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DID A FLYING SAUCER LAND HERE NEWMARKET A Toronto commercial artist is convinced a flying saucer landed and took off again from a farm near Slade who often visits his friends farm the friend asked not to be identified or his farm located says he first saw the land and takeoff site five years ago He and his friend discovered the site while walking through the su machcovered hills of the area to the south and west of When he first saw it five years ago the site cleared an area of about 50 feet In diameter The outer edge of the circle seared the ground to a crisp leaving bits of charcoal This outer circle is about three feet wide And today five years later no vegetation grows on it Inside the circle small sumachs and weeds are growing but the grass has not sprouted through Just outside the outer circle one can see flattened trees and toppled long grass which is still dead the circle extending about 100 feet to the south of the circle which is barren of leaf growth All other vegetation within a foot radius of the circle is growing normally Mr is married with two children and visits the 3 Newmar ket farm about three or four times a year The people who own the farm es timated that the seared circle occurred about the beginning of June Coincidence When The Era went to check the Whitchurch Township occurrence book for reports of unidenti fied flying objects about that time Po lice Chief Fred Mason said he saw a strange object flying in the sky at Southampton Ont a few years before he became township police chief Chief Mason said his police force had received reports of unidentified fly ing objects in the Bruce PeninsulaGeor gian Bay area Chief Mason then parked his car near the beach at Southampton and saw a hovering object from about yards Soon after he spotted it he said it travelled slowly over the horizon and disappeared He said it had blinking lights and was saucershaped Coincidence The current issue of a national magazine Argosy publish es an exclusive story about a German type machine The article says Canadian and British scientists arc using the vastness of Canada to test this machine And thats why the article says US fighter plane pilots ore Instructed to intercept but not shoot at any un identified flying objects Tops in Canada HASKETT WINS AWARD THEERAl 24 PAGES Newmarket 8952381 VOL 118 NO 31 Aurora CENTO ONTARIO WEDNESD AY AUGUST Keswick a today at the annual meeting of the Canad ian Weekly Newspapers ion Accepting the William A Memorial Trophy was The Eras editor and publisher David It Haskell This award results from the un tiring efforts of Sports Editor George of York County a of udc to his industry and interest in all In provincial competitions car this year The Era was named top weekly in Ontario in sports coverage and a second in hiving the best Idea in 1968 Another York County newspaper the Aurora Banner received a second prize in editorial writing in the Canada- wide competitions The Era Is a member of the In land Publishing Co Limited group of eight weekly newspapers Other Inland newspapers News and Features the News a third for editorial writing HALIFAX The Eras sports coverage is tho best of any weekly news paper in Canada standings will be announced at the four- The award was announced here day convention which ends here Saturday bans new gravel Break Lions link with park pits in Whitchurch Tw Forhan asks Newmarket council COUNCILLOR BOH FORHAN NEWMARKET A dispute be tween town council and the Newmarket Lions Club over control of the Lions Club Park resulted last week in a recommen dation that town end its working agreement with the club Counc Bob chairman of councils recreation committee tabled a detailed report outlining the history of the park site back to 1907 and told coun cil it indicates the Lions Club never owned the land owned the land I dont understand how the town can sign something over that they already own The town cant give up control of public lands The agreement gives the club management and control of the park dissolve this agreement immediately and take over administration of the park unless tho Lions come forward with proof of ownership Council however decided to send the matter to the town lawyers for an opinion before voting on it Under the agreement the club took over the debt on ho amphi theatre but got back 1000 from New market Hydro as a grant and guar anteed rent a year for threo years At the end of the three years the club sets the rent rate Mr pointed out the am phitheatre as a centennial project was partly paid for by a federal grant and in order to get the grant the town agreed to be responsible for maintenance and up keep of the project The agreement also stipulated the project name Newmarket Centennial Amphitheatre The club has been advertising tho amphitheatre as Lions Amphitheatre Separate school board OKs building program Committee discriminated against me Kent charges Township bylaw which prohibits estab lishment of now gravel pits despite ob jections from four lawyers representing pit operators Hie endorsed the bylaw on oneyear basis as a holding measure until the townships official plan is ap proved The signature of Municipal Af fairs Minister McKeough is on the bylaw The battery of five years and may lead to firms being starved for gravel Ian Rogers represent ing township had asked tor Iwo- approval of the bylaw OMB offic ials Gordon Lake Chairman and Harold Roberts agreed some control was necessary until comprehensive zoning bylaws could be passed under the of- Dr van agreed with of the bylaw supporters present those gravel trucks do make an awful mainly irate neighbors of the Sabiston pit operations on Con Chairman Lake made frequent calls for order when the crowd aimed derisive comments at Mr as he testified to the innocence of his activities Five individuals testified com plaining Hint the operations arc a noisy dusty nuisance which ruin roads and contribute little to township coffers neighbor V Alter pre sented a 100itame petition against the pit The list had names when a spec tator made a lust minute dash to add his signature Continued on page RICHMOND HILL The York County Roman Catholic Separate School Board recently approved an expenditure of 118 to improve library facilities extend programs in science audiovisual language experience and music and to provide for the purchase of furniture for classrooms staff offices and administra tive offices Three specific building pro grams have been approved additions to construction