humble servant as usual had nothing wrong with him a rotten family and kept on running in circles Hugh maintained silence His mother learned she had to have a big operation and spent a month chewing her fingernails right tion and the news that she had cancer Kim got surlier and sur lier from being cooped up Did my best Wrote Hugh a strong letter Talked to my wife for endless hours about hysterec tomies ovaries malig nant fibroids and such delicacies Tried to humor Kim into eating and sleeping Then everything started to pop at once The hospital called and the old lady went off to her doom For three days I sweated out the the operation and at the same time Kims promotion from Grade 12 which lay in the hands or the gods her teachers Finally the dam broke All in one day we hit the crisis Hugh phoned from Quebec City to learn that his Mum was likely breath ing her last Kim was granted her year at school And that night a shaky old lady of about called from the hospital to toll me that she was alive though not exactly kicking During the next week the tide rose and the old family ship which had been high and dry on the beach amid the rotting weeds began to float again Hugh phoned his mother in hospital and she was so glad to hear from him that she forgot to give him hell for not writing- The missus came home from hospital with an allcear a beautiful scar- and feeling remarkably perky Kim recovered her health amazing speed So as it stands now Hugh has a job as a waiter in Quebec City Is happy and has stopped smoking and biting his nails My wife Is overwhelmed by the flowers and cards from friends Didnt think she had many And shes feeling great on the whole Kim Is riding on a cloud because her brother has Invited her to visit him hi Quebec City and shes going all the way by herself with no parents to ruin everything All of his rather uninter esting It Is written mil material for those thou sands of gallant men across he country who are about ready to burnt Into tears Dont let It got you down Jack every dark cloud darker one Just keep that In If you can live so long Dear Editor It certainly is surprising to me that people can read your paper and not understand one word they have read My comment is directed to a reader who has nothing to do but write silly letters If he would sit down and read over my state ment and is intelligent enough to understand he would realize that at no time was I callous or unmerciful as he used the words My statement was directed to the people operating the Browns Camps Limited All I am asking for is the rights of citizens who elected me to council and who are as good and equal a people as Bramalea and Scarborough re ceive equal rights I know for sure he has not contact with the problems that had arisen which involve many citizens of East Certainly these children are young Canadians and have a problem and I understand their problem but if the children com ing direotly from Main House in Oak Ridges have to be brought here before going to our neigh- donations to charity for under privileged children at home and abroad and I like to see that they are treated properly I dont sit home in an apartment and make accusations that I know nothing about like my friend has done At no time did I say these chil dren are evil so how can a so- called intellectual like my friend make these accusations The only warped reasoning is what the minds want to read and believe His statement that I made wild exaggerations and prejudical statements is not directed to helpless children but are true facts The letter writer also thought that we should be honoured with this situation Maybe so but if we are so good why didnt he give us the honour of being a resident of East Gwillimbury rather than a resident of New market because it is the residents and the taxpayers of East limbury who have the rights to complain because they are pay ing his wages I wont answer Mrs letter because it doesnt make sense to me Thank you Mr Editor for giv ing me the opportunity to reply Yours truly Ray Twinney THIS WEEK By Ray Argyle Tale of an island In the absence of Ray who is on holidays Frank of the Melbourne Herald lias writ ten a guest column Mr Argyles column will return this space next week SAPPORO Japan Within a couple of years bauxite and nickel the northernmost island of Japan The aluminium plant in par ticular will be a vast project costing an estimated mil lion to establish has been chosen the site for these enterprises largely because compared with the other Island of Japan It lias plenty of open space and free from smog and other industrial mil every area of Australia Hokkaido occupies about a fifth of Japans tnlal area but its population is only a llllle over five million The population has advanced by only nitwit in the last decade and natural Increase accounts for virtually all of 11 Hokkaido officials frankly admit Unit mora people leave the island than come to settle In it and that most of the new settlers arrive