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THE ERA WED JULY 1968 VOL NO Editorials Cooperation or confusion The battle lines appear to be drawing closer on the question of education for York County starting in January 1969 County Council at its session last week agreed that the proposed new Board of Education for the County should consist of 18 elected members representing public school supporters and one represent ing separate school ratepayers There are bound to be periods of confusion before the new program finds smooth waters but the main argument at County Council centred around the possibility that some of the smaller municipalities were going to be swamped by representation from the more urbanized areas DeputyReeve Parsons of Stouffville hit the nail on the head when he suggested that members consider primarily the improvement of edu cation facilities in the county regardless of geographical position Under the system some communities will have no direct repre sentation but with the Province setting the rules and deadline members are going to have to bury the hatchet temper down the arguments between the haves and the have and take a leaf from Mr Parsons book when he suggested they forget their own selfcentred interests and work to improve education in York County Education on a county basis is only a few months away and con structive effort is required by all members of County Council Valiant teenager In this modern world the word teenager has had a tendency to become with while some of our finest young people go unheralded The foresight and the bravery of one 15yearold boy saved a life and averted panic when lightning struck a plastic air mattress in Lake recently Fifteenyearold Hall remembered the artificial respira tion lessons he had been taught at school the year before and immedi ately started mouth to mouth resuscitation The victim a 13yearold was not breathing but through the courage and persistence of his companion he is alive with only a few welts on bis body from the adventure with lightning The young rescuer also received a welt across his chest and back from the lightning while a third boy was also burned It is this type of young person who more than makes up for the critical reports of teenage behavior which we read about too often SUGAR SPICE By Bill Smiley Heaven at home feeling grateful that I live country This year I had secretly plan ned a trip to I was going to stick Kim away in a waitresss job at some wellsupervised resort pack up the old lady lock up the house make the Grand Tour Like all the bestlaid plans of this particular mouse or man this one went It foundered on the shoals of ami hysterectomy And boy am 1 glad As I ait hero in the cool green-shadow- backyard with the black squir rels rattling around the oaks a drink within reach and the flowerbeds a brilliant mass of milk weed and burdock I wouldnt give you 20 cents for the whole of Europe including the Isle I just close my eyes nee us in Europe Hanging mound in the heat at airports and railroad for a sidewalk cafe table in Paris Plodding through the smoggy summer haze of London Fighting our way through the thronging tourists In Amsterdam And discovering at pm In Prague that there was a mixup about our hotel reserva tions Nosnir You can have It all I must have been out of my mind Who wants a sidewalk cafe in Paris when he has a perfectly good picnic table theres no linoU and no tipping Who wants to push through the tourists in stifling Rome when he can push through them in an airconditioned super market right downtown Who wants to travel thousand of mile and spend thousands of dollars to hear a lot of foreign languages when he can drive to the beach In five minutes and hear everything lucky we were not to have f I There are other things which g give summer homo a special quality There arc all the firsts The first swim the first bowl of strawberries j the first delicious little new potatoes drowned in but ter the first succulent local to matoes the first cob of fresh corn the first time you break 100 on the golf course Every one is a separate ami special sensual delight Then theres the fun of meet ing former students You certain ly cant do that wandering around gawking at gargoyles in Frank fort or girl in Copenhagen Its some dark whom seen heroic hails III Mr Smiley and you realize that this Is not a CHC producer but only George who didnt know a semicolon from a watermelon years ago In 12 A up III I tells you he a real smasher from the same class two weeks ago and that theyre spending the sum mer mi his fathers old boat which Is tied up at the own dock mid that hes switched from engineer ing to arts and Hint ho caches Picdiviulihg at nights and that hell give you a course free into a swinging beauty and Is her way li a doctor And heros ihe huge happy hooli gan who timely siiapil through is slugging groceries for the Ami you take visitors out In see the old fait mid there is Paul run ning tho whole place and Colin and are they treat you lllte visiting and xi your guests are suitably impress Nope you can have Hint hit who lake iff fur ihe me not going on it hull- -x- day Theyre going mi grind ami running away from paradhe to do It If says here Most merchants with whom I have talked believe that in the long rim it will be good for New market but they are afraid of the immediate adverse effects to their business This same reason ing could have applied to New market businessmen twenty years ago and could equally well apply to merchants twenty years in the future Meanwhile the central core of the town becomes steadily more iilapidated All economic changes create fear in the minds of some people who in turn try to pressure politicians with purely personal or selfish The Federal and Provincial Gov ernments make available per cent of the cost of an Urban Re newal Plan the local municipality being required to raise only per cent of the total coat The whole plan is based on a sound financial policy The senior level of government know that the money they have advanced for the scheme will come back to them in the form of larger amounts of Income Tax and Sales Tax collected from people employed in the area The town is reimbursed for their per cent investment by higher assessments and business taxes from the re developed area We have elected a council to run the business of our town They in their