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THE ERA WED OCTOBER 1S68 VOL NO Editorials The quiet election public attention is being focuttcd on the fight over renewal of the Main St and to a leaser extent on the pros and cons of liquor lounges for the town an election which may turn out to be the most important one of all is drawing very little interest Thats the election on Dec to choose the first county school board With nomination day less than three weeks away Nov 18 this newspaper has yet to hear of a single person declaring him or herself as a candidate for one of Newmarkets three seats The decisions made by this first county school board will affect the education Newmarket children will get for years to come For instance they will have to decide whether to opt for a threelevel school system or not and if they do of which type the school or junior high school variety They will have to etablLh administrative units and hire the men to administrate them not small jobs when you consider that public education in York County next year will have a million budget The board will have assets totalling million em ployees and an million payroll This is big business and deserves a high calibre of public servant on its board of directors It is these directorships that will be at stake Dec 2 Supporters need a voice WHERE are the supporters of the Main St urban renewal scheme On Monday night over people packed the Town Council chamber most to fight the issue Their group is wellorganized and vocal They have placed newspaper advertisements used the mail to get their message into every home in town and are gathering a petition They are talking it up We learned at the public meeting held two weeks ago to discuss the project that it does have considerable support in town including the support of some Main St merchants The issue is reaching a stage Its speak out i Their support will lend guidance to the decision council SUGAR SPICE By Bill Smiley October I love you Last month I wrote of my annual love affair with Sep It seemed to hit the spot Kan mail doubled from two to four letters I even received a declar ation of love from a lady who shall be nameless But October is another matter I think we Canadians love it in a different way this most glor ious month when we wake up come alive feel the blood coursing thr ough our hardening arteries Its a shattering exper ience for someone from another country to visit Canada in October are used to a change in the fall Their leaves turn pallid browns and yellows Hut when they see a vista of woods and water on a golden Canadian October day they are literally stricken breath- say Pretty aint it An Irishman might say in awe Dear God Himself has dump ed a rainbow all but the blue into your woods And the blue He has flung entirely into your water Rut the vast mad artists palette thrown across the country is only part of the October scene and mood Theres a quickening of the spirit that infects everyone Fall fairs those stubtjorn relics of a pioneer day add their special fla vor Parades and pumpkin pies hot dogs and horse races and the warm yellow wine of a Canadian October day are unforgettable Hunters go into their special trance in this month crouch in duck blinds they crawl through fences they curse their misses And sometimes their miss uses who cant see the point of it all Golfers go goofy in Octo ber desperately trying to get in the last few rounds losing balls by the dozen and among the fallen leaves and praying for one more good weekend Sailing enthusiasts snatch every chance to get out En that per fect weather the month so often provides nice breeze warm sun water so blue it makes your heart October is ectasy for the sport fan World Series pro hoc key and football at its height He can sit staring at the machine until he senility and has to be spoonfed Great month for the stu dent He has got through that mud dle of September and can now set tle down to the serious business of falling in love falling behind in his work anil falling into deep water in that order And then theres the burning of the leaves a ritual which should be on the Canadian coat of arms Theres a tremendous satisfaction in scooping up a bushel basket of dry leaves piling them on the fire on a dusky October eve and seeing the orange and yellow flames spear skyward searing the telephone wires burn Hes tike a kid who never gets a firecracker of his own to set off on the 24th of May And when does the city dweller ever get the sheer human satisfaction of seeing a sprightly northwest breeze pick all the lea ves off his lawn and deposit them accurately on the lawn of his nei ghbour who hales is al ways trying to keep his lawn raked And the thrill of the ap ple crops The soft little fruit or September the peaches and pears thai go rotten ho quickly are none And you drive through the orchard country trees drooping with red and you pick up bushel of spies and you and the juice spurts right over your shoulder Food for the gods Provided their teeth are not fairies And theres just enough sadness as October its end and days shorten and trees bare and gloomy November puts his clammy nose over your shoulder to heighten all the joys of this most remarkable month and make it something that is distinctly Can- Dear Editor A couple of weeks ago we moved to this town I wrote a letter to the Board of Education to find out if the two high schools have an educational program at night for adults My letter did not come back so somebody must have re ceived it But we still havent found out if there are such also read about the ur ban renewal scheme in this weeks paper Is there some place I can find out more about it maps and so on We are interested in such things Newmarket Al Editors Note Night school courses in technical busi ness art and sewing subjects are conducted at both schools Huron Heights Secondary School can sup ply information and registration forms The clerk of the Town of Newmarket can supply information about urban renewal These Main St profite ers I called vultures and I say no wonder they are opposed to this development No wonder they cant sleep as a previous speaker stat ed Theyve got too good a deal going for them The balance of my com ments regarding the town tear ing down the buildings because they are not producing their share of taxes and my use of the downtown redevelopment scheme as an example were reported cor rectly Mr Editor the point I wish to illustrate is this the loca tion is bad the scheme is good I was misquoted in your report on the urban renewal meet ing in last weeks edition What I said was I am opposed to the scheme because of the geographical situation of the Main St that is being on a hill Then turning to Mr I said I was sorry to disagree with a professional However I pointed out the potential increased tax income definitely supports the scheme For example I learned through my experience on court of revi sion in and that there were Main St owners who were renting orange crates on which the taxes were for per I had quoted figure first then corrected myself and stated the figures as shown in that order Many people including myself are paying 400 to in taxes just to keep a roof over In last weeks Era there was an article written by Dave concerning public libraries In this article it was stated that the only library in East was in a cramped singleroom building in which may soon be closed We in Mount Albert have a very splendid small library in a pleasant renovated room of the Odd Fellows building Since