Ontario Community Newspapers

The Era (Newmarket, Ontario), July 23, 1969, p. 1

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WHEN AIRLINES SELL enthusiasm and seconds to blastoff Mrs Flora Labeau of Niagara St New market will be ready with her space pack weighted shoes and enough lunar exchange the Newmarket Travel Bureau for inclusion on the first commercial passenger flight to the moon she may have LABEAUS WILL HEAD LIST Mrs Labeau was told by a very amused and slightly naive agent that she would have to wait some time for con firmation of her flight and as to cost well a possible 1800 The economics of the moon flight were not too detailed but the terms astronomical and sky high were mentioned You get a look from Mrs if you throw In a pun or give the impression she has been reading too ninny Jules Verne books She Is deadly serious and feels that if God has allowed space travel to reach the stage it has He would have little hesitation in watching over us trying to probe another of His wonders Mrs is employed by the Service at the present time but has been raised In the spirit of ad venture travel since she was a little Her father was a sailor in the days of the old square rigger he taught Mrs and the other six children all about the stars and their in the universe and Mrs Labeau She was born in County Quebec and even an early age thrilled al the sight of Charles Lindbergh flying over the Gulf of St Lawrence on his way Although he was not available for comment Mrs Lnbenus son Dan is evidently following the footsteps of his grandfather and Is ready to accompany his mother into Ihe frigid cold and sear ing heal of the lunar surface He is in terested in mathematics and science and is a student at Huron Heights Secondary School During the past week Air Canada have been answering calls questions on future lunar flights and have taken ju ried all questions on cost timing and con firmations but gave a vogue to years as an educated guess before pas senger booking will be accepted and con- firmed Regardless of future problems Mrs and her son are optimistic of their chances or kicking up the lunar dust on the moons Sea Tranquility and it could bo she might be another New- P The Slim SI her hooking Nigh self and lit son I i flight schedules ling Iherc is nothing of the first lunar Travel Sen Inst w confirm Ihc flight Mrs Flora of and wonderful flights fin- ice hud trouble looking ick they suggested some years heme Wutilcn Town is in need of back taxes THE revealed to town council last week Finance chairman Ron Killick told town council at last weeks meeting that only about per cent of this years Developer barred from town council AURORA The developer Aurora apartment complex has barred from speaking to council because had been collected at the end of the six months His report said current PARES will enable the town to pay off all VOL 1 NO I be sufficient funds to second installment NEWMARKETAURORAKESWICK ONTARIO WEDNESDAY JULY Newmarket Keswick I7- f councillors of his abusive Gerry Lambert from addressing council in the future came after he met with council in committee July Council had asked Mr Lambert for a site plan for the proposed apartment building so that a height bylaw could be prepared Council wanted the building until the last of June only been received Mr said tax arrears show considerable improvement this year over previous figures but said they are still high and called for action to collect more of them At this time last year the town had only collected 1885 per cent of laxes in arrears at the end of June while this year per cent have been paid he A claim has been submitted to Ihe Province of Ontario for the amount of the tax reduction respecting residential properties One half of this is payable by June 30 and the balance on TRANSFORMER WILL BE SOUTH OF TOWN Hydro plans 200axre site of facilities is to be built on the southern outskirts of Newmarket The station will be located south of Sideroad between the sec ond and third concessions of Whitchurch It erected Lambert had been authorized to higher density He failed to but Mr adamant that he northern Ontario generating at Cherrywood Pickering atomic plant power from The Newmarket station will be on approximately 200 acres The Armitagc plant which will to distribute power to Sutton Bradford communities in northern situated on five acres out after the new trans- station is completed One Ontario Hydro official termed Work lMUll I way all 1 haw been completed The Hydro property will start feet south of the Sideroad and Hit finii to the for farming be built station I the report concerning council July meeting If Mr Lambert wants to present his plan now a representative will have to appear before council Councillors also discussed whe ther they would be legally able to bar him completely from council chambers they probably could it him open his peeper I put him out Reeve Evelyn Probe collapse SUTTON York County con struction safety inspector Dennis Heed has ordered a report on the collapse of eight steel girders on the addition to the Sutton District High School Mr Reed gave a threeday dead- for the report on why the girders The addition will cost S3 million Mr estimates the weight of the Repeal Aurora closing bylaw AURORA Aurora Council Mon day night unanimously agreed to repeal all of the towns early closing bylaws their own hours of business Repeal of the old closing bylav has been under discussion for weeks since the Newmarket Plaza decided to challenge the Tov markets Monday- closing Although some councillors ir dieted the merchants would be back i council later asking for some new bylaw scoffed J The police replied the reeve The police wouldnt get here until the second next meeting retorted Henderson Mr Lamberts complex about injured in the No workmen collapse which occurred Mr Reed left the site alter inspecting addition transformer double i boundary will lie I concession and the part of the Harry Walker jinjTlts being negotiated within the next or demands tend Whitchurch Township Stewart Burnett said Monday he km nothing about the development He said Ontario Hydro has i ACRES Mulock He of until informed Mr Reed said a workmen was Injured at the site a month ago when a brick ell on his head and bounced off his shoulder repealed cover and include a ice stations to close by Aurora policeman dragged by dragster NEWMARKET J 3 dragged an Aurora t down highway 11 at of Carl Fleet negligence and an additional months after he was convicted of re sisting Aurora Constable Dean itified he chased two drag racers from Wellington and St traffic light through Aurora at speeds between scene were able to wave off the car in the dark but it parsed so it rait cap just as he rolled couldnt hold on an He kept dragging me and 1 and it hoped for the best he Witnesses testified that narrowly escaped death when Fleet the said he a knocked hen they at he refused to cooperate They fused to get up then there was and tables and chairs were in the cocktail lounge finally subdued at the entrance of the restaurant handcuffed and car ried to the police cruiser Judge Clare Morrison said Fleet showed a reckless disregard for the safety and life of Const He said the man had no regard for authority or the law and is no stranger to this court The judge termed Fleet a man of violence with a criminal record Additional charges of break and laid by King Township police and causing a disturbance against Fleet will be heard in provincial court later this

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