of a new school in the SnowShields subdivision Ttiornhill Seve ral other building and grounds improve ments are under consideration as a re sult of trustee tours to all 18 schools un der the Boards jurisdiction and of full complement of staff has been hired for tie coming school year The breakdown is as follows prin cipals IS full time teachers 152 part- time teachers halftime teachers Itinerant teachers specialists 4 It was further approved hat custodians with less than one of ser vice with the Board receive one day va cation pay for each month of service two weeks with pay per NEWMARKET Former may or Bert Kent now a real estate salesman charged before town council last Tues day night that the chairman of the towns committee of adjustment is discriminat ing against him He said the owner of a tot he is trying to sell was told by the committee chairman he could be granted a seve rance from the committee for the lot anytime we wanted to but he wouldnt got one because Kent and he the chair man didnt get along and custodians soon as Mr Kents sign was down Committee of adjustment chair man Roy Keffer said the next day he wouldnt comment on the charge but said if I have anything to answer for as far council is concerned Ill be glad to discuss it with them anytime Later he termed the charge utterly ridiculous Mr Kent asked council to repri mand the committee of adjustment chair- Committee of Adjustment mem bers ore appointed by town council but arc responsible to Queens Park Under persistent questioning by Counc Aubrey Smith Mr Kent admitted his client had never made a formal ap plication for severance to the committee of adjustment But he had talked to every member on that committee said the former mayor Theres no way council can do anything until you apply to the of adjustment said Smith Committee chairman Keffer speaking next day said ho understood the matter didnt come before his com mittee because the owners lawyer re commended against it is Im concerned if he application to the corn- get fair consideration Just the same as anybody elses Counc Bob who chairing the council meeting when I Kent appeared told him council wo talk to both partjes and try and give and Townships possess the only prime gravel northeast of Metro on the west it would have to come from and predictions of the growing gravelneeds of Metro maw were they said factors in only approving the new bylaw on a oneyear basis But Chairman added an ex tension could be given for reason A change was approved in he bylaw definition of a gravel pit to allow construction of Consolidated Sand and Gravel milliondollar washing and processing plant on Con Permit for tho plan had already I Dr van who with his sons lias three parttime pits on their Vandorf property gravel supplies needed tor future high ways in the area Mr Rogers pointed out that council could approve exemptions to the bylaw if necessary Yonge widening starts this fall Richmond Hill has been allocated by the Provincial Government Aurora Councillor Harris told The Era this week Councillor Harris said he had been assured by the Department of High ways clearing and tree removal will begin this fall Grading will start within six months he said Councillor Harris said that of the reasons for the holdup in wid ening is that theres one property holding and that expropriation might be Ile I that COUNTY PLANNERS DISCUSS YOUR FUTURE Need city of to stay free of Metro Dowson Planner Ram Chapman director or education for York County Board of Education and planning consultant for the county chat during a meeting to discuss county development trends NEWMAItKET If York Coun ty Is to function as a region It will need to develop a city with population to provide a focus point for work and play Conroy Dowson planning consultant for York County said alternative would entertainment now Mr was addressing bout 30 persons members of county plan ning boards York County Board of Edu cation and muniepal representatives on development trends in the county last Aurora Reeve Evelyn Buck during question and answer period For this reason he continued the county has meagre resources If funds pooled a fiscal base for develop- said the county could be provided he Our traditional institutions so effective in less harried times tend to break down when faced wilh the massive pressures for expanded development major population increases and rapid urbanization Mr said residents of York County be thinking in terms of the county or region If we are to be a viable region with an individual identity we should start thinking in terms of the creation of a regional city We should recognize that if Of 1520000 three essentials include more employ ment opportunities increased uncondi tional grants and improved transportation network Mr outlined some of the findings of the development analysis project underway in York He said that because Yorks large area and small population it de pends upon for specialized land uses such as universities Long distances make transporta tion expensive and the population disper sion results in high costs for services In id he said there is a I deficiency of employment indicative of metropolitan he pointed crease in apartments he said empha sizes concentrated urbanization particu larly in the southern locations He also cited inconsistency of planning policies political ies and the inadequacy of the policies to cope with major growth All the official plans would require revision under the canopy of a regional plan he added Educator NEWMARKET S Chap man director of education for York County Board of tion Building last week he said the size of the financial threat is much less frightening if we arc able to maintain present ratios of assessment to pupil popu lation Our great fear is thai the ad vantages of having development take place in a particular municipality now that educational costs are shared over the whole county may tempt all muni cipalities to engage in a race for develop ment without proper regard for main- could engulf entire from which we could be rescued only by the paternalism of provincial govern ment or the jaws of Metro He said that development be yond some minimum size should be stu died during early stages of the proposal Mr Chapman of two speak Addressing a meeting of county educationalists planners and municipal officials at Ihe York County Adminlstra- at the session suggested that each county planning board give no more than preliminary consideration to any proposed subdivision until the developer has made More or page