associ ation libraries were discontinued two years ago our library has been sponsored by the local branch of the Womens Institute and admin istered by a board of nine active members We have a paidup mem bership of almost children and adults Approximately 500 is being spent this year on new books which will be added to the 3000 volumes already on the shelves Besides membership fees we receive grants from the town ship and village councils During the winter several card parties are held to support the library as well as a raffle on Sports Day The keen interest of the community is shown by the number of dona tions received from local organi zations and individuals We are very proud of our library and do not feel we should have been ignored by Mr Eva Chairman Library Board THIS WEEK By Ray Dont let George do it If the Democratic Party is soundly defeated in next Tues days US presidential voting it will be because the Republicans have been able to create a new coa lition of voters Coalition is the key to American politics because no sing le bloc is big enough to dominate the entire country The Democratic coalition which won six out of eight elections between and 1960 was based on the governing power of the big cities and the old strength of the Democratic solid South In a year which for the Republicans was a debacle the Democratic coalition began to break up with Barry Goldwater taking a majority of the southern states The Republican partys traditional strength among small town suburban and upper income voters has been reinforced by Rich ard Nixons appeal to a broad cross- section including much of the south and part of the union movement The big and unknown new factor in this election is of course the emergence of George Wallace as a strong third party candidate The question is not whe ther he can win the election he cant but whether he will hurt the Republicans or the Democrats the most There are signs that the former governor of Alabama will hurt both the major parties about Wallace will almost sure ly sweep the south depriving Rich ard Nixon of muchneeded electroal votes from several states But he also will eat into the white working class vote which supported Presi dents Johnson Kennedy and Roose velt Wallace is promoting himself as the candidate in a strategy which is aimed at drain ing off the Democratic partys trade union support throughout the industrial north The vote next Tuesday should run higher than million although there are signs hundreds of thousands of voters may stay After winning the grea test vote in history Lyndon Raines Johnson has done what would have seemed impossible four years ago He has brought the Republican party back from the brink of total collapse His policies have so alien ated vast segments of American voters that is is doubtful if the country is now on issues of race war civil rights urban reconstruc tion and welfare policies There have been many third party candidates in US his tory but the only one who probably changed the outcome of an election was Theodore Roosevelt in Roosevelt had been elected as vice- president to William in 1900 He became president when McKinley was shot in and won election In his own right in The Republicans won again in 1908 with William H Taft but Teddy Roosevelt bitterly opposed s renomination in By running against he made it possible for the Democrats to elect Wood- row Wilson If George Wallace wins enough votes Tuesday to stop ei ther Hubert Humphrey or Nixon short of a majority the House of Representatives will have to choose the president This has happened only twice in history In the House chose Thomas Jefferson over Aaron Burr In the House and Senate jointly chose Rutherford Hayes although his Democratic op ponent Samuel Tilden had beaten him in the popular vote George Wallnces strength is tangible evidence of the backlash against the social upheaval which has set black against white young against old and the middle class against the working class It is the better educated upper middle class which has be come the advocate of social change in the US The working class fear ful of black rivalry on the job and in the neighborhood wants society left unchanged dissent crushed and disturbances put down This cannot be of course and the Am erican voter will either decisively repulse Wallaces bid on Tuesday or pave the way for American Hilter by Crier By BILL GAMBLE The Imminence of Hal loween brings us to that rather horrible experiment In Canadian altruism of having little children carry boxes on shellout night I dont know who the perpe trators of this involuntary caper attempt to take advantage of the innocence of children and the sym pathies of adults Naturally Im as anxi ous and willing to give help to the starving children of other coun tries as the next person But 1 do not believe that placing the respon sibility on the shoulders of little children is the way to go about ft Rare indeed is the child who when handed a box would not inquire what it was for and rarer still is the adult who possesses that degree of diplomacy required to avoid telling the child that it is for children of other countries who are dying because they have no food to eat Halloween night is a night for children It is a night they look forward to for weeks before it arrives The thought of dressing up and going from door to door to collect candies nuts and apples is something that fills them with great happiness Why then do we wish to burden them with feelings of guilt every time they bite Into an apple or shell a nut or slip a candy Into their mouths It will be argued no doubt that this Is a good way to teach children the virtue of un selfishness but this is so much Children have many years to learn of the inequities of humanity many years to assess their own senses of values and to develop their own natural concern for the needy No matter how highflown its original intent the practice of having children carry boxes on Halloween is wrong As any competent psy chologist will tell you guilt to a child can be hell Councillor Bruce Eves ells me that he will be seeking the office of Deputy Reeve in the December municipal election The councillor also states that he is a staunch opponent of Urban Re And from the rumor mill comes the unconfirmed report that in the forthcoming East bury election Ray will have his sights set on the posi tion of Reeve In a recent address members of York Presbyterian United Church Women at Mount Albert Mr Ray whose sub- Tung has created the miracle of uniting his millions of countrymen in hope The country Is free of diseasecarrying flies and mos quitoes not with Insecticides but united use of the fly swat ter dfanmade swatters that come apart each time I take a swipe at a fly Perhaps if wed sold them million Canadian fly swatters Instead of wheat the mosquitoes and flies might have THE ERA Serving York County Since 1852 Incorporating THE POST THE HERALD DAVID R HASKELL Publisher TERRY CARTER Managing Editor GEORGE News Editor DOUGLAS L REGAN Advertising and Business Manager Published every Wednesday at 30 Charles St Newmarket Ontario by the Newmarket Era Express Company Limited Subscriptions for two years for one year Single copies 10c each Mem ber Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association and the Audit Bureau of Circulation Authorized as Sec ond Class Mail by the Post Office Ottawa for the payment of postage in cash Phone Newmarket SO Charles St Phone Aurora 21 Yongt St a Phone 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