they are sent by to Tokyo but that is far enough for young lo fool loft out of the fovoriah action of modern Japan It is the cold that makes Jap anese steer clear of Snow tho Island for al most half tho year Tho prolonged droughts that plaguo cattlemen In Australia have In the wicked winters that do- on every few years wiping out farmers and as recently as 10 years ago pro ducing conditions of on the island As In Australia enthusiasm for settling and developing tho north ebbs and flows There has been an ebbtide for last few years partly as a result of bad winter of a decade ago dur ing which the national govern ment found itself heavily bur dened with financial responsibil ity for fanners it had settled in new developments Nonetheless after a few days in this land of soaring mountains stillsmoking volcanos thick for ests in which lingo and fierce bears run wild exquisite lakes surging livers broad green pas tures and almost drinkable air one fools the Japanese have been much more methodical and pur poseful in lhii approach lo di Iheir north than have Australians The Hokkaido Development Agency is a fullfledged govern ment ministry created in 1950 The minister in charge is usually a man of consldcrniihlo conse quence in his party often a young on the rise More than nine percent of contains only five percent of the population Tho government is extremely about Improving bar- bar and road facilities to assist big commercial mulct takings such as the Japan light molal companys projected aluminium 1172 Winter Olympics by national government and is giving impe tus to a huge program of road construction Unit will bring last ing bono fit to island Advice has been sought In Canada and Scandinavia on mill- able building designs and he stecprooftd solid houses of Hok kaido are completely in appearance Seeing thorn one is reminded how lllllo progress Australians have made toward developing an architectural stylo suited to their northern climate Crowded Japan of course needs Hokkaido than at present need their north but Japanese preparations for tlmo when they may need it very badly seems dlspropo Kb By GORDON Having been on vacation in the piney forests of Hnliburton since the end of June I am out of touch with news The only item of importance turned out to be a dirty rumour that the beer strike was over spread by the owner of the filling station at the Lake boat dock who I suspect had his ambitions as a tapman frustrated No doubt The Era has pub lished articles on Urban Renewal since the scheme was presented to Council several weeks ago by the planning consultants and the special meeting with the My impression of the meeting was that proposal was generally well received Many questions were asked and I think that Messrs and Lowe of the consulting firm and the chairman Mayor Drew did a good job of answering most of Mayor also took a per sonal stand on this project stat ing that he was in favour of the scheme and that he did not feel it should be authorized by a public vote When asked if his views were shared by Council Mr pointed out that other members were present and could speak on the subject if asked to do so Since there was no general rush in the direction of Council lors in attendance I did not have the chance to express my own thoughts to the meeting or to the public through the press So here I am 100 per cent in favour of a scheme which will be subsi dized to the tune of per cent by Federal and Provincial Gov ernments and which will result in the rejuvenation of the physi cal and economic heart of our Town I am absolutely convinced that Urban Renewals is necessary and that we can afford to spend our share of the money that is required I am convinced that costs arc a good investment which will result in very substantial gains in commercial assessment from new buildings and that these coats will be repaid many times over in the future The cost to you if your taxes in were in the range of to will be about per per year until tho 37 mills have been offset by the new commer cial assessment and it should be pointed out that this period of time can be shortened by in- creases in assessment from now residential and industrial con struction as the Town As for deciding tho issue by public vote I believe it would bo folly lo ask you to make a decision a project that has taken Conn not In favour of a referendum Neither do I wish to this project held over for decision by next years Council It was this council that decided shortly after THE ERA Swing York County Incorporating THE POST ffiiPKCWS THE HERALD DAVID It Publisher TERRY CARTER Managing Editor IKOROK News Editor DOUGLAS I Advertising and Business Published at Charles St Ontario by tho Nowmnrkot Era Express Company Limited Subscriptions for two yours for one year copies Mom Weekly Association and Audit Bureau of Circulation Authorized as Class Mall by the Post Office Ottawa for payment of In cash Phono 805 SI Phono Aurora 21 Yonge St Keswick RR 1 Keswick