wisdom have hired a firm of specialists to advise them of the feasibility of an Urban Renewal program The council alone acting on the advice of their con sulting engineers should decide the issue It should not be referred to the uninformed amateurs for a The Council is to be commended for their vision and foresight in undertaking this study and it is to be hoped that they will see fit to adopt this plan before the end of their term of office Yours truly Campbell THIS WEEK By Ray NDP far For all that the New Demo cratic Party lost Is leader and several safe scats in the Fed eral election it was able to hold lis ground much more securely than the Conservatives in the face of the Trudeaii sweep While the Conservative saw their percentage of the popular vote from bettor limn 10 to III per cent the NDP vole held to within half a percentage points of ils record 1005 level of IK mil hoi Ontario ridings Equally significant Now Hinged a comeback In their former stronghold of Sns- kutilifwaii when they have been blanked federally infiR They elected six members there more Mian any other party Indicating a reservoir of parly loyally from old which needed the political showers for seeds In again Ami In Hi- 1 on to seats while Conservatives ami Social Credit wore wiped out On analysis then the NDP nor In the June voting was far from a rout consisting that it held Its position as a third parly oven though if failed to elect any from Quebec easl- Many political observers thought at Die outset of the campaign Unit Truileauinalna might demolish the New Democrat following mainly Mr went into the campaign with somewhat of leftist Hut Mr worked hard to change this Imago with ap- liven Ills In the TV debate in which lie was criticized for appearing dull win ijiluiiiid to bring over form er voters And In this Mr great poll CM from dead cultivating the larger Tory vote than in appealing lo the relatively small ami traditionally much more loyal voting bloc If anything then NDP support hardened within a working class which responded to what at sage was aimed Die working class mid promises be made could be fulfilled only by soak the rich taxation policies Who else could possibly pay for all the promises ranging from guar anteed prices for New foundland fish to higher domestic wheal trices lower Interest home loans Increased old age pensions educed taxes for the wage This class appeal would seem to have in holding the working vole for the but of Canadian lire Whoever member Dial was virulence of Ihe Douglas pro- thai revelled voters who re- succeeds Mr Douglas should re cognized they would he the ones to pay for the NDP promises The question now Is whether class divisions are to be mado worse by this kind of approach or whether new government will be able lo effect policies which will benefit all elements of Cana dian life the in Quebec with that of the NDP While their spiritual goals are worlds apart both groups to tho voters who have boon washed aside from lie mainstream of Canadian pros perity 11 seats combined with mean that XI seats In Parliament or hot ter than one In are fill ed by MPs who reject the Canadian economy is now being managed Colon GORDON Deterioration of properties and business in downtown Newmarket has been pointed out In the Urban Itenewnl Study The purpose of the Study was to determine the extent of the deterioration and to provide all of the Information necessary for preparation of a scheme of orderly redevelopment The need for some form of action in downtown Newmarket must be evident to everyone since no person can really want to see further deterioration and Its effect on our taxes on retail business So we have two choices Choice one is to let things sit and hope that private enterprise will redevelop our downtown be fore further deterioration causes assessment to decrease to the point where we are losing tax dollars To encourage private redevelop ment we would have to pay per cent of road improvements and the costs of new roads and pay per cent of the costs of new sidewalks new water lines sewers and parking lots Redeve lopment in their manner would be difficult to coordinate with the construction of the new services since it could not be planned With out the improvements to roads parking lots and other services why should private enterprise run the risk of redevelopment when it can purchase vacant land at a lower price and in a location where ease of access and convenient park ing Is assured Choice two is Urban Renewal Under a planned program the costs of the previously items are subsidized by the senior governments by at least 75 per cent and so are the costs of land acquisition when it be comes necessary for the Town to land Phase I would be designated by the town as ready for develop ment Private enterprise is then invited to submit proposals The town would then acquire the land and sell it to the developer whose proposal was most suitable The present owners tenants would be encouraged to submit proposals and it is hoped that private enter prise will submit proposals and acquire land without the assistance of the public authority once the program has been adopted Or in other words the public authority wants to leave development to private enterprise as much pos sible except for the coordination of roads and service requirements As for our costs the estimate was based on the towns 1967 assessment did not consider new assessment resulting from new construction throughout the itself which will bring the town lot tax dollars It develops There Is a third possibility for downtown No redevelopment pub- A lie or private Deterioration of business to the point where mer chants may have to relocate perhaps in a new plaza Vacant stores Conversion to ren living space Potential slum have read the column I say thank you whether or not you have agreed with what I have had to THE ERA Serving York County Sine IBM Incorporating THE POST THE HERALD DAVID R Publisher TERRY CARTER Muudu Editor GEORGE New Editor DOUGLAS REGAN and Business Published every Wednesday t SO Charles St Newmarket Ontario by the Newmarket Ere Company Limited Subscriptions for two years for year copies each Mem- Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association and the Audit Bureau of Circulation ai Sec ond Class Mall by the Post Ottawa for the payment of postage In cash Phone Newmarket Charles Phone Aurora