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Bradford coroners jury recommends better lights for snowmobiles NEW HOMES Boards OK a surprise to council BRADFORD A rider to a coro ners Jury verdict here last week mended that snowmobiles should be equipped with better lighting during night operating The coroners jury was inquir ing into the death Jan 14 of Robert of Bradford who killed when his snowmobile crashed Joseph Into the back of a parked car on the Line of West Township The accident occurred at night about 930 pm and the jury found that had the car been properly parked the ac cident might have been avoided Their verdict also said that the car was not pro perly lighted for the position Dr Gilbert of Brad ford was presiding coroner and he re minded the jury that accidents with snow mobiles were increasing and this particu lar case was one of the first Kenneth George Hand was a passenger on the snowmobile driven by Robert Winterkorn and he gave evidence that two machines had started out from a friends home the other driven by Wayne who was following the first snow mobile Wayne Ceilings said that when his machine came over the brow of a hill he could not see the light of the Winter volved and he and a passenger Gerald Melnychuk both told the court that they though the parking lights were on the James Thompson of the Bradford the other vehicles William Downey of Scar borough was the driver of the car in- church Council expected Us planning board would not seriously consider have received the boards approval and were PAGES again presented to the council Tuesday night VOL 118 NO Subdivision promoter Mr Clay ton has acquired acres of IS CENTS land with feet of frontage on High way South of and claims to have a select group of at least good people who would be interested and elig ible for federal financing for his proposed 1 homes The townships planning board had been expected to reject the proposal because of Whitchurchs already unbal- residential to industrial assess- However Mr Coulter had of fered to set aside and develop acres of the property as an industrial park The planning board counterpro posed that the cost of this should be con tributed instead to installing roads and services on other townshipowned trial land in the area To this Mr Coul ter had agreed The good people were defined as being financially stable Toronto home owners with grown families which would require little or no expansion of facilities Mr Coulter asked that the fede ral financing angle be played down at present as a previous mention of the plan had flooded him with enquiries from York County Health officials have approved the drainage of the site nd MLA for York North Bill Hodgson has stated the subdivision will likely get approval once accepted by the tomafalp A suggestion by Councillor Nor man Barnard that such a subdivision would overload the recreational facilities at community hall brought the Proposal from Mr Coulter that his prin- would pay for at least doubling the of the hall THEERA NEWMARKETAURORAKESWICK ONTARIO WEDNESDAY MARCH of the Bombardier Manufacturing Co makers of the two snowmobiles involved G Clair a chemist with the Forensic Science Laboratory and Dr Tweed Sa- mis who testified regarding treating Ro bert Winterkorn for progressive Myopia an eye disease requiring frequent exam ination The evidence of Mr Clair sug gested the rear tail light had been bro ken by impact and was not fused at the end of the filaments He thought there was little evidence that the light was on at the time of impact Two members of the jury were ardent snowmobile owners and belonged Newmarket to clubs The jury took a little over one hour to reach their verdict and Dr Black- Aurora well congratulated them on their interest Keswick and heir intelligent questioning of the various witnesses Public school pay- up for some not all Will charge Monday merchants NEWMARKET 1 I William Hill told The Era will be issued this week to stores are open Mondays in I a town bylaw Chief Hill said a police had interviewed storekeepers wh I suspected Those charged will appear ei ther in Provincial Court or before a Jus tice of the Peace Last week police counted a total of stores open on Monday at the j Newmarket Plaza and one on Main St However a number of Plaza stores have remained closed since the decided to test the validity of the bylaw early this month The closed Monday bylaw was originally passed in and amended in While players in the cast Our Town performed on stage last Thursday night others In the cast members of the chorus peeked through ventilation holes in the doors leading into the auditorium at Newmarket District High School Photo Newmarket to drill for water NEWMARKET Newmarket will hire the International Water Supply Company to drill an eight Inch test hole the Harden properly i outskirts of town at an estimated cost of to The decision was mad weeks council meeting when from the operations group said that pre liminary drilling on the site had indica ted a potential Well with a capacity of ap proximately gallons per day and low in iron content The purpose is to observe the ef fect on neighboring wells under the sus tained pumping and to establish the cap acity of the well The eight inch hole could later be used as an emergency welL The committee also recommend ed that the option on the Harden site be kept in mind and renewed Newmarket will get a clean sweep of its streets during the coming summer with the purchase of a used from the Sicard Company council members information sweeper stating that they had viewed the machine and it was in excellent condi tion It would be complete with water The committee felt that much time and frustration would result from the purchase as at present it was diffi cult for a man to keep the Main St rea- to an hour or so and also take over on other streets Mr Eves told council that the cost of a new machine of this type would Newmarket will ask the Ontario Housing Corporation to undertake and carry out a survey to determine the need and effective demand for more senior citizens housing units in the town Town Clerk Grant Blight told council that the same procedure was used at the of the negotiations for the pre sent units and the survey is essential The clerk said until a survey could be made it was difficult to deter mine the actual need At the present time said the clerk I must have about applications for this type of accomo dation and these people have little hope of getting into the present units Councillor Hugh Grant said the- survey would settle the question of who really was eligible and the number S that the Minister had decided to defer consideration of Newmarkets annexation application The letter suggested that fu ture plans on regional government might be a factor in any decision Newmarket Planning Board in a letter to council stated that the board is concerned about the continuation of urban development in surrounding rural communities and requested that the Min ister also defer consideration of any fur ther development in the proposed annex- Newmarket will support an Au rora Town Council resolution asking the Liquor Control Board of Ontario to Clari fy and revise their policy regarding the issuing of licenses for lounges and cock tail bars At the present time the policy is to issue licenses for hotels with ten or a raise in September and Trustees and teachers negotiat ing committees last week came to on agreement on salary schedules for 1969- but because of wide differences in sal aries of existing contracts with the many former boards a few of the teachers will find themselves marking time For the average public school teacher the new schedule will mean a raise of about seven per cent for in stance teachers in Richmond Hill at be ginning level will get 5200 They now get BOO At the fourth level however with university degree plus teaching Trustees will borrow 19M AURORA York County School Board agreed Monday to borrow 19 mil lion to take care of current expenses and pressing capital needs The new board has not yet brought in lis budget for the year but early estimates for salaries maintenance and supplies indicates that the operating budget for the year will be in excess of 30 million The Board will borrow mil lion from the Canadian Imperial Bank of i which has its operating and million from the Bank of a Scotia which has its capital account tiflcate the salary jumps from to The new schedule offers to the most highly qualified teachers after 1 years of teaching but not many in this category When it set out this week to hire new teachers the York County Board was one of in Ontario that had arrived a salary agreement with teachers It is still on some fringe benefits and the full contract will be signed when these have been settled Trustee Ross of Vaughnn Township paid tribute to the teachers for their reasonable altitude throughout ho negotiations Some have agreed to wait for the rest to catch up he said adding that to taxpayers would have been Charged in rape NEWMARKET youths were remanded in here Monday charged with the rape of a 17yearold Toronto girl William 20 and Geof frey Elliott both of Newmar ket were arrested by East Gwillimbury Township police early Saturday market and taken to old Yongo St near Holland Landing The charges followed an incident which occurred in a parked car near Morgans Marina teachers to educate public school pupils an average of pupils per tea cher but class sizes vary throughout county with 35 pupils per class in and an average of 6 per class In tho tour ing committee with Mr Simpson Richmond Hill David King Township J Burrows and Keith Nisbot Aurora Negotiating for the teachers are Robert Reeves Oak Ridges David King City Senior School Mrs and Jim McCrae of Mark II School In an interview following the regular meeting of the County Board Monday education director Sam Chapman pointed out that salary adjustments would bring teachers in higher categories on a par with teachers in the secondary schools This said Mr Chapman would make it easier for teachers to move free ly from one level to tho other for those aspiring to become principals or depart men heads to gain experience without loss of pay Public school teachers at the fourth level university degree plus tea chers certificate will be on a par with secondary school teachers at the first Twenty dollars and thats no show at the present Water show will aid Community Centre drive with his animals He communicates He understands their language He detects dif ferences In disposition and temperament He can predict reactions Ho is close to Occasionally its possible that some of the herdsmans personality rubs off on an animal Take what happened down at Archie Littles at Cedar Grove last week Archie is well known around York County for having a fairly well developed be for two hours from 7 until 9 pro The club is providing the pool Tickets be cents for ad ults and 25 cents for children For fur- call Joan Bennett at March is there will be a teen dance at pm in the Town Hall The Message a Toronto band is playing free and the Aqua Maids from York Part of the program includes competitive swimming by members of the North York Aquatic Swim Club and three Newmarket 11 yearolds will give a basic demonstration of synchronized swimming Tuesday March 18 a cosmetic display will be held at and fi pm in the home of Mrs Shirley Scott 306 Pros pect St Phone 8953055 There will be free facials and draws for prizes No children under free A door prize will be awarded Tickets can be obtained from Janice Mark at The Newmarket Community Cen- Ire group committee wilt consider talks with the York County School Board to if the proposed community could be considered an integral part of school addition proposals at Hu- J lghts and owned jointly by the community The group will also request New- under bylaw This would be necessary under present ruling to make the community centre group tax exempt with regard to donations they might receive of humor His farm business centres around a fine Archie and his sons provide lots of tender loving herd of registered Jerseys calf crop arrives right on schedule without the benefit of a resident herd sire United Breeders Inc look after the details The routine is discreet and proper At morning chores on days when the inseminator is to call the registration paper Is pinned to the calendar inside the bam door and a bill dipped to it Well last week Archie had only a 20 bill so he clipped it to the paper and went about his work expecting change to be left in a similar manner Work included moving the cows around the barn It happened right there The cow in question going by the door stretched her neck and in one swallow had the twenty on Its way to her first stomach Rumi nants regurgitate roughages back up the gullet for further processing but bills they The cow could have had many different mot revenge different feed a lust for lettuce etc by the neighbours at Cedar Grove But most believe that the cow had